For those wondering, the title says "Taam Skaat and Qaniujaaqpait", which means "Tom Scott and Syllabics".

@drego5

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@daroldcarold3443

3 жыл бұрын

Thnak uoo

@MattTweeks

3 жыл бұрын

ᖁᔭᓇᖅ qujanaq

@embr4247

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Tusen takk, vielen Dank.

@midnight-show

3 жыл бұрын

ᓇᖁᒥ

When I make videos I can't record 10 words without stumbling on my words, meanwhile Tom Scott can get through a 4 minute video in one take with perfect recitation.

@wmw05

4 жыл бұрын

How has no one noticed you here for two years?

@bloxyranks

4 жыл бұрын

Wendover Productions Hello there

@Bruno-dv3ym

3 жыл бұрын

@@wmw05 make it three

@MrBsehratmaannking

3 жыл бұрын

@@wmw05 we're rolling on now XD

@SandPoot

3 жыл бұрын

"one take"

Let's thank Inuktitut for giving us these symbols ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

@SkyRied1

Жыл бұрын

I was wondering from where they are from.

@joshuahadams

Жыл бұрын

A lot of native languages in Canada use aboriginal syllabics. We might not know what it means but we can sound out each other’s writing.

@yablock7346

Жыл бұрын

Vi(aa)vu

@ModifiedLamborghiniSpongeBob

Жыл бұрын

(￣▽￣)

@WilliamAndrea

11 ай бұрын

ᐛ isn't used in Inuktitut unforch. It seems like it's only used in Naskapi.

My system is so old the title is just "and"

@larsswig912

4 жыл бұрын

Oof rip My old phone didn't render the script of my native language and it made me very sad, thankfully I have a newer one now

@aideanataa

4 жыл бұрын

Same here😭😭

@erina_lessthan3

3 жыл бұрын

My title is just " и "

@larsswig912

3 жыл бұрын

@@erina_lessthan3 потому что вы используете ютуб на русском языке?

@erina_lessthan3

3 жыл бұрын

@@larsswig912 вполне возможно, что-то я даже не подумал, что кто-то перевёл название

At least nobody can complain about "clickbait" titles here.

@Swoost

4 жыл бұрын

this is the no-clickbait zone ("technically")

@leerwesen

4 жыл бұрын

what does the title say though?!

@flavoredchin

4 жыл бұрын

True anticlickbait.

@weichenplays

4 жыл бұрын

@@leerwesen Tom Scott and .....

@q-tuber7034

4 жыл бұрын

... and “quniujaarkpait”(?) ... which I see on rewatching apparently means “Inuktitut syllabics” in Inuktitut (1:05)

*sees title* My gosh Unicode is truly one of the wonders of the world.

@eac-ox2ly

7 жыл бұрын

It's probably your browser's fault, not Android.

@LukasFink1

7 жыл бұрын

It's probably the font's fault, not the browser's.

@eac-ox2ly

7 жыл бұрын

Lukas Graphen That could be it, too.

@Krong

6 жыл бұрын

So clickbait

@linex7566

6 жыл бұрын

Well what is it??? My phones not only andriod but a terrible android

*Finally, I'll be able to read those Minecraft Enchanting Table symbols*

@tux1468

4 жыл бұрын

*standard galactic alphabet

@benedekhorvath7191

4 жыл бұрын

Oh, I tought it is Hebrew.

@lyrimetacurl0

4 жыл бұрын

@@tux1468 the same one from Commander Keen? (That was also called the standard galactic alphabet).

@tux1468

4 жыл бұрын

@@lyrimetacurl0 Yes, the exact same one.

@NetheriteMiner

4 жыл бұрын

@@tux1468 you look like someone who would know. is aurebesh from star wars a modified version of standard galactic alphabet?

The "point to show vowel" seems usefull. That's going into my feature list of things I'll use in the language I'll never create

@MrBsehratmaannking

3 жыл бұрын

exactly my thuoght

@taududeblobber221

3 жыл бұрын

google "conlanging tutorial", that'll help you

@owentheslug

3 жыл бұрын

you & i? same page!

@taududeblobber221

3 жыл бұрын

@@owentheslug i have made many conlangs.

@FloridaManGaming

2 жыл бұрын

Same

3:29 The English language is difficult but you can learn it through tough thorough thought though.

@juliansmith4295

3 жыл бұрын

That's excellent.

@shaedcloak5803

2 жыл бұрын

Would be better if it’s “the English language is difficult, you can learn it through tough thorough thought though”

@thekinginyellow1744

2 жыл бұрын

@@shaedcloak5803 Perhaps in your dialect, but not in mine.

@YenNguyenDwscA

2 жыл бұрын

@@thekinginyellow1744 that means the two clauses should not contrast

@thekinginyellow1744

2 жыл бұрын

@@YenNguyenDwscA You are looking for logic in English. There is none. Forget what they taught you in school. It is only true while you are in school.

Fun Fact: the guy who invented this script, James Evans, originally for the Cree language, was inspired by the Cherokee syllabary. The Cherokee syllabary had been created by this guy called Sequoyah who didn't even know how to write or read previously, he just discovered that the white settlers living in the area had this neat little system that could record spoken word on paper and decided he wanted something similar. The writing system he created was a resounding success among the Cherokee and is still in use.

@mezz09smezzanine

7 жыл бұрын

Thankyou. This IS a fun fact. ^_^

@miamc4602

7 жыл бұрын

Another fun fact is that Sequoyah was my great-great-great-great-great-great-half-uncle.

@mezz09smezzanine

7 жыл бұрын

Hmmm... less fun on that one, but a good bit more cool =P

@Kitulous

5 жыл бұрын

@@miamc4602 so Cherokees write only for about 150-200 years? That's interesting.

@tompw3141

4 жыл бұрын

... and this is why the relevant section of Unicode is called "Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics" rather than "Cree" or " Inuktitut" - because the set of symbols (or a subset thereof) is used for mutiple languages.

Tom: "Like almost every language in the world, the word for 'Mum' is a sound that a baby will make accidentally." Nobody: Finnish babies: ÄITI, PERRRRKELE

@theramendutchman

3 жыл бұрын

It's a made-up language, anyway.

@fragiledate

3 жыл бұрын

@@theramendutchman every language is made up

@ayo.2369

3 жыл бұрын

@@fragiledate (covered in oi)

@agrobabb4943

3 жыл бұрын

You mean Tum right?

@Bartonovich52

3 жыл бұрын

So suomi.

"The password is on the back of the router" The back of the router:

@anon_of_kat

4 жыл бұрын

I don't get it.

@hubbletrubble7875

4 жыл бұрын

@@anon_of_kat It's a joke talking about how the letters on the back of the router are always hard to read and usually beaten up

@GzheGzheGzhe

4 жыл бұрын

1:25

@Her_Imperious_Condescension

3 жыл бұрын

@Comrade Kitten Are you saying there's nothing on the back of the router, or are you attempting to reference something?

@dukeofworcestershire7042

3 жыл бұрын

​@@Her_Imperious_Condescension What Alabamian Mapping said

0:25 "People in different areas can understand some of what people say" So, like the North of England then.

@jakeboromfc4375

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao, is it hard to understand us?

@emilywilliams3191

4 жыл бұрын

I've got mates in London that understand me no problem and I'm the furthest North you can get.

@flankana

4 жыл бұрын

@@emilywilliams3191 so the Shetlands then??

@yoursleepparalysisdemon1828

4 жыл бұрын

Oh! Isn’t that in London?

@emilywilliams3191

4 жыл бұрын

@@flankana Mindrum village.

This video has the least searchable title I've ever seen!

@hiveinsider9122

7 жыл бұрын

Indeed!

@PipPanoma

7 жыл бұрын

There is a vsauce video that is literally about nothing. The title is literally nothing. A close contender.

@SupBlub

7 жыл бұрын

And I thought that every vsauce video was about nothing.

@Fooglmog

7 жыл бұрын

How is this less searchable than an Arabic or Cyrillic title? Or, for that matter, an English title for someone who only uses the Inuktitut, Arabic or Cyrillic alphabet? It's not nonsense, it's just a language you don't speak, and a written system you're not familiar with.

@hiveinsider9122

7 жыл бұрын

Jon I think what was meant was that the common viewers (using the Latin alphabet most of the time) would have a hard time putting down the letters to search for this video, although you are completely correct.

The Video Anylitics: Discovery from KZread Search: 0%

@fivesix3868

4 жыл бұрын

Actually this video was top suggested when i searched for the second sentence in the description

@diakounknown1225

3 жыл бұрын

I will ruin that

@goldbysilver3694

3 жыл бұрын

I searched tom scott inuktitut

@HonestLeigh

3 жыл бұрын

I searched "abugida" to get here.

@funfoxvlad7309

3 жыл бұрын

So im worth 0% gee thx

“What did you do during the break?” “I memorized a language”

@seanp4644

4 жыл бұрын

It's important to note that you can't learn the language by figuring out the sounds all the characters make, just the script. If you want to learn a language, that's an Entire Adventure

@roguishpaladin

4 жыл бұрын

@Keegan Young No, you can, but this video hasn't taught you the language. It's taught you a written alphabet. It's like learning the Sindarin alphabet and then saying you can speak Sindarin - you'd be lost the moment you actually tried to translate something, because not only are the written representations for the sounds different, but also the underlying meaning of what those sounds collected together.

@seanp4644

4 жыл бұрын

@Keegan Young no, I'm saying that just memorizing the script is not learning a language. Once you know all the sounds of the thai alphabet does not mean you can speak thai, just knowing the writing system isn't enough

@spooky6703

3 жыл бұрын

@@seanp4644 For sure, there's a huge gap between "that says 'denwa'!" and knowing what the heck 'denwa' means.

@DracoGalboy

2 жыл бұрын

So... How goes "The Break"? Personally, it's broken me.

Thanks for the video, Tam Skat.

@tijmenvanderree487

7 жыл бұрын

I'm a skatman!

@jkouyh8766

7 жыл бұрын

*Scatman

@lucaselviserickson

7 жыл бұрын

ugh

@mpmqbi

7 жыл бұрын

*Taam Skaat

@janeweber8654

7 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't it be Sakaat? Otherwise it'd have two vowels in sequence?

We'll see how well various people's devices can cope with that title! My fact-checker was one of the team who put Inuktitut into Unicode, so if you've got a modern device it should work fine...

@TheMartijnTim

7 жыл бұрын

how is this comment older than the ones below it?

@kikiriki7437

7 жыл бұрын

galaxy s5 neo.. title not working..

@lucaspeltie

7 жыл бұрын

My arch linux rig running chromium could display it while it had trouble displaying Chinese characters when I didn't have the proper font installed.

@Cat_in_The-Box

7 жыл бұрын

Xperia E4G: " (blank space) and"

@Bordelll

7 жыл бұрын

No problem here,

Wow. Only 30,000 fluent speakers? I now feel more extra privileged than I already did to have had the good fortune to hear a group of three people speaking in Inuktitut on a rather long bus ride in Ottawa. I listened to them with delight the entire way.

@niall_sanderson

4 ай бұрын

I wouldn’t be surprised if a significant portion of that 30 thousand are in Ottawa at any given time, given how many Inuit people come down here for medical care

The best irony is that this video is still easily searchable despite comments claiming otherwise, while actual unsearchable videos are about falling off Rainbow Road on Mario Kart

I can't believe I'm actually seeing my culture on the internet at all.

@drainer3339

Жыл бұрын

@@bonjour2877 how is that going

@kaidenrogers

Жыл бұрын

@@bonjour2877 Would also like to know; How did(/is) that go(ing)?

With the example at 3:29 English is really an outlier. There are many European languages that use latin alphabet that are highly phonemic with just some minor exceptions caused by the natural shifts in pronunciation over time.

@ghelyar

7 жыл бұрын

English in general is pretty unusual because it's part Germanic and part Latin. Even in the rest of Europe, most languages are one or the other. The closest is supposedly Friesian, via Old English, although I can't personally hear any similarity with modern English.

@gordonlawrence3537

7 жыл бұрын

Part Germanic part Latin like photograph (Greek) and Beef/muton (French) or did you mean words like bungalow (hindi)?

@JimCullen

7 жыл бұрын

+Cyanakrli wait what? Is this a reference to something I'm missing?

@nakenmil

7 жыл бұрын

English is a shitshow. There's barely any connection between symbols and sounds anymore. I mean, just the symbol "A" represents at least three sounds, as well as a diphtong.

@gordonlawrence3537

7 жыл бұрын

Enthused Norseman do you know the GHOTI spelling "fish" trick?

Dude, I love abugidas. They’re so elegant and systematic.

@danbrownellfuzzy3010

Жыл бұрын

I drove an Abugidas for awhile until gas prices went up

2:55 "Sorry parents, it was probably an accident" now that's what I call excellent writing

I love love love your linguistics stuff.

@ncpbr

7 жыл бұрын

kyl3k91 check out xidnaf he has a ton of cool language videos

@jpchevron

7 жыл бұрын

Tom needs to make more language videos.

@simon_patterson

7 жыл бұрын

This video was fascinating, and so well explained!

@jerrykoh9692

7 жыл бұрын

His "Tom Scott Language Files" playlist should have way more videos

@languagelover9170

7 жыл бұрын

200th like.... ;3 ;d ;D :"SD:"SD":ED

I FINALLY FIGURED OUT WHERE THE HANDS FOR EMOTICONS CAME FROM

@TaygaHoshi

4 жыл бұрын

3 years later They are actually Japanese "tsu" in hiragana

@wozahh

4 жыл бұрын

@@TaygaHoshi good job

@lsvensson2166

3 жыл бұрын

ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

@DragonWinter36

3 жыл бұрын

Tayga No, that’s the smiley face

@justinbastelli3692

3 жыл бұрын

@@lsvensson2166 vi(aa)vu?

“Sorry parents it was probably an accident” Tom you didn’t need to murder me

I've fell down the Tom Scott wormhole again

@ragefurious5650

2 жыл бұрын

have fun

@bartholomewdan

2 жыл бұрын

Have you gotten out of it yet?

Tom: "Sorry Parents, it was probably an accident" Me: No worries. My baby was an accident as well.

@thomaspearce9222

4 жыл бұрын

nice

@izzzy1977

4 жыл бұрын

Yikes

@cappy8314

4 жыл бұрын

nikes

@azyjmexcuseokstop924

4 жыл бұрын

pikes

@screamsinrussian5773

4 жыл бұрын

neato

Could someone add subtitles to this video in inuktitut? That would be fantastic.

@ducomors

7 жыл бұрын

+

@sion8

7 жыл бұрын

*+*

@OnEiNsAnEmOtHeRfUcKa

7 жыл бұрын

I could give it a shot. Only problem is I'm not sure how to add subtitles to videos I don't own.

@PenPeng

7 жыл бұрын

+OnEiNsAnEmOtHeRfUcKa cog icon at the bottom of the video where you can also change the video resolution, subtitles, add subtitles.

@NickRoman

7 жыл бұрын

Oh cool. And inuktitut is one of the languages you can add subtitles in.

These symbols are also used for other aboriginal languages in Canada, such as Cree!

Being Canadian and interested in linguistics, this is one of the most interesting videos you've put up ever, for me

This has to be the hardest video to search besides vsauces video:

@holidayspirit-

4 жыл бұрын

:

@tlonigamer421

3 жыл бұрын

Nah the song called " " by " " is harder to look up

@theramendutchman

3 жыл бұрын

@@tlonigamer421 huh? link? can't look it up, you know?

@41luisluisvenancioyaneza39

3 жыл бұрын

@@theramendutchman no it needs to find *you*

@theramendutchman

3 жыл бұрын

@@41luisluisvenancioyaneza39 ಥʖ̯ಥ

The title is "Tom Scott and Inuktut Syllabics" CMIIW tho...

@MooImABunny

7 жыл бұрын

I got "qaniujaaqpait", because a small r and a k together look like q and I assumed them being small together was like a small q

@MooImABunny

7 жыл бұрын

wait when you select it it's one letter so I think it is a q

@christian_swjy

7 жыл бұрын

Tom Mentioned about it in one of the comments below

@fv2977

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I had no idea what the second part said.

@spoods4628

7 жыл бұрын

On my 3DS it's "[][][][][][] and [][][][][][][][][][][]".

kimitoni~kakâyawisîn, ayhay/têniki! kinanâskomitin :) ᑭᒥᑐᓂᑲᑳᔭᐏᓰᐣ、ᐊᕀᐦᐊᕀ/ᑌᓂᑭ! ᑭᓇᓈᐢᑯᒥᑎᐣ᙮ Cree for “You are a hard worker, thank you! I am grateful.” I have always wanted to learn Inuktitut, this was a nice little video. Now I want to want to go out and buy some books!! 🥰

ᖁᔭᓐᓇᒦᑦ ᐃᓅᖃᑎᑦᑎᓐᓂᑦ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᑎᑦᑎᐊᕋᕕᑦ. The Inuktitut you have explained is spot on, thank you for the quick and informative explanation of Inuktitut!

Kudos to the Christian missionaries who were openminded enough to create a completely new fitting script instead of pushing the Latin one.

@icedragon769

7 жыл бұрын

Funny part: they guy who invented it (it was invented for Cree, by the way, not Inuktitut) didn't actually know Cree that well, and his original version didn't have a way to handle final consonants because he didn't think that Cree had them. The natives were the ones who invented that "superscript means final consonant" solution.

@JimCullen

7 жыл бұрын

*cough*Vietnamese*cough*

@raguks

7 жыл бұрын

No missionaries did not invent this. This system existed in India is used for most of Indian languages since thousands of years(like BCE). This scripting is called the Brahmi script. Europeans learnt about America trying look for a sea route to India where missionaries were already there.

@icedragon769

7 жыл бұрын

Ragu Kattinakere yeah....no. You nationalists can keep pretending that your country is on the top of the world, just don't bug us when we're talking about real life.

@raguks

7 жыл бұрын

What nationalism? Your ignorance of existing writing systems or your English comprehension issues do not make me a nationalist. It doesn't make you "talk about real life" either. There are many writing systems in the world. Try to learn about them before you call names. No one said anything is on top of anything else.

anannas? you mean pineapples?

@ryPish

7 жыл бұрын

This ᐊᓈᓇᓱ is very dangerous and may attack at any time, ᕖ must ᑏᓪ with ᐄᑦ.

@antonhelsgaun

7 жыл бұрын

the rest of the world says ananas right? just like the rest of the world says maize and not corn

@littlesnowflakepunk855

7 жыл бұрын

Maize and corn are different species.

@sion8

7 жыл бұрын

How are 'maize' different from 'corn' in your opinion? 'Corn' is just a generic term for the most used grain locally, so, back when communication was hard your "corn" could be different than the "corn" from another part of the country (rye or any other grain you can think of). However, since maize became the most common grain in North America also add to that the global power of the U.S. and you have English-speakers more and more calling maize 'corn'.

@nakenmil

7 жыл бұрын

+sion8 Most eNglish speakers outside North America do not refer to maize as corn.

Tom: The word for mom is a sound that a baby will make accidentally. Japanese: "haha" Me: make sense..

@shootymcshootfacekoff7972

3 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile, imperial standard: skritschaultlatanska neproulst (progenitor female, yes really,)

@scythal

2 жыл бұрын

Japan actually has an island named Hahajima

Omg anaana is just sounds like “Anaanne” which means grandmother in Turkish And it literally translates as “main mother”

@AnAverageItalian

3 жыл бұрын

Well, it was invented by missionaries, maybe they were Turkish?

@ferafish213

3 жыл бұрын

@@AnAverageItalian the writing system was invented by missionaries, the language was already being spoken by the Inuit before the missionaries arrived.

@AtomicAlchemist

3 жыл бұрын

And whats the word for a secondary mother?

@microhoarray

3 жыл бұрын

@@AtomicAlchemist what’s secondary mother? :D

@mycromerry696

3 жыл бұрын

its actually anne-anne (mother-mother) then it became annane over time. also turks in central asia used to say ata (father) back in time.idk if they still calling but in turkey we prefer baba for father and ata means ancestor now.

I miss your linguistics videos, Tom! Quite literally had a little jump for joy when I saw this (especially being Canadian myself) :) Can't wait to see more

@icedragon769

7 жыл бұрын

He stopped making linguistics videos because Xidnaf and The Ling Space do it better.

@sion8

7 жыл бұрын

_Xidnaf_ as much as I'm a fan, is just a collage kid that needs to focus on his studies (last I checked) while Tom is already a collage graduate in Linguistics! So, I hope he also makes videos on this subject again someday soon as much as I which the same out of _Xidnaf_.

@CSmyth-

7 жыл бұрын

I mean no disrespect to either of them, or to your for your opinion, but personally I COMPLETELY disagree. I think Tom's linguistics videos are amazing, for much the same reasons I love all his other videos... You can really, truly tell that he cares. It seems less scripted, less robotic. A lot of KZreadrs who focus on educational content are admittedly somewhat boring, as if they're reading out of a textbook. You can see the passion for learning in Tom's eyes, and you can see him start to get carried away with his rants, and watch him catch himself when he remembers he should be staying on topic XD Is it ever-so-slightly unprofessional? I suppose you could argue that, but to me, it just shows that he loves what he does and that is what makes it so very enjoyable to learn from him.

@OrigamiMarie

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah I tried The Ling Space and got bored. I think Tom said that his co-script-writer for the linguistics videos is too busy with a big project (I forget, a book maybe?), so there won't be more of those. Which I agree is sad, because I enjoyed them, he has an enthusiasm for them that I haven't seen elsewhere. And he has a talent for making it look like he's not working from a script :-)

@CSmyth-

7 жыл бұрын

I hadn't heard that, must have missed it... But very good to know, thank you! Any idea who that cowriter is? If it is, indeed, a book, then that would be one hell of a good read! :D

Wow, this is the most Alien looking language I've ever seen. Rectangular shapes in different directions. How many movies used this for their "Alien" languages, I wonder?

@icedragon769

7 жыл бұрын

It's a lot easier to generate a much more alien looking script. www.omniglot.com/conscripts/english.htm

@milesbrown2261

6 жыл бұрын

Icedragon that website is genuinely cool

@markusklyver6277

3 жыл бұрын

*Quenya enters the chat*

That looks like Inuit or something. I’m really intrigued by the Arctic and Inuit culture. Finding random Arctic cities and checking out just everything is really informative and entertaining

0:48 Sounds like a drunk person trying to hit on someone. "Kwaassuup? (r¯//▽//¯)r"

I'm imagining a script where the orientation of all the letters is distinctive would be a nightmare for dyslexic people!

@Hamachingo

7 жыл бұрын

like these doors the say push on one side and pull on the other, but it's a glass door with the letters etched into the glass so you can always read both and lean into it in a hurry instead of pulling? I hate those! Tip: look at the hinges, if you can see them: pull.

@icedragon769

7 жыл бұрын

It's actually easier. English is the worst language in the world for dyslexics, they are far more common in English-speaking areas than anywhere else, because English writing is so far removed from spoken English. .

@HeadsFullOfEyeballs

7 жыл бұрын

Sure, English _orthography_ is dreadful! But the only _letters_ that look identical except for orientation are p-b-d-q, whereas in Canadian aboriginal syllabics it's all of them. That has to be rough. Are you sure English is the worst language for dyslexics? I hear Tibetan has an even more archaic and irregular orthography. And they're completely scuppered trying to learn to write Japanese presumably -- two separate syllabaries PLUS thousands of Chinese characters!

@icedragon769

7 жыл бұрын

Heads Full Of Eyeballs The similarity of characters is not the primary problem for dyslexics, the main thing associated with dyslexia is the orthographic depth: how many sounds can each character represent, and how many characters represent each sound. English has 50-ish sounds, and over 1000 ways to write each sound. In the US, England, and Australia, Dyslexia rates are around 10-15%. In places where the primary writing system is more shallow, like Finland, Germany, Italy, Latin America, etc. it's more like 4%

@HeadsFullOfEyeballs

7 жыл бұрын

icedragon769 Oh, yeah, I'm aware of that :) I'm not saying that these syllabics are worse _on the whole_ for dyslexic people than English orthography. I just figure the character orientation thing would be a specific problem that other systems don't present, which was interesting to me.

Reminds me a lot of Japanese, only Japanese gets _really_ complicated when you start throwing in kanji.

@PatheticTV

3 жыл бұрын

China and Taiwan, who’s entire languages are kanji (hanzi): 👁👄👁

@shwabb1

Жыл бұрын

@@PatheticTV not entire languages. Uyghur, Tibetan, Mongolian, Zhuang, and numerous small languages spoken in China don't use hanzi.

@emilyscloset2648

Жыл бұрын

​@@shwabb1 You could legitimately argue those are different languages

@shwabb1

Жыл бұрын

@@emilyscloset2648 I'm confused by your response. I never said that these languages are the same. I only said that not all languages in China use hanzi.

For those wondering, the title (translated to latin script) is "Taam skaat and qaniujaaqpait"

@joshua1402

2 жыл бұрын

why do you have rgb pfp

@malthefm6376

2 жыл бұрын

@@joshua1402 It's a pride flag

@joshua1402

2 жыл бұрын

@@malthefm6376 no it's a rainbow RGB flag

@malthefm6376

2 жыл бұрын

@@joshua1402 my mistake

This is the only time i'm posting "You Didn't Search For This Video!"

@poop226

3 жыл бұрын

i did

@Yashiirou

3 жыл бұрын

:O

@imcarlosjr4898

3 жыл бұрын

@@poop226 how

@poop226

3 жыл бұрын

@@imcarlosjr4898 I copied and pasted those symbols 👁️👄👁️

Guessing they don't have regular keyboards made with their symbols, but maybe mobile keyboards. If so, what do they look like? Seems to me there could be some amazing design put into that too. Things like angling the symbol after choosing it with swiping in a direction maybe?

@TomScottGo

7 жыл бұрын

On desktop machines, you can just add Inuktitut as a keyboard layout; you'll need to learn to touch-type on it, but it's not too hard. On mobile, I think it's just like a regular keyboard right now, but there's no reason it couldn't be something more clever!

@CasMullac

7 жыл бұрын

A touch screen would be great for this language. Touch one of the 16 "letter" and swipe in a direction.

@LittleLionRawr

7 жыл бұрын

In Japan they have some swipe modification based keyboards for phones. It works very quickly apparently..

@sevret313

7 жыл бұрын

You don't need that, you'll probably just do like with Japanese. You write it with the latin alphabet and your computer converts it.

@Olodus

7 жыл бұрын

sevret313 Yea you could. We are talking design here though. With such a well designed language such a simple solution seems a little boring. Just my opinion though. What you are talking about is just a pure and simple tranformation from latin symbols to inuktitut. We are talking about a solution that don't need to map their symbols to latin symbols. Tom said in the video that it isn't a very effective mapping.

It's silly to use English spelling as an argument to criticise Latin alphabet. English spelling is a mess because of the intermixing with French and other Romance languages. Look how the Latin alphabet works in Slavic languages like Czech or Polish and you'll see how regular, predictable and simple to use it is.

@heinrichb

7 жыл бұрын

Latin alphabet works just as well for languages like German, it seems. Pronunciation and spelling is nearly always straightforward in it.

@BTheHeretic

7 жыл бұрын

Finnish has 8 vowels (long and short versions for all) and also "long consonants", and it is written phonetically with the latin alphabet. You can also write almost perfect English with the Finnish phonetics. With some added accents it probably would be perfect phonetic fit.

@icedragon769

7 жыл бұрын

The origins of English have nothing to do with its writing system. It is a mess because it froze 500 years ago and we don't pronounce words that way any more.

@nbnbx3604

7 жыл бұрын

i read an article by Jonathan Meades where he claimed that the accents alive today that are closed to English before the Great Vowel Shift is Brummie and East Midlands dialects he recommends seeing a production of Shakespeare produced in Birmingham to get a better flavour of how the plays would have sounded when they were written

@DiegovonBeck

7 жыл бұрын

This is what I was thinking as well. Spanish has no "complicated unwritten rules" and a words spelling dictates it's pronunciation exactly (there's different accents in different countries but that's another story).

Seriously bro..... This is an awesome video. Just the mere fact that you've gone out of your way.... Chosen an obscure subject.... Researched it... Compiled it... Recorded, edited and shared it is so cool. Food for thought. Thanks to you and your team.

That ”Ataata” really resembles the old Finnish words: ”Taata” (”Grandpa”) and ”Taatto” (”Father”), which are cognate with each other.

@mfatihy_

2 жыл бұрын

I actually think they resemble the old Turkish (or maybe today's some Turkic languages) more, where mother is "ana" and father is "ata" :)

@galaxychannel3343

2 жыл бұрын

In Bulgarian there's an informal word for father: "tati".

@user-qk7en8pq1u

2 жыл бұрын

In Ainu, similarly I think it's acapo

I didn't know the title of the video.. that's something I didn't know

@DiGatsby

7 жыл бұрын

Something along the lines of... Taamsquaat and rkani.... -ujaarkpa-it.. Tom Scott and Arcane...

@ltericdavis2237

7 жыл бұрын

I think that the second word is just the native name fro the writing system

@DiGatsby

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah Tom said somewhere here in comments that it isn't English.

@zertxer_zertxer

7 жыл бұрын

it's "Qaniujaaqpait" , which according to Tom means "Inuktitut syllabics"

@Joenevarez11

7 жыл бұрын

I read this it's says like and subscribe

What's the difference between "ng" and "nng"?

@reinux

7 жыл бұрын

The difference between bumping into someone's shoulder and getting your toe stomped on.

@SaintLouisXX

7 жыл бұрын

The ng is the sound you get in pink and king and thing. nng is when that sound is germinated, which is basically just holding the sound for longer. We don't have it in English, not making words different anyway, but you can kinda get it when you combine two words that end and start with the same syllable, like roommate, misspell, lamppost, calm man, where you can hold that syllable connecting the words for longer than normal. Some can be confusing, like "night train" can be taken as "night rain," or "unaimed" vs "unnamed."

@icedragon769

7 жыл бұрын

There isn't one? What language in the world distinguishes between those?

@ObjectsInMotion

7 жыл бұрын

Did you watch the video ?

@reinux

7 жыл бұрын

icedragon769 Japanese does too, actually, though more for vowels than for ng. Kato, katoo, katto and kaato all mean different things in Japanese. It drives beginners crazy.

this is absolutely incredible! its amazing how such a language has formed. and throughout the video it reminded me of the Korean writing system. in so many aspects are they the same with the as no consonant, you must have a consonant and a vowel, the writing system was made from scratch and how similar sounding consonants look similar this is incredible watch me go and learn to read this language.

Oh, like Hiragana, but way simpler to memorize

@tiehl5922

4 жыл бұрын

It's like korean but assembled in line

@TheInkyPsycho

4 жыл бұрын

Not entirely. Hiragana is a syllabary, meaning each symbol is completely different no matter what sound it represents. Abugidas, like Inuktitut, have different symbols for consonants, but the vowel sound is implied only through diacritics. So basically in syllabaries "ka" and "ko" are different symbols, in abugidas they're the same symbol "k", but slightly modified.

@damien4197

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheInkyPsycho Hiragana does straddle the line here though, does it not? There's a symbol for making the sound long, and many symbol's consonant, rather than their vowel, is changed by a diacritic... there's also a symbol for an ending consonant.

@naltlan7651

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheInkyPsycho abugidas (like the one show in the video) have consonants as a base and them change or add something to it, while japanese hiragana is a sillabary, where eatch symbol is equivalent to a syllable and dont really have a clear correlation (there are exceptions, in human languages nothing is a fact set in stone)

@karaqakkzl

3 жыл бұрын

If *Hiragana* was an *abugida* than たちつてと Should be read as _" ta ti tu te to "_ Not _" Ta Chi Tsu Te To "_

See? Your background in Linguistics all came together at 80 degrees north. :) This is awesome. Inuktitut = makes sense, looks great.

*Tom Scott* and *QANIYUKAPAIT* ?

@TomScottGo

7 жыл бұрын

It's a translation of "Inuktitut syllabics", not a transliteration. Seemed a bit wrong to put the English sounds into Inuktitut script!

@Werlox

7 жыл бұрын

ohh so its Qaniujaaqpait

@Kram1032

7 жыл бұрын

ᑖᒻ ᔅᑳᑦ taam skaat - Tom Scott ᖃᓂᐅᔮᖅᐸᐃᑦ qaniujaarkpait? How is that qaniyukapait?

@Kram1032

7 жыл бұрын

Took me like two minutes to "read" that _one_ word, so... But I'm not even sure I did it right

@Pining_for_the_fjords

7 жыл бұрын

I was about to post the same thing, Taam Sakaat and qaniujaaqpait.

I was so impressed with the long tracking shot and white space on the right for text that I had to watch this video again for the substance. Great work!

This is legitimately one of your coolest videos!

The second word in the title looks like boobies I am a responsible adult.

@lyndawilliams8434

7 жыл бұрын

Why? Thats no fun!

@astro_che

7 жыл бұрын

lel

@ScoutaIoo

7 жыл бұрын

hue

@Powsey

6 жыл бұрын

Prankster Aleks [and]?

@Jackcabbit

5 жыл бұрын

Quick, turn your monitor upside-down! 5318008

Such a clickbait title.

@japzone

7 жыл бұрын

Infinitely clickable, infinitely unsearchable.

@tjeulink

7 жыл бұрын

this is literally not clickbait. he actually explains how to read the title in the video and why the way its written is interesting. how has this title little to do with the actual content?

@sierran0v

7 жыл бұрын

it's a joke

@tjeulink

7 жыл бұрын

bakdsnack can you ruin the joke and explain it?

@sierran0v

7 жыл бұрын

tjeulink because he's saying it's a click bait title yet it's in a language pretty much nobody understands. Making it the opposite of click bait.

This is a very clever system! Never heard of it before, thank you!

4:04 “Great! Now no one will know what my social medias are!”

I love Abugidas! I didn't think you would make a linguistic video.

@danieldonkersloot3565

7 жыл бұрын

If I recall, he studied and has done work in linguistics. Check out his older stuff, they are full of linguistics videos!

@CumputersRULE

7 жыл бұрын

Daniel Donkersloot Cool I thought he only did science. Thank you much!

This is a language I'd seriously love to learn. It looks so cool.

@moduspwnenz

3 жыл бұрын

You should with the shortage of people knowing it

@shwabb1

Жыл бұрын

Multiple languages use the Canadian Aboriginal syllabics: Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, Western Cree, Eastern Cree, Siksiká, North Slavey, South Slavey, Dane-zaa, Chipweyan, and Dakelh.

Lived in Canada for over 40 years and grew up on CBC North but never knew what those syllabics meant until now. Thank you.

Thank you! This is, like so many of Tom's vids, one of those vids where I learn a huge amount in a small amount of time. Especially "abugida" - I like the sound of that word (also a good word to play in Scrabble).

"Latin alphabet, where there are just arbitrary symbols you have to learn." "Complicated letters with unwritten rules that all influence eachother." Speak for yourself, English!

@usualunusualkid7149

4 жыл бұрын

English uses Latin alphabet

@jamesmiller2521

4 жыл бұрын

@@usualunusualkid7149 you mean misuses

@mornwind318

4 жыл бұрын

*laughs in finnish and italian*

@legendmk52

4 жыл бұрын

Hah, Macedonian Cyrillic all the way! 100% phonetic 🇲🇰😎

@gaprilis

4 жыл бұрын

scrolled down to like exactly this comment. Latin, German, Italian, English is basically the exeption here.

Tom, I've been a fan for years and find it shocking you've not been picked up as a TV presenter for BBC 2 documentaries. Keep up the good work!!

@herooftime4781

7 жыл бұрын

Yes! He would make a really amazing presenter. Maybe we should start a petition

@simon_patterson

7 жыл бұрын

Not sure a step down to television presenting would be a good idea when he already has such a huge reach on a much much bigger platform like KZread.

This is the most profoundly helpful video on linguistics, thank you!

This is reminding me of the Korean writing system, which is really interesting and worth looking up if you're somehow seeing this new comment on this old video

The latin alphabet doesn't have ambiguities, the interpretation by languages do. English is pretty bad in this respect, having a lot of ambiguities like shown at the end of the video. But that's not the case for all latin script languages.

@rachelmoody1520

5 жыл бұрын

honestly, English wasn't always that bad in this regard either. The reason it gets so confusing is that we codified spelling and then the pronunciation of words kept changing, but the way we spelled them did not.

@mennoltvanalten7260

5 жыл бұрын

Also English is a mix of Latin, French and the older version of English, all forced into one writing and pronounciation system. And to accomodate these three kids, the trenchcoat of pronounciation has become quite monstrous.

@cebruthius

5 жыл бұрын

Yes. Both Esperanto (very practical) and Lojban (less practical) use the Latin alphabet.

@OrangeC7

4 жыл бұрын

@Dalis918 Isn't English considered part of a family of German languages, anyway?

@Liggliluff

3 жыл бұрын

@Dalis918 No, Latin, along with French, Spanish, Italian are part of the Romance languages, while Scandinavian, German, Dutch, Yiddish are part of the Germanic languages (OrangeC7 meant to say Germanic, not German). - What you think of is the Indo-European languages, and the vast majority of the European and Indian languages are Indo-European, which is easy to get from the name. Native African languages are not Indo-European for example; but obviously Spanish, French, Dutch, English that are imported, and Afrikaans that has evolved from Dutch, are Germanic.

Latin alphabet doesn't have innately difficult pronunciation rules, English language has just complicated them to the extreme. But in some languages that use the Latin alphabet each letter corresponds with just one sound without being influenced by the other letters around it and reading them out loud is as easy as making those sounds in the order they appear in the word.

For anyone visiting: the Inuktitut script is now officially dead. Due to a 2019 inter-tribal agreement on standardising the Inuit language family, Inuktitut will now be written with Roman letters.

@KrishnaDasLessons

4 жыл бұрын

cygil1 RIP Happy Gary. 🙁

@purpleapple4052

4 жыл бұрын

Source?

@derschattenpoet

4 жыл бұрын

thats realy sad

@Ahn-mu3db

4 жыл бұрын

Nooooo I wanted to go to read the signs and learn the alphabet :(

@Szpw7

4 жыл бұрын

It isn't dead - the national Inuit association did agree to create a standardised Latin script, but Inuktitut syllabics are still officially accepted in Nunavut and are still widely used. The Latin script might eventually fully replace it eventually but that's not the case right now.

This is Interesting somewhat similar to Ethiopian language “Ge’ez”. The scripts or the alphabets are also called “Abugida” written as “አቡጊዳ”.

@TSaleh-ht7ph

4 жыл бұрын

Because the Ethiopian script is actually an abugida.

@oogalook

3 жыл бұрын

I was wondering about that, I started going to an Ethiopian restaurant and was completely taken aback when they had their own written language I'd never seen before. Sticks out like a sore thumb on Google Maps too. Also those guys make some awesome food.

@corneliaschmitt1345

3 жыл бұрын

I came here because a government letter I recieved had a note in Amharic (written in Ge'ez) that translations of it are available online Then told my friends how this consonant-vowel combo thing is cool. Then one friend sent me a link to this video

@TheOfficialSJCProductions

2 жыл бұрын

"What do you speak?" "Ge'ez" "You've got no clue?"

Constructed scripts and shallow orthographies are great! That's why I think Hangul is cool!

That's a smart system!

@stephentroyer3831

7 жыл бұрын

I think English needs a slow overhaul to something more like that system.

Incredible, you keep amazing us with more fascinating linguistics!

Thanks for sharing the knowledge , I like to learn about the other languages and thier rules, grammar and also thier culture -I think that the culture is related to the language -. Keep sharing about this amazing topics 👍

"Mama, which is a sound they make accidentally." You broke my heart.

If you are interested in linguistics, I heartily recommend the channels of Xidnaf and Artifexian.

I'm making a conlang and this seems like a perfect writing system for it, thanks for bringing this to my attention Tom!

Can you do a video about Korean script? I've just recently started learning about it's structure and it has so many really great design choices.

@taududeblobber221

3 жыл бұрын

xidnaf did one

Do a video about the language called lojban. Unless you've already done that... very interesting video! thanks for sharing!

@tomofthetomb

7 жыл бұрын

he's mentioned lojban but for like 1 second.

@GreatDaneManiac

7 жыл бұрын

yeah, I thought so. I'd like to see a whole video about it, though...

@Coolfolder

7 жыл бұрын

Same!

@Pining_for_the_fjords

7 жыл бұрын

And Ithkuil.

@unflexian

6 жыл бұрын

Check out the youtube channel "Conlang Critic". He makes videos disecting conlangs just like tom used to, is still active, and has made videos on both Lojban and Ithkuil already.

Looking back at this video, it is very cool to say I am currently writing this from Iqaluit, Nunavut! I'm from Toronto, but I'm on a 4 month long internship for school!

Thank you for this being a short video

thankyou for talking about endangered indigenous language(s) as such as this.

I was NOT expecting to see norm from Tested anywhere near Tom Scott EVER.

This reminds me of Korean. They always add vowels too. I would watch a 15 minutes video about this.

@Reedat64

Жыл бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking!

@elchapito4580

Жыл бұрын

Not really. Vowels are written in Korean.

@khust2993

11 ай бұрын

@@elchapito4580 Nah. The post implies that Korean doesn't accommodate consonant clusters, which is true. This is also true with Japanese and Austronesian languages in Oceania.

I love finding out new things, thank you!

Fascinating. I need to learn this writing system.

72 people watching this video ain't having Nunavut.

@RedStefan

7 жыл бұрын

There are just not inuit.

@johanngaiusisinwingazuluah2116

7 жыл бұрын

Yukon not possibly make anymore puns.

@chancebrowning3304

7 жыл бұрын

something something arctic snow

@koldaussie

4 жыл бұрын

Inuit! I knew someone would not like this video.

@maeam

4 жыл бұрын

There’s snow way anyone can make any more puns.

You talk about Latin alphabet "with just arbitrary symbols you have to learn" - well, that's true for English, but there are many other languages using Latin alphabet (or Latin-based alphabet), where this is not a problem, and the same character (or combination of characters) always, or almost always, corresponds to the same phone (sound). Take e.g. German, Italian, Hungarian, all Slavic languages, ... just to mention languages I know something about. Simply, to have different pronunciation for the same group of characters (tough - though - through - thorough, or fear vs. bear, etc.) is problem of English language, not of the Latin alphabet.

@celestialgloam7439

4 жыл бұрын

Even then, though, the same letters are being used for different things. English just accentuates this by using loan words from many of those languages.

@ramenheim8149

4 жыл бұрын

Vous ne parlez pas français... ;^)

@pouritenne8996

4 жыл бұрын

@@celestialgloam7439 you mean like how "c" is used for [s] and [k]? it's also not a feature of every language, in czech or polish for example "c" is only used for [ts], and well if you've studied latin, the language for which this script was made, there's none of this anglo-french mess with the letters, it's as straightforward as you can get

@CostaCola

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@qwertyTRiG

3 жыл бұрын

The symbols are still arbitrary, though. There's no pattern to the shapes of the glyphs of the Latin alphabet. And there's no relationship between similar sounds and similar letters, with the possible exception of b and p, which are a voiced and unvoiced pair.

I am so, so happy to finally know what glyphs make up that one text emoji, I've wondered that for awhile. Also, this is wonderful and now I want to learn it.

Tom you’re the coolest nerd I’ve ever had the privilege of watching!!

Latin alphabet fails that spectacularly only in some languages, like English. In many Latin alphabet-using languages, there's one letter=one sound correspondence and it works just fine.

@MarioFanGamer659

7 жыл бұрын

This is especially noticable in Slavic languages (at least in Polish) where (most) words (even loan words) are written as they are spoken.

@vytah

7 жыл бұрын

MarioFanGamer Polish has actually probably the most complex spelling rules out of all Slavic languages, but even then it's regular and pronunciation of non-loanwords is 100% deductible, unlike in English or French. But then, a much better example of regular spelling is Croatian/Serbian.

@BTheHeretic

7 жыл бұрын

Curious. In my experience english can be written very accurately with the Finnish phonetics version of latin alphabet (better than actual english spelling anyway). It probably would be even closer fit if you allow for some accents.

@id1666

7 жыл бұрын

Khyrius in mai eksperiens inglish khän bii writen veri akuratly with thö finish fonetiks version of latin alfabet. About like that? In finnish all of the letters are always pronounced very prominently so an accent would be a necessary compromise.

@huawafabe

7 жыл бұрын

German is very logically structured too

This is by far one of my favorite "Things You Might Not Know"! This language is awesome! Someone might be able to answer this for me since it was entirely clear to me from the video: Is this a mapping of what was once a solely spoken language to the signs which in turn correspond to the Latin alphabet? To my understanding it's like the Hawaiian language in that someone invented/hobbled together a written form of it as a way to express information.

@TheJohn8765

7 жыл бұрын

I would be very surprised if there was a verbose written form of most indigenous languages previous to these sorts of "transcriptions". Much further South in BC (Westcoast Canada), there are more than a few Native languages that didn't really have a written form until Europeans came along. The Natives didn't need it, so why bother?

I live in Canada and I have never heard of this fact. Thank you for sharing! I only know that Alert can not grow plants because it is very cold all year round.

I had a blast trying to search for this