The Village Where the Aztec Language Lives On (#13) 

Thank you, for your appreciation of Mexico's beauty, sadly there's a loss of prehispanic dialects but there's hope.

how did you learn Náhuatl in three weeks can you help

@@betterdays2006 I don't know any at all, but I'm hoping to learn. That's how I found you. I searched for someone to learn from. I recently learned of Nahuatl from a linguistics professor here & it was intriguing. My parents are from Michoacan & there are people in that state that speak a native dialect but we're mestizos so even 4 generations back or more they were all Spanish-speaking.

Kena!

@@patograce26 look for Paquiliztli channel he's got a free ongoing course here on RU-vid, also "Canal Nahuatl" has lessons and INAH curso de Nahuatl

Your story sounds similar to the chef in the video. Pretty sad, but I'm glad that the language is surviving

Can you please tell me how do you pronounce xochitl in nahuatl? Is it show-sheet or so-chee

@@sdr6773 is depend of the place where you are.. But in my town I usually pronounce it like a "shh" but is so smooth you have put your tongue close your palate as the sound of the "r" in english but instead to make the sound of the r you are going to make shhh.. If you make it good, even that sound will be like a whistle, so the part of "chi" is as sound... Good luck my friend!!!!!! :)

I recently had my first child and I want so badly for her to know her ancestors and I think one of the best ways is to learn Nahuatl and speak it to her. I never really heard it spoken and I thought it was a “dead” langue till recently. I can say a few words and names I love how it sounds and how it feels coming out of my mouth.

@@Batmanshypeman put on some nahuatl tv shows for her

in El Salvador too, right. Pipil?

@@migspeculates I’m from El Salvador and am Pipil! Yes, Pipil (or Nawat) is similar to Nahuatl. The name “Pipil” was given to us when Nahuatl translators identified that our language was a “simplified” version of Nahuatl. We were given the name Pipil by the colonizers in a derogatory sense-because Pipil means childish-but the word “Pipil” is still widely used to distinct our people from other Uto-Aztecan groups. Cheers!

@Áhuizotl Cuauhtémoc oops were you replying to the right person?

@@pedroramos235 cool. So Pipil is Nahuatl minified version. Kidding.

The mexicanas, we don't have Aztec heritage.

You got this. Plenty of free materials online to learn from, just practice a bit every week and then head off to la Huasteca!

@@SabbaticalTommythanks! someday I will!

@Hector Ramirez not to me

Im from Nicaragua where Nahuatl was being spoken right up the 18th century but unfortunately that is no longer the case, and whats left of it are simply words mixed in with spanish and the names of many of the cities and towns that still bare the names of the old language. I’m now learning to speak it and I want to teach it to my wife and daughter.

Lol poor mexicatiahui.

Kinda reminds me of the Irish and how like no one really speaks Irish Gaelic

Uh? They are not descendants of ghe aztecs, unfortunately the aztecs as an ethnical group were wiped from the face of earth during the conquest. They all died because of smallpox.

@UCBe83bPBzOuIHqvmgxgQu6g nope, the aztecs as a group were wiped out by smallpox. Their noble descendants are now living in Europe. Now, the groups who shared culture with the aztecs are still here, lile the xochitecas, tlaxcaltecas, and all their enemies, people who lived nearby the lake Texcoco.

ok but they are not called Aztecs they are Mexicas

This is the main reason I'm studying to be a linguist; to stop this loss.

There's still more Nahuatl village exploring to come..

Thank you for the clarification.

De nada! The people are amazing

Awesome, I didn't know what the drink was called. Colacion, me gustó

Also there were some that migrated south to what is now El Salvador and Nicaragua in the 1200s.

So the Utes spoke a language related to Nahuatl? That's pretty cool. Had no idea.

@@DustinHawke … But a Huichola amiga of mine asked an American indigenous to speak to her in his language, and she didn’t understand anything he was saying…

@@tribudeuno they arent supposed to understand even though the languages can be part of the same family

Its a language family. That includes hopi, yaqui, comanche, shoshone, and nahuat(l). To put into perspective, English and Persian are Indo-European, same language family, but i doubt if you would understand anything in Iran.

Yeah I spent too much time in Buenos Aires so I talk like a porteño! I'll talk about my past more in future videos but for now I'll just say I don't work for the CIA (as far as I know)

Right?

@@SabbaticalTommy Well an undercover CIA agent would say that........

I mean if you wanted to do business with the Hispanics and Meztisos you kinda need it to learn the language. on top of that there are over 67 other native languages and many tribes hated the Aztecs whom spoke Nahuatl because they went around conquering kidnaping and killing other tribes. hence why many decided to learn Spanish.

@@dio13373 we didn't decide to speak Spanish, it was decided for us! After they forced Spanish on us, they took the South West and would literally hit children who spoke Spanish in School. To this day, we r not sure what they want as far as language. The Natives would go into the underground to speak, sing, dance, worship in their language. Ask far as the narrative of the USA about Native ppl, it's very mean spirited and demeaning to the Natives of the Americas. The USA has a very small world about Native ppl. To much BS in USA narrative.

​@@teresafernandez9849whos they? Its your choice lol

@@yaboi3839 everyone has their "they". I already made up my mind of who" my they" r. Get ur own!

Good that you're learning Nahuatl, my family are Nahuas from Tola, Nicaragua and older generations of my family spoke Nawat which is extinct in the country. Even tho Nawat is extinct im still proud of my Nahua heritage 💪🇳🇮

Was this in el Estado de México ?

Atizapán de Zaragoza*

Ah yeah! That's a better translation, tlazocamati noicniuh

Much tlen, no Ikniuh!!!!

Perdon, se dice : mach tlen.

Ni mosehui, seria mas bien escrito. Pialli Tanya. Quejatza itztoc?

Me da tanta tristesa eso. Estoy agradecida con los que ven la bellesa de Mexico y sus raices.

That's how they colonize us

Muy intolerante la cultura del mexicano.

Triste pero práctico. Si no lo hubieran hecho podría ser que México hubiera terminado como hizo filipinas con el tángalo en algún movimiento entre 1917 a la actualidad, es decir que terminarían quizás hablando algo distinto al español y renunciando al idioma, haciendo que personas de otros países hispanos ya no pudiéramos comunicarnos de manera directa si no por medio del inglés (y vamos que no muchos hablamos inglés en los países hispanos si toma en comparación a la población total, es decir se perdería comunicación realmente). En mi opinión lo único bueno que vino de los españoles fue un idioma común para las Américas, lo cual nos permite visitar a cualquier país hispano como turista sin estar forcejeando tanto con un idioma. Solo en mi país Costa Rica, que es diminuto, tiene básicamente un lenguaje nativo por cada población indígena, sería caótico si no hubiera idioma español. Ahora países más grandes como Mexico, Colombia, etc, fijo sería peor el asunto. Lo mismo pienso del idioma inglés, es lo único bueno que vino de los ingleses y los gringos, gracias a ellos podemos comunicarnos a nivel global

Same as what happened to Native American tribes here (forced to speak English),.. The Scots pretty much lost their Gallic to the English (too),.. Same thing is happening in China (entire nation is taught Mandarin in school),.. In other places, Arabic pushed out smaller tribal languages.... But now we all see it,... so people in many places are trying to keep their languages alive! (Which we all should.)

😁😁😁😁 that's true haha

I'm not a native american (i'm french) but i've always felt bad for those people since i was a child and learned about how their civilisation ended . I'm glad that their langage and a part of their culture is still "surviving" .

@@elplatypus1584 thank you🌺🌺🌺

@Wenzeslaus Don't forget the colonizers are their ancestors as well.

@@HawaiiDEEPS That’s true.

@@aldistoteles2919 The typical image of a Mexican is a mestizo because they're the majority of the country, and many of them reject their American ancestry from what I've been told. This is somewhat similar to how African-Americans reject their European ancestry.

Thanks Mary! Visiting the Huasteca was amazing, I definitely recommend it to anyone, the people are so welcoming

I'm still learning! But visit la Huasteca if you can, it really was an amazing experience

Are you a chicano? Boy, it is wrong to think that your ancestors might have spoken nahuatl, there are many indigenous languages here in mexico you know? Your ancestors might have spoken otomi, or mazahua, or mayan or whatever. Remember that during the precolombian times, nahuatl was to the Cem Anahuac what english is now for our globalized world.

It’s great to see you sharing a side (which no doubt exists) of Mexico other than the danger & violence that so many videos show. In my very limited travels to Mexico, I too have experienced nothing but kindness & touching generosity from people with such little financial means. For me, after being at a village for just a short time, I kind of felt sorry for the people thinking of all the things I saw they didn’t have. However, when it was time to leave after 4-5 days, the feeling sorry, turned to almost envy (not in a bad way). I just realized; they aren’t missing a thing. I very much look forward to returning to Mexico.

Thank you to you both, hearing this really keeps me motivated to make more videos like this. I'm really glad that people want to see what life is like in Mexico beyond the tourist spots and "most dangerous areas!!!1!", because there's so much more to the country

@@SabbaticalTommy For sure!! I'm originally from a small village in Guanajuato, Mexico that's very similar to those that you visit and I have nothing but love for my hometown. It's easy for people to assume that people who are less wealthy are missing out on things or living miserable lives, but the only thing I feel when I visit is a sense of harmony and contentment that I can't find anywhere else :)

😂 It's not exactly the same though

More like corn cob

Sure. That's maybe the best variant to learn because there's many free resources for it. I used these: A full course with audio examples: tlahtolli.coerll.utexas.edu/ And a grammar guide (en español): www.vcn.bc.ca/prisons/grahuas.pdf

Ah no I didn't, sadly. But I'll be going back in a few months

Pialli gente. Quisiera haber vivido en 1917 para darles en la ....a aquella bola pendejos...podria usar otras palabras. And if you want to learn English, people ho ahead. But learn it to....eh...bueno uds., me entienden. I am familiar with about 50 plus languages so échenle ganas. Tlazocamati...срасибо До скорого.

Привет Tануа и Tatiana...Tanya escribe algo, ahora es cuando.

Do you say elote? Or corn?

@@marisabeltran3084 elote/maíz if I’m speaking Spanish, and corn/ maize if I’m speaking English.

ra rum pum pum pum

Luego por eso dicen o afirman que el nahuatl es un idioma muy pobre, por el desconocimiento.

99oo9ook

Thanks superman

All of them lol

He refused off camera

They will save the language (hopefully); and their history with it...

we lost a lot because our government and modern culture contempted that part of us for many years, hopefully we will be able to save most of it from now on, most mexican want this to be preserved, but it's hard without legal interest

@@jjpc6830 It's not illegal to speak or teach these languages, so people can do it

@@numbers7n It was illegal to speak Nahuatl for many years, both in Mexico during the reign of Carlos II and III, and in American schools in the 60's. The effects are still felt today.

@@TheNightBandit1 I believe you. It WAS, but isn't now. This exists in Scotland, where the English all but erased Gallic,.. but it's being taught in a few schools there now by those who are trying to keep it alive.... The Basque fight to keep their pre-Spanish language alive as well. The more languages humanity can keep alive, the better.

People know how to Jam all over the world.

It's Quetzcoatl's turn to rule