I sound like an idiot sitting in my room alone trying to make these noises

@GewelReal

4 жыл бұрын

Do you really if you are alone?

@FirstnameLastname-es1ko

4 жыл бұрын

Gewel ✔ if someone talks to them self in their room, but there’s no one there to hear them, do they still make a sound? A philosophical question indeed.

@BopLouie

4 жыл бұрын

Gubah

@namenotfound3613

4 жыл бұрын

Well it is midnight here, my brother is here trying to sleep and i am making weird noises....

@cfrandom

4 жыл бұрын

Well, I'm sitting in my office. But that's okay - the people I work with already know I'm not 'right'.

4:17 Now I can finally learn how to talk to the villagers from Minecraft!

@bupman2329

6 жыл бұрын

Now i don't need to build my house

@switch9636

6 жыл бұрын

tftm Now I liked your comment just bcz of Jin. I don't even play minecraft 😂

@Max_Le_Groom

5 жыл бұрын

Or Squidward

@samk6042

5 жыл бұрын

Madam Joon's FancyNostrils lolol it’s brendan Urie now

@lampoilropebombs0640

5 жыл бұрын

No it is ae villagers are hamm

- tried to replicate sounds - ends up spitting all over screen

@ianmi4i727

3 жыл бұрын

LOL

@dynanananaay8774

3 жыл бұрын

Haha same😂😂🤣

@anthonymarcelino8460

3 жыл бұрын

🅱️

@bagpipermariah1210

Жыл бұрын

Me Too

I’m from Canary Islands and “El silbo” is a beautiful tradition, people used to communicate between the mountains with it and to warn their friends when the police were looking for them during Franco dictatorship. But it’s not a language, it’s a tool to communicate, usually when we use it we use spanish but in theory you could use it with any language you know. I encourage you all to visit La Gomera and take some classes it’s beautiful and really fun, and the only difficulty about it really is to learn how to whistle that loud then all you have to do it’s practice

@Mara-ub3tq

4 жыл бұрын

I can't do or learn it at all

@PC_Simo

3 жыл бұрын

@Mara Same here. I have barely overcome my genetics, and learnt to whistle, at all 🫤.

@HappyBeezerStudios

2 жыл бұрын

@@PC_Simo I could never whistle as a child and at some point randomly found out how to do it. And not long after I started putting vibrato into it

@6up5ohcopoutprocon

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for making me remember I can't whistle

@lepangolin4080

2 жыл бұрын

@@6up5ohcopoutprocon You can. You just didn't learnt it. Or you are handicaped and therefore that's stupid to whine about it. Like a legless person being bitter with people having legs.

Many of these are normally-used sounds in the beatboxing community

@risvegliato

4 жыл бұрын

That is actually a very good point, because when doing what those people do, they are using parts of their mouths and throat that would not normally be used in language. If you listen to the best proponents of beatboxing, they are absolutely brilliant, and you can't tell the difference between what they are doing and an electronic synthesizer.

@alkmibeats2133

4 жыл бұрын

risvegliato exactly!! The art form and the community that developed around it is, in my point of view, a celebration and innovation of the many many phonemes and sounds that lie OUTSIDE of commonly-used (in the western world anyways)language but not outside of the human being’s ability to create and express. There is so much dialogue and research that still has yet to be done bridging beatboxing with speech and communication sciences

@alkmibeats2133

4 жыл бұрын

I would look up “we speak music”, currently a 5-episode mini series which focuses documentary-style on Reeps One’s journey throughout the world to see how beatboxing can be used, studied, and incorporated into beneficial endeavors, such as beatbox-centric speech disability therapy. Reeps one is one such example of one of the best and original beatboxers on the scene, that has also contributed very much to what the scene currently is now

@NoiseOverMusic

4 жыл бұрын

Funniest comment on this video.

@samyrandome425

4 жыл бұрын

Wow this is actually fascinating

Haven’t heard a foreigner say the “gb” sound right!! Great job!!

@rodrigoadrianrodriguezaedo4477

5 жыл бұрын

It's so hard!

@posontic

5 жыл бұрын

I think I might be able to do it correct

@danboekenoogen4957

4 жыл бұрын

Rodrigo Adrian Rodríguez Aedo it’s actually easy

@rodrigoadrianrodriguezaedo4477

4 жыл бұрын

@@danboekenoogen4957 Now I can do it

@benjaminlamptey1867

4 жыл бұрын

where're you from?

Chompsky: Noooo you can't just destroy the theory of Universal Grammar with one language Everett: Haha pirahã go t̪͡ʙ̥

@rgzhaffie

3 жыл бұрын

This was all about phonology, though. Not a lick o grammar in the vdo.

@excelvalentino6972

2 жыл бұрын

t̪͡ʙ̥

@abbynievs2488

2 жыл бұрын

(tB[•

@miyounova

2 жыл бұрын

Chomsky

@excelvalentino6972

2 жыл бұрын

@@abbynievs2488 t̪͡b̥

2:08 It’s 1 in the morning, the entire house is asleep, and you just got me to say *”oaah”* alone in my room

@BenefitCounterbench

4 жыл бұрын

use an earphone or headphone, problem solved

@wilma7612

4 жыл бұрын

@@BenefitCounterbench i diagnose you with stupid

@potpourri565

4 жыл бұрын

Benefit Counterbench bruh

@wilma7612

4 жыл бұрын

@@potpourri565 exactly

@BB-xo2ts

3 жыл бұрын

this fucking sent me

Timestamps 0:52 Dog of wisdom 4:17 Minecraft villagers 5:20 Ugandan knuckles 5:08 MLG Hitmarker

@martialkintu2035

4 жыл бұрын

No we don't have those sounds in any of the Ugandan languages. Quit watching brain damaging filth.

@GY-bd9bo

4 жыл бұрын

he wasn't talking about uganda. he was talking about the ancient ugandan knuckles meme. it doesn't actually come from uganda.

@mrflip-flop3198

4 жыл бұрын

Bro the MLG hitmarker is too real. 😂😂

@ponkdiemand8817

4 жыл бұрын

Martial Kintu r/woooosh

@crazydave6522

4 жыл бұрын

Hababa hababadegaga

Where’s that American “r” sound *rrrerrr*

@poulomi__hari

4 жыл бұрын

It exists in Hindi too, but as an entirely separate "r". 'ड़', this sounds very vlose to American 'r'. We have both r's in our language.

@Markworth

4 жыл бұрын

Vowel R isn't that rare. It's just that most languages and accents don't use it without the trill. I'm surprised that Spanish speakers don't seem to have trouble with it since they only have the semi-vowel version, but I guess it's not a big deal.

@jgabd7119

4 жыл бұрын

It's exists in some accents of Brazilian Portuguese

@musical_lolu4811

4 жыл бұрын

There's a similar rhotic consonant in Mandarin.

@kaylactic

4 жыл бұрын

@@Markworth Dunno, maybe because it is thought since young age 🤔

2:03 I am an arabic speaking person and find it amazing that people actually have difficulties creating the ح sound

@hankahamidovic7859

2 жыл бұрын

Same! Especially when living in a non arab environment. I find it funny how they pronounce all three the same

@postironiac

2 жыл бұрын

i'm not arab, but also don't understand how people fing this sound hard. It's like Darth Vader's breath actaully

@Alex-tu5vu

2 жыл бұрын

same sound in German is "ch"

@kakahass8845

Жыл бұрын

@@postironiac Mostly (to me at least) I have no idea if I'm doing it right I could be doing it correctly making an epiglottal or just a really weird glottal for all I know!

@kakahass8845

Жыл бұрын

@@Alex-tu5vu No that's "ç" like the "h" in "hue" and "huge" not a pharyngeal.

When he said θ, I felt that

@thesaltedlamp3444

3 жыл бұрын

Me thoo

@zygote9529

3 жыл бұрын

i'm not an english native speaker so I still don't know how to pronounce it even though i speak fluent english😂

@Andjac2010

3 жыл бұрын

@@zygote9529 Many English variants do not use it, so it doesn't really matter. The important aspect is communication.

@LRC92

3 жыл бұрын

@@zygote9529 Bite your tongue and say s, or z for voiced ð.

@zygote9529

3 жыл бұрын

Zmsmmosjnwmsunwmsifnslspwnekaiwnsc

I was pronouncing them and my family thought I was going crazy

@robdoghd

7 жыл бұрын

/s̰̬͡ǀ˩˥ːːːːː/

@tinyzoologist2560

7 жыл бұрын

Me too... my dog just utterly lost confidence in my sanity! :D

@vuvuvu6291

7 жыл бұрын

My father just stared at me for awhile then shrugged a little, but like the other day, it was awkward

@aturninthegameof...4584

7 жыл бұрын

Astronomy487 I found Astronomy on KZread again!

@lucillefrancois150

7 жыл бұрын

Astronomy487 Hey man. Jumps is a cool song.

I was literally so confused and then started dying when he was trying to pronounce the Arabic ح

@artursanti3276

4 жыл бұрын

I still can't recognize the difference between ه and ح

@theblackdeath4398

4 жыл бұрын

@@artursanti3276 In the way they pronounced or in the way they sound? The letter ه is pronounced just like the English one, as the H in hat. The letter ح Has no English (or any language) equivalent, I'm still trying to find a way to explain how to pronounce it.

@dm7626

4 жыл бұрын

we have the same כ and ח

@queendido2276

4 жыл бұрын

As a native arabic speaker, I recognized that he was actually pronouncing the /ح/ sound only when he said that he was talking about the arabic language. His /ح/ is not so accurate although well-explained.

@MegaBallPowerBall

4 жыл бұрын

@@theblackdeath4398 The Arabic letter is the same as the original pronunciation of the letter ח in Hebrew. As stated in the video, it's sound is found in Afro-Asiastic languages like Hebrew, Hausa and Somali.

I speak the arabic tongue so I came here for that exact arabic sound you mentioned. The letter that describes it would be written like that: حـ or ح.. Arabic phonemes are unique ,indeed and you might as well know that the english 'th' with its two sounds is there in arabic, too. The english 'th' is two different letters actually: ث and ذ. If you want to pronounce 'thin' it's ث and if you're pronouncing 'then' it's ذ.

@LonDanDoc

2 жыл бұрын

knowing arabic sounds alone is a major win linguistically. helps to speak a lot of other languages .

@sasino

2 жыл бұрын

@@LonDanDoc true 💯 I learned how to read and write the Arabic alphabet a few years ago, it definitely helps a lot since it has some of the trickiest sounds, like the 'ayin. Now I'm learning Chinese, which by comparison it's much easier; the hardest Chinese sounds to me were "q" (like the ch in "cheat" said between your teeth with more airflow), and its distinction with "j" (the same but with less air)

@Novumvir

Жыл бұрын

@@LonDanDoc Except for vowels. Arabic has only 3, 6 if you count long vowels.

@Bmonkeygurl

Жыл бұрын

Learning Arabic and it taught me so much about being aware of sounds I make in English that I didn't realize were 2 different sounds...th and th.

My family is from Lesotho, and we use the khoisan click noises for the letter q. Amazing that you fit our languages into this video!

Has anyone else seen an online post that says: English can be tough but it can be understood through tough thorough thought, though

@reedsexton3973

5 жыл бұрын

No, but having "but" and "though" is redundant and you wouldn't see that sentence in English.

@maltager5106

5 жыл бұрын

but....though works fine i dont understand what you're talking about?

@maltager5106

5 жыл бұрын

It's not required but it is not incorrect.

@maltager5106

5 жыл бұрын

No, I hear it all the time. "I really wanted to eat an ice cream... But I couldn't though :(". Maybe it's a British thing.

@kbxbrdr

5 жыл бұрын

That actually doesn't make English any harder at all, really. All you have to do is just remember the words and how they're pronounced, don't analyze, just memorize, it's not a complex concept; It's not like every single word in a language has to have some sort of logic to its phonology. I swear, it's like people just enjoy stringing things together to somehow make them seem super complicated and difficult.

I had a teacher in my Freshman year of college who did teaching work in Lesotho and she actually spoke with clicking sounds as she was giving us a sampling of some of the names of young men and women she worked with as well as some words they commonly used there. She had us try to repeat some words with clicks in them, and nobody could really do it quite as well as she could (and rightfully so, as she actually knew the language and we didn't). Still, it was pretty crazy to hear her speaking a languages with clicks in it rolling off the tongue at the same rate of fluency as her English.

@alexanderbruwer9363

5 жыл бұрын

She could likely have been speaking Xhosa

@margueritejohnson6407

5 жыл бұрын

LycanDeMorte Trevor Noah’s first language is Xhosa. He very occasionally says a phrase in it.

@alexanderbruwer9363

5 жыл бұрын

@@margueritejohnson6407 I know, I'm from SA 😂

@BothHands1

4 жыл бұрын

LycanDeMorte Same

@kgothatsomoiloa1784

4 жыл бұрын

@@alexanderbruwer9363 Sesotho also absorbed clicks.

4:19 this is literally a villager noise

In Ethiopia there is a language called Amharic, and I don't know if the sounds are that rare but we use a rolled r and ቀ, ጠ, ጨ, ጰ and ጸ which are usually hard for new learners to pronounce.

@zyaicob

2 жыл бұрын

Trust me it's not just the consonants, people tend to have a hard time telling the first and sixth form vowels apart

@deborahsolomonteferra

2 жыл бұрын

@@zyaicob Really ? I didn't know

@amyfox5191

2 жыл бұрын

In Scotland we roll our rs too! I cannot say the names Karl and Carol with any differentiation. They're one and the same. I'm yet to meet someone who isn't Scottish imitate a Scottish accent well.... x

@alechinshaw5990

Ай бұрын

They’re just Ejective consonants. [k’], [t’], [tʃʼ] [pʼ] [tsʼ]. They’re not all that rare. They occur in around 20% of languages around the planet. Extremely common in languages indigenous to South America, Central America, Mexico, the American southwest, the American Pacific Northwest, the American west, all three families native to the caucuses, and a lot of languages apart of Afro-Asiatic.

The last syllable of my true name can only be pronounced correctly if the head is severed, screwed onto the back of a dragster and revved up to 8000 rpm.

@flyingspacebrainedidiot

4 жыл бұрын

Can you tell me

@mialevi1341

4 жыл бұрын

Hmm... Cream bun... I see why people would have a heard time pronouncing such a confusing name

@fuitbythefoot

4 жыл бұрын

substitute teachers must have a tough time

@MTMguy

4 жыл бұрын

aeeeeeeeeaaaaeAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEE

@samyrandome425

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds beautiful

New Minecraft player: "Oh wow, people! Hello!" Minecraft villager: 4:17 New Minecraft player: "..."

@user-kv7ri9cu3g

4 жыл бұрын

Powahful GamePlayer LMFAOOOOOOO

@MTMguy

4 жыл бұрын

The creaky one fits it better.

@aloysiuskurnia7643

3 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, the sound of Minecraft Villager /ŋ̥ɑ̰̃˥˩ː/

@deutschekanadische

3 жыл бұрын

@@MTMguy ya

@matcha.addict4139

3 жыл бұрын

@@aloysiuskurnia7643 hɹ̃˥˩

4:06 Imagine going somewhere on a vacation and people start speaking minecraft villager language lmao!

We need a deeper dive on Xhosa. I find it fascinating hearing it.

0:52 The Dog of Wisdom

@hishamdaniell

6 жыл бұрын

Nicholas Yeary hapa kataka. hapapa pa. haaaa

@anselme198

5 жыл бұрын

I got that reference

@legendsword7

4 жыл бұрын

Wow thank you. The quality of my brain cell integration has been degraded and I am amused

@Chrishum

4 жыл бұрын

Hardline American I knew someone would think of that!

@LindeusTheBaum

4 жыл бұрын

That is a very good wisdom.

"kissing,clicking,sputtering",sounds like the bubblegum language in adventure time

@hermionetobias1766

4 жыл бұрын

ralf 67453 Oh my gosh, I’m not the only one who noticed!!!

@hermionetobias1766

4 жыл бұрын

Brendan Berney Lol

@hermionetobias1766

4 жыл бұрын

Brendan Berney And we are proud to be nerds

@radilime

4 жыл бұрын

Brendan Berney There's a lot worse that fits that title better.

@jacopodam184

3 жыл бұрын

I thought the same

Describing the bizzare sounds 0:53 the dog of wisdom 1:11 motor starting up 1:39 a wet sneeze 2:01 you’re breathing in someone’s ear 2:08 you’re gargling a small amount of water 2:52 you’re a bird 3:16 hissing cat, car revving up 3:53 you have a cold/are squidward 4:08 a normal minecraft villager 4:12 a happy minecraft villager 4:14 an angry minecraft villager 5:09 a disapproving lip smack 5:15 an even more disapproving lip smack 5:17 the sound you make following the phrase “if you know what i mean 😏” 5:20 horses clopping There we go hope that was a good explanation

@Freun

3 жыл бұрын

I meant the dog of wisdom that...

@alyanahzoe

2 ай бұрын

​@@Freun yeah

Russians: *ыЫы* Belarusians: *ЫЫЭМ*

@siregne4343

3 жыл бұрын

this is what we, russians, are proud of 😎

@maximelectron9949

3 жыл бұрын

ЙЖЫ - - - (Простите меня все русские за Ы после Ж)

@peterarany6467

3 жыл бұрын

I learn russian and I still don't have a clue how to say ы correct

@Ida-xe8pg

3 жыл бұрын

First pronounce a schwa [ə] like the 'a' in "About" or as the 'e' in "Taken" or the 'u' in "Supply" and gradually raise ur tongue until its close to the upper palate or pronounce a [i] 'ee' as in Speed and bring ur tongue back, and then saying simple words like ты, вы, мы, был etc or to simplify it choose a consonant and pronounce it around it like ым, мым, мы etc

@user-vo9cv5lr1y

3 жыл бұрын

йалторна

4:18 So that's what the Minecraft villagers are saying! :P

@Wandrative

7 жыл бұрын

4:19 tho

@waterrail_

7 жыл бұрын

They're saying something like /æ̰̃æ̰̃æ̥̃/.

@ADogNamedStay

6 жыл бұрын

Maksymilian Król any idea what that means?

@waterrail_

6 жыл бұрын

Donovan Fulton Long time passed since I commented :o

@freedomisaverb6750

6 жыл бұрын

Redhotsmasher Lol, it is hillarious

So people actually do speak like the creatures in Rock Bottom.

@stemm09

4 жыл бұрын

I can't, ʘ̃, understand, ʘ̃, your accent, ʘ̃, ʘ̃!

@Meomega

4 жыл бұрын

@@stemm09 I hope that's the symbol used for that noise.

@zecchinoroni

4 жыл бұрын

That's a little different.

@benzenehydrocarbon

3 жыл бұрын

i cant ʙ understand ʙ your accent ʙ

@i_teleported_bread7404

3 жыл бұрын

Would you *ʘ̃* mind *ʘ̃ ʘ̃* putting me down *ʘ̃:* ?

don’t forget the welsh “ll” pronounces as a sort of hissing

@iosefka7774

4 жыл бұрын

@Gnomicality They wrote the digraph for /ɬ/, not the phoneme /ǁ/.

@manmoy4104

3 жыл бұрын

Why are they written as ll when they are pronounced closer to an s noise

@matcha.addict4139

3 жыл бұрын

That’s literally such a common sound

@galinor7

2 жыл бұрын

An aspirated L is not a hissing sound. "Llanelli" it is quite different but may closer to the English "sh"

@alyanahzoe

2 ай бұрын

​@@galinor7 i listened to the pronuncation and you're correct!

Fun fact: in Sicilian (an Italian dialect) the sound at 5:14 combined with tilting your head slightly up, is used to say "no"

@atotallyextinctdinosaur

2 жыл бұрын

Wow we do exactly the same in Egypt ..

I have 2 uncles who can communicate through whistling

@TheMaru666

6 жыл бұрын

Joel Valdes Jr. Are them Gomeros ?

@beepboopily6285

6 жыл бұрын

I read it as fisting instead of whistling...

@queenelizabethiicorpse8818

5 жыл бұрын

@@beepboopily6285 welp

@carlosmarte428

5 жыл бұрын

maruxa cabaleiro saco this comment had me in tears lmfao

@cheddarrandom5969

5 жыл бұрын

I can communicate with my brother using whistles

We should raise a fund to send NativLang to different places around the world to study languages and make kick-ass KZread videos for us

@-SUM1-

7 жыл бұрын

Nah. Leave it to the professionals.

@reginnna

6 жыл бұрын

Will Tannery Would donate.

@Alkaloid-Odin

6 жыл бұрын

Do it.

@PC_Simo

3 жыл бұрын

@Reginna Francois So would I 💰.

@daychild_

2 жыл бұрын

@@reginnna I would also

4:19 Villager soundin'- Also, we're really used to the clicking even as just simple English speakers, as we tic a lot by making lots of sounds with our mouth. Usually beatboxing comes along.

i've been binging all your vids in quarantine as i learn danish (and also just have a love of linguistics), i love u

"You won't really need much practice though because english has them" Too bad I'm not a native english speaker and my language doesn't have them. It's the most challenging sound in english to me

@jirinaji

4 жыл бұрын

Try pronouncing "s" with the tip of your tongue between your teeth, that should get you θ (the sound pronounced in "think"; if that word sounds different from "sink", you're probably saying it right). As for ð which is pronounced in the definite article "the", try pronouncing "z" with the tip of your tongue between your teeth and you will likely pronounce "the" the way it's usually pronounced - /ðə/. To recap as succinctly as possible: θ = "s" with the tongue between the teeth ð = "z" with the tongue between the teeth English isn't my first language, but when I came across this explanation, I mastered θ & ð INSTANTLY. Hope it helps some of you guys as well.

@NoiseOverMusic

4 жыл бұрын

@@jirinaji As a native speaker of English, this comment fascinates me. I tried taking your advice, even though I know how to make the th sound, but I couldn't produce the th sound this way. I think this is probably because A) I probably pronounce the s differently than you and B) I don't think of the th as similar to an s. I am not knocking this method, if it helps you pronounce the th then by all means I encourage you to use it, but I thought I should share my own perspective on it as both a) a native speaker and b) somebody who struggled with this sound as a kid. While I didn't have any major speech impediments growing up, the th sound was tricky, and I mastered it slightly later than most native speakers do. I believe I was 10 or so when I could pronounce it, while most people get it down much earlier. For me, the unvoiced th is a lot closer to an f, and the voiced th is a lot closer to a d. That's why in certain English accents you hear words like "fink" instead of "think", and "dis" instead of "this". As a kid when I had trouble with this sound, I would say "birfday" instead of "birthday", and "duh" instead of "the". For me, making the unvoiced th is very similar to making the f, only instead of using your bottom lip, you use the tip of your tongue while your bottom lip is slightly forward. It's as if your mouth is moving to make the f sound and your tongue hits your teeth instead. The tongue does not go too far between the teeth, only the tip brushes against the top teeth, while the bottom teeth/lip are open and slightly protruded (if I try and close the bottom teeth or move them closer the sound almost becomes impossible). If you practice, try holding pitch on a long fffffffffff.... sound and switching back and forth between ffff and th. If your mouth is in the right position, the two sounds are extremely easy and almost seamless to switch back and forth between. The voiced th sound is very similar and it can be made in the exact same position as the unvoiced th, but in regular practice, the position of the tongue is a bit in between the unvoiced th and the regular 'd' sound. That is, words like "this", "that", etc, have a little bit of a "tap" to them. You're not just vibrating the th, you're tapping slightly against the teeth, part of the tip hits the back of the teeth while the folds of the tongue are between the teeth; in fact, there's a little bit of tongue rounding going on in this gesture. It seems the real secret to produce this sound is leaving enough space between the lips/teeth for the vibration to happen and getting the tip of the tongue just right to the point where it's simultaneously in between the teeth and slightly back against the teeth.

@jirinaji

4 жыл бұрын

@@NoiseOverMusic Thanks for the feedback! What you described is surely a valid method of learning to produce the "th" sounds. For me just as for you, θ and ð sound a lot like f and d. I know full well that ð is often pronounced close to d as you pointed out. In fact, it took me many years to even notice that ð is an actual English sound distinct from d :D When it comes to the production of "th" sounds, however, I'd say s and z aren't more different from them than f and d. I wonder what sounds you produced when following the instructions in my post if not θ and ð. Maybe I'm pronouncing these sounds differently than most native speakers. You could make sort of a θ sound even with half your tongue sticking out of your mouth and while it would sound noticeably different from the standard θ, you could still pronounce "thin" so that it would be distinguishable from "fin", "sin", "tin", "din", you name it. What I'm getting at is the difference between a phoneme and an allophone. As you mentioned speech impediments, there is also an impediment related to the production of "s". Many small kids have trouble pronouncing this sound, producing θ instead (perhaps not the way you say it, but still). I even know 13-year-olds who say θ instead of s. That's the situation where I come from at least - Czechia where we speak Czech. There are probably some people in your country who have a similar problem. It affects the pronunciation of "z", and even of other sounds like "n", but with s and z it's most noticeable. Czechs call this impediment "stepping on one's tongue" meaning that one's teeth are coming in contact with one's tongue when they shouldn't. In Czech, θ and ð are no valid sounds, they are just mispronounced s and z.

@ZhangtheGreat

4 жыл бұрын

It's one of the most hated sounds in the world, at least from my experience in getting feedback from non-English speakers who are learning English. I can completely understand why it's so difficult to make. Most languages do not have their speakers force their tongue anywhere in between their teeth. Plenty have sounds that require the tongue to touch the back part of the teeth, but in between? No.

@Jan_Koopman

3 жыл бұрын

Same

Did anyone else try to make these sounds while watching?

@annagodia

7 жыл бұрын

I did and I'm at work :S hope nobody was looking

@stevejohnsondoesmapping7345

7 жыл бұрын

not to be rude or judgemental, but you shouldn't be watching videos at work

@BionicGuatemala

7 жыл бұрын

Steve Johnson does mapping lol

@aiker98

6 жыл бұрын

me too!

@General12th

6 жыл бұрын

Of course! Isn't that what these videos are for?

hahahaha I love the way you animate. 1:40 had me dying of laughter with how you said "I see why this sound is rare" haha

Thank you for making language fun. I experienced a severe trauma 2011 and before that I loved learning new languages. But after my trauma all my skills were gone, it was like I had stored everything in a storage that had been buried under quicksand and every little piece had to be pulled put just to be sucked down under again as soon as I wanted to look at it. I still have troubles storing new memories (it´s a good thing I learned english at a young age) and have completelt had to accept that I wont remember anything I learn, but I can still have fun trying to learn. Your videos help me having fun with languages - even though I won´t remember even 10% of what it´s about after I´m finished. Much love and appreciation from sweden.

I was wondering how much could I rely on your accents, but your "pirahã" pronunciation was really accurate, the ã is usually not well done by foreigners.

@ceruchi2084

4 жыл бұрын

I had a double-take on this comment. For a second I thought you meant you WERE a Pirahã. There are only a few hundred of them, and I don't think many have KZread lol.

@dinamosflams

2 жыл бұрын

Which I allways think It's weird, since you Just have to use your nose for It

@ImperatorGrausam

8 ай бұрын

The nasal isn't very rare. Any Portuguese or French speaker can pronounce it with relative ease.

4:16 minecraft villagers?

@sebastianzaczek

6 жыл бұрын

hhaaaa... (yes)

@nziom

5 жыл бұрын

LoL

@zzzx7738

4 жыл бұрын

LMAO

@matcha.addict4139

3 жыл бұрын

hɹ̃˥˩

@ZoveRen

8 ай бұрын

More like illagers.

The sound “ང” in Tibetan is very interesting... it is pronounced nga and you make it by closing the back of your through and letting air through as you push air from the back of your nasal cavity

@matcha.addict4139

3 жыл бұрын

you mean ŋ̊

@faketoonlink

2 жыл бұрын

Like “ñ”?

@antoniozavaldski

Жыл бұрын

It's just a velar nasal (the English "ng" sound), so not rare at all.

@alyanahzoe

2 ай бұрын

just wait until you have heard about welsh. i kind of like it because it's interesting. try looking it up on wikipedia.

Fascinating! Love the silhouette animation. Decades ago, of all the French teachers and professors I had, only one would explain to me how to position my tongue, lips, and air as specific just as you’ve done. To this day native speakers compliment my pronunciation.

4:19 Ah... The good ol' Waluigi phoneme...

@rasmusdamkjr5270

3 жыл бұрын

That’s a Minecraft villager sound

@matcha.addict4139

3 жыл бұрын

@@rasmusdamkjr5270 not even close

I’ve heard that my native Swedish, of all things, has a virtually unique sound in what we would call “sje-ljudet”, but Wikipedia tells me is spelled ɧ and described as a “voiceless postalveolo-velar fricative”. It’s marvellous fun to hear non-Swedish-speakers attempt to reproduce it.

@imokin86

Жыл бұрын

That's right. It's virtually unique to Swedish. When I learned the language, it was by far the hardest sound. (Although the tje-ljudet and rd/rt were also hard.)

@rachelblaquiere9134

Жыл бұрын

I've studied Swedish and what impresses me is how variable that phoneme is, dialectally speaking. Sure, in ✨rikssvenska✨ it's /ɧ/, but I've heard it pronounced /ʃ/ in dialects from near the Norwegian border (makes sense, Norwegians use that sound for cognates), /xʷ/, /ʍ/, and even plain /x/, which I believe is a Skåne ism, but I could be wrong

@Jujuworld0714

9 ай бұрын

Ãn añ

@alyanahzoe

2 ай бұрын

​@@Jujuworld0714 😂😂😂

I can't believe he didn't do "ř"

@excelvalentino6972

2 жыл бұрын

ř

@dicraftio

2 жыл бұрын

When i saw the explanation of how you pronounce it when i went to Czech Republic 3 years ago I literally thought it was impossible for me to do it

@alyanahzoe

2 ай бұрын

but how?

idk why im subscribed before i even knew about this channel but this is fascinating

You could as well mention the Welsh voiceless alveolar lateral fricative [ɬ] that is typologically rare amongst european languages.

@instaurareomniainchristo5634

6 жыл бұрын

Caleb Sousa Do you have a video in which a person makes that sound? Since it's practically impossible for a non-welsh speaker like me to know how it is pronounced, I wanna know how it sounds.

@Verathuum

6 жыл бұрын

+Brandon Karstark Basically you form an "L" sound with your tongue, but instead of blowing over your tongue, you blow around it. Here's a video about it kzread.info/dash/bejne/moV2qbGbZ8y3ipM.html

@instaurareomniainchristo5634

6 жыл бұрын

Righ Geal Brigado.

@lewiswilliams6494

6 жыл бұрын

Somebody learned how to use a dictionary

@instaurareomniainchristo5634

6 жыл бұрын

Lewis Williams And it probably wasn't you, because you still don't know the difference between the meaning of a word (which is what we see in the dictionary) and the spelling (which was what I asked about), ☺.

The creaky nasal cracked me up. Omg. That language would be hilarious to listen to.

@raypapo1

5 жыл бұрын

So would you

@pqbdwmnu

5 жыл бұрын

Owned

@susie9893

4 жыл бұрын

All the nasals made my sinuses hurt just thinking about them 🤭

These videos are so interesting - I've been watching through a lot of them since I found them about 20 minutes ago. The very well done captions are much appreciated! :)

That was fun! I respect you for chasing these down and trying them out

I came here for czech Ř. A very cool sound, I think.

@Pidalin

4 жыл бұрын

You don't have to speak about Ř, everybody knows it's winner. :-D

@sometator

4 жыл бұрын

@@Pidalin its the same as Rz / ż in polish?

@watchmakerful

4 жыл бұрын

@@sometator It was historically the same, but in Polish (except some dialects) this sound has completely degraded into an ordinary Ž sound.

@Pidalin

4 жыл бұрын

@@sometator In Polish it sounds like R and Ž combinated or something like that, in Czech it's one short and strong sound. So RZ sounds as Ř when little kid can't pronounce that.

@jolanas.5426

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, disappointed to not see it on the list, considering only one 10million nation speaks it. :D

"another rare sound found all over the world" My Alexa just crashed Thanks

@alyanahzoe

2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I get better at producing these sounds every time I rewatch this video. Kind of satisfying to hear the huge progress after not even coming close to making any of them sound correctly the first time(s) (btw my native language, German, has almost none of them either).

These videos- it's always fun to find the vast array of sounds I didn't know I could make

Thank you for sharing your 2016 with me! Let's end the year making odd sounds. If you invented a language, would it have even odder phonemes? Dibs on any good ones.

@FlamingObsidian

7 жыл бұрын

I call labiodental plosives!

@humanmusic6409

7 жыл бұрын

NativLang two words: pharyngeal plosive

@fy-

7 жыл бұрын

Where are the linguolabial consonants?

@okuno54

7 жыл бұрын

It's not a conlang, but Archi has an ejective labiovelar lateral affricate (k͡ʟ̝̊ʷʼ). And if that doesn't break the IPA, I've always wanted to try out things like rounded linguo-labial lateral fricatives or the apico-uvular click.

@ruanpingshan

7 жыл бұрын

What percentage of the world's languages have breathy voiced consonants? I've yet to meet anyone outside South Asia who can pronounce any of them.

I was wondering: could you do a collab with Langfocus in the future? You both have videos about both languages in general (like this one) and languages in particular, but you tend to be make more of the first while Langfocus makes more of the second. The main reason I ask this is because on both channels I see a LOT of requests about languages or language traits in one comment section that's covered on the other channel. It's not just you two who would benefit from exchanging subscribers, but it's especially the subscribers that would benefit from it since now they stop asking about Romanian here or Hungarian on langfocus. Your styles are vastly different, but I think you can make it work. Take, for example, a video on proto-indo-european. You guys talk about the spread, the sounds, the anything, and Paul talks about how the language actually worked (as far as we know) and how it connects certain languages to vastly different ones within the indo-european language group (like how 'stan' connects the Persian 'stan' (= land) to the german Stadt (= city) and the English stand and the Japanese stando (oraoraoraoraoraora)). I think it's the perfect topic since it's both a language family (Paul's cup of tea) and has huge historical linguistic implications (your cup of tea). Maybe have a guest apperance of Xidnaf. He needs to redeem his old PIE videos and he needs a drive to get back in making videos. Even Hank Green encouraged him lately on Twitter.

@YamiBarai21

7 жыл бұрын

PrimaPunchy I don't know really if you meant that Japanese was an Indo-European language but if you did, well it isn't, besides "stando" seems like an English loanword because in Japanese it's a big no-no to have two consonants or more in a row, even worse if it's at the beginning of the word, so it doesn't look native Japanese at all

@deldarel

7 жыл бұрын

It was a jojo's bizarre adventure's joke. It's one of the most famous manga. It comes indeed from English.

@pickletineeltaimados5205

7 жыл бұрын

PrimaPunchy All of these suggestions sound awesome.

@pickletineeltaimados5205

7 жыл бұрын

PrimaPunchy Especially bringing Xidnaf back.

@YamiBarai21

7 жыл бұрын

PrimaPunchy lol then I'm way off with the references :P is that a joke making fun of the Proto Indo European theory?? (Like putting it off by bringing non IE languages to the comparison table to descredit it) because I know more than 4 people who don't believe in it being a real family

Greek is quite easy to pronounce for a native English speaker, except for χ and γ (the sounds you mention are found in Arabic). We also have the θ and δ from English, which some foreigners find difficult.

This one [ ǚ ] is interesting. It is used in romanized chinese.

@arvinroidoatienza7082

5 жыл бұрын

Haha. Its just the French u, spoken with a down-then-up tone

@azuritesgalaxy6916

5 жыл бұрын

>:)

@azuritesgalaxy6916

5 жыл бұрын

it looks like a face

@love_x_love6619

5 жыл бұрын

@@arvinroidoatienza7082 Yeah it's just the French *U*. BTW I study Mandarin Chinese

@myaccountfrom7thgradethatn44

5 жыл бұрын

my dyslexic ass thought you said roman cheese

you have to try to explain ㄲ ㅃ ㄸ ㅆ. I can never explain it to my friends...

@appleheaddefender

6 жыл бұрын

최세훈 whats there to explain ㅇㅁㅇ

@insertobject4002

5 жыл бұрын

加油我支持你

@fuseki23

5 жыл бұрын

glottal stop, then the sounds are said

@gabriella8141

5 жыл бұрын

최세훈 it helps for me to think of it like Spanish lol. ㄲ like que, since we wouldn’t pronounce it with a hard K sound, just as ㄲ isn’t ㅋ

@HoneydewBeach

5 жыл бұрын

IPA doesn't help at all, because they just use some weird diacritic for a feature I've never heard of

❤️ I'd like to hear a word or phrase of each. I really enjoyed the visuals. I could follow along, & remembered making these sounds when younger.

A specific click is used in most of the Balkans(at least here in Bulgaria for sure) to denote a clear and descisive "no". It's not even part of the language strictly speaking, but it's wierd how we can make so many sounds and some languages decide just not to use most of them.

I'd say the Czech "ř" sound is quite unique

1:23 The pronouciation of the "ã" is freaking delightful for my brazilian ears, congrats m8

@musical_lolu4811

4 жыл бұрын

Not to mention my Yoruba ears.

Fascinating work. Thks a bunch.

Eeeeeh :D I grew up in a village called Gbeduuri (Mampruli language) in Ghana, it's really nice to see that phoneme mentioned. ... I also went to school in Cote D'Ivoire, double shout-out time.

5:40 WTF "Della Morte" means "Of the Death" in Italian ahahah That's one hell of a cool surname

@CraftQueenJr

5 жыл бұрын

Ruben yes it is!

@mexicandoggos3578

5 жыл бұрын

Same in Spanish but it is "de la muerte"

@prado7391

4 жыл бұрын

de la mort in french da morte in portuguese

@mrflip-flop3198

4 жыл бұрын

*James of the Death*

Interesting that some of these odd sounds are not used in (say) English but English speakers use them "outside" language, e.g. the "tsk, tsk" to signify disapproval.

@lucaslucas191202

5 жыл бұрын

OMG I just realized how tsk is pronounced. I always thought people actually said tsk and it made no sense to me. The sounds tsk however doesn't at all sound like how it's spelled

@vagabaassassina3461

5 жыл бұрын

@@lucaslucas191202 Omg I remember you from our mother. You know I know you know. What a thing

@lucaslucas191202

5 жыл бұрын

@@vagabaassassina3461 Oh wtf. Is Derek the guy that was seen with you as in seen? I don't think our mother remembers

@mrpellagra2730

5 жыл бұрын

Heh, we use it too! Only it's spelled as cık.

@vagabaassassina3461

5 жыл бұрын

@@lucaslucas191202 Yeah. Just like when the dog jumped

Me: Random Clicking That one African guy who speaks that language: Wondering why I want to go to North Korea to sell tacos from burger king to Kim Jong Un.

@PC_Simo

3 жыл бұрын

@Nexandr Nice one 😆👍🏻.

@matcha.addict4139

3 жыл бұрын

That’s linguistically insensitive

@Nexandr

3 жыл бұрын

@@matcha.addict4139 what's that

@hlonelaqothelo4076

3 жыл бұрын

@@matcha.addict4139 Relax man, take if from a South African, this was funny.

@itstadiwa284

3 жыл бұрын

@@hlonelaqothelo4076 honestly, found it funny too😂😂😂

Wonderful, more of this please.

If you can't whistle, can you not speak the whistle language at all?

@JakeStephensMrJakeStephens

7 жыл бұрын

If you can use your fingers as "reeds", then maybe? Or maybe due to isolation and localized evolution, the ability to whistle is just inherent? Interesting question.

@GoldenKingStudio

7 жыл бұрын

If you are born and raised there, you will be able to pick up the whistle as naturally as you or I learn English's vowel and consonant sounds from the people around us as children.

@Rezkeshdadesh

7 жыл бұрын

GoldenKingStudio Maybe, but I've tried to be able to whistle since I was a kid, and could never really do it.

@GoldenKingStudio

7 жыл бұрын

Rezzy Yeah, but you trying since being a child is not the same thing as actually learning something as a child.

@yuunbelievable

7 жыл бұрын

Your trying is just your own effort without much external influence. The people speaking whistle language would be immersed in whistles around them since they were born.

No mention of the Czech Řř? "In Czech it is used to denote [r̝], a raised alveolar non-sonorant trill. Its manner of articulation is similar to other alveolar trills but the tongue is raised; it is partially fricative. It is usually voiced, [r̝], but it also has a voiceless allophone [r̝̊] occurring in the vicinity of voiceless consonants or at the end of a word." (according to wiki, I am no linguist, I just know that foreigners struggle with it so bad... and even some natives).

@Jumpoable

3 жыл бұрын

Is it like Mandarin Chinese [r]? Like [ri] for "sun/ day" & [re] "hot" & [ren] "man"...?

@NetAndyCz

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jumpoable I do not know Chinese that well, but I doubt it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_dental,_alveolar_and_postalveolar_trills#Voiced_alveolar_fricative_trill

@alyanahzoe

2 ай бұрын

​@@NetAndyCz no thanks, i'm fine with that.

I remember when we were kids, we'd drive out West to Utah every year or two for vacation, and when we passed through Ship Rock, New Mexico, we stopped at a McDonald's or something and heard some local native americans in conversation, and whatever language it was made abundant use of the 'clicks'. That WHOLE summer, my brother just went around pronouncing miscellaneous words with random clicks. He was great at being an annoying 10 year old. :) But I remember the impact it had on me, knowing there were potentially 'countless' sounds we could make as humans, and that they each were imbued with 'meaning', that they weren't just 'decorative' I guess. I came to linguistics via music transcription, and the abundance of overlap in concepts is incredibly useful. (I just discovered your channel today but I'm loving it, BTW!) :)

The « gb » is in my third name and everyone struggle to read it (I’m half from ci and half from France)

Czech ř is lacking. It sounds like tongue thrilled r and ž (like j in french journal) at the same time.

@daniel5730

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it something difficult even for polish/rusdian speakers.

@Jumpoable

3 жыл бұрын

@@daniel5730 Mandarin Chinese has it too.

@jannovotny4797

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jumpoable That's not [r̝] (aka the ř sound in Czech), that's [ʐ] (the Mandarin r)

@bibinoojen

3 жыл бұрын

Agree with this, I've heard Czech people admit it's a difficult sound 😂

When you can pronounce *θ,* but you can't pronounce *ð* :(

@TheJopeToons

4 жыл бұрын

Wait how

@vojtechdubcak6135

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheJopeToons When your vocal cords have snapped.

@M_Julian_TSP

4 жыл бұрын

Just voice your θ and it will be a ð

@martintuma9974

4 жыл бұрын

I can pronounce both of them, even though there are not used in my language.

@melodyfussell829

4 жыл бұрын

basically just do θ but add voice.

My Hebrew name has a yud and a chet in it, and it drives English speakers crazy. On the other hand, I have never been able to master the Spanish double R sound "rr". My tongue doesn't roll like that.

As a french it was easier to make the sound “gb” than the dental fricatives very interesting video through. I subscribed

Wow you are so talented to be able to pronounce all those sounds! Awesome video, and it's also very helpful to me.

2:20 I was going to say Swiss German, but yeah Arabic works too.. #nolinguisticloveforSwissGerman

@NativLang

7 жыл бұрын

Awww, underrepresented!

@multinet9037

7 жыл бұрын

Which dialect of Swiss has /ħ/? I've never heard of anything like that before.

@lu-chan1745

7 жыл бұрын

+Mʌlt Net I think Hebrew has it too not sure about the modern one tho

@multinet9037

7 жыл бұрын

Soldier: 76 Ancient Hebrew made a distinction between uvular, pharyngeal, and glottal fricatives, but in modern the Hebrew the uvular and pharyngeals merged.

@lu-chan1745

7 жыл бұрын

Mʌlt Net​ Yeah it was subject of mockery in the late 20th century, about the Israelis when they speak in Arabic they replace ħ (and sometimes k) with x.

Sounds you should mention in part 2 1. Czech Ř /r̝/ 2. Welsh ll /ɬ/ 3. Mongol Л /ɮ/ 4. Russian Ы /ɨ/ 5. Dravidian ழ,ഴ /ɻ/ 6. Languages with both W and V (English, Polish) 7. Languages with both ʎ and ɭ 8. Voiceless Nasals 9. Languages with ejective consonants /k'/ /ts'/ /p'/ (Georgian) 10. Languages with pf affricate (German) 10. Tonal languages?

@matcha.addict4139

3 жыл бұрын

ɬ, ɨ is common

@Ida-xe8pg

3 жыл бұрын

@@matcha.addict4139 sry this was 10 months ago i largely disagree with this comment now

@alyanahzoe

2 ай бұрын

​@@matcha.addict4139 can we be friends?

4:37 I just found out that an Asteroid and it's moon are named after some stuff in the Khoisan group of languages (both in the Jul'hoansi language), and that it reminded me of this video.

5:26 that upside down k "A velar click" is judged to be impossible

@yodamaster445

3 жыл бұрын

I can do it, but just apical

@soouG.

3 жыл бұрын

a "back-released velar click" is possible, and is even a phoneme in an African language or two, and also uses the same symbol

@matcha.addict4139

3 жыл бұрын

@@yodamaster445 that’s completely different

@alyanahzoe

2 ай бұрын

how do you pronounce it? also, what are you doing here?

@Piitsetaim

Ай бұрын

It's not impossible. It just doesn't occur in any language.

My tribe, a part of the Salish language group, has sounds like kw, ł (essentially a lisped s), a size click sound, and many different glottal sounds and stops. It’s very different from English, and has plenty of sounds I’ve never heard of. Learning it has been an adventure but really fun!

@matcha.addict4139

3 жыл бұрын

Many indigenous languages have those sounds

@alyanahzoe

2 ай бұрын

​@@matcha.addict4139 what?

This video makes me remember my university phonology class. So many times the class just devolved into a cacophony of unintelligible sounds as every individual student tried say each random phoneme that showed up in our text book.

3:14 the « th » and « dh » sounds also exist in Arabic, they correspond to the letters ث (Tha) and ذ (Dhal)

@alyanahzoe

2 ай бұрын

stop whatever you're doing!

2:29 as the video transitions to the globe spinning he does this “woosh” sound and it killed me 😂

@loren8888

4 жыл бұрын

lol i caught that too!! lol. "wishhh"

@alyanahzoe

2 ай бұрын

​@@loren8888 😂😂😂

what about YELLING LANGUAGES

@kaaz1010

6 жыл бұрын

GRUNTS?

@clispyleaf

5 жыл бұрын

They have that, it's called American English. (Millenial Edition)

@noob_duck7317

5 жыл бұрын

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH? AA AAAA A A AAAAA. A A A A AAAAAAA AAAA A AAAAA AAA! AAA AAAAAAAA AAAAA AAAA AA AAAAAA.

@VulpesVulpes42

5 жыл бұрын

There's an obscure Swedish dialect which fits into this category. Rather than being centred on any particular geographical area, it is "spoken" by football hooligans.

@pqbdwmnu

5 жыл бұрын

Irish

This video taught me how to pronounce arabic Ayn(ع /ʕ/)

We sang a song in choir in university called "Kpanlongo", whose name referred to a dance. When the dance was mentioned in its lyrics, it was transcribed as "palogo". I always suspected that the "kp" was actually a k͡p sound, and that the "n"s in the title actually just indicated nasality.

@alyanahzoe

2 ай бұрын

are you kidding?

@DouglasZwick

2 ай бұрын

@@alyanahzoe no I’m not! If you search the web for “kpanlongo choir music”, I’m sure you’ll find what I’m talking about.

Randomly came across this video, and learned something new! I love how you explain how to make the sounds, it's fun to play along haha

In Czech we have the letter 'ř' which is pronounced like /r/ and /ʒ/ simultaneously and it can also get devoiced in certain positions to make things more confusing...Pretty rare, if you ask me! Note that it's a distinct sound, you can't just substitute /r/ or /ʒ/ for it, because each of them are also a sound in Czech (written r and ž, respectively)

@ramdrivesys1869

7 жыл бұрын

Ale môžete ho nahradiť r, len potom by ste hovorili po slovensky :D

2:22 THANK YOU SO MUCH!! IM STUDYING ARABIC AND I COULD TELL THE TWO 'H' APART BUT NOT HOW TO PRONOUNCE THEM. I GUESSED ARABIC JUST BEFORE YOU MENTIONED IT AND IM SO HAPPY!!

@SigmaKyrgyzstan

2 жыл бұрын

Its ح

Now I've got two to add - the Czech ř and the Welsh ll (looks like a double L, and is written like it too, but is technically one letter). Anybody know how common these sounds are? For ř, it's a bit like the s from pleasure mixed with a rolled r. Compare the words proměny to zvíře in GT or Forvo or something to better hear the difference (somewhere you can listen to these words being pronounced). For the Welsh ll, it's a bit tougher to explain. Put the tip of your tongue against the roof of your mouth, purse your lips a bit, and breathe out. To hear what it sounds like, look up the word llaeth on GT or Forvo.

@matcha.addict4139

3 жыл бұрын

ɬ /Ll/ is a very common sound

@alyanahzoe

2 ай бұрын

​@@matcha.addict4139 what is gt and forvo?

I just realized that a capital 'B' looks like two lips pressed together from the side. AMAZING!!!

What about czech Ř? That's a weird, uncommon sound too. Czech language is the only national language to use that sound. Though there are others non-national languages (such as Upper Sorbian or Silesian), which use it.

@greomgh

6 жыл бұрын

I'm not a speaker but I've heard Icelandic has it. So that's another national language.

@MrMervyn

6 жыл бұрын

I think Icelandic has got the voiceless ř (so does Norwegian if I remember correctly - and possibly other North Germanic languages). Not sure about the voiced variant.

@frankvander7215

6 жыл бұрын

Isn't it same like polish RZ?

@tibormalinsky8751

6 жыл бұрын

It might be in Icelandic but I really doubt it, and I’m sure that it isn’t in any scandinavian language because I tried to learn norwegian and there was no sound like that. Might be a dialect but i’m really really really sure that it’s not the case. And it is not like RZ.

@BM-sb3jc

6 жыл бұрын

Tibor Malinsky RZ is still pronounced like ř in some dialects. It's a relict because rz has been detrilled in common Polish since 18th century.

The 2 vowels in Ubykh are /a/ and /ə/ (with much allophonyτακησμος) and the name of the language in Ubykh is /tʷaxəbza/ the name 'Ubykh' came from Abkhaz

@PC_Simo

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Josh mentioned that factoid (that Ubykh only has 2 basic vowels: /a/ and /ə/) in his video about the languages of the Caucasus. 🙂

@Ida-xe8pg

3 жыл бұрын

@@PC_Simo wait his name is Josh? + My comment is mainly about the endonym of Ubyx

Arabic pharyngeal (and uvular) sounds are some of my most favorite out there, theyre hard at first but get easier over time. ق and ع are prob the best

Your videos are always intriguing. I can't wait to see more in 2017!

@grizzlyowlbear3538

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, me too. Can't wait to 2017!