My parents come from Yucatan, so I grew up listening to them speak Yucatec Maya. Now that I'm older, I do feel very proud of being able to understand it.

@antonboludo8886

9 ай бұрын

Why would you be proud? You were just exposed to it as a child.

@koiue.g8709

6 ай бұрын

@@antonboludo8886 proud because few people noways can speak those languages

@antonboludo8886

6 ай бұрын

But he does not speak it, he merely understands it. At any rate these languages must absolutely be preserved. @@koiue.g8709

@Guatemaya1

5 ай бұрын

Guatemalan mayan js the real one yucatans are fake mayas/aztecs haha

@elyaqui5324

3 ай бұрын

Omg Yes thank Good you keep the language going and teaching your kids.. Oh... Wait? What? Guess you cant really teach anyone by understanding it now can we.

This language sharing reminds me of my own native language, Vietnamese. It's technically part of the Austroasiatic family, making it distantly related to Khmer, but superficially it looks far more similar to Chinese, an unrelated language. If I didn't know better, I would have just assumed Viet was part of the Sino-Tibetan language family. A 1,000 years of Chinese rule has caused Vietnamese to not only have a huge vocabulary of Chinese origin (something like 70% of Viet words are borrowed), but even the structure has been thoroughly sinicized. Vietnamese is monosyllabic and tonal. These are characteristics not seen Khmer, but is seen in the Han language. Just a random observation I thought was interesting. You should really look into it.

@rosagibson6570

7 жыл бұрын

> If I didn't know better, I would have just assumed Viet was part of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Fun fact: A lot of linguist used to think they where in the same family! The SE Sprachbund is known for having a lot of surface similarities, so much so that they were original considered as all in the same Language Family.

@zimriel

7 жыл бұрын

Same is true of the Armenians. They lived under various Iranian shahs so long (and an Arsacid king ruled them after 'independence' from Parthia) that their language became very Iranised. Linguists used to think it was a full-on Iranian language until recently, then they found that its oldest structure and words were more like Phrygian and Mycenaean Greek. And then, there's English, which keeps getting pulled toward French.

@xwtek3505

5 жыл бұрын

Actually, it is pretty common for an area to develop sprachbund. In Java island, languages there have multiple registers. Also, European languages are less close than you think. English is typologically more similar to French than Bengali or Hindi despite being both Indo-European.

@Mr.Nichan

4 жыл бұрын

@@xwtek3505 I think there are some places (mostly with tribal cultures) where languages have been together for so many thousands of years that completely look like the same language family, but it's not really possible to reconstruct any common ancestor, and all the evidence implies there isn't a recent one. The Great Andamamese and Ongan languages seem like a pretty crazy (though not very well attested, I think) example.These two language families have probably been in the same island chain (1 north and 1 south) since the stone age, and they share bizarre features like classifying nouns and adjectives with body-part-based prefixes. Apparently, some people think that the Pama-Nyungan language family (which includes most Australian languages) may actually not be a true language family, similar claims are made about Nilo-Saharan (though I'm not entirely sure how similar those languages actually are), and there's a general consensus that Ural-Altaic isn't a real language family. Languages of the Americas are weirder, because there are a lot of language families and isolates that are often similar to their neighbors without any well accepted connections to each-other, but it also makes genetic and archaeological sense for something like the Amerind hypothesis to be true, even though the Linguistic evidence is totally inadequate. I even remember hearing or reading the claim that Native American languages may be described with so many language families just because Americanist linguists are too pre-occupied with documenting dying languages to figure out how they're related. (Note: I think I'm talking a little more about South America than anything else.)

@Mr.Nichan

4 жыл бұрын

@@xwtek3505 "English is more typologically similar to French than to Bengali or Hindi, despite both being Indo-European." That sentence came out a little confusing. I just want to point out that all 4 of those languages are Indo-European. Hindi and Bengali have a close genealogical relation, while English and French only have a more distant relation. English and French are much more similar to each other than either is to Hindi or Bengali (which are similar to each other), in a way that is not explained by their ancestry, even of you think Germanic and Italic are in a branch separate from Indo-Iranian (maybe Centum vs Satem). That is (A) because there is a European Sprachbund that is (mostly) inside of the Indo-European language family, and (B) because English in particular was ruled by a French-speaking elite for a few centuries, and more interchanges and shared history have happened since then and happened before then. That is why English and French are more similar than Italian and German (I think, though Italian and German do share a lot of history). Similarly, Vietnamese is part of a SE Asian Sprachbund, that somewhat includes China, and maybe somewhat in a kind of general East Asian language area, but it was also more specifically ruled by China for a millenium, which sets it apart from other SE Asian languages. The difference is that both the SE Sprachbund and the Chinese influece on Vietnamese happen between languages that are even reconstructably related.

I am from the Yucatan Peninsula, damn your mayan pronunciation is good enough!

@illidril17

5 жыл бұрын

117th like

@solomonking5097

5 жыл бұрын

@@illidril17 120 now...

@hellknightf1

5 жыл бұрын

@@solomonking5097 139th Aaaand im from CDMX :D i could instantlly differentiate Aztec from Mayan mostly cuz Aztec words

@crackedemerald4930

4 жыл бұрын

I wish my placed cared as much about native languages

@alejandrocafe8238

4 жыл бұрын

Suficientemente bueno?

U tak'in - his money Are you messing with us?

@SouthMexUSA

7 жыл бұрын

nope. he's totally serious. that's the word for money

@wunderkind7841

7 жыл бұрын

You're basing the pronunciation from an English stand point so it's nothing more than a coincidence.

@SouthMexUSA

7 жыл бұрын

no English stand point. English has nothing to do with this. These are living languages with native speakers that inform us how these words are pronounced and how the grammar is structured.

@watch426

7 жыл бұрын

Read it like an English person would if he knew nothing about the language. It becomes "You takin' his money" with the right dialect.

@NativLang

7 жыл бұрын

Subliminal messaging. Watch your wallet. ;)

Wow. A video about classical Nahuatl, my favorite language of all time, comes out on my birthday. Thank you, Nativlang, for making this possible.

@Ottmar555

7 жыл бұрын

Cuix tinahuatlahtoa.

@Biblaridion

7 жыл бұрын

nitlahtoa achi, ece ahmo cualli

@NativLang

7 жыл бұрын

Happy birthday!!! You're the embodiment of who I made this video for.

@Ottmar555

7 жыл бұрын

Biblaridion Lang It's still nice to find someone who speaks a little nahuatl :)

@Biblaridion

7 жыл бұрын

Tlazohcomati! Keep up the awesome work.

more mesoamerica PLEASEEEE

@sion8

7 жыл бұрын

*+*

@BiaZarr

7 жыл бұрын

gxd000 +

@lennoxrox91

7 жыл бұрын

ERod Heras What do you recommend I read to learn Nahuatl.

@craig4461

6 жыл бұрын

yes please - Chol (original language of Mayan glyphs!) needs this kind of primer!!!

@Simp-aTheWhiteKnightLion

6 жыл бұрын

why not south american though?

I noticed "u tak'in" meant "his money". That's a funny coincidence!

@SergMuller

6 жыл бұрын

I thought it was a joke until it was repeated.

@xdjumpstart_yt4595

6 жыл бұрын

U taki'n his money

@vanillaicecream9026

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@ErenYeager-os5lv

3 жыл бұрын

I Noticed that u is his and tak’in is token

@PC_Simo

3 жыл бұрын

So is the ”centzontli” for 20^2 (400), which is the Aztec equivalent for 100; and ”cent”, of course, is 10^2 (100) in Latin and many Romance languages. Might have been one of the easier words for the Spanish Conquistadors to grasp. 😎

Learned more in 10 minutes than I would have reading a whole book probably haha. You're a great teacher :)

@NativLang

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@src175

6 жыл бұрын

Calvin Krause That's unfair, cause you're probably in high school, and this kind of stuff is advanced and specialized as hell, and not stuff you'd learn in high school. No offense man.

@namingisdifficult408

6 жыл бұрын

Sir. Robert Walpole hello sir

@cristiamjulianayalapena8614

5 жыл бұрын

That is what the best language masters do...what they always do.

@dortyouthink

5 жыл бұрын

I agree

I live in northern Chiapas, México and speak Lacandón Maya. Not far away in Tabasco is the Chontal speaking area, but in twenty years I have never heard that language spoken. I understand that it is almost extinct, with only elders in places like Nacajuca still knowing it.

@NativLang

7 жыл бұрын

Some say there's been a rebound, with younger speakers picking up the language, but I have only read basic reports. Linguists claim that it fares better than Lacandón. Do you find it easy to have conversations, or are even native speakers reluctant to use your language? Thank you for sharing your experience.

@SouthMexUSA

7 жыл бұрын

I find it very easy to have conversations. The Lacandón only number less than a thousand people, so it's not every day I get to practice, but even the younger people still use the language. I particularly like talking with elder people that don't speak Spanish. I have no recourse when communication becomes difficult, and I must struggle with Maya to get the point across. With the youngest I correspond with on Facebook, but I am often the one writing in Maya with them responding in Spanish, because they simply never learned to write in their mother tongue. Their attempts at writing are often very hard for me to read.

@Ottmar555

7 жыл бұрын

¿No hay grupos interesados en la preservación del lacandón? Al menos para el nahuatl está el grupo Totlahtul Yultok en la capital. Sería interesante hacer algo parecido con el lacandón. Se estima que cada 2 semanas muere una lengua. Es nuestro deber como partícipes de su habla el evitar su pérdida. La ventaja que tiene el nahuatl es que ha sido ampliamente registrado, sobre todo el clásico. Creo que debe ser más difícil con esa lengua mayense, pero sería una tarea muy importante.

@Ottmar555

7 жыл бұрын

Ese es el problema, Amelia. Creer que el gobierno tiene que o pensar que está remotamente interesado en resolvernos la vida. Es sobre todo conflictivo en un país tan culturalmente diverso como el nuestro. Si nosotros no nos hacemos responsables de la conservación de nuestra cultura, nadie lo hará. El gobierno emana y es producto del pueblo que representa. Nosotros decidimos qué tanto control darle y qué tareas debe cumplir.

@SouthMexUSA

7 жыл бұрын

precisamente lo que yo siempre he dicho. el gobierno no va a hacer nada , al contrario va a hechar a perder todo en lo que se mete. una vez le dije a un lacandón que debemos organizar intercambios culturales y me contestó - 'no se si el gobierno va a dar proyecto de intercambio cultural'. que frustrante es cuando tanta gente depende del gobierno para resolver todo creí que habia contestado tu primer comentario, pero ahora no aparece

Amazing video, I'm an historian in Mexico and you bet I'm gonna make my students to watch this. Languaje is a living part of our history. Thanks a lo

@NativLang

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and for passing on the knowledge!

I knew my wikipedia accident a week ago, where I ended up studying ergative languages at 3 in the morning instead of preparing for class, was worth it! :D

@NativLang

7 жыл бұрын

Haha, your diligent distraction paid off!!

@clumbus894

3 жыл бұрын

This sounds too much like me.

Fun Fact: Yucatec Maya is actually one of three Mayan languages that is tonal. So you have Míis and Miis meaning "cat" and "to sweep." I have only studied Yucatec Maya, so I don't know about the other languages, but YM uses classifiers like a lot of Asian languages.

@ramazanyalcn3660

7 ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/oYFhzpVqaMrUcps.html Aztec, Mayan, Inca and other Native American languages belong to the Proto-Turkic language family. The languages of the Scythians, Etruscans and Sumerians also belong to the Proto-Turkic language family: Scythians, Etruscans and Sumerians transferred their culture and language to the regions they lived in. It is stated that there are many words in Aztec, Mayan, Inca and other Native American languages that are believed to belong to Latin (Italian), Irish, Welsh, Scottish, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Tamil, Sanskrit and Ancient languages. Egyptian Languages. But these words are not Latin, Italian, Hebrew or Persian. These words are Proto-Turkish words. I'll give you just one example. The word (it.cocol+ette - tr.kukul / kuleta) is a Proto-Turkish word. ((Maya language: kukulkan -.Kuku-k'u'uk'um-k'uuk'ul) This word was also used in Central Asia and the Native American language. Famous researcher Augustus Le Plongeon explained in his book "The Origin of the Egyptians" that 150 words in the Mayan language and the ancient Egyptian language are similar. It is necessary to work and think with scientific methods. A stone thrown from above does not rise to the sky. He falls to the ground. Comments are made without analytical thinking. The intersection point of all scientific studies is the fact that the Etruscans were Proto-Turks. Everyone writes their thoughts. Some stubbornly claim that the Etruscans were of Indian or Persian origin. The tamgas and letters in the historical inscriptions found in Spain, Portugal, France/Glozel region and the historical inscriptions of the Etruscans in the middle of Europe belong to the Central Asian Turkish civilization. European researchers could not read these historical inscriptions. The first person to read these inscriptions and prove that these inscriptions were Proto-Turkish was the legendary Turcologist Kazım Mirşan. The oldest language in the world is Proto-Turkish. Latin, Russian and Greek alphabets are derived from the Etruscan alphabet. The historical inscriptions found in France/Glozel are at least 35 thousand years old. Turkologist Kazım Mirşan stated that it would take at least 10 - 15 thousand years for these writings to come from Asia to Europe. The history of Proto-Turkish and the Proto-Turkic language family dates back at least 50 thousand years. Aztec, Mayan, Inca and Ancient Egyptian, Scythian, Etruscan and Sumerian languages are Proto-Turkish. It is not surprising that thousands of words are common. Thousands of words used by American Indians are also used by European and Asian Turks today. While Arabs write to Turks with the letters Türk (TRK) in the singular, they write and speak with the letters eTRaK in the plural. TRaK = TRaKya (Thrace) eTRaK = eTRusK As a result, TURKISH TuaReK = blue people in North Africa The color blue is sacred for Central Asian Turks. ToRK = Power :) The Turks gave this name to the archipelago located between Asia and America and known as the "Aleutian Islands". It is "Alauç" in Proto Turkish, and when divided into "Ala-Uç" it means "White tip". Because although the word "al" means "red" color in today's Turkish, it means "white" in proto-Turkish. Snowy fields and white hills were called "al", then the concept of "height" came to the fore and the color of the flag was changed to (Red). In fact, "alba" means to stand high in Latin. Calling Albanians "Albanians" and Albanians "Albanians" comes from this Proto-Turkic root word. The facts are hidden by creating a fake Uto-Aztec language group. The oldest language in the world is Proto Turkish. In Aztec-Maya-Inca languages, words used by every nation are very common. They are very surprised when they find these words. Like Jews and Europeans. Because Turks came to Europe, the Middle East and Africa thousands of years ago, and the words they used were adopted by the nations around them. Native American languages belong to the proto-Turkic language group. It is normal for these words to be almost the same. When we look back to the similarity of words in the Jewish language and words in Native American languages, the Sumerian civilization emerges. Sumerian and Native American languages belong to the proto-Turkic language group. The Jewish language appears to have been greatly influenced by the Sumerian language. But they are not aware of this. Where does the word Mother (Mom, Ma, Mama...) come from? Mai, Humay or Umai (Proto-Turkish) is the daughter of the sky god and the owner of the tree of life. In Turkish mythology and Tengrism, she is the goddess of fertility and therefore relates to women, mothers and children. Umay (Omay, Umai, İmay, Ubay, Humay) symbolizes birth and fertility in Turkish Mythology and is also known for protecting children. Umay, depicted with three horns and a white dress, symbolizes a middle-aged goddess with silver hair reaching to the floor.

I adore you so much. At times I have no idea what you're talking about, because I'm not as hard core fan f languages as you are, but the work gone into these videos... Amazing!

The pronunciation of "Sprachbund" was on point man!

@NativLang

7 жыл бұрын

Danke!

@christiandinkel8481

7 жыл бұрын

***** De nada ;-)

@margueritedepompadour7031

4 жыл бұрын

Auf den Kommentar hab ich gewartet

4:45 "u tak'in his money". I am not taking his money, sir!

@hellknightf1

5 жыл бұрын

lmao

@vanillaicecream9026

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@simonlow0210

4 жыл бұрын

Magilou, taking other people's money is bad.

I work as a landscaper on Long Island, NY and have worked with a number or Guatemalan immigrants and have picked up a few Kaqchikel words from them. Utz - good saqesh - good morning

@sion8

7 жыл бұрын

*+*

@nakyer

7 жыл бұрын

+*Christiaan Overgaard* You will be devoured by a mad horde of artificial pengins.

@rzeka

7 жыл бұрын

+Christiaan Overgaard Utz is honestly the worst brand of chips I've ever tried, I have no idea how they're still in business

@red88alert

6 жыл бұрын

Similar to Kiche. Wachalal is brother and sakiriq is good morning.

@DrKnow1tAll

4 жыл бұрын

Christiaan Overgaard Taí kanchirí

Nahuatl extends to Nicaragua. 1) It is a part of local culture mentioned with pride amongst the people. 2) Note the number of cities with the suffix "-tepe" which is very similar to the multitude of southern Mexican cities with the suffix "-tepec". I lived in Nicaragua for several years and came across this after traveling repeatedly to southern Mexico.

@habitualforeigner

3 жыл бұрын

Shortly before conquest, Aztec hegemony spread along the Pacific coast as far as (I think) to Costa Rica, so Nahua became a lingua franca between Aztec traders and speakers of local languages. Then, as the Spaniards and their Nahua speaking allies moved south, they assigned Nahua- or Spanish-based names to the communities they assimilated. In Guatemala especially, many places to this day have two names: one is Mayan and the other is either Spanish or Nahua. The best known example is Quetzaltenango, which is known to Spanish speaking locals (and most of the country, in fact) as Xelajú, or Xela for short (the Mayan pronunciation in at least one local variant is slightly different: Txeljub').

@beslanintruder2077

2 жыл бұрын

There's a few nahuatl words still left in both Nicaragua and Costa Rica, eg, Xolotlan, Ometepe, Guanacaste, etc.

@thegoodfight4874

2 жыл бұрын

@@habitualforeigner I actually just learned about that exact example when I went to Xela last month. However, something of note is that locals refer to it as an act of the ladinos, but they are the only country to separate people who are mixed between Spanish and native as a separate racial class to this day, and there is evidence of the Nahuatl coming through Guatemala well before the arrival of the Spanish as noted in Tikal. The tallest temple is dedicated to a ruler who came from Central Mexico. Furthermore, Nicaraguans to this day proclaim Nahuatl roots.

@habitualforeigner

2 жыл бұрын

@@thegoodfight4874 The ladino label dates to pre-conquest Spain. Jews and Muslims who adopted Spanish ways were called ladinos. In fact, Ladino today refers to the Spanish based creole language of Sephardic Jews, and is very similar to Golden Age Spanish. During the Reconquista in Spain, a well developed system of re-occupation was set up to re-integrate formerly Moorish cities. This included policies like dictating clothing styles to identify one's ethnicity and home town (yes, the beautiful traditional clothes in Guatemala have their roots in oppression). Spain was so successful in the Americas because their institutions for occupation had already been working in Iberia for generations.

@trinityrose3336

Жыл бұрын

Any one here would be willing to listen to some audio of me speaking and try to help me decipher what exactly I may be speaking in tounge. I have been praying and searching for years and I was led here and I’m hoping to get some more clarity and solid answers ! Please let me know , blessings

It is a shame that Mexicans themselves discriminate against these languages

@Unberable

7 жыл бұрын

We do?

@Unberable

7 жыл бұрын

Well, yes with nahuatl

@SirRichard94

7 жыл бұрын

not really, some idiots like to bash indigenous 'people' not languages. But that's just because they are idiots.

@DaddySizeIt

7 жыл бұрын

Just a cultural thing, uniting the country under one dominant language I guess. Nothing new there. But as a guy born and raised in the furthest northern US state you could find and being white- I've looked into learning 1 indigenous language to pair with my English. Probably Quechua though, being the most popular one. I wouldn't mind improving my Spanish though either. Languages are hard. :/

@dunnowy123

7 жыл бұрын

Language is linked with power. After centuries of Mayan and Aztec speaking peoples being the bottom of the social ladder, it gets a stigma of lowliness.

Tbh both these languages are actually beautifully simple. The way words are built is just brilliant

I am so glad that you make this video, people that is not from latin america usually confuses aztecs with mayans, so thank you!

Hey! So I come from a region in Australia where the local indigenous language (Yagara/Turrubul) is extinct. I've been trying to learn a bit from scant treatises about it. Have you ever thought about doing a video on Pama-Ngungun languages?

@NativLang

7 жыл бұрын

Australia! Why is it that you're left out of popular language discussions, yet linguists love to bring up your languages?

@ErosAnteros

7 жыл бұрын

It's because we're intimidating! 270 distinct peoples, 320 distinct languages; almost all of them extinct or critically endangered, almost 60 000 years of linguistic entropy making genetics near impossible and the most diverse syntax of any language area in the world... It's terrifying to me, too. lol I've been campaigning to have local languages taught in schools here to revive them, but it's a nightmare for language learners and teachers.

@savagealizugel5430

7 жыл бұрын

Nic Forster Good to see people fighting to retain indigenous languages. Cheers

@Yayaben_II

2 жыл бұрын

@@ErosAnteros Keep it up but it is sad to see many languages being lost or rarely spoken in favour of english or just dying out because the last elder died or something along the lines of that. I do hope future generations and more outsiders come to study these languages but there are so many as you have pointed out...

@12-343

2 жыл бұрын

@@Yayaben_II Or, at the very least, write a dictionary. Even if they fall out of practical use, languages are still fun to read about in their own right.

Fascinating. And I can pronounce tl because I speak Welsh (the only European language with that sound) and I knew what ergative is, because Basque has it - the only European (but not Indo-European) language... Otherwise, totally lost :-)

@NativLang

7 жыл бұрын

Wow, so you had unexpectedly prepared yourself for this moment just with European languages! Since I think Welsh has VSO word order, I'd say you're set, haha.

@athb4hu

7 жыл бұрын

Welsh has VSO, as you say.

@qwertytypewriter2013

7 жыл бұрын

tl is exactly like the Spanish tl xD or at least Mexican Spanish tl

@DimmVargr

7 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure there is no TL in Welsh...

@athb4hu

7 жыл бұрын

Actually there is, the word for pretty is tlws, and poor is tlawd, but it is not all that common and it is pronounced t + l and not as the lateral fricative described above. The voiceless sound is spelled ll and it is very common, in a lot of place names for instance, like Llandudno and many others starting with Llan...

Sprachbund? The linguists use a german word for that? Interesting. And by the way: I never heard an English speaker pronounce a german word that well. Really interesting video, I haven't known that much about this two (and all the other) american languages before.

@NoahSteckley

7 жыл бұрын

I noticed that! I think he might have meant that they use the term "Language area" in common use. He pronounces things so well because he reads them in the IPA =))

@sion8

7 жыл бұрын

Viturin Catschegn​ Oh yeah, the study of languages is very intertwined with German terminology such as _Urheimat_ used for the hypothetical homeland of speakers of linguistic families like the Uralic language family named for the Ural mountains which is believed to be where the ancestors of modern speakers of those languages started migrating from, among other such terms that are also in German that I cannot think of at the moment.

@brodaclop

7 жыл бұрын

Although it's a popular pastime to laugh at German for its verbosity, actually quite a few complex concepts have very terse names in German, which is probably why English borrowed them: Zugzwang, Shadenfreude, Weltschmerz, Ersatz, Angst or Hinterland. Then there are those that were invented by German-speaking people and thus the name spread with the concept, like Gestalt, Zeppelin or Bildungsroman.

@valentinmitterbauer4196

7 жыл бұрын

It reminds me to my little cousin from Austria: "What does "Dackel" mean in english?" "I don't know shorty, look it up." (Later) "I think my dictionary's broken." "Why?" "It keeps telling me, that a 'Dackel' is a bagder-dog..."

@ruanpingshan

7 жыл бұрын

I've come across both German and Sanskrit words in linguistics. German example: Urheimat (the hypothesized homeland of a language family) Sanskrit example: Sandhi (a rule which makes the pronunciation of words change when they are combined to form a larger word)

Great video. I´m zapotec and I´m learning the language of my grand parents, diidxazá or zapotec language. I find interesting that the grammar of maya is quite similar with zapotec´s grammar, VSO, even though maya and zapotec are diferent languages that come from diferent language families. Sicarú cheu! = Good bye (in zapotec).

@cristianariel7053

6 жыл бұрын

Nice to hear that man! I am trying to learn Mixteco, the language of my ancestors.

@zmnicvander

2 жыл бұрын

I'm Canadian and Mexican, and my parents named me with a Zapotec word. Oddly enough, everyone in Mexico has issues pronouncing it properly, while in Canada everyone gets it right the first time. I always get asked if it's like from India.

Could you talk about the Incan language Quechua?

@harrymcnicholas9468

5 жыл бұрын

The Quechua traded with the Purepecha people of Michoacán state Mexico There are many Quechua words in the Purepecha language. It is neither a Ute Aztec language or Mayan.

@trinityrose3336

Жыл бұрын

Any one here would be willing to listen to some audio of me speaking and try to help me decipher what exactly I may be speaking in tounge. I have been praying and searching for years and I was led here and I’m hoping to get some more clarity and solid answers ! Please let me know , blessings

this is sooo beautiful! ♡ as half salvadoran half guatemalan this makes me so happy ♡♡♡♡♡ que belleza! ♡♡

This is awesome. This is the first time I've ever seen a grammar taster-session like this, and I absolutely adored it. Could you do this again sometime? I like your usual stuff but this more in-depth stuff is so much fun too!

I can't resist from watching your videos! They are just awesome! Keep up the awesome work! (We all know you work hard to make these videos, you really do deserve something in return for these linguistic videos!)

I am mayan. My family speak zeltal. I am proud of my roots. Most of my family are ashamed.

So, I just discovered your channel but I'm two years late. I'm from Argentina and so I'm quite far away from Mexico and Mesoamerican culture but I immensely appreciate the effort put into this piece of work. As a Latin American, it's always great to for me to see people dra attention to pre-Colombian languages and cultures. Thank you so much!

I love languages and how they've evolved through time and your channel is amazing! I found the channel I've been looking for, thank you!

This is incredibly information-dense but as great and headily entertaining as always. Keep up the good work!

My great grandparents grew up speaking Nahuatl from Puebla and I've always been interested in it. Now I'm trying to learn ki'che'. I'd also love to learn some Nahuatl or Mixteco. This video I great. Thanks for all the explanations

As a linguist and typologist I can tell you that ergativity is super common in the languages of the world, exceedingly so in the Americas. I like to think of it as languages coding how (physically) implicated the subject is in the action, like 'throwing a ball' vs. 'breathing'. In languages with ergativity, someone doing an action like 'breathing' may be conceptualized as almost the object of that action, since they have so little control over it. Thanks for the video!

@trinityrose3336

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Any one here would be willing to listen to some audio of me speaking and try to help me decipher what exactly I may be speaking in tounge. I have been praying and searching for years and I was led here and I’m hoping to get some more clarity and solid answers ! Please let me know , blessings

Great video Nativlang! Please continue to make videos like these

Man, its one of the best explanations I ever watched about it. I confess, I have to watch it a second and maybe a third time, to fully understand everthing you tell us, but it helps a lot to understand the way this old languages worked. Keep doing your good work!!!

Your videos are amazing! Just keep it up! Greetings from Brazil! 😊

Your mention of ergativity gave me scarred flashbacks to Language typology class. I was SO relieved when I FINALLY got (sort of) a hang of it, but my Genitive-Accusative mind could not get my mind around it for quite some time. Super cool video btw! I know too little about American (the continent) languages in general

Josh's (and anyone else at Nativlang's) videos have been on point lately. I subbed back in the day of his old Romance grammar series and never expected his channel to blow up like it has. A year or two ago I thought the channel wasn't going anywhere. But now its my favourite thing to see in my sub box.

This was awesome! I'd love to see some more videos about grammars of different languages!

As a german native soeaker it makes me irrationally happy to hear you pronounce Sprchbund so perfectly

@uchihasasuke3973

7 жыл бұрын

Frieda Theiling. Halo!

Your pronunciation of "Sprachbund" at 9:06 was flawless. Even the harsh German "r" and the "ch" were indistinguishable from native speakers, kudos!

@NativLang

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for noticing! That'll give me a bit more confidence in my broken German.

Thank you so much for making a video on náhuatl and maya. Been looking forward to this.

What a great idea for a KZread channel! Informative and very interesting! Keep em coming!

Loved the video! I've been intrigued by the Nahuatl language since I was in grade school - beginning with my interest in the Aztec calendar (born on the not-so-auspicious day yei miquiztli). Thanks for posting it!

This was really cool :)! Thank you! Great to know about these languages and cultures. It was so cool when I found out some years ago that the Aztec language is still being spoken. I knew Mayan was still alive. If you get some time and are interested, you could always do a video about Salish languages ;)?! Halqo'meylam, Squamish :) or the Wakashan languages. Or Haida .... something in BC :)

Great video man, thank you for putting out such great information, I hope you do more on Maya in the future. keep up the great work.

incredible service. Thank you for posting this up.

Amazing. It's rare to see pre-columbian languages be done this much justice; I think I'll be watching this video again quite a few times in the future because of the density of information. If you don't mind me asking, how do you do all the reasearch? Just like with the Tibetan video, I don't usually find many resources for some of the languages you cover. Thank you as always!

@faithwright7958

3 жыл бұрын

I don’t know how he does it either. But in the bottom of the description of this video, there is a link to a Google Doc that has all his sources listed.

@trinityrose3336

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Any one here would be willing to listen to some audio of me speaking and try to help me decipher what exactly I may be speaking in tounge. I have been praying and searching for years and I was led here and I’m hoping to get some more clarity and solid answers ! Please let me know , blessings

Um, thanks for making me dust off that part of my brain I haven't been exercising since college. I need to create a few 'new' ancient languages for a series of books I am writing and I'm feeling more inspired now.

Native-Lang you're awesome! Thanks for the great videos! Language really amazes me keep up the good work!

Yet another time I am amazed how you can grab my attention. Every time I watch your videos I focus so much... Your narration is so different, kind of poetic. Keep it up, I love your stuff :)

Love your videos. I got 100% on the second "Aztec or Myan" quiz but only because I memorized how the transcriptions using Roman letters with European accents attached to them. This made me wonder how you go about learning a new language? I always begin with the script first, then I I start with vocabulary, then grammar. I dislike using Roman alphabets for languages that don't traditionally use them because I feel like it leaves too much of a margin for error. Ps, added after first comment: your animated avatars are adorable! Really like the added visual effort.

This is amazing! I've just been reading about Sprachbünde and how they influence languages like my own native language (Romanian). It's amazing how there are a few features of the Mesoamerican Sprachbund that randomly resemble those in my first language (VSO, body parts as prepositions, etc). Any recommendation about the best place to learn more about modern Aztec and Mayan languages? :)

I really love this so much! Thanks so much for your dedication, it fuels learning beyond belief! I always heard the term ergative but never really understood what it meant. Thank you!

Love you guys, thank you for this precious video!

Really cool video, I'd love if you did more like it. If we're clearing up misconceptions, can you talk about languages that "don't have tenses" like Hopi?

@NativLang

7 жыл бұрын

I should open back up the whole linguistic determinism thing, eh?

I love mesoamerican languages, and I'm also very interested in pre-columbian mesoamerican history. It would be great if you would make more videos about this! I'm also wondering if you could make a video about the difference in the pronounciation of classical Latin and vulgar Latin. Love your videos! Sorry if my grammar is a bit awkward, as English is my third language. :(

THIS is the kind of videos I absolutely love! Wonderful!

Great videos. I'm preparing for a college exam about pre-hispanic and colonial americas and the last video really refreshed my memory about the conquest. Usually the military narrative is the one who takes the spotlight but it's nice to see important viewpoints like language (especially in the aztec case) getting some attention. This one was completly new for me so it was really interesting!

Hey man how are you, could you recommend me the best books to your knowledge to learn these languages? You're great really it's great the way you explain everything, I'm Mexican and I want to learn both languages because it's sad that they are spoken by so few people.

All Poles burst into laughter in 3:28. ;)

@alexkaydalov7591

4 жыл бұрын

Polska >:(

@tdoge

4 жыл бұрын

Pls explain

@KateeAngel

4 жыл бұрын

Hahah H'uj? Хуй?

@hypnoskales7069

3 жыл бұрын

@@tdoge "chuj" means "dick" in Polish

Great episode! I must admit I didn't really like most of your previous videos because they weren't very informative. But this one is really fantastic :) So much about how these languages work. Please do more such analyses!

This channel is amazing. I'm glad I subscribed.

I'm sure this will be helpful if I ever do a shadowrun down in Aztlán. Thanks chummer.

@Xx_BoogieBomber_xX

7 жыл бұрын

Shadowrun the RPG?

Great video ! you should do one about how to create a language.

@NathanTAK

7 жыл бұрын

Dammit, Andrew. Now I'm sad we have human rights. Again.

@DimmVargr

7 жыл бұрын

One cannot make such a video. You see, when you create a language, you have literally endless possibilities. Of course in most cases people don't really care about them and that's why we are flooded by crappy pseudo-indoeuropean pseudo-languages, but wouldn't you like to make something of higher quality? Something more original, perhaps?

@keegster7167

6 жыл бұрын

+Dimm Vargr. Yes. It's an entire art form that no one is ever able to master, but it can still be summarised and given a new perspective.

This video was great. Please do more in-depth grammar videos like this.

Thank you for a very informative video! I didn't realize Nahuatl and Maya formed a sprachbund. Great to hear from someone else who likes exploring the many languages of Mexico like I've been doing to find words for my recent Native Poinsettia and other calligram design. Keep up the great work!

Very interesting languages! It's a bit hard to follow which language you are talking about at a time because it's all so intertwined >.

@NativLang

7 жыл бұрын

Ah, I tried to separate them out in my speech, but maybe it would help to have a visual label onscreen more often to avoid confusion.

Great video! The part about Sprachbund's structural influence reminds me of a "common wisdom" about salvadoran spanish. In El Salvador it's common to use a structure that is "incorrect" in standard Castilian, namely to combine an indefinite article and a possessive pronoun: "el traía una su camisita tan fea...", "aquel era un su amigo que no me caía bien'. The common wisdom is that this grammatical structure comes from Nawat (Pipil, right next to classical Nahuatl in the language tree in your video). Do you know if this holds any truth? Does this also count in the same way as the Sprachbund (if you go by the literal German meaning of that word, it would not sound as it does)?

So glad I found you! Thank you!

Thank you for doing these videos. They're interesting

Awesome video! Could you do one comparing different number notations (i.e. how numbers are written) in different languages?

@willowm3055

7 жыл бұрын

Eliran Sobel I like that idea!

@turduckenwrath6110

7 жыл бұрын

Eliran Sobel that's a fascinating subject! I read a study on how language related to numbering impacts the mastery of mathematics skills. so cool and explains why I hated taking math in French lol.

@1998tkhri

7 жыл бұрын

Oliver The Chinchilla Do you still have access to the study / know where I could find it? It sounds fascinating

Would love to hear more about this concept of sprachbund and how it functions in other times and places. To be perfectly honest, the whole concept of pidgins, creoles and patois fascinates me.

@JoelFeila

7 жыл бұрын

well a few other examples of spauchbound is the south east aisa area. the area of Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, ect they once all 3 tones in their language and around the same time they split each tone into two tones each. at the same time they had some sound changes xidnaf talks about it a little bit in his tai video.

@trinityrose3336

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Any one here would be willing to listen to some audio of me speaking and try to help me decipher what exactly I may be speaking in tounge. I have been praying and searching for years and I was led here and I’m hoping to get some more clarity and solid answers ! Please let me know , blessings

Awesome intro into the language families! I've been wanting to learn Pipil for a while now and this video will certainly be referenced in the future haha

thank you for this great video.. gracias NativLang...

And here I thought you were making a joke with "u tak'in his money." That lack of a clear delineator had me rolling.

Can I just say thank you for bringing my roots back 😊👍

I can follow the complicated stuff mate, keep up the great content

Awesome channel. I loved the way you got us into locatives.

nice video, here in Colombia happened something similar with precolombian languages, however some of them exist yet and are spoken by some people.

@sejalvshah

7 жыл бұрын

Der König Well, many forms of Maya are still spoken by Ethnic Maya in Mexico and Guatemala...

@Lily-S117

7 жыл бұрын

Sejal Shah And over here on Yucatán

Great vid! I'd love it if you could do more of these kinds of videos comparing the grammars of interesting regions of the globe. Maybe one on Native American languages? (confined to a small region of course)

@dmunozg

7 жыл бұрын

This video was about native American languages... ;-)

@bruciex4574

7 жыл бұрын

Daniel Muñoz I like that you're being accurate but maybe the next time tell him the correct way to say it so he won't make the same mistake next time

@bruciex4574

7 жыл бұрын

Pinko You mean native northern American love

@The_Bearded_Lady

6 жыл бұрын

Technically, Nahuatl is also a North American language as Aztec* folks extend all the way up there and have a lot of language borrowing and blending with many North American Nations & Tribes as well. But when folks talk about North American Indians & Languages they are mostly excluding many Aztec folks in what is now called the United States. *And there are many Nahuatl dialects as we've seen some of here

Yay! I finally found a video that talks about Nahuatl! Thanks a lot! :D

Amazing video, thank you for your good work, your videos are very entertaining and educational. It is quite fun to learn something about languages outside of German/English/Roman :)

Loved this video! Would you make one about South American native languages as well? I've been studying Nheengatu in my free time, and I wonder if it has any similarities with Guarani or other native languages.

@aaronmarks9366

7 жыл бұрын

Matheus Torres I believe Nheengatu is a Tupian language, so same family as Guaraní :)

@jackdanila9893

3 жыл бұрын

I live in South America and I didn't know these languages existed, how did you manage to know them and even learn them?

As a Maya person,I can say your pronunciation is pretty damn good.

@trinityrose3336

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Any one here would be willing to listen to some audio of me speaking and try to help me decipher what exactly I may be speaking in tounge. I have been praying and searching for years and I was led here and I’m hoping to get some more clarity and solid answers ! Please let me know , blessings

Thank you for this video, so helpful!

You are a genius! I love these videos!!

OMFG 🤯 this is unbelievably awesome ‼️ Growing up I hated “Natural History!” The books were dry and boring and no pictures! Now I’m so into learning Pipil, Nahua, Lenca, Maya & Aztec etc etc!

@trinityrose3336

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Any one here would be willing to listen to some audio of me speaking and try to help me decipher what exactly I may be speaking in tounge. I have been praying and searching for years and I was led here and I’m hoping to get some more clarity and solid answers ! Please let me know , blessings

4:44 "u takin his money"

So extremely cool! Thank you for the language treat!

Humorous and brilliant exposition! Thanks!

Hey, man! This is amazing! How do you know all of that? Are you an _investigador_? :)

@Slashplite

7 жыл бұрын

oh boy

@jslice6137

7 жыл бұрын

Linguistic.

@userclar-Bb7

7 жыл бұрын

Estupendo.

@SimonRiley135

6 жыл бұрын

Spanish language tho

I got so excited when i saw my name or say a variation of my name in the vid.

@manueljaramillo1313

5 жыл бұрын

Your name is Moon... I wanted to name my son that. But I named him Lazarus instead.

Holy shit that ch'uj sound at 03:30 is exactly a Georgian ჭ. You're the first foreigner I've heard not simply understanding the difference between ch and ჭ, but managing to pronounce it correctly. Well done!

Cool. Some distinct differences but overall structured similarly. Very fascinating stuff to look into

It's so sad that these languages no longer have the status they once had..

@Ottmar555

7 жыл бұрын

You can still learn them. There are certain towns in Mexico where a very similar dialect of nahuatl is still spoken.

@Ottmar555

7 жыл бұрын

Becausa a language usually is inseparable from its culture. Before you can truly learn a language, or to be proficient at it, you must learn how to use it, what social context it has. An english speaking young probably won't call an elderly person by their first name "Hey there George!". It might be considered disrespecful. There are certain aspects of language that simply cannot be translated, or are really hard to. A language gives identity to its people. So it is natural that they will defend it. Let me share with you a nahuan poem, written by a very thoughtful person: Miguel León Portilla First in english, and then in nahuatl: When a language dies the divine things, stars, sun and moon; the human things, to think, to feel, are no longer reflected in that mirror. When a language dies everything the world has, seas and rivers, animals and plants, are no longer thought, are no longer said with glimpses and sounds that are no more. When a language dies thus are closed to all the people of the world a window, a door, a peek of a different way to every being and to every living thing. When a language dies, its loving words, sounds of pain and want, those olden songs, stories, speeches, pleas, no one, whomever they may be, will be able to repeat. When a language dies, there are many that are already dead and many are in danger of dying. Mirrors forever broken, shadow of voices forever silenced: humanity becomes less. --------------------------------------------- Ihcuac tlahtolli ye miqui mochi in teoyotl, cicitlaltin, tonatiuh ihuan metztli; mochi in tlacayotl, neyolnonotzaliztli ihuan huelicamatiliztli, ayocmo neci inon tezcapan. Ihcuac tlahtolli ye miqui, mochi tlamantli in cemanahuac, teoatl, atoyatl, yolcame, cuauhtin ihuan xihuitl ayocmo nemililoh, ayocmo tenehualoh, tlachializtica ihuan caquiliztica ayocmo nemih. Inhuac tlahtolli ye miqui, cemihcac motzacuah nohuian altepepan in tlanexillotl, in quixohuayan. In ye tlamahuizolo occetica in mochi mani ihuan yoli in tlalticpac. Ihcuac tlahtolli ye miqui, itlazohticatlahtol, imehualizeltemiliztli ihuan tetlazotlaliztli, ahzo huehueh cuicatl, ahnozo tlahtolli, tlatlauhtiliztli, amaca, in yuh ocatcah, hueliz occepa quintenquixtiz. Ihcuac tlahtolli ye miqui, occequintin ye omiqueh ihuan miec huel miquizqueh. Tezcatl maniz puztecqui, netzatzililiztli icehuallo cemihcac necahualoh: totlacayo motolinia.

@iluan_

7 жыл бұрын

Depends on the region. People in the south are begging to take the preservation of their native languages more seriously.

@zimriel

7 жыл бұрын

If more Chorti, Chol, and Chontal speakers *knew* their language was classical Maya, maybe more would be proud of it...

@robroux6074

5 жыл бұрын

Obrador is actually talking about not only fully preserving the langauges but about funding the expansion of these languages as Second languages in Mexico, as bi-lingual students(mayan/mixtec,zapotec and spanish) students in Mexico get way more better grades than uni lingual students.

Re possession: In Austrian dialects of German it's very common to say "the woman her house". Interesting to see a similar construction halfway across the planet.

This is so interesting thank you for sharing

I personally loved the in depth analysis of the grammar! I would not mind some more of the same!