About the Navajo language

Today we are travelling to the wild west, to the borderless lands of North America. We’re going to explore the language of the people who lived here long before Europeans arrived – Navajo, a language of incredible beauty and complexity.

Music used:
Magic Rhythm by Farrell Wooten
It's an Adventure by Riverworn

Videos used:
Navajo President speaks
Louva Dahozy - Navajo Broadcaster - Living History
Radmilla Cody - A Beautiful Dawn Music Video
TEDxPhoenix 2010 Jolyana Bitsui - What it means to be a Navajo woman

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[sparkymularkey]

Diné Bizaad! The language of my people! Thank you so much for making this video. It makes my heart happy to see our culture and language being shared with the world.

[keneke]

Much is owed to these people, their language was used for code in WW2 and saved many lives

[ElDuroTuco]

In my house we speak English, Navajo, Spanish, and French. It takes a lot of research to come up with the information you have in this video.

[CharlieMcHenry]

It helps to understand that Navajo is a very, very “process” oriented language as opposed to standard average European languages, which are object-oriented. That explains the incredible verb structures, as processes not objects are key. Thus, the Navajos describe a clock as a slowing moving circle. It is the process, not the object that is central to the thought being communicated.

[daybreakwarrior]

Wow! This was a very nicely organized video that described our language very well... there were many points that I was surprised she went to certain levels of detail! Nizhónígo íinlaa lá!

[erikamoore]

As a native speaker of another "unusual" language (Hungarian in my case) I find the Navajo language fascinating! I was once told by a tour guide in Hawaii that the only tourists who can correctly pronounce Hawaiian words on the first try are Hungarians and Navajo.

[Blackstreak]

My Love, thank you. Ahéhee'! Shï eh Diné níshlí. Tsínajinni inshlí, Tobaz ni ashí basish chine. This has been the most comprehensive exploration of the Navajo language on YouTube I have seen. It is extremely valuable to me. Thank you. ♥️

[kieransawdust]

The way my Welsh heart fluttered the moment I saw ɬ!

[amjan]

The BEAUTIFUL COMPLEXITY and sophistication of those languages is an invaluable TREASURE of humanity and shall be preserved and protected at all cost!!!

[chrisgusdaskalos]

Thank you for the exceptional videos; your Love and Passion are self evident and deeply appreciated.

[DreDredel]

I thought Japanese was difficult to learn, Navajo takes the cake. Very complex language yet very interesting.

[rogerwitte]

Please consider Cherokee. This language has an interesting writing system, a syllabary invented circa 1850 by Seqoya. He had seen Europeans using writing, so he decided that his people needed the same magic, and gave it to them.

[Solarsystemrdffdfyyhh]

Thank you thank you. The younger generation are learning our language with apps and books. But most elders never came across the written word. So showing the research and the depth of our language is absolutely astonishing!!! Your always welcome here on Navajo land yayeeh friend!!! Thank you for this blessing that you posted!! Thank you!!!

[Noalanikootswatewa]

Im 3/4 navajo and 1/4 hopi. Grew up almost entirely on the navajo rez. But i remember trying to say horse in navajo and my grandma laughed at me and said i said "fly". Tłęę' and T'sęę are completely different words.😂 i will never forget that

[teaganna]

Navajo women were known to wear a floral head scarf, tied below their chin. That should have been your thumbnail, that "headdress" is inaccurate. Other than that, nice video.
(Update: She fixed the thumbnail to an accurate image.)
Thank you.

[damb]

Aheehee! The interest in languages has always been a great part of my life. Being Dinè I have found that the struggle is always the grammar part once you learn the noun verb agreements but adding a tense or verb-noun is not easy lol

[ONRIPRESENCE]

I am considering making an informal video explaining some differences in our Navaho dialects as well as some of the current developments involving Navaho slang terms. We have dialects due to topography of the Navaho landscape (mountain forests, deserts, canyons, mesas). As a fluent native speaker from the north eastern mountains of Arizona, I have lots to share about the similarities between the Navaho & Apache languages.

[annepoitrineau]

Just stumbled on your channel. Fantastic resource, and I am going to advertise you to my friends!

[hualapaiculturalresources]

Wow you really did a great job. I enjoyed your watching video. We are continuing teaching our language to our children and adult who have been taking away during the boarding school days and are now coming home to the Reservation to learn their language. There's a lot to learn any language, but you really hit it right on with the Navajo Language.

[jean-francoisleduc]

Thank you for this fascinating video about a language I knew about but never “approached”. The linguist I am never ceases to be amazed at the incredible variety of languages around the world.