I remember they did that too to confuse Japanese forces. Navajo and Japanese have a similar phonetic structure & grammar (very broad Ural-Altaic) but no common words, and it would be one of those languages to a Japanese ear that the "feel" they should understand, but they can't. As a Hungarian, it's the same thing when I listen to Navajo.
Na-Dené language family of which Athabaskan belong to has been proposed to be distantly related to Asian languages, including Yeniseian in Siberia, North Caucasian and Sino-Tibetan as a macrofamily called “Dené-Caucasian” but this proposal was rejected by modern linguists.
I always thought of Dené-Yeniseian as being Ural-Altaic. Similar phonology, SOV word order, and agglutinative structure. Not to mention, the Navajo culture being similar to Ural-Altaic cultures in Siberia. As a Hungarian, the vowel harmony with Navajo feels familiar and the overall structure, but I don't understand any of it. It's like I feel like I should understand Navajo, but I don't.
It would be interesting to see a wider comparison of the Dene-Yeniseian languages. That has to be one of the coolest linguistic relations we've discovered to date, and it'd be nice to hear for our selves what similarities exist.
Its kinda interesting how some words will be used throughout human history. For example, Navajo word for tall boy is ashkii'nez & a Hebrew man in the Bible is named Ashkenaz. Navajo word for mother is shi' ma and many cultures uses Ma as the term for mother as well. Not just in history but non fictional work as well. There was an old movie called Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Im not too sure if thats where the Navajo word for car, chidi', comes from. Navajo word for Mexican/Wanderer is Nakai, which is also used as the name for a character in the Warhammer series. Amon Din was a lighthouse in the LotR series and the Navajo word for light is shoondiin or aldindiin. Of course there's words that come from Spanish/Mexican that Navajo use still beeso (not beso lol) - peso, cendao - centavo, Damoo - Damingo, mandagii'ah - mantequilla. Many Navajo leaders were known by Mexican names, Barbancito, Manuelito, Narbona, Ganado Mucho, Zarchillo Largos, etc. Navajo and the Spanish had relations long before the Americans came to the southwest
Beside the numbers comparison and some vocabulary samples, I'd like your videos also could present a very short summary of the main grammar topics, so we can realized how close those languages are or not regarding this feature as well, because just numbers and vocabulary can be borrowed or imported words.
athabašhkan means the father or ancestor of the chief in turkish... even the numbers resemble turkish numbers!im sure the first common turkish words had been formed 20.000 years ago before they split in siberia and went to the americas...that actually makes ancient turkish words the oldest common protolanguage in that area...(eurasia,anatolia,mezopotamia and europe...)
Im 58yo Navajo, and it was only recent that I learned of the Athabaskan tribes in Canada and Artic. Thanks to DNA, the language dialects extend to the Ket people in inner Siberia. 10 yrs ago, the population was only 1200. Near extinction, the Ket people could be my ancestral lineage to pre ice age 15,000 years ago.
I would believe that and was told by my father that did specked different language cause always called myself maka or something similar to more of northern Athabaskan language.
As an Apache who’s still learning I do know that when you say 5 the “i” is like a “eh” type of sound but replace the e with an i and some of the i can be right but but can still be pronounced like that 😅
Hey ILoveLanguages! I am currently learning two languages of the Iroquian linguistic family Wendat and Kanienkehaka and I am really in need of resources audio and written so could you please release a video comparing the two? Thanks, I would really appreciate it.
As a Central Asian Turkic I think the The Some Native Americans have Mongolians 🇲🇳 and Some natives have Turkic 🇰🇿🇺🇿🇰🇬origins or similar Clans . Surely Maya language is near to Central Asian Turkic. 🇺🇿🇰🇬🇰🇿🇹🇲 Look “ Athabaskan” is a turkic wod : “ ata” - father , “ baskan “ - “ stepped “
Había intercambio cultural entre los xiognu (que hablaron un idioma yeniseiano (lejanamente emparentado con los navajo y apache))y los turcos debido al comercio y guerras
Hi, I love these videos but I wanted to share that 'Athabaskan' is sort of a historical misnomer of a place in Canada, and in some of our communities is considered a little offensive since it's generalizing. The real word for our language family is Na-Dene. Unless you're talking about languages and cultures specifically on or around the Athabasca River in modern Alberta, then you aren't talking about "Athabascan"/"Athabaskan".
@@anawkwardsweetpotato4728 No, actually the Navajo are themselves colonists. They invaded the area already inhabited by the Hopi and Tewa, and the word "Navajo" comes from the Tewa. In any event, the Navajo themselves use the word (Naabeehó) in addition to Diné, which just means "people"; the language is "Diné bizaad", lit "the people, their language." If you want to be funny when talking to them, you can call it "Diné nizaad" (the people, your language).
@mr. gecko ah, I didn't know that! Most Diné I've encountered have said they prefer the term "Diné" over "Navajo." I take it this also has something to do with why the Hopi reservation is landlocked by Navajo Nation?
@@geckofeet Tribes are representations of the people's love. After that is just making friends. They wouldn't have existed otherwise after European disease. You are untruthful.
@@geckofeetit's funny. Hopi used the Navajo as a buffer between them and other people. During the Pueblo Revolt, many Hopi and other Pueblo people sought refuge with the Navajo, bringing them in conflict with the Spaniards and then the Mexican. Some even helped Kit Carson round up the Navajos. You can make out the Navajos as being the oppressors but the Hopi and other Pueblo gave the Navajos lands to settle and taught them farming and weaving. In return, Navajos protected them until the so called Peaceful People decided the Navajos were no longer needed and would cause trouble between the Navajos and the Spaniards/Mexicans and later the US government. But saying such things takes away from the good relationships the Hopi and Navajos had between them as not all Hopi and Navajos were prejudiced towards each other. During the Long Walk, there's stories of Navajos who would be given refuge in Hopi kivas. Hopi and Navajos have dances that honor the other. Even in Navajo creation story, the Hopi were said to be in the SouthWest lands first.
O kadar eminim ki kızılderililer kesinlikle biz Türklerle akraba bir halk. Samimi olarak belirtirim ki onları Ural-Altaylı uluslarla çok yakın hissediyorum. Ayrıca baştaki sayılarının köküne girince çok uzaktan bizimle aynı kökten çıktığı anlaşılıyor, sadece Türklerle değil, tüm Altaylılarla tabii.
Genetik olarak kanitli. Ustelik Atabaskan konusulan dilin adi. 300 tane benzer kelimemiz var sozluk haline getirilmis. Dokuma, kerpic ev, cadir, samanizm rituelleri Turklerle benzer. Sebep?
Size katılıyorum ama Kızılderililer asyalı olmadıklarını söylüyorlar biz ne mogol nede türküz hiçbir asya ulkesinden gelmedik biz amerika kıtasının yerlileriyiz diyorlar bu kıtada yaratıldık 200.000 yıl öncesinde kemikler ve aletler bulundu diyorlar onlar bizim atalarımız diyorlar.
I’d love to hear some of the Salishan languages from the Pacific Northwest
As an Indo-European speaker i understood one word ,God.
maybe God is not English God...
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Because God wasn’t translated, it’s the English word. Navajo doesn’t have a word for “God” as it is understood in English.
Navajo Christians usually only use God, or Diyiini (Holy One). Navajos who aren't Christians will use other words for the Big Guy in the sky.
That's just a loan word to refer to the christian god most likely
I heard Navajo terms were used as secret codes during wwii. Like the one in the movie 'windtalkers'
Code Talkers!!!!
I remember they did that too to confuse Japanese forces. Navajo and Japanese have a similar phonetic structure & grammar (very broad Ural-Altaic) but no common words, and it would be one of those languages to a Japanese ear that the "feel" they should understand, but they can't. As a Hungarian, it's the same thing when I listen to Navajo.
hollywood fiction.
Yes, it was Navajo that was used for the code talkers in WWII
@@albalog2449the altaic languange theory has actually been disproven
Na-Dené language family of which Athabaskan belong to has been proposed to be distantly related to Asian languages, including Yeniseian in Siberia, North Caucasian and Sino-Tibetan as a macrofamily called “Dené-Caucasian” but this proposal was rejected by modern linguists.
The connection to Yeniseian (Ket language) proposed by Eduard Vaida is mostly accepted tho
@@ticallionz it would be cool to see a video on the comparison
Navajo sounds like Basque a bit!
I always thought of Dené-Yeniseian as being Ural-Altaic. Similar phonology, SOV word order, and agglutinative structure. Not to mention, the Navajo culture being similar to Ural-Altaic cultures in Siberia. As a Hungarian, the vowel harmony with Navajo feels familiar and the overall structure, but I don't understand any of it. It's like I feel like I should understand Navajo, but I don't.
@@albalog2449 The Altaic language theory is obsolete
Navajo is the best language in the entire Planet.
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Yéego Diné Yéego!!!
'Ahxéhee' lą́ą
Ah ah nii oaoo
I love native american languages so far!
Very interesting to me: the sound "ł" they have in Avar language in Dagestan (Caucasus mountains)
И в валлийском он есть. Это совпадение. Глухой Л много где есть
Same as in Chechen
Many caucasian languages share the same sounds
0:18 And interestingly, it also means "reverse (a vehicle)" in the Malay language, lol!
Nice video 💪❤️💪
Some Mongolian vibes I felt while watching the comparison. 😇
Ooooh, really?!?!??! Do you speak Mongolian???
Informative as always.
It would be interesting to see a wider comparison of the Dene-Yeniseian languages. That has to be one of the coolest linguistic relations we've discovered to date, and it'd be nice to hear for our selves what similarities exist.
There is no connection no linguistic ,or geneticist has accepted the theory only those anti natives that try to deny natives their land.
I would enjoy a Ket-Tlingit video.
Cool
Its kinda interesting how some words will be used throughout human history. For example, Navajo word for tall boy is ashkii'nez & a Hebrew man in the Bible is named Ashkenaz. Navajo word for mother is shi' ma and many cultures uses Ma as the term for mother as well. Not just in history but non fictional work as well. There was an old movie called Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Im not too sure if thats where the Navajo word for car, chidi', comes from. Navajo word for Mexican/Wanderer is Nakai, which is also used as the name for a character in the Warhammer series. Amon Din was a lighthouse in the LotR series and the Navajo word for light is shoondiin or aldindiin.
Of course there's words that come from Spanish/Mexican that Navajo use still beeso (not beso lol) - peso, cendao - centavo, Damoo - Damingo, mandagii'ah - mantequilla. Many Navajo leaders were known by Mexican names, Barbancito, Manuelito, Narbona, Ganado Mucho, Zarchillo Largos, etc. Navajo and the Spanish had relations long before the Americans came to the southwest
Can you make comparison between Hopi and Nahuatl? They are both Uto-Aztecan languages.
Hello, I speak Hamshen Armenian, I want you to make a video about this, what can I do? writing through a translator
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@@ilovelanguages0124 I wrote
Beautiful language 💙
Beside the numbers comparison and some vocabulary samples, I'd like your videos also could present a very short summary of the main grammar topics, so we can realized how close those languages are or not regarding this feature as well, because just numbers and vocabulary can be borrowed or imported words.
Nice!❤
athabašhkan means the father or ancestor of the chief in turkish... even the numbers resemble turkish numbers!im sure the first common turkish words had been formed 20.000 years ago before they split in siberia and went to the americas...that actually makes ancient turkish words the oldest common protolanguage in that area...(eurasia,anatolia,mezopotamia and europe...)
Dagot'ee! Ashóóg ahi'ye!!!!
Im 58yo Navajo, and it was only recent that I learned of the Athabaskan tribes in Canada and Artic. Thanks to DNA, the language dialects extend to the Ket people in inner Siberia. 10 yrs ago, the population was only 1200. Near extinction, the Ket people could be my ancestral lineage to pre ice age 15,000 years ago.
I would believe that and was told by my father that did specked different language cause always called myself maka or something similar to more of northern Athabaskan language.
Some words sounded like Cherokee.
Tsa la di.or something similar.
Great you have Native American languages.👍
As an Apache who’s still learning I do know that when you say 5 the “i” is like a “eh” type of sound but replace the e with an i and some of the i can be right but but can still be pronounced like that 😅
They are really hard.
Hey ILoveLanguages! I am currently learning two languages of the Iroquian linguistic family Wendat and Kanienkehaka and I am really in need of resources audio and written so could you please release a video comparing the two? Thanks, I would really appreciate it.
The channel would need native speakers of those languages to collaborate with audios
What's funny that some Apache say that Navajo talked too slow but they talk quick and blunt to us.
I am from Indonesia, these language so complicated for me😅
They may be related to the Yeniseian languages of Siberia (only Ket survives).
As a Central Asian Turkic I think the The Some Native Americans have Mongolians 🇲🇳 and Some natives have Turkic 🇰🇿🇺🇿🇰🇬origins or similar Clans . Surely Maya language is near to Central Asian Turkic. 🇺🇿🇰🇬🇰🇿🇹🇲
Look “ Athabaskan” is a turkic wod : “ ata” - father , “ baskan “ - “ stepped “
Just what I wrote above. Mayans have been genetically proven to have Turkic commonalities. You are right.
Bende türküm Kızılderilileri seviyorum 🇹🇷
Había intercambio cultural entre los xiognu (que hablaron un idioma yeniseiano (lejanamente emparentado con los navajo y apache))y los turcos debido al comercio y guerras
Can i ask . What happend to the video of lords prayer in multiple African languages
Even my own language is still hard for me speak in and i do know my clans if do need introduce myself fellow Navajo.
Bonjour, avez-vous entendu parler de ce mot « Omawidjina » dans la langue amérindienne ? Merci beaucoup.
Hi, I love these videos but I wanted to share that 'Athabaskan' is sort of a historical misnomer of a place in Canada, and in some of our communities is considered a little offensive since it's generalizing. The real word for our language family is Na-Dene. Unless you're talking about languages and cultures specifically on or around the Athabasca River in modern Alberta, then you aren't talking about "Athabascan"/"Athabaskan".
Azerbaijani & south azerbaijani?
Islam's secondary languages of the west.
For Earth Responsibly universe as fanmade only.
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Which dialect of Apache?
Western!
I'm native American but I actually lost the language native American sometimes fluent in native American language
What about to do a deep comparison between Na-Dené languages and Basque/Euskara language
Shouldn't be Diné?
Am I missing something?
You're right, the word "Navajo" is the colonial name for the Diné people and language.
@@anawkwardsweetpotato4728 No, actually the Navajo are themselves colonists. They invaded the area already inhabited by the Hopi and Tewa, and the word "Navajo" comes from the Tewa. In any event, the Navajo themselves use the word (Naabeehó) in addition to Diné, which just means "people"; the language is "Diné bizaad", lit "the people, their language." If you want to be funny when talking to them, you can call it "Diné nizaad" (the people, your language).
@mr. gecko ah, I didn't know that! Most Diné I've encountered have said they prefer the term "Diné" over "Navajo." I take it this also has something to do with why the Hopi reservation is landlocked by Navajo Nation?
@@geckofeet Tribes are representations of the people's love. After that is just making friends. They wouldn't have existed otherwise after European disease. You are untruthful.
@@geckofeetit's funny. Hopi used the Navajo as a buffer between them and other people. During the Pueblo Revolt, many Hopi and other Pueblo people sought refuge with the Navajo, bringing them in conflict with the Spaniards and then the Mexican. Some even helped Kit Carson round up the Navajos. You can make out the Navajos as being the oppressors but the Hopi and other Pueblo gave the Navajos lands to settle and taught them farming and weaving. In return, Navajos protected them until the so called Peaceful People decided the Navajos were no longer needed and would cause trouble between the Navajos and the Spaniards/Mexicans and later the US government. But saying such things takes away from the good relationships the Hopi and Navajos had between them as not all Hopi and Navajos were prejudiced towards each other. During the Long Walk, there's stories of Navajos who would be given refuge in Hopi kivas. Hopi and Navajos have dances that honor the other. Even in Navajo creation story, the Hopi were said to be in the SouthWest lands first.
هل توجد للغات شعوب اصليه ابجديه غير لاتينية
Cherokee has a syllabary, as does Cree. Many other languages use a variation of Cree syllabics.
Even the word ata and başkan are are Turkic words. You may ask the meaning to any turkic child.😂
First 😊
I have never been first before.
It seems to me that there are more diacritics here than in the transcriptions of the Sino-Tibetan languages .
It sounds a bit like Persian
No! It sounds a bit like Mongolian
O kadar eminim ki kızılderililer kesinlikle biz Türklerle akraba bir halk. Samimi olarak belirtirim ki onları Ural-Altaylı uluslarla çok yakın hissediyorum. Ayrıca baştaki sayılarının köküne girince çok uzaktan bizimle aynı kökten çıktığı anlaşılıyor, sadece Türklerle değil, tüm Altaylılarla tabii.
Genetik olarak kanitli. Ustelik Atabaskan konusulan dilin adi. 300 tane benzer kelimemiz var sozluk haline getirilmis. Dokuma, kerpic ev, cadir, samanizm rituelleri Turklerle benzer. Sebep?
@@d.i.a.5392 Çünkü aynı köklerden geliyoruz:)
Size katılıyorum ama Kızılderililer asyalı olmadıklarını söylüyorlar biz ne mogol nede türküz hiçbir asya ulkesinden gelmedik biz amerika kıtasının yerlileriyiz diyorlar bu kıtada yaratıldık 200.000 yıl öncesinde kemikler ve aletler bulundu diyorlar onlar bizim atalarımız diyorlar.
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At times I hear a bit of Greenlandic sounds
Navajo sounds like Basque a bit! Even considering that they are VERY far relevants!
Very Polish🤓
Sounds Mongol a bit
Navajo sounds like Semitics language some sounds even like Arabic