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As a hungarian it was very funny to listen to the news and I get exactly, what you meant by saying, that they found Hungarian similar, but couldn't understand a word.

I do like the script itself but, the Arabic script is a bunch of confusing scribbles I’ll never be able to identify, but hebrew letters are easy to read and identify even tho their sounds and spelling is odd sometimes

*Ithkuil leaves in shame*

הצרפתי לא משנו

Bro wants to eat takis 😂😂

I like ur video and top

As a south Azerbaijanian (Iran) Turk, I understand 100% of the Gagauz language.

Если честно я даже не поверила что ты ИНОСТРАНЕЦ

WeMeSorry language

Excellent.....thank you.

Чеееел, какие же у тебя крутые видео!

Про Кавказ акцент на русском в точь почти угадал особенно слово "там" часто используют и ещё "жи есть " " в натуре" и тд

Hebrew is a constructed language its fake

Oh my. I stumbled across a mention of !Xóõ on Facebook and it blew my mind, so I decided to research a little out of curiosity. I’m so glad that you made this video. It was so informative and I’m particularly happy about the opportunity to hear some of it! You are a brilliant person, I really like your attitude towards languages and listening to you is entertaining, love the way you explain certain aspects. Definitely will stay here for longer, you’re such a nice person!

If you're not a religious Jew like me or you're not an Arabic speaker, of course you'll be confused. So much of what you said was incorrect. There is only one vowel in the alefbet (which is an alphabet, albeit an abjad alphabetical script, not sure why you said it's not an alphabet) that vowel is alef א. The letters ו, ע, י, ה are all consonants w (now v), ע is a voiced pharyngeal fricative that we religious Jews know and Arabic speakers know, י is a y (which can be used as a vowel or consonant just like English y), and ה is an h that is sometimes silent, usually to indicate the pronunciation of the last vowel or for grammar reasons. Sometimes the w becomes a U for obvious reasons, but when Jews say it as a V now, it can be confusing to understand why sometimes it's a U. Also, in biblical times and sometimes in Yemenite Hebrew, a word like הוא hu (means "he" in English) is pronounced originally as "hu'a" or "hwa" That's why we Yemenites read and speak Hebrew faster than Israelis, as we don't always need niqudoth vowelization because letters just make more sense for our pronunciation. ת is th like think in English תּ is dentalized t like in English ד is a th or can be called a dh like the th in English word that דּ is a d Basically, whenever you see a dagesh (dot) inside a letter, in linguistics, it represents unspirantization. This means the letter is pronounced in a plosive way, while the same letters without the dot are spirantized. In basic English, think of it like dot means the sound is more like an explosion while the letter without the dot is more slurred or trilled. I speak Hebrew with Yemenite pronunciation, very close to biblical pronunciation, because I'm a religious Jew. All Israelis understand everything I say for the most part. Though this is all just pronunciation, the same is true of secular Israelis and their limited understanding of Hebrew grammar (since secular modern Hebrew is simplified in grammar, has some mistakes, and they also forget the proper niqudoth vowelization for some words). All Israelis admit that religious Jews speak a higher more grammatically correct and formal form of Hebrew while saying secular Israelis' Hebrew gets worse and worse by every generation. The guy in this video makes some errors, like saying the letter צ is called tzadik, when it's actually called tzadi (even though Biblical and yemenite hebrew makes it a pharyngealized s, not a ts, like the letter sad ص in Arabic, which came from this Hebrew letter).

Can u tell me how to pronounce hello in keres? Its for school?

I had a teacher in high school, perhaps two, who spoke languages with those characteristics. Those countries make sense. It was an exchange program.

I understand one word, Boa-uormär. If I were to guess they got that word from modern Swedish.

Я ингуш, пытаюсь избавиться от своего акцента, пока что ничего не получается😢

Elfdalian and gutnish should be looked at again as languages

Finnish consonant gradation has gone through three phases: #1 consonant gradation doesn't exist. #2 consonant gradation (weakening) is activated when a syllable containing k, p or t ends in a consonant: pität->piðät, mentäk->menðäk. #3 Consonant gradation "grade" (weak or strong) is locked in place. Today, Finnish is in the third phase. For the most part, the "locked" grades follow the rules of phase 2, but consonants have been lost between two consonants without changing the grade.

10:49 Ł used to be pronounced more like the Russian hard l. The sound change is actually pretty recent. You can still listen to recordings from early 20th century of polish actors, singers, politicians, etc. using the old pronunciation. It was considered to be more fancy than the 'w' pronunciation and was taught in phonetics classes in acting schools even after the sound change happened. You can hear it in songs like "Umówiłem się z nią na dziewiątą" by Eugeniusz Bodo, or "Miłość ci wszystko wybaczy" by Hanka Ordonówna.

A major source for those interested in North American languages is Marianne Mithun's "The Languages of Native North America", Cambridge University Press, 1999.

This is a truly magnificent video, Shawn. Very well researched, very informative, full of infectious enthusiasm. I love your videos and admire the amount of work behind them. I promise, I'll never tread on your lawn. Never.

i just learned that shawn is a very very good ping pong ball

I have the exact same experience with english, only its my second language. It was fun being able to speak it decently when we started learning it in elementary school.

Малые языки не надо учить. На них зачатую нет ни культуры, ни литературы, ни кино. Если у Вас есть время лучше выучите латынь или санскрит, или древнегреческий.

English just doesn't use the alphabet very efficiently and doesn't pretend to.

@6:25 Aren't those pronouns quite similar to Indo-European/Russian pronouns?

These people influenced Diné bizaad My people of Diné Nation 🕊️ Thank you for showing light on forgotten history

Now I realised something regarding to hungarian language. We have the trace of dual pronouns too, just it is not in the official grammar. Because we say for I, you, he/she, we, you, they, that " én, te, ő, mi, ti, ők. Mi and ti is perfectly the same like mi ti in nganasan, but we use these as not dual, but on pl1 and pl2 level. BUT even today - even my father too, who was born in budapest, but his family came from the eastern border - some people sometimes say that MINK and TIK instead of MI and TI. Which is very similar to nganasan MING and TING. People dont know why is this. They just think that it is a strange dialect in some part of the country, and probably it came from that they say badly these words..... BUT THE ANSWER IS HERE.... IT IS NOT BAD. BUT THEY ARE WHO STILL RESERVE THE ORIGINAL GOOD GRAMMAR. It is amazing.

06:52 That's why after being asked the question so many times, I've decided that my best answer is 'I learn languages by enjoying them' - yes, I do many things, but they all come naturally a result of me enjoying the languages :)

Mi’kmaq is pronunced like migma or miːgəmax (IPA)

”Moldovan” is not a language, not even a dialect or subdialect. It's simply Romanian with a slight accent. Russians tried to assimilate them since 1812 by different means, and one was to invent a non-existing language filled with slavic words (Russian mostly). Did not stick.

Elfdalian is the only Old Norse Dialect spoken in Mainland Scandinavia !

About the Japanese, I’ve heard of prisoners of war taken from Sakhalin island back in he 40s but it’s just odd to see foreigners in such an isolated part of the world in general

Will keep speaking my own tounge untill I die 🌚

Great set-up!

посоветуйте пожалуйста как выучить бретонский?

Уважаемый, почти все слова нганасанского телевидения, на которых вы указали как русские слова, на самом деле английские, они пришли в русский из английского языка. Из того языка, на котором вы говорите. Чтобы искоренять англицизмы, надо что-то сделать с английским языком во всем мире.

13:09 shakshuka😂

They're descendants of migrants from among the Diné who traveled to Asia and settled there and kept their Diné language.

Ого! У вас отличное произношение, ничем не отличаетесь от русского.

kas sul on kuus varvast?

Это эстонцы так коворят

learning your humour is amusing. You should learn Biblical Hebrew it will provide the nuances. Profanities unhelpful but still enlightening.

I share a full DNA sequence with these people (Mitochondrial dna). My mother is Swiss. Just found your channel and it's excellent. Thank you!

What does pupipa mean exactly in aayagopanu pupipa?

I'd like to point out to Verner's law in germanic. That's a very similar system of gradation in medial positions, though not identical by any means.

Мне 72года пытаюсь учить родной карельский язык рад что дети и внуки разговаривают на родном языке.