Your not native your Siberian African Americans are the real native Americans we was reclassified as Africans they said the natives had dark skin and wooly hair not your people you imposter
compare with south indian Tamil language you will see lots of Tamil words.PPL from the sunken continent Kumari kandam after the great flood moved all parts of world you see Tamil language oldest still spoken by 13 crore ppl every where.natives of California research on it
Missionaries tried to wipe our language with Native Schooling. My ancestors were beaten for speaking their language in class. 1980s, we fought back and our language is alive and thriving. We now have schools. Its a shame that this particular language is lost in speech, but with what little there is on these recordings remains alive. Would be nice to hear them without any other noise overriding them...
From the mountains to the sun, life has only just begun We wed this land and pledge our souls to meet its end Life has only just begun Here my people roam the earth, in the kingdom of our birth Where the dust of all our horses hides the sun We are mighty on the earth, on the earth You have come to move me, take me from my ancient home Land of my fathers I can't leave you now We will share it with you, no man owns this earth we're on Now the wheels are rolling, hear the howling winds of war It's my destiny to fight and die Is there no solution, can we find no other way, Lord let me stay Under the endless sky and the earth below Here I was born to live and I will never go, oh no But we cannot endure like the earth and the mountains Life is not ours to keep, for a new sun is rising Soon these days shall pass away, for our freedom we must pay All our words and deeds are carried on the wind In the ground our bodies lay, here we lay
@@alvarojacome3191 dont you understand? They can’t and if they do none of their americanized people will want to do anything because they will want to assimilate. Their children aren’t even theirs. They are literally being indoctrinated as we speak. The more they go to school they more they will want to fit in.
Wow hearing my Native Ancestors voice and Original language here in my Americas today is a feeling I can't explain and the yurok voice is clear Long live the Narragansett and to my Brother's and Sisters from all tribe's WE SHALL REMAIN
Interesting how the 1907 recording, had lame background music. Oh, I get it, that's the work of some idiot who didn't realize we'd rather hear the recordings then their interruptions.
they probably don’t have many you can understand. like they said, a lot of them are moldy, scratched, broken, and the tech they used to record wasn’t very good
i am sicangu my family and i speak fluent lakota at home, and of course english when we are talking to non relatives. we will protect our language and hope people will learn our language as well!
It would be nice if you made something like a language textbook at home. The alphabets, number system, punctuation, grammar and some hours of recordings on lessons to learn how it’s supposed to sound. That would preserve it forever.
We have to treat these recordings like gold. We can’t lose our sacred Native American heritage. Thank you to all that do this. Peace, love, and light to you!
I am a First Nation I belong to woodland cree nation and I always wished I could discover and learn our first language as indigenous people, that would be a life time goal for all our people.. a lot of our people are losing our first language soon it will be lost forever as our elders pass on to the spirit world.
I AM SO HAPPY PEOPLE LIKE YOU ALL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA EXIST. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. Thank you for preserving the past Thank you for working hard to preserve these important people of our past. For We are All Americans today...but they are the Native Americans of the Past. These beautiful people whose cultures and populations were decimated and almost completely wiped off the face of North America need to be remembered for being the originals of this wonderful nation. THANK YOU ALL for existing.
Is there a link to the actual archive of restored recordings? I get that the point of this video was to introduce the project but I would love to hear more of the recordings.
Yeah, or at least recordings that didn't have to be restored. They also have lexical resources. Here's the link: cla.berkeley.edu/california-languages.php
Some European languages got wiped out too in the same way. I know kids used to be beaten in school for lapsing into Gaelic in the Scottish Highlands at any rate. I think the idea was one, assimilation to British culture and two, the teachers thought they might get better work on the mainland by learning English. Our language is almost dead, but it is making a revival. Really hope that people preserve their native heritages and record their own words instead of allowing someone else to butcher your story.
Guys a little advice, do you want to record these guys with an Iphone 12 in 2021 speaking those same languages? Go to Southern Mexico in the mountains, there's thousands of people who still speak Yaqui, Mayan and Aztec.
Thank u so much for keeping our languages alive I'm trying my best to find out where I'm from and my soul called me to pick up move to Florida... I feel as if I have been called back home 😭❤️❣️🙏🏾
I have a colleague in Vienna who is doing the same for the Caucasus. This is also an area of many tiny languages. Many of the people there were deported under Stalin and were allowed to return later. The recordings tell us of villages that we did not know to exist, and of village life long gone.
From the mountains to the sun, life has only just begun We wed this land and pledge our souls to meet its end Life has only just begun Here my people roam the earth, in the kingdom of our birth Where the dust of all our horses hides the sun We are mighty on the earth, on the earth You have come to move me, take me from my ancient home Land of my fathers I can't leave you now We will share it with you, no man owns this earth we're on Now the wheels are rolling, hear the howling winds of war It's my destiny to fight and die Is there no solution, can we find no other way, Lord let me stay Under the endless sky and the earth below Here I was born to live and I will never go, oh no But we cannot endure like the earth and the mountains Life is not ours to keep, for a new sun is rising Soon these days shall pass away, for our freedom we must pay All our words and deeds are carried on the wind In the ground our bodies lay, here we lay
To understand any language forgotten is to listen to feel it's vibration and frequency.. it's likely the written form shall never become available for recording.. however, one must always note vibration (tone) of expression speaking.... Lost but found
its a terrible shame that so much knowledge, language, skill and culture from every land in this world has been lost and destroyed by the acts, thoughts and deeds of total greedy, evil, idiotic fools.
In spite of destruction of the indigenous people of North America, the linguistics of their language lives on through technology and their recorded voices. It is a true treasure that we can learn about them through the dedication of these researchers. Than you!
Amazing that long defunct languages are given a new life and can be studied. Otherwise they would joint countless other languages forgotten by history.
This work is critical to ending the cultural genocide that was the government schools where students were forced to speak the dominant language- English. Language is heritage, there are efforts world wide to stop cultural erosion through the reestablishment of Indigenous language and place names. Tribal colleges and secondary schools in the US, nationwide programs to use the Indigenous Welsh names of places and areas, the Republic of Ireland requires schools to include modern Gaelige as part of the national curriculum. What’s more, these programs are beginning to work! New generations of young people are reclaiming their heritage and history. The Māori of New Zealand, the Saàmi of Norway, and the Sisiskia or Blackfoot Nation as well as the Navajo Nation are all wonderful examples of Indigenous Nations who are using language as a cultural to make a cultural comeback! And all power to them!
I'm 68. I still have several hundred records from my misspent youth, as well as some from my father's collection. So these records span from about 1950 to about 1985 (I quit buying records when CDs became available). I've kept my records because for decades I've been hoping for someone to build equipment that scans them with a laser, just like these. Maybe some day. Of course, I suspect that each and every one is available today as a download, so it's probably just an academic exercise.
The tape of her speaking is little.. But it's probably so exciting for you guys bc you guys have been working on this for a long time and finally you get a acsent from the person.. ❤️
So we're the wax cylinders intentional recordings, or did they inadvertently invent a way to record sound by having the wax cylinders nearby while singing and talking?
I love purple hair and the shirt. Good work guys fascinating. Sad to hear lost language. So glad my people are working hard teaching my language..see it on TH-cam a lot. So proud of Jonathan Nez being covid-19 leadership Please submit him 4 CNN Heroes award
@@davidreyez3200 Anthropologist who interviewed Ishi & wrote "Ishi, Last of His Tribe". Father of Ursula K (for Kroeber) LeGuin who wrote some of the greatest fantasy and science fiction novels of the last 50 years. Earthsea, Hainish Cycle, Always Coming Home). RIP.
Contrary to what Wikipedia says, they're not actually "wax" cylinders. Edison tried that material and failed early on. The brown cylinders are made of a metalized soap compound. These had to be cut directly and couldn't be reproduced. It was the introduction of the "Gold Moulded" cylinders made out of a plastic-like cellulose material which allowed for recordings to be reproduced. Those were black and were then superseded by the blue phenolic versions.
I really wish this video contained more of the actual recordings instead of how wax cylinders are made and how valuable they are. Let us actually hear them!
In my area at estonia are language wich is dying out slowly my dad still speaks it and uncel but not mother and grandmothers still speak it . But now are schools estonain language and i seto language is dying sloely out . I dont understand some hard words wich arent similar to estonain . This place where i live is named setomaa in estonian .
this is what I am searching to know. I asked myself, English = England. why did the Americans speaks English? This is the answer. Please do preserve, prescribe and utilize it.
I clicked into some of the sound recording links, but nothing is available online. Too bad. In any case, are native American languages mainly tonal or non-tonal?
Ohlone/Costanoan languages, (Rumsen, specifically,) sound like they have similarities in tone and phonology to Athabascan dialects from the southwest and much less so to Inuit/Athabascan dialects to the north. I wonder if they were ever related languages. It'd be interesting to have Navajo and Chiricahua listen to the greater collection of recordings to see if there are significant phonic overlaps or even some similarities in structure and vocabulary, allowing for the fact that Individual meanings sometimes change significantly for originally equivalent, like sounding words.
I JUST WANT TO HEAR THE ACTUAL RECORDING! Thumbs down. This video isn't about preserving an original recording of native american language, it's just about promoting how amazing the technology is, without delivering what's promised.
I hope you get them all copied and transferred because eventually the wax will melt and people forget so easily about people when they don’t value them anymore graveyards prove this o so well
U.S. of america and the ideals of liberty werent born in 1776, they were born over 10,000 years ago with the great indiginous peoples of this continent.
It seems that you idealize native indians. They were (and they are) usual pre-civilization people whose main need was to survive. Nothing romantical. Btw, the USA has neglected principles of freedom etc etc many many times since 1776. So you overestimate Americans (both native and modern).
Let’s face it 80% of the world today is the result of native slaughtering because back then we had no idea and just let the beast instincts take over but know we have grown wiser and realize past mistakes
I can't speak for all native languages, but I am learning Tsalagi (Cherokee), and one of the interesting but difficult things to grasp if you're a native speaker of English or any non-tonal language is that Tsalagi is tonal. First, it's syllabic, as in unlike English there's a limited set of syllables, not individual letters to be recombined into a thousand sounds. As a result, the tone and length a syllable is held can totally change the meaning of a word. For example ama. If you say it ahmah where the "ah" is at normal pitch and held short, and the mah follows it at a short falling high pitch (like almost all Tsalagi final syllables) it means water; however, if you say ahmah where the "ah" is at a higher pitch long vowel with the usual falling short final syllable, it means salt. Not knowing that tonal distinction could be important lol. If I say ah(norm short)mah aquaduliha - "I want water" but ah(long high)mah aquaduliha, I'm gonna get a salt shaker. Simlarly ahdah, if the ah is short and regular tone, it means wood, but if it's short, high tone with a glottal stop between ah and dah - it means young animal. You don't want to tell someone to go chop young animals when you just needed firewood :) I know that many Asian languages, like Vietnamese and Mandarin are also syllabic and tonal. Native languages have evolved a lot over time, and there is also a huge variety between tribal languages in the Americas. There are at least 18 language families in North America alone (versus like 4 for all of Europe). Not all native languages will be tonal like Tsalagi. In fact, there are languages that are as different from each other between tribes as English and Arabic or something like that. One of the primary difference between many indigenous languages to the Americas and most of Asia is that many languages here use polysynthesis - adding pre, suf, and infixes in verbs to make them very specific. With one Tsalagi verb along, no other helping words in the sentence, one can specify: Prefix: whether the action applies to I, you, (s)he, you two people, myself and one other person other than who I'm speaking to, myself and one other person who is the person I'm speaking to, myself and many other people not including whom I'm speaking to, myself and many other people including whom I'm speaking to, many other people not including whom I'm speaking with, and many other people including whom I'm speaking with. Versus in English I can only define I, you, he, she, it, we, you all, them. Infix: This is a change within the verb itself that will specify whether the verb is acting upon something animate, long (like a stick), flexible (like a blanket), etc. So if I am carrying a puppy or blanket or broom the verb will differ. Root: The action of the verb, i.e. carrying or needing. Suffix: the tense of the verb such as present, present habitual, imperative now, imperative non-specific, past, future, etc. So when I say "saloli dunihnohele" - it says they (prefix) brought (present) them (something flexible and inanimate) to him. Saloli means squirrel(s) - but since the infix says the verb refers to something inanimate and flexible, one would know the squirrel were dead - like he hunted squirrel, not that he brought living squirrels. So basically it says, "They brought him some squirrels' bodies." There are some Siberian languages that do polysynthesis, which makes sense since of all of the Asiatic people, those from Siberia would be closest both geographically and temporally to Native Americans. On the other hand, there are also languages in Africa that are tonal and use polysynthesis, so those connections aren't really smoking gun similarities. So the TLDR version is that there are some shared traits with Asiatic languages in some Native American languages, mainly Siberian ones; however, the differences far outweigh the similarities and the variety in NA languages make it impossible to make any generalization between all NA languages. Added Trivia: Most Native American languages (maybe all, but I can't say that for sure) are gender neutral. This mean pronoun-wise you cannot specify gender. For example, though as above you can be very specific about the number of people you're referring to, you cannot specify gender. There is no he or she - just as prefix referring to a third party single person of no specified gender. For example, dudoa (dew-doe-ah) means his/her/its name is. Also, in most tribes individual who today would identify in an LGBTQ+ group were fully accepted and valued members of the tribes. There may have been more than two gender nouns, such as in Tsalagi there's asgaya and ageyv (man and woman), also nudale asgaya and nudale ageyv (different man (trans woman) and different woman (trans man), and finally there's asegi (which means strange in Tsalagi but not in a pejorative sense - so a better translation would be unique) and would refer to any other non-binary gender. I think that the gender neutral nature of the language and more tolerant, egalitarian views of the traditional tribal culture are no coincidence.
Asian languages sounds nothing like native american languages just like how the irish language sound nothing like english language or armenian and turkish
Asian languages sounds nothing like native american languages just like how the irish language sound nothing like english language or armenian and turkish
@@TeddeeJordan This is a very valuable and interesting explanation of the Cherokee language. I would like to say that linguistic "gender" has little to do with actual gender. In most "gendered" languages, "gender" is almost completely arbitrary. In my native hebrew the word for table is male, but this doesn't mean that we actually think tables are male. Furthermore, many languages have more than two genders, and that is why I placed the word "gender" in double quotes. The actual proper term is noun classes. Bantu languages, for instance, have up to 21 noun classes. There are classes for round objects, or abstract ideas, or humans, and they are marked by prefixes on each word. Verbs are then conjugated for the class of both the subject and the object (like Cherokee). Afro-asiatic languages, like Hebrew, Beja, Somali, Arabic, Hausa, Ancient Egyptian and Coptic all have two classes, which correspond to the two sexes (so the term genders is appropriate). Like Bantu, verbs are conjugated for subject, and sometimes the object. The feminine gender is marked by a suffix/prefix/circumfix -t-. Linguistic gender bares no relation to acceptance of alternative sexualities or gender norms, or egalitarianism. Many languages completely lacking in gender or noun class, were/are spoken in highly patriachal societies, like Turkish or Chinese, that did not accept free sexual expression. On the other hand, many if not most the languages spoken in the countries that started the women's rights movement, democracy, and enlightenment values, namely european ones, speak highly gendered languages. Take German or French, for instance. So why did I write this rant? Because I think that this kind of thinking can lead to linguistic supremacism. I am sure you didn't intend that, so this is no attack on you. This kind of thinking, that a particular form of speech is somehow 'better', 'more correct', 'morally superior' or 'proper' led many states and societies to try and destroy the minority speech, which is considered 'degenerate', 'wrong', 'ugly' and so on and so forth. To our day, many countries continue to try and erase the remnants of their countries' linguistic heritage. Even western countries like Italy and France do that, while others like Britain stopped too late. If we want to maintain cultural and linguistic diversity in the world, it is imperative that we stop assigning value to arbitrary phonetic or grammatical properties, that we stop telling people that their speech and dialect are wrong, that we stop trying to police pronunciation and speech, and that we understand that the language you speak has absolutely zero bearing on your moral content or value or worth. All languages, syntactical or analytical, gendered or ungendered, nominative-accusative or absolutive-ergative are equal. They all can express the human experience just as well, they are all equally beautiful and conductive to art, and they do not restrict you nor determine you and the content of your character.
Like commenters ware saying it’s so sad that these people weren’t treated with the same respect and understanding when there culture was living and vibrant and free
Abrahamic Belief Mentality Cult people did that, as before that they actually killed Native Europeans and did genocide to culture ( to Norse, Celtic, etc Nordics)
For those who don't know our American history the Olmec civilization from Africa migrated to Mexico or the Americas 5000 year's ago the Aztecs and Mayan- Evolved from them but when you read His-story books they say the Olmec were mestizo(mixed men) regardless of European claim the fact is Africans migrated to America 5000 years ago and already built advanced society and survived until Europeans killed them off Stole their Gold and mix their DNA with Spanish European DNA and for the record ALL Chinese people have 100% African DNA the Li-Min (Black Headed People) created China Dynasty they were silk worm farmers from Africa!
> Abrahamic Belief Mentality Cult people did that So disease is caused by "Abrahamic" beliefs? What a fascinating scientific hypothesis! Now try and prove it. While you're at it, perhaps you can explain why the non-Abrahamic Aztecs exterminated hundreds of thousands of their fellow Native peoples without the aid of disease or Abrahamic belief systems.
For more information and access to available recordings, visit linguistics.berkeley.edu/~garrett/archives.html.
wow wish you could have let the recordings play and not talk over them
Jesse Sioux did you even watch the video dude
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Such a boring, half-done voiceover too. He sounds very unenthusiastic and uninterested in what he talks about.
My family is native and my parents still speak their native language , and I hope to learn to speak and write it so it can live on in my family.
Your not native your Siberian African Americans are the real native Americans we was reclassified as Africans they said the natives had dark skin and wooly hair not your people you imposter
Yg mad cuz WE got here voluntarily😂 yo yo yg go find what black sold your fam to the boat people
compare with south indian Tamil language you will see lots of Tamil words.PPL from the sunken continent Kumari kandam after the great flood moved all parts of world you see Tamil language oldest still spoken by 13 crore ppl every where.natives of California research on it
@@ygdon3077😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@BeRight4u😂😂😂😂😂
American documentaries : 1% subject, 99% talking over the subject.
its 3 min long and not 45 what do you expect
Idiots. It's a four minute long commercial, not an "American documentary," of which there have been a number of surprisingly good ones in 2019.
Yup is over view of what they do to do than do it requires action instead of complaining about what they do.
😆
Yes, I expect WAY more from my 4 minute "documentaries"...
Missionaries tried to wipe our language with Native Schooling.
My ancestors were beaten for speaking their language in class.
1980s, we fought back and our language is alive and thriving.
We now have schools.
Its a shame that this particular language is lost in speech, but with what little there is on these recordings remains alive.
Would be nice to hear them without any other noise overriding them...
Can u speak it,which tribe
It should be the language of America not English
From the mountains to the sun, life has only just begun
We wed this land and pledge our souls to meet its end
Life has only just begun
Here my people roam the earth, in the kingdom of our birth
Where the dust of all our horses hides the sun
We are mighty on the earth, on the earth
You have come to move me, take me from my ancient home
Land of my fathers I can't leave you now
We will share it with you, no man owns this earth we're on
Now the wheels are rolling, hear the howling winds of war
It's my destiny to fight and die
Is there no solution, can we find no other way, Lord let me stay
Under the endless sky and the earth below
Here I was born to live and I will never go, oh no
But we cannot endure like the earth and the mountains
Life is not ours to keep, for a new sun is rising
Soon these days shall pass away, for our freedom we must pay
All our words and deeds are carried on the wind
In the ground our bodies lay, here we lay
obviously the white man as oppressor narrative is more complex. The man who made these recordings wanted to preserve the native languages.
🙏🤙🐚🦎🌺🐞🐬
I am humble that my tribe still has our language yet we are losing it
Save it
@@alvarojacome3191 dont you understand? They can’t and if they do none of their americanized people will want to do anything because they will want to assimilate. Their children aren’t even theirs. They are literally being indoctrinated as we speak. The more they go to school they more they will want to fit in.
In all honesty it should be part of the american curriculum if they truly are sorry for what they have done to the locals.
mhm
Wow hearing my Native Ancestors voice and Original language here in my Americas today is a feeling I can't explain and the yurok voice is clear Long live the Narragansett and to my Brother's and Sisters from all tribe's WE SHALL REMAIN
mack mack I’m White American. I’m so sorry for what happened. I can’t make up for what happened to the native Americans...
mack mack
Are you really yurok?😮😮😮
Are you? Or are you white pretending to be
Solidarity from the Sami people of northern Europe.
Optimus Prime i’m mexican and tbh american history is messed up
Interesting how the 1907 recording, had lame background music. Oh, I get it, that's the work of some idiot who didn't realize we'd rather hear the recordings then their interruptions.
InsertName130 well, this is what happens when you make a documentary about a bunch of retarded liberals
@@andyshipman4384 what?
they probably don’t have many you can understand. like they said, a lot of them are moldy, scratched, broken, and the tech they used to record wasn’t very good
@@andyshipman4384 Ok boomer
@@prewartomatoes with two or three softwares it can be saved
i am sicangu my family and i speak fluent lakota at home, and of course english when we are talking to non relatives. we will protect our language and hope people will learn our language as well!
It would be nice if you made something like a language textbook at home. The alphabets, number system, punctuation, grammar and some hours of recordings on lessons to learn how it’s supposed to sound. That would preserve it forever.
Your not native Americans us African Americans are the real native Americans you R a Siberian
@@ygdon3077 *what*
2:11
the rest of the video is garbage
thank you king
This comment ought to be bumped up
Exactly
Thank god for these recordings and the men or woman who helped save them
I don't think you understand that thank God is rude for the natives
And the PEOPLE*
@@pieinthepphole1857 I’m Native American and I am (NOT) offended by “Thank god” I don’t need some guilty white American speak for me
My mother also has phonograph cylinders that have recordings of Ishi.
Are they avail to the tribe
That is a familial gold mine
We have to treat these recordings like gold. We can’t lose our sacred Native American heritage. Thank you to all that do this.
Peace, love, and light to you!
My RESPECT for real native Americans...🙌
at what point do we get to hear the actual language
I am a First Nation I belong to woodland cree nation and I always wished I could discover and learn our first language as indigenous people, that would be a life time goal for all our people.. a lot of our people are losing our first language soon it will be lost forever as our elders pass on to the spirit world.
Where can we hear the actual recordings?
The probly ain't released
Let's try contacting UC Berkley which did the research.
I AM SO HAPPY PEOPLE LIKE YOU ALL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA EXIST. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. Thank you for preserving the past Thank you for working hard to preserve these important people of our past. For We are All Americans today...but they are the Native Americans of the Past. These beautiful people whose cultures and populations were decimated and almost completely wiped off the face of North America need to be remembered for being the originals of this wonderful nation. THANK YOU ALL for existing.
Is there a link to the actual archive of restored recordings? I get that the point of this video was to introduce the project but I would love to hear more of the recordings.
Yeah, or at least recordings that didn't have to be restored. They also have lexical resources.
Here's the link: cla.berkeley.edu/california-languages.php
Ig-nat-ius no problem
It feels like residential schools are the reason these languages no longer exist
Until 1960's noneuropean languages were considered savages
Some European languages got wiped out too in the same way. I know kids used to be beaten in school for lapsing into Gaelic in the Scottish Highlands at any rate. I think the idea was one, assimilation to British culture and two, the teachers thought they might get better work on the mainland by learning English. Our language is almost dead, but it is making a revival. Really hope that people preserve their native heritages and record their own words instead of allowing someone else to butcher your story.
I thought i was going to actually get to hear all of these languages
This is so amazing. Keep at it. This is not just native american history and cultural heritage it is all our human existence heritage.
Thank you for your work. Preserving true history instead of romanticized and false information is important for our future.
A Berkley professor with purple in his hair? Why am I not suprised?
Nickoli Lion lol
Uintabr
Merit.
And that distinct “I have purple tuft just in the front of my hair” lisp is unmistakably Berkley: “The egthishting vershions of them shound terrible”
Indeed, modern Universities are liberal cesspools. They were subverted ages ago!
Guys a little advice, do you want to record these guys with an Iphone 12 in 2021 speaking those same languages? Go to Southern Mexico in the mountains, there's thousands of people who still speak Yaqui, Mayan and Aztec.
I wish my language does not fade away like these languages did
Thank u so much for keeping our languages alive I'm trying my best to find out where I'm from and my soul called me to pick up move to Florida... I feel as if I have been called back home 😭❤️❣️🙏🏾
You really should let the voices play and commentate later.
What if you actually let us listen to the recording for over 5 seconds
I have a colleague in Vienna who is doing the same for the Caucasus. This is also an area of many tiny languages. Many of the people there were deported under Stalin and were allowed to return later. The recordings tell us of villages that we did not know to exist, and of village life long gone.
What a magnificent thing, I too would love to hear the actual recordings 🤗
From the mountains to the sun, life has only just begun
We wed this land and pledge our souls to meet its end
Life has only just begun
Here my people roam the earth, in the kingdom of our birth
Where the dust of all our horses hides the sun
We are mighty on the earth, on the earth
You have come to move me, take me from my ancient home
Land of my fathers I can't leave you now
We will share it with you, no man owns this earth we're on
Now the wheels are rolling, hear the howling winds of war
It's my destiny to fight and die
Is there no solution, can we find no other way, Lord let me stay
Under the endless sky and the earth below
Here I was born to live and I will never go, oh no
But we cannot endure like the earth and the mountains
Life is not ours to keep, for a new sun is rising
Soon these days shall pass away, for our freedom we must pay
All our words and deeds are carried on the wind
In the ground our bodies lay, here we lay
Amazing how technology has saved these precious words of our ancestors. Is there a place we can hear them online or only at Berkeley?
Hello Julia, how are you doing today, how’s everything going over there 👉 Julia?
Have you tried going to the different reservations?
To understand any language forgotten is to listen to feel it's vibration and frequency.. it's likely the written form shall never become available for recording.. however, one must always note vibration (tone) of expression speaking....
Lost but found
@ 2:05 plays voice of Ishi. For ten seconds. You're welcome.
Solidarity from The Sami people of northern Europe. we share a common history of fighting against opression,imperialism,genocide and prejudice!
And that's why more white people are going atheist
Where can we actually listen??
Comment above has link
They're using Audacity lol
Whats wrong with that
TRMC Master he’s using satire ✔️
An update to this would be appreciated
So amazing... I'm so glad we are able to retrieve this historic treasure of indigenous peoples language. 💜🦅✊🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Native
Hello 👋
This is fantastic! Those people working on this also seem interesting!
TH-cam reading a text I sent yesterday while listening to the radio about this topic.
its a terrible shame that so much knowledge, language, skill and culture from every land in this world has been lost and destroyed by the acts, thoughts and deeds of total greedy, evil, idiotic fools.
I couldn't agree more.
Until 1960's noneuropean cultures were considered savages
In spite of destruction of the indigenous people of North America, the linguistics of their language lives on through technology and their recorded voices. It is a true treasure that we can learn about them through the dedication of these researchers. Than you!
Thank you for this documentary, I’m so glad I was able to hear pink haired Garret talk about the recordings I wanted to listen to.
This is so cool. Like, using the future to preserve the past.
Amazing that long defunct languages are given a new life and can be studied. Otherwise they would joint countless other languages forgotten by history.
Andrew Garret Do you have any learning documents or a site, class,something to further my studies in learning my peoples language.
Save the people not their records.
If you didn't destroy them and their culture we wouldn't need this .
Travel back 400 years and tell them.
Amerindians still have many of there languages
This work is critical to ending the cultural genocide that was the government schools where students were forced to speak the dominant language- English. Language is heritage, there are efforts world wide to stop cultural erosion through the reestablishment of Indigenous language and place names. Tribal colleges and secondary schools in the US, nationwide programs to use the Indigenous Welsh names of places and areas, the Republic of Ireland requires schools to include modern Gaelige as part of the national curriculum.
What’s more, these programs are beginning to work! New generations of young people are reclaiming their heritage and history. The Māori of New Zealand, the Saàmi of Norway, and the Sisiskia or Blackfoot Nation as well as the Navajo Nation are all wonderful examples of Indigenous Nations who are using language as a cultural to make a cultural comeback! And all power to them!
The one who recorded these was a genius who knew this information will be important.
Are place names like Tallahassee, Shabuta, itawamba all native Americans languages and they are still called this to this day?
*Humanity died the day humans were created*
You mean the day Esau was created
I'm 68. I still have several hundred records from my misspent youth, as well as some from my father's collection. So these records span from about 1950 to about 1985 (I quit buying records when CDs became available). I've kept my records because for decades I've been hoping for someone to build equipment that scans them with a laser, just like these. Maybe some day.
Of course, I suspect that each and every one is available today as a download, so it's probably just an academic exercise.
Erhaps you should show your tapes to scientists?
Just give it to young producers , they’ll make rap with these vocal
Lol
preserving culture is so important..
This is beautiful, an so heartbreaking 💔 that it's no longer spoken an that it's been forgotten to time an a recording..
A real Missionary wants people to have the Bible in their own language, not to stop people from being who they are & speaking their own language.
The tape of her speaking is little.. But it's probably so exciting for you guys bc you guys have been working on this for a long time and finally you get a acsent from the person.. ❤️
So we're the wax cylinders intentional recordings, or did they inadvertently invent a way to record sound by having the wax cylinders nearby while singing and talking?
Keep up the awesome work!
It would be nice if we assimilate a few thousand words and phrases of these diverse languages in the American version of English.
I love purple hair and the shirt. Good work guys fascinating. Sad to hear lost language. So glad my people are working hard teaching my language..see it on TH-cam a lot. So proud of Jonathan Nez being covid-19 leadership Please submit him 4 CNN Heroes award
I bet most of these cylinders were recorded by Kroeber
Who's Kroeber?
@@davidreyez3200 Anthropologist who interviewed Ishi & wrote "Ishi, Last of His Tribe". Father of Ursula K (for Kroeber) LeGuin who wrote some of the greatest fantasy and science fiction novels of the last 50 years. Earthsea, Hainish Cycle, Always Coming Home). RIP.
Thank you. This helped me breath. Thanks for helping.
They are using audacity for the sound software
are they early 2000s home studio rappers?
The guy at 3:18 whose hair is turning grey used to have purple hair?!?!? That was bizarre looking.
Contrary to what Wikipedia says, they're not actually "wax" cylinders. Edison tried that material and failed early on. The brown cylinders are made of a metalized soap compound. These had to be cut directly and couldn't be reproduced. It was the introduction of the "Gold Moulded" cylinders made out of a plastic-like cellulose material which allowed for recordings to be reproduced. Those were black and were then superseded by the blue phenolic versions.
The guy on the thumbnail looks like my grandpa with straight hair
I really wish this video contained more of the actual recordings instead of how wax cylinders are made and how valuable they are. Let us actually hear them!
In my area at estonia are language wich is dying out slowly my dad still speaks it and uncel but not mother and grandmothers still speak it . But now are schools estonain language and i seto language is dying sloely out . I dont understand some hard words wich arent similar to estonain . This place where i live is named setomaa in estonian .
The Yurok are an Algonquin isolate like Wiyot.
this is what I am searching to know. I asked myself, English = England. why did the Americans speaks English?
This is the answer. Please do preserve, prescribe and utilize it.
Youd think they would go to the tribes elders first instead of some emo from Berkley
Indigenous people from Bangladesh 🇧🇩👍, chakma is my language
I clicked into some of the sound recording links, but nothing is available online. Too bad. In any case, are native American languages mainly tonal or non-tonal?
You're looking for 2:10
Forget the language, where can i get that Wasili Kandinsky shirt??
This is the real USA and not the McChicken
if you can post a whole audio for the public 💯 🙏
Yaqui still have their language. They're still here, they just don't teach the zhaags their ways.
Yaqui is still alive, there's this famous Mexican band that played a song that originally in Spanish, but they did it in Yaqui.
I think the video is referring to the Yaquis in California and not about the Yaquis in Mexico.
Wow the audio sounds great in this video
Ohlone/Costanoan languages, (Rumsen, specifically,) sound like they have similarities in tone and phonology to Athabascan dialects from the southwest and much less so to Inuit/Athabascan dialects to the north. I wonder if they were ever related languages. It'd be interesting to have Navajo and Chiricahua listen to the greater collection of recordings to see if there are significant phonic overlaps or even some similarities in structure and vocabulary, allowing for the fact that Individual meanings sometimes change significantly for originally equivalent, like sounding words.
oh that purple hair...
Have a lovely day everybody!
I JUST WANT TO HEAR THE ACTUAL RECORDING! Thumbs down. This video isn't about preserving an original recording of native american language, it's just about promoting how amazing the technology is, without delivering what's promised.
How can these Cylinders record ?!!
I just want to hear the recording please
Seems like if you use languages in popular movies people want to learn it
I hope you get them all copied and transferred because eventually the wax will melt and people forget so easily about people when they don’t value them anymore graveyards prove this o so well
fantastic idea.so much was lost and must be returned and learnt.
Conservatives: What is that? We speak Murican only.
Wow, what a stereotypical comment. Need I remind you that it was Democrat Andrew Jackson who did the trail of tears?
Crazy cool stuff!
U.S. of america and the ideals of liberty werent born in 1776, they were born over 10,000 years ago with the great indiginous peoples of this continent.
It seems that you idealize native indians. They were (and they are) usual pre-civilization people whose main need was to survive. Nothing romantical. Btw, the USA has neglected principles of freedom etc etc many many times since 1776. So you overestimate Americans (both native and modern).
*native americans
thanks Edison
Why you killed them
Let’s face it 80% of the world today is the result of native slaughtering because back then we had no idea and just let the beast instincts take over but know we have grown wiser and realize past mistakes
be neat to compare asian/chinese, the non mandarin, eskimo.north and south american languages to these
I can't speak for all native languages, but I am learning Tsalagi (Cherokee), and one of the interesting but difficult things to grasp if you're a native speaker of English or any non-tonal language is that Tsalagi is tonal. First, it's syllabic, as in unlike English there's a limited set of syllables, not individual letters to be recombined into a thousand sounds. As a result, the tone and length a syllable is held can totally change the meaning of a word. For example ama. If you say it ahmah where the "ah" is at normal pitch and held short, and the mah follows it at a short falling high pitch (like almost all Tsalagi final syllables) it means water; however, if you say ahmah where the "ah" is at a higher pitch long vowel with the usual falling short final syllable, it means salt. Not knowing that tonal distinction could be important lol. If I say ah(norm short)mah aquaduliha - "I want water" but ah(long high)mah aquaduliha, I'm gonna get a salt shaker. Simlarly ahdah, if the ah is short and regular tone, it means wood, but if it's short, high tone with a glottal stop between ah and dah - it means young animal. You don't want to tell someone to go chop young animals when you just needed firewood :) I know that many Asian languages, like Vietnamese and Mandarin are also syllabic and tonal.
Native languages have evolved a lot over time, and there is also a huge variety between tribal languages in the Americas. There are at least 18 language families in North America alone (versus like 4 for all of Europe). Not all native languages will be tonal like Tsalagi. In fact, there are languages that are as different from each other between tribes as English and Arabic or something like that. One of the primary difference between many indigenous languages to the Americas and most of Asia is that many languages here use polysynthesis - adding pre, suf, and infixes in verbs to make them very specific. With one Tsalagi verb along, no other helping words in the sentence, one can specify:
Prefix: whether the action applies to I, you, (s)he, you two people, myself and one other person other than who I'm speaking to, myself and one other person who is the person I'm speaking to, myself and many other people not including whom I'm speaking to, myself and many other people including whom I'm speaking to, many other people not including whom I'm speaking with, and many other people including whom I'm speaking with. Versus in English I can only define I, you, he, she, it, we, you all, them.
Infix: This is a change within the verb itself that will specify whether the verb is acting upon something animate, long (like a stick), flexible (like a blanket), etc. So if I am carrying a puppy or blanket or broom the verb will differ.
Root: The action of the verb, i.e. carrying or needing.
Suffix: the tense of the verb such as present, present habitual, imperative now, imperative non-specific, past, future, etc.
So when I say "saloli dunihnohele" - it says they (prefix) brought (present) them (something flexible and inanimate) to him. Saloli means squirrel(s) - but since the infix says the verb refers to something inanimate and flexible, one would know the squirrel were dead - like he hunted squirrel, not that he brought living squirrels. So basically it says, "They brought him some squirrels' bodies." There are some Siberian languages that do polysynthesis, which makes sense since of all of the Asiatic people, those from Siberia would be closest both geographically and temporally to Native Americans.
On the other hand, there are also languages in Africa that are tonal and use polysynthesis, so those connections aren't really smoking gun similarities.
So the TLDR version is that there are some shared traits with Asiatic languages in some Native American languages, mainly Siberian ones; however, the differences far outweigh the similarities and the variety in NA languages make it impossible to make any generalization between all NA languages.
Added Trivia: Most Native American languages (maybe all, but I can't say that for sure) are gender neutral. This mean pronoun-wise you cannot specify gender. For example, though as above you can be very specific about the number of people you're referring to, you cannot specify gender. There is no he or she - just as prefix referring to a third party single person of no specified gender. For example, dudoa (dew-doe-ah) means his/her/its name is. Also, in most tribes individual who today would identify in an LGBTQ+ group were fully accepted and valued members of the tribes. There may have been more than two gender nouns, such as in Tsalagi there's asgaya and ageyv (man and woman), also nudale asgaya and nudale ageyv (different man (trans woman) and different woman (trans man), and finally there's asegi (which means strange in Tsalagi but not in a pejorative sense - so a better translation would be unique) and would refer to any other non-binary gender. I think that the gender neutral nature of the language and more tolerant, egalitarian views of the traditional tribal culture are no coincidence.
Asian languages sounds nothing like native american languages just like how the irish language sound nothing like english language or armenian and turkish
Asian languages sounds nothing like native american languages just like how the irish language sound nothing like english language or armenian and turkish
@@TeddeeJordan This is a very valuable and interesting explanation of the Cherokee language. I would like to say that linguistic "gender" has little to do with actual gender. In most "gendered" languages, "gender" is almost completely arbitrary. In my native hebrew the word for table is male, but this doesn't mean that we actually think tables are male.
Furthermore, many languages have more than two genders, and that is why I placed the word "gender" in double quotes. The actual proper term is noun classes. Bantu languages, for instance, have up to 21 noun classes. There are classes for round objects, or abstract ideas, or humans, and they are marked by prefixes on each word. Verbs are then conjugated for the class of both the subject and the object (like Cherokee). Afro-asiatic languages, like Hebrew, Beja, Somali, Arabic, Hausa, Ancient Egyptian and Coptic all have two classes, which correspond to the two sexes (so the term genders is appropriate). Like Bantu, verbs are conjugated for subject, and sometimes the object. The feminine gender is marked by a suffix/prefix/circumfix -t-.
Linguistic gender bares no relation to acceptance of alternative sexualities or gender norms, or egalitarianism. Many languages completely lacking in gender or noun class, were/are spoken in highly patriachal societies, like Turkish or Chinese, that did not accept free sexual expression. On the other hand, many if not most the languages spoken in the countries that started the women's rights movement, democracy, and enlightenment values, namely european ones, speak highly gendered languages. Take German or French, for instance.
So why did I write this rant? Because I think that this kind of thinking can lead to linguistic supremacism. I am sure you didn't intend that, so this is no attack on you. This kind of thinking, that a particular form of speech is somehow 'better', 'more correct', 'morally superior' or 'proper' led many states and societies to try and destroy the minority speech, which is considered 'degenerate', 'wrong', 'ugly' and so on and so forth. To our day, many countries continue to try and erase the remnants of their countries' linguistic heritage. Even western countries like Italy and France do that, while others like Britain stopped too late. If we want to maintain cultural and linguistic diversity in the world, it is imperative that we stop assigning value to arbitrary phonetic or grammatical properties, that we stop telling people that their speech and dialect are wrong, that we stop trying to police pronunciation and speech, and that we understand that the language you speak has absolutely zero bearing on your moral content or value or worth.
All languages, syntactical or analytical, gendered or ungendered, nominative-accusative or absolutive-ergative are equal. They all can express the human experience just as well, they are all equally beautiful and conductive to art, and they do not restrict you nor determine you and the content of your character.
Like commenters ware saying it’s so sad that these people weren’t treated with the same respect and understanding when there culture was living and vibrant and free
So so sad...so many killed for living in There own land....but Then came the Europian.....
Abrahamic Belief Mentality Cult people did that, as before that they actually killed Native Europeans and did genocide to culture ( to Norse, Celtic, etc Nordics)
For those who don't know our American history the Olmec civilization from Africa migrated to Mexico or the Americas 5000 year's ago the Aztecs and Mayan- Evolved from them but when you read His-story books they say the Olmec were mestizo(mixed men) regardless of European claim the fact is Africans migrated to America 5000 years ago and already built advanced society and survived until Europeans killed them off Stole their Gold and mix their DNA with Spanish European DNA and for the record ALL Chinese people have 100% African DNA the Li-Min (Black Headed People) created China Dynasty they were silk worm farmers from Africa!
> Abrahamic Belief Mentality Cult people did that
So disease is caused by "Abrahamic" beliefs? What a fascinating scientific hypothesis! Now try and prove it. While you're at it, perhaps you can explain why the non-Abrahamic Aztecs exterminated hundreds of thousands of their fellow Native peoples without the aid of disease or Abrahamic belief systems.
@@mackattack8627 the europeans brought the germs..
That’s sounds exactly like Nahuatl
Its amazing