A little. My thing is only american mixed race people need to pick the race they wish to "side with", mexicans fail to realize that the cast majority of them are mixed race with varying percentages of white or native american. Like look at Canelo Alvarez, full on ginger, most likely his ancestors were of Irish decent. Mexico being in 2nd place when it comes to the Irish diaspora. Like it shouldn't be cool to be any race but don't hate yourself because of your European ancestry, and don't think it's cool to be native american.
Mayan is not a dialect but a language, dialect is the way you speak a language, for example, in usa people speak a diferent dialect to british people, both speak english, but diferent dialects.
I appreciate this video, and I'm very interested in learning Nahuatl. The vowel sounds are the same as Spanish, but NOT the same as the English examples you give. Because these vowel sounds do not map to the Roman alphabet, I'll use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to illustrate. I've provided a good English example for each sound and explained why the examples given don't work. The "A" is like in English "ARM" (a in IPA), not like apple (æ in IPA). The E example is fine "E" in "ELEPHANT" (e in IPA). The "I" is like the double ee in the English word "SEE" (i in IPA), not like the short 'i' in 'incredible' (ɪ in IPA). "O" closest to the English word "GO" (oʊ in IPA), not the short "u" in "umbrella" (ʌ in IPA). The U example is fine "OO" in "MOON". Hope you find this helpful.
@@ramiromoreno1386 Key point is that this is Nahuatl for English speakers, and the majority of English speakers were taught to speak English in such a way as to sound like an American. It’s not that Americans can’t understand that this is a Spanish/Mexican-accent affected English, but that the vowels didn’t match what most would consider “English vowels”. That said, English doesn’t have just five phonemes to represent vowels, so we’d be better off with IPA as this person provided, just so we can all be clear on exactly what phonemes are present in Nahuatl with accents aside.
Oh my gosh so excited I found your channel my father is from Nahua tribe but left Mexico before I was born so I’m trying to learn my native language 28 years later
Just out of curiosity are you Mexican American? Spanish was actually banned in different parts of the "USA"when they bought it from Mexico. That would explain many not knowing how even Spanish.
@BMO exactly, just some families dont teach it to there kids and I know many of my Mexican American friends don't even know Spanish or cant speak it well. but my mom made sure I learned Spanish because it is part of my culture, and I've been lucky to go to a school which teachers both English and Spanish. I'm also better at Spanish then a lot of my Mexican friends even tho I'm only half. but I love my culture very much
Thank you so much! As embarrassed as I am of it, I’m not very good at Spanish so I wanted to learn it in English. In order to understand it better. My family is from El Salvador and I really want to learn how to speak this language so I can be more connected with my roots, and teach it to my children.
It would be easier to use (k) instead of (q) that way it would not have exeptions of when to use it. That's the problem of using (spanish) orthography to spell (nahuatl).
English makes even less sense. Way too many silent letters, exceptions & exceptions to exceptions. Even words pronouncefd exactly the same, but mean 2 different things, so give them a break. Every language has its flaws, & rules that make no sense.
I have to learn either spanish or this because my step moms mom is coming to stay with me and my family for a while and she only speaks spanish and Náhuatl and im already horrible at spanish so i decided ti learn this one 😂😂😂
Um... None of those vowel sounds were correctly correlated to English sounds, but if you listen with Spanish ears it makes sense... It reminds me of the old "pink, green and yellow" joke... (Long story short: "I hear the phone green, I pink it up, and I say, 'yellow'?")
Thanks for the great video. You have the pronunciations of the English words APPLE and INCREDIBLE wrong. The A in APPLE is a flattened A like the A in English CAT. A better word would be: the A in English FATHER. The first I in INCREDIBLE is a short I and this sound does not exist in Spanish nor Nahuatl. A better word would be the sound of EE in English FEET. Los sonidos de los vocales en nahuatl me parecen como los en espanol. Por ejemplo: la A como la A en CASA / la E como la E en ENTERO / la I como la I en HIJO / la O como la O en OSO / la U como la U en UVA. Otra vez, muchisimas gracias.
Thank you for such an important and informative video! I have a question- A new genus of tarantula was established and given the beautiful Nahuatl name Tliltocatl. But there is much contention among hobbyists about how it is pronounced! Could you please help clear this up so we don't mangle your beautiful language, please? Many thanks!
Es muy buena tu clase, sólo que no es el alfabeto nahua porque ellos no tenían alfabeto. Son las letras del castellano para escribir el Náhuatl. Cuando los españoles empezaron a entender el idioma lo anotaron con su alfabeto como ocurrió con el diccionario de Alonso de Molina que desde chico llegó a Tenochtitlan y traducía. Por eso hay a veces confusión xq ellos escribían de acuerdo a lo que escuchaban pero si ves el glifo original que era su forma de escribir es cuando tiene uno la seguridad del significado. hay un trabajo muy interesante sobre ésto que no estoy segura si es de editorial UNAM. Gracias
Hola. Tienes mucha razón en este punto, es por eso que pusimos "alphabet" entre comillas, porque como bien dices, en realidad no es alfabeto, sin embargo a fine prácticos se pone así para los que van empezando. Saludos cordiales.
Niltze, tlahsigue enseñando en castellano la lengua nahuatlahtolli, los mexihcanos debemos recuperar nuestras actuales 68 lenguas del olvido, incluyendo el castellano, yeh ixquich tlazohcamati titohtazqueh
@@ManuEnergetico I have no idea how to pronounce the "Tl" the way I hear it, I want to make the "tz" sound :( I am hard hearing and I don't think the video audio quality is helping me
mis padres empezaron a usar Náhuatl y no entiendo nada jaja creo que están hablando mal de mi pero no se... my parents started using Nahuatl and I cant understand anything hahaha i think they’re talking bad about me but i’m not sure
A as in Ahpple... This is already confusing. It's it A, like Apple or A, like awkward? The others are confusing as well, since you're using English words,but not English pronunciation. 😩
English is a phonetically language. Vowels sounds in English are short or long. Also, if it is single or doble vowel. Consonant sounds are going to depend of the letter that precedes or follows it. It should have been compared with the Spanish sounds. Spanish is a simple language in its pronunciation. It is pronounced as its spelling. Sorry, it looks like you do not have a background in linguistics. Did you take Nahuatl in High School or Preparatoria in Mexico. In their curriculum they teach one semester of Latin and one of Nahuatl. Now, at the university level in U S A you may take take Latin and/or Greek. It's optional and it depends of your field of studies. Do not get involved in teaching a language without a good background in linguistics. Better, stick to your mother tong or Primary language or L1.
I prefer spanish. Spanish is a very useful language if you want to get a woman because its very masculine. Nahuatl is awesome but not as useful and doesn't have that sound you would call beautiful. But hey I'm not Mexican and I don't have any aztec in me I'm 100% European i got 30% spanish in me but 60% Scandinavian aka vikings and the rest is Irish and English.
@@homermtz I said English. "Apple" and "incredible," do not use the sounds that he is using. There are plenty of words in English that do, but these clearly aren't it.
@@victorespinoza9869 I am an English native speaker, and any English speaking grade schooler can tell you that he made several gramatical mistakes here and there. The grammatical errors weren't really important, but the English words he used to demonstrate which sounds from English that we're supposed to be using to pronounce Nahuatl words, are not pronounced the way he seems to think they are. Therefore his directions about pronounciation are inherently misinformed, or at least contradictory.
@@kristaoconnors8878 I said Nahuatl *and i was being sarcastic, its clear his native tongue is not English but he is doing his best to teach us and I appreciate his effort.
I’m Mexican and I think it’s important to learn the original language of my people to keep it alive
Change your name too?
@@Deadly_fox512 You're trying to be cheeky, aren't you?
Agreed man I’m going to learn Nahuatl for my ancestors
@@Deadly_fox512 you're trying to be cheeky, aren't you?
A little. My thing is only american mixed race people need to pick the race they wish to "side with", mexicans fail to realize that the cast majority of them are mixed race with varying percentages of white or native american. Like look at Canelo Alvarez, full on ginger, most likely his ancestors were of Irish decent. Mexico being in 2nd place when it comes to the Irish diaspora.
Like it shouldn't be cool to be any race but don't hate yourself because of your European ancestry, and don't think it's cool to be native american.
Mexico is going to open a University to teach all indigenous languages. And the state of Yucatan is going to start teaching there dialect in school.
Yes it's true
Hope so cause the only place they teach you the Mayan and Aztec language in USA is the California state prison
Mayan is not a dialect but a language, dialect is the way you speak a language, for example, in usa people speak a diferent dialect to british people, both speak english, but diferent dialects.
Wow being a bilingual in Spanish and English really helps seeing both perspectives of the nahuatl language. I hope to become trilingual 😁
Ahmonehbeliveso
Mix Spanglishuatl
My dad is from Puebla and speaks náhuatl I just found out 🥺 thanks for this video I’m trying to learn the language now
Better get ta learning!
I appreciate this video, and I'm very interested in learning Nahuatl. The vowel sounds are the same as Spanish, but NOT the same as the English examples you give. Because these vowel sounds do not map to the Roman alphabet, I'll use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to illustrate. I've provided a good English example for each sound and explained why the examples given don't work. The "A" is like in English "ARM" (a in IPA), not like apple (æ in IPA). The E example is fine "E" in "ELEPHANT" (e in IPA). The "I" is like the double ee in the English word "SEE" (i in IPA), not like the short 'i' in 'incredible' (ɪ in IPA). "O" closest to the English word "GO" (oʊ in IPA), not the short "u" in "umbrella" (ʌ in IPA). The U example is fine "OO" in "MOON". Hope you find this helpful.
Yes I do!!! Thank you!
Thank you for giving a linguistic explanation. I came looking for it.
He has a spanish accent it sounds exactly how he said it just americans cant understand
@@ramiromoreno1386 Key point is that this is Nahuatl for English speakers, and the majority of English speakers were taught to speak English in such a way as to sound like an American. It’s not that Americans can’t understand that this is a Spanish/Mexican-accent affected English, but that the vowels didn’t match what most would consider “English vowels”. That said, English doesn’t have just five phonemes to represent vowels, so we’d be better off with IPA as this person provided, just so we can all be clear on exactly what phonemes are present in Nahuatl with accents aside.
Oh my gosh so excited I found your channel my father is from Nahua tribe but left Mexico before I was born so I’m trying to learn my native language 28 years later
Thanks I'm trying to learn Nahuatl before i learn Spanish
Just out of curiosity are you Mexican American? Spanish was actually banned in different parts of the "USA"when they bought it from Mexico. That would explain many not knowing how even Spanish.
@BMO exactly, just some families dont teach it to there kids and I know many of my Mexican American friends don't even know Spanish or cant speak it well. but my mom made sure I learned Spanish because it is part of my culture, and I've been lucky to go to a school which teachers both English and Spanish. I'm also better at Spanish then a lot of my Mexican friends even tho I'm only half. but I love my culture very much
Well if you want to truly say you have no white influences just learn Nahuatl. Don't learn spanish because well, white European language and all.
BMO yeah and as a real mexican your suppose to learn and know nahuatl not a white mans language.
@@CC-oe4gc my mom is half Mexican and half Dominican and my dad is Dominican
Gracias por mencionar a El Salvador también y por tú información. Mi familia es de El Salvador y siempre he querido aprender Nahuatl.
THANK YOU FOR RAISING THE CONSCIOUS OF OUR PEOPLE!
In Nahuatl, the letter 'x' is pronounced as 'sh'. The pronunciation of 'x' as 'sh' is also noted in Chinese as well.
Very interesting…
Thank you for even having this channel bro. Hablo español y mi familia es de Chihuahua. Quiero aprender todas las extensiones ydinamicas de nauhuatl
Niltze! You're very welcome!
Thank you for this education!
Absolutely invaluable!
Thank you so much! As embarrassed as I am of it, I’m not very good at Spanish so I wanted to learn it in English. In order to understand it better. My family is from El Salvador and I really want to learn how to speak this language so I can be more connected with my roots, and teach it to my children.
Gracias. Es un idioma único
Love this! Thank you, I will be donating soon.
I'm Mexican but my parents never taught me Spanish and now I'm trying to learn on my own and this seems easier for me to pronounce
It would be easier to use (k) instead of (q) that way it would not have exeptions of when to use it. That's the problem of using (spanish) orthography to spell (nahuatl).
I remember hearing that the letter Q in Nahuatl makes a K that is deeper in the throat.
English makes even less sense. Way too many silent letters, exceptions & exceptions to exceptions. Even words pronouncefd exactly the same, but mean 2 different things, so give them a break. Every language has its flaws, & rules that make no sense.
Yeah, but that would ruin etymology
I have to learn either spanish or this because my step moms mom is coming to stay with me and my family for a while and she only speaks spanish and Náhuatl and im already horrible at spanish so i decided ti learn this one 😂😂😂
Amazing video tlazocamati
Great! Thank you very much! I`m hoping for more :)
Thank you 🙏🏽🌎💚🌼
You're very welcome!
Thank you. As feedback, the “y” in yard is pronounced (i) like the i in mío
Nahuatliyapi kiŋ líla iyukčaŋphičaya.
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El idioma náhuatl es muy interesante.
Please more videos.
Indigenous from Nicaragua spoke it as well including Mesquito.
I realy wish they made audio books so I can lisen to them wall I sleep.
Ngl I’m english but I really want to learn the language because it’s actually very interesting
💐♥️
Love how my name was mentioned Xochitl
That's my cousins name ^^ do you know other nahuatl names?
Yes, i too trying learn the sweet lenguege and i'm goin well
Too with the inglish..
Muchas Gracias querido mio 🕊🎺🤍😇🇲🇽🇺🇸43 43
Um... None of those vowel sounds were correctly correlated to English sounds, but if you listen with Spanish ears it makes sense... It reminds me of the old "pink, green and yellow" joke... (Long story short: "I hear the phone green, I pink it up, and I say, 'yellow'?")
Lol - the joke.
Thanks for the great video. You have the pronunciations of the English words APPLE and INCREDIBLE wrong. The A in APPLE is a flattened A like the A in English CAT. A better word would be: the A in English FATHER. The first I in INCREDIBLE is a short I and this sound does not exist in Spanish nor Nahuatl. A better word would be the sound of EE in English FEET. Los sonidos de los vocales en nahuatl me parecen como los en espanol. Por ejemplo: la A como la A en CASA / la E como la E en ENTERO / la I como la I en HIJO / la O como la O en OSO / la U como la U en UVA. Otra vez, muchisimas gracias.
Very interesting
Thank you for such an important and informative video! I have a question- A new genus of tarantula was established and given the beautiful Nahuatl name Tliltocatl. But there is much contention among hobbyists about how it is pronounced! Could you please help clear this up so we don't mangle your beautiful language, please? Many thanks!
Yes! The video is already in this channel. Thanks for watching us!
I subscribed to fast
Do the chichimeca speak nahuatl?
Niltze! No, chichimeca were precisely non-nahuatl speakers
Gracias 😊 👌🏾mas lecturas please.
Seguiremos trabajando para ponerlos a la par con las lecciones en español. Saludos cordiales.
Es muy buena tu clase, sólo que no es el alfabeto nahua porque ellos no tenían alfabeto. Son las letras del castellano para escribir el Náhuatl. Cuando los españoles empezaron a entender el idioma lo anotaron con su alfabeto como ocurrió con el diccionario de Alonso de Molina que desde chico llegó a Tenochtitlan y traducía. Por eso hay a veces confusión xq ellos escribían de acuerdo a lo que escuchaban pero si ves el glifo original que era su forma de escribir es cuando tiene uno la seguridad del significado. hay un trabajo muy interesante sobre ésto que no estoy segura si es de editorial UNAM. Gracias
Hola. Tienes mucha razón en este punto, es por eso que pusimos "alphabet" entre comillas, porque como bien dices, en realidad no es alfabeto, sin embargo a fine prácticos se pone así para los que van empezando. Saludos cordiales.
I'm no understen you, nehuatl nitlahtoa kaxtilankopa, ihuan tehuatl? Sorry i'm trying peactice eventually this two fucks lenguages
Que libro habla del alfabeto original? Quisiera leerlo
I understood that the vowel u is not used in Nahuatl ?
In nahuatl there is no letter or sound of (u) like in english or spanish there is something more like a hybrid between (w and u) together
Nahuatl is also the filth deity in Aztec mythology. The one who steals sin from people to grow stronger
I'd love to compare nahuatl and Maya
Tlazohcamati
I rather learn this than Spanish
Is there anyone that teach this dialect I'm still on the basics
My grandparents speak Nahuatl but I speak very little
Quito Bambito i ask them and they said its tlācamāyeh
Niltze, tlahsigue enseñando en castellano la lengua nahuatlahtolli, los mexihcanos debemos recuperar nuestras actuales 68 lenguas del olvido, incluyendo el castellano, yeh ixquich tlazohcamati titohtazqueh
"TL" has a similar sound to the spanish "t" in the word "Alto"
No, «tl» from Nahuatl is a voiceless lateral alveolar affricate [t͡ɬ] not the sounds sequence [tl] or [lt].
@@ManuEnergetico I have no idea how to pronounce the "Tl" the way I hear it, I want to make the "tz" sound :( I am hard hearing and I don't think the video audio quality is helping me
More videos ever?
Yes! We'll be posting more soon.
Is anyone fluent at Nahuatl? Cuz I wanna learn so if anyone can reply and give me their socials so I can learn more about the native Mexican language
Good afternoon, if you're interested in learning more about nahuatl, please contact us: facebook.com/nahuatlahtolli
Mis Tíos Hablan Nahuatl
La palabra "nikka" significa niño o hombre?
mis padres empezaron a usar Náhuatl y no entiendo nada jaja creo que están hablando mal de mi pero no se...
my parents started using Nahuatl and I cant understand anything hahaha i think they’re talking bad about me but i’m not sure
The pauses in certain parts of words reminds me of Japanese
A as in Ahpple...
This is already confusing.
It's it A, like Apple or
A, like awkward?
The others are confusing as well, since you're using English words,but not English pronunciation.
😩
English is a phonetically language.
Vowels sounds in English are short or long. Also, if it is single or doble vowel.
Consonant sounds are going to depend of the letter that precedes or follows it.
It should have been compared with the Spanish sounds.
Spanish is a simple language in its pronunciation. It is pronounced as its spelling.
Sorry, it looks like you do not have a background in linguistics.
Did you take Nahuatl in High School or Preparatoria in Mexico.
In their curriculum they teach one semester of Latin and one of Nahuatl.
Now, at the university level in U S A you may take take Latin and/or Greek. It's optional and it depends of your field of studies.
Do not get involved in teaching a language without a good background in linguistics.
Better, stick to your mother tong or Primary language or L1.
Lieng.
Deleted letters: B, D, F, G, J, K, R, S, V, W
Alphabet (excluding Ch, Ll, Tl, Tz):
A C E H I L M N O P Q T U X Y Z
The orthography is a mess.
I prefer spanish. Spanish is a very useful language if you want to get a woman because its very masculine. Nahuatl is awesome but not as useful and doesn't have that sound you would call beautiful. But hey I'm not Mexican and I don't have any aztec in me I'm 100% European i got 30% spanish in me but 60% Scandinavian aka vikings and the rest is Irish and English.
Dude clearly has no idea how to pronounce these English words.
That is not how to say those vowel sounds in those words.
your right krista maybe you should be teaching us Nahuatl
Lets see your doctorate then .
@@homermtz
I said English.
"Apple" and "incredible," do not use the sounds that he is using.
There are plenty of words in English that do, but these clearly aren't it.
@@victorespinoza9869
I am an English native speaker, and any English speaking grade schooler can tell you that he made several gramatical mistakes here and there.
The grammatical errors weren't really important, but the English words he used to demonstrate which sounds from English that we're supposed to be using to pronounce Nahuatl words, are not pronounced the way he seems to think they are.
Therefore his directions about pronounciation are inherently misinformed, or at least contradictory.
@@kristaoconnors8878 I said Nahuatl *and i was being sarcastic, its clear his native tongue is not English but he is doing his best to teach us and I appreciate his effort.
It's a corrupt version of paleo hebrew
Tlazohcamati