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FARMINGTON, N.M. — New Mexico has adopted a textbook for learning the Navajo language.
The textbook’s co-author, Evangelina Parsons Yazzie, was on hand Friday at Farmington High School with Gov. Bill Richardson and other state officials to discuss the book.
Yazzie says Navajo is one of eight American Indian languages taught in New Mexico public schools and is one of the most difficult languages in the world to learn.
Yazzie — a Navajo professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff — says the book helps students learn the complex verbs that make up much of the language.
