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watching this after 9 years is so nostalgia

Nye weh I’m sharing

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Me as Native half Cree/Mohawk/Algonquin Struggling in Mohawk tryna learn few words or phrases it’s way too difficult I don’t got confidence in myself I feel embarrassed if other Mohawk would laugh at me

Wakat’shenòn:ni ón:wa kenh wenhniserá:te! Nia:wen kò:wa Yonkhi’sotha, Ahsonthèn:nekha karáhkwa, táhnon Rakhtsí:^a, Entié:ke karáhkwa for the beautiful show they both put on, I’m so proud to be onkwehonwe and happy we’re all alive today, we remember in our blood the significance of our unity, the commitment we made thousands of years ago, when we laid down our weapons. Today we got to all be apart of this ever growing timeline of our creation story

I love learning languages can I ask a question ? Do Native American languages work for all tribes ? I speak English German and French and am keen to learn Native American and other languages . It would be amazing if you did a video of showing respect and great ing.thank you

Thanks for this! There are so few Mohawk language classes online, and you have such a great teaching style

Thank you so much

Nya:weh❤

Thank you so much migwetch I really need to learn my grandma's language.

Skennen’kó:wa ken? [ means : hey/ greetings] {directly translate to great peace}(Pronounced: Ska na go wa ga) Hen, skennen’kówa Huh, ska na go wa (Returning the greetings) Yah, yah tewakatshennónini Ya te wa gadse nuni (No, I’m not okay) Oh niyohtonhátye? Oh ni yo du hadyé What was happened? Oh niyoh (how) ton (has it happened) hátye (progressive, continously here now) Yoyanerátye {atyé, continuous) (Means it’s going good) Yo ya ne ra dee eh Yah teyoyanerátye It’s not going good Satshennónini ken? Satse noni ga? (Are you happy? ) Sa (you) Hen, wakatshennónini Huh, wa gatse nuni Waka (I) Sata’karí:te ken? Sa da garide ga? Are you healthy or well? Hen… wakata’karitq Huh, wa ga da ga ri de Yes, I am healthy or well Yah, yah tewakata’karite Yah yah te wa ga da ga garite No, I’m not healthy or well

Im really greatful to have found this. One, because the Kanien'kéha:ka have historically been neighbors to all branches of my family my entire life (5 mins away in some cases) and now it's personal after finding out one of my great grandparents were scooped and placed to a non-indigenous couple. I want to learn it all the more, to honor those ancestors so they wont be forgotten. It's hard though, when you're alone and cant hear the correct pronunciations like this. Niá:wen. ❤

I'm soapy to learn please share the language more!! I'm so happy my grandmother hid she was Mohawk we were very close.. Apparently I told my mom at 2 years old when she passed.. I'm confused by this because I seen my dad's spirit pass as well.. my heart hurts and people treat me badly because I'm honest about what I see.. I had 2 amazing healers who understood. Please keep teaching me Mohawk... We didn't want the treaty The other nations traded while we were being sold or killed... I cannot believe less the 3000 people know this language. My heart hurts the abusive behavior to the land and people is scary. We were meant to take care... I'm sad... pleas keep sharing videos. .

im so happy to find a vedio i can learn mohawk language off please keep sharing, my grandmother hid her and our heritage because of the things she experienced in life. we were very close even thou she passed when i was young... im very white she was very brown but my siblings and i were so proud when we learned where we were from, some are not native but i think its so very important to remember where we come from, everyones history not just mine. im proud to be mixed but i feel more native then anything, i think the reason we lost our language is because of so many things and i was shocked and APPALED to learn less then 3000 people can speak it. I am very hopeful that we dont forget. please keep sharing and miiwhech.. that was my first word..

Is there a hard and fast rule for when a k sounds as a "k" and when it sounds as a "g?" kó:wa has it as a g but skennen has it as a k. Is there any guidance on how someone can know which sound is involved in a word without already knowing?

Trying to learn Mohawk. May loose what’s left of my MIND! Whoa, this is tough!

Please, please make more videos. This language is endangered and the more people who are interested in speaking it and thus can teach it themselves the better Nia:wa

Cool

Would love to see a chart created with all the sounds similar to the German der/die/das tables

i need some help translating something very basic. i'm writing a story set in the harry potter world, specifically to expand on it an explore things in a fun way that doesn't require the average reader hours of meticulous research, and likewise bring the story to life. so naturally i made it far more complicated than it needs to be, i.e: the story will be exploring the muggle world in 1991 from the perspective of an 11 year old, and the british wizarding world... and the american one... and finally touching into some native american beliefs, specifically mohawk. the protagonist's surname is Featherwood, but it's an english translation of her actual family name, which literally means "feather wood". the timeline is this: male mohawk ancestor moves from new york to england. his daughter is named Kaiyah ("not ocean"?). i don't know much about the mohawk language, except that the exact pronunciation is extremely important. originally i was going to go with "Ziyakèoyente", which i believe means "eagle feather wood", or "wood that is like an eagle's feather" or "an eagle feather that is like wood". i want the name to imply that there is a family heirloom approximate to a wand that uses a thunderbird tail feather... of course i also want the name to be no longer than "Ziyakèoyente" (because 6 syllables for a single name is enough as-is!) and i'm not even convinced that i'm compounding the words correctly. so basically, is there some relatively concise way of saying "thunder feather wood", and what *exactly* does "kaiya" mean, if anything, in the mohawk language? for frame of reference, there is a family tradition where if someone dies, or is about to, they are taken to a private grove and a transfigured into a tree.

How about a word for word translation?

Kwe

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I always wanna to know if native American Indian have different languages they speak or can Lakota, mohawk understand each other languages.

I always thought native American were really cool.

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I always thought that it was iah (for yah)

It's very interesting how hill and breast are almost the same word or they're like a homonym. I grew up in America but I moved back to Ireland when I was fifteen. Not long after arriving, I came across a place with two similar sized hills that was called 'the paps of Anu'! Papps is another word for breasts, and Anu is synonymous with Danú, the goddess of earth and fertility. It was my first time hearing 'hills' referred to as breasts of the earth. 🌎 The word for people (in the plural) is 'daoine' which is pronounced dee-nee or dee-nuh which I thought was almost identical to one of the Algonquin words for people. I have some old books which were wrote on the Irish language by Charles Vallancey in the late 19th century, in one of the books he showed a few list of Irish words compared with Algonquin words and phrases, that were very similar. Like for instance he said an Algonquin word for water was : iske and in Irish: uisce (pronounced: ish-ka/ish-kuh). In Irish and many middle eastern language 'c' & 'g' are often interchangeable depending on region accents and c is hard, they don't use a k. The Irish have an affinity with N The Native People of America because we also had our culture suppressed by invaders or colonists. It got so bad, the English eventually outlawed the speaking of our own tongue. So, I think we can all stick it to 'the man' by studying, remembering, and never forgetting our own ancient languages. English is just the new kid on the block.😉 Thanks for sharing!

I learned that "no" means yah from assassin's creed 3

This is hard to pick up

For the longest time I knew they were doing smoke dance moves in that video! lol This is awesome!!! :)

Thank you very much for posting this. My grandmother is Mohawk but I don't know much about the heritage since my great grandmother passed. She lives about 2 1/2 hours from me so I don't see her often. I am 34 years old and live in Erie County. I really appreciate this a lot.

I wonder if Mohawk would do well being written in a syllabary!

Japanese uses "Ka" to differentiate a question, that is so interesting!!

Very peaceful…not are you big peaceful.

The milk part through him off, when the ladies giggled 😂🥛

Artie!

My grand father left kanawake to raise ther Child in montreal, I learn some words when I was younger and now I won't to learn more the language of my ancestor

I'm a 9 year old invested in their colture this was very helpful

I had to laugh because 30 years ago I was fluent in Japanese, I was born in New York, I might be Haudenosaunee or maybe whatever tribe was around Quebec City 200 to 400 years ago, and Mohawk grammar and pronunciation sounds a lot like Japanese or the Central Asian and Turkic languages I'm hearing here in Russia.

Heeh

Skana goa ga! Better to write as pronounced? Language reminds us of Japanese ancestry?

Ken = Canadian "eh"?

This teacher has such a calming voice

lol

This is fantastic. Please do more classes teaching the Mohawk language.

Thank you for this. 🧡

Hi

I suppose the stative / action verb distinction is the same as the transitive/intransitive distinction, right?

I was told if I learn just one word a day in Mohawk, I will be fluent by the end of a year. Is this true? I enjoyed your class.