Welcome back everyone. What was your favorite language on this list?

@AvrahamYairStern

5 ай бұрын

Burushaski is super interesting

@AvrahamYairStern

5 ай бұрын

But I think I prefer P'urhépecha

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

I agree with you on both there, they're all interesting! @@AvrahamYairStern

@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewicz991

5 ай бұрын

I'd love to know more about Sandawe

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

@@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewicz991 awesome

i love hearing you pronounce all the non-english terms as faithfully as you can, it's not only refreshing to hear someone actually try, but also much more valuable to hear the natural pronunciation of what's being talked about

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Thank you, I've always done it as long as I can remember despite people asking me why I say things "weird". I've always maintained to pronounce things accurately, it's respectful to the culture of that language. I also apologize whenever I come across something I definitely cannot pronounce.

@satohime

5 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages mad respect for this, i find it crazy that people would call you weird for pronouncing things properly when they themselves probably pronounce "Xhosa" like "showsha". but the effort is definitely appreciated, it means a lot all around!

@CheLanguages

4 ай бұрын

thank you! There is no way I pronounced Xhosa correctly, but I try my best@@satohime

As a Polish person, whenever I hear "Burushaski" I get this sort of weird uncanny feeling, because it sounds and looks like a Polish adjective describing the language of some Burush people, like Angielski, Francuski, or Chiński, but instead it's a word from that language. So anyways, Burushaski is Slavic confirmed.

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Ah I see what you meant, nie mówię po Burushaski 😂

@wifil532

4 ай бұрын

As a native, I can confirm there was a bit of research by polish scholars who visited us as they were fascinated by the name and came here to know more, but later they realized it was probably a coincidence.

@wifil532

4 ай бұрын

This is because Burushaski is comprised of two words, buru- short for Burusho, and shaski is the word for tongue or language. Like For English language, we have the word FarangShaski, or the European's tongue. The ski in itself doesn't have any meaning

@ylliriaalbania326

4 ай бұрын

​@@wifil532Burush in Albanian means man, ( Burrash ) For example, when we make a promise we say, " Fjalë burrash ", I give you the man's word ) .It is said that Alexander spoke Burusho when he held meetings with his soldiers (men) is this true? Even your language has many Albanian words 🤔

@wifil532

4 ай бұрын

@@ylliriaalbania326 this common word is very interesting, because our tradition also says that Burusho was name of the earliest 'men' in these lands, who spoke this language. But other than that, when I used Google translation, I didn't find any more common words. (Though the other word for man, njeri, is quite similar to the Burushaski word 'huri' means men) as for Alexander, many people here, especially the rulers of Hunza valley claimed descent from him, though later genetic studies negated this theory.

8:52 The Hungarian is actually /ɟ/, not /ɖ/. /ɖ/ is found in many Indic languages as ḍ, so probably areal

@weepingscorpion8739

5 ай бұрын

I came here to say the same thing. And yes, many retroflex consonants is definitely an areal feature of South Asia.

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Yeah my bad it was just a mistake

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

@@weepingscorpion8739 they're quite widespread in that region yes, Burushaski likely has them because of language contact as someone else pointed out

@isaacelliott6115

5 ай бұрын

Thanks! I was looking for this comment!

The distinction between and is also found in Quechuan languages. Also, I do not think that the voiceless L is all that rare. Sure, in Europe, it's essentially only Faroese, Icelandic, Welsh and some Sami languages that use it but it's pretty common in both Semitic languages and many languages of the Americas, Navajo being a prime example.

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Yeah I looked into it, not massively rare, I'm just not used to it as it's not in any languages I've ever studied or seen. Someone else told me that distinction between q and qh is found in Georgian I think

finally you're back! i've missed your educational videos about languages. Thank you for educating me when it comes to languages, i've become fluent in german since i started watching you

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

That's amazing to hear! Congratulations on the Deutsch, keep going!

@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewicz991

5 ай бұрын

Learn Polish

@AvrahamYairStern

5 ай бұрын

@@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewicz991 nie

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

@@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewicz991 I'm pretty sure German is the opposite LOL

@IkkezzUsedEmber

5 ай бұрын

​@@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewicz991your username is the most uninviting reason to learn Polish ever

He's alive!

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Only just

@Svensk7119

5 ай бұрын

​​@@CheLanguages Oh, Lord! I pray for that..... region. The Lord bless you, and Keep you, the Lord make his Face shine on you and be gracious unto you, may He lift His countenance upon you, and give you His Peace. Amen. I don't know how to put it in Hebrew.

I am so glad that you are back, I love your content. Btw, /qʰ/also exists in other languages like Southern Quechua and Aymara.

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Thank you, there's plenty more to come. I've just never noticed it before, I'm sure it does exist in other languages as it's not such a difficult sound to make. Thank you for letting me know

@AvrahamYairStern

5 ай бұрын

Surely some Arabic "dialects" have it too, a lot of them end up losing q but some must strengthen it surely?

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

@@AvrahamYairStern it's possible but I wouldn't know about it, I just know about 'dialects' losing the q to a glottal stop

@AvrahamYairStern

5 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages yeah Israeli Arabic does that

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

@@AvrahamYairStern exactly, same in Levanon

I love that I discovered such a niche part of the internet. A lot of passionate people and a lot of interesting topics. Glad you are back!

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad you like my videos, I've got another cominy very soon!

I'm so glad you're back, I missed your content

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Dziękuje, I'm back

As Burusho native, I learned a lot of new things about my language especially those theories about my languages origin. also we have a phenomenon called 'relative nouns',- the subjects name changes according to the obj, like ja alchimo....... Means.... My eyes Go (your) gulchimo....means....your (go) eyes. Inmo(her) mulchimo....means...her eyes. Notice that the word for 'eyes' changes with relation to their owner. Is this phenomenon present in any other language, I wonder? Do you know. It is not found in languages that are in our neighborhood. Edit. We also have the Welsh 'l' sound that you spoke of towards the end.

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Basically you're saying that the word itself is 'chimo', everything else conjugates for the pronoun. I'm guessing you can just say 'gulchimo' without the 'go' and people would understand, making it pro-drop. Other languages do this, like Turkish for example: Kedi (cat) (Benim) Kedim (my cat) (Senin) Kedin (your cat) (Bizim) Kedimiz (our cat) The pronouns are not necessary because the inflection at the end already allows you to know who the possessor is. Burushaski seems to work like this given your example.

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Please do correct me if I'm wrong. Also, that's awesome that you speak Burushaski!

@wifil532

4 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages thank you. well you are right about the purpose of the difference there, but the word is not chimo for eyes. Chimo is not a word for eyes, you can't separate the noun from ownership, so gulchimo, alchimo and mulchimo etc these are words for eyes, but chimo in itself isn't a word like kedi in Turkish for cat. Similarly, there is no single name for 'face'. It is all related to to whose face it belongs to. For my face, we use askil, for your face guskil, etc, but there is no separate word for face. I hope I have explained it well enough.

@f34rbeast32

4 ай бұрын

Burushaski seems weird as my understanding is that before Indo-Iranian migrations, Burushaski covered a larger area from Pamir Mountain Ranges far North to Potohar Plateu far South

@f34rbeast32

4 ай бұрын

But after Indo-Iranian migrations, Burusho people intermixed with Pamiris and Dardic people. There are also some others who intermixed with Burusho people such as few Tajik groups and Hindkowans and Potohari people also intermingling with the Burusho people

4:45 Another actually: The "l" you found is actually an r turned upside down and having a retroflex hook. It's called the "retroflex approximant" and exists in English as well, being a way to pronounce the phoneme /r/. The other sounds are retroflex sounds as well (the d with hook is NOT the Hungarian sound you mean which is a voiced palatal stop, written "ɟ" in the IPA) and they are very common across the Indian subcontinent with almost all languages there having retroflex sounds. It's what languages like Sanskrit, Hindi or Tamil are famous for, so I guess Burushaski having them as well is due to language contact, like with Santali, which it is Austroasiatic and thus related to languages like Khmer and Vietnamese which completely lack retroflex phonemes.

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Yeah that was a mistake and confusion on my part, sorry

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

It could be down to language contact yeah

@niku..

5 ай бұрын

The Burushaski phoneme /ɻ/ isn't articulated like the English /r/ in any dialect I know. It's actually more or less the same as the Chinese phoneme /ɻ/ (Pinyin ) and lies somewhere between [ɻ] and [ʐ] with some degree of palatalization apparently but it has multiple allophonic variants

@brillitheworldbuilder

5 ай бұрын

@@niku.. There are people pronouncing English /r/ like this

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

I am aware that some dialects use it, but it's rare. The Mandarin comparison is better@@niku..

I waited so long for this!! Worth the wait :)

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

I hope you enjoy!

Welcome back!! I love Language Isolates and this is the perfect video for you to make as you came back!

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! Which language here is your favorite? I too have been interested in language isolates for quite some time

@andreman86

5 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages I found Burushaski interesting because of the case system, I haven't seen such cases before and it kinda blew me away, as well as the consonant inventory was pretty unique compared to the vowels. Lastly I found some of the modified Arabic letters to be pretty interesting as I haven't seen them before

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

@@andreman86 same, the case system baffled me just like it has many linguists because I've never seen anything like it in that area, it's definitely not Indo-European, but it's not Yeniseian

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

@@andreman86 oh yeah the script was unique too, I've seen a few modified Perso-Arabic scripts now, kike for Kurdish and Turkic languages, but I'm pretty sure I've not seen some of those characters that are used there. It's all really unique

@wifil532

5 ай бұрын

@@andreman86 Burusho native here, the modified letters represent sounds that are unique to the langiage and not found in Arabic, also we have a phenomenon called 'relative nouns',- the subjects name changes according to the obj, like ja alchimo....... Means.... My eyes Go (your) gulchimo....means....your (go) eyes. Inmo(her) mulchimo....means...her eyes. Notice that the word for 'eyes' changes with relation to their owner. Is this phenomenon present in any other language, I wonder? Do you know.

Which language family do you plan to cover next? Maybe an expansion on Celtic languages or perhaps Germanic,Finno-Uralic,Semitic,Hellenic,Romance languages or something else?

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

I always keep that a surprize, but I've covered all of those before, except Celtic in any detail

Beautiful that Mexico is preserving their languages. Also wonderful video, not sure how it has so few views.

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Compared to my other videos, it is low, but this is the most viral video I've had in over 6 months and I'm happy with it. I'm glad you liked the video. Eres de México?

@bunk_foss

5 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguagesI'm from Mexico's Northern neighbor! Didn't realize it was your most viral recently. This entire channel needs more views lmao.

@CheLanguages

4 ай бұрын

thank you so much, be sure to share this channel and maybe it might help me. Thank you for the support!@@bunk_foss

Fascinating video! Ty for your work.

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

You're welcome, I'm glad you liked the video. Which language did you find the most fascinating?

Just found this channel, amazing video and love your attempts to pronounce everything as accuratly as possible!

@CheLanguages

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed my video(s)!

@CheLanguages

4 ай бұрын

I'll always try and be respectful to use correct pronunciations, within bounds of what I can actually pronounce at least

Another amazing video!

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! What was your favorite language?

Good to see the legend back 💪

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad to be back

Damn. Its been so long. Glad you're back! ‍

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad to be back too

great video, language isolates are always interesting

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

There's sooo fascinating, I can't get my head over Burushaski, no wonder why there's so many crazy theories about it

Shalom! We love you! I'm so happy you are back!

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for the support! It makes me happy to be back

Puroik looks like it had a history with Khasi. Not a khasi speaker myself, but it is a very unique Northeastern Language

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

I'll check it out, I didn't see any mentions of any possible connections though

I have figured out Sumerian and proved the Tower of Babel as a historical event in my 4 part blog series

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Fascinating. I believe the Tower of Bavel was a real event, just not as it was taught. There is evidence that the Tower of Bavel might have actually been the Ziggurat of Eridu

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

@@ljerojce2111 what, a lot of these stories had basis in real events

@BryanLu0

5 ай бұрын

​@@ljerojce2111Lots of ancient texts that appear to be just a story happen to have a bit of truth, too. It was way more common to mix fact with fiction back then

I just found this channel. This is a fascinating video. Thank you!

@CheLanguages

4 ай бұрын

You're welcome, I hope you enjoy all my other videos too!

Welcome back! Just a quick thought on the Burushaski-Yeniseian connection: could it be possible that a tribe of Huns spoke a closely related language to the Yeniseian languages when they moved from the Mongolian plateau down to India?

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

That's a good question. Sadly, I am grossly uneducated about the Huns, all I know about them is their relation to the end of the Western Roman Empire, thus I thought they were Germanic? I've not done my reading on them at all

@johnlastname8752

5 ай бұрын

​@@CheLanguagesit's widely accepted in academia that the Huns were originally from the Mongolian Plateau (probably the Xiongnu in Chinese sources) and that the Hunnic elite spoke some kind of Turkic language that might be the ancestor of the Chuvash language. In North-Western India there were invasions by the White Huns and the Red Huns. The Huns that the Romans had to deal with had a Germanic majority as their population and army, but the elite was probably still Turkic speaking. There's a lot of speculation about the Huns in general because they didn't write anything themselves.

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

I've just done some reading on them. Wow, I never knew how many hypotheses there were, I might have to make a video on this. They could have possibly been Iranic, Germanic, Yeniseian, Mongolic, Turkic, Uralic, Caucasian or Paleo-European. That's too many different theories there and I hope someday their true identity could be found out. I find it hard to believe the Xiongnu theory, or that they were Turkic/Mongolic/Yeniseian, it's simply too far away for the time and for populations that were known to exist. Uralic, Caucasian, Proto-Slavic, Germanic or Iranic seem the most likely to me, but that's still a lot of options wow@@johnlastname8752

@johnlastname8752

5 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages something that should be remembered about the steppe area is that it's basically a giant highway, especially for nomadic people that ride on horses and are almost always on the move. The Huns reaching Germania in that time frame is kinda the standard in the history of nomadic steppe people. Happy to know that you thought it was interesting!

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

@@johnlastname8752 I guess so. These migrations happened later in recorded history, so there's no reason why they might not have also happened before that

5:28-5:34 That distinction (or very similar) also exists in Chinese. The phonemic distinction (tenuis vs aspirate) for unvoiced affricates is rendered in the Latin alphabet as Z vs C, Zh vs Ch, and J vs Q.

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Ah good to know, Pinyin orthographie always confuses me

Welcome Back!

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

תודה and welcum back! My friend and I talked about the Object-Subject-Verb word oder, which is very rare among the world's languages, but in my father tongue (an Austronesian language), and especially in my parents' dialect which I also occasionally speak, OSV is not that unusual at all. We don't have case endings btw, so there's no special marker for the subject and/or the object. I'd say that at least in my parents' dialect, OSV is almost as common as SVO.

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Shalom, thank you! What's the language your parents speak? Word order can be flexible in many languages, but what makes Warao special is that it's fixed in OSV position

Re Taino, archeologically it's well established that people migrated from the north coast of South American to the Caribbean in prehistory.

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

I didn't know that, thank you for letting me know

Great video, welcome back

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! What was your favorite language?

@QuandaleDingleGoofyAhh123

5 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages Warao

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

@@QuandaleDingleGoofyAhh123 awesome

Welcome back.

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Thank you as always Gazoontight!

My native Language is purépecha and When I visit the Mueso Nacional de Antripologia it said that might be a connection with the proposed quechua-aymara languages and Zuni, also the rh sound young people tend to pronounced as l and in my dialect (western purépecha) the á is pronounced as a ə sound and I hope to see you make more Mesoamerican languages videos.

@CheLanguages

3 ай бұрын

I'll definitely be making more videos on it, how cool to have a native speaker here! It blows my mind how many indigenous languages not only survive but thrive in México, some other countries could definitely use México as a model on how to preserve their minority languages. I'd be interested to see the hypothesis on how it could be related to Quechua and Aymara

Thanks so much. Excellent explanation and so intriguing

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

I'm glad you found the video interesting

It's great to see you back!

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Dziękuje Artur!

I'm glad you're back and I hope you and your loved ones are safe, akhí. 8:50 also that's retroflex, not palatal

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

I'm back and safe, I still have people in Israel I care about but they are also safe. And yes, that was my mistake, a few people corrected it already

Nice to see you back and finally talking about Native American languages!

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

I'm glad too, I never knew about P'urhépecha before this, their civilization is so underrated

5:24 Actually this distinction does also exist in Northern America iirc, for example in the Na-Dené language family. Correct me if I'm wrong

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Yeah it's not impossible, just rare

Good video

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Could you do a video on the Ket langauge/Yeneseian languages?

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

I'd love to, I'll get there

@nicodarsh

5 ай бұрын

I love your videos and have for a while. I sincerely hope you don't support the state of Israel. That being said, shalom aleichem ✌️ Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Insallah.

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

@@nicodarsh you can enjoy my videos without bringing politics in it, and I will talk with you about languages all day no problems, but my country is my country and I would die for Israel if it meant I could guarantee the return of the innocent hostages. Free palestine from the world map, Am Yisrael Khai 🇮🇱

the Similarities between the Asiatic and American Indian Languages is a very fascinating topic.

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Do you believe in Dené-Caucasian?

@joaoribeiro5938

5 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages I don't know to much about this theory. But I know that some antropologists found similarities between Ainu and Guarani.

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

@@joaoribeiro5938 did they? I've not heard about that

@joaoribeiro5938

5 ай бұрын

​@@CheLanguagesthey found similarities with the language from the northern tribes from Brazil with the main japanese language.

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

that's awesome, can you send me a link or something?@@joaoribeiro5938

Quick correction: the leh and kargil valleys are part of ladakh, which was separated from Jammu Kashmir in 2019 to become uts own state

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Ah thank you, that's good to know!

Great vid! If you do this again, do you think you could include a clip of someone speaking the language at the end of each segment?

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

I've tried that before but they're often copyrighted, I inserted links below to videos of the languages if you are interested

Very interesting. I'd literally only even heard of one of these (Burushaski).

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

I'm glad to hear you learnt something new!

When you first said ‘Dené-Caucasian language family’, I thought ‹Oh, it can't be _that_ Dené› … but it is! Anyway, I hope that you and yours in Israel are safe there.

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Everyone's safe yes thank you. Dené-Caucasian definitely is crazy

Hi. Van you do a video on retroflex sounds? They are present in Indo Aryan languages of India. The Gha sound, the dha sound, the Dhha sound and the Thha sound. I want to know if these sounds are there in any other languages of the world

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

I won't make an entire video dedicated to phonology but I can tell you other languages do have them yes, gh is actually quite common outside of Indo-European languages

Thank you, I had never heard of the Purepecha.

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

I'm glad you learnt something new!

Also keep in mind how vernacular shapes our voice. Some of this intrigue could be about proximity to basalt.

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Proximity to basalt? What do you mean exactly? And yes, vernacular can be huge in forming differences

@lainecolley1414

5 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages being cheeky, but also acoustics. Like when you can tell they've had to learn to talk over an old Chevy engine, it shows. The amount and types of vegetation etc drives emphasis.. ses... Vernacular as noise.

@lainecolley1414

5 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages consider the PIE words krut (musical learning) and perd (fart) sound like the acts. Indigenous language is based on the environment.

With regard to the "marginalized" comment about P'urhepécha, bear in mind that Mexico has approximately 130 million people but the language is only spoken by about 140,000 people. That's only about 0.1% of the population. That sounds pretty "marginalized" (even within just Michoacán state, the number of speakers accounts for only about 3% of the state's population).

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Yes but it's getting protection from the government and the language is being taught in schools and used by younger people, it's growing not declining thus I wouldn't say it's marginalized in comparison to most of the world's language isolates

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for your perspective however

@gerardsotxoa

4 ай бұрын

Is not marginalized. Many speakers outside of Michoacan don't make the census because they live abroad. Also what do you expect if there's like 60 languages in Mexico?? 100,000+ is a good number for any non nahuatl or mayan language in Mexico

@CheLanguages

3 ай бұрын

I guess so. 100,000 is amazing indeed, I have always found Mexico's diversity of languages inspiring, especially how they managed to survive after everything that has happened. The US or Canada cannot really say the same about their languages@@gerardsotxoa

Will you be covering more forgotten languages?

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Check out my channel, it's full of them! I'll be making many more too

Distinguishing between ts and tsh is in hungarian also represented with (c) and (cs) letters

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Awesome

Your pronunciation of Spanish is spot on. Saludos desde México.

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Muchas gracias, dos o tres años que pasados, estudié español, pero hoy olvidaré mucho de la lengua

GOOD TO HAVE OURSELVES BACK!

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Definitely, I'm glad to be back

Hi, can you include the ainu language in a future video?

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

I already did, it's in my video on Language Revitalization Movements

Fascinating video! One thing I personally have found puzzling about Burushaski is that it's never discussed as a candidate for the Indus Valley civilisation given its location. The Ket connection looks promising though I hope progress is made on that. I'd love to see you do some analysis on the proposed Uralo-Siberian macro family too.

@CheLanguages

4 ай бұрын

Did I not mention it myself? I might have been too busy mentioning all the other theories. I actually saw nothing about it in my research but I wanted to say how there could be a possible link. If so, that would be awesome

@CheLanguages

4 ай бұрын

Uralo-Siberian I know not enough about, and Altaïc I also think is far-fetched, but for a while now I've been intrigued by the possibility of a Uralo-Turkic Language Family, for me it could be plausible

@bearwoodian8607

4 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages yes, re Burushaski and IVC, I've never seen anyone suggest them as a possible source for the IVC language despite the fact that the Gilgit district, one of the areas in which B is spoken is only 330 km from the NE edge of IVC sites (roughly where Islamabad is) while B is also spoken in Hari Parbat near Srinagar which is only 170 km away, so very puzzling.

@bearwoodian8607

4 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages re Uralo-Siberian, Wikipedia presents some linguistic evidence and indeed genetic (e.g. the distribution of haplogroup N) and archeological evidence would possibly provide support. The problem with potential cognates is distinguishing a genetic relationship and borrowing, for instance, one of the proposed cognates is the set including Proto Uralic *aja- 'drive, chase' however this set could easily be borrowed from Indo-Iranian *Hájati. I've also read some of Bomhard's articles on the wider Eurasiatic family but found his methodology unconvincing.

@f34rbeast32

4 ай бұрын

Indus Valley Civilization likely had multiple languages with Dravidian in the Sindh-Gujarat region, Para-Munda in Punjab Region (Jammu, Haryana, Both Pakistani and Indian Punjab, and Western Himachal), and Burushaski in the Hazara, Potohar, and Gilgit Regions of Pakistan. So it very likely was one of many languages in Indus Valley

2:00 > means greater than if we're reading from left to right, not less than Cool vid!

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Sorry, I always forget which way round it is!

5:33 Bengali also distinguishes between aspirated and unaspirated /tʃ/, though it doesn't have /ts/

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

That's awesome to know, thank you!

Have you ever heard of the monstrosity called the Borean Language hypothesis? If not sorry for informing you of it

@Titancameraman64

5 ай бұрын

Oh dude this gonna be good

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

I searched it up, I want something to cleanse my eyes now

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Your apology for making me aware of it is accepted

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

It's not good!! It's horrifying

@CanaanMoment

5 ай бұрын

​@@CheLanguagesit is indeed horrific, no language family should include both Welsh and Manchu

We also can form OSV sentences in Kazakh because the language has enough cases to do so

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

It's possible in many languages yes, but not natural, it may only be used poetically or to sound archaic. The meaning of a language like Warao being OSV means that it's THE ONLY way to form a sentence

@regularpersonLIVE

5 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages For example: Тышқанды(O) мысық(S) жеді(V) (translation: The cat ate the mouse.) Notice that the agglutination -ды means that it indicates that the noun is an object

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

@@regularpersonLIVE like -ı -i -u endings in Turkish?

@regularpersonLIVE

5 ай бұрын

yeah, maybe@@CheLanguages

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

that's the accusative marker@@regularpersonLIVE

Sandawe /ɟ͜ʎ̝/ isn't that hard! It's a Hungarian plus an Italian [gl] with friction. I'm also intrigued as to why you say all the Spanish place and country names in a Spanish accent but pronounce Israel [ˈɪzɹeiɫ] and not [jisʁaˈʔel]. As for Africa with a rolled [r] ...

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Hello. Many people commented about the Hungarian phoneme, that was an honest mistake and I don't know why I didn't check like I normally would. Your other question is more of an ideolectal one. I am a fluent speaker of Hebrew, and I studied Spanish in the past but have since lost my ability in it down to more than a few phrases. Notice I retain the name of a country or place, I don't say 'España' but rather 'Spain', but if I say [mɛhiːko] for Mexico, I'm sure people (epsecially American viewers) will understand me. As for Israel, when speaking Hebrew I obviously use the name Yisrael, but in English, I use the name people understand as many people don't tend to make the connection. That being said, my pronunciation of Israel is usually closer to the Hebrew than most English speakers would pronounce, being something along the lines of [ɪsraɪɫ] with an "ay" diphthong instead of an "ey", and with a soft s not a z, though if I'm speaking fast I may just pronounce it like everyone else. There might not appear to be too much logic to this, but I just pronounce things how I like and I've always done that and people have always told me "you say x funny" and I usually tell them "I want to be more accurate" though it's not always the case. Finally, I just noticed who you are, I'm a big fan of your channel and have watched your videos for a while now. Your tutorial on French accents helped me improve mine massively to the point I impressed my friend from France. Great channel!

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

4 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages Thanks for the reply and I’m so glad you enjoy my content. I’m all for idiosyncrasy and lack of logic so it was a bit anal of me to call you out on it. I love your passion for languages.

@CheLanguages

4 ай бұрын

thank you, keep making great content!@@DaveHuxtableLanguages

The east russian isolates are pretty interesting

@CheLanguages

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, I'll definitely be talking about at least one of them next time

We had a language here on this island called Beothick but it died out and it was very different from the other Canadian native languages because it had contact with old Norse in 13 something and it sounded European somehow and slightly like Turkish at the same time with a lot of ö and not a lot of k t d like the other Canadian native languages but unfortunately Beothick is dead

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

I'll have to do some research because I am skeptical that the Norse language would have influenced then that much given the Vikings didn't stay in North America for longer than 2 years, but it would be really cool. There is a language isolate spoken on an island in Western Canada however that I came across during my research, it's still alive today!

@qpdb840

5 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages no it’s dead it died out in 18 something it was a lone language on that Island here

@qpdb840

5 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages a potential living one is Malakshai ilami feylî where I do know/ related to those who speak it but it is controversial if it an isolate because it is considered a Kurdish dialects but it has very low congnates only in words that are complex in nature are Farsi or Arabic but the basic family vocabulary which happens to be very close to each language of their family but dada mean mom and bo mean dad o is water like French and unfortunately no one writes it it is only spoken but I can try my best to write it down I have a poem and it I have said it to the other Kurds and they say what did you say. It also has nazil consonants like the word I mn no vowel n

@unilajamuha91

5 ай бұрын

It is theorised that beothick has a connection to Dorset culture, as that is where they possibly migrated according to Innuit folklore

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

@@qpdb840 yeah I figured that part, you said it's extinct. Still, I was just saying that there's another language isolate spoken on an island in Canada, which is an off coincidence

@14:28 Interesting choice of flag to show the Indian border dispute with China there.

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, the Chinese flag 🇹🇼

@brewersfan9322

5 ай бұрын

​@CheLanguages Not a betting man but I think the PRC has better chance of surviving the next century than israel, a state which is run top to bottom by ethnofascists and child molesters.

@jonahs92

Ай бұрын

​@@CheLanguagesBased af

@CheLanguages

28 күн бұрын

@@jonahs92 thank you

at 9:00 id say its not a gy rther a retroflex which is a feature of languages of indian sub continent(and found in many languages) then ts' and ch' are quite common

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

It was a mistake on my part, many people corrected me already so yeah you're right

Would love a vid on the propose dené-caucasian family!

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

I might talk about it soon!

@andriusgimbutas3723

5 ай бұрын

Pure insanity

@andriusgimbutas3723

5 ай бұрын

I'd much enjoy something more grounded, like a Yenisean-Dene video

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

@@andriusgimbutas3723 then imshawngetoffmylawn's video sounds perfect for you

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

@@andriusgimbutas3723 indeed it is insanity

What town is that at 3:22?

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

La Isla de Janitzio, which is P'urhépecha for «maize flower». The inhabitants are mostly of P'urhépecha descent and the language is purportedly strongly in use there.

עם ישראל חי happy youre back

@CheLanguages

4 ай бұрын

עם ישראל חי, גם אני שמח להיות פה תודה

Is Basque also a language isolate?

@CheLanguages

4 ай бұрын

It is yeah. There used to be another language called Aquitanian that I've spoken about before, but it's not extinct and thus Basque is the only remaining Vasconian language

12:39 the way that I started cry-laughing when i saw this map was crazy

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Yeah LOL it's insane

@CanaanMoment

5 ай бұрын

Hey, at least it isnt the unholy creature that is Borean.

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

@@CanaanMoment at least that

Shout out to the amazing name Tzintzuntzan, the place of hummingbirds.

@CheLanguages

4 ай бұрын

It rolls off the tongue so nicely, I love it

That qh-sound in Buruhaski sounds rather Arabic. I think that's the sound you're supposed to use for the letter q when pronouncing "Qatar", unless I'm wrong.

@CheLanguages

4 ай бұрын

It's similar, except qh is the aspirated version. Q without aspiration is the one in Arabic (though I've been told in dialects aspirated Q appears)

I deal with the issue of proto proto Indo European in my proof of Babel theory

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Awesome, I'm going to check it out

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Where can I find it?

@HoosacValleyAhavah

5 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages I keep trying to give it to you but I keep getting deleted

@HoosacValleyAhavah

5 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages I found you on IG your all set,hope you enjoy

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

@@HoosacValleyAhavah YT does that sometimes if you try sending certain links, email me it or send me it on Che Languages Instagram

So is burushaski related to KET? Has the DNA of the Burushaski been tested?

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

I'm not sure, but DNA doesn't always line up with languages as mixint over time can affect the results

@annepoitrineau5650

Ай бұрын

@@CheLanguagesYou are 100%correct, languages and DNA do not need to correlate 1 to 1, but it is still an interesting data point. You might also, for instance, find an X admixture in Ket DNA, which is also found in the Burukashi, while there is no Ket/Burukashi mix. I am personally also in favour of looking at the populations living between the two targets. But as DNA testing is still a bit new, all these things will take place in the future. Fascinating times :)

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

@@annepoitrineau5650 I've not found anything on it, of course it can still suggest some sort of link yeah

Genocide supporter jumpscare

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Like how Armenia genocided Azeris when they occupied in the 1990s?

השיבת מלכנו 🇮🇱

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

חזק 💪🏼🇮🇱

Speaking of Sumerian, what do you think about the theory that Sumerian branched off from Proto-Tibeto-Burman and is a sort of isolate "sister" of the Tibeto-Burman language group that's not exactly within the group?

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

It sounds absurd, but with thousands of years of separation you never know. I might have to read up on this

@YouTubdotCub

Ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages it's a relatively new-ish theory, 2010s some time I believe, so there's only a handful of papers on it but it's pretty interesting!

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

@@YouTubdotCub hmm I might have to give it a read. I'm very skeptical to such a theory myself

@YouTubdotCub

Ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages yeah, not sure what I think of it as it is relatively new scholarship and the evidence isn't particularly strong as of yet, but it is interesting that there is strong evidence of trade links between Sumer and the Harappan civilization, and Sumerians suddenly appearing in the late Ubaid period with a seeming language isolate seems like it had to be from somewhere relatively closeby and easy to migrate from, which those trade linkages show would probably not have been overly difficult from a region just north of there to Sumer

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

@@YouTubdotCub Interesting. However, it's important to note that we don't know if Harappan and Burushaski are related at all

Free Pale stine ❤

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Free palestine from the world map 🇮🇱

@solunaqua3475

Ай бұрын

@@CheLanguageswhat a shame

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

@@solunaqua3475 what a shame that you seem to sympathize with terrorists who want me and my family dead

@solunaqua3475

Ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages your worldview is so tragic

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

@@solunaqua3475 I'm sorry I want to defend my 3000 year old faith over a bunch of genocidal maniacs

Love the subtle ROC flag at 14:20 haha

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

The real China 💪🏼🇹🇼

yay

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Yay indeed. What was your favorite language here?

@Fefe1209

5 ай бұрын

burushaski was pretty cool@@CheLanguages

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

@@Fefe1209 awesome!

But Slavic languages have "free" word order I think which isn't fascinating to me since I am Croatian but it is to others

@CheLanguages

6 күн бұрын

That's true, because Slavic languages are highly inflectional with lots of cases

Samles of Sandawe: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gHZ5mMt-e9vJlJs.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/foJoo7WAZrPSd7A.html

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Thank you

i tried to write a series where the main character was a warao in early-1800’s key west

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Interesting, what was the premise of it?

@senecavermeulen8110

5 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages almost all his spanish-speaking crewmates are killed in a shipwreck off of key west and he investigates the cause

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

@@senecavermeulen8110 that sounds cool, why didn't you continue it?

Glad youre back and more glad you're safe

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Thank you and thank you, I hope you enjoyed the video!

i'm honestly baffled you say you've only ever seen the contrast of unaspirated vs. aspirated alveolar fricatives (/ts/ vs. /tsʰ/) in Georgian. for one, the unaspirate fricative in Georgian is ejective (although admittedly the realisation is so smooth that it almost sounds like pulmonal unaspirate) and the language also contrasts fully voiced /dz/. that is, however, a feature common throughout the Caucasus! _and_ also a feature of Mayan languages. apart from that it's the typical fortis-tenuis differentiation in Mandarin and many other Chinese languages though. and (albeit not with /ts/ and only marginally with /tʃ/) in Upper German varieties (Bavarian and Alemannic) also i second the concerns other had about your reasoning on /ɖ/ - for one is not the same as Hungarian /ɟ/ and secondly are neither of them particularly unusual sounds (at least not areally, where South Asia has an abundance of retroflex sounds contrasting with dentals~alveolars) lastly, Puroik's phonemes don't seem too unusual. sure the /ɬ/ is slightly uncommon but not massively so. otherwise i would say what makes it stand out is that it looks rather tame for the area, with no strikingly strong influences from neighbouring Indian or Sino-Tibetan languages.

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Well, when I said Georgian, I was referring collectively to all the Kartvelian languages. I have studied Mayan languages before and can't say I've noticed the distinction, but it was a long time ago. Thank you for the information though, the stuff about Bavarian and Alemannic dialects is good to know!

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Yes, a few others corrected me about the Hungarian gy, it was an honest mistake on my part. I thought I recognized the phoneme and didn't bother to check. As for the Welsh LL, I can think of other languages that contain it, but again, it's still relatively rare and an amazing thing to see in a language isolate in India

P'urhépecha

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

P'urhépecha

@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewicz991

5 ай бұрын

P'urhépecha

@QuandaleDingleGoofyAhh123

5 ай бұрын

P'urhépecha

@Schody_lol

5 ай бұрын

P'urhépecha

14:22 The ROC flag on a map of the modern border between India and China. Interesting choice.

@CheLanguages

27 күн бұрын

I chose the flag of China 🇹🇼

@ChuJungyin

27 күн бұрын

@@CheLanguages I'd prefer a Ming Dynasty flag. /JK

@CheLanguages

4 күн бұрын

@@ChuJungyin Based

I noticed alot of comments her arguing about Israel and Palestine, im just gonna say both states have the right to exist

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Peace for all innocent civilians on both sides. But if people come here telling me Israel should be destroyed, they can happily unsubscribe

The return of the Melekh

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Yair haMelekh lashonim

@jonahs92

Ай бұрын

​@@CheLanguages מלך הלשונות* 😉

@CheLanguages

28 күн бұрын

@@jonahs92 באמת? תודה, פעם לא ראיתי את צורת הרבים למילה הזאת

@jonahs92

28 күн бұрын

@@CheLanguages כן, זה כמו מלון-מלונות או חלון-חלונות. ברוב המקרים כשמילה מסתיימת ב"-ון", צורת הרבים שלה תסתיים ב"-ות", למרות שמין המילה זכר.

@jonahs92

28 күн бұрын

@@CheLanguages את האמת שאנשים בקושי משתמשים במילה "לשון" למשמעות "language". הרבה יותר נהוג להגיד פשוט "שפה". אבל "לשון" נשמע יותר פורמלי, אז אני מניח שהשתמשת בזה בכוונה.

Well all in South America or in a Galaxy far far away....

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

South America might well as be a different galaxy with their crazy crazy languages with OSV order and so forth, super fascinating

Ok good you didn't get called up or killed

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Um...thank you? Well either way I agree

Heather Deep music 👀

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

?

I feel like the short answer might explain the long answer lmao

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

What do you mean particularly?

@marioksoresalhillick299

4 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages You were in Israel

@CheLanguages

3 ай бұрын

well yes I was@@marioksoresalhillick299

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Thank you

Is it possible for a group of people to be so isolated for so long that their language would appear to be a language isolate? As in it was once related to other languages, but due to isolation, the language became a dialect, then a separate language, then continues to morph its pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar, that it would appear to be totally unrelated to its former linguistic cousins?

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

It is definitely possible, this is why theories such as Dené-Caucasian exist. It's possible proto-Basque and Aquitanian (the other Vasconic language that went extinct) might have once been related to languages like Minoan (another isolate), Etruscan or even the Caucasian languages. The thing is, it's so far removed that's it's impossible to make a connection and we'll probably never know, unless some Divine evidence emerges. This is possibly what happened with Caucasian languages, the three families may have once been related but split apart, but it's not proven. Burushaski may have indeed been related to Yeniseian, and I've actually seen a pretty good argument that Japanese and Korean were likely related around 5000 years ago, but many modern linguists state they're separate language families

@andycockrum1212

5 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages Dené-Caucasian as in Dené, the endonym for the Navajo people? I’ve never heard of this proposed family. I may have to read up on why they think it may be theoretically possible. Proto-Koreanic being a language family has always confused me too.

@CheLanguages

4 ай бұрын

that's precisely the theory, links were found between the Yeniseian languages and Dene, which originally lead to the Dene-Yeniseian theory. This has evolved into the Dene-Caucasian language family theory which includes soooo many more languages and is much more far-fetched.@@andycockrum1212

Burushahski have sny connection with the american continent?

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

I don't think so, but some people who believe in the Dené-Caucasian language family think so

I love ket I have a small discord server with loads of ket resources if anyone is interested

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

I don't think the phrase "I love Ket" is the smartest thing to say out loud, but I'd certainly be interested in that server!

I quite like the P'urhépecha flag.

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

The colors are nice

@samuelgibson780

4 ай бұрын

All flags look cool in their own way. Vexillology!

@CheLanguages

4 ай бұрын

I can agree for the most part, some are unique, even if ugly@@samuelgibson780

What a time to be in Israel...

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Sadly, at least I got out in time

Sandawe

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Sandawe

@AvrahamYairStern

5 ай бұрын

Sandawe

@QuandaleDingleGoofyAhh123

5 ай бұрын

Sandawe