In This Native American (Navajo) Language, You Can Say Anything There Is To Say 

Indeed.

Yes. A GEM 💎 A TRUE TREASURE ❤

Very true. Global treasure. Cheers from another side of the globe.

Amen to that I am part Blackfoot and I save them and try to learn

Wally is a blessing to all of us. Much love to all here.

That's really cool to hear! I definitely found German helpful for understanding and teaching people who were learning English. An Ojibwemowen language holder/teacher had said something similar for his language too--"to say it forward, learn it backwards." And it's also a very descriptive language too. I've noticed some grammatical similarities between English and Vietnamese, I wonder if the backwards to forwards dynamic also works similarly. As someone who doesn't speak it very often, it always feels like a pretty physical language because you have to use more parts of the body to get the pitches correct and it's interesting to hear how Dinebizaad(?) has a consistent sort of expressive tonal character to its words too.

yup. Of my past life, and what i've been through, is all apart of the land. nizhoni bee nasdlįį doó tó baa hozhoigíí

Everyone imagines things in their imagination. Everyone does this, you just don't know your doing it because it precedes your actual spoken word. It's why you get people taking something one way when you intended it in a different way, and you get crossed wires. Words might have a dictionary definition, but thats not how people use words. Everyone has their own internal definition. I believe this is what they refer to when they talk about 'god' mixing up the languages after the 'flood' only the flood isn't some historical event its the state in which humanity finds itself currently. Everyone has their own language, maybe its what they refer to as the ego. I dunno just musings

Yes: and that’s a major reason for ‘invaders’ forcing children to stop speaking their native language - it’s an aspect of genocide. Survivors of such regimes are still recovering. Native peoples have suffered this in Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Greenland, and Scandinavian countries; also in China, Tibet and probably other places.

Each and every time that a human speaks, their thoughts are simultaneously BROADCAST in a much richer way than can be fit into words. No belief included, I simply remember before being taught verbal language. (mom later said that I was not a year old) Our languages serve NO greater purpose than to enable dishonesty. I hope there are still some old Navajo who have not lost their way. (yet)

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I just said the very same thing...blessings Di Ne and to you sacred sister anita.

Awesome! I worked at the Pumpkin Patch a couple seasons clipping, rowing, and loading. You sound like a cool driver.

I agree we need to ensure that these languages are preserved. It would be great for sociological and anthropological study. Its an admirable goal, however language as currently spoken is always going to change because nature is always changing. I think the best things that can be done is to encourage more native speakers of the language so that it can survive and get it added as a second language class that is commonly required in high school. In New Mexico and Arizona, the nation could work with the education department by supplying teachers and engaging a little culture exposure for non-Dine.

One of my favorite videos done by grandfather.

@@dragoninthewest1 What your saying is only partially true, Some languages are preserved yes, Some are being recreated with Idumian (Grecian/Roman/Tyrian) languages which seems overt on its face. Much like creation of yiddish but what happens is that when its mixed with such languages it gets taken, no longer being ours, & then over time one loses any connection whatsoever with who we were. Its just part one of the ways as ancient as the city of Babylon of creating slaves, taking away the culture of a people to make them docile. Which happened to all of our peoples some worse than others. Its also one of the major reasons we have people that do not live in their lands, & do not live on reservations some who don't even know who they are so forth so on. But it gets worse, with the changing of languages by foreign languages some things are saved sure, like the Pidgeon language US English right, it saved What Tuh which is ship, canoe, or boat into Water which is under the boat. You can see how it the influence changes the complete meaning & context the very meaning itself. Thereby distancing any of us with it. Meaning if you don't know how the replacement for Trade language that we spoke to communicate with foreigners Old Dutch, into the modern Trade Language US English (as a example). You would grow up in many cases speaking a language but believing it has nothing to do with you, that even perhaps it was forced upon you. (Which it was), So this is just one way in which many of our peoples have been demoralized. But since i know the history of it, I know that a good portion of the so called english language came from our languages but English is still not our language right? Though many of us speak it, we have little to know knowledge that it is even based in some of our languages, many really. Then you also have organizations who are remaking languages & "copyrighting" them so they own the rights to them, that is meant to be a good thing? What they are doing i think you'll find in alot of cases is they are profiting & influencing the language so that it is not ours much longer. Which is really what i'm getting at here. This channel From the Wise Elder Grandfather, is to save what we have left because it is surely disappearing or being hidden at the least, (because of such influences in my opinion) So the question becomes if you mix other languages that are not ours what is saved? Nothing because it becomes something new, This is why Paelo hebrew for example is not Yiddish, they are completely different in many ways. So yes i rant a bit sorry, but its a complicated subject, My only real allegiance is to my people, all of them no matter the tribe we have all lived the same things in the same ways in different fashions. But my grandfather was a slave, so i am only the second generation to be able to read or write again. Because of my disconnection with who i was (which i didn't know most of my life who i was or where i came from, i just was. Something you will find is only Unique to our many diverse tribes) I was always angry, doing outrageous things though i knew not why. Until the Great Spirit led me out of that, By teaching our peoples history's, & what i find in all of the documents that one of the most important things about it all even to be able to learn the history is Language. Without it you misunderstand everything. I'm no longer angry all the time, I'm a completely different person, so now i just study our history & pray to He that is, The Creator, The Great Spirit, waiting for the day the Peace maker unites us. & I've learned things like this of which i have never read, but shown to me by one of many spirits, while i was praying . Ani’qu ne’chawu’nani (Father Have Mercy on me); Anyways doubt this will be read But Great Spirit bless. Its way to hard on youtube to go into it fully but this shall suffice. Hawwah!

Indigenous languages evolved like every language, I was told the Swamp Cree I speak evolved and my mother know ancient Cree and spoke I couldn't understand what she was saying 😌

@@renedragmazzaroth8879 Of course they can evolve, When WE are the ones that change them. But thats not what was mentioned, Because alot of the languages we have now at least the ones that were "Lost" & recreated with other languages, are not ours just partially. Its called Pidgeon Languages, where the party who wants to take our culture away, creates a way to learn their language by combining it with ours, But in order to do that they Reduce our language to a base leaving most of what we had nothing close to the original word. Like Wata or water which is ship or canoe/boat but now it means liquod not because it evolved but because they didn't understand the word to begin with & still reduced it. Its how they got us in their schools. When you say you speak evolved what your saying more than likely, is that you speak a Pidgeon form of cree, mixed with french, spanish, dutch, & many other languages, but the part that was ours was reduced not evolved, is this the case? if you don't know you should find out, I know its the case in many of the languages today which were all altered by... Dun dun dunn you know who altered em. You know most of our people don't even know how when the Invaders came we already were able to communicate with them already using Sign language, then old dutch which was the trade language (Pidgeon language) in which they used to remove most of our languages. All i am saying is we need to rediscover our languages that were taken, & safe guard the ones that survived by keeping them in the hands of our peoples, Not allowing Strangers to mix them with their languages & then say they are ours, Speaking of which we also have to stop letting the same Strangers tell us our history, they didn't even know it, & most of the time just make it up as they go along. Anyways Great Spirit Bless, Iyahu’h ni’bithi’ti, Ani’qu ne’chawu’nani’

FYI: Thinking in pictures is something most people with autism do naturally.

I understand your perspective. It's just that Navajo hasn't spread and diversified like English has. Old, middle, high English, and all the adopted words and syntax are, in part, from centuries of non-English speakers learning, using, and adapting the language for utilitarian reasons, hence; a simple sound like "hammer" is easier to say to your coworker to hand you nailing board to a strut than describing the object which is bunched together with other like items on a tool belt, up on a ladder, for example.

Are you talking about the Australian aborigines?

@@jeffweaver9514 not specifically. You should not assume that only the indigenous people of Australia know about telepathy. They are not the only ones. It is something that is very private, personal and sacred that isn’t normally talked about.

@@csluau5913 oh you're insane, I thought you were referring to their sense of cardinal direction due to their language.

@@jeffweaver9514 I’m going to assume that you’re not actually trying to be deliberately rude and insulting by calling me insane, because you either don’t agree or don’t understand what I’m actually saying and also because it is Christmas day.

Isnt every language that way when i think dog i see a dog when i think car i see a car in my mind thats literally what language is...

You miss the point. You see dog because that is the word you know. It's how the word was created or something is given a name. Not all languages come about by describing the item or cresting a picture. Some words are phonetic and some are by sight. Is it the writing road to reading or the sounding? A word can come from imitations like much of the English language. It can be formed from the description of an experience or something more tangible. Latin is a complex language any forms with masculine or feminine and the various prefixes and suffixes we mutated into modern English. In short, many languages do not use words that were derived from Wally's description of the Navajo language. Like if you have to describe what a dog is to someone who doesn't speak English.