Siberia is home to many different languages such as Sspanish, Sportuguese, and Sbasque

@jakubpociecha8819

3 жыл бұрын

Depends if you mean Siberia in Seurope or Siberia in Sasia

@Htrad

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the laughs

@seamusogdonn-gaidhligarain2745

3 жыл бұрын

Take your like and get out of here /s

@thomyorke7622

3 жыл бұрын

and Scatalan

@elijahkinnane2730

3 жыл бұрын

@Rudy09 r/whoosh

I’m Russian and your pronunciation of Russian word and names was incredibly good and way better than I could expect from a foreigner

@travelsandbooks

4 жыл бұрын

In my experience, linguists tend to be extremely good at pronunciation, even if they can't speak much vocabulary.

@michelle3077

4 жыл бұрын

@@travelsandbooks That's because linguists learn to use IPA.

@Mr.Nichan

4 жыл бұрын

@@travelsandbooks Some professional linguists are actually quite bad at pronunciation of other languages, because a lot of linguists don't focus on that, but instead on things other things, like English syntax or cross-linguistic semantics. I also think some people may just be better at it (or just more interested in it) for various reasons. I also sometimes wonder if people with some introduction to linguistics are discouraged or loose interest in pronouncing things when they learn about how ideas about "correct" pronunciations are pretty silly and the oft over-exaggerated differences adults have learning new sounds compared to infants (which I think are probably largely negated by learning phonetics and deliberately training ones ears).

@ethanoverwatch407

4 жыл бұрын

@@travelsandbooks Cheru

@j.clementec.m.1558

4 жыл бұрын

he's a linguist

Siberia has two seasons: The Frozen Solid Season The Mosquito Season

@ulovil

4 жыл бұрын

I live here, and we say jokingly: there is only two seasons here: 1)white winter 2) green winter

@TheExalaber

4 жыл бұрын

In Minnesota they like to say that there are only two seasons, shovel, and swat. Here in Saskatchewan, it is much the same, but with less snow and more wind.

@readisgooddewaterkant7890

4 жыл бұрын

In Stockholm there are only three seasons. Hot and cold and somewhere in the middle.

@KateeAngel

4 жыл бұрын

Saint-Petersburg has two seasons: warm rainy and cold rainy with rainy snow

@majacovic5141

4 жыл бұрын

Sasons in Dalmatia: wind, sun, fire & rain

The rush you get when Nativlang cites one of your professors

@MarkBonneaux

4 жыл бұрын

Who was it?

@rahuldhargalkar

3 жыл бұрын

Oh Wow! What a moment of pride

@Artexerxes101

3 жыл бұрын

@@MarkBonneaux It might be Edward Vajda. Now I wonder if he's cited any of my professors.

@dawenappu9310

3 жыл бұрын

right? I should have expected it, Vajda won't shut up about Ket (his enthusiasm's so infectious) and yet...

@gammamaster1894

2 жыл бұрын

@@dawenappu9310 I love his enthusiasm, as you say, it's so infectious.

Greetings from Siberia! I myself native Russian speaker. Unfortunately, living here all life I've never met any native Siberian and as well never heard their language and didn't know anything about them, so your video was very useful for me. The natives of my region speak Khanty and Mansi language and I was surprised to know that it's the same language family with Hungarian...

@MrApplehair

3 жыл бұрын

It’s called neo nazi Russian politics and imperialism that destroyed local culture, stole their lands and killed people.

@katyatrue3686

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrApplehair should I feel guilty about it? I'm not responsible for what my ancestors did.

@KateeAngel

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrApplehair your comment is ignorant. What did have Russian Empire have to do with neo-n@zis? It existed even before the original n@zis. Also, funny to listen about destroying natives from a westerner. While in the USA >100 natives ethnic groups totally disappeared, in Russia, every single one, even significantly reduced in size, still exist

@KateeAngel

3 жыл бұрын

@@katyatrue3686 your ancestors probably were ok. Most of them were exiled to Siberia against their will, or came during Soviet times to develop industry in already extant Russian cities

@katyatrue3686

3 жыл бұрын

@@KateeAngel My ancestors came to Siberia in 70s for large (compared to other regions of the USSR) salaries. Most people are like that.

That's a cool video I'am turkic man (hakas) from Siberian mountains of Sayan and I wanna say that you did a good job to give people simple information about small languages of my land Thank you ☺️

@abbeyrhapsody3205

3 жыл бұрын

Greetings from a Turkic woman! (Northern Cypriotic)

@Yrkr785

3 жыл бұрын

@@abbeyrhapsody3205 Cypriots aren’t Turkic stop lying

@abbeyrhapsody3205

3 жыл бұрын

@@Yrkr785 wdym- I'm from Northern Cyprus, just search for it, the westerns trying to make it seem like only the rums live in there but the half of the island is filled by the Turks like me

@Yrkr785

3 жыл бұрын

@@abbeyrhapsody3205 yes expect the Turks like you are aren’t ethnic turkics

@abbeyrhapsody3205

3 жыл бұрын

@@Yrkr785 have you even searched the turkic history? our first ancestors were from siberia (this is the place where the first turks appeared and started to form little dynasties) then the oghuz branch migrated to the west (the gagauz turks, cypriotic turks, azeri turks, turkish turks etc) and today, westerns turks (for the Turkish and Cypriotics) have %70 ancient anatolian dna (such as lydian and etrusque and btw etrusque people are proto-turkish and it is stated) and %30 old turkic dna (siberian and central asian) also there isn't a thing called as "ethnic/true turk" bcos if you feel like you are a turk, then you are indeed a turk as Ataturk said. For example many Yakut Turks feel like they are Russian even though they are the Turks with one of the most Turkic dna. While The Anatolian (turkish) Turks feel like they are indeed Turkic, while they are the Turks with one of the least Turkic dna but this doesn't mean that they are not "turkic". Anatolian Turks both embrace their ancient anatolian and old turkic dna and are very proud of it.

Wow man. I live in Siberia and I've learned so much. Not only you nailed your Russian pronunciation, but also you've managed to pronounce something in Chukotkan! I couldn't help but become your patron.

@wtc5198

2 жыл бұрын

Chukotkan is the branch of a language family, Chukchi is the language

Greetings from Novosibirsk, largest city of Sibiria

@Elnadrius

4 жыл бұрын

@sneksnekitsasnek nope

@jakubpociecha8819

3 жыл бұрын

@@Elnadrius Most people in Siberia aren't

@user-wl3ky7oz5h

3 жыл бұрын

Hello from Sakha, fellow bros from entire World!

@danjkeehokage416

3 жыл бұрын

sneksnekitsasnek I’m native, nenet

@jakubpociecha8819

3 жыл бұрын

@@danjkeehokage416 cool,glad to see a nenet here

As a Hungarian its very painful to see how the Uralic languages (and ofc others) disappear :(

@Ser_Lefty

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. It's inevitable and eventually useful as communication becomes easier, but sad none the less. I hope we get a video on the family some day. As a Finn learning about Hungarian is facinating and I would love to know more about our eastern roots, the history of the family and what common remnants of languge we share today.

@nikitaberejnoy4359

3 жыл бұрын

in the end you guys can hang out with turks)

@daki2223

3 жыл бұрын

I'm from America and learned a little Welsh and someone was walking their dog with his wife and was speaking Welsh and I tried to have a conversation with him and he said he was Manx and spoke Manx and never has spoke manx cause no one else does it is very sad to languages die out

@dariuszdudka1991

2 жыл бұрын

True bros. Unfortunately, big powers love extermination. Think how America did to Red Indians, how Russia did to Siberians, how Australia did to Aborigines, how Arabs did to Amazighs and Copts, how Turkey did to Armenians and Greeks. So sad and so painful. I hope Hungarians will never lose its language. Greetings from your ally Poland.

@gamermapper

2 жыл бұрын

@@dariuszdudka1991 not only America, also Canada, see the residential schools, also I think they don't like being called red and we'll their skin isn't even red

This is the first time i've seen his face

@Ida-xe8pg

3 жыл бұрын

He did a face reveal long time ago

@PC_Simo

3 жыл бұрын

@Amal That is true.

My first try had an audio issue the whole way through. Thanks for waiting while I fixed, rendered and uploaded! (Old one is still up if you're eager to compare or you need the audio export error experience: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pIWnzdyYeLTUgrQ.html )

@yumallah

4 жыл бұрын

No idea what you're talking about, watched the original and didn't notice any issues with it.

@limetheslime1

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for fixing this; it was difficult to listen to originally.

@TK-rd3yn

4 жыл бұрын

I noticed it but I thought it was on my end

@ganzaa844

4 жыл бұрын

@@yumallah Me too, I too didn't hear anything wrong with it.

@NativLang

4 жыл бұрын

@@yumallah The voice was set to come out of the left channel only. Whoops!

There needs to be movies or games set in the Russian empire. It was crazily diverse and had the weirdest politics of anywhere in the world.

@TheExalaber

4 жыл бұрын

The dead ideas podcast did a good series on serfdom, and for their story telling section they told the lightly fictionalized tale of a serf that ran away to work the Ukrainian oil fields where he was kidnapped by Turkish and caucasian rebels. They even described a card game that is played by the descendants of Ukrainian immigrants to the region in which I live, durrok.

@horacegentleman3296

4 жыл бұрын

Too bad communism happened huh?

@Jacob-yg7lz

4 жыл бұрын

@@horacegentleman3296 Not really communism, more like the Russian nationalism that accompanied communist rule. Similar things happened all over the world in the early 20th century, just look at what happened in the Ottoman empire for example.

@horacegentleman3296

4 жыл бұрын

@@Jacob-yg7lz is this a "but that wasn't real communism" argument? I mean I do agree it doesn't matter if it's a left boot or a right boot on your neck you still can't breathe. Authoritarianism is destructive.

@Jacob-yg7lz

4 жыл бұрын

@@horacegentleman3296 I never said it wasn't true communism. I agree, authoritarianism is destructive, especially when mixed with nationalism.

Your Russian is spot on. Very good, especially the tricky final B in Ob. Also, so pleasing to see a reference to a paper by someone I went to college with.

@tasse0599

3 жыл бұрын

Why is it considered tricky? Because it's voiceless?

@imokin86

3 жыл бұрын

@@tasse0599 it's "soft", i. e. palatalized. From my experience, it's hard for English speakers to pronounce this type of consonant.

@armincal9834

3 жыл бұрын

But my friend, ob is not a slavic name anyways, in fact a few places and cities east of nizhniy novgorod have slavic names

@imokin86

3 жыл бұрын

@@armincal9834 absolutely. Historically not Slavic. But we still use it in Russian. Like Manhattan, historically not an English word, but now a geographical name in English.

@tasse0599

3 жыл бұрын

@@imokin86 Ah, ok, so it's spelled Обь in Russian. I assumed it was spelled just like the preposition. I knew, that some consonant sounds in Russian become unvoiced, when they appear at the end of a word, just like in my native language of German, e. g. падеж-а /ʒ/ -> падеж /ʃ/ or an example from German: Bad-es /d/ -> Bad /t/.

who still remember their knowledge only in our left ear??

@Fnidner

4 жыл бұрын

good times

@paulisconi2264

4 жыл бұрын

People reading this years from now won't get the joke, but I do.

@ashenen2278

4 жыл бұрын

Aaaah. So it wasn't just me😅😅😅😆😆

@ismata3274

4 жыл бұрын

i do! 😆

@karmakanic

4 жыл бұрын

Never forget #monoforever

Tuvan, altai and khakas are also very important siberian turkic languages. They are official languages.

8:45 i'd rather repeat "chukotko-kamchatkan" all day than try to pronounce "ӆыгъораветӆьэн йиӆыйиӆ" once.

@anwardiggs8748

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@Dominik-lc4pl

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for spelling it out, I couldn't read it in the font used in the video

@swancrunch

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dominik-lc4pl can you read it now?

@Dominik-lc4pl

3 жыл бұрын

@@swancrunch Yes!

@hisham_hm

2 жыл бұрын

I think that was an intentional flex!

Where I live we will hit -40 (we hit -50 with the windchill this winter) in the winter and 35 C in the summer, quite the range

@Ida-xe8pg

4 жыл бұрын

-50 holyschit, where I live the temp range is b/w ~24-42 C most of the time its b/w 30-38 C

@adonaiyah2196

4 жыл бұрын

Where do you live

@k.umquat8604

4 жыл бұрын

Where I live, it rarely gets sub zero temperature. I am shocked.

@NoblePineapples

4 жыл бұрын

@@adonaiyah2196 Central Alberta, Canada

@Panatesu

4 жыл бұрын

Same. West Siberia.

The fact that you pronounce the words and the names in every topic language the way they are pronounced by natives and not in that atrocious american accent is one of many reasons i religiously follow this channel.

@user-xb9yv2ci4c

2 жыл бұрын

I am German and normally Germans try to pronounce as accurately aa as possible. Not always successful.

@wtc5198

2 жыл бұрын

That's the magic of the International Phonetic Alphabet

@siyacer

23 күн бұрын

"atrocious" selfcentered, much?

I saw Australia there. I would love to see you address it one day. There are so many Aboriginal languages, sadly they are extinct or severely endangered. They are beautiful and diverse languages with a fascinating culture

8:48 your pronunciation of chukchi language is so good. I am Chukcha but i dont speak my language. I heared it from my grandma many times.

@organicenglishanne

Жыл бұрын

Do most people speak Russian in Siberia then? It's really interesting to hear

@DertekN

Жыл бұрын

@@organicenglishanne There is a lot of nationalities in Siberia, everyone speak Russian, also they speak their own language and in schools can learn it more.

My family descents from the mansi people & I wasn’t able to learn a lot of the language that my great grandfathers mother thought him. It was very beautiful and I hope to learn and discover my roots as I go. This was an amazing video! I hope more people watch this and become educated on Siberia . Thank you!

@ekesandras1481

7 ай бұрын

the Khanti and Mansi are linguistically the closest relatives to the Hungarian, closer than Estonian, Komi of Finish. That's why it is beliefed that the West Siberian swamp taiga is the original homeland of the Hungarians, from where they started migrating away about 2000 years ago.

@PC_Simo

4 ай бұрын

@@ekesandras1481 *or Finnish.

It's time to rewatch the vid to support LangFocus' hard work fixing everything for us :)

@kobovad

4 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, LangFocus :)

@dyskr

4 жыл бұрын

Kobovad hello everyone welcome to the langfocus language, my name is Nativlang

@jt....

4 жыл бұрын

@@dyskr *Hello LangFocus, NativLang here

@Salsmachev

4 жыл бұрын

I'm just waiting for the Nativlang/Lanfocus/Biblaridion/Artifexian/Jan Misali ultimate language nerd crossover episode

Siberia is actually one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world that is in amount of languages spoke per 1mln of ppl

@dariuszdudka1991

2 жыл бұрын

But as long as Putin maintains in power, the Siberian natives would have no chance to develop or take pride of their languages.

@vufcyfxcyyfccfugvi7466

11 ай бұрын

@@dariuszdudka1991 You don’t know what you’re talking about

@Adhjie

11 ай бұрын

u sure of that vs the languages of papua islands?

@PC_Simo

4 ай бұрын

@@Adhjie The OP said: *_”ONE OF_* the most…”, not: *_THE MOST…”,_* though 🫤.

I swear, your videos always seem to make time disappear, and never fail to leave me with a smile.

Oh, Siberia. My second home. Stranger on the internet: "Where are you from?" Me: "I'm from Serbia" Stranger on the internet: "Oh, isn't it cold there?" 😂😂😂

By far one of my favorite channels. I miss the regular uploads

I’ve been fascinated with Siberia for a while now. I feel like most people don’t realize how vast it is, not just west to east, but also north to south. There’s so many natural wonders, nature, different cultures, animals, beauty, and enough land to make a continent of its own but all anyone seems to think is that “its all just cold.” I’d really love to see some of it for myself one day.

Hello from Yakutia! 👋

I was living in north of Siberia all my childhood. Unfortunatelly we were never tought the locals’ language (Nenets in my case) - what a shame :( I can only say “hi” in Nenets and that’s it.

@maxi6457

3 жыл бұрын

Hm... I know someone who teaches Nenets

@mr22guy

2 жыл бұрын

I was never taught the language of my ancestors but I have started to learn it. Lucky for me, there are online classes. Best of luck to you.

@pesetmekyokkacssart7483

2 жыл бұрын

Merhaba sizleri belgeselde gördüm. Gerçekten ilginç bir yaşamınız ve bizlerle bağınız olduğumuzu düşünüyorum.

@tunahan4418

2 жыл бұрын

@@pesetmekyokkacssart7483 ??? Olsa bilirdik

@pesetmekyokkacssart7483

2 жыл бұрын

@@tunahan4418 anladım

Relating to this topic (more specifically Yupik) I’d be intrigued to see an animation on the Inuit languages from east Siberia all the way to Greenland. I’ve been studying them myself and have found their relations and history amazing. Thanks for the great video!

I'm rewatching it, because technically, it's a new video, and I watch all your new videos!

Your videos routinely go well over my head, but I love watching how you explain them, and I'm sure more knowledgeable people than me can vouch for the quality of the research itself.

thank you so much for talking about my homeland with such passion) and for doing away with that 'constant cold' myth xD actually, this spring was so much warmer in my hometown near Krasnoyarsk than it was in Moscow.

@WK-bo6qv

3 жыл бұрын

I have Oymyakon and Verkhoyansk on the weather app on my phone just to see how cold it gets in the winter and how hot it gets in the summer

@DragonQuicksilver

2 жыл бұрын

I'm an American but I lived in Krasnoyarsk for a little while. I miss it, it's such a lovely city. Это мой русский дом)))

Your quality content is appreciated even more during quarantine. Hope you’re well, and thank you!

These are some of my favorite videos. I adore the fact that they are animated.

I'm Russian and I'm able to repeat "Chukotka-Kamchatsky" three times tops.

@antonishedsp2036

3 жыл бұрын

Чукотка-Камчатский

@PC_Simo

2 жыл бұрын

I repeated "Chukotka-Kamchatsky" five times on my 2nd try (4 times on my 1st try); and I’m Finnish, and not just any Finnish, but a slow-ass Tavastian 😅.

@Sirzhukov

Жыл бұрын

@@PC_Simo Finnish is also phonetically complex. Well, it is a complex language in general, so no wonder you had no problems with Russian. Wish NativLang made an in-depth video about Finnish.

@PC_Simo

Жыл бұрын

@@Sirzhukov Yeah, that is true. Also, so do I.

It's not all isolated though. Novosibirsk is the third largest city in Russia.

@denalihedgehog

4 жыл бұрын

South of Siberia is populated, yes. But to the North of Trans-Siberian railroad it will be hard to find a city (Norilsk and Yakutsk, and that's probably it), and it might take you many days before you drive from one village to another

@Cybernaut551

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting, thanks for the geography discussion.

@arolemaprarath3248

2 жыл бұрын

@@denalihedgehog Question, is Russia going to developed its Far East? Like build a huge city in existing cities? I'm curious....

@le_synthesis2585

2 жыл бұрын

@@denalihedgehog if you say "drive", then there is a road suitable for cars. In the places where such roads exist in Siberia, the settlements are situated along them and it's rather several hours of driving from one to another.

The love you make your videos with sparks me such joy!

So excited to watch this video. Huge fan of your stuff, love how much work you put into all your videos

Your channel makes me so so happy this is the kind of thing I get excited about and no one gets it!!! I would take a whole class on just this topic if I could

As I run into your channel for the first time, it's been extremely satisfying to hear all those proper nouns pronounced absolutely correctly. In particular, Kamchatka nearly drove me extatic.

@wtc5198

2 жыл бұрын

The International Phonetic Alphabet really helps with pronunciation

Greetings to Turkic siberians (Yakuts, Khakassians, Altays, Shors, Chulyms, Tofalars, Tuvans)

This is fascinating! Thank you so very much!

Beautiful animations. Thank you for putting in so much work into these wonderful videos. As a language enthusiast, your videos still bring the most nerdy joy. Thank you!

Oh, this video is such a pleasure to watch! Your pronunciation is quite good! It's a pity the video is only 10 minutes long. I hope we'll see more stories about Siberian tongues!

Love these vids! Keep it up!

Just fascinating! Thank you for sharing this information!

I literally love your videos so much; it's great learning about languages I didn't even know existed until now :))

I found a grammar of Chukchi a few weeks ago and it’s really cool, it resembles Mohawk because of all the noun incorporation madness!!

@KingOfHeroes1996

3 жыл бұрын

I think it's really cool finding similarities between Siberian/East Asian languages and those of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, really lends significance to the once existing land bridge between Siberia and Alaska.

@user-ye6zh9kg7n

3 жыл бұрын

yeah typical polysynthetic lang :)

I thought an wide area with little in the amount of people would make them more isolated and therefore increase the amount of languages or dialects in the area. Maybe it is the fact that most live in the same area in the south.

@varana

4 жыл бұрын

I think this "fewest languages per area" statistic is just because Siberia is so large with so few people. Even with considerable linguistic diversity between the communities, comparable or even bigger than the diversity between equal amounts of people elsewhere, the area is so incredibly huge, that it averages out at only a few languages per km2.

@PC_Simo

3 жыл бұрын

@varana312 My thoughts, exactly.

@NovaHessia

3 жыл бұрын

The amount of "languages per capita" is actually rather high in Siberia. Even before the Russian expansion, many languages only had a few hundred or thousand speakers. It's just that there are really *that* few people in the region.

Neat video! Thanks for uploading!

Diolch, enjoyed as always, keep up the hard work!😙

I am from Siberia and I maybe knew 10% of this. Thanks!

@maxi6457

3 жыл бұрын

Where from Siberia?

Well, then I get the chance to tell you again how awesome your videos are! I've been following this channel since the Toth's Pill series. I'm pretty sure you'll eventually go back to my beloved Mesoamerica and expand more on its linguistic diversity.

Glad to see you back again!

This one was sooo interesting! Thank you! I love your content 🤩

8:25 that counting system is very similar to Japanese. You have different ways of counting round objects, flat objects, long objects, people, money, etc. that’s not so surprising seeing how close it is to Japan :)

@PC_Simo

2 жыл бұрын

Yep. I still remember my brain exploding, when I first heard of that Japanese counting system in the 10-part ”documentary-series”, ”Nousevan auringon Kajo” (”The Gleam of the Rising Sun”), being a Markus Kajo -fan 🤯.

@Adhjie

11 ай бұрын

thats classifier

Warm greetings from Sakha! (Or Yakutia) thank you for such an informative video :) I’m grateful for popularizing such a diverse heritage we have in these seemingly empty lands!

So cool and thank you for covering these languages.

What a great topic, thank you!!

I'm happy to see you cover us native arctic ppl and our languages. Nenets here. Sadly never learnt my mother tongue, but plan to try eventually

Can you tell more about that counting system? And it would be interesting to have a whole episode about numbers in general!

I live for the amazing and cute animations, and the great knowledge that you teach with them. Subscribed!

Thanks a bunch for your effort and love for language. I'm always looking forward to your videos.

*right ear has rejoined the chat*

@ismata3274

4 жыл бұрын

and we re happy to hear that.

I really love your content. I’ve been hoping you’d do a video about the language diversity of the Levant that isn’t just limited to Arabic. As there are very little content on this topic on the internet!

Fantastic animated story about the cultures of such a vast and varied part of the world. Thank you, Josh!

Fascinating as always

Siberia really has it all You want a language with 40 verb tenses? Shor and Khakas, you're welcome. A language that sounds like if Kazakh and Polish had a baby? Shor is still here. Wanna Klingon? Here's Mongolian for you. A Turkic language that sounds Mongolic? Tuvin, Khakas and Yakut have entered the chat. Add some Polish to it - and you have the Shor dialect of Khakas. Wanna something really creepy and psychedelic? Alright, we've got Khanty. Wanna something chilling and beautiful? Nganasan is here. You want a language with some really bizarre phonetical features like, let's say, the long shwa? We also have it in Ket. Wanna something glitchy where the glottal stop(including the VOICED glottal stop) is everywhere? Welcome to Nenets with its poetic tundra dialect and the creepy forest dialect. A language where verbs have evidentiality? A language that has different words for different types of ghosts, demons and... swamps, and where you can even express that you feel bad for someone just by adding another suffix to a verb? Welcome to Mansi.

@mansiselyn

4 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, I've always wanted to become a language.

Congrats, Josh. Great work!

I seriously can't get enough of these videos. I wish they could be longer! But I understand if the animation is too laborious

Making plural the default makes a lot of sense to me, things are called single because they're being singled out from a group, and referring to a thing apart from its singular instances is necessarily referring to a plurality.

Someone: "Hey my landmass! How many languages do you want?" Siberia: "Yes."

@nicosmind3

4 жыл бұрын

It looks cold on your landmass. I never knew anyone owned it though. All hail Queen Hayley!

@TheJopeToons

4 жыл бұрын

Not only languages, but language families!

@denalihedgehog

4 жыл бұрын

Caucasus: Am I a joke to you?

@Mr.Nichan

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheJopeToons Yeah, that's probably why the linguist said Siberia was the least linguistically diverse (probably per unit area I would guess). The several dying and never very populous language families/branches have only about 40 languages total, whereas places like Southern Africa or even India have many hundreds of languages, but mostly in only in a few families. The truly insane place is New Guinea, which has more languages than any other part of the world AND they belong to many different families (though a very large fraction are probably in the Trans-New-Guinea family and there are definitely areal features).

@emretorun1436

3 жыл бұрын

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Nice really enjoyed this, dropping a comment for that algorithm

There's nothing better than a Nativlang video to take your mind off a lockdown. Watching your videos, I always just instinctively feel like I'm in good company. Thanks for sharing your passion - it's infective ;)

7:08 The Yeniseian-Dene language connection was interesting. I've always been interested in the Siberian connection to the languages of the Americas.

@cyclpiancitydweller9517

3 жыл бұрын

And the Ainu in Northern Japan.

@larshofler8298

2 жыл бұрын

@@cyclpiancitydweller9517 No linguistic connection found with other languages, Ainu appears to be an isolate. But Ainu-related peoples might have migrated along the coastline to the Americas, leaving behind some limited cultural and genetic contribution.

@wtc5198

2 жыл бұрын

I remember reading someone proposed a Nivkh-Algic relationship, so there's another one for ya

@Adhjie

11 ай бұрын

@@larshofler8298 also a genetic trait in Javanese people, as of now tho no known connections with the language not sure if austroasiatic has retroflex or Kawi got it from mix era influence of sanskrit retroflex and madurese also has it so yeah thats far like up to the end of java from india

It would be nice if you could also talk about the Saami languages of Northern Scandinavia in a separate video perhaps?

i love your videos but i rarely comment, so now seems a good time to hop in and say how cool this is! thanks for doing what you do, nativlang :D

I hope your channel grows so that you can make longer and more detailed animations

Oncorhynchus mykiss (мыкижа, I pronounce the species name like мыкиж with ж devoiced): the species name of this trout is from a Kamchatkan language.

@rahuldhargalkar

3 жыл бұрын

Aha!

I live right on Amur river, but all the languages I've heard is Chinese, from Chinese people working in here, and actually I've met one native belorussian. And according to linguistic map of Siberia, that we learned from school, the entire area around Amur river is populated by Russian speakers, with small villages that speak other east slavic languages, like Ukranian. That got me thinking, that maybe Xibe and Nanai languages have almost or completely died out.

@ANTSEMUT1

3 жыл бұрын

They possibly might just speak their own native language in private/at home/with family and just use "Chinese" as a lingua franca in business dealings.

@dorny3525

3 жыл бұрын

@@ANTSEMUT1 Nope, actually Chinese speak Chinese with friends and family but trying to speak Russian at work because obviously Russian speakers do not understand Chinese. I've actually searched a little bit and it turns out that these languages are still alive but there are only few thousand native speakers left and they live in very remote areas.

@ANTSEMUT1

3 жыл бұрын

@@dorny3525 ooooh, anecdotally though a lot of ethnic Russian people i met while studying in Auckland New Zealand could speak Mandarin fluently. Not enough community support/resources to keep their respective languages more "vibrant?" I guess.

@Adhjie

11 ай бұрын

@@dorny3525 moribund thats so sad i hope its not that worse like endangedered save them please philanthropist - linguist hope

Absolute magic. The video and also the comments.

now this is interesting! Thanks!

Do a whole video on Ket, we’re ready haha

Saskatchewan Canada has that exact same temperature variation, lived it the last decade, I'd know lol. -54C is the coldest I've seen.

@TheSpadaLunga

4 жыл бұрын

90% of Canadians live in the south of the country. To be honest, it upsets me because I live in the far north of Russia and I want more people to suffer like me lol

@yukonexpatriate4017

4 жыл бұрын

Appropriately enough, the climate of most of inland western Canada is basically exactly the same as the climate you find in Siberia. Tons of similar species too, you could probably get dropped in one forest or the other and have quite a challenge figuring out which continent you were on until you ran into someone to talk to.

@yukonexpatriate4017

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheSpadaLunga Shout out from a 10% person. Latitude can be a bit misleading though, some southern Canadians in the prairies have way colder and harsher winters than we have in the Yukon.

@cw3086

4 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing. I was like "Oh! Just like the center of north America!"

@TheSpadaLunga

4 жыл бұрын

@@yukonexpatriate4017 By the way, this winter in Russia was abnormally hot. There was almost no snow in Moscow. I was there in January and the weather was the same as in the summer in the place where I live. How was it in Canada?

Love your videos keep tbe great work up!

thank you for the video. 👍 again. man, you re quick and heed your listeners. my respects. now my earphones are working properly. and it was worth relistening. they re always worth listening. thank you. 🙋👍

Oh! You’re very cute. Took me aback seeing you as other than a cartoon. Thanks for your videos. They’re a lot of fun

@sant_vauls

3 жыл бұрын

ahhh ikrrr

Would love to see you do a video on Euskara (Basque).

Would love to see more of Siberia!

Thank you for another interesting video I learn so much from you💟

I'd love to see you go deeper into Japanese, Italian and the history and diversification of English. With that last one, less on the pronunciations and more on the differences in vocabulary and colloquialisms between Posh, Cockney, Australian, Kiwi, Canadian and the 3 unique dialects in America (New England, Texan and Hawaiian).

The mechanism appears to be that nouns are fundamentally thought of as ''mass" -the singular then becomes the derived form "one of those"

So now im hooked and this is my second vid of yours iv seen..

I love your videos so much man :)

Really interesting video, and I'd love to see one on the theory that the NaDene languages are descended from Siberian tongues.

I loved this where you describe an entire area's linguistic diversity rather than a particular language family. I have some suggestions that you might want to look into: The northeastern part of India, so many language families, languages and dialects, I'm sure you'll be interested to dig in (Sino-Tibetan, Thai Kra Dai & so much more...) There's also the south Asian region which is in continuation to the previous region including South China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia etc Then there's the famous Papua New Guinea! I'd love to see all this! Also maybe subcontinental India? 😁😅 Anyway love your work!

@suryatejas3013

2 жыл бұрын

Even, I would like a video from him on this topic.

Your videos helped keep me sane during the quanteen.

Great Video

Thanks for that great video! Could you talk about the Native American languages in South America in your next video please?

@ChefRafi

3 жыл бұрын

Which of those languages are you interested in? I have videos in Guarani and two varieties of Quechua.