Weather Report in the Navajo Language

[@cathe196]

It's like the opposite of Polish. Polish is a language chock full of consonants. This is a language of vowels. What an interesting sound.

[@CarolusMagnus98]

I beg to differ : Polish does have a couple more places of articulation whereas Navajo has more manners, but more importantly, Polish: 35 consonants (including allophones) / Navajo: 40+ consonants (including morphonology) Polish: 6 basic vowels (2 have a nasal version) / Navajo: 4 basic vowels (all have a nasal version)

[@trequor]

The written form of most First Nations languages are streamlined. They didnt have a written language until the mid twentieth century. It's not like european written languages that carry extra garbage that isnt actually pronounced.

[@maxonite]

Charles Bentein I think they meant how frequent/enunciated the vowels or consonants are actually ?

[@ioannispolemarkhos7364]

And Welsh. Don't forget Welsh. Have a Navajo and Polish guy pronounce llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerichwryndrwbwllllantysiliogogogoch.

[@wintherr3527]

@@ioannispolemarkhos7364 is this a real world? this shit's unpronounceable!

[@jeffreyanderson3572]

Thirty years I worked as an archaeologist in western New Mexico. We worked in remote areas with little radio reception. One of the few stations we could pick up was a Navajo station. Although I cannot understand the language, I used to enjoy listening. Hearing this brings back memories.

[@daybreakwarrior]

I'm glad to hear! 😁

[@hollyholyan4254]

Wow! Very fluent in the Navajo language.

[@glennfoster2423]

Except for a few phrases and I do not speak or understand Dine bizaad. I lived in Gallup for a year and Winslow for 7 years. I even took two courses of conversational Navajo. Aside from learning how to pronounce most phrases and names of things, I have no command of conversational Dine bizaad. I too, listened to the radio stations in Gallup and St. Johns (St.Johns was Apache and English, mostly), but could never captured the "structure".

[@xxBreakxxAwayxx3]

Did you happen to read Wisdom Sits in Places by Keith Basso? My archaeology prof recommended it and it was fascinating! Basso uses apache place names to develop research on climate and oral history. They are amazingly complex and nuanced, each name can be a whole sentence, which references particular folklore and landmarks.

[@Silverbladestudios]

It sounds gorgeous. It's a shame that more people have not heard it before. It's fantastic to hear.

[@duckieduck3287]

Silverbladestudios Yeah if we could understand it easily without translations like this video then it would be great, but since it's so difficult i don't see that happening any time soon

[@blainewilliams394]

Japanese radio operators intercepting radio signals during ww2 have

[@lukeporras1288]

My Grandpa always turns on a Navajo radio station whenever passing through Navajo Nation. It’s always so cool to listen to.

[@marcellomancini6646]

​@@duckieduck3287what do you mean? hundreds of thousands of people speak it at home

[@alixinthemiddle]

jesus christ. it's beautiful, but no wonder Navajo was used for code. this language is crazy

[@ren7293]

Code talker: speaks Navajo Japanese soldiers: Nani?

[@okaminess]

Nani kore? lol

[@buizelmeme6288]

Japanese soldiers: visible confusion

[@ONRIPRESENCE]

That's my language! I love hearing it and being able to contribute to new terms. Through the internet and beyond, I look forward to teaching more of it written and recorded in a Gestalt style or the "big picture" to new generations of us Navajos/ Navahos/Diné.

[@chandlerholiday5541]

Hey onri i found you! lol i just looked up ktnn haha.

[@ONRIPRESENCE]

This guy! Cheii! What are the chances? Haha. I can be found from many corners of the net.

[@chandlerholiday5541]

nasty!

[@ONRIPRESENCE]

Chandler Holiday haha bro.

[@jordanbenally4603]

I'm trying to learn Navajo and I'm from Gallup. It's one of the hardest languages to learn I'm the world tbh

[@Borninxixax]

Eminem: I'm the fastest rapper. Navajo weatherman Paul Jones: Hold my beer

[@daydreamer3697]

Hold my fire water

[@sonny凡]

Liam McGreevy Lmao 🤣

[@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath]

Paul Jones, the most traditional English sounding name ever.

[@BobTheHatKing]

Surprisingly: “In general, Navajo speech also has a slower speech tempo than English does.” -Wikipedia

[@xavierjoe3389]

Hold my fry bread and stew

[@yugandali]

It's wonderful to see that you have kept the original place names. Here in Taiwan, many of the tribal names have been lost.

[@ambroselee9811]

I miss listening to KTNN in the early mornings with my grandparents, the smell of the wood stove and coffee brewing on the stove, looking out the window watching the sun rise, with it’s beautiful colors of light pink, deep purple and bright orange. O how I miss those days of not having a care in the world

[@barbyazzie5260]

Same. Grandma’s tea and her biscuits w potatoes. Or hot yellow corn cereal. The coziness of her home I do remember. Then she’d start weaving. ❤

[@SuperZytoon]

This is awesome to find. No wonder the Japanese could not break the code! My thanks and admiration GI out to the Navajo men who were the Navajo Code talkers. Just an incredible bit of history!

[@JenniferSmith-zi7wu]

It really is so amazing and so genius

[@thecypressstation7470]

Navajo is such a beautiful language

[@Pr0teus14420]

This sounds like the time I listened to Stairway to Heaven backwards.

[@celaetsityy105]

My heavenly Uncle Paul Jones was weather report er, he mastered this language, RIP Uncle.

[@gunchbandit4422]

This was an unbroken "code" used by the USA during WWII

[@darth-hellhound6534]

The Navajo code wasn't just the language, it was an actual code

[@evelynb9679]

No you idiot. This is just the language.

[@JamesWalker-du2mr]

@@evelynb9679 You absolute buffoon. Type I code was a substitution cipher with words from many languages used to replace letters. So no, it was not "just the language." Type II code was two code talkers using their plain native langue, but even then things were obscured by descriptive language since words like "Bomber aircraft" doesn't exist in Navajo so they'd call it a buzzard.

[@linguafiqari]

Languages like Navajo are why I will always stand by my claim that saying (Mandarin) Chinese is the hardest language is a load of bullshit. People who say that have never looked more than superficially at a Native American language.

[@xwtek3505]

The very concept of "inherently hard language" is pretty bullshit. When FSI rated a language, the intended usage is to find out how long a *native English speaker* takes to learn an acceptable level of fluency. It depends more about English itself and how close the language to English.

[@xxBreakxxAwayxx3]

Going from english to Mandarin can be brutal. Phonetic to tonal requires new muscles and new ways of listening. my experience was that mandarin was much easier than arabic. Dine bazaad seems pretty difficult too. I loved reading Keith Basso's "Wisdom sits in places" about how its unique grammar & conjugation for placenames is helping climate research and history.

[@eeshayrellik]

I Love our language.... so awesome..

[@purpleelemental3955]

Don't let your nation die.

[@eeshayrellik]

@@purpleelemental3955 Yeah, these days it’s so hard of our youth losing our language. I teach my two children how to speak it so happy they can.

[@purpleelemental3955]

@@eeshayrellik good for you. Good luck

[@Ambrose2017]

​@eeshayrellik I'm 16, learning it's hard😅, but it gets easy when you learn new things in navajo each day

[@snajja]

This video is amazing. I can't stop listening to it. Such a unique sound. Does seem a bit Asian, but also a little Welsh. The people who are doing the report are so lucky to be able to speak like that!

[@shiverarts8284]

Nope

[@Furhling]

@@shiverarts8284 Yep

[@shiverarts8284]

@@Furhling gross.

[@harczymarczy]

Even Hungarian linguists are interested in Navajo because of its rich morphology. Although many people may find it funny but it's easier to learn a few of its words exactly because of this "funniness" which may ultimately contribute to keeping it alive. When it comes to Navajo traditions, it may still be easier to use Navajo words for key concepts. There are a few White people in South Africa, for example, who grew up among Blacks and learned their language (in most cases, Xhosa or Zulu). For example, I find Swahili funny, it's like Hungarian backwards. I once read a Swahili language textbook and I just coudn't put it away, I read it for hours.

[@Jbm0230]

Navajo is too difficult for me to grasp. It's so incredibly different than any other language I've ever heard

[@MajesticSkywhale]

yep, the entire war they had no clue that it was just Navajo indians speaking their own language, they thought it was code. so funny :D

[@SeraphimARcanus]

they know it was navajo but don't have a way to breaking it. www.quora.com/Did-the-Japanese-know-Navajo-code-talkers-were-used-in-WWII-but-were-unable-to-crack-the-language-or-did-they-have-no-clue-what-language-it-was

[@smith2luke]

I got the phone number right!

[@marcusperry4733]

Actually it was a code within a code, spoken directly it made no sense....get to know the code then it would make sense..

[@trequor]

That is the way of native languages. Only a bare handful of non natives have actually bothered to learn it. In Europe and Asia you might as well have been speaking Klingon. No other language involved in that war could have accomplished this. I guess the colonial squashing of native culture really paid off for the world as a whole i suppose

[@themadmanwithapen]

They talk so fast!

[@brodyhill1449]

themadmanwithapen Usually conversation is at normal speed but this is a radio weather report and he's trying to get everything in before next commercial.

[@Lavender09-r9i]

My grandma use to say diné tsiilgo yalti'agii diigiis 😄🤣

[@NATIVETANKTHEBOXER15]

@renitz8307 "The people talk to fast stupid" is what this means.

[@ElektronikGirlEpic]

As someone living on Aboriginal land (Tasmania) it's good to see resources of the native languages across the sea. Our state is now trying to revive the language of the lost people here, I hope dearly Navajo becomes easier to study.

[@NorthSea_1981]

Wow, this is REALLY fast...I never knew that Navajo is sometimes spoken *that* quickly. I'm a linguist and I find that the gentlemen in this example sound like 100% "accent free" examples. I'm German and I find native American languages in general very fascinating, but Athabaskan languages (like the lovely Navajo language) are especially interesting, due to their almost unique, utterly complex verbal system in particular. North American indigenous languages are - as whole - often very complex and highly elaborate, some of the other languages are much more "straightforwardly agglutinating" though compared to Southern Athabaskan languages like Navajo. That said, the US should finally get a grip and officially acknowledge, preserve and support these national treasures on a Federal level. I've visited Navajo country several times with my parents in the 80s and 90s as a child/teen, but I don't remember there being any bilingual signs back then (I may be wrong though). The more I'm delighted that this fact is perhaps slowly changing from what I've seen online since then. This is just my blunt "far-away overseas observation&opinion" so to speak: I wish that Navajo could become mandatory as a K-12 language on the Navajo territory for *anyone* attending public schools there, regardless of origin, along with (later on - perhaps wishful thinking) a full university. I think this might be the only way to preserve a solid future for this unique language, along with widespread public road and shop signs (and the media). It needs to be visible everywhere in the area.

[@meeple39397]

NorthSea 1981 as a Navajo teenager I agree with you. The main speakers of my language are old people, not a lot of young people speak it that much. In some places there’s Navajo signs. The school’s have Navajo translations and English ones. I did have Navajo as a class in elementary and middle school and it is mandatory to take it. There’s a college on our reservation and they have Navajo courses and some classes are taught in Navajo. There is a boarding school that teaches grade school kids that is all in Navajo. Everyone tried to teach Navajo, and we all immerse ourselves in our culture. We work hard to preserve it.

[@NorthSea_1981]

@@meeple39397 Thank you and good luck to you guys! Greetings from Germany

[@vratarportirgolman]

"The more I'm delighted that this fact is perhaps slowly changing from what I've seen online since then." This is the middle line of a linguist's edited post.

[@NorthSea_1981]

@@vratarportirgolmanWhat exactly did I do wrong? Also, English isn’t my native language.

[@aliciat9810]

I'm Polish Texan. OMG your language sounds mellodic and beautiful!! Please keep it alive. Hope young Navajo gen will learn it too. Lots of love!! Thank you for you service.

[@mongolxel]

Beautiful language.

[@ThomasHardmanJr]

Thank you so much for sharing some KNDN ;) (KTNN) with the rest of the world. I would almost pay money for a tape from them, just because hearing it cheers me up a lot.

[@Tsarcheshme]

It sounds ancient in some sense. It's beautiful.

[@israeldavidleonrodriguez2887]

It's quite shocking, as there's no foreign words inside this language, accurately speaking. It's also amazing to read!

[@lohphat]

Why switch back into English to read off the telephone number digits? An English speaker would not have understood the rest of the ad anyway.

[@markrcca5329]

I was wandering the same thing. i'm sure they have numbers in Navajo language... they might not have the word for "attorney", that would make sense :) I first heard it spoken when I was traveling through New Mexico a few years ago. I stopped at a gas station to fill up, and heard people speaking inside the shop, a language unlike any other I ever heard. They told me it was Navajo. Respect to the people who preserved their ethnic language and heritage!!

[@markrcca5329]

LOL that's funny. I looked up your number 18, it's "tsebitsadah", that's pretty long. But that's not unusual, I know some languages that have really long words for numbers too. For example in Russian numbers 18 and 80 are "vosemnadcat" and "vosemdesyat" and in Lithuanian they are "ashtuoniolika" and "ashtuonesdeshimt". Yeah and nobody in those countries is switching to English ;)

[@markrcca5329]

in Lithuanian, 1989 sounds "tukstantis devyni shimtai ashtuonesdeshimt devyni" :)

[@markrcca5329]

Kate B. lol it is not a problem for me. It's not my language, not my heritage to preserve... I'm just curious, is all.

[@brodyhill1449]

@@markrcca5329 Just easier to process mentally as English (Arabic) numbers used everyday. Navajo #'s not so much, weird actually.

[@Oliverharry600]

Having listened to this video again the language to me sounds a little like Mongolian with that ł sound and the general rhythm of speech. The nasal-sounding vowels give it a really distinct sound.. awesome language.

[@knuckztve]

MGSV brought me here. Thanks, Kojima

[@mariodeathcore1]

He switches over to English in some parts because we don't have a word for it OR because our numbers are really inconvenient to say in a small amount of time.

[@mlbaldwin1978]

This language needs to be protected at all costs!!!!

[@benobro5831]

What an incredible, beautiful language

[@Kateydid18]

So excited about the new Navajo course on Duolingo! Had to come here to listen to Navajo since they don't have the audio part of the course up and running yet.

[@cole8375]

Me too. The audio will be added soon

[@cc6546]

Was reading about Navajo culture and came to hear the language and wow, it sounds super cool.

[@spameggsandwich4488]

It's sped up for radio, regular speech sounds more melodic and less monotone

[@DimmVargr]

That'd be nice if text was correlated with sound -.-

[@8492hresvelgr]

lol I agree

[@CarolusMagnus98]

Believe it or not but Navajo has whole series of both normal, aspirated and ejective plosives (except for p) and affricates. Hard to represent with teh latin alphabet

[@VikoTheBassist]

Charles Bentein I think they mean that there’s a delay.

[@RobbyGAMEZ]

It is... just pay attention

[@calamityredgnat9356]

Dimm Vargr wdym?

[@morerice.6457]

When he said the phone number it kind of sounded like a Filipino accent

[@RoccosVideos]

Very cool. It has such a different sound, truly foreign.

[@basticle930]

very interesting language, the way it is spoken is very unique

[@galaxy_gameplay4192]

This language is music to my ears

[@seti6272]

This has got to be the hardest language to learn in the world o_o

[@zeepzagoon]

well yes indeed xd

[@art1stwannabe]

Currently trying to learn it its been a ride, don't know if its the hardest but its definitely up there then again I live with grandmother who can speak Navajo pretty frequently so maybe its just easier for me bc she teaches me some words lmao

[@barbyazzie5260]

I wonder if any Chinese have learned it in this day and time. I hope not because of the way the world is. The Navajo code was never broken when it was used in WW2. It helped @ a significant turning point in America’s defense @ the battle of Iwo Jima, Japan.

[@danabowring]

232,323 views. Nice. Long live Indigenous cultures and languages!

[@kaydenpat]

I now understand why that code couldn’t be broken. Wow!!

[@nike11397]

Lol, my dad still listens to these guys in window rock. 👍 they have the best old school music 😂 and im only 24 haha

[@purespirit9]

Wow! Perfect! Brilliant! Only one thing the numbers should have been said in Navajo language too. All us Navajo's should bring back our language to the new generation.

[@azariacba]

Gorgeous language.

[@DAAI741]

I hope Navajo has its own writing system. This is way too overwhelming

[@gayvideos3808]

There is a version of the Cyrillic alphabet for Navajo, but otherwise no

[@kristerophaphleck3883]

I think Cherokee syllabary would work

[@KudistosMegistos]

I've always wanted to know what this language sounded like. To my ears, it's like a mix of Hebrew, Irish and Korean (although of course, it isn't related to any of them).

[@kctvprogrammerecording2546]

Kudistos Megistos For me it sounds like a higher dialect of German.

[@jasonthomas6684]

It does sound like Irish occasionally with some Chinese.

[@CardCaptorDeadpool]

Speaking as an Irish person I was surprised by some linguistic familiarities between here and my mother tongue. Incredible the way language develops when you consider the Irish and Navajo likely never had any cultural overlap in history.

[@CardCaptorDeadpool]

@Brody Hill it's been a while, I rewatched the video to refresh my memory. The way some of the Navajo words are pronounced have a similar sounding dialect to Irish words.

[@CardCaptorDeadpool]

@Brody Hill another thing, it's the speed with which it's spoken. Irish is kinda like French, you say it fast as lightning and as words weave into each other, there's a melodic flow. Almost as if you're speaking a song. I get these vibes from Navajo.

[@GatlingPea32]

Sounds like a combination of Mongolian and Hungarian to me. I heard a lot how Mongolian speakers pronounce some words and I found how those Navajo words look like Romanticized Mongolian to me.

[@CaptainZucker01]

Sounds like a mixture of Thai, Tamil, Hungarian and mongolian to me! What a interesting language

[@Ralesk]

+Finn Le Human Sounds nothing like Hungarian :D (might be because I'm a speaker of that)

[@Mr.Oblivian]

+ThePeriZone yes, agreed... it definitely has an East Asian tonality and feel to it... Mongolian is a good way to kind of try describing it. Its a beautiful language, thats for sure!

[@CaptainZucker01]

Jarret H. Tonal mongolian? Damn, Navajo is sure interesting

[@Mr.Oblivian]

La Faguette as far as I know, Mongolian is not a tonal language... but yes, Navajo is very very interesting

[@GreyWolfLeaderTW]

Woah, lots of accents for the vowels in this language.

[@viniciusoliveira7236]

They asked the natives how many diacritics they wanted in their transcription and they must've said ''yes'', because HOLY SHIT that's a lot of vowels and diacritics

[@jktoooo]

Reminds me of summer mornings with my gma gpa, gpa listened to ktnn religiously, blasting the ktnn broadcast on a radio cassette player hanging on a limb of a cedar tree by the fire. Lol. Love those times.

[@korvkorv532]

To me it sounds like a (very) drunk Irish football commentator trying his best, yet failing, to keep it together.

[@boithefinger6535]

I grew up around the Navajo language on my reservation and it’s so hard to learn. My parents known the language for 40+ years and still aren’t fully fluent. Just shows how hard this language really is.

[@tylerbia6515]

I’m Navajo and I love my Native language.

[@alexisy328]

I heard him on the radio the other morning and he doesn't speak that fast. Maybe the recording sped up his announcement? He has been doing that so long, it is like a song to him, I think. Plus I noticed a few more names/locations were added. The location name is described in detail so that makes it longer than the english word, if that helps.. :)

[@pizzafish4499]

I could listen to Navajo all day. Beautiful language

[@headbangerbunny]

Please can you tell me the word for rain cloud if there is a translation for it. I found the words for rain and cloud but im not sure if just sticking the words together would work or not.

[@haireepothead5001]

Not really cause Assasins Creed 3 is from eastern North American (Mohawk while this is south western, North America (Navajo). The difference in Navajo VS Mohawk is as big as Korean VS Vietnamese or Scottish VS Portuguese

[@mihali86]

I may sound extremely ignorant to native Navajo speakers, but I mean no offence. I’m really curious to know if Navajo could be written with Mongolian writing. To me they sound very similar aside from the speed at which they are spoken and a few differences in consonants.

[@squizz222]

Why _are_ the Navajo sentences so wordy compared to their English translations? I'm just wondering. I know one user already said it's because the words are more detailed, but could you be more specific? What exactly are some of the differences?

[@stlouisramsfan03]

@AngieAbnormal315 The pronunciation doesn't seem hard at all as Cherokee has similar sounds as we do like the Ts and such. Can you speak it fluently? I would love to learn.

[@vilabreze]

@Boadband You must mean the 3 similar letters and the fact that certain forms of nouns and verbs change depending on whether we're talking of men only or women only or mixed company (=to the women-only form). In Navajo clearly there's a difference in the verb form depending on the number of speakers. Navajo is considerably more ancient than Polish and belongs to a branch that's generally unto itself.

[@WolfBandit89]

I picked up a Navajo book in high school, and learn the structure in and how it was pronunciation. Now just reading the words from this video by putting it in pause, I speak it out loud, I’am closed to pronouncing it right. I think my mom would be proud to hear me speak it in front of her. She be like what weather app is this haha.

[@molly3857]

i want to learn navajo so bad but it’s so hard to find resources

[@elizabethkatherinefigueroa8914]

Japan: There is no language we can not decipher.. navajo speaks Japan: Nani?!!!?

[@qhapaqinka]

Wow, I don't think I've ever heard Diné spoken so fast before! Like it though :)

[@Tetraglot]

I think every American has the duty and responsibility to learn an indigenous language.

[@Space-Fonzo-7]

Lol

[@Rutherford_Inchworm_III]

Takes more than a decade of practice to learn if you didn't learn it in childhood. So I know you don't speak it either, tough guy.

[@zacharyklein634]

Is it just me or is the sound similar to welsh? It sounds very cool.

[@robertberger4203]

In Siberia, there is a small group of people called the Ket, who live out in the middle of nowhere in the Yenissei river region , one of the most remote and inaccessible regions on earth . Some linguists believe their language, which is very close to extinction , may be the proto Na-Dene language . Ket is the only survivor of the Yenisseian language family , which included a number of extinct languages . There is an interesting video on this theory on youtube and other videos about the Ket people there .

[@brodyhill1449]

Robert Berger Central Asian, Lake Baikal and Mongolia seem to be incubators for languages and culture. Certain words shared worldwide maybe be the result of this proto language.

[@debseek]

I guess this explains why the Navajo language was so successfully used during WWII. It would be very difficult to learn or translate by someone unfamiliar with it or as a second language if you were not exposed to it over a long period of time.

[@MrLucky5001]

0:15 I was looking through a few languages to see how they sounded, even if I probably won't learn them. Don't get me wrong. I probably wouldn't understand a thing without the English subtitles, but why are the numbers in English?

[@Alan-xe4st]

I believe saying numbers in their language takes a longer time than English.

[@EucaBear]

I like the sound of this language. It sounds a bit like Vietnamese mixed with Dutch.

[@Bru2712]

Would you please try to explain an example of one of the above mentioned things that are almost impossible to express in English? I'm curious now

[@Kitsune88]

This is amazing.

[@themalwarexd6472]

The navajo is amazing!

[@squizz222]

@wobeck That seems like it would make Navajo less wordy, since entire complex sentences in English can be conveyed in a single word.

[@jktoooo]

It seems some areas of the rez really emphasize the "t" in "t'aa" where as it seems in red lake kaibito area its not as emphasized. Same with this radio broadcast, the "t" doesnt seem to be emphasized as in some of the western new mexico and souuthern rez navajos. Idk. I could be wrong.

[@brodyhill1449]

jktoooo You know what they say, well back in the day, Western pronounce differently than Eastern part of nation. I noticed this listening to KTNN, watching YT and reading websites. Small pockets also exist I believe that use different words and colloqiualisms. Did you know we have marine terms from when we lived or traveled by the west coast and words we used when we lived in the forests. Don't know if young generation has learned that we have cousins up in Canada called The Dene and maybe even Ojibway. There are also Navajos living in Central Mexico. don't know about South America but I don't see why not.

[@GeneralJamin2799]

When he said “aah aaaaah” in 2:05 I felt that

[@RobbyGAMEZ]

I love how sparky and energetic this language sounds. Unlike English which is often lethargic and slurred especially in the Midwest, there's rhythm in this speech

[@phwaizy]

Well, it is tonal, like many Asian languages, such as Mandarin, Korean, Cantonese, and Vietnamese to name a few. And the sound represented by 'ł' also exists (and is frequently used) in welsh, i believe.

[@gayvideos3808]

Korean isn't tonal. It has a pitch accent, but not tones.

[@Bluegummies]

I never understood this before I went to my school where many spanish people live but now I understand it after I went to the duel language program in shiprock

[@okaminess]

Thanks, Terry. Ahe'hee' laa.

[@seank7413]

Iike this language. Its unique and like nothing I ever heard.

[@alancosta4760]

There's no tough language just different from your native language, like, I know a mexican that speaks nahuatl and I'm sure he'd think this isn't that tough because sounds like a bit nahuatl mostly the "clicks"

[@b0r00uw]

It’s actually not clicks. They’re called ejectives. It’s pretty much a consonant with a pop of air

[@benxenos9875]

thanks

[@patrickt.6492]

English is my native language. I'm learning German and Russian right now. But I've never heard anything like this. No wonder the Allies used it in WW2.

[@cannedmilk]

I understand Navajo very well and even I think that weather report was kinda fast. Haha

[@racquelcordova7906]

Listening to this on the Rez in the morning with ur grandmama 😂

[@kissfan7]

Does Navajo use Fahrenheit and miles per hour, or is he using some other measurement?

[@haitiangenius]

Would've been nice if the video wasn't out of sync.

[@ifyourespondyourmad.2409]

It sounds so exotic tbh.

[@AlchemicalForge91]

sounds like Cambodian to me

[@maggiedale2379]

Nope navajo language is one of a kind.!!

[@frizzlefry2436]

@@maggiedale2379 Navajo is a Na-Dene language

[@SyafiqJumerian]

smh white pipel..

[@daybreakwarrior]

@madrazel It may seem like that but in Navajo the words are more detailed... they tell a lot more. To liteally translate everything that is said in Navajo... the English dialog would be a lot longer! LOL! Yes in some instances, the Navajo words are longer than English like for instance words for "thermometer" but the verbs describe the place conditions or tell how many people the speaker is talking to. When you can understand what is spoken... you realize that English is so basic at times...

[@billjourney999]

Wonderful language

[@jktoooo]

For everyone saying it sounds sped up if u listen to the first speaker he is a little more common with what you hear from the Dine (the navajo). The weather reporter speaks a little faster than the average navajo speaker but probably cause he has developed a talent to cover weather in perhaps a charismatic matter. Idk.

[@lpasepok]

Hm, that's rather cool. The pronounciation of words doesn't seem to be that hard, except the speed at which they're spoken.

[@winstonchurchill3597]

Wow I understand it perfectly.

[@HyaenusDominae]

I've heard Navajo is one of the most complicated languages in the world. Can anyone confirm or deny this?

[@harrisonlu8763]

Chinese is way more complicated.

[@brodyhill1449]

@rsaaol Wonder what Navajo writing would be like if left to develop on it's before Columbus and how long it would be. Maybe it would be like what the Seminoles have.

[@fallenloki3580]

It surely is the most complicated. But for me, it's also the most beautiful.

[@gayvideos3808]

No. The most complicated languages in the world are probably !Xóõ and Archi.

[@brodyhill1449]

@@gayvideos3808 Navajo is in Top 5 Hardest Language. Now say something in AwwShit.