How to Say Colors in the Navajo Language
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- This video shows you how to say all the basic colors in the Navajo Language. These are the following words included in the video:
Łichíí': Red
Łitso: Yellow
Yéego Łitso: Orange
Łitsxo: Orange
Ch'ilgo Dootł'izh: Green (Plant Green)
Tátł'idgo Dootł'izh: Green (Algae Green)
Yágo Dootł'izh: Blue (Sky Blue)
Tsédídééh: Purple
Dibéłchí'í: Brown
Łizhin: Black
This video also shows how to say some other complimentary phrases, like:
Díí hait'áo naashch'a̜a̜'?
What color is this?
Díí éí ch'ilgo dootł'izh.
This is green.
Enjoy & I hope you learn a lot from this video! :-D
Seriously thanks for these videos, im Navajo but raised in the U.S and im embarrassed when i go to the rez when i dont know my own cultures language
How is the learning going?
I really love the language and culture Native Americans hold. Learning about your culture and traditions is one thing I enjoy...even with the limited resources I have being on the other side of the world. I feel like your culture is similar to my Maori culture in many ways, which is one of the many reasons I'm so interested.
From Maoris to Natives, respect to you all! :)
kia kaha
We were learning about the Navajo Code Talkers from WW11 in my history class today and how their language was so complex that it was never broken by the Japanese, which prompted me to look up what exactly the Navajo language sounded like and let me tell you what a crazy cool language with complex sounds! Awesome!
The language of our grandparents, thank you for sharing. From Alaska to South America
You guys should team up with Duolingo.
yes!!
For sure
Navajo is now in the Duolingo incubator so now is the perfect time! Really looking forward to when it’s finished.
Pleeeeaassee so they can add pronunciation
They finally did!
Navajo language is beautiful af.
bless
I love it when we see examples of other cultures with different ideas about color.
it is quiet surprising that we have similar interpretation of green. Here in minangkabau people in Indonesia, we call green with hijau pucuk (hijau=green, pucuk=leaf) and blue with hijau langit/laut (hijau=green, langit=sky, laut=sea).
Interesting. Green and blue are often interchangeable in Japanese, too. "Aoi" is blue and "midori" is green, but in some cases "aoi" is used for green things such as flora, and a green traffic signal is "ao" and not "midori".
very interesting, thank you guys :)
hey, thank you for posting this stuff. i am a full blood Navajo that's been living in the city without looking back for 40 years.
and believe or not, i can still speak it, just complicated words such as these i have a hard time with, of course i know all basic wordings.
thanks again, keep posting, it's very informative.
You're such a great teacher, i love how you give the literal meaning.
I do too! That’s my favorite part.
Reddit brought me here. Navajo words are hard to pronounce! My tongue and mouth don't move that way without being super conscious of what they're doing. Asking questions sounds kinda Chinese in terms tone. Neat!
I live away from our people.. It is so nice to hear our language! I have my sons listen to you so that they know their Grandmas language! Thank you!
lol
"yellow" in navajo = "face" in russian
"orange" in navajo = "his face" in russian
just with a bit diffferent emphasis and pronounciation, but sounds alike
Hah, same thought I was having.
Yep; I thought he was about to troll me in russian
Trump always has an orange face that would be a good nick name for him
Yego litso
warchief ultradeath conan barbarian terminator.... very cool.
This is so cool. Thank you! :] I hope the Navajo language as well as other tribal languages get preserved!
Aheha Shit'stili. I studied Dine B'zaad for 2 years back in the 1970's. I've lost most of my zaad so this was very enjoyable. Thanks for doing this!
Thank you, I really enjoyed learning about the names of the colors in Navajo.
Native lenguages sounds great, they are beautiful....
This was so awesome! The Navajo language is so beautiful. Thank you SO MUCH for sharing and teaching it!
One of the markers when categorizing world languages is if the language distinguishes between blue and green with distinct words the other marker is distinguishing orange and brown.
The greeks described the sky as "bronze" not "blue".
Google "Distinction of blue and green in various languages" it's a fascinating read.
I just love your navajo lessons. Keep them coming,plese. Nancy
Green sounds the coolest
No, blue does.
+Destiny CoC RACE WAR!!!!
Thank you very much for sharing. I was lucky enough to spend some time with friends on the Navajo res and was fascinated by the language and stories. I'll definitely be watching the rest of your language videos! Ahéhee' Tʼáá íiyisíí ahéheeʼ
Im half navajo and i must learn my ancient languages.
Hello, I m working to translate Navajo to Thai, to share your beautiful history. Thank you for your videos
same in apache.
I remember traveling across Indian country, and listening to the Native language. I didn't understand a word, but I loved hearing it. But, your teens must be on the phone longer, lol...there are so many syllables. I love the heyahey parts.
What a fascinating language!
Can do Navajo names next and thank you for all your videos I will learn so much more about the language.
Grey (Łi bá)
Very interesting! Thanks for making this.
Dear Sir, thank you very much! I found your video very practical and useful. I need to learn navajo language. I have subscribed to your channel. Thank you very much! Greetings and blessings! Brian
It's kind of like "-ly" in the words "slowly" or "sleepily." It describes the condition I guess. "Yago" means "like the sky." "Hazhó'ó" means "careful" or "slow". Hazhó'ógo means "carefully" or "slowly."
Beautiful language! Interesting video!
Love the videos Terry. I am hoping to learn Navajo so that I can reclaim my heritage. I was wondering, do you have these lesson compiled some where in audio like itunes? I would love to have them all so that I can listen to them at work. Thanks again and keep it coming. Oh by the way, what text font you using to type Dine? and third, are you trying out for a role in Star Wars. I am so excited to see it. They say it will be dubbed and finished by the $th of July. I think.
OMG I love these videos. Thank you and god bless you.
Make more videos PLEASE !!! I want to talk to my grandma in Navajo so she can finally be proud of me.
Hello Daybreakwarrior! Just wanted to thank you very much for these lessons. It really helps a lot. Now I had a question for you. Where can I obtain more resources. I am learning navajo and am actually going to head to the navajo reservation in October. I really would like to learn more before than but of course being a language that isn't popular, I have a hard time finding resources to learn. I know learning Diné won't be easy and the best way to learn would be to have someone who is fluent teach me, which is why I love your videos, but I am looking for more places and websites as well. Thank you!
Cool! Thx.
My elderly mother calls our neighbor that walks around his yard shirtless "Cheii Lichii". I like watching your videos especially the ones to gospel songs.
When speaking dine/Dene....
Pronouncing vowels over constantance makes it easier.
now i gotta google Navajo
Yes, you should team up with Duolingo to make your language available for learning to the general public. I believe is seen another Indian language that was just added on Duolingo. I got the free version. Very informative video. Thank you so much for teaching us.
@PaulSLambeth There actually isn't a way to say "colors" in Navajo. There is no word for it. When I ask, "What color is it?" I'm actually saying, "What is it painted or drawn?"
@sahenderson00 Thanks, I included that at the end of my next videos on numbers! You're right, it begins with "ł" & is "łigai" in Navajo!
Hi there! I am a Korean and I have been watching your CZcams video for some time.
There's some Korean CZcamsr claiming that Navaho Indian language resembles Korean language and I firstly thought it was BS.
Now that you are saying that Navaho language says same thing to blue and green color and I am quite astonished.
In Korean language we don't distinguish blue and Green saying two color both "Pureuda(푸르다)"
With my study of Linguistics in college this can not be ignored. The expression of color comes from the core of the culture originated from the prototype of that culture from ancient time according to archetypical criticism, a well known literary study method.
Korean people originated central Asia near Lake Baikal and came down to Korean peninsular around 10 thousands years ago and other people wen to North America through frozen Bering Strait. There might be some ethnical common ground between Navaho and Korean people. Let us keep in touch for further findings.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction_in_language
Actually, it's really common for different cultures to not distinguish blue/green. And the reason behind that is because blue is the most recent color perceived in every culture. I speak Vietnamese and it's the same.
Both Korean and Vietnamese are both influenced by Middle Chinese. In Vietnamese we use the word "xanh" which originated from the Chinese word 青 which means "blue/green." To distinction the two respectively, we write "xanh lam/lục" (藍/綠) in formal situations but colloquially we say "xanh lá/biển." (leaf/ocean)
i think in japanese as well they didnt distinguish between green and blue at one point
Thanks man! I almost forgot how to say my colors :D i havn't used my language for quite some time now and i'm forgetting it :O its now time to relearn! >:) I must become fluent in it again i hate English thats all im beginning to know and i don't want to :D Keep the language alive!
Thank you very much daybreakwarrior!!
The funny stroked "L" is like "Ll" in Welsh, isn't it? As in "Llewellyn".
Bravo! I'm very happy to see this.
Hey enjoying the videos... Would you be able to do an alphabet one
Can you add white to the description color list?
What happened to white and gray
I get confuse between orange and yellow. Also green and blue.
Learning the language
Navajo sounds incredible - a beatiful language!
I miss my great gran who only speaks Navajo so my mom would have to translate it to English
It sounds so similiar to my language, Dene.
Different peoples' perceptions of colours is an interesting area in anthropology - great to see it demonstrated in your blue/green and yellow/orange examples. Are there others you can think of?
Think of all the different words or descriptions of colors in English. Red: Fire-Engine red; crimson, mauve; Green: spring green, forest green, blue-green, yellow: Purple:. Purple, violet; Yellow: ochre, umber. And so forth .
The Navajo use of plants, the sky, earth, light and terms like "more" are indicative of perception of variation rather than the English/European emphasis on creating or adopting a new word to specify variations. My uneducated opinion.
You provide a card for plant green (I think) that is kind of "teal" or light blue in my eyes. Is this mainly to describe the color of sagebrush and other white powdery plants? Would I describe the color of citrus (like orange or lemon) leaves as plant green or algae green?
Nice to find cool stuff thanks to veterans day! my respects!
thanks bro!
This reminds me of the Sami language we have here in Norway, even if it is very, very different from Navajo. The Sami people speak a language that absolutely no Norwegian speaking person can understand. Here in Europe we often understand a bit of every language, because the words have similarities in most European languages, but not all. If we don't understand, we can guess the meaning in many or most languages. I am about 30% or so of Sami origin. But I can not understand a word of this language that are spoken in my own country! I can't even guess, since it is so different. Like Navajo and english. The way Navajo words are pronounced, oh my God! Just as difficult to say as Sami words. Well, I guess Sami is a little easier to pronounce.
+R. Thomasson Because Sami is Ural-Altaic? The same language family as Finnish (Suomi) Hungarian (Magyar) and even Japanese and korean.. I guess
Finnish can sound really like Japanese.
Japanese and korean, I did not know that. Interesting! I was in Hungary some years ago, and could clearly hear the similarity with Finnish. Even written there are some similarities. Loooong words. Yes, Sami is in the same language group. By the way, Finnish is the language in the world that I think is the most beautiful. Maybe because I have Finnish ancestors. I don't know.
I have read something very strange. You know Norway is in the very north of the world. And there is a language that are closest related to Norwegian (except Danish, Swedish and Icelandic), in the very south of the world. And that is Afrikaans in South Africa.
I found some South African newspapers and tried to see if I could understand Afrikaans. And yes, not all, but quite a lot of it.
The reason for Afrikaans being our closest language is because it is an old form of Dutch (mixed with some zulu). And old Dutch are closer to Norwegian than modern Dutch.
R. Thomassen yes, Afrikaans is just like simplified dutch. The term also means south africans of dutch descendent
the Altaic theory of Japanese and Korean is not widely accepted.
Judy Hill Yes. Some think Korean is an isolated language just like Basque.
very beautiful language
Always love watching these ❤
I was meditating on the Lord a few months back and woke up out of a trance speaking what turned out to be Navajo. I believe God is going to be blessing the Navajo Nation
It seems so hard!
This Bellagonaa is having hard time learning Dineh lol. nice vid btw
Imanine being Navajo and having a hard time
pretty amazin language and i dont remember nothin yet XD
greetings from europe
Soooooo important your work for me..THAK U SOOOO MUCH..Ist the language of my old family ruts 😍😍😍😍😍😍
Haha. My last name is dibelchi'i (Brown)
Nice, thank you for sharing, good teachings
all the way from Ukraine, and im just learning Navajo like whats up xD
love it!!!!
please check out Nagaland, Hornbill Festival, we kinda have the same culture...
Started learning on duolingo . I hope playing this while I sleep will help me absorb the language cause its hella hard.
Thank you very much. I hope you are well.
I was born in America. My people were German and Danish. I feel that, living in America, that we should know more about the First Nations that were lied to and driven into near extinction by our expansion. No matter if you believe that this is still their land or not, they were first, and deserve respect and more than to be forgotten.
How do you say "Universal" or "Universe" in Navajo?
Ah-ho, Thank You for the Navajo word of the day.
Thank you. I don’t trust people and on Delingo it says I’m going to Farmington all the time. I don’t even know to many people in Farmington.
You are awesome and I want to be like you someday. Thank you
Thank you so much! 😄
Better teaching than my Navajo wife, who's an actual teacher
Ther is somethind strange in Navajo transcripton - "Ł" character. In Poland we use this for the sound that is the modification of "L" and in English is written using "W" letter. ("Winnipeg" in Polish will be written Łinnipeg"). But in Navajo I see that Ł letter is used to for a few different sounds. However it looks like there is some logic behind this. I have no problem with reading Navajo Ł letter in different ways depending on its location in text. But the question is - what is the orginal sound of this letter (standalone sound) in Navajo?
Thank you.73s
You need to elaborate even more I was just getting into it but thanks relearning my language. :).
Ahéheeʼ.... so much to learn!!! I appreciate this very much. Does the Ł at the beginning of a word sound different. I keep hearing a slight k sound when you said Łichííʼ
what about the color silver or grey
Also i think purple is also a Dootlizh and is spelled Tseedideehgo dootlizh am i right its just i live in flag so the trillingual school i go to teaches us different :/
Seems crazy that I have followed you for over a decade but on my silent account. After I retred I began studying the vast field of Archaeology initially since I been scuba diving over 25 years I though underwar=ter archaeology was my place, but something changed me after a very strange dream.... Out of the Yàgo Dootl'izh I had to use a "L" because I couldn't find the symbol also that h'ilgoblue an aspiring archeologist
Yá'át'ééh Daybreakwarrior. Thank you for your great informative video language lesson. I have been a linguophile for more than 5 decades and also love Native-American culture so much. I taught languages for 15+ years, but sadly many people in this country don't give a $^*%< about learning them.
Stay safe and well and plesse keep these sessions coming.
Peace!
Yeah it is kinda sad to be honest, I like to converse with my Customers in their own Languages and they literally respect you for it. They light up when I just say “Thank You” in their Language and they are more grateful when I say stuff like “Thank you for eating in this Restaurant and have a good day.” in their language. They absolutely listen when I start telling them the Multiple ways to say Thank You in like 20-ish different Languages.
I do try telling my other Coworkers but they don’t care to remember or try to be honest and it is disappointing but I most of the time go off the assumption that they know exactly what they want in their Life so I leave em be. ✌️
I used to watch one of my other Coworkers do it and he’s really awesome at it, but he went back to School so I just watch him in action and he always knew how to make the Customers smile not gonna lie. I am glad I mimic-ed that same ability from him.
Thanks for these
I need to know how to say and spell three words if you can help, Sacred Sky, Morning Sky, and Morning Sky
How do you say White and Pink?
Ligai= White Dinilchii'= Pink
Thanks so much
thank you this is useful
i wanna learn the Navajo language but in reality it is the hardest ones to learn and i'd rather learn from someone thats knows it well
this guy knows it .been watching his vids aand learning ..last time my smug navajo friend got surprised when i conversed in his language lol
puffalump76 yes but i'm native so i'll look into it
One more thing, in "yago", if "ya" means sky, then what does "go" mean??
"Like" sky
I really want to see the native peoples of America become prosperous (not through gambling or bad stuff but with their intelligence and strength). We all talk about slavery but the native people never really got that recognition and support, the genocide of native people was one of the most evil things Americans participated in and were better than that now. I want reservations to become a place that one might go to to visit, shop, or for social or sporting events on par with some of our big cities. I would totally take a class on Navajo linguistics at a university on reservation.
Yeah what about white? I don't know ANY Navajo but I want to guess that it starts with an /L
Sharon Anne L/igai.
How do u pronounce beautiful star or beautiful moon?