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The Navajo word for small or little is "yazzie", as in dibeh-yazzie (sheep-little) = lamb.
The standard spelling in the orthography that is now taught is:
"yázhí". The marks are high tone marks.
Navajo is a tonal language and needs tones to be correct. The zh sound is somewhere between z and the sound in the middle of the word "pleasure".
shí ashkii yázhí- "my little boy"
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