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Interesting to read. We adopted/know some words in Indonesian too, mostly in food though. A big variety of foods with Indonesian influence has Dutchified names: Sambal Oelek, Ketjap Manis, Sate Ajam, Kroepoek, Atjar, Smoor variaties and so on. Seems food is one of the only few good things about colonialism. Thanks for influencing our country with your lovely food :D
@@diemervdberg7661 The past is in the past, although your predecessors action weren't commendable atleast your country admitted the atrocity the Netherland gave to my people.
As a Swede, I’ve always seen Santa as closely related to the Sámi. We usually don’t call Santa a sámi himself (doing that would probably be seen as cultural insensitive). But in the Nordics there’s generally just an unwritten rule that anyone who herds reindeers must be a Sámi, hence the correlation.
His sleigh obviously has a universal translation field like the TARDIS, duh Edit: I made this comment before I saw he also made a similar joke at the end and I cheered.
Since you brought up "Miracle on 34th Street", one of the important scenes is where Kris Kringle speaks in Dutch to the adopted war orphan who hasn't yet learned English, affirming the idea that Santa Claus is a polyglot.
He has Canadian Citizenship and a residence in Nunavut. Of course no one except the tax folk are allowed to visit him, so we still can't be sure what he speaks.
A friendly fat jolly bearded guy from the North, has a formidable appetite and laughs for no reason. Always covers is head, loves milk , is into charity and his name is "Santa". Obviously Punjabi.
Lives in a cold place in the North. Likes the color red. Likes distributing things equally. Knows whether you’ve been bad or good. Has a labor camp. Name starts with s. Name has s, t, a, and n. Has well known facial hair. Santa is 99.9% Stalin.
So the possible languages are: From historical influences: -English from the modern/Coca-Cola interpretation -Greek from the original Saint Nicholas -Dutch and Spanish from the Sinterklaas myths -Middle English from the Father Christmas myths From geographic possibilities -Greenlandic and Danish from Greenland -Finnish and Sami from Lapland -Inuktitut from Nunavut/the North Pole Other: -Elvish (so Sindarin and Quenya maybe?) -Some other unknown languages -All languages (this is the most likely option)
Although Greek would also probably be some form of Biblical/Medieval popular Greek, and not quite the modern variety. An educated Greek speaker would be able to communicate, but not unless he's had at least a basic idea of ancient Greek, like maybe even less than Greek school curriculum. You can't expect 4th century Greek to be the same as 21st century Greek, although they're much closer than English is to Old English from 15th century.
@ksnebjdkl Yes, but that's not what I mean. Almost every European country has embraced Latin as a primary language during its history. It is the closest thing to a universal European tongue by far.
Patrick's signoff reminds me of this line from the Simpsons' Krusty the Clown: "Everyone, have a merry Christmas, a happy Hanukkah, a kwazy Kwanzaa, a righteous Ramadan, and a dignified Tet. And now, a word from my god, our sponsor."
Τhe funny thing is that in Greece, and greeks orthodox the "Santa Clause figure" is called "Agios Vasilis", he is celebrated is 1st of January and he is the christian father Basilius the Great of Caesaria, while St Nicolas is a completely differend saint associated mostly with sea, seafairing, seamen or fishermen -even most churces are dedicated to him are in coastes.
Canada claimes Santa lives in their country. Alaska clames he lives in their State. Denmark claims he lives in Greenland. Russia claim that Ded Moroz is a separate person from American Santa, being better than him and living in Siberia.
Sorry to break it to you Patrick but Santa is an All American English Speaker from the town of North Pole Alaska (at least acording to the US goverment)
Wait a minute. Santa is usually depicted as an old man who lives together with elves, has a long beard and wears a hat. He's also basically immortal and is known under a different name by each people he visits. Santa really IS Gandalf aka Mithrandir.
That's a modern myth. He is a mash up of St. Nicholas, Odin, Father Christmas and other European cultures. Coca Cola just used the mash up in their advertising...they didn't create it.
In Greece where we assosiate him not with Saint Nicholaus but with Saint Basilius, it is believed that he resides in Caesarea, a city in the Cappadocia region of asia minor
I’d love to see a movie where Santa speaks two languages fluently in a scene and explains “of course I can speak Chinese. How do you think I read all their letters?”
I like to think that whenever Santa shouts "ho, ho, ho", what he's really saying is Classical Greek's masculine singular nominative article over and over again. Imagine a man dressed in red flying through the sky shouting "the, the, the".
ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ By now you must have understood. Very good as a joke, but I'm not so sure as to whether the h sound had persisted well into Medieval Greek. By most accounts it went extinct by the begginning or the middle of Koine/Common Greek. So by Nicolas's time it would have been "o, o, o" instead
Fun fact: In Greece, the role of Santa Clause in Christmas lore is played by Saint Vasileios (Saint Basil, like the cathedral in Moscow). Though Saint Nicholas is venerated on December 6th and Nicholas is a popular Greek name.
As a Finnish person, we were always told as kids that Santa lives in Korvatunturi, which is a fell in Lapland. We also have Santa's workshop/village here in Rovaniemi. I've never thought that he has anything to do with the Sàmi people, nor have I heard anyone else think so. So, I think he speaks Finnish.
If he speaks Elvish, it would be most similar to Celtic languages if Tolkien is anything to go by. My Welsh friend says it sounds convincingly like someone speaking gibberish in Welsh.
In my Country we celebrate both Saint Nicholas and Santa Claus so those would be 2 different people(?) so it would remove Greek as an option where I live...
Here in my home state of Florida there is a town called Christmas and they get a large portion of the world's letters to Santa Claus. So perhaps Santa Claus speeks American English, or Spanish (the Europeans here before the British), or even the extinct language of the Timucua Native American tribes. This was such a fun video ^_^
Sami languages are spoken in an area called 'Samiland'. Sabme, Sabmi are just versions of the same name Sami in their languages - 10 or some more, depending on the definition. And still in the 19th century there were more. The land name comes straight from the name of the people and their language, in each of their languages. I think all three ideas have the same name, just the word language, land or people added when needed.
In Single Santa Seeks Mrs Claus, he is reading a story to children of different tongues and they all hear him in their language. I like that idea the most I think. That no matter who is is talking to, they would understand him.
Santa Claus has Canadian citizenship, a Canadian passport, and his workshop has a Canadian postal code. English and French are the official languages of Canada and those plus Inuktitut are the official languages of Nunavut, which includes the North Pole.
Saint Nicholas (Nikolaos) lived and died in the early days of the Byzantine Empire. So he definitely spoke Medieval Greek, which is almost identical to Modern Greek.
Great video! However, you neglected a few possible languages! 1. Lapland is NOT JUST in Finland. Western Lapland is actually in Sweden. Which means that the Swedish language has just as much a claim to Santa as Finnish. 2. Another inspiration for Santa that you missed was the Norse god Odin. And so, because he contributed with a few things to the lore, Santa may be speaking the language of Old Norse OR a proto-Norse language OR even Icelandic since it's basically a modern version of Old Norse. 3. If we talked about Lapland and Sami, we might as well talk as well mention all of Sápmi which incorporates northern Norway and Northwestern Russia. So Santa may also be speaking Norwegian and Russian. 4. My favourite idea though is that he may not speak any of the human languages but instead he and his elves speak, well, some form of Elvish. Although, I have to mention that the idea you had about him being an omniglot is also very appealing lol.
From Latin Aegyptus, which is from Greek Αίγυπτος (Aigyptos), which is a corruption of an Ancient Egyptian phrase, het ku ptah or something like that, which meant "Temple of the Spirit of Ptah", with Ptah being a deity in Memphis. That was (I think) the capital of the Old Egyptian Kingdom, so it was the first one to come in contact with the Greeks. And then Greece spread it to Rome, which passed it on to all of the Western world. The Egyptian name itself was Kemet, "Black Sands Kingdom", because it was very fertile.
He speaks every language , the first he lesrned was greek due to him being saint nicholas , then middle english and no spanish , because he and sinterklaas are two different people . Then he learned modern english and then every other language. He probably speaks some type of elvish tounge usually. He's omniscient and everywhere during christmas season , in malls , on the streets . He is also jultomte making him a spirit , chronologically speaking i do not know when he picked up that trait
All of the above. He's just had different franchises in different parts of the world through history. It's always a cold place because that is optimal for the elves' cooling system (yes they're robots).
As it says towards the end, I'm sure he speaks every language, but for his native tongue, Greenlandic. I buy the idea that Santa could live in Greenland and be undisturbed doing his work. It is pretty well documented that no one lives in at the north pole exactly so I think it's more of a red herring so Santa can keep his anonymity.
Santa Claus does live in the North Pole, just not the North Pole. He lives in North Pole, Alaska where there is Christmas all year long☃️🎄 🎅🤶 Happy Holidays Patrick
He actually speaks Mongolian. Instead of reindeer, he rides Mongolian horses, uses a bow & arrow to deliver presents, and the elves range in diversity, from Han Chinese, to Persian, to Slavic
I mean, any European language could have been valid, as the "Christmas gift bringer" is a generic tradition all across Europe and most of Europe gets some snow or severely cold days in Christmas. Oh and Greece too used to be colder, but nowadays there's simply not enough cold to generate snow, we even have sunny Christmas day 😂. Even though Saint Nicolas should theoretically be Greece's gift bringer too, coming from here, ours is actually Saint Basil, who was better known, and he was also from Asia Minor, this time from the province of Cappadocia. We take gifts on New Year's, because that's when Saint Basil is celebrated. He also did this thing in his home city of Caesaria, because a bad man had taken way too many taxes and left the people very poor, Basil managed to take the jewelry and gold from that man, and because the guards were searching all around, Basil made a pie and hid the jewelry inside it, and then gave everyone in the town one piece. That's why on New Year's Eve we eat Βασιλόπιτα, Basil-pie, which is a nice festive cake with sugar on it, and inside the cake that is baked there is a hidden coin. Whoever finds the coin wins some prize 🙂. He also built many schools, hospitals and shelters for the homeless.
I don't doubt that Santa knows many languages, so I figure the real question is what he speaks at home with his family. That he's in Canada (as we know from his mailing address*) doesn't mean much, as while the country has two official languages (English and French) there are many who use other languages at home. *Santa Claus North Pole H0H 0H0 Canada
I would like to point out another two possible contenders for his language/native language (since realistically seeing how he can read all of the letters of children of all languages he's probably omnilingual): His language could also be latin and/or hebrew, as one tale of Jesus' birth actually connects Santa to it by stating that Santa was the peasant who owned the barn which jesus was born in, and because of his generosity being the only one to give Mary somewhere to give birth out of literally everyone, God gave onto him a divine gift, to be able to use his generosity forever by giving gifts to children across the world using magic from God himself. Thus, seeing as the region he lived in was Judea and he was a peasant, it's most likely he was jewish and spoke hebrew, however seeing as at the time the region was under Roman control, it's also possible he was bilingual speaking both latin and hebrew.
Another figure that he has roots in (through the father Christmas branch) is none other than Óðinn himself (with the flying reindeer having some roots in Sleipnir) As such he could also speak Norse or some form or another!
What language do you think Santa would speak?
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Canadian
German
English
I always thought that saint nick and Santa Claus were the same and Saint Nick was from a German principality so I thought he spoke German
Dutch
Fun fact : Some Indonesian calls Santa Claus "Sinterklas" because of the Dutch influence in the country back in the day.
Your pfp scars me...
@@KomodoMagic Why? Its from a very wholesome manga
Interesting to read. We adopted/know some words in Indonesian too, mostly in food though. A big variety of foods with Indonesian influence has Dutchified names: Sambal Oelek, Ketjap Manis, Sate Ajam, Kroepoek, Atjar, Smoor variaties and so on.
Seems food is one of the only few good things about colonialism. Thanks for influencing our country with your lovely food :D
@@KomodoMagic I find your lack of faith disturbing
@@diemervdberg7661 The past is in the past, although your predecessors action weren't commendable atleast your country admitted the atrocity the Netherland gave to my people.
As a Swede, I’ve always seen Santa as closely related to the Sámi.
We usually don’t call Santa a sámi himself (doing that would probably be seen as cultural insensitive). But in the Nordics there’s generally just an unwritten rule that anyone who herds reindeers must be a Sámi, hence the correlation.
The red and white shaman suit also lol
finnish speaking santa
He probably speaks davvisámi at home. But I always tought he must be polyglot and have eternity time to study languages.
@@iirishautala8448 juste nu fal🤩
@@ignemuton5500 fin is original skandinavian term for saami. For exampl Finnmark.
C'mon we all know he's multilingual
For real
Legit tho, how else read them letters
Of course, the question is “what’s Santa’s first language?”
@@lewatoaofair2522 chinese duh the elves just work in his work shop unpaid which leads me to believe his chinese
@@lewatoaofair2522 he also wears a lot of red
Children to Santa Claus: **talking about presents**
Me to Santa Claus: "How was your fist fight with Arius?"
Ho ho ho. ask that again and you’ll get to see how he felt?
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His sleigh obviously has a universal translation field like the TARDIS, duh
Edit: I made this comment before I saw he also made a similar joke at the end and I cheered.
Brilliant minds think alike
Since you brought up "Miracle on 34th Street", one of the important scenes is where Kris Kringle speaks in Dutch to the adopted war orphan who hasn't yet learned English, affirming the idea that Santa Claus is a polyglot.
In Latvia we believe that he lives in Finnish Lapland. 🇱🇻🇫🇮
So he definitely speaks Finnish or a Sami language.
He has Canadian Citizenship and a residence in Nunavut. Of course no one except the tax folk are allowed to visit him, so we still can't be sure what he speaks.
Estonians also believe in a Finnish santa
We finns also believe that
A friendly fat jolly bearded guy from the North, has a formidable appetite and laughs for no reason. Always covers is head, loves milk , is into charity and his name is "Santa".
Obviously Punjabi.
LOL ....
We all know Santa speaks Russian, He wears red and gives toys to kids? Sounds like communism to me.
Lives in a cold place in the North.
Likes the color red.
Likes distributing things equally.
Knows whether you’ve been bad or good.
Has a labor camp.
Name starts with s.
Name has s, t, a, and n.
Has well known facial hair.
Santa is 99.9% Stalin.
Giving stuff away doesn't sound right in this theory lol
@@marcusburns6536
You could have said Karl Marx, because that would be even funnier
Ironically the Russian version of Santa wears blue
*insert Rise of the Guardians reference here*
He speaks Russian.
Because Russian Santa Claus from the Guardians.
Ah yes.
He is also a communist. Why do you think he wears red and gives out presents in return for nothing?
He obviously speaks Elvish. He gave a guide on it to a famous author.
J R R Talking many languages
Ná merye turuhalmeri!
Now the question is which elvish dialect? My money's on Sindarin.
@@oliveragag8576 Sindarin is a separate, standalone elvish language, not a dialect. It's like asking which dialect of Nordic languages is spoken.
@@bigsqueak4086 Ok thanks
Thanks for keeping this kid friendly. My kids watched it and absolutely loved the content.
So the possible languages are:
From historical influences:
-English from the modern/Coca-Cola interpretation
-Greek from the original Saint Nicholas
-Dutch and Spanish from the Sinterklaas myths
-Middle English from the Father Christmas myths
From geographic possibilities
-Greenlandic and Danish from Greenland
-Finnish and Sami from Lapland
-Inuktitut from Nunavut/the North Pole
Other:
-Elvish (so Sindarin and Quenya maybe?)
-Some other unknown languages
-All languages (this is the most likely option)
Maybe also Norwegian.
Although Greek would also probably be some form of Biblical/Medieval popular Greek, and not quite the modern variety. An educated Greek speaker would be able to communicate, but not unless he's had at least a basic idea of ancient Greek, like maybe even less than Greek school curriculum. You can't expect 4th century Greek to be the same as 21st century Greek, although they're much closer than English is to Old English from 15th century.
He would speak Old Norse cause hes Odin
He would speak Latin because he is a living being of vaguely European ethnicity.
@ksnebjdkl no
@ksnebjdkl Yes, but that's not what I mean. Almost every European country has embraced Latin as a primary language during its history. It is the closest thing to a universal European tongue by far.
By the co-substantial Logos, I should give you a taste of my shoe
@ksnebjdkl that's not true, that's eastern Europe, the west is from Frankish and other origins
Patrick's signoff reminds me of this line from the Simpsons' Krusty the Clown: "Everyone, have a merry Christmas, a happy Hanukkah, a kwazy Kwanzaa, a righteous Ramadan, and a dignified Tet. And now, a word from my god, our sponsor."
Τhe funny thing is that in Greece, and greeks orthodox the "Santa Clause figure" is called "Agios Vasilis", he is celebrated is 1st of January and he is the christian father Basilius the Great of Caesaria, while St Nicolas is a completely differend saint associated mostly with sea, seafairing, seamen or fishermen -even most churces are dedicated to him are in coastes.
He would speak Canadian
"I'm sorry, here are your presents"
Ah yes the language
Canadian isn't a Language, it's a race English /Middle English is a Language.
@@gemdomingo6798 I'm part of the superior Canadian race and I'm offended. I was joking btw
@@gemdomingo6798 Canadian ain’t a race either it’s a nationality
Your kind of right St.Nick existed but the modern day santa Claus doesn't exist thus I believe Santa speaks Greek
Yep, Lycia is where he was born which official language was Greek
Santa denier detected 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮
Finnish kids get to see Santa every Christmas when he comes in to give and passes gifts to them, so yeah...we have full conversations with him. :D
Santa speaks English and Dutch in Miracle on 34th
he knows all languages so to understand all kids, as shown in miracle on 34th street when he speaks Dutch
Imagine Santa speak Finnish while finish giving gift
Santa is C-3PO, he is fluent in over a million forms of communication
In finnish Santa Claus is Joulupukki. It literally means Yulegoat 🐐✨
Would Santa speak Finnish since Finland claims to be the home of Santa Claus?
Canada claimes Santa lives in their country.
Alaska clames he lives in their State.
Denmark claims he lives in Greenland.
Russia claim that Ded Moroz is a separate person from American Santa, being better than him and living in Siberia.
Any place in near the North Poll cames Santa lives in their country. Not just Finland
*They claim*
Given that Santa lives in Canada at post code H0H 0H0, I would assume he speaks English and French.
Sorry to break it to you Patrick but Santa is an All American English Speaker from the town of North Pole Alaska (at least acording to the US goverment)
Fuck you Squidward
Santa can speak all languages fluently (:
Agreed.
Can he speak filipino
@@MarkyLuisqIdio yes and tagalog
Quenya, clearly.
Wait a minute. Santa is usually depicted as an old man who lives together with elves, has a long beard and wears a hat. He's also basically immortal and is known under a different name by each people he visits. Santa really IS Gandalf aka Mithrandir.
@@TheBluverde Myth-Rein-Deer
Santa should speak Mandarin if he wants to talk with his workers.
Or Vietnamiese...
We all know he would speak Washingtounge since coka-cola Is what made our modern interpretation of him
That's a modern myth.
He is a mash up of St. Nicholas, Odin, Father Christmas and other European cultures.
Coca Cola just used the mash up in their advertising...they didn't create it.
Polish of course.
My last name is An americanized version of Gregorzyk :)
You are like my distant Polish cousin. Lov u
North Polish to be precise
Santa Kurwa
He speaks French.
Because he lives in Canada, postal code H0H 0H0. That is in Quebec.
In Greece where we assosiate him not with Saint Nicholaus but with Saint Basilius, it is believed that he resides in Caesarea, a city in the Cappadocia region of asia minor
Haven’t seen the video yet, but I’m guessing it’s Greek
Either Greek or, Latin or both considering St. Nicholas lived in the byzantine empire
Yeah if we're being realistic, Greek seems certain. Even his name, Nikolaos, means "Victory of the people" in Greek
I’d love to see a movie where Santa speaks two languages fluently in a scene and explains “of course I can speak Chinese. How do you think I read all their letters?”
Watch the original Miracle on 34th Street. Santa speaks English to one child and then Dutch to another little girl.
@@suzannerichardson5092 thank you :o
Actually my mom spotted him last year
How old are you
actually, she discovered a fat drunk man sunburnt
I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus.
Aw
I like to think that whenever Santa shouts "ho, ho, ho", what he's really saying is Classical Greek's masculine singular nominative article over and over again. Imagine a man dressed in red flying through the sky shouting "the, the, the".
ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ ἁ
By now you must have understood.
Very good as a joke, but I'm not so sure as to whether the h sound had persisted well into Medieval Greek. By most accounts it went extinct by the begginning or the middle of Koine/Common Greek. So by Nicolas's time it would have been "o, o, o" instead
@@georgios_5342 Let's pretend for the sake of the joke that the h sound persisted in the Anatolian dialects
He speaks the language of love
so russian
So Finnish?
Jingling bells?
so german?
Well he's pretty old and goes pretty much anywhere, he's probably fluent in a large multitude of languages from all over the world!
Good point
Latin, and every other language, have you seen the notes on those gifts?
He’s definitely fluent in every tongue and pen.
Santa is spanish be like: *salsa music* feliz navidad, feliz navidad (8)
In the Netherlands sometimes you see cartoons with Santa on a beach in Spain, relaxing from his hard work after the holidays
Santa is Aryan not Spanish.
Fun fact: In Greece, the role of Santa Clause in Christmas lore is played by Saint Vasileios (Saint Basil, like the cathedral in Moscow). Though Saint Nicholas is venerated on December 6th and Nicholas is a popular Greek name.
but why have a different saint play his role when saint nicholas is a saint himself and it's his day? it makes no sense
In Wales, Santa is called Sion Corn! I’m not exactly sure of the name’s origins 😅
As a Finnish person, we were always told as kids that Santa lives in Korvatunturi, which is a fell in Lapland. We also have Santa's workshop/village here in Rovaniemi.
I've never thought that he has anything to do with the Sàmi people, nor have I heard anyone else think so.
So, I think he speaks Finnish.
As AtlasPro deduced, Santa most likely lives in northern Canada, so I'm pretty sure he speaks Inuktitut.
He speaks Elvish.
St. Nicholas was from Asia Minor and was a delegate to the Council of Nicaea and definitely had to speak Greek
they were debating on whether Jesus was a man or god, and at one point Nicholas got so 'spirited' shall we say, that he punched another man.
@@sogghartha yes he slapped Arius for claiming that Christ was not God
If he speaks Elvish, it would be most similar to Celtic languages if Tolkien is anything to go by. My Welsh friend says it sounds convincingly like someone speaking gibberish in Welsh.
Elvish was based on finnish too... like Annatar straight up is finnish, anna=give, -tar=feminine end like -ess in goddess. :D
Sinterklaas speaks Dutch, at least at the times I met him as a child.
6:56 now here we have the old toast monument from the toast empire. this is a popular destination for tourists around this time of year.
In my Country we celebrate both Saint Nicholas and Santa Claus so those would be 2 different people(?) so it would remove Greek as an option where I live...
Don't forget the Odin connection, so old Norse should be a top ten contender
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Probably finnish or something related
Here in my home state of Florida there is a town called Christmas and they get a large portion of the world's letters to Santa Claus. So perhaps Santa Claus speeks American English, or Spanish (the Europeans here before the British), or even the extinct language of the Timucua Native American tribes.
This was such a fun video ^_^
Sami languages are spoken in an area called 'Samiland'. Sabme, Sabmi are just versions of the same name Sami in their languages - 10 or some more, depending on the definition. And still in the 19th century there were more. The land name comes straight from the name of the people and their language, in each of their languages. I think all three ideas have the same name, just the word language, land or people added when needed.
Santa Claus is also somewhat inspired by Odin, so maybe he speaks Old Norse?
Off the top, I’d assume:
English
Danish
Russian
Norwegian
Everything
U got one right
@@nicolasgainous5936 everything
If Santa started speaking in klingon i'd eat my christmas hat.
I’m currently learning french so I can assure you guys it is 100% correct with his french name. :)
Noël = Christmas
Père = Father/Dad
*Punches out Arius of Alexandria*
Ho-Ho-Ηοmoousios!
This absolutely made my day.
In Single Santa Seeks Mrs Claus, he is reading a story to children of different tongues and they all hear him in their language. I like that idea the most I think. That no matter who is is talking to, they would understand him.
Santa Claus has Canadian citizenship, a Canadian passport, and his workshop has a Canadian postal code. English and French are the official languages of Canada and those plus Inuktitut are the official languages of Nunavut, which includes the North Pole.
Lapland or Lappland is not only a part of Finland, but also a part of Sweden to, this comes from the time when Finland and Sweden was the same country
Well oblously, Dutch, because the name comes from Dutch, and his red colours. He came to the U.S. by the Dutch in New York
If he spoke Greek it would be Ancient Greek but he can speak any language. What would Merry Chirstmas and Father Chirstmas be in Middle English?
Saint Nicholas (Nikolaos) lived and died in the early days of the Byzantine Empire. So he definitely spoke Medieval Greek, which is almost identical to Modern Greek.
Great video! However, you neglected a few possible languages!
1. Lapland is NOT JUST in Finland. Western Lapland is actually in Sweden. Which means that the Swedish language has just as much a claim to Santa as Finnish.
2. Another inspiration for Santa that you missed was the Norse god Odin. And so, because he contributed with a few things to the lore, Santa may be speaking the language of Old Norse OR a proto-Norse language OR even Icelandic since it's basically a modern version of Old Norse.
3. If we talked about Lapland and Sami, we might as well talk as well mention all of Sápmi which incorporates northern Norway and Northwestern Russia. So Santa may also be speaking Norwegian and Russian.
4. My favourite idea though is that he may not speak any of the human languages but instead he and his elves speak, well, some form of Elvish.
Although, I have to mention that the idea you had about him being an omniglot is also very appealing lol.
In the old movie "Miracle on 34 street", Saint Nick speaks Dutch.
IDK why but I thought he would speak Greenlandic cuz Greenland is the closest country to the north pole and apparently, I'm not he only one
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From Latin Aegyptus, which is from Greek Αίγυπτος (Aigyptos), which is a corruption of an Ancient Egyptian phrase, het ku ptah or something like that, which meant "Temple of the Spirit of Ptah", with Ptah being a deity in Memphis. That was (I think) the capital of the Old Egyptian Kingdom, so it was the first one to come in contact with the Greeks. And then Greece spread it to Rome, which passed it on to all of the Western world. The Egyptian name itself was Kemet, "Black Sands Kingdom", because it was very fertile.
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i think he can speak every language in the world, but his native language is a language no one knows except him, ms claus and his helpers
1:38 SO YOUR TELLING ME THAT RANDOM MAN IN MY LIVING ROOM WASN'T SANTA!? NO WONDER MY GIFTS WERE STOLEN
He speaks every language , the first he lesrned was greek due to him being saint nicholas , then middle english and no spanish , because he and sinterklaas are two different people . Then he learned modern english and then every other language. He probably speaks some type of elvish tounge usually. He's omniscient and everywhere during christmas season , in malls , on the streets . He is also jultomte making him a spirit , chronologically speaking i do not know when he picked up that trait
All of the above. He's just had different franchises in different parts of the world through history. It's always a cold place because that is optimal for the elves' cooling system (yes they're robots).
I’m sure Santa would be speaking Sindarin to his employees!
“Aeroer gelir!” (Happy holidays!)
If Santa regularly sails from Spain to the Netherlands, he might speak Basque.
As an Archfey, Santa would obviously Speak Sylvan. Maybe Elvish as well to communicate with his employees.
As it says towards the end, I'm sure he speaks every language, but for his native tongue, Greenlandic. I buy the idea that Santa could live in Greenland and be undisturbed doing his work. It is pretty well documented that no one lives in at the north pole exactly so I think it's more of a red herring so Santa can keep his anonymity.
I didn’t know I had this question, but I am glad to have it answered ❤
Santa Claus does live in the North Pole, just not the North Pole. He lives in North Pole, Alaska where there is Christmas all year long☃️🎄 🎅🤶 Happy Holidays Patrick
I'd also like to add that St Nicholas' burial place is in Italy, so it should have also a claim
😂 0:46 Pierre Noël, as you said it, means "Christmas rock".
He speaks Yulish ofc, a language made by David J Peterson, who also invented the languages for Game of Thrones.
He speaks Yulish in some Netflix film
He actually speaks Mongolian. Instead of reindeer, he rides Mongolian horses, uses a bow & arrow to deliver presents, and the elves range in diversity, from Han Chinese, to Persian, to Slavic
You can send letters to Santa at:
Santa Claus
North Pole
H0H 0H0
Canada
And you will receive a letter back. At least we did when I was a kid.
I mean, any European language could have been valid, as the "Christmas gift bringer" is a generic tradition all across Europe and most of Europe gets some snow or severely cold days in Christmas. Oh and Greece too used to be colder, but nowadays there's simply not enough cold to generate snow, we even have sunny Christmas day 😂. Even though Saint Nicolas should theoretically be Greece's gift bringer too, coming from here, ours is actually Saint Basil, who was better known, and he was also from Asia Minor, this time from the province of Cappadocia. We take gifts on New Year's, because that's when Saint Basil is celebrated. He also did this thing in his home city of Caesaria, because a bad man had taken way too many taxes and left the people very poor, Basil managed to take the jewelry and gold from that man, and because the guards were searching all around, Basil made a pie and hid the jewelry inside it, and then gave everyone in the town one piece. That's why on New Year's Eve we eat Βασιλόπιτα, Basil-pie, which is a nice festive cake with sugar on it, and inside the cake that is baked there is a hidden coin. Whoever finds the coin wins some prize 🙂. He also built many schools, hospitals and shelters for the homeless.
In Spanish he is Papá Noel or San Nicolás.
I don't doubt that Santa knows many languages, so I figure the real question is what he speaks at home with his family.
That he's in Canada (as we know from his mailing address*) doesn't mean much, as while the country has two official languages (English and French) there are many who use other languages at home.
*Santa Claus
North Pole
H0H 0H0
Canada
I think he is in Greenland
Santa lives in Santa Claus, IN, so he speaks English, in a Midwestern/Hoosier accent, I'd think.
Idk mate, if he's still alive and live in Turkey, he gonna speak Turkish and eat baklava at every house that celebrate Christmas
"Père Noël" isn't pronounced "Pierre Noël".
Also, it's not "Weihnachstmann".
He does exist, though.
I like to think that Santa can communicate with everyone,but if he speaks one language I hope it's Norwegian.
Dude's hundreds of years old. He's probably a polyglot
Ded Moroz is not another name for Santa. It's a different character, meaning "Gradpa frost".
all of them, how else would he be able to understand all those children in shopping centers
The premise of this discussion is wrong. Santa can probably speak in all languages that he has to read letters in.
Surely as a magical character Santa Claus would speak the language of EVERY country
I would like to point out another two possible contenders for his language/native language (since realistically seeing how he can read all of the letters of children of all languages he's probably omnilingual):
His language could also be latin and/or hebrew, as one tale of Jesus' birth actually connects Santa to it by stating that Santa was the peasant who owned the barn which jesus was born in, and because of his generosity being the only one to give Mary somewhere to give birth out of literally everyone, God gave onto him a divine gift, to be able to use his generosity forever by giving gifts to children across the world using magic from God himself. Thus, seeing as the region he lived in was Judea and he was a peasant, it's most likely he was jewish and spoke hebrew, however seeing as at the time the region was under Roman control, it's also possible he was bilingual speaking both latin and hebrew.
The Dutch name for Santa Claus is 'de kerstman', litteraly the christmas man.
Maybe his sleigh is a Tardis and it has a translation circuit
Another figure that he has roots in (through the father Christmas branch) is none other than Óðinn himself (with the flying reindeer having some roots in Sleipnir)
As such he could also speak Norse or some form or another!