prior to european exploration the land on which i live and grew up on was inhabited by a native american nation known as the Miami. the language they spoke was an Algonquian language known today as Miami-Illinois, which is a blanket term for a cluster of highly similar dialects. since the mid-1990s, a portion of the Miami tribe that was relocated to Oklahoma in 1831, has been making an effort to revitalize the language of their ancestors.
discuss indigenous languages that you're familiar with, or that you grew up around
I know nothing of the Lenape people who were native to my area
Christopher Howard
Unfortunately nobody spoke indigenous languages in my area, because there are hardly any indigenous people where I live. You have to drive an hour west to get to your first reserve.
enlglish there is also historically welsh sepaking areas to the west of my city despite being in england.
Cameron Hill
do you mean things like irish and romansh or just new world ones?
Chase Ross
Not him, but all native languages welcome.
Daniel Collins
there are actually no reserves in my state for the Miami, there's an unofficial one, but the official one is located in oklahoma. that's fine too.
Adam Green
I used to live near the Navajo nation in Arizona and I would occasionally hear the older (sometimes younger) tribe members speak Navajo/Diney at Walmart and on the radio and whatnot.
I regret not learning the language when I could or keeping in touch with any of my Navajo friends there but I'd like to go back someday because it's a cool language.
I talked to an old man in Scotland's language. Only person I have found who still speaks it properly.
Gavin Gray
Do you know how they get official status? Duolingo has a Navajo course now if you're interested
Isaiah Miller
the particular place i live in has been inhabited by northern germanics since time immemorial. the only other indigenous population in scandinavia (the sami people) live much further north from here.
>Do you know how they get official status? i misspoke actually, i'm sorry. the miami don't have their own reserve anywhere. the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma is the only federally recognized miami TRIBE in the usa, not reserve, there's an unofficial tribe located in indiana, which is where i'm from and the source of my interest in the miami people. sounds neat. could you find an example of something similar to how he sounded?
Sebastian Wright
Quhar?
Ayden Price
I can't remember exactly what he said but it was like this. "The licht but wis brent. Sae I wunts a til cheenge it keis isnae ane o thir thrawan yins."
My grandpa is nahua but doesn't speak the language. I grew up hearing and seeing yucatec maya at many government/tourist sites because my family are from yucatan. I hear k'iche often because there is a huge guatemalan maya diaspora here.
Jonathan Moore
The Cuzcatlecos in El Salvador spoke Nawat, a dialect of central mexican nahuatl brought by toltec exiles.
You can occasionally hear people speaking nahuatl but is not common in this region (guadalajara) theres a park in an upscale area that is known to be frequented by maids, many of whom are from the south and speak native languages, so its common to see them hang out there speaking them
Dylan Adams
All gone like tears in the rain Like latin and ancient germanic before them Like celtic before them
There used to be a lot of languages here but the portuguese made up two lingua francas called Amazonian Tupi and South Tupi. In fact, portuguese only became the official language way later. The injuns themselves don't like it much they say it's not their shit sounds like this youtube.com/watch?v=mKyUiaaFuks they say it's mutually inteligible with paraguay's guarani.
