My father was born and raised in the 50s? He was never taught the language because his mother thought it wouldnt be safe. His mother, my grandmother, passed away when I was 2 and I never had the chance to ask her to teach me. As a halfbreed I never knew where to go to learn it and I want to be able to teach it to my children as well. All of that said, Thank you so much for this. Truly!
Halito my brother ..from FT bragg NC...my Grandmother is Alabama Chata...she speaks more creole and some Cherokee than she does Choctaw....I am about to sign up for the Oklahoma language lessons ...wish me luck TTThis Is Harder Than Cherokee...but praise my GreatCreator for the Sake of My Grandma...I will Attempt to Learn and Speak 2 her in Her Language,,,,thank you soo much 4posting these videos They HaVe Been a BLEssing...---Butterfly
Halito Yannash, Great lessons! I am learning Albanian because this is where my fiancée is from.....but my heart really wants to learn Choctaw and i have wanted to for a long time out of a deep desire and interest. Thank you for helping people like me learn in an easy and fun way ....YAKOKE! (:
+Yannash Scott I read somewhere that's there's not a literal "you're welcome" translation because a response to "yakoke" wasn't historically required. Is that true?
@@EnFrRuSpkr13 there is another way of saying thank you. This is just basic simple "thank you", there is another way of saying "I thank you". I grew up speaking Choctaw my whole life Traditional way don't focus on spelling, cause it was never written.
Thank for this little brother. So much of our culture is lost forever and ultimately all will be lost as we join humanity in oblivion, but that is a very long time from now.
Just try. So much of our culture is gone forever,.. what the heck. I an Scot/Norway and Choctaw. My grandmother spoke a language I did not understand. She would say somthing like 'inesh-te-he pai-nehesse-chektula'. then shake her head at me. I still do not know what she said. I think she was calling me a 'fool' in retrospect. She and my father looked very much like the Choctaw.
Thanks for uploading this! Couple of questions. It says the first few videos are private. Is there any possible way to see them? I didn't know if they were made private by accident or something. Also, do you know of any other good Choctaw resources? I'm in Mississippi and I'm hoping to work in healthcare for a few years in Philadelphia, MS where there are a large number of Choctaw. I'd love to learn the language before I go.
+Reginald Sawyer Sorry ankana! The Choctaw language does not have an alphabet so to speak. It was always a spoken, not written language, until Presbytyrian minister Cyrus Byington translated our language and done so with the English alphabet with distinctions in the vowel sounds such as "uh" like in the word "run", which was represented with an epsilon "u" or a "V". Regular "u" takes on the "oo" sound like "took".
