I took Dakota in college and studied it on my own after that. Dakota was and is one of the languages spoken by some Native tribes in my home state. There are many places in the Midwestern US with Dakota/Lakota names. I still have my English-Dakota and Dakota-English dictionaries. I didn't find the language that difficult to learn. The letter sounds are consistent and don't change (like in English) so one letter = one sound. The hardest parts of the language for me to learn were certain sounds not in English - mainly the Dakota ġ and ḣ sounds - and the grammar is very different from English. But once you learn it, the language is very interesting and lovely. I hope it never dies. Pidamayaye, Julie!

@rahuldhargalkar

2 ай бұрын

I wish I could take such interesting rare languages in school. So glad you could take it

@nzs316

2 ай бұрын

Here in Canada actually in Montreal I can pick up the radio station from the reserve Kanesatake and in the radio station they play music and then it stops and the girl starts talking and I guess it would be mohawk and then translate with English and that goes on for maybe half an hour and then continues playing music. Very cool!

@jadjad4666

Ай бұрын

How do you express or talk about events happened in the past since there is no past tense? Do you use a marker?

Hoka!! ❤ Wakpa Waste Oyanke ematanhan na le wanblake cha lila iyomakhipi yelo! Lakhota here from Cheyenne River Wakpa Waste Oyanke. Even with the technical errors pointed out in the comments, it makes my heart glad to see our language survives and that others have taken an interest in it. Wophila thanka Julie!!

@PrairieGirlRocks

2 ай бұрын

Jared! I’m a very basic speaker up here near FortBelknap I can translate most of what you just said, although it’s a little different than it would be said up here! 🤍

@gregor-samsa

2 ай бұрын

Germany here. There is no prompt to have the comment in Dakota? translated in German or English what is often the case.

@OnASeasideMission

2 ай бұрын

Shwmae Jared (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿) The native people of North America have fascinated me since I learned that there was no connection between History and Hollywood. I have to say, that my own Welsh is very basic. But I keep at it, because a dead language is the end of a world. Fortunately, Welsh is making some headway , after centuries of prejudice, indifference and deliberate suppression. We're a country about the size of New Jersey with a pop close to 3.2M and about 0.5M regular Welsh speakers. But that took a determined political campaign starting in the 60s, with a tipyn bach o (little bit of) civil disobedience. (How would your state and fed governments feel about some civil disobedience?) Loved seeing this topic come up on my feed and will be looking for more. Hwyl fawr, brawd. (James)

@isabelaraujo4825

Ай бұрын

this is how the llc drama started tho by letting these colonizers in

@jaredwoods2361

12 күн бұрын

@@isabelaraujo4825 It will always happen. There will always be those who use us, just as there will always be those who truly try to help us. We cannot shut everyone out forever... I have, in my time, met more than one bad Lakota too. We have to do our best together, stand together as well as we can regardless of our background. This is WoLakota, the togetherness of our brothers and sisters here on Unci Makha. Mitakuye oyasin

In the scene from "Dances with Wolves," the actor speaking Lakota is Graham Greene. Greene is not Lakota, he is an Oneida from Ontario, Canada. He has said that he found it difficult to speak the Lakota lines properly, but he obviously worked very hard to do so, because an Assiniboine friend of mine said he made quite a good job of it. I saw Greene in the stage play "Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing," a year before his Oscar nomination, and thought his performance brilliant. He remains one of Canada's most beloved actors, regularly appearing on Canadian television shows, as well as in numerous Hollywood movies. His sense of humour is legendary, and it's sad that he never got to play something with Leslie Nielsen.

@_volder

3 ай бұрын

Some of the scenes in that movie did have Lakota/Dakota native speakers as actors, though, including the woman who taught actors from other tribes like him. She's featured telling a story herself in one scene.

@gandolfthorstefn1780

3 ай бұрын

Wes Studi who played the Pawnee warrior is Cherokee is a great actor. Also Last of the Mohicans. Kevin Costner is part Cherokee also.

@marcusfridh8489

2 ай бұрын

​​@@_volderthats why you can hear even the men speak with a feminine grammar

I might be biased since I grew up on one of the Lakota reservations, and am half Lakota, but Lakota is my favorite language ever. It’s very difficult, and even here on the reservation, I don’t know anyone who speaks the language, but I hope to learn it to fluency someday.

@mesabzu9922

3 ай бұрын

I hope so too! It is such a beautiful language! And it deserves to be spoken by more people and used more!

@rahuldhargalkar

2 ай бұрын

Hoping for that!

@kzm-cb5mr

2 ай бұрын

No one speaks Lakota in a Lakota reservation?

@MarikHavair

2 ай бұрын

@@kzm-cb5mr It's hilarious that you're surprised by that, nobody speaks any of the Amerindian languages. They're dead languages and dead for a reason, there's no practical benefit for anyone to continue using them any more than there's a reason for a pan Mediterranean Latin revival, or for all of Britain to start speaking Pictish or Welsh. Hell there's no Picts left and even the Welsh only speak Welsh because their forced to from on high.

@nialloneill5097

Ай бұрын

@@kzm-cb5mr Thanks to errrr...the white man who wished to rule the world...

Interesting bit of trivia: The Klingon language (from Star Trek) uses subject/object pronoun affixes too, and the creator got the idea for it from the Sioux language.

@ibnewton8951

3 ай бұрын

More trivia: did you hear about the Jewish American Indian tribe? They’re called the ‘SoSueMe’ tribe.😅 Edit: Heard on Jay Leno - _Tonight Show._

@christopherellis2663

3 ай бұрын

No, a Californian tongue

@boink800

3 ай бұрын

These are called "agglunitive" languages and this exists in many cases.

@Kielimies

3 ай бұрын

The same with Quechua, a South American language of the Incas.

@magyarbondi

2 ай бұрын

You know what, listening to them, I immediately thought, ST creators took the Sioux vowels to make Klingon.

As a native who loves the Lakota language. Thank you for struggling thru this language. That and many other reasons I am a subscriber :)

I read about something kind of charming. In northwest Ontario, Canada, there's a town called Sioux Lookout. I understand it comes from the Ojibwe people watching for the incursion of Siouxs into their lands.

Thanks so much for this interesting and engaging intro into the Sioux language and culture. I live in central Mexico, where many are trying to preserve and promote Nahuatl. When a language dies, with it goes an entire culture. Good luck to you and keep posting!

@CosmicAli_TheObserver

2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂 We are not dead and this was a student report on my culture, at best!

There is also the Nakoda dialect. A breakaway tribe speaking this same dialect are the Assiniboine.

@jaredwoods2361

2 ай бұрын

She mentioned that in the video, the first time quite early in. "A group of 3 dialects, or perhaps now three languages" Edit: I was still watching the video, and she just showed Nakoda on a map. Just wanted to make sure Nakoda wasn't forgotten

Great video! I was so excited to watch this! A bit of movie trivia: the majority of the Native American actors in Dances With Wolves were not Sioux and did not speak the language, but were coached by native speakers to get their lines right. However, the scene where the old woman is describing how her husband years ago got spooked and jumped up a tree...that woman was a true native Sioux speaker, so we get to hear the real language as spoken by a native in that short scene:)

@defjam137

2 ай бұрын

I read somewhere that she was the last surviving speaker of that language.

Hi, linguist here specialist in (indigenous) American languages. I haven't watched the whole video yet but already wanted to note 2 things: -an American language! Hurrah! 🎉🎉🎉 Hope to see more of them 😊 -no serious scholar in the field believes in the 3 branches theory (anymore). The Eskimo-Aleut, Na-dene and Amerind division, developed by Greenberg and followers, contains way too many errors to be taken seriously in the first place. The theory has been debunked many years ago and most people have moved on. Greenberg was not even specialised in American languages... He became famous for his theory about African ones (where he lumbed everything in just 4 families) . Even that one however is nowadays seriously challenged by colleagues who work with those languages...

@mollythornton8448

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, but if you live locally the Lakota and Dakota acknowledge the Nakota. The problem with white academia not understanding the locale.

Thank you for putting you beautiful spot light on the native Americans . Your intelligence on vocabulary is really impressive . AHO WADO :O)

Чудове відео! Особливо сподобався екскурс в історію та граматику!

The Lakota Language really makes English look like baby talk. I hope so much the language(s) will be thriving again, as much as Navajo is in Arizona. Bilingual education will be the key.

@nickmiller76

2 ай бұрын

Ref your first sentence: Er.....no.

@boink800

2 ай бұрын

@@nickmiller76Er ..... yes.

@gregor-samsa

2 ай бұрын

Hebrew was restarted as well. You'd need raw material

It´s an awesome work you do in the history of languages! I´m pretty sure many generations will thank you in the future.

Love the Sioux Beautiful hearing Lakota language. The Lakota lullaby’s beautiful. The Sioux language is one of the oldest Hope it lives ♾ ♾ ♾. Thanks for sharing..🔥

You became such a professional during the years but you still have a special charm in these presentations which I love. 😊

It is so important not to lose languages / cultures as it is to recuperate those that have almost disapeared. Unfortunately most governments are only interested in one language being spoken for various questionable reasons. Cultures, Customs and Languages are forgotten and everyone everywhere is much of a muchness.......I admire your effort and interest. Cheers.

@nialloneill5097

Ай бұрын

The meadow flowers upon the prairies are varied...and so should be the languages...this is the beauty of the creator expressed in men's unique ways...and the aggregate of these words and languages should make for a hymn of praise to the Great Mystery...

8:10 What a beautiful language. Dances with wolves. Sunkmanitu Tanka Owaci. I repeated this phrase for weeks after the movie because it just rolls of the tongue.

@CosmicAli_TheObserver

2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

I always enjoy and learn so much from your presentations. Thanks!

I always enjoy your videos! Thank you for giving attention to this language!

always fun to binge watch from time to time

I appreciate this awesome work that you do, and I hope to see your Patreon grow! You deserve everything life can offer. Thank you so much for existing, Julie!

I love that you make videos about such indegenous languages!

my favorite learning experience yet. Great job Julie

I absolutely love that you decided to tackle this dialect/language.

Very cool video! My favourite indigenous language is Kiikaapoa/Kiikaapoi, spoken by the people of the same name. They also apparently have a high rate of native speakers in Mexico where many live today despite originally being from Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. Itd be very fun to see a language video on it sometime!

I speak a finno-ugric language (European but of North-Asian origin). We also can pack a whole lot of information in single words similarly to this. But we're not verb focused, I'd say(?). And we too don't have gendered pronouns! In my language for instance who does, when does and making it a question or a suggestion can be baked into a single verb, that can be a whole sentence on it's own. But the same can be done to otherkind of words as well - maybe even more can be baked into subjectives. A verb sentence could be "pääsimmekö?" - Did we get (in)? päästä=get in/out/away , me=we , =question. Another example of a word could be "autoissammekinko" = "also in our cars?" Auto=car, i=plural indicator mid word, ssa=inside, mme=our, kin=also, ko=question indicator.

JuLi , you are awesome. THANK YOU 😍

The entirety of modern North American civilization is built upon the bones and graves of an amazingly rich, ancient and complex culture. Some of my Sioux friends finally began to learn their own tribal tongues in the late 90's. So much damage was done by racist attempts by the US & Canadian governments to stamp out native language and cultures. Thanks for spotlighting the culture and language of the original Americans!

@metrotrujillo

2 ай бұрын

and the discrimination continues, none stop HISPANIC=LATINO=BROWN=NATIVE AMERICAN WHO SPEAKS SPANISH look at the southern border? all those migrants are "indians" trying to repopulate north america.

@gerardvanwilgen9917

2 ай бұрын

"The entirety of modern North American civilization is built upon the bones and graves of an amazingly rich, ancient and complex culture. " That is probably the case for every known civilization, including those of Native Americans such as the Aztecs.

Thank you for this video for historical preservation!

Sioux is a pejorative used against both Lakota (aligned tribes) and Dakota (unaligned Lakota). The distinction came about during Little Crow's war. The language common among the nomadic tribes of the upper plains of North America was Lakhota and Dakhóta which were nearly indistinguishable.

@CosmicAli_TheObserver

2 ай бұрын

What about the Nakota? 😂

@ZharelAnger

2 ай бұрын

@@CosmicAli_TheObserverI am not familiar with Nakón Iyábi nor Îyethka Îabi but I am sure they share many words and word parts. It is inevitable that the migratory routs of the hunted herds often brought them together. I've collected many hunting stories attributed to Tatanka Iyotake, Phizi, Mukwah and others of reunions, love capers of the young, and feuds. They are humorous and joyful tales with some cautionary lessons.

Lovely & fascinating sound. A pleasure to hear [Sioux] spoken.

Very interesting and well-made video as usual! I can't remember if you've already done a video about this other topic, but it would be great to see how all the different language families in the Americas evolved/related to each other.

Thanks for this video. Very interesting and informative.

This is a very interesting video. Thank you for sharing.

Sounds great! A beautiful language!

Wow. To learn such a complex language and then explain it to us. Brilliant

Your presence on screen seems much more comfortable than when you first started 🎉 you love to see it

Vary cool! You might be one of the first non-bias to cover native language and inform everyone, at least in our modern times. Thanks!🔥

@CosmicAli_TheObserver

2 ай бұрын

Nope. We have better people take a master class.😂

@danielnielsen1977

2 ай бұрын

@@CosmicAli_TheObserver This is why I used the term might be. People everywhere come to learn and know more when others share there story's, No? What is better people? You really go out of your way to be arrogant and rude. And without cause. Good luck with that, have a pleasant day.

Hi, I discovered your channel recently and binge watched all your videos, they are really high quality and informative. Are you also intrested in constructed languages? I wish you could make a video on esperanto. Its features are less fascinating than naturale languages, but its history and the vision behind it are truly amazing and worth telling.

They’re from the area where I live, but I don’t personally know anyone who speaks Dakota. It’s interesting to hear you talk about a group of people that are more local for me.

I love your synopses of languages Julie, and marvel at how much you put into the study of each. The format you use to survey each language shows that people of all languages have much more in common than the differences between their languages suggests.

Great job Julie

Amazing work as always! I'm wandering if you could do the Romaní language/dialects!

I've always been fascinated with Native North and South American languages. Here in my country, Brazil, ther're still 200 native languages struggling for survival. I picked up some content on some of these languages on the internet, though they are very complex... thank you for bringing up such a beautiful language!!

Thank you for reminding me that there are beautiful people on this planet

2:20 Wow. I certainly did not expect you to use those diacritic marks and even less to pronounce them the way I do in my native language. Might this be the reason why the mysterious KZread algorithm suggested me your video? A very interesting topic and I learned something. I hope something I will remember long-term. EDIT: Towards the end of the video, I was quite surprised. And to be honest, I watched it because of your cute fact with those eyes that make me melt. I do not apologize for admitting to being a male, drawn to your beauty. And it is not pure physical, but intellectual as well. Best wishes, Erik.

trees sun air, breath more ,good vibe hugggss.. 🙏🏻

Thank you for what you do

enthralled by these videos

@tdbn4599

3 ай бұрын

HA!! I almost used the same word “enthralled” on my comment. I should’ve kept it since it was accurate to my initial impression of her video.

Wonderful video! Thank you!

Excellent! Thanks a lot.

Great quick summary! I would love to see some Algonquian and Iroquoian/Haudenosaunee languages

Your videos are always well made and informational and this one was no different keep up the good work. Though this comment might get buried if your looking to expand on American languages I would love to see you make one on mine which is Menominee since I think its often overshadowed by Ojibwe though the languages are very similar.

Cool video and very convincing pronunciation 👍🏻🙏🏻

As far as i know, "natowessi-wag (-WAG being the plural form in ojibwe), the diminutive of natowessi (Odaawa NAADWESI) Is NATOWESI-NH, in ojibwe, so the diminutive plural would be NATOWESSI-NH-WAG. naadwesi in this context probably does't refer to the snakes poison but to its forked tongue, designating a liar... ASSINIBOIN derives from the french spelling of ASSINIIBWAAN again a western ojibwe word meaning STONE asiin, and BWAAN here apparently meaning a particular type of people. The stone people often recur in the mythology of the region (see mary louise defender wilson, the earth will never end. Also narwal morriseau, an ojibwe author) Thx for sharing julie!

@CosmicAli_TheObserver

2 ай бұрын

Close, sharp tongue. There was a huge fight for us to become seven Nations of Sioux. The Ojibwa got involved and one of our people called a family out for inbreeding... The was a lot of fighting and we embraced the name because "we would rather be snakes then inbred", the feuding families died and the fight was lost to time. When the time the French came it was still a sore subject. They didn't understand our language as well as they thought and took a lot of liberties with our words. The white people here walked around calling women Vaginas until the mid 90's. 😂 It's not even vulgar, just very childish. Our words have more than one meaning, and slang isn't new. When people get mad today they call others names like "mother f@^$er" but, that not actually true, nor did it happen. Hope that helps.

I was very happy to watch this video but it also made me sad because there's so few people who speak the language. I wish there will be more in the future.

Good luck in preserving your language!

Thank you

Thanks. Native languages have been mostly mysterious for me until now. Thanks for your very informative video.

@CosmicAli_TheObserver

2 ай бұрын

C- work at best, take a master class.

Wow, an interesting language, and sounds nice :)

Thanks for this video! If I remember well, the future tense is expressed by a particle after the verb. What is funny is that there are no verbal tenses, there's just one way to conjugate the verbs and the tenses are expressed only by particles or adverbs, the verb itself doesn't say anything about tense.

Sioux has always been one of my favourite languages. I love the sound of it. Many native American languages sound awesome, and for that reason many of them are on my list. Apart from Sioux, I'm also trying to learn Ojibwe, Mohawk, Salish, Navaho, and Hopi.

quelque temps que je ne vous voyais plus sur YT ❤

The "peaceful" American tribes had such colorful names for each other. The Hopi refereed to the Dine as the head bashers.

Thanks for doing this. It's got me curious to learn the Cherokee language, since they used to inhabit where I live.

When you hear the radically different accent in the excerpt from Dances With Wolves you wonder if the speaker had a strong English accent, or if that's just what Lakota sounds like now. You hear "contact accents" in other languages - Breton sounds like Welsh with a French accent, for example.

@wasnt.here.3853

3 ай бұрын

I was wondering this as well. I myself can hear the French in Breton without knowing a word of Breton.

@ksiistoyiiwa

2 ай бұрын

Here's a link to a clip where you can hear Celtic languages (including Breton) spoken mostly by older native speakers, with far less intrusive English or French influence: kzread.info/dash/bejne/imSs2MOuYtPVoaw.htmlsi=QFT2KrWt9UlquWzY - when the speakers are younger (as in the last half of the clip, you start to hear more of the "contact accent" you mentioned.

@wasnt.here.3853

2 ай бұрын

@@ksiistoyiiwa "Contact accent"! That's a great term I didn't know. Yes, that's the first clip I've seen where I can't find hardly any trace of French or French accent as a French speaker myself until maybe the slightest something with the last one at the very end but still the purest I've heard ever. Thank you for linking that video

@ksiistoyiiwa

2 ай бұрын

@@wasnt.here.3853 De rien - je suis d'accord pour ce qui concerne la dernière - je crois qu'elle a fini son discours en disant "quoi" - mais pour le reste, j'ai l'impression d'avoir entendu la langue irlandaise et la langue bretonne authentiques, sans influence significative de l'angais ou du français.

@wasnt.here.3853

2 ай бұрын

@@ksiistoyiiwa c'est exactement ça, le "quoi" à la fin que j'ai entendu

Of all the languages, this is one that I've been most interested in. Lately I've been learning Brazilian Portuguese as well as a bit of Ticuna and quechua as I'm planning on moving to the Amazon. BTW, I love that lullaby for the good hearted boy and sometimes sing it when I get my wooden flutes out to play.

You Are Fantastic: Could you Do the Cayuga Language and if You Need help I AM From The Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Northeast Oklahoma...

@ljosephdumas3113

3 ай бұрын

Any relatives still in the Salamanca, NY area? My 10XGreat Grandmother was Onondaga, so interested in your family's journey.

Thank you for learning languages. I am not good at it, but then again I don't work at it. It is tragic that in the name of "diversity" languages and cultures are lost. You are very beautiful Juli and I don't mind telling you that, and you are very smart, and talented and hard working. Very enjoyable.

@stefanhensel8611

3 ай бұрын

Not sure whether you could paint the genocide of American Natives as "diversity politics" or "woke" …

It's funny when she tells us to watch Killers of the Flower Moon. I absolutely agree!

Great video.

Thanks.

Apparently Lakota/Dakota is very efficient at expressing reality from the perspective of quantum mechanics.

@CosmicAli_TheObserver

2 ай бұрын

Interesting you said that! A lot of our beliefs are being proven through quantum mechanics! We even have a story that sounds like String Theory. Incredible!

very good video

Ao Krola. Toksha Ake. Two sentences I learnt in 1997 with a colleague who got knowledge in Lakota language after a trip in the US during the 90's. Thx for the information and for the good memories. I was told long ago the I in the word "Sioux" was silent in English??!

@CosmicAli_TheObserver

2 ай бұрын

It's pronounced like Sue. A'ho kola- hello friend, wasté! 😁

❤❤❤

You are amazing in being so well versed and knowledgeable in so many diverse languages. Being tone deaf and dyslexic, language and reading are very difficult for me. As a result, I admire anyone who can speak more than their own native language. In high school, I had 4 years of Latin and 2 years of french. I tried learning Mandarin but the 5 tones used in speaking made me afraid I would insult someone of I used the wrong tone. Because I am tone deaf, I have been banned from singing by the US Supreme Court as my singing is considered cruel and unusual punishment.

@irmafoster3933

2 ай бұрын

Latin is a very structured language, nominative genitive, ablative, etc., female, male, present, past, future tenses and so on. Do you remember "r, ris, tur, mur, mini, mintur.?" My point being, structure and word order are significant. Certainly tonality is also important, as in the question "Going to the store?" with rising tone on the last wprd. Here the "Are you" is implied in conversational English between two friends. The simple answer is "No." The same two friends understand the phrase becomes the answer to the question "Where ya headed?" Unfortunately, the language scholars make the written language overly difficult by putting funny-looking marks all over the place English speakers don't need a diacritical mark to signal a glottal stop for nothing the difference between "Johnny earned money" and " Johnny yearned for money."

In some cultures the snake represents knowledge and wisdom.

I hope Julie can do a series about bilingual education and how that can save endangered languages across the world. It is said that a language dies every two weeks.

Another dialects of Dakota: kzread.info/dash/bejne/mKFt2tuKpZnMY6g.html

Nice video!

WOW! It's quite complicated language. Greetings from the country of thathanka ;) Poland.

Le vidéo kiŋ yakaǧa čha philámayaye ❤. +++±+++++++ Thanks for making this video.❤

It is strange to see people doing videos on me, but here we are.😂 Let me correct in some things here.... We got the nickname "Snake" or Sioux because we are deadly even with our arms and legs cut off, wise and the closest to the Earth. Brutal opponents, the Original savages our warriors fight every fight to the death. My Chief was shot in the eye and lived to fight the rest of the battle. We are still Chiefs and Holly people in my family to this day. We are the only people EVER to take on the United States Government and WIN! Nakota was left out, it is still very important. Yamní. Lakota is not dying either, we have words for Covid, and any other modern thing that happens just like other languages. Lakota is my first language, a lot of us speak at least three languages. There are Seven Nations of Sioux and the Ojibwa have been our allies for a long time, like the Cheyenne actually. When the Medicine man had the vision of the Jiggle Dress, one of the three was sent to the Ogallala (Sioux). Similar to Europe, our different tribes are like the different countries. So when you call us"the Native Americans", that's the same as saying "the Europeans", or calling Asian people "Oriental". So it is important to call us by our Tribe and not to generalize us. We all have different beliefs, some tribes accept gays and call them two spirits, in my tribe people lose their lives for less. I would have to say, 79% of my culture is private. We decided to keep it that way so that we may continue to live. We are from the Old Ones, the Sacred First People and very rare. It's beautiful and an honor, we are blessed. A'Ho!!

Very informative video । Please make a vedio on the Bengali বাংলা language। It's my native language।

Hi Juli, can u make vocabularies video about Kra Dai Language with Ecun Buyang, Qabiao, Paha dialect.

Lakhota and Dakhota are among the most beautifully sounding languages.

There is another language besides Lakota and Dakota that is part of the linguistic grouping. And that is Nakota or Nakoda, the language of the Stoney or Assiniboine tribe, sometimes historic allies of the Lakota and Dakota--and sometimes enemies.

@CosmicAli_TheObserver

2 ай бұрын

That's right Sioux is 3 dialects.

Westworld season 2, episode 8 inspired me to try to learn Lakota. The entire episode is spoken nearly entirely in Lakota, subtitled in English.

I highly recommend Ruth Beebe Hill’s ‘Hanta Yo’ which roughly translates to ‘Here I Come.’ It’s worth a read. Ms.Hill worked along side a Siouan elder to recreate an accurate dialect.

Julie you’re pretty good at saying these Sioux words . Have you been studying it?

If Tolkien had known about this, Elven languages would be very different. I think this kind of complexity reflects a higher level of thinking.

Lakota/Dakota are arguably the farthest from SAE (Standard Average European) we can possibly get. True, you only scratched the surface of the grammar (the sound assimilation processes between the morphemes are maybe the hardest part), but nevertheless you managed to give a great overview of this fascinating language. I would really love to see this language thrive again. Of course it's a question of language politics. Are there Lakota-only elementary schools?

@FenceThis

2 ай бұрын

‘standard average european’ , what the heck is that supposed to be ?

@markuss7249

2 ай бұрын

@@FenceThis ...suppose, not Euskal... but this is obviously the oldest European language. And it is an isolated language.

Once I attended a "sweat lodge" conducted by a non-native speaker, using a script written without any diacritical marks or pronunciation guide. As a result, the leader was invoking "grandmother skunk" and "great fallen down [thing.] "😂

@CosmicAli_TheObserver

2 ай бұрын

Sounds like just a sauna, that's not how that works.😂😂😂 Thos comment section is funny.

Excellent video. Now do Ta’agra or Klingon next

What is your native tongue? You have an accent that I find difficult to pin down. Excellent work. I hit subscribe right away.

@magyarbondi

2 ай бұрын

Julie (Julija) has told us she is from Latvia, she lived in France, now lives in England.

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Pylamia/thanx. i/me we as seen kin in book. the Sioux of the Rosebud' photos of french mt man/army scout,delivries . My recorded old women stories for transcribe and text books, of some we have, Two semester of language at BHSC Spearfish in the 70s, ( mom taught me Lakota Oral Lit) later a phd in education/native studies curriculum for school districts. i have other lang book of friend sent. Glad to see you did us good... Thanx.