It's not that the Aztec had no books , the Spanish destroyed them all . Of the thousands only 3 remain .

@Turkeythegamer

4 жыл бұрын

Spanish destroyed books there are mean aztecz give them chocolate in golden cups and Spain does not care and goes and steals things from them and then kills all of them 😑😑😑

@davidmeza3157

4 жыл бұрын

jan stolk exactly

@squakrock

4 жыл бұрын

Cause they were filled with heresy !

@ripplayboicactus9279

4 жыл бұрын

YoungKing 97 all religion is heresy

@squakrock

4 жыл бұрын

RIP Playboi Cactus iyo

My Grampa and Grandma died not learning Spanish they spoke Zapotec and Nahuatl all their lives.. I'm 100% full blooded Zapotec but born in L.A. where we have a population of 20 thousand Native Zapotecs and community living there and San Diego as well. I speak 3 languages thanks to them.

@ruggedobserver4987

4 жыл бұрын

Amo Sa' beu' what about spanish

@crose5420

4 жыл бұрын

Francisco Jose Molina It’s not rare at all. Don’t buy into white colonial media. We are not a PEDIGREE! We are the only group of people that do that to each other. No one cares what percentage a black man or an Asian man is...they’re black! They’re Asian! That’s it.

@obiem9319

4 жыл бұрын

@@ruggedobserver4987 of course. My parents are from Mexico so they had learn Spanish I'm fluent in Spanish as well.

@regularguychannel2967

4 жыл бұрын

You’d have to take a DNA test to prove that. Any Spanish mingling at any generation and it will show.

@sylviehaddad2323

4 жыл бұрын

You are one of the lucky few who still has good blood 🩸 running thru the veins.

As a mexican when I lived in Spain I noticed how natural the nahuatl words came to me compared to my spanish classmates, I could easily pronounce names and follow the tone of the language meanwhile they struggled to even read them. Also the people from central Mexico, mainly State of Mexico have an “accent” wich complements the language as much as Yucateco’s accent complement Maya Yucateco.

@janegarner6739

2 жыл бұрын

Oscar. Yes, much has survived from many indigenous peoples even after centuries of genocide. Growing up in the southeastern US in the mid-20th c, most members of our rural community spoke with an accent that was very different from the people in town, very different from other southern accents. Many yrs later when I met several Cherokees who lived in the Cherokee Nation west (in Okla), I was shocked to find that their accents were like those of my family & community. Our community had been founded by Cherokees who escaped the US military roundup of Cherokees in 1838 (resulting in forced removal to what's now Okla., via the Trail of Tears. Our ancestors had managed to evade capture by the US army & the militias that invaded our homeland in 1838, surviving for a while by living in caves but then managing to escape & make their way to southern Ark, where they founded the community called Cooterneck (Cherokee for turtle neck). It amazed me that the Cherokee accent was still very noticable several generations later. When I began studying the Cherokee language, I realized that the accent in our community was based on Cherokee pronunciations & sounds. For example, 'egg' was pronounced more like 'ache'. I think a Choctaw friend was right when he said Southern accents are heavily based on the accents of native peoples of the region. But there were also lots of rural communities throughout the south which were founded by natives who avoided the forced removals in the earlier 19th c & were forced to flee their homelands. (Mexico offered protection to any native people of the southeastern US during the period of forced removal, & some took Mexico up on this offer of land & freedom. There is still a Cherokee community in Mexico founded by those who accepted Mexico's offer of assylum.)

@infinitmonburstmode

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I have a maya friend and both of us struggle with the other language, and I am from Edomex, it is very funny how we understand unconsciously the regional one for each of us

@regulusaldebaran8401

11 ай бұрын

Well yeah Spaniards speak castellano. Mexican Spanish is based on calo ( Gypsies) and the native peoples

@localmilfchaser6938

8 ай бұрын

Did you bang at least one of the conquerors for revenge over there ?

@TiagoH1710

7 ай бұрын

⁠@@regulusaldebaran8401una mezcla de caló, nahuatlismos y andalúz

You may not hear this very often, but I feel it needs to be said "Your work here is important." Thanks for this video.

My mother speaks fluent Mixteco as it was her first language. She later learned Spanish from elementary school. My grandmother didn't learn Spanish until her teens and my mother could only speak to her in Mixteco during her final days, as she had forgotten all Spanish. The native languages and dialects are so beautiful and I truly wish my mom would teach me, but I think she gets shy for some reason lol.

@sanjuanagasca7476

6 жыл бұрын

Melodie your lucky

@jigggro

5 жыл бұрын

Please put up videos. Would appreciate a living history of a great culture.

@saruniz

5 жыл бұрын

You should let her her know how important it is to you! Don’t let the language die

@windstorm1000

5 жыл бұрын

How wondrous! What a heritage! Thanx for sharing!

@giovannireyes6654

5 жыл бұрын

How many beautiful languages did Mexico 🇲🇽 have ? I’m Mexican American from Chicago my family is from Michoacan, Durango & Zacatecas and I wish I and a lot of people spoke our first language 😥

My whole family speaks Nahuatl, I thought it was a weird dialect at first, but then I learned it was the Aztecs native language and I was blown away at how lucky I am that I understand an ancient language.

@Mr713mexican

Жыл бұрын

Not that ancient my man, but still pretty old.

@agayactornamedmichaeldougl6289

11 ай бұрын

​@@Mr713mexican yeah, Greek and latin are both way older.

@Mr713mexican

11 ай бұрын

@@agayactornamedmichaeldougl6289 those are bad comparisons. We not in the old world. We are in “new world” so compare it to Mayan. Nahuatl is barely like from 1000AD-1300AD… Mayan is OLD!

@DrJohnnyJ

11 ай бұрын

That's great. When I was 19, I took a bus trip across Mexico. I heard a language I didn't recognize. The Mexican next to me say, "That's what the Aztecs spoke". Amazing. I thought that it had died. Even weirder to me, in Guatemala, there was an ATM that understood spoken Nahuatl.

@DrJohnnyJ

11 ай бұрын

@@agayactornamedmichaeldougl6289 How do you know how old Aztec is?

I’m Mexican and definitively, I wanna learn Nahuatl, and feel proud of my roots

@duff0120

3 жыл бұрын

but u speak the most beautiful langauge with ur accent. it sounds like a love song when yall speak spanish. i will come back to mexico one day

@dlpgaming8000

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe your not mexican but spanish i went my entire life thinking im 100% mexican but im 100% spanish lol

@lupajupiter5605

3 жыл бұрын

I'm half Mexican and I want to learn the language too but I'm already taking Latin so Nahuatl will have to wait haha

@manifestdestiny1191

3 жыл бұрын

Vast majority of people in Mexico are Spanish by blood. Lots have a little Native American mixed in but they’re white Spanish majority. Plenty of them also look “more native” simply because the harsh sun of Central America tans them more than the European sun in Spain.

@arandompig3997

3 жыл бұрын

@@eliasamitai9661 música de banda, obviamente tan mala como la corrupción

I love how according to this, Moteuczoma basically greeted Cortés with the High Nahuatl equivalent of "mi casa es su casa" and Cortés jumped out like "mi casa??? MI CASA?????? MI CASA!!!!"

@skelenied0seven189

2 жыл бұрын

Ok from that one episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog I assume "Mi casa es su casa" is mine is yours and yours is mine? I don't know if I'm correct

@dannycruz05

2 жыл бұрын

@@skelenied0seven189 it means My house is your house. Casa=house

@skelenied0seven189

2 жыл бұрын

@@dannycruz05 thanks it makes a lot of sense now!

@ameriqueindienindigene9096

2 жыл бұрын

The so-called Mexicans are NEW they were not living over here until after Hernan Cortés conquered them. If any of you wish to know what these Aztec Indians looked like, look up Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus for Maximo and Bartola Velasquez. Look at their bushy hair and skin complexions - we are still here!!! The Afro-Mexicans and any other group of "Afro-" people are the Indigenous children of the Americas.

@juanjuri6127

2 жыл бұрын

@@ameriqueindienindigene9096 Máximo and Bartola Velasquez were from El Salvador, not from Mexico.

I am impressed with your pronunciation! Both for spanish and náhuatl!

@pearspeedruns

3 жыл бұрын

@King Eugene Shut up

@magicl4088

2 жыл бұрын

Wtf

@brianrodriguez6897

2 жыл бұрын

Shut up

@JavierBPerez

2 жыл бұрын

As you should be, he's a linguist.

@Gen3ralGrimReaper

2 жыл бұрын

Spanish came from Spain, stupid

Language really is the key to understanding a people’s culture.

@pablosmoglives

5 жыл бұрын

Your right.

@nariko47

5 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@whitealliance9540

4 жыл бұрын

@@nariko47 so why dont more whites practice speaking Ebonix ?

@hoannguyen-ho2qb

4 жыл бұрын

No shit

@gfoot9916

3 жыл бұрын

Cobb Knobbler ir Ebonics is for idiots then so is are Italian-American and Irish English accents

My grandpa was on hospice and began speaking mostly Nahuatl. He taught my sister and I some words. It’s really a beautiful language.

@The_ZeroLine

9 ай бұрын

You’re like I couldn’t be bothered speaking to him until he was in hospice. And, yeah, it’s in and not on.

@lallymartinez6427

8 ай бұрын

@@The_ZeroLine lol my bad for the grammatical error, it’s noted. But woah! That’s a bold assumption to make…when did I say I didn’t speak to him until he was in hospice? He had dementia and idk why he suddenly started speaking Nahuatl but I’m grateful he was able to teach me some words and for the memories i was able to make with him. You don’t know another person’s life so please try to be nicer in the future. 🙂 I’m sorry if you’re projecting a situation you dealt with.

@The_ZeroLine

8 ай бұрын

@@lallymartinez6427 I think I confused your comment with another one (hospice, oddly, seems to come up a lot lately) that was similar. My apologies.

I believe alot of the Aztecs history is miswritten. We know the Spaniards destroyed most historical documents as well architecture.

@uncleruckus3094

3 жыл бұрын

They had fucking giants

@uncleruckus3094

3 жыл бұрын

They had fucking giants

@alcambio8923

3 жыл бұрын

Well that's bullshit. Spaniards didn't destroyed most historical documents as well architecture, quite the opposite. If we're able to study Aztec culture five centuries after they're gone, it's precisely thanks to the spanish effort to document it and preserve it.

@valkeakirahvi

3 жыл бұрын

@@alcambio8923 There wouldn't have been any need to deliberately preserve it, if the Spanish wouldn't have been destroying it. What we have now are documents written by the Spanish, yes. But that's only because they burned the native books first and converted the people, preventing them from practising the culture.

@aviancypress5181

3 жыл бұрын

@@alcambio8923 u have no idea wtf ur talking about 😂

As a Mexican I deeply enjoy your content related to prehispanic cultures. They are fascinating. Thanks, NativLang.

@redrufus444

Жыл бұрын

Wonder if Edwardo can speak Tex/Mex?....

@gatoslokosforever

10 ай бұрын

I am laughing cause he says “MONTEzuma”… so silly

aprendo nahuatl de un hombre que habla ingles, que curiosa es la vida

@AzuraForzenheart

7 жыл бұрын

X'D joder... me has sacado una buena carcajada... porque tienes razon...

@rebecarodriguez568

7 жыл бұрын

rayboyhongo234 jaja iba escribir lo mismo

@fenrirgg

7 жыл бұрын

rayboyhongo234 Sí, en la primaria nos enseñaban algunas palabras y resulta que estaban mal pronunciadas o ni siquiera eran correctas, resulta que cacahuatl no es cacahuate, todo es una mentira :(

@bebertthecat

7 жыл бұрын

el conocimiento es universal

@52ZR

7 жыл бұрын

Estuve estudiando Náhuatl por un tiempo y tenía un par de compañeros extranjeros, un francés y un español. A veces a los extranjeros les interesa más nuestra cultura. Por cierto, los mejores estudiosos de las culturas prehispánicas son extranjeros.

Daily Life of the Aztecs by Jaques Soustelle is an amazing book for anyone interested on the Aztecs. Soustelle's style is engaging and easy to read, and his immense admiration for the Aztecs is visible in nearly every sentence. In fact, sometimes it's almost too visible, as Soustelle doesn't really use the objective, detached style of writing that we modern readers are used to finding in history books. You get sucked into the world of how these citizens lived from waking up in the am to the rituals in the late night and takes turns explaining how they all lived from the simplest servant professions to how the more high status professionals lived.

@torres3359

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the recommendation

@mayramartinez7312

3 жыл бұрын

My Chicano professor made us read that book and I loved it! you do learn a lot.

@dh1.369

3 жыл бұрын

Higher professions like executioner in human sacrifices, or even the one who cooked them later !! beautiful !! ... 😮😬

@tayleanruatha

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the referral 👍

@ameriqueindienindigene9096

2 жыл бұрын

@@mayramartinez7312 The so-called Mexicans are NEW they were not living over here until after Hernan Cortés conquered them. If any of you wish to know what these Aztec Indians looked like, look up Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus for Maximo and Bartola Velasquez. Look at their bushy hair and skin complexions - we are still here!!! The Afro-Mexicans and any other group of "Afro-" people are the Indigenous children of the Americas.

This is an amazing work. Thank you for taking me to the ancient world of Aztec. Greetings from Morocco 🇲🇦

@dh1.369

3 жыл бұрын

you must thank the Castilians of 1500s

@YbYBwRbY

2 жыл бұрын

Marhaba! I'm fascinated by ancient Mexico: I live in Fresno, California, where there are many Nahuatl speakers. My own grandfather was a Sephardic Jew from Tetouan who spoke Arabic and Ladino (medieval Spanish). He taught my grandma to cook tajines, adafina, and tel kadaif for him. If you ever are in the Americas, come visit us, and Ma'a salama!

@abdelhafidelbouyousfi3466

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting! Thank you 🇲🇦♥️🇲🇽

@bobbq8380

Жыл бұрын

Greetings. It's actually Mexica. Not aztec. My grandpa is of this tribe. "Aztec" is nickname from Europeans that still do a good job redoing or trying to redefine the identity of ancient Americas.

Holy crap. Never realized the word for flower is my mother's name

@SCSilk

5 жыл бұрын

Shane Stevens learning what Xochitl means just made my day.

@lamejor19

5 жыл бұрын

Isn’t Monse the nick name for that name? Because my sister has this friend called Xochitl and they call her Monsi.

@cutable6908

5 жыл бұрын

Me neither actually!! But its my cousins last name not my moms- so pff

@smolbeen3723

5 жыл бұрын

🏵️🏵️

@oof3691

4 жыл бұрын

@@lamejor19 if I'm not mistaken, Monse is a nickname for Monserat

People still speak Aztec. There's millions of Nahuatl speakers in Mexico.

@blackinews6779

5 жыл бұрын

but when they come to america they speak spanish more then there native tongue

@negarrak

5 жыл бұрын

@@blackinews6779 I think do you mean the Spaniards guys. But what @KaliBoyinPDX says people that are descendants of the tribes that spoke that language.

@jennifernazario5359

5 жыл бұрын

There are not many nahuatl speakers. That is false. Maybe those who take on names that are in the Nahuatl language. But speakers, no.

@MARM218

5 жыл бұрын

In the area of México where I live you can still find complete communities that still speak Nahuatl and they also speak spanish.

@tomgibo

5 жыл бұрын

@@jennifernazario5359 go to smaller villages in the mountainous states, there are still some 190,000 Nahuas who are monolingual speakers, as in they aren't able to talk in Spanish at all. Nahuatl is the 5th most widely spoken indiginous language in the Americas.

I love that you actually pronounced the “-tl” sound correctly. This video was immaculately informative. The problem with the different pronunciation is that trying to use Spanish language rules on Nahuatl is just not going to effectively work. Not to mention that different tribes have different accents, words, languages, etc. So the -tl will be pronounced differently based on that. Think about how both Britain and the United States speak the same language but words are still pronounced differently.

@thierrypauwels

11 ай бұрын

Is that -tl sound the same as ll in Icelandic ? Like in "Eyjafjallajökull" ? The way he pronounced it really sounds like the Icelandic ll.

Insane that Nahuatl reminds me of my own first language... Finnish. The vowels are pronounced the same (though we got extra vowels on top of even the standard Indo-European ones), the double consonants are the same, the way to define words further by adding stuff to the end is the same. So many things that are done completely differently in Indo-European languages are the exact same in Finnish and Nahuatl, it seems.

My name is Xóchitl and I have often wondered how my name is actually pronounced in Nahuatl. Now I know. Gracias

@edervalladares4473

7 жыл бұрын

Xochitl Cuevas I'm not sure if these pronunciations are correct, though.

@gcondado

7 жыл бұрын

Eder Valladares actually, they're the best pronunciations you'll find anywhere

@Erik-vp5bm

7 жыл бұрын

Nobody's actually sure if these pronounciations are correct.

@RedSpiralHandTV

7 жыл бұрын

pretty name.

@adminihi2533

7 жыл бұрын

It's not....My name is Xochitl too and It's actually pronounced (Sochil)

i love how passionate you are about language! keep up the great work :D

@gr5565

4 жыл бұрын

BlinkinFirefly I know, right!? I hated my English, Spanish and Latin classes but this guy knows how to make them super interesting!

@trashcantacos

4 жыл бұрын

@@gr5565 You took Latin? :0

"avacoto" means "ball sack" in Nahuatl. "guacamole" means ball sauce. You are welcome.

@TheSublimeLifestyle

4 жыл бұрын

Makes sense.

@charlieeagler7639

4 жыл бұрын

@Mike Hunt Well, I new it in another way... Aguacate (avocado)= ahuacatl = testicle and yeah guacamole would be testicle sauce.

@isaac4273

3 жыл бұрын

See? That's why I get mad whenever south Americans say palta, it's aguacate hijos de la chingada 😤 we came up with the name!

@michaelchitwood389

3 жыл бұрын

LMAO! Good to know, thanks.

@jonnboimuhfucka

3 жыл бұрын

Stank dick!!

Una increíble pronunciación de esta hermosa lengua. Es aún más increíble, sabiendo que hablas inglés

We aren't taught about indigenous languages at school, other than Mayan numerals in junior high. I don't advocate compulsory lessons, but it would be nice to know the basics, like these recent NativLang videos have shown. Nice work.

@waomawingu1972

7 жыл бұрын

Fernando Cázares I agree even though i am not Mexican.

@aseefrehman8039

6 жыл бұрын

son of bitch know english

@waomawingu1972

6 жыл бұрын

Who?

@famtamradek5733

6 жыл бұрын

I mean, the education system is failing to teach proper spanish - how do you expect them to teach dead native languages or cousin languages that haven't kept grammar rules/educated language?

Everytime I go to Mexico to visit my grandparents, I always say to myself I want to learn too because I hear them speak Nahuatl amongst themselves. Its always so beautiful to hear. I've asked them before too but they say the wouldn't know how to teach it. 😭

@sophiejones7727

4 жыл бұрын

They probably can't. Teaching takes a certain skill set. But what you probably could do is buy a Nahuatl grammar. Then you can ask your grandparents about words and pronunciation, but rely on the book to tell you how to use them. You'll quickly begin to understand what they are saying and start picking up more. Amusingly though, part of their hesitation is likely that they are aware their language is not the Classical language. They don't think of themselves as speaking "proper" Nahuatl, even though there hasn't been anyone speaking the elder speech for almost three hundred years!

@margaretd3710

2 жыл бұрын

Have them teach you greetings, numbers, family members: mother/father/grandfather/grandmother/sister/brother, etc. - And then go to simple sentences: I am (your name), what is your name?, etc. -- And items around their home: chair, door, table, house, etc. -- How wonderful that you have grandparents that have this rich treasure to share with you!!

@alfredojarillo3146

2 жыл бұрын

Vente, vámonos aprender amiga! Yo igual quiero. Saludos

@ameriqueindienindigene9096

2 жыл бұрын

The so-called Mexicans are NEW they were not living over here until after Hernan Cortés conquered them. If any of you wish to know what these Aztec Indians looked like, look up Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus for Maximo and Bartola Velasquez. Look at their bushy hair and skin complexions - we are still here!!! The Afro-Mexicans and any other group of "Afro-" people are the Indigenous children of the Americas.

@codymarkley8372

2 жыл бұрын

@@ameriqueindienindigene9096 shut up

"Unlike the mayas, the aztecs didnt record their writing." They did, just that spaniards obliterated most of their codexes. I thought you were a graduate bro

@mrnarason

4 жыл бұрын

He's a linguist not a mesoamerican historian.

@mrnarason

4 жыл бұрын

@Serena Rios fuck you kid

@elplebe1762

4 жыл бұрын

@Serena Rios yeah fuck you kid lmfao

@mrniceguy7168

4 жыл бұрын

The Aztecs didn’t have a written language. The codices told stories but not through writing.

@elplebe1762

4 жыл бұрын

@@mrniceguy7168 google aztec writing then come back here and say something

2:43 "let's look into momtezuma's future... and his past" montezuma: **narrows eyes**

Hi (Sorry for terrible Aztec)

@anaalicia2750

7 жыл бұрын

TanDck MahT1mbo It's called nahuatl.

@Esequiel14

7 жыл бұрын

You forgot the tl at the end.

@enricopucci8552

7 жыл бұрын

"hitl" lmao... thats unfortunate

@miniibeto

7 жыл бұрын

Hitler

@gcondado

7 жыл бұрын

Joseph Pete better than you would ever speak 😋😎

I love how this guy actually tries hard to pronounce foreign words correctly, some people study linguistics but are SO BAD at pronunciation, (not saying its a super bad thing)

@TheFaro2011

7 жыл бұрын

Manu Val it's so impressive

@richl3440

7 жыл бұрын

It bothers me when they will pronounce a french word to a T but butcher spanish or any other language. You know then their actions are motivated by race.

@chloeormondroyd9553

7 жыл бұрын

personally, i speak french as a second language but i suck at spanish, i can never get the accent or pronunciation right :')

@jeffreyhawthornegoines8727

7 жыл бұрын

Rich L Given the great similarities between Spanish and French, it would be hard to pronounce one to a t, and to butcher the other... Regarding race, linguists cannot be racist, as they are interested in all languages first of all, and have a knowledge of the different languages which an original, or proto one, have produced, in very different populations. It would be really difficult, then, to be racist. Of course, I am not saying that racism does not exist. Worse, is that it happens from every group to every other, on all continents, alas. But I assure you that, with maybe possible very rare exceptions, it would be very difficult to be a racist, and a linguist at the same time. Actually, it would not make any sense, given the very nature of linguistics, which are universal

@adonblustar5495

7 жыл бұрын

Chloe Ormondroyd its not Spanish its an Aztec language Nahuatl

This is really, really interesting! I love the way you presented all this information- You have a great way of making and keeping it fun and interesting!

Your format really lends itself to visual learners! Your use of animations and even moving text are all extremely well done, in that they add value to and don't distract from the video!

I'm Mexican and I loved your video. Thanks you from my heart for preserving the Ute-Aztec language.

I'm Nahua and you're blowing me away how good your pronunciation is

@richl3440

7 жыл бұрын

You are a language?

@greenlilac32

7 жыл бұрын

Rich L nahuacatl* if u wanna be exact but you can just say nahua for short. There's also Mexicatl, tenochcamexicatl, ni can tlacatl which is more like just native american. nahuatl* is the language

I would’ve loved to learn one of the indigenous languages of my beautiful Mexico.

I worked with a dude from Iguala, Mexico who learned to speak Nahuatl as a teenager. He was a native Spanish speaker, but he said when he was young he worked in an orchard that was staffed mostly by natives who spoke Nahuatl and a few who spoke Amusco. I probably got on his nerves with all the questions, but it's not every day that you meet someone who can speak the language of the Aztecs lol

There's something so.... amazing in the idea that this civilization unconnected with the old world had so much civilization in the popular sense. Poetry, Art, Religion, a Warrior culture, even philosophical schools for rich kids, yet they were as though a stereotype tribal people with an emperor who wore feathers on his head.

@RaffTail

7 жыл бұрын

As opposed to those across the sea, contemporaneous to them, who wore shiny metal on their heads and covered their backs with weasel pelts. Monarchy is always silly and tribal, as is much of culture, when you really think about it.

@TheFebi

7 жыл бұрын

You are right! is just the stereotype, we must have to read the chronics of the conquistadors to see that in so many aspects and in their traditions, they were so developed, for example besides the school for the rich kinds "calmecac" existed too the school for people's kids the "tepochcalli" where girls and boys were educated, and how amazed were the conquistadors with the incredible clean cities they had, specially compared with the european ones in that moment.

@vutube379

7 жыл бұрын

TheFebi Read, Daily Life of the Aztecs by Soustelle replete with first hand accounts. The Aztecs WERE A HIGHLY CIVILIZED, CULTURED, AND RELIGIOUS PEOPLE!

@carlosfernandez5833

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah. They even had a social class for nobles, which Spain legally recognized. There's still a noble house in Spain that descended from Moctezuma's daughter. She looks white AF though, because Moctezuma's daughter was the only Aztec noble in Spain, and hence her descendants only mixed with Spanish nobles.

@fivemeomedia

7 жыл бұрын

you can say the same about the Romans and greeks....

I'm Mexican and I love your videos about Nahuatl :). there's this classical book: La visión de los vencidos, where the name was spelled Motecuhzoma. You should take a look ;)

Wow, great video! I’ve worked in Mexico with people that speak Nahuatl as their first language and I think you’re 100% accurate, plus I learned a lot, I wish your video was longer. I’m subscribing

Quality channel and your work expresses respect for languages and their intricacies. Thank you!

I pronounced Moctezuma all funny in a previous video. Time to explain myself...

@evandenis5488

7 жыл бұрын

But how did "Moctezuma" become "Montezuma"? the c to n seems like an improbable transition.

@lunagirl6842

7 жыл бұрын

NativLang Bro i need to know nahuatl to really understand history 😭

@CyberSlaYerAka-NinjaThug

7 жыл бұрын

NativLang do you know Bosnian language?

@CyberSlaYerAka-NinjaThug

7 жыл бұрын

Liam Beogradlija holy crap! :D what a coincidence! I was born in Sarajevo, I'm still there, there are no relatives from America/UK/Australia but I've learned how to speak and write English just from watching old school CN shows. M8, my body is Bosnian, but my soul is American. Bruh, najbolje znam Engleski od citavog razreda.

@CyberSlaYerAka-NinjaThug

7 жыл бұрын

Liam Beogradlija yap. but there's a plot twist: my f*ckboy/best friend ruined German class for me. Also who is your fav. black youtuber?

900 likes, no dislike. Well done, and keep these coming!

@alexolas1246

7 жыл бұрын

2 people saw your or Argentarii's comments and decided to ruin everything.

This is really fascinating. Thanks for sharing!

Being from LA ive heard people speaking this . AMAZING

Your náhuatl pronuntiation is better than mine and I'm mexican.

@facebookjoselyne

7 жыл бұрын

Fernando Gamboa. no mames, aprende pelmazo!

@rebecarodriguez568

7 жыл бұрын

reti767 the Mexicans don't even know how many languages exist in the country...there are more than 60!

@notpulverman9660

7 жыл бұрын

Rebeca Rodriguez The only IMPORTANT languages in Mexico are Spanish, Nahuatl. The others are local/regional, and NOT national.

@kevinclass2010

7 жыл бұрын

It's like any other language; learn the phonology first and then learn to put the words together. See it this way, American English has 12 vowel sounds, Spanish has 5, and Nahuatl has 4. So, you need to learn a few more sounds. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahuatl#Phonemes

@jagsoul9363

7 жыл бұрын

thats causeyou dontknow.shit

This is so interesting, thank you, it was very informative. This isn't even taught in mexican schools (I'm mexican and by the way, my middle name is nahuatl) I think I learned way more here than I did in high school. Well done.

@FelixHdez

6 жыл бұрын

Flor Rangel Lol same

@anarchonazbol6768

6 жыл бұрын

It's inst taught because it's useless

@ArtBear88

6 жыл бұрын

Jan Michael Vincent Gee i wonder why

Brilliant! Greetings from Mexico Tenochtitlan, qualli tonali! ❤️ 🇲🇽

I meet a girl who can speak náhuatl listen her was a bless to my ears

I would've liked to hear a whole sentence or paragraph spoken in this language to get a better feel for the sound.

@70n24

6 жыл бұрын

stringendo1 There are some readings of "Nican Mopohua" here in youtube, you should check them out.

@gabrielsandoval4994

6 жыл бұрын

You can go to tv.jw.org and find whole videos in Nahuatl. Also in Purepecha, a nicer language in my opinion.

Yesterday was Xidnaf, and today you. What a great week!

@livedandletdie

7 жыл бұрын

Wait did you say Xidnaf... Now I'll hop on over to his channel...

@abdiganisugal825

7 жыл бұрын

0x00 0x00 Thanks for reference I hadn't heard of xidnaf in a long time

@DoctorHorse

7 жыл бұрын

Seeing Xidnaf alive was great :D

@DoctorHorse

7 жыл бұрын

He even said new videos soon.

@williamconnorsierra1130

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for introducing me to a new channel! :D

This video totally touched me in the feels!!! ❤️

Always fascinating and fun to say with. Thank you for the awesome lesson.

Can you do a video on Inuktitut or Greenlandic

@eriko807

7 жыл бұрын

Thomas Bryant yes, please! I read about it and it's fascinating

@sion8

7 жыл бұрын

*+*

@dorian4646

7 жыл бұрын

up

@mariacatalinamangini9103

7 жыл бұрын

PLEASE DO THIS!!! ♥♥♥

@stuart4341

7 жыл бұрын

Yessssssss

can you make a video on the accounts of how the conquistadores understood the Aztecs and vice versa?

@arthurbruin9281

7 жыл бұрын

He actually did about 2 months ago.

@user-bm4cd9mc8q

7 жыл бұрын

Rex Galilae It started out with corporal and Pidgin language. Then the natives who were enslaved by the conquistadors were taught Spainish.

@LilithOfTheNephilims

7 жыл бұрын

Nezahualcóyotl IV no, no slavery man, it was explicitly forbidden. You can find the documents on the internet.

@beauberry6179

7 жыл бұрын

Most weren't enslaved. Many of them joined the Conquistadors because they hated the big empires and saw the Spanish as a way to defeat them.

@DeLugubria

7 жыл бұрын

Rex Galilae Watch the video How Translators Helped Topple the Aztec Empire.

Gracias por la información!!! Muy interesante y una excelente referencia a las personas que no tenían noción sobre ésta cultura👏

So sad that theyre destroyed and I love these posts of yours!!!! amazing. Language is a spellbinding form of life

im glad i have Aztec in me , nautl is my language and im learning it by progressing.

Might I recommend a book? Aztec by Gary Jennings. It's a story detailing the life (and I do mean the entire life) and death of an Aztec man as he tells it to Spanish scribes. The amount of research that went into it is phenomenal and I'm sure you'd enjoy it, dear sir.

@yetzalischm9711

6 жыл бұрын

Santiago Fierros thank you for your recommendations!! I'd been reading several of Gary Jennings 'Aztec' Series when i was living in México and was hunting ever since the first (and best) novel for something equally interesting. Which is apparantly quite difficult here in Germany. But now i know, what i have to look for on Amazons second hand books

@cindywehle2721

6 жыл бұрын

loved Aztec, and the others were a lot of fun. I'd like to hear how the language sounded when spoken, not the grammar. That's too much mental work.

@Kommandant494

6 жыл бұрын

witchapparatus i love that book, greetings from Mexico

@SquidProQuo80

6 жыл бұрын

Gary Jennings was truly a master... his Aztec series are personal favorites. Also I totally agree with the recommendation of The King Danced In the Marketplace - amazing book!

@thickbrianq

6 жыл бұрын

Cindy wehle , Nahuatl is spoken by 1.5 million peoples as their first language. The Nahuatl spoken in the Mexico Valley is the closest to what the old time Nahua spoke. Nahua = Aztec. Maya has 6 million speakers. This should make it easier to help you find sources to hear the languages.

Wow dude, that was pretty interesting. A little fast for me, not cuz I couldn’t keep up but because I won’t remember much so I’ll have to watch it again. What an amazing find! You should be bored more often so we can enjoy your journeys.

So awesome! Really really cool and informative. You are helping me tremendously with my World History II Final Project!

i am Swiss and Mexican ... sounds like i am destined to be a xocolatl man !

@ushiox1877

5 жыл бұрын

Lmao i'm swiss and mexican aswell

@Qauzzie

5 жыл бұрын

I’m German Mexican ::)

@michaelreyes6258

5 жыл бұрын

tomcat you are a Swiss cheese 🧀 enchilada! 😆

@Anglisc1682

5 жыл бұрын

I'm English

@Monteon559

5 жыл бұрын

tomcat I’m French and Mexican

Im Native American and raised in Lummi, sounds like some of the many languages of my people, all across the U.S.

@m1sh474

6 жыл бұрын

Well, duh, obviously. Most Mexicans are native Americans, like millions of people around America.

@Compl33tR4nd0mZ

6 жыл бұрын

Misha HJ They are a different culture and ethnicity, the Americas is a huge place. Be sensible before rudely calling someone out

@m1sh474

6 жыл бұрын

I am a Native American from America the continent...

@leem.7565

6 жыл бұрын

Misha HJ $5?

@timmythicc4300

6 жыл бұрын

Stop saying "my people". It's so cringe inducing.

This is awesome! I'm a fan of your channel! Thank you!

You earned my sub. Great stuff on you have here! Ancient Nauatl is so interesting!

Dude, you rock. Your channel rocks. A few questions: 1. What was the focus of your degree in college? 2. What have been your favorite languages to learn about? 3. Do you recommend any books on the subject matter? Thank you, and keep up the great work!

The word for flower sounds similar to my tribe's language (Comanche).

@jcortez1314

5 жыл бұрын

Benjamin Chasenah Comanche is part of the Uto Aztecan language family. So they are related. What is the Comanche word for flower?

@ajaxrosso1

5 жыл бұрын

earthquake

@windstorm1000

5 жыл бұрын

Ben isn't this amazing? Lets not let our native languages die!

@kaleomariz1000

5 жыл бұрын

This is so cool! This means that native peoples from mexico are cousins to the native peoples of southwestern US. Wow!!!!

@xochiltepetzalailhuicamina2322

4 жыл бұрын

Same language family.

Next level content bro!!

Watching this video kept bringing me back to the times I've watched the movie Apocalypto and wondering how did they know what the people sounded like. This sounds very familiar if not identical to what they spoke in the movie. Loved this video

I'm proud that i have aztec blood in me body and soul. Amo mi cultura y a mí ancestros Aztecas.

@djnoise5305

4 жыл бұрын

nobody really knows that but the real Aztecs died off fighting the invaders and of smallpox there’s a chance you’re of other natives tribes of mexico not really aztecs unless you track ur ancestry and prove to have aztec blood in you

@3rdeyeoracle434

4 жыл бұрын

Just cause your mexican doesnt mean you have aztec blood and there called mexihcah not aztec and they spook nahualt

@iz250cgU

4 жыл бұрын

@Hernando Malinche wow you are a hater so did Europeans they killed 6million jews I guess that doesn't count huh

@iz250cgU

4 жыл бұрын

@Hernando Malinche ok we got some f"ed up pasted so what are we gonna do

@NewTurboginsu

4 жыл бұрын

@@iz250cgU no, your ancestors have a fucked up past. You are not them.

Holy shit. Nahuatl is one of the most beautiful sounding languages I ever heard.

amazing! No words for this video, I never heard about this before!

Muchas gracias por este video, muy interesante! Thank you very much for your video, most interesting!

Thank you for this. I've been following my true roots since the early 90's, when I was way younger, and had a hard road of learning pre-internet. Learned a little here, but always glad to see this alive and well. The dislikes struck a bad chord in me, so I decided to see the whole video before making judgment on that. Sadly, my initial gut feeling remained, kids today call them "haters". Nothing wrong in this video, just nice simple information on a language that has been thriving (although in very small numbers) for decades now, especially since the Xicano movement of the 60's. Thank you for posting this. Def a thumbs up! ...Ometeotl!

"Not (this noise), but (the exact same noise)."

@avega2792

5 жыл бұрын

GINNVNGAGAP some if the differences in pronunciation of nahuatl words are very subtle and can be misunderstood or completely missed by many, especially if you are not too familiar with nahuatl. You may not hear the difference, but rest assured, there is a difference.

@SandsMemphis

4 жыл бұрын

Time to clean your ears out.

@dafyddroff8084

4 жыл бұрын

That affricate is comprised of two sounds, one of which isn’t differentiated between in general American English, nor in recieved pronunciation. I can hear it but it’s differentiated in my dialect, and in welsh.

@Neophema

4 жыл бұрын

Do you mean the second L in Altepetl at 4:47? They sound very different to me.

@emilio9129

4 жыл бұрын

LOL! Happens to everybody whose first language does not make a difference in that phoneme. When Koreans try to teach me the difference between "n" and "n", I'm like, it's the same sound, dude. haha, But when they don't make a difference between "f" and "p" I'm like, what!? They are totally different!

Wow your videos are really well done. Instant sub.

Thank you so much for this invaluable lessons of my mother language, thank you!

I love you NativLang! Congratulations for 200k subs!

Nahuatl is sooo interesting^^ Thanks! Feel free to focus more on Nahuatl in the future. My clicks are yours. ;)

buen vídeo, muy educativo! siempre tuve la duda de como se pronuncian correctamente muchas de las palabras nahuatl que usamos al día, lo que mas me gusta es esa parte del lenguaje poético que le da a las palabras y frases significados más profundos

Fascinating. Thank you very much for this.

I understand nothing of this, yet i have fun watching it.

Will you ever talk about Slavic languages?

@machoke666

7 жыл бұрын

Erytropus Why don't you talk about them yourself? If you're a native speaker of a slavic language you're already more qualified than him to talk about it

@TheInsid3

7 жыл бұрын

I'm not a linguist nor a youtuber. and I only speak 2 slavic languages which are basically the same. So no I'm not qualified to talk about them

@machoke666

7 жыл бұрын

Erytropus Not with that attitude, if you really want to do it you can. But I suspect that you're just lazy

@TheInsid3

7 жыл бұрын

I didn't mean to be rude or anything...I just asked if there will be a video on Slavic languages. I don't get where you're coming from. I never claimed i was gonna make a video on the matter

@machoke666

7 жыл бұрын

Erytropus I just find people who ask other people to make certain type of videos to be really annoying, if you feel like there's a lack of something in this world make it yourself, you don't have to be a youtuber who uploads regularly you can just make one video

Really enjoying your vids!

That's some good work!... We have never been onto this subject here in Mexico... I loved it badly! Thanks... PLease share more!

I'm mexican and I think it would be nice if we didn't lose our language. It may be filled with a lot of idioms everywhere but... I dunno nahuatl is more spiritual and stuff. Now, British conquered some native americans too. How was their language like?

@19ars92

7 жыл бұрын

reti767 Your ancestors stayed in Spain My ancestors were born and raise in Mexico regardless the race

@guichohernandezprado8046

7 жыл бұрын

Aztecs didn't take it from spaniards, they taught them. And I don't see anything wrong with that.

@19ars92

7 жыл бұрын

***** give us our gold and silver back, you stool from America for 300 years, you thieves, then you can have your language back the largest human genocide wasn't done by Nazis but by the Spanish by destroying the vast majority of native americans in the continent

@thanuv4064

7 жыл бұрын

Aztec, nahuatl or whatever you call it was not the Mexican language. It may be right for you I102q384i5n, but in what you call now Mexico there've been spoken a lot of languages.

@19ars92

7 жыл бұрын

***** isnt germany a better country than spain? gtfoh lol all countries that were colonized by spain and portugal are shit all countries colonized by United Kingdom are richer

I’m have no clue what language my grandmother spoke. Her side of the family didn’t speak Spanish until she was older. Once they married into other families, they tried to ignore that side of their heritage. They were ashamed. I think it’s beautiful but it’s too late. My grandmother passed away 7 years ago and no one knows the language she spoke.

@arturocalderon1043

3 жыл бұрын

where did she live before? indigenous language are easy to track by location

@h8haz

2 жыл бұрын

@@arturocalderon1043 Wrd my grandma on my dads side only spoke Nahuatl and as she got older she spoke Spanish (she’s from (Puebla) so I’m guessing my ansestry traces back to the Aztec or sum ?

@RealMexFoodShouldntGiveUDrrhea

2 жыл бұрын

@@arturocalderon1043 Torreón and Durango

@RealMexFoodShouldntGiveUDrrhea

2 жыл бұрын

@@pattyayers She spoke Spanish, but as a child she didn’t.

@yellowcrow7414

2 жыл бұрын

@@h8haz The Mixtecs lived in the Puebla region, and I believe Zapotecs did as well. Your ancestry is most likely Mixtec. Look them up, they have a very unique culture of their own! Although unfortunately, we know much less about them than the Aztecs, since the majority of the Spanish scholars who came to the Mesoamerican region to document indigenous culture were mostly all only focused on the Aztecs and the Mayans. A few took interest in the other cultures, but unfortunately not many.

This was awesome. Would love to hear my ancestors Taíno language being spoken once again...😢

@thebeast1793

Жыл бұрын

Hey Ik this comment is a year old but Ik a channel that teaches you a modern reconstruction of the Taino language if you're interested.

@ahmednasirabdikadircoadvoc2285

Жыл бұрын

@@thebeast1793 i am, which channel

Thanks! Well done, and fascinating!

How do you even have time to research and do these videos? This is definitely my favourite channel of all time, I want to give you all my money...

@NativLang

7 жыл бұрын

I guess I just don't stop! Sometimes I hit a wall and it takes extra weeks to get the research done. Like twice last fall. Feel free to check out my Patreon, but I'm really here to get you to share in my awe!

Im so glad i found this channel!!

Amazing job, gracias por postear

Great video! Keep up the good work 👏

Wow this is the best video on this subject . THANK YOU

That's a nice video! Thank you :) I had an amazing opportunity to learn some modern Nahuatl at the University of Warsaw, Poland. I haven't heard a more adorable and "sunny" language ever since. It's absolutely stunning! I keep my fingers crossed for all the revitalization efforts in Mexico

Wow! So interesting! My grandma spoke Zapoteco but never taught her kids, therefore we lost the dialect. I speak 4 European languages but I have always wished I spoke our Indigenous tongue, and to know more about my roots 😪

Thank you for the info! Now I understand it better! 👍🏼

My. God. Amazing video! Wished we were taught things like these at schools here in Mexico. 👍

@Monopolyfriends

6 жыл бұрын

I went to school in the northern part of Mexico and I was taught basic Nahuatl. I know how to count to ten though

@galileor.cuevas9739

6 жыл бұрын

+rvvaldez I am about to enter College and I live in Edo. Mex. The closest I have been to Nahuatl has been through KZread. My uncles know some Hñañho (Otomi)

@mrmexicano64

6 жыл бұрын

turns out i have really close blood from the otomies people. i would love to know how the language works and try to speak it. :D

@iosonoi.7132

6 жыл бұрын

whats the point of watching this video?

@mrmexicano64

6 жыл бұрын

What's the point of doing anything in life if we are all going to die?

There's a Nova episode about the kid that broke the maya hieroglyphics code that's excellent.

Thank you! This is just amazing!

I'm amazed. Your accent is really good.