Greenlandic is on here but the person speaking it isn't a native and they have quite an American accent. Massive props to them for even learning it though
its challenging😭, i live with my grandma at the moment and she speaks fluently, but i still have soo much to learn. i understood like 75% of what was said in the video😄
While I appreciate the mission of this channel it is a shame that there is still no subtitles for many of these videos that feature a non-Indo-European language.
There are few teories about relation of native american languages and some asian languages. A lot of time has passed since America was populated by people from Asia, but it possible that some traces of even languages far from syberia are present here and there. Guess we will never be 100% sure.
@@Endru85x We know all Native Americans came from Asia, but linguistic methods for reconstruction can only go back a few thousand years. It is a limitation of the method, but the genetic data is solid. Athabaskans came in the second big wave of migration, the Inuit-Aleut came in the last.
@@RcsN505 Yeah, i read about migration waves and genetic material, it is a fascinating thing, pity we are limited in reconstructing languages. I love watching vidoes about spread of language groups/families, i think it is a topic kids should learn about in history classes.
I am guessing that the current pronunciation of native American languages is affected by the fact that these peop0le are also English speakers. I wonder how it sounded 300 years ago.
@@Sandralacouverturemegratte By definition they aren't, because the concept of "America" as a country comes from the settlers and the nation state. "America" wasn't a word before that. Natives weren't unified. But a real Navajo she is and that's great
I don't know, but I hear a Turkic or Mongolic influence in this language, but I guess because they have lived in North America for so long that it's hard to tell because it doesn't take long for one language to depart from its roots.
Do you mean similarities? There are only a few dozen speech sounds that human vocal tracts can produce, so any two languages are bound to share phonemes. Doesn't mean that they are related or that they have influenced one another. Coincidence is much more plausible. And no, linguistically there is no provable influence or relatedness between Turkic, Mongolic and Na-Dené.
They could have used a better speaker there are TONS of them here but I guess she must be a family member of a leader… nepotism runs rampant on the Rez. Usually unqualified individuals will rise to the top based on who you know
Englavajo. Navajos who speak english first but navajos who know their language. Its rare to find navajos who can speak in american english and navajo with zero accent in either. My aunt is one of them.
I would say that her accent doesn't appear to have any English traces in it whatsoever, however I guess you're referring to the pauses in her speech. My best guess is she's simply trying to remember the words. Perhaps she doesn't speak Navajo much in her daily life but I definitely think she's a native speaker, not a learner. I'm very happy to have over 7 minutes to listen to and I'm grateful to her for having talked for so long! I know it's a very difficult language but this has inspired me to learn it, because this lady was determined to speak to us in her language and because the beautiful landscapes there are ones I'd like to visit.
@@karlmakhwa4182 Yeah I think people forget how much of a switch english v something like athabaskan requires, those consonants aren't fucking around lol. Incredible respect for every tribe that's getting behind their language with this much passion.
I do- there are some eerie north eastern Indian (As in the country India) similarities..with the Manipuri, Mizo and Naga languages of India.....and that is no where close to America of course. We are connected somewhere in common.
Navajo could've been the language spoken in the whole North America (Nahuatl from mexican astecas is from the same family) way better than english, spanish or french, also way more complex and melodic, english is bizarrely poor.
english is pretty rich actually. over a millennium of being invaded by other countries has given it thousands of loanwords which lend themselves to incredibly subtle shades of meaning that a lot of other languages do not have. the problem with modern english isn't english itself, it's the education system
@@Jess-737I take your point but that's not really true. There are languages that don't have numbers bigger than 3. That doesn't make it a "bad" language but it does mean it's worse at communicating certain messages than others.
Ísso soou pra mim como o hebraico, a todo momento eu aguardava ouvir "adonai", "shalom", "achim", ĵáhveh". Creio ter até ouvido "adoshem" por volta de 3:43 min!
@robertooliveira8809 great observation on listening to similarities. You mention "adoshem." In Navajo 'adoo' is said when you are saying, "and then..." She said adoo shima... "and then my mother/mom..." In Navajo, "shi" means "my". Ma is universal for Mom, mum or mama, so "Shima" means my mom. "Adoo"..is she is adding information to her statement ("and then"). My navajo is choppy but I can understand most of what she is saying. I did not listen to all but from what i heard, she is generally speaking of herself and her family. Her clans and where she is originally from Fort Defiance, AZ (Tse ho Tso) and where she lives now, Flagstaff, AZ (Kinlani). She also mentioned her husband and what she studied in higher education. She mentioned she likes to speak Navajo and also to speak with others although it is difficult. She finds it pleasing to keep trying. She stresses the beauty and complexity of the language. she said several times it is hard/tough.
@@aaronwoods6640 good observations, thank you! I Just expressed the effect it had on me, without further consideration, as I am not an expert in this area.
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Would love to hear an Arctic language here, like Greenlandic/Chukchi/Yupik etc
Oh my goodness me too!
JSYK, Chukchi is not related to the other languagws
They do have Chukchi
Greenlandic is on here but the person speaking it isn't a native and they have quite an American accent. Massive props to them for even learning it though
So glad to see this channel becoming active again.
What a beautiful language and what a beautiful view!!! 💚
That's not far from Albuquerque, NM. Could be near Tó Hajiileehé
@@RcsN505 Where Hank and Gomie were killed by the Nazis? lol sorry, Breaking Bad reference.
I’m 18, and on the path to learn Navajo, my tribal language. I understand somewhat what she was saying. Although missed a lot 😅
Good luck to you with that
Very hard language.
its challenging😭, i live with my grandma at the moment and she speaks fluently, but i still have soo much to learn. i understood like 75% of what was said in the video😄
Good for you, languages are a treasure, you're a culture keeper 💪
If you live in the Navajo nation talk to your elders. Full immersion is the most effective method 😊
My favorite language! It's just beautiful!! Thank you for sharing. ❤
Don't ever let this amazing language go extinct!!
Beautiful surroundings and language!
While I appreciate the mission of this channel it is a shame that there is still no subtitles for many of these videos that feature a non-Indo-European language.
So languages like Talysh, Armenian, Polish, Kurdish and the other hundreds of IE languages don't need subtitles? Lol
surprisingly sound similar to my native avar language spoken in dagestan, russia
There are few teories about relation of native american languages and some asian languages. A lot of time has passed since America was populated by people from Asia, but it possible that some traces of even languages far from syberia are present here and there. Guess we will never be 100% sure.
Lots of ejectives in both.
@@Endru85x We know all Native Americans came from Asia, but linguistic methods for reconstruction can only go back a few thousand years. It is a limitation of the method, but the genetic data is solid. Athabaskans came in the second big wave of migration, the Inuit-Aleut came in the last.
@@RcsN505 Yeah, i read about migration waves and genetic material, it is a fascinating thing, pity we are limited in reconstructing languages. I love watching vidoes about spread of language groups/families, i think it is a topic kids should learn about in history classes.
What a beautiful voice!
Beautiful! Thank you ❤
Beautiful way of communicating... it's urgent to preserve treasures like this language.🎉🎉🎉
Please put subtitles so that the words become meaningful.
the words are already meaningful!
@@frogbear02 man, we don't understand
@@orangetv3tgl144 just because you dont understand doesnt mean the words dont have meaning though
@@frogbear02 well, that's fair, but they are still ununderstandable for the non-natives
Qué idioma tan bonito.
I am guessing that the current pronunciation of native American languages is affected by the fact that these peop0le are also English speakers. I wonder how it sounded 300 years ago.
The REAL Americans!
Um no. Stop
@@timesup6302but they are
They are the First Nations of this continent, but American is a colonial label. It would sort of be like calling the Ainu people "the real Japanese."
@@Sandralacouverturemegratte By definition they aren't, because the concept of "America" as a country comes from the settlers and the nation state. "America" wasn't a word before that. Natives weren't unified. But a real Navajo she is and that's great
Yap we all just want to be divided and hateful.
Dark Winds brought me here. Beautiful language!
She’s a great speaker! 🤗
I don't know, but I hear a Turkic or Mongolic influence in this language, but I guess because they have lived in North America for so long that it's hard to tell because it doesn't take long for one language to depart from its roots.
Pangea. We all are one.
@@valtrex_itch5987 No human being at the time of Pangea..............
It's not lol
Do you mean similarities? There are only a few dozen speech sounds that human vocal tracts can produce, so any two languages are bound to share phonemes. Doesn't mean that they are related or that they have influenced one another. Coincidence is much more plausible.
And no, linguistically there is no provable influence or relatedness between Turkic, Mongolic and Na-Dené.
the consonant sounds, like the ejectives and notable voiced alveolar lateral fricative /ɮ/ which is also in Mongolian
Beautiful language
BEAUTIFUL!
♡
We must learn and speak Navajo to save them!
truly an amazing language
The Japanese had no clue what the hero Navajo code talkers were saying. They helped significantly in the American victory in WW2 🫡
Sounds like Mongolian
Kion shi diris ?
Mi me savas cxar mi ne parolas la navahxan
I thought I heard her say Shaynaynay. Tell me she’s describing an episode of Martin.
What was that thing in 2:57 moving so fast? Doesn't look an insect
it was a UFO
@@Tutdelasmore me when I lie
Hello from Central Asia!!! Your speaking is amazing 👏. But the most amazing is that Navajo people look like Asians. Theory of Great Migration is real.
the theory is indeed true, but that are indigenous people who don't have the epicanthical fold though
Proof that Native Americans came from Asia. She could easily pass as Southeast Asian like Filipina or Indonesian
Sound like Celtic Languages/Icelandic
It does have a slight Celtic vibe that’s interesting
Doesn't sound like any Celtic language and Celtic languages don't sound like Icelandic either.
@@gerald-dw7vp you not expert
@@D.Baatar1998 Rinn mise staidéar ar na sé theangaidh Cheilteacha... Agus tú féin? Cén t-eólas atá agad orthu?
It sounds like... Navajo.
Seems like she is struggling to speak it
They could have used a better speaker there are TONS of them here but I guess she must be a family member of a leader… nepotism runs rampant on the Rez. Usually unqualified individuals will rise to the top based on who you know
She's probably just nervous. She's almost certainly a native speaker.
let’s see u do better 🥴
She probably doesn’t speak it all the time but she did good nonetheless.
She's doing her best. Many of the younger generations don't speak the Navajo language anymore. Sad!☹
Thank you!!! It sounds a bit like ancient languages....❤
This sounds so much like irish its wild
She has a very prominent American accent, yet isn't speaking English at all.
Englavajo. Navajos who speak english first but navajos who know their language. Its rare to find navajos who can speak in american english and navajo with zero accent in either. My aunt is one of them.
@@jktoooo Fascinating! Thanks for the info.
She seems to be struggling a bit. It's wonderful that she speaks at all and she should keep doing that, but "casual" isn't really what this is
She sounds native but the code swotching must be a bitch especially if she doesnt speak it in daily life. Have you seen Navjo grammer?
She's a sequential learner? She doesnt sound too confident in her articulation
I would say that her accent doesn't appear to have any English traces in it whatsoever, however I guess you're referring to the pauses in her speech. My best guess is she's simply trying to remember the words. Perhaps she doesn't speak Navajo much in her daily life but I definitely think she's a native speaker, not a learner. I'm very happy to have over 7 minutes to listen to and I'm grateful to her for having talked for so long! I know it's a very difficult language but this has inspired me to learn it, because this lady was determined to speak to us in her language and because the beautiful landscapes there are ones I'd like to visit.
+_+
@@karlmakhwa4182 Yeah I think people forget how much of a switch english v something like athabaskan requires, those consonants aren't fucking around lol. Incredible respect for every tribe that's getting behind their language with this much passion.
@@karlmakhwa4182exactly!
Does anyone else note an Asian influence?
Not really an Asian influence, but seeing as Native Americans crossed into the Americas from Siberia, some similarities are probably true.
I do- there are some eerie north eastern Indian (As in the country India) similarities..with the Manipuri, Mizo and Naga languages of India.....and that is no where close to America of course. We are connected somewhere in common.
Navajo could've been the language spoken in the whole North America (Nahuatl from mexican astecas is from the same family) way better than english, spanish or french, also way more complex and melodic, english is bizarrely poor.
Navajo and Nahuatl aren't from the same family
english is pretty rich actually. over a millennium of being invaded by other countries has given it thousands of loanwords which lend themselves to incredibly subtle shades of meaning that a lot of other languages do not have. the problem with modern english isn't english itself, it's the education system
@@Jess-737I take your point but that's not really true. There are languages that don't have numbers bigger than 3.
That doesn't make it a "bad" language but it does mean it's worse at communicating certain messages than others.
@@sleepCircle millennium
@@DiamondMcNamara yes thank you
Did she learn it from Duolingo?
No!!! You cannot learn Navajo from 6 lessons or so. She is probably Navajo herself, and learned the language from a young age.
🤣🤣
Bro are you stupid..? 😭
Ísso soou pra mim como o hebraico, a todo momento eu aguardava ouvir "adonai", "shalom", "achim", ĵáhveh". Creio ter até ouvido "adoshem" por volta de 3:43 min!
Jeezes will return in 3:43 minutes. Prepare!
You really are that delusional hahhaha
As a native hebrew speaker, this sounds nothing like hebrew, thats like the farthest from hebrew one can go, even english is more similar.
@robertooliveira8809 great observation on listening to similarities. You mention "adoshem." In Navajo 'adoo' is said when you are saying, "and then..." She said adoo shima... "and then my mother/mom..." In Navajo, "shi" means "my". Ma is universal for Mom, mum or mama, so "Shima" means my mom. "Adoo"..is she is adding information to her statement ("and then"). My navajo is choppy but I can understand most of what she is saying. I did not listen to all but from what i heard, she is generally speaking of herself and her family. Her clans and where she is originally from Fort Defiance, AZ (Tse ho Tso) and where she lives now, Flagstaff, AZ (Kinlani). She also mentioned her husband and what she studied in higher education. She mentioned she likes to speak Navajo and also to speak with others although it is difficult. She finds it pleasing to keep trying. She stresses the beauty and complexity of the language. she said several times it is hard/tough.
@@aaronwoods6640 good observations, thank you! I Just expressed the effect it had on me, without further consideration, as I am not an expert in this area.