I'm a Flagstaff native, I've lived in Arizona most my life, and I've long wanted to learn what I deem are the three primary languages of Arizona: English (of course), Spanish (I've lived in Phoenix the last 20 years and have learned enough restaurant Spanish to get me by), and Navajo (I respect the Dine and want to deepen that respect in a personal way). I do a website called Flagcoco, concerning Coconino and Flagstaff High Schools, both with large Navajo populations, and I feel this is a way to get closer to those students and parents, some of whom I consider friends and I think they would appreciate my efforts. Just wanting to let you know, I'll be using your video series and others to start this ball rolling.
Thank you so much of yet another glimpse into when America was at its greatest. That culture of yours feels like what I have been looking all my life in the wrong places. Once I was even so foolish that I learned Chinese as I saw them as the great natural herbal healers and animal-spirit understanding kung fu practioners. Now only your culture and Greenlandic culture and Sámi culture make me feel alright.
Thanks. As a photographer who visits the SW often, I spend time on the rez without really knowing much about it. I can find beautiful places, but don't do well at fitting in with the culture there even though I appreciate it. I appreciate being able to learn some so I can be a better guest down there.
over 6 years and I watched it and liked it :) And this video made me want to know more of Navajo Culture and language. I did start to learn the language but then I didn't carry on for some reason. I like that you've made videos of Navajo culture and language.
Probably you are interested because your name suggests your heritage was Finnish-speaking and the Navajo and the Finns and their linguistical relatives the Sámi share a common Hyperborean origin. Suomalaisuus on saamelaisuuden liuentuma.
Absolutely hilarious. I grew up in Shiprock and went to high school in Window rock. Then off the rez for the next 50 years. I remembered quite a few of these. Cracked me up to start my day. Thanks!
Not sure if anyone has told you ( and forgive me if someone has/you already know this) but if you put a "filter" (often called a sock) over the microphone it should level out the backgound sound. Also be sure to record a few minutes of "silence" (or the background sound of the place you are recording) and most audio editors (some of which comes with some video editing software) will be able to take that "silence" audio sample and remove the "audio noise" (or the "silence"). Some times it works some times it doesn't and it will change some of the sound quality of the main vocals. But its worth a shot. Even a panty hose from wallmart and a bit of foam (not bead foam) around the mic input will do wonders.
Dear Daybreak Warrior, Thank you for your videos! They are so nicely done, easy to follow and informative, I am trying to learn Dine Bizaad from books & videos.
I spent 12 years on the Rez as a kid (south of Shiprock NM). The only one of these terms that I knew back then was Jighaan. Seemed like all the kids at my school had an impression of someone speaking all Rezzed out. I remember learning Ch'izhy too. The last part was very familiar though, brought back a lot of memories from that time in my life. Thanks for making this video :)
Getting Rolled is a common use in English as well, and it means the same thing. Even if you didn't get robbed you would still got rolled. I'm 70 and I haven't heard it used for a long time as I'm not with people that get drunk but when I was young that was a common use.
I have an essay for college and we have to pick out two regions so i decided to pick Navajo since I'm part Navajo and i would love to learn more Navajo slang language even talking full native when i tend to visit New Mexico this video helped me a lot. So thank you and I totally subscribed. :)
Have you seen the Two Spirits Fred Martinez? I watched it on PBS tonight, and it gave me some insight on LGBT in our culture. They said there were four words for sex identification in Navajo. It said that often unwanted kids got raised by the not outcast LGBT navajos before Christianity came in.
Yeah, it is common, but the thing with slang is it's supposed to be "the use of informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's language or dialect but are considered acceptable in certain social settings." "Cheap" used on the rez is overtly used but not used in a unique way with a different definition than in mainstream America.
I like your channel. Its funny how so little different i use my words. Go to show its a flexible language 😜 im teaching my grand daughter she 3 the language, the first time she says "what are you saying, do you need some water?" 😊 She taught me at the moment, she hears it, just not sure what she was hearing but willing to learning it so now i laugh at my own words cuz im not for sure however i am blessed to come across your channel its educational with fun examples👍👍
Hey please help!! Can you tell me what does Choco mean in Navajo? I have a friend who's from the Navajo tribe and he told me Choco is something inappropriate in the Navajo language, but he wouldn't tell me what it means in English.
If you are a non-Navajo, do not ever say it to a Navajo, it is considered highly offensive and will cause issues with whomever you are speaking to. So, do not use that term openly. Navajos will get very offended.
All of those sounds you used to show that "not meting expectations are still commonly used in the English language as well. They are exactly the same. Wah, almost like saying are you kidding, that was terrible. Tch, sound is used as well as if saying, Oh brother now I've heard everything almost calling someone out on a little lie. And also Chish, means the same thing, But I grow up in Utah in the 1950 and by father before I was born worked down on the Reservation before and during WW2 looking for Uranium to be used for the Manhattan Project. Many Sandstone formations in that area has radio active material and he did the PHD degree on the Morrison Formation wish is all thought that Sandstone cliffs. He was newly married to his wife (my mother) And those two spent many season being with the culture. She said they would often be thr only two wights for mills. She buy purest many Navajo Rug that are still in the family.
I enjoy the Kody Dayish videos and in most of them I hear the word "iss". For example, when discussing what movie to see.. "Let's watch Dumbo?!" "Dumbo, iss." I know it means they arent going to see Dumbo, 🤣 but what does it means, exactly? Really enjoy your videos and hope you make more.
I'll answer this question for you I'm also Navajo iss is a short way of saying what's that? or what is that? So when he said "Dumbo iss?" He's basically say Dumbo? What's Dumbo?.
Veyy informative navajo language is surprisingly easy to learn and remember in some ways... Really cool, what about like old old navajo like in the movies? Or from the 1860s or something?
lol.....diggin' the Navaho slang! TI sound and the Eiiii, i heard alot from my two dineh chums back in se utah, Roy and Kevin, talkin' and laughin' and during this vid, when you sounded these suffixes or expressions, it dawned on me they were saying this,also a lot jishlajishla,....as for me, my feet are Ch'iizhy or Dich'íízh, meaning a derogatory expression used by spaniards to insult us, but it can also be positive like manifesting our native pride in being nahua, pur'epecha or ñañu, to name a few of the ethnic groups or tribes found over here upon arrival of the gachupines(nahua slang that means 'those who walk with feet full of thorns', in reference to the spaniards in their 16thcentury soldier outfits.
Hello I had a dear friend who was a Navajo with many gifts. He gave me a Navajo name .."..woman that walks with fire' He unexpectedly passed away before I was finished learning from him. I know its up to me to learn the language on my own. All I remember is how to say the "woman"part. If anyone would like to help me out?;)
it’s funny because in Texas Mexican, we also click & go “eeeeeh” when we’re laughin at a joke i wonder if Jigháán has a similar root word to “Chicano” at all
I thought cousin brother or cousin sister referred to a relative that is a cousin by blood (whiteman's way) and also a brother or sister by clan (Navajo way).
Hey please help!! Can you tell me what does Choco mean in Navajo? I have a friend who's from the Navajo tribe and he told me Choco is something inappropriate in the Navajo language, but he wouldn't tell me what it means in English.
@@daybreakwarrior there you go, that’s something my mom always used to say when i was doing something i wasn’t supposed to and i never really understood what it meant but that is my interpretation of the word growing up as a kid
i have a question to ask, i heard from my father that like when talking to an elder if you say this phrase (sounds like you’re just saying “ah ah”) but there’s a certain pronunciation to it. it means like how are how are you holding up, something of that sort?
I'm a Flagstaff native, I've lived in Arizona most my life, and I've long wanted to learn what I deem are the three primary languages of Arizona: English (of course), Spanish (I've lived in Phoenix the last 20 years and have learned enough restaurant Spanish to get me by), and Navajo (I respect the Dine and want to deepen that respect in a personal way). I do a website called Flagcoco, concerning Coconino and Flagstaff High Schools, both with large Navajo populations, and I feel this is a way to get closer to those students and parents, some of whom I consider friends and I think they would appreciate my efforts. Just wanting to let you know, I'll be using your video series and others to start this ball rolling.
Represent Kinłání
@moxie rose Even more wild how you're jumping in on a post from five years ago.
I love that I didn't need an explanation of "eiii" lol been living in Holbrook, AZ for 15 years. Love the Navajo people and language. Subscribed!
Thank you so much of yet another glimpse into when America was at its greatest. That culture of yours feels like what I have been looking all my life in the wrong places. Once I was even so foolish that I learned Chinese as I saw them as the great natural herbal healers and animal-spirit understanding kung fu practioners. Now only your culture and Greenlandic culture and Sámi culture make me feel alright.
Thanks. As a photographer who visits the SW often, I spend time on the rez without really knowing much about it. I can find beautiful places, but don't do well at fitting in with the culture there even though I appreciate it. I appreciate being able to learn some so I can be a better guest down there.
That was great. I saw your post years ago and I thought recently I need to get back into learning it.
over 6 years and I watched it and liked it :) And this video made me want to know more of Navajo Culture and language. I did start to learn the language but then I didn't carry on for some reason. I like that you've made videos of Navajo culture and language.
Probably you are interested because your name suggests your heritage was Finnish-speaking and the Navajo and the Finns and their linguistical relatives the Sámi share a common Hyperborean origin. Suomalaisuus on saamelaisuuden liuentuma.
@@LebowskiDudeful That might be true.
You'd make an awesome teacher. :)
He already is teaching. He is teaching us something every time he posts a video and we watch it.
Daybreak Warrior! I miss your videos! Glad you did as many as you did!
Absolutely hilarious. I grew up in Shiprock and went to high school in Window rock. Then off the rez for the next 50 years. I remembered quite a few of these. Cracked me up to start my day. Thanks!
Lol hell yeah! I'm a Kinyaa'aanii from Dennehotso, Az, & i grew up all the slangs!?
RESPECTS!
Great video! interesting, informative and the CC makes it easy to follow, love it
Not sure if anyone has told you ( and forgive me if someone has/you already know this) but if you put a "filter" (often called a sock) over the microphone it should level out the backgound sound. Also be sure to record a few minutes of "silence" (or the background sound of the place you are recording) and most audio editors (some of which comes with some video editing software) will be able to take that "silence" audio sample and remove the "audio noise" (or the "silence"). Some times it works some times it doesn't and it will change some of the sound quality of the main vocals. But its worth a shot. Even a panty hose from wallmart and a bit of foam (not bead foam) around the mic input will do wonders.
+VoHannachi or even literally an old sock. just cut a hole in it for the camera lens and talk louder. :)
chish
Dear Daybreak Warrior,
Thank you for your videos! They are so nicely done, easy to follow and informative, I am trying to learn Dine Bizaad from books & videos.
Deborah Crawford just marry me and ill teach u all the navajo words..!!!:)
This made me lol... Love the vids :)
CallMeLadyX What's up? I've talked to u few years back, but u know my cuz-o Wrytten out in slc? U still singing?
Haha my mom calls it a joe shirley phone xD
I spent 12 years on the Rez as a kid (south of Shiprock NM). The only one of these terms that I knew back then was Jighaan. Seemed like all the kids at my school had an impression of someone speaking all Rezzed out. I remember learning Ch'izhy too. The last part was very familiar though, brought back a lot of memories from that time in my life. Thanks for making this video :)
Getting Rolled is a common use in English as well, and it means the same thing. Even if you didn't get robbed you would still got rolled. I'm 70 and I haven't heard it used for a long time as I'm not with people that get drunk but when I was young that was a common use.
you forgot Ben Begay for your Arthur Yazzie.
g krasniqi Hahaha!
Y-D-L!!! Short for yahdilah!
I hope you do more videos like these... I only see a few new videos ...I think your videos are awesome ty
I have an essay for college and we have to pick out two regions so i decided to pick Navajo since I'm part Navajo and i would love to learn more Navajo slang language even talking full native when i tend to visit New Mexico this video helped me a lot. So thank you and I totally subscribed. :)
Also, another for "yeenii" I've heard "this guy always 'yeeniis' off at night" or something like they always 'take-off' suddenly... LOL
In Chinle I've heard "Na’ajaahí Phone", have you heard this? Referring to gov't commodity food, but a... well... phone. LOL
Have you seen the Two Spirits Fred Martinez? I watched it on PBS tonight, and it gave me some insight on LGBT in our culture. They said there were four words for sex identification in Navajo. It said that often unwanted kids got raised by the not outcast LGBT navajos before Christianity came in.
Yeah, it is common, but the thing with slang is it's supposed to be "the use of informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's language or dialect but are considered acceptable in certain social settings." "Cheap" used on the rez is overtly used but not used in a unique way with a different definition than in mainstream America.
Hello DDW,
Your videos are great. Thanks for doing this.
I like your channel. Its funny how so little different i use my words. Go to show its a flexible language 😜 im teaching my grand daughter she 3 the language, the first time she says "what are you saying, do you need some water?" 😊 She taught me at the moment, she hears it, just not sure what she was hearing but willing to learning it so now i laugh at my own words cuz im not for sure however i am blessed to come across your channel its educational with fun examples👍👍
Áŋpaó Akíčhita,
(Daybreak Warrior)
Lena video kin líla waštewičhawalake,
philámayaye lo.
(Really love these videos,
thank you.)
Like I said... some people take pride being all Jighạ́ạ́n... as am I! Lol, soo jighạ́ạ́n here! lol
Hey please help!! Can you tell me what does Choco mean in Navajo? I have a friend who's from the Navajo tribe and he told me Choco is something inappropriate in the Navajo language, but he wouldn't tell me what it means in English.
@@beyondintervals6606 pretty sure it means dick
@daybreakwarrior Did you get the PM message I sent you about doing G+ Hangouts to help people practice speaking Navajo?
In Spanish a cousin brother or sister is a first cousin in English. Mi primo hermano is my father's brother or sister's son.
😂😂😂 just stumbled upon your video. Thats hilarious in the Navajo POV.
This was such a fun video... Thanks!
Interesting info
This is fantastic!!! Thanks Daybreakwarrior!
Forgot to add dlaanii my dude, great video though. Reminds me of home on the rez
In law chaser is the end of winter into spring winter storm.
If you are a non-Navajo, do not ever say it to a Navajo, it is considered highly offensive and will cause issues with whomever you are speaking to. So, do not use that term openly. Navajos will get very offended.
Great video! Possibly consider adding the word "cheap" since I hear it a lot
i really enjoyed this
Cousin brother / cousin sister is a great idea that English should adopt.
Thanks for share your biggest ancestry knowledge
How would you say - looks around an don't sleep.
you should have ended your video with "ayiii"
Just subscribe to ur vlog.. I want to learn more Navajo.. Fine Bizaad. Love ur vlog. Trying to learn.😂
The government phones where I live were called Joe Shirley phones. Also don't forget Jinii, And Isss.
Chii'dii, & yaa' dila come to mind. good job on the videos.
All of those sounds you used to show that "not meting expectations are still commonly used in the English language as well. They are exactly the same. Wah, almost like saying are you kidding, that was terrible. Tch, sound is used as well as if saying, Oh brother now I've heard everything almost calling someone out on a little lie. And also Chish, means the same thing, But I grow up in Utah in the 1950 and by father before I was born worked down on the Reservation before and during WW2 looking for Uranium to be used for the Manhattan Project. Many Sandstone formations in that area has radio active material and he did the PHD degree on the Morrison Formation wish is all thought that Sandstone cliffs. He was newly married to his wife (my mother) And those two spent many season being with the culture. She said they would often be thr only two wights for mills. She buy purest many Navajo Rug that are still in the family.
How old are you in this video? I saw you tonight and your hair looks the same!!!
Wow! Never heard most of these slangs, maybe just 3 i have used before.
My part of the rez calls them "Joe Shirley phones" 😂
awesome video! aayyyeee!
Awesome videos
Ahehee for uploading these vids. Any medical terminology I can use as an EMT in the rez, especially with the cheiis and ma'sanih?
I enjoy the Kody Dayish videos and in most of them I hear the word "iss". For example, when discussing what movie to see..
"Let's watch Dumbo?!"
"Dumbo, iss."
I know it means they arent going to see Dumbo, 🤣 but what does it means, exactly? Really enjoy your videos and hope you make more.
I'll answer this question for you I'm also Navajo iss is a short way of saying what's that? or what is that?
So when he said "Dumbo iss?" He's basically say Dumbo? What's Dumbo?.
Veyy informative navajo language is surprisingly easy to learn and remember in some ways... Really cool, what about like old old navajo like in the movies? Or from the 1860s or something?
ALSO , ON MY REZ , BUCKLE BUNNY IS FOR THE GUY
lol.....diggin' the Navaho slang! TI sound and the Eiiii, i heard alot from my two dineh chums back in se utah, Roy and Kevin, talkin' and laughin' and during this vid, when you sounded these suffixes or expressions, it dawned on me they were saying this,also a lot jishlajishla,....as for me, my feet are Ch'iizhy or Dich'íízh, meaning a derogatory expression used by spaniards to insult us, but it can also be positive like manifesting our native pride in being nahua, pur'epecha or ñañu, to name a few of the ethnic groups or tribes found over here upon arrival of the gachupines(nahua slang that means 'those who walk with feet full of thorns', in reference to the spaniards in their 16thcentury soldier outfits.
You forgot "divorce bread" too 😂😂😂
Could you tell me what OPER means??? TY
Hello I had a dear friend who was a Navajo with many gifts. He gave me a Navajo name .."..woman that walks with fire' He unexpectedly passed away before I was finished learning from him. I know its up to me to learn the language on my own. All I remember is how to say the "woman"part. If anyone would like to help me out?;)
it’s funny because in Texas Mexican, we also click & go “eeeeeh” when we’re laughin at a joke
i wonder if Jigháán has a similar root word to “Chicano” at all
define... johnny talk and where did the term come from???
i love your videos
awesome ,
Buddy! I'm a Jighaan! Born and raised on the Rez!
How do you say shut up in navajo
Player let me know
"getting rolled" is slang for getting robbed to anyone.
That's an easy one
What about woabaa?
Jinjééh babe...
Lmfao😂😄😆...
I thought cousin brother or cousin sister referred to a relative that is a cousin by blood (whiteman's way) and also a brother or sister by clan (Navajo way).
That’s what I always assumed
do you still make videos??
In law chaser is snow flurries. they come and go
I go out into the world and talk to people! lol
what about " Saa?"
never hear of yeenii...where u gitting all your info? LOL
Good video
Actually it's pronounced ch'izhi and yes it's zh as in ázhiih (dried Juniper tree bark).
I thought about it but I'm putting it in the "maybe" pile for now, until I can secure time, lol.... but I like the idea
Hey please help!! Can you tell me what does Choco mean in Navajo? I have a friend who's from the Navajo tribe and he told me Choco is something inappropriate in the Navajo language, but he wouldn't tell me what it means in English.
I just want to say is that there is no "u" in the Navajo alphabets. Other then that. Nice video.
u know more Navajo words then my and I was growing with my gram and grampa
You didn't explain YDL...help!
You forgot to cover "Jii'nii" (sp).. Lol...
Awesome! Lol fun way to start my day
THE NAVAJO IS CALLED A JOHN TOO..
No I hadn't seen it
You forgot Glonnie and Obamaphone is not just a Navajo thing.
wah!
lol i found out what a gold brick means.
Yes this was a very fun study thank you!⚡️🦅⚡️
ja’ii (i think that’s how u spell it) is like the equivalent of telling a kid to cut it out, stop being naughty
Jaa'iih means you don't listen or you can't hear.
Jaa' - ear
'iih - bad
Jaa'iih - literally means your ears are not good but in context means, "You don't listen," or, "You're deaf."
@@daybreakwarrior there you go, that’s something my mom always used to say when i was doing something i wasn’t supposed to and i never really understood what it meant but that is my interpretation of the word growing up as a kid
@@imback356 you can also say naa'iih, if someone can't find something:
Naa' - eyes
'iih - they are bad
It's right here, naa'iih (you must be blind)!
i have a question to ask, i heard from my father that like when talking to an elder if you say this phrase (sounds like you’re just saying “ah ah”) but there’s a certain pronunciation to it. it means like how are how are you holding up, something of that sort?
Sweet couch
Gollie!!! diz video is soo Jigha'a'n
Darn wind LOL but awesome! Thanks!
The only thing I did not hear was shas la yadi...which means WTF
essentially.....love the adverb
Soon I get to be all jigháán out.. chizhii bushy yeenii looking and broken enlish 😍😁 going home to the Rez
Celery one phone... 😂
oh' níí jígháán...loljk
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