Saving Rare Indigenous Language [Audio] | Science Nation
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2017
- Non-invasive technology allows researchers to transfer recordings from thousands of decaying wax cylinders
Description: Optical scan technology is helping researchers at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, preserve audio of 78 indigenous California languages, most of which were recorded more than a century ago. The recordings are on approximately 2,700 wax cylinders that are now barely audible due to issues such as mold. These are the only known sound recordings for several of the languages, and in many other cases, the recordings include unique speech practices and otherwise unknown stories and songs.
With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), linguist Andrew Garrett, digital librarian Erik Mitchell and anthropologist Ira Jacknis, all of UC Berkeley, are restoring these recordings. The researchers are using a non-invasive optical scanning technique that was developed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory physicists Carl Haber and Earl Cornell. The collaboration with Haber and Cornell is enabling the NSF-funded research team to transfer all 100 hours of audio content from the wax cylinders and improve the recordings, finally making it possible to figure out which language is being spoken and what's being said.
The rich Native American cultural collection will ultimately be accessible to indigenous communities as well as to the general public and scholars. The linguistic diversity of the world's estimated 7,000 languages is immense. Modern technologies like this one unlock the documentation to enable new community uses and scientific investigations.
For more information and access to available recordings, visit linguistics.berkeley.edu/~garr....
This research was co-funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities; grant number PD-230659-15.
NSF support was provided by award #1500779, "Linguistic and ethnographic sound recordings from early twentieth-century California: Optical scanning, digitization, and access."
Grant URL: www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showA...
Miles O'Brien, Science Nation Correspondent
Kate Tobin, Science Nation Producer - Наука та технологія
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.
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"...
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
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@@BeRight4u😂😂😂😂😂
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
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.
🙏🤙🐚🦎🌺🐞🐬
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
@@karleemeier6805 with two or three softwares it can be saved
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
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*
My mother also has phonograph cylinders that have recordings of Ishi.
Are they avail to the tribe
That is a familial gold mine
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
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
@@thedorku9500 Thank you!!
Ig-nat-ius no problem
What a magnificent thing, I too would love to hear the actual recordings 🤗
Where can we hear the actual recordings?
The probly ain't released
Let's try contacting UC Berkley which did the research.
My RESPECT for real native Americans...🙌
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 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 thought i was going to actually get to hear all of these languages
at what point do we get to hear the actual language
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!
Thank you for your work. Preserving true history instead of romanticized and false information is important for our future.
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.
This is so amazing. Keep at it. This is not just native american history and cultural heritage it is all our human existence heritage.
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.
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?
I wish my language does not fade away like these languages did
2:11
the rest of the video is garbage
thank you king
This comment ought to be bumped up
Exactly
So amazing... I'm so glad we are able to retrieve this historic treasure of indigenous peoples language. 💜🦅✊🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Native
Hello 👋
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 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.
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!
UA-cam reading a text I sent yesterday while listening to the radio about this topic.
@ 2:05 plays voice of Ishi. For ten seconds. You're welcome.
What if you actually let us listen to the recording for over 5 seconds
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
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.. ❤️
You really should let the voices play and commentate later.
Keep up the awesome work!
preserving culture is so important..
This is fantastic! Those people working on this also seem interesting!
This is so cool. Like, using the future to preserve the past.
The one who recorded these was a genius who knew this information will be important.
This is beautiful, an so heartbreaking 💔 that it's no longer spoken an that it's been forgotten to time an a recording..
Amazing that long defunct languages are given a new life and can be studied. Otherwise they would joint countless other languages forgotten by history.
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.
An update to this would be appreciated
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!
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
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!
Andrew Garret Do you have any learning documents or a site, class,something to further my studies in learning my peoples language.
Thank you. This helped me breath. Thanks for helping.
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
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 UA-cam a lot. So proud of Jonathan Nez being covid-19 leadership Please submit him 4 CNN Heroes award
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!
Beautiful
Wow the audio sounds great in this video
They're using Audacity lol
Whats wrong with that
TRMC Master he’s using satire ✔️
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?
Crazy cool stuff!
Just give it to young producers , they’ll make rap with these vocal
Lol
I see this in my UA-cam suggestions. Thank you for posting this insightful video. I have learned something new. Date Stamp: 09mar21
Great job!!!
Awesome job.
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
fantastic idea.so much was lost and must be returned and learnt.
The Yurok are an Algonquin isolate like Wiyot.
Indigenous people from Bangladesh 🇧🇩👍, chakma is my language
Amazing 👌
They are using audacity for the sound software
are they early 2000s home studio rappers?
if you can post a whole audio for the public 💯 🙏
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?
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.
That sounds about right to me!!
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.
Amazing
The guy at 3:18 whose hair is turning grey used to have purple hair?!?!? That was bizarre looking.
Amerindians still have many of there languages
*Humanity died the day humans were created*
You mean the day Esau was created
It would be nice if we assimilate a few thousand words and phrases of these diverse languages in the American version of English.
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?
Forget the language, where can i get that Wasili Kandinsky shirt??
thanks Edison
Are place names like Tallahassee, Shabuta, itawamba all native Americans languages and they are still called this to this day?
This is great!
The guy on the thumbnail looks like my grandpa with straight hair
Wonderful, but a little heavy on the technology, I really wish that we had heard more examples of languages
This was interesting.
Excellent news
Awsome
I just want to hear the recording please
Have a lovely day everybody!
How can these Cylinders record ?!!
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.
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 .
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.
oh that purple hair...
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
Yakamas burials is our last songs
sounds better than 90% of every squeakers mic on Xbox/PlayStation