coming back to this vid because of the latest one about the forgotten romance languages, I have a book about Romansh which contains the story about the fox in both Rumantsch-Grischun and the dialects. I'll transcribe a couple (Sursilvan and Vallader, tho the book contains more) here so you can see the difference with the standard then post the translation Vallader: La vuolp d'eira darcheu üna jada fomantada. Qua ha'la vis sün ün pin ün corv chi tgnaiva ün toc chaschöl in seus pical. Quai am gustess, ha'la pensà, ed ha clomà al corv : "che bel cha tü est ! Scha teis chant es uschè bel sco tia apparentscha, lura est tü il plü bel utschè da tuost". Sursilvan: L'uolp era puspei inagada fomentada. Cheu ha ella viu sin pegn in tgaper che teneva in toc caschiel en siu bec. Quei gustass a mi, ha ella tertgau, ed ha clamau al tgaper : "Tgei bi che ti eis ! Sche tiu cant ei aschi bials sco tia cumparsa, lu eis ti il pli bi utschi da tuts". Translation (from French): The fox was once more starving. There he saw on a pine tree a crow holding a piece of cheese in its beak. That seems tasty, he thought, and shouted at the crow: "how beautiful you are! If your song was as beautiful as your looks, then you'd be the most beautiful bird of all." Both of those dialects are the most different from one another if I remember correctly

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for researching this! It really demonstrates how the dialects of Romansh differ from one another widely!

@ronscott8708

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La Corveau et le Renard. Par Jean de la Fontaine. I learned the poem in French when I was in high school, and can still recite it decades later.

@olgaroche2929

Ай бұрын

I am Romanian and amazed how close to Romanian is! ❤

Napoleon's native language was Corsican, and he spoke French with a very heavy Corsican accent. Just a fun fact.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

It is true, he was born Napoleon Buonaparte.

@mihanich

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Corsican is the closest relative to the Tuscan dialect, which is the basis for the standard Italian. in other words you could say Napoleone was Italian.

@P45K141N3N

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@@mihanich you indeed could. If you wan't to start a new shit storm on the internet

@mihanich

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@@P45K141N3N well Corsican for some reason is considered a separate language, while in reality it's much closer to Standard Italian than many "dialects" within Italy. If you ask me, "Napoleone Buonaparte" sounds Italian af

@ValeriusMagni

Жыл бұрын

@@mihanich dialects that are really languages

Perhaps one of the reasons Italy took so long to unify was that the entire peninsula was a Tower of Babbel with each city state having its own distinct dialect. In other words, the Italians, Sicilians, and Sardinians simply couldn't understand each other. Tutto pazzo, si?

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Kinda right to an extent. Though Latin was always used as a lingua franca and Toscano became a literary language because of Aligheri and Machiavelli, which is why later Standard Italian was based off of Tuscan.

@ValeriusMagni

Жыл бұрын

Sicillians and sardinian are italian

Some details about Corsican. To begin with, modern Corsican is completely different from Old Corsican, which was close to Sardinian, but went extinct when Pisa took control of the island. Corsican is therefore very close to dialects from Tuscany, and then from standard Italian. This is why Corsican and Italian speakers usually unterstand each other very well, even if Corsican has some singularities (like mutant consonants). There are two main families of Corsican dialects, one spoken in the north of Corsica and one in the south of Corsica and the north of Sardinia. I only know one spelling of Ajaccio in Corsican, which is Aiacciu, and one pronunciation (exactly like an Italian would read this name). However, I know other examples of Corsican cities that can have several pronunciations (Bastia can be pronounced like an Italian word but the "s" can also be pronounced like a "sh") or even several spellings (Propriano for example, I already saw it written "Prupià", "Pruprià" or even "Prubbia").

As a romanian i find Megleno-Romanian very interesting because i can understand 95% of it when i hear it spoken. The accent is heavy but sounds very similar to the romanian spoken in the western regions like Banat and Oltenia (to a lesser degree) because of the tendency to not vocalize certain vowels and the replacement of E with I ("di" and "ros" from the sentence in the video are spoken the same in those regions, while standard romanian would be "de" and "rosu"). It's so similar because they disconnected from the main eastern romance body much later than aromanians.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

That's interesting that you can still understand it.

@jus_sanguinis

2 жыл бұрын

Bro, its funny when Romanians say that only they have kept name "Rome" while there are living Romansh and Ladin peoples... And Ladins are even more true Romans because it was Latins (Italic tribe), who later started calling themselves "Romans". P.S. In fact Romanians, Romansh people and Ladins have they ethnonyms not because they are direct descendants of Romans (first ones are Dacians and two others are Celto-Germanics), but because they speak "Roman" aka "Latin".

@bcchiriac4512

2 жыл бұрын

@@jus_sanguinis And don't forget the Dalmatian language since it was very similar to the Latin language and not the Slavic languages which further proves about the Slavic migration after the end of the Roman Empire and the start of the Byzantine Empire. It is like connecting the pieces together like puzzles of the missing link when placed and laps next to each other it makes a lot more sense! And as the Dalmatian language died out due to Slavic influence, Romanian language became separated from other sister romance languages along with Aromanian language, another proof that they were once part of the Roman Empire's language influence.

@fabiandanesti1497

2 жыл бұрын

@@jus_sanguinis we consider them all Romanians

@ppn194

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages YOU ARE SUCH A BIG IDIOT to think that Aromanian , Istroromanian and Meglenoromania are such different from Romania to be suprised that these can be understood by Romanians... SHIT !

It's really interesting learning about the more obscure languages of the world.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

I agree! I am glad other people think so too, there is definitely no shortage of these sorts of languages either so stay tuned for many more videos like this in the future (if enough people like them)!

Really cool fact for you, there's an amazing video game called Mundaun set in the Swiss Alps with in-game dialogue spoken entirely in Romansh! It's a story really steeped in local culture and a beautifully made game, and really fun

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

That sounds like a cool and interactive way to get people into language revival, let's do the same for Dalmatian!

Thank you for including Romansh (which I'm currently learning) :) I've just a few notes for you: Swiss German differs significantly from High German (as it is rather an Alemannic dialect), whereas the French and Italian spoken in Switzerland correspond to the standard languages spoken in their neighbouring countries. Also the story you chose is "The fox and the crow" by Aesop (la vulp e il corv)...no wolves involved. ;)

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

I know about the mistake with the wolves, I have said to several people that I get Wolf and Fox mixed up in Romance Languages and I don't know why I do, maybe it is because Wolf and Volpo seem too similar to me?! I know Swissgerman is very different to standard German, but Italian and French in Switzerland are also slightly different I believe? Which dialect of Romansh are you learning?

@chiaranapolitano7605

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages Thanks for your prompt reply. I hadn't noticed the other comments about the fox, sorry. However, French and Italian are exactly the same as in France and Italy, exept for a few words/regionalisms. I'm half Swiss Italian, half Swiss German, I studied in Fribourg (bilingual curriculum French/German) and I'm currently studying Rumantsch Vallader. Other than that, I also speak English, Spanish and Japanese. A true Swiss polyglot ;) What is your background?

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

@@chiaranapolitano7605 how did you get into Japanese? I have heard Swiss French uses a better system for numbers than standard French. My languages are, in no order of ability: English, Latin, Spanish, Esperanto, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese and Afrikaans.

@chiaranapolitano7605

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages I just love Asian countries and Japan in particular, so I started learning Japanese. But I must admit that it's quite hard, since there is no common ground with any other language that I know. I don't speak Portuguese, for instance, but knowing other Romance languages helps me understand it. The same goes for Dutch or Yiddish (knowing German and Swiss German). Yes, the French counting system is hilariously convoluted (70 is soixante-dix, or sixty-ten, and 90 is quatre-vingt-dix, or four-twenty-ten), whereas the Swiss version makes more sense (septante, huitante, nonante), but other than that, they are the same. :)

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

@@chiaranapolitano7605 I might be interested in learning Korean someday. I thought there would be more differences than that with Swiss French but fair enough.

Many years ago, I became interested in Romansh, and learned that it had a small literature. The oldest surviving work of any size is Chianzun dalla guerra dagl Chiaste da Müs, an epic poem written in 1527. But other than some not very interesting religious writing, most of what survives is folk material which has a distinct focus on the subject of cows ---- poems about cows, songs about cows, tales about cows, riddles involving cows, and various cow-oriented proverbs. Towards the end of the 19th century, serious poets began to appear, and their works struck out into broader horizons, with not quite so many cows. A few years ago, I discovered that an elderly woman in my neighbourhood here in Toronto, Canada, was born in Graubünden and grew up speaking Romansh as a child. I asked her about the distinctive subject matter of the Romansch classics, and she replied: "Well, we just like cows."

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Who doesn't like cows?! That's a really fascinating story. I'm actually part of a discord server aimed at the revival of Romansh, though I'm not very active in it myself. If you like I could forward the information to you?

Megleno-Romanian, Istro-Romanian and Aromanian are considered by some as the only dialects of Romanian being so close in grammar and large part of the vocabulary, while the (slightly) different way of speaking in various parts of Romania are called "graiuri" (voices) of Romanian

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

They branched off way before Romanian, but it's interesting to see (or hear, rather) the intelligebility between them.

@user-jl7te8dy7c

2 жыл бұрын

٦مص😆☺️☺️💜💜💜💜

@fabiandanesti1497

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages actually ...no , search on google, Romanian is 1700-1800 years old, what did u think we spawned 200 years ago from no where?xD

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

@@fabiandanesti1497 Romanian comes from Latin, the language only started developing as its own language about 1,200 years ago.

@ppn194

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages IDIOT !!!!! How is possible that each idiot like you start to speak about issues out of his mere inteligence. What you say abou is pure cancel culture !

I have Romansch grammar/dictionary/phrase book and am pleasantly surprised at how easy it seems to be to me as a French speaker. Great channel!

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Do you live in Switzerland?

@thomasruhm1677

2 жыл бұрын

Just yesterday I decided to listen to Radio Rumantsch more often. I have been looking into this language again and again for many years, and I hope I can start a little revival in my area.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

@@thomasruhm1677 That's amazing! Revive Romansh to a national level and supplant Italian, French and Swissgerman!!!

@thomasruhm1677

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages Alright. Will you help me? I am working on another language revival already, so I have some practice.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

@@thomasruhm1677 Email me.

You should do a video about the spread of the Indo-European languages and how they branched off into their own families

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

That's certainly a good idea, a Based history of the Indo-European Languages is always an interesting story to tell.

Hi! Really nice video, I didn't know a lot of these languages. I'm Corsican, I can tell you that depending on which region you come from, it's pretty hard to understand the text you posted 🤣 I am from the north of the island and this text is in south Corsican language and seeing the double ds and the fact there are no "e" at the end of the words, I would say it's a version closer to Sartè, which is one of the city of the southern mountains. And believe me, sometimes we understand better Italian than our different dialects 😅 Great job on your searches 👍😁

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

On my visit I was well aware of the dialects. It was not until I researched for this video until I realised just how different they are from one another! Apparently, this is the Ajaccio dialect, but I guess you will probably know better being a native speaker after all!

THANK YOU!!!!! Yes, part 3 please.

Very interesting! I love seeing and hearing about the languages/ dialects.

AMAZING video! Your channel is going to be so huge! There are a lot of language lovers in the world who are thrilled by obscure & exotic tongues. Please do a video about Dalmatian! The ancient Ragusan language was once a prestige dialect. The last speaker died in the early 1900s, (I think) a postman, Tuone Udaina. He learned Vegliot Dalmatian from listening to his parents speaking it on the Adriatic island of Krk. 😊

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

I did, watch my recent video "3 Language Revival Movements", I talk about it in detail there! I'm glad you enjoyed the video, have a great day!!!

Wow thank you for making these videos! I'm learning more about this obscure languages!

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

No, thank you for joining the channel! Which was your favourite language from this list, or from the other video for that matter?

Gascon speaker here. Well, Aranese is definitely part of Gascon. Of course it might not be very similar to the northern Gascon dialects, but is extremely close to the other dialects of "Mountain Gascon" (Gascon Montanhòu). I mean, it's a continuum. Thanks for mentioning Aranese :)

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Ja, dialects vs languages can be blurry and Gascon itself is sometimes just grouped in with Occitan. Aranese speakers themselves identify as speaking Aranese which gives it a bit more legitimacy.

@sevanrakon7461

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages Sure, identity is even something else :)

Vera good Jobim, Again! Way to go!

Loved this video!!! Very informative!!! 😁😁

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

I am glad that you enjoyed it and found it intriguing!

Thanks, enjoyed this very much and have subscribed for more. As a linguist yourself, though, don't forget that something is unique, or it is not; it can never be slightly unique! Looking forward to your next video.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Good point. I am training to be a linguist and desire to study linguistics at University, so I am not a professional linguist yet I must add. Only amateur.

The sample text for monegasque is the anthem of monaco, as an asian learning some french i understand a little

@tsunderenekokun

2 жыл бұрын

Also when u said ladin i thought u meant judeo spanish lol

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

@@tsunderenekokun I speak Ladino, so it always throws me up too! Ladin obviously comes from Latin, so does Ladino too but we don't call it Ladino but "Djudeo-Espanyol" instead.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Also, I didn't know that was the anthem, awesome!

Hi! I'm very interested in minority Romance languages, because they help you to get an idea of ​​how diverse and unique the culture of the people who speak them is, and I am very willing to learn one or several minority Romance languages ​​of Europe, and since I already speak a Romance language, that would not be difficult for me; what would be difficult for me, though, would be the availability of resources and content in the language. I already speak Spanish 🇲🇽🇪🇸 (native language), English 🇺🇲🇬🇧 (second language) and Portuguese 🇵🇹🇧🇷, and I attempt to learn French 🇫🇷, Italian 🇮🇹, Catalan 🇦🇩, Romanian 🇷🇴🇲🇩 and other minority languages such as Occitan, Romansh, Ligurian, Romagnolo, Sardinian, Neapolitan, Sicilian, etc., to contribute to their preservation and to enrich myself with new knowledge, because I am convinced that the more languages ​​one knows, the better. I personally believe that languages ​​are the most beautiful tool that us as human beings have to express our thoughts and feelings, and they are all equally beautiful in their own way. Your channel is excellent and your content very enjoyable to me👌 Greetings from Mexico 🇲🇽♥️!

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

The Romance languages are my favorite branch of the Indo-European language family and I speak a few of them myself, pero mi español no es perfecto jaja, no practique en un tiempo grande. I'm partially ethnically Sardinian (watch my DNA test video) and I'm considering studying a bit of Sardinian, though sadly the material is not very widely available

I enjoyed this video. I have subscribed. Thanks.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

That is good to hear. Which one was your favourite from the list?

Good content dude. This is quickly becoming one of my favourite linguistics channels

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Great to hear, thank you!

If you do a video for the romance lenguage in Italy, u’ll have so much to talk about lol. In Italy there are like nearly 15 romance microlenguages (venetian, lombardian, friulan, piedmontese, ligurian, langue d’oc, etc… just in the north)

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Don't worry man, there will be plenty more on Italian languages.

@ValeriusMagni

Жыл бұрын

Just in north?

Really learnt about eastern romance (and those in Dalmatia) languages in your last one and megalo-romanian in this one, I only knew about Romanian, Aromanian, and Dalmatian (rip), amazing how many romance languages there are I know this list is limited to 5 languages but I feel Arpitan needs a bit more attention, many people in my region (Romandie) don't even know what it is! And maybe Castelmezzano in southern Italy but I can hardly find any info about it unfortunately

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

I have never heard about Arpitan nor Castelmezzano. They will certainly appear on my next list!

Aranese!!! I can understand aranese without problems as I speak Catalan and occitan/lengadocian. Aranese is like a catalanized version of Gascon. I'd see occitan is like a macro-language

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Yeah, viewing Occitan that way is perhaps more accurate

Which one did you find most interesting? Thank you for the support on the previous video and special thanks to 'gazoontight' as I mention in the video. Stay tuned for more content in the future!

@gazoontight

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for making a second video.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

@@gazoontight no problem, I enjoyed the research very much

@xolang

2 жыл бұрын

I find Megleno-Romanian most interesting. Thank you very much for the video and greetings from 🇮🇩!

@QuizmasterLaw

2 жыл бұрын

" this content is to help people whom are getting into languages" is thism a trapm?

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

@@QuizmasterLaw what do you mean? A trap into getting people interested in language? My content is by no means meant to pressure nor trap anyone, but merely to inspire and educate those who are interested in such matters.

This is the most unique language channel on KZread!❤

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I hope to grow the channel even more so more people can share the interest for languages

I loved how they had the word toc for beak, and in Romanian is cioc, so sounds really similar.

the english pronunciation of Ajaccio just shocked me, just as the french one actually. We in Italy say AY-YACH-CHO

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

I get confused every single time because there is the French, Corsican and Italian way. I want to say "Ayachio" but I remember it sounding like "Ajakio" when I went there, so I really do not know how to say it without alienating one language or another. Maybe we should go back to calling it Adiacivm!

@ibnenkigalileo9256

2 жыл бұрын

The Italian pronunciation of Paris (Parigi) just shocked me. We in France say PA-GHI

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

@@ibnenkigalileo9256 I didn't even say Parigi

@massimolisoni4990

2 жыл бұрын

@@ibnenkigalileo9256 wat 😂

@user-pk9qo1gd6r

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages The Corsican pronounciation is almost the same as the Italian one: It's Aiacciu with an u at the end, but the rest of it is pronounced identically: It's /a'jatʃu/ or a-YAH-tchu In French it's pronounced /aʒaksjo/, and I don't know of any language or dialect where it would pe pronounced as you describe. Maybe you missed out on the 's' in the French pronounciation?

Love this second part as much as the first. I’d be very interested if you were to do similar with Germanic languages. Thank you!

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

I did, check out my channel, you'll see I did the same with Germanic, Slavic and Uralic languages

Yes, great video!👍

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! You might like the other ones too

Living less than 50 km (~ 30 mi) from the "Principatu de Mu̍negu" I was very interested by the part about Monegasque. I hope the language will survive.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

I hope it survives too! It is a dialect of Genoese/Ligurian, but it should be taught and enforced more in Monaco rather than just French, which is not historical in Monaco.

"France is good at protecting minority languages" hahahaha tell me this was a joke. French has only french as official language and has not sign the protective act for minority languages. Due to this most of minor languages in france are currently dying off...

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

I meant the Corsican Autonomous Community as they are doing a very good job at preserving Corsican. On the mainland however, it is different. I mentioned this in another comment a minute ago, but Occitan is in sharp decline thanks to modern France's preservation programme.

@chewsawyeng4153

Ай бұрын

Yeah! France is not a protectorate to minor languages, they just want all other languages out of their world! But! Fortunately, they lose! To English! What they intention is fail !

I believe Corsican is generally accepted by linguists to be an Italian dialect akin to Tuscan dialects on the nearby mainland. Corsica was acquired from the state of Genoa by France in the eighteenth century not so many years before the upheavals of the French Revolution and the subsequent rise to power of the Corsican , Napoleon Bonapart aka Napoleone Buonaparte. We have here again the issue of when a dialect becomes a language.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Remember how many dialects Corsican itself has for a such a small island! I believe when a "dialect" gains dialects of its own, it's probably a language. Can a Corsican speaker who speaks no Modern Standard Italian understand Italian though?

@thomaswhite6866

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages You pose an interesting question. We must remember the concepts of mutual intelligibility and language continuum. I am not aware of clear agreed definitions of variant, dialect and language, which do not take into account non-linguistic variables like history, geography and statehood. The few examples of written and spoken Corsican, that have come to my attention suggest to me as a speaker of Italian that they are on the Italian language continuum.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

@@thomaswhite6866 well, that's an interesting take. I plan on making a video on this subject far in the future when I've read far more about it because it's such a difficult question to answer.

As Soldier said Romanians do understand Megleno-Romanians more than the other Eastern Romance groups. The Reason why Romanians understand Megleno-Romanian more than Aromanian is that Romanian and Aromanian split during the Slavic conquest of the Balkans while Megleno-Romanian and Romanian split in the 12th century after Emperor Alexios I settle some Romanians and Cumans from North of the Danube there (from the Prin Mountains to where they live now) after one of his campaigns against the Cumans. Megleno-Romanians are also split into 2 groups Megleno-Romanians (N Macedonia and Greece) and Muslims from Nantana (Turkey) the difference between them is religion as one is Orthodox while the other is Muslim.

@falxus9962

2 жыл бұрын

Si cei din Nantana mai vorbesc dialectul megleno-roman?? Stii ceva?

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting!

🔥🔥Muy interesante, me gustaría ver una parte tres

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Gracias.

Interesting video, just like the first one about the lesser known Romance languages. And I don’t know if you did it on purpose, but I quite like that regarding Romansh you wrote about regular speakers rather that native speakers. Apparently, the official standard form of Romansh (Rumantsch Grischun) is a relatively young/recent artificial blend of the main dialects (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romansh_language?wprov=sfti1). It appears to be not very popular compared to the dialects.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

For both Corsican and Romansh, I was surprised but pleased to see the amount of dialects. People often think of languages as being an homogenous form of speech but no, people speak them in slightly different ways and I am fascinated by that, especially as they will later turn into their own language.

KZread's algorithm recommended this video. I'm glad it did.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Good to know the Al-Gorithm works for my videos, thanks!

I love linguistics. Subscribed

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

That's good to hear, let me know if there is anything in particular that you would like to see covered in a future video?

The Romansh text is a translation of the famous French fable by Jean de la Fontaine: "The raven and the fox".

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Yes I believe so

Id be interested in a video on the greek influenced languages that became as such by the Romans. From what I understand Roman Egypt spoke a lot of greek and it was the language of the eastern Roman empire in general. Obviously there had been many long lasting greek and greek speaking macedonian empires all through the region.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

So like, Koine Greek?

You could add Savoyard and also explain the 30 plus languages or dialects in Italy, Normandy has its own dialect.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Savoyard, never heard of it? I'm going to look that one up.

8:37 isn't it a fragment of a fairy tale about the wolf and the crow - in which the wolf provoked the crow to speak up and thus to loose a piece of food which it had been keeping in his peak?

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I realise that now, as I said to someone else the other day, I often get Wolf and Fox mixed up in Romance Languages and I don't know why.

Romansh. I’m not a speaker. I am guessing that _vulp_ is not a wolf but a fox [vulpes, Latin]. And it was hungry _fomentada_ [infometat, Romanian]. Later a crow _corv_ [corvus, latin] appears in the story. And it is holding _tegneva_ [tenere, Italian] _chaschiel_ cheese [caseum, Latin; qeso, Spanish]. So this must be the Story of Crow and the Fox. Edit: after posting, I have read @darkkestrel1's message 🙂

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Vulp is fox yes, it was simply my mistake. Thank you for your comment and I hope you enjoyed the video!

Had to grin about your pronunciation of Ajaccio. Hint: the two Cs are pronounced separately. The first one is followed by a consonant, so is pronounced "hard", the second one is followed by a "bright" vowel, so is pronounced "soft". At least in French it is; I haven't found anything about Corsican.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

In Italian, ccio would be pronounced "ch(y)o" despite the first c not being succeeded by a "bright" vowel. Italians would pronounce it Ayachio, French would say Azhaxio and in English it would be Adjaxio. However, I seem to remember a really odd pronunciation in the Corsican language itself, it was something like Adjakio.

2:17 - "plín" seems to resemble a Slavic word "plný" (here - in the Slovak language; I'm not sure how it looks like in the South Slavic languages) which means "full". So it may have derived from Latin or may have been a Slavic trace. Or perhaps the Slavic and the Latin words are cognates.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

My guess what that it came from Latin "plena" meaning "full", where we get "plenty" from in English, but there is also a possiblilty that you are correct.

@HeroManNick132

2 жыл бұрын

Full in South Slavic languages is: Bulgarian - пълен (pŭlen) Macedonian - полн Serbo-Croatian - пун/pun Slovene - poln (just like Macedonian but in Latin written instead)

@user-pk9qo1gd6r

2 жыл бұрын

It's also полный (polny) in Russian. I checked on wiktionary and they are all indeed cognates, but the connexion goes back all the way to Proto-Indo-European, and the same root word gave full in English.

Make a video on occitan! Please

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

It will be on Part 3 thanks to you!

Enjoyable video.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

The second Meglenoromanian sentence means" There is only one sorrel (litt. "red") horse in the middle, but it is limping".

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, that rings a bell as the original sentence!

N.B.: I only have a Bachelor's in philology. My higher level professional academic work is in another field. That said, when I first started studying languages, I realized that the field model of physics adapts very well. A group of related languages evolves continuously in time, space, and register. Where one cuts off to say "This is another language," remains entirely arbitrary.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

You're right, it can certainly he very arbitrary

Considering your channel’s logo is a Hebrew letter, I think you should make a video about Semitic languages 😊

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

All in good time. The reason my profile picture is the letter צ (Tzadi) is because my name, Ché, would be spelled צ'ה in Hebrew. But it is not my Hebrew name per sé.

In sicilian all words finish like in romanian by "u" 🇷🇴 we know everything, also the definite article exactly as in old romanian: ăl om, a femeie, ăi bărbați, ăle case, same language... al uomo, alla donna, agli uomini, alle case... une enigme et un miracle historique le peuple roumain 🤣 borrowed many slavic words true

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting...

@fueyo2229

3 ай бұрын

In Asturian also all masculine words end by "u" so that was familiar

i actually know about the existence of all five of these and even about the extinct varients such as African Romance and Pannonian Romance

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Nice

@ValeriusMagni

Жыл бұрын

Mozarabic, dalmatian and the one spoken in Britannia Romana

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@ValeriusMagni Dalmatian features in my videos, sadly we don't know much about the British Romance language. Also did you know some Spanish converts to Islam are trying to revive both Mozarabic and Andalusi Arabic today?

@ValeriusMagni

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages no i don't know but it would be cool to revive some romance languages

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@ValeriusMagni Certainly!

That prayer in Aranese looks to me like the "lord's prayer" found in the book of Matthew 6:9-13. Very good passage to use to compare romance languages, as it's very recognizable in romance speaking cultures!

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Ja I think it is the L-rd's Prayer because it was the same prayer in my last video and it is used on that website (Language Museum I think it is called). I don't want to get it wrong however and offend some Christians.

@janmelantu7490

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah the form of noster as the second word is a dead giveaway.

Really enjoyed your video and thanks for the visibility you’re giving to these languages :) Just one comment about the French language policy. France is probably one of the worst countries in Europe when it comes to preserving regional languages. It has done everything it could to eradicate them from its territory (they were considered as a threat for the unity of the French country, pretty much since the French Revolution). The language policy has now changed (even if it is still pretty much against regional languages: for instance, immersive schools has been considered unconstitutional few years ago and it seems almost impossible to save these languages without those schools) but isn’t enough at all to make up for the damage that has been done before. I’m telling you this as a French person and a Provençal speaker (dialect of occitan). Most of our regional languages are endangered and will probably die before next century if a strong preservation policy isn’t taken soon. The languages might survive for some time but with no more native speakers. The case of Corsican is a bit special and the situation is better than Occitan for example but Corsican had and have still to fight in order to have their language recognized on different levels (administration, medias…). Sorry for this HUGE text in advance 😂

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

If you watch my part 3 and 4 to this series, you'll find I talk more about France's policy. It really is sad, especially Corsican which I don't believe should be part of France anyway. I think it's the 3rd part where I talk about Provençal

@jimmymasse6194

Жыл бұрын

Sorry I haven’t watched the other videos. Thank you so much for what you’re doing/ Gramaci pèr ço que fas !

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@jimmymasse6194 no problem. I hope you enjoy the channel!

Bom conteúdo, gostei 👍🏿

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Obrigado!

Just to nitpick a bit, Switzerland has 3 official languages - German (not Swiss-German), French, and Italian. Romansh is a NATIONAL language, but not an OFFICIAL language, although it is on the paper money.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

I have heard it has 4 official languages from many sources, but if you are Swiss then you probably know better than me 😂

@istdochalbern

2 жыл бұрын

It is an official language in contact with Rumantsch speakers. You can write to the government in Rumantsch and they have to answer in Rumantsch.

Afro-Romance has been fascinating to me tbh

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Same here!

@yellowplate4539

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages btw you should really cover that topic

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

@@yellowplate4539 I think I will make a separate video on it rather than put it on Part 3, because with these videos, I am trying to highlight these still living languages, whereas Dalmatian and Afro-Romance deserve their own videos as dead languages.

@yellowplate4539

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages mm ok

Part 3 of this series

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Don't worry boet, it's coming!

@626abrego

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages thank you, I will be waiting for this video

not sure what compelled the algorithm to bless me with this video but im glad it did-hope your channel takes off! for anyone that complains about different languages being only dialects, I recommend this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/jJ-buryJXZCehKg.html (disclosure: that video is mine lol)

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

I will watch that video when I get back home. It's good to know that the Al Gore rhythm is working and spreading my videos!

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Nice video! I have Subscribed, perhaps we could collab in the future and help you get a bigger audience? The boundaries between language and dialect are always a tough one that causes debate, I found your outlook interesting. Also I am sorry for my terrible algortihm pun.

Its funny when Romanians say that only they have kept name "Rome" while there are living Romansh and Ladin peoples... And Ladins are even more true Romans because it was Latins (Italic tribe), who later started calling themselves "Romans". P.S. In fact Romanians, Romansh people and Ladins have they ethnonyms not because they are direct descendants of Romans (first ones are Dacians and two others are Celto-Germanics), but because they speak "Roman" aka "Latin".

@RoderickVI

2 жыл бұрын

Funny detail: before the Franks invaded the Gallo-Roman spoken in France was called Romanz. Equally, Occitan/Catalan was called Romans.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

@@RoderickVI Romanz is where we get our word 'romance' from today, regarding to love and not to beautiful languages spread across Europe.

@ValeriusMagni

Жыл бұрын

Raeti not celto germanic

what is interesting to me is how small just a few thousands a group of speakers for a specific language can be. I believe this where human population should be, not millions.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

It is indeed fascinating. I have heard that about 70% of the world's languages have under 100 speakers.

@ericastier1646

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages Wow even more astounding. I am for keeping local specificities and against globalism and the current floating currency model that is directly stealing value before it exists.

Enjoying the videos... But did I hear you say that France is quite good at preservation of regional languages?

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

I don't remember saying that, I remember saying that Portugal is. Can you find where I said France is, because as far as I know they let half of them die out and don't even recognise the other half.

@Ajax020Paris

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages I am French and you are completely right, it is a pity really

@Alejojojo6

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages 9:35 is when you said it.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

@@Alejojojo6 ohh there. I meant tge Corsican Autonomous Community, they are good at preserving Corsican. But on the mainland, I would disagree. Occitan, Breton, Provençal etc. Are being badly preserved in France.

you should do an episode about American latin languages or dialects.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Maybe I should

I think you say that France is good at preserving protected languages, referring to Corsican.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Oh this is video two, of course. Well maybe not France itself, but the autonomous Corsican province puts heavy emphasis unto preserving the Corsican dialects, or at least that is certainly the impression I got when I went there and I heard a few people say that when I talked to them about the Corsican language.

4:23 Looks like Vietnamese a bit. :D

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Ja I see where you are coming from lol.

As lenguas romances mais faladas e conhecidas são: espanhol, portugués, francés e o rumeno. Le lingue d'origine romaniche più parlate e note sono: spagnolo, portoghese, franceses e rumeno

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Sim

!! In Ajaccio, they speak Catalan!!! But maybe that is just a large minority there!

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Yes, it's spread about in both Corsica and Sardinia

6:48

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

What about it?

i do wanna say, france is not actually good at preversing languages, kinda has a history of imposing french over anything the main reason it still has so many regional languages is that it's a more recent policy corsican is doing well mainly because of corsican nationalists trying to revive it alsatian is a good example, as is basque (in france)

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

In part 3 and 4 I talk about how bad France is at this, I am well aware. Did I say they were in this video?

What about Anatolia?

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

I have a video on the Anatolian Languages if that's what you're asking?

@elemparador

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages i was wondering about Romance languages spoken in Anatolia.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

@@elemparador ohhhI I see. Basically no, Greek was used their by the Roman Empire as Latin never really got a hold of the East except for Romania and the Balkans

@elemparador

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages not even Constantinople or around of it?

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

@@elemparador no, it was primarily Greek speaking city, there would have been bilingual Latin and Greek speakers of course, but Greek was used in everyday life and administrative matters in the Eastern parts of the Empire.

I WISH there were 150K speakers of Corsican on the island... Right now the language is almost no longer spoken on a daily basis, except by older people. If the situation does not change, Corsican is expected to go extinct before the end of the century. Several factors can explain this : - The French government tried to get rid of the language since centuries and families were encouraged to only speak french to their children (even though the situation has changed there is still a despise from a certain part of the French elite and population towards regional languages. - Immigration from mainland France and other countries, with several thousands of people arriving every year in Corsica, diluting more and more what is remaining of the Corsican people.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

If there is ever a bigger movement for Corsican independence or if they rejoined Italy, Corsican and its dialects would almost certain gain a big revival. Go out there and learn it if you don't speak it already, and encourage your friends to speak in Corsican too!

@Eteriaa

2 жыл бұрын

It's so sad to see these centenary languages be eradicated by some foreign government that simply doesn't care about the history, culture and identity bound to these languages - or, in fact, even tries to suppress them on purpose. As a Catalan speaker, I also fear that, after more than 300 of Spanish pressure and sometimes even oppression, this century may see the end of my language. I hope that Corsican, along with all other minorized languages, will one day be able to impose themselves in their respective native regions, coexisting without having to fear of being replaced.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

@@Eteriaa Luckily, Catalan has a very big movement behind it with the Catalonian independence movement but also the preservation of the language, I very much doubt it will die out but rather become stronger in the next 100 years because of the determination of Catalan speakers.

@Eteriaa

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages That's true. Most Catalan speakers I know, myself included, are indeed determined to preserve the language. However, you also have to consider that the Catalan countries - that is, Catalan-speaking regions - have received a large influx of migrants from all around Spain and even South America. Since these migrants are speakers of Spanish, most simply kept on speaking Spanish without bothering to learn Catalan, given that most Catalan speakers also know Spanish. Evidently, this means that the percentage of Catalan speakers has decreased significantly, especially in regions where immigration was more prominent, such as Barcelona. The real danger here is that Catalan will no longer be used as a vernacular language, and will instead be relegated to family or close friends. In fact, the situation in Barcelona is so dire that there are occurrences of Catalan speakers talking in Spanish to other Catalan speakers, because when talking to a stranger there is no risk of not being understood if you use Spanish. The recent migrant waves that arrived in Europe haven't helped the situation very much, as migrants coming to Spain will learn Spanish by default. Of course, some also go through the effort of learning Catalan as well, and I am very thankful for that, but sadly they are the exception rather than the rule. Independence-wise, there's a majority in favour, although a slight one. Even then, Spain still refuses to negotiate to have a deal with the referendum and the EU, who could act as a mediator, has shown no interest in leading one of its member states into a situation that could potentially mean the separation of a region from the member state. Despite all that happened, I feel like we are still in a deadlock. Immigration also has affected this aspect of Catalonia, since some of the motives to the independentist movement are based on the preservation of Catalan language and culture, and not only economy as some would want you to believe. It goes without saying that someone who has no connection to our language and culture, and that doesn't identify him/herself as Catalan will likely not support independence, meaning that the slight edge in favour may be lost in the coming years. I really hope you are right when you say Catalan will become stronger - maybe the integration strategies and normalization of the language pushed by the Catalan government will make these newcomers also want to defend this language that is so dear to us. I guess only time will tell. By the way, thanks for the great content. Keep up the good work!

can you do a reseach on "rumeika" spoken in north turkey. Im not really sure wether its a romance or greek language (spoken in biz.empire), or maybe it is native to that place before turks came. Thanks.

@petrosts9846

2 жыл бұрын

It's definitely a greek dialect. Modern Greeks used to self-identify as Romans (Romioi) for many centuries before the creation of the modern greek state and used to call the greek dialects that they spoke rumeika/romeika. For the modern Greeks, christian Aromanians and Meglenoromanians were Romans (Romioi) as well, but they spoke "vlachika" (Vlach language).So rumeika is a greek dialect and the eastern romance languages and dialects were called "vlachika".

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, Petros is right.

These languages must have once been much more similar, perhaps much more like Latin. There's no way the Romans could have successfully carried out commerce and ruled their empire with such diverse languages being spoken in each region. They would have needed to be much more similar languages at one point. Perhaps they diversified away from Latin after the fall of the Roman empire, more influenced by the original languages of those regions changing these languages from Latin to what they are today. However, at one point, the main language being spoken in those regions under the Roman Empire must have been much more similar to Latin than what has evolved in those regions in the centuries since. Even for those of us who are multilingual speaking more than 2 or 3 of these Romance languages, we see that despite their similarities they are virtually unintelligible from one another to those that have not studied any other Romance language. Also, speaking 2-3 of these languages doesn't make it any easier to understand a 4th or 5th Romance language. They are that different.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

You are right, whilst the Western Roman Empire was still alive, these were all mutually intelligible dialects, though we know that those dialectal variations existed thanks to the writings of certain Roman authors such as Horatius and Augustinius. Classical Latin as we know it wasn't necessarily spoken on the streets of Rome though, it was a prestige language used for official documents and speeches, a formal language as you might want to put it, whereas the everyday Roman spoke much more casually.

But romance is not the same as italic right?. Is there any italic language alive which is not romance?

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Technically no, but there are no other Italic languages alive other than Latin so to say Romance/Italic are the same is not Technically wrong either

Romansh has 5 quite different dialects. The Swiss government, in an effort to preserve the language, created a standardized version of Romansh, but because it's nobody's mother tongue, it's not gotten much traction.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I've heard this. Since I made this video over a year ago, some Romansh speakers got in touch with me and added me to a Romansh revival Discord server. Though I'm not very active, I have spent time on it learning more about the language and it's dialects. The group wants to recognize the dialects but 'revive' the standardized verzion as the new Romansh language. The admin is raising one of his children to speak it I believe

Poor Viktor 🤓

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

I feel a bit mean when I look back on this video. I wonder if he's seen it yet 🤣

Just to clarify, Switzerland has 3 official languages - German, French, & Italian. Romansh is officially a national language on the federal level and an official language in the canton of Graubuenden, where it is spoken. The Swiss dialects of German are NOT official. The official language used in government is the Swiss variant of High German (Hochdeutsch).

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Really? That's different to all the information I've seen, could you source that for me and I'll fix it in a later video

@bighillraft

Жыл бұрын

you literally said the same thing a year ago

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@bighillraft Maybe I did, do you expect me to remember back to a year ago?

@bighillraft

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages i was referring to the guy who made the comment, not you this guy said the same thing about Romansh a year ago in a different comment on this video btw I love your videos, keep it up!

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@bighillraft LOL, maybe both him and I have memory loss. Thank you, I'm glad you enjoy the videos!

In the previous video you mention Romanian, but omit mention of the two or three dialects of Albanian, a language very close to late period Latin.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language Albanian is not a Romance Language

France is definitely not quite good at preserving the original languages of its regions. On the contrary, French was spoken mainly in the northern part, around Paris, until compulsory school started after Napoleon. Dozens of languages were deliberately destroyed. There were dialects of German, Flemish and dozens of latin based dialects/languages. Hack, even in our time I have a friend who was ordered to go round the school every time he spoke he spoke any Ch'ti and stopped speaking it altogether out of shame. So no, France is not good at preserving it, but is good at making it look like it cares. Nowadays some regions have earned the right to have their dying languages taught in school like as if it were a foreign language. So it is a lot of times anecdotal since people will have a very shallow knowledge of the language and won't have the opportunity to talk to any native speaker or use it functionaly. Most of the teaching serves more to appease regional pride, than it serves to really teach the language.

@CheLanguages

10 ай бұрын

I agree! France is terrible at this yet no one holds them accountable

wish you talked about Mozarabic or Andalusi Romance

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Well I can do that for Part 3 maybe?

This vid is gonna blow up, I'm at 4K views rn.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Well, you're not wrong...

The quote in Romanssh: looks like it refers to a fox (not a wolf) and a crow: 'vulp' and 'corv', Maybe it a passage from the Aesop's Fable?

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

I know, I answered many other comments with the same question.

bom dia camarada

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Bom dia

speaking of how france is good a protecting them but at the same time it is terrible at it. like its constition says only french is the language & no other. meaning that they persicute them only because of the people at the top as the majority are open to letting them be protected. just a minority see it as dissolving france because they forget that what unites a country with diversity is protecting said diversity not persicuting it. like the basque were vocal in spain but when they started to recive rights they quited down & catalonia erupted into chaos.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

France will be France...

@cillianennis9921

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages yeah its sad that they have leaders like that who can't see the things that others do.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@cillianennis9921 Occitan should have become the main language of France in my opinion

@cillianennis9921

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages yeah but since the revolution started in the Parisian area the parisian dialect became the standard. then since people like the Breton & such sided with the royal family the idea that the languages sowed disunion was born & it continues to this day in how the country runs. they should have allowed the other languages to be spoken & used the most widespread dialect as the standard that being Occitan if i remember corectly. funny how an Occitan speaker has more rights in Italy than there home nation of France. not saying it isn't home to italy but it is french dialect/language closely related.

Would you call Esperanto a romance language? It has more than 1000 native speakers.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

I certainly call it an Indo-European language, but due to its mixed vocabulary and mixed grammar, it would be inaccurate to call it a Romance Language.

@ValeriusMagni

Жыл бұрын

Native?

@stefang5639

Жыл бұрын

@@ValeriusMagni yeah, people taught their kids, there are families who speak it in the fifth generation.

@ValeriusMagni

Жыл бұрын

@@stefang5639 as a native? Just where englush is an official language

@stefang5639

Жыл бұрын

@@ValeriusMagni Here is one speaking: kzread.info/dash/bejne/c212sZWMppSzdag.html I learned Esperanto from a native speaker living in Germany, they are spread all over the world.

Come on! Aranese is known to be a dialect of the gascon branch of occitan. Nobody thinks it is a different language. I am catalan and we all know it is occitan. You just made it up!

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

I didn't make it up, it is classified as such by Spain. It probably has political motivation behind it, given how across the border it is just called Gascon

@alfonsmartinez9663

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages where did you find that information? Can you show us?

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@alfonsmartinez9663 look up anything about Aranese

@alfonsmartinez9663

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages I speak aranese

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@alfonsmartinez9663 do why are you arguing against it's existence?

Romanian

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

*Opens video on Romance Languages* *Comments "Romanian" and nothing else* *Refuses to elaborate further* *Leaves*

Romansch Language

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Is that your favourite?

@kevinbram2433

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages Yes As My Last Name Bräm Graubauden Romansch Bible

Aranese sounds a lot like European Spanish

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting, it's much closer related to Occitan of Catalan.

A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy. As Switzerland has no use for a navy, wouldn't that make Romansh a dialect?

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Max Weinreich was not using that quote literally. And actually, Switzerland does has a navy believe it or not, despite being landlocked. It mainly comprises of merchant ships. And Romansh, a dialect? A dialect of what, Latin?! Oh wait, that makes it a Romance Language.

@hansvandermeulen5515

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages my comment wasn't too serious either. Some closely related languages are considered different languages for political reasons, like serbo-croatian, with a big difference (as far a I can tell as a non-scholar) being the number of latin/romance loanwords. Of course there is the Basque language and its dialects, doesn't even have its own country, notwithstanding the autonomous region where it is spoken being called Basque Country.

This guy needs to spit the marbles out of his mouth!

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Always appreciate comments like that. I wonder how my life could have been different if you didn't comment this.

@daniellee3962

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages Simply put... it is a wonderful thing to speak different languages, but it is very difficult to understand you. How many people tune you out because they have trouble understanding you. I clicked on your KZread video because I want interested in your subject. I wanted to learn what you had to say.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

@@daniellee3962 turn up your volume perhaps? I am in the process of getting a proper microphone.

@gabrielleangelica1977

Жыл бұрын

You are not used to British accents. Does it make you feel better about yourself to put down other people?

Rumantsch Grischun is NOT the "standard dialect". It's a government supported attempt to suppress the diversity of the dialects. Native speakers fought the Swiss government for years for the right for their children to learn their natural language in schools instead of that monstrosity masquerading as their language. To say Grischun is the "standard" is like saying a mule is the standard horse. They might share some genetics but they certainly aren't what our ancestors knew.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

That's what I meant though, it's the standard issued by the government. Other than that, there is no other standard

8:20 Nope, not about a wolf, about a fox (vulpes in Latin). "fomentada", "corv", "tge bel che ti es !"... As a (introduced to Latin) French-speaker, I recognize "The Fox and The Crow", one of Aesop's fables.

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2 жыл бұрын

I know, I got mixed up, I realised after I made the video and was going to correct it when I get to video three. I am not sure why but I always get mixed up between Wolf and Fox in all Romance languages, it could be because Wolf and Volpo look similar but I really don't know apart from that.