BLACKFOOT LANGUAGE, PEOPLE, & CULTURE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
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Óki! Nitsin'kasim Andy. Tsa niitapii?
Hello! My name is Andy. How are you?
Let's talk about the Blackfoot language.
The Blackfoot language, or Siksiká, is an Algonquian language spoken by the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people in the northwestern plains of North America. It has four dialects: three in Alberta, Canada (Siksiká, Kainai, Aapátohsipikani), and one in the United States (Aamsskáápipikani). Blackfoot is a polysynthetic language with a complex morpheme structure. An Anglican missionary, John William Tims, created a syllabics script for it around 1888. Since the 1960s, the number of Blackfoot speakers has significantly declined, leading to its classification as "severely endangered" by UNESCO. Revitalization efforts in the late 1900s have been successful, resulting in institutions like a dedicated college and head-start programs in schools to teach the language and culture to young children.
The Blackfoot Confederacy, or Niitsitapi (Siksikaitsitapi), is a collective term for the linguistically related groups of the Blackfoot or Blackfeet people: the Siksika ("Blackfoot"), Kainai or Blood ("Many Chiefs"), and two sections of the Piikani ("Splotchy Robe")-the Northern Piikani (Aapátohsipikáni) and the Southern Piikani (Amskapi Piikani or Pikuni). Historically, they were nomadic bison hunters and trout fishermen, roaming the northern Great Plains' semi-arid shortgrass prairies. They followed bison herds migrating between the present-day United States and Canada, up to the Bow River. In the early 18th century, they acquired horses and firearms through trade. Chief Mountain is sacred to the Blackfoot peopleand it marks the boundary between the Blackfoot reservation in Montana and Glacier National Park,
The Blackfoot people were a Native American nation that inhabited the Great Plains west of the Mississippi River, primarily in what is now Montana and Alberta. They were bison hunters and lived in settlements spread across the plains, enduring harsh winters with little shelter from the winds. The arrival of European settlers in the late 18th century brought horses, technology, disease, and weapons, which decimated the Blackfoot population through smallpox in the mid-19th century. The name "Blackfoot" likely originates from the blackened soles of their leather shoes. Their traditional homes were tipis, which are considered sacred and feature designs representing their cosmology and stories. These tipis, integral to their nomadic buffalo-hunting lifestyle, are still used for ceremonies like the Sundance, a community gathering for healing and prayer.
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Native American languages are so interesting. It's a shame they're not more widely spoken.
Youre right.....
Yeah it’s unfortunate, this language sounds amazing
the algonquians call earth ki like isolate sumerian, in ojibwe the sun is gises which is a coincidence. also wigwam, totem, michigan, mississippi, sioux, menominee and winnebago all come from ojibwe. their brothers are actually two tribes ottawa or odawa and potawatomi or bodéwadmi.. they can all be called anishinaabe or neshnabe in potawatomi
They are (all) so difficult to learn that even natives may think it's a waste of time and effort, so that better improve their English skills.
@@wintherr3527 This is not the reason at all. These languages were beaten out of Native Americans by nuns, priests, and teachers for generations. Tribes are now working to reclaim and improve in their traditional languages
Glad to see that the Blackfoot are still going despite all the conflict and colonialism they've gone through! May their people live on! 🫂🙏🏼
At first they need to leave christianity
They are the example of some region that doesnt reach their independence because of colonialism
@@scarymonster5541que tiene que ver el cristianismo?
Again, a beautiful writing system for a beautiful language. I hope all the best for their language preservation efforts.
American languages are always so intriguing, so unfamiliar to what one is used to hear
I'm happy you made a video on the Blackfoot language. I'm African American, European, and a bit of Native American through my mom's side. The African American side sadly lost our native ways, which saddens me, but there are some Native American oral stories of old still passed down. I descend from two Native peoples: the Blackfoot and Cherokee.
Great deep dive.😄
Very complicated grammar, indeed, but it's worthwhile to proceed studies about the Native American's languages, which are full of unidentified gem.
Lily Gladstone is Blackfoot btw.
Please video about Proto-Algonquian language: the ancestor of Blackfoot.
Finally! I waited for so long for it to be back.
As Ukrainian, I understood 0% of this beautiful language❤
Same with me. 🇺🇦
🧡They were also in the Great Lake Region🪶 Women were equally regarded before horses and weapons were introduced.
And I guess that makes them special?
@@sandeegrey5977 What's wrong with what I said that makes you say that?
Blackfoot and navajo comparison again, silakan.😊
Silakan You Say????
Navajo dan Blackfoot tidak ada Hubungannya. There's No Relations Between Algic and Na-Dene Languages
@@dedifanani8658 I know kwkw
@@WedsleyFelix Wkwkwkwk
Omg no way wtf oh mai gaw ada orang Indo guys!!1!
Something I noticed with speakers of North American languages, they're very slow when speaking. Is that the norm?
it could be that for a lot of native american languages, the majority of speakers are non-native, and are less fluent. or it could just be the way of speaking, i'm only theorizing
Fun fact… Siksikáí’powahsin is the only language (that I’m aware of) in which horses are referred to as parts of the family, with a specific verb created to reference them as a belonging as a mount. There’s the general word for it, Elk-Dog (ponokaomitaa), and then the relational word(s) for it, i.e., nota’s (my horse) or kota’s (your horse)… the verb “ota’si” means to own a horse.
Also, the syllabary seen in this video and in some resources is not really used much and there are actually efforts from Blackfoot speakers themselves to implement a newer, more refined syllabary of 80 characters that better fits the language.
Please do Huron wendat language
It sounds like Finnish
Tlingit and Avar, please!
Yes! tlingit's th best
Very impressive. So far, to me, the closer language to Martian
I wish there a blackfoot class where I lived
I thought this was supposed to be a April fools joke for a moment lol.
THE GREAT SPIRIT BLESS THE BLACKFEET
I'm here because of the revenant
Could you please do Iraqi Arabic and Persian?
This is the mother language of WWE Hall of Famer Abdullah the Butcher, the proud of the Canadian Blackfooters.
Is this related to Greenlandic?
No, Blackfoot is related to languages like Ojibwe, also known as Chippewa or Ojibwa. Additionally, Cree is another language in this family called Algonquian along with many other languages. As for Greenlandic, it's part of the Eskaleut/Eskimo-Aleut/Inuit-Yupik-Unangan language family. It's spoken by the most northern natives, the Inuit peoples. Their language family spans from Greenland to Russia. There are still languages in the Old World related to this native language family. In the sub-branch of Inuit languages spoken in Chukotka, you'll find languages such as Siberian Yupik and Sirenik Yupik. In the Aleut sub-branch, languages are spoken on the Aleutian Islands and the Alaska Peninsula.
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Sounds like Fin-Ugric languages
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why does it sound like finnish
Is it really that close? (Swede that is somewhat used to hear Finnish)
Could be they both are connected through Siberia from ancient times and retained sounds, or its coincidental.
@@lm7338 closely related to uralic paleo siberians and turkic/mongolic groups
@@lm7338 ??? there's no way you even entertain the idea they're finnish and this are at all related. we're talking 15,000+ years of complete isolation from one another
It doesn't
@@cicolas_nage
I mean relation by an ANCIENT connection, and I never said I truly believed this. I meant that this would be the only possible way.
Cree dialects, please
I doubt anybody watching this vid understand one word... including even those who share some ancestry with the Blackfoot.
We can catch similarities between the sound of this languages and the japanese one...and the alphabet is similar to ancient turkic one...maybe this people has a far and common origin with ancient altaic people and paleosiberian people....
Blackfoot was indeed a language... Until the white men came😀.. It eventually came to be known as, whitefoot😀.. I made it up silly😀
Another lost Uralic language found! 😱
wish uralics get full independence, love from turkic cousins :)
It’s Algonquian