Thanks, Maria, for being our guide to Oaxacan culture & for your work at preserving Zapotec & helping the language to flourish again! Minority languages and cultures must be taught and encouraged - now more than ever! You're doing great work. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
You're a good tour guide. It's good that you want to have a written language but what are you going to convey with it? What ideas of importance do you have to share?
@@AbandonedMaine Well, the Zapotec language has been written since the pre-Columbian era. What I am doing is reviving the language through social media and my platform. With the alphabet that was created by the zapotec community . I as a grad student can help alongside with my peers create the alphabet visually good so we can share it to the community, most importantly to the kids.
Im 1st gen 🇲🇽🇺🇲, 25, in highschool i found out about my lineage to the Wixáaritari Nation from my dads side out in Nayarit, got a picture of my great grandpa wearing his Mara'kame/shaman regalia with a M1911 tucked in his waist. The Wixárika people are one of Mexicos untouched people due to La Sierra Madre terrains, i got aunts & uncles that dont speak any spanish, only Wixárika. Been learning & i'll tell you it aint easy! I appreciate this video XiaoMa!🦌
The movie Arrival (I think?) is about aliens coming and the gvmt hiring a linguist to communicate with them, really cool movie would recommend. Agreed that Ari would have been a better option haha
I love mole too. It is kinda hard to describe the taste other than calling out elements in it. But the combination is really what makes it. Mole with fresh tortillas is one of my favorite meals hands down.
Maria is an absolutely amazing human being. I have enjoyed your videos for years,. Maria will certainly be a person I remember. I would love to see a follow up on her journey! Keep being a good human!
It's funny because in that language, "Hello" sounds a lot like "Adios" (or at least how he was pronouncing it) so I kept expecting him to walk away every time he said hello haha
I used to work with some Finnish ladies while in Azerbaijan. The Finnish word for 'yes' sounds like the Azeri word for 'no'. There were some misunderstandings for sure!
I don't know why he put the subtitle like that because she didn't say anything that would mean 'bro' and that type of words is like never used by older women.
I love when people find their talent and fully embrace it and you sir have definitely found yours, almost 54 years and I'm still searching for mine lol. I've been watching your videos for a few years now and I'm always blown away
Brooo, I’ve been watching Xiaoma since early 2020. Never would’ve expected him to learn the language my ancestors spoke. It’s crazy recognizing some of the words he spoke and seeing him interact with people from neighboring pueblos of my parents. Awesome dude. Keep it going
Ari,you are an amazing man. Not only in your language skills but anyone would love you to come and eat with them….you eat anything. I liked this one today, these people were lovely.😊
Thank you for this Ari. I love that you are bringing these rare languages and cultures to the mainstream. I challenge to you try learning the Yaqui language please! Indigenous to Sonora, Mexico and Arizona.
I'd love to see you learn cape verdean creole! All the dialects from each island! This would be so wholesome (I'm bias to São Vicente creole because it's what I speak hehe)
Yo nací cerca de esa región y conozco un poquito. Pero Ud está muy por encima. Muchas, muchas gracias por interesarse en nuestros lenguajes. También sé que Ud habla maya.
Hey Xioma, if you want to practice Zapotec there is a youtuber called El Huarache Oaxaqueno who converses with older folks who speak Zapotec or other dialects from Oaxaca. It would be cool to see a collab!
Xioma please learn “mixteco”!! There are so many of us who speak it in California too and im sure out of state as well. Depending on region, it’s very differently spoken as well, just like zapoteco! I’d love to teach you mixteco from our region though!☺️
That is awesome! The agua de chilacayote is delicious, wish I could get some around where I live. I’ve only had it a couple times. And mole is just amazing.
So I was just thinking the other day “I wonder if xioma knows about oaxacan language…” I just recently started working around Oakland, CA and I hear “mexican” looking people speak a language that did not sound like Spanish. My coworker told me it was Oaxacan. It sounds so cool when listening to conversations because it sounds like nothing im used to hearing. Thanks for this!
I’ve always wanted to learn to at least be able to be get to a basic conversation in another language. What would be your #1 tip on learning a different language? Also, the woman that guided you, she spoke better English than most ppl I know. She is awesome!!
There's even a whistling language in Oaxaca! You gotta go, it's absolutely gorgeous there. Let me know if you're ever interested in going, I can link you with my family!
