Indigenous Languages Thread - Navajo, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya, etc.

[Alex Hogendorp]

This is a discussion revolving around Indigenous Languages. I've worked with over 50 languages (with a few I am conversational in) but have interests in learning Indigenous languages near where I live and where I go to. As such. Languages like Cree, Blackfoot and Nahuatl are ones I've been interested in learning. Many languages are endangered such as Blackfoot, Tobati and Ket. Ket and Tobati for example has very little learning materials furthering it's speed to decline. Fortunately there are many online encyclopedias and dictionaries to many indigenous languages.

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

okay just because that stupid bitch in the kiwi courtroom did her little jigaboo dance doesn't mean you're going to shit up this forum with languages nobody cares about

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

okay just because that stupid bitch in the kiwi courtroom did her little jigaboo dance doesn't mean you're going to shit up this forum with languages nobody cares about

I won't. It's only gonna be contained in this thread and special dedicated threads.

 

[Insuficiencia renal]

okay just because that stupid bitch in the kiwi courtroom did her little jigaboo dance doesn't mean you're going to shit up this forum with languages nobody cares about

kill yourself cracker

 

[Stephanie Bustcakes]

What about Navajo? Do you know how to send and receive coded messages that direct WWII artillery fire?

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

If you want to do something productive, you should study Iroquoian languages. They are critically endangered and, unfortunately, some have gone extinct.

 

[HyperboreanRightsActivist]

I would learn Aleut if I had the time.

 

[Meelo]

I've been studying African tribal languages myself.
*click click clack click clock clack*

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

If you want to do something productive, you should study Iroquoian languages. They are critically endangered and, unfortunately, some have gone extinct.

I may get to that one day. Ket is also critically endangered too. Unfortunately it's hard to find resources for those Iroquoian languages so if you find them. I'll be happy.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

I may get to that one day. Ket is also critically endangered too. Unfortunately it's hard to find resources for those Iroquoian languages so if you find them. I'll be happy.

Digital resources are hard to find. If I find some, I will post them here.

 

[invisibult plus+]

They're trying to revive Unami/Lenape, an Algonquian language. Although the last native speaker died in 2002, it's very well documented. Names like Mantoloking even came from it.

 

[DickMain]

This is a discussion revolving around Indigenous Languages. I've worked with over 50 languages (with a few I am conversational in) but have interests in learning Indigenous languages near where I live and where I go to. As such. Languages like Cree, Blackfoot and Nahuatl are ones I've been interested in learning. Many languages are endangered such as Blackfoot, Tobati and Ket. Ket and Tobati for example has very little learning materials furthering it's speed to decline. Fortunately there are many online encyclopedias and dictionaries to many indigenous languages.

Salish is the big one in my general region, and it's down to ~100 native speakers, something like that.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

They're trying to revive Unami/Lenape, an Algonquian language. Although the last native speaker died in 2002, it's very well documented. Names like Mantoloking even came from it.

There has been attempts in reviving the Ket language too. So far they have almost 2000 words. Finding translations from Tobati are also extremely limited so Godspeed to anyone going to Papua in Indonesia to find some of the last 100 speakers of the language. Maybe someone can make an elaborate dictionary from their time there because so far we only have access to around 25 words in Tobati.

Salish is the big one in my general region, and it's down to ~100 native speakers, something like that.

You weren't kidding. I also live relatively close to them too. Fortunately there appears to be a dictionary for this language. The Cowlitz one at least which has already been an extinct language since the 1960s with revival attempts. Probably because The Pacific Northwest is much more developed and aware than the Papua region in Indonesia.

 

[DickMain]

You weren't kidding. I also live relatively close to them too. Fortunately there appears to be a dictionary for this language. The Cowlitz one at least which has already been an extinct language with revival attempts. Probably because The Pacific Northwest is much more developed and aware than the Papua region in Indonesia.

The tribe has a pretty large range across the Canadian border, and there are tons of resources out there if you're interested.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

The tribe has a pretty large range across the Canadian border, and there are tons of resources out there if you're interested.

I'd be more than happy to.

 

[Uncle Tom's Condo]

I would learn Aleut if I had the time.

Why?

The communities don't even bother to pass down the language unless there is some federally funded grant to pay for it. You can contact APIA if you're serious about it. Amgiichxizax̂.

 

[HyperboreanRightsActivist]

Why?

Why not?

 

[Pine Tar]

If you think it’s worth your while to have smart people talk like backwards savages, you’re an idiot or an Anthropology major

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

Why?

Because learning another language is better than rotting your brain with TV and Video Games while farting all day. It unlocks new opportunities and gives you more information about the certain indigenous groups. Imagine the tribes that have gotten along with another tribe because someone decided to hang out with them knowing about them more and more. I remember being taught in schools about the Iroquois tribe when they fought against each other before coming to terms with each other? They were also the guarding point between the war against the British and the French. Also, it helps prevent Alzheimers when you expand your vocabulary.

Nowadays Children are subject to faggot brainrot material and their IQ's went from 100 down to 78 (I wish I was joking). Gen Alpha may unfortunately be the first generation with widespread early onset dementia. Already most children in elementary schools and even middle schools don't know how to read properly and many schools spread psychological warfare on them intentionally making them dumb and not being able to be set for life giving them little time to expand their knowledge in this unforgiving brutal capitalist system.

I'm hoping maybe in the future I could be very conversational in Cree, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya, Blackfoot. If not even Ket, Navajo and so on.

 

[VargReallyDidNothingWrong]

It unlocks new opportunities and gives you more information about the certain indigenous groups

What opportunities does learning a dead or nearly dead heya hoya language unlock for you, realistically? Why does having more info about a dead or dying heya hoya society matter?

If it's just a thing to do for fun then say that. But selling learning some nearly extinct language spoken by 5 native elders from a tribe that nobody cares about is not in practical terms going to give you anything other than a sense of satisfaction. Unless you're trying to be the lead heyahoyaologist of that tribe.