White Guy Speaks Rare Native American Language, Shocks Locals

now how long have you been out here i just took just a couple days and you learned the language so i've always wanted to learn a native american language but it's been extremely difficult to find anyone with whom i could learn as most indigenous american languages are considered critically endangered or extinct so a couple months ago i was extremely excited to get in touch with someone who could teach me navajo the original language of the navajo people who live mostly in the navajo nation located in arizona new mexico and utah navajo is hands down the hardest language i've ever studied with extremely challenging pronunciation and one of the most complex grammatical systems of any extant language it's so complex the language was used by the navajo code talkers as the basis for a secret communication system during world war ii but even though many young people no longer speak the language the older generation often still does and so after a month of studying language in new york city and me and my crew's covered vaccinations we flew out to new mexico to find locals to practice with the navajo are some of the nicest and most welcoming people i've ever met and remember to subscribe for the next video where i live with an amazing navajo family and experience their beautiful traditions thanks to raycon for sponsoring this video and i'll be donating 100 of the sponsorship profits to navajo strong a non-profit which supports the navajo community guys raycon has just been such an amazing supporter of my channel and helping me do crazy stuff like this and so they're just really cool wireless earbuds that fit really well and sound really great and cost half of what other premium wireless earbuds are gonna cost you and they're perfect for just like listening to podcasts or music or if you like working out like i do they're great because they're sweat resistant and they fit really well so they don't come out you get six hours of play time and 24 hours battery life with the 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what are you looking for i don't know um well um let me show you around then first of all these ones are just supplies for people who do bead work and of course the wall as for weaving of course our shop is a pawn shop they'll give us our jewelry those are all brand new those are not been sold at all i mean they're not been owned jewelry business yeah [Music] and i keep telling him yeah it's possibly more so so far he's learned a little bit of the so that's what we have okay these are uh [Laughter] these are bracelets or no those are necklaces [Music] really difficult to find somebody to teach me to have the opportunity to really learn like yeah original language second one do you get them mixed up a little bit at least you count numbers too yeah i can try let's do this okay well tell me how much that is okay um [Laughter] 89. yeah yeah the sense part is too hard right all right all right thanks thank you thank you so much we're we're having a good time we're going to uh we're going to rock point and we're going to go live with uh you know with a local family yeah so you can get used to going out to the house oh oh my god wait get ready for that all right so the next day we went to get some navajo breakfast and something very unexpected happened can you can you go in that number okay thank you all right thank you did you guys have a menu uh yeah so right now it's breakfast and we're only doing breakfast burritos until 10 15 and then later is like the rest of it breakfast breed oh you guys have the um uh right here we're gonna be doing harmony okay you can call it in now and pick up at 11. oh cool i don't speak fluent okay i'll go get those ladies okay yeah cool go ahead and call them over here all right thank you see if we can order navajo um oh i was wondering what she was doing with the grandpas or the grandmas do you know when they they want to do that and yeah and i was like oh okay is this somebody grandpa on the phone or something what would that be 80 um real quick yeah sure oh all true secret accents um these are actually 53 so that's grandma yeah lamb season lambing season you might see some little animals you never said yeah yeah yeah i think i think you're part navajo somewhere then they all of a sudden invited us back to the kitchen to learn how to make navajo breakfast gotta go wash your hands really good that way you made it you made it look very easy but i doubt it's gonna be so easy yeah not too much like this [Music] okay so i just like played [Applause] oh it's nice and hot and crispy oh man i like fresh bread all right this is your neighborhood i'm so amazing to meet you guys really i really thank you so much thank you so much for the experience and this is great so we got um here are the beautiful tortillas which tastes amazing now we're gonna try their um bacon burritos delicious uh burritos oh man it smells so good here we go guys this one's the bacon one let's see the bacon and those hash brown and eggs inside isn't that awesome it's so satisfying almost yeah but the hash brown makes it so good so good oh my god yeah if you're in the area definitely remember to go check out farmington indian center and uh they're only doing takeout right now but takeout's amazing so check it out cool you

Channel: Xiaomanyc 小马在纽约

Views: 3,948,082

Rating: 4.9493132 out of 5

Keywords: xiaomanyc, navajo code talkers, navajo language, navaho, arizona, dine bizaad, diné, diné bizaad, speaking navajo, native american, native american languages spoken, native american language lesson, native american language revitalization, native american languages still spoken, social experiment

Id: 3n3kiespHSA

Length: 11min 47sec (707 seconds)

Published: Thu May 06 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/Karbonatom]

Lol I took conversational Navajo in high school back in 94’.

[u/NeedSomeMemeCream]

He actually named his own video literally that. What.