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Date of upload: Feb 5, 2022 ^^
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Many years ago I was employed by a school teaching English to non English-speaking kids in Dublin. One time I tried a few words of Irish (Gaeilge) on some Mexican kids. I heard one asking another "que es eso?" (what's that?). Without hesitation the other answered "es el Nahuatl de Irlanda" (it's the Irish Nahuatl). Astute kid.
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I am from the far Asia and I have learned Nahuatl by myself for two years due to my great interest in mesoamerican civilization. It's absolutely interesting! But I do recommend you all to learn Classical Nahuatl. Not only because it has many study resources to be found, But also through my own observation, the intelligibility between different Nahuatl branches isn't as low as you think, because most of them stay generally the same with grammar and vocabulary . Never consider Classical Nahuatl is like Latin, and modern Nahuatl languages are like modern romance languages, they haven't been so different like that. I learned Classical Nahuatl, and I understood everything in the video very well! Also I am able to generally understand Huastec Nahuatl(the northern branch in the video). However, the Nawat variety spoken in far El Salvador is almost not intelligible due to a lot of phonotic changes! However the Huastec branch has the largest speaking population, so it would be a good choice too.
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Langfocus nimistaskamatiliya miak ten tihteneshtiliya pan ni taishyekalisti. Na nihuechiua nahuatl, onka tamanti ten amo nikishmati, pampa miak tamanti nikihtoua ka español.
Yes, we can understand each other with other varieties of the modern Nahuatl language, only a few words change. I speak Nahuatl from the Huasteca Hidalguense region.
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This is great. I would love to see one on Yucatec Mayan, the most widely spoken indigenous language in Mexico (if we consider the different mutually unintelligible Nahuatl dialects separate languages). What's also interesting about Yucatec Maya is that it covers a very large area (three Mexican states and parts of northern Belize and Guatemala, and it's still the same variety of Maya) the one that spans the most territory of all Mayan varieties).
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I am Mexican, I live in Mexico City and speak Spanish as most of the people in my country. It is not common to listen to people speaking indigenous languages in the big cities, and these languages are not taught at schools. I learned by myself one of the many variants of Nahuatl and most people asked me: “What for? You will never speak Nahuatl.”
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Hi, everyone! I hope you like this video on Nahuatl. To learn more about Nahuatl, check out the major source I used for this video: "Lecciones para un curso del náhuatl moderno", by David Tuggy T. scholars.sil.org/david_h_tuggy/es/publicaciones/na… (in Spanish) Also check out my video about MEXICO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATBtwveHx74 (on The GEOfocus Channel)
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