That is fine, but that is how you loose a language. You must slow it down toe the Learners, or it will be gone like so many other tribal languages that have been lost in America..
Does he use many English loanwords? Because from what I've seen, regional languages and dialects tend to be very rich when it comes to "traditional life", but when it comes to more modern things like politics and economy, there will be many more loanwords from the majority language. I'm just curious if this is the case with Navajo as well, do you you a lot of English loanwords or are there Navajo equivalents to words like "budget proposal"?
S J Navajo is actually one of the most resistant languages on earth in terms of taking in low words. It is very efficient in creating new words using old ones put together basically.
I am by no means an expert in any language, even in English. It seems that Navajo uses words already in the language to create compound words to describe more modern items. Like the word for 'cell phone' translates literally into 'the thing you spin around with' which is hilarious because you see a lot of people spin around when talking on a cell phone. It also makes me self conscious now when talking on my phone.
Joe Shirley speaks really good Navajo. Clear, smooth, captivating & straight to the point. If you wanna learn how to speak the language, study how he talks. He's one of our very best speakers.
@@taylorham9532it's not really on the brink of extinction, it's spoken by half the population and it's the only indigenous language in North America to actually be gaining speakers within its own community AND outside faster than it is losing them! Great news for such an incredible and poetic language, this is a language with thousands of stories and traditions, it deserves to be cherished and the good news is that it is!
@@GettinJiggyWithGenghis you can show all the passion you want towards it but just like latin. it’ll dissipate don’t you worry the evil white men are at work hehe take ur land then degrade ur language. following every step is n the book hehe
Frankly I think everyone should take a year or two of some indigenous languages just growing up so that students learn that there are many ways to think
This is the true language that I speak in my nation and I've never forgot about that even devil worshipper could not make me forget about the language that I grew up hearing as a child on the Navajo Nationation Tribe.
Navajos came from the north. They actually can understand the Athabaskans of Alaska. This is different from the other Native Americans such as the Hopi. They came from the south and speak a much harder language. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaskan_Athabaskans
It was impossible for the Japanese to win from the start. The United States had many times more natural resources and population. All the Navajo language could've done was make it easier.
It would be great to have Navajo subtitles with the speech, so I can see how it looks while he speaks. While how languages sound is one interesting aspect, I also love to see what it looks like too.
Sometimes it can sound like Kurdish and sometimes like Mongolian. That ł in Navajo is articulated in the same area of the mouth as the л in Mongolian, albeit the one in Mongolian is voiced.
Yep, that "l" you're hearing is what's called a "lateral fricative", a sound made by pushing air past the sides of the tongue. Welsh has one too. So does Nahuatl (in fact, the final sound in the name of that language is a lateral fricative).
Well the Mongolian and Siberian people are the ones who migrated to North America across the land bridge several thousand years ago. So Native Americans are technically of Asian descent. You can easily see the facial similarities.
Just curious if anyone knows the answer as to why Navajo was picked for the code breakers during WWII over other Native American languages. Is Navajo especially difficult/different or are other Native languages just as difficult?
It has many attributes that are very rare for languages of the non-Americas. All languages are relatively equal in difficulty, but most people over the oceans had zero exposure to languages of the Americas. Although, there are technically 40 vowels...
The biggest reason it was picked is actually two reasons 1. It was accessible enough in America that the government could find speakers 2. It was completely inaccessible outside of indigenous American, American, and English documentarians and anthropological study, and what did exist at the time was very limited. To say that this language alone was so difficult that nobody could learn it is frankly just false, it's a cool image but it mystifies a people who are already mystified enough by their "audience". They actually developed a code within this language and that's what they used. The language itself is actually very clean and logical, it is of course brutally difficult if you aren't a native speaker of an already related language, but it's not some magical code that's so difficult it single-handedly made the enigma machine obsolete for example, just an awesome complicated enough language with very few resources outside the US to learn from. Even today with the internet, it's a very difficult language to pick up on just due to the sheer absence of resources. It should be pointed out that back in the day and even today, many Navajo were opposed to sharing their language with outsiders due to the history of genocide and colonization associated with its speakers, even today it is a privilege to learn the language, an almost religious privilege since the language was created by the holy people in accordance to the Navajo tradition, so a Japanese person asking for resources on the language would be met with a stern "fuck off" (but in Navajo)
Learning the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a really good help learning pronunciation. It's a standardized alphabet linguists around the world use that can be used to transcribe the pronunciation of any language, natural or constructed. Learning it will teach how sounds themselves are made and what goes on in your mouth making this applicable for any language. Then I guess recordings and videos of speakers (or actually talking to a speaker) will help supplement this.
No it doesn't. I found TH-cam videos that tell pronunciation for the various characters that I can't recognize like the slash L, nasal hook and stop characters. It helps, but still without audio it makes learning it pretty damn difficult.
I used to fall asleep to the sound of this language being spoken softly, almost a whisper. It was the ultimate ASMR. I didn't know what they were saying, but the fricatives... oxytocin inducing.
This is the most unforeign language of this land that we call the United States of America, because it is what won the second world war. Any other language is the foreign one.
I'm not surprised by this. Because both languages belong to the Dene-Caucasian language group. We call our language Adighe Bze. The Navajo call their language Dine Bzaad. If I learn the Navajo language, I'm sure I won't have a problem with the sounds.
Going show you where were from on the REZ Southwest Tribe you know this true in my heart SO SEE WITH YOUR EYES OPEN WHO I AM I'M BORN FROM THE REZ IN THE U.S.A BORN FROM ONE BIG TRIBE ON THE REZERVATION LOOK INTO MY EYES YOU CAN SEE THE TRUTH THESE ARE ALL TRUE FACTS I'M TELLING YOU ABOUT
Dude the language he speaks is not "indian" wtf. Indians are not native americans. Indians are from India and native americans are well you guessed it the native inhabitants of America. The language this man speaks is called Navajo
I started speaking like this out of nowhere recently but I'm not native I'm pleiadian my soul is from another planet I have existed before this universe yet I am still mindblown that I continue to keep my psychic abilities and now have recovered pleiadian language 👁️
People in the comments have said this sounds like Korean, Japanese, Welsh, Arabic, French, Mongolian, Icelandic, Swedish, Turkish and Hindi, which kind of proves that it sounds completely different and is not at all related to languages most people know.
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The Navajo language sounds like this amongst the elders. They don't really slow it down for the younger generation. You better catch on or stay lost.
Correct
Ok
That is fine, but that is how you loose a language. You must slow it down toe the Learners, or it will be gone like so many other tribal languages that have been lost in America..
@@jimcoulter5877 Dumb down your language or watch worldly idiots forget your language. No thanks.
@@jimcoulter5877 that's.... That's what they're saying...
This is a speech addressing a budget use proposal. Mentions lots of things like infrastructure and various tribal programs.
Does he use many English loanwords? Because from what I've seen, regional languages and dialects tend to be very rich when it comes to "traditional life", but when it comes to more modern things like politics and economy, there will be many more loanwords from the majority language. I'm just curious if this is the case with Navajo as well, do you you a lot of English loanwords or are there Navajo equivalents to words like "budget proposal"?
S J Navajo is actually one of the most resistant languages on earth in terms of taking in low words. It is very efficient in creating new words using old ones put together basically.
@@aidanwolff3213 that's really interesting, thanks!
@@SJ-ym4yt Sounds like "car wash" at 3: 13.
I am by no means an expert in any language, even in English. It seems that Navajo uses words already in the language to create compound words to describe more modern items. Like the word for 'cell phone' translates literally into 'the thing you spin around with' which is hilarious because you see a lot of people spin around when talking on a cell phone. It also makes me self conscious now when talking on my phone.
Joe Shirley speaks really good Navajo. Clear, smooth, captivating & straight to the point. If you wanna learn how to speak the language, study how he talks. He's one of our very best speakers.
@kc_1996:
This is guy solely responsible for giving Navajo water away for nothing, literally.
This language must never die
well it’s on the brink so start teaching the younger generation
They must not die like those extinct languages. We have the ability to preserve it, so we better do.
@@taylorham9532it's not really on the brink of extinction, it's spoken by half the population and it's the only indigenous language in North America to actually be gaining speakers within its own community AND outside faster than it is losing them! Great news for such an incredible and poetic language, this is a language with thousands of stories and traditions, it deserves to be cherished and the good news is that it is!
@@GettinJiggyWithGenghis you can show all the passion you want towards it but just like latin. it’ll dissipate don’t you worry the evil white men are at work hehe take ur land then degrade ur language. following every step is n the book hehe
I don't know what he's saying, but I believe him.
he's spitting facts probably
@@welcomingnormie6475 💀
Beautiful! Please teach this beautiful language to your young people! They will carry her and your culture forth!
Frankly I think everyone should take a year or two of some indigenous languages just growing up so that students learn that there are many ways to think
@@GettinJiggyWithGenghis bro no
@@GettinJiggyWithGenghis those langauges aren't important
that language guy brought me here, hehe
ME TOO
Such a fascinating language...
I’ve heard Navajo talk to each other in their language, very fascinating!
This is the true language that I speak in my nation and I've never forgot about that even devil worshipper could not make me forget about the language that I grew up hearing as a child on the Navajo Nationation Tribe.
Is this one of the languages from the north american natives? This is most fascinating. It's trully amazing how it sound quite complex and unique!
Navajos came from the north. They actually can understand the Athabaskans of Alaska. This is different from the other Native Americans such as the Hopi. They came from the south and speak a much harder language. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaskan_Athabaskans
Sherrie Stephens we can't understand Northern languages we can't even understand Apache just some words are similar
You should hear Brazilian indigenous languages....
I would love to learn this one day
Native Americans are not Indians
What a wonderful language......
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how we defeated the Japanese is WW2.
It was impossible for the Japanese to win from the start. The United States had many times more natural resources and population. All the Navajo language could've done was make it easier.
@@maryeverett2266 Ok, nerd
@@yusufthegreat1232 Actually, no. Being a nerd implies that I have poor social skills, which isn’t the case at all. I’m very charming.
@@maryeverett2266 Sure thing, nerd
@@maryeverett2266 no that's not what it implies
Yá'át'ééh
Hi yeesh spa nah nah
Ya'at'teeh = hello
It would be great to have Navajo subtitles with the speech, so I can see how it looks while he speaks. While how languages sound is one interesting aspect, I also love to see what it looks like too.
Sometimes it can sound like Kurdish and sometimes like Mongolian. That ł in Navajo is articulated in the same area of the mouth as the л in Mongolian, albeit the one in Mongolian is voiced.
Sounds nothing like Kurdish
So the Russian L is to Mongolians what the Slash L is to Navajo? Interesting.
L slash is an exaggerated tone.
Kind of like a Korean drinking sojo after taking a swift drink or shot.
Yep, that "l" you're hearing is what's called a "lateral fricative", a sound made by pushing air past the sides of the tongue. Welsh has one too. So does Nahuatl (in fact, the final sound in the name of that language is a lateral fricative).
Well the Mongolian and Siberian people are the ones who migrated to North America across the land bridge several thousand years ago. So Native Americans are technically of Asian descent. You can easily see the facial similarities.
It does somewhat sound like a descendant of a Siberian language like mongolian
I thought that as well
That’s because it’s origin can be tracked back to Siberia. It belongs to the same language family
other way around, probably far far older lol
Amazing!!! Sounds somehow like a mixture between Mongolian, Georgian and Armenian.
Such a cool sounding language.
Aunque no sé nada del idioma, pero por momentos me recuerda al mongol y algunos sonidos al Nahuatl.
God bless you
Just curious if anyone knows the answer as to why Navajo was picked for the code breakers during WWII over other Native American languages. Is Navajo especially difficult/different or are other Native languages just as difficult?
complicated grammar
It has many attributes that are very rare for languages of the non-Americas. All languages are relatively equal in difficulty, but most people over the oceans had zero exposure to languages of the Americas.
Although, there are technically 40 vowels...
The biggest reason it was picked is actually two reasons
1. It was accessible enough in America that the government could find speakers
2. It was completely inaccessible outside of indigenous American, American, and English documentarians and anthropological study, and what did exist at the time was very limited.
To say that this language alone was so difficult that nobody could learn it is frankly just false, it's a cool image but it mystifies a people who are already mystified enough by their "audience". They actually developed a code within this language and that's what they used. The language itself is actually very clean and logical, it is of course brutally difficult if you aren't a native speaker of an already related language, but it's not some magical code that's so difficult it single-handedly made the enigma machine obsolete for example, just an awesome complicated enough language with very few resources outside the US to learn from. Even today with the internet, it's a very difficult language to pick up on just due to the sheer absence of resources.
It should be pointed out that back in the day and even today, many Navajo were opposed to sharing their language with outsiders due to the history of genocide and colonization associated with its speakers, even today it is a privilege to learn the language, an almost religious privilege since the language was created by the holy people in accordance to the Navajo tradition, so a Japanese person asking for resources on the language would be met with a stern "fuck off" (but in Navajo)
I use to listen to him on KTNN back in the day, was a great president...
Fascinating, sounds like Japanese mixed with Arabic
Where can I learn Navajo? I tried Duolingo but it doesn’t teach you of pronunciation
Ya'at'eeh, Keep watching you tube to learn the basics.
Learning the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a really good help learning pronunciation. It's a standardized alphabet linguists around the world use that can be used to transcribe the pronunciation of any language, natural or constructed. Learning it will teach how sounds themselves are made and what goes on in your mouth making this applicable for any language.
Then I guess recordings and videos of speakers (or actually talking to a speaker) will help supplement this.
No it doesn't. I found TH-cam videos that tell pronunciation for the various characters that I can't recognize like the slash L, nasal hook and stop characters. It helps, but still without audio it makes learning it pretty damn difficult.
Now it has audio
Move to the reservation
Sad no one has commented a full translation. Lol
Sounds like Chinese and Welsh combined
sounded a little bit more like Korean in some parts
It is a tonal language like chinese
I thought it sounded like French and German combined but that’s just me :p
It the Navajo Language that years to learn
Also sounds something like of Turkic language.
It sounds like a mix of japanese and arabic
I used to fall asleep to the sound of this language being spoken softly, almost a whisper. It was the ultimate ASMR. I didn't know what they were saying, but the fricatives... oxytocin inducing.
You used to hang with navajos or something?
does the navajo language have "ll" sounds like welsh does? or am I mishearing?
I thought that too
Sounds like Japanese and Circassian combined
this sounds so foreign unlike anything
sleetskate ,
thats why they used it as code in ww2
My language
This is the most unforeign language of this land that we call the United States of America, because it is what won the second world war. Any other language is the foreign one.
apparently its also very hard to translate Navajo into english.
It's an atheibasken language,
Same one as the apaches speak similar language.
Nizhoonii
Handsome guy
That’s what I’m sayin’
We need this for all __________❤️
It sounds like one of the north-western Caucasian languages (namely, Circassian, adyghe)
I'm not surprised by this. Because both languages belong to the Dene-Caucasian language group. We call our language Adighe Bze. The Navajo call their language Dine Bzaad. If I learn the Navajo language, I'm sure I won't have a problem with the sounds.
Both navajo and the caucasian languages have ejectives (with some caucasian languages having the lateral fricative ł)
This My Grandpa mess with him.... You mess with a Medicine Person....
Didn’t understand a word but yup, yessir and respect.
It sounds like a Swedish tape recording gets stuck over and over
Is he stuttering or reduplication is just very prominent in Navajo language?
those are called glottal stops, theyre very common in navajo
I think he is stuttering in some parts
Me: captions on (auto-translate)
Google: 😫
The universal portion of languages: uhhh..., we all use it.
Holy f sh*t 😂
A non-Indo-European language.
Amazing
Strangely, there are a lot of elements of Japanese in this language.
Maybe it's not so strange if native americans migrated to north America from Asia
@@isolationeitheror considering Japanese was created a LONG time after they migrated out of the area it would be very surprising lmao
Altaic?
일본어 자체가 고대 한국어임...
he sounds so much like southeast asian to me. so much thai accent, and native filipino languages mixed😮
Honest question; is he stuttering or is that how the language sounds?
those are called glottal stops, theyre very common in navajo
@@kasin3504 Damn, sounds interesting to say the least
It’s a glottal stop and is used frequently in Navajo. It’s a difficult thing to adjust to for a lot of learners in Navajo
It's like morse code
03:13
Parts of the car wash and the trinity
sounds altai
❤️
it sounds like mix of Chinese and Arabian
Very cool
I would say it is one of the most Melliflous languages😁😁
Going show you where were from on the REZ
Southwest Tribe you know this true in my heart
SO SEE WITH YOUR EYES OPEN WHO I AM
I'M BORN FROM THE REZ IN THE U.S.A
BORN FROM ONE BIG TRIBE ON THE REZERVATION
LOOK INTO MY EYES YOU CAN SEE THE TRUTH
THESE ARE ALL TRUE FACTS I'M TELLING YOU ABOUT
MY UNCLE FRED CAN SPEECH THAT WHEN HE IS DRUNK - LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It sounds like a turkic / mongolian language
The language sounds kinda Turkic and somewhat Altaic.
Sounds very similar to the Mizo language of northeast India
He's speaking facts rn
sounds like he said the same thing for ten minutes
thats a politician
That’s how most languages sound for non-speakers
한국 사투리 억양이 나오네 중간엨ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Sounds like Korean
Sounds like mix of Chechen, Avar and Georgian languages. (Caucasian languages)
sounds the most like Georgian. With the weird consonant clusters, the ejectives etc.
Sounds like Klingon spoken backwards.
I believe some sounds like the ł have been used to create the unique sound of Klingon. I may be wrong but I remember hearing it somewhere
Nah Klingon just couldn't speak it fluently haha
I became interested in Klingon since watching the BIG BANG THEORY tv show. The characters in that show speak Klingon once in a while.
It sounds like arabic + chinese + japanese
Mother Turkey Balls, this is hard even as navajo this is harder than Spanish so many
Ł ĥ ẁ óí x̌ćẃ
Navajo is hard😮🤧😷
Fa3iawm'e arabiə 🇱🇾
Ma3aerîə arabiə 🇱🇾
I don't understand that
_L_A_Y_L_A _ you navajo?
_L_A_Y_L_A _ our old president was kinda not good tho...
Yes! There are definitely Welsh sounding bits in there the ''Ll' sound as in Llanelli is definitely there. So interesting.
Da3iawanyə arabiə 🇱🇾
Sounds like Mandarin and Dutch/Afrikaans had a baby
Sounds like Turkish
Sounds like French, Mongolian, and Korean
To me it actually sounds a lot like Icelandic
Roboat
Arabiə faṅaa cahəwrə
Gənə Ənassə
I'm from a different tribe. But I'm still native American ! If you have knowledge to speak say it to all of us bro.
like Japan and Hindi language
I speak Hindi and it doesn't sound like Hindi to me, but I respect your opinion.
Apostolic
I am from Europe, Croatia and a like it so much...I would like to speak Indian, but I'am so far 😕
Dude the language he speaks is not "indian" wtf. Indians are not native americans. Indians are from India and native americans are well you guessed it the native inhabitants of America. The language this man speaks is called Navajo
@@parabelli not to mention that this is only one out of HUNDREDS of other native american languages.
sounds like turkish to me xd
No
Maybe because of Navajo has Asian origins
Nigga talking crazy
The language isn't English, it's Navajo.
I started speaking like this out of nowhere recently but I'm not native I'm pleiadian my soul is from another planet I have existed before this universe yet I am still mindblown that I continue to keep my psychic abilities and now have recovered pleiadian language 👁️
no, you did not randomly start speaking Navajo…sorry goofster
North west south east go north Sacramento California apostlic God and the devil and Jesus Christ name amen
What
People in the comments have said this sounds like Korean, Japanese, Welsh, Arabic, French, Mongolian, Icelandic, Swedish, Turkish and Hindi, which kind of proves that it sounds completely different and is not at all related to languages most people know.