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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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. :)
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.
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 :)
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👍👍
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.
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.
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.
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?.
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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!
That was great. I saw your post years ago and I thought recently I need to get back into learning 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
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.
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..!!!:)
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
Haha my mom calls it a joe shirley phone xD
Daybreak Warrior! I miss your videos! Glad you did as many as you did!
you forgot Ben Begay for your Arthur Yazzie.
g krasniqi Hahaha!
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?
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
Y-D-L!!! Short for yahdilah!
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. :)
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.
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 :)
I hope you do more videos like these... I only see a few new videos ...I think your videos are awesome ty
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👍👍
Also, another for "yeenii" I've heard "this guy always 'yeeniis' off at night" or something like they always 'take-off' suddenly... LOL
you should have ended your video with "ayiii"
In Chinle I've heard "Na’ajaahí Phone", have you heard this? Referring to gov't commodity food, but a... well... phone. LOL
Forgot to add dlaanii my dude, great video though. Reminds me of home on the rez
Hello DDW,
Your videos are great. Thanks for doing this.
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.
😂😂😂 just stumbled upon your video. Thats hilarious in the Navajo POV.
This is fantastic!!! Thanks Daybreakwarrior!
You forgot "divorce bread" too 😂😂😂
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.
i really enjoyed this
Thanks for share your biggest ancestry knowledge
This was such a fun video... Thanks!
"getting rolled" is slang for getting robbed to anyone.
That's an easy one
ALSO , ON MY REZ , BUCKLE BUNNY IS FOR THE GUY
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.
Áŋpaó Akíčhita,
(Daybreak Warrior)
Lena video kin líla waštewičhawalake,
philámayaye lo.
(Really love these videos,
thank you.)
In law chaser is the end of winter into spring winter storm.
Cousin brother / cousin sister is a great idea that English should adopt.
Just subscribe to ur vlog.. I want to learn more Navajo.. Fine Bizaad. Love ur vlog. Trying to learn.😂
Great video! Possibly consider adding the word "cheap" since I hear it a lot
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.
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?.
The government phones where I live were called Joe Shirley phones. Also don't forget Jinii, And Isss.
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.
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?;)
Wow! Never heard most of these slangs, maybe just 3 i have used before.
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
Jinjééh babe...
Lmfao😂😄😆...
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.
My part of the rez calls them "Joe Shirley phones" 😂
Chii'dii, & yaa' dila come to mind. good job on the videos.
@daybreakwarrior Did you get the PM message I sent you about doing G+ Hangouts to help people practice speaking Navajo?
Interesting info
Yes this was a very fun study thank you!⚡️🦅⚡️
awesome video! aayyyeee!
How would you say - looks around an don't sleep.
Buddy! I'm a Jighaan! Born and raised on the Rez!
i love your videos
In law chaser is snow flurries. they come and go
awesome ,
Ahehee for uploading these vids. Any medical terminology I can use as an EMT in the rez, especially with the cheiis and ma'sanih?
lol i found out what a gold brick means.
How old are you in this video? I saw you tonight and your hair looks the same!!!
Awesome videos
u know more Navajo words then my and I was growing with my gram and grampa
THE NAVAJO IS CALLED A JOHN TOO..
I go out into the world and talk to people! lol
I just want to say is that there is no "u" in the Navajo alphabets. Other then that. Nice video.
You forgot Glonnie and Obamaphone is not just a Navajo thing.
Awesome! Lol fun way to start my day
wah!
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
Actually it's pronounced ch'izhi and yes it's zh as in ázhiih (dried Juniper tree bark).
Soon I get to be all jigháán out.. chizhii bushy yeenii looking and broken enlish 😍😁 going home to the Rez
Good video
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.
Could you tell me what OPER means??? TY
essentially.....love the adverb
How do you say shut up in navajo
Player let me know
define... johnny talk and where did the term come from???
Gollie!!! diz video is soo Jigha'a'n
Sweet couch
The only thing I did not hear was shas la yadi...which means WTF
Darn wind LOL but awesome! Thanks!
Eiii!!!! Hahaha
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?
No I hadn't seen it
••• Y🔺️T🔺️HEY •••
What about woabaa?
do you still make videos??
nayyeee
Yatay Mr. Teller.. Thank you... Some of the Navajo slang funny. Arthur Yazzie.. 😂 learn something new again. L.. thank you yazhi 🙏
what about " Saa?"
never hear of yeenii...where u gitting all your info? LOL
oh' níí jígháán...loljk