For those who are interested in learning more about Sakha/Yakut language, welcome to my second channel: Let's speak Sakha ru-vid.com/show-UC2aGXdy9FMVgSHGPZACnd9w 😀
@Ercan Banks We Turks of Turkey are a mix of Turkic and Anatolian people. All ethnic Turks in Turkey have partial patrilineal Eastern/Northern Asian DNA.
I'm really looking forward to visiting soon in the coming few years. 🙏 Current global restrictions are seriously slowing that down. 🐌 But I'll make it there, no doubt. 😊❄️
I am from Ireland, and my native language is dying very quickly. I was lucky enough to go to an Irish school, where we only spoke Irish. But most other children on the island went to English schools. There are very few native speakers of Irish left in the country. And most Irish people can’t speak Irish fluently. It makes me sad. Our language will probably be gone in 100 years. But I admire how other small nations are preserving their languages so well. We are proud of you! We know how hard it is. We may have lost our language, but we will support other indigenous nations who are working hard to keep theirs! Good job!
Thank you for sharing! I never thought that Irish was in danger of disappearing. I think the main power of preserving a language is in hands of the government. Building schools, kindergartens, making propaganda “this is important” in a country scale.
@@LifeinYakutia I don't know if you know this, but when he is speaking about Irish, he means the celtic language Gaeilge, which is a separate language from the Irish dialect of English and it is the native language of Ireland. In the last few hundred years, because of occupation and colonization of the English, the English language has mostly replaced the native language of Gaeilge and now it is only spoken in small pockets in the west of the island. There is however an effort to revive the language through immersion schools where courses are taught exclusively in Gaeilge. I'm not from Ireland, but I have a big interest in languages, so that's how I got to know of it 😅 I hope this info can be useful to anyone and I think different peoples can learn from each other and from how they preserve their language, like in Yakutia. Thanks for sharing Maria! 🙏❤️
There are basically 3 main sides of a language, from the most important to least important, is that language's literature thought in at least some of the local universities ? is the language spoken on an everyday basis ? (to keep it alive and allow it to form new words on it's own rules) are there any NEW intellectual property (songs/rhymes, books, poems etc.) that is made by using that language ?
When visiting in the Galway region 9 years ago, I ran into a few people who couldn't or didn't care to speak English. But they were not young people. There were people near Dublin who didn't believe me, or didn't care to, even though they knew a bit of Irish themselves. Some say they were forcefed too much Peig Sayers in school, which turned them away from it. I'm from the U.S. and have no Irish ancestry. The only words I've learned are ní thuigim. I should probably learn how to say it more politely.
In Turkish, the letter "y" at the beginning of the word turns into the letter "s" in Sakha language. Y>S ön ses değişimi.. Turkish : Sakha Yol : Suol Yıl : Sıl Yumak : Suumak Yağmur : Samıır Yıldız : Suldız Yalamak : Salamak Yaka : Sağa Yüzmek : Süzmek
Turkish : Sakha Language (more examples) ağız : ayak (mouth) ayak : atak (foot) bacak/but : but (leg) baş : bas (head) burun : burun (nose) dil : dıl (tounge) dis : dis (tooth) dudak : uvaz (lip) el : eli (hand) hatun : kotun (wife) kaş : kas (eyebrow) kol : kol (arm) kulak : kulgah (ear) parmak : darbak (finger) tırnak : tıgırak (nail) yagmur : sambır (rain) yıl : sıl (year) yurt : surt (homeland/house) yüz : süs (face) tepe : tepe (upper part of sth) balık : balık (fish)
Belkide sebebi iklimdir?? Ş ve S harfi soğuk havada daha rahat çıkar ağzıdan,Y harfi ise daha geniş ağız açıklığı yüzünden kullanışsız olmazmı? Tamamen atıyorum dilbilimciler daha iyi bilir tabiki
Hi Maria! I am from the Basque Country in Spain, here we speak Basque, it is a minority language spoken here and in the French Basque Country area. It was about to disappear some decades ago but now more and more people are learning it. To keep it alive we have TV channels, radio and music. You can study in basque since kindergarten until university and also go to basque schools to learn the language (euskaltegis). We say that to be basque you don’t need to be born here, every person who speaks basque is basque 🤗 Love your channel! Greetings!!
I have a basque surname and do not know much at all about Basque Country, culture or language. You saying anyone who speaks Basque is Basque to me, shines light on how beautiful Basque ppl are. I hope look into Basque culture and language and learn more in the future. Blessings to you
@@MrBelgis the layout of words in a sentence and grammar in turkic languages are really similar. I can pick up a few words but I cant understand it completely. Kazakh, kyrghz and uyghur languages are easier to understand for me i think.
@@MrBelgis I'm also Turkish and despite my above average interest in Turkic languages, Sakha is one of the most difficult ones to understand unless you actually study it. Personally, I think it's second most different to Turkish (first is Chuvash). This being said even though I don't understand the majority of words being spoken (since Sakha and Turkish seperated more than a thousand years ago and Sakha has many Mongolian words that Turkish doesn't), I can still easily follow the flow of her sentences and can pick up what's the subject, verb, object adverb etc. if that makes sense. There is a familiarity with the way it sounds and flows
@@MrBelgis well I'm from Turkey and in the last video of this channel (experiments at -54°) she said "elim dondu (my hand is frozen)" or something like that and i got it when i asked in the comments it, someone wrote me "she said 'my hand is cold' " so it's more close than I've ever imagined
I'm really happy your channel is growing so fast lately. A few months ago I was afraid you would give up but you kept going and now you're going through the roof! You are doing such an important work, showing the Yakutian way of life to people on the other side of the planet, like me. Keep it up!
I’m a Kabyle, but I was born and raised in the United States, and my parents are immigrants from Algeria. My language, tamazight, is dying as well since most Kabyles are starting to speak French or Arabic. I try and preserve it by making sure I can speak it fluently and that I speak it with my sisters.
@@17Emil African countries? Nobody think that. I'm from East Africa and only north Africans speak Arabic here and there. I even come from a Muslim country and we don't speak Arabic.
❤ Azul fellak a gma Thanks for your comment but I have to correct you on something 😅 Kabyle is the opposite from being endangered. It is the most spoken amazigh variant in Algeria and the most widely known among other imazighen and in academia after the Souss dialect of southern Morocco Basically you have Riffian that is widely spoken in Europe lol places like Holland and Belgium and Spain , Kabyle mostly in France of course it’s like the second most spoken foreign language after Arabic in Paris lol Then you also have the Chaoui dialect that is widely known in Algeria. Souss and Moroccan Atlas dialects are also by no means endangered lol. So while there is still discrimination and racism against amazighs let’s not exaggerate some claims please Among the endangered variants of Tamazight are Chenoui from places like Tipaza (western Algeria ) possibly Mozabite and definitely the ghomara dialect that used to be spoken in Tetouan (northwestern Moroccan region in general )
I live in California but I was born and raised on an island of Kyushu ( Japan ). I speak to my son in Japanese although he may or may not understand because he was born with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disorder. I try to keep my culture alive by eating Japanese food , speaking Japanese and practicing our tradition and culture. Love your videos 💕🥰
Hi Maria! I'm a sociolinguist based in Okinawa, Japan, and doing work on endangered languages there. This video was so informative and enjoyable for me! Thank you! Based on your description, it sounds as though Yakut might fall on Level 4 (transmitted through public education system) on Joshua Fishman's Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale, but is also used for local and regional mass media and public services. However, you noted that Yakut is becoming increasingly vulnerable because children are starting to prefer Russian over Yakut. My question is, why do you think Yakut children are starting to use Russian more, when their whole families are native speakers of Yakut? I'm doing research on the Yaeyama language, which is critically endangered (8a or 8b, "Moribund"). It has about 1,000 full native speakers left, almost all of which are over the age of 70. Yaeyama is not the language of education in the region where it is natively spoken. At present there are some radio programs and special events where local people can use Yaeyama, but the Japanese government does not permit classes to be held in public schools, and our generation (child-bearing generation) can neither speak nor understand it. I'm trying to find ways to combat language loss, hence my question to you. Best Regards!
Hello! I am Turkish and my language is Turkic, too. I am learning Yakut language, that's a bit hard but we have so many common words and grammar rules, that makes Yakut easy for me😊 You have a great language and culture, I love Yakuts💙. I hope your channel will be bigger soon.
@@coolimdead3058 Yakutça bazı filmler izleyebilirsin ya da "Saydam Nomad" adlı bir kanal var, orada da Yakutça öğretiyor. Bi de yandex çeviride Yakutça var, oradan çeviri yapabilirsin ama ne kadar güvenilir olduğu hakkında bir fikrim yok.
@@coolimdead3058 kardeşim zor değil, sakha sözlüğü satın alıyorsun , ortak kelimeleri buluyorsun , onları not alıyorsun. Not aldıktan sonra sakha dil bilgisi hakkında google scholar'da akademik sitesinde yazıların yüksek lisans doktora tezlerini ( tezler, makaleler en güvenilir kaynaktır, bunu unutma) okuyorsun, zaten okuduktan sonra dil bilgisinin ne kadar benzer olduğunu göreceksin. Kolayca anlayacaksın. Dil bilgisi hakkında tezleri okurken türkçeyle benzer olmayan en fazla günlük dilde konuşulan sözcüklerin notunuda alıyorsun. Daha sonra bir sakha arkadaş ediniyorsun onunla pratik yapıyorsun. 1 ay da öğreniyorsun. sakha ve çuvaş dili diğer türk dillerinden biraz ayrıldığı için öğrenmekte zorluk çekebilirsin, sözcükler farklıdır. benzer sözcüklerde mevcutttur. sakha dilini öğrenirken bizim bazı sözcüklerin eş anlamlarınada bak benzer sözcükler ortaya çıkabiliyor. bu da dipnot olsun. mesala Sakhalar, söylemek yerine. de-mek sözünü kullanıyor. Ülkenin tarihini de oku bilgin olsun. Yakutistan, Yakutlar sözü yerine Sakhastaan , sakhalar sözlerini çok fazla kullan. Ülkenin adı Yakutistan değil, sakhastaandır. Yakutsk rusça bir söz.
Hello Maria : As an Uyghur, I can see and feel that we share a lot of similarities in culture, language, and more. Really love your content, Keep up and make more awesome content like this one. I would love to know more about your culture. Yakutiya'ya salam lar bolsun ! Edit: I almost forgot to write, that we are from the same root.
Until a few days ago I had never heard of your city, your Republic, your people or your language. Your videos are interesting and informative. Thanks for posting them.
I am from Turkey and a Turksih girl. We are sisters. We have common ancestors, history, and culture. I want to leran more about Yakut language. I would be glad, if you could tell me some Yakut movies which are in Yakut langauge. Thank you so much. Have a nice day and keep going. Regards from Turkey!
Atalarımız,tarihimiz ve kültürümüz biryerden sonra değişiyor.Biz araplaştık,onlar ruslaştı.Göktürk devleti doğu ve batıya ayrılınca Qin hanedanı iki devleti de ana yurtlarından attı.Onlar kuzeye biz batıya göç ettik bu yüzden ne atalarımız ne tarihimiz ne de kültürümüz pek benzer değil,çünkü onlar kuzeye göç edince yerleşik hayata geçtiler bizde Osmanlı ile yerleşik hayata geçtik.Göç etmeyenler de Çinlileştiler Bana göre hala asimile olmamış tek Türk milleti Türkmenistan Türkmenleridir
@@emresuleymancicek2563 asimile olmaktan kastın dil mi yoksa dna genleri mi ? veya kültür mü ? eğer pürüssüz yüz de yüz saf türk kanı arıyorsan sakhalardır. Onlar gen olarak karışmamıştır. Dil olarak bizden ayrılmıştır. Eski türkçeye yakın bir dil arıyorsan ise Altay dilidir. Onların genleride farklılaşmıştır.
@@uraanakhai1169 yeah, i think Turkish culture is better and by far has the best culture out of the Turkic cultures but that's just my opinion lol (the reason why yakut culture is not one of my faves is because they have been affected by the Russian culture, sadly...) Greetings from Northern Cyprus!
Hi Maria! My first language is Hungarian and we also have vowel harmony and this is also agglutinative language. When you speaks Sakha at the end the tone is quite similar to the Hungarian to me.
It is because Magyar and Sakha languages are in Ural-Altai language family although western schollars denny its existance the obvious can be clearly seen.
Hi sis! first of all im native turkic language speaker.. Im Turkemen originally.. and turkic languages always fascinated me.. so I started to read more about them..I live in Germany because I was born here and my parents work here for their living.. and we use to speak turkish at home and German outside.. ofc we get influenced by german which is more and more influenced by english.. so whenever I met to turkic language speaker I try to talk to them in turkish the way they might understand me well.. as long as they dont need my help to learn german.. I have a almost 2 years old nephew. he was born in germany also but we only talk turkish to him and let him mostly watch turkish animations.. but children always find their way.. )) Even if we have diffrent religions for now our cultures have the same base so we still have cultural rituals and belives which belong to shamnism... anyways Take care
I can speak Turkish so I understand you when you said my name is Maria in yakut language , in turkish is benim adım Maria. But I couldn’t understand anything else, maybe because I’m not a native speaker of turkish language
I am a native Turkish speaker. I could just understand benim adım Maria, too. It is doesn't sounds like Turkish language that I speak I think it is not because of you are not a native speaker of Turkish language.
@Turancı Genç Çuvaş ve Yakut lehçe, anlaşılması birazcık zor ama kafa yorup birkaç harf değişimini ezberlersek bence ana dilimiz de Türkçe ise daha iyi anlaşırız gibi. Kalanları ise şive anlaşılması gayet kolay bence
I am a Métis person (from Canada). Unfortunately, our native languages are dying (Canadian French and Michif) and fewer and fewer people are speaking them. Only a few hundred people are native speakers of Michif :( The English committed a very effective cultural genocide against us.
I love Canadian French! I learnt French as a 3rd language way back in 2011 and now I teach beginner French to people... I always tune in to Canadian French channels because they tend to have subtitles and it's way easier to follow haha. Would love to hear more about Michif and I will be googling up in next few hours
@@ValleyPooch yes because the language has been protected in la belle province. Outside of Quebec, French-speaking people were subjected to a lot of abuse by the anglos
canada is truly not doing enough for its first nations! I'm from quebec and most people here don't even know the true reality of what first nations are going through. its awful
Hi! I am Polish from Southern Poland and living in Hungary for 11 years already, my husband is Hungarian and we have a son, who's name is Tamerlan. I speak Hungarian too, I enjoy the Ugric linguistics, I find it very amazing that a lot of Turan people celebrate their culture, we have even a festival in Hungary called Kurultáj, I was once there and it was amazing. Although Polish is not a rare language I feel many Poles forgets to speak the nice Polish so I decided to speak proper Polish to my son to make him know his mother language from the very beginning. I love to show him Polish music, poems, culture and of course food :) greetings from Budapest!
Every little region in Italy has its own little dialect, some you can understand if you speak Italian and some you don't. I live in the extreme Northern part of the country (in the Alps), my dialect is its own language and not mutually intelligible with Italian. Unfortunately my mother was not as good as you are and didn't want me to learn it. In Italy there's this idea that dialects are crude and rugged, the language of the ignorants, while Italian is the language of the cultured people. For this reason less and less children in Italy are learning their religional languages. I'm lucky to have been born in the countryside, here dialects are more preserved and in my town even teenagers and children speak it. I still have a hard time speaking it, but I understand and know it very well. N pensee i 'n abrasc da la Lumbardia 🥰 a thought and a hug from Lombardy (Italy) 🥰
Hi Sabrina! I recognize the same attitude towards local language here in Belgium/Flanders. It's good to speak a language that other people understand, but it shouldn't replace the local tongue and it's rich culture. I would love to learn more about your local language from Lombardy 🙏❤️
I live in northern Italy as well! I live in South Tyrol, which borders Austria, and most of us speak a German dialect. We don‘t really have newspapers or tv shows in our dialect. We either watch German/Austrian TV or sometimes Italian, though we sometimes find it difficult to watch Italian shows, because they speak so fast 😂 Lately, I have been hearing some songs in our dialect on the radio, which is quite exciting. Our dialect differs from valley to valley, city to city, it‘s quite interesting! It also contains lots of Italian words such as “ magari“ (maybe) or „alla fine“ (in the end/in conclusion) and with globalization we even use some English words, though that mainly goes for teenagers/young adults. So it quite often happens that a sentence is made up of words from three different languages 😅
Hello Sabrina! Thank you for sharing! Yakut language had the same issues too. It was forbidden to talk Yakut in 60s and 70s, my mom used to say that Russians could interrupt you in the bus/shop “stop talking Yakut”. And of course it was a language of villagers, not “cultural” people. Fortunately, generation of my parents got through it and preserved our language till nowadays. Now the future of Yakut language is in our hands.
You‘re right, I‘m not a real Italian I‘d consider myself more Austrian than German and definitely not Swiss, since South Tyrol was part of Austria before World War 1. I‘d say I‘m more influenced by Austrian traditions than Italian.
I'm from Turkey and I'm really interested in the Yakut language since it's so different than other Turkic languages. We other Turkic nations can understand each other if we speak slow but Yakut language is probably close to the old Turkic language, without much effect from foreign languages. We have a lot of Arabic Persian and French words but Yakut probably not so interesting. I'm a Turkish teacher on Instagram so I would love to make a video together about how similar it is, so we can compare. 😊
@@shadowkai6302 hmm doğru aslında Göktürkçeyi anlamak çok zor değil bizim için. Eski dile yakın derken bizdeki Arapça Farsça etkisinden bahsettim ama tabii Saka dili Göktürkçeden de önce ayrılmış olsa gerek.
Hi , I understood when you said ben adim. My name is. Same in Turkiye. Also I picked up when you said balik which means fish. Same in Turkiye too. Sending lot of hugs from Turkiye
I'm so glad that you are making an effort to keep the language and culture alive and well! I would love to have a book on Yakut fairy tales and Olonkho.
Dear sister , I love the language , Yakut is a unique Turkic language and I think most well preserved one , ! It would be great to teach our kids Kagans and the Gokturk empire as we were unified for the first time inthe history this will provide your kids the sence of belonging to a huge family with our own alphabet and counting system and calendar
gardaş biz oğuzlarız. Birbirimizi anlama oranımız yüzde 95'dir doğrudur. Sakha ve Çuvaş dili biraz türk dillerinden ayrılmış. sakha dil bilgisinde farklılık yok. yine aynı türk dili. sözcükler olarak ayrılmış.
I will learn Saxa language and visit you before I die brothers! Maybe as Turkic peoples we couldn't see each other for 2000 years but today I really want to understand you and your language. I still find your history amazing. We Turkish people went to the Balkans, far west :D You went to the far north. So one wonder what happened to you...
as a turkic, yakut language sounds so beautiful. and its really easy to learn for me because of connection between two languages. turkic languages really changed by time with other languages effection. i like that you want to protect your language
I think it'd be nice to hear a conversation between you and another Yakut speaker in Yakut language :) I'm from Australia, and although English is our main language, there are over 250 indigenous languages. Unfortunately I don't know an indigenous language as none of them are taught in school, some languages were almost forgotten too, as due to terrible past events in Australia indigenous people were told not to speak it, and have now in some cases having to relearn their own first language in attempt to keep it alive.
Sakha tyla sounds sooo nice! Maria, to popularize your language, you might consider teaching basic phrases to your viewers such as наьаа учугэй видео or Махтал etc.
Hey Maria! Thanks for your interesting video's. i'm from the Netherlands and I live in the northern part. Our province is called Fryslân, and we speak Frisian, ( i was raised bilingual) which is a minority language. Officially it is the second language of the Netherlands, and you are allowed to speak it in court of at any other formal situation. But since not so many people (400.000 at the moment) speak it, it isn't used that much in formal situations. I speak it all the time, unless someone is talking Dutch to me. I try to keep it alive by talking( at home, work, supermarket, whereever possible), writing (on whatsapp and email), reading, watching telly and listening radio and sometimes music, and talking about our language to people who don't know. Just like your language, i hope it won't vanish!
Saha yakut Türkçesi ile Türkiye Türkçesi arasında 1500 yıl ayrılık vardır.Atatürk zamanında bu iki lehçe arasında sözlük hazırlamış,şu an milli kütüphanededir😀👍🙏👏❤️🇹🇷
I'm from Scotland, so we have Gaelic (similar to Irish, though quite distinct). For various historic reasons, primarily because it was actively discouraged in favour of English which is the main language now, it's spoken by almost nobody as a first language. We have Gaelic schools in some parts of the country, so Children can be taught from primary age in Gaelic and English. Also, most road signs and emergency vehicles are written in Gaelic and English (especially in the highlands and islands). I think it's an important part of our history as a culture going back hundreds of years. It would be really sad to see the language die totally.
I from Chile, my mother tongue and that of the majority of the population here is Spanish. However, Before the arrival of the Spaniards was mapudungun, a language that today very few speak, is quite sad and I hope we can do something. Your work in teaching his nation's culture is admirable, and a greeting to all the Turkish-speaking people I saw that there are several.
Yakut is also Turkish languages but you can't understand sometimes and that is because you are not native speaker. Çalışmaya devam et, Türkiye'den selamlar
Wow you’re an English teacher! I used to teach English as a 2nd language. I’d be interested to see a video about your work day after your maternity leave is over! 😉
It is very interesting for me to listen to Yakut language which is foreign for me (I'm German) - though the sound reminds me with the vowels of Turkish, but some consonants sound Mongolian. In my region the traditional dialect (Low German Language) died out with the generation of my grandparents because people stopped speaking it at home. There use to be one page in our local newspaper in it, but the newpaper stopped this page like 10 years ago, because there where hardly any speakers left. Once people don't use it in every day life it is very hard that the language survives and even harder to revive it.
it's so fascinating to learn about your life and culture, if your channel wasn't recommended to me, I would have never known about your culture. thank you so much for sharing! it's truly wonderful to see. As I understand, the climate of Yakutia is similar to Dras in India :) would love to visit your part of the world someday
I think Yakut sounds gorgeous, like a cross between Finnish and Turkish. I'm very familiar with the sound of Turkish because a lot of people speak Turkish where I live in London. One of my old books ("Teach Yourself Turkish" from 1953) says it's possible to travel all the way through Central Asia into China speaking Istanbul Turkish and people will still understand you! I'm not sure how true that is now, bearing in mind that the book was written 70 years ago... I started learning Russian so I can visit Siberia one day. I have to say it is by far the most difficult language I've ever attempted. Far harder than Japanese. I've been learning Japanese very slowly for years and that is an agglutinative language, just like Yakut. I think the grammar is far more logical than any European language. 📺 PS re the cartoons, can't they launch a children's TV channel in Yakut? It's not particularly expensive to dub cartoons. The Welsh TV channel S4C broadcasts cartoons nearly all day and only puts adult programming in the evenings. About 400,000-500,000 people speak Welsh as a first language and about the same number again speak second language Welsh. But for a language to survive it has to be spoken by and used by children! It's great that so many people are willing to learn it as a second language but that's not enough to keep any language alive. Only first language speakers can keep a language alive!
I am a language nerd. I absolutely loved this video as well as all of your other videos. I know some Turkish and I could pick out some similar words when you were speaking. I have been learning Welsh for over 3 years.
Prynhawn da! I have started learning Welsh on Duolingo, along with Spanish and Finnish, I want to learn at least the basics of many languages I am interested in, although it is unlikely I will use them in conversation or for practical reasons
I just discovered your channel a few days ago. I'm now watching your past videos, as well as your current ones. I am really enjoying your vids for the excellent and interesting education I am receiving from you.
Hi Maria! I am from Mexico and my Native language is also agglutinative (Nawatl). I understand lots of words and phrases but don't converse in my mother's language. I am trying to practice it more and hope to speak it more in the future. Myak Pakilistli Yankik Xiwitl!! (Much Felicitations for new year).
an agglutinative language at america? very interesting. my nativ language is turkish an d i knew that only turkic, mongolian, korean and japaness languages were agglutinative.
@@serhatozdemir4961 For example: Nichiltlaxkalneki = Ni (me), Chil (chili), Tlaxkal (tlaxkalli=corn tortillas), neki (neki= want/desire) .... "I corn tortillas with chili want". Essentially this means, "I want enchiladas", a very typical Mexican dish which is my favorite and I recommend to everyone!! By the way, I had a German girlfriend so I know that German is also an agglutinative language!
Thank you, Maria! You are an incredible person and I'm so happy to have found your channel, may it continue to grow! I wish you and your family every happinnes
Так и есть,большая туркская семья :) и это очень похоже в некоторых местах на азербайджанский язык и на турецкий и на казахский,что и доказывает,что наши корни одни. Всем привет от турка ✊🖐
I love learning about other native languages. I'm Maltese, and our language has around the same number of languages as yours. Although I went to an English speaking school and didn't speak it well for the first 14 years of my life but then I made the conscious effort to learn it after reading about how indigenous languages in South America were dying out because younger people weren't picking them up. We have the same problem here, my 2 siblings hardly speak Maltese and many of my friends don't speak it fluently. Children's media is so important to help foster curiosity in children and teach them a language. Because there isn't much good kids media in Maltese here, many are growing up speaking English with an American accent.
Your videos make the world a better place. Not only through the interesting content, but also through the way you speak and smile. If all people were like you, there would be no wars around....
Thank you for this video. I was wondering how your voice would sund when speaking you native language. Now I know. Your English is really impressive, I know how hard it is to learn for someone with your linguistic background. That being said, I'm already impressed how much work there is done to preserve the Yakut language: books, schools, even films. With around 20 million speakers around the world, we don't really have a minority-language, but it is hard enough to keep it alive. Literature is a very important aspect of it. Languages without written literature are bound to be forgotten at some point. So, the main answer is: more books. I understand there isn't a traditional Yakut-script? It never existed? Well, maybe there is no need if the Cyrillic alphabet does meet your needs.
I am so glad that the Sakha language is widely spoken! As a Korean teacher, I was very curious about whether the Sakha language is still being used today. The Sakha language is related to Korean. Let's work hard to develop Altaic languages together!
@@nickname2616 The Turkic, Mongolian, Tungusic groups, and the Korean language belong to the Altaic family of languages. Koreans believe that they are originated from proto-Tungusic people.
Yes, it's widely used by Sakha, Evenks, Evens, Yukagirs, and Dolgans, also, by a little number of Slavic Russians who raised among Yakuts. The areas of use have recently widened due to the growing number of theses nations (peoples) in Eastern Russia and migration of Slavic Russians back to Western Russia. The Sakha people make up around 52% of Yakutia's population whereas Slavic Russian do 32%.
you are so sweet!!!! as a language student i really appreciate that you actually put some general information about the language in the video, apart from just common sentences or slangs you are doing an wonderful job with the channel, love from brasil
It sure sounds different but i can still understand what you say when i focused. Even with the mongolian and russian words in betweens, it can still be easily observed as a turkic language. I am from Turkey. Greetings.
Hi, Maria, I’m from Lithuania. Even though there are about 3 million of us but a lot of people left the country in search of a better life abroad. As for us, Lithuanians love their country and teach children the language. However, English is commonly used among young generation and some old words are replaced. We worry a lot and yet hope for the best :) Lithuanian is a Baltic language coming from Indoeuropean language family group. Besides us, only Latvians are considered speaking a Baltic language, even though sometimes we are mistakenly put under the umbrella of Slavic languages... :(
I just found your videos and watched several. I am from America, and my first thoughts are your culture is pure and untainted and so good. I wish America returned to these strong family values. Keep your language and culture strong and teach it to your kids! You are awesome!
Thanks so much for your perspective! Sometimes I feel really sad that our local dialect is dying (only elder people still speak it), it makes me glad to see an ethnic minority's language being taken care of.
It's actually a dialect of Russian+Ukrainian, hahaha. A bit like суржик, but different. It's called balachka, it's very rare to hear it now though everyone spoke it until the 1930s-1940s. I can still understand it but not speak it, and when I hear it, it always makes me think of home and family.
Yakut language sounds nice and beautiful. I hope and believe the Yakut language will continue to survive and thrive. Although I am not a Yakut person , I support your concern to preserve the language and culture of your people. Subscribed to your channel. Cheers!
I am a linguist, and you did a great job with the long words! I've had a few projects about Yawelmani Yokuts, and it's a fun time. Thank you for sharing!
I had a girlfriend from Moldova who's father died because he didn't comply with the Russification process, and he was advocating for the local/native language. I think its important to teach the children the native language, because at first they might not see the point of learning it (because they want to integrate to big/international community), BUT once they're older and they integrated, they will realize that they have a special feature which is part of their identity: their native language/ethnicity. So if they didn't learn their language at a young age, they find it difficult to learn it later and just abandon it. That's what you're both doing a favor to the children and to the community if you teach them the native language.
Выросла в Якутии, но якутского не знаю, очень жалею сейчас. Якутский очень красивый и необычный, я всегда в аэропорту вслушивалась в объявления :) В городе, где я выросла, большинство говорит только по-русски, всего одна моя подруга - якутка и знает язык. Но я рада, что знаю относительно много про мифологию - в младшей школе у нас были уроки якутской культуры, на которых нам читали сказки и рассказывали про традиции. Теперь живу в Австрии и очень рада, что нашла твой канал, могу показать своим друзьям все то, по чему я так скучаю, и узнать еще больше о культуре, в которой я выросла
Yakut appears to be in a much better position than other minority languages in Russian. Having media produced in your language is critical to keep it alive. People are likely to seek out another language for entertainment if they can't obtain books/movies/songs in their native language. As a native English speaker, I can say that there is more media in English than I could ever listen/read in 1000 lifetimes, but speakers of other languages aren't so lucky.
I’m so glad you’re preserving your language! If you want, you can make more videos while speaking Yakut and just add subtitles. I love hearing native languages and I’m totally fine with subtitles :) (I watch so many Korean dramas, in used to it)
Thanks maria for educating us..honestly until i saw ur vid i dint know about yukutia exist in russia..also my assumption of how russian people look like changed after i saw ur video..thanks again
I wheezed when you said agglutinative language with vowel harmony. How many and what kind of cases do you have? I've heard that our languages are grammatically similar. Greetings from Finland.
I've heard that Finnish would be distantly related to Turgic languages as well. And it apparently originates from Siberia. I wonder if we come from shared roots long, long time ago. Maria also kind of looks like me, but with different colour hair and eyes. Pöljää puhua englantia videon alla, jossa puhutaan oman kielen säilyttämisestä. Mutta halusin, että Mariakin voisi ymmärtää, jos sattuisi näkemään.
@@raapyna8544 Uralic and Turkic languages are both Ural-Altaic languages. That is not a family but rather a group of families which share similarities. So I'm sorry to say that Uralic and Turkic languages are not related. However a popular theory holds that the proto-dialects of all Ural-Altaic families (proto-Uralic, proto-Turkic, proto-Japanese, proto-Korean etc.) were spoken in close proximity around 10 000 years ago which would explain that they evolved to same direction grammatically. Grammatic similarities alone without mutual lexicon are (if anything) an indication of cultural influence - not relationship. We do know that the ancestors of Uralic peoples, including Finns, were somewhere East of Ural mountains around 10 000 years ago so it's not implausible.
I'm Turkish, and I've checked Finnish grammar in past. I've been learning some basic Finnish Grammar. I was like "ok, wow, it seems it would be easy for me". As you mentioned there is vowel harmony and such.. However, I noticed something. Finnish Grammar is not like Turkish, it's more like mix of English and Turkish in sense of grammar. There are rules in Finnish that doesn't exist in any Turkic languages. I must say all Turkish languages shares same grammar rules. There are just some minor differences. I don't know Finnish but Hungarian language historically very much affected by Turks. So, it's not really surprise to see similarity. As far as I know Hungarian roots go back to Central Asia, furthermore there are Turks in Hungary. Some of those people still aware their Turkish identity namely Cuman-Kipchak. There is also Ottoman Era. However, I don't recall anything like that with Finland. I see German effect on Finnish. There are many compound words. About cases. I think it's very controversial. In Turkish we have 5 cases, however I know some other Turkic languages has more cases. Those cases exist in Turkish, but it's not called case. It's just another suffix in grammar.
@@blgram Yes, Hungarian and its closest relatives may be the only Uralic languages which were influenced by Turkish due to the history with Ottoman empire. Uralic languages in general (according to the theory I mentioned) were influenced by proto-Altaic (the proto-dialect of proto-Turkic and others) vice versa. Proto-Uralic and proto-Altaic were supposedly spoken in close proximity in Northern Asia around 10 000 years ago. Finnish has been influenced by Germanic languages in two stages: first by contact with proto-Germanic (Baltic region, 2 000+ years ago) and second by contact with Swedish. This influence mostly appears as mutual exchange of words. Compound words however are also a feature in Uralic languages that haven't been in contact with Germanic languages. They are also a feature in other Indo-European and Indo-Aryan languages which Uralic languages have been in contact with. So it might be cultural influence, I don't know. But if it is, it's from time before Germanic languages.
I am ethnicly Russian but i totally understand your frustration brought by globalisation. I think it is absolute nececcety all cartoons and kids shows must be translated to your son's native language. And it should be done by Federal money not your local. So i would sugest applying the request to your local Federal deputy to lobby it into the law. Our strenth in divercity and we must preserve it in order to solidify our unity as a one nation of many ethnicities.
Also i would absolutelly promote that for Russian school students of Yakutiya learning Yakut language would be an absolute nececity. After all knowing extra language always positive thing for anyone
