I hope you all enjoyed this continuation on language isolates! Let me know what you all thought of the video!

@aguyfromflorida4842

Ай бұрын

i think including features of grammar is a very good thing to keep doing in future videos cause i think it's important for this information to be spread in a video which people would learn in a way that we might not have learnt otherwise, and the length is fine honestly im not sure people have an issue with long videos

@ksiistoyiiwa

Ай бұрын

Just a quick pronunciation note: the place name Skidegate is pronounced (more or less) "skiddih-git" in Canadian English.

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

@@ksiistoyiiwa The one correction I get for pronunciation is for an English name LOL. Thank you though, I had no clue. Canadian English has some really interesting pronunciations for place names which is something I've noticed before

@AvrahamYairStern

Ай бұрын

Grammar inclusion was great. Huave was awesome btw

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

@@AvrahamYairStern thank you for the feedback. I'm glad you enjoyed learning about these languages

“I apologize if this video was too long” well it’s much shorter than most videos I watch

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

LOL I guess, I struggle with video that are too long but sole KZreadrs will happily rant for an hour and expect everyone to watch it. I feel kinda bad whenever I make something around 20 minutes because I know myself I would be bored, but it does deem aa good amount of views seem to enjoy the longer videos anyway

@Purplecocobolo

Ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@CheLanguages i know i haven’t gotten bored watching something 20 minutes as im used to watching videos that are multiple hours long. if you made an hour long video, id probably watch the whole thing.

@ldubt4494

Ай бұрын

​​@@CheLanguages what are you on about 17 minutes isnt long at all; theres stuff out there that goes 30 or 60 minutes. Your video is short to medium in terms of length.

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

@@Purplecocobolo that's good to know thanks, but I probably wouldn't be able to make an hour long video myself

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

@@ldubt4494 that's true, I count it as long because I'm used to watch videos up to 10 minutes in length. I'm not a long videos kinda guy

A movie was recently shot in Haida but the actors had to learn their lines word for word from elders. Another west coast language revitalization attemp being made is Squamish, close to the Whistler resort near Vancouver.

@weepingscorpion8739

Ай бұрын

Cool. I will need to check that out. Squamish I believe is the language that uses as a symbol for the glottal stop, and that in and of itself is pretty fascinating.

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

That's cool! I see their revitalization movement must be going well if they came out with a movie!

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

It's interesting how much these languages have in common with Semitic languages, Northern Haida having pharyngeal consonants for example

It's a good day when an obscure linguistics youtuber uploads 🙂

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

I graciously accept my title as Obscure Linguistics KZreadr, my goal is complete! Thank you for your support

@AvrahamYairStern

Ай бұрын

Che Languages is the best

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

@@AvrahamYairStern that means a lot

Love it. My stamp collection got me into writing systems and language when I was nine, 66 years ago.

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

That's very cool! I have a collection of Israeli stamps myself

@christopherellis2663

Ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages💙💛❤️

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

@@christopherellis2663 thank you. Are you Romanian?

@christopherellis2663

Ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages Australian, living in România. ( retired)

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

@@christopherellis2663 what made you move to Romania from Australia? Is it because it's cheaper so if you retire there you'd have a lot more money proportional to the local economy?

Very good video! My only request, unreasonable as it may be, is to include audio dialogue samples if you can ever find them. Those always give you the best sense of the language, naturally. But I understand it's probably difficult to find audio samples for many of these small, isolated languages. That said, this is my first time seeing one of your videos, and I've already subscribed! Very good channel it seems.

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

Not unreasonable at all, people have made the suggestion before. My only problems are what you mentioned, and also copyright. Plus I'm not too sure how to actually edit it in, I'm still not very skilled with my editing, I'm still learning. If you enjoyed this video, check out the part 1 to this video! I hope you enjoy the videos on my channel and welcome!

@GustafUNL

Ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages I've done some editing stuff before, this doesn't help with the copyright problem, but what I would do is use some audio recording/editing software, for me, audacity, to record the audio (You might have to edit the input source to your computer's audio output if it's set on your microphone.) and then import it to the video editor, for which I personally use hitflilm express, in which you can just drag the audio into the editor. I'd imagine other software would be similar. Lol, yeah I use all the free software but it works fine for me. Might not really be very helpful advice, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a problem simple advice like that couldn't help with. Your editing seems pretty good already after all. Anyway yeah, I will gladly enjoy your channel. :)

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

@@GustafUNL I've heard of Audacity, is it free? Thank you for the advice

@GustafUNL

Ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages Yeah, it's free.

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

@@GustafUNL awesome

Makes my day when CheLanguages uploads!

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

That's great to hear!

@AvrahamYairStern

Ай бұрын

Agreed

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

@@AvrahamYairStern thank you

very interesting, hopefully these languages still survive as time goes on

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

That's the goal, sadly some languages can't be saved however because no one is interested in preserving them. I like to think the isolation of some of these languages will actually help them to be preserved longer

Thank you. Very educational. I like the grammar and long videos are good

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

That's all amazing feedback thank you!

Another great one. My favorite is Haida.

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

Thank you for the support as always! I'm glad it hear it, I think my favourite is probably Huave or Laal

Lost my wallet just now. My day is better since this was posted. Thank you!

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

I'm sorry to hear about that man. Hopefully some language isolates did make it better, are you insured? A friend of mine got mugged recently but his bank was able to fully compensate him, check with your bank so you don't lose too much.

Love hearing your voice

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

Thank you! I hope you enjoyed the video!

awesome

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

I like this series to be continued.

@CheLanguages

15 күн бұрын

THank you for your feedback

That Natchez native American connection is not a big surprise if you look outside of 1900s structuralism

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

What do you mean? Tell me more

@dadsonworldwide3238

Ай бұрын

@CheLanguages This is all speculation, but with 1900s structuralism, you know it's been very antithetical towards a lot of truths when it comes to such topics. since before the trail of tears what was once the Mississippians, cherrokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw etc etc personally was thought to have affiliations in the Yucatan Mexico and South America. But in much more recent times, a last tribe knowing this family Ties may have migrated just before the Louisiana purchase fleeing Mexico and whatnot. They may have fanned out some starting in goergia or Bama, then moved on into the French quarter or pushed over.

@dadsonworldwide3238

Ай бұрын

I was blessed to know my 1890s born great-grandmother and her other peers of the first gen born out of the Civil, many moved in own claiming 350 hectors on the homestead act land claims . These old women ,first-generation black slaves, 3rd gen white Irish, and Chickasaw native would Cann tomatoes and sew quilts because the men share cropped. And i was a kid listening to the old women gossip and that, of course, was one such topic that I found was more widely spread among the south is the connection the Natchez natives had with the Yucatan..

@dadsonworldwide3238

Ай бұрын

@CheLanguages I can vouch for their gossip being very different than ours today. So much of what those old folks knew was very well educated even from the most impoverished beginnings.

@dadsonworldwide3238

Ай бұрын

@CheLanguages This same source told me in 1970s about during the nepolianic war that British ancestors were visiting & writing letters home from ottoman empire turkey about the city of Enoch / eden described biblically at the mouth of the tigeris and Euporatis rivers. Of course, gobleki wasn't officially discovered until the 1990s, and it worked to protect the sites by not really letting those rumors spread. "I'd assume." But still, when it comes to the history of nations, people ,,places and things, these old 1700s-1800s classical American sources definitely hold value & benefit for those willing to give them the time of day..

very interesting stuff

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

Thank you!!!

@jdogdoggo

Ай бұрын

no problem bro i love your channel@@CheLanguages

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

@@jdogdoggo thank you that always makes me happy to hear

Huh. Very interesting. 🤔 I would not have guessed Chitimacha would have a link to Huave.

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

Well it might not, or maybe it does. It shares lexical similarity, but it could be via a third language? It would be cool if they were related though

@awedelen1

Ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages I agree. It would be fascinating if it were proven true.

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

@@awedelen1 I think DNA testing could give us some insight, but it's not always 100% conclusive

More Indians need to know about nihali!!!

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

Definitely! It would be a shame to lode such a unique language

Oh yeah, Nihali! My favourite isolate from that part of the world. Minority inside a minority

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

Yeah it's crazy! Korku I'm definitely going to have to talk about in another video

@mareksagrak9527

Ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages That definitely should be spoken of! As far as I am familiar with different cases of number borrowings (like Japanese borrowing Chinese numbers alongside with native ones or Kra-Dai replacing native numbers completely by Chinese ones apart from Hlai) Nihali is weird with having only the word for "one" (bidi/bada) native, 2-4 taken from Dravidian and the rest from Hindi (apart from 20 - iso which seems to derive from Korku). I just wonder what it could infer. Maybe yhat proto-Nihalis were hunter-gatherers who, like Piraha for example, knew only one-many distinction, than they met Dravidians, later indo-aryans and Korku? Or maybe sth completely different? Only guesses can be made Also it's so sad that Nihali has so little documentation. Nagaraja's work is the only bigger source I know so far. I also find it quite curious that when speaking about Hindu valley civilization, people tend to refer to Dravidian, even Munda languages, but proto-Nihali seems to be permanently skipped, even though it should be examined as a possibility as well

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

@@mareksagrak9527 good observations. I guess Nihali will be a mystery though because so much of it's vocabulary is foreign

Huave was my favourite, but I liked all the languages on this list too

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

That's great to hear! I'm glad you enjoyed the video

@AvrahamYairStern

Ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages no problem

The grammar bits were pretty cool. And I would like to add that just because pronunciation isn’t perfect, It shouldn’t stop you from trying. You’ll get corrected by someone someday somewhere believe it.

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

Thank you! I always try to be respectful and try to pronounce things when I can, but some people tend to complain. Of course I won't stop trying. And thank you for the feedback on the grammar!

@tlatolcalli682

Ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages I really like the job you’re doing here, Mr. So what if people complain? I’m just glad I got to know all of these languages and all these new people! I remember when I was barely learning English. It sounded so so cool and I didn’t give up! Even though I still need a little touchup in my punctuation and ideal idea arrangement: I still believe that I got pretty high up there, but it was because I had both the good and the bad perspectives on pronunciation. Because I was not enamored with my own mistakes.

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

@@tlatolcalli682 thanks for the support! It means a lot and is good motivation for me to continue learning. Thank you once again

It is very interesting with language isolates. In the map showen in the beginning, though, I would have expected to see Japanese and Korean. As far as I know, these are two isolate languages.

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

Thank you for the support. Japanese and Korean are usually referred to as their own language families (Japonic and Koreanic respectively) due to the presence of other languages besides Japanese, e.g. Ryukyuan languages, and other languages besides Korean e.g. Jeju language

Can you please do a video on Low Saxon/Low German varieties?

Hell yeah

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

Hell yeah indeed. Which language was your favourite?

@SZYSZYSZYSZYSZY

Ай бұрын

@@CheLanguagesHard to say! I wish we lived in a world without human limitations because truly every language I stumble upon is deeply interesting and I wish I had the time and memory capabilities to remember in-depth information about every single one. Thank you for these videos

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

@@SZYSZYSZYSZYSZY indeed, ly only regret is that I'll never learn or save every language in the world. I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Will you do another forggoten turkic langauges?

@CheLanguages

19 күн бұрын

I want to at some point, but I'm not sure if my viewers do. The last one didn't do so well

hell yeah

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

Thank you for the support. Which part dif you enjoy the most?

Wait xaida kil. Is the word "kil" releted to the uralic base worf for language "kel"

@smuecke

Ай бұрын

Definitely. Haida-Uralic language family confirmed.

@justaduck1664

Ай бұрын

@@smuecke now lets tie in ket and ainu

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

No way I didn't notice that? Altaic possibility??!!!!!

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

Real

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

Ket is probably in there somewhere

Will you cover elamite

@qpdb840

Ай бұрын

I hope so too and my city is an Elamite name Elam or Ilam ایلام or it’s religious name Hussein abad

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

That's a good idea for another time! Here I wanted to cover only living isolates though

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

Awesome!

Is Zuni mysterious enough to be featured in this series?

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

Definitely, or maybe on my video on Indigenous North American languages

@hubb8049

Ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages Very nice! I'm looking forward to that vid

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

@@hubb8049 I'm glad

The translation of "our father" seems to be "Christian god" in Huave.

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

Interesting. Do you know some Huave?

@bernardfinucane2061

Ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages No, just looked at the text in the video! Xeteatiun looks like Christian, dios looks like god in Spanish. Also cielo is heaven in Spanish. With three of the first five words such a close match, it can hardly be a coincidence. I also see mundo siempre amen and tiempo.

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

@@bernardfinucane2061 Dios is definitely a Spanish loanword and Cielo too. I'd noticed these too, but not the translation you noticed so you might be right

Keep the grammar parts 👍

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

Thank you for the feedback! I hope you enjoy the video!

Anyone else associated Xaayda Kil with Eesti keel?

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

Someone else did. It's quite interesting, possible Altaic evidence? I'm still skeptical though

Attend pourquoi le nom de ta chaîne est en français ?

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

Ce n'est pas le cas, ma chaîne est en anglais. Mais, si ton ordinateur est en français ou hébreu, ma chaîne se montrera en un de ces langues parce que j'ai écrit des descriptions pour eux.

my hamster is a language isolate

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

Real. Laal Hamster

এখানে সবচেয়ে মধুর ভাষা

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

Indeed

கல் தோன்றி மண் தோன்றா காலத்தின் முன் தோன்றிய மூத்த மொழி தமிழ் மொழி

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

Even older than Nihali or Harrappan? I guess we'll never know

@chandraathithan11

Ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages you guess you will never know not we will.

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

@@chandraathithan11 LOL

This video is almost word-for-word plagiarized from the Wikipedia articles on each language. Disappointing.

@mattsmith7772

Ай бұрын

I disagree, I tried to verify your comment on the Hauve and Nihali sections as struggled to find any plagiarism, other than using images from the huave pages. Edit: On second review, the video appears sourced entirely from Wikipedia, and the narrator even reference Wikipedia by name at some point in the video.

@p00bix

Ай бұрын

@@mattsmith7772Try this then: On the left side of your screen, have a window with the Video playing. On the right side, have the Wikipedia article for Hauve. Some sentences are reworded and others are skipped, but every single thing mentioned in the video is right there in the Wikipedia article--and its all in the same exact order, no less!

@mattsmith7772

Ай бұрын

@@p00bix I will definitely give it to you that the video is largely inspired by the wiki pages. Hopefully he dug into the actual sources… makes me wonder how many of the video essays I watch are just thinly veiled plagiarism😬

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

Well first of all, you can't really 'plagarize' a Wikipedia article, it's open for use by anyone. Secondly, there isn't a lot of info about these languages and though I did use some other sources like Omniglot for samples, Wikipedia usually has the most info about these small languages. Unless I pay a ridiculous amount for an Ethnologue account or comb through peer-reviewed articles, I'm not going to get much more info than the Wiki article already has. That being said, I did provide some more info on each language than what is just found on Wikipedia. I try and word things on my own a bit, but sometimes they're already well written. For videos about more well-known languages, I usually have the luxury of providing more info, but here with these languages, there wasn't much else I could do.

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

It's not "entirely sourced", again Omniglot and Language Museum provided some samples

No way bro called Chad ‘Central Africa’. Also, real question, why do you always judaize flags? I have nothing against Jews, but you also did this with the Arab league flag, which kinda pissed me, as well as others, off.

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

I've never used the Arab league flag?! Also, it's a צ for Tchad צ'אד, it's just a letter in a script, doesn't mean it's Judaized (Aramaic also used Hebrew script, which we called Assyrian script btw). I wanted to create a distinction between Tchad and Romania. Also Tchad is basically Central Africa. It literally borders the Central African Republic, and it's definitely not North African culturally speaking

@alyaly2355

Ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages Not the Arab league flag I mean, but an arab flag. Yes, Chad is Central African, but not the Central African Republic. People can get very confused. Also, Chad is kinda culturally North African, especially the North. Over 60% of the population is Muslim and speaks Arabic. They have a unique group of Arabic dialects called ‘Chadian Arabic’ which are very similar to the dialect of Alexandria, for some reason.