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As a Paraguayan, I was more than surprised that you featured Guarani on your channel! Just a side note, when we use Spanish loanwords while speaking Guarani (or the other way round), we actually call it Jopara. You could say those sentences using Guarani vocabulary only, we have plenty of neologisms. For example, book is arandukuatia (arandu = knowledge, kuatia = paper). The thing is, no one really speaks like that in everyday life. We all speak Jopara, with the ratio of Spanish/Guarani vocab depending on the person and the context (so basically the same as how you explained Jamaican Patois).
I'm from Brazil and i love so much the fact that a contry so close to us values so much the indigenous culture while the majority of people here don't get a chance to get in touch with our roots. Hoping that someday we'll have this conscience too
@@emanuelcavalcante6877 I'm Brazilian too and I haven't ever heard guarana before, I was a bit shocked because we tend so much to learning foreign languages that we end up forgetting the ones that we have here.
@@emanuelcavalcante6877 The Brazilian people aren't indigenous, the most part of our people are descendant from the Portuguese people, African people or foreigner people (Italians, Germans, Japanese), you can see this easily only for look to the skin color, culture (only little things from the indigenous culture is in our culture too) and costumes, like a Brazilian you would know this! When the colonization started the Portugueses tried to slave the indigenous, but they can't, so they started to buy slaves from the Africa and after this a large number of foreigners started to come to here for flee from the WW, it's rare to find indigenous currently.
@@emonlevircni4617 A great number of natives died when the Portuguese first showed up and tried to enslave them. But there are still small communities of natives around Brazil who continue speaking their languages. And there are quite a few people who are descendants of the different native tribes but no longer have a culture or linguistic connection.
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Loneadder .... Armenia has the world's best looking women (in my opinion). .... OK ... it's a language channel. It has a great sound as well as beautiful women.
Great video, 1- i could only guess an Eastern European language 2- I guessed and African language 3- I couldn’t guess 4- no idea Great video, I loved this style and learning a bit about each one! It’s neat how seeing the writing changed my ideas sometimes. Like #2, when I saw the written language I got the idea that it may be a Jamaican language. Thanks and I really enjoyed this!
I'm Iranian and that Armenian one sounded really familiar. at first I thought it's Kurdish, But It wasn't really that similar. But I still could tell it's from somewhere around the same place. The way he talks and puts stress on the words is extremely similar to some Persian dialects and Kurdish
1. Armenian. I recognised writing system, because I'm Russian. 2. I thought Tok Pisin. Another English-based Creole. 3. I did not know. 4. Irish. Writing again. These letter combinations are pretty recognisable.
Maybe I'm going to learn Tagalog one day ..... it's the language of my forfathers but I'm american. After having seen the Filipino episode I started to think about it
تشرفنا :) صرلي اكتر من سنة كتير مهتمة باللغات و الجغرافية بس بحكي عربي و انكليزي ( بأكتر من لكنة من ورا اليوتيوب و الافلام و الاغاني 😂) و عم اتعلم الفرنسي بالمدرسة و مع هيك وسعت معرفتي باللغة بس ما قدرت اتعلم لسا لغات بسبب ضغط المدرسة و قلة المصادر و عدم قدرتنا على السفر بس بالمستقبل ان شاءالله على بالي اتعلم روسي او روماني او اسباني او شي لغة من شرق اسيا
+Ashley I have heard Tagalog spoken a lot. I think it might be easy to learn because the sounds all seem to be sounds that native eEnglish speakers use, and also because it seems the morphology is easy. I think the syntax is very unusual, however, as it is an VSO, which is fairly unusual, it might take some adjustment. Best wishes to you on learning it.
I spent the last few hours watching langfocus videos instead of doing things I really need to do. Thanks a lot, Paul! I discovered the mystery language series tonight and just watched all six videos. I'm happy to say I did guess a few just by hearing them, e.g., Romanian and Irish, and managed to guess at least the general group or region of all but one of the entire series, with the help of seeing the written languages. I'd never heard Armenian before, but I knew what the alphabet looked like. The one language of the series that completely stumped me was guarani.
Yay I got them all right! I was so excited to suddenly hear Guaraní, I literally clapped my hands. Little note tho: Guaraní words almost always carry the stress on the last syllable. Lots of people pronounce it guaRAni, when it should be guaraNI. Thanks for including this amazing and fascinating language in your video!!
1 - I thought it was a slavic language at first. Then, the text made it clear that it was Armenian. 2 - African language at first, and then I thought that it was Tok Pisin. Very close. 3 - CHE AIKUAA KO ÑE'Ẽ!!! AVAÑE'Ẽ HA'E ÑE'Ẽ PORÃ!!! 4 - At first I guessed Irish, but then I changed to Scot Gaelic. Meh. By the way, breaking the sentence "ajoguase che aorã" in parts: A = singular first person, jogua = buy, se = want, che = either "I" or "my" depending on the context, ao = clothing and "rã" future. I want to buy my clothing. Also, if you want to negate the sentence, it would go like this: "Ndajoguasei che aorã" (nd...i or nd...ri if the verb ends in "i" for oral words, or n...i and n...ri for nasal words). EDIT: Another interesting thing about Guarani it's that it has two first person plural pronouns and conjugations: One inclusive and other exclusive. EG: Ñande jakaru pira (We, including you, are eating fish) Ore rokaru pira (We, but not you, are eating fish)
In Russian there's "мы с тобой (my s tabòj)" which literally means "we with you", and it means "we (alongside you)" To be exclusive tho, you have to specify the person nonetheless. For example "my s nìm" - we (alongside him)
Aiko Porã? So good your explanation... I'm Brazilian and I'm teacher at a indigenous school where everyone speak Guaraní. I've started learning it last year, I love its sounds, but I confess that the grammar it's a little bit confusing to me. Guaraní it's an amazing language. If you want, we could change emails about... My email is rcesar.vf@hotmail.com. Hugs
For many Iranians, the first mystery language was pretty easy to guess. Armenians have been a most dear neighbor and have greatly influenced Iran, specifically in the early twentieth century. I just wish to correct one piece of information. Armenian has borrowed heavily from Persian, that is correct. But it wasn't the modern Persian we now speak in Iran. It was the middle Persian (Persian language from the conquest of Alexander the great up to the conquests of Islam in the 7th century) which shaped the Armenian to some extent. So the modern Armenian is mostly incomprehensible to Iranians, as is the middle Persian it borrowed from. All my love to our great neighbours and wish you the best.
1. Armenian, guessed thanks to the written samples 2. Jamaican english? I hear a bunch of english words 3. No idea 4. No idea either Well i guessed the other 2 right so there's that
Same. For Irish, dunno what I heard but for some reason I thought it was a dialect of Dutch. Upon seeing the sentences I was surprised at how wrong I was.
Ohhh. You made me happy with this one. 1st. armenian: I didn´t even try 2nd Jamaican patois: I have been there 3rd Guaraní: I started learning this language a week ago, enough to recognize it (big smile on my face) 4th Irish: just after seeing the spelling I recognized it gaelic/irish
Thanks to writing I got Armenian and Irish. But other two sounded like “strange English” and “strange Spanish”. So to sum up, it’s just 2, I’m really bad 🤧
I had the same thoughts (ecxept that I got Irish already from the recording, because I have been to Ireland and there you can hear announcements in Irish everywhere, which is pretty cool). I think we aren't doing too bad :-)
Yeah, the writing made Armenian obvious. Irish was clear from their orthographic tendencies. I suspected Patois to be from the Caribbean area and then at the text, I was able to narrow it down to Patois pretty easily. Guarani was harder. I suspected it were South American, and could not make anything further than that. The amount of Spanish made me sure it had to be former Spanish territory, but at the last moment, I figured, “it could be a language from the Philippines like Chavacano or something.”
1. Sounds like a mix of Romanian and Persian. The writing is obviously Armenian. 2. some sort of creole? 3. Didn't recognize the spoken sample, but the writing looks like Tupi. I noticed Spanish words in both. 4. Couldn't make head or tail of the speech, but the writing is obviously Gaelic.
Glad to find you😀thanks for your channel! my 5 year old is studying 10 languages! We live in japan too. He loves your channel and he’s studying Swahili, Hebrew and Arabic too. He’s excited to meet you after knowing you live in japan. Thanks Paul
1.- Sounds Eastern... :watches writing: Definitely Armenia 2.- Uhm... An English Creole, from... Africa? :Jamaica: Ah, close enough 3.- I'm Mexican, so I recognize this has Spanish influence, :watches the Brazilian ã: Oh, this is definitely from South America 4.- Scottish? :Irish: Crap, close enough Quite honestly, I think this has been my best score so far :D
One other point for those interested in the pronunciation differences in the Forvo example of the pronunciation of 'dinnéar'. Munster dialects have just the off-glide, whereas further north, the consonant itself is more obviously palatalised, with the _d_ sounding more like a voiced alveolar affricate. Also, as the spoken vowel following the 'd' is /i/, the palatal glide gets assimilated into the vowel as they're very closely related sounds. You'll notice a difference in stress too. In Munster, the stress is attracted to the long vowel, whereas other dialects lack this innovation, preferring to keep stress word/root-initial.
Hi. I love your channel. You encouraged me to learn more about the languages I already know, but I found out that I know really few about the languages in which I can express my self. The most interesting language I found during my studies became my own native language, the Chechen language. I found really interesting the way people express them self in this language. Becose a lot of times when people ask me to translate something, its happens to be that I can not translate literally. I have to take the meaning and to interpretate the translation in another language, becose from what I have noticed that Chechens speaks with concepts. I can poorly describe the idea, but also there are not much sources from which you can learn. If this sounds interesting for you, I would be so happy to see a video about this language on your channel. Becose I like your approach and proposal of the knowledge about the language. My best wishes to your channel. Hope to see more and more beautifully interesting content on your channel.
1. Armenian, recognized it when I saw it written. 2. Jamaican patois, recognized it when I saw it written. 3. Absolutely no idea. 4. No idea when I listened to it, but I correctly guessed that it was either Irish or Highlander Gaelic when I saw it
That's basically what I did. I thought the first was either Slavic or Indo-Iranian, so I was close geographically (I got Armenian from the writing), I had no idea what the first one was until he showed the example with writing, I thought the second one was European as I saw bibiotekagui (bibliotek), and I got Irish instantly :3
As for #4, I knew it was either Irish or Scottish Gaelic, but was only sure it was Irish when I saw the writing, as Irish uses an acute accent, while Scottish Gaelic uses a grave accent.
I love this channel. Growing up I was fascinated with different languages and countries. Its like I'm a kid all over again. I've learned a lot from these videos. I never knew there was so many different dialects of Italian. Or that Swahili was originally written in the Arabic alphabet.
Your videos are fascinating and informative! I plan on watching all of them as well as your future videos. I wish I had found your channel earlier. I am learning alot from them so far. Thanks alot for sharing and keep up the great work 😊👍
1. Totally off. Thought it sounded like Romanian and then was completely thrown when I saw the script. 2. Knew it was an English creole, guessed Jamaican at random, got it right. 3. I totally knew this one! Thanks, Duolingo's Guarani for Spanish speakers course! 4. I had no idea until I saw the written examples which were a dead giveaway. 3/4, way better than I've done on these videos in the past.
Love mystery languages. Keep them coming. Armenian was pretty easy to recognize, even though I don't speak it, but I did live there for almost a year and when you showed the writing, I was sure. I could hear some Spanish words in Guaraní, that made me think it came from a Spanish-speaking country and the nasal sounds gave it away. I think it's the only nasal language spoken in any Spanish-speaking country, including the Philippines, even though Spanish is dying there. Patois sounded like one of the African creoles, hard to recognize because there are so many of those, for a moment I even thought it was the Creole spoken in Sierra Leone. Awesome video. You should have a new mystery language video coming out every week or two. Btw, your channel is awesome, I subscribed a long time ago and I always watch your videos.
I got all of them ! 1. I was going for a Dravidian language but the Armenian script is just so easy to recognize. 2. I was going for an African language like Swahili but then I recognized some English. 3 and 4. I almost picked Aymara over Guarani and Scottish Gaelic over Irish.
1. Some kind of Turkic langauge? - After writing sample - Armenian??? - YUS! 2. Gaelic, Welsh, Irish or Scottish. - After writing sample - Too weird to be any of these languages and it sounds more "exotic" so I'm assuming it belongs somewhere into Africa or Carribean where English is spoken. - Meh, close enough. 3. Reminds me of Romance language but I'm not quite certain about it. Maybe Creole? - After writing sample - Portuguese have some of those diacritics so maybe some kind of Brazilian dialect. - Paraguay? Okaaay... 6:17 HE SAID BRAZIL SO IT COUNTS! (or not?) 4. Irish! IrIsH! IRiSH! IRISH!!! - After writing sample - IIIIIRIIIIIISSSHHH! - 8:01 YES! Finally on the first attempt! Woohoo!I love your videos! ❤
1- Persian mixed with Indian Urdo (Until I saw the writings). 2- Some African language, (Nigeria, Ghana, Kenea,.. etc) with English creole. 3- Sounded like a South-east Asian language to me, but in a not so Asian way. 4- Some Eauropean language, sounded like a mix of German and English.
The tonic syllabe in the word Guarani is the last, in Brazilian Portuguese. In Brazil we have many words from Guarani/Tupi, actually related to fauna and flora.
btw russian also has that phonetic feature that gaelic has, honestly i wasn't even expecting any similarities between these two languages that are so different! that's kinda cool
I guessed pretty much all except for Jamaican... When Gaelige, I was at first like: "Sounds like some kind of Dutch to me...", but then I was like: "No! It's Gaelige, I'm sure!" And when you showed the writing samples, I was like: "Yep, that's Gaelige." Lol. Thank you, Paul! Love your channel so much!
My guesses: 1. Sounds like Farsi or Uzbek. Looks like Armenian 2. Jamaican 3. West African Spanish with a Hindi accent. Maybe some Filipino language? 4. Irish
the audios are hard but the writing samples really help. 1. sounds like farsi but different? i lived with a persian girl and heard farsi a lot but it sounds different. but then the alphabet confirmed to be that it was some eastern european/west asian language. so with the two i guessed armenian 2. i guessed it was some type of english créole in the caribbean. jamaican patois makes sense! 3. the nasal sounds make it sound like it’s portuguese, and some words have a latin sound to them but it sounds different. couldn’t pinpoint it. but guarani makes sense! 4. i guessed some type of european language and then i saw the sentences and knew it was irish. the word structure gave it away! so fun :)
I always make two guesses for each language, one after only listening to the spoken sample and another after reading the written samples. No. 1: Gujarati, Armenian. Gujarati was just a wild guess, it sounded vaguely South Asian, but I knew it was Armenian as soon as I saw that lovely script where every second letter looks like a U! Language No. 2: Galician, Nigerian Pidgin. I could hear no English in the spoken sample at all, for some reason it sounded vaguely like an unfamiliar Romance language in its intonation. The written samples were obviously an English creole. Language No. 3: Estonian, Nahuatl. I heard the word “han” a lot, which I think is the third person singular pronoun in Finnish and Estonian. The written samples looked like an indigenous Latin American language with Spanish loanwords like “biblioteca” for library. Language No. 5: Irish, Irish. Yes! I finally got one on the first go!
I don't speak Armenian, although I'm of Armenian origin, but my grand-parents constantly use it when they talk to each other, so the first one was pretty easy :D And I got impressed one more time by the way you dig into different languages, so thoroughly and fascinatingly, it's especially notable when you speak about languages I relate to. Thank you for your work!
1: Correct | Armenian, immediately but written samples confirmed it. 2: Wrong | Some kind of English based creole, but can't say for sure, didn't guess. 3: Wrong | Honestly no idea, heard similarities with many dialects of different languages so hard to guess. 4: Correct | Some kind of Celtic language, didn't look like Welsh or Breton, guessed Irish. My result: 2/4, not great, need to practice!
Yeah that's not bad at all. For the Breton, I can tell you that it sounds very different from other Celtic languages because it's only spoken by french native speakers with a very French accent on the vowels and "r"
I'm a native speaker of Jamaican Patois. Thank you so much Paul!! You really nailed it with our language. Thanks especially for pointing out the difference between Jamaican Patois and Jamaican English. I would add that Jamaican Patois (or Patwa, which is what we call it) is also heavily influenced by West African and indigenous Caribbean (Arawakan) languages. Maybe one day you'll do an Arawakan language (Taino maybe? It's still spoken in some places). We're the folks who gave English speakers words like "barbecue," "hurricane," and "hammock." Thanks again and much love! (PATWA: Mi bahn speak Patwa. Nuff tanks Mr Paul!! Yuh rilli did talk up di languig. Mi ah rilli tank yuh fi specify dat Jumeikan Inglish naah di same as Patwa! Wohn ting mi would ah add, Patwa tek nuff words from Wes Africa an di Arawaks. Wohn day yu haffi chat bout di Arawakan languiges. Dem ah gif di worl "barbecue," "hurricane," "hammock," an such. Nuff tanks an much love!)
1: Georgian (maybe Armenian?): Sounded like n East Slavic language at first, then I heard a LOT of throaty sounds which steered me more to the Middle-East and the script gave it away. 2: Gullah/Bahamian creole? : TBH I don't do very well with creoles, due to there being a variety for each mother language, especially English due to its near omnipresence around the globe. 3: Definitely Guarani: I myself am Brazilian, and in and around Brazil, Paraguay and the Amazon there is a cornucopia of distinct tribal groups (Macro-Gê, Arawak, Guarani, Tupi, etc.). So in Brazil many place names (Ipiranga river, the state of Piauí, the town of Quixeramobim...), folkloric creatures ('Boi-tatá' literally 'fire snake' related to the English word 'Boa constrictor ') and plain old quotidian lexicon ('Minhoca' instead of 'verme' for worm, 'Cajú' for 'cashew apple') are pulled straight out of native languages, particularly the now extinct Old Tupí, which was a family member of Guaraní dialects/languages. 4: The audio sounds very Irish and the words don't have an abundance of 'y's and 'w's so it ain't Welsh. I guess I paused the video after Paul revealed Guaraní and left it there.
Luka Jović I have no idea, maybe I just imagined some palatal/palatalised consonants but yeah, I doubt Armenian would sound East Slavic at all if I knew just the basics.
On a side note, your English is fantastic! Most native speakers do not have the vocabulary or the ability to use prepositional phrases. Being from Brazil, did you learn it as a child or as a second language later in life?
jeabo0adhd Thank you very much! Even though I'm still in my mid-ish teens, I can't remember much of my childhood in Brazil ever since I moved to the Netherlands with my mum. But I do remember that my grandma got me into some extra English lessons because I had apparently asked her to. After that my Dutch stepfather introduced me to the internet, and from there to RUclips. I was 8 years old or so back then and seeing people playing games with anglophone commentary in the background for more or less half of my days untill today, along with the basic English knowledge I had built up back home, really boosted my knowledge of the English language, which I've come to adore. Some other factors include: -My grandfather's efforts to cram as much as he could find in my head (despite my old man himself not being too scientifically literate or that much of a polyglot), -My autism; now, I'm no savant (as far as I know), but one of the symptoms which manifest most clearly in me is obsession/obsessive behaviour. One such obsession happens to be learning in general, with a particular focus on languages, history and biology. This obsessive behaviour has manifested in... less socially and psychologically sound ways unfortunately, after puberty hit me like the train it is. - The Dutch education system, as I've been put in a Gymnasium school. What does that mean? Well, it means that I have a pretty ruthless routine of study each week, as it is the "highest" level of secondary education. That happens to work well for me, but not for of my mates unfortunately :( . Out fear of me just slacking off at school, they've made me skip a year in some classes (didn't ask for it, but I'm fine with reading Cicero or Plato next year) (I'm terribly sorry if I sound like I'm bragging) -I once asked my English teacher if I could borrow Jane Eyre for the trimester as part of the extra curricular activities we had then. A well written book in my opinion, but during my I was so infatuated by the archaic/obsolete language and researching all of that that I... couldn't finish it in time! But I was still able to pull some witchcraft off or something, because I got 10 (max score for a test or project) for my work :D. TL;DR: near constant exposure to English, my upbringing and love of learning are all factors. P.S.: sorry if this comment is just insanely long, I sometimes go off the rails about things I like (also a 'symptom' of autism).
Great video! I'm from Portugal (so I speak portuguese😂) and because of that I recognised some words in Guarani, like "livro" and "bibiotékagui" (biblioteca in portuguese). I also recognised Irish because I met some Irish people in a school exchange trip, and they teached me the basics of the language. I also knew that the second language (Jamaican Patois) was an English based criol, and because of the Jamaican accent, I got that right😂
I immediately recognized the first language when I saw the writing because of being a Turk. I was like "Hey, that's one of my neighbors!" lol By the way, to those who don't know, the popular internet term "kek" means cake in Turkish, so when I see people say kek, I literally just see a bunch of people using "Cake" out of context XD.
Yes! I also immediately recognize Turkish when I see it because I'm Armenian and I know our neighbors and their languages (I don't understand but I can tell apart easily)
My guesses 1. Armenian (Correct) 2. Some kind of Creole English--Jamaican? (Yes, even though I left off the Patois part) 3. This Seems based in Portuguese, but I don't know. (Guarani) 4. Irish
Paul, you've no idea how long I've waiting to hear Irish in this series of videos. An absolute surprise to understand every single word. As for my guesses... Only the Patois and Gaeilge.
Got Armenian due to its distinctive writing system. Got Jamaican Patois cuz I played GTA IV, and I spent a lot of time with the character of Jacob, who speaks a lighter form. Didn't get Guarani. The more you know! Managed to get Irish pretty quickly due to hearing the word 'Gaeilge' drop in the clip. Only Irish word I know, and it was in there :p 3/4. Chuffed :)
1- Armenian, I recognized because of the writting 2- I don't know but I think it's an english based creole 3- Tupi guarani probably (I've heard this language before and it sounded very similar to the sample) 4- I don't know, maybe a germanic language
Tupi Guarani is a language family that includes Guarani (mostly spoken in Paraguay) and Tupi (which was a language that influenced a lot in Brazilian Portuguese language and culture, spoken in Brazilian Coast before the Portuguese arrive).
1) The alphabet looks vaguely like it might have met a relative to the Latin alphabet in a past life. I got nothing.2) English-based creole of some description.3) I recognize the words for book and library as being romance in origin. I'd guess something influenced by Portuguese because of the nasal sound. The ndasnamoai word makes me think something from Africa, but maybe it is South American.4) Irish. Actually recognized this from the speech, which is very rare. I have no ear for language at all.
I got three out of five right. I knew Armenian, Jamaican Patois and Irish (since I am Irish). The Irish speaker is not a native speaker from the Gaeltacht (Irish speaking area) judging by his accent and pronunciation.
And from the accent, I'm going to guess someone in Nova Scotia, Canada, possibly even Cape Breton, because AFAIK that's the only significant concentration of Gaelic speakers in North America.
This is all so humbling, and so fascinating. I have read that different neurons die off at certain ages if they aren't used, and that it is very difficult to sound like a native speaker of a language if one begins after age 13. Paul, is/are there certain parts of the brain that may be more developed in some linguistically gifted folks?
Armenian: after seeing the written samples, I thought "Georgian." It's next door. Jamaican Patois: I thought the long spoken sample was something African, but got it right with the written samples. Guarani: No idea. Irish Gaelic: I could tell it was something Gaelic from the spoken sample, but picked Scots Gaelic from the written. Ho hum.
I'm a language learner enthusiast but this time around I only got one language right: the first one, Armenian, not exactly the language but I previously watched the video about "Persian language" and this helped me to guess the region. For the 2nd one I only understood it was an English based creole but my guess was some sort of cognate with Afrikaans, the 3rd one seeing that Tagalog has Spanish loanwords my guess was some native language spoken in the area but it actually was Guarani (anyway I agree with you Paul it really sounds gorgeous). The last one I didn't have any clue, though I went twice to Ireland. Great job as always I'm really fond of this channel and sorry for my mistakes English is not my native language I'm Italian.
1.I dunno, something from Caucasus or Central Asia? 2. Whoa, that's some weird creole, no? Southern Africa? Caribbean? 3. Man, I've no idea! At first I think I could hear some Spanish influence, so let's say it's spoken in some place Spaniards used to occupy lol. 4. Irish? Has to be Irish.
I love that I got the Guarani! That was the definition of an educated guess! I recognise the spanish in his speech but it didn't sound like a roman language but a indigenous American one. Out of the few indigenous languages I could name that are spoken in Latin America, I heard very little Guarani before but I remember that the word Guarani kind of reflected the sounds of the language, if it makes sense. I got Jamaican and I thought it was an English based creole but qt the same time it sounded almost full on English to me, so I'd say I was spot on with that one. I didn't get the Armenian but I got the Persian influence. It did remind me of Persian but not quite the same. I actually guessed Kurdish based on that.
These are my initial guesses when listening: 1) indoeuropean from the middle east or Caucasus area 2) African/english creole of sorts 3) south/central American 4) Germanic I listened for the vowel sounds and rhythm. I like listening for each language's rhythm because while there are always loan words, the rhythm is mostly tied to geography.
Leeber Gruber, yes, the word order is flexible, because it is less essential, we put more emphasys on grammatycal forms of words. On other hand, analitycal languages has an advantage to have words shorter.
Russians call them simply "hard" and "soft". But this palatalization in Russian is not so strictly depending on vowels, consonants can be hard or soft before the same vowel (but this vowel is usually written with different letters). Also consonants can be either hard or soft at the end of a word (and this property always changes the meaning!), that is very confusing for foreigners. PS, Russian has the most advanced palatalization system among all Slavic languages.
My guesses: 1. Idk but it sounds like a middle eastern and slavic language mixed together. Knew the area but not the language. 2. 80% sure it was Jamaican until I saw the written form then I was 100% sure. 3. The hardest one! Spanish and/or Portuguese mixed with...??? some language I've never heard of. Couldn't figure out a region. 4. Irish for sure. Love these Mystery Language episodes!
I got everyone of them right except for number one. My jaw about hit the floor when I heard Guaraní! Any Latin American familiar with the Paraguayos has heard this language before. We don't understand it though. But it's a very beautiful language. For them, it is the language of the heart. Spanish is for business andGuaraní is for intimates. When I hear the girls speak it, it does something to me. 😉
Irish has a very diverse collection of pronunciation. I don't have the experience to give examples, but there are differences in the slender consonants between say Galway, Cork, and Belfast. ( There are more but having been in all three cities there were noticable differences.)
My guesses 1 . Something Indo-Iranian, then I saw the alphabet and immediately knew it was Armenian 2. AAVE, and it looks like I failed on that one 3. Tagalog, just failed even harder 4. At least I answered right with Irish for this one
Uhm... I wasn't very successful, today: I got Armenian because I recognised the alphabet and I understood the second was an English creole reading the examples as well. Guaranì was a black hole while I recognised Irish but once again only when I saw the written examples.
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As a Paraguayan, I was more than surprised that you featured Guarani on your channel! Just a side note, when we use Spanish loanwords while speaking Guarani (or the other way round), we actually call it Jopara. You could say those sentences using Guarani vocabulary only, we have plenty of neologisms. For example, book is arandukuatia (arandu = knowledge, kuatia = paper). The thing is, no one really speaks like that in everyday life. We all speak Jopara, with the ratio of Spanish/Guarani vocab depending on the person and the context (so basically the same as how you explained Jamaican Patois).
Keep your language clear.
Those neologisms are beautiful.
I saw you in Norbert's channel.
Love ir
And i understood a little and again though it's spanish mixed with spanish
había muchas palabras que me sonaban a español ahora entiendo por qué
You finally included Guarani between the mystery languages! Greetings from Paraguay!
I'm from Brazil and i love so much the fact that a contry so close to us values so much the indigenous culture while the majority of people here don't get a chance to get in touch with our roots.
Hoping that someday we'll have this conscience too
@@emanuelcavalcante6877 I'm Brazilian too and I haven't ever heard guarana before, I was a bit shocked because we tend so much to learning foreign languages that we end up forgetting the ones that we have here.
@@emanuelcavalcante6877 The Brazilian people aren't indigenous, the most part of our people are descendant from the Portuguese people, African people or foreigner people (Italians, Germans, Japanese), you can see this easily only for look to the skin color, culture (only little things from the indigenous culture is in our culture too) and costumes, like a Brazilian you would know this! When the colonization started the Portugueses tried to slave the indigenous, but they can't, so they started to buy slaves from the Africa and after this a large number of foreigners started to come to here for flee from the WW, it's rare to find indigenous currently.
@@emonlevircni4617 A great number of natives died when the Portuguese first showed up and tried to enslave them. But there are still small communities of natives around Brazil who continue speaking their languages. And there are quite a few people who are descendants of the different native tribes but no longer have a culture or linguistic connection.
Mba'eichapa enteroveape....
** Just a note about one of the maps in the video. The first map in the video shows "Republic of .........". I have never heard of this issue before, but apparently this is a largely unrecognized country and disputed territory. I don't have any knowledge or opinion about it, so that map is not an endorsement or recognition of it as a country. Its status aside, the language spoken there is the language relevant to that part of the video.
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Ofcourse, I have heard about It too in one review in Slovak language.
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I know that language "drah-KAH-ris", lol
*Angry in Turkish and Azeri*
"The language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here."
You know Galego? Would you like to help me with a video?
Chef Rafi's Awesome World Yes I know galego, if there is something in what I can help you it will be a pleasure.
un independentista galego you are so kind! If you can help can I send you the sentences via email? My email is CR@ChefRafi.com
your channel is great chef rafi!
Roki Vulović thanks! So kind of you. Glad you like it! 😊
How about a full video about Armenian? Quite an interesting language honestly.
Loneadder but he does not want requests
Well, im not requesting anything, just a suggestion. :D
Loneadder .... Armenia has the world's best looking women (in my opinion). .... OK ... it's a language channel. It has a great sound as well as beautiful women.
Yes, I also think it will be interesting
Modig Beowulf No, Georgia has!!! 😍😛😉
Great video,
1- i could only guess an Eastern European language
2- I guessed and African language
3- I couldn’t guess
4- no idea
Great video, I loved this style and learning a bit about each one!
It’s neat how seeing the writing changed my ideas sometimes. Like #2, when I saw the written language I got the idea that it may be a Jamaican language.
Thanks and I really enjoyed this!
I'm Iranian and that Armenian one sounded really familiar. at first I thought it's Kurdish, But It wasn't really that similar. But I still could tell it's from somewhere around the same place. The way he talks and puts stress on the words is extremely similar to some Persian dialects and Kurdish
1. Armenian. I recognised writing system, because I'm Russian.
2. I thought Tok Pisin. Another English-based Creole.
3. I did not know.
4. Irish. Writing again. These letter combinations are pretty recognisable.
Same I thought it was pidgin but it was actually Jamaican patois
This is a great channel. Paul got me started on learning Arabic. I was actually practicing just when the video came out. Thanks, Paul.
Maybe I'm going to learn Tagalog one day ..... it's the language of my forfathers but I'm american.
After having seen the Filipino episode I started to think about it
I have a playlist of arabic songs that i love it could probably help you in some way and I'd like to help if you need any question I'm Syrian :)
Yamen S.
اهلاً، بس اخت سورية:)
انا من اللاذقية و لساتي هون ما سافرت
و حضرتك من وين؟؟
تشرفنا :)
صرلي اكتر من سنة كتير مهتمة باللغات و الجغرافية بس بحكي عربي و انكليزي ( بأكتر من لكنة من ورا اليوتيوب و الافلام و الاغاني 😂) و عم اتعلم الفرنسي بالمدرسة و مع هيك وسعت معرفتي باللغة بس ما قدرت اتعلم لسا لغات بسبب ضغط المدرسة و قلة المصادر و عدم قدرتنا على السفر بس بالمستقبل ان شاءالله على بالي اتعلم روسي او روماني او اسباني او شي لغة من شرق اسيا
+Ashley I have heard Tagalog spoken a lot. I think it might be easy to learn because the sounds all seem to be sounds that native eEnglish speakers use, and also because it seems the morphology is easy. I think the syntax is very unusual, however, as it is an VSO, which is fairly unusual, it might take some adjustment. Best wishes to you on learning it.
I spent the last few hours watching langfocus videos instead of doing things I really need to do. Thanks a lot, Paul!
I discovered the mystery language series tonight and just watched all six videos. I'm happy to say I did guess a few just by hearing them, e.g., Romanian and Irish, and managed to guess at least the general group or region of all but one of the entire series, with the help of seeing the written languages. I'd never heard Armenian before, but I knew what the alphabet looked like. The one language of the series that completely stumped me was guarani.
As a jamaican I laughed so hard at the second one. Nice to know we're considered a separate language
Yay I got them all right! I was so excited to suddenly hear Guaraní, I literally clapped my hands. Little note tho: Guaraní words almost always carry the stress on the last syllable. Lots of people pronounce it guaRAni, when it should be guaraNI. Thanks for including this amazing and fascinating language in your video!!
It's been a lot of fun trying to guess all those languages! Thanks a lot for a great mood!
1 - I thought it was a slavic language at first. Then, the text made it clear that it was Armenian.
2 - African language at first, and then I thought that it was Tok Pisin. Very close.
3 - CHE AIKUAA KO ÑE'Ẽ!!! AVAÑE'Ẽ HA'E ÑE'Ẽ PORÃ!!!
4 - At first I guessed Irish, but then I changed to Scot Gaelic. Meh.
By the way, breaking the sentence "ajoguase che aorã" in parts:
A = singular first person, jogua = buy, se = want, che = either "I" or "my" depending on the context, ao = clothing and "rã" future.
I want to buy my clothing.
Also, if you want to negate the sentence, it would go like this:
"Ndajoguasei che aorã" (nd...i or nd...ri if the verb ends in "i" for oral words, or n...i and n...ri for nasal words).
EDIT: Another interesting thing about Guarani it's that it has two first person plural pronouns and conjugations: One inclusive and other exclusive.
EG:
Ñande jakaru pira (We, including you, are eating fish)
Ore rokaru pira (We, but not you, are eating fish)
In Russian there's "мы с тобой (my s tabòj)" which literally means "we with you", and it means "we (alongside you)"
To be exclusive tho, you have to specify the person nonetheless. For example "my s nìm" - we (alongside him)
Aiko Porã? So good your explanation... I'm Brazilian and I'm teacher at a indigenous school where everyone speak Guaraní. I've started learning it last year, I love its sounds, but I confess that the grammar it's a little bit confusing to me. Guaraní it's an amazing language. If you want, we could change emails about... My email is rcesar.vf@hotmail.com. Hugs
Scottish Gaelic doesn't have an English like /r/, it retains the original rolled /r/.
For many Iranians, the first mystery language was pretty easy to guess. Armenians have been a most dear neighbor and have greatly influenced Iran, specifically in the early twentieth century. I just wish to correct one piece of information. Armenian has borrowed heavily from Persian, that is correct. But it wasn't the modern Persian we now speak in Iran. It was the middle Persian (Persian language from the conquest of Alexander the great up to the conquests of Islam in the 7th century) which shaped the Armenian to some extent. So the modern Armenian is mostly incomprehensible to Iranians, as is the middle Persian it borrowed from. All my love to our great neighbours and wish you the best.
Hossein Yazdan Panah Thank you for correcting some small details. Also lots of love to you, our dear neighbor from Armenia 🇦🇲🇮🇷
We love you so much! ❤️
Sounded a little too similar to the general accent people will hear when people speak Hindi
@@necrosero You should look up Old English my friend.
@@shaide5483 yeah..really!
1. Armenian, guessed thanks to the written samples
2. Jamaican english? I hear a bunch of english words
3. No idea
4. No idea either
Well i guessed the other 2 right so there's that
I feel like seeing written text in sample languages is cheating, especially for armenian and irish in this video
True that. I would never have gotten Armenian, if it weren't for the writing)
Same
Same. For Irish, dunno what I heard but for some reason I thought it was a dialect of Dutch. Upon seeing the sentences I was surprised at how wrong I was.
Robert Andersson yeah i thought it was hindi or a relative of hindi. The alphabet gave it away instantly.
HugoH yeah me too. I thought it was danish.
These mystery language videos are my favourite-videos on RUclips. Thank you very much for making them!
This channel is a mothereffin' goldmine, keep up the good work !!!
Ohhh. You made me happy with this one. 1st. armenian: I didn´t even try 2nd Jamaican patois: I have been there 3rd Guaraní: I started learning this language a week ago, enough to recognize it (big smile on my face) 4th Irish: just after seeing the spelling I recognized it gaelic/irish
Thanks to writing I got Armenian and Irish. But other two sounded like “strange English” and “strange Spanish”.
So to sum up, it’s just 2, I’m really bad 🤧
Yes, Guarani sounds like Spanish, maybe due to many borrowed words from Spanish.
I had the same thoughts (ecxept that I got Irish already from the recording, because I have been to Ireland and there you can hear announcements in Irish everywhere, which is pretty cool). I think we aren't doing too bad :-)
The same happened to me haha
Agreed.
Yeah, the writing made Armenian obvious. Irish was clear from their orthographic tendencies. I suspected Patois to be from the Caribbean area and then at the text, I was able to narrow it down to Patois pretty easily. Guarani was harder. I suspected it were South American, and could not make anything further than that. The amount of Spanish made me sure it had to be former Spanish territory, but at the last moment, I figured, “it could be a language from the Philippines like Chavacano or something.”
Love all the stuff you post, it's pretty interesting as well as educational. Keep it up, Paul.
*My answers :*
1. Armenian
2. An English based language
3. I have no idea *-_-*
4. A language spoken in a country near Germany and UK
yes... the last one is very similar to my thought process
Mystery Languages is a fun series. Please keep these videos coming and thanks a lot for your hard work.
1. Sounds like a mix of Romanian and Persian. The writing is obviously Armenian.
2. some sort of creole?
3. Didn't recognize the spoken sample, but the writing looks like Tupi. I noticed Spanish words in both.
4. Couldn't make head or tail of the speech, but the writing is obviously Gaelic.
Pierre Abbat whaaat..
ROMANIAN here
for someone looking from the outside, romanian was a possible guess for me as well..
Dhruv Seoni I guess so, hahaha
Glad to find you😀thanks for your channel! my 5 year old is studying 10 languages! We live in japan too. He loves your channel and he’s studying Swahili, Hebrew and Arabic too. He’s excited to meet you after knowing you live in japan.
Thanks Paul
Guaraní is pronounced wa-ra-knee, accenting the last syllable
Rafael Ortega guarani pona'
Rafael Ortega yep... was gonna say the same thing... guaraní
Gu--marani
Nice language tour as always! Thanks Paul!
1.- Sounds Eastern... :watches writing: Definitely Armenia
2.- Uhm... An English Creole, from... Africa? :Jamaica: Ah, close enough
3.- I'm Mexican, so I recognize this has Spanish influence, :watches the Brazilian ã: Oh, this is definitely from South America
4.- Scottish? :Irish: Crap, close enough
Quite honestly, I think this has been my best score so far :D
One other point for those interested in the pronunciation differences in the Forvo example of the pronunciation of 'dinnéar'. Munster dialects have just the off-glide, whereas further north, the consonant itself is more obviously palatalised, with the _d_ sounding more like a voiced alveolar affricate.
Also, as the spoken vowel following the 'd' is /i/, the palatal glide gets assimilated into the vowel as they're very closely related sounds.
You'll notice a difference in stress too. In Munster, the stress is attracted to the long vowel, whereas other dialects lack this innovation, preferring to keep stress word/root-initial.
Great channel for languages :-0
Raymart Lipat bạn biết tiếng Việt à? Ko nhiều người Philippines biết tiếng Việt :D
Raymart Lipat hay, mình mới biết tiếng Anh thôi, đang tính học tiếng Nhật, hơi khó chút
Raymart Lipat
Mình cũng học nhiều lắm, chủ yếu là từ châu Âu :-0
Raymart Lipat
Cảm ơn bạn nhiều! (Thank you so much!) :-0
"黄金越"？
Hi. I love your channel. You encouraged me to learn more about the languages I already know, but I found out that I know really few about the languages in which I can express my self. The most interesting language I found during my studies became my own native language, the Chechen language. I found really interesting the way people express them self in this language. Becose a lot of times when people ask me to translate something, its happens to be that I can not translate literally. I have to take the meaning and to interpretate the translation in another language, becose from what I have noticed that Chechens speaks with concepts. I can poorly describe the idea, but also there are not much sources from which you can learn. If this sounds interesting for you, I would be so happy to see a video about this language on your channel. Becose I like your approach and proposal of the knowledge about the language. My best wishes to your channel. Hope to see more and more beautifully interesting content on your channel.
1. Armenian, recognized it when I saw it written.
2. Jamaican patois, recognized it when I saw it written.
3. Absolutely no idea.
4. No idea when I listened to it, but I correctly guessed that it was either Irish or Highlander Gaelic when I saw it
That's basically what I did.
I thought the first was either Slavic or Indo-Iranian, so I was close geographically (I got Armenian from the writing), I had no idea what the first one was until he showed the example with writing, I thought the second one was European as I saw bibiotekagui (bibliotek), and I got Irish instantly :3
As for #4, I knew it was either Irish or Scottish Gaelic, but was only sure it was Irish when I saw the writing, as Irish uses an acute accent, while Scottish Gaelic uses a grave accent.
Love this channel. I'm Jamaican with a great appreciation for languages
I mainly took guesses at the Armenian and the Jamaican Patois from the written text, but the Irish I knew right away from studying it
I love this channel. Growing up I was fascinated with different languages and countries. Its like I'm a kid all over again. I've learned a lot from these videos. I never knew there was so many different dialects of Italian. Or that Swahili was originally written in the Arabic alphabet.
1: Armenian
2: Jamaican
3: Portuguese-based creole (maybe from Cape Verde)
4: Occitan (this was a pretty bad guess)
I’ve never thought that Occitan sounds like Irish
Your videos are fascinating and informative! I plan on watching all of them as well as your future videos. I wish I had found your channel earlier. I am learning alot from them so far. Thanks alot for sharing and keep up the great work 😊👍
1. Totally off. Thought it sounded like Romanian and then was completely thrown when I saw the script.
2. Knew it was an English creole, guessed Jamaican at random, got it right.
3. I totally knew this one! Thanks, Duolingo's Guarani for Spanish speakers course!
4. I had no idea until I saw the written examples which were a dead giveaway.
3/4, way better than I've done on these videos in the past.
Love mystery languages. Keep them coming. Armenian was pretty easy to recognize, even though I don't speak it, but I did live there for almost a year and when you showed the writing, I was sure. I could hear some Spanish words in Guaraní, that made me think it came from a Spanish-speaking country and the nasal sounds gave it away. I think it's the only nasal language spoken in any Spanish-speaking country, including the Philippines, even though Spanish is dying there. Patois sounded like one of the African creoles, hard to recognize because there are so many of those, for a moment I even thought it was the Creole spoken in Sierra Leone. Awesome video. You should have a new mystery language video coming out every week or two. Btw, your channel is awesome, I subscribed a long time ago and I always watch your videos.
I got all of them !
1. I was going for a Dravidian language but the Armenian script is just so easy to recognize.
2. I was going for an African language like Swahili but then I recognized some English.
3 and 4. I almost picked Aymara over Guarani and Scottish Gaelic over Irish.
1. Some kind of Turkic langauge? - After writing sample - Armenian??? - YUS!
2. Gaelic, Welsh, Irish or Scottish. - After writing sample - Too weird to be any of these languages and it sounds more "exotic" so I'm assuming it belongs somewhere into Africa or Carribean where English is spoken. - Meh, close enough.
3. Reminds me of Romance language but I'm not quite certain about it. Maybe Creole? - After writing sample - Portuguese have some of those diacritics so maybe some kind of Brazilian dialect. - Paraguay? Okaaay... 6:17 HE SAID BRAZIL SO IT COUNTS! (or not?) 4. Irish! IrIsH! IRiSH! IRISH!!! - After writing sample - IIIIIRIIIIIISSSHHH! - 8:01 YES! Finally on the first attempt! Woohoo!I love your videos! ❤
1- Persian mixed with Indian Urdo
(Until I saw the writings).
2- Some African language, (Nigeria, Ghana, Kenea,.. etc) with English creole.
3- Sounded like a South-east Asian language to me, but in a not so Asian way.
4- Some Eauropean language, sounded like a mix of German and English.
These are my favorite of your videos, Paul. They make my day!!
I said the first to be Georgian. Damn...
Georgian sounds way different
Anthony Grigorian It may be, but I'm more used to identifying written, based on the alphabet etc.
Absinthe Interitus The alphabet is very different as well though
I realised it wasn't Georgian when I saw the writing
I thought the same thing, I was like dang I was so close.
The tonic syllabe in the word Guarani is the last, in Brazilian Portuguese. In Brazil we have many words from Guarani/Tupi, actually related to fauna and flora.
btw russian also has that phonetic feature that gaelic has, honestly i wasn't even expecting any similarities between these two languages that are so different! that's kinda cool
It's a process called palatalisation and it actually occurs a lot cross-linguistically in one form or another :D
I guessed pretty much all except for Jamaican... When Gaelige, I was at first like: "Sounds like some kind of Dutch to me...", but then I was like: "No! It's Gaelige, I'm sure!" And when you showed the writing samples, I was like: "Yep, that's Gaelige." Lol.
Thank you, Paul! Love your channel so much!
My guesses:
1. Sounds like Farsi or Uzbek. Looks like Armenian
2. Jamaican
3. West African Spanish with a Hindi accent. Maybe some Filipino language?
4. Irish
OHM-968692 I actually thought that the first one would be Dutch
Résistez Faire Hahaha not even close to Dutch
Jamaican isnt a language, its called Patois
@@siriusblack2812 Jamaican Patois to be exact. There are more types of Patois
we have very similar guesses! mine were just more generalized because I don't know language names very well.
Great video as usual Paul! Your videos are very informative and fun to watch. I'll keep on learning Greek!!
I like these "Guess the Language" videos! Keep doing them! :)
the audios are hard but the writing samples really help.
1. sounds like farsi but different? i lived with a persian girl and heard farsi a lot but it sounds different. but then the alphabet confirmed to be that it was some eastern european/west asian language. so with the two i guessed armenian
2. i guessed it was some type of english créole in the caribbean. jamaican patois makes sense!
3. the nasal sounds make it sound like it’s portuguese, and some words have a latin sound to them but it sounds different. couldn’t pinpoint it. but guarani makes sense!
4. i guessed some type of european language and then i saw the sentences and knew it was irish. the word structure gave it away!
so fun :)
I always make two guesses for each language, one after only listening to the spoken sample and another after reading the written samples.
No. 1: Gujarati, Armenian. Gujarati was just a wild guess, it sounded vaguely South Asian, but I knew it was Armenian as soon as I saw that lovely script where every second letter looks like a U!
Language No. 2: Galician, Nigerian Pidgin. I could hear no English in the spoken sample at all, for some reason it sounded vaguely like an unfamiliar Romance language in its intonation. The written samples were obviously an English creole.
Language No. 3: Estonian, Nahuatl. I heard the word “han” a lot, which I think is the third person singular pronoun in Finnish and Estonian. The written samples looked like an indigenous Latin American language with Spanish loanwords like “biblioteca” for library.
Language No. 5: Irish, Irish. Yes! I finally got one on the first go!
I do the same thing! Sometimes the written form really helps
I don't speak Armenian, although I'm of Armenian origin, but my grand-parents constantly use it when they talk to each other, so the first one was pretty easy :D
And I got impressed one more time by the way you dig into different languages, so thoroughly and fascinatingly, it's especially notable when you speak about languages I relate to. Thank you for your work!
1: Correct | Armenian, immediately but written samples confirmed it.
2: Wrong | Some kind of English based creole, but can't say for sure, didn't guess.
3: Wrong | Honestly no idea, heard similarities with many dialects of different languages so hard to guess.
4: Correct | Some kind of Celtic language, didn't look like Welsh or Breton, guessed Irish.
My result: 2/4, not great, need to practice!
It sounds like you did fine!
"some kind of English based creole", that should at least get you half the points on #2.
Yeah that's not bad at all.
For the Breton, I can tell you that it sounds very different from other Celtic languages because it's only spoken by french native speakers with a very French accent on the vowels and "r"
I'm a native speaker of Jamaican Patois. Thank you so much Paul!! You really nailed it with our language. Thanks especially for pointing out the difference between Jamaican Patois and Jamaican English. I would add that Jamaican Patois (or Patwa, which is what we call it) is also heavily influenced by West African and indigenous Caribbean (Arawakan) languages. Maybe one day you'll do an Arawakan language (Taino maybe? It's still spoken in some places). We're the folks who gave English speakers words like "barbecue," "hurricane," and "hammock." Thanks again and much love!
(PATWA: Mi bahn speak Patwa. Nuff tanks Mr Paul!! Yuh rilli did talk up di languig. Mi ah rilli tank yuh fi specify dat Jumeikan Inglish naah di same as Patwa! Wohn ting mi would ah add, Patwa tek nuff words from Wes Africa an di Arawaks. Wohn day yu haffi chat bout di Arawakan languiges. Dem ah gif di worl "barbecue," "hurricane," "hammock," an such. Nuff tanks an much love!)
1: Georgian (maybe Armenian?): Sounded like n East Slavic language at first, then I heard a LOT of throaty sounds which steered me more to the Middle-East and the script gave it away.
2: Gullah/Bahamian creole? : TBH I don't do very well with creoles, due to there being a variety for each mother language, especially English due to its near omnipresence around the globe.
3: Definitely Guarani: I myself am Brazilian, and in and around Brazil, Paraguay and the Amazon there is a cornucopia of distinct tribal groups (Macro-Gê, Arawak, Guarani, Tupi, etc.). So in Brazil many place names (Ipiranga river, the state of Piauí, the town of Quixeramobim...), folkloric creatures ('Boi-tatá' literally 'fire snake' related to the English word 'Boa constrictor ') and plain old quotidian lexicon ('Minhoca' instead of 'verme' for worm, 'Cajú' for 'cashew apple') are pulled straight out of native languages, particularly the now extinct Old Tupí, which was a family member of Guaraní dialects/languages.
4: The audio sounds very Irish and the words don't have an abundance of 'y's and 'w's so it ain't Welsh. I guess I paused the video after Paul revealed Guaraní and left it there.
João-Pedro Sampaio how come Armenian sounded East Slavic to you?
Luka Jović I have no idea, maybe I just imagined some palatal/palatalised consonants but yeah, I doubt Armenian would sound East Slavic at all if I knew just the basics.
On a side note, your English is fantastic! Most native speakers do not have the vocabulary or the ability to use prepositional phrases. Being from Brazil, did you learn it as a child or as a second language later in life?
jeabo0adhd Thank you very much! Even though I'm still in my mid-ish teens, I can't remember much of my childhood in Brazil ever since I moved to the Netherlands with my mum. But I do remember that my grandma got me into some extra English lessons because I had apparently asked her to. After that my Dutch stepfather introduced me to the internet, and from there to RUclips. I was 8 years old or so back then and seeing people playing games with anglophone commentary in the background for more or less half of my days untill today, along with the basic English knowledge I had built up back home, really boosted my knowledge of the English language, which I've come to adore. Some other factors include:
-My grandfather's efforts to cram as much as he could find in my head (despite my old man himself not being too scientifically literate or that much of a polyglot),
-My autism; now, I'm no savant (as far as I know), but one of the symptoms which manifest most clearly in me is obsession/obsessive behaviour. One such obsession happens to be learning in general, with a particular focus on languages, history and biology. This obsessive behaviour has manifested in... less socially and psychologically sound ways unfortunately, after puberty hit me like the train it is.
- The Dutch education system, as I've been put in a Gymnasium school. What does that mean? Well, it means that I have a pretty ruthless routine of study each week, as it is the "highest" level of secondary education. That happens to work well for me, but not for of my mates unfortunately :( . Out fear of me just slacking off at school, they've made me skip a year in some classes (didn't ask for it, but I'm fine with reading Cicero or Plato next year) (I'm terribly sorry if I sound like I'm bragging)
-I once asked my English teacher if I could borrow Jane Eyre for the trimester as part of the extra curricular activities we had then. A well written book in my opinion, but during my I was so infatuated by the archaic/obsolete language and researching all of that that I... couldn't finish it in time! But I was still able to pull some witchcraft off or something, because I got 10 (max score for a test or project) for my work :D.
TL;DR: near constant exposure to English, my upbringing and love of learning are all factors.
P.S.: sorry if this comment is just insanely long, I sometimes go off the rails about things I like (also a 'symptom' of autism).
João-Pedro Sampaio Thank you for sharing your story. I feel like you.
Great video! I'm from Portugal (so I speak portuguese😂) and because of that I recognised some words in Guarani, like "livro" and "bibiotékagui" (biblioteca in portuguese). I also recognised Irish because I met some Irish people in a school exchange trip, and they teached me the basics of the language. I also knew that the second language (Jamaican Patois) was an English based criol, and because of the Jamaican accent, I got that right😂
I immediately recognized the first language when I saw the writing because of being a Turk. I was like "Hey, that's one of my neighbors!" lol
By the way, to those who don't know, the popular internet term "kek" means cake in Turkish, so when I see people say kek, I literally just see a bunch of people using "Cake" out of context XD.
Yes! I also immediately recognize Turkish when I see it because I'm Armenian and I know our neighbors and their languages (I don't understand but I can tell apart easily)
Let them eat kek.
So proud I got all of them close and two on point.
My guesses
1. Armenian (Correct)
2. Some kind of Creole English--Jamaican? (Yes, even though I left off the Patois part)
3. This Seems based in Portuguese, but I don't know. (Guarani)
4. Irish
Paul, you've no idea how long I've waiting to hear Irish in this series of videos.
An absolute surprise to understand every single word.
As for my guesses... Only the Patois and Gaeilge.
Got Armenian due to its distinctive writing system.
Got Jamaican Patois cuz I played GTA IV, and I spent a lot of time with the character of Jacob, who speaks a lighter form.
Didn't get Guarani. The more you know!
Managed to get Irish pretty quickly due to hearing the word 'Gaeilge' drop in the clip. Only Irish word I know, and it was in there :p
3/4. Chuffed :)
really good concept!! really fun! :) i hope you will do more of these!!
Holy shit, I got the first 2 and the last one correct,
The people’s accents really give it away tbh
Thanks for including Irish, Paul! I'm learning it right now as my third language. Éire go deo!
1- Armenian, I recognized because of the writting
2- I don't know but I think it's an english based creole
3- Tupi guarani probably (I've heard this language before and it sounded very similar to the sample)
4- I don't know, maybe a germanic language
Well it seems like I've scored 2,5 points... Sorry Irish people i've missed you guys lol
Tupi Guarani is a language family that includes Guarani (mostly spoken in Paraguay) and Tupi (which was a language that influenced a lot in Brazilian Portuguese language and culture, spoken in Brazilian Coast before the Portuguese arrive).
1) The alphabet looks vaguely like it might have met a relative to the Latin alphabet in a past life. I got nothing.2) English-based creole of some description.3) I recognize the words for book and library as being romance in origin. I'd guess something influenced by Portuguese because of the nasal sound. The ndasnamoai word makes me think something from Africa, but maybe it is South American.4) Irish. Actually recognized this from the speech, which is very rare. I have no ear for language at all.
When I heard Armenian, I thought it was a Turkish language, but the guarani it was the easiest for recognizing . Greetings from Argentina !
Love these listening challenges. I do badly but I learn a bit. Thanks Paul!
I got three out of five right. I knew Armenian, Jamaican Patois and Irish (since I am Irish). The Irish speaker is not a native speaker from the Gaeltacht (Irish speaking area) judging by his accent and pronunciation.
If you want to here Gaeltacht Irish here is a video I put together: ruclips.net/video/StNPLrDcwSA/видео.html
And from the accent, I'm going to guess someone in Nova Scotia, Canada, possibly even Cape Breton, because AFAIK that's the only significant concentration of Gaelic speakers in North America.
This is all so humbling, and so fascinating. I have read that different neurons die off at certain ages if they aren't used, and that it is very difficult to sound like a native speaker of a language if one begins after age 13. Paul, is/are there certain parts of the brain that may be more developed in some linguistically gifted folks?
Thank you for one more amazing video, Paul!
I got 2 out of 4. Though Guarani sounded like Greek to me -- the way it flows. And I thought Irish Gaelic was Frisian or Dutch.
i love this series!!! please keep making these :)
Armenian: after seeing the written samples, I thought "Georgian." It's next door.
Jamaican Patois: I thought the long spoken sample was something African, but got it right with the written samples.
Guarani: No idea.
Irish Gaelic: I could tell it was something Gaelic from the spoken sample, but picked Scots Gaelic from the written. Ho hum.
Look at the accents. Irish uses ones like á while Scottish uses ones like à.
I'm a language learner enthusiast but this time around I only got one language right: the first one, Armenian, not exactly the language but I previously watched the video about "Persian language" and this helped me to guess the region. For the 2nd one I only understood it was an English based creole but my guess was some sort of cognate with Afrikaans, the 3rd one seeing that Tagalog has Spanish loanwords my guess was some native language spoken in the area but it actually was Guarani (anyway I agree with you Paul it really sounds gorgeous). The last one I didn't have any clue, though I went twice to Ireland. Great job as always I'm really fond of this channel and sorry for my mistakes English is not my native language I'm Italian.
1. Armenian, based on the writing
2. Some creole
3. Some African/Native American language
4. Irish
Knew them all with the writing, Jamaican and Irish by sound. Being of partial Irish heritage, the ancestral language has been of interest for me.
Guaraní !!! Stressed in the last syllable. Curepí is the adjetive for us Argentines (meaning "pig skin") 😅 regards!
I got 1 when I saw the script and 4 when I heard it, confirmed by writing. Not the other two. Love your videos!
1)some south eastern European language
2)Jamaican Creole
3)A Polynesian Language?
4)Irish Gaelic
i love these videos so much!!! thank you for making these
1.I dunno, something from Caucasus or Central Asia?
2. Whoa, that's some weird creole, no? Southern Africa? Caribbean?
3. Man, I've no idea! At first I think I could hear some Spanish influence, so let's say it's spoken in some place Spaniards used to occupy lol.
4. Irish? Has to be Irish.
I love that I got the Guarani! That was the definition of an educated guess! I recognise the spanish in his speech but it didn't sound like a roman language but a indigenous American one. Out of the few indigenous languages I could name that are spoken in Latin America, I heard very little Guarani before but I remember that the word Guarani kind of reflected the sounds of the language, if it makes sense.
I got Jamaican and I thought it was an English based creole but qt the same time it sounded almost full on English to me, so I'd say I was spot on with that one.
I didn't get the Armenian but I got the Persian influence. It did remind me of Persian but not quite the same. I actually guessed Kurdish based on that.
My Guesses
1. Armenian
2. Patois
3. A type of Spanish type Creole?
4. Irish
These are my initial guesses when listening:
1) indoeuropean from the middle east or Caucasus area
2) African/english creole of sorts
3) south/central American
4) Germanic
I listened for the vowel sounds and rhythm. I like listening for each language's rhythm because while there are always loan words, the rhythm is mostly tied to geography.
Russian language have the same thing with broad and slender form of consonants
I prefer calling them "palatalised and non-palatalised".
Leeber Gruber, 50 ways to say «to be» O_o? I did not noticed this as a Russian or I did not understand you.
Leeber Gruber, yes, the word order is flexible, because it is less essential, we put more emphasys on grammatycal forms of words. On other hand, analitycal languages has an advantage to have words shorter.
Russians call them simply "hard" and "soft". But this palatalization in Russian is not so strictly depending on vowels, consonants can be hard or soft before the same vowel (but this vowel is usually written with different letters). Also consonants can be either hard or soft at the end of a word (and this property always changes the meaning!), that is very confusing for foreigners.
PS, Russian has the most advanced palatalization system among all Slavic languages.
Leeber Gruber, «to go», actually.
My guesses:
1. Idk but it sounds like a middle eastern and slavic language mixed together. Knew the area but not the language.
2. 80% sure it was Jamaican until I saw the written form then I was 100% sure.
3. The hardest one! Spanish and/or Portuguese mixed with...??? some language I've never heard of. Couldn't figure out a region.
4. Irish for sure.
Love these Mystery Language episodes!
1. Armenian OR Afghan
2. Jamaican
3. Canarian/Spanish-based African creole
4. Irish
These videos are so fun, I nerd out so hard :D
1. No idea.
2. No idea.
3. No idea.
4. No idea.
alwaysuseless
D'oh!
Are you always this useless?
I love these videos! Thank you for putting so much effort into them! 😄
1 georgian
- neighbor hahaha
2 jamaican patois
- yay, I got it right!
3 romanian
- very different haha
4 irish gaelic - yay, I got this one, too!
I got everyone of them right except for number one. My jaw about hit the floor when I heard Guaraní! Any Latin American familiar with the Paraguayos has heard this language before. We don't understand it though. But it's a very beautiful language. For them, it is the language of the heart. Spanish is for business andGuaraní is for intimates. When I hear the girls speak it, it does something to me. 😉
My guesses
1. Georgian or something from that general region.
2. An English creole from Afrika.
3. No clue.
4. Gaelic or something related to it.
Irish has a very diverse collection of pronunciation. I don't have the experience to give examples, but there are differences in the slender consonants between say Galway, Cork, and Belfast. ( There are more but having been in all three cities there were noticable differences.)
My guesses
1 . Something Indo-Iranian, then I saw the alphabet and immediately knew it was Armenian
2. AAVE, and it looks like I failed on that one
3. Tagalog, just failed even harder
4. At least I answered right with Irish for this one
Haha defo not AAVE
Yeah that was quite the embarrassing answer.
For me the last one sounded like weird Hebrew so I guessed Aramaic
I was about to ask could that sound like Hebrew, then I remembered I confused Patois for AAVE.
Actually my guess was weird Hebrew spoken by an American
Great Paul!! Greetings from Brazil!! Adoro seus vídeos.
Uhm... I wasn't very successful, today:
I got Armenian because I recognised the alphabet and I understood the second was an English creole reading the examples as well. Guaranì was a black hole while I recognised Irish but once again only when I saw the written examples.