About the Navajo language

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Today we are travelling to the wild west, to the borderless lands of North America. We’re going to explore the language of the people who lived here long before Europeans arrived - Navajo, a language of incredible beauty and complexity.
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@sparkymularkey6970 3 года назад

Diné Bizaad! The language of my people! Thank you so much for making this video. It makes my heart happy to see our culture and language being shared with the world.

@GenetetIncorporated 3 года назад

Do you speak it personally? So many minor languages are endangered, too few speakers, most of them in old age, and scarce transmission to the young (mostly out of suppressing to better fit in :-(

@johngrant1882 2 года назад

America should be thanking you.

@bonnierusie9631 2 года назад

Please help me, me friends Daddy called her Pecubis (spelling probably so wrong) but he was Navajo. He's passed now, but she said thats what he called her and passed before she could ask the meaning.

@bonnierusie9631 2 года назад

What does it mean?

@ade910 2 года назад

The language of white people?

@keneke5162 3 года назад

Much is owed to these people, their language was used for code in WW2 and saved many lives

@ssshadowwolf6762 3 года назад

They used Cherokee in WW1

@tichburyfan 3 года назад

Many people are not aware that Navajo was not the only native languge used for codes in WW2 - there were also codes in Comanche, Crow, Tlingit, Lakota, Mohawk and others. The point was that none of these languages had been published outside of a few academic centres in the USA, so Germans, Japanese and Italians had no way of researching them in their own countries - Navajo has so many strange sounds that the Japanese might intercept messages but they could not even write down the sounds they heard.

@Blaqjaqshellaq 3 года назад

On this subject, John Woo directed the square but effective movie WINDTALKERS with Nicolas Cage and Adam Beach.

@BrianStanleyEsq 3 года назад

My cousin who was a professor of native languages at the University of Alaska said that a scholarly English-language Navajo grammar and limited glossary was published in the 1920s, which would almost certainly have been acquired by at least the top few university libraries in Japan. He wondered why the Japanese military never resorted to this resource, and we speculated it could have been the contempt for Western academic learning promoted by the Japanese thought police or the multiplicity of native American languages that would have needed to be investigated.

@tichburyfan 3 года назад

@@BrianStanleyEsq That's interesting to hear, but there is much more to the native code languages. Navajo did not have any native words for tank, aircraft, artillery, battleship and so on, so they used unconnected native words for all these terms (tank became turtle, a bomber aircraft might be eagle and so on). So there were codes within the code, making it impossible even for any non-trained Navajo to grasp the meaning. But you are right - there was a definite and strong anti-western feeling within the Japanese military and this would certainly have hampered their attempts to break codes.

@ElDuroTuco 3 года назад

In my house we speak English, Navajo, Spanish, and French. It takes a lot of research to come up with the information you have in this video.

@kristinbaker8310 3 года назад

WOW, that's awesome. I tried Navaho on the duolingo app for two weeks and was so confused I could not make progress! I bet dinner is very interesting at your house though!

@valdivia1234567 3 года назад

I used to live in Durango and we would go to Farmington to shop at the mall sometimes. It was interesting to be in a small city in NM and hear 3 languages while simply walking through a mall. I worked for the Utes, but there were a couple of Navajos working for them, so I was always bothering one of them whose office was right across the hall from mine, about Navajo culture. He was always happy to tell me though, so hopefully he didn't see it as bothersome.

@elihyland4781 3 года назад

That’s incredible 🤙

@isabellaholden8997 3 года назад

Impressive! Wow. That’s amazing!

@CJBetcherMolandfreak 3 года назад

Thank you for keeping North America linguistically diverse! You have some great videos on your channel, too!

@CharlieMcHenry 2 года назад

It helps to understand that Navajo is a very, very “process” oriented language as opposed to standard average European languages, which are object-oriented. That explains the incredible verb structures, as processes not objects are key. Thus, the Navajos describe a clock as a slowing moving circle. It is the process, not the object that is central to the thought being communicated.

@christineperez7562 2 года назад

Interesting

@donnazasgoat2274 2 года назад

I've heard that theory applied to Klingon as well.

@derrickbarney8731 2 года назад

Process oriented is certainly the best way to explain my Norther Interior Salish language

@odiarroyo6144 2 года назад

Reloj clock. ... A thing that geves, measure the time or kees track of time..... Relog.... Wach..... Seme thing.... Whay over complicated???

@ONRIPRESENCE 2 года назад

This "process" you speak of are the adjectives we use on Dinétah. Everything is description-based and is based on the human experience of those things. The term "tsin bigaan" means branch in English, but the literal translation is "tree's arm", which you can probably see is from a human perspective (keyword: arm). This is one example, but I just wanted to comment something on that. Cheers eh.

@daybreakwarrior 3 года назад

Wow! This was a very nicely organized video that described our language very well... there were many points that I was surprised she went to certain levels of detail! Nizhónígo íinlaa lá!

@eduardod9864 3 года назад

Your videos are awesome too!

@tednorberto3086 2 года назад

Nizhonigo iinlaa la??? What? The last 2 words confuses me.🤔

@daybreakwarrior 2 года назад

@@tednorberto3086 Nizhónígo - in a good way Íinlaa - you made it Lá - an expression that has the effect of an exclamation point (!)

@StarriSprinkles 2 года назад

MAI BOI IS BACK LET'S GOO

@izharisrael544 2 года назад

I need a teacher please. If you are available can I learn from you?

@erikamoore6164 3 года назад

As a native speaker of another "unusual" language (Hungarian in my case) I find the Navajo language fascinating! I was once told by a tour guide in Hawaii that the only tourists who can correctly pronounce Hawaiian words on the first try are Hungarians and Navajo.

@jamesotisjr2322 3 года назад

have you heard the theory that Hungarian is based on Sumerian? allegedly, Sumerians headed north to escape Ghenghis Khans Mongol hordes.

@erikamoore6164 3 года назад

@@jamesotisjr2322 Didn't the Sumerians die out about 2000 years before Ghenghis? Anyway Hungarians (or Magyars) were around LONG before Ghenghis showed up -- in fact they had already migrated from Asia and settled in central Europe. You may be thinking about Scythians, who I think originally came from the same general area as Magyars.

@kovacsbianka1253 3 года назад

@@erikamoore6164 Scythians were indo-europeans. Although they shared their lifestyle and culture with nomadic people near central Asia (including hungarians), there is no linguistic connection towards scythian at all as their language was not even in the same language family. Regarding sumerian, it was also an agglutinating language just like hungarian and there were studies about their possible connection. AFAIK they also compared it with finnish and with turkish as well. So, they have no direct connection but sumerian did have the same logic as hungarian (or finnish or turkish, et cetera).

@erikamoore6164 3 года назад

@@kovacsbianka1253 This is fascinating! I would love to learn more about these linguistic connections.

@valkeakirahvi 3 года назад

@@jamesotisjr2322 No it isn't :D There is no linguistic simarity between Sumerian and Hungarian. I've seen many word lists floating around that supposedly prove it, but all of them are fakes that only convince people who have no idea about Sumerian (which is, unfortunately the most people lol). Sumerians didn't go anywhere, the people gradually started speaking more Akkadian instead of Sumerian, and the language died. And yes, the language was already dead long before Ghenghis.

@kieransawdust 3 года назад

The way my Welsh heart fluttered the moment I saw ɬ!

@deklerkverwoerd7721 2 года назад

okay.....

@Noalanikootswatewa 2 года назад

Im 3/4 navajo and 1/4 hopi. Grew up almost entirely on the navajo rez. But i remember trying to say horse in navajo and my grandma laughed at me and said i said "fly". Tłęę' and T'sęę are completely different words.😂 i will never forget that

@anawkwardsweetpotato4728 2 года назад

@Jack Snow It's hard to convey through comment alone, but follow if you can: "tł" makes a hissing sound. Place your tongue as if you're about to say "t", but right before you let the tip of your tongue depart from the roof of your mouth, let air release through the side. After that, you have "ęę". In Navajo, the little squiggle below the "e" means the vowel is "nasal" so you don't pronounce it like a regular "e", but with air passing through the nose instead. Pinch your nose and say "eh", and that is the sound you want to make. Note: there are two ę's so you have to hold it longer. Lastly, there is an apostrophe at the end. In Navajo, this signifies a "glottal stop" because the air and sound are briefly cut at the throat. In other words, the same sound between "uh" and "oh" in "uh-oh". Put all this together, and there you have tłęę'. Moving onto ts'ęę: "ts" is the same sound as the "zz" in pizza. Easy enough I hope. Remember the glottal stop sound? Now, put it after "ts"-- ts'. (Almost as if to beat box in a sense, haha). Next, put those nasal-y ę's after it. And there you have ts'ęę! There you go! I highly recommend checking out videos on the Navajo language to hear what it sounds like. It's such a unique language! ^^

@anawkwardsweetpotato4728 2 года назад

@Jack Snow If by "Mexican" you mean "Nahuatl" then yes, it's that exact same sound! :D I'm not all too sure if Spanish-speaking Mexicans say the sound the same since I've heard it a number of different ways.

@jamesotisjr2322 Год назад

I have a Navajo friend who claims that "large breasts" are Bet So, and "sheep penis" is Baa Tso, but you know that Navajos are jokers, so who knows?

@jgp8525 Год назад

Right, one wrong part of a word and you've offended someone! 😆

@turblijura Год назад

Same thing here. I`m estonian. Falcon in my language is KULL. In Finnish (our closest relatives) KULLI means dick. :))))

@amjan 3 года назад

The BEAUTIFUL COMPLEXITY and sophistication of those languages is an invaluable TREASURE of humanity and shall be preserved and protected at all cost!!!

@Blackstreak8 3 года назад

My Love, thank you. Ahéhee'! Shï eh Diné níshlí. Tsínajinni inshlí, Tobaz ni ashí basish chine. This has been the most comprehensive exploration of the Navajo language on RU-vid I have seen. It is extremely valuable to me. Thank you. ♥️

@DreDredel3 3 года назад

I thought Japanese was difficult to learn, Navajo takes the cake. Very complex language yet very interesting.

@jeremyh9033 3 года назад

I love the complexity. It certainly makes it hard, but you can't say it's boring! 😂

@5587bnnaaa 2 года назад

It's similar to Korean... Japanese is an ancient Korean language

@kjames1414 2 года назад

@@jeremyh9033 we love the Irish

@senaeco 2 года назад

I think Japanese, Korean is not all that difficult, many South Indians self learn and pick it up when they are in Japan or Korea.

@ijansk 2 года назад

@@5587bnnaaa Japanese is not a Korean language.

@ONRIPRESENCE 2 года назад

I am considering making an informal video explaining some differences in our Navaho dialects as well as some of the current developments involving Navaho slang terms. We have dialects due to topography of the Navaho landscape (mountain forests, deserts, canyons, mesas). As a fluent native speaker from the north eastern mountains of Arizona, I have lots to share about the similarities between the Navaho & Apache languages.

@sharbucks3376 Год назад

You should! I would tune in! We need more Navajo RU-vid channels 😊

@lesterjargus5311 Год назад

Also some important differences. My buddy, a Navajo, went to a church Whiteriver on the White Mountain Apache Rez and gave his testimony in Navajo. He started talking about serving the Lord with his hands... and the Apaches started cracking up. The Navajo word la' sounds like Apache for... a part of the body inappropriate to talk about in church, haha.

@alejandroto3094 Год назад

People who do not speak their Native language are mute people doomed to disappear.

@wendigos_eat_people7177 11 месяцев назад

since it's been a year ,did you finish what you were planning to achieve ?

@rogerwitte 3 года назад

Please consider Cherokee. This language has an interesting writing system, a syllabary invented circa 1850 by Seqoya. He had seen Europeans using writing, so he decided that his people needed the same magic, and gave it to them.

@isabelaraujo4825 3 года назад

stop asking for indigenous languages when its obvious she cant respect the cultures

@LynnaeaEmber 3 года назад

@@isabelaraujo4825 What do you mean exactly. I saw no disrespect, am I missing something?

@isabelaraujo4825 3 года назад

@@LynnaeaEmber the thumbnail for this video used to feature her in a headdress. her quechua and maori videos also feature her playing "dress up" with native cultures

@davidbraid8429 3 года назад

@@isabelaraujo4825 grow up - she's doing more than most to help the world understand so many cultures, there is offence at all in what she does, people like you just look for this stuff so you can enjoy being offended - pathetic! Your pretend outrage is totally stupid and so typical in that it comes from someone who is not even of these cultures - I notice no natives here complaining.

@isabelaraujo4825 3 года назад

@@UNC.357 whatever online pretendian

@teaganna5970 3 года назад

Navajo women were known to wear a floral head scarf, tied below their chin. That should have been your thumbnail, that "headdress" is inaccurate. Other than that, nice video. (Update: She fixed the thumbnail to an accurate image.) Thank you.

@lyllydd 3 года назад

Yeah, looking at the thumbnails for her other videos it seems like she attempts -and fails- to dress in some form of 'traditional garb' for pretty much all of them. Except the Welsh video. Wonder why that is?

@teaganna5970 3 года назад

@MJ Marvin Jay Murphy I honestly don't know if it was a marriage thing. I just remember seeing a lot of women wear them when I was very young. Including my nanna.

@kbenally8918 2 года назад

Worn in modern culture by elders, younger women wear the teeyeel

@nikyle5869 3 года назад

Great video! Diné have adopted a few Spanish words into our language like beeso (not kisses in Spanish) but used to describe money like pesos in Spanish. Other examples include aloos for rice, aroz in Spanish; mandigeeya for butter; mantequilla in Spanish; belasana for apple, manzana in Spanish. There are many more examples, including more foods, objects and large numbers. I don’t know how many other Navajo grew up calling our language Diné bizaad, that was more formal like at school. At home we were always told “Diné k’ejí yaniiltxii’” Diné k’ejí referring to our language.

@higherresolution4490 Год назад

Great comment! So interesting. You can see why Western languages evolve the way they did, and the basis upon which Native American languages evolved. In the first case, language structure was based on materialism and the desire to resist change. The second, your language base, was based on processes, incontroversible change and the direct experience of the transcendent.

@bacicinvatteneaca 10 месяцев назад

Belasana might be a reflex of an older form of manzana that hadn't yet dropped the Latin malum / mela

@Solarsystemrdffdfyyhh 2 года назад

Thank you thank you. The younger generation are learning our language with apps and books. But most elders never came across the written word. So showing the research and the depth of our language is absolutely astonishing!!! Your always welcome here on Navajo land yayeeh friend!!! Thank you for this blessing that you posted!! Thank you!!!

@hualapaiculturalresources7896 3 года назад

Wow you really did a great job. I enjoyed your watching video. We are continuing teaching our language to our children and adult who have been taking away during the boarding school days and are now coming home to the Reservation to learn their language. There's a lot to learn any language, but you really hit it right on with the Navajo Language.

@StarSong936 3 года назад

I love the sound of their singing. I also love the stories of the code talkers. What I hate is the way the native Americans have been treated historically.

@oliviaarteaga4092 3 года назад

Bordering schools really mess them up!

@maizecharley358 3 года назад

Historical trauma due to Government assimilation and Missionary trauma. Both had no right. It took away our livelihood, culture, tradition, language, ceremonies, agriculture, animal science, medicine, traditional midwives, stories, plants, healing, psychology, etc. Education did not replace what was stolen from us. Missionaries taught us lies. Government taught us greed. Our belief is everything is scared. We share the same elements, depend on each other.: Water, Sun, Air, Earth 🌎.

@StarSong936 3 года назад

@@maizecharley358 You'll get no argument from me. My own family history said one of my direct ancestors married a native American, though knowledge of the tribe she was from has been lost. That is a part of my heritage I would love to learn about. There were several tribes from southern Michigan, but I have no way of knowing which tribe it was. I have known people from several different tribes, and I think their history, language, and lore is worth preserving.

@jenncutshall4624 2 года назад

@@StarSong936 same here, but we know it is Lakota Sioux we have heritage in

@dsm5d723 3 года назад

Navajo name for Hitler: "He who is of the hard metal hat, who is smelling his own moustache."

@GeorgAnkar 3 года назад

The "ɬ" sound is also present in Circassian language, Avar language (both are spoken in different part of Caucasus) and Mongolian.

@Gugeoji._. 3 года назад

Some Southern Chinese dialects have ɬ too.

@marvelgurl1012 2 года назад

A language that incorporates the order of the universe, the shape/texture of an object, and two generations of your family tree--- astounding.

@adamcharlesworth7546 3 года назад

Nahuatl has the welsh "ll" sound aswell, represented by "tl"

@jan_Masewin 3 года назад

Isn’t ll a fricative and tl an affricate?

@Terrus_38 3 года назад

No, it doesn't, as Benjamin says, ll is a fricative, and tl is an affricate.

@jan_Masewin 3 года назад

(Mind you you’re a step above most)

@valkeakirahvi 3 года назад

Nahuatl has both of those actually. Tl (tɬ) is an affricate, but in word-final position and in clusters l becomes devoiced as ɬ. You can't see it in the writing, but it is there.

@WizardOfArc 3 года назад

Lushootseed of Washington state and Icelandic also have this sound

@piccadelly9360 3 года назад

I am happy that someone reports about this language, I hope that this language stays alive, it would be a shame if it will be no more

@Blaqjaqshellaq 3 года назад

Most Native American languages are in bigger trouble if not extinct.

@Catnipfumar 3 года назад

@@Blaqjaqshellaq I'm actually the Navajo Nations, are the largest tribe in the United States of America. No matter how hard the colonizers tried to destroy us, we are still here, we will always still be here, our language will still be here. The ignorance and hatred of Christianity could not kill us off. We see now, according to the census that the Democrats are changing the group of people that had a long time being the majority population now get to have their time to become the minority. Children born to the children of baby boomers are more diverse, more accepting they're known as generation z. I'm a millennial, and I speak my language. Lots of generation z out on the reservation are speaking their language. We are Dinè we were here before the last man at sea Christopher Columbus, and we will always be here, nothing is going to take us away. So many people think that we're just some dying tradition that we are not doing everything that we need to do to preserve our culture, because they're too worried about the way they see the world from their point of view. All the experts are saying, it's other people's ways that are going extinct. Wouldn't you say so, Mr Matthews?

@senaeco 2 года назад

There are lots of Navajo speakers in AZ, UT, NM.

@cigh7445 2 года назад

@@Catnipfumar Catnip, I say this out of genuine care, speakers of languages often have trouble imagining a future without the language until it's too late. They don't see the signs. Navajo survived because of the reservations being kept as Navajo speaking areas, this is no longer completely the case. Unlike their elders, younger generations all speak English, not all of them speak Navajo, American English culture has arrived in previously Navajo speaking areas via the media, television, and younger natives of mixed identity. Be realistic, protect your domains from English. The trojan horses of English culture will try and play down the threat, they'll call any move to halt the spread of the English language 'extreme', like they said about Québécoise measures to protect French, but look at the facts. Out of the hundreds of thousands of language communities which have existed on the North American continent, which language communities have survived? Not including Spanish which has thousands of reinforcements arriving every few weeks. French in Québec survived - it died out everywhere else in Canada. Navajo survived due to the isolation and boundaries of the reservation, where Navajo was the language of the community. The only language to have held strong in the melting pot of English speaking America, is the Yiddish of the Orthodox Jewish community who live their own separate lives in their own separate communities with complete rejection of modern media and the like

@aplcidr 2 года назад

Navajo is likely no longer in danger, it's had more conservation efforts than many other indigenous north American languages. Many of which are dying with few people speaking them

@lisasutherland-fraser4479 3 года назад

And the explanation was just as complicated as the language. Incredible explanation Julie. Thing I love with many languages such as Australian Aboriginal languages, Native American, etc is how their perception of the world is in their language. English is so 3D what you see is what you get, left brained whereas these beautiful languages are so full & go beyond the physical world. Just love that! Thank you. Love the kitty!

@coldstreams 3 года назад

My oldest daughter is a Slavic languages linguist (since changed careers into psychiatry) - she has told me that learning a language is known, at least for the young (and probably for adults) to create new neural pathways and changes our perception and interpretation of the world around us. I am now working my way through learning two languages - I've only discovered languages late in life but they are so interesting.

@cwilliams7017 2 года назад

Kinda, yeah. But Navajo is way more specific than English. In that way, I'd say it's more logical.

@gordonlewis4280 2 года назад

Lisa this is true our language is almost the same apache .

@bacicinvatteneaca 10 месяцев назад

No such thing as left/right brain. That's a hoax. And no, English is not "what you see is what you get", English is notoriously reliant on idiomatisms (and therefore, metaphor) to make up for its lack of grammar

@chrisgusdaskalos7029 2 года назад

Thank you for the exceptional videos; your Love and Passion are self evident and deeply appreciated.

@mikegorski2085 Год назад

I love the European names given by the code talkers during WWll. I think I want that on a shirt ,I hope you've Christmas tree out ??.

@nathangale7702 3 года назад

Well done, that's the best explanation of Navajo that I've ever heard, and I've been looking for a long time. I finally feel like I have an idea of how complicated it would be to learn the language.

@user-sc5ey4we9e 3 года назад

Wow, very interesting and VERY complicated language! Please continue doing your videos they are very good.

@AmandaJYoungs 2 года назад

Wow! I wonder how this language compares to Finnish in complexity?! Fascinating.

@daniellara3385 3 года назад

Beautiful Navajo language, thanks for take your time and remind us we are one great family living on this planet

@andrewsokulski8922 10 месяцев назад

Loving all your language videos! You’ve picked out a lot of unique ones other language RU-vidrs don’t talk about

@rickfromhell Год назад

I decided I love this channel today. Subscribed.. always so well researched and so many cool languages.

@evansmith7969 2 года назад

Great, informative, intriguing and fun. As always. Thank you for sharing your passion for understanding people and how they communicate.

@Timurlane100 2 года назад

I've been following you for a few years now, and I have to say that you really, really do a fantastic job of covering languages that might otherwise be ignored. Earlier today, I watched your video on Amharic, and you first gained my attention with your video on Georgian. You rock.

@1965Tofik 11 месяцев назад

Z prezentacji której dokonałaś wynika że język Navajo jest pięknym językiem. Jego rozbudowana fleksja pozwala opisać przedmioty i wydarzenia wieloma wyrazami i pojęciami. Co jest bogactwem takiego języka. From the presentation you made, the Navajo language is a beautiful language. Its extensive inflection allows you to describe objects and events with many words and concepts. What is the richness of such a language.

@FabiCali Год назад

I’m in love with your channel!!

@VocalEdgeTV 3 года назад

Intriguing work as always.

@patchworkdragon2588 3 года назад

Great video. I found it interesting when you were sharing the spoken Navajo that the singing section was easier to remember. Just made me think that music is so universal and can help us to connect.

@D_R_Martin 3 года назад

I remember studying Navajo while completing my applied linguistics degree because my aunt and uncle were Navajo linguists back in the day. It is a fascinating but difficult language (to say the least).

@D_R_Martin 3 года назад

my uncle was actually a Navajo man, and my aunt married him. The funny part was that we joke that she married him because she wouldn't have to change her name since both of their last names was Martin. His name was Geronimo Martin. They actually knew the linguists who wrote the first Navajo dictionary.

@e.c5786 Год назад

Did you ever master the language?

@D_R_Martin Год назад

@@e.c5786 not even close, but I can say hello.

@philmccluskey2063 3 года назад

fabulous stuff. Loved this...thank you again.

@mastrake 11 месяцев назад

Thank you! That was truly fascinating.

@edvela3865 3 года назад

Love this one! I would love to see a video on basque language if possible. Thank you for you vids!

@shadowdarkness5 3 года назад

Hope you know your thumbnail picture is inaccurate the navajo don't wear them. I'm jicarilla Apache so the language is similar to the navajo.

@hypinso92 3 года назад

Just so everyone knows. The picture has been updated. Now it’s more appropriate! Sincerely, just another Navajo.

@oceanpoincare 3 года назад

It’s appropriate

@hypinso92 3 года назад

@@oceanpoincare now it is, yes. Before it had a plains-style headdress which Navajos don't wear. I'm glad it was changed :)

@ieatgauffres4432 Год назад

your channel is so amazing

@johnalvarez3376 2 года назад

Thank you for the lesson and thank you for the extensive research involved in making your videos.

@tanyajanvier4538 2 года назад

I live in Canada (Alberta)yes Dene' means People.My dad was Dene' his name was Leon Janvier the language sounds the same.Uldaye is his original name.My dad was a soldier in WW2.

@rubenhurtado1992 3 года назад

“I wonder what could have happened” 🤣 I really love the way you said that 😍😍

@annepoitrineau5650 2 года назад

Just stumbled on your channel. Fantastic resource, and I am going to advertise you to my friends!

@Dreamer-sk6ii Год назад

Ok. This was super cool. Thank you for sharing

@juliekell9454 3 года назад

Thank you for creating this very informative video. I live in Colorado and had no idea our neighbors to the south had such a complex and interesting language. Understanding a bit about a language really does give you a very different perspective on a peoples culture and history.

@shaggyclitso472 3 года назад

I'm actually related to that girl she said yeìì dìnè tàchìì nìì The giant red running into the water people clan

@Calmdowndude 3 года назад

Me too

@brittanymoore4318 3 года назад

Hello my relatives

@shaggyclitso472 2 года назад

@@brittanymoore4318 love our people

@dangallagher8034 3 года назад

You do a wonderful job. Refreshing. Thank you so much.

@teeveeray9 2 года назад

Well done, I really enjoyed this.

@Riurelia 2 года назад

I'm Native American (Lakota) and it makes me happy when indigenous languages are mentioned anywhere. I'm not Navajo, but I'm still glad to have seen this video.

@gkerns4213 2 года назад

From Milwaukee, Wonderful presentation! May I add that some of the sounds of the Navajo language are similar to many languages of Africa. For example: South Africa: Koi San language Eswatini (Swaziland): Siswati language

@dunwitch 2 года назад

This is amazingly fantastic. This lady is doing great work.

@joehonfleur 2 года назад

Wow so interesting! Glad I found your channel.

@Philidor64 2 года назад

I was curious to hear how Navajo sounds and when I did, was totally fascinated. I'm not a linguistic specialist, but being a professional musician, I can claim this is one of the most musical languages I have ever heard! Thank you so much for this video, greetings from Greece.

@oc3607 3 года назад

This video takes a lot of work and research. Congrats and I hope you channel grows a lot

@renatomorello4318 3 года назад

Dear teacher, thank you for one more excellent video. It is a real pleasure to learn with you. I am also happy to see that the number of your followers is growing fast. All the best for you! God bless you.

@blindembersmusic4623 2 года назад

This was great. Gracias!!

@nobbynoris 3 года назад

10:53: And then when somebody says, "sorry, what was your name again?" you just want to kill them.

@mwbrada 3 года назад

Yes, murder is always the first thing I think of when someone mispronounces anything... take a deep breath.

@igortseitkin2961 3 года назад

It's fascinating to get familiar with languages this way, keeping in mind that those distinctions actually teach us about what aspects of the world mattered to the speakers of those languages.

@anthonymcneill1465 2 года назад

Utterly amazing language and historical narrative! Thank you for sharing the depth and rich history of the Navajo nation and origin.

@lucindabegay7071 2 года назад

I like this video, you did a lot of research. Awesome!

@ronaldl9085 3 года назад

O M G ... that's so difficult if you'd have to learn this as an adult.

@randysanders3322 3 года назад

I took Navajo 102 at university without taking Navajo 101, the 1st semester. even though I have 11 years of formal Language Learning I was so LOST. saying that Navajo is different, difficult is an understatement. I was the only biligana, white man, in a class of Native Navajo speakers, except for one white Lady who was dating a Navajo man. so much to learn. at some point I was with a native Navajo speaker, a silversmith, while he was talking with a Tibetan monk. They said they could understand some of each others word. both Navajo and Tibetan do sand paintings, sand mandalas. maybe there is a connection.

@Blackstreak8 3 года назад

@@randysanders3322 the squash blossom necklaces are similar, as well. Thank you for learning Diné Bízaad.

@kimberlyhovis5864 3 года назад

Well, that's certainly not going to stop me from trying to learn it. 📘

@konnan606 3 года назад

Who else here is Navajo (Diné)

@christopherleon9234 3 года назад

Just found my biological father and he told me im navajo 3 yrs ago

@konnan606 3 года назад

@@christopherleon9234 dope brotha, now u jus need to find out your clans

@christopherleon9234 3 года назад

@Dale Clark nope

@christopherleon9234 3 года назад

@Dale Clark California Anaheim

@lancecurley658 3 года назад

algorithms brought me here haha

@malcolmlagares8245 6 месяцев назад

Excellent video. Very interesting. Thank you so much. : )

@stefanschleps8758 Месяц назад

Love you Julie. Thanks for sharring!

@christopherrowley7506 3 года назад

Icelandic also has the voiceless L sound ɬ as well as tɬ. The voiceless and voiced l´s form minimal pairs (valdur, valtur (the d and t are pronounced the same here, just the L is different)). The double l´s in the name of the famous volcano Eyjafallajökull are pronounced tɬ

@manfredneilmann4305 3 года назад

What about the sound represented by the letter combination HL in Icelandic? Doesn't it sound very similar to the Welsh LL?

@christopherrowley7506 3 года назад

@@manfredneilmann4305 yep you're right, I guess it would have been more straight forward for minimal pairs too: hljóð - ljóð

@christopherrowley7506 3 года назад

@@manfredneilmann4305 or at least it's true that hl is voiceless l. I haven't studied Welsh so I can't speak to it

@johansvideor 3 года назад

Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative L sound also exists in old Swedish dialects (like in my own Ostrobothnian Swedish dialect and in dialects in Jämtland and Härjedalen in Sweden proper). This is similar to Welsh LL sound. This might be related to similar sounds in Icelandic. After all, our dialects have several archaic elements that haven't survived in modern Swedish (like diphthongs and three genders).

@christopherrowley7506 3 года назад

@@johansvideor Coolt! Jag bodde i Sverige i två år men tyvärr var jag aldrig i dem områden. Skulle vara roligt att höra dialekten.

@akirk1573 2 года назад

after watching/listening to the segment you did on Welsh, i subscribed. i'm glad you're making more of these. i think it'd take me ten years to learn Navajo. i've been through part of the rez, driving north on highway 666 - - no kidding. a confluence of strong energies seems to cross roads in that region.

@karaaslan7402 2 года назад

Thanks for the video!

@efrin23 Год назад

you are amazing I am at awe to your ability to explain the complicated. Love watching your channel from Texas

@-arche-7926 3 года назад

Nice new thumbnail! c:

@matthieujoly424 3 года назад

I just love languages.. started to learn (some other languages..), i mean, not english because we "all" have to... This is so incredible to see how different and complex are the way that we, humans, are using to communicate. And a great way to expand our knowledges. Was aware about the use of the Navajo language in the WWII, and with all the explanations given here, i really can understand why it was "undecipherable".. Thanks for the share !!!

@777mantikor 10 месяцев назад

Very well done. I am amazed at how well I was able to understand it. You explained it so clearly.

@lawrencemckeon6802 Год назад

This is excellent research and presentation. Mind blowing, in fact. You have a real talent in languages, and the Navajo language is fascinating.

@georgiancrossroads 3 года назад

Tlingit in Alaska has the same air pushed out the side sound. They are Na-dene too. They also have to say a long introduction of clans before speaking. There are around 50 letters in the alphabet. I think I mentioned to you before that I had to edit a 52 part series for our radio station. (I lived in Haines Alaska for 22 years before moving to Tbilisi Georgia.) Thanks Julie. Whenever you make a language video I listen to it almost immediately. Gunalchéesh hoho! Nice native American hair by the way.

@massiveheadwoundharry6833 2 года назад

I'm from Haines. I was thinking the same thing when she mentioned the long introductions and how children belong to the mother's clan.

@007JHS 3 года назад

Wasn't Navajo used as a form of code talk over two way radios in the Pacific theatre of WWII?... At least that is what the movie tells us.

@Blackstreak8 3 года назад

@Lacie Krinklehoel Chester Nez. Also, the US Federal Government Boarding School Era - look it up. They targeted the children in order to destroy the language and the culture. Which is the reason for the steep decline in proficiency. Thank you.

@Blackstreak8 3 года назад

@Lacie Krinklehoel Thank you for being aware.

@buddhasattva 3 года назад

The reason the Navajo language was chosen for communication in World War II is because the German linguists never got to the Navajo language during World War II but the Navajo did not have words for tanks, destroyers, ships etc and so have to invent words for them. The Navajo communicators were assigned personal guards to protect them for their safety as communications were vital. Read the story about a Navajo who fulfill his attainment to adulthood during World War II in Europe as he couldn't fulfill it is the United States, one of the ritual was stealing horses from the enemy, it's in RU-vid somewhere.

@007JHS 3 года назад

@@buddhasattva Thanks, some great information and more things to check out.

@asmkamruzzahan5697 2 года назад

Thanks for the lovely presentation

@holden.a 3 года назад

Absolutely interesting! Thank You!

@Daoland-Everywhere Год назад

When younger I was confused by a tribal Navaho for a Navaho. I had no clue about what he was saying, and I was surprised about the many words he used to say hi. Later on I came to know a variety of story tellers, medicine people and warriors from different tribal peoples. All their languages and expressiveness are fascinating and hard to understand. So great job. Thank you.

@1EyeInTheSky 3 года назад

When I worked at the hospital in Shiprock I was starting to pick up some basics but I have long since forgotten it. It is a very interesting language for a very interesting people.

@franco00767 2 года назад

Fantastic work

@nazarlavrushko31 11 месяцев назад

Thank you! Very interresting!

@louisegogel7973 2 года назад

Thank you! That was an awesome overview. ❤ I started learning Navajo on Duolingo a few months ago, and it is slow going for sure, but repeating the first lesson set over and over again is really helpful. While I was in labor in 1996 with my second child, I would find myself speaking a language I had never heard before for the duration of the two minute contractions… I know I said the same thing over each time. I had a feeling what I was saying were messages reassuring the child and encouraging him to come out. I wish his father had tape recorded tape was saying over those seven hours! I really would like to know what language it was! I am Swiss American, born in India, and grew up in Pakistan, England, and the USA. I lived in Switzerland and Germany, visited Greece, Africa, Central America, and most of the European countries as well as traveling from Venis Italy through Yugoslavia etc on the way to two months in Turkey. I know the sound of many languages, including Russian, and even if I don’t speak them, can easily recognize them. It was not one of the languages I had ever come in contact with. I also had a feeling it might be a native American language, and one of the hardest to pronounce because when I spoke it, it was deep with many totally foreign sounds that I am not sure now how I would begin to say them. I retain only one word from that time and the best I can come to writing what I remember of the sound in my head is: Eh’toh. I only knew it is meant to reassure. I had heard of people speaking in tongues before, but never understood it was anything real until it happened to me.

@krishnasingh3212 3 года назад

Wow! Navajo is so interesting!

@manuelfavid9221 3 года назад

Awesome video!

@fanstream 2 года назад

stellar videos - graphics, visuals, flow - entertaining, informative

@siratshi455 3 года назад

Hi, July, I suggest to make a video about Kazakh or Arabic, very interesting languages, there's not so much data on Kazakh language especially in English but I hope you'll still consider this comment while choosing next language to make a video on. This channel is hidden gem for a language nerd like me, thank you for work!

@efjefe 3 года назад

I live on the navajo rez. I love it.

@giovanniacuna676 2 года назад

Finding your channel has been a blessing! Thank you for studying and sharing your knowledge about these ancestral languages. I really like your content! Im from Perú, a big hug!

@goochpunchtickles3617 3 года назад

Your brain is gorgeous. Enjoyed the video. Thank you.

@thibistharkuk2929 3 года назад

I'm dying right now knowing that navajo people call my country (France) "moustache people land"

@oceanpoincare 3 года назад

The name for Sweden is also “horned hat wearer land” and the name for Italy is “not-speak-clearly people land”

@PanglossDr 3 года назад

First thing that struck me was that the way you pronounced Na-Dene. It sounded almost the same as saying 'The People' in Irish. It is Na Daoine. Navajo sounds really complicated but also really interesting.

@eoghanoneill9765 3 года назад

Sin go díreach a cheap mise nuair a chuala ach is dócha gur comhtharlú é.

@hardej4272 Год назад

"Na Dene" is probably an original expression of Dine which is a Navajo version which is possibly used as far back as 3,000 years ago. When a people confronts only their own people and do not see any group that is of different color or culture, the assumption might be that they are the only human on earth. Dine means "people." Recent adoption is "the ones with 5 fingers" to mean human-beings. The story is that there were other type of people with 6 fingers and 6 toes that used to live in North America who hunted people to eat them. These eventually disappeared. Plains Indians would greet a member of another tribe with a hand raised and say "haw." They then see that the stranger is a human like themselves.

@m.kostoglod7949 Год назад

It should be nah-day-NEH tho

@irvantaylor 3 года назад

Great video Juli

@anne-christinemarcou4481 2 года назад

EXCELLENT!!..GREAT INFORMATION..🤗💫! KEEP GOING, GREAT WORK. THANK YOU

@grovergrandle3018 3 года назад

The ket language in siberia is a yenesian language,with tenuous ties to na dene

@pfflam 3 года назад

I love to think of how language is a sort of image of thought for those who speak it, or rather shapes thinking and the disclosure of the world for them -with that in mind I can't help but think of the Navajo as having some sort of wild natural structurally advanced philosophical perspective - the whole verb thang!! -or thingingnessitude! and wow, what a beautiful cat!

@RedHair651 3 года назад

That’s called linguistic relativism and it’s been debunked ages ago

@pfflam 3 года назад

@@RedHair651 By who? by anti-Heideggerians? Please re-debunk or reference -

@pfflam 3 года назад

@@RedHair651 In all good faith, how does one step outside of language to explain their perspective is not shaped by language? and also, since it is language as the medium of shared qualitative nomination, due to the very nature of language as a shared medium made of iterative moments, it is not relativist in that it is at the least intersubjective co-relative - my and your interior dialogue with the experience of the world, in the form of an ongoing decipherment and narrativizing, is made of borrowed and preformed elements over which we do not have complete command - we are therefor shaped in very intimate ways by the language we use in the heart of our experience. sure their is also singularity to experience, but that then is harder to access with borrowed meanings and terms which are what we have at hand, from history, from our shared culture our language-games we live through.

@RedHair651 3 года назад

@@pfflam Just look up ”Sapir-Whorf” in wikipedia

@sterlingdafydd5834 Год назад

You’re AWESOME..!!! I REALLY enjoy your videos

@hardej4272 Год назад

The speaker is the man who is campaigning for a seat in Navajo tribe leadership. He speaks with repetition of "the ones in authority." And the lady speaks of her experience as a child who had aspirations to grow up to become someone who would succeed in a role that would help her people. She became a guest on Navajo radio station to share healthful recipes in the types of foods that are healthy. The girl with the Navajo bun introduces herself stating her maternal and paternal clanship. She is presenting a talk about her culture on the campus of ASU. Each are extremely proficient in their speech with all the intonation and gutteral in place. The girl singer is a former Miss Navajo.