Counting in Nahuatl

My 3 year old daughter counts in Nahuatl and says some basic words..

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Education

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• nahuatl
• count

[thecachalot]

she is the real Dora jajaja she is so cute but where is boots the monkey?

[Ketzalitzli]

for real dude.. hmm.. I don't think so..

[yugandali]

It's wonderful that you are teaching your beautiful daughter Nahuatl!

[tuberpie68]

Gringos put the name "Aztecs" on us. In our own language--Nahuatl--we are Mexica, or, in English, Mexicans.

[Aztecabrn]

y habla español?

[sammyyyy90]

I'm Mexican with no traces of Indigenous blood, but I'm very enthralled into this. The disappearance of a language occurs every 14 days, something has to be done.

[chacho6011]

this video is so good very proud your teaching your daughter a old indian language my name is julio garcia and i am very proud of my middle name" cuahtemoc" even though my first language is english i am so proud i am mexican.

[Azariah197]

@mTreyV The letter "X" originally stood for the phoneme [ks] as it did in Latin and does most of the time in modern Spanish. in the late middle ages, Spaniards began pronouncing it as [sh], and this was carried over into the new world with them. Thus Mexica etc.

[tuberpie68]

[Con't] the sh sound, as in Mexica. All 3 versions of Nahuatl alphabets are equally correct.

[tuberpie68]

@mTreyV So after the Spanish led several of the Mexica Empire's subject nations in overthrowing Mexica rule (this is the so-called "Spanish Conquest") 3 different collaborations between Mexica & Spanish scholars developed Nahuatl alphabets, based on the Latin & Spanish alphabets. So there were 3 different, but quite similar Nahuatl alphabets from that time on. To this day, there is not just one alphabet that all speakers, & scholars, of the language agree on, but all agree that X represents[TBC]

[mTreyV]

@tuberpie68 yes, sorry, i was referring to your best rated comment. But you understood anyway. Im just wandering where the Spanish pronounciation of X come from. I mean, Aztecs (or Mexica as you say) did not have latin alphabet, so it could not be some kind of missunderstanding of written text. Why its not Meshico?

[tuberpie68]

[Con'd] . In Spanish, J is pronounced like the H is in English, as in hat or hut. There is no J in Nahuatl.

[tuberpie68]

@mTreyVUnfortunately, where you put your comment, makes it impossible to tell what word you are referring to, but, since the letters are X & J, I will guess that you're referring to "Mexico". In Spanish, X is pronounced the same as in English, unless it's Mexican Spanish, in which it's also mostly pronounced as in English, but when it's in a word derived from our own Nahuatl language, it's pronounced as H is in English. In Nahuatl, X is pronounced like the sh in English, as in shoe or wash [TBC]

[mTreyV]

@tuberpie68 pronounced with X o J?