USAY Blackfoot Learning Guide

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  • Опубликовано: 27 июн 2019
  • Check out this video learning guide that engages Indigenous children and youth with the Blackfoot language, to improve transmission of this endangered language.
    Learn more about our programs at: usay.ca/programs/
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Комментарии • 35

  • @steveramsey8415
    @steveramsey8415 5 месяцев назад +1

    I am looking to understand and speak Blackfoot in memory of a woman I met in the early 80's in Great Falls, Montana. I nearly left the British Army, went AWOL for her but, she told me to go back and not be looking over my shoulder for the rest of my life. \i am both glad that |I did and sad that I did at the same time. I believe she is now passed and I wept for her. All I can do now is honor her by learning her Native Language.

  • @deandrebrye6480
    @deandrebrye6480 2 года назад +2

    I have found out that I have Blackfoot in me. I couldn't believe it and I want to learn more about it. There really isn't anyone left from the old days in my family to talk/ask about it. I want to thank you for having this video and channel.

  • @ehalverson9323
    @ehalverson9323 3 года назад +14

    I hear the similarities in Ojibwe and Siksika. I love this language.

    • @RoyalKnightVIII
      @RoyalKnightVIII 3 года назад +4

      They're both algonquian languages with a common ancestor :)
      Compare I love you in both roman & Syllabics
      Gizaagi'in ᑭᓵᑭᐦᐃᓐ
      Kitsikakomim ᖽᒧᐧᖿᖾᒍᐢ

  • @berrienberry
    @berrienberry 2 года назад +1

    Off to learn my ancestor's language!! Thank you so much for this introduction to it!

  • @CymaticEarth
    @CymaticEarth Год назад +4

    I believe putting macron's over the vowels instead of writing 2 of them can really help convey the language more effectively and efficiently. For example, instead of writing "Niitsitapi" it would be Nītsitapi. And for Bison/Buffalo it would change to īnī instead of iinii. Just my thought as I study multiple languages and this format is understood worldwide, which would ensure consistently accurate pronunciation, no matter the native language.

    • @Jesse_Kershner
      @Jesse_Kershner 3 месяца назад

      That makes sense! I was wondering why we weren't using that method for accents. On my dad's side, his grandma was full Blackfoot, and his grandpa was Scottish/Irish. So basically, I'm mixed, but trying to learn more about my Blackfoot roots.

  • @EnsignAhkinum
    @EnsignAhkinum 11 месяцев назад +1

    Wow, wonderful, an actual Blackfoot learning post. All the others just say the words and move on with not explanation or proper pronunciation, or how it works in a sentence. I hope there would be more and that the introduction of vocabulary along with a story would be great.

  • @RoyalKnightVIII
    @RoyalKnightVIII 3 года назад +14

    ᓴᖿ̇ᑊᑯ! ᖲᖽ, ᖹ̇ᒣᖹᘁᖾᐠᖷ ᖱᖿ᙮
    Soká'pi! Oki, nitánikkoowa Ika.
    I'm so glad you mentioned the Syllabary. It's creation was headed by a white missionary but he did have at least one blackfoot collaborator whose name rarely gets mentioned & on top of that it's partly based off of the Cree Syllabary.
    Some blackfoot acquaintances of mine have amended the Syllabary to finally be able to write long & accented vowels
    By adding one new final , -a ᐩ & ̇ ̈ dot, & double, for accents on the top of the character the system becomes fully usable
    Some examples
    Naato'si
    ᖻᐩᒪᑊᓱ
    Kokomi-kisomm
    ᖾᖾᒍ ᖽᓴᐢ
    Iiníí
    ᖱᐟᖹ̈
    Imitáá
    ᖱᒍᒣ̈

    • @RoyalKnightVIII
      @RoyalKnightVIII 2 года назад

      @@jaymariofficial yes?

    • @evatruchot2858
      @evatruchot2858 Год назад +1

      how do you say "I love you" in blackfoot and with what signs?

    • @RoyalKnightVIII
      @RoyalKnightVIII 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@evatruchot2858iirc
      Kitsikakomim
      ᖽᒧᐧᖿᖾᒍᐢ

  • @maccthegodfather190
    @maccthegodfather190 Год назад

    Thank ya'll. I had a great grandmother who was sold from our Blackfoot tribe 😢 and sold to work for the Watsons. I just wish I could know more about my true culture

  • @germanmartinez1994
    @germanmartinez1994 4 года назад +7

    Thank you for this video! I would like to learn some words so that I may connect better with people in calgary

  • @jodran
    @jodran 3 года назад

    This is a very informative video! :)

  • @quinhawkins9797
    @quinhawkins9797 2 года назад

    💛💛💛💛💛Beautiful!!!

  • @nicolebridgewater8184
    @nicolebridgewater8184 2 года назад +1

    Hi, I just found out that my great grandmother was blackfoot. I feel so confused and disconnected. I am 48 and no nothing of my people or myself I want to be more connected to my family and I I don't know how to go about it.

  • @DamnU23
    @DamnU23 2 года назад

    Really interesting.

  • @alonzovigil6391
    @alonzovigil6391 Год назад

    Do you know of any videos teaching blackfoot as their mother language?

  • @beautyandasmilekitten6510
    @beautyandasmilekitten6510 3 года назад

    Sweet!

    • @beatricelee733
      @beatricelee733 2 года назад

      Again, I would love to pronounce my name , Beatrice & what it means?

  • @evatruchot2858
    @evatruchot2858 Год назад

    how do you say "I love you" in blackfoot and with what signs?

  • @stacymartell3473
    @stacymartell3473 3 года назад +2

    How do you pronounce Kiaayo?
    Gee ya yoo
    Gee ya yo
    Gee ya yuh ?

  • @algobrehane7369
    @algobrehane7369 3 года назад +1

    I love you for this. I am SikSika❤️

  • @beatricelee733
    @beatricelee733 2 года назад

    I would love to pronounce my name , Beatrice in Black Foot & what does it mean?

    • @RoyalKnightVIII
      @RoyalKnightVIII 2 года назад +1

      ᑯᖳᒧᔈ Piatis maybe. It wouldn't mean anything in Blackfoot but it might mean something else entirely if it happens to sound like something else bh coincidence, it's from the Latin Beatrix

  • @ibukirockstreetfighterkid4677
    @ibukirockstreetfighterkid4677 2 года назад

    I am black ⚫️ 🦶

  • @RoyalKnightVIII
    @RoyalKnightVIII 2 года назад

    Natosi
    ᖻᒪᓱ
    Naato'si
    ᖻᐩᒪᑊᓱ (?)

  • @reddrooster60
    @reddrooster60 3 дня назад

    Oki✊🏾🦬🪶

  • @jtsmith1402
    @jtsmith1402 3 года назад

    How do you say stop playing the victim.