NAVAJO LANGUAGE, PEOPLE, & CULTURE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ค. 2024
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Navajo, a Southern Athabaskan language from the Na-Dené family, is spoken primarily in the Southwestern United States, particularly in the Navajo Nation. It is one of the most widely spoken Native American languages, with nearly 170,000 speakers in the U.S. as of 2011. During World War II, Navajo speakers created a code for secure military communications, which played a crucial role in saving lives and securing key victories. Navajo has about thirty-three consonants, including many affricates and fricatives, and 16 vowel phonemic vowel sounds. Navajo has two tones: high and low. Orthographically, high tone is marked with an acute accent ⟨á⟩ over the affected vowel, while low tone is left unmarked ⟨a⟩. This reflects the tonal polarity of Navajo, as syllables have low tone by default.
The Navajo Nation is a Native American reservation spanning northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southeastern Utah, with its government seat in Window Rock, Arizona. It is the largest land area held by a Native American tribe in the U.S., exceeding the size of ten states. The Navajos' traditional homes include the hogan, summer shelter, underground home, and sweat house. While older hogans are still used for living and ceremonies, new ones are rarely built as family dwellings. Historically semi-nomadic from the 16th to 20th centuries, the Navajos had seasonal dwellings for livestock, agriculture, and gathering, and engaged in trading or raiding over long distances. Sheep remain culturally significant to the Navajo people.
The name "Navajo" originated in the late 18th century from the Spanish term "Navajó," derived from the Tewa word "navahū," meaning "farm fields adjoining a valley." The Navajo people call themselves the Diné ('People') and their language Diné bizaad ('People's language'). They are renowned for their basketry, weaving, silversmithing, jewelry-making, and pottery, which has been crafted by Navajo women for centuries for both ceremonial and household purposes.
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I find it really amazing and weird how they they call Coffee “Gohwééh” which I assume comes from English Coffee but since they lack an f it got replaced with a hw, the voiced version of that process is languages that mix “w” and “v”, anyways by saying “Gohwééh” is weirdly Weirdly just taking step back since it’s much closer to the original pronounciation of coffee, (coffee) comes from Dutch (koffie) which comes from Italian (Caffè) which comes from ottoman Turkish (Kahve, Kahwe) which comes from Arabic (Qahwah) which originaly meanr “hot wine, brew” before it changed to coffee, Iraqi Mesopotamian Arabic word for coffee is “Gahweh” which comes from Classical Arabic (Qahwah)
But I still amazed how two seperate words in two completely diffrent languages that evolved diffrentely from one another ended up to sound pretty much the same in both Iraqi Mesopotamian Arabic and Navajo
“Gohwééh” and “Gahweh” for that matter. Greetings to Navajo people from Iraqi Kurdistan ❤
Please do more Native American languages. They are so unique, beautiful, and complex. And sadly many are borderline extinct.
Yes because of the English people
Up!!
Shame on the gringoes.
Ya'at'eeh Andi. Dííídí ei shizaad aadoo ei ayoo shił nizhoni. Ahee'hee
i always feel like navajo is such a strange but also a very beautiful sounding language
Friendly language. A lot of "wet" sounds. More than in the Middle Polish:) Thanks for speaker and Andy.
"wet" 😂😂
And Polish letters like "ą" & "ł"... 😱
@@leonardoschiavelli6478 Wait for new venetic sounds in mooj kienoł
Phonetic structure the same with Caucasian languages
@@smallnad1 I don't know caucasian. IT is possibile. Did you gwar middle Polish
3:48 tó (water in Navajo) means lake in Hungarian.
Most famous Navajo speaker: Daybreak Warrior
Great video.
I like the Navajo language
Please make another video about other Native American languages that you have not uploaded yet.
Please video about Proto-Athabaskan language: the ancestor of Navajo.
But has it been reconstructed?
@@rlt9492sorta
beautiful language and people
bro the long words😭
i cant😭
Could they be related to the Yeniseian languages?
At last!! The most complex language in the world, and it is a polysynthetic one, nothing close to any European language. As an amateur linguist myself, I've been in a freak for agglutinative an' polysynthetic languages since my late teens, that's why I started studying Finnish (agglutinative) and an Amazonic polysynthetic tongue named "Dahsea'Ye"(spoken by a nation who calls itself "Ye'Pá Mahsã", which is called "Tukano" by Brazilians). Keep working on Native American languages, the world has so much to learn from them...
I miss the blackfoot video,
Does anyone have any good resources for Navajo? Especially on grammar! I would really love to do a deep dive on it
Ahéheeʼ for the video
Please do hopi!
Hello Guys
Fun fact: It does have the approximant w but does not have the vowel u
Most languages I know either do or don't have the approximant w, but much more likely do have the vowel u
I always thought every language a e i o and u
Could you make Iraqi Arabic and Persian?
Day 24of asking to make a video on accents of kannada i speak Mangalore accent please i can volunteer please tell me
I've heard this language from Finding Nemo
sounds similar to Avar
Mantequilla and Hamburger
Lingua molto bella ma direi complicata da padroneggiare 😅
Sí, ha una pronuncia molto difficile e la grammatica é tostissima
Its cool how many words become extremely corrupted from english or spanish. Rice and apples sounds kinda like the spanish words arroz and manzana
they’re more like borrowings that were needed due to that certain item being introduced recently. the pronunciation changes to fit the phonology of the language
@@brn7939ik but alot of times i seewhen natives say words from english they pronounce them with a typical a american accent, like they dont have trouble pronouncing them, but for these borrowed words they somehow evolved to have a navajo twist
Your map of the Navajo community included a large part of the Canadian Northwest, but you didn't say anything about it.
this is a map of the athabascan languages including Navajo, the Navajo nation is in the southwest
Navajo sounds like Turkic as Bashkir, Uzbek, Kazakh etc.
ナヴァホの聖地へはテロートマトンで行こう
Where is that place?
This sounds intimidatingly difficult to learn, my native language is mostly vowels
Love Navajo but that writing looks like someone wiped their ass with the keyboard
I always wonder how it was made. i think it was made by the US military, so they had some great minds to design it and a lot of research planning was probably done
I've just checked it's phonology and honestly I think there's no better way to write this language in Latin script 😅. They could create their own completely unique alphabet, but in that case they would still have to create some transcription.
Navajo is easier than Vedic Sanskrit language. Vedic Sanskrit has 4 aspects, 3 tense and 2 moods, 3 voices, 9+ derivation verb(causative, desiderative and intensive and complex of those), and 3 numbers and persons.
Oh I forgot the participants by each aspects and voices. They have 3 gender, 3 numbers and 8 cases each other.
@@cicolas_nage it’s also wrong. The Navajo nouns are easier, although some of our nouns correspond to verbs in Navajo. N verbs are so much more complex than Vedic that they’re in a different universe entirely. There are 4 persons, not 3, and objects as well as subjects are encoded in the verb. There are 5 to 7 modes, depending on how you count them (no verb has more than 5 principal parts), and 12 aspects. The verbs are so complex that even in everyday speech, some of the verb forms will be novel - the forms are constructed on the spot at the time of utterance. It’s possible to make a list of all possible forms for any given Vedic verb, and not just because it’s a closed repertoire. That’s not really possible for Navajo.
Worse - it’s not the insane complexity that makes it hard. It’s the strangeness. Example: ‘He brought them’ - how to say in Navajo? ok, "them" is the verb stem, and what he did is indicated in the derived verb form. There are different forms depending on what he brought, how he brought them (all at once, or one-by-one; was it a one-off or a usual practice, etc; there are other possibilities as well), also how do you know he brought them - did you see it yourself or do you have only a report and, if the latter, do you believe it or not. (There’s another possibility as well, namely that it’s a legend or story, but that’s not encoded in the verb, except a little bit - you swap the third and fourth persons and append the word jiní "it [the story] says").
Theres a decent wiki article on Navajo grammar if you’re interested in learning about it.
Finally, Vedic isn’t even the most complex Indo-european language. That would be Old Irish, and it isnt even close.
Bibliography: for Sanskrit, Im relying on my hazy memories of college classes, where Vedic was an appendix. The people who knew classical Greek in class thought that Greek was harder. Our grammar was the venerable Whitney.
for Navajo, there’s an excellent textbbok by Leonard M Faltz called "The Navajo Verb."