Thank you so much for making these videos. My mom grew up on the navajo rez and I used to visit. Unfortunately she chose to not to teach me how to speak navajo, but I'm determined to learn now. Thank you again!
I am of the Seneca Nation far to the east. Circa Buffalo NY, and I just want to say THANK YOU for it's people like you, who keep the language and culture of the Native strong. I for one appreciate your videos and effort in keeping your native tongue alive.
Thank's for this....makes me homesick for Teec Nos Pos and Shiprock... I miss the quiet big sky nights and the traffic jams of sheep herders crossing the highway. At night you could hear a dog barking from over ten miles away.
I love your videos! My family is Navajo, but the last person to live in the Navajo Nation was my paternal grandfather. He was then sent to the Santa Fe Carlisle Indian School and afterwards, he went to Salt Lake City where my dad was born, and I was raised in Idaho. My dad was never taught the language, and neither was I. So now I'm trying to learn it (I heard about the Navajo Renaissance program with Rosetta Stone), but your videos help me out a lot because I'm able to hear a native speaker say things in an everyday type of context.They also help me with certain pronunciation because I can see your mouth shapes when you talk. Thank you :)
This is an fascinating learning experience of speaking the various Native languages. As an advocate for our sacred animal relatives (including our wolves, buffalo, and grizzly bears), it's an excellent learning tool on how to pronounce the words/names correctly. 😊
Hahahaha! When I was little , I had trouble saying things...my Chei would laugh at me all the time when I said Chaa' wrong. lmao :D expecially because my "favoite blankie" had a beaver on it hahaha!!! :D
I'm white & I want to learn Navajo. As a linguist, this is about the coolest language I've come across, & I've studied Chinese for 8 years so I've gotten outside of European languages for sure. This is going to be my next, as I've gotten hold of the Rosetta Stone program. Thanks for your video, this language is definitely important to preserve! After learning the pronunciation and some basic grammar, it definitely seems less intimidating to a person for whom European languages are the standard of pronunciation. So I guess we'll see if I can learn it or not...
Thank you for making these videos to share with our friends and families. I let my little ones listen during our lunch break from homeschooling. It's a nice treat to hear the language of home. Thanks again and keep them coming! Homeschooling mothers like myself do utilize them!
So im in love with the name Nascha for a baby girl. And hearing it pronounced here brought tears to my eyes. its beautiful. If i have a girl, her name will be Nascha Aponi. Thank you!!
Just wanted to say thank you so much! First, the list is great. Second, hearing you say the words and seeing how they are spelled is helping me with my pronunciation. This is a great teaching tool not just for learning animals, but to help learning Dine Bizaad.
As a Navajo who didnt really grow up around anyone who would teach the language to me I really appreciate having your Navajo word of the day videos. Thank you :)
It's a beautiful Language , been around it some when I was a rodeo clown/ bull fighter from my friends from Sanders AZ to the four corners area. Thank you for sharing this talk, God Bless
And please know, I understand how very busy you must be... So any help with this would be soooo appreciated. And thank you so much for teaching us the Navajo language, so that we may in turn teach others....
A he' hee. Teaching these daily animals we see out and about in our language inspires my children to learn more. Our language is as scared as the animals and our elders.😀👍
Very enjoyable. A wonderful young man sharing the beautiful and charming Navajo language. I live in New Mexico and it is always a treat for me to hear this spoken though I don't understand a word. God bless. 💝🌅🦅🌵
Thank-you for sharing your language. I feel like the lone Navajo here in Missouri and have no one to talk to to stay fluent in Navajo, your videos help me remember our language...
Recently I've been watching your videos and for some time I've wanted to become acquainted with the navajo language. Very often I travel through the reservation and have long been curious about the language and culture. I learned Spanish and that was easy. This is difficult! I'll keep watching and learning. Thank you!
Thank you for these. I've lived in Tuba for a while and picked up a little Navaho; it's so fascinating to me how descriptive your language is, like to de chidi (sp?) or łééchąą'í :) Thanks again for sharing!
Great videos keeping your language alive is great I think . I am of pueblo ancestry and just have been finding this out with family searching and I know nothing of my culture or language. keep up the good work my start learning NAVAJO now...
Pretty cool and informative. Sometimes I forget or someone asks of an animal or something that I don’t know in Navajo and this is nice. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you!!! You have helped me so much with some of the sounds of your beautiful language. I am learning Navajo with Duolingo but only have spoken examples in the first lessons so I was a bit loss. I will watch your other videos in your channel :)
Thank you. I am a biligali learning Navajo language-and way, and the spoken words help. I also have the beginning Navajo app only sometimes it is hard with only the printed word. Peace
Maybe it was a nick name..I didn't think to ask, just thought it would help him begin to relate to things easier. I can't help but feel for him though, to be so native and yet feel as if you're not. Thank you anyway... for being so kind to answer my question and for these wonderful videos...
Chaa' by that you mean the word for poop right xD that's the only other word i can think of :D this video just popped up in the recommended videos so i said hey why not :) Its a good video by the way Keep it up!!
The L with the slash through it sounds a lot like the double-L in the Welsh language. That's why English speakers morphed names like Lloyd and Llewellyn into Floyd and Fluellen.
I am reading Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac, he is Navajo, and I just really wanted to hear how the language is spoken, and I love it! I hope that Native languages won't die, even though some are, but I am open to hear the ones that are still known by a lot of people, and I would love to learn it, even if it is a few words. :)
When I was little my grandpa used to teach me the language, he taught us the way of dine but as we got older he syopped :( sadly he passed. Wish I could remember the language. I only remember a few words.
thank you for the teaching. Some of the animals I did not know and some I forgotten how to pronounce. Shame on me. :D But hearing them again, I have relearned it and have enjoyed talking with my mother about it.
I started learning tones with Chinese. So that feels a little familiar and I’m not entirely lost ha ha. And some of the pronunciations sound like the British “glottal“ consonants. The ones that sound abbreviated, and almost silent, but not quite? Anyway thank you so much for making this video! It was so helpful to see the spelling, and the pronunciation of the spelling.
trying to teach my children the dine language, looking for items of the kitchen, cleaning supplies, clothing, numbers, days, months, body parts , and food. that would be helpful as well. i like watching your videos they help a lot thank you.
Well, in all honestly, there are no Navajo names like that. Navajo names like "Humble Bear" don't exist. Its RARE someone would be named after an animal honestly. I'd go into details but my video on "Navajo Baby Names" covers it
Hey I love the navajo language it would be really awesome if you could create a course for the Navajo language on the app duolingo which would help preserve this beautiful language and also help people around the world learn Navajo. duolingo also is free of charge so anyone with access to the Internet can learn a language. please consider it i know I'm one of many people that would love to learn this language but doesn't have the resources to do so. Thank you for all of your awesome videos hope you keep making them:)
+Beau Bowman I'm not saying that they can't speak their own language but I was under the impression that the number of language speakers are decreasing so I thought this could help
+cesar alvarado Am from Somalia-East Africa and I really liked Navajo language my language Somalia 🙊mósi=fucker and shah=hijab or covers the head and na'ahóóhai=when the woman feel or need sex 🖒 and it's amazing
I have a friend in Iowa. He is Navajo but was adopted by whites and knows little of his people. I have encouraged him to seek out his ancestors and his language. He has told me he remembers he was once called Humble Bear, or something like it, but I do not know how to put humble and bear together. Meaning to spell it and put it in the right order which I think would be with bear first and humble 2nd. But I could be wrong. If you could help me out with that, I can probably pronounce it for him.
Maybe I should ask you, when I was growing up on the reservation, there was a word that my grandma used to say about a certain insect and when I ask my siblings they don’t know. It’s a bug or insect, I was usually at my grandparents from May to August as a child. It almost sounds like your saying butt glah in Navajo lol best way I can describe with out sound. Glah zhoooooo, I thought it was a striped wasp hornet or bee but somebody translated it and it didn’t sound the same
Increible..cuandonescuche el nombre de ardilla sabía q ese no era su nombre, cua do dijo el segundo por el q se le puede nombrar sentí este si😮😮.Thanksssss sooo much 4 these videos. Yhaete
Hi there! I live in the UK, have no connection as such with the Navajo nation, but admire your culture and beliefs. I am customising a silver-grey Harley Davidson with a Navajo theme and I would like to write, in Navajo, "Spirit of the Wolf" on the bike. However, I am not having much success with online translations! So far, I have "Nilch'i di Ma'iitsoh" as a loose translation but I want to get it absolutely correct. Can you help please? Many thanks if you can!
Hi! This has been very helpful! Could you please tell us how to ask “What is your favorite animal?” and how to respond with “My favorite animal is…” Ahéhee!
Hi ,I saw a Navajo book Darryl Benally,it’s in USA 🇺🇸 English is it a wel known one ? I also search some songs on ITunes warrior magician was one I found.
Having studied both, Navajo is probably easier to learn than Chinese, the sounds are probably easier to distinguish, and the written language corresponds closely to the spoken. They are both fascinating languages. Most nouns do not have a plural form in either language, you must get that from context. Some nouns in Navajo referring to people do have plural form.
+David Barbour But Chinese doesn't have glottal stops nor do they have a ton of verb conjugations. In my opinion, Chinese is easier than Navajo but harder than Navajo when it comes to written orthography. (I am writing in a non-argumentative tone by the way xD - Also I am a native speaker of both English and Navajo)
+stlouisramsfan03 A year ago I had only taken one semester of Navajo. I hadn't been exposed to the handling verbs. And I've now had one semester of Chinese where I had to attack the written characters. Previously I had been studying Chinese aurally on my own. I would now say that Chinese is easier. I don't think the glottal stops are a major issue, they can be learned with sufficient care, but the Navajo verb forms are truly difficult. One thing that is interesting is both languages have a word with could mean either blue or green. Both languages have ways to distinguish between the whole gamut of colors of course, but to me the concept of blue is quite different from the concept for green. I find that interesting and wonder how it relates to how closely Navajo and Chinese are related.
I'm sorry sir you're wrong. There is more ways to speak in the Navajo language 1st person, 2nd person and so and so forth. You just can't say "I studied the language". I've lived the language and it's my cultural and there is no way in heck the Navajo language is easier than the Chinese language.
Great video! What about the word for "animal"? In general/colloquial English, the word 'animal' excludes humans (even though, biologically speaking, we are animals..). Does Navajo have the same distinction between human/animal?
@sahenderson00 Well... "Tába̜a̜h" means "Water's Edge," so "Tába̜a̜h Ma'ii" kind of describes a kind of a coyote that lives along the banks of lakes & rivers. That's what it literally translates to, but in stories it's not seen as a "coyote" or it doesn't have the characteristics of coyote. A video on the literal translations of the animals would get kind of long... I like the idea... we'll see... :-)
I'm interested in the literal meanings too (as perhaps Name of animals part two??) Partially wondering cause of @soulcapacitor's comment and also cause Coyote is Ma'ii and then the raccoon is tabaah ma'ii...something to do with ears??
I am hoping you can help me. My grandmother had a saying that included a word that my father believes was Navajo. Now, I am so sorry for butchering this, but it kind of sounds like tui chi nooch. Is that word a Navajo word? We were also thinking it could be Ute, but I just figured I would go out on a limb and ask. Thank you.
The Duolingo Navajo doesn't have spoken examples yet. They should hire this guy to provide verbal learning to it.
That is why I looked it up on here. Growing up in AZ I heard friends speak it but it has been a while.
I couldn't agree more ( and would have written that in Navajo but I'm still a beginner.). 😒
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I noticed that! What’s the point of putting something in duolingo when there’s no Audio?
I wish the would!!
Dude, your language is so complicated and beautiful.
it's only complicated because it sounds nothing like English
Thank you so much for making these videos. My mom grew up on the navajo rez and I used to visit. Unfortunately she chose to not to teach me how to speak navajo, but I'm determined to learn now. Thank you again!
I am of the Seneca Nation far to the east. Circa Buffalo NY, and I just want to say THANK YOU for it's people like you, who
keep the language and culture of the Native strong. I for one appreciate your videos and effort in keeping your native tongue alive.
I am from Thailand, but always love to read and study about the way of the Native American Indians lives. Thank you so much for this great videos.
Sawadi khrap
Well if you study Native Americans , you should know we don’t like to be call Indians 🙃 just Native Americans .
@@slushy0022 nope, it depends, some people call themselves Indians
@@gamermapper it doesn’t matter, most people know the origins of the word ‘Indians’. I don’t like being called Indian because I am not from India.
@@gamermapper nope its like the n-word for africans/americans.
We can use it, not you
Thank's for this....makes me homesick for Teec Nos Pos and Shiprock... I miss the quiet big sky nights and the traffic jams of sheep herders crossing the highway. At night you could hear a dog barking from over ten miles away.
I lived in Flagstaff Az for 25 yrs. I listen to him when I miss it.
I love your videos! My family is Navajo, but the last person to live in the Navajo Nation was my paternal grandfather. He was then sent to the Santa Fe Carlisle Indian School and afterwards, he went to Salt Lake City where my dad was born, and I was raised in Idaho. My dad was never taught the language, and neither was I. So now I'm trying to learn it (I heard about the Navajo Renaissance program with Rosetta Stone), but your videos help me out a lot because I'm able to hear a native speaker say things in an everyday type of context.They also help me with certain pronunciation because I can see your mouth shapes when you talk. Thank you :)
This is an fascinating learning experience
of speaking the various Native languages.
As an advocate for our sacred animal relatives
(including our wolves, buffalo, and grizzly bears),
it's an excellent learning tool on how to pronounce
the words/names correctly. 😊
Thank you very much for sharing ! Greetings and Blessings from Germany and Austria, Michael ! 🐼🍀🖐️🐾
yeah, I was trying to find some way of saying this in a 'nice' way or just translate "Humble Bear" in Navajo but that wouldn't have been honest
I learn so much from you. Peace and Wellness to you and yours! Yá'át'ééh hiiłchi'į'
Hahahaha! When I was little , I had trouble saying things...my Chei would laugh at me all the time when I said Chaa' wrong. lmao :D expecially because my "favoite blankie" had a beaver on it hahaha!!! :D
I'm white & I want to learn Navajo. As a linguist, this is about the coolest language I've come across, & I've studied Chinese for 8 years so I've gotten outside of European languages for sure. This is going to be my next, as I've gotten hold of the Rosetta Stone program. Thanks for your video, this language is definitely important to preserve! After learning the pronunciation and some basic grammar, it definitely seems less intimidating to a person for whom European languages are the standard of pronunciation. So I guess we'll see if I can learn it or not...
I’m learning Navajo to better get in touch with my roots, and your videos are so helpful! Ahéhee 🙏
Thank you for making these videos to share with our friends and families. I let my little ones listen during our lunch break from homeschooling. It's a nice treat to hear the language of home. Thanks again and keep them coming! Homeschooling mothers like myself do utilize them!
So im in love with the name Nascha for a baby girl. And hearing it pronounced here brought tears to my eyes. its beautiful. If i have a girl, her name will be Nascha Aponi. Thank you!!
What does nascha mean?
Just wanted to say thank you so much! First, the list is great. Second, hearing you say the words and seeing how they are spelled is helping me with my pronunciation. This is a great teaching tool not just for learning animals, but to help learning Dine Bizaad.
As a Navajo who didnt really grow up around anyone who would teach the language to me I really appreciate having your Navajo word of the day videos. Thank you :)
I love you videos.
Our students at the school I work at are keeping the language alive!
It's a beautiful Language , been around it some when I was a rodeo clown/ bull fighter from my friends from Sanders AZ to the four corners area. Thank you for sharing this talk, God Bless
Almost EXACTLY the same as my White Mountain Chiricahua. Some different inflections, but very similar....
Ł íí ó kł
Hi from Russia! Thank you for these videos! I came here from Duolingo as many others. I am absolutely mesmerized by the sound of Navajo language.
And please know, I understand how very busy you must be... So any help with this would be soooo appreciated. And thank you so much for teaching us the Navajo language, so that we may in turn teach others....
Wow! Lots of animals! Great job on the video! This is a wonderful video. Keep up the great work. The community needs you.
A he' hee. Teaching these daily animals we see out and about in our language inspires my children to learn more. Our language is as scared as the animals and our elders.😀👍
I've been learning Navajo since I was 18 and so far this is one of the greatest study videos I have watched, thank you for making this
Very enjoyable. A wonderful young man sharing the beautiful and charming Navajo language. I live in New Mexico and it is always a treat for me to hear this spoken though I don't understand a word. God bless. 💝🌅🦅🌵
Amazing words for animals in Navajo.
Thank-you for sharing your language. I feel like the lone Navajo here in Missouri and have no one to talk to to stay fluent in Navajo, your videos help me remember our language...
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Recently I've been watching your videos and for some time I've wanted to become acquainted with the navajo language. Very often I travel through the reservation and have long been curious about the language and culture. I learned Spanish and that was easy. This is difficult! I'll keep watching and learning. Thank you!
Thank you for these. I've lived in Tuba for a while and picked up a little Navaho; it's so fascinating to me how descriptive your language is, like to de chidi (sp?) or łééchąą'í :) Thanks again for sharing!
You are an excellent speaker. Thank you for this!!!
you are awesome. I'm Navajo myself but don't know most of the language. you are helping me learn a lot
Thnank you very much.!!
Thank you! You really helped me with my research, because I wanted to be sure how to pronounce the words right!
Great videos keeping your language alive is great I think . I am of pueblo ancestry and just have been finding this out with family searching and I know nothing of my culture or language. keep up the good work my start learning NAVAJO now...
You are the best ever... Thank you so much for keeping our Dine language alive.
Pretty cool and informative. Sometimes I forget or someone asks of an animal or something that I don’t know in Navajo and this is nice. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much, These videos are incredibly helpful
Thank you! Enjoyed it.
Thank you for making this list. Now my girls and I can learn and review animal names properly.
Now and then I come back to review. being off the reservation . it's good to stay up with it..
Thank you!!! You have helped me so much with some of the sounds of your beautiful language. I am learning Navajo with Duolingo but only have spoken examples in the first lessons so I was a bit loss. I will watch your other videos in your channel :)
Thank you. I am a biligali learning Navajo language-and way, and the spoken words help. I also have the beginning Navajo app only sometimes it is hard with only the printed word. Peace
Maybe it was a nick name..I didn't think to ask, just thought it would help him begin to relate to things easier. I can't help but feel for him though, to be so native and yet feel as if you're not. Thank you anyway... for being so kind to answer my question and for these wonderful videos...
A great video and a great series. It's most informative and I really enjoy your videos!!!
Chaa' by that you mean the word for poop right xD that's the only other word i can think of :D this video just popped up in the recommended videos so i said hey why not :) Its a good video by the way Keep it up!!
Oh, that was great fun ~ such delicate sounds. Thankyou.
The L with the slash through it sounds a lot like the double-L in the Welsh language. That's why English speakers morphed names like Lloyd and Llewellyn into Floyd and Fluellen.
I am reading Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac, he is Navajo, and I just really wanted to hear how the language is spoken, and I love it! I hope that Native languages won't die, even though some are, but I am open to hear the ones that are still known by a lot of people, and I would love to learn it, even if it is a few words. :)
When I was little my grandpa used to teach me the language, he taught us the way of dine but as we got older he syopped :( sadly he passed. Wish I could remember the language. I only remember a few words.
thank you for the teaching. Some of the animals I did not know and some I forgotten how to pronounce. Shame on me. :D But hearing them again, I have relearned it and have enjoyed talking with my mother about it.
I started learning tones with Chinese. So that feels a little familiar and I’m not entirely lost ha ha. And some of the pronunciations sound like the British “glottal“ consonants. The ones that sound abbreviated, and almost silent, but not quite? Anyway thank you so much for making this video! It was so helpful to see the spelling, and the pronunciation of the spelling.
trying to teach my children the dine language, looking for items of the kitchen, cleaning supplies, clothing, numbers, days, months, body parts , and food. that would be helpful as well. i like watching your videos they help a lot thank you.
Well, in all honestly, there are no Navajo names like that. Navajo names like "Humble Bear" don't exist. Its RARE someone would be named after an animal honestly. I'd go into details but my video on "Navajo Baby Names" covers it
Hey I love the navajo language it would be really awesome if you could create a course for the Navajo language on the app duolingo which would help preserve this beautiful language and also help people around the world learn Navajo. duolingo also is free of charge so anyone with access to the Internet can learn a language. please consider it i know I'm one of many people that would love to learn this language but doesn't have the resources to do so. Thank you for all of your awesome videos hope you keep making them:)
It could also help some Navajo people learn their language
+cesar alvarado are you saying are diné people can't speak Navajo,I speak my Navajo prefect
+Beau Bowman I'm not saying that they can't speak their own language but I was under the impression that the number of language speakers are decreasing so I thought this could help
+Beau Bowman I'm sorry if I offended u or any diné that was definitely was not my intention
+cesar alvarado Am from Somalia-East Africa and I really liked Navajo language my language Somalia 🙊mósi=fucker and shah=hijab or covers the head and na'ahóóhai=when the woman feel or need sex 🖒 and it's amazing
@bizarewigga This actually comes into play when you use the verb. The verb tells "how many."
Like Number 100 wooooo! Cool vid man very informative thanks
Just wanting to know how to say turtle.. this is awesome! ❤️ it!
Great video on animal names in Diné bizaad!
Very helpful. Many thanks for this interesting information.
i love the ł and ch' sounds
Red lake area we know cat as Gidii. And dog as Liichaa’. Naatsosii for mouse. Tsi’ii for fly.
I have a friend in Iowa. He is Navajo but was adopted by whites and knows little of his people. I have encouraged him to seek out his ancestors and his language. He has told me he remembers he was once called Humble Bear, or something like it, but I do not know how to put humble and bear together. Meaning to spell it and put it in the right order which I think would be with bear first and humble 2nd. But I could be wrong. If you could help me out with that, I can probably pronounce it for him.
Maybe I should ask you, when I was growing up on the reservation, there was a word that my grandma used to say about a certain insect and when I ask my siblings they don’t know. It’s a bug or insect, I was usually at my grandparents from May to August as a child.
It almost sounds like your saying butt glah in Navajo lol best way I can describe with out sound.
Glah zhoooooo, I thought it was a striped wasp hornet or bee but somebody translated it and it didn’t sound the same
This is a very beautiful language. I wish I could speak it.
Increible..cuandonescuche el nombre de ardilla sabía q ese no era su nombre, cua do dijo el segundo por el q se le puede nombrar sentí este si😮😮.Thanksssss sooo much 4 these videos. Yhaete
Hi there! I live in the UK, have no connection as such with the Navajo nation, but admire your culture and beliefs. I am customising a silver-grey Harley Davidson with a Navajo theme and I would like to write, in Navajo, "Spirit of the Wolf" on the bike. However, I am not having much success with online translations! So far, I have "Nilch'i di Ma'iitsoh" as a loose translation but I want to get it absolutely correct. Can you help please? Many thanks if you can!
Hi! This has been very helpful! Could you please tell us how to ask “What is your favorite animal?” and how to respond with “My favorite animal is…” Ahéhee!
Have a happy New Year Flappy 20/20 the eagle☺☺
U r fantastic 🌹🎺🌹🎺🌹👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
My respect for Navajo language and greetings
Some animals i forgot the names of,, i been away for about 30 yrs,, but I still speak the Dine' language,, maybe post more videos thank you
Awesome :) I want to learn Navajo
Hi ,I saw a Navajo book Darryl Benally,it’s in USA 🇺🇸 English is it a wel known one ? I also search some songs on ITunes warrior magician was one I found.
how do you say hummingbird? lol, I need it for my presentation.
If you could get back with me asap i'd greatly appreciate it!
Thank you
I like how the word for deer sounds like "bee" and the word for bee sounds like Cessna. :)
Having studied both, Navajo is probably easier to learn than Chinese, the sounds are probably easier to distinguish, and the written language corresponds closely to the spoken. They are both fascinating languages. Most nouns do not have a plural form in either language, you must get that from context. Some nouns in Navajo referring to people do have plural form.
+David Barbour But Chinese doesn't have glottal stops nor do they have a ton of verb conjugations. In my opinion, Chinese is easier than Navajo but harder than Navajo when it comes to written orthography. (I am writing in a non-argumentative tone by the way xD - Also I am a native speaker of both English and Navajo)
+stlouisramsfan03 A year ago I had only taken one semester of Navajo. I hadn't been exposed to the handling verbs. And I've now had one semester of Chinese where I had to attack the written characters. Previously I had been studying Chinese aurally on my own. I would now say that Chinese is easier. I don't think the glottal stops are a major issue, they can be learned with sufficient care, but the Navajo verb forms are truly difficult. One thing that is interesting is both languages have a word with could mean either blue or green. Both languages have ways to distinguish between the whole gamut of colors of course, but to me the concept of blue is quite different from the concept for green. I find that interesting and wonder how it relates to how closely Navajo and Chinese are related.
I'm sorry sir you're wrong. There is more ways to speak in the Navajo language 1st person, 2nd person and so and so forth. You just can't say "I studied the language". I've lived the language and it's my cultural and there is no way in heck the Navajo language is easier than the Chinese language.
Thank you sir
Great video! What about the word for "animal"? In general/colloquial English, the word 'animal' excludes humans (even though, biologically speaking, we are animals..). Does Navajo have the same distinction between human/animal?
@SprecheDeutsch No, u pluralize by the verb. The verb tells how many r involved n the action.
I'm a non-native enthusiast of the Navajo language and love your videos. Are you a teacher, by chance?
Tsisna means Bee...Sounds like you are saying, "Cessna", like the aircraft...lol.. I wonder if there is any correlation? Thanks
I'm Denesułiné (or Chipewyan) and our word for dog is the same as your word for horse. Our word for horse is literally "big dog". Tii chok
Some of those animals have cute names. Lol
By the way, the Mexican gray wolf is known as the Máiitsoh in Diné bizaad.
Thanks for this video. Didn't know how to say Bumble Bee for my daughters project😎👍 tsisna
A query: Could it be that wolf is also called maikoh? And how would this word be pronounced? Thanks
great video my friend!!
@sahenderson00 Well... "Tába̜a̜h" means "Water's Edge," so "Tába̜a̜h Ma'ii" kind of describes a kind of a coyote that lives along the banks of lakes & rivers. That's what it literally translates to, but in stories it's not seen as a "coyote" or it doesn't have the characteristics of coyote. A video on the literal translations of the animals would get kind of long... I like the idea... we'll see... :-)
The word for beaver sounds like "shit" in Navajo. LOL That was what he meant...
Another person name Chee? That's mine last name and I'm Navajo
I'm interested in the literal meanings too (as perhaps Name of animals part two??) Partially wondering cause of @soulcapacitor's comment and also cause Coyote is Ma'ii and then the raccoon is tabaah ma'ii...something to do with ears??
I am hoping you can help me. My grandmother had a saying that included a word that my father believes was Navajo. Now, I am so sorry for butchering this, but it kind of sounds like tui chi nooch. Is that word a Navajo word? We were also thinking it could be Ute, but I just figured I would go out on a limb and ask.
Thank you.
I'm Navajo yahtaay eeshkey
Thank you🌎💞
@jManNative that is correct
Hey! love your videos, but why the snake as the thumbnail photo? I’m tryna keep it hozho over here! lol 😅
luv it brother u gotta do more and more......i wanna learn navajo....im a rez boi