The Village Where the Aztec Language Lives On (#13)
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- In some parts of Mexico, the Nahuatl language lives on, and even children take Nahuatl lessons and sing Nahuatl songs. The Aztec language is far from dead in Mexico, with more speakers than all of the Native American languages in the US. But was the youngest generation taking the language as seriously as their predecessors? My new best friend and I would continue our journey through la Huasteca to Chililico, a small town where life almost stands still, and where Mexican hospitality was on full display.
Here's to another generation of Nahuatl speakers..
Thank you, for your appreciation of Mexico's beauty, sadly there's a loss of prehispanic dialects but there's hope.
how did you learn Náhuatl in three weeks can you help
@@betterdays2006 I don't know any at all, but I'm hoping to learn. That's how I found you. I searched for someone to learn from. I recently learned of Nahuatl from a linguistics professor here & it was intriguing. My parents are from Michoacan & there are people in that state that speak a native dialect but we're mestizos so even 4 generations back or more they were all Spanish-speaking.
Kena!
@@patograce26 look for Paquiliztli channel he's got a free ongoing course here on CZcams, also "Canal Nahuatl" has lessons and INAH curso de Nahuatl
When I was a child en my school I suffered of discrimination for talking in nahuatl and now I can't believe that a lot of people want to learn nahuatl hahaha but I am proud of myself and elated for knowing this beautiful language
Your story sounds similar to the chef in the video. Pretty sad, but I'm glad that the language is surviving
Can you please tell me how do you pronounce xochitl in nahuatl? Is it show-sheet or so-chee
@@sdr6773 is depend of the place where you are.. But in my town I usually pronounce it like a "shh" but is so smooth you have put your tongue close your palate as the sound of the "r" in english but instead to make the sound of the r you are going to make shhh.. If you make it good, even that sound will be like a whistle, so the part of "chi" is as sound... Good luck my friend!!!!!! :)
I recently had my first child and I want so badly for her to know her ancestors and I think one of the best ways is to learn Nahuatl and speak it to her. I never really heard it spoken and I thought it was a “dead” langue till recently. I can say a few words and names I love how it sounds and how it feels coming out of my mouth.
@@Batmanshypeman put on some nahuatl tv shows for her
It makes me so sad to hear people were bullied out of speaking this mother language.
Absolutely fabulous hearing you help keep it alive.
I’m Mexican and I’ve always loved my Aztec heritage! But it doesn’t stop at Mexico, there’re also pockets of native Nahuatl speakers in Nicaragua and El Salvador. Both pre-Columbian Nicaragua and El Salvador were populated by Nahua indians that fled Mexico after the collapse of Tollan. In El Salvador they're the Pipils who created the Nahua kingdom of Cuzcatlan while in Nicaragua the Nicaraos (a Pipil subgroup) created Nicanahuac 🇲🇽❤️🇬🇹🇳🇮🇭🇳🇸🇻🇨🇷
in El Salvador too, right. Pipil?
@@migspeculates I’m from El Salvador and am Pipil! Yes, Pipil (or Nawat) is similar to Nahuatl. The name “Pipil” was given to us when Nahuatl translators identified that our language was a “simplified” version of Nahuatl. We were given the name Pipil by the colonizers in a derogatory sense-because Pipil means childish-but the word “Pipil” is still widely used to distinct our people from other Uto-Aztecan groups. Cheers!
@Áhuizotl Cuauhtémoc oops were you replying to the right person?
@@pedroramos235 cool. So Pipil is Nahuatl minified version. Kidding.
The mexicanas, we don't have Aztec heritage.
This is great. I’m from Los Angeles and am going to really try and start learning to speak Nahuatl. It’s a beautiful language. It’s encouraging to see you do what you’re doing. Keep it up!
You got this. Plenty of free materials online to learn from, just practice a bit every week and then head off to la Huasteca!
@@SabbaticalTommythanks! someday I will!
@Hector Ramirez not to me
Im from Nicaragua where Nahuatl was being spoken right up the 18th century but unfortunately that is no longer the case, and whats left of it are simply words mixed in with spanish and the names of many of the cities and towns that still bare the names of the old language. I’m now learning to speak it and I want to teach it to my wife and daughter.
Lol poor mexicatiahui.
It's so sad to see how people get brainwashed, their history and culture erased, how many lost stories and knowledge. But you can see the spirit of the Aztecs when they all gathered up it was like a ritual.
Kinda reminds me of the Irish and how like no one really speaks Irish Gaelic
Uh? They are not descendants of ghe aztecs, unfortunately the aztecs as an ethnical group were wiped from the face of earth during the conquest. They all died because of smallpox.
@UCBe83bPBzOuIHqvmgxgQu6g nope, the aztecs as a group were wiped out by smallpox. Their noble descendants are now living in Europe.
Now, the groups who shared culture with the aztecs are still here, lile the xochitecas, tlaxcaltecas, and all their enemies, people who lived nearby the lake Texcoco.
ok but they are not called Aztecs they are Mexicas
This is the main reason I'm studying to be a linguist; to stop this loss.
Thank you for this video! I am also learning Nahuatl
De nada! The people are amazing
Interesting video I hope you visit more villages that speak Nahuatl
There's still more Nahuatl village exploring to come..
I envy you brother!!! What you are doing keeps building up my bucket list. Tlazocamahti!!! Peace be with you.
Great!! I still remenber those days when I used to go to the Posada, We used to sing and have a Colacion, and sometimes to dance!!! Colacion is mixture, of candies, cokies and coconuts.
Awesome, I didn't know what the drink was called. Colacion, me gustó
Speaking Nahuatl on the streets and the bar playing the soundtrack to Grease LMFAO - some surreal shit right there
It is good to know that the culture of the Aztec people lives on. I hope they make more effort to preserve it.
Just a note: the 4 aires, are different philosophically from the 4 elements (Greek origin). Elements are different from Airs. It loosely translates to breath, as in the quality of being alive. The Sun, Earth, air, water. Not earth as a material, Earth/Tonantzin as an entity. Not fire as a chemical reaction, but the Sun Tonaltzintli as the cosmic body around which we revolve. I'd recommend studying up on Nahuatl or Anahuacan cosmovision! Learning the language is not just about the acquisition of information, it is also about the cultural understanding. Eso te falta
Thank you for the clarification.
So totally awesome…my adventures to Mexico during Christmas time was just like that. It’s beautiful. We stayed in Temoya…family there speaks Otomi…and we stayed in Atizapan de Saragoza…loved it…🥰🥰🥰
Was this in el Estado de México ?
Atizapán de Zaragoza*
Salud en nahualt en mi pueblo se dice ixh mu masehuele, tambien se dice ixh mu chihualtile.
Thomas, i like your channel. Your curiosity is wonderful, manners are polite and respectful. Good job. Your touching my heart. Keep it up.
After the release of mexican Constitution in 1917, ends the mexican revolution , The mexican Education brand decided that in all Mexican republic shoud speak an learn only spanish, and nothing else, so all mexican kids had to learns and speak only spanish. My father used to tell me that when he was a kid, was to difficult learn spanish, because only the teacher knew that languaje and if the teacher catch any student spaking nahuatl , this student will get a seriius punishment.
Me da tanta tristesa eso. Estoy agradecida con los que ven la bellesa de Mexico y sus raices.
That's how they colonize us
Muy intolerante la cultura del mexicano.
Triste pero práctico. Si no lo hubieran hecho podría ser que México hubiera terminado como hizo filipinas con el tángalo en algún movimiento entre 1917 a la actualidad, es decir que terminarían quizás hablando algo distinto al español y renunciando al idioma, haciendo que personas de otros países hispanos ya no pudiéramos comunicarnos de manera directa si no por medio del inglés (y vamos que no muchos hablamos inglés en los países hispanos si toma en comparación a la población total, es decir se perdería comunicación realmente). En mi opinión lo único bueno que vino de los españoles fue un idioma común para las Américas, lo cual nos permite visitar a cualquier país hispano como turista sin estar forcejeando tanto con un idioma. Solo en mi país Costa Rica, que es diminuto, tiene básicamente un lenguaje nativo por cada población indígena, sería caótico si no hubiera idioma español. Ahora países más grandes como Mexico, Colombia, etc, fijo sería peor el asunto. Lo mismo pienso del idioma inglés, es lo único bueno que vino de los ingleses y los gringos, gracias a ellos podemos comunicarnos a nivel global
Same as what happened to Native American tribes here (forced to speak English),.. The Scots pretty much lost their Gallic to the English (too),.. Same thing is happening in China (entire nation is taught Mandarin in school),.. In other places, Arabic pushed out smaller tribal languages.... But now we all see it,... so people in many places are trying to keep their languages alive! (Which we all should.)
If I'm not mistaken, Nahuatl is called by linguists the Uto-Azteca family of language, that at the time of the Spanish Conquest was spoken from where today is the state of Utah down to the south of Mexico...
Also there were some that migrated south to what is now El Salvador and Nicaragua in the 1200s.
So the Utes spoke a language related to Nahuatl? That's pretty cool. Had no idea.
@@DustinHawke …
But a Huichola amiga of mine asked an American indigenous to speak to her in his language, and she didn’t understand anything he was saying…
@@tribudeuno they arent supposed to understand even though the languages can be part of the same family
Its a language family. That includes hopi, yaqui, comanche, shoshone, and nahuat(l). To put into perspective, English and Persian are Indo-European, same language family, but i doubt if you would understand anything in Iran.
The Nahuatl language is the second most used language in México. Spanish is NOT our native language. It was forced for hundreds of years! Hell yeah, we managed to hang in there with this language. Of course we wanna save it and learn it! We were not allowed to use it for so long!
I mean if you wanted to do business with the Hispanics and Meztisos you kinda need it to learn the language. on top of that there are over 67 other native languages and many tribes hated the Aztecs whom spoke Nahuatl because they went around conquering kidnaping and killing other tribes. hence why many decided to learn Spanish.
@@dio13373 we didn't decide to speak Spanish, it was decided for us! After they forced Spanish on us, they took the South West and would literally hit children who spoke Spanish in School. To this day, we r not sure what they want as far as language. The Natives would go into the underground to speak, sing, dance, worship in their language. Ask far as the narrative of the USA about Native ppl, it's very mean spirited and demeaning to the Natives of the Americas. The USA has a very small world about Native ppl. To much BS in USA narrative.
@@teresafernandez9849whos they? Its your choice lol
@@yaboi3839 everyone has their "they". I already made up my mind of who" my they" r. Get ur own!
Good that you're learning Nahuatl, my family are Nahuas from Tola, Nicaragua and older generations of my family spoke Nawat which is extinct in the country. Even tho Nawat is extinct im still proud of my Nahua heritage 💪🇳🇮
I tried learning Nahuatl when I was in high school, I should try again
Es muy interesante el náhuatl para los que queremos aprenderlo. Gracias por el video
I hate that people would be made fun of for speaking it, like wtf?
I'm not a native american (i'm french) but i've always felt bad for those people since i was a child and learned about how their civilisation ended . I'm glad that their langage and a part of their culture is still "surviving" .
@@elplatypus1584 thank you🌺🌺🌺
@Wenzeslaus Don't forget the colonizers are their ancestors as well.
@@HawaiiDEEPS That’s true.
@@aldistoteles2919 The typical image of a Mexican is a mestizo because they're the majority of the country, and many of them reject their American ancestry from what I've been told. This is somewhat similar to how African-Americans reject their European ancestry.
Next time you go to Mexico you should visit Oaxaca, it’s got the best food in the country, beautiful views, and there’s a coastal area to where there’s nice beaches! They also speak many indigenous languages, so it’s like a whole different country
I too have no words for the kindness shown.
Amazing video! Thank you for shedding some light on this beautiful language as well as all the beautiful people who still speak it.
My ex wife is from Mexico City but her parents spoke fluent Nahuatl ... Mexika tiawi (mexica tiahui) meh shee kah tee AH wee ... Mexicanos adelante... we say that as a kind of goodbye or see you later.
Digging this type of "local vibes" travel vlog. Different from the usual IG look-at-me stuff all over YT.
I’m amazed at how it seems that you grasp so many different languages with what seems like ease... I imagine that you must have put in a lot of effort to learn them, but I’ve seen you in Africa speaking different languages there too.. and it’s not like they are major widely used languages outside of the area it comes from... I assume you have an unusual gift to be able to pick them up
You speak Spanish with an Argentinan accent. Im so curious to know your story, like what do you do for work, howd you learn languages, etc . Love the vids
Yeah I spent too much time in Buenos Aires so I talk like a porteño! I'll talk about my past more in future videos but for now I'll just say I don't work for the CIA (as far as I know)
Right?
@@SabbaticalTommy Well an undercover CIA agent would say that........
Bro been watching your vids for 12 hours straight now. You're an inspiration, this is how ppl need to travel
Ni mosewi means: I’m teaking a break but also means I getting a fresh air.
Ah yeah! That's a better translation, tlazocamati noicniuh
Much tlen, no Ikniuh!!!!
Perdon, se dice : mach tlen.
Ni mosehui, seria mas bien escrito.
Pialli Tanya. Quejatza itztoc?
5:35 The pouring of libation is a very important ritual in many African cultures including my own people; the Taita community in Kenya 🇰🇪
The sweetened rice drink is probably rice Atole, very common during Christmas time. Love watching your videos, keep up the fun travels!
Wow so that’s where that comes from???
I remember growing up in my neighborhood and as teenagers drinking or whatever we would always poor some out before anyone gets to drink but as we poored the alcohol to the ground we would say “it’s for the dead homies” meaning our dead friends drink first but this whole nature thing makes more sense .
wow. I appreciate what you are doing! Your videos are wonderful!!
Thanks Mary! Visiting the Huasteca was amazing, I definitely recommend it to anyone, the people are so welcoming
Great Video! Haha I know the Mexican hospitality :D Ive lived in Mexico from last year November until this year late March and I loved it! I'm going back in a few months..
Amazing bro!!!
One thing I learned about Mexican parties while I was there: you'll never leave hungry.
😁😁😁😁 that's true haha
You amaze me! All the languages you are fluent in. I have binged on your videos. My only beef is that you say G.D. other than that I love your content! God Bless!
Grease jam in the back ground was legendary.
I wish my people would of never have up Nahuatl for Spanish I use to be those Hispanics that would make fun of Hispanic kids that dint know Spanish now I see it so different because our ancestors dint speak Spanish it was force on us now I’m trying to learn Nahuatl
Are you a chicano? Boy, it is wrong to think that your ancestors might have spoken nahuatl, there are many indigenous languages here in mexico you know? Your ancestors might have spoken otomi, or mazahua, or mayan or whatever.
Remember that during the precolombian times, nahuatl was to the Cem Anahuac what english is now for our globalized world.
PLENTY of cities in fact speak nahuatl today and that's beautiful.
My great grandfather was Mexicanero and they spoke Nahuatl
OMG you know my country much better than I do.... It's a shame
I'm still learning! But visit la Huasteca if you can, it really was an amazing experience
Elote goes so hard
Qué bonito como celebran la navidad en su pueblito 🥺
The marriage between traditional religion and Christianity and their coexistence is very interesting.
Im owens valley paiute and we speak a related language. We are mono paiute shoshone
I gotta go back to the land of my ancestors in Jalisco and learn the old language and bring it back for my family who left to America
such a great series. i am so glad i have found your channel. viva la México
The conquerors of indigenes all across the "American" continents have been trying to destroy any traces of previous cultures. Thankfully, the voices of indigenous peoples are organizing and reclaiming their culture and land. Thanks to the elders that have preserved these traditions :)
ra rum pum pum pum
so interesting and entertaining, how does this video not have more views...
Orales amigo!! Yak huilik en elotl nele sime ti mu pactileya mu tlahtos yika náhuatl cuali ti mu machtiya cuali tonaly nucni:)
I love your videos!!
It’s great to see you sharing a side (which no doubt exists) of Mexico other than the danger & violence that so many videos show.
In my very limited travels to Mexico, I too have experienced nothing but kindness & touching generosity from people with such little financial means.
For me, after being at a village for just a short time, I kind of felt sorry for the people thinking of all the things I saw they didn’t have. However, when it was time to leave after 4-5 days, the feeling sorry, turned to almost envy (not in a bad way). I just realized; they aren’t missing a thing.
I very much look forward to returning to Mexico.
Thank you to you both, hearing this really keeps me motivated to make more videos like this. I'm really glad that people want to see what life is like in Mexico beyond the tourist spots and "most dangerous areas!!!1!", because there's so much more to the country
@@SabbaticalTommy For sure!! I'm originally from a small village in Guanajuato, Mexico that's very similar to those that you visit and I have nothing but love for my hometown. It's easy for people to assume that people who are less wealthy are missing out on things or living miserable lives, but the only thing I feel when I visit is a sense of harmony and contentment that I can't find anywhere else :)
Thank you!
A sweet rice drink = horchata.... you should try champurrado
You speak so many languages. It's crazy, i barely speak mine
Great stuff. Would love if you visit lake pátzcuaro and speak to my ancestral native group, the purépecha. They have a indigenous language isolate in Mexico that may go back to the time of the “Olmec”.
Do you say elote? Or corn?
@@marisabeltran3084 elote/maíz if I’m speaking Spanish, and corn/ maize if I’m speaking English.
Bless you son
when i was a child my friend taught me nahuatl now i just use it every once in a while.
Was someone listening to John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John's You're the One That I Want? lol
i think the more proper word for elote in English is corn.
😂 It's not exactly the same though
More like corn cob
Wow nice place to get away really not a lot of noise and cool 😎
They’re like embarrassed to speak their ancestors tongue. Kind of wild 🤯
Me parece muy interesante por favor más videos en nahuatl.
Mexican born in Texas always wished i could learn nahuatl
See i wish to learn nahautl, my grandma who is apart of the punic side of the uto-aztecan linguistic family so i'm learning that, and my grandpa who is nahua so i wish to learn nahautl aswell.
Ahí el señor,dice que salud en náhuatl no existe,pero si este soy de la sierra norte de puebla ahí salud decimos,Mon ix tenoj tsinkoj
Luego por eso dicen o afirman que el nahuatl es un idioma muy pobre, por el desconocimiento.
Soy de la sierra norte de Puebla.
La lucha del ciglo 😂😂😂
interesting. my first time to hear Nahuatl from actual speakers
The man said people would make fun of you for speaking Nahuatl but you should educate them why they speak Spanish and you speak Nahuatl. They are the ones who should be made fun of for being gentrified speaking a language that belongs to Spain
Que admirable es ver que otras personas aprendan nuestras lenguas ancentrales y no uno como mejicano
99oo9ook
People will generally be nice if we make the effort to speak their language wherever we go.
Hey Tommy! I love your video.
Cualtitoc! Wow great video, did you happen to catch the name of the saint people pray to for rain?
Ah no I didn't, sadly. But I'll be going back in a few months
Pialli gente. Quisiera haber vivido en 1917 para darles en la ....a aquella bola pendejos...podria usar otras palabras. And if you want to learn English, people ho ahead. But learn it to....eh...bueno uds., me entienden. I am familiar with about 50 plus languages so échenle ganas.
Tlazocamati...срасибо
До скорого.
Привет Tануа и Tatiana...Tanya escribe algo, ahora es cuando.
How did u learn the language? Ive been learning huasteca variety but id love to find out how u learned
Sure. That's maybe the best variant to learn because there's many free resources for it. I used these:
A full course with audio examples:
tlahtolli.coerll.utexas.edu/
And a grammar guide (en español):
www.vcn.bc.ca/prisons/grahuas.pdf
Awesome!
That chihuahua tho
The birds were giving good praise, the people noticed your effect
Saludos en náhuatl es techmotlapalyly
Greeting ☺️☺️☺️
the native Indians didnt die, they were just relabeled and pushed to a newly created border. The ones that got stuck on the US side were labeled American Indians and the others that fled or got pushed out were labeled illegals.
Profoundly moving video. And I am uncertain exactly why?
What are the books that you learned Nahuatl
Very glad to see that they actually have their native language when Spanish actually comes from Spain not Mexico or what was just the Southern NorthernAmerica/Central America or MesoAmerica before it was given a name by the Spaniards/Europeans
2:35 Where did you find this gorgeous brown boy?
why would anyone laugh at them when they speak that language it is from a powerful and great nation they did some terrible things but they achieved some of the greatest things too to all mexicans teach this to your children this language never forget how great a people you once were .
Mexican street corn 🌽 yum!
When you bought the elote you should have offered your partner to buy one for him (he will probably say "No thanks", but it's just a sign of education).
No one should be left without food.
He refused off camera
Where did you learn to speak Nahuatl
Hey dude where you in Hidalgo? caused Nahuat in some areas of Hildalgo still speak that language.
I want to learn Nahuatl so so fucking bad I am learning classical one but which one should I learn after that one?
All of them lol
Bro how does this guy know so many languages
Huitzilopochtli bless the Mexicans!
It's Quetzcoatl's turn to rule
They should be proud to speak the language of their anchestors
This guy knows so many languishes it blows my mind?
I hope that the Nahuati language will never be forgotten. It’s a shame that some natives make fun of and look down on other natives for speaking their original language because they have embraced the language of their colonizers.
Jamás he escuchado a un gringo decir elote… 🤣 le dicen “corn”
Inin ka cualli! Nitlazotla miac!
lol bumpin' grease soundtrack in a small mexican village, don't know why i find that funny