History of the Chadic Languages

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  • Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
  • History of the Chadic Languages, Proto Chadic, West Chadic, East Chadic, Biu Mandara, Masa, North Masa, South Masa, Hausa, Gwandara, Bole,Tangale, Angas, Ron, Bade, North Bauchi, South Bauchi, Tera, Higi, Bura, Margi, Mandara, Mafa, Daba, Bata, Mandage, Munjuk-Mida'a, Sibine, Miltu, Nancere, Gabri, Kera, Dangla, Mubi, Sokoro, Barain
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Комментарии • 74

  • @ikengaspirit3063
    @ikengaspirit3063 3 месяца назад +96

    The fewness of Chadic Languages in Chad is disappointing.

    • @deathlydashi
      @deathlydashi 3 месяца назад +11

      They have saharan languages

    • @Finti-jg1jj
      @Finti-jg1jj 3 месяца назад +15

      People from chad that actually do speak an Chadic language:🗿

    • @Xanthas998
      @Xanthas998 3 месяца назад +5

      They should change their name to Not Chad

  • @TheMentorOfMomos
    @TheMentorOfMomos 3 месяца назад +49

    Fun fact: Chad means lake in Kanuri. Making Lake Chad to literally mean Lake Lake.

    • @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714
      @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 3 месяца назад +10

      This is common. When people of one language ask what is that called and the natives asnwer its a lake or a river or what not and thus river river or lake lake are quite common names where different people have interacted sharply and not gradually.

    • @ethandouro4334
      @ethandouro4334 3 месяца назад +2

      ​@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714Sahara for exame

    • @suhnih4076
      @suhnih4076 2 месяца назад +3

      💀

    • @matthiasbehrendt6112
      @matthiasbehrendt6112 2 месяца назад +3

      In Strasbourg is a lake called "Baggersee" in German (Excavation Lake) but "Lac Baggersee" in French (Lake Excavation Lake).

    • @unanec
      @unanec Месяц назад +3

      This is so much common

  • @MausOfTheHouse
    @MausOfTheHouse 3 месяца назад +84

    Nice argument, however, I have depicted myself as the Chad and you as the Yoruba

    • @SockAccount111
      @SockAccount111 3 месяца назад +11

      Fun fact, in italian "Yoruba" sounds like "I steal stuff" said with an heavy African accent, and since a lot of Nigerian immigrants to Italy are of Yoruba background, this often leads to funny misunderstandings

    • @MausOfTheHouse
      @MausOfTheHouse 3 месяца назад

      @@SockAccount111 It's okay, Italians are basically black anyway

  • @hoangkimviet8545
    @hoangkimviet8545 3 месяца назад +74

    People: “What kind of language are you speaking?”
    Real men: “Chadic.”

    • @ghostlion8616
      @ghostlion8616 3 месяца назад +21

      Chad Chadic language Vs Virgin Arabic language

    • @Xanthas998
      @Xanthas998 3 месяца назад +5

      Everyone should develop their Chadic accent

    • @Trolligi
      @Trolligi 2 месяца назад +3

      I guess all hausa speakers are automatically gigachads

  • @anthrosapien3784
    @anthrosapien3784 3 месяца назад +8

    Amazing! Can you do a video about the history and spread of Sikhism?

  • @iroquoianmapper
    @iroquoianmapper 3 месяца назад +25

    Amazing video, but the first part of the video may not be entirely accurate, because Lake Chad used to be several times larger than it is now.

  • @ikengaspirit3063
    @ikengaspirit3063 3 месяца назад +24

    You know, I would have expected there to still be some Chadic in the Sahara in late prehistory. Guess I was wrong.

    • @CostasMelas
      @CostasMelas  3 месяца назад +17

      They probably existed, quite sparse populations in their original cradle, but left no evidence of the language type they spoke

    • @ikengaspirit3063
      @ikengaspirit3063 3 месяца назад +4

      @@CostasMelas Is there any Chadic Substrate in Southern Berber languages?.

  • @easytiger6570
    @easytiger6570 3 месяца назад +6

    The Virgin Chadic vs the Chad Nilo-Saharan

  • @xXxSkyViperxXx
    @xXxSkyViperxXx 3 месяца назад +10

    very chad-like language indeed

  • @_nic2474
    @_nic2474 3 месяца назад +5

    Tupi-guarani lenguages pleeeaseee ❤😢😭🙌🏻

  • @Crxyzen1
    @Crxyzen1 3 месяца назад +5

    Make a video about Altaic languages

  • @miguelaraujo3280
    @miguelaraujo3280 3 месяца назад +6

    Make Tupi Guarani languages, please

  • @arya_1503_fancade
    @arya_1503_fancade 3 месяца назад +4

    Semitic ✔️
    Egyptian ✔️
    Amazigh ✔️
    Cushitic ✔️
    Chadic ✔️
    Omotic ?

    • @CostasMelas
      @CostasMelas  3 месяца назад +2

      It's the only one left but it's a small group and I don't know if it will be interested

    • @valiarsharapov152
      @valiarsharapov152 3 месяца назад +1

      ​@@CostasMelaswhy not? every language is interesting in some way

  • @rilonius2865
    @rilonius2865 3 месяца назад +4

    Virgin Nilo-Saharan languages vs Chad Chadic languages.

  • @pas1994ok
    @pas1994ok 3 месяца назад +7

    Great video, apparently Hausa is the most extended Chadic language

  • @RareWub_WubKing
    @RareWub_WubKing 3 месяца назад +8

    Chadic🗿
    /pin

  • @tanhukim9963
    @tanhukim9963 3 месяца назад +13

    Do you Central Asia please. 🙂🙏

    • @Scythian_nomad
      @Scythian_nomad 3 месяца назад

      No please

    • @Scythian_nomad
      @Scythian_nomad 3 месяца назад +2

      Про языки центральной Азии слишком мало сведений и очень много дезинформации

  • @ThijquintNL
    @ThijquintNL 3 месяца назад +11

    Title it history of chad languages for clickbait lmao

  • @Someone38374
    @Someone38374 3 месяца назад +3

    you should do “history of native american languages” next

  • @SKITNICA95
    @SKITNICA95 3 месяца назад +3

    5 thousands yrs ago Sahara was huge savanna

  • @elvenrights2428
    @elvenrights2428 3 месяца назад +5

    How do they know where proto Chadic language was ? How do they know that different Chadic languages existed back in 3000 bce, before writting was even invented? From which date Chadic languages are attested?

    • @АндрейБогуславский-б9о
      @АндрейБогуславский-б9о 3 месяца назад +9

      Apparently, the Chadian languages originated in the Sahara, when it was no longer a desert, but a blooming savannah. The video clearly shows how the Proto-Chadian peoples moved south-towards the retreating savannah

    • @elvenrights2428
      @elvenrights2428 3 месяца назад +2

      @@АндрейБогуславский-б9о thanks.

    • @ikengaspirit3063
      @ikengaspirit3063 3 месяца назад +1

      @@АндрейБогуславский-б9о The question was how did they know, which I don't think ur reply answered.

    • @АндрейБогуславский-б9о
      @АндрейБогуславский-б9о 3 месяца назад +1

      @@ikengaspirit3063 There is such a thing as " extrapolation" in linguistics. And there is also such a thing as cultural continuity. In short, it has its own science. Yes, there are probably certain assumptions here, but it's still interesting

  • @Gabriel-sn6yg
    @Gabriel-sn6yg 3 месяца назад +5

    Wasn't the lake Chad bigger in the past?

    • @CostasMelas
      @CostasMelas  3 месяца назад +3

      After 1970 the lake has become even smaller. It has been confined to the borders of Chad and Cameroon

  • @lukasbrucas3027
    @lukasbrucas3027 3 месяца назад +12

    Great video as always!

  • @a7m13d7
    @a7m13d7 Месяц назад +1

    I have a question that came to my mind I hope you answer

  • @Thebestman-f1j
    @Thebestman-f1j 3 месяца назад +6

    Please do history of Bantu languages next.

    • @JcDizon
      @JcDizon 3 месяца назад +5

      I think he did that already

    • @Thebestman-f1j
      @Thebestman-f1j 3 месяца назад +3

      @@JcDizon no he did of niger congo languages which bantu is apart of. Bantu is its own group of languages as well like Germanic is a branch of Indo-European.

    • @АндрейЕрмилов-х8п
      @АндрейЕрмилов-х8п 3 месяца назад

      Are you really need it if you didn't even looked up if he already has it?

    • @Thebestman-f1j
      @Thebestman-f1j 3 месяца назад

      @@АндрейЕрмилов-х8п no he has of niger congo which bantu is apart of but not bantu itself

  • @nikmikh8547
    @nikmikh8547 3 месяца назад +1

    Didn't know that Chads have their own language family

  • @bambam101ac
    @bambam101ac Месяц назад

    Have you heard of the theory that the original Chadic Language speakers followed the extinct Yellow Nile from the Nile Valley to the Lake Chad Basin?

  • @Thebestman-f1j
    @Thebestman-f1j 3 месяца назад +2

    Yes!!!!

  • @kartalbey431
    @kartalbey431 3 месяца назад +1

    Can you please make languages of iran plateau

  • @candaniel2
    @candaniel2 3 месяца назад +2

    Tyrone has been real quite since this dropped

  • @RafaCB0987
    @RafaCB0987 3 месяца назад +4

    Great work

  • @MKultraultimate
    @MKultraultimate 3 месяца назад +1

    Make a video about religion in Europe from 5000 BC to today

  • @cheriankalayil2362
    @cheriankalayil2362 3 месяца назад +2

    Put it 2x speed

  • @andrefarfan4372
    @andrefarfan4372 3 месяца назад +10

    Nice video

  • @micahistory
    @micahistory 3 месяца назад +7

    not too much going on but great video as usual

  • @Apsolution1
    @Apsolution1 3 месяца назад

    So Chad

  • @ikengaspirit3063
    @ikengaspirit3063 3 месяца назад

    Wait, how do we know that Chadic languages originated North in the Sahara?.

    • @CostasMelas
      @CostasMelas  3 месяца назад

      Mainly by association with the Afroasiatic group but its true cradle remains in doubt

    • @ikengaspirit3063
      @ikengaspirit3063 3 месяца назад

      @@CostasMelas I would have assumed AfroAsiatic connection would mean equally possible origin from the East. Or has it been proven to be closer to Berber than to Cushitic?.
      is there like any archeological culture it's associated with?.