Shalom! I hope everyone enjoyed the video! Sorry for the delay, I've had a plethora of problems that have delayed the production, editing and upload of this video. Nonetheless, it is here now. Enjoy!

@AvrahamYairStern

9 ай бұрын

No problem, as long as we get a good quality video, i don't mind it being late

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

@@AvrahamYairStern Great! I hope this video delivered well

@AvrahamYairStern

9 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages it certainly did, thank you for the video!

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

@@AvrahamYairStern you are welcome

@chimera9818

9 ай бұрын

There is also grozinik language (language of the Jewish community by the same name)

A little fun fact about Mingrelian, some Linguists believe that the Mingrelian and its Sister Language Laz are in fact two distinct Dialects of a single Zan Language. And BTW Colchians as well as their Kingdom of Colchis in wich Jason stole the Golden Fur from are direct ancestors of Megrels and Lazs.

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

You're right! They're very closely related and mutually intelligible, basically dialects of each other. Also yeah, you're right about the Colchians, though there are some disputes if maybe they were Abkhazians

@ylmazirdenyazc8393

7 ай бұрын

​@@CheLanguages Your videos are a Gem, cant wait to hear about my Native Language Laz too.

Fun fact, the Svan language has no swear words at all. The insults mostly look like this: "You're lazy", "You're impolite." or just curses in general in the literal sense. This means that Svan people have to use Russian or Georgian if they really want to swear, and that's kind of rare.

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

HAHA I didn't know that! It reminds me of Japanese, that is SOOOO polite that the worst thing you can say (at least in the "proper" native language) is a really direct 'YOU!'

@ari3903

9 ай бұрын

​@@CheLanguages Yeah, but the curses in Svaneti are really something else. I've got a village there, they take those curses seriously. They hardly ever use them unless someone's done something truly unforgivable. My grandma once cursed someone, and that guy almost never left his house after that. But besides that, they are some of the nicest people I've ever met.

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

@@ari3903 That's interesting how seriously they take that. Mediaeval Western Europe used to be quite similar, insulting someone was a case of life or death as your honor depended on it

@christopherellis2663

7 ай бұрын

This stems from a period of intense vendetta when someone offended someone else. It was decided to avoid the possibility of further upset.

I've been waiting for this for ages! Awesome!

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

Enjoy! Which language is your favorite?

@AvrahamYairStern

9 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages Circassians are always cool, so probably Adyghe

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

@@AvrahamYairStern I agree

So I was suprized to find that Chechen was a Caucasian language! I always, wrongly, assumed it was Turkic due to the fact that they are muslims! You learn something new every day it seems

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

I used to think the same thing! Until I heard it, as like I said, it's got a unique sound to it that I've not found with any other language, I can't really explain it...

@bikelive9620

9 ай бұрын

Chechen self-name Nokhchi.. The are not Turks. Kumyk Turks live in the Chechen Republic, there are also in North Ossetia.. Most of the Kumyks live in Dagestan. In the North Caucasus and Dagestan, the Kumyk language (Turkic) was "lingua franca" until 1930, the Interethnic language of communication instead of the Russian language, until Soviet power cam. In the North Caucasus in Dagestan, the Kumyk had a state.

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

@@bikelive9620 I talked about Kumyk in my last video

@facoulac

9 ай бұрын

Same here honestly!

as always great vid, adyghe double diaspra is mad interesting

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

It definitely is! I wonder how many other double diasporas exist. Some of the Jewish diaspora communities in the US for example are double diasporas because some of so large that they are "Lithuanian Jews", "Judeo-Greeks", "Russian Jews" etc.

Great to see you back. Great video. Mingrelian is my favorite, but all of these languages interest me.

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

That's great to hear! Hopefully I'll be back for a little longer, but I will be going away again soon. I'll try and fit a video in before then

Great topic! You could probably make dozens of videos just about the Caucasian languages, given how linguistically rich and little known (to most) the region is. Fun fact about Chechen and other Northeastern Caucasian langages: there is a hypothesis linking them with the extinct Hurro-Urartian family of the ancient Near East.

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

I have heard that fact before! I'm not sure what I think about it though. There's also an hypothesis linking Basque with the Caucasian languages (not sure which family). I'm glad you enjoyed the video, and I definitely will have to talk about more of them!

As far as I know, Circassians did not write anything in their own languages before the 19th century. Even the Burji Mamluks, who were ethnically Circassians, produced handiworks from Turkic languages ​​of Oghuz and Kipchak.

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

Ah, the Circassian Mamluks, with the Sus flag... There is an official orthography for Circassian languages with Arabic script, how widely used it was we can't really say as a lot about Circassian history, culture and language was destroyed by the Russians. It's true that they used Turkic languages, as I mentioned in my previous video, Kumyk was a lingua franca of the Caucasus spreading even into Circassia.

There is even an Adyghe community is. Wayne, New Jersey , with several. thousand people . But the younger Circassians appear to have been thoroughly Americanized and do not speak their ancestral language unfortunately .

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

How fascinating! It is a shame when they become Americanized though, the same fate has happened to too many of my people...

@napoleonfeanor

5 ай бұрын

It's not bad. It's America and the country with its maaany ethnic groups only works through cultural Americanisation. Without that, old conflicts would rise again.

Shalom! welcome back, bro some ideia for next Forgotten Germanic language: Wymysorys, Gottscheerish, Alsatian,Sorbian languages (Wendish)

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

Shalom! First of all, I've already spoken about Wymysorys in 3 Forgotten Germanic Languages: Part 2, and about both Sorbian languages in 3 Forgotten Slavic Languages: Part 2 (Sorbian languages are Slavic, they're just located in Germany).

@alexBumann

9 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguageswhat about Alsatian , German dialect spoken in France , the is east Pomeranian dialect too - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Pomeranian_dialect

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

@@alexBumann Alsatian is definitely a consideration, I want to talk about some of the Germanic languages outside of Europe next time a bit more too

@alexBumann

9 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages you have 2 in Brasil , Hunsrückisch ando East Pomeranian dialect and in 🇺🇸 like Pennsylvania Dutch , Texas German and several low German

Many Georgians count Mingrelians, Lazes and Svans as Georgian subgroups despite that Georgian being mutually unintelligible with them.

@ari3903

9 ай бұрын

No, we Georgians consider Mingrelian, Laz and Georgian to be Kartvelian languages, not Georgian sub-groups. Just like how Italian, French, Spanish and so on are considered Romance languages. They all use the same alphabet and have similar words, as you would expect from a language family. Though, we consider Mingrelians, Lazes and Svans to be Georgians in terms of culture, as evidenced by history, traditions, and even architecture.

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

They are distinct, but that still doesn't mean they are not related of course. I think Georgia should exist more as a federation called "Kartvelia" where Mingrelians, Lazes, Svans and Georgians have their own autonomous regions but they are all one country. And yes, that does mean returning Turkic lands to the Kartvelians, sorry!

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

@@ari3903 Good to know thank you! What do you think about my Kartvelia idea (see comment above). Also did you understand the Mingrelian text?

@ari3903

9 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages "Kartvelia" is actually closer to our country's true name than "Georgia" since the native name is "Sakartvelo," which roughly translates to "For Kartvelians." So, you're on the right track. As for the idea of a federation, while I get the reasoning behind it, I don't think this situation calls for self-governance. Considering the small size of our nation, a centralized state might be better equipped to protect and promote these amazing cultures. I can read Mingrelian text because it mostly uses the same letters as our current Mkhedruli writing system, and I can recognize some words. However, my understanding is limited. On the other hand, my mother can probably understand it well since she can speak the language. I am Svan, but having been born and raised in a city, Georgian is the only Kartvelian language I speak fluently. My relatives in the village often make jokes about it, teasing me for learning English and Spanish before fully grasping Svan. It's all light-hearted of course.

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

@@ari3903 I plan on talking about Svan next time, so if you could help me with anything that would be great. I know the name Sakartvelo I used. I have a problem with centralized states accidentally wiping out minority languages which is why I have the idea for the Kartvelian Federation, it would also include the Laz people too, but that might be far-fetched considering the already existing territorial disputes, Georgia doesn't need any more!

Nice video

@CheLanguages

8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Nice video, i think back when georgia was a bunch of smaller states the western states spoke mingrelian and the eastern ones spoke georgian, im not sure though

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

Mingrelia itself did, the rest spoke a mixture if whatever, Laz, Svan, Georgian, and also Abkhaz and Ossetian, though not part of Kartvelian, have always been part of Georgia even back when it was a loose connection of states

@anzorunono4967

9 ай бұрын

@CheLanguages happy to see people who know some history of my country :DDD

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

@@anzorunono4967 I love Georgia! I'm actually planning on visiting sometime soon, but I want to know more about the history and culture first and also how potentially safe/dangerous it might be (considering the 2008 conflict). I've been learning a lot more and I even made Khachapuri last night!

I am trying to learn Adyghe and Chechen but they are very difficult especially Adyghe and there unfortunately isn't much media in these languages. i can't just watch a movie in Adyghe or even in Chechen. so i am not making much progress i will probably never be able to speak them well Chechen could be useful to me in real life since there are some Chechen people living in my region.

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

Hey, you could always watch Chechen media if you don't mind the blatant Russian propaganda! Aside from Kadyrov, I'm sure there are still plenty of resources, but like you say it's not as simple as watching a movie in Chechen. The same goes for Adyghe but I believe they do have a lot of resources online because of Circassian revivalist movements. Good luck learning those languages and don't give up!

@belstar1128

9 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages Yea a lot of the resources for these languages are in Russian .i have been learning Russian for 5 years but it can still be confusing to me.

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

@@belstar1128 that's impressive that you can use materials not from your native language to learn another, I have tried that myself and it's difficult (I tried learning Biblical Aramaic from Biblical Hebrew, I only speak Modern Hebrew but was still able to get quite far with it considering that), I encourage you to keep going as I'm sure it will be a useful experience!

Cool video

@CheLanguages

8 ай бұрын

Thank you

Hey Che are you familiar with the indo-European language called Zazaki or Zazaca. We moved from northern iran (near the caspian) to a specific place in eastern Turkey called Dersim around 800 years ago. Our language has been relatively well preserved but it’s dying out.

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

Yes, I talked about it before! Check out 3 Forgotten Indo-Aryan Languages!

@edboss36

9 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages I just saw it hahahaha. Thanks man

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

@@edboss36 you are welcome!

@ylmazirdenyazc8393

7 ай бұрын

As a Laz may our Languages live long and well.

@edboss36

7 ай бұрын

@@ylmazirdenyazc8393 nerelisin

Just found this channel, i love it

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad to hear it, I've got tons of videos you might like. Are you from the Republic of China?

@Juoa771

5 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages no, i just support ROC. I'am from Czechia🇨🇿 But i like your videos really much!

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Did you see my video on language isolates and what I did with the ROC there? I love Czechia, I'm hoping to visit next year!@@Juoa771

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

thank you for the support@@Juoa771

@Juoa771

5 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages i havent but i'll see! Linguistics on top!

How many unique scripts are used in the Caucasus?

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

Georgian can he written in 3 scripts, the main one that is used today is Mkhedruli. The other two aren't used snymore except in the Georgian church where one is still used. There is of course the Armenian script, the Latin script used in Azerbaijan, Cyrillic and Arabic scripts which are widespread across the rest of the Caucasus. Mongol script is also rarely used for the Kalmyk language in the North Capsian, but you could still class that as Caucasus I guess. And don't forget Caucasian Greek! It's usually written in Cyrillic, but sometimes also in the Greek script!

Return of the king. Edit: yes i now know that there are 2 other videos. They got barried in the sea of notifications i get...

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

חזרתו של מלך השפות

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

Ah I see, do you have notifications enabled for this channel?

@Rabid_Nationalist

9 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages yeah. I just have so much that sometimes some just dont send. KZread is drunk...

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

@@Rabid_Nationalist the algorithm is annoying sometimes, it definitely explains where all my views are going these days...

Thank you

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

You are welcome!

I find the Caucasus languages fascinating, especially the fact they've survived and thrived for millennia while being surrounded by Indo-European, Afro-Asiatic, and Turkic languages and invaders. I also think the Mkhedruli is the world's most beautiful alphabet! An interesting linguistic fact is that the phonological features that are common in the Caucasus - lots of glottalized, labialized, and pharyngealized stops, and a very large number of stops/affricates overall - reappears in the Pacific Northwest region of North America, where the US and Canada reach the Pacific. There, languages of the Salishan, Wakashan, Chimakuan, Penutian, Kutenai, Haida, and Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit groups tend to share a lot of these same phonological features. Especially the presence of pharyngeal phonemes in many of the Salishan and Wakashan languages is a very rare feature, being common only in the Middle East/North Africa/Caucasus region, and here. I think the presence of two regions with these similar phonologies is coincidental, but it is a really neat coincidence nonetheless.

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

The fun fact you mentioned actually has a theory that is not very widely accepted called the Dene-Yeneseian language family, but it's unlikely

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

I also find it amazing how they've managed to survive all of this time!

@napoleonfeanor

5 ай бұрын

The reason they survived is the terrain of the caucasus mountains

Make one on the Mongolic and Tungusic language's!

@CheLanguages

6 ай бұрын

I'm hoping to someday!

@babyshela2703

6 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages hope that day comes soon! :)

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

@@babyshela2703 it might be sooner now. Check out my most recent video if you're interested in Altaic

@babyshela2703

4 ай бұрын

Will do.@@CheLanguages

@CheLanguages

4 ай бұрын

awesome @@babyshela2703

I thought Ingush was going to be on this list but i was wrong.

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

It's closely related to Chechen so almost! Maybe next time

@loadingbmode7617

9 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguagesok cool

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

@@loadingbmode7617 yes

No Russian vid?

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

2 OF THESE LANGUAGES ARE IN RUSSIA!!!!

Where are you brother i miss you

@CheLanguages

6 ай бұрын

There's kinda a war rn

Shout-out to the Adyghes and Chechens - I hope someday you'll get to have your own independent countries recognized by the world

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

All Circassians should get their state, not just the Adyghes. At least Chechens and Adyghes (and Karbadian Circassians) have their own federal republics.

@aaronmarks9366

9 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages Wholly agree!

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

@@aaronmarks9366 Awesome! Would you also be in favor of including the Abkhazians into a modern Circassian homeland?

@napoleonfeanor

5 ай бұрын

I think every peoples should have the option of at least autonomy over culture and language. Chechnya has a huge degree of autonomy. It basically is a country whose leader swore loyalty to the Russian one. However, Kadyrov is a terrible person, even by the standards of the Russian federation. Lots of Russians and also other minority republics don't like the situation.

Kavkaz 💪🏼 Polska

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

💪🏼

Сэлам изох си адыгэ къуэшхэм Федеративнэ Республикэ Адыгея щыпсохэм. Псори ды зыщ, псори ды шэрджэсщ! Урысейхэращ мыпхуэдэ гуэшэныгъэ зыщӀыр. Псори ды шэрджэсщ ди бзэхэр ауэ сытми псалъэкӀэуращ

@CheLanguages

8 ай бұрын

Interesting. Free Circassia!

@tecnein

8 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages, Free Circassia! I have nothing against the Russians, but knowing the history, how they staged the genocide of the Circassians, my ancestors and the fact that my native language is dying, the desire for a free Circassia increases

Kavkaz

@CheLanguages

7 ай бұрын

Kavkaz 🇬🇪💪🏼

These all still exist, what do you mean by forgotten?

@CheLanguages

4 ай бұрын

I mean lesser-known or not talked about

@FartheodoreFartovelt

4 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages Alright, nice video!

@CheLanguages

3 ай бұрын

thanks!@@FartheodoreFartovelt

Cool langs

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

Cool langs indeed

The Adyghe communities in the land of Israel migrated during the era of the Ottoman Empire to Palestine. They were eventually naturalized into Israel. Also Soviet genocide? That’s not true. The Republic of Adygea was founded by the Soviets in 1922. They had no formal recognition in the Russian Empire.

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

That's absolutely right, it's still really interesting that they're there. There are also many Adyghes in Jordan. Yes, the Soviets did set up most of the Federal Republics we see today, or their predecessors, but they also implemented "soft genocides" throughout their empire where they tried to either wipe out minority languages or assimilate them. Most of the ethnic Russians in the Caucasus emigrated as a result of Soviet policies (though there were indeed many before the USSR) and there's a reason Russian became the lingua franca of the Caucasus and that all the minority languages are now written in Cyrillic. Before in the Russian Empire, Arabic script was still used and the lingua franca of the Caucasus was Kumyk, a Turkic language I spoke about in my last video. The USSR also sent settlers into strategic regions, for example, the entire coastline of Abkhazia was only permitted for Russian settlement and Abkhaz people were forced to relocate to the mountains of little value. Although this policy no longer stands, 95% of the people living on the coast in Abkhazia are ethnic Russians.

common Che Languages W

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

What do you think of Romance languages? I personally don´t care for them execpt for French and Portuguese. Spanish sounds like complete gibberish. Romanian sounds like a Slavic language. Italian exaggerates way too much. Catalan has the same gibberish problem as Spanish.

@ari3903

9 ай бұрын

Romanian is the closest language to Latin if you don't count Sardu.

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

@@ari3903 No, Italian is closer, but Romanian is still pretty close as it preserved some ancient features that aren't present in other Romance languages such as having a neuter gender. Sadly it's been too influenced by Slavic languages these days

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

Well, I'm pretty much the opposite of you there, I HATE FRENCH!!!!!!!!!!!! Portuguese is nice though, I prefer European Portuguese but both are beautiful languages. Italian is my favorite "mainstream" Romance language, I know what you mean by it exaggerates, but it's very expressive, melodic, romantic (the other meaning of Romance LOL), beautiful and artistic to me. Spanish is very fast but has it's own nice qualities too. Romanian isn't that great, but sounds like less of a Slavic language than Portuguese tbh, but has too much Slavic influence in it nonetheless. Catalan I've never really liked (incoming angry Catalonians). Latin is obviously the best of them all, but sadly not natively spoken (yet?). Some of the regional languages in Italia like Sardu, Napulitano, Sicilianu and Veneto are actually some of my favorites, and of course the very underrated Italo-Dalmatian languages. Overall, when I first got into language learning, the Romance languages were my favorite languages in the world, however they now take a more backwards position. They are still my favorite branch of the Indo-European language family, but as I've learnt a lot more about other languages across the world, I've gained a greater appreciation for other language families. I've grown to like Slavic languages quite a bit (still IE I know), recently I've really gotten into Turkic languages though I am not studying one, I just love the sound of them. My favorite languages in the world are the Semitic languages, and as a Hebrew speaker that might make sense, but also Aramaic (all the different varieties) interests me, and I love seeing similarities between Hebrew and Arabic languages. Caucasian languages (of all three families) I have gained a great appreciation of too.

what's the (ǯ) phoneme? I can't find it

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

It's not a phoneme, it's just used for transliteration. Apparently it just represents /dʒ/

@marcvs2916

9 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages I think it was a rare phoneme Well it's the Caucasus

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

@@marcvs2916 there's plenty of rare phonemes in the Caucasus!

@Hiljaa_

5 ай бұрын

If you were to for some reason count it as a phoneme i guess it *could* be a syllabic voiced postalveolar fricative with a fall-rise tone but thats a stretch