Sterling Martin found that when he returned home to Shiprock while studying biochemistry at the University of Iowa, he had difficulty communicating his work to his family in their native tongue.

Robert W. Young, 94, a linguist whose collaboration with a Navajo tribesman resulted in dictionaries of the native language, died Feb. 20 in Albuquerque. The cause of death was not reported. Young is ...

Albuquerque – Linguist Robert Young, whose work with a Navajo linguist resulted in dictionaries of the native language, died Feb. 20. He was 94. He became an adjunct linguistics professor at the ...