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Good resources and information for learning Mohawk language. Mohawk is one of the most complicated languages to learn. Today, so many resources available to help you in learning this language in an easy way and becoming a fluent speaker.
Different but the same https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/11/world/americas/reviving-a-lost-language-of-canada-through-film.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Feducation&action=click&contentCollection=education®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=8&pgtype=sectionfront
Oh cool! Mr. Johann is going to love this! :smile: He has Mohawk in his family tree. oops, I didn't notice that Mr. Johann started the thread. Ay Abner!
What is the band's name - Cayuga from the movie Ghost Dog. The dude plays a Cayuga, and he really is a Cayuga who has a band. What was his name? Or the bands name for that matter?
That's Gary Farmer and the Troublemakers, Abner. And yes, he's a real Cayuga; his character's name was "Nobody." (I think we once mentioned him in another thread.) The Cayuga are another of the (Six) Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy -Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Tuscarora and Seneca. The Tuscarora were originally from the Carolinas; they spoke a language of the same family and were helped to re-settle by the other Iroquois tribes when their land was taken from them. Well, definitely Native in a couple of recent branches of my family tree (by marriage etc.) Not sure if any is Mohawk. (Some could easily be. Other is probably not.) Me personally - not a drop, unless they have Mohawks in England. My kids- yes, definitely some. However, I did take some Mohawk language lessons and right now I'm wearing a Clan totem (turtle) I bought on the Reserve about 30 years ago. That count? :smile: J.
Now we've got Nahuatl UCLA historian brings language of the Aztecs from ancient to contemporary times | UCLA
Good to know. The professor is, as reported, "riding a wave." I believe there are presently about a million Nahuatl speakers in Mexico - and two million speakers of Mayan. Plenty of radio broadcasts etc. in both. There's even a Mayan-language telenovela (soap opera) called Baktun. (A baktun is a unit of time - 144,000 days in the Mayan Calendar.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baktun_(telenovela) Conversely - Mohawk has about 4,500 speakers. Cayuga only a few hundred. The Mohawk classes I attended were suspended when funding dried up, as money was only available for languages with less than 1,000 speakers. Cayuga was still offered, but I really wanted to continue Mohawk, so I didn't stick around. Of course, if they'd offered Nahuatl or Mayan, I'd have stayed -- but this was a long way away, in Iroquois territory. J.
BTW - I first learned about the cultures of Nahuatl- and Maya-speaking peoples in Spanish class, in college (night school) back in the 80s. Our wonderful profesora was Mayan, on her mother's side. I firmly believe there is nothing like the study of language and music to bring people together. J.
Oops - slight problem with the link to "Baktun" (telenovela) site. Sorry. Try this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baktun_(telenovela)) Yeah, that's better. The url tag was taking out a bracket.
Then maybe you'd enjoy this, Abner. A Culture Clings to Its Reflection in a Cleaned-Up Soap Opera - The New York Times BTW - forgot to mention. Our Mexican-born, half-Maya profesora's husband was Greek. What a great couple! J.
That's funny, I grew up watching telenovelas like this one: Rosa Salvaje Soy yo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc1ZH2an3JI&t=90s I will have to watch one of those Baktun telenovelas sometime. I won't know what they are saying, but I am just curious. :smile: You learn something new everday.
So do I -- those wonderful evenings drinking mezcal, bouzoukis playing, Johann breaking plates and yelling "Opa!" Εκπληκτικός! (Wonderful!) I'm kidding, of course. :smile: We have some people of Nahuatl background here in frozen Canada. A few years ago, I had a part-time job. My boss was named Xochitl (flower). Nice lady. Rotten company. Not her fault. J.