Which of these languages is your favorite and what would you like to see next time?

@AvrahamYairStern

Жыл бұрын

Luxembourgish seems cool, I didn't know much about it before

@ThiccPhoenix

Жыл бұрын

Could you do forgotten Semitic languages. I only know about Hebrew 🇮🇱 and Arabic 🇸🇦 but I’d love to know about more!

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@AvrahamYairStern That's cool, I'm glad you learnt something!

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@ThiccPhoenix I'm definitely planning on it!

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@Plopi96ILuvPigeons Soqotri is definitely an interesting one I will talk about

Both of my parents were Scottish, and were born in the 1920s. My dad was from north east Scotland, grew up speaking Scots, and learned English in school. My mum was from the highlands, where people had only stopped speaking Gaelic one or two generations before, and spoke English with a highland accent. She once said that when she first met his family, she couldn't understand them when they were talking amongst themselves.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for telling me this anecdote, it's super interesting how despite speaking the same language more or less, it can be so different at times depending from where you're from in your own country. Super fascinating!

Scots, hands down. So beautiful to hear it spoken, in any variety.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

It is very poetic as a language I find

@scavengerethic

Жыл бұрын

"I'm not a Scots speaker but I thought I'd have a go". But I agree it *would have been* lovely to hear it spoken ;)

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@scavengerethic LOL, I kinda regret that now because I can't annunciate in the same beautiful way a Scots speaker can

Can't wait for Forgotten Slavic languages 3

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Coming soon don't worry!

History from Hilbert is a Frisian speaker living in the UK. He is extremely proud of being Frisian and is a speaker and student of ancient Germanic languages.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

I am aware. He speaks West Frisian too

@tylersmith3139

Ай бұрын

He speaks West Frisian though. North Frisian is a closely related, but still different language. I don't think it's mutually intelligible.

11:54 Here is a West-Frisian translation so people can compare for themselves: "Alle minsken wurde frij en gelyk yn weardichheid en rjochten berne. Se binne begiftigd mei ferstân en gewisse, en moatte hannelje tsjin inoar yn in geast fan bruorskip." For me as a West-Frisian speaker what you presented here was quite comprehensible despite some words being a bit different.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

That's really good to know thank you!

Scots is certainly on my to learn list, along with Scottish Gaelic.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Scots is easy at least, good luck with the Gaelic!

Luxembourgish is very interesting, because it sounds like a rhine land dialect (mosel-francionian), but with many more french loan words. I can understand it quite good, not everything, but good! ;)

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

It seems to he a mishmash of languages, much like Luxembourg in culture. Apparently only 50.1% of Luxembourgers are native, most of their population come from France, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and believe it or not, Portugal!

After watching this and your video on Scottish Independence, I'm really starting to like Scots now!

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you do! That's awesome

@stephentaylor2119

11 ай бұрын

Except the majority of Scots want to remain British.

I didn't even know North Frisian existed, so cool!

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

It's so underrated!

@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewicz991

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages for real

I can't wait to watch this! So early

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

I hope you will enjoy!

@AvrahamYairStern

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages I did! Awesome video

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@AvrahamYairStern great to hear!

Saul's brief apperance nearly killed me. That being said, Scots.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

"That's why I fight for you Edinburgh, Scotland!"

During my trip there, I was thankful that everyone in Luxembourg could speak at least 3 languages (German, French and English) because those g's look intimidating!

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

LOL, yeah there's a lot of languages there, surprisingly, one of their most spoken languages is Portuguese

Super cool video, as always! BTW History with Hilbert just uploaded a new video: "Who were the Olęders? | Dutch Colonies in Poland? (1547-1945)" and talked in it about a specific Germanic dialect called Plautdietsch or Mennonite Low German, with a very interesting history.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

I saw it uploaded but haven't had the chance to watch it yet. And I'm glad you enjoyed the video!

Awesome! Part 4 please!

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Don't worry, it will come

@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewicz991

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages yay

@Meftu

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages Nice

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@Meftu nice indeed

All three of these languages are great, I loved the video as always!

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Always appreciate more germanic languages!!

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed the video!

This is a very interesting video. Thank you.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed the video as always Gazoontight

it's really funny when i'm watching an educational video and then out of nowhere a shitpost just figuratively smacks me in the face lol

@CheLanguages

11 ай бұрын

I'm glad somebody appreciates my humor! Which sh🇧🇷tpost was it in this video?

If I lived around Scots speakers I could easily pick it up. I can understand about 70-80% of it as it is (in its written form)

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

It's one of those cases where written and spoken forms can be difficult to discern between. If you read it in a strong Scottish accent it makes it easier

That luxembourgish is FUNKY, I had no idea they had their own brand of german!

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

It's quite different from German too I've heard because it's more like Plattdeutsch

@dan74695

7 ай бұрын

⁠@@CheLanguages It's mutually intelligible with other Moselle Franconian dialects. Also, it's a form of High German, like standard German; though the High German consonant shift hasn't happened in some words, like "wat" and "dat".

As someone who speaks West-Frisian I have no clue what the last three words of the sentences mean. The rest is quite easily understandable in each accent, though I can imagine it would be a lot harder to understand when speaking.

@CheLanguages

26 күн бұрын

Ah interesting, it shows they're quite different languages then

Ulster Scots itself is sometimes also considered a separate language from both Scots and English. It sometimes has the nickname “Ullans”.

@CheLanguages

11 ай бұрын

Yes that is true, and I intend to talk about it in more detail another time

@CheLanguages

11 ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment!

The letter g has got to be the most interesting letter in the germanic languages.

@CheLanguages

11 ай бұрын

Why is that?

@BOBofGH

11 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages It can just kind of be whatever depending on the language. Also one thing I find interesting is the g-y correspondence between English and German. Day vs Tag, yawn vs gähnen, yard vs Garten, etc. In fact in old English this "y" sound was often spelled with a g. There are still modern northern German dialects that pronounce g like a j or y. Not so coincidentally, this is the part of the world where the Anglo-Saxon's came from before they settled Britain.

@CheLanguages

11 ай бұрын

@@BOBofGH yes, I am aware of the palatalization of /g/. Also in Nordic languages I believe, g is just silent a lot of the time in Swedish. Studying Old English showed was interesting to see words like "yes" sometimes being spelled "ges"

Great video, North Frisian is rlly interesting and over looked, great flag too. U think ur gonna do a forgotten Arabian language series?

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Forgotten Semitic languages or just Arabian? It will happen yes, I already have plans for them. I'm glad you enjoyed this video too!

@just1frosty516

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages Arabian languages have a special place in my heart but I love the series with whatever language family

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@just1frosty516 don't worry, either way you'll get an Arabian video

12:05 Get History with Hilbert on it! He speaks West Frisian!

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

I know he does, but I think a Collab with him is unlikely!

@JoDusepo

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages That's a shame

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@JoDusepo I can try sending him an email, but I'm only a small channel sadly

@JoDusepo

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages Small but great! Thanks for all your work. I hope you do manage to get a collabo because it'd be really cool and you do deserve the extra traffic.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@JoDusepo I do have a Collab planned for next month with another KZreadr 10x my size, so hopefully that will really help my channel. Who knows, maybe I'll get to work with Hilbert in the future?

I think Scots is a separate language from English. It diverged way back in the 1300s or so and is quite different. I can't understand much of it myself, as an American.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

It's like hearing English as a foreigner who doesn't speak English to me

@scavengerethic

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages Yeah, IMO Scots is a different language because it has a different consonant inventory, some phonology borrowed from Gaelic, and had an independent existence from English and its own literature long before the union of Scotland and England. But to muddy the waters there is a dialect continuum of vocabulary and usage between Modern Scottish English (definitely a dialect of Modern English) and Scots (a mutually unintelligible language relative to Modern English). Most people in Scotland are somewhere on that continuum, hardly any right at one end or the other.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@scavengerethic it has a long history behind it you are right. It can be so hard to understand depending on where you are too

@aaronmarks9366

9 ай бұрын

Definitely. I remember visiting Scotland when I was 18 (I'm from the US), and a girl a bit younger than me came up to me at a store to ask me something. I had to have her repeat herself 3 times, and I still couldn't understand what she was saying. She eventually had to pantomime and I figured out she wanted me to buy cigarettes for her 😂

@tylersmith3139

Ай бұрын

Americans aren't really good at understanding other English dialects. I'm originally from Canada and it's perfectly understandable. It's a dialect of English. The phonology is pretty much the same as Scottish and Northern England dialects of English.

I could understand a few words in all of them.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Yeah same, "Alle" is easy to guess for example

Really cool video. i didnt know that much about luxembourgish, but now i do. Maybe u can do a video about three forgotten slavic languages like Sorbian, Silesian(the slavic one, there is also a german one) or Kashubian ;)

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

I did, haven't you seen it? It's like one of my most popular videos

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

And I talk about Silesian

@silesianpatriot.

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages yea i saw it now haha, good job on showing what silesian sorbian and Kashubian is. haha

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@silesianpatriot. thank you, a lot of Poles got angry at me for that video but I hope Silesian (and Kashubian) will live on!

@silesianpatriot.

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages well no wonder, i am also getting suppressed by poles so its kind of normal, and many poles atm are far right thinking. nethertheless keep it up!

FINALY SCOTS IS RECOGNISED (Frisian too)

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

What's Fibaly Scots?

@Rabid_Nationalist

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages a typo

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@Rabid_Nationalist oh LOL, it's still a typo btw (finally)

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@Rabid_Nationalist I'm glad to see you're excited about the languages though!

@Rabid_Nationalist

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages holy fuck. I hate double ls..

09:07 HAHAHHA SAUL 💀💀💀

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Better Call Saul!

Yo new Che Languages video just dropped!

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

I hope you enjoy it!

@batteries_sold_seperately

11 ай бұрын

Bros stuck in 2022 with that pfp

STICKLES?!?!??!😂😂😂😂😂 Yeah, that's it's own language, I'm disowning it for "stickles"!

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Goofy word I know! I just couldn't get over "Sauls" LOL

Luxemburgisch (Letzenburg: in their own language) is not the official language, but everyone uses it. Funny fact is that when you talk dutch to them, they answer in luxemburgish and not in french or german.

@CheLanguages

12 күн бұрын

I thought it was official. Even if it isn't, I know that it's now a requirement to achieve a certain level of it if you want to become a citizen

Does ethiopia and Eritrea have an germanic languages?it shows on one of the maps?

@CheLanguages

6 ай бұрын

No, just English

Very surprised there wasn't pennysylvanian German on this list considering it's use amongst a small, odd group of people and it's origins from palatinate German dialect.

@CheLanguages

11 ай бұрын

I can still make other parts. In part 4 I think I will talk about the Germanic languages that exist on the American continent (there are many)

Actually, the flag of Luxembourg has much to do with the Dutch flag. After the wars of Napoleon, diplomats from all over Europe met in Vienna to put Europe back together. They wanted a strong Netherlands to counterbalance France, so they gave it Belgium and united the new Dutch kingdom with Luxembourg in a personal union whereby the Dutch King was also the Grand Duke of Luxembourg. Both peoples were very unhappy with this and the Belgians tried to break away. As the Dutch were preparing to invade, the French intervened and Belgium became independent. The Luxembougeois had been carrying the Dutch flag for generations and as they edged away from the Dutch, they changed their flag, making it longer and lightening the blue and red stripes. They may have made the blue the same tint as was on the old flag of Luxembourg but their flag is still an altered Dutch flag. The relationship is clear when the two flags are side by side.

As a Brazilian who has studied English for many years, I don't understand Scots. It seems and older version of English.

@CheLanguages

11 ай бұрын

It does indeed have many older preservations

@Q2W345

11 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages , thank you.

Scots is definitely it’s own language the fact that a native English speaker (such as me who’s actually from England) would struggle sometimes to understand someone speaking Scots makes it far more divergent than just a dialect to me.

@CheLanguages

11 ай бұрын

Especially the Doric dialect of Scots!

Scots is also spoken in Northern Airlann and parts of the republic of Ireland. It is a dialect called Ulster scots, I can speak very little of it but my ancestors spoke it and see it as my duty to honour them and protect my ancestors language. Ulster scots is not doing as well as Scots but hopefully it doesn't die its defiantly growing from the census report so it may only be spoken by 10% or so of our population. But its probably because your less likely to see it as a language if your more Irish nationalist than British Unionist. Since it comes from the Scots. Also I know you mention it but like I spent time on this so add some more to it. Also your scots sounds a bit more Dutch.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Yes, Ulster Scots is on the map, I thought I mentioned it?! And yeah, I can see my Scots sounding like Dutch, I cannot do a Scottish accent at all LOL

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

But I hope you found the section interesting

@cillianennis9921

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages it was.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@cillianennis9921 ah good

The map at 0:11 doesn't include Yiddish. Maybe because it's underrated or people don't know that it is Germanic?

@AvrahamYairStern

Жыл бұрын

Or maybe because it's not tied to one location?

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Ze'ev is right. It's not spoken in one location, nor is it really spoken on the continent anymore, most speakers are in the UK, US or Israel

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@AvrahamYairStern נכון

@ukinfotech

Жыл бұрын

​@@AvrahamYairStern Or maybe some people don''t know it exists because it is underrated?

@ukinfotech

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages Most likely that they moved because of the war in the region where Yiddish was originally spoken that i can't explain without making people unhappy and angry.

Scots is very interesting, I wonder i the name of "Scots" as "Albais" in scottish gaelic is a recent academic or politically correct invention as ancient linguistic and racial tensions between the highland "gaelic" and lowland "English" Scottish constantly tried to paint the other as foreign "Scottish English" (Beurla Albanach) and simply "Irish" (Erse) I personally think they're both right in a way in that scottish gaelic and scots (or scottish english) are more like the dialects of northern ireland/ulster irish and northern england english and still comprehensible to speakers of english and to ulster irish and manx, So really it's just out of mysticism and exoticism people think the Scottish variety of "Irish" is any more legitimate than the Scottish variety of "English" (Even to a lesser extent with nothern Ireland Ulster Scots vs Ulster Irish) it's funny despite Scots older legacy of separation, from the saxons rather than English Angles I find the extinct English creoles in Ireland of Fingallian and Yola (Forth and Bargy) much different and unintelligible ironically despite being the dialects of the English settlements in Ireland by the descendants of literal English people from England being ruled by England than Scottish Scots and Ulster Scots which to me sound just like English with a Scottish accent...

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

You seem to know more than I do about the nomenclature. Thank you for your comment, it was interesting to read, I learnt a thing or two. I actually talked about Yola in my 3 Revival Movements video if you've seen it. Do you speak Scots or Scottish (Gaelic)?

How about you get native speakers to contribute to your language videos?

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Sure let me go and get a native North Frisian speaker.... All jokes aside, I do have some people help me sometimes

the scots was close but no quite hahahaha gid effurt tho

@CheLanguages

7 ай бұрын

What do you mean?

@lewiitoons4227

7 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages Aw sorry to clarify I was speaking of your pronunciation being slightly off but you gave a good go of it though

1:36 thats not northern Germany thats in the West of Germany

@CheLanguages

4 ай бұрын

It's north in the sense of "dialects", especially considering that Hochdeutsh is based off a Southern dialect group around mainly Austria and Bavaria historically

What is a language or a dialekt? In a broad perspective the three continental Scandinavian languages are intelligible, the difference between them are more or less as the difference between German dialects.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

The standard varieties yes, but then there are varieties of Swedish that are different languages (Dalecarlian for example), the same with Norwegian and Danish dialects. It gets complicated

@jansundvall2082

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages that is the same in the German speaking area, you have Alemanic and Austrian/Bavarian dialects that are unintelligible for most northern Germans and vice versa.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@jansundvall2082 yes, German dialects are often different languages

@dan74695

7 ай бұрын

Many dialects in all three countries are mutually unintelligible, like Dalecarlian, Bothnian and standard Swedish, for example.

@dan74695

7 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages It does get complicated.

Fryslân boppe!!!!!!!!!!!!1

@CheLanguages

26 күн бұрын

Definitely

@ CHE- idiș!

@CheLanguages

11 ай бұрын

What?

I want to hear 3 speakers of east, West and north Frisian talking to each other

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

That would certainly be something to behold!

@Meftu

Жыл бұрын

East Frisian is almost extinct, being replaced by Low German, the only East Frisian language that is still around is Sater-frisian, wich is struggling as well.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@Meftu isn't it only spoken in three villages in Germany? Either way, I plan on incorporating it into Part 4 when I make it because it definitely deserves attention

@Meftu

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages Yeah, it's 4.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@Meftu ah, thank you for the clarification