As a Circassian, I thank you for taking the time to not only dissect the different languages but the history and causes for them including the context of each people and their interaction with each other in ancient and recent history. This video was part linguistics, part geopolitics, part anthropology, part history, and most of all a part of my people and ancestry.

@_braileanul

2 жыл бұрын

Support to you brother from România!!!!

@susannaauerbach7418

2 жыл бұрын

I really loved it!

@DamienZshadow

2 жыл бұрын

@Beycan Han I believe the Ubykh are one of the tribes of Circassians whose dialect went extinct in the past few decades. It is good to speak with you, brother.

"OTHER" Georgia is in the US, not the other way around

@whatchachattin

7 жыл бұрын

yes this annoyed me a little -.-

@doomedmessenger

7 жыл бұрын

It all depends on your perspective.

@ioseb14

7 жыл бұрын

me too :)

@sarahzimmermann3732

7 жыл бұрын

Ioseb Dzamukashvili there weren't any barbarians, but there WERE native Americans, who had - and continue to have - beautifully unique languages and cultures.

@elsorino

7 жыл бұрын

killing people for nothing sounds like something everyone does and still continues to do

I am also from Caucasus from northern Azerbaijan. I am a TSAKHUR. Similar to many North Caucasian languages, Tsakhur language is known for its complex phonology and a large number of vowel phonemes (including 7 simple, 5 pharyngealized and 3 umlauted wovels) Tsakhur language has 18 grammatical cases and has retained suffixaufnahme. Verbs may have singular and plural form, and 7 grammatical moods. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsakhur_language

@bluespaceman7937

2 жыл бұрын

That is interesting, thanks for the link!

@ems4884

10 ай бұрын

I'm impressed by how many people from the Caucasus have found their way to this video. In every day life, most of the world never hears any of your voices.

@ta3351

2 ай бұрын

I'm also Tsakhur from north Azerbaijan,

No mention of Mingrelian, Laz, and Svan languages? There are actually four Kartvelian languages; it's not only Georgian. You even mentioned Adjarian _dialect_, but none of those _languages_... Anyway, awesome video!

@z1sania

5 жыл бұрын

even Adjarian is not a dialect, it's just an accent

@edgarnmarschalek5113

5 жыл бұрын

The difference between a language and a dialect (or accent) is not linguistic, it is political. אַ שפּראַך איז אַ דיאַלעקט מיט אַן אַרמיי און פֿלאָט - Max Weinreich A language is a dialect with an army and navy - Max Weinreich

@z1sania

5 жыл бұрын

@@edgarnmarschalek5113 there is so much truth in that...

@GTLKWB

4 жыл бұрын

Tornike Khantadze ფერეიდნული ქართული აღმოსავლეთ ქართული დიალექტია, დამოუკიდებელი ენა არაა როგორც მეგრულ-ლაზური და სვანური.

@GTLKWB

4 жыл бұрын

MAGA TURK Турки Laz is a Georgian language not Turkish

I knew that the Caucasus has a lot of languages. but thats more than i expected.

@nickelson66

7 жыл бұрын

He just made it artificially complicated. All languages in Caucasus region can be divided into language families in more reasonable, simple way: 1. Indo-European; 2. Turkic; 3. Kartvelian; 4. Northwest Caucasian; and 5. Northeast Caucasian.

@NativLang

7 жыл бұрын

"All". Plus Mongolic and AA/Semitic, counted in the papers I've read (Chirikba, Catford, ...). What's more, the entire diversity of the three indigenous families is contained within the region. The representation of Indo-European and Turkic branches is incredibly varied. This is not a simple area.

@jkoloklkoklokl

7 жыл бұрын

it's still a lot of individual languages and 5 basic language families in such a small area is actually pretty unusual. Also Kalmyk which is very close by brings in a 6th family with mongolic

@nickelson66

7 жыл бұрын

Ginni Hamadan Well, not actually that simple. While the situation in South Caucasus is simpler (there are only 3 major language groups: Indo-European (Armenian), Turkic (Azeri) and Kartvelian (Georgian, Megrelian and Svan)), North Caucasian languages - Northwest and Northeast Caucasian language families consists of lots of smaller language groups ( Avar-Andic, Dargic, Khinalug, Lak, Lezgic, Nakh, Tsezic, Circassian, Abazgi, Ubykh, etc.). There is also Russian language in North Caucasus (Since Russia invaded that area and now it's part of their federation), but it is not considered as indigenous language in Caucasus region.

@PyroNexus22

7 жыл бұрын

+Nick Elson it's true 5 families don't look that complicated, but let me tell you, as a lezgin, I can't understand shit when the neighbouring avars speak, let alone chechens. I mean even being in the same family, the differences are much more significant than in, say languages of romance family.

I am an Avar from Dagestan, and out language is very cool and strange. It has some grammar clauses that I havent seen in other languages. We have so many consonants. Some of then are impossible to pronounce for a foreigner. Our language is ergative. It is difficult to understand the idea of ergativity. It is opposite of accusative case. And also we have 16 grammar cases in avar language. Tabasaran language of Dagestan has 40(!) cases.

@myxrayeyes7262

7 жыл бұрын

Ohh Avar is an Alien language! And Avari is one of the ethnic groups of Elves xD it seems really cool though, what do you call your language in Avar?

@micoberss5579

7 жыл бұрын

The Clichést Cliché Ever we call our language Магlарул мацl ( Ma£arul matztz). literal translation is "language of mountains". And we call ourselves "Maarulal" which means "people of mountains, highlanders"

@caucasuscaucasus5200

6 жыл бұрын

Micober Ss dungi magharulaw))

@Abshenonas

6 жыл бұрын

How are the native languages of Dagestan doing? Are they surviving well?

@turkokarim580

6 жыл бұрын

John Smith yes we learn our languages at schools and also we learn russian. We know both our native language and Russian, though they are unbelievably completely different.

a proud circassian over here :) thanks for this informative video!

@buraksimsek7264

3 жыл бұрын

@matcha.addict4139

3 жыл бұрын

Same

finally someone using the word 'Caucasian' for its true meaning, instead of defining skin color. btw! please do Eskimo's next! i wanna know what their languages sound like.

@fragolegirl2002

5 жыл бұрын

Yep USA poorly defines people's racial origin and ethnic background terribly big time. Like for example calling mixed blood american indians (truly known as mestizo) from south of the US border the "hispanic race."

@cpd182js

5 жыл бұрын

@@fragolegirl2002 or simply using "Eskimo" instead of who they really are.

@fragolegirl2002

5 жыл бұрын

@@cpd182js Yep they are called inuit if not mistaken.

@MrDaithis

4 жыл бұрын

@@fragolegirl2002 All Inuit are Eskimo but not all Eskimo are Inuit

@gav1233

4 жыл бұрын

Other way around.

Pretty good content here. A cut above other "educational" channels on youtube.

@NativLang

7 жыл бұрын

There's tough competition, so I humbly appreciate the compliment!

@LosNiggaRO

7 жыл бұрын

For me it's pretty bland and meh.

@greekvvedge

7 жыл бұрын

that's cool. make another channel that does it better and i'll watch.

@klyanadkmorr

6 жыл бұрын

He didn't say there were special better ordained by GOD languages so it's no good. >:P ...lol =D

@SgtTwilight

5 жыл бұрын

A lot of "educational" channels seem to just read headlines of articles and post it as a fact. Danger Dolan is probably the most infamous before they turned into a bizarre fetish channel.

These languages and Basque are the only living languages that predate the Indo-European migration. It's amazing to see how mountains can protect and preserve these languages so that we can have a better look into what Neolithic European languages may have sounded like.

@vax_gax_lax_bax_max_vax2578

7 жыл бұрын

Ęÿūį Æßñ Don't Basque people have the tradition of matadors? can't remember the name when the guy tries to kill raging bull? If so there is an old Georgian game (IF you can call it a game lol) that a person has to wrestle a raging bull but we didn't kill it as far as I know, it's called kuruli (კურული), I can give you wikipeadia link but it's in Georgian. ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%99%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98 You can you translator to translate it I think, sadly as far as I know we don't play that game anymore.

@masalias22

2 жыл бұрын

And the Uralic languages, like Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian.

@user-de3xr8le6b

2 жыл бұрын

It's called corrida, there's a Portuguese tradition of it too, and in Portugal they don't kill the bull

@GizzyDillespee

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-de3xr8le6b I've seen Minoan art that looks like it portrays a version of bull sports, too. Right in between Caucasus and Portugal. It was probably a widespread and ancient tradition - Portugal to Caucasus is a huge area! They must've been tough people to do this for sport, especially when you call the ambulance and a priest shows up, or some guy with torture tools. I'm assuming it was macho youths (like rugby or American football players) who performed this feat, and not slaves or prisoners, at least prior to a culture's decadence... that's the only way it could make sense to me, but I didn't come from their frame of reference.

@wtc5198

2 жыл бұрын

@@masalias22 Hungarian doesnt predate indo europeans' arrival

If you're into mythology, I recommend "Nart Sagas of the Caucasus" by Colarusso. It's in a way similar to Greek and Roman myths, and even norse mythology, but with a very interesting twist and flair.

In Azerbaijan there is a village Khinalig which is located on mountains about 2300 metres from sea level and they have own language which is included in UN language list as a language under thread of extinction.

@ellieabdu4593

Жыл бұрын

😢😢

I'm so happy as a Cirsassian (Adygean) to see this video. Thank you = Тхьэ уегъэпсэу = tħa wjɛʁɛpsɛw = May God keep you alive

@seljukoghuz-turkmenwarrior8422

6 жыл бұрын

"inbred anatolians" you say but dont forget that it was the inbred anatolians who saved caucasians ass by saving them. Ottoman turks saved these poor circassian by allowing them to settle in turkey. As for the Kurds, you are right.

@qwert1asdfg261

5 жыл бұрын

Тхьэуегъэпсэу (тхьэм уегъэпсау) means 'May God give you perfection/ health' not May God keep you alive

@islmhhh4987

5 жыл бұрын

@@juhuri6128 Хьэнапэжъ, апходэу жыпIэу хъунэкъым.

@islmhhh4987

5 жыл бұрын

@Random Person Don't listen to him. I'm a Circassian and I don't hate nations. Peace ☮️

@novvain495

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for using IPA

This was an area of the world I knew practically nothing about! Thanks for educating me!

Thank you for this comprehensive and beautiful video! As a half-Circassian born in Turkey to an assimilated family with no knowledge of any Circassian languages, I try to pick up anything I come across on the internet. But it's hard to find quality material on the topic. Yours is a true gem. I love how you start with relatively less related material like Georgia in the US (lol) and build up from there, connecting everything beautifully and giving the emphasis on Caucasian languages in the second half of the video. I felt a bit impatient waiting for Circassian to be honest, but it was worth it. And kudos to the 'homage' to Tevfik Esenç, the last speaker of Ubykh. It's sad that such a unique language became extinct so recently.

@myto2542

2 жыл бұрын

Bende yarı Çerkes, asimile olmuş ve Çerkesce bilmeyen bir ailedenim

Caucasus region is easily amongst the most interesting and diverse areas in the world.

Really looking forward to a video on Basque. Keep the great work!

@namingisdifficult408

7 жыл бұрын

MrAlvarogame Agreed

@woei4877

7 жыл бұрын

Reckless Roges this^ I also recommend that vid

@HeadsFullOfEyeballs

7 жыл бұрын

Fun-ish fact: at our institute you can get credit points for taking Basque classes if you're doing a Caucasian linguistics degree. Because no-one knows what extant languages (if any) Basque is actually related to, and typologically it fits in well enough with the Caucasian languages, so that guess is as good as any :v

@MinnesotaExpat

7 жыл бұрын

I've spent time in the Basque region and the language fascinated me. I agree, video please!

@woei4877

7 жыл бұрын

Ok so the second commenter on this comment commented about a video link about Basque of another great youtuber, but looking back at these comments, it isn't there anymore for some reason. So, I'll just recomment it, but without link (which was maybe the reason why it got removed?). Just look up this vid: "Basque - A Language of Mystery" and it's from the great language channel "LangFocus". Hope this helps!

This video was super short. There are more than 100 languages in the region of Caucasus. Just in my Dagestan there are 42 languages. 15 of them are official that have their own schoolbooks, radio and newspapers.

@Alan44577

6 жыл бұрын

Well they do But they literally can't do it in the Caucasus otherwise they will be kick in ass

@rayian536

6 жыл бұрын

John Smith "Circassian diaspora"

@rayian536

6 жыл бұрын

Brother X they did to caucasus actually

@rockerboyka94

4 жыл бұрын

Your English is pretty good!

@luizaapriashvili3916

4 жыл бұрын

lol stop buddy ... most of them have like few hundred users ... do you speak Nakh i , or Vai Nakh .. i assume Vai Nakh and you don't even Know what Nakh i or Nae Makh is ... also Dualian or D'Valian or even D'eulian .. or D'evar' , D'e'ual language .. XD

I have Circassian roots and have never came across such profound representation of our culture on KZread. Mountains really do matter to us and still are a big part of our identity. I talk a little bit of Ossetian and Kabardian which were passed down to me by my family and it's really nice to see them recognized by a Westerner language nerd. Thank you so much for the amazing content.

@ems4884

10 ай бұрын

There are quite a few of us in the West who appreciate the cultural diversity (including some of the very intruiging traditions) of your region. Yes, we tend to be the types with advanced degrees in languages or history. However, for me, there's the additional appeal of regions of Eurasia that were NEVER talked about when I was a child because you part of the Soviet Union and all the attention was on Russians (who seemed mysterious enough!) And then ... I saw a traditional Circassian dance ... It was like a window to a whole other cultural world was suddenly opened up. :) P.S. (I realize your roots might come from the Circassian diaspora in Turkey, but to me Circassia is still in the Northwest of the Caucasus.)

Learning Georgian is one of my linguistic dreams and I'm looking for a Georgian language summer course in Tiblisi. If you happen to know something about one, please let me know. Nice video. Congrats! :)

Wow! This is such a packed video! More linguistic features than I've ever heard of in that area, and it's pretty interesting to see how the channel has covered most of them in other contexts. Also, I loved the connections between geography and linguistics. I seem to recall having read something on Scientific American's website last year about how climate influences the evolution of tonal languages, as humid climates help make the pronunciation of tones distinct, I think. I'd also like to repeat my request for a video on the Dardic languages, which I made in the comments on the video on Tsakonikan Greek - but your videos on any and every topic are so incredible that I don't really care too much. Looking forward to Irish and other Celtic languages here!

I don't think I've ever been more pleasantly surprised by a NativLang video. I've been meaning to add (or at least set-up for later expansion) a fifth and final conlang to my mythos. I wanted one that had a contrasting sound to what I already have which include simple phonotactics with basic CV syllables (or (V)VC for 'Xelsunuin) and a conlang with an extensive vowel/diphthong inventory. This leaves me with one that has an extensive consonant inventory without much in the way of vowels. Ubykh fits just that. Also, if I may say, I'd love to see a video on an Inuit language such as Inuktitut.

@stephenmaister7497

6 жыл бұрын

The Impish Dullahan

@flurf5245

6 жыл бұрын

Good for you

I am a Laz from Turkey and I waited you for mentioning Laz, Megrelian and Svan languages but you didn't. They are different languages from Georgian. NENAÇKUNİ VA ĞURASEN

@lashalursmanashvili162

4 жыл бұрын

Hello laz brother from east georgia wish you all the best.

@paries1014

4 жыл бұрын

Very nice they are part of indo europeans or isolted ?

@deniz6187

4 жыл бұрын

@@paries1014 laz is in the kartvelian language family which is isolated and not similar to any language.

@sandrovaro

3 жыл бұрын

THIS IS A KARTVELIAN LANGUAGES I'M SVAN!!!

@deniz6187

3 жыл бұрын

@@sandrovaro chill mate no need to screaming

Excellent video, and you end up learning some fascinating history too. It helps to watch several times to absorb everything. The Caucasus region is certainly a "crazy-quilt" of interesting languages!

I'd love to see your videos about Ainu and maybe some Siberian languages.

@faithwright7958

3 жыл бұрын

You’re in luck, three years later! He uploaded a video on the languages of Siberia last month and one on Ainu in April.

You should do a video on the many languages of Papua New Guinea.

@HobomanCat1

7 жыл бұрын

There are a bunch of resources on all sorts of Papuan languages, of many different families. A video on the core branches of Trans-NG shouldn't be hard at all. Comparing New Guinea to the Sentinel Islands is going way overboard.

@-SUM1-

7 жыл бұрын

+Ginni Hamadan And? It doesn't matter. NativLang will decide if he wants to do a video on the languages of New Guinea.

@Ida-xe8pg

3 жыл бұрын

OH BOI i got into Papua recently and it was just... i hate the fact that 1. No one pays attention to them 2. The Wiki pages of most of them are super smol

@gamermapper

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe all of new Guinea, not just the independent east

Very high quality and informative content, keep it up! You set a high bar to strive for :)

The Republic of Kalmykia is such a fascinating place! While I knew that Buddhism spread far and wide during the centuries after the Lord Buddha's death (as far west as Greece, Afghanistan and parts of Turkey), I had no idea that there was still a semi-autonomous region in Eastern Europe that is still predominantly Buddhist. Great video!

I was born in Mineralnye Vody in the Caucasus and I really appreciate you making a video about my birth land! It's such a unique place that embodies pluralism and linguistic diversity. The top notch quality of your videos has earned you a new sub ;) Since your channel almost has 'native' in it, would you be able to do a video about the Native American/Canadian languages please?

3:25 as a russian speaker I dig that pretty good pronunciation of "дверь". I've always been interested in linguistics and I was so happy when I found you. It is a great channel you have here, keep it up and thank you! ❤

Wow! thank you so much. I asked you to do a video about caucasian languages in the comments of your last video, I didn't expect you to even notice that among all the other requests, and answer it so quickly! thanks a lot NativeLang.

Keep doing your content. One of the best channels on KZread right here. I had a "normal" level of interest in language before starting to watch your things. You've made me a complete nerd. :)

great video man,thanks for mentioning Circassian :)

@namingisdifficult408

7 жыл бұрын

Sam Abesh Agreed

@RMSnemesis

7 жыл бұрын

Sam Abesh indeed, si qwash

@anassyria5176

7 жыл бұрын

+Sam Abesh there are many Circassians who live in Damascus since a very long time, maybe since 1800's

@samapesh795

7 жыл бұрын

Anas Syria i know, i am a Circassian from Aleppo.

@anassyria5176

7 жыл бұрын

+Sam Abesh That great my friend. I was brought up in a neighborhood where a lot of Circassians live. I love and respect my Circassian friends, they are indeed among the most civilized people I've known. I even attended Circassian culture classes with them. For Адига! :)

Fascinating, entertaining, and enlightening, as always. Over time, I'd love to see you dive into each family, but most of all, I'd love to see a more in depth discussion on ergativity. Ever since I read about Diné Bizaad grammar, I have been intrigued, and wish to learn more. I think it would be well suited to your cartoons, and not too dry.

Great channel! Thank you for it) My name is Shamil. I'm from Dagestan. My father is Avarian and mother is Kumykian (if its written correctly). Those languages are totally different. Avarian is more difficult for spell, sounds like Arabian, but much harder)) and Kumykian is one of Turkician family, by the way, we have 33 different sub nationalities up there with their own languages.

SO glad I've found this channel, been binging all these episodes!

This is fascinating! I would love to see a video all about vowel harmony. That stuff drove me nuts when I tried to learn Hungarian.

In Hindi, Door is called 'Duar' same as pronounced in Ossetian.

@Coregame3

6 жыл бұрын

Sunita Gupta

@Coregame3

5 жыл бұрын

Giorgi Razmadze Armenian is durr. The y means the.

@jugjivan

5 жыл бұрын

Because Hindu comes from Sanskrit which is a Indo-European language.

@smileyShiiZniTZ

5 жыл бұрын

that's because Hindi like all other Indo European languages derives from proto-Indo European that is thought to have formed in the Caucasus.

@mongolchiuud8931

5 жыл бұрын

Latin word for King Rex,Rey,Regain,Reign,Roy,Royal and Germanic Rix,Ric and Rick are all related to Indo-Aryan words like Raj or Raja etc etc though PIE so not surprising.

I came across this video by accident, while researching something else, but have to tell you that the 'something else' had to wait as I, with glued fascination, watched it to the end. Thank you so much for posting this information and in such a well presented way. I rarely subscribe to anything, but I am going to do so to make sure I don't forget this site.

Thanks a lot for a such great video! I was very much impressed, cause I just wanted you to make a video on the Dagestanian languages, but this one is even greater, than I could imagine!!

A video about the *Uralic languages* would be nice to see here! Or at least a video about the *Finnic languages* (Finnish, Estonian, Karelian, Veps etc.)...

@oskarstenlund

7 жыл бұрын

Agreed, would love something Finnish/Karelian.

@Slashplite

7 жыл бұрын

Saami languages!

@hentehoo27

7 жыл бұрын

Slashplite I second your choice

@hentehoo27

7 жыл бұрын

There are no evidence that the Uralic languages are related to either Turkic, Mongolic, or any other languages spoken in Siberia, Manchuria, Korea, Japan and so on. The only common thing they have are loanwords shared by each other.

@joperamod5760

7 жыл бұрын

+Ginni Hamadan What research?

Greetings from Russia. I am Karachay-Balkar (turkic caucasians) and my grandfather was georgian. Thx for video, really nice :)

This is a lush and pretty good overview! I could watch hours of this - Thank you

Such a beautiful video, man. I never realized the extent of the range of languages there. You should make a video of you actually going there and collect samples of speech from those regions, analyze, and with a linguist who specializes in those languages, come and talk about it with us! Subscribed!

Could you do a video on Aboriginal Taiwanese languages?

@frisianesc6905

7 жыл бұрын

alex cheng does it still exist to this day?

@alexcheng1560

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, more than 14 of them

@xiaoenxu1875

7 жыл бұрын

Yes! Would be interesting to see :) My people (Maori) are descendants of Taiwanese Aborigines, so I'm pretty curious about their languages, would also be awesome to see a video about Polynesian languages :)

@studiosnch

7 жыл бұрын

Ivatan, the indigenous langauge spoken in the Bataan islands in the northernmost province of the Philippines, are cousins of the Aboriginal Taiwanese languages. In the mainland (Philippines), no one can understand them since they are technically in a different subgroup of their own in the Malayo-Polynesian family. Example: Umsi ava su vahusa u kamates. (Eggplants do not grow tomatoes). Quote source Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivatan_language).

@Hadrexus

7 жыл бұрын

I thought aboriginals were in australia?

Absolutely liking your videos! So interesting to watch and to hear. I must compliment you on your sweet sounding voice :] Greetings from Chechnya

@nostalgia6962

4 жыл бұрын

Asalamoaleikum brother

Thank you so much, it´s a useful, introductory video for us to share so as to educate people about the cultural aspects of the region!

Just discovered this channel and I am already in love with it

Very interesting video! Great job! Wish you have talked more about languages of Dagestan :)

THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING CIRCASSIAN

@matcha.addict4139

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@lydiahatyutyan3579

3 жыл бұрын

Awww... 🥰

This was super. It was quick & to the point with many extra facts jammed in! I loved it

Thank you! You never let us down xxx LOVE this channel

Interesting video (as always), though I have to agree somewhat with the other commenters complaining that it's a bit rambling. Hey!!! Is 7:04 a citation of Aert H. Kuipers? That's my (parents') old neighbour. I do recall him telling about Caucasian languages once. Also about the difficulty posed by the roots not appearing to have any vowels, and the discussions he'd had about the existence of a (proto-) language with no vowels at all. I'm _so_ glad his work is still relevant today! He was such an amazing man; quite reclusive, yet very sociable. When asked, he could talk at length about the most diverse subjects -- mathematics, Japanese art, 19th century pianists, the many quirks of Slavic people (his wife, who lived in Canada, was Ukrainian by birth, and he himself taught Slavic languages at Leiden University). But his real passion was for languages. Upon retiring, he first spent some 15 years finishing his English Salish dictionary, before finally getting to learn Mandarin; something he'd wanted to do ever since walking through Chinatown in New York when he was teaching there (somewhere in the 1950s, I think). I first met him when he was already aged 74; a nephew had left him a computer, and he'd heard I knew a thing or two about them. (Back then, I used to help people with computer problems after school). I explained to him how to turn it on, start Windows, & told him of drives and disks. He appeared interested, so I mentioned in passing that QBasic could be used for programming. When I met him again a week later, he'd written his first piece of software! 74 years old! He passed away a few years ago.

@NativLang

7 жыл бұрын

The very same! It's cool to read this personal background. It gives some depth to the person behind the simple name, date, idea citations I encountered while researching the video. Thank you for sharing.

[1:46] _Door_, _dur_, _derî_, _duar_... These words sound strongly correlated... And then you see the Latin cognate: _forum_ & _fora_.

@Coregame3

6 жыл бұрын

Latin evolved differently.

@user-ld3jo5xp8o

4 жыл бұрын

latin f from dh

@martintuma9974

2 жыл бұрын

German: Tür Czech: Dveře

Very well "composed" video. I like how you made it flow. (Also great information, of course.)

it's so great as a long time sub to see you growing in popularity. i can show your videos to my friends and it helps them understand why I love linguisitics :)

Some years ago, a linguist friend told me that at one time long ago, every fjord along the west coast of Canada had a different tribe of native people. And the language of each tribe was as different from each other as English is from Chinese.

I've recently become interested in Abkhaz. The bit that caught my attention was the way in which it adapts both the Latin and Cyrillic scripts. At times, it almost seems like it has more unique Abkhazian letters than letters from it's parent scripts!

@giorgijioshvili9713

3 жыл бұрын

its aqsua not abkhazian

@wtc5198

2 жыл бұрын

the abkhaz cyrillic is wild

Thanks a lot for the amazing work you do!

Thanks for mentioning us!Best wishes from Caucasus❤️

Great work as always! What do you think about the Altaic family hypothesis? I'd love to eventually see a video about the similarities between Japonic, Koreanic, Mongolic, Turkic and Tungustic language families! That and something about Ainu!

@NativLang

7 жыл бұрын

Altaic... sounds like another epic video covering a lot of languages! I didn't realize how much of a difference it would make to include Ainu just once in the video, but, wow, I love to see so many requests for it!

@Freaking_Rat

7 жыл бұрын

Ainu is exciting as language isolates tend to be, Also the idea of a language using an adapted katakana as its sole script is super cool to me. Whatever you make though I'll be here to watch it, thanks for responding!

@mongolchiuud8931

5 жыл бұрын

Altaic has been mostly dis-proven and these languages are probably a spachbund rather then related. And example would be how Turkic,Mongolic and Tungusic share vast amounts of vocabulary but it becomes less and less the more you go back in time which doesnt make sense if they were genetically related languages. Some shared vocabulary- Korean- Tangun(old Korean is Tanga) Turkic-Tengri Mongolic-Tenger Tungusic Enduri English- Deity/God Korean- Han Turkic-Khan/Han Mongolic-Khan/han Tungusic- Kan/Han English- Master or tribal chief/ Minor King

Great vid, thank you! Please make a video on Circassian (Adyghe) language sometime, would love to see it from you

@lydiahatyutyan3579

3 жыл бұрын

Did you just say “Circassian”?? My obsession with Circassia and those stuff is going crazy....

This is extremely fascinating and beautiful but so SO daunting. Languages are so complicated it’s wonderful but i’ll never get my head round them fully.

Your best video ever. I went to University in japan in the 80s But for the last 5 years I have been teaching (and i hope learning) in Turkey. This summer I begin a 2 year adventure studying in Georgia. This video got me all excited

I speak Adyghe (We call it "adigé bzé" in our language), it's a North West Caucasian language. Thank you for this video! ♥️🙏

@MegaRedada

Жыл бұрын

@Beycan Han убыхский язык был ближе к абхазскому чем к кабардино-черкесскому

@user-qw1yk1uk2m

Жыл бұрын

​@@MegaRedada убыхи считали себя адыгами и говорили на адыгском языке. Всё убыхи сегодня считают себя адыгами и говорят на адыгском и не имеют отношения к абхазам.

OMG please do Ainu. I REALLY hope it was included in there as some sort of weird hint. Oh, my god, there's so much to talk about there and it's just so cool! I've got Ainu dictionaries I'd love people to just see how cool of a language and culture it is in one of your videos.

@dvrkmvztxr9636

3 жыл бұрын

Yessss

Loved it. your videos keep on getting better by far and so far 👌👌

That's why in Switzerland we have so many dialects. The mountains, rivers and forests parted us.

@arinaa4809

3 жыл бұрын

Never thought of this🤔

@LearnGermanwithMarzipanfrau

3 жыл бұрын

@@arinaa4809 Me too, but then when I studied translation I learned about the isogloss which separates the dialects in a region. Back in time, people couldn't travel so far and some stayed in the same village their whole life. So they formed different dialects. :D

@arinaa4809

2 жыл бұрын

@@LearnGermanwithMarzipanfrau and that’s also why Swiss German is really different from German German? :)

@LearnGermanwithMarzipanfrau

2 жыл бұрын

@@arinaa4809 Yes, that's true. Germany is a lot flatter than Switzerland. So the dialects spread wider in flat regions than in regions with more mountains. :)

@arinaa4809

2 жыл бұрын

@@LearnGermanwithMarzipanfrau ight, thank you

I love this Channel Quality > Quantity hurts,but is worth it I would like to see a full video on the Turkic languages

@dankahraman354

6 жыл бұрын

big topic. Could include Dene, Haida, Navajo, Cree Indians of North America

I saw Ainu pop up on that list there. would you pass find the time to bring attention to this language before it officially dies?

@timmccarthy872

7 жыл бұрын

Why, so you can tell your friends "Ainu about it before it went extinct"?

@Figgy5119

7 жыл бұрын

Oh, I see what you did there...

@kidwithaphonecamera

4 жыл бұрын

Ket too!

İn Azerbaijan u can find also these languages 🇦🇿: Lezgian,Hebrew,Talysh,Tat, Avar

@leycallihan3213

5 жыл бұрын

Oh, thanks for mentioning Lezgian.)

@teymur_

4 жыл бұрын

Hebrew yoxdu Azərbaycanda. Buradakı Yahudiler tat(juhuri lehçesi) ve rus dillərində danışırlar. Tat dilində dağ yəhudiləri, rus dilində de Avropa Yahudileri danışır.

@teymur_

4 жыл бұрын

@Baxışoff avar eşitməmişəm amma dağ (qorski) yahudiləri hamısı tatca danışır, öz ləhcələri var tat dilidən cuhuri deyirlər. KZreadda mahnıları da çoxdur, elə digər tatlar da rahat başa düşürlər ləhclərini. Evropeyski yahudilər də rus dilində danışırlar. Amma avar dilində danışmağı ilk dəfədir sizdən eşidirəm.

@re9875

4 жыл бұрын

@Jake Awake there is not Kurd in Azerbaijan

@re9875

4 жыл бұрын

All of them are less then 5% of population in Azerbaijan. 95% are Azerbaijanin Turks

I liked this episode a lot and I learned some new things about the history of the study of these languages (I didn't know their study as a group predated that of Indo-European's!) but I was hoping you'd include a little bit on the polysynthetic nature of their grammars. It's definitely one of the most interesting aspects of them! And it'd be a good follow-up to your introduction to what ergativity is! If you wanted to do a follow-up to this episode, it'd be really awesome to see an episode on the Dene-Caucasian macrofamily - with a preface of course that it's a not-well-accepted theory, but nonetheless still interesting. Any theory that manages to include languages as grammatically and geographically far-flung as Caucasian and Sino-Tibetan couldn't NOT be SOMEWHAT interesting :D

You have forgot to notice, that we have in Georgia two other languages : Megrelian ( in the region- Samegrelo) and Svanuri (in the region- Svaneti) languages.

@MVpill

3 жыл бұрын

and lazuri(laz)

@kardz1848

3 жыл бұрын

Thats because they're not languages but rather dialects. Like Cantonese or fuzhounese

@giorgishekiladze4282

3 жыл бұрын

@@kardz1848 U are wrong. Search more about this issue please.

@kardz1848

3 жыл бұрын

@@giorgishekiladze4282 except I'm not.

@epepepe7178

3 жыл бұрын

@@kardz1848 they are entirely different languages, georgian people such as me cant understand megrelian and svanuri, we cant even understand one word, its so different its a different language.

HELLO IM FROM GEORGIA!!! 🇬🇪 საქართველოს გაუმარჯოს!

@user-sj6og7wi2q

4 жыл бұрын

@Random Person Georgians Chechnians and Circassians Dagestanis And Ingushetians are The Real Caucasians... armenians and Azerbaijanis Just Came Few Thousand Years Ago But We... We Are Autoctonus People... And According To History Georgia Is The First Country In Caucasia So...

@Yarkanlaki

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-sj6og7wi2q According to history Kurds had a Muslim dynasty in southern Caucasus , Shadadids and Rawdids

@aydnhuseyn7666

4 жыл бұрын

Lovely greetings from Azerbaijan.❤

@user-sj6og7wi2q

4 жыл бұрын

@Random Person First Of all... We Are Not Dark... And Please... We All Know That Georgians are Only Real Caucasians In South Caucasus... And According To History. If Not Georgia All Of North Caucasian People Would Not Exist. And BTW, Kavkasieli(In Georgian) Must Be Free... That Is What Our Fathers Taught Us. And Which One Of North Caucasians Are Free???! And If We Are South Of The Mountain Than You Are North Of The Mountain... None Of Us Is On The Great Caucasia... Both Of Us Are North Or South Of It.

@user-sj6og7wi2q

4 жыл бұрын

@Random Person Oooooh... :D

Amazing work. Thank you

Thanks for such an informative video.

Could you also do some explanation about languages of Southern China like Yunnan and Sichuan? 🙏 I love this video and it's interesting!

@user-pi4fq4vu1q

4 жыл бұрын

Sino-Kaukaz lanqvic union!

I have ways been very interested in the Chechen language. Im thinking of learning it one day :)

@who798

Жыл бұрын

It’s hard but great

Just wanted to say thanks for posting this! I've studied Georgian now for many years, and to a lesser degree, other languages of the region, MIngrelian, Abkhaz, Avar, Kabardian, Chechen. My non-linguistic friends, of course, are perplexed by my interest in this; but now I can show them this video to help them get some idea why the area is so interesting. Gmadlobt! გმადლობთ!

Great video! Your content is always informative and enjoyable to watch! If you ever plan on making a video about the Armenian language, I would be more than happy to help.

@lydiahatyutyan3579

3 жыл бұрын

I agree, I also want a video about the Armenian language.

This work is an outstanding blend of historical linguistics, cultural and geographical relevance. This is on par with my aptitude; being challenged then satisfied... I'm inspired to continue my studies in Language that I started in my high school Latin courses. Thank you. Please continue the excellence!

Love your videos! I always leave learning something new and wanting to learn more (guess that explains you inspiring me to become a linguist) I was just wondering if you would ever do a video on the S/ioux *technically a slur but I'm using it for clarification tribe languages? Perhaps even the Northern European indigenous Sami language?

@ismailucar20

7 жыл бұрын

Abby Grace kek i just found someone Sami. I'm very interested in langauges and nations so it's been a while I'm reading about Sami people.

@DamianYerrick

6 жыл бұрын

By "Sioux" you mean the Dakota nations (Santee, Yankton, Teton, and Stoney), right?

@mongolchiuud8931

5 жыл бұрын

Might want to look up the Siberian Yeniseian and Navajo language connection.

That deer tho xD Great content, man!

Outstanding video. I learned so much!

From the book "How to Learn a Foreign Language" by Paul Pimsleur: "Linguists tell us that no known language is composed of fewer sounds than Hawaiian, which has fifteen, or more than certain languages of the Caucasus, which have up to sixty. Most languages fall somewhere between these two extremes; English and French, for example, have thirty-one sounds."

Ubykh is deserving of a video of it's own.

Great work, excellent vid!

My father is a mountain Jew from Dagestan. When he was kid there, his parents' generation of the family spoke a dialect of Persian called Juhuri. It's cool you touched on this region.

im so interested in kalmyks now. thank you for showing me a country i didnt know existed

@MrKuriIIko

6 жыл бұрын

You didn't know Russia exists? What?

@seljukoghuz-turkmenwarrior8422

6 жыл бұрын

Which people havent been destroyed by russia? Tell me.

I appreciate the attention given to Kurdish, a language and people who are often overlooked.

@parsifal40

5 ай бұрын

Not really

@roniNetewiKurdistan

5 ай бұрын

@@parsifal40 ok turk

@parsifal40

5 ай бұрын

@@roniNetewiKurdistan lol thats not a roast

I'd be very pleased to see you make a video about the Albanian language, and how it descends from Illyrian dialects. Though I know it would be challenging, as there are not many examples of Illyrian literature surviving.

i am caucasian turk (kumyk) from daghestan Salam to all Turks

@mmmmmm2619

5 жыл бұрын

Salam qardaw.

@SezenSever

4 жыл бұрын

selamlarr

@jagdishhooda7853

3 жыл бұрын

@WHATS VIRAL? I think you are right They are decentdent of gok And magok

@buraksimsek7264

3 жыл бұрын

@Vahe Akopian Yes there is. Karachay, Balkar, Nogay, Kumyk are Turkic Caucasians. Eat shit you ignorant turd.

@kangang337

3 жыл бұрын

Aleykimi salam Kardaşım bende Ahıskalı Türküm

So the Caucasus is the Papua of the Near East, and like Papua is straddles the line between two continents. A fascinating place indeed, I have a friend who's half Georgian and from what he's told me about his mother's homeland it seems like a cultural oddity in many ways, its language being one of them.

@vanS808

6 жыл бұрын

I am Armenian on my Fathers side & Georgian on my Mothers Inb many ways we are very similar, but also very different One thing for sure Armenians & Georgians are the backbone of Christianity in the region for almost 2000 years

Hello From Georgia (საქართველო) In Kartvelian Language there are also 3 groups: Svan, Megrelian and Laz (Megrelian and Laz had common language in Acnient times). not talking about dialects:D

randomly mentioned a kurdish saying made my heart melt this guy really has found the passion of his life

outstanding presentation no hype just amazing facts and there is one who understands them all and even knows the number of hairs of each speaker

I'm a native Chechen speaker and I got clearly both those Tsova-Tush sentences. I've never met any of them, cause they are a small branch of Chechens who have been living in Georgia isolated from other Chechens under the strong Georgian cultural influence. That's why they are christians and they loaned many words from Georgian. I hope I will visit Georgia one day and meet my Tsova-Tush, Batsbi and Kisti brothers. Georgians too are our Caucasian brothers. From a Chechen with love. Thank you NativLang for good content. Keep it up!

@LoLMasterManiac

6 жыл бұрын

*****​ I agree with you on most of what you said, I don't like this strong Arabian and Turkic influence either. As you said most of Chechens nowadays have Arabic or Turkic names, but Nakh ethnicities of Georgia have taken Georgian names and lastnames. Also Chechen language got influenced by loanwords from Arabic, Turkic and russian languages. But I doubt that Tush or Bats language is much cleaner than Chechen, because it got affected by Georgian language to the degree that its grammar changed and no is more Georgian than Chechen. At least that's what I read long ago. Don't now if that's true, tbh, will have to travel to Georgia and speak with them. About their culture - I have no idea about their culture, I mean they've got Nakh culture for sure, but how is it today? I heard that they are getting absorbed to the Georgian culture. I'm happy if they have preserved it close to the original Nakh culture And as a final point - no, unfortunately, all Nakh people got influenced by other nations and cultures. The difference is to which degree did they get influenced. I can only assume that Nakh ethnicities of Georgia got it less then us. P.S. are you a Nakh person by any chance?

@LoLMasterManiac

6 жыл бұрын

*****​ 1. Take it easy sister, I didn't "teach" anyone, just said my opinion and views on the topic. I am myself not absolutely fluent in my own language because I've got no Chechen friends or acquaintances, my parents were seriosly affected by the soviet russification, I do not know how to dance our traditional dances, I don't follow most of our traditions. But, that's not because I'm a COWARD, as you said. I'm just out of our society, cause guess what, I can't find a good friend with a decent personality. Most of our youth are interested in either wrestling, religion or thugs "culture". I'm not interested in any of these. 2. Absolutely agree with you on this, I myself bear an ugly semitic name which I hate and will change soon for an old classic Chechen name. Have got any ideas? About "Peter" or "Alexander" - I think that would sound too slavic, even though the names are originally Greek/Roman. I like old Chechen names like Lamberd, Elberd, Baysangur, etc. 3. 4. Agreed on this fully I disagree on one thing - I don't think that ALL of Chechens were christians once. I have read that only the south western part of Chechens and Ingushes were converted to orthodox christianity by Georgians/Byzantins. And perhaps you didn't know, but Byzantine emperors didn't care about the religion when they spreaded their version of christianity to Caucasus, their goal was to spread their influence and make surrounding nations related to them, to serve their goals, to defend their borders. Nothing more than that. And as far as I know they even paid for converting to orthodoxy. Now you must understand one thing - I am not religious at all and hate all religions equally, but the orthodox heresy I hate more than any other branch of Christianity. I am absolutely ok with protestantism and I like Arian, Celtic and Manicheic Christianity, but no other religion harmed us more than orthodoxy. Just look at all the atrocities and genocides the "good orthodox " russians have been conducting to us for more than 300 years. If orthodox can coldbloodly kill half a peaceful nation, then fuck that religion. I would prefer if we Chechens remained pagans as we were before these semitic middle eastern religions even were a thing. Laramca.

@LoLMasterManiac

6 жыл бұрын

***** I've sent you a message on Hangouts.

@PyroNexus22

6 жыл бұрын

+Lola Schneemann I don't wanna provoke a negative reaction here, but I don't think you should blame Mansur or any other muslim ancestor for fighting in the name of Islam. I'm completely on your side when it comes to Islam, I also think it should've never been spread to Caucasus, but you have to understand the mindsets of people back in Mansur's times. Since ancient times, people allied more due to religion, rather than ethnicity. I mean, there were cases when ethnicity prevailed, but up until 20th century most of the world still considered religion above everything. I mean you just can't blame people of that era for their choices, cause you don't know what you would do, and what kind of worldview you'd hold. Again, I'm not on the side of muslims, as my ancestors were also fighting against arabs in ancient times, and I completely share your views on it, I just wanna say we shouldn't be harsh on our ancestors. They could've done questionable things, but they were doing what they thought was the right thing. Afterall, the Caucasian Imamate did present a pretty good resistance to russians, and if they weren't united, they wouldn't last even half of that. I personally hold views, that all caucasians should have united back then, that way we had a chance of securing our independence, but that was a different time...

@jdeiejwkkssj3966

6 жыл бұрын

Lola Schneemann, sorry about my bad english, but I think it's important to say, about no 2. Lambert comes from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements land, lant (land, territory) + berht, beraht (bright, famous) Similar versions are: Landebert, Landebercth, Landobert, Lanpreht etc. There is also a female version Landeberta. Elbert comes from old german name Adalberht adal, athal (noble) + berht, beraht (bright, famous) Is the source form of Albert. Both of them are beautiful germanic names, but the vainah name Lamberd is really a vainah one. I don't know if you are vainah but as a native speaker you can hear it, it literally means "mountain precipice". Lam - mountain and berd - precipice. There is also a shorter version of this name - just Berd. I don't know what names Elberd and Lors mean or wherefrom Konrad von Hötzendorf has the name Elbert (Lors is pretty common in surnames - Lorsayev, Lorsanov), but Berd, Lamberd are vainah names/words. p.s. the word "Eli" (Ela) is not chechen or ingush, it comes from arabian(?) name Ali. Chechens or ingushs don't know meanings of most names, but everyone knows the origin of Eli/Ela (in russian version the name is always written as Ali) You also wrote some chechen words wrong, with chechen latin alphabet it would look a bit different. Lyoma - is Loema (Lom-Eli - is a combined vainah and arab name) Lechi - would be Lecha Olkhasar - is Olhazar, another versions are Alhazur or Olhazur Khos - is Xhoza

Oh wow, 50 languages across 7 families....do you have any books or sources that you can suggest us for further exploration about languages? I would love to know more in details and actually with word comparisons. Thanks in advance and happy to be a fan of your channel!

Nice info. Appreciated 💛🙏

What an interesting post! Thanks!