Maya Man speaking Yucatec Maya [subtitled in English] Learn Maya

[acu1inamillion]

IM KICHE MAYA AND TRACES ALSO FROM MEXICO UNLESS I GO BACK TO GUATEMALA TO THE ACADAMY OF MAYAN LANGUAGES WERE THEY KEEP RECORD OF ALL MAYAN LANUAGES WE ARE ON ARE OWN HERE IN AMERICA TO LEARN YUCA AND KICHE ARE THE LARGEST MAYAN SPOKEN LANGUAGE IN CENTRAL AMERICA ARE PEOPLE REALLY WANT TO LEARN I CAN SEE HOW AGRESSIVE EVERYONE IS SEARCHING THE WEB FOR BOOKS AND INFO ARE ANCESTORS SPOKE OF THE RE-BIRTH OF THE WINAQ(THE PEOPLE) ALL NATIVES IM BLESSED BECAUSE I STILL HAVE MY MAYAN LAST NAME

[scorpian8king]

i am navajo apache zuni and mayan live in america i want to learn this languagfe i also speak dine bizaad as a first language

[NP4Mayans]

@scorpian8king You are lucky to speak Dine bizaad (Navajo) as a first language. It is really hard to learn and pretty complex as to pronunciation, grammar and morphology. No wonder it worked so well in World War II when the Navajo Code Talkers took it to the battlefront in the Pacific. 4 peoples? I bet that isn't common to have ancestors from 4 Native peoples.

[xxxEmmureOwnxxx]

i hate when other people of non-mexican or native speak about what they know about the natives.

TAKE MEXICAN HISTORY N CHICANO courses and you'll learn something other then bullshit

[numonemofan]

@xxxEmmureOwnxxx thats funny because most mexicans claim their ancestors are from Spain

[xxxEmmureOwnxxx]

@numonemofan they do because, many aren't educated with their past and their language is a heritage. Many dont even know who the mayans, olmecs, aztecs, toltecs and many others. I got educated on mexican history.

[DerekIsAwesome1494]

Yucatec Maya is the language that they spoke in Apocalypto.

[squizz222]

I can really hear the ejective consonants when he speaks. Very interesting sounding language.

[Elessidil91]

però,fiesta,praticar...listen to some of your videos,i notice that there are a lot of spanish words,why? isn't there a mayan word for them?

[NP4Mayans]

@Elessidil91 Correct. They mix in a lot of Spanish. You could say "Ba'ale" = pero; and "nohoch ki'imak uyool" = fiesta; but since Mayas have lots of contact with Spanish, they use it with their Maya. This is especially true for larger towns such as Oxkutzcab, where this guy comes from. Here in California many Mexicans mix in English.

[alex21mu]

ma'alo tuuuu

[2000Betelgeuse]

Excellente, ojala no se pierdan estos lenguajes, quieramos o no es parte de nosotros.

[Yoshsanz]

Bix a Beel!! In 'kabae Yoshi Vic, Bix a k'aba?

[getreallanguage]

Great video. I subscribed to your channel. I'm especially struck by his intonation. It's very similar to Mexican Spanish intonation. Not exactly the same but very similar. Looks like it might be safe to guess that the local intonation was borrowed from the native languages spoken in the area.

[mycambodianluv]

Maya are special people. I'm Maya decent.

[DDEEJR3493]

PURO YUCABRON EN SAN PANCHO CALIFAS . WHO WONT TO SPEAK MAYAN????? bix a huanil = how aré you?.

Maloo'b = bye

Bix a kabaa' = what your name?

[catzelush88]

i can speak a little yucatec maya and i understand some of the word without reading

[catzelush88]

I can understand some words...I'm trying to learn yucatec maya..:) my fav language

[ancalimonungol]

Does Chapultepec mean "Plunderers Hill" in Mayan?

I'm asking because in Turkish "Çabulcu Tepesi" means "Plunderers Hill"

I also heard "kin" means "day" and "kinish" means "Sun"

In Turkish "gün" means "day" and "günesh" means "Sun"

[NP4Mayans]

@ancalimonungol The word (and place name) Chapultepec is Nahuatl (Atztec). Aztec for a Mayan speaker would be like Arabic for a Turkish speaker. In other words, no known common linguistic ancestry, but some loan words were passed on in trade. This is kind of similar to the influence Arabic had on several non-related languages through both trade and the growth of Islam. The word k'in means both day and sun in modern Yucatec Mayan.

[miighankurt]

@NP4Mayans there's some similar words and there's some similar culture stuff between Mayans and rest of the Natives up north here in North America and there's indigenous Turkic folks in Siberia that also have similar stuff. I think it's because the world is all connected and round not linear so it's kinda normal to find similar things between people. The problem is when there's ignorant people misinforming people about that, so it's good to clarify that, thanks.

[miighankurt]

@NP4Mayans I watched a video archeologist excavating king Pakal's grave. My culture far away from Maya and we also have graves of leaders and structures that are like pyramids, so the feelings are mutual. I was saying *what the heck are they doing with the Hakan's grave.* We call a person like king Pakal a Hakan, (Haakaan). It's mutual, I'm sure if you saw our folks that look kinds like your folks getting killed by the chinese,you'd see my pont. Friendship and connections is good.

[Ninopahtia]

@ancalimonungol Chapultepec means grasshopper hill. Here is the etymology: Chapul (Chapulin=grasshopper)  Tepe(Tepetl=hill) c (C=denotes a place name)=

Source: "Chicano Studies 486A" Nahuatl I course @ California State University, Northridge.

[masterkao]

@ancalimonungol actually chapultepec means crickets hill in nahuatl.

kin it's sun, and kinish it's day

[IWannaBeANart83]

@ancalimonungol Yea there are words that are similar but mean different things... My husband is from Turkey and I'm Mexican American. The word Caracol.. Turks would pronounce it (Karakol) with it's black arm or police in Turkish right? While Caracol is a type of snail in Mayan I think.. and it's also a city. The word Tulum is a Mayan city also. In Turkey the word Tulum is a Turkish blacksea instrument. Very interesting...

[ancalimonungol]

@IWannaBeANart83 : In Turkic languages, words change a lot when used in different context. Turkish usually is not enough when trying a find a connection. You have to use all Turkic languages from Siberia, China and all the way to Turkey.

Kara may mean North, it may mean land, the word you use for snail might be related to "GRI" part of Tengri (god) and teker (wheel, round, spiraling both in Turkic and Sanskrit). Tulum is related to "to fill". *UM part might mean "I AM" or might mean "*ION"

[IWannaBeANart83]

@ancalimonungol Oh yes.. Native peoples from the Americans maybe close related to Turkic peoples anyway.:)At least that's a theory I heard.

[fspo1112]

@IWannaBeANart83 Turks speak Turkish, a language that has its origins in Mongolia from Northeast (NE) Asians. The Turks (really, they are actually Anatolians), as you probably already know, are not NE Asians, but speak the Turkish language and identify as Turk because of conquest by Turkic tribes. The Mayans are American Indians, and the American Indians descend from NE Asians and are closest to NE Asians by genetics. So the American Indian languages descend from NE Asian languages surely.

[IrKeNoVa]

@fspo1112 there is some kind of evidence, that Spanish were not the first people arriving to this continent, not even Nordics. There are almost 100 words in Mayan, that means the same in Chinese, so it's not weird to think that the Mayan may descend from some protoasian language.

[numonemofan]

@IrKeNoVa Is this supposed to be new or groundbreaking ? I think its very well documented that all native americans came from asian via the land bridge during the Ice ages and immigrated down the Americas. Even in Appearance, I have a friend from Singapore, and in Central America and South America in the indigenous communities, he looks exactly like them.

[gospelnews123]

@IWannaBeANart83 In the world of linguistics we find many surprises. Words that were used in the Americas before the conquest might be connected back to the migration across the Bearing Sea, but how long can a word survive and remain unchanged to be able to be compared to Asian derived words? We also have to consider imported words. Example: The Spanish word for neck tie is corbata, which comes from the French cravatte which means Croatian, the Spanish word for Croatian is croata (corbata=tie).

[argeHu]

Very great language, want to learn. But sadly there no chances to do that in such country as Lithuania. Maybe someone who speaks it well could arrange some youtube lessons? Well at least Mayan is better that Guarani at the point of pronunciantion. I know a very little of Guarani but I think I couldn't it understand because of pronunciation.

[elyondesigns84]

can you please tell me where can i learn maya i really want to learn the language im from mexico but i live in tx.

[NP4Mayans]

@elyondesigns84 -- The University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill has a summer course where you study both in Chapel Hill and then go to Yucatan. You can also type, "Learn Maya" in Google or Yahoo and look for web pages.  Now here is the difficult news: In order to learn any language including Mayan, you have to speak to native speakers. I don't know if you have Yucatecos in Texas, but we do in California. Without them I wouldn't have learned much at all. Thank you Mayan Friends!

[damnitjimimonlyadr]

@NP4Mayans

UNC CH seems to do some pretty awesome stuff on a regular basis.

[damnitjimimonlyadr]

This looks like a restaurant in San Rafael.

[NP4Mayans]

@damnitjimimonlyadr ...It's in San Francisco on Mission St and it is called, "Yucatasia."

[damnitjimimonlyadr]

@NP4Mayans

Mishabell, I'll check it out.

[CrazyNative4]

this indian dude sounds really cool ! :)

[NintendoKrazy]

he's not indian, and he's speaking mayan, a tribe from guatemala and mexico

[CrazyNative4]

he's not indian, so what is he?

[NP4Mayans]

@CrazyNative4 & NintendoKrazy..... Well, let's not get caught up with names. Native Americans = Indians = First Peoples or Nations (Canada's term). Mexican Indian or Mayan are more exact names for this guy here.  Names of places and peoples gets confusing because we all use different names for the same thing. Just look at the word, "American" and ask someone from South or Central American what it means....

[zbug9]

i mean no offence but it kinda sounds russion

[NP4Mayans]

@zbug9 -- Once a British guy thought some Mayans were speaking German. It was pretty funny when he said that. You had to be there...

[luis161084]

Me da pena ser indigena y no hablar mi lengua materna y ver a un "Gringo" que lo pronuncia mejor que yo... una felicitación Mr.

[youtengo77]

he's talking mayan with some words on spanish... he's talking about local news of Oxkutskab ( small town near to merida, the capital) some of that news are about a medic public service ( seguro social)... there's no more mayans on yucatan there's only mestizos(mexicans).. and the real mayans was tall and stronger... not how he look ...

[Kulenkenkep]

well man, as a linguistic and polyglot i must tell you that the ''spanish words'' as you call them, are used because there isn't an equivalent word for them in maya, such as ''restaurant'' there's no word for that in maya. And an aditional data, there are still mayan people at the south east part of the state of Quintana Roo, and they're not ''mestizos'' they are mayan, and not so tall as you describe them, check you sources first, tschüss.

[NP4Mayans]

This was a response to a posting by youtengo77...

[harrignos]

@Kulenkenkep there ARE mayan mestizos though.. really, almost all mestizo's in the yucatan are of mayan descent, mixed with whatever else.

[openschoolethnograph]

@ArrojenmeUnPlatano I did not know that races existed and exist, my friend! your racial stereotyping just does not hold up! see mayans with goatees in Chama vase painting. there is no maya race-- . he certainly looks like Yucateco.

[NP4Mayans]

@ArrojenmeUnPlatano --- @ArrojenmeUnPlatano My next-door neighbor is 100% Mayan and looks it, but since he grew up in a big city (Merida, Mexico) he doesn't speak any Mayan. I have other friends who speak it perfectly but look like they are Arabs, Spaniards or Turks. They grew up in a small, Mayan town. So what makes an ethnicity? The skin? Your grandparents? Or what's inside the head and heart?

[fspo1112]

@NP4Mayans Here's the thing, most Mexicans are mixed Spanish and American Indian. In Mexico, since most are mixed-race, race is more of a fluid concept. In Mexico, if you're mestizo but speak an Indian language, you are considered Indian. I saw the Mayan-speaking people in your videos, and some of them do not look at like unmixed Mayans (particularly the one in the video "Maya Man speaking: hunting, the four directions..."). Many of those Mayan-speakers differ in skin color, it's no coincidence.

[coronajesus]

i was born in oxkutzcab the place that he talks about but i didn't learn to speak maya because my family is from other place ah y tampoco lo entiendo jaja

[krishnalite]

Yo se solo uno palabra en maya. "tu lac" significa "es todo". Un idioma muy interesante y dificil

[lookerfromaz]

Nizho'ni'...Good to hear Natives speaking their language, I think it's awesome. I speak Navajo your language sounds cool. Thanks for sharing.

[danagasta1]

Beautiful language!!!! I speak Cherokee, the Kituwah dialect from NC. Good to hear Native languages!

[IHyRaXI]

wow im happy that some people now ther real native ancestoral language instead of jsut spanish the white peoipole language that take over south america

[francho1982]

Estoy impresionado. Pensaba que los españoles nos habíamos cepillado toda las lenguas indígenas, además de cultura y religión... pero me sorprende gratamente que las lenguas sigan vivas. Que no decaiga.

[blancaaide1993]

oye de donde eres despues de todo? Oxkutzcab?? y dices que estas en San Francisco? muy interesante!!

[NP4Mayans]

El amigo que esta hablando es de Oxkutzcab y si, vive en San Francisco. Pero yo (NP4Mayans) vivo en Monterey, California - 160 kilometros al sur. Voy a San Francisco y Salinas para visitar amigos Mayas y ellos aparecen en mis videos. Hay muchos Mayas en San Francisco, pero solo 50 en Salinas.

[mercjoe72]

Interesantísimo. No sabía que había tanta gente que aún hablase estos antiguos idiomas.

Por otro lado, suena muy pero muy agradable al oído.

¿ Hay muchas lenguas mayas ? ¿ cuan diferente son entre ellas ?

¿ Solo en México queda gente que las hable ?

Saludos !!

[NP4Mayans]

Hay como 40 lenguas Mayas o mas en total. Todas pertenecen una sola familia linguistica, pero son bastante diferentes que no se intienda una con otra sin aprender la otra lengua. Unas se parecen, y otras son muy diferentes. En MEXICO, el Maya Yucateco es el mas grande con cerca 1 milion de hablantes. Otras que se habla en Chiapas, Mexico son Tzotzil, Tzetal, Chol, y otras. Los Lacandones tambien hablan una lengua Maya. En GUATEMALA hay como 21: entra ellos son K'iche, Mam y Cakchikel.

[NeCacaluXuxultic]

Oye, con el Yucatec se puede entender el Lakantun, Itza', y el Mopan, no?

[NP4Mayans]

Si, algo. Estos cuatros son muy similares. Funciona algo como Español, Italliano y Portugues cuando les hablan muy despacio y claro. Se intiende bastante, pero no todo....

[NeCacaluXuxultic]

AH! Oye, cual de todos los idiomas Maya es mas similar al Proto-Maya??

[NP4Mayans]

No se porque nadie habla Proto-Maya hoy, o sea, es una lengua "muerta." Puedes comparar Proto-Maya con Latin, o talvez con el Indo-Europeo, que es una lengua teoretica y muy antigua. Indo-Europea viene de la India y los linguisticos piensen que es el granpadre de casi todas las lenguas en Europa y tambien Hindu, Farsi, Pashto y otras.....

[NeCacaluXuxultic]

Bueno el Italiano es el mas similar al Latin que los demas idiomas..poreso pregunto si hay una idioma moderna que es lo mas similar al Proto-maya. See what I mean>?

[Luis514]

i have read cholan mayan maybe the closest to proto mayan....

[Luis514]

i have also read that there is also theories that certain mayan kingdoms like copan may have spoken early forms of quichean mayan

[NeCacaluXuxultic]

ah..so K'iche is my best bet...hmmm

[Kulenkenkep]

@NeCacaluXuxultic Bueno, vivo en Yucatán y he recorrido bastante parte de este estado, incluyendo algunos otros pertenecientes a la región que fue habitada por los mayas en el México Prehispánico, y realmente existen un ''chinguero'' [ :) ] de dialectos pertenecientes a la raíz del maya, actualmente no hay ninguno que se le asemeje del todo, posiblemente ni un poco. sa'ama.

[NeCacaluXuxultic]

estoy haciendo una caricatura nativoamericano... hablas Maya?