WIKITONGUES: Yenal speaking Circassian
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This video was recorded by John Kazaklis in Amman, Jordan. Belonging to the Northwest Caucasian language family, the Circassian language group is comprised of the West Circassian language, Adyghe, and the East Circassian language, Kabardian. Adyghe is spoken by approximately 575,000 people and Kabardian is spoken by around 1.6 million people. Yenal is fluent in five Northwest Caucasian languages and dialects, all of which he uses in this video: Shapsug (a Black Sea coast dialect of Adyghe), Bzhedug (a Kuban River dialect of Adyghe), Abkhaz (a Northwest Caucasian language), Karbadian (homeland dialect), and Karbadian (diaspora dialect). There is a strong consensus among the linguistic community that Adyghe and Kabardian are typologically distinct languages; however, the local terms for these languages refer to them as dialects.
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I understand what he says, but don't know how to translate 🙃
@@qwert1asdfg261 what is he saying though
Маш Аллах1 сыту дахэу, лъэщуэ упсальэрэ ди бзэмк1э.Упсоу си къуэш льап1э ( шэрджэс- шапсыгъэ)
@@brianmark2530он говорит,что знает все диалекты Черкесского языка
🙌🙌🙌👍👍👍🤝🤝🤝
I'm from the states and this language is nice to the ear. Keep it alive, it's history from what I read is old.
I love Circassian Language and know.
I am Hatuqwai...
Адыгэ уей уей...
Адыгэ лъэпкъыр псощ !Сэлам Алейкум
Seems to be the most defficult Language in the whole world, but also so beautiful!!!! Bravo.
🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪 long live all my neighbours of caucasia
Especially ABKHASIANS🫶🏽
🙌🙌🙌👍👍👍🤝🤝🤝
Fascinating sounding language: - 0:35-38, the most amazing sounding phrase, slowed down to 0.75 speed sounds like a scat-sung, 'compressed', backwards version of Portuguese from Portugal.
yes a biliion J sounds in every word much like porteguese.
Caucasian languages 💚
Tarin did somebody say Caucasian?!? Where the white folks at?!?
@@wackyruss Caucasian in this sense means people from the Caucasus
@@wackyruss Anglo Saxons are hilarious. Caucasian originally referred to people of the Caucus mountains region until hijacked by christopher meiners in his classification of human races...and the reason why he used that phrase to refer to "white folk"....you dont even understand the irony of what you are saying...simple wiki read will help you
I'm lucky to speak Adyghabze ! :)
What country are you from?
Here, many write "Sounds like Arabic", "sounds like Russian + Turkish", "sounds like Mongolian" - stop talking nonsense, our language is unique, and it is connected only with our Abkhaz brothers and very very remotely with other Caucasian languages, first of all with Nakho-Dagestan. We have some borrowings from other languages - Arabic, Indo-European words, Turkish, but there are very few of them, and most words have their own synonym. Ask an Arab, Turk, Russian, whether this language is similar to them, the answer will be unequivocal that there is no connection. And there are similar sounds in many languages.
I completely agree with you. It drives me nuts whenever someone describes languages as “just a mix between language X + Y” or “just like X” especially when the languages compared with are neither related to the language in question, nor with each other. and just sound somewhat similar, on a superficial level.
As a Dutchman, people saying “Dutch is just like a mix between English and German” is a pet peeve to me. Dutch is a language in its own rights with its own quirks. However, saying “Circassian is just like a mix between Russian and Turkish” is even worse, at least Dutch, English and German are closely related. Russian, Turkish and Circassian are three completely unrelated beasts.
One tiny nitpick though, Northwest Caucasian languages (Circassian & Abkhaz) are most likely not related to each other, and any proposal to link these is controversial.
However, this only proves your point: Your language is unique.
I am not an Arab, but as a Muslim I hear and use Arabic everyday and Circassian sounds NOTHING like Arabic indeed! Circassian is unique and very beautiful
@@pigeon8797🙌🙌🙌👍👍👍🤝🤝🤝
لهجة القبرداي خارج الخكوج ( الجولانية - مثلا ) هي القبرداي الأصلية التي حملها المهجرون معهم الى دول الأغتراب
ينهون كلامهم ب (س) ولا ينهوها ب (ش) ... ذهب : كواس ( لا ) كواش ....
و يختصرون ال ( ق ) الى ( أ ) في بعض زوايا اللغه .... وستنئم : وستنقم .... قسيتيجئم : قسيتجقم ...
أنا أتكلم لهجتين : القبرداي ( الجولانية ) و ال - أبجدؤغ
كل الاحترام ❤❤
He doesn't speak Abkhaz. He speaks Abdzax dialect of Circassian language. Abkhaz is in the same language family of ours, but not a Circassian dialect. Shapsough, Bzhedugh, Kabardey, Chemguy, Hatuquay, Hakuch, Besleney, Natukhuay... These are dialects of Circassian language.
You guys have so many dialects for such a small population
True👍
The Circassian language sounds a little bit like its fellow Kavkaz neighbor language Chechen, calm and beautiful.
He looks very sympathetic through his smile and he seems to be interested in arts when I see the background of him which looks like a museum of art. :)
Circassian Georgian people are the only sympathique and cultivated caucasian people... the rest is very unintelligent
@@KurdeQonya :/ shut up
And Saddam Hussein may God rest his soul in peace was the greatest leader in the history.
If we could get back on topic please:
As someone who knows neither Circassian nor Chechen (I'm Polish, kurwa mać), the only major differences I see are that Chechen has more vowel sounds than just a, a: and ə.
@@intothevoid5074 actually, Circassian (he's speaking Adyghe) is completely unrelated to Chechen (a Nakh-Daghestanian language. They may sound similar to foreign ears because they share many "uncommon" sounds, like SE Asian languages may sound similar (e.g. Vietnamese and Thai) because they have tones, even though they are unrelated.
Адыгэ лъэпкъыр орэпсау!!!
МашАллахь дэгъоу адыгабзэкlэ уэгущыlэ👍🔥
you can really hear those uvular stops
ADIGA WEY WEY
I speak Ossetian. We also have q sound too but we are East Iranic language
@@NRooster Actually a quarter of Ossetians are Muslim :)
Neutral Rooster Armenia is also Iranic in many many ways
I love how the ossetian language sounds
@Arben Alija Hello yes I'm Muslim
@@Reddit_shorts_525 it's indo European not indo iranian
Very nice sounding language
Wow, that's actually not only Adyghe dialects.
(Please, read the descriptions)
Hi. My mom is turkish and father is Bjedough. I thought I did not understand any circassian language but surprisingly I understand it little bit. First he speaks in shapsigh language because he is shapsigh. he starts with saying hello.. I think he lives in kfar kama/israel. then he passes to bjedough accent. If I understood correctly his mother is abzeh. he passes to other dialects forexample to kabardian.. I do not have enough knowledge to distinguish these dialects from each other. for me all of them are circassian.. we were heavily turkified in turkey. Actually, my aunt could teach me Circassian. but she didn't like to share what she knew. and she liked to use Circassian more for private conversations. whatever I do, she was always saying haynape.
Kafkas derneklerinin kurslarına gidip çerkesce öğrenebilirsin
@@melodiozturk8210 15 yıldır türkiye dışındayım. dünya şartları çerkezceyi öğrenmeyi değil, türkçeyi bile 2. plana atmayı gerektiriyor malesef. duygusal olan kaybeder.
@@xagusd9292 Türkiyede neden Cerkes Kurslari olsun? gisin Cerkesyada yasayin Türkiyenin baska Problemleri var
@@Huzuh. ben 15 yıldır türkiye dışındayım her ay türkiye'ye 6bin dolar para gönderiyorum. türkiye'de bankada 800bin dolar para bulunduruyorum. biliyorsun çok daha az bankada para tutana yada 250bin dolara ev alana vatandaşlık verdi bu devlet. ben babam dedem ve tüm akrabalarım, hepimiz türkiye'yi bir türkten fazla seviyoruz.memleketimizi orası görüyoruz. almanya'ya giden bir türkün çocuğu almanca konuşuyor türkçe konuşamıyor. benim oğlum kusursuz konuşuyor. bozkurtluk diyerek nereye saldıracağınızı şaşırdınız kendi topuğunuza sıkıyorsunuz. çerkesi kürdü onu bunu ötekileştirmeye devam et,aklınca milliyetçilik yapıyorsun, aklın başına geldiğinde çok geç olacak.
❤❤❤ Kabardin 🎉
Throwing this out there: If there are any Adyghe or Kabardian tutors out there, I am definitely trying to find you. I know of Optilingo, and a bunch of other sources both in Russian and English, but was just wondering if there are tutors out there for personal/academic use?
Приезжай к нам в республики Северного Кавказа, научим.
Beautiful reply above (translated means "Come to us in the Republic of North Caucasus, we will teach you." I mean beautiful in that he is offering the most natural way to learn a foreign language. If I might add, one can easily an English language school to teach at. There are plenty, they all look for "native speakers" of English.
I have quite material in English in PDF to learn the language (Adyghe), something is something...
If you are still interested in the language (something that I doubt a lot) I could send it to you without problems...
@@user-ip8dg5uv5q What's in the PDF exactly ?
That's a lot of alveolar/post-alveolar/retroflex/alveolo-palatal fricatives I hear, nice language
Уызыншэм! Сэ сы мэздэгу адыгэ
Къабардей бзэр т1эк1у схурикъуатым! Нэхъыбеу седэ1уэнт
Woopsow!
i’m circassian sapsi too- i dunno how to speak it so i speak turkish
Try to learn ur mother Language, so u can teach it to ur children!!!!!.
Yalnız değilsin! Ben de bir Kabardeyim ama bilmiyorum. CZcams üzerinde bir cok kişi eğitim videoları çekiyor. Ama tam eğitim sistemi olmadığı, sadece insanların çabası ile bu kadar olduğu için öğrenmekten ziyade dizi/film izlemişlik etkisi bırakıyor. 1 gün sonra unutuluyor. Bu dili bilenlerle aynı ortamı paylaşmak ve tekrar etmek gerekli...
im kabardian in turkey and i know mine. learn it so our culture and language keeps existing.
Could you add subtitles?
dang that’s lots of consonants
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I'd like to know from wich area is speaking this language,thanks?
circassia in russia
There are also Circassian populations across Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Yenal is from Jordan :)
In the north-west Caucasus, officially part of Russia.
When he said shpszhzrbzhdz, i felt that.
@Peter Müller why do you have to offend him? He has not offended you at all.
You are not a child. Grow up and stop insulting and offending people!!
@Peter Müller These are also my exact thoughts. Oh, well... the Internet is full of ignorant and senseless people who think they are smart enough to mock someone else.
0:37
@@user-ip8dg5uv5q Nobody is offended when people have difficulty with the idea of less vowels.
I laugh with Polish friend at the number of consonants bunched together in Polish. They laugh at our th sound. What is the problem?
Actually the problem is a basic lack of humour.
It sounds arabic-russian and sometime even french at the same time.
that's interesting, yeah makes sense thought, sense there are sounds that you can hear from all those languages in circassian, such as the arabic haa, and many other sounds you can hear in russian also, and the famous french R.
since*
@@nelgbaz1you hear Arabic in it because most of these people are no longer native speakers and were born in Arabic country
So the sound of the language is slightly lost or mix up
As the Circassian were sent to Middle East after their land being taking over
Circassian is a dead language within a few decades
@@cheesethatdoesntbelongtoyo7279 I didn't say there is arabic in it, rather sounds that people associate with the arabic language, the way Yenal here is speaking is accurate, people in the diaspora who retained their language don't speak mixing up sounds.
if you hear speakers in the diaspora and speakers in the caucauses if they are from the same tribe -language wise they speak exactly the same.
for example the way yenal says (0:14) "Visitor" as H'ats'o - is correct, the way H'a is pronounced is usually associated with arabic languages, but it is also a sound in circassian.
for french sounds for example (0:14 right after saying visitor) "I went" as si-koar' the final r', sounds like the r' in high german or in french.
eat your hart out
The stated numbers of the speakers of Circassian dialects (Adyghe and Kabardian) are not correct. Most of diaspora speaks Western Circassian and its number is more than speakers of Eastern Circassian.
(Edited language definitions)
Are kabarsian and adyghe intellegible ? So can an Adyghe understand a Kabardey ? And can a Kabardey understand an Adyghe?
@@MBN-sn7xt it is actually a good question.
I think yes they are mutually intelligible. If one knows the changing letters between letters itbis not difficult. For example шъу - ф, шӏу - фӏ, ч - дж, кӏ - щӏ, ф - ху. 🙂 Mostly if people speaks their own dialect well, they can understand the other.
Только ты должен говорить не Adyghe and Kabardian, потому что такая формулировка может запутать, и может показаться будто кабардинский язык это не адыгский а какой то отдельный язык. Я думаю правильнее говорить западночеркесский диалект (west circassian) и кабардино-черкесский диалект. И внутри этих диалектов есть ещё и различные говоры, например как шапсугский, абадзехский, темиргоевский и т.д. Это в России есть такие выдуманные понятия как адыгеец и адыгейский, а иностранцам это непонятно.
@@platonsocrat7935 узаф. Адыгабзэр псэу!
Like arabic and Persian....my language is Kurdish and Turkish
Дэгъу !
Tgham werepsow Yenal
Wow thei have the "h" sound and "qaf" sound. Learning arabic mzst be very easy for them
Learning Arabic phonetics, probably yes.
This guy is from Jordan
It is his Arabic accent.
@@ROCdevelopments Those sounds are not a result of his Arabic accent as they are also found in many Caucasian languages
There are some words that Circassian languages share with Arabic and Turkish, probably by way of Persian. Temam, тэмэм, تمام all said the same, all mean the same thing.
Shabzuapsua
Weri wupso
where can i learn
I have got some resources if you need.
from me
beatbox language
Kabardian is one of two languages with only two vowels, one of which is a schwa.
it has more than 2 vowels tho?
Wiki says three vowels including schwa but in reality it seems to have several vowel sounds - just that these are regarded as allophones of the three main phonemic vowels.
What is the miraclous language
Circassian. He spoke many dialects in this Video, the Shapsugh dialect (he himself is from the tribe of the Shapsughs), then Bjedugh (aka. Bzedugh), then Abzakh (aka. Abdzakh, Abadzekh, Abzah etc.) and then he spoke the Kabardian (Kabardey) dialect ^^
Тхьэм уигъэпсэу си къуэш.
And people say that Polish uses a lot of sh, zh sounds... 😅😅
Fun fact: Ubykh, an extinct Northwest Caucasian language and therefore closely related to Circassian, has 27 sibilants, more than any other language than we know of. Compare that to 12 in Polish, 9 in Mandarin, 4 in English, 1 or 2 in most languages and none in Australian aboriginal languages.
Why am I not allowed to post in English?
уей хьэрф с к1э къэзыухыр бэхъсэнхмрэ терекхэмрэ, ауэ й нэхъыбэм щ к1эщ псалъэр зэраухыр
Сыту дэгъу упсалъэрэ. Адыгэ лъэпкъым щымыпсо адыгэхэм жаIэ къызгурыӏуэркъым, ау уэ жыпIэр дэгъу зэхызощIэ
Адыгеем сэлям къыуех
братишка , к сожалению он не сможет это прочитать , то что ты написал это кабардинский язык составленный из российской кириллицы , у черкесов другая письменность была )
@@user-yw9tv8hg5v Многие именно по кириллице учат адыгэбзэ зарубежом. Поэтому может быть поймет
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Icelander here. This language sounds very strange to me. Sort of like Arabic yet not quite. Not at all like Russian. Not sure about Turkish similarity.
Адыгабзэ ошlэмэ хъугъэ , сыд фэдэрэ диалектыми
Дааншгъп адпнхl даепгчы
Даегрйя Бэбаншае
a lot of sh sound
Several phonemes in fact, they distinguish them where other o people have sh and zh. Also ejective consonants are clear. This language is a marvel.
ш, щ, шъ, шъу, шӏ, шӏу, щӏ in standard alphabet. I know there are at least five more sh sounds in dialects. 😂
Sounds like ancient Egyptian.
It sounds like Hebrew
What? No
Sounds like amazigh or berber language!!! there must be a connection!!!
I think i know!
Maybe its because of Arabic influence
Nikos Rakos nothing to do with i think cause also in caucasus almost all caucasian languages sounds like afro-asiatic more like branche of berber languages... sounds good! Circassian people good Progressive people! surely there is a difference to chechenian or awarian and lezgin people. They are not like circassian! Circassian is a really good heartful moderate progressive people!! Greetings from Kurdistan and Germany to all circassian people
@@KurdeQonya Greetings from a Siberian guy living in Greece. Anyway thank you a lot
@@nikosrakos957 I agree with you. It sounded very Arabic, but not at the same time.
it does not at all
Sounds like a mix or Arabic and Kurdish.
Sounds like gaelic
Not at all. Can’t think of any major similarity between Circassian and Irish phonology. Also, I’m assuming you mean Irish, but next time make it clear what exactly you are referring to or elaborate why if you wish to be understood.
@@Be_Kadu why you fucking care
ADAZHANE SHVLAERAYLU
DAEGME DVKNGEY FlZHAEYYY
YDUENZHVA UJAK
Аядвннцэ двархвфlкня
Йжцунвй двкегрэя 2018
It's really is amusing to see that somebody from the Hashemite Entity, aka the Jordanian monarchy, actually thinks he's helping to preserve the Adyghe language. People like him would be accurately described as Muslim Jordanians of Circassian origin. They're 100% Muslim, 100% Jordanian, 100% Arab, to be specific, Palestinian. They're staunchly loyal to their Anglican/Muslim King. They have absolutely no loyalty to the unique Caucasian Circassian identity. What they have loyalty for is Islam (Arabs and Turks), the Church of England, the Vatican, and European Christianity in general. This means they have the morality of a proud and unapologetic slave trader, who are also slaves themselves. These people are extremely hostile to Free Circassian Nationalists who do want to be genuinely independent and free. What he's really doing here is lowering the status of his own native language, and pretty much every other language he learns!
Ты выцыпэ тупая секулярная.
"Черкесский" национализм это не что то "из глубины веков" шизик.
Это конструкт модерна по сути колонизационный евроцентричный продукт. Не а каком "подлино горском" тебе подобные шиз0исламофобы говорить не могут.
Секулярные долб0нацики это просто эмансипированные ш м а р ы.
Адыги Муслимы гораздо больше Адыгъэгэ сохранили чем кто либо вообще из вас.
Ты просто правый либераст и ряженный "традиционалист".
Ты выцыпэ тупая секулярная.
"Черкесский" национализм это не что то "из глубины веков" шизик.
Это конструкт модерна по сути колонизационный евроцентричный продукт. Не а каком "подлино горском" тебе подобные шиз0исламофобы говорить не могут.
Секулярные долб0нацики это просто эмансипированные ш м а р ы.
Адыги Муслимы гораздо больше Адыгъэгэ сохранили чем кто либо вообще из вас.
Ты просто правый либераст и ряженный "традиционалист".
Ты выцыпэ тупая секулярная.
"Черкесский" национализм это не что то "из глубины веков" шизик.
Это конструкт модерна по сути колонизационный евроцентричный продукт. Не а каком "подлино горском" тебе подобные шиз0исламофобы говорить не могут.
Секулярные долб0нацики это просто эмансипированные ш м а р ы.
Адыги Муслимы гораздо больше Адыгъэгэ сохранили чем кто либо вообще из вас.
Ты просто правый либераст и ряженный "традиционалист".
I think you are Moran
and I think you're too dumb to formulate a proper response. Is "heyam" a Circassian name?@@heyamabaza6235
The only phrase I know is ALLAHU AKBAR
ur so funny. and i know for fact u like ur own comment cus no racist person would come here to watch this video and learn about different countries u disgrace
@@mohamadhussamabdullah8160 i am funny :^)
@@MrAllmightyCornholioz ur a fool