Football, the Navajo way.

• Position: LANGUAGE - Brief article

"The guy who throws the football gave it to the guy who runs with it and a guy on the other team caught up to him and threw him down...." So goes a typical radio call for the New Mexico State University Aggies, as translated from the Language of the Navajo. Cuyler Frank, 29, does the play-by-play in his native language for the team's home games on two New Mexico radio stations. They reach most of the 300,000-member Navajo Nation, which covers 27,000 square mites in the Four Corners region of the Southwest. The biggest challenge in calling the games is that the language the Navajos speak, Athapaskan, is highly descriptive so it takes longer to convey the action than it does in English. Check out the chart at right for some examples: Could John...