%0 Journal Article
%T ‘Jail’ in Diné bizaad
%A de la Fuente, José Andrés Alonso
%J Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
%V 2024
%R 10.4467/20834624SL.24.001.19311
%N Volume 141, Issue 1
%P 1-17
%K Na-Dene languages, New Spain Spanish, loan phonology, etymology, philology
%@ 1897-1059
%D 2024
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-linguistica-uic/article/jail-in-dine-bizaad
%X 
	It is argued that certain words for jail in Diné bizaad (Navajo)„ e.g. ’awáalya and wáalya, come from Spanish. Although it has been long suspected that this word is a loanword, all the suggestions so far presented in the literature remain unconvincing on phonological grounds.