Aztec and Mayan are totally different languages. Sort of. 

Why would you be proud? You were just exposed to it as a child.

@@antonboludo8886 proud because few people noways can speak those languages

But he does not speak it, he merely understands it. At any rate these languages must absolutely be preserved. @@koiue.g8709

Guatemalan mayan js the real one yucatans are fake mayas/aztecs haha

Omg Yes thank Good you keep the language going and teaching your kids.. Oh... Wait? What? Guess you cant really teach anyone by understanding it now can we.

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@@illidril17 120 now...

@@solomonking5097 139th Aaaand im from CDMX :D i could instantlly differentiate Aztec from Mayan mostly cuz Aztec words

I wish my placed cared as much about native languages

Suficientemente bueno?

Cuix tinahuatlahtoa.

nitlahtoa achi, ece ahmo cualli

Happy birthday!!! You're the embodiment of who I made this video for.

Biblaridion Lang It's still nice to find someone who speaks a little nahuatl :)

Tlazohcomati! Keep up the awesome work.

nope. he's totally serious. that's the word for money

You're basing the pronunciation from an English stand point so it's nothing more than a coincidence.

no English stand point. English has nothing to do with this. These are living languages with native speakers that inform us how these words are pronounced and how the grammar is structured.

Read it like an English person would if he knew nothing about the language. It becomes "You takin' his money" with the right dialect.

Subliminal messaging. Watch your wallet. ;)

Thank you!

Calvin Krause That's unfair, cause you're probably in high school, and this kind of stuff is advanced and specialized as hell, and not stuff you'd learn in high school. No offense man.

Sir. Robert Walpole hello sir

That is what the best language masters do...what they always do.

I agree

Haha, your diligent distraction paid off!!

This sounds too much like me.

Some say there's been a rebound, with younger speakers picking up the language, but I have only read basic reports. Linguists claim that it fares better than Lacandón. Do you find it easy to have conversations, or are even native speakers reluctant to use your language? Thank you for sharing your experience.

I find it very easy to have conversations. The Lacandón only number less than a thousand people, so it's not every day I get to practice, but even the younger people still use the language. I particularly like talking with elder people that don't speak Spanish. I have no recourse when communication becomes difficult, and I must struggle with Maya to get the point across. With the youngest I correspond with on Facebook, but I am often the one writing in Maya with them responding in Spanish, because they simply never learned to write in their mother tongue. Their attempts at writing are often very hard for me to read.

¿No hay grupos interesados en la preservación del lacandón? Al menos para el nahuatl está el grupo Totlahtul Yultok en la capital. Sería interesante hacer algo parecido con el lacandón. Se estima que cada 2 semanas muere una lengua. Es nuestro deber como partícipes de su habla el evitar su pérdida. La ventaja que tiene el nahuatl es que ha sido ampliamente registrado, sobre todo el clásico. Creo que debe ser más difícil con esa lengua mayense, pero sería una tarea muy importante.

Ese es el problema, Amelia. Creer que el gobierno tiene que o pensar que está remotamente interesado en resolvernos la vida. Es sobre todo conflictivo en un país tan culturalmente diverso como el nuestro. Si nosotros no nos hacemos responsables de la conservación de nuestra cultura, nadie lo hará. El gobierno emana y es producto del pueblo que representa. Nosotros decidimos qué tanto control darle y qué tareas debe cumplir.

precisamente lo que yo siempre he dicho. el gobierno no va a hacer nada , al contrario va a hechar a perder todo en lo que se mete. una vez le dije a un lacandón que debemos organizar intercambios culturales y me contestó - 'no se si el gobierno va a dar proyecto de intercambio cultural'. que frustrante es cuando tanta gente depende del gobierno para resolver todo creí que habia contestado tu primer comentario, pero ahora no aparece

Thank you for watching and for passing on the knowledge!

I thought it was a joke until it was repeated.

Lmao

I Noticed that u is his and tak’in is token

So is the ”centzontli” for 20^2 (400), which is the Aztec equivalent for 100; and ”cent”, of course, is 10^2 (100) in Latin and many Romance languages. Might have been one of the easier words for the Spanish Conquistadors to grasp. 😎

They had money?

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oM-l318gnB8.html Aztec, Mayan, Inca and other Native American languages belong to the Proto-Turkic language family. The languages of the Scythians, Etruscans and Sumerians also belong to the Proto-Turkic language family: Scythians, Etruscans and Sumerians transferred their culture and language to the regions they lived in. It is stated that there are many words in Aztec, Mayan, Inca and other Native American languages that are believed to belong to Latin (Italian), Irish, Welsh, Scottish, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Tamil, Sanskrit and Ancient languages. Egyptian Languages. But these words are not Latin, Italian, Hebrew or Persian. These words are Proto-Turkish words. I'll give you just one example. The word (it.cocol+ette - tr.kukul / kuleta) is a Proto-Turkish word. ((Maya language: kukulkan -.Kuku-k'u'uk'um-k'uuk'ul) This word was also used in Central Asia and the Native American language. Famous researcher Augustus Le Plongeon explained in his book "The Origin of the Egyptians" that 150 words in the Mayan language and the ancient Egyptian language are similar. It is necessary to work and think with scientific methods. A stone thrown from above does not rise to the sky. He falls to the ground. Comments are made without analytical thinking. The intersection point of all scientific studies is the fact that the Etruscans were Proto-Turks. Everyone writes their thoughts. Some stubbornly claim that the Etruscans were of Indian or Persian origin. The tamgas and letters in the historical inscriptions found in Spain, Portugal, France/Glozel region and the historical inscriptions of the Etruscans in the middle of Europe belong to the Central Asian Turkish civilization. European researchers could not read these historical inscriptions. The first person to read these inscriptions and prove that these inscriptions were Proto-Turkish was the legendary Turcologist Kazım Mirşan. The oldest language in the world is Proto-Turkish. Latin, Russian and Greek alphabets are derived from the Etruscan alphabet. The historical inscriptions found in France/Glozel are at least 35 thousand years old. Turkologist Kazım Mirşan stated that it would take at least 10 - 15 thousand years for these writings to come from Asia to Europe. The history of Proto-Turkish and the Proto-Turkic language family dates back at least 50 thousand years. Aztec, Mayan, Inca and Ancient Egyptian, Scythian, Etruscan and Sumerian languages are Proto-Turkish. It is not surprising that thousands of words are common. Thousands of words used by American Indians are also used by European and Asian Turks today. While Arabs write to Turks with the letters Türk (TRK) in the singular, they write and speak with the letters eTRaK in the plural. TRaK = TRaKya (Thrace) eTRaK = eTRusK As a result, TURKISH TuaReK = blue people in North Africa The color blue is sacred for Central Asian Turks. ToRK = Power :) The Turks gave this name to the archipelago located between Asia and America and known as the "Aleutian Islands". It is "Alauç" in Proto Turkish, and when divided into "Ala-Uç" it means "White tip". Because although the word "al" means "red" color in today's Turkish, it means "white" in proto-Turkish. Snowy fields and white hills were called "al", then the concept of "height" came to the fore and the color of the flag was changed to (Red). In fact, "alba" means to stand high in Latin. Calling Albanians "Albanians" and Albanians "Albanians" comes from this Proto-Turkic root word. The facts are hidden by creating a fake Uto-Aztec language group. The oldest language in the world is Proto Turkish. In Aztec-Maya-Inca languages, words used by every nation are very common. They are very surprised when they find these words. Like Jews and Europeans. Because Turks came to Europe, the Middle East and Africa thousands of years ago, and the words they used were adopted by the nations around them. Native American languages belong to the proto-Turkic language group. It is normal for these words to be almost the same. When we look back to the similarity of words in the Jewish language and words in Native American languages, the Sumerian civilization emerges. Sumerian and Native American languages belong to the proto-Turkic language group. The Jewish language appears to have been greatly influenced by the Sumerian language. But they are not aware of this. Where does the word Mother (Mom, Ma, Mama...) come from? Mai, Humay or Umai (Proto-Turkish) is the daughter of the sky god and the owner of the tree of life. In Turkish mythology and Tengrism, she is the goddess of fertility and therefore relates to women, mothers and children. Umay (Omay, Umai, İmay, Ubay, Humay) symbolizes birth and fertility in Turkish Mythology and is also known for protecting children. Umay, depicted with three horns and a white dress, symbolizes a middle-aged goddess with silver hair reaching to the floor.

Australia! Why is it that you're left out of popular language discussions, yet linguists love to bring up your languages?

It's because we're intimidating! 270 distinct peoples, 320 distinct languages; almost all of them extinct or critically endangered, almost 60 000 years of linguistic entropy making genetics near impossible and the most diverse syntax of any language area in the world... It's terrifying to me, too. lol I've been campaigning to have local languages taught in schools here to revive them, but it's a nightmare for language learners and teachers.

Nic Forster Good to see people fighting to retain indigenous languages. Cheers

@@ErosAnteros Keep it up but it is sad to see many languages being lost or rarely spoken in favour of english or just dying out because the last elder died or something along the lines of that. I do hope future generations and more outsiders come to study these languages but there are so many as you have pointed out...

@@Yayaben_II Or, at the very least, write a dictionary. Even if they fall out of practical use, languages are still fun to read about in their own right.

> If I didn't know better, I would have just assumed Viet was part of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Fun fact: A lot of linguist used to think they where in the same family! The SE Sprachbund is known for having a lot of surface similarities, so much so that they were original considered as all in the same Language Family.

Same is true of the Armenians. They lived under various Iranian shahs so long (and an Arsacid king ruled them after 'independence' from Parthia) that their language became very Iranised. Linguists used to think it was a full-on Iranian language until recently, then they found that its oldest structure and words were more like Phrygian and Mycenaean Greek. And then, there's English, which keeps getting pulled toward French.

Actually, it is pretty common for an area to develop sprachbund. In Java island, languages there have multiple registers. Also, European languages are less close than you think. English is typologically more similar to French than Bengali or Hindi despite being both Indo-European.

@@xwtek3505 I think there are some places (mostly with tribal cultures) where languages have been together for so many thousands of years that completely look like the same language family, but it's not really possible to reconstruct any common ancestor, and all the evidence implies there isn't a recent one. The Great Andamamese and Ongan languages seem like a pretty crazy (though not very well attested, I think) example.These two language families have probably been in the same island chain (1 north and 1 south) since the stone age, and they share bizarre features like classifying nouns and adjectives with body-part-based prefixes. Apparently, some people think that the Pama-Nyungan language family (which includes most Australian languages) may actually not be a true language family, similar claims are made about Nilo-Saharan (though I'm not entirely sure how similar those languages actually are), and there's a general consensus that Ural-Altaic isn't a real language family. Languages of the Americas are weirder, because there are a lot of language families and isolates that are often similar to their neighbors without any well accepted connections to each-other, but it also makes genetic and archaeological sense for something like the Amerind hypothesis to be true, even though the Linguistic evidence is totally inadequate. I even remember hearing or reading the claim that Native American languages may be described with so many language families just because Americanist linguists are too pre-occupied with documenting dying languages to figure out how they're related. (Note: I think I'm talking a little more about South America than anything else.)

@@xwtek3505 "English is more typologically similar to French than to Bengali or Hindi, despite both being Indo-European." That sentence came out a little confusing. I just want to point out that all 4 of those languages are Indo-European. Hindi and Bengali have a close genealogical relation, while English and French only have a more distant relation. English and French are much more similar to each other than either is to Hindi or Bengali (which are similar to each other), in a way that is not explained by their ancestry, even of you think Germanic and Italic are in a branch separate from Indo-Iranian (maybe Centum vs Satem). That is (A) because there is a European Sprachbund that is (mostly) inside of the Indo-European language family, and (B) because English in particular was ruled by a French-speaking elite for a few centuries, and more interchanges and shared history have happened since then and happened before then. That is why English and French are more similar than Italian and German (I think, though Italian and German do share a lot of history). Similarly, Vietnamese is part of a SE Asian Sprachbund, that somewhat includes China, and maybe somewhat in a kind of general East Asian language area, but it was also more specifically ruled by China for a millenium, which sets it apart from other SE Asian languages. The difference is that both the SE Sprachbund and the Chinese influece on Vietnamese happen between languages that are even reconstructably related.

Danke!

***** De nada ;-)

Auf den Kommentar hab ich gewartet

lmao

Lol

Magilou, taking other people's money is bad.

*+*

+*Christiaan Overgaard* You will be devoured by a mad horde of artificial pengins.

+Christiaan Overgaard Utz is honestly the worst brand of chips I've ever tried, I have no idea how they're still in business

Similar to Kiche. Wachalal is brother and sakiriq is good morning.

Christiaan Overgaard Taí kanchirí

We do?

Well, yes with nahuatl

not really, some idiots like to bash indigenous 'people' not languages. But that's just because they are idiots.

Just a cultural thing, uniting the country under one dominant language I guess. Nothing new there. But as a guy born and raised in the furthest northern US state you could find and being white- I've looked into learning 1 indigenous language to pair with my English. Probably Quechua though, being the most popular one. I wouldn't mind improving my Spanish though either. Languages are hard. :/

Language is linked with power. After centuries of Mayan and Aztec speaking peoples being the bottom of the social ladder, it gets a stigma of lowliness.

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gxd000 +

ERod Heras What do you recommend I read to learn Nahuatl.

yes please - Chol (original language of Mayan glyphs!) needs this kind of primer!!!

why not south american though?

I noticed that! I think he might have meant that they use the term "Language area" in common use. He pronounces things so well because he reads them in the IPA =))

Viturin Catschegn​ Oh yeah, the study of languages is very intertwined with German terminology such as _Urheimat_ used for the hypothetical homeland of speakers of linguistic families like the Uralic language family named for the Ural mountains which is believed to be where the ancestors of modern speakers of those languages started migrating from, among other such terms that are also in German that I cannot think of at the moment.

Although it's a popular pastime to laugh at German for its verbosity, actually quite a few complex concepts have very terse names in German, which is probably why English borrowed them: Zugzwang, Shadenfreude, Weltschmerz, Ersatz, Angst or Hinterland. Then there are those that were invented by German-speaking people and thus the name spread with the concept, like Gestalt, Zeppelin or Bildungsroman.

It reminds me to my little cousin from Austria: "What does "Dackel" mean in english?" "I don't know shorty, look it up." (Later) "I think my dictionary's broken." "Why?" "It keeps telling me, that a 'Dackel' is a bagder-dog..."

I've come across both German and Sanskrit words in linguistics. German example: Urheimat (the hypothesized homeland of a language family) Sanskrit example: Sandhi (a rule which makes the pronunciation of words change when they are combined to form a larger word)

Nice to hear that man! I am trying to learn Mixteco, the language of my ancestors.

I'm Canadian and Mexican, and my parents named me with a Zapotec word. Oddly enough, everyone in Mexico has issues pronouncing it properly, while in Canada everyone gets it right the first time. I always get asked if it's like from India.

I don’t know how he does it either. But in the bottom of the description of this video, there is a link to a Google Doc that has all his sources listed.

Any one here would be willing to listen to some audio of me speaking and try to help me decipher what exactly I may be speaking in tounge. I have been praying and searching for years and I was led here and I’m hoping to get some more clarity and solid answers ! Please let me know , blessings

Wow, so you had unexpectedly prepared yourself for this moment just with European languages! Since I think Welsh has VSO word order, I'd say you're set, haha.

Welsh has VSO, as you say.

tl is exactly like the Spanish tl xD or at least Mexican Spanish tl

Pretty sure there is no TL in Welsh...

Actually there is, the word for pretty is tlws, and poor is tlawd, but it is not all that common and it is pronounced t + l and not as the lateral fricative described above. The voiceless sound is spelled ll and it is very common, in a lot of place names for instance, like Llandudno and many others starting with Llan...

Frieda Theiling. Halo!

Any one here would be willing to listen to some audio of me speaking and try to help me decipher what exactly I may be speaking in tounge. I have been praying and searching for years and I was led here and I’m hoping to get some more clarity and solid answers ! Please let me know , blessings

The Quechua traded with the Purepecha people of Michoacán state Mexico There are many Quechua words in the Purepecha language. It is neither a Ute Aztec language or Mayan.

Any one here would be willing to listen to some audio of me speaking and try to help me decipher what exactly I may be speaking in tounge. I have been praying and searching for years and I was led here and I’m hoping to get some more clarity and solid answers ! Please let me know , blessings

Thanks for noticing! That'll give me a bit more confidence in my broken German.

Is that its own civilization or a branch of maya/aztec?

Ah, I tried to separate them out in my speech, but maybe it would help to have a visual label onscreen more often to avoid confusion.

well a few other examples of spauchbound is the south east aisa area. the area of Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, ect they once all 3 tones in their language and around the same time they split each tone into two tones each. at the same time they had some sound changes xidnaf talks about it a little bit in his tai video.

Any one here would be willing to listen to some audio of me speaking and try to help me decipher what exactly I may be speaking in tounge. I have been praying and searching for years and I was led here and I’m hoping to get some more clarity and solid answers ! Please let me know , blessings

Shadowrun the RPG?

Any one here would be willing to listen to some audio of me speaking and try to help me decipher what exactly I may be speaking in tounge. I have been praying and searching for years and I was led here and I’m hoping to get some more clarity and solid answers ! Please let me know , blessings

Dammit, Andrew. Now I'm sad we have human rights. Again.

One cannot make such a video. You see, when you create a language, you have literally endless possibilities. Of course in most cases people don't really care about them and that's why we are flooded by crappy pseudo-indoeuropean pseudo-languages, but wouldn't you like to make something of higher quality? Something more original, perhaps?

+Dimm Vargr. Yes. It's an entire art form that no one is ever able to master, but it can still be summarised and given a new perspective.

oh boy

Linguistic.

Estupendo.

Spanish language tho

Polska >:(

Pls explain

Hahah H'uj? Хуй?

@@tdoge "chuj" means "dick" in Polish

@@tdoge"chuj" means "dick/verga" in Polish. But it's pronounced like "Hooy" not like "Chooy"

Eliran Sobel I like that idea!

Eliran Sobel that's a fascinating subject! I read a study on how language related to numbering impacts the mastery of mathematics skills. so cool and explains why I hated taking math in French lol.

Oliver The Chinchilla Do you still have access to the study / know where I could find it? It sounds fascinating

Matheus Torres I believe Nheengatu is a Tupian language, so same family as Guaraní :)

I live in South America and I didn't know these languages existed, how did you manage to know them and even learn them?

I have other topics to cover, but I definitely plan to return!

Your name is Moon... I wanted to name my son that. But I named him Lazarus instead.

This video was about native American languages... ;-)

Daniel Muñoz I like that you're being accurate but maybe the next time tell him the correct way to say it so he won't make the same mistake next time

Pinko You mean native northern American love

Technically, Nahuatl is also a North American language as Aztec* folks extend all the way up there and have a lot of language borrowing and blending with many North American Nations & Tribes as well. But when folks talk about North American Indians & Languages they are mostly excluding many Aztec folks in what is now called the United States. *And there are many Nahuatl dialects as we've seen some of here

You can still learn them. There are certain towns in Mexico where a very similar dialect of nahuatl is still spoken.

Becausa a language usually is inseparable from its culture. Before you can truly learn a language, or to be proficient at it, you must learn how to use it, what social context it has. An english speaking young probably won't call an elderly person by their first name "Hey there George!". It might be considered disrespecful. There are certain aspects of language that simply cannot be translated, or are really hard to. A language gives identity to its people. So it is natural that they will defend it. Let me share with you a nahuan poem, written by a very thoughtful person: Miguel León Portilla First in english, and then in nahuatl: When a language dies the divine things, stars, sun and moon; the human things, to think, to feel, are no longer reflected in that mirror. When a language dies everything the world has, seas and rivers, animals and plants, are no longer thought, are no longer said with glimpses and sounds that are no more. When a language dies thus are closed to all the people of the world a window, a door, a peek of a different way to every being and to every living thing. When a language dies, its loving words, sounds of pain and want, those olden songs, stories, speeches, pleas, no one, whomever they may be, will be able to repeat. When a language dies, there are many that are already dead and many are in danger of dying. Mirrors forever broken, shadow of voices forever silenced: humanity becomes less. --------------------------------------------- Ihcuac tlahtolli ye miqui mochi in teoyotl, cicitlaltin, tonatiuh ihuan metztli; mochi in tlacayotl, neyolnonotzaliztli ihuan huelicamatiliztli, ayocmo neci inon tezcapan. Ihcuac tlahtolli ye miqui, mochi tlamantli in cemanahuac, teoatl, atoyatl, yolcame, cuauhtin ihuan xihuitl ayocmo nemililoh, ayocmo tenehualoh, tlachializtica ihuan caquiliztica ayocmo nemih. Inhuac tlahtolli ye miqui, cemihcac motzacuah nohuian altepepan in tlanexillotl, in quixohuayan. In ye tlamahuizolo occetica in mochi mani ihuan yoli in tlalticpac. Ihcuac tlahtolli ye miqui, itlazohticatlahtol, imehualizeltemiliztli ihuan tetlazotlaliztli, ahzo huehueh cuicatl, ahnozo tlahtolli, tlatlauhtiliztli, amaca, in yuh ocatcah, hueliz occepa quintenquixtiz. Ihcuac tlahtolli ye miqui, occequintin ye omiqueh ihuan miec huel miquizqueh. Tezcatl maniz puztecqui, netzatzililiztli icehuallo cemihcac necahualoh: totlacayo motolinia.

Depends on the region. People in the south are begging to take the preservation of their native languages more seriously.

If more Chorti, Chol, and Chontal speakers *knew* their language was classical Maya, maybe more would be proud of it...

Obrador is actually talking about not only fully preserving the langauges but about funding the expansion of these languages as Second languages in Mexico, as bi-lingual students(mayan/mixtec,zapotec and spanish) students in Mexico get way more better grades than uni lingual students.

I should open back up the whole linguistic determinism thing, eh?

Mog of War I would like an answer too

more likely an coincidence( like in mahuatl for teotl and god): the spanish word for church is Iglesia

Church comes from the Germanic word Kirche. However this also comes from the greek word Kuriakon which makes it highly unlikely that Ch'uj and Church to be inluenced with each other. Source: Based on Haseplmath and Tadmor's loanword database. wold.clld.org

Chuj means dick in Polish ;_;

Well "chuj" and "ch'uj" are different.

Is not like Spanish remained unchanged here. Vocabulary and structure has been passed over after 300 years.

Kai McKenzie Here in Mexico Spanish is the official language, but all the other languages are considered national languages by law. There's even a government institution that is devoted to all the Mexican languages. Try a search for INALI (Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas). It deals with the languages as spoken today, not caring for their historical varieties. Of course foreign languages, even if widely spoken in some communities, like English, Hebrew or the Venetian dialect spoken in Chipilo, are not in the list of national languages. That said, of course I'd like the INALI to do a better job. We are dealing with living and beautiful languages here. But it is unrealistic to pretend that every Mexican speak an indigenous language. Spanish is certainly a factor of our unity as a nation. Ancient Mesoamerica was not a united nation. Mexico, as a political unity, has its roots in the viceroyalty of New Spain.

Actually, Mexico has no official language as such. Spanish is by far the most widely spoken one, so it is used as the default official language. But there is a law (Ley general los derechos lingüísticos de los pueblos indígenas) that gives all of the indigenous languages recognized by the INALI an 'official status'. Of course, applying said law is a whole different story.

EOM Guel, you are right! Thank you. Indigenous languages and Spanish have the same status. Here's my rough translation of article 4 of that "Ley general": The indigenous languages, that might be recognised in the terms of the Law, and Spanish are national languages because of their historical origin and will have the same validity, guaranteeing (thus) in every way the human rights of no-discrimination and of access to justice, according to the Political Constitution of the Mexican United States and to international treaties that deal with the matter and that have the Mexican State as one of their parts.

Ban Ki-moon​​ DA PV​​ EOM Guel​​ I understand the concept of the government saying that all languages are equal. We have it in my own country (South Africa). All of our languages are supposedly equal and are all official and their is a board called PANSALB set up to promote multilingualism. We encounter a similar problem to Mexico in that this supposed equity between the languages is just pretty window-dressing and the reality is that English is made way more accessible than any of the other languages. The linguistic imperialism is very sad because it erases the other indigenous languages. Can Mexican students receive all their Schooling in Nahuatl or Maya or whatever? Are all students required to learn a second language native to Mexico? In South Africa we can learn through either English or Afrikaans which is a South African language spoken by 60% of white South Africans and which is derived from Dutch. The other nine African languages cannot be used as the main medium of instruction in school. Kids start out learning in their native languages till grade 3 after which they learn in English and only do their native languages as one of their subjects. This is better than nothing, but it's not enough. Fortunately there is a push to do mother tongue education in all our languages and hopefully that will one day be a reality. In South Africa we also made it a rule that you must learn another South African language in addition to being taught in English, the problem is that most choose Afrikaans cus it's easiest and has more resources, we are however in the midst of making it law that you must learn two langs so that at least 1 will be truly an indigenous one. This will be good. We are slowly starting to move in the right direction. I agree that much of Mexican identity is built around Spanish because it is almost a uniting force. It's different here in South Africa. Though there is a scary and sad shift to speaking English amongst the younger generations of children of non-native English speaking parents, the majority of people do still love and speak their languages and have fierce pride about them. We do not see the colonial language as a source of identity yet. The problem is that because people must use so much English, they sometimes become better at English than their own native languages. This is why we need to start pushing for true language equality where all langs can be used professionally, in business, educationally and socially. Maybe this will happen one day I hope. The point is that if speakers of South Africa's native languages can be expected to be fluent in English, English speakers should be fluent in the indigenous language of the region. This is not unrealistic and it just takes the political will. The same should be said about Spanish and native Mexican languages. The only difference is that in South Africa only maybe 15% (which is far too high and must be changed) of the population doesn't speak an indigenous language, but in Mexico almost no one speaks them and this is sad.

Chingiz Zhylkybayev 67 now

Chingiz Zhylkybayev hhh

113 now lol

Conquers?

Oh shit there's been a smallpox outbreak in Tenochtitlan.

That's very sad D:

What a shame

Der König Well, many forms of Maya are still spoken by Ethnic Maya in Mexico and Guatemala...

Sejal Shah And over here on Yucatán

Pedro Scoponi​​​​ Ever done hexadecimal? Basically that, but with a few more symbols if we just use the modern Hindu-Arabic numbers plus some letters or better yet using the native Maya numerals which use dots (•) and bars (|) for nearly all numbers except zero which was a pictogram of a shell or seed (I not sure which is true) and instead or writing them horizontally they were written vertically. For whatever reason a lot of languages of the Americas use base-20, I mean there are example of other bases but base-20 is pretty popular and some aren't even related languages.

I feel like base-20 shouldn't be too hard once you've gotten base-2 down. Just add the same number of zeros as the exponent on the 2. So instead of 1, 2, 4, 8, you have 1, 20, 400, 8000.

Oh, don't worry. He somewhat simplified it. Actually Nāhuatl numerical system is based on both 20 and 15 when you pronounce it. Heheheh. _(I'm a bad guy, ain't I...?)_

I have no idea how that would work but I think that's probably eldtrich knowledge. _There are numerical systems no man was meant to use..._

I was speaking with a Mixteca tonight.

I think u only exists in the combination hu which is roughly w. So yes.

Valkea Kirahvi Thanks, I guess that you're true.