What Montezuma's Aztec Sounded Like - and how we know

[@obiem9319]

My Grampa and Grandma died not learning Spanish they spoke Zapotec and Nahuatl all their lives.. I'm 100% full blooded Zapotec but born in L.A. where we have a population of 20 thousand Native Zapotecs and community living there and San Diego as well. I speak 3 languages thanks to them.

[@ruggedobserver4987]

Amo Sa' beu' what about spanish

[@rlllatsyrc]

Francisco Jose Molina It’s not rare at all. Don’t buy into white colonial media. We are not a PEDIGREE! We are the only group of people that do that to each other. No one cares what percentage a black man or an Asian man is...they’re black! They’re Asian! That’s it.

[@obiem9319]

@@ruggedobserver4987 of course. My parents are from Mexico so they had learn Spanish I'm fluent in Spanish as well.

[@regularguychannel2967]

You’d have to take a DNA test to prove that. Any Spanish mingling at any generation and it will show.

[@sylviehaddad2323]

You are one of the lucky few who still has good blood 🩸 running thru the veins.

[@UnchainedMelodie92]

My mother speaks fluent Mixteco as it was her first language. She later learned Spanish from elementary school. My grandmother didn't learn Spanish until her teens and my mother could only speak to her in Mixteco during her final days, as she had forgotten all Spanish. The native languages and dialects are so beautiful and I truly wish my mom would teach me, but I think she gets shy for some reason lol.

[@sanjuanagasca7476]

Melodie your lucky

[@jigggro]

Please put up videos. Would appreciate a living history of a great culture.

[@saruniz]

You should let her her know how important it is to you! Don’t let the language die

[@windstorm1000]

How wondrous! What a heritage! Thanx for sharing!

[@giovannireyes6654]

How many beautiful languages did Mexico 🇲🇽 have ? I’m Mexican American from Chicago my family is from Michoacan, Durango & Zacatecas and I wish I and a lot of people spoke our first language 😥

[@janstolk486]

It's not that the Aztec had no books , the Spanish destroyed them all . Of the thousands only 3 remain .

[@Turkeythegamer]

Spanish destroyed books there are mean aztecz give them chocolate in golden cups and Spain does not care and goes and steals things from them and then kills all of them 😑😑😑

[@davidmeza3157]

jan stolk exactly

[@squakrock]

Cause they were filled with heresy !

[@ripplayboicactus9279]

YoungKing 97 all religion is heresy

[@squakrock]

RIP Playboi Cactus iyo

[@player0851]

As a mexican when I lived in Spain I noticed how natural the nahuatl words came to me compared to my spanish classmates, I could easily pronounce names and follow the tone of the language meanwhile they struggled to even read them. Also the people from central Mexico, mainly State of Mexico have an “accent” wich complements the language as much as Yucateco’s accent complement Maya Yucateco.

[@janegarner6739]

Oscar. Yes, much has survived from many indigenous peoples even after centuries of genocide. Growing up in the southeastern US in the mid-20th c, most members of our rural community spoke with an accent that was very different from the people in town, very different from other southern accents. Many yrs later when I met several Cherokees who lived in the Cherokee Nation west (in Okla), I was shocked to find that their accents were like those of my family & community. Our community had been founded by Cherokees who escaped the US military roundup of Cherokees in 1838 (resulting in forced removal to what's now Okla., via the Trail of Tears. Our ancestors had managed to evade capture by the US army & the militias that invaded our homeland in 1838, surviving for a while by living in caves but then managing to escape & make their way to southern Ark, where they founded the community called Cooterneck (Cherokee for turtle neck). It amazed me that the Cherokee accent was still very noticable several generations later. When I began studying the Cherokee language, I realized that the accent in our community was based on Cherokee pronunciations & sounds. For example, 'egg' was pronounced more like 'ache'. I think a Choctaw friend was right when he said Southern accents are heavily based on the accents of native peoples of the region. But there were also lots of rural communities throughout the south which were founded by natives who avoided the forced removals in the earlier 19th c & were forced to flee their homelands. (Mexico offered protection to any native people of the southeastern US during the period of forced removal, & some took Mexico up on this offer of land & freedom. There is still a Cherokee community in Mexico founded by those who accepted Mexico's offer of assylum.)

[@infinitmonburstmode]

Yes, I have a maya friend and both of us struggle with the other language, and I am from Edomex, it is very funny how we understand unconsciously the regional one for each of us

[@regulusaldebaran8401]

Well yeah Spaniards speak castellano. Mexican Spanish is based on calo ( Gypsies) and the native peoples

[@localmilfchaser6938]

Did you bang at least one of the conquerors for revenge over there ?

[@TiagoH1710]

⁠@@regulusaldebaran8401una mezcla de caló, nahuatlismos y andalúz

[@Zichfried]

I am impressed with your pronunciation! Both for spanish and náhuatl!

[@pearspeedruns]

@King Eugene Shut up

[@magicl4088]

Wtf

[@brianrodriguez6897]

Shut up

[@JavierBPerez]

As you should be, he's a linguist.

[@Gen3ralGrimReaper]

Spanish came from Spain, stupid

[@abbyhernandez1814]

My whole family speaks Nahuatl, I thought it was a weird dialect at first, but then I learned it was the Aztecs native language and I was blown away at how lucky I am that I understand an ancient language.

[@Mr713mexican]

Not that ancient my man, but still pretty old.

[@agayactornamedmichaeldougl6289]

​@@Mr713mexican yeah, Greek and latin are both way older.

[@Mr713mexican]

@@agayactornamedmichaeldougl6289 those are bad comparisons. We not in the old world. We are in “new world” so compare it to Mayan. Nahuatl is barely like from 1000AD-1300AD… Mayan is OLD!

[@DrJohnnyJ]

That's great. When I was 19, I took a bus trip across Mexico. I heard a language I didn't recognize. The Mexican next to me say, "That's what the Aztecs spoke". Amazing. I thought that it had died. Even weirder to me, in Guatemala, there was an ATM that understood spoken Nahuatl.

[@DrJohnnyJ]

@@agayactornamedmichaeldougl6289 How do you know how old Aztec is?

[@kiyal.3594]

Language really is the key to understanding a people’s culture.

[@pablosmoglives]

Your right.

[@nariko47]

Yes!

[@whitealliance9540]

@@nariko47 so why dont more whites practice speaking Ebonix ?

[@hoannguyen-ho2qb]

No shit

[@gfoot9916]

Cobb Knobbler ir Ebonics is for idiots then so is are Italian-American and Irish English accents

[@bottleofwater1675]

I’m Mexican and definitively, I wanna learn Nahuatl, and feel proud of my roots

[@duff0120]

but u speak the most beautiful langauge with ur accent. it sounds like a love song when yall speak spanish. i will come back to mexico one day

[@dlpgaming8000]

Maybe your not mexican but spanish i went my entire life thinking im 100% mexican but im 100% spanish lol

[@lupajupiter5605]

I'm half Mexican and I want to learn the language too but I'm already taking Latin so Nahuatl will have to wait haha

[@manifestdestiny1191]

Vast majority of people in Mexico are Spanish by blood. Lots have a little Native American mixed in but they’re white Spanish majority. Plenty of them also look “more native” simply because the harsh sun of Central America tans them more than the European sun in Spain.

[@arandompig3997]

@@eliasamitai9661 música de banda, obviamente tan mala como la corrupción

[@ayyyyyylmao2001]

As a Mexican I deeply enjoy your content related to prehispanic cultures. They are fascinating. Thanks, NativLang.

[@redrufus444]

Wonder if Edwardo can speak Tex/Mex?....

[@tigrehermano]

I am laughing cause he says “MONTEzuma”… so silly

[@Reason1717]

You may not hear this very often, but I feel it needs to be said "Your work here is important." Thanks for this video.

[@shanestevens5352]

Holy crap. Never realized the word for flower is my mother's name

[@SCSilk]

Shane Stevens learning what Xochitl means just made my day.

[@lamejor19]

Isn’t Monse the nick name for that name? Because my sister has this friend called Xochitl and they call her Monsi.

[@cutable6908]

Me neither actually!! But its my cousins last name not my moms- so pff

[@smolbeen3723]

🏵️🏵️

[@oof3691]

@@lamejor19 if I'm not mistaken, Monse is a nickname for Monserat

[@lallymartinez6427]

My grandpa was on hospice and began speaking mostly Nahuatl. He taught my sister and I some words. It’s really a beautiful language.

[@The_ZeroLine]

You’re like I couldn’t be bothered speaking to him until he was in hospice. And, yeah, it’s in and not on.

[@lallymartinez6427]

@@The_ZeroLine lol my bad for the grammatical error, it’s noted. But woah! That’s a bold assumption to make…when did I say I didn’t speak to him until he was in hospice? He had dementia and idk why he suddenly started speaking Nahuatl but I’m grateful he was able to teach me some words and for the memories i was able to make with him. You don’t know another person’s life so please try to be nicer in the future. 🙂 I’m sorry if you’re projecting a situation you dealt with.

[@The_ZeroLine]

@@lallymartinez6427 I think I confused your comment with another one (hospice, oddly, seems to come up a lot lately) that was similar. My apologies.

[@rayboyhongo2343]

aprendo nahuatl de un hombre que habla ingles, que curiosa es la vida

[@AzuraForzenheart]

X'D joder... me has sacado una buena carcajada... porque tienes razon...

[@rebecarodriguez568]

rayboyhongo234 jaja iba escribir lo mismo

[@fenrirgg]

rayboyhongo234 Sí, en la primaria nos enseñaban algunas palabras y resulta que estaban mal pronunciadas o ni siquiera eran correctas, resulta que cacahuatl no es cacahuate, todo es una mentira :(

[@bebertthecat]

el conocimiento es universal

[@52ZR]

Estuve estudiando Náhuatl por un tiempo y tenía un par de compañeros extranjeros, un francés y un español. A veces a los extranjeros les interesa más nuestra cultura. Por cierto, los mejores estudiosos de las culturas prehispánicas son extranjeros.

[@BlinkinFirefly]

i love how passionate you are about language! keep up the great work :D

[@gr5565]

BlinkinFirefly I know, right!? I hated my English, Spanish and Latin classes but this guy knows how to make them super interesting!

[@trashcantacos]

@@gr5565 You took Latin? :0

[@juanjuri6127]

I love how according to this, Moteuczoma basically greeted Cortés with the High Nahuatl equivalent of "mi casa es su casa" and Cortés jumped out like "mi casa??? MI CASA?????? MI CASA!!!!"

[@skelenied0seven189]

Ok from that one episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog I assume "Mi casa es su casa" is mine is yours and yours is mine? I don't know if I'm correct

[@dannycruz05]

@@skelenied0seven189 it means My house is your house. Casa=house

[@skelenied0seven189]

@@dannycruz05 thanks it makes a lot of sense now!

[@ameriqueindienindigene9096]

The so-called Mexicans are NEW they were not living over here until after Hernan Cortés conquered them. If any of you wish to know what these Aztec Indians looked like, look up Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus for Maximo and Bartola Velasquez. Look at their bushy hair and skin complexions - we are still here!!! The Afro-Mexicans and any other group of "Afro-" people are the Indigenous children of the Americas.

[@juanjuri6127]

@@ameriqueindienindigene9096 Máximo and Bartola Velasquez were from El Salvador, not from Mexico.

[@khristianvazquez4540]

I believe alot of the Aztecs history is miswritten. We know the Spaniards destroyed most historical documents as well architecture.

[@uncleruckus3094]

They had fucking giants

[@uncleruckus3094]

They had fucking giants

[@alcambio8923]

Well that's bullshit. Spaniards didn't destroyed most historical documents as well architecture, quite the opposite. If we're able to study Aztec culture five centuries after they're gone, it's precisely thanks to the spanish effort to document it and preserve it.

[@valkeakirahvi]

@@alcambio8923 There wouldn't have been any need to deliberately preserve it, if the Spanish wouldn't have been destroying it. What we have now are documents written by the Spanish, yes. But that's only because they burned the native books first and converted the people, preventing them from practising the culture.

[@aviancypress5181]

@@alcambio8923 u have no idea wtf ur talking about 😂

[@greenlilac32]

I'm Nahua and you're blowing me away how good your pronunciation is

[@richl3440]

You are a language?

[@greenlilac32]

Rich L nahuacatl* if u wanna be exact but you can just say nahua for short. There's also Mexicatl, tenochcamexicatl, ni can tlacatl which is more like just native american. nahuatl* is the language

[@FloresRain]

Daily Life of the Aztecs by Jaques Soustelle is an amazing book for anyone interested on the Aztecs. Soustelle's style is engaging and easy to read, and his immense admiration for the Aztecs is visible in nearly every sentence. In fact, sometimes it's almost too visible, as Soustelle doesn't really use the objective, detached style of writing that we modern readers are used to finding in history books. You get sucked into the world of how these citizens lived from waking up in the am to the rituals in the late night and takes turns explaining how they all lived from the simplest servant professions to how the more high status professionals lived.

[@torres3359]

Thanks for the recommendation

[@mayramartinez7312]

My Chicano professor made us read that book and I loved it! you do learn a lot.

[@dh1.369]

Higher professions like executioner in human sacrifices, or even the one who cooked them later !! beautiful !! ... 😮😬

[@tayleanruatha]

Thanks for the referral 👍

[@ameriqueindienindigene9096]

@@mayramartinez7312 The so-called Mexicans are NEW they were not living over here until after Hernan Cortés conquered them. If any of you wish to know what these Aztec Indians looked like, look up Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus for Maximo and Bartola Velasquez. Look at their bushy hair and skin complexions - we are still here!!! The Afro-Mexicans and any other group of "Afro-" people are the Indigenous children of the Americas.

[@xochitlcuevas96]

My name is Xóchitl and I have often wondered how my name is actually pronounced in Nahuatl. Now I know. Gracias

[@edervalladares4473]

Xochitl Cuevas I'm not sure if these pronunciations are correct, though.

[@gcondado]

Eder Valladares actually, they're the best pronunciations you'll find anywhere

[@Erik-vp5bm]

Nobody's actually sure if these pronounciations are correct.

[@RedSpiralHandTV]

pretty name.

[@adminihi2533]

It's not....My name is Xochitl too and It's actually pronounced (Sochil)

[@abdelhafidelbouyousfi3466]

This is an amazing work. Thank you for taking me to the ancient world of Aztec. Greetings from Morocco 🇲🇦

[@dh1.369]

you must thank the Castilians of 1500s

[@YbYBwRbY]

Marhaba! I'm fascinated by ancient Mexico: I live in Fresno, California, where there are many Nahuatl speakers. My own grandfather was a Sephardic Jew from Tetouan who spoke Arabic and Ladino (medieval Spanish). He taught my grandma to cook tajines, adafina, and tel kadaif for him. If you ever are in the Americas, come visit us, and Ma'a salama!

[@abdelhafidelbouyousfi3466]

Interesting! Thank you 🇲🇦♥️🇲🇽

[@bobbq8380]

Greetings. It's actually Mexica. Not aztec. My grandpa is of this tribe. "Aztec" is nickname from Europeans that still do a good job redoing or trying to redefine the identity of ancient Americas.

[@josephpete1833]

Hi (Sorry for terrible Aztec)

[@anaalicia2750]

TanDck MahT1mbo It's called nahuatl.

[@Esequiel14]

You forgot the tl at the end.

[@enricopucci8552]

"hitl" lmao... thats unfortunate

[@miniibeto]

Hitler

[@gcondado]

Joseph Pete better than you would ever speak 😋😎

[@elizadreamer93]

Everytime I go to Mexico to visit my grandparents, I always say to myself I want to learn too because I hear them speak Nahuatl amongst themselves. Its always so beautiful to hear. I've asked them before too but they say the wouldn't know how to teach it. 😭

[@sophiejones7727]

They probably can't. Teaching takes a certain skill set. But what you probably could do is buy a Nahuatl grammar. Then you can ask your grandparents about words and pronunciation, but rely on the book to tell you how to use them. You'll quickly begin to understand what they are saying and start picking up more. Amusingly though, part of their hesitation is likely that they are aware their language is not the Classical language. They don't think of themselves as speaking "proper" Nahuatl, even though there hasn't been anyone speaking the elder speech for almost three hundred years!

[@margaretd3710]

Have them teach you greetings, numbers, family members: mother/father/grandfather/grandmother/sister/brother, etc. - And then go to simple sentences: I am (your name), what is your name?, etc. -- And items around their home: chair, door, table, house, etc. -- How wonderful that you have grandparents that have this rich treasure to share with you!!

[@alfredojarillo3146]

Vente, vámonos aprender amiga! Yo igual quiero. Saludos

[@ameriqueindienindigene9096]

The so-called Mexicans are NEW they were not living over here until after Hernan Cortés conquered them. If any of you wish to know what these Aztec Indians looked like, look up Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus for Maximo and Bartola Velasquez. Look at their bushy hair and skin complexions - we are still here!!! The Afro-Mexicans and any other group of "Afro-" people are the Indigenous children of the Americas.

[@codymarkley8372]

@@ameriqueindienindigene9096 shut up

[@Greennovacaine]

I'm Mexican and I love your videos about Nahuatl :). there's this classical book: La visión de los vencidos, where the name was spelled Motecuhzoma. You should take a look ;)

[@Angie-et5gq]

I love that you actually pronounced the “-tl” sound correctly. This video was immaculately informative. The problem with the different pronunciation is that trying to use Spanish language rules on Nahuatl is just not going to effectively work. Not to mention that different tribes have different accents, words, languages, etc. So the -tl will be pronounced differently based on that. Think about how both Britain and the United States speak the same language but words are still pronounced differently.

[@thierrypauwels]

Is that -tl sound the same as ll in Icelandic ? Like in "Eyjafjallajökull" ? The way he pronounced it really sounds like the Icelandic ll.

[@FlOrHM]

This is so interesting, thank you, it was very informative. This isn't even taught in mexican schools (I'm mexican and by the way, my middle name is nahuatl) I think I learned way more here than I did in high school. Well done.

[@FelixHdez]

Flor Rangel Lol same

[@anarchonazbol6768]

It's inst taught because it's useless

[@ArtBear88]

Jan Michael Vincent Gee i wonder why

[@FerKzrs]

We aren't taught about indigenous languages at school, other than Mayan numerals in junior high. I don't advocate compulsory lessons, but it would be nice to know the basics, like these recent NativLang videos have shown. Nice work.

[@WillelmusAestus]

Fernando Cázares I agree even though i am not Mexican.

[@aseefrehman]

son of bitch know english

[@WillelmusAestus]

Who?

[@famtamradek5733]

I mean, the education system is failing to teach proper spanish - how do you expect them to teach dead native languages or cousin languages that haven't kept grammar rules/educated language?

[@MannyGonzalezReyna]

I'm Mexican and I loved your video. Thanks you from my heart for preserving the Ute-Aztec language.

[@sr.castor]

Una increíble pronunciación de esta hermosa lengua. Es aún más increíble, sabiendo que hablas inglés

[@NativLang]

I pronounced Moctezuma all funny in a previous video. Time to explain myself...

[@evandenis5488]

But how did "Moctezuma" become "Montezuma"? the c to n seems like an improbable transition.

[@lunagirl6842]

NativLang Bro i need to know nahuatl to really understand history 😭

[@CyberSlaYerAka-NinjaThug]

NativLang do you know Bosnian language?

[@CyberSlaYerAka-NinjaThug]

Liam Beogradlija holy crap! :D what a coincidence! I was born in Sarajevo, I'm still there, there are no relatives from America/UK/Australia but I've learned how to speak and write English just from watching old school CN shows. M8, my body is Bosnian, but my soul is American. Bruh, najbolje znam Engleski od citavog razreda.

[@CyberSlaYerAka-NinjaThug]

Liam Beogradlija yap. but there's a plot twist: my f*ckboy/best friend ruined German class for me. Also who is your fav. black youtuber?

[@KaliBoyinPDX]

People still speak Aztec. There's millions of Nahuatl speakers in Mexico.

[@blackinews6779]

but when they come to america they speak spanish more then there native tongue

[@negarrak]

@@blackinews6779 I think do you mean the Spaniards guys. But what @KaliBoyinPDX says people that are descendants of the tribes that spoke that language.

[@jennifernazario5359]

There are not many nahuatl speakers. That is false. Maybe those who take on names that are in the Nahuatl language. But speakers, no.

[@MARM218]

In the area of México where I live you can still find complete communities that still speak Nahuatl and they also speak spanish.

[@tomgibo]

@@jennifernazario5359 go to smaller villages in the mountainous states, there are still some 190,000 Nahuas who are monolingual speakers, as in they aren't able to talk in Spanish at all. Nahuatl is the 5th most widely spoken indiginous language in the Americas.

[@ToastbackWhale]

900 likes, no dislike. Well done, and keep these coming!

[@alexolas1246]

2 people saw your or Argentarii's comments and decided to ruin everything.

[@wwondertwin]

Insane that Nahuatl reminds me of my own first language... Finnish. The vowels are pronounced the same (though we got extra vowels on top of even the standard Indo-European ones), the double consonants are the same, the way to define words further by adding stuff to the end is the same. So many things that are done completely differently in Indo-European languages are the exact same in Finnish and Nahuatl, it seems.

[@manuval5872]

I love how this guy actually tries hard to pronounce foreign words correctly, some people study linguistics but are SO BAD at pronunciation, (not saying its a super bad thing)

[@TheFaro2011]

Manu Val it's so impressive

[@richl3440]

It bothers me when they will pronounce a french word to a T but butcher spanish or any other language. You know then their actions are motivated by race.

[@chloeormondroyd9553]

personally, i speak french as a second language but i suck at spanish, i can never get the accent or pronunciation right :')

[@jeffreyhawthornegoines8727]

Rich L Given the great similarities between Spanish and French, it would be hard to pronounce one to a t, and to butcher the other... Regarding race, linguists cannot be racist, as they are interested in all languages first of all, and have a knowledge of the different languages which an original, or proto one, have produced, in very different populations. It would be really difficult, then, to be racist. Of course, I am not saying that racism does not exist. Worse, is that it happens from every group to every other, on all continents, alas. But I assure you that, with maybe possible very rare exceptions, it would be very difficult to be a racist, and a linguist at the same time. Actually, it would not make any sense, given the very nature of linguistics, which are universal

[@adonblustar5495]

Chloe Ormondroyd its not Spanish its an Aztec language Nahuatl

[@TeamAnbu65]

Im Native American and raised in Lummi, sounds like some of the many languages of my people, all across the U.S.

[@m1sh474]

Well, duh, obviously. Most Mexicans are native Americans, like millions of people around America.

[@Compl33tR4nd0mZ]

Misha HJ They are a different culture and ethnicity, the Americas is a huge place. Be sensible before rudely calling someone out

[@m1sh474]

I am a Native American from America the continent...

[@leem.7565]

Misha HJ $5?

[@timmythicc4300]

Stop saying "my people". It's so cringe inducing.

[@delta72]

Thank you for this. I've been following my true roots since the early 90's, when I was way younger, and had a hard road of learning pre-internet. Learned a little here, but always glad to see this alive and well. The dislikes struck a bad chord in me, so I decided to see the whole video before making judgment on that. Sadly, my initial gut feeling remained, kids today call them "haters". Nothing wrong in this video, just nice simple information on a language that has been thriving (although in very small numbers) for decades now, especially since the Xicano movement of the 60's. Thank you for posting this. Def a thumbs up! ...Ometeotl!

[@NS-ef2ix]

I would’ve loved to learn one of the indigenous languages of my beautiful Mexico.

[@everyojanniromerosifuentes242]

I'm proud that i have aztec blood in me body and soul. Amo mi cultura y a mí ancestros Aztecas.

[@djnoise5305]

nobody really knows that but the real Aztecs died off fighting the invaders and of smallpox there’s a chance you’re of other natives tribes of mexico not really aztecs unless you track ur ancestry and prove to have aztec blood in you

[@3rdeyeoracle434]

Just cause your mexican doesnt mean you have aztec blood and there called mexihcah not aztec and they spook nahualt

[@iz250cgU]

@Hernando Malinche wow you are a hater so did Europeans they killed 6million jews I guess that doesn't count huh

[@iz250cgU]

@Hernando Malinche ok we got some f"ed up pasted so what are we gonna do

[@Wedontbase]

@@iz250cgU no, your ancestors have a fucked up past. You are not them.

[@y__h]

Yesterday was Xidnaf, and today you. What a great week!

[@livedandletdie]

Wait did you say Xidnaf... Now I'll hop on over to his channel...

[@abdiganisugal825]

0x00 0x00 Thanks for reference I hadn't heard of xidnaf in a long time

[@DoctorHorse]

Seeing Xidnaf alive was great :D

[@DoctorHorse]

He even said new videos soon.

[@williamconnorsierra1130]

Thanks for introducing me to a new channel! :D

[@AntonioKowatsch]

Holy shit. Nahuatl is one of the most beautiful sounding languages I ever heard.

[@PedroDrPerico]

Brilliant! Greetings from Mexico Tenochtitlan, qualli tonali! ❤️ 🇲🇽

[@tomcat9112]

i am Swiss and Mexican ... sounds like i am destined to be a xocolatl man !

[@ushiox1877]

Lmao i'm swiss and mexican aswell

[@Qauzzie]

I’m German Mexican ::)

[@michaelreyes6258]

tomcat you are a Swiss cheese 🧀 enchilada! 😆

[@Anglisc1682]

I'm English

[@veryrareadrian]

tomcat I’m French and Mexican

[@thomasbryant1628]

Can you do a video on Inuktitut or Greenlandic

[@eriko807]

Thomas Bryant yes, please! I read about it and it's fascinating

[@sion8]

*+*

[@dorian4646]

up

[@mariacatalinamangini9103]

PLEASE DO THIS!!! ♥♥♥

[@stuart4341]

Yessssssss

[@mattmorton7720]

Dude, you rock. Your channel rocks. A few questions: 1. What was the focus of your degree in college? 2. What have been your favorite languages to learn about? 3. Do you recommend any books on the subject matter? Thank you, and keep up the great work!

[@stelliums]

2:43 "let's look into momtezuma's future... and his past" montezuma: **narrows eyes**

[@witchapparatus]

Might I recommend a book? Aztec by Gary Jennings. It's a story detailing the life (and I do mean the entire life) and death of an Aztec man as he tells it to Spanish scribes. The amount of research that went into it is phenomenal and I'm sure you'd enjoy it, dear sir.

[@yetzalischm9711]

Santiago Fierros thank you for your recommendations!! I'd been reading several of Gary Jennings 'Aztec' Series when i was living in México and was hunting ever since the first (and best) novel for something equally interesting. Which is apparantly quite difficult here in Germany. But now i know, what i have to look for on Amazons second hand books

[@cindywehle2721]

loved Aztec, and the others were a lot of fun. I'd like to hear how the language sounded when spoken, not the grammar. That's too much mental work.

[@Kommandant494]

witchapparatus i love that book, greetings from Mexico

[@SquidProQuo80]

Gary Jennings was truly a master... his Aztec series are personal favorites. Also I totally agree with the recommendation of The King Danced In the Marketplace - amazing book!

[@thickbrianq]

Cindy wehle , Nahuatl is spoken by 1.5 million peoples as their first language. The Nahuatl spoken in the Mexico Valley is the closest to what the old time Nahua spoke. Nahua = Aztec. Maya has 6 million speakers. This should make it easier to help you find sources to hear the languages.

[@CeoLogJM]

There's something so.... amazing in the idea that this civilization unconnected with the old world had so much civilization in the popular sense. Poetry, Art, Religion, a Warrior culture, even philosophical schools for rich kids, yet they were as though a stereotype tribal people with an emperor who wore feathers on his head.

[@RaffTail]

As opposed to those across the sea, contemporaneous to them, who wore shiny metal on their heads and covered their backs with weasel pelts. Monarchy is always silly and tribal, as is much of culture, when you really think about it.

[@TheFebi]

You are right! is just the stereotype, we must have to read the chronics of the conquistadors to see that in so many aspects and in their traditions, they were so developed, for example besides the school for the rich kinds "calmecac" existed too the school for people's kids the "tepochcalli" where girls and boys were educated, and how amazed were the conquistadors with the incredible clean cities they had, specially compared with the european ones in that moment.

[@vutube379]

TheFebi Read, Daily Life of the Aztecs by Soustelle replete with first hand accounts. The Aztecs WERE A HIGHLY CIVILIZED, CULTURED, AND RELIGIOUS PEOPLE!

[@carlosfernandez5833]

Yeah. They even had a social class for nobles, which Spain legally recognized. There's still a noble house in Spain that descended from Moctezuma's daughter. She looks white AF though, because Moctezuma's daughter was the only Aztec noble in Spain, and hence her descendants only mixed with Spanish nobles.

[@fivemeomedia]

you can say the same about the Romans and greeks....

[@darkwindsage]

Your náhuatl pronuntiation is better than mine and I'm mexican.

[@facebookjoselyne]

Fernando Gamboa. no mames, aprende pelmazo!

[@rebecarodriguez568]

reti767 the Mexicans don't even know how many languages exist in the country...there are more than 60!

[@notpulverman9660]

Rebeca Rodriguez The only IMPORTANT languages in Mexico are Spanish, Nahuatl. The others are local/regional, and NOT national.

[@kevinclass2010]

It's like any other language; learn the phonology first and then learn to put the words together. See it this way, American English has 12 vowel sounds, Spanish has 5, and Nahuatl has 4. So, you need to learn a few more sounds. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahuatl#Phonemes

[@jagsoul9363]

thats causeyou dontknow.shit

[@RallyGal94]

"avacoto" means "ball sack" in Nahuatl. "guacamole" means ball sauce. You are welcome.

[@TheSublimeLifestyle]

Makes sense.

[@charlieeagler7639]

@Mike Hunt Well, I new it in another way... Aguacate (avocado)= ahuacatl = testicle and yeah guacamole would be testicle sauce.

[@isaac4273]

See? That's why I get mad whenever south Americans say palta, it's aguacate hijos de la chingada 😤 we came up with the name!

[@michaelchitwood389]

LMAO! Good to know, thanks.

[@jonnboimuhfucka]

Stank dick!!

[@ferrosascordoba7177]

En verdad tus vídeos son fantásticos !!! Y gracias por darle la relevancia que se merece a las lenguas americanas originales , ojalá algún día hagas un vídeo acerca de todas las lenguas Mesoamericanas como el Zapoteco, que es más diverso que el mismo Maya !!! Pero acerca de la diversificación de las distintas civilizaciones como la Mixteca, Tolteca, etc,

[@hawk-tostheone9231]

im glad i have Aztec in me , nautl is my language and im learning it by progressing.

[@benjaminchasenah86]

The word for flower sounds similar to my tribe's language (Comanche).

[@jcortez1314]

Benjamin Chasenah Comanche is part of the Uto Aztecan language family. So they are related. What is the Comanche word for flower?

[@ajaxrosso1]

earthquake

[@windstorm1000]

Ben isn't this amazing? Lets not let our native languages die!

[@kaleomariz1000]

This is so cool! This means that native peoples from mexico are cousins to the native peoples of southwestern US. Wow!!!!

[@xochiltepetzalailhuicamina2322]

Same language family.

[@Aeturnalis]

I worked with a dude from Iguala, Mexico who learned to speak Nahuatl as a teenager. He was a native Spanish speaker, but he said when he was young he worked in an orchard that was staffed mostly by natives who spoke Nahuatl and a few who spoke Amusco. I probably got on his nerves with all the questions, but it's not every day that you meet someone who can speak the language of the Aztecs lol

[@RexGalilae]

can you make a video on the accounts of how the conquistadores understood the Aztecs and vice versa?

[@arthurbruin9281]

He actually did about 2 months ago.

[@МагомедАжуфамунедов]

Rex Galilae It started out with corporal and Pidgin language. Then the natives who were enslaved by the conquistadors were taught Spainish.

[@LilithOfTheNephilims]

Nezahualcóyotl IV no, no slavery man, it was explicitly forbidden. You can find the documents on the internet.

[@beauberry6179]

Most weren't enslaved. Many of them joined the Conquistadors because they hated the big empires and saw the Spanish as a way to defeat them.

[@DeLugubria]

Rex Galilae Watch the video How Translators Helped Topple the Aztec Empire.

[@guccideltaco]

I would've liked to hear a whole sentence or paragraph spoken in this language to get a better feel for the sound.

[@70n24]

stringendo1 There are some readings of "Nican Mopohua" here in youtube, you should check them out.

[@gabrielsandoval4994]

You can go to tv.jw.org and find whole videos in Nahuatl. Also in Purepecha, a nicer language in my opinion.

[@Kuotlquetzaly]

This is pretty accurate, what an excelent video NativLang! you are the first researcher i know that really makes a great job at phonetics and pronunciation, sadly my/our nahuatl is dying and with it a very important human legacy. Many mexicans now this days are ashamed of speaking this kind of languages and its variants because of discrimination and lack of culture investment. Mexico almost has like 2,000 diferent native languages but this one and the maya are the most talked around central america. Tlasojkamati uel miek... Thank you so much.

[@sergiusbachchus]

Kuotlquetzaly náhuatl is taught in schools in communities as their first language, as well as in universities and seminaries all around the country. It is also a requirement for universities that teach archeology as a degree as well as other widely spoken languages. It will not disappear any time soon

[@sergiusbachchus]

About the headdress not a crown, there are a couple of studies published by both Austria and México on the uses and wearing of the headdress. It was a name given in the 50's as the crown of Moctezuma, just as wrong as the "Aztec Calendar" is also a misnomer. Amazing work keep it up!

[@KutsaiChan]

This is really, really interesting! I love the way you presented all this information- You have a great way of making and keeping it fun and interesting!

[@FarkunDarkrar1]

Nahuatl is sooo interesting^^ Thanks! Feel free to focus more on Nahuatl in the future. My clicks are yours. ;)

[@atouloupas]

I love you NativLang! Congratulations for 200k subs!

[@PilotAwe]

I understand nothing of this, yet i have fun watching it.

[@milky3269]

I meet a girl who can speak náhuatl listen her was a bless to my ears

[@lunagirl6842]

Broo i love you soooo much for doing this video, i truly love it!!❤️❤️ Please help me on learning Nahuatl

[@songohan4668]

My. God. Amazing video! Wished we were taught things like these at schools here in Mexico. 👍

[@Monopolyfriends]

I went to school in the northern part of Mexico and I was taught basic Nahuatl. I know how to count to ten though

[@galileor.cuevas9739]

+rvvaldez I am about to enter College and I live in Edo. Mex. The closest I have been to Nahuatl has been through KZbin. My uncles know some Hñañho (Otomi)

[@mrmexicano64]

turns out i have really close blood from the otomies people. i would love to know how the language works and try to speak it. :D

[@iosonoi.7132]

whats the point of watching this video?

[@mrmexicano64]

What's the point of doing anything in life if we are all going to die?

[@RealMexFoodShouldntGiveUDrrhea]

I’m have no clue what language my grandmother spoke. Her side of the family didn’t speak Spanish until she was older. Once they married into other families, they tried to ignore that side of their heritage. They were ashamed. I think it’s beautiful but it’s too late. My grandmother passed away 7 years ago and no one knows the language she spoke.

[@arturocalderon1043]

where did she live before? indigenous language are easy to track by location

[@h8haz]

@@arturocalderon1043 Wrd my grandma on my dads side only spoke Nahuatl and as she got older she spoke Spanish (she’s from (Puebla) so I’m guessing my ansestry traces back to the Aztec or sum ?

[@RealMexFoodShouldntGiveUDrrhea]

@@arturocalderon1043 Torreón and Durango

[@RealMexFoodShouldntGiveUDrrhea]

@@pattyayers She spoke Spanish, but as a child she didn’t.

[@yellowcrow7414]

@@h8haz The Mixtecs lived in the Puebla region, and I believe Zapotecs did as well. Your ancestry is most likely Mixtec. Look them up, they have a very unique culture of their own! Although unfortunately, we know much less about them than the Aztecs, since the majority of the Spanish scholars who came to the Mesoamerican region to document indigenous culture were mostly all only focused on the Aztecs and the Mayans. A few took interest in the other cultures, but unfortunately not many.

[@nissieln]

Quality channel and your work expresses respect for languages and their intricacies. Thank you!

[@GosiaatjeQui]

That's a nice video! Thank you :) I had an amazing opportunity to learn some modern Nahuatl at the University of Warsaw, Poland. I haven't heard a more adorable and "sunny" language ever since. It's absolutely stunning! I keep my fingers crossed for all the revitalization efforts in Mexico

[@catmaster17]

I'm in absolute awe of this channel, I absolutely love it. Thank you for having good content and not another "Hey what's up you guys, it's ya boii here again...." type. lol

[@CaptainTaelos]

How do you even have time to research and do these videos? This is definitely my favourite channel of all time, I want to give you all my money...

[@NativLang]

I guess I just don't stop! Sometimes I hit a wall and it takes extra weeks to get the research done. Like twice last fall. Feel free to check out my Patreon, but I'm really here to get you to share in my awe!

[@sandiegopc1904]

The pronunciation of cotztetlana and tliltocatl are current sources of frustration and debate for tarantula fanciers around the world. This video helped me so much in explaining how (and where!) to make the "tl" sound. What a happy accidental find!

[@LATOHOUSTON]

This video has been the most information I’ve ever learned about the Aztec language.

[@9Tensai9]

I'm mexican and I think it would be nice if we didn't lose our language. It may be filled with a lot of idioms everywhere but... I dunno nahuatl is more spiritual and stuff. Now, British conquered some native americans too. How was their language like?

[@19ars92]

reti767 Your ancestors stayed in Spain My ancestors were born and raise in Mexico regardless the race

[@guichohernandezprado8046]

Aztecs didn't take it from spaniards, they taught them. And I don't see anything wrong with that.

[@19ars92]

***** give us our gold and silver back, you stool from America for 300 years, you thieves, then you can have your language back the largest human genocide wasn't done by Nazis but by the Spanish by destroying the vast majority of native americans in the continent

[@thanuv4064]

Aztec, nahuatl or whatever you call it was not the Mexican language. It may be right for you I102q384i5n, but in what you call now Mexico there've been spoken a lot of languages.

[@19ars92]

***** isnt germany a better country than spain? gtfoh lol all countries that were colonized by spain and portugal are shit all countries colonized by United Kingdom are richer

[@525Lines]

There's a Nova episode about the kid that broke the maya hieroglyphics code that's excellent.

[@elplebe1762]

"Unlike the mayas, the aztecs didnt record their writing." They did, just that spaniards obliterated most of their codexes. I thought you were a graduate bro

[@mrnarason]

He's a linguist not a mesoamerican historian.

[@mrnarason]

@Serena Rios fuck you kid

[@elplebe1762]

@Serena Rios yeah fuck you kid lmfao

[@mrniceguy7168]

The Aztecs didn’t have a written language. The codices told stories but not through writing.

[@elplebe1762]

@@mrniceguy7168 google aztec writing then come back here and say something

[@Staint12]

Do Polynesian/Austronesian/Papuan/Australian languages next. Great video btw. Keep it up!

[@XpapricaX]

Being from LA ive heard people speaking this . AMAZING

[@IvanTravels]

Love the mesoamerican videos.

[@Dude408f]

Muchas gracias por este video, muy interesante! Thank you very much for your video, most interesting!

[@scoobyrds]

1:24 we have a congresswoman named Xochitl now!

[@Mina-ok5qm]

You're right!!

[@whitealliance9540]

@@Mina-ok5qm xochitl chips are so good

[@sophiejones7727]

apparently it's a pretty popular name in Mexico, even among non-Natives. I've met several women who have it as a first or middle name.

[@cruyffssoul2397]

Sophie Jones Most Mexicans are a mix between natives and non-natives.

[@randyolaguna-lopez]

Bruh

[@МагомедАжуфамунедов]

What is this? Another video on Nahuatl? I love you!!!! :3

[@xomo7944]

Where did you learn all of this??? It’s beautiful! That’s my name Xochitl!!! Lol

[@brittnyy113]

Watching this video kept bringing me back to the times I've watched the movie Apocalypto and wondering how did they know what the people sounded like. This sounds very familiar if not identical to what they spoke in the movie. Loved this video

[@AliciaGuitar]

My ex was indigenous and spoke the language, but when he wanted to call someone a stupid dunce he called them "pinche Indio!" Sad how the government made them disparage themselves.

[@eras4552]

Government has nothing to do with this, is based in the ignorance of people about the rich cultures of México

[@BifronsCandle]

@@eras4552 The government of New Spain, as well as the early Mexican government, certainly had a hand in the disenfranchisement of indigenous Mexicans.

[@teoxihuitl2007]

Mexicans preety much hate the fact that their indians so they talk trash about other mexicans because it makes them feel superior

[@almightyjr9086]

@@teoxihuitl2007 no we dont look at our culture we have a mixed culture European and native the best in the world people are just ignorant and never been thought manner tours others.

[@shiroumxm2052]

it´s fun but, i can tell you that most of those who say that are actually indigenous themselves, they , belive it or not are racist people towards their own people.

[@musiquito2010]

Wow this is the best video on this subject . THANK YOU

[@Hinatachan360]

I love listening to you speak, no matter what language.

[@moysesgaray8410]

Shame shame...I know you're name!

[@patrickdemenezes4204]

hmm

[@acpliego]

Wow, great video! I’ve worked in Mexico with people that speak Nahuatl as their first language and I think you’re 100% accurate, plus I learned a lot, I wish your video was longer. I’m subscribing

[@272arshan]

This channel is just so good...

[@TheInsid3]

Will you ever talk about Slavic languages?

[@machoke666]

Erytropus Why don't you talk about them yourself? If you're a native speaker of a slavic language you're already more qualified than him to talk about it

[@TheInsid3]

I'm not a linguist nor a youtuber. and I only speak 2 slavic languages which are basically the same. So no I'm not qualified to talk about them

[@machoke666]

Erytropus Not with that attitude, if you really want to do it you can. But I suspect that you're just lazy

[@TheInsid3]

I didn't mean to be rude or anything...I just asked if there will be a video on Slavic languages. I don't get where you're coming from. I never claimed i was gonna make a video on the matter

[@machoke666]

Erytropus I just find people who ask other people to make certain type of videos to be really annoying, if you feel like there's a lack of something in this world make it yourself, you don't have to be a youtuber who uploads regularly you can just make one video

[@lunagirl6842]

Broooooooo how did you learn nahuatl i want to learn it!!!

[@aids5430]

Mariana Maiane same

[@МагомедАжуфамунедов]

Mariana Maiane He uses phonetical translators.

[@lunagirl6842]

Nezahualcóyotl IV What's that?

[@Ottmar555]

You can learn it in Mexico. Do you want classical or modern?

[@lunagirl6842]

Ottmar555 I think modern or whichever is more spoken

[@SR-lp3gz]

Wow dude, that was pretty interesting. A little fast for me, not cuz I couldn’t keep up but because I won’t remember much so I’ll have to watch it again. What an amazing find! You should be bored more often so we can enjoy your journeys.

[@thegreatders344]

"Not (this noise), but (the exact same noise)."

[@avega2792]

GINNVNGAGAP some if the differences in pronunciation of nahuatl words are very subtle and can be misunderstood or completely missed by many, especially if you are not too familiar with nahuatl. You may not hear the difference, but rest assured, there is a difference.

[@SandsMemphis]

Time to clean your ears out.

[@dafyddroff8084]

That affricate is comprised of two sounds, one of which isn’t differentiated between in general American English, nor in recieved pronunciation. I can hear it but it’s differentiated in my dialect, and in welsh.

[@Neophema]

Do you mean the second L in Altepetl at 4:47? They sound very different to me.

[@emilio9129]

LOL! Happens to everybody whose first language does not make a difference in that phoneme. When Koreans try to teach me the difference between "n" and "n", I'm like, it's the same sound, dude. haha, But when they don't make a difference between "f" and "p" I'm like, what!? They are totally different!

[@BUKWulfSh0t]

Im so glad i found this channel!!

[@myrnalopez2033]

many spanish words in Mexico are from Aztec language, better said Nahuatl and no other spanish speaking country could understand just like: popote which means straw calzado that'd be shoes, tamal which is wrapped around or chile the word for red hot chilli pepper, just to mention a few of them.

[@belldanime]

Myrna Lopez Zacate, papalote, chapulín, guajolote, tianguis, tecolote, elote...

[@MrBraveheart1191]

Myrna Lopez Calzado comes from Latin and is used in all Spanish speaking countries

[@MrBraveheart1191]

Indra Wijaya zapatos means shoes in any Spanish speaking country. Calzado means foot ware. Sapatos with s is shoes in portuguese

[@Androbott]

belldanime solo los mexicano haban hasi x ejemplo en chile tenemos otras palabras para todo eso menos para el chocolate. ej papalote (eso no se que es), chapulín (Chapilin colorado?), guajolote (porotos?),elote eso es chochlo, tambien agrego maní por cacahuete. saludos desde chile

[@MrBraveheart1191]

Andro Derpich Papalote o cometa es kite en ingles, porotos son frijoles, cacahuate no solo es México también España y Francia, pero maní igual se usa menos común, Chapulin es saltamontes , y guajolote es un pavo nativo de México, en Inglés Turkey 🦃

[@LuisRodriguez-cf4tf]

This was awesome. Would love to hear my ancestors Taíno language being spoken once again...😢

[@thebeast1793]

Hey Ik this comment is a year old but Ik a channel that teaches you a modern reconstruction of the Taino language if you're interested.

[@expat.elite.singles]

@@thebeast1793 i am, which channel

[@fragore9326]

Montezuma seems pretty fluent in English though

[@swintrichard]

Moo

[@barklordofthesith2997]

Fluent in Bovine?

[@teotlveliz379]

PLEASE MORE NAHUATL VIDEOS tlazocamati

[@PXWest]

their 'tl' is like the 'll' in icelandic.

[@Angie-et5gq]

Derek Clements that’s an interesting fact.

[@michaelball93]

And Welsh.

[@weswesaw1094]

Very similar to the Navajo ł as well

[@djlee1743]

internet is beautiful isn’t it ?

[@IamAvidity]

Your format really lends itself to visual learners! Your use of animations and even moving text are all extremely well done, in that they add value to and don't distract from the video!

[@Tamara-zo3np]

could you do something about Irish or just Celtic languages in general please?? :) Great video btw x

[@qwertyTRiG]

TamaraLikesVideos He often references Irish in background graphics.

[@NativLang]

Haha, you're onto me.

[@Tamara-zo3np]

ohh okay thank youuu :)

[@heeeyheresyourletter7968]

Yay! Yes! This!

[@manager-nim2623]

Now I wanna learn that language!

[@sanjuanagasca7476]

Insfires man!! go for it

[@blackinews6779]

AND WHEN YOU DO YOU WOULD LIE TO YOUR CHILDREN AND SAY YOU WERE NATIVE AMERICAN AND YOUR OFFSPRING WILL BELIEVE THE RUBBISHED LIE ALL THERE LIVES..LOL

[@jovan7304]

you should! :)

[@giorgioelrey6911]

Really nice! It would be great if more people was insterested in learning this amazing language. Tihueliti quizalohua! You can learn it! Go for it ;)

[@mistakenmeme]

¡Yo querer a pero soy aprendizaje Español!

[@williamfischer4917]

This is a great video-- it will be very helpful in my Colonial Latin America class. Any plans to do a video about Quechua?

[@rlllatsyrc]

William Fischer Go straight to the native source. Ask indigenous Ecuadorians & Peruvians

[@colinmathura-jeffree9829]

So sad that theyre destroyed and I love these posts of yours!!!! amazing. Language is a spellbinding form of life