Your dedication to the subject of language structures and history is amazing. I’m willing to stay subbed for over 70 years for you to finish that list.
It would, indeed 😁. However, making it would require a great deal of effort, as Josh’s expertise are the Romance languages, and his expertise in Slavic languages is not nearly as comprehensive.
I agree. Also maybe a bit on the politics of it? Lithuanians get really upset if you call their language "slavic", however I found Lithuanian grammar incredibly similar to Russian, so much so that I was allowed to skip a couple levels in my Lithuanian course just by making educated guesses about grammar rules based on my knowledge of Russian.
@Clara M Well, it belongs to a branch called ”Slavo-Baltic languages”, meaning that Slavic and Baltic languages are, indeed, very closely related genetically.
We absolutely need native languages, I think that some need to be taught in schools country wide though I think it would be hard to determine which ones get taught and how
A video on Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin would interest me most but that’s mostly because my parents are both from former Yugoslavia and it’s just nice to have content about something familiar to you like that
Have you ever done a video on signed languages? They still have grammatical rules and unique features. I'd love to see a video about how ASL came from France as well as Martha's vineyard sign language. ASL also has a close grammatical structure to a few Eastern Asian languages. ASL is my second language and I find that because of the "topic comment" and the way the grammar is structured I've had an easier time grasping Korean!
I'm learning Moroccan Darija, and I would love to learn more about it! I also am from an area with a lot of Hmong speakers, and have always been very interested!
It would be awesome, if you studied some of czechs unique features, like dialectal variation in inflection and word order compared to the formal language (which is actually very outdated), the raised alveolar trill transcribed as Ř and other very interesting things
In the old Tintin comic-books by Hergé, Tintin joins a mission to launch a rocket to the moon based in the fictional country of Syldavia, and to imitate Serbo-Corat they have roadsigns with both Latin and Cyrillic script! Of course it's a product of its time, and the rocket is one single solid thing rather than the stage-rockets we actually use.
Ideophones might be more interesting. They are like onomatopoeia for things that don’t necessarily make a sound. “Bling bling” is the only English example I can think of. Some languages like Japanese have loads of these.
We are already dead Fam oh definitely, phenomimes, psychomimes etc are very interesting, my native language has a lot of those too. A video on sound symbolism in general would be great.
In the way i understand it, in finnish it's basically a way of denoting the passive voice, or being an unspecified agent. I guess you could also think of it being a person, not being talked to, that hasn't been introduced yet. But Idk.
The term "fourth person" is somewhat vague, and the exact meaning depends on the particular language in question. However, the most common linguistic usage of a fourth person is for the obviative. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obviative Obviation is a system of discerning one third person entity from a different third person entity in any given sentence or discourse. Think of it as being able to quickly and easily tell the difference between the two "he"s in a sentence like "he told him that he didn't see it."
@@Sovairu - That actually incredibly useful. In Norwegian we say "he met he other" with "he other" serving as a kind of obviate I presume, so I guess that sort of does the job. English can do something similar ("he met the other man"), but in a bit of a less universal and more roundabout way.
I would love one on Guaraní. I live in Buenos Aires and there's a huge Paraguayan community here, so it's actually one of the many languages you can hear in the bus, in the streets and everywhere. I also have friends from Paraguay and they frequently mix it with Spanish, even on Twitter. =)
I heard the name ''Chavacano language'', and it brought me to joy and caused me bliss and delight. Para oi el nombre de mi nativo lenguaje ya queda como igual na maga angel que ta canta na cielo para na mi oido.
I'd love a video about Euskera. I'm from Spain and I know some people that speak it, but it's completely different from the other languages in the peninsula and no one knows where it comes from
Despite the subject, I absolutely loved the French tale regarding the ISIS letter, you made it really resonate with me as a native speaker of French. But I wouldn't mind a new video on French that is not about ISIS. :D
Yeah! More about French, but it is pretty based, centered in European culture. What unusual stories can we find about it? We can mention why it's different from other Romance languages. Romans settled in many parts of Europe and continued to speak Latin, which drifted into different varieties. Gallo-Roman was spoken in what is now France, a blessed land ideal for agriculture. But then they were invaded by Germanic tribes such as the Franks, and there was a Frankish nobility above the Gallo-Roman people. Frankish became a PRESTIGE language and Gallo-Romans started to pronounce Latin words with nasty Germanic vowels. "Pura" ("clean, pure" in Latin) became pure in French, with the basic ü sound like in German. In this way 3 nasty Germanic vowels got introduced into French. The French and German spellings of each sound are: oe/ö, eu/(also ö but different) and u/ü. Nasal sounds also got introduced in French but not due to influence from any language but due to a nasalized clipping of the combinations an/en, in, on, and un into new sounds only found in certain spots such as Polish or Portuguese. These are all trouble for English-speakers to learn, and also for speakers of other Romance languages.
@@5.56_Media Don't talk about something you know nothing about. Europe is and will stay strong, and will continue to be improved. It is a completely new political system so it is very imperfect, but hopefully it will change.
@@Dracopol The thing with vowels is, I believe, slightly more complex. French initially had several different diphtongs and even a few triphtongs (the word beau is a good example of this), so it was very different from german. German had a lot of influence over consonants, however, like over r which became uvular.
a video about norn (the norse language once spoken in the northern isles of scotland) and its effect on the modern day dialect in the region would be really interesting
I feel a bit out of my element, because I have never heard of any of those languages. I had not even given a simple thought to them just 10 minutes ago. Even in my language (Swiss French), I would be unable to explain what it is that makes it the way it is. It's one of those things I take for granted. But the thing is, I'm curious. And you my friend are dedicated and enthusiastic. It spreads, it's contagious. This makes any one of your videos feel like a candy, popping in my mind. I discover new sounds, meanings, words and pictures. It gets me addicted and more curious of what I am missing. Please, go down those rabbit holes. Go over that list, make it grow. Poke our minds over those languages, dialects and alphabet, continue your journey. I'm happy to be a patron of yours, and I'll continue to rush to youtube on each of those notifications. And I thank any of you out there that contribute to this channel. As for your question, which one interests me the most ? Like I said, I don't know them yet. I still have to discover them.
Thierry, you and I are in the same boat on the sea of life although my native language is English. My second language is German. Before my experience with bacterial meningitis with two strokes I read French and Latin. I am curious about languages in general.
@@missano3856 Not really, no. There are a few words that are local to Switzerland (like "serpillère" (a mop) in France is called "panosse" in Swiss French, altough the "real" French word is understood.), but they are exceptions, not the norm. Also, the Swiss French is the same anywhere in Switzerland, there are no regionalisms like in Swiss German, where the one spoken in Zurich and the one spoken in Chur sounds different.
@@tripy75 ADIEUUUUUUU ! As a speaker of Swiss French, I beg to differ. It has regional differences that are extremely small compared to those of Swiss German, but still significant enough to be able to tell where somebody is from. You can definitely tell people from Lausanne, Neuchâtel and Sion apart.
As moroccan, I was definitely not expecting Darija to show up here ! :D Most people indeed don't realize that "dialects" of arabic can be *very* different from each other, as much as different romance languages differ. I would indeed love a video about it!
@@ambulocetusnatans Los extranjeros que formaron colonias en su mayoría se establecieron en lugares donde se hablaba más guaraní que español, como son los establecimientos rurales del interior de Paraguay y el Chaco, la necesidad de comunicarse les llevó a aprender más rápido el guaraní.
You had me at Purépecha! Twenty something years ago I spent Semana Santa in their area but even though I was into languages even then I wasn't aware of that people or their language at that time. A couple of years ago I was thinking of going specifically there. They've also been making guitars since the conquistadors first arrived. But in my years visiting Mexico I always find local people are shy of their indigenous languages. I've spent a lot of time in Zapotec areas and never heard it above a whisper. The same in Mayan areas. And I don't think I've even heard Nahuatl at all, though I did investigate its relative in Honduras years ago. One I was on a local bus I think somewhere in the Yucatan where a bunch of teenage schoolboys were speaking a local language loud and proud and later wish I'd asked them what language it was. It's easy to find locals proudly using their Mayan language around Lake Atitlan in Guatemala though. I was asking an orange juice lady to teach me words each day and I bought a dictionary direct from the publisher in the capital, but didn't find a teacher. There's another really fascinating language in the Americas, Garifuna. It's an Indian language spoken by black communities on the Caribbean coast. I found a dictionary somewhere and went to visit and the people were amazing but the sandflies forced me to leave! For other parts of the world, have you done anything on Ainu? After many trips to Japan giving up on finding anything authentic of the Ainu people I met a famous Ainu artist and musician on my current trip and later stayed at the only Ainu guesthouse in the only town that has a majority Ainu population in the whole country. I attended a language class in the museum there but got the impression nobody present was a speaker despite huge amounts of interest. Learning languages is hard! Also in Asia, have you done anything on the aboriginal languages of Taiwan? It's not impossible to find speakers on the east coast and in the mountains, mostly old people. A couple of years ago I was at a rest stop on a highway in the northeast and one group of middle aged people were speaking a language I'm sure wasn't Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, or any other kind of Chinese. Again I regret being to shy to ask. But you also brought up Hmong! Did you see Laushu just did his first ever level up in Hmong by pure chance? It's interesting because it's the biggest independent Asian tonal language that doesn't have its own nation and is not related to the national languages. It's also pluricentric. But the way it's written in Latin script is actually pretty natural for how many Asian languages are taught natively with onset, rime, and tone. Zhuang writing is quite similar. Have you ever brought it up? It's the biggest minority language by far in China that's a "dialect" of Chinese, yet even when I go to the areas it's supposedly spoken I never meet any speakers. I have met speakers of Dai languages and even Buyi, the forgotten sister language of Zhuang though. My favourite famous language that I have not yet tried to visit is Burushaski, spoken in the mountains of Pakistan not far from the Chinese border in one of several places that are often claimed to be the true Shangri La. And you're right that you really should do a video on the Philippine funky split ergativity thing. Have you even done anything on the outliers of European IE? For my money Lithuanian and Armenian. The former is the the most conservative of them all and even shows striking similarities to Sanskrit! The latter is maybe the most alienized, especially in its phonology and writing system. That's enough for now. Keep it up! (-:
I think you're single-handedly trying to multiply the length of this ideas list through your many travels ;) Hah, much thanks for the message, for sharing your experiences - very good suggestions all!
4:49: In Milan dialect, we have "(ti) te gh'é" (or however that's spelled). In Romagnolo, "(tè) t'é" /tè tej/ (è for the "bet" vowel, that epsilon-like symbol).
Both languages are in the gallic-italic family. A video on lumbard would be awesome, it had such an interesting evolution, and tons of influences from France, Spain, and the rest of italy
How has it survived? From what I've heard the dialects in the north aren't used as much as the southern ones (sicilian and napoletano are the main ones that come to mind) since it's more industrial up north
@@tonytomato100 Old people still speak it, and young ones learn tidbits, either from speakers or from songs. At least, that's true for me about Milan dialect (which tbh I can't tell apart from Brianza dialects), and as for Romagnolo, my father and his parents and many in his home town speak it, and those grandparents would always speak Romagnolo with dad, and struggled with Italian for quite a while. That's why I, despite living in Brianza most of the time, speak Romagnolo and not Milan/Brianza dialect. In fact, I developed my own spelling system for Romagnolo: michelegorini.blogspot.it/2017/09/sulla-mia-ortografia-del-dialetto.html (explanation of the system in Italian).
@@tonytomato100 meneghino (milan's dialect) is slowly dying, also because most people living in milan are from outside. But as you get near the alps, many variations survive (especially Como and Lecco for the western variety, but also Brianza, Bergamo and Brescia mantained it to some extent)
@Adab Doost dude, this is α language channel not propoganda channel. Also nothing about Turkish is "barbaric". Even the word of "barbar" comes from berberi people. History saw α lots of conquest and forced change over New powerful civilizations. Greeks did the same to Eastern anatolia when Persians had the province. Persians did it when babylonians did own the land. Not just anatolia, it happens on tons of places in trough all history. No civilization is exception, they either did it or was victim of it. Turks faced the same fate against Mongolian tribes too. Don't do propoganda, be objective when it comes to history. Also please do not write comments that might start α comment war. Those are only fueled by anger. Anger is an enemy to humanity.
I'd like to see something about Australian Aboriginal languages, Noongar in particular since I'm from that country. Also Ojibwe type languages since I live up there now and the influence on English is interesting
Hi! I come from Milan, in Lombardy, the italian region where lombard is spoken. Thank you for the mention! Sadly, the language (or at least its western dialect) is dying in the big city and its surrounding towns, where young people only speak italian. In my family , for example, my grandparents used to speak lombard (milanese) 90% of the time, but my parents didn't really, and I understand most of it but hardly speak any. On my mother side, my great-grandparents didn't teach milanese to their daughters because back then they thought that it would have been a disadvantage, because it was too "popular", too "rural". So, we probably will be among the last generations able to understand milanese. It is sad, but inevitable, because Milan is a big city, with people coming from all backgrounds, other italian regions or other countries. Change is a part of life, and this is true of languages too. Who knows how they will speak in the next centuries! Now, we should try to preserve what we can and save it for future memory. Lombard, by the way, is still spoken sometimes in the countryside, mainly by the elderly, and definitely more in the alpine valleys, in the italian-speaking Switzerland and in eastern Lombardy.
Stefstop the same thing happens to Venetian (but Venetian is Moro widely spoken) and others languages in Italy because at school we study that our languages are corruptions of Italian, but there are indipendent language with a lot of similarities
@@francescoscattolon9695 "It's all Italian" was something the originated in the Risorgimento because it was politically useful. Today it's really only Italian linguists who keep that line. Others recognise both a spectrum of Italian dialects and distinct languages. I love hearing Léngoa Vèneto in Venice and Sicilianu in Sicily even though I can't understand them.
ey nice Wenzhounese got a shoutout, the Wu branch needs some love. Everyone seems to group everything into Shanghainese but there are many others. According to wikipedia, Suzhounese was the prestige forme before Shanghainese became more used due to Shanghai itself growing.
Stuff besides biographies and geographical information, are mostly incorrect on all levels on Wikipedia. I would not use it as a source that often. Most so called western Sinologists bunch everything in Wu as Shanghainese despite the fact that Wenzhounese and Shanghainese belong to the Wu family of Chinese dialects, they are similar but yet are not the same thing. I used to have classmates from college who were from Shanghai & Wenzhou so I know. There's still others in Wu. I have a supervisor from Wuxi. I used to see a doctor from Jiangsu. Jiangsu, Wuxi, etc... All of these dialects belong to Wu. There's also more like what's spoken in Ningbo, etc... Wu is a big group like Yue (Cantonese), Min (Fujianese) [divided into 5 subgroups by compass directions, such as Eastern Min, Northern Min, Central Min, Western Min and Southern Min(southern Min is popularly called Minnanyu or Hokkien, which is really the name of Fujian Province in southern Min/Minnan dialect/Minnanyu), caused by a miscommunication between asker & answerer] which are further subdivided based on the actual location of the cities, towns, districts or villages of where the subdialect is actually spoken. Hakka also belongs as a branch of Min. A tricky one is Teochew because the subdialect is spoken by people who originally settled in Guangdong province where most people spoke a form of Cantonese, but Teochew is a subdialect which like Hakka belongs to the Min branch. So people who are from Teochew can speak Teochew plus Cantonese plus the language of where their descendants later settled in. There‘s more of other Chinese dialects like Gan, Jin, Xiang, Mandarin, Ping, Huizhou, etc... but I can only give examples of what I know. I had a coworker who spoke Teochew, Cantonese, Mandarin and English. I also know someone else from Vietnam, of Teochew descent who speaks English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese and Teochew.] My hairdresser is from Guangxi. Guangxi dialect is actually vastly different from Cantonese despite Guangdong and Guangxi are next to each other and was almost always governed together by one court official despite both being different provinces. People from Guangxi can understand Cantonese but rarely speak it fluently nowadays. My hairdresser spoke to me in Cantonese after hearing me speak with my wife on the phone in Cantonese. If I spoke in Vietnamese instead she wouldn't have a clue what I had said. I speak to my wife in Mandarin, Cantonese, English and Vietnamese. I‘m studying Hokkien, a dialect spoken on my father‘s side of the family before my parents met. And also studying Vietnamese, the language of my birthplace.
Suzhounese is something I wasn’t able to learn very well. When I studied in Suzhou, I only heard it near Lindun lu, and towards tongli and muli. My teacher’s teacher spoke it. My fiancé though picked up words so as she learnt she was able to be understood by the dumpling sales lady by our home (exit 3 TuanJieqiao. We don’t live there anymore, but she has really nice pork baozi). The lady that sold them could never understand me
Suzhounese is often still used to represent the Wu branch of Chinese, as the more widely spoken Shanghainese has undergone major phonological simplifications and lost features that are still retained by other Wu varieties.
You should mention in your video about Guaraní that a large chunk of the Portuguese vocabulary is made of Tupi, a dead language from the same family as Guaraní and there is a modern descend called Nhengatu.
I ve heard the natives from Brasil speaking in their dialect and after a while a could understand a lot of words. Nhengatu (ñe'engatu) means somebody that speaks a lot.
Speaking of the Philippines, an interesting topic to touch is the myth of the Spaniards not teaching the Spanish language to the Filipinos. Now, of course, if other former Spanish colonies were taught Spanish, the Philippines were given that same privilege too. But the Philippine variant of Spanish is more distinct than the rest of the Spanish speaking world that there's got to be some truth to that. Not to mention that it's even different from region to region. Like how Spanish seis is pronounced /saʔis/ in Tagalog with the glottal stop while in Cebuano it's /sajs/. Not to mention that the orthography is pretty whack. The island of Bohol is pronounced with an /h/ while the Spanish was used to pronounced a glottal stop. This sentence may already be too long for a CZcams comment but I'm just scratching the surface here. Hope you touch the topic somehow. Akong gugma gikan dinhi sa Cebu 💖🇵🇭
I actually studied Hmong for a little over a year. The alphabet and spelling is actually one of the easiest, in my opinion. Once you know the basic rules, there are no surprises. And once you can read it, learning to pronounce a new word is very easy. I actually wrote a song about it on my channel years ago, though it was not an exhaustive explanation and the song is also very bad. I've since started learning Cebuano and Portuguese, but Hmong will always have a special place in my heart.
I'm a native speaker of Lombard, and I very like the fact you showed to the world our language, now 700 000 people know that Lombard is a Language and you have to know, some Lombard speakers say Lombard is only a Dialect of Italian, when it is a separate language, older than Italian, with German influences, and Italy didn't recognize It as a separate language. I want to say another thing, Lombard is not a single language, is the union of a lot of dialect, I speak the Como dialect, that is similar to Milano's one, but if I go into the Pò valley, lombard became very different. I very like Lombard, and I cry every time I see a Teenager like me thinking our language is an old people things and they don't speak it, or simply they can't speak lombard. If anyone want to help us, on Instagram you can find a page called *lengualombarda* that share grammar and lexicon of our fantastic language. Thank Nativlang, really💗💗💗
When I saw you put Catalan in your video about romance languages I was super excited, usually this language does not get mentioned a lot. Despite sharing traits with its closer neighbors like French and being heavily influenced by Spanish, it also resembles Portuguese and Italian. I'd love more videos comparing different romance languages and how they share linguistic properties.
I love how every video of yours gets me excited. You are the second reason I've continued learning languages, that and my natural curiosity keep me going. Hope to see as many videos as possible from you
I have special love for this channel and your work. Your outro music just takes me back to my earlier much more enthusiastic self about study of languages.
That section about your Dena'ina fan looks SO interesting!!! I would love a video on that, and Cmique Iitoom as well. Your videos on endangered languages of the Americas are super interesting and they do so much good as well!
A video on Italian dialects would be incredible! Especially Piedmontese ! As someone trying to keep in touch with their northern Italian/French heritage, learning more about the language of my grandparents would be invaluable, especially because I live in the U.K. and they are no longer with us.
I have to admit that I never really look at the comments section on your videos (because I usually watch them on my TV and you just don't have the option). But as a Paraguayan I was incredibly surprised to hear that you get requests to make a video about Guarani! And as an admirer, I would love to see that happen one day :-)
I really enjoy your videos. I particularily enjoy the ones in which you talk about the «evolution» of the languages and how they relate to each other, or how we can learn about ancient languages that no longer exist. Please, keep up the good work. It is very educational and interesting.
Thank you for so much for mentioning the language of my country Paraguay, we are pretty much isolated and unknown by the rest of south america, cheers!
Never noticed the pivoting with the word 'si' in Tagalog, especially considering I use it natively. It's interesting to see how the placement of it in relation to the subject changes how the past tense of a verb (in a VSO sentence) is formed. In your specific example, if 'si' comes before the subject, the infix (which I just learned via Google is the English term was what we learn in Filipino class as a _gitlapi_ ) used is '-um-' and the word 'kay' (in the case of a person or a named animal; not to be confused with the 'kay' that means 'of') or 'sa' (in the case of a non-human object) is placed before the object. If the pivot 'si' comes _after_ the subject and before the object, the infix '-in-' is used. Again, super interesting. Another thing to point out is the format "[part of verb]-in-[part of verb] ni/ng [subjectt] si/ang [object]" is most commonly used (so much so that it's practically de facto), especially when the object is a person. If the object is an event, it is more likely that the format used is "[part of verb]-um-[part of verb] si/ako/ang [subjectt] kay/sa [object]", specifically with 'sa' being used since the object isn't a person.
It's amazing how you've been able to spread the love of language to all your viewers and how they, in return, give you purpose and direction to continue learning and making the content we enjoy so much. Keep up the amazing work!
Thank you for putting so much into these videos. They really are special, important, and so so so nicely explained. You're awesome. You're helping a lot of people, myself included!
The ''ng'' with a tilde all over the digraph caused me to watch this. It is an obsolete letter that we once used to write our major languages in the Philippines during Spanish colonial era. It can also be written as ''ñg'', ''gn'', ''gñ'', or simply as the modern Filipino ''ng'' digraph.
Honestly, each and every one of your videos is instructive and super interesting. I'm quite the nerd and I looooooove languages, so when I came across your channel, of course I had to subscribe!
I wrote to you long ago about Dene-Yeniseian, although I was pointing out the connections they have to certain languages in Siberia. I didn't realize that there was a fascinating writing system associated with it. This is why your channel is the BEST! Anyways, I'm very happy to see it's still on the radar. Here's to more videos!
I love to hear about languages. NativLang and LangFocus are just great in covering the vast field of languages. There may be more. Your styles are different, but your content is wonderful.
Your videos are always a delight to watch., and I honestly don't know what I'd do without them, especially since it was them that taught me all that I know about languages and introduced me to other tongues I'd never thought about. It's also quite the joy to see they've helped a language in danger in Alaska, since I know about a language in my home region in such a position as well, the Kurbet Language. I hope I'll get to enjoy your videos for many years to come, thank you.
your channel is so diverse and so amazing! you mentioned the hmong language, it's so fascinating to me, and I'd love to learn more about it. I'm a native English speaker, but I'm also jicarilla apache, and i wish i could see more people talking about that language. you do a really good job of examining native languages, and I'd love to see your take on that one!
A video about the Arctic languages would be cool (hehe), like Aleut-Eskimoic languages, Athabaskan languages, Chukchi-Kamchatkan languages, Uralic languages.
I love the dedication! I apologize for my request as I know you won't be able to talk about it, but I find Celtic languages fascinating. Or maybe you've already done a video on it? I'll check
There's two that are really focused on the Celtics. There's "Irish Words Can Mutate!" on Irish Gaelic's phonological history and "The Other Z - why you mispronounce this Scottish letter" on Scottish Gaelic writing.
This is honestly one of the best and most genuine communities in CZcams. It's hard to find another niche community that is so open, friendly, and dedicated in support of the topic(s) they talk about. The passion for linguistics, history, language aquisition, geo politics et cetera is being kept alive and well here on CZcams.
I would love to see more about the Alaska Native peoples' languages, most especially Inungan (Aleut) and Yupiq (one of the Eskimo languages), tho' the Denaina and it's new written form is interesting. Also, when I worked at the US National Archives Alaska Office, I encountered Inungan, Yupic, Athabascan, and Inupiaq in Cyrillic. I don't speak any of them, but grew up exposed to all of them.
@Kadir Garip Alaska was a Russian colony before the US purchased it 1867; English as the lingua franca in Alaska only really took hold in the late 1800's. About 1/5th of the state are Russian Orthodox; about 1/20th of the state speaks Russian at home. Some villages were still using Russian in teaching everything but English until about 1986, when the state mandated at least half the day in English. A number of villages still have street signs in Cyrillic, but with English secondary labels. As for long vowels? Not an issue for most of them, and a long tradition in Cyrillic of reborrows from Greek for extra sounds and of using diacritics...
I remember when I moved to Wisconsin and was first put face to face with the Hmong language. I've learned a lot since then about the culture, but little about the language beyond the fact the alphabet looks whacky. You see it on every official notice here and plenty of my friends speak it casually. I'd love to see you do a video on it
This was adorable. I haven't messaged but I've been watching this channel for a long time and have recently started university with a double major in linguistics and anthropology, largely due to the passion you instilled in me. So, thank you. I hope you see this. All of your videos mean a lot to me.
Andrew Dunbar im very sorry do you mean Walliser deutsch or Valser deutsch cause thats a big difference lol. Both are nice though... i personally prefer walliser deutsch and can do it quite well too
Serbocroatian is just so beautiful with all its dialects, tones (formal and regional dialectal), infixes for verb formation etc etc. There's just so much to be told about it!
I'm a proud speaker of a dialect of lumbaart language, and the struggle to keep my language alive really makes my day. People of the world, don't let your languages be forgotten!
Slovakian can be interesting, because some people call it slavonic esperanto. I heard that from a Serbian, that after learning slovakian he could understand Bulgarian, which was impossible for him before learned Slovakian.
The best youtube videos are those can united people around the people and allowed them to share their love and laughter in the comment section keep doing the good work, I am very interested to see and learn more language around the world oh, and I love my Cantonese!
All you're videos are really interesting. I wish there were more like you on CZcams. Watching this video I feel glad you've talked about my language, Welsh, to an extent
Hey, I just want to say thanks for all the work you do on this channel. I found your channel late last year and it got me back into learning languages again. I'm working on Scottish Gaelic and I'm planning to learn Louisiana French (which is my great-grandfather's first language), and Hebrew, Irish, and others. I also got into making conlangs. For a while I'd given up on ever learning another language, let alone building my own, but your videos inspired me to keep working. Thanks so much!
Native Lombard speaker here, from Milan - it felt awesome that you even mentioned our language! We really do care about it. Milan actually also has the biggest Wenzhounese community outside of China, and even having studied Mandarin I can't understand it at all...
i am curious what u mean by finnish having grammar madness when i think it is very consistent everything can be explained u have probably understood something wrong like often i see claims finns have 1520 different words for dog well not any more than english if u just translate it to english by combining different prepositions to the word dog
Märten, I did not mean to offend you. I love the Finnish language and I love the utter consistency in both spelling to pronunciation, as well as cases and conjugation, etc. That is what makes it stand out so much, especially compared to the romantic/germanic languages. Minä puhun suomea ja minä ymmärän. But that mathematical strictness is, to me, beautiful and a little mad.
Chris Budde He already did a video about agglutination/vowel harmony in Hungarian. It would be treading the much of the same ground. The partitive case is pretty unique. Don’t know if he could make a whole video about it.
The partitive or OSANTO as it is in finnish is in finnish coz finnish has not a word THE so osanto does that so when Erika Vikman in her eurovision song Cicciolina sings VALTA it means THE power coz it is not in osanto while if in osanto it would be VALTAA with a long a in end and then it would not mean THE power but just power without a THE so MINULLA ON VALTAA means I HAVE POWER while MINULLA ON VALTA means I HAVE THE POWER which is what Erika sings tho adding the words TILANTEESSA AINA in middle of it meaning IN THE SITUATION ALWAYS
As someone who doesn't know anywhere near as much about language as I'd like (which still is nowhere near how much you've studied this stuff), I've always enjoyed all your videos, especially ones about languages that don't get discussed much on CZcams. Keep up the good work!
i’m pretty new on my language journey but as a part of my studies in psychology i take any chance i get to explore structure and how it works in our brains. my love for languages started with latin and how much it clicked with me and here i am now in university working on psycholinguistics alongside my primary focus on counseling. i hope to one day discover the languages of my ancestors and learn how to speak them, even if they’re totally dead and have spread out into others. this channel showed me that beauty in language doesn’t always come from order and divisions like i found in latin, but also the abnormalities and things that may not always make sense. i have a long list of languages to learn that hopefully will keep getting longer.
Sad to say I am a one language speaker, but I just love to listen to all of these wonderful words. And the little historical backgrounds tracing language permutations are great too. Thank you very much for your work!
Your dedication to the subject of language structures and history is amazing. I’m willing to stay subbed for over 70 years for you to finish that list.
EmperorTigerstar mate I just came here from your video and now you're here too
All hail the emperor!
When two of my favorite CZcamsrs comment on each other's videos:
Noice
This is unexpected.
Why do you keep coming up on videos I watch? I swear you're following me around!
Actually when I saw "language nods - meaningful messages" I thought it was going to be a video about the role of facial gestures in language!
I thought almost the same (I was thinking more hand gestures than facial ones lol)
Me too!
That would be a great suggestion for a NativLang video! :p
(Yes, that’s how I interpreted the title too)
A Slavic language series like your Romance language series would be amazing ❤️
It would, indeed 😁. However, making it would require a great deal of effort, as Josh’s expertise are the Romance languages, and his expertise in Slavic languages is not nearly as comprehensive.
I agree. Also maybe a bit on the politics of it? Lithuanians get really upset if you call their language "slavic", however I found Lithuanian grammar incredibly similar to Russian, so much so that I was allowed to skip a couple levels in my Lithuanian course just by making educated guesses about grammar rules based on my knowledge of Russian.
@Clara M Well, it belongs to a branch called ”Slavo-Baltic languages”, meaning that Slavic and Baltic languages are, indeed, very closely related genetically.
@@PC_Simo yes but I find it interesting that even my teachers, who were Lithuanian majors, rejected that connection 🤔
@Clara M Yep, there’s definitely some politics at work, there.
American native languages would be awesome. They deserve awareness too. It's great to know that some of them are already in your "schedule".
We absolutely need native languages, I think that some need to be taught in schools country wide though I think it would be hard to determine which ones get taught and how
"schedule"
Rafael the Cannibal ᏣᏔᎩ is a beautiful language
@@l1ttlelight I didn't know it. What language is it?
@@rafaelbrgnr cheerokee
Not only does he know human languages, but he also knows computer languages. Bravo
No promises any one of these languages won't get its own animated tale...
Which are new to you? Which interests you most?
Hi
A video on Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin would interest me most but that’s mostly because my parents are both from former Yugoslavia and it’s just nice to have content about something familiar to you like that
Have you ever done a video on signed languages? They still have grammatical rules and unique features. I'd love to see a video about how ASL came from France as well as Martha's vineyard sign language.
ASL also has a close grammatical structure to a few Eastern Asian languages. ASL is my second language and I find that because of the "topic comment" and the way the grammar is structured I've had an easier time grasping Korean!
I'm learning Moroccan Darija, and I would love to learn more about it! I also am from an area with a lot of Hmong speakers, and have always been very interested!
It would be awesome, if you studied some of czechs unique features, like dialectal variation in inflection and word order compared to the formal language (which is actually very outdated), the raised alveolar trill transcribed as Ř and other very interesting things
I'm one of those who use two scripts for one language, switching back an fort between Latin and Cyrillic when I write my native Serbian by hand.
Pozdravljen
Ax коме se то не deси 😅
In the old Tintin comic-books by Hergé, Tintin joins a mission to launch a rocket to the moon based in the fictional country of Syldavia, and to imitate Serbo-Corat they have roadsigns with both Latin and Cyrillic script! Of course it's a product of its time, and the rocket is one single solid thing rather than the stage-rockets we actually use.
I'm curious, how do you decide when to do which? Depending on whom you're communicating with?
@@Dracopol yes, of course the whell known Yugislav space program.
Maybe a video on onomatopoeia across different languages...
Yessss!!
Ohhhh yes!
Ideophones might be more interesting. They are like onomatopoeia for things that don’t necessarily make a sound. “Bling bling” is the only English example I can think of. Some languages like Japanese have loads of these.
We are already dead Fam oh definitely, phenomimes, psychomimes etc are very interesting, my native language has a lot of those too. A video on sound symbolism in general would be great.
Alex Lestrange I’m gonna have to google those. What’s your native language btw?
"cmiique iitom verbs have:
... person: first, second, third, fourth ..." - Fourth??
I believe fourth person would be approximant to English "one" e.g. "one goes to the river"
In the way i understand it, in finnish it's basically a way of denoting the passive voice, or being an unspecified agent. I guess you could also think of it being a person, not being talked to, that hasn't been introduced yet. But Idk.
The term "fourth person" is somewhat vague, and the exact meaning depends on the particular language in question. However, the most common linguistic usage of a fourth person is for the obviative. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obviative Obviation is a system of discerning one third person entity from a different third person entity in any given sentence or discourse. Think of it as being able to quickly and easily tell the difference between the two "he"s in a sentence like "he told him that he didn't see it."
@@Sovairu - That actually incredibly useful. In Norwegian we say "he met he other" with "he other" serving as a kind of obviate I presume, so I guess that sort of does the job. English can do something similar ("he met the other man"), but in a bit of a less universal and more roundabout way.
Do you ever just need to talk about someone, and someone-2?
I would love one on Guaraní. I live in Buenos Aires and there's a huge Paraguayan community here, so it's actually one of the many languages you can hear in the bus, in the streets and everywhere. I also have friends from Paraguay and they frequently mix it with Spanish, even on Twitter. =)
Even on paraguayan memes 😂
I heard the name ''Chavacano language'', and it brought me to joy and caused me bliss and delight.
Para oi el nombre de mi nativo lenguaje ya queda como igual na maga angel que ta canta na cielo para na mi oido.
Yes, the LangFocus channel (Paul) made a video about Chavacano and is structure.
czcams.com/video/CuLmlHo7Wrk/video.html
Your language is extremely similar to Spanish!! I understood your comment perfectly. Lo entendí perfectamente y sin saber de Chavacano
Anong klaseng chavacano sinasalita mo? de cavite o de zamboanga? gusto ko sanang matuto ng de cavite :(
NATIVE CHAVACANO SPEAKER - YOURE AWESOME
I'd love a video about Euskera. I'm from Spain and I know some people that speak it, but it's completely different from the other languages in the peninsula and no one knows where it comes from
I recall he's already made a video on that
just checked and he does not have a video about basque sorry for the confusion
I think Langfocus did. I've seen one, and the two channels are the only language nerd channels I watch.
@@needfoolthings yeah, Langfocus' is the one I remembered. I would love to watch Nativlang's take on it though
I wonder if we ever found an origin to the Basque. Some Say the Basque people are related to the Celtic people. I do not think Langfocus made a video.
Despite the subject, I absolutely loved the French tale regarding the ISIS letter, you made it really resonate with me as a native speaker of French. But I wouldn't mind a new video on French that is not about ISIS. :D
Congratulations from the States on your freedom from the E.U. wwg1
God bless!
@@5.56_Media I'm pretty sure France is still in the EU sadly. And I'm pretty sure the country will sink with the rest of the ship.
Yeah! More about French, but it is pretty based, centered in European culture. What unusual stories can we find about it?
We can mention why it's different from other Romance languages. Romans settled in many parts of Europe and continued to speak Latin, which drifted into different varieties. Gallo-Roman was spoken in what is now France, a blessed land ideal for agriculture. But then they were invaded by Germanic tribes such as the Franks, and there was a Frankish nobility above the Gallo-Roman people. Frankish became a PRESTIGE language and Gallo-Romans started to pronounce Latin words with nasty Germanic vowels. "Pura" ("clean, pure" in Latin) became pure in French, with the basic ü sound like in German. In this way 3 nasty Germanic vowels got introduced into French. The French and German spellings of each sound are: oe/ö, eu/(also ö but different) and u/ü. Nasal sounds also got introduced in French but not due to influence from any language but due to a nasalized clipping of the combinations an/en, in, on, and un into new sounds only found in certain spots such as Polish or Portuguese. These are all trouble for English-speakers to learn, and also for speakers of other Romance languages.
@@5.56_Media Don't talk about something you know nothing about. Europe is and will stay strong, and will continue to be improved. It is a completely new political system so it is very imperfect, but hopefully it will change.
@@Dracopol The thing with vowels is, I believe, slightly more complex. French initially had several different diphtongs and even a few triphtongs (the word beau is a good example of this), so it was very different from german. German had a lot of influence over consonants, however, like over r which became uvular.
a video about norn (the norse language once spoken in the northern isles of scotland) and its effect on the modern day dialect in the region would be really interesting
you mean norn?
Joozt Bakker
"Can you make a video about Norn?"
"You mean Norn?"
No, she meant Norn. Use your eyes.
there is a video of History with Hilbert already
shetlandic?
no norn
I feel a bit out of my element, because I have never heard of any of those languages.
I had not even given a simple thought to them just 10 minutes ago.
Even in my language (Swiss French), I would be unable to explain what it is that makes it the way it is.
It's one of those things I take for granted.
But the thing is, I'm curious.
And you my friend are dedicated and enthusiastic.
It spreads, it's contagious.
This makes any one of your videos feel like a candy, popping in my mind.
I discover new sounds, meanings, words and pictures.
It gets me addicted and more curious of what I am missing.
Please, go down those rabbit holes. Go over that list, make it grow.
Poke our minds over those languages, dialects and alphabet, continue your journey.
I'm happy to be a patron of yours, and I'll continue to rush to youtube on each of those notifications.
And I thank any of you out there that contribute to this channel.
As for your question, which one interests me the most ?
Like I said, I don't know them yet.
I still have to discover them.
Does Swiss French differ from metropolitan French as much as Swiss German differs from "standard" German?
Thierry, you and I are in the same boat on the sea of life although my native language is English. My second language is German. Before my experience with bacterial meningitis with two strokes I read French and Latin. I am curious about languages in general.
@@missano3856 Not really, no. There are a few words that are local to Switzerland (like "serpillère" (a mop) in France is called "panosse" in Swiss French, altough the "real" French word is understood.), but they are exceptions, not the norm.
Also, the Swiss French is the same anywhere in Switzerland, there are no regionalisms like in Swiss German, where the one spoken in Zurich and the one spoken in Chur sounds different.
@@tripy75 ADIEUUUUUUU !
As a speaker of Swiss French, I beg to differ. It has regional differences that are extremely small compared to those of Swiss German, but still significant enough to be able to tell where somebody is from. You can definitely tell people from Lausanne, Neuchâtel and Sion apart.
As moroccan, I was definitely not expecting Darija to show up here ! :D
Most people indeed don't realize that "dialects" of arabic can be *very* different from each other, as much as different romance languages differ. I would indeed love a video about it!
My ex-wife spoke Guarani, so I'm somewhat interested in that. But that WenZhou Devils Language, now that's intriguing.
@Federico Fernández El español fue difícil para mí. El guaraní era imposible.
Mi ex-esposa tiene un acento único. Algunas personas piensan que ella es de Europa.
dawkinsfan41 hay inmigrantes alemanes en Paraguay que aprenden Guaraní mucho antes que castellano.
@@rafx2014 Eso es interesante. ¿Me pregunto porque?
@@ambulocetusnatans Los extranjeros que formaron colonias en su mayoría se establecieron en lugares donde se hablaba más guaraní que español, como son los establecimientos rurales del interior de Paraguay y el Chaco, la necesidad de comunicarse les llevó a aprender más rápido el guaraní.
You had me at Purépecha! Twenty something years ago I spent Semana Santa in their area but even though I was into languages even then I wasn't aware of that people or their language at that time. A couple of years ago I was thinking of going specifically there. They've also been making guitars since the conquistadors first arrived. But in my years visiting Mexico I always find local people are shy of their indigenous languages. I've spent a lot of time in Zapotec areas and never heard it above a whisper. The same in Mayan areas. And I don't think I've even heard Nahuatl at all, though I did investigate its relative in Honduras years ago. One I was on a local bus I think somewhere in the Yucatan where a bunch of teenage schoolboys were speaking a local language loud and proud and later wish I'd asked them what language it was. It's easy to find locals proudly using their Mayan language around Lake Atitlan in Guatemala though. I was asking an orange juice lady to teach me words each day and I bought a dictionary direct from the publisher in the capital, but didn't find a teacher. There's another really fascinating language in the Americas, Garifuna. It's an Indian language spoken by black communities on the Caribbean coast. I found a dictionary somewhere and went to visit and the people were amazing but the sandflies forced me to leave!
For other parts of the world, have you done anything on Ainu? After many trips to Japan giving up on finding anything authentic of the Ainu people I met a famous Ainu artist and musician on my current trip and later stayed at the only Ainu guesthouse in the only town that has a majority Ainu population in the whole country. I attended a language class in the museum there but got the impression nobody present was a speaker despite huge amounts of interest. Learning languages is hard! Also in Asia, have you done anything on the aboriginal languages of Taiwan? It's not impossible to find speakers on the east coast and in the mountains, mostly old people. A couple of years ago I was at a rest stop on a highway in the northeast and one group of middle aged people were speaking a language I'm sure wasn't Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, or any other kind of Chinese. Again I regret being to shy to ask. But you also brought up Hmong! Did you see Laushu just did his first ever level up in Hmong by pure chance? It's interesting because it's the biggest independent Asian tonal language that doesn't have its own nation and is not related to the national languages. It's also pluricentric. But the way it's written in Latin script is actually pretty natural for how many Asian languages are taught natively with onset, rime, and tone. Zhuang writing is quite similar. Have you ever brought it up? It's the biggest minority language by far in China that's a "dialect" of Chinese, yet even when I go to the areas it's supposedly spoken I never meet any speakers. I have met speakers of Dai languages and even Buyi, the forgotten sister language of Zhuang though.
My favourite famous language that I have not yet tried to visit is Burushaski, spoken in the mountains of Pakistan not far from the Chinese border in one of several places that are often claimed to be the true Shangri La.
And you're right that you really should do a video on the Philippine funky split ergativity thing.
Have you even done anything on the outliers of European IE? For my money Lithuanian and Armenian. The former is the the most conservative of them all and even shows striking similarities to Sanskrit! The latter is maybe the most alienized, especially in its phonology and writing system.
That's enough for now. Keep it up! (-:
I think you're single-handedly trying to multiply the length of this ideas list through your many travels ;) Hah, much thanks for the message, for sharing your experiences - very good suggestions all!
4:49: In Milan dialect, we have "(ti) te gh'é" (or however that's spelled). In Romagnolo, "(tè) t'é" /tè tej/ (è for the "bet" vowel, that epsilon-like symbol).
Both languages are in the gallic-italic family. A video on lumbard would be awesome, it had such an interesting evolution, and tons of influences from France, Spain, and the rest of italy
A Comm al'è istèss
How has it survived? From what I've heard the dialects in the north aren't used as much as the southern ones (sicilian and napoletano are the main ones that come to mind) since it's more industrial up north
@@tonytomato100 Old people still speak it, and young ones learn tidbits, either from speakers or from songs. At least, that's true for me about Milan dialect (which tbh I can't tell apart from Brianza dialects), and as for Romagnolo, my father and his parents and many in his home town speak it, and those grandparents would always speak Romagnolo with dad, and struggled with Italian for quite a while. That's why I, despite living in Brianza most of the time, speak Romagnolo and not Milan/Brianza dialect. In fact, I developed my own spelling system for Romagnolo: michelegorini.blogspot.it/2017/09/sulla-mia-ortografia-del-dialetto.html (explanation of the system in Italian).
@@tonytomato100 meneghino (milan's dialect) is slowly dying, also because most people living in milan are from outside. But as you get near the alps, many variations survive (especially Como and Lecco for the western variety, but also Brianza, Bergamo and Brescia mantained it to some extent)
As a Turk mentioning the Turkish requests made me really happy.
@Adab Doost dude, this is α language channel not propoganda channel. Also nothing about Turkish is "barbaric". Even the word of "barbar" comes from berberi people. History saw α lots of conquest and forced change over New powerful civilizations. Greeks did the same to Eastern anatolia when Persians had the province. Persians did it when babylonians did own the land. Not just anatolia, it happens on tons of places in trough all history. No civilization is exception, they either did it or was victim of it. Turks faced the same fate against Mongolian tribes too. Don't do propoganda, be objective when it comes to history. Also please do not write comments that might start α comment war. Those are only fueled by anger. Anger is an enemy to humanity.
It also creates bad memories when you see UK in 1/3rd of the earth.... Can't help it. Can't call the language or people "savage".
We need a whole video about Turkic languages, not just Turkish. Please make it happen Josh
I'd like to see something about Australian Aboriginal languages, Noongar in particular since I'm from that country. Also Ojibwe type languages since I live up there now and the influence on English is interesting
His glottochronology video talks a bit about dyirbal
yes me too! australian indigenous languages have so many interesting and unique features!
Hi! I come from Milan, in Lombardy, the italian region where lombard is spoken. Thank you for the mention! Sadly, the language (or at least its western dialect) is dying in the big city and its surrounding towns, where young people only speak italian. In my family , for example, my grandparents used to speak lombard (milanese) 90% of the time, but my parents didn't really, and I understand most of it but hardly speak any. On my mother side, my great-grandparents didn't teach milanese to their daughters because back then they thought that it would have been a disadvantage, because it was too "popular", too "rural". So, we probably will be among the last generations able to understand milanese. It is sad, but inevitable, because Milan is a big city, with people coming from all backgrounds, other italian regions or other countries. Change is a part of life, and this is true of languages too. Who knows how they will speak in the next centuries! Now, we should try to preserve what we can and save it for future memory.
Lombard, by the way, is still spoken sometimes in the countryside, mainly by the elderly, and definitely more in the alpine valleys, in the italian-speaking Switzerland and in eastern Lombardy.
Stefstop the same thing happens to Venetian (but Venetian is Moro widely spoken) and others languages in Italy because at school we study that our languages are corruptions of Italian, but there are indipendent language with a lot of similarities
@@francescoscattolon9695 "It's all Italian" was something the originated in the Risorgimento because it was politically useful. Today it's really only Italian linguists who keep that line. Others recognise both a spectrum of Italian dialects and distinct languages.
I love hearing Léngoa Vèneto in Venice and Sicilianu in Sicily even though I can't understand them.
ey nice Wenzhounese got a shoutout, the Wu branch needs some love. Everyone seems to group everything into Shanghainese but there are many others. According to wikipedia, Suzhounese was the prestige forme before Shanghainese became more used due to Shanghai itself growing.
Stuff besides biographies and geographical information, are mostly incorrect on all levels on Wikipedia. I would not use it as a source that often. Most so called western Sinologists bunch everything in Wu as Shanghainese despite the fact that Wenzhounese and Shanghainese belong to the Wu family of Chinese dialects, they are similar but yet are not the same thing. I used to have classmates from college who were from Shanghai & Wenzhou so I know. There's still others in Wu. I have a supervisor from Wuxi. I used to see a doctor from Jiangsu. Jiangsu, Wuxi, etc... All of these dialects belong to Wu. There's also more like what's spoken in Ningbo, etc... Wu is a big group like Yue (Cantonese), Min (Fujianese) [divided into 5 subgroups by compass directions, such as Eastern Min, Northern Min, Central Min, Western Min and Southern Min(southern Min is popularly called Minnanyu or Hokkien, which is really the name of Fujian Province in southern Min/Minnan dialect/Minnanyu), caused by a miscommunication between asker & answerer] which are further subdivided based on the actual location of the cities, towns, districts or villages of where the subdialect is actually spoken. Hakka also belongs as a branch of Min. A tricky one is Teochew because the subdialect is spoken by people who originally settled in Guangdong province where most people spoke a form of Cantonese, but Teochew is a subdialect which like Hakka belongs to the Min branch. So people who are from Teochew can speak Teochew plus Cantonese plus the language of where their descendants later settled in. There‘s more of other Chinese dialects like Gan, Jin, Xiang, Mandarin, Ping, Huizhou, etc... but I can only give examples of what I know. I had a coworker who spoke Teochew, Cantonese, Mandarin and English. I also know someone else from Vietnam, of Teochew descent who speaks English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese and Teochew.] My hairdresser is from Guangxi. Guangxi dialect is actually vastly different from Cantonese despite Guangdong and Guangxi are next to each other and was almost always governed together by one court official despite both being different provinces. People from Guangxi can understand Cantonese but rarely speak it fluently nowadays. My hairdresser spoke to me in Cantonese after hearing me speak with my wife on the phone in Cantonese. If I spoke in Vietnamese instead she wouldn't have a clue what I had said. I speak to my wife in Mandarin, Cantonese, English and Vietnamese. I‘m studying Hokkien, a dialect spoken on my father‘s side of the family before my parents met. And also studying Vietnamese, the language of my birthplace.
Suzhounese is something I wasn’t able to learn very well. When I studied in Suzhou, I only heard it near Lindun lu, and towards tongli and muli. My teacher’s teacher spoke it. My fiancé though picked up words so as she learnt she was able to be understood by the dumpling sales lady by our home (exit 3 TuanJieqiao. We don’t live there anymore, but she has really nice pork baozi). The lady that sold them could never understand me
Suzhounese is often still used to represent the Wu branch of Chinese, as the more widely spoken Shanghainese has undergone major phonological simplifications and lost features that are still retained by other Wu varieties.
You should mention in your video about Guaraní that a large chunk of the Portuguese vocabulary is made of Tupi, a dead language from the same family as Guaraní and there is a modern descend called Nhengatu.
I ve heard the natives from Brasil speaking in their dialect and after a while a could understand a lot of words. Nhengatu (ñe'engatu) means somebody that speaks a lot.
It’s not a large chunk. It’s most in city names in Brazil and some words.
Aldo Lopez it’s probably local. I have never heard that word in my life but my family is from Minas so that might be it lol.
Austronesian triggers in the verbs of Tagalog and relatives
Speaking of the Philippines, an interesting topic to touch is the myth of the Spaniards not teaching the Spanish language to the Filipinos. Now, of course, if other former Spanish colonies were taught Spanish, the Philippines were given that same privilege too. But the Philippine variant of Spanish is more distinct than the rest of the Spanish speaking world that there's got to be some truth to that. Not to mention that it's even different from region to region. Like how Spanish seis is pronounced /saʔis/ in Tagalog with the glottal stop while in Cebuano it's /sajs/. Not to mention that the orthography is pretty whack. The island of Bohol is pronounced with an /h/ while the Spanish was used to pronounced a glottal stop. This sentence may already be too long for a CZcams comment but I'm just scratching the surface here. Hope you touch the topic somehow.
Akong gugma gikan dinhi sa Cebu 💖🇵🇭
I actually studied Hmong for a little over a year. The alphabet and spelling is actually one of the easiest, in my opinion. Once you know the basic rules, there are no surprises. And once you can read it, learning to pronounce a new word is very easy. I actually wrote a song about it on my channel years ago, though it was not an exhaustive explanation and the song is also very bad. I've since started learning Cebuano and Portuguese, but Hmong will always have a special place in my heart.
I'm a native speaker of Lombard, and I very like the fact you showed to the world our language, now 700 000 people know that Lombard is a Language and you have to know, some Lombard speakers say Lombard is only a Dialect of Italian, when it is a separate language, older than Italian, with German influences, and Italy didn't recognize It as a separate language.
I want to say another thing, Lombard is not a single language, is the union of a lot of dialect, I speak the Como dialect, that is similar to Milano's one, but if I go into the Pò valley, lombard became very different.
I very like Lombard, and I cry every time I see a Teenager like me thinking our language is an old people things and they don't speak it, or simply they can't speak lombard. If anyone want to help us, on Instagram you can find a page called *lengualombarda* that share grammar and lexicon of our fantastic language.
Thank Nativlang, really💗💗💗
Nice! Can you help me with Lombard?
@@ChefRafi Do you want to learn Lombard?
levil is yes. I want to make a beef chestnut stew using Lombard narration.
@@ChefRafi Intresting
When I saw you put Catalan in your video about romance languages I was super excited, usually this language does not get mentioned a lot. Despite sharing traits with its closer neighbors like French and being heavily influenced by Spanish, it also resembles Portuguese and Italian. I'd love more videos comparing different romance languages and how they share linguistic properties.
Wow, first day of lunar new year, and now a new video from Nativlang
I love how every video of yours gets me excited. You are the second reason I've continued learning languages, that and my natural curiosity keep me going. Hope to see as many videos as possible from you
I have special love for this channel and your work. Your outro music just takes me back to my earlier much more enthusiastic self about study of languages.
That section about your Dena'ina fan looks SO interesting!!! I would love a video on that, and Cmique Iitoom as well. Your videos on endangered languages of the Americas are super interesting and they do so much good as well!
A video on Italian dialects would be incredible! Especially Piedmontese ! As someone trying to keep in touch with their northern Italian/French heritage, learning more about the language of my grandparents would be invaluable, especially because I live in the U.K. and they are no longer with us.
Yes! My last video was in Piedmontese!
Easily one of the best series of videos on CZcams, in both content and presentation. Bravo!
Please don't ever stop making these videos! After watching your vids I always feel a lot smarter ...
I have to admit that I never really look at the comments section on your videos (because I usually watch them on my TV and you just don't have the option). But as a Paraguayan I was incredibly surprised to hear that you get requests to make a video about Guarani! And as an admirer, I would love to see that happen one day :-)
I really enjoy your videos. I particularily enjoy the ones in which you talk about the «evolution» of the languages and how they relate to each other, or how we can learn about ancient languages that no longer exist. Please, keep up the good work. It is very educational and interesting.
Thank you for including me Josh. What a cool video to be mentioned in and I hope to see a lot of these topics in the future. :)
So informative--and amazing. It seems like a miracle some of these ever got translated at all!
this is officially my favourite channel
Thank you for so much for mentioning the language of my country Paraguay, we are pretty much isolated and unknown by the rest of south america, cheers!
I love how positive all of this is - it's great to see cultures learning about each other in such a friendly way
I really liked the snippets about all these different languages in one video. Please make more with some of your other ideas!
Never noticed the pivoting with the word 'si' in Tagalog, especially considering I use it natively. It's interesting to see how the placement of it in relation to the subject changes how the past tense of a verb (in a VSO sentence) is formed. In your specific example, if 'si' comes before the subject, the infix (which I just learned via Google is the English term was what we learn in Filipino class as a _gitlapi_ ) used is '-um-' and the word 'kay' (in the case of a person or a named animal; not to be confused with the 'kay' that means 'of') or 'sa' (in the case of a non-human object) is placed before the object. If the pivot 'si' comes _after_ the subject and before the object, the infix '-in-' is used. Again, super interesting.
Another thing to point out is the format "[part of verb]-in-[part of verb] ni/ng [subjectt] si/ang [object]" is most commonly used (so much so that it's practically de facto), especially when the object is a person. If the object is an event, it is more likely that the format used is "[part of verb]-um-[part of verb] si/ako/ang [subjectt] kay/sa [object]", specifically with 'sa' being used since the object isn't a person.
Before, I've heard about guaraní, Hmong, Turkish, amazigh, the Filipino languages, and darijah, but I haven't heard of any of the others.
It's amazing how you've been able to spread the love of language to all your viewers and how they, in return, give you purpose and direction to continue learning and making the content we enjoy so much. Keep up the amazing work!
Thank you for putting so much into these videos. They really are special, important, and so so so nicely explained. You're awesome. You're helping a lot of people, myself included!
Ha ha, watching from Beograd 🇷🇸 (both in profuse use, even to half and half on the same poster, but with seperate meanings)
Поштовање. 😄🇷🇸
The ''ng'' with a tilde all over the digraph caused me to watch this. It is an obsolete letter that we once used to write our major languages in the Philippines during Spanish colonial era. It can also be written as ''ñg'', ''gn'', ''gñ'', or simply as the modern Filipino ''ng'' digraph.
Honestly, each and every one of your videos is instructive and super interesting. I'm quite the nerd and I looooooove languages, so when I came across your channel, of course I had to subscribe!
Thank you so much for all the amazing work you do! I think it’s clear how much this community you’ve created appreciate your videos :)
I can't wait for the video on the Philippine languages or at least on of them hehe keep up the good work!
5:36 CGP Grey?!
Joshua G.A thought the same, most likely
definitely
I wrote to you long ago about Dene-Yeniseian, although I was pointing out the connections they have to certain languages in Siberia. I didn't realize that there was a fascinating writing system associated with it. This is why your channel is the BEST! Anyways, I'm very happy to see it's still on the radar. Here's to more videos!
I love to hear about languages. NativLang and LangFocus are just great in covering the vast field of languages. There may be more. Your styles are different, but your content is wonderful.
A friend of mine found out that he has Guarani ancestry and is now learning the language in Brazil (where he is from).
Interesting. I made a video in Guarani recorded in Brazil!
"Nasal spreading" sounds like something completely different
Wind Turbine Spread your nose, your other holes are already in use..... that was cursed as hell
69th like, you're welcome.
Eu consigo cara, e minha língua materna não tem vocais nasais kkkkkk
@Wind Turbine Yeah. Especially with the pandemic going around.
Tes vidéos sont tellement parfaites et profondes. Elles nous touchent d'une façon que tu ne peux pas imaginer. Merci
I love linguistics and have for a long time prior to watching your channel. I just want to say thank you very much. It's very much appreciated.
As soon as I saw that picture, I thought, that has to be Paraguay!
Video about Baltic languages would be cool. And yeah keep doing great work!
There are 2 of them.
@@Languslangus Along with a few dead ones. Like Prussian.
Your videos are always a delight to watch., and I honestly don't know what I'd do without them, especially since it was them that taught me all that I know about languages and introduced me to other tongues I'd never thought about. It's also quite the joy to see they've helped a language in danger in Alaska, since I know about a language in my home region in such a position as well, the Kurbet Language. I hope I'll get to enjoy your videos for many years to come, thank you.
your channel is so diverse and so amazing! you mentioned the hmong language, it's so fascinating to me, and I'd love to learn more about it. I'm a native English speaker, but I'm also jicarilla apache, and i wish i could see more people talking about that language. you do a really good job of examining native languages, and I'd love to see your take on that one!
A video about the Arctic languages would be cool (hehe), like Aleut-Eskimoic languages, Athabaskan languages, Chukchi-Kamchatkan languages, Uralic languages.
I love the dedication!
I apologize for my request as I know you won't be able to talk about it, but I find Celtic languages fascinating.
Or maybe you've already done a video on it? I'll check
There's two that are really focused on the Celtics. There's "Irish Words Can Mutate!" on Irish Gaelic's phonological history and "The Other Z - why you mispronounce this Scottish letter" on Scottish Gaelic writing.
This is honestly one of the best and most genuine communities in CZcams. It's hard to find another niche community that is so open, friendly, and dedicated in support of the topic(s) they talk about.
The passion for linguistics, history, language aquisition, geo politics et cetera is being kept alive and well here on CZcams.
I love this channel. Looking forward to more videos.
I would love to see more about the Alaska Native peoples' languages, most especially Inungan (Aleut) and Yupiq (one of the Eskimo languages), tho' the Denaina and it's new written form is interesting.
Also, when I worked at the US National Archives Alaska Office, I encountered Inungan, Yupic, Athabascan, and Inupiaq in Cyrillic.
I don't speak any of them, but grew up exposed to all of them.
@Kadir Garip Alaska was a Russian colony before the US purchased it 1867; English as the lingua franca in Alaska only really took hold in the late 1800's. About 1/5th of the state are Russian Orthodox; about 1/20th of the state speaks Russian at home. Some villages were still using Russian in teaching everything but English until about 1986, when the state mandated at least half the day in English. A number of villages still have street signs in Cyrillic, but with English secondary labels.
As for long vowels? Not an issue for most of them, and a long tradition in Cyrillic of reborrows from Greek for extra sounds and of using diacritics...
I remember when I moved to Wisconsin and was first put face to face with the Hmong language. I've learned a lot since then about the culture, but little about the language beyond the fact the alphabet looks whacky. You see it on every official notice here and plenty of my friends speak it casually. I'd love to see you do a video on it
Definitely nice to see Hmong getting some attention. I'd love to know more about it.
Your videos just keep getting better!
This was adorable. I haven't messaged but I've been watching this channel for a long time and have recently started university with a double major in linguistics and anthropology, largely due to the passion you instilled in me. So, thank you. I hope you see this. All of your videos mean a lot to me.
I find my native language, swiss german, extremely interesting.
Especially Walserdeutsch! I can't make out a word of it, unlike elsewhere I've been in Switzerland (-:
Andrew Dunbar im very sorry do you mean Walliser deutsch or Valser deutsch cause thats a big difference lol. Both are nice though... i personally prefer walliser deutsch and can do it quite well too
@@schurch1569 Prbly this one en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walser_German
I wonder where the voiced "ch" comes from
Robert Andersson thanks i wasnt aware thats called that in high german...
This makes me so sad to think of all of the dying languages out there that I've never had the opportunity to even hear of..
Serbocroatian is just so beautiful with all its dialects, tones (formal and regional dialectal), infixes for verb formation etc etc. There's just so much to be told about it!
I'm a proud speaker of a dialect of lumbaart language, and the struggle to keep my language alive really makes my day. People of the world, don't let your languages be forgotten!
Slovakian would be an amazing language to talk about, since we have softened letters (č,š,ň,ť,ď,ž) and long letters (á,é,ú,ó,ŕ,ĺ)
How bout đ, ć ?
@@Languslangus Slovak ď is like Serbian đ, while Slovak ť is like Serbian ć (as far as I've heard)
Slovakian can be interesting, because some people call it slavonic esperanto. I heard that from a Serbian, that after learning slovakian he could understand Bulgarian, which was impossible for him before learned Slovakian.
@@Luka-iu1jx tehniclly speaking in slovak the sounds are c and ɟ and in serbocrotain they are t͡ɕ and d͡ʑ
I'm a simple man, i see Serb-Cro, i like
Croatian is not a language. There is only 1 language.
Langus langus He said that, moron
The best youtube videos are those can united people around the people and allowed them to share their love and laughter in the comment section
keep doing the good work, I am very interested to see and learn more language around the world
oh, and I love my Cantonese!
All you're videos are really interesting. I wish there were more like you on CZcams. Watching this video I feel glad you've talked about my language, Welsh, to an extent
Quechua
I wish I knew my language ☹️
No love for the language of the best crustacean, the lobster.
Ogzlazlorzg!
I look forward to another 12 years of content, keep up the good work!
Hey, I just want to say thanks for all the work you do on this channel. I found your channel late last year and it got me back into learning languages again. I'm working on Scottish Gaelic and I'm planning to learn Louisiana French (which is my great-grandfather's first language), and Hebrew, Irish, and others. I also got into making conlangs. For a while I'd given up on ever learning another language, let alone building my own, but your videos inspired me to keep working. Thanks so much!
How about Vietnamese? I haven’t seen any language channels made a video about it before. No one seems to be interested in it
To answer your last question: I know none of them.
But one quick question to you:
How many languages have a dialect dictionary?
@Afrodisiac www.idiotikon.ch/woerterbuch/idiotikon-digital
The problem: it's like the BER, unless...these guys are making progress ;-)
Native Lombard speaker here, from Milan - it felt awesome that you even mentioned our language! We really do care about it. Milan actually also has the biggest Wenzhounese community outside of China, and even having studied Mandarin I can't understand it at all...
One of the best youtubers ever in terms of quality and dedication.
Hey! Greetings from the Philippines! If you're ever going to make that vid, maybe I could help!
count me in :D we not-so-experts just need some expertise on finding our history, because barely anyone finds it interesting.
Would love a video about the Philippines as well!
We need a Filipino NativLang video
No Finnish with its grammar madness? What about Sámi languages?
i am curious what u mean by finnish having grammar madness when i think it is very consistent everything can be explained u have probably understood something wrong like often i see claims finns have 1520 different words for dog well not any more than english if u just translate it to english by combining different prepositions to the word dog
Märten, I did not mean to offend you. I love the Finnish language and I love the utter consistency in both spelling to pronunciation, as well as cases and conjugation, etc. That is what makes it stand out so much, especially compared to the romantic/germanic languages. Minä puhun suomea ja minä ymmärän. But that mathematical strictness is, to me, beautiful and a little mad.
Chris Budde He already did a video about agglutination/vowel harmony in Hungarian. It would be treading the much of the same ground. The partitive case is pretty unique. Don’t know if he could make a whole video about it.
The partitive or OSANTO as it is in finnish is in finnish coz finnish has not a word THE so osanto does that so when Erika Vikman in her eurovision song Cicciolina sings VALTA it means THE power coz it is not in osanto while if in osanto it would be VALTAA with a long a in end and then it would not mean THE power but just power without a THE so MINULLA ON VALTAA means I HAVE POWER while MINULLA ON VALTA means I HAVE THE POWER which is what Erika sings tho adding the words TILANTEESSA AINA in middle of it meaning IN THE SITUATION ALWAYS
congrats on 1 mil 🎉🎉🎉
Aw! What a sweet video. I love how your passion just leaps off the screen!
Albanian
Not a single african language mentioned 😞😞
As someone who doesn't know anywhere near as much about language as I'd like (which still is nowhere near how much you've studied this stuff), I've always enjoyed all your videos, especially ones about languages that don't get discussed much on CZcams. Keep up the good work!
Soooo you're telling me that for 40 years we would get a new video from time to time from you? Sounds like an absolut win for me.
I'm a settler in Dena'ina Ełnena and I'm familiar with Argent Kvasnikoff's Qena Sint'isis, and I was overjoyed when you mentioned it
i’m pretty new on my language journey but as a part of my studies in psychology i take any chance i get to explore structure and how it works in our brains. my love for languages started with latin and how much it clicked with me and here i am now in university working on psycholinguistics alongside my primary focus on counseling. i hope to one day discover the languages of my ancestors and learn how to speak them, even if they’re totally dead and have spread out into others. this channel showed me that beauty in language doesn’t always come from order and divisions like i found in latin, but also the abnormalities and things that may not always make sense. i have a long list of languages to learn that hopefully will keep getting longer.
Really appreciate your effort and work.
Sad to say I am a one language speaker, but I just love to listen to all of these wonderful words. And the little historical backgrounds tracing language permutations are great too. Thank you very much for your work!