Each Middle Eastern Language explained in 1 sentence - ish

From Arabic to Hebrew, Turkish to Kurdish and Persian, the languages of the Middle East are rich in layers often unfamiliar to the West - each language with its own cultural make up. In this video we make it simple to understand the cultural make up of each language in the Middle East - compressing them each into 1 sentence, so you know and you can explore further with this amazing knowledge. Enjoy!
00:00 Beginning
01:11 Turkish
01:29 Cypriot Greek
01:45 Kurdish
02:08 Zaza
02:42 Luri
03:01 Persian
03:38 Gilaki
03:59 Mazanderani
04:21 Qashqai
04:45 Aramaic
05:21 A word
05:59 Arabic
06:24 Mehri
06:58 Coptic
07:17 Siwi
07:41 Hebrew
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  • @mmadaus
    @mmadaus2 ай бұрын

    babe wake up, new video by Ben with sprinkles just dropped

  • @khigor1

    @khigor1

    2 ай бұрын

    Yeeessss

  • @moor4016
    @moor40162 ай бұрын

    The Hebrew part was beautifully done, keep bringing us more language videos and more sprinkles Ben!!

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    I am glad you liked that part. Diolch/ Thank you. And no, I will not stop now.

  • @anaisgarcia2609
    @anaisgarcia26092 ай бұрын

    We need a special video for the "love triangle" of Kurdish....

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Indeed

  • @stefanodadamo6809

    @stefanodadamo6809

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@BenLlywelynI'm afraid it will end up banned. Age-restricted stuff, you know... 😂

  • @zack2804

    @zack2804

    2 ай бұрын

    There's really only two notable Kurdish "dialects" (quotation marks, because that in itself is disputed). These two are Sorani and Badini (Kurmanji). Sorani is more similar to Farsi (down to the grammar), while Badini is more influenced by Turkish. I don't know about Aramaic, but I would consider the Arabic as the "sprinkles".

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Oh no, let's hope not.

  • @almami1599
    @almami15992 ай бұрын

    Waiting for a video about Arabic variations this is My fav series

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Noted. Thank you.

  • @Nabi.Migration

    @Nabi.Migration

    2 ай бұрын

    @@BenLlywelyn When you're waiting for Ben for a video about your own language XD. Epic

  • @sergioromanomunoz8155
    @sergioromanomunoz81552 ай бұрын

    I loved the final language. It was beautiful. With sprinkles of humor. Honor the language of the Kings and the Prophets.

  • @timbliss9587
    @timbliss95872 ай бұрын

    Great efforts are made to preserve the sanctity of the Hebrew language, so many of the swear words are Arabic, Russian, Yiddish and English... sprinkles!

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Swear words in Arabic are expressive.

  • @cennethadameveson3715
    @cennethadameveson37152 ай бұрын

    Someone in work asked me what do they speak in Iran, I said mainly Farsi with a few other language sprinkles. The "sprinkles" is down to you Ben!😂

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Changing the world 1 doughnut at a time.

  • @Parkinski27

    @Parkinski27

    2 ай бұрын

    "I speak Persian" 😎 "I speak Farsi" 🤓

  • @derdlerimdashayazilasidoyul

    @derdlerimdashayazilasidoyul

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@Parkinski27 nah farsi far chadder sounding

  • @jlljlj6991

    @jlljlj6991

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@Parkinski27 My Iranian colleagues tend to say "I speak Iranian" most of the time I think. I don't recall them ever calling it Persian, though. Farsi as well, it's interchangeable, but one of them said a lot don't know the term and if you say Iranian, people who are not that interested in languages will not be as confused :D

  • @stephenchappell7512
    @stephenchappell75122 ай бұрын

    The East used to be Near Middle and Far but now it starts straight away with Middle The Near East btw used to mean Anatolia and the Levant in other words the closest part of Asia to continental Europe

  • @the_Dark_Knight_12
    @the_Dark_Knight_122 ай бұрын

    Can't wait for caucasian, central asian and north african... love your videos man👍

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Thank you very much. Diolch.

  • @evilgoose6768
    @evilgoose67682 ай бұрын

    Love this series!

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Kind. Thank you.

  • @daMacadamBlob
    @daMacadamBlob2 ай бұрын

    Would be awesome if there was a video on sub-Saharan African or Native American languages.

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    There will be. In time.

  • @lauciansylvaranth2285
    @lauciansylvaranth22852 ай бұрын

    As a Hebrew speaker I loved it. A cool part you might not have known, and certainly didn't speak of, was that in it's resurrection many new words were invented, often to describe modern things. Both the legendary Hebrew poet and writer, Hayim Nahman Bialik, and Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, contributed a lot to these process. We mostly ended up going with Eliezer Ben-Yehuda's version of things, although they both invented words and pushed for the revival of the language. I think it is a very curious part of the revival, the case that certain very common words can be attributed to specific people, I can't think of any other tongue where this phenomenon is as prevalent. Moreover modern Hebrew is filled with English, but I guess that is more teen-speech than anything else. But overall I loved the part about Hebrew, some justice to my beautiful mother tongue.

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Yes. Czech, Finnish, Japanese and Welsh all have this phonomenon for new words created - but no where near the level of Hebrew! Beautiful.

  • @omerrwire-

    @omerrwire-

    2 ай бұрын

    יש גם הרבה מילים בעברית מיידיש וגרמנית והעברית המודרנית היא בנויה מהרבה צורות מילים ודרכי הגיה מגרמנית כמו שמוזכר בסרטון. תראה שבתנ"ך מדברים בצורה מאוד שונה. הדרך שהיום מדברים זה מודרניזציה מגרמנית

  • @CastChaos

    @CastChaos

    2 ай бұрын

    @@BenLlywelyn I thought many languages had it so that one or more literaturists decided that it needed a huge upgrade and so created and updated a whole lot of words and grammar, mostly because so many new objects, notions and processes were invented at other parts of the world and entered international use that given language needed to catch up. I know that it happened at least twice with Hungarian in the last 200 years (before then, it was just handled by taking from Latin, Greek and Slavic languages) and I think I remember the same for German. Also, Japanese handled it via carbon copying part of the English dictionary. I didn't know about Czech and Finnish doing so and since I'm just interested, not an expert, I didn't know about Welsh (unless if you mean the Celtic -> Briton change and also the Briton-Anglosaxon history piece later, Arthur forgive that I mention). I guessed the Latin languages didn't need it, for they just kept sharing ideas through the centuries slowly word by word. At least I regularly read the etimology of Spanish words on a Spanish site and that is how it seems. As for Hebrew, might it be because the diaspora, so Jews met the speakers of so many hundredsof languages all over the world...? I never thought of this as a separate topic, but if it's so, it also worths a video. Or more. How a language formed is outmost interesting to be explained in one minute and will always be my favourite format, but a small breakdown with examples like "X type of words, like XY and YX got from XYZ language to ZYX around Y time because of this and that" or "these words were created in this language by this person artifically". Also identifying very old words (predating Latin and more or less preserved in a language today). This is a really interesting facet of learning about languages.

  • @frankiexpentaxangeli
    @frankiexpentaxangeli2 ай бұрын

    my fav series

  • @user-zr8mm9ib8s
    @user-zr8mm9ib8s2 ай бұрын

    What an awesome channel for a language enthusiast like me

  • @Noah-qp6oe
    @Noah-qp6oe2 ай бұрын

    Great video!!

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @BluebirdJDAM
    @BluebirdJDAM2 ай бұрын

    Benjamin, You are AMAZINGLY STUNNING!!! ESPECIALLY concerning the Hebrew and the minorities' languages of Iran and Arabian peninsula. Wow, your talent, your Sprachgefühl for each and every mentioned language/dialect/linguistic space is just unfathomable!!! תודה מכל הלב על היותך חבר בשעה נוראה זו!!! אתה אדם מדהים, כשרוני ומיוחד. עם לב אוהב ומלא אהבת חינם. בהצלחה!!!!!

  • @Nabi.Migration
    @Nabi.Migration2 ай бұрын

    Another good video, Ben :D. I have to admit that as a middle eastern myself i didn't know about some of these languages. The hebrew part crowned the show as intended. It's also interesting to see more converts to Judaism. I would love to watch your take on the arabic varieties. It's great to see into your thoughts and life. After watching your video about your journey through life, from the USA to Britain and then becoming Welsh, I couldn't help but reflect on my own journey. One point that particularly caught my attention was the perception of neo-liberalism and social liberalism. It really made me think about my own beliefs and values.

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Thank you. I will be sharing more of my journey in the future for you. As there is a soul behind this channel.

  • @thebeststoryevertold
    @thebeststoryevertold2 ай бұрын

    Good series on languages.

  • @georgios_5342
    @georgios_53422 ай бұрын

    Greeks didn't "forget that they were Hittites", the large parts of coastal Anatolia that were inhabited by Greeks were never Hittite, and even Central Anatolia became Greek speaking after large waves of Greek migration, not just assimilation. Large new cities were built from nothing

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    With a pinch of salt.

  • @amyray4726
    @amyray47262 ай бұрын

    It feels so wierd to be a native Hebrew speaker. I must say, all the words are quite short and concise which is nice, but the language also feels half-baked at times

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Fascinating.

  • @TurkishFunAccount
    @TurkishFunAccount2 ай бұрын

    The video I was looking for letz go

  • @sasi5841
    @sasi58412 ай бұрын

    What happened to pontic greek (basically khoine greek with some turkish and georgian sprinkles). The live around trebizond, turkey

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Good one. Important.

  • @alfonsovelasco7005

    @alfonsovelasco7005

    2 ай бұрын

    And also Mariupol Greek.

  • @Impasta_Tronic78
    @Impasta_Tronic782 ай бұрын

    rather splendid indeed, keep up the great content! (not a pipe bomb threat)

  • @jezusbloodie
    @jezusbloodie2 ай бұрын

    Excellent video once again. I could listen to your voice for hours. I'd love a video on the Arabic dialectcontinuum. By the way, have you seen the recent works on northern European multiethonolects by H"istory with Hilbert" here on YT? If not, I'd wager you'd find it interesting.

  • @jezusbloodie

    @jezusbloodie

    2 ай бұрын

    My dutchness is appalled, Appalled I say, at you learning Hebrew over Dutch as your fourth language,? VB it fair enough if you describe Hebrew like that. Beutifully.

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    History with Herbert is a good channel.

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Dutch still has the best and cutest word ever for English - Engels.

  • @christopherellis2663
    @christopherellis26632 ай бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Very welcome! And glad to see you.

  • @cv5w
    @cv5wАй бұрын

    Great content! I have a few pieces of unsolicited advice (I know, it's easy to comment and it's hard to create content, so I hope my humility is not lost on you when offering these thoughts). I would make sure to mention the language family for each language you analyze (e.g., Aramaic is an early Afroasiatic language; or semitic, etc) and I would explain what Semitic languages are (how related topics are created from basic consonant clusters), what Turkic languages are (agglutinative, Asian steppe nomads, etc.) just a few tidbits to put the categories in context. I wish you had spent a little bit more time describing the resurrection of Hebrew by Jewish scholars, and how they were able to recreate such a long dead language. A sentence or two explaining why the language of Moses/Abraham and the language of Jesus were different would have also been interesting.

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    Ай бұрын

    Many videos could be devoted to Hebrew. Thank you.

  • @newworldforbest
    @newworldforbest2 ай бұрын

    "I listened up to when he said Arabic comes from a person claiming conversation with an angel. This is totally incorrect; Arabic existed before Prophet Mohammed (pbuh)."

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    With a pinch of salt.

  • @yuribliman8999
    @yuribliman89992 ай бұрын

    I don't know how to count the languages I speak coz I am bilingual, anyway Hebrew is slowly beginning to be my next language. I thought it would be Italian. Thank you for the sprinkles!

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Welcome!

  • @pheeku6996
    @pheeku6996Ай бұрын

    Coptic was mentioned, yay 😊

  • @user-bk7wp4bx5n
    @user-bk7wp4bx5n2 ай бұрын

    Hey Ben, how do you view languages dying and people not speaking a language corresponding to their origin? does it make them less? Arabization had different flavor due to migration, mixing (instead of outright replacement even of replacement happened due to conflicts but as far as I know, it's no different from replacement of arabs to other arabs ) and being the language of poetry religion and a lingua franca. Making Arabization rather a pleasant process in which many people really liked claiming to be Arabs, though probably many of them like me indeed have 100% Arab origins. My tribe is Zamoura, which means cultivated olive, this is further conformed by the area where cultivated olive is still there, also I'm not aware of any Arabic origin of this word, I asked a Moroccan Berber, and she told me she knows this word, also it's known in Algeria, (Eric Zammour) Personally, I define myself as Arab-Berber, though if we go by father's tribe I'm Zammouri (Berber). however, due to Arabic origins and also being culturally Arab for many of us, the right term is Arab Berber like Anatolian Turks. Some claim Berbers are Arabs or Semitic people, but for me, I'm Libyan, Arab Berber, though some people are hurt by hearing Berber! What are your views on heritage languages? Especially when they lack 1- religious significance, 2- lack the community, as my tribe is Arabized since forever 3- common in remoted areas or other communities such as Mount Nafousa and Zouara (I'm sure you heard of them) these 4- lack of material for the language and limited utility if I ever marry berberophone from Morocco I'd make sure to immerse myself in their berber speaking area, but other than that I cannot see a way around it. Arabic is a great language, I'm not sure how accurate are the ones who claim to be Shareef (meaning to relate to the house of the prophet of islam) but from mothers side I have that origin, her grandmother was Greek so she's white. funnily if we track it by mother side for three generations I'd be Greek today, therefore the question of identity is not a clear-cut, if I were Orthodox this would have solidified an entirely distinct identity

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Identity is not clear cut, I respect that. As for Arabisation, it has been one of the most violent processes in all of human history, as we are seeing across the Sahel in Africa today, still on-going. Berbers fought wars to retain their identity, and beliefs and languages over centuries. And that in itself does not mean that you cannot be both Arab and Berber, of course you can. As for heritage languages, all languages are heritage languages.

  • @leventtrolley9135

    @leventtrolley9135

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@BenLlywelynAre you really serious when you say that Arabization is the "most violent" process that has taken place throughout the ages? I respect your opinion (everyone's else), but since you are talking about history, there must be a real deep look into whatever it is. The issue here is not just an opinion, like apples being sweeter than grapes. It seems that you have not read about the most violent processes in history yet? Haven't you read about "Exploring the Americas"? Haven't you read about the colonization of Africa and what happened in each region and the "popularization" of European languages ​​there? I don't know what you mean by it being the "most violent" process in history. Arabization took place in a very simple manner, with the massive migration of Arab tribes and their settlement within local communities (across what's known today as the Arab world). If you are talking about Arab control over North Africa, bloody battles certainly took place, but they were not the "most violent" battles in history as you described them. Was them violent? Yes. Is it the "most violent" thing that happened in history of mankind? That sounds funny to answer. By the way, Arabization also did not happen because of a religion or because people accepted Islam and the like. Rather, people started speaking Arabic even before they converted/accepted (or forced if you like it) to Islam. This may be strange to hear, but it is the reality, because Arabic is an imperial language (meaning by this, it is a language of an empire, several states/sultanates and empires throughout the Middle Ages, not one), and you know.. How much the Arabs, and with them the Arabized ones, sought to develop Arabic over the succeeding centuries and because of the great influence of Arabic in science, knowledge and culture/arts on the peoples under which the Arabs ruled. As for the Berbers, the Berbers who mixed with the Arabs took Arabic from them (Why? Because Arabic had all the influence needed to), but those who did not mix with them still speak Berber to this day. It is simple, isn’t it?

  • @estheay3611
    @estheay36112 ай бұрын

    I can only imagine what sentences Ben could come up with for conlangs, like Toki Pona!

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    They would be destroyed.

  • @justaduck1664
    @justaduck16642 ай бұрын

    Please make a video on the so called arabic dialects, or more accuretly the arabic descended langauges with sprinkles and sometimes grammer from the languages that used or are still spoken in those regions, For example egyptian arabic has alot of grammer from coptic with greek coptic turkish italien english and french sprinkles

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Thank you for answering that question. I will do... at some point.

  • @justaduck1664

    @justaduck1664

    2 ай бұрын

    @@BenLlywelyn yeah its gonna be hard to simplfy thousands of years of history into one sentence, god be with you amiin

  • @-adultfigureskaters3708
    @-adultfigureskaters370814 күн бұрын

    Thanks for another amazing video

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    14 күн бұрын

    You are welcome.

  • @laabh9949
    @laabh99492 ай бұрын

    Ayy, another vid from my favourite series. Also, Having an intro is a good choice, but I feel this is too uh...jolly? you should have smth that matches your almost sassy vibe, also waiting for Indian languages vid >:)

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    What about saxophone?

  • @laabh9949

    @laabh9949

    2 ай бұрын

    @@BenLlywelyn if its volume is low......it could be epic! (and ofc credit me (*^ ‿ ⁢*)♡)

  • @idiosyncraticmushroom3030
    @idiosyncraticmushroom30302 ай бұрын

    Can't wait to hear when he does Native American languages!

  • @AyalSharon
    @AyalSharonАй бұрын

    Thanks for showing Hebrew some love! But a small correction: Hebrew is more closely related to ancient Aramaic (both are Northwest Semitic languages) than to Arabic . Portions of the books of Daniel and Ezra in the Bible are written in Aramaic.

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    Ай бұрын

    Thank you for watching!

  • @goonyougoodthing
    @goonyougoodthing2 ай бұрын

    Could you do a video on languages with debated language status like 'Ulster scots'?

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Maybe.

  • @miri-818
    @miri-8182 ай бұрын

    if there not already videos about yiddish and ladino I would like it very much; and it would be interesting to hear about South Afrika's many official languages

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    I have a video about Ladino for you in my catalogue of videos.

  • @miri-818

    @miri-818

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@BenLlywelynThank you, I will look for it! 🇮🇱🧡

  • @Balthazare69
    @Balthazare692 ай бұрын

    I didnt hear about 80% of these languages😮😮

  • @Trolligi
    @Trolligi2 ай бұрын

    You should do Siberian languages in a video too (I can help you with that if you would like, I know way too much about Siberia)

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Oh? What information do you have?

  • @thomashernandez8700
    @thomashernandez87002 ай бұрын

    u funny new subscriber here

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Appreciate that. Thanks. Gracias.

  • @CastChaos
    @CastChaos2 ай бұрын

    The Middle East always interested me, most especially in ancient age contest, probably because, as far as I know, there were the first civilizations formed on the Fertile Crescent, with the Sumers and then Babylon that kept changing ruler nation. Egypt, Arabians, Persians... so romantic. Aramaic always seemed so mystical. Whenever I read something about anything related to the Middle East, Aramaic seems to the Middle East like Latin to Europe. Actually, the "sprinkles" surprise me sometimes. I never even dreamed that Turkish would have anything to do with French! :O

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    We have had English, French, Latin, and before it Greek as the language of study The middle east has had far more than 4 such languages.

  • @CastChaos

    @CastChaos

    2 ай бұрын

    @@BenLlywelyn Truly fascinating. Especially if one thinks about it deeply. All the wonderful science and culture that was made and practiced on those languages.

  • @Gronk574
    @Gronk5742 ай бұрын

    One of the first thousand to see this video. Yeah!

  • @BulgariaNationalist
    @BulgariaNationalist2 ай бұрын

    Would you do extinct languages?

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Good idea. After the living it would be.

  • @qpdb840
    @qpdb8402 ай бұрын

    There are some languages you forgot and one of them is Gorani but great video

  • @marioricomeza2839
    @marioricomeza28392 ай бұрын

    A breakdown of the arabic dialect (languages cough cough) would be great!

  • @NotaHACPOASpy
    @NotaHACPOASpy2 ай бұрын

    Sprinkles

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    ❇✳️

  • @homerosmolinero131
    @homerosmolinero1312 ай бұрын

    You didn't put enough sprinkles on Turkish!

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Fair.

  • @Jewish_Israeli_Zionist
    @Jewish_Israeli_Zionist2 ай бұрын

    I'd be more than happy to help you with Hebrew (it's my native language)

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Feel free to write me.

  • @moshiria
    @moshiria2 ай бұрын

    can someone explain how Farsi got Mongolian sprinklers?

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    War.

  • @saadkawani
    @saadkawaniАй бұрын

    Bro, Zaza and luri also kurdish dialects.

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    Ай бұрын

    Depends on who you ask.

  • @saadkawani

    @saadkawani

    Ай бұрын

    @@BenLlywelyn yeah, but it's the truth, don't try to hide it.

  • @ilopollo
    @ilopollo2 ай бұрын

    niiiice

  • @clivebradley2633
    @clivebradley26332 ай бұрын

    Ble mae'r Cymraeg? Ti 'di anghofio ni?-

  • @hermask815

    @hermask815

    2 ай бұрын

    Welsh was in other videos already. Or are there some clandestine Welsh in the Middle East that we’ve missed?

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Mae'r Gymraeg mewn llwyth o wideos 😉. Gweld yr un ar ieithoedd Ewropeidd mewn 1 frawddeg.

  • @Sanel_C
    @Sanel_C2 ай бұрын

    Have you done the Bosniak language Ben? Asking because I'm a Bosniak, living in USA for 30 years now and i speak both languages fluently. Zdravo or alahimanet.

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    See the Serbo-Croatian in the European languages video.

  • @ZasadniczoKlimek
    @ZasadniczoKlimek2 ай бұрын

    Love it. With Polish sprinkles 🇵🇱😘

  • @hman1025
    @hman10252 ай бұрын

    עם ישראל חי!

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    כן זה כן.

  • @Totjunke13
    @Totjunke132 ай бұрын

    3:38 WHAT? I want someone to explain me how Persian has Mongolian spinkles in it - the Mongolian attack was quite a while ago, is that the reason? This was so surprising!

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Yes. Mongolia ruled present day Iran for a while.

  • @miri-818
    @miri-8182 ай бұрын

    Hebrew❤my Love

  • @stonkplay1223
    @stonkplay12232 ай бұрын

    No pontic?

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Sorry, so many languages!

  • @stonkplay1223

    @stonkplay1223

    2 ай бұрын

    @@BenLlywelyn I understand that "zaza" is more important. It would be appreciated to have a one sentence explanation of my exiled peoples' language! Maybe in a future video perhaps!😄

  • @belamorkanal
    @belamorkanal2 ай бұрын

    Hebrew is becoming my fourth language as well 😄 I'm glad you appreciated this beautiful language without letting the mass media corrupt your mind the same way it did to many "progressive" westerners I subscribed

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Thank you! Todah!

  • @CristiChiri10
    @CristiChiri102 ай бұрын

    I say the languages of india deserve their own video, there are just too many

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Hundreds!

  • @kasrakh982
    @kasrakh982Ай бұрын

    Thank you for using the real iranian flag 🦁☀️

  • @ThePanEthiopian
    @ThePanEthiopian2 ай бұрын

    My man you forgot the brothers of mehri, shehri and socotri.

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    There are so many languages!

  • @sicko_the_ew
    @sicko_the_ew2 ай бұрын

    The great sea prophet, Tristan Jones, revealed knowledge by revelation that he had of the uncontaminated nature of the true Welsh people, such has his own self, and this was that they are a Lost Tribe of Israel, wanderers of the far seas, settled on the Promised Land. His evidence involved something I don't quite get about his nose. And maybe his hair colour or something. He had his mockers, but they remained silent while his words made them money, so he did not have to suffer the kind of scorn upon his writings that some do. In later years, though, they have emerged to cast doubts and whatever aspersions are, upon his memory. One I read said first he sent in very practical and down to Earth sailing tips, and quite ordinary accounts of the usual kind of sea voyage to something like Practical Sailing (or maybe Yachting World - who can tell?), and the editors rejected these, suggesting that he just write in "his own voice", instead of as if writing an essay for school. So he did, and began to Proclaim, Proclaim, Proclaim. (Actually in truth he did very little proclaiming, but it sounds better this way. He'd mainly just tell you what a great sea dog his dog was, and so on, really.) Now those very same mockers who had invited him to just go wild and write according to his own vision and audition and what the genie in the bottle says, have come back to claim that those stories of his that they published (on their paper, not his) were all just fiction. And fiction that got more and more unbelievable with every telling, even. As my granny would say, they now accuse him of telling Yarns. Yarns that they were quite happy to publish if the gulls wanted to believe them. I've heard what they have to say, and I don't want to believe them, so I shan't. I believe that Tristan Jones took his little coracle to Israel, once (so he could go and visit Home), and managed to get it shipped overland to the Red Sea. (I seem to remember he couldn't get permission to sail the Dead Sea, but might just be imagining this). And I believe he sailed the Red Sea. And I believe everything else he ever said (mainly just because I prefer it to whatever the mockers might say was the case). He went to South America, and had his yacht trucked over the Andes. He went to Madagsacar with a representative of the Ethiopian Navy. He even spent a Winter icebound in the Arctic. I refuse to be deprived of these happy memories just because someone now, after sales have started to drop, as they do, comes along and claims he just made it all up, and was inspired to push things as far as he possibly could. Of course the main thing as far as your video goes is that he was Welsh, considered himself to thereby be Hebrew, and was not just a legend, but maker of legends. (And legends are better believed to be lived - except when the belief entails an obligation on the reader to go and murder some innocent people for no good reason at all.) I hope his soul rests on good seas (whatever those may be). He was a kind man. That much is obvious from his writings. And what else really matters, really? I mean really.

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Welsh and Hebrew are not related. But we do share similar sized homelands and great tribulations.

  • @sicko_the_ew

    @sicko_the_ew

    2 ай бұрын

    @@BenLlywelynIndeed. I think perhaps Tristan Jones had feet of clay when it came to this prophecy thing. I hadn't thought of the homeland size match before, but yes, you're right. He could tell a good story, anyway.

  • @Kyle_Broflowski1997
    @Kyle_Broflowski19972 ай бұрын

    i edge to your videos

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Thanks for watching.

  • @gooshnpupp
    @gooshnpupp2 ай бұрын

    Hebrew never died. Actually it was spoken by Jews fluently. Not as a day to day language, but mostly to read scripture, write commentary, poetry, and to communicate with different Jewish communities around the world

  • @korfrag6865
    @korfrag68652 ай бұрын

    What is your 3rd language?

  • @Nabi.Migration

    @Nabi.Migration

    2 ай бұрын

    I was also wondering. English Welsh ------ Hebrew. I'll guess Spanish.

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    français.

  • @SaadAltuilaai
    @SaadAltuilaai2 ай бұрын

    Are you sure Abraham spoke Hebrew? A man who is claimed to be born in Iraq would have probably spoken Accadian not Hebrew.

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Abraham in Hebrew means father of multitudes.

  • @nagichampa9866
    @nagichampa98662 ай бұрын

    I'd say today no one can exist without offending someone! Oh well!

  • @datboin8669
    @datboin86692 ай бұрын

    once you run out of languages you should do a video about dead languages!

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Good shout.

  • @astridliliencron
    @astridliliencron2 ай бұрын

  • @axolotl-guy9801
    @axolotl-guy98012 ай бұрын

    Why not Dutch as your fourth Language 😅. Can it be your fift language. 😂

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    There is always room for 5 in a hatchback.

  • @pinwyrdd
    @pinwyrdd2 ай бұрын

    ...gyda sbrincls

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    gyda ffloch.

  • @Merlinfoop
    @Merlinfoop2 ай бұрын

    Armenian language please!

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    It will be with the caucasian languages when I make that one.

  • @user-nv4lc6yy7o
    @user-nv4lc6yy7oАй бұрын

    I thought this was a language channel not a political one.

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    Ай бұрын

    Im honest.

  • @user-nv4lc6yy7o

    @user-nv4lc6yy7o

    Ай бұрын

    Don’t see any “honesty” about the Kurdish language in Iraq and the Arabic, Syriac and Turkish language in Rojava though.

  • @roymorris2231
    @roymorris22312 ай бұрын

    אח שלנו אתה פשוט עלוף בשביל החלק האחרון, וזה באמת היה כיף לראות את הכל, אבל החלק האחרון פשוט ריגש אותי🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    תודה בחביבות.

  • @roymorris2231

    @roymorris2231

    2 ай бұрын

    @@BenLlywelyn תודה רבה, חברינו.

  • @buckmanley1233
    @buckmanley12332 ай бұрын

    This guy really doesn't like Arabic. You can tell by the way he speaks about.

  • @buckmanley1233

    @buckmanley1233

    2 ай бұрын

    Also really biased in favor of Hebrew. Really cringe-inducing ending

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    No hatred of Arabic. Just love of Hebrew. Watch as you wish.

  • @user-ei4ce8np9s

    @user-ei4ce8np9s

    2 ай бұрын

    Just say you're Muslim @@buckmanley1233

  • @xJUn1nHOx
    @xJUn1nHOx2 ай бұрын

    Talk about Brazilian Portuguese, the true Portuguese language. Lol

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Maybe a video comparing them sometime.

  • @Zaman805
    @Zaman8052 ай бұрын

    Khorosani, Azerbaijani, Gorani, Baluch, and Feyli you forgot them

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    So many!

  • @justaguytryingtosurvive

    @justaguytryingtosurvive

    2 ай бұрын

    Khorosani is a dialect more than a language He is probably saving Azari for the Caucasian languages I don't like to seperate the Goranis, the Feylis, and the Zazakis from other Kurds. They are all genetically, culturally, and historically the same. If you wanna seperate them then you should also seperate Sorani, Kurmanji, Kelhori, Leki, and many other Kurdish languages as seperate entities. I as a kurd have said it before and I will say it again, Kurdish is not a language, it's an identity. As a Soran I can't understand any of the other kurdic languages (as I like to call them). So either you see them all as one language, or as seperates Maybe he's saving Baluchi for south Asian languages

  • @EsfandiarNokhodaki

    @EsfandiarNokhodaki

    2 ай бұрын

    Khorasani Is Persian Accent Gorani also is Kurdish accent

  • @justaguytryingtosurvive

    @justaguytryingtosurvive

    2 ай бұрын

    Sorry I was mistaken, Khorasani is a Turkic language. So I think he is saving it for central Asian languages or something

  • @justaguytryingtosurvive

    @justaguytryingtosurvive

    2 ай бұрын

    @@EsfandiarNokhodaki I think they are talking about Khorasani Turkish, not the regional dialect. And for Gorani, as I've said before, it's its own language just like all the other Kurdic languages. If you see Gorani as a Kurdish dialect, then you gotta also see Zazaki, Shebaki, Lori, and Bakhtiari as dialects of Kurdish as well. You either see them all as separate, yet related, languages, or all of them as one language. I can't tell you what you should believe in, because ultimately, as the saying goes, languages are just dialects with armies. Swedish and Norwegian are closer to each other than Gorani and Sorani yet you classify them, Swedish and Norwegian, as different languages while treating Gorani and Sorani as the same

  • @shinwaramin8582
    @shinwaramin85822 ай бұрын

    bakhtyari ,, hewrami

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Hmmm.

  • @Threeangels1976
    @Threeangels19762 ай бұрын

    Propaganda channel. u should be ashamed of ur bias. Ugh.

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    🤨

  • @dysprosiumdead5078
    @dysprosiumdead50782 ай бұрын

    id apperciate it more if you just called kurdish an iranian/iranic language instead of indo iranian. thats like calling calling ukrainian a balto-slavic langauge

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    It is not like Balto-Slavic.

  • @dysprosiumdead5078

    @dysprosiumdead5078

    2 ай бұрын

    @@BenLlywelyn why

  • @dysprosiumdead5078

    @dysprosiumdead5078

    2 ай бұрын

    @@BenLlywelyn would you call hindi or urdu an indo-iranian language??

  • @miri-818

    @miri-818

    2 ай бұрын

    iranian and indo-iranian are both correct for kurdish, indo-iranian is on more basic level; indoeuropean ->indoiranian->iranian

  • @miri-818

    @miri-818

    2 ай бұрын

    baltic and slavic: not derived from each other, just on "parallel" level

  • @KhiatMokhtar
    @KhiatMokhtar12 күн бұрын

    اللغة العربية لم تعطها حقها استاذ...هي اقدم من مجيء الاسلام..وشكرا

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    11 күн бұрын

    عدل. هناك ثراء لذلك.

  • @palestinianman2011
    @palestinianman20112 ай бұрын

    You should NOT use the KSA flag to represent the Arabic language. Use the flag of the Arab league, please.

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Ŵwps.

  • @amal2755

    @amal2755

    Ай бұрын

    @@BenLlywelynDo not listen to his words. The origin of the Arabic language is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. As for the rest, such as the Levant, Egypt, Morocco, and others, they spoke Arabic because of the Islamic conquests from the Arabian Peninsula and the conquerors from Saudi Arabia. For example, Egypt did not speak Arabic until after Amr bin Al-Aas conquered it from Mecca in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and until the best book in the Arabic language was revealed, the Holy Qur’an, it was revealed in Mecca and Medina, they are the origin of the Saudi Arabic language 🇸🇦

  • @amal2755

    @amal2755

    Ай бұрын

    اذا كنت من الدول الامصار فأنت تعرف انك لم تتحدث العربية الا بعد الفتح الاسلامي العربية والقران لم ينزل في بلدك اكتب دولتك واعرف من فتحا من شبه الجزيرة ^السعودية^ اذا كنت من مصر اعرف ان من عرب لسانك هوا عمرو بن العاص القرشي رضي الله عنه قبلها لم تكن تتحدث العربية

  • @amal2755

    @amal2755

    Ай бұрын

    @@BenLlywelynEven the seven closed places were hung by Imru' al-Qais in the Arabian Peninsula, specifically Saudi Arabia🇸🇦

  • @LordDamianus
    @LordDamianus2 ай бұрын

    Dude, you're insulting every language in your videos. Wtf wrong with you?

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Be nice.

  • @NotaHACPOASpy

    @NotaHACPOASpy

    2 ай бұрын

    But it's funny

  • @Lagolop
    @Lagolop2 ай бұрын

    While Yiddish is based on Medieval High German, it is also "sprinkled" with Aramaic, Hebrew, and Slavic borrow words. PS Ikh farshteyn a bisl Yiddish ober ken nisht redn gut ;)

  • @BenLlywelyn

    @BenLlywelyn

    2 ай бұрын

    Astounding.

  • @Nabi.Migration

    @Nabi.Migration

    2 ай бұрын

    I speak standard high German and i got everything you said. Das is gut !!! sehr gut sogar.

  • @Lagolop

    @Lagolop

    2 ай бұрын

    @@BenLlywelynYou mean "oysergeventlekh" ... Blaybn gezunt, un shtark :) BTW, the one thing I noticed is that if you can pronounce Welsh words, Dutch words and Old Scots, you can easily pronounce the guttural "KH" sound in Yiddish words. My first wife's grandmother was fluent in the Welsh language.

  • @Lagolop

    @Lagolop

    2 ай бұрын

    @@Nabi.Migration In Yiddish; dos iz gut. Zayer gut. I have no idea what "sogar" means.

  • @Nabi.Migration

    @Nabi.Migration

    2 ай бұрын

    @@Lagolop haha ja zayer gut. yiddish is apparently written phonetically. So sehr becomes zayer. Sogar means "even".