I'm a South indian.. my native language is Malayalam.. I speak Malayalam , Tamil , Kannada ,Telugu, Hindi and English .. Im comfortable in all the Dravidian languages plus English and hindi
It’s actually really easy to figure out various scripts because some of them letters looks almost the same way as in the Devanagari script. I figured out Arabic since many letters look like a cursive version of Hebrew (I was raised w English and Hebrew).Out of Indian languages I am really interested in Hindi Bengali and Gujarati, and I would like to choose on one South Indian/Dravidian language to learn, but it’s really hard to choose because they’re all so beautiful, both the words and the scripts!
Very common mistake made by outsides, not just with India but also with so many other places and languages spoken there. One other example is Chinese, which is not a single language.
This is an incredible summary of Indian languages. As someone with a background in linguistics who specifically study South Asian languages, I can really vouch for the accuracy of this video, and I love the fact that you never make generalizations and recognize the incredibly diversity of India. This is a level of summarization of research that is very unexpected for a RUclips video.
I find Paul's love of linguistics contagious. He respects every language he's covered. His exploration of each LangFocus topic humbles me with their thoroughness and quality.
Lang focus is an expert channel - I often refer students to the channel when they ask questions in class about languages. He espouses clearly many of the important aspects of language and linguistics that are in the specialist books, and are a part of our daily experiences as language learners.
Why would people dislike such a nicely researched work put up with such a precision. This video tells much more about the linguistic evolution of Indian Languages than any average Indian knows.
People don't like hearing things that differ from the baseless beliefs they've held since childhood. It's honestly not entirely their fault; if you're surrounded by people, growing up, who tell you that Sanskrit or Tamil is the oldest or somehow "best" language, you're going to naturally dislike any source that tells you differently.
@@minefreak1966 yeah it's disappointing. it's uncontroversial that indo-european's oldest living family is probably the iranian, whose mom went east to very much dravidian India, and made all this stuff with contact with dravidian. "sanskrit" is awesome because it got written down, but it's not special. PAUL has an excellent video on celtic and afro-asiatic's old romance, which totally carries to the kind of mixing that you see with indo-aryan and dravidian
@@Langfocus I totally agree with Bhanu, People nowadays don't understand how much time is consumed in research, Probably a month or more, You cant search this on Google and get all of this, And people don't understand it, I appreciate your hard work and efforts Paul!
I'm from Mizoram.My native languages is Mara ,our tribe has 5 different languages, but I spoke only three Tlosaih,Chapi and Hawthai.If I talked to other mizo tribe I used Mizo(Duhlian).When I went outside my state I used English,Hindi,Assamese and a little bit of Bengali.
Or 4 or 4.5 or 7 too..i have many friends who speak 5+ languages..we tend to mix the words or talk in 3/4 of them at the same time..all understand all languages usually used here thats why..
Mate, there is still crores of Indians who are monolingual. In rural parts of India. And remember rural India has more than 50% of the population. Not all are monolingual, but a big number definitely is.n
Its true to some extent..but actually im from a rural part of india and not from a rich family..even people below poverty line understand and speak the lingua franca here..but many children and women dont in case of extremely rural areas.
This is actually false the vast majority of Indians (85%+) are monolingual they just happen to also be poor village dwellers and are often unseen by metropolitan Indians...
@@cpinter10 'Special thanks to Ajay Sharma for his Hindi and Sanskrit samples, Gopal Krishna for his Tamil samples and feedback, and Soroosh Motevalli for his Persian samples.'
I was just overwhelmed with new information. I am pretty familiar with the Americas and Europe with respect to their linguistic diversity, but Asia is a completely different story, especially India. I learned a lot from this video and it has definitely opened my eyes. Thanks a lot for the information !
Same with Telugu too. A person from Telangana cannot understand the Telugu which is spoken in Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Northern Tamilnadu and vice-versa.
Same with Rajasthani languages. I'm a Mewari and when I go to the Marwari or say, Malwi, wagadi, or any of the several other districts, I get a hard time trying to understand what they're saying.
I am from Germany (speak German, English and French) and I'm learning Marathi (and Farsi, so I have also noticed the many loan words from Farsi). Marathi is such a beautiful language! At one point I want to learn a Dravidian language too, probably Tamil. But for now I'm concentrating on Marathi.
I'm from Nagaland, a small state in North East India bordering Myanmar. I speak a language called Ao. I can also speak Nagamese, English and Hindi. Nagaland has 16 tribes and each tribe has its own language but Nagas as a whole communicate with English and a made up language called Nagamese.
For me, as an historian, India has been the most complex and difficult to study. This is due to the large amount of linguistic diversity and dialects, and the amount of learning necessary to obtain and understand primary sources. This wonderful video could be thirty minutes longer and still barely scratch the surface of the stunning diversity of the Indian subcontinent. :)
@Evi1M4chine actually the uniting thread is Sanskrit. That is the only language that was intelligible to everyone from every part of India. You can at least express basic ideas if you have a cache of Sanskrit vocabulary. Before the British rule that was the case. During the sultanate and Mughal era, Farsi or Persian was the court language and therefore all legal documents were written in them. But you also received a copy in Sanskrit at the same time. This is extremely important for land deeds. So there were courtiers who were proficient in both.
Just a question brother ... Does the nagamese language have any connection to the Assamese linguistic family or did it develop in each tribe separately
@@utkarshyadav8133 nagamese is a creole-language based on assamese, so yes. but the native tongues of all the different tribes are unique, and mutually unintelligible.
@@utkarshyadav8133 Nagamese is nothing but Assameae spoken by Nagas. Naga people have their own languages that belong to the same language family as Tibetan or Mandarin.
I’m a South Indian Muslim living in Mumbai. I fluently speak Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu, Arabic and Spanish. I mostly used them in the different circle of friends and family, but mostly during my travels.
Filipino here. I've visited India and people thought that I was local, especially in Jammu and Kashmir, so people spoke to me in Hindi. I spoke English in India and got along well with everyone. Good job India!
As Indian, I started by saying - "Oh!! I got this. Let me see what he has got to say about what we speak". But pretty soon I was humbled. This is very well researched video. Thanks for making this. Now answering the questions you have asked at the end. I am from Karnataka, one of the southern state in India. My mother tongue is Kannada and I have equal proficiency in English and Hindi. I can read Marathi (because it is same script as Hindi - Devnagri) but might not understand everything I have read. I can also read Telugu (script is similar to Kannada), well almost, but can't speak however I can understand it pretty well. I can understand Tamil, Urdu and Punjabi due to good exposure.
Meanwhile in America. My native language is English and my mother tongue is English. I also can understand to a certain extent English, English, English and English.
@Weasel 鼬は悪くない Zealandian? You mean kiwi? No way...the written language is very similar, but spoken kiwi is one of the most difficult languages in the world. I'm American and I speak Western US, Mexican, Cuban, Argentinian, Western Canadian, German, and a little bit of Russian, Swahili, Tagalog, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian. I spent a couple years studying suburban Tennessean but I don't understand any other southeastern languages well except Floridian. I understand a few dialects from the central and northeastern US. I can understand people from london if they speak slowly and translate toilet room jargon to common names. Australian, if spoken slowly is slightly intelligible. South African and Filipino English are also intelligible when spoken very slowly. Indian English is third only to Kiwi and North Carolinian in its ability to be called an English dialect yet be completely unintelligible.
@Weasel 鼬は悪くない I guess it depends on whether you consider language something that is spoken or something that is written. (my kids are fluent in ASL, so that's another wrinkle to language) I believe Australians say something more like rstraliur.
@Weasel 鼬は悪くない Well, when my comprehension drops below 75% I don't consider myself to know the language. I once lived in an area where you cross into the Appalachians and bah golly gee wiz ahh ehp lick a fruhg ahh crib manna ahh 'nt gut muh cu woot day biz sen hun...and then you get by the ocean in north carolina and it gets much much worse...
I love all Indian languages and my mother tongue is தமிழ் (Tamil). Tamil one of the longest surviving classical language in World . Tamil has the unique distinction of remaining a spoken language for more than 4000 years. Among the oldest languages of the world - Hebrew, Greet, Sanskrit, Chinese and Tamil, only Tamil and Chinese are the two living languages. Tamil is spoken by around 60 million people in India and by about 40 Tamil million people living in Sri Lanks, Burma, Singapore, Malaysia, Mauritius, United Kingdom, US and many European countries. Tamil has voluminous literature that are thousands of years old and that have been preserved and printed even now. The oldest literature of Tamil ‘Tholkappiyam’ that is ancient to Vedas . Everybody should try reading திருக்குறள் ( Tirukkural).Considered one of the greatest works ever written on ethics and morality, it is known for its universality and secular nature. Love from Tamil Nadu to all our Indian languages 🇮🇳.வாழ்க தமிழ் வளர்க இந்திய 💥.
Yes I accept it ... But you just mention that Sanskrit is dead language...but not *Sanskrit is didnot dead* *it is split into all north east and west Indian languages +gelic+Hebrew+Arabic+Greek and Persian language* *This is why Sanskrit is called mother of all languages accept dravidain* *Also hindi is spoken in honduros,inda,Fiji,USA,Qatar and Japan*this is why hidni is world's 4rth most spoken language*
@@facts-pt1zrDead language is a term for languages that likely have second or third language speakers but no first language speakers. Then there's extinct languages which have ceased to exist
@@facts-pt1zrAlso I would like to correct a little of what you said "Sanskrit is the mother of all languages except Dravidian". It would be more correct if you say "Sanskrit is the mother of all languages except Dravidian, Sino-Tibetan, Austro-Asiatic, Tai-Kadai and Language isolates"
@@o0...957 excuse me child ...I think you are really forgotten something ..*pls don't say I own information rubbish all knows it* *you can search in google also if you not belive me* *Sanskrit is mother of all languages except Tamil family even I live in Greece and I know Greek where as Greekis the mother of all western languages and Greece come from Sanskrit because of similarity and accent*
I lived in india for sometimes, I learnt hindi while staying in north India and Malayalam while staying in Kerala and kannada while staying in Karnataka. I don't like to speak English with Indians, I enjoy speaking their native languages.
only if half the North Indians did that xD, even when they move to other regions they still stick with their languages even to speak with the locals xD.
वाह 🙏😊👍 आप जैसे लोगों से ही हमारे देश मे समरसता आती है You are a gem... Although it may not be possible for me to learn Dravidian languages at this stage... I'm planning to learning Marathi( मराठी)😊✌
This is one of the most well researched summarized video on Indian languages I have ever seen. The kind of patience and research done by you is truly commendable!!! Kudos for taking up one of the most complex and diverse contry in terms of Languages and Culture!
I can't believe how accurate this video is.. Seriously I am an indian, and I am blown away by the accuracy and depth of this video I understand how much effort goes into it..
I have a language cocktail for you. I am a Kannadiga who lived in Maharashtra. So I know Kannada, Marathi, Hindi and English. My wife is a Tamilian who lived in UP. She knows Tamil and Hindi. At my house we speak a mix of all these languages - Kannada, Tamil, Hindi, Marathi and English.
Let me start out by saying, I love all the languages because of how rich they are, but with myself, I am currently learning Hindi, Punjabi, and Tamil - which without a doubt Tamil is I believe by far the most complicated 😂 Love to India from America 🙏🏻💙
Tamil is complicated because it is one of the oldest languages and casual speaking pronunciation has become very different from 'perfect tamil'. So if you want to learn tamil either start from the perfect way (letters, words, phrases) or the casual way( talk talk talk)
I am a Bengali. Can speak bengali and English, and can manage to communicate in Hindi (sometimes creating amusement for actual hindi-speakers). I am highly interested to learn a Dravidian language like Tamil and an Austro-Asiatic language like Santali.
Langfocus is awesome! About 45 years ago I was in India for almost 4 months and thought I was learning Hindi, and in my last week I walked into an ice cream parlor and ordered ice cream in Hindi. I proudly asked the person behind the counter in Hindi for ice cream (or so I thought). He looked at me and his eyes opened wide. I made my statement again and he was trying not to laugh. I said it a third time and he bust out laughing so hard he was crying! He then told everyone in the ice cream parlor what I said and everyone started laughing. He then told me that what I said in Hindi "I am a Cow,. Give me milk!". I blushed beet red, which made it even more funny.
Every 10 k.m. distance accent of language changes among people of Bangladesh otherwise Language change is not a factor of distance alone. Dialects change depends on density of population per sq km varies greatly, eg in Switzerland or the Caucasus there are multiple language families inside a very small region whereas Russian or American accents are often indistinguishable from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
@@nehadhurwey503 accents are suppose to be a natural phenomenon but standard versions of any language are meant to be accepted by every user’s of that particular language. There is no problem with accent if the user of language belongs from same dialect.
I am from Malaysia where English and Tamil are widely spoken (alongside Malay and Mandarin Chinese). I went to India twice this year, Rajasthan in the north on January and Kerala in the south on November. Based on my limited observation, I found South Indians are much conversant in English as compared to their northern counterparts. I even bumped into many Southern Indians during my trip in Rajasthan where we had longer and deeper conversations. The funny thing when I was in Kerala, I have this habit to observe how closely related Malayalam and Tamil are given both are Dravidian languages. I tried to compare words by words and see whether Malayalam sounds similar to Tamil, especially I have been picking up basic Tamil from my Malaysian friends of ethnic Indian-Tamil. Regardless, I miss and I love India!
Hindi is very cemented in the North where it is more prominent in business and media. The South has a strong pro-local native language attitude and crucially was favored by the British during colonial times, with many Christian communities and plantation workers exported to other countries like Malaysia and Fiji from the south. Kerala in particular has one of the highest fluency levels of English. the Indian nationalist movement was rooted in the north as well, so the prevalance of Hindi is stronger there.
Thanks for the kind words brother. 🙏🏽 😊 I’m from Kerala. Yes not all South Indian languages are Similar and not all of us can understand each other. Only Tamil and Malayalam sounds very similar and we can understand each other. It’s because Malayalam came from Tamil language and got mixed with Sanskrit(north Indian language).
I went to India in 2000, didn't meet one person rich or poor who couldn't converse in English. Of course this was 24 years ago but I've heard even more people speak English now!!
When I went to India, in Kerala almost everyone could've understood English very well but in northern India communication was comparatively more difficult but not that much.
A guy from India surprised me by speaking French with me. He was from Pondicherry. There were a few French and Portuguese trade ports (call them colonies). The main Portuguese trade port was Goa I think. Do people still speak those languages?
@@Dracopol if you come to GOA( a state of India) you will definitely find Russian speaking people because of alot of Russian tourists appear there annually
In Goa we have English as first language,2nd language is Hindi ,3rd we can choose between French,Portuguese,Marathi or in someplaces Sanskrit or Kannada and of course Konkani is our mother-tongue . je parle français,hindi,marathi,konkani et anglais😊😊
My native language : Nepali Languages that I am fluent in : Hindi and English Languages I can hold a pretty decent conversation in : Khasi and Assamese Language I can understand : Bengali High 5 to all my multilingual Indians!
I'm from Bihar, Mother tongue is Magadhi (what parents and grandparents used to use). My family speaks Hindi (and can communicate with majority of North Indians in Hindi), English (language of communication in profession, and with many South Indian friends) and a bit of Sanskrit (taught in school for few years).
@@re_di_roma_is_back2388 Yes, specially true in urban areas. Rural areas speak native languages and difficult to communicate using north and south languages.
Same here.My mother tongue is magadhi and as you said,what parents and grandparents use.While me and my parents communicate in hindi because I am not fluent in magahi.And that's the case with my siblings also.And that's the same for many people in our generation like as a child,I used to think, it's a 'dehati' language and we were encouraged to speak in hindi! And now when I ever try to speak magadhi,everybody starts laughing.It sounds weird😂(it's sad)
Be proud of your Mother Tongue. Being I South Indian I was not aware of the different dialects of Hindi. One of my North Indian friend had called his parents up and was speaking in a different tongue. When I asked him which language it was he told it was Magadhi. That is when I got exposed to the surviving dialects of Hindi. I wish these dialects don’t die due to the popularity of Hindi. 😢
@@MishkaSinghi28 then fine but you know how difficult to learn south Indian language? I'm in Tamil Nadu from 2014 but till now I can't understand that language properly, As a North India I can understand most of the north Indian languages, it's easy for us, no dubt
@@gbarman23 different people have different grasping power, I have been surrounded by Bengali people my whole life still can't speak it, though i understand all. I have been to South Indian states and met people from my state (i am from north-east) learn languages in 1 or 2 years.
@@MishkaSinghi28 yeah, you are right but and I'm trying to tell you it's depends on there interest. And one more thing I'm also Bengali, if you want to learn I will teach you.
@@manomadhan568 very few people I have met from the south speak Hindi. Even in my state most people can't speak Hindi well but they do understand it. I am from Bengal. I did meet a weed dealer in Munnar and he spoke Hindi, I guess business demands it :3
I’m Nepali & Indian. My mom speaks Nepali, Hindi, Limbu (a little), Punjabi, & English My dad speaks Nepali, Hindi, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Urdu, English, & other. My grandma speaks more languages though; so far I know that she speaks Nepali, Hindi, Bengali, & Assamese
im from sydney and i went to india for 2 months, from kochi down through some towns in kerala to the southern tip of india with that huge statue! and then puducherry, bengalaru, hampi, mumbai, delhi, rajasthan. i loved it! i tried to learn the local words in each state for hello and please and thankyou etc. and otherwise i could say some things in hindi, and of course english. there were many times i couldnt communicate with people but that's part of the fun of travelling! :) cant wait to visit india again!! :)
Brilliant work. Being Indian, I often struggle to explain to my non-Indian friends the linguistic complexity of India. Most people from outside India cannot fathom how people of the same country may speak so many different languages which are mutually un-intelligible, and why a lot of us Indians prefer to speak to each other in English sometimes. Respect to you for this extremely well researched and informative video.
I put up a top-level post, but I should ask you specifically, since I might want to learn Kannada in the future, and since if you're watching this channel you might be something of a language-learning enthusiast: might you be interested in helping to make it easier to learn Kannada over the internet by helping to translate/record some short stories?
As I’m from Hyderabad, Telangana of southern India, my native language is Telugu. I can speak Hindi ( of north India ), Kannada ( of Karnataka state ), Tamil ( of Tamil Nadu state ) and English. At current scenario, all most in every language of India, it’s linked with English. English is now very much flexible for many people in India.
अंग्रेजी को भारत मे 5% लोग भी नही बोलते लेकिन हिन्दी भारत मे 90% से अधिक लोग समझते है बिगर हिंदी शिक्षा के और जहा उपनिवेशक गुलामी की निशानी अंग्रेजी को शिक्षा मे प्राथमिकता दी जा रही है तब भी भारत मे 5% लोग भी नही बोलते हमे भारतीय भाषाओं को प्राथमिकता देनी चाहिए का की उपनिवेशक गुलामी की निशानी अंग्रेजी को
I lived in India for five years (2013-2018). Two years in Cochin (Kerala) and three years in Bangalore (Karnataka) with often traveling all over the country. My native language is Russian (with good understanding of a few other Slavic languages) and I speak English, Italian, French and basics of Hindi. So I didn't have many problems with communicating in English in the South of the country generally, even with cab drivers or in shops. The literacy level and English fluency particularly is very high in the South of India in comparison with the rest of the country. There were only two issues, they are as follows: 1) the accent as an influence of their native language phonetics (I've heard from Western speakers the name "Indian accent" but it's truly hilarious as they are very different); 2) and some very poor less-educated people spoke only their own language. The main conclusion is that Hindi is almost useless in the very South of India and it could help only in 20% of cases in comparison with English. And in Tamil Nadu it can be even dangerous to speak Hindi. By the way in the video you told that all the states were granted with opportunity to choose their language to be the main state language. However I know that initial intention was to spread Hindi all over the country but it provoked almost a civil war in Tamil Nadu as they are very proud to have Tamil. After that the central government was ought to "grant" that freedom. As to the North of the country people speak Hindi there and English is very difficult to find among general public. However young educated people speak English very well. Even though North Indians use a lot of English words in their Hindi, up to 20% from my observation and it's apparently very handy to understand them.
See Speaking hindi in Tamilnadu is not dangerous as you mentioned in your comment, There lots of people migrated from the north especially from Uttar Pradesh, Madya Pradesh and Bihar for work and they live peacefully, In Tamilnadu you can speak in any language you choose but what we oppose is forcing one particular language just because they are in Majority.
@@narayanan26 I've heard that you people kill Hindi speaking people, Is it true??? I'm really afraid of you guys...that's why I never apply for a job in TamilNadu. Here in Rajasthan you can speak any language we don't mind. My teacher of Graduate school was from South. I never got a chance to know where she was exactly from cos she was really strict and always talked in English with me. Please guys don't do that, don't fight on language and hate us for speaking Hindi otherwise your folks gonna start having same experience in here too really soon.
@@narayanan26 of course it was exaggeration. And it's visible that I respect Tamil people as any other people in India to have their own language. However many of my Hindi speaking friends told me that when they addressed local people in Chennai in Hindi the latter knew Hindi but made view they didn't understand them. I will never accept the lack of hospitality or even discrimination from such people just because I don't speak local language. I saw such things in many countries. I personally spoke English with few phrases in Tamil and never had any problems in that beautiful state, Tamil Nadu.
I’m Indian. Moved to America when I was 8. I’m 38 now. I speak Malayalam and Tamil fluently. I can speak Hindi so-so. And of course, English is my forte. I love the Dravidian languages. They intrigue me so much. I love speaking Malayalam with my parents! It keeps me grounded!
Kim Jong Un Trust me. Trump doesn’t wanna kick out hardworking legal immigrants. But I’m sure North Korea will never accept immigrants! 🤣 Dev 007 and snailpop Athe. Malayali annu. Ammayum acchanum enne cheriye vayasu muthile Malayalam paddupicchu.
@@susantadeb7666 It's there in the list of languages. Also considering all the trolls lurking in youtube who want to start a flame war, even mentioning certain keywords like Kashmir, Israel-Palestine, etc will cause them to come and mess up the entire comments thread.
@@greaterbharat4175 most Chinese people speak Mandarin and people speak nihongo in Japan. If you have an interest it's not really that difficult to learn seriously
I'm Tamil and I can speak Hindi marati Russian and English . South Indians can speak many languages. I like to communicate with people in their mother tongue
I am Indian my language is Hindi but I love all the language spoken all over India 😍😍 how beautiful my country is 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 Love your video bro keep growing
Jai Hind! Love from Greece. I love everything about your diverse land , food , culture , but most of all your music! I tried learning Hindi and Sanskrit but due to the crisis I quit my studies but will get back to it soon... for the time being I am learning hymns such as Lingastakam (brahma murari) and my favourite Mahisasura Mardini (aigiri nandini) :) here on you tube ! Paul you are one of the best linguists! Keep up the good work ! We love you mate!
geotrisi While it makes me really happy to see people from Europe trying to learn Sanskrit and get familiar with the Dharmic culture, it also saddens me that us Indians on the other hand, are drifting away from our roots and our millennia old culture. Sanskrit is barely taught in our schools and no one takes it seriously with most amount of emphasis on English. As far as culture is concerned, we are slowly trying to imitate and adopt the Western culture because it is "cool". If you're in a big city in India and you can't speak English, you're find people looking you in a funny way. In any case, keep at it brother, atleast our ancient culture and languages will still be alive somewhere in the world. Good luck.
I am a Sri Lankan living in US. I work with three Indian women here in the US company. Now here is the interesting part: I can speak Tamil & English fluently and a little bit Sinhala since I grew up in Colombo. The First Indian friend is from Bengaluru. Her father is a Gujarathi, her mother is a Bengali, & her husband speaks Telugu. So She can speak Hindi, English, Kannada, Telugu, Gujarathi and Bengali fluently. The second woman is from Bombay. She said she is Marathi. She is fluent in Hindi, English and Marathi languages. The third woman was born in the US for Panjabi parents. She can speak Panjabi, Hindi and English fluently. Now I am the only one who cannot speak Hindi. But all these women are my co-workers and wonderful to work with. They always speak in English among them even when I don't participate in their conversation. That makes me so comfortable to work with them. They do go to see Hindi movies together .
I have not visited India, but I have worked with Indians whose mother tongues vary from Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, and others. Obviously, English is the language used for me to communicate with them. What I have found is that it is typically easier to communicate in English with native Hindi speakers, with a small number of exceptions. Of course, this is my own personal experience, and others may have different experiences.
In India, we have English medium schools where communication happens in English. Then we have Hindi and other regional language medium schools where English is taught as a subject. So, if anyone has a decent education, they can speak English, just that accent and flow would come based on the environment you grew up in. Mostly Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai guys have very good flow and accent due to the foreign investments and organizational presence over there. Cheers.
There's a very popular saying in India. "कोस-कोस पर पानी बदले, चार कोस पर वाणी।" "Kos kos par pani badle, char kos par vaani." MEANING - With every kos water changes, at four kos voice(dialect) changes. कोस "kos" is an ancient indian subcontinent measuring unit, Equal to 3000 metres. It comes from Sanskrit word क्रोश "krosa" meaning "call".
That's great! Something similar is or at least used to be true of many European languages. Drive around the English countryside, for example, and you'll hear a lot of accents in a short range.
@@RadicalCaveman study of languages very interesting. Not only European and English.Even within small countries . Several accents exist. Dialect with larger countries.
I have a friend from the state of Kerala in the South of India. I travelled around India with him and we met up with one of his friends from the north of India. My friend's friend did not speak Hind, so their only way to communicate with each other was English. It was good for me!
I'm from India. My native language is Manipuri/Meeteilon/Meiteilon(referred as Meitei in the video). Besides it, I know Hindi, English, Nagamese Creole, Telugu, Sanskrit, Nepali(INDIAN LANGUAGES) and learning Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, Tagalog, Bahasa Indonesia (FOREIGN LANGUAGES). I can understand most of the Indo-Aryan languages. Situations: I speak Hindi mostly with my friends whose 1st or 2nd language is Hindi; English with anyone who can speak or are learning (Indian and foreigners); Telugu with my Telangana and Andhra Pradesh friends; Nagamese with my neighbour; Sanskrit with my Sanskrit gurus (but I no more speak since HS graduation); Nepali with my Nepali friends. I often try to speak those foreign languages mentioned above whenever I communicate with any native speaker. Thank you!
I’m watching this from a business trip in India right now. I’m on assignment here and have been here for a month already. India is the most amazing, incredible, fascinating, diverse countries. An ancient civilization with so many languages! I have been met with only welcoming, inclusivity, curiosity, smiles, and hospitality. I will be so sad to leave India and go back to my country! Thank you, people of India, for being so kind!
welcome... may your stay in india allow you to enjoy the beauty in the chaos we have accumulated thru the millenia may your memories of india be pleasant ... thank you for the beautiful words
I'm marathi (मराठी) Official language is Hindi (हिंदी) I know Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡಾ) Oldest languages are Sanskrit (संस्कृत) and tamil (தமிழ்) I love my india .
India does not have any "National language" only official languages. A large area of people don't even bother learning Hindi because nobody speaks it in the particular regions. It is only because the population of the Hindi speaking belt is very high that some of them mistake it to be a National language. English is more wide spread though. Hindi is more concentrated in a certain belt.
Actually, it's not just that Hindi is just prominent due dense Populated belts but because of Sanskrit deep Roots penitration in others languages like Gujarati, Marathi, North Easterns, bengal & Even Telugu, kannada & Malayalam etc. Has many comprehensive if patiently communicated !!!
@@fishyfish6510 ASSAMESE Has Relation with Sanskrit !!! Upper north east uses Indo- Tibetian which again had been influenced by pali & Sanskrit + Tibetian, coming to lower north east having much combination of southern east language like thai which again shares similarities with sanskrit + Bengali !!! Sanskrit is a common factor which has influenced over 70% Languages around the world !!!
@@latvialava6644 Lol Tamil has stronger roots in Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada than Sanskrit does. Doesn't mean we own those languages. Each of us are our own language even though we belong to the same Dravidian family. Don't try to unionise India's languages under the Sanskrit umbrella. It won't happen.
@@gowthambond007 I haven't used any word even close to "BELONG" please google the meaning "Influence" !!! My point is the All human being languages in this world are somehow related to eachother !!! It's a family roots of inheritance & bit legacy because, Nothing is pure in the world & are related to one another somehow indeed !!! And, sanskrit is among the most influential language around the globe !!! & Even tamil has a quite wide significance in lots of languages specially south east asia !!! Here i am not showing sanskrit as dominant but, many similarities between all these languages !!!
Even I speak Tamil .It is my native language and I know Kannada and English. I am from Salem district of Tamil nadu. But I study at Bengaluru. My second language at school is Kannada not hindi I dont now hindi.
আমার মাতৃভাষা বাংলা এবং আমি যেখানে যাই সেখানেই আমি বাংলায় কথা বলি কারণ এটি আমার রাজ্যের সরকারি ভাষা। लेकिन मैं हिंदी भी बोलता हूं और इसमें काफी अच्छा हूं। I use Hindi when I have to talk to Hindi speakers in Kolkata or as a default when I see a Non-Bengali. And apart from that میں تھوڑی سی اردو جانتا ہوں۔ মই অসমীয়া বুজিব পাৰিছো but only because I know Bengali. And I have a French Test tomorrow, so J'espère que tous ceux qui verront cela passeront une excellente journée.
I speak English, Hindi, Manipuri, Kuki, Assamese and Nagamese. I understand a bit of Nepali, Bengali and other Kuki-Chin languages upto a certain extent, all thanks to mutual intelligibility.
Sir, u forgot to mention Garo from Meghalaya. It is also Sino Tibetan language. U have only mentioned Khasi in the video. There are actually 3 major tribes in Meghalaya, Khasi, Jaintia and Garo.
I was suppose to fly to India Thursday but due to the Pakistan conflict all flights from Canada are cancelled. I waited almost two years for this tour! :(
My parents are from South and settled in Central India, I speak Hindi at home, English at workplace. I understand Malayalam and Tamil. Can speak basic Malayalam. I understand little bit of Telugu due to the region I worked in . Can understand basic Punjabi and Urdu due to bollywood movies and songs. I am learning french from sometime, can read it slowly and get a jist, out of whats written. Accent and flow is difficult to understand. But I can relate some of the grammatical structures and words with Sanskrit. I believe Sanskrit has influenced lot of languages around the world. Thank you for your time. God bless.🙏
I'm Lotha Naga Languages spoken: Lotha (Sino-Tibetian) Sumi (Sino-Tibetian) Nagamese (Assamese croele with blend of sino-tibetian) Assamese English Hindi French (I have forgotten most of it by now)
@@prantoshduarah9997 YA.. BRO.. EVEN MY FRNDS R FRM #MANIPUR/MEGHALAYA... THEY SPEAK HINDI IN A DESCENT MANNER... BUT THEY COMMIT SOME MISTAKES... LIKE ME... SO THAT'S NOT A PERFECT HINDI MAN... SO SOUNDS FUNNY N NJOYABLE... 😂
THEY ALWAYS IGNORE... NORTHERN CITIES LIKE #NEW_DELHI/KOLKATA/MUMBAI U GUYS ALWAYS PREFER SOUTHERN AREA TO SETTLE♥️ #HYDRABAD/BANGLORE/CHENNAI I DON'T KNW Y... BUT V NJOY THOSE PPL SPEAKING SOME HINDI... HERE IN SOUTH😂
I'm from India 🇮🇳 My Mother Toungue is Konkani I can speak Kannada ,Tulu,Tamil ,Hindi Fluently...I can understand Telugu and Malayalam but I can't talk much.. and yeah English as well..
I can speak Kannada, Tulu, Konkani, Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, English and manage with Marathi & Telugu. People who are from Mangalore/Kasaragod region can speak 3 to 5 languages by the time they are in High school, rest of the languages are learnt depending on where your life takes you.
@HAPPY FAMILY FRIENDS the place I live is called Manglore . It's in the Southern region of Karnataka... My mother tongue is konkani..the native language here is Tulu.. it's used by most of the people here in 3-4 districts... State language is ofcourse Kannada.. so I learnt these 3 languages from childhood.. studied Hindi and English in school.. I love movies.. I learnt Tamil through movies and Cartoon channels.. I can understand Malayalam ( though I can't talk much) because my city is close to Kerala border.. so I have many Malayali friends.. I can understand Telugu now because I've started watching Telugu movies .. Telugu is easy for me coz Kannada and Telugu are pretty similar.. but I don't know to write and read in any language other than Kannada , Hindi, English...
@HAPPY FAMILY FRIENDS I dnt know where you are from.. I'm from India .. and most of the Indians know atleast more than 3 languages.. so it isn't a big deal here for a person to know multiple languages.. because there are 200+ officially recognised languages and 1500+ dialects are spoken across the nation..
Thank you for the information. I am from Tamil Nadu. My mother tongue is Tamil. I speak English, German C1-2 level (I studied in Germany), and Sinhala A2-B1(I can read and write I lived in Colombo for sometimes a little Hindi A2 ( can read and write)/Urdu ( cannot read and write) Spanish A1 (learning)
I am a native Telugu speaker. I also read, write and speak English and Hindi. This is almost the same across most of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Many Telugu speakers in border towns and villages can understand and speak Tamil and Kannada. If one counts second language as well and not just their mother tongue, Telugu is next only to Hindi in the number of speakers.
It's nice to see how India kept their native languages alive even after so many years of colonization. I wish we could say the same about South American countries.
Hello! I am Manipuri (Meitei)I just wanted to add that even though Bengali script was and still is widely used for meiteilon(Meitei language), we have our own script called Meitei Mayek. Thank you for the video I enjoyed it a lot!
@@uditbhattacharya3952 Meitei Mayek (Manipur script) was replaced by Bengali script by Manipur King and Bengali priest a century ago(not sure of the history). We grew up learning the Bengali script. Some years ago, Meitei Mayek was re-introduced and now the younger generations are more influenced by the Meitei Mayek. But most of the local dailies and local TV channels still use the bengali script in one way or the other.
I was Born in Malaysia and raised there. My native language is Tamil.malaysian Tamil is a bit different from India , Sri Lanka and singapore.we use malay words sometimes.lastly ,i can speak malay ,Tamil , English,and Spanish 👽👽
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I'm a South indian.. my native language is Malayalam..
I speak Malayalam , Tamil , Kannada ,Telugu, Hindi and English
.. Im comfortable in all the Dravidian languages plus English and hindi
Oho angane analleh
Wow
Teach me few!
@@saumya_42 sure☺️
Telugu elupamano bro
meanwhile some Americans
i want to learn indian
That's going to be a lot of work
Haha😂😂😂😂
It’s actually really easy to figure out various scripts because some of them letters looks almost the same way as in the Devanagari script. I figured out Arabic since many letters look like a cursive version of Hebrew (I was raised w English and Hebrew).Out of Indian languages I am really interested in Hindi Bengali and Gujarati, and I would like to choose on one South Indian/Dravidian language to learn, but it’s really hard to choose because they’re all so beautiful, both the words and the scripts!
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😂😂
Finally a foreigner who knows that people from India don't speak Indian 😆😆😆
Yes I saw a interview where a girl said Indian
Very common mistake made by outsides, not just with India but also with so many other places and languages spoken there. One other example is Chinese, which is not a single language.
So is there a language which is called bihari
@@ytuser78 no. Its a hindi dialect.
@@uk3693 I didn't knew about china one. I think they have Mandarin and Cantonese. But you can call mandarin one Chinese
I'm maharashtrian and now I'm feeling like marathi is the languages that connect north and south India...
Well, Odiya does too.
Odia also Bravo
Only language that connecting india is English😂
Well in my opinion Maharashtra is linguistically North Indian but culturally South Indian...
I think it's odia not Marathi, 😊
This is an incredible summary of Indian languages. As someone with a background in linguistics who specifically study South Asian languages, I can really vouch for the accuracy of this video, and I love the fact that you never make generalizations and recognize the incredibly diversity of India.
This is a level of summarization of research that is very unexpected for a RUclips video.
Thank you!
Absolutely
Paul has outdone himself with this one.
I find Paul's love of linguistics contagious. He respects every language he's covered. His exploration of each LangFocus topic humbles me with their thoroughness and quality.
Lang focus is an expert channel - I often refer students to the channel when they ask questions in class about languages. He espouses clearly many of the important aspects of language and linguistics that are in the specialist books, and are a part of our daily experiences as language learners.
The most important thing to know: "Indian" is not a language. It's so annoying when people ask me "you speak Indian?"
"Do you speak hiNdU?" :-D I love it... always answer with "India is a subcontinent and has many languages"...
@@MsSonali1980 that's another thing that gets under my skin
@@MsSonali1980 yEaH i SpEaK mUsLiM tOo
@@darkgreninja8349 ahhahaha, don't you speak aFriKaN (not Afrikaans)?
@@MsSonali1980 Reminds me of a Russell Peters' joke: "how do you say hello Indian?"
Why would people dislike such a nicely researched work put up with such a precision. This video tells much more about the linguistic evolution of Indian Languages than any average Indian knows.
Thanks, Bhanu!
People don't like hearing things that differ from the baseless beliefs they've held since childhood. It's honestly not entirely their fault; if you're surrounded by people, growing up, who tell you that Sanskrit or Tamil is the oldest or somehow "best" language, you're going to naturally dislike any source that tells you differently.
Because they don't want to believe Dravidian languages are originated from proto Dravidian. They want everything from Sanskrit.
@@minefreak1966 yeah it's disappointing. it's uncontroversial that indo-european's oldest living family is probably the iranian, whose mom went east to very much dravidian India, and made all this stuff with contact with dravidian. "sanskrit" is awesome because it got written down, but it's not special. PAUL has an excellent video on celtic and afro-asiatic's old romance, which totally carries to the kind of mixing that you see with indo-aryan and dravidian
@@Langfocus I totally agree with Bhanu,
People nowadays don't understand how much time is consumed in research,
Probably a month or more,
You cant search this on Google and get all of this,
And people don't understand it,
I appreciate your hard work and efforts Paul!
I'm from Mizoram.My native languages is Mara ,our tribe has 5 different languages, but I spoke only three Tlosaih,Chapi and Hawthai.If I talked to other mizo tribe I used Mizo(Duhlian).When I went outside my state I used English,Hindi,Assamese and a little bit of Bengali.
damn so manh languages. Also Today I learned mizo is also called duhlian
Glad
You are an absolute genius.
Finally a Mizo who can speak Hindi😂
Amazing 👏
All Indians are either bilingual or trilingual.
Or 4 or 4.5 or 7 too..i have many friends who speak 5+ languages..we tend to mix the words or talk in 3/4 of them at the same time..all understand all languages usually used here thats why..
Mate, there is still crores of Indians who are monolingual. In rural parts of India. And remember rural India has more than 50% of the population. Not all are monolingual, but a big number definitely is.n
@@vanhelsing2079 even the rural parts speak or at least understand two languages.
Its true to some extent..but actually im from a rural part of india and not from a rich family..even people below poverty line understand and speak the lingua franca here..but many children and women dont in case of extremely rural areas.
This is actually false the vast majority of Indians (85%+) are monolingual they just happen to also be poor village dwellers and are often unseen by metropolitan Indians...
Man it was weird to hear my own voice in this video! Awesome video Paul! Glad I could help!
Were you the one speaking persian?
Ajay Sharma great
You rock Ajay.
@@cpinter10 'Special thanks to Ajay Sharma for his Hindi and Sanskrit samples, Gopal Krishna for his Tamil samples and feedback, and Soroosh Motevalli for his Persian samples.'
I was in his Hindi vs. Urdu video and I felt exactly the same!
Fun fact :- those 22 recognised official languages have different accents too LoL
Thats true
Dialects* it’s basically the same thing, but dialect is a better word choice than accent
@@baruahrehan19 ok then that’s another language not just an accent. This person is talking about accents, but dialect is a better word
Xd
@Ruthvik tur dangor murtu, ki aal-baal boki ase re...
I am Bengali, but My Family and I are/ am fluent in English, Hindi, Gujarati and Telugu , thanks to the fact that we lived in those States in India..
Neku Telugu Ella vachu
మీకు తెలుగు తెలుసునా
@@understanding.everything Naaku kodiga vachu
I am from India in Kerala.. my native language is Malayalam 🙆🙆🙆🙆🙆
🙏 ನಮಸ್ಕಾರಗಳು 🙏 നമസ്കാരം 🙏
Machane
@@srinidhi7140 നമസ്തേ
@@vipinvnath4011 😂😁 ഹായ്
Hallooo
I was just overwhelmed with new information. I am pretty familiar with the Americas and Europe with respect to their linguistic diversity, but Asia is a completely different story, especially India. I learned a lot from this video and it has definitely opened my eyes. Thanks a lot for the information !
Thanx for kind words. You are a good person.
In Kerala all 14 districts have their own dielects. And sometimes even we can't understand eachother 😂.
Same with Telugu too. A person from Telangana cannot understand the Telugu which is spoken in Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Northern Tamilnadu and vice-versa.
Same with Rajasthani languages. I'm a Mewari and when I go to the Marwari or say, Malwi, wagadi, or any of the several other districts, I get a hard time trying to understand what they're saying.
Same with bengali language
😂😂
Eth jillelthe aa thanik manasilaavathe? Kasargod nik manasilaavoola😌😂
@@adheenaps8411 Enkum kasargod,Malappuram 😂. Avrde onnum local basha namk manasilavillya
I am from Germany (speak German, English and French) and I'm learning Marathi (and Farsi, so I have also noticed the many loan words from Farsi). Marathi is such a beautiful language! At one point I want to learn a Dravidian language too, probably Tamil. But for now I'm concentrating on Marathi.
dhanywaad bhau
Yo! I am a native Marathi speaker and I'm learning German (I speak English and Hindi as well).
We can be language exchange partners.
Nice brother... give respect, take respect... 🙏🏻
I'm a Marathi & have learned German language for 2 years.
namaskar bhau tumhala
I'm from Nagaland, a small state in North East India bordering Myanmar. I speak a language called Ao. I can also speak Nagamese, English and Hindi. Nagaland has 16 tribes and each tribe has its own language but Nagas as a whole communicate with English and a made up language called Nagamese.
Thats so awesome
Wow
Jharkhand has 32 tribes and people communicate with each other through hindi that is why we had to include hindi in our state...
I wasn't aware of this.
Thankyou bro
Nagamese me Assamese hai kya
For me, as an historian, India has been the most complex and difficult to study. This is due to the large amount of linguistic diversity and dialects, and the amount of learning necessary to obtain and understand primary sources. This wonderful video could be thirty minutes longer and still barely scratch the surface of the stunning diversity of the Indian subcontinent. :)
This was my experience as well.
The Indian subcontinent is comparable to Europe in terms of linguistic and cultural diversity
@Evi1M4chine actually the uniting thread is Sanskrit. That is the only language that was intelligible to everyone from every part of India. You can at least express basic ideas if you have a cache of Sanskrit vocabulary. Before the British rule that was the case. During the sultanate and Mughal era, Farsi or Persian was the court language and therefore all legal documents were written in them. But you also received a copy in Sanskrit at the same time. This is extremely important for land deeds. So there were courtiers who were proficient in both.
@@asamvav you can survive without sanskrit in Tamil Nadu,but you can't survive without Tamil or English
@@aravindnatarajan220 you can't survive with Sanskrit anywhere in India. Rarely anyone is proficient in Sanskrit in the whole of India.
I am a Naga. I speak Chokri, khezha, angami, Nagamese, Hindi and English
Just a question brother ... Does the nagamese language have any connection to the Assamese linguistic family or did it develop in each tribe separately
@@utkarshyadav8133 i think some borrowing of words,using of assamese script sometimes {i dunno whats its name }
@@utkarshyadav8133 nagamese is a creole-language based on assamese, so yes. but the native tongues of all the different tribes are unique, and mutually unintelligible.
@@utkarshyadav8133
Nagamese is nothing but Assameae spoken by Nagas. Naga people have their own languages that belong to the same language family as Tibetan or Mandarin.
That's cool, I can speak Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi and English.
I’m a South Indian Muslim living in Mumbai. I fluently speak Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu, Arabic and Spanish. I mostly used them in the different circle of friends and family, but mostly during my travels.
Arey bhai😳
x to doubt
Adbhut adbhut adbhut
الهندية لا تخلو من الكلمات العربي
भाई तु तो महान आत्मा है
Filipino here. I've visited India and people thought that I was local, especially in Jammu and Kashmir, so people spoke to me in Hindi.
I spoke English in India and got along well with everyone. Good job India!
Nice to hear.... Did you have a good time there? I was in India for 3 years. I speak Hindi fairly well now...
@nnn shut up OK
Many Hindus live in north
In Jammu Kashmir ,jammu has a very high Hindu population n Kashmir has a high Muslim population
@@adamhendrickson512 which country are you from?
English is the official language of India so of course everyone speaks English.
Filipinos look noting like Indians most likely they thought you from Nepal
As Indian, I started by saying - "Oh!! I got this. Let me see what he has got to say about what we speak". But pretty soon I was humbled. This is very well researched video. Thanks for making this.
Now answering the questions you have asked at the end. I am from Karnataka, one of the southern state in India. My mother tongue is Kannada and I have equal proficiency in English and Hindi. I can read Marathi (because it is same script as Hindi - Devnagri) but might not understand everything I have read. I can also read Telugu (script is similar to Kannada), well almost, but can't speak however I can understand it pretty well. I can understand Tamil, Urdu and Punjabi due to good exposure.
U said what i wanted to say as an Indian.. He did a really awesom job.. I had the same thought before starting the video.. 😅
@Good Boy nobody asked you to reply to their comment
You spoke on my behalf too❤️
हमे अपने भाषा में बात करनी चाहिए ।
@@cataclysmal5315 I never thought about that. You, sir, just blew my mind
Meanwhile in America.
My native language is English and my mother tongue is English. I also can understand to a certain extent English, English, English and English.
@ШEАSЕL yes
@@user-xk2ot7eg7f I think we need to say colonialisation rather than English
@Weasel 鼬は悪くない Zealandian? You mean kiwi? No way...the written language is very similar, but spoken kiwi is one of the most difficult languages in the world. I'm American and I speak Western US, Mexican, Cuban, Argentinian, Western Canadian, German, and a little bit of Russian, Swahili, Tagalog, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian. I spent a couple years studying suburban Tennessean but I don't understand any other southeastern languages well except Floridian. I understand a few dialects from the central and northeastern US. I can understand people from london if they speak slowly and translate toilet room jargon to common names. Australian, if spoken slowly is slightly intelligible. South African and Filipino English are also intelligible when spoken very slowly. Indian English is third only to Kiwi and North Carolinian in its ability to be called an English dialect yet be completely unintelligible.
@Weasel 鼬は悪くない I guess it depends on whether you consider language something that is spoken or something that is written. (my kids are fluent in ASL, so that's another wrinkle to language)
I believe Australians say something more like rstraliur.
@Weasel 鼬は悪くない Well, when my comprehension drops below 75% I don't consider myself to know the language. I once lived in an area where you cross into the Appalachians and bah golly gee wiz ahh ehp lick a fruhg ahh crib manna ahh 'nt gut muh cu woot day biz sen hun...and then you get by the ocean in north carolina and it gets much much worse...
So many tongues and yet we the people of India are Indians first and then the people of our states🇮🇳🇮🇳
"मेरा भारत महान"
ஆமாம் 🇮🇳
No we are States first India second. There was no India before 1947. rembr
Boyyy,he has worked hard on this video.
I'm from India.
I can fluently speak: Malayalam(native language), English, Hindi and French
Other languages I know to a lesser degree: German, Korean
Hehe malayali poliyalle
Korean ariyo
Haai malayali 🤭😍😍👏
Lokath yevida poyalum oru malayali englum kanum.athoru prekruthy niyamam aanu..😍❤❤❤💪athanu nammuda power.
@@appuappuzz6090 sathyam
OH HAI GUYZ
Hullo
OMG YOU WRPTE IT BAD I'N SO OFFENDED
Hai mizter Paul
I have my Hindi exam tomorrow haha
OH HAI OH
I love all Indian languages and my mother tongue is தமிழ் (Tamil).
Tamil one of the longest surviving classical language in World .
Tamil has the unique distinction of remaining a spoken language for more than 4000 years. Among the oldest languages of the world - Hebrew, Greet, Sanskrit, Chinese and Tamil, only Tamil and Chinese are the two living languages. Tamil is spoken by around 60 million people in India and by about 40 Tamil million people living in Sri Lanks, Burma, Singapore, Malaysia, Mauritius, United Kingdom, US and many European countries.
Tamil has voluminous literature that are thousands of years old and that have been preserved and printed even now. The oldest literature of Tamil ‘Tholkappiyam’ that is ancient to Vedas .
Everybody should try reading திருக்குறள் ( Tirukkural).Considered one of the greatest works ever written on ethics and morality, it is known for its universality and secular nature.
Love from Tamil Nadu to all our Indian languages 🇮🇳.வாழ்க தமிழ் வளர்க இந்திய 💥.
Yes I accept it ...
But you just mention that Sanskrit is dead language...but not *Sanskrit is didnot dead* *it is split into all north east and west Indian languages +gelic+Hebrew+Arabic+Greek and Persian language*
*This is why Sanskrit is called mother of all languages accept dravidain*
*Also hindi is spoken in honduros,inda,Fiji,USA,Qatar and Japan*this is why hidni is world's 4rth most spoken language*
quite a nice thought to write
@@facts-pt1zrDead language is a term for languages that likely have second or third language speakers but no first language speakers. Then there's extinct languages which have ceased to exist
@@facts-pt1zrAlso I would like to correct a little of what you said "Sanskrit is the mother of all languages except Dravidian". It would be more correct if you say "Sanskrit is the mother of all languages except Dravidian, Sino-Tibetan, Austro-Asiatic, Tai-Kadai and Language isolates"
@@o0...957 excuse me child ...I think you are really forgotten something ..*pls don't say I own information rubbish all knows it* *you can search in google also if you not belive me*
*Sanskrit is mother of all languages except Tamil family even I live in Greece and I know Greek where as Greekis the mother of all western languages and Greece come from Sanskrit because of similarity and accent*
I lived in india for sometimes, I learnt hindi while staying in north India and Malayalam while staying in Kerala and kannada while staying in Karnataka. I don't like to speak English with Indians, I enjoy speaking their native languages.
only if half the North Indians did that xD, even when they move to other regions they still stick with their languages even to speak with the locals xD.
Plz visit Tamil Nadu you can experience with the world oldest language ❤️
@@dkviews2003 Yes I love tamizh language
@@mahagaida160 ❤️❤️
Helo maam
Wow, what an amazing video, I am blown away by the research you put into it. Seriously, Bravo!!!
All the information presented are mostly correct.
Mother Tongue: Malayalam
Languages spoken: Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, English
Marathi Kass Kay yete aplyala?
Uyyyo
Joe mark la marathi yene shakya aahe???
वाह 🙏😊👍
आप जैसे लोगों से ही हमारे देश मे समरसता आती है
You are a gem... Although it may not be possible for me to learn Dravidian languages at this stage... I'm planning to learning Marathi( मराठी)😊✌
Aree mi maharasthat majha college abhyas kele. Tithe mi marathi sikhlo🙏
This is one of the most well researched summarized video on Indian languages I have ever seen. The kind of patience and research done by you is truly commendable!!! Kudos for taking up one of the most complex and diverse contry in terms of Languages and Culture!
I can't believe how accurate this video is.. Seriously I am an indian, and I am blown away by the accuracy and depth of this video
I understand how much effort goes into it..
Totally agreed
I have a language cocktail for you. I am a Kannadiga who lived in Maharashtra. So I know Kannada, Marathi, Hindi and English. My wife is a Tamilian who lived in UP. She knows Tamil and Hindi. At my house we speak a mix of all these languages - Kannada, Tamil, Hindi, Marathi and English.
Lol
What language are ur kids gonna speak lol... A "sambhar" language ??? 😂😂 (I mean a mix soup of different languages)
unity in diversity..
Incredible india
Wow👍
Let me start out by saying, I love all the languages because of how rich they are, but with myself, I am currently learning Hindi, Punjabi, and Tamil - which without a doubt Tamil is I believe by far the most complicated 😂
Love to India from America 🙏🏻💙
Don't worry, you are learning the oldest language in the world
I am a native speaker of tamil and lol i find it complicated myself.
Hope you end up with Sanskrit!
Because Tamil is completely a different script from sanskrit and hasn't had much sanskrit influence like other languages
Tamil is complicated because it is one of the oldest languages and casual speaking pronunciation has become very different from 'perfect tamil'. So if you want to learn tamil either start from the perfect way (letters, words, phrases) or the casual way( talk talk talk)
I am a Bengali. Can speak bengali and English, and can manage to communicate in Hindi (sometimes creating amusement for actual hindi-speakers). I am highly interested to learn a Dravidian language like Tamil and an Austro-Asiatic language like Santali.
Bengali here. Telugu is my favorite so I am learning it.
Langfocus is awesome! About 45 years ago I was in India for almost 4 months and thought I was learning Hindi, and in my last week I walked into an ice cream parlor and ordered ice cream in Hindi. I proudly asked the person behind the counter in Hindi for ice cream (or so I thought). He looked at me and his eyes opened wide. I made my statement again and he was trying not to laugh. I said it a third time and he bust out laughing so hard he was crying! He then told everyone in the ice cream parlor what I said and everyone started laughing. He then told me that what I said in Hindi "I am a Cow,. Give me milk!". I blushed beet red, which made it even more funny.
😂😂😂😂funny unreal story
"I am a cow. Give me milk" ? 😂😂😂👌
Something like "mein Gaye Hoon. Mujhe dood doe" ??
😂😂😂😂 lmao
you probably said, "mai gaaye hoo mujhe dudh do"
😂😂😂😂😂
Every 10 k.m. distance accent of language changes among people of Bangladesh otherwise Language change is not a factor of distance alone. Dialects change depends on density of population per sq km varies greatly, eg in Switzerland or the Caucasus there are multiple language families inside a very small region whereas Russian or American accents are often indistinguishable from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Pretty much yeah
True
Mere dadi bolte the 3 kadam pe zubaan badalti he or 4 kaadam pe pani
Absolutely
@@nehadhurwey503 accents are suppose to be a natural phenomenon but standard versions of any language are meant to be accepted by every user’s of that particular language. There is no problem with accent if the user of language belongs from same dialect.
I am from Malaysia where English and Tamil are widely spoken (alongside Malay and Mandarin Chinese). I went to India twice this year, Rajasthan in the north on January and Kerala in the south on November. Based on my limited observation, I found South Indians are much conversant in English as compared to their northern counterparts. I even bumped into many Southern Indians during my trip in Rajasthan where we had longer and deeper conversations. The funny thing when I was in Kerala, I have this habit to observe how closely related Malayalam and Tamil are given both are Dravidian languages. I tried to compare words by words and see whether Malayalam sounds similar to Tamil, especially I have been picking up basic Tamil from my Malaysian friends of ethnic Indian-Tamil.
Regardless, I miss and I love India!
Hindi is very cemented in the North where it is more prominent in business and media. The South has a strong pro-local native language attitude and crucially was favored by the British during colonial times, with many Christian communities and plantation workers exported to other countries like Malaysia and Fiji from the south. Kerala in particular has one of the highest fluency levels of English.
the Indian nationalist movement was rooted in the north as well, so the prevalance of Hindi is stronger there.
Thanks for the kind words brother. 🙏🏽 😊
I’m from Kerala. Yes not all South Indian languages are Similar and not all of us can understand each other. Only Tamil and Malayalam sounds very similar and we can understand each other. It’s because Malayalam came from Tamil language and got mixed with Sanskrit(north Indian language).
Yes, you are right bro. Malay people also Dravidian
@Everest TechTips
No they are not 😂
@@akhl9842 Sanskrit is indus language bro don't insult sanatan .vadic culture
I went to India in 2000, didn't meet one person rich or poor who couldn't converse in English. Of course this was 24 years ago but I've heard even more people speak English now!!
When I went to India, in Kerala almost everyone could've understood English very well but in northern India communication was comparatively more difficult but not that much.
@@yogeshb8677 I have never been there. And also in North, in big cities like Delhi many can communicate very easily so we can assume same for Mumbai.
@jiminie's booty west is gujrat not Maharashtra... N I considered only three sections north south n center so understand what I mean
Where in Kerala? Just asking
@@pranav3632 south india
@@sonags9024
Ehh😂
I asked where in Kerala , not where is Kerala . I know where kerala is ,to be more specific I'm from Kerala 😂
A guy from India surprised me by speaking French with me. He was from Pondicherry. There were a few French and Portuguese trade ports (call them colonies). The main Portuguese trade port was Goa I think. Do people still speak those languages?
@M IH Russian? Why Russian?
@@Dracopol if you come to GOA( a state of India) you will definitely find Russian speaking people because of alot of Russian tourists appear there annually
People have a choice to study French / Hindi as the third language in Pondicherry and most of them prefer French.
In Goa we have English as first language,2nd language is Hindi ,3rd we can choose between French,Portuguese,Marathi or in someplaces Sanskrit or Kannada and of course
Konkani is our mother-tongue .
je parle français,hindi,marathi,konkani et anglais😊😊
I am from silvassa, erstwhile portuguese colony in India. Portuguese here is a bit different from the original Portuguese but, Comista!!
My native language : Nepali
Languages that I am fluent in : Hindi and English
Languages I can hold a pretty decent conversation in : Khasi and Assamese
Language I can understand : Bengali
High 5 to all my multilingual Indians!
Kene asso?
Nice
Rohit upadhya... Kasto cha! Bro.. 😊
Thik kuro bhaneu bhai
High five bro.. bro ra mero criteria almost mildo raixa. Tara malai assamese aaunna tara bhojpuri ra maithali ra abadhi aauxa.
I'm from Bihar, Mother tongue is Magadhi (what parents and grandparents used to use). My family speaks Hindi (and can communicate with majority of North Indians in Hindi), English (language of communication in profession, and with many South Indian friends) and a bit of Sanskrit (taught in school for few years).
Quindi voi indiani comunicate in inglese fra popoli del nord e popoli del sud, non in Hindi?
@@re_di_roma_is_back2388 Yes, specially true in urban areas. Rural areas speak native languages and difficult to communicate using north and south languages.
Same here.My mother tongue is magadhi and as you said,what parents and grandparents use.While me and my parents communicate in hindi because I am not fluent in magahi.And that's the case with my siblings also.And that's the same for many people in our generation like as a child,I used to think, it's a 'dehati' language and we were encouraged to speak in hindi! And now when I ever try to speak magadhi,everybody starts laughing.It sounds weird😂(it's sad)
@@Icebear602You guys are killing your mother tongue. You should speak in your mother tongue because if it dies whole culture dies...
Be proud of your Mother Tongue. Being I South Indian I was not aware of the different dialects of Hindi. One of my North Indian friend had called his parents up and was speaking in a different tongue. When I asked him which language it was he told it was Magadhi. That is when I got exposed to the surviving dialects of Hindi. I wish these dialects don’t die due to the popularity of Hindi. 😢
Dr. Who: I speak every language
India: no, you don't
He has a TARDIS converter.
Papua New Guinea: No you don't
ಓಓಓಓಓಓಓಓ......................
@@srinidhi7140 ബ ബ ബ ബ...
C-3PO: I speak 6 million languages.
I speak telugu,tamil ,kannada, Malayalam ,odia ,Marathi ,gujarathi, English, German ,Hindi, now learning French
Wow ur awesome 😲
Enna uvve sugam anno
pog
సూపర్
Enthonnade... Uthini oru avasanam onnumille😂😂
I am Indian and I speak
1.English
2.Hindi
3.Sanskirt
4.Assamese(Mother Tongue)
5.Bengali
6.Telegu(2 yrs in Vizag)
7.Tamil(4 yrs in Tamil Nadu)
You was in Tamil or vaijag whatever but it's not mean you Know that language clearly.
@@gbarman23 maybe he tried to learn the language and was successful
@@MishkaSinghi28 then fine but you know how difficult to learn south Indian language?
I'm in Tamil Nadu from 2014 but till now I can't understand that language properly,
As a North India I can understand most of the north Indian languages, it's easy for us, no dubt
@@gbarman23 different people have different grasping power, I have been surrounded by Bengali people my whole life still can't speak it, though i understand all. I have been to South Indian states and met people from my state (i am from north-east) learn languages in 1 or 2 years.
@@MishkaSinghi28 yeah, you are right but and I'm trying to tell you it's depends on there interest.
And one more thing I'm also Bengali, if you want to learn I will teach you.
Fascinating video. Salute from India
India is so complicated even Indians don’t really understand it.
We are like Europe....but instead of being a continent, all these states united and formed one single country India.
@@miliaurora1038 I fully agree with you 👍
What kind of a stupid statement was this ? xD
Aditya Bharadwaj Intelligent enough for a moron like yourself not to understand. Get some education.🙏🏻
@@MegaAdity1 only a moron, imbecile and jackass like you can put a comment like this one.
get some education.
padhai likhai karo jao
I'm Proud to be an Tamilan. My Mother Tongue is Tamil. I Can Speak English,Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam.
Mano Madhan ஹிந்தி தெலுங்கு மலையாளம் கன்னடம் ஆகிய மொழிகளை எவ்வாறு நீங்கள் கற்றுக் கொள்கிறார்கள் என்பதை விளக்கிக் கூறுங்கள்
@@venkateshprasath7328
I learn English And Hindi in my School days. Telugu, kannada, malayalam are Learn by my Friends.
india first bro
Mano Madhan Vera leval bro niga 😍🤗🤗
@@manomadhan568 very few people I have met from the south speak Hindi. Even in my state most people can't speak Hindi well but they do understand it. I am from Bengal. I did meet a weed dealer in Munnar and he spoke Hindi, I guess business demands it :3
As a indian I never expected Roger federer to teach about indian languages internet is wild.
😂😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣
How am i noticing this for the first time! XD 🤣🤣🤣
I’m Nepali & Indian.
My mom speaks Nepali, Hindi, Limbu (a little), Punjabi, & English
My dad speaks Nepali, Hindi, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Urdu, English, & other.
My grandma speaks more languages though; so far I know that she speaks Nepali, Hindi, Bengali, & Assamese
Please read the holy Quran in English or another translation insha Allah
im from sydney and i went to india for 2 months, from kochi down through some towns in kerala to the southern tip of india with that huge statue! and then puducherry, bengalaru, hampi, mumbai, delhi, rajasthan. i loved it! i tried to learn the local words in each state for hello and please and thankyou etc. and otherwise i could say some things in hindi, and of course english. there were many times i couldnt communicate with people but that's part of the fun of travelling! :) cant wait to visit india again!! :)
Come Chennai
Wn u come next time, do visit my home town, no need to bother abt boarding and lodging
I recommend you show mercy on your lungs and don't go to Delhi.
You are welcome friend.
well, U missed the most fun and most forested and beutiful part....i.e North Eastern States
Brilliant work. Being Indian, I often struggle to explain to my non-Indian friends the linguistic complexity of India. Most people from outside India cannot fathom how people of the same country may speak so many different languages which are mutually un-intelligible, and why a lot of us Indians prefer to speak to each other in English sometimes. Respect to you for this extremely well researched and informative video.
Maybe, because people can't just realize the actual size of India.
ना अधिकतर लोग हिन्दी मे बात करना पसंद करते है ना की उपनिवेशक गुलामी की निशानी अंग्रेजी मे
I'M PROUD TO BE KANNADIGA..I LOVE ALL INDIAN LANGUAGE'S..
ನಮ್ಮ ನಾಡು ಕರುನಾಡು 💖
I put up a top-level post, but I should ask you specifically, since I might want to learn Kannada in the future, and since if you're watching this channel you might be something of a language-learning enthusiast: might you be interested in helping to make it easier to learn Kannada over the internet by helping to translate/record some short stories?
@@cactusmakesperfect I'd be happy to help you out.
@@dhanushd27 Great. What's the best way to get in touch with you to explain in more details?
@@cactusmakesperfect I suggest you to watch some Kannada movies with subtitles
As I’m from Hyderabad, Telangana of southern India, my native language is Telugu. I can speak Hindi ( of north India ), Kannada ( of Karnataka state ), Tamil ( of Tamil Nadu state ) and English. At current scenario, all most in every language of India, it’s linked with English. English is now very much flexible for many people in India.
अंग्रेजी को भारत मे 5% लोग भी नही बोलते लेकिन हिन्दी भारत मे 90% से अधिक लोग समझते है बिगर हिंदी शिक्षा के और जहा उपनिवेशक गुलामी की निशानी अंग्रेजी को शिक्षा मे प्राथमिकता दी जा रही है तब भी भारत मे 5% लोग भी नही बोलते
हमे भारतीय भाषाओं को प्राथमिकता देनी चाहिए का की उपनिवेशक गुलामी की निशानी अंग्रेजी को
@@Sanatani_kattar ILLA ONNUM PURILA
I lived in India for five years (2013-2018). Two years in Cochin (Kerala) and three years in Bangalore (Karnataka) with often traveling all over the country. My native language is Russian (with good understanding of a few other Slavic languages) and I speak English, Italian, French and basics of Hindi. So I didn't have many problems with communicating in English in the South of the country generally, even with cab drivers or in shops. The literacy level and English fluency particularly is very high in the South of India in comparison with the rest of the country. There were only two issues, they are as follows:
1) the accent as an influence of their native language phonetics (I've heard from Western speakers the name "Indian accent" but it's truly hilarious as they are very different);
2) and some very poor less-educated people spoke only their own language.
The main conclusion is that Hindi is almost useless in the very South of India and it could help only in 20% of cases in comparison with English. And in Tamil Nadu it can be even dangerous to speak Hindi. By the way in the video you told that all the states were granted with opportunity to choose their language to be the main state language. However I know that initial intention was to spread Hindi all over the country but it provoked almost a civil war in Tamil Nadu as they are very proud to have Tamil. After that the central government was ought to "grant" that freedom.
As to the North of the country people speak Hindi there and English is very difficult to find among general public. However young educated people speak English very well. Even though North Indians use a lot of English words in their Hindi, up to 20% from my observation and it's apparently very handy to understand them.
See Speaking hindi in Tamilnadu is not dangerous as you mentioned in your comment, There lots of people migrated from the north especially from Uttar Pradesh, Madya Pradesh and Bihar for work and they live peacefully, In Tamilnadu you can speak in any language you choose but what we oppose is forcing one particular language just because they are in Majority.
@@narayanan26 I've heard that you people kill Hindi speaking people, Is it true??? I'm really afraid of you guys...that's why I never apply for a job in TamilNadu. Here in Rajasthan you can speak any language we don't mind. My teacher of Graduate school was from South. I never got a chance to know where she was exactly from cos she was really strict and always talked in English with me. Please guys don't do that, don't fight on language and hate us for speaking Hindi otherwise your folks gonna start having same experience in here too really soon.
I don't think Japanese or Chinese people care or speak english, so i don't understand why you're calling people illiterate.
@@cataclysmal5315He doesn't seem to be mentioning the word "illiterate" anywhere in his comment.
@@narayanan26 of course it was exaggeration. And it's visible that I respect Tamil people as any other people in India to have their own language. However many of my Hindi speaking friends told me that when they addressed local people in Chennai in Hindi the latter knew Hindi but made view they didn't understand them. I will never accept the lack of hospitality or even discrimination from such people just because I don't speak local language. I saw such things in many countries. I personally spoke English with few phrases in Tamil and never had any problems in that beautiful state, Tamil Nadu.
I’m Indian.
Moved to America when I was 8.
I’m 38 now.
I speak Malayalam and Tamil fluently.
I can speak Hindi so-so.
And of course, English is my forte.
I love the Dravidian languages. They intrigue me so much.
I love speaking Malayalam with my parents!
It keeps me grounded!
*You all Immigrants will he kicked out by trump next election*
Chettan malyali ano
I also speak Malayalam
Kim Jong Un
Trust me.
Trump doesn’t wanna kick out hardworking legal immigrants.
But I’m sure North Korea will never accept immigrants! 🤣
Dev 007 and snailpop
Athe. Malayali annu.
Ammayum acchanum enne cheriye vayasu muthile Malayalam paddupicchu.
Dev 007 nan malyali ana
Foreigners: You are from India, Do you speak Indian?
Me : 😶
You have not mentioned Kashmiri & Sindhi.
@@susantadeb7666 It's there in the list of languages. Also considering all the trolls lurking in youtube who want to start a flame war, even mentioning certain keywords like Kashmir, Israel-Palestine, etc will cause them to come and mess up the entire comments thread.
Indian football fan right
Answer should be yes xD
@@greaterbharat4175 most Chinese people speak Mandarin and people speak nihongo in Japan. If you have an interest it's not really that difficult to learn seriously
I am from maharastra and my language is Marathi ..and I feel proud... diversity of Indian languages 😍😍
Apan doghahi veer marathe ahot!
My mother tongue is Marathi
I can speak English and Tamil.
Enga superstar pola
Most likely your Marati is very differnt from current version.
@@maitri74 but we can understand tanjavur direct
not fully but fairly
Hindi nahi ati bhai bilkul bhi?
Mi Marathi ahe
Sooooo
I live in Germany
*BUT* my Möther tongue is Tamil
*BUT*
My parents are Sri Lankan Tamils.....
Tamilan da...
Hallo 👋
Hallo mein Freund 😊
@@TheArtsHunter Grüße aus Bonn!
@@mrminerduck6781 Grüße aus dem Kreis Böblingen.
Native language: Tamil
Can also speak: telugu, kannada, marathi, Hindi and English.
@Jumping Bear hey...same to you 😂😅...
Just wanna try to learn some Telugu and Tamil
I am malayali and well i can speak malayalam🤔
Coool💫
I'm Tamil and I can speak Hindi marati Russian and English . South Indians can speak many languages. I like to communicate with people in their mother tongue
Vivek kamble of course I do. I have so many marati friends. They r very nice, respectful and friendly.
I am Indian my language is Hindi but I love all the language spoken all over India 😍😍 how beautiful my country is 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
Love your video bro keep growing
My mother tongue is Tulu and I speak Hindi, Kannada and English fluently. I understand Malayalam.
Same tuluva here 💜
Must be from mangalore or udupi
Bokka
Are you a Christian?
Wow bro. Please teach me. I'm an hindi speaker. But I know punjabi, haryanvi, english
Jai Hind! Love from Greece. I love everything about your diverse land , food , culture , but most of all your music! I tried learning Hindi and Sanskrit but due to the crisis I quit my studies but will get back to it soon... for the time being I am learning hymns such as Lingastakam (brahma murari) and my favourite Mahisasura Mardini (aigiri nandini) :) here on you tube ! Paul you are one of the best linguists! Keep up the good work ! We love you mate!
अच्छी बात है
Dhanyavaad bahut Albus , but I cannot read the script yet.. I am a begginer ...
thanks bro.
geotrisi While it makes me really happy to see people from Europe trying to learn Sanskrit and get familiar with the Dharmic culture, it also saddens me that us Indians on the other hand, are drifting away from our roots and our millennia old culture. Sanskrit is barely taught in our schools and no one takes it seriously with most amount of emphasis on English. As far as culture is concerned, we are slowly trying to imitate and adopt the Western culture because it is "cool". If you're in a big city in India and you can't speak English, you're find people looking you in a funny way.
In any case, keep at it brother, atleast our ancient culture and languages will still be alive somewhere in the world. Good luck.
Wow.. Keep it up.. 👏👏
I am a Sri Lankan living in US. I work with three Indian women here in the US company. Now here is the interesting part: I can speak Tamil & English fluently and a little bit Sinhala since I grew up in Colombo. The First Indian friend is from Bengaluru. Her father is a Gujarathi, her mother is a Bengali, & her husband speaks Telugu. So She can speak Hindi, English, Kannada, Telugu, Gujarathi and Bengali fluently. The second woman is from Bombay. She said she is Marathi. She is fluent in Hindi, English and Marathi languages. The third woman was born in the US for Panjabi parents. She can speak Panjabi, Hindi and English fluently. Now I am the only one who cannot speak Hindi. But all these women are my co-workers and wonderful to work with. They always speak in English among them even when I don't participate in their conversation. That makes me so comfortable to work with them. They do go to see Hindi movies together .
Interesting
Interesting
Unity in diversity. You have shared a short story about this land.. Love from India
இந்தி WORTH இல்லை
@@மண்ணின்மைந்தன்-ள1மI am Marathi
I can read Tamil a little bit
Is It
Irti worth iwnawa
I have not visited India, but I have worked with Indians whose mother tongues vary from Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, and others. Obviously, English is the language used for me to communicate with them. What I have found is that it is typically easier to communicate in English with native Hindi speakers, with a small number of exceptions. Of course, this is my own personal experience, and others may have different experiences.
In India, we have English medium schools where communication happens in English. Then we have Hindi and other regional language medium schools where English is taught as a subject. So, if anyone has a decent education, they can speak English, just that accent and flow would come based on the environment you grew up in. Mostly Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai guys have very good flow and accent due to the foreign investments and organizational presence over there. Cheers.
this is a semester course, complied into a 16 minute youtube video
respect.
Honestly this is one of the best channels on RUclips.
lolz!!! i too felt the same !!
Ikr!
The accuracy is scary. Amazing!
There's a very popular saying in India.
"कोस-कोस पर पानी बदले, चार कोस पर वाणी।"
"Kos kos par pani badle, char kos par vaani."
MEANING - With every kos water changes, at four kos voice(dialect) changes.
कोस "kos" is an ancient indian subcontinent measuring unit, Equal to 3000 metres. It comes from Sanskrit word क्रोश "krosa" meaning "call".
That's great! Something similar is or at least used to be true of many European languages. Drive around the English countryside, for example, and you'll hear a lot of accents in a short range.
@@RadicalCaveman study of languages very interesting. Not only European and English.Even within small countries . Several accents exist. Dialect with larger countries.
I have a friend from the state of Kerala in the South of India. I travelled around India with him and we met up with one of his friends from the north of India. My friend's friend did not speak Hind, so their only way to communicate with each other was English. It was good for me!
I'm from India.
My native language is Manipuri/Meeteilon/Meiteilon(referred as Meitei in the video). Besides it, I know Hindi, English, Nagamese Creole, Telugu, Sanskrit, Nepali(INDIAN LANGUAGES) and learning Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, Tagalog, Bahasa Indonesia (FOREIGN LANGUAGES). I can understand most of the Indo-Aryan languages.
Situations: I speak Hindi mostly with my friends whose 1st or 2nd language is Hindi; English with anyone who can speak or are learning (Indian and foreigners); Telugu with my Telangana and Andhra Pradesh friends; Nagamese with my neighbour; Sanskrit with my Sanskrit gurus (but I no more speak since HS graduation); Nepali with my Nepali friends. I often try to speak those foreign languages mentioned above whenever I communicate with any native speaker.
Thank you!
Did you study in Andhra Pradesh?
@@ErenYeager-jp4gc **Telangana.
It seems lots of upper middle class families from Imphal send their children to Andhra Pradesh and Telengana for higher studies.
@@시아오아이同学 where in Telangana bro?
@@ErenYeager-jp4gc yes mostly to cities of combined AP
I’m watching this from a business trip in India right now. I’m on assignment here and have been here for a month already. India is the most amazing, incredible, fascinating, diverse countries. An ancient civilization with so many languages! I have been met with only welcoming, inclusivity, curiosity, smiles, and hospitality. I will be so sad to leave India and go back to my country! Thank you, people of India, for being so kind!
Exactly opposite to what western media paint it.
welcome... may your stay in india allow you to enjoy the beauty in the chaos we have accumulated thru the millenia
may your memories of india be pleasant ...
thank you for the beautiful words
No, thank you for your kind words. :D
@@protonx80 Thank you so much for your kind words. Dhanyavad!
enjoy your stay as much as possible and thanks for your kind words😄😄😄
I'm marathi (मराठी)
Official language is Hindi (हिंदी)
I know Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡಾ)
Oldest languages are Sanskrit (संस्कृत) and tamil (தமிழ்)
I love my india .
. ಕನ್ನಡ
I'm bihari .I know .maithili bhojpuri .hindi bangali .english .nepali.panjabi and little bit tamil.sanskrit
@@Naghul3 oldest language ever in Dravidian family
Me too, I know marathi, hindi, english, I donno kannada but I know japanese and a bit of sanskrit
Sanskrit is also death....🤣
I'm from westbengal my native language is Bengali!
I can also easily sound
Assames, Hindi, Marwari(rajasthani), Spanish, English obviously 😇
ಕನ್ನಡವೇ ಸತ್ಯ ಕನ್ನಡವೇ ನಿತ್ಯ.. 😍
Love From Karnataka..
@The Phoenix Gaming 😍🙏🙏
Jai Karnataka
ಜೈ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ
ಜೈ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ
Jai hind jai Karnataka 💛♥️
யாமறிந்த மொழிகளில் தமிழ் மொழி போல் இனிதாவதெங்கும் காணோம்..!! ❤🇮🇳
♥️♥️
❤️❤️
Barathi
@@rambo5035 adhu da bharatham da
♥️💯
India does not have any "National language" only official languages. A large area of people don't even bother learning Hindi because nobody speaks it in the particular regions. It is only because the population of the Hindi speaking belt is very high that some of them mistake it to be a National language. English is more wide spread though. Hindi is more concentrated in a certain belt.
Actually, it's not just that Hindi is just prominent due dense Populated belts but because of Sanskrit deep Roots penitration in others languages like Gujarati, Marathi, North Easterns, bengal & Even Telugu, kannada & Malayalam etc. Has many comprehensive if patiently communicated !!!
@@latvialava6644 excuse me but what kind of language is Northeastern 😂?
@@fishyfish6510 ASSAMESE Has Relation with Sanskrit !!! Upper north east uses Indo- Tibetian which again had been influenced by pali & Sanskrit + Tibetian, coming to lower north east having much combination of southern east language like thai which again shares similarities with sanskrit + Bengali !!! Sanskrit is a common factor which has influenced over 70% Languages around the world !!!
@@latvialava6644 Lol Tamil has stronger roots in Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada than Sanskrit does. Doesn't mean we own those languages. Each of us are our own language even though we belong to the same Dravidian family.
Don't try to unionise India's languages under the Sanskrit umbrella. It won't happen.
@@gowthambond007 I haven't used any word even close to "BELONG" please google the meaning "Influence" !!! My point is the All human being languages in this world are somehow related to eachother !!! It's a family roots of inheritance & bit legacy because, Nothing is pure in the world & are related to one another somehow indeed !!! And, sanskrit is among the most influential language around the globe !!! & Even tamil has a quite wide significance in lots of languages specially south east asia !!! Here i am not showing sanskrit as dominant but, many similarities between all these languages !!!
I am from Germany but my mother tongue is PUNJABI. I can speak urdu and hindi a little bit
I’m a Tamizhan from Malaysia and I speak Tamizh, English, Malay, Mandarin, Cantonese and Hindi :)
Tamizan is not from india.tamils are from India
Puleve
Of course Tamil is the oldest Ancient language.
Brown and Proud Channel me to tamilan
💟my mama's from malaysia and my father was from srilanka.... they met in TN... now imma tamilan 😅
I am Tamil. I can speak English, Hindi, Telugu and Malayalam. I am most comfortable in Tamil, followed by English
Most comfortable?????
@@kollywoodkingss5304 Tamil and English
Same
@@kollywoodkingss5304 i meant, I am most fluent in
Even I speak Tamil .It is my native language and I know Kannada and English. I am from Salem district of Tamil nadu. But I study at Bengaluru. My second language at school is Kannada not hindi I dont now hindi.
I am sri lankan by my parents, born in Tamilnadu, living in France. I
Speak Tamil, French & little english . India is my favorit country.
vanakkam
আমার মাতৃভাষা বাংলা এবং আমি যেখানে যাই সেখানেই আমি বাংলায় কথা বলি কারণ এটি আমার রাজ্যের সরকারি ভাষা।
लेकिन मैं हिंदी भी बोलता हूं और इसमें काफी अच्छा हूं।
I use Hindi when I have to talk to Hindi speakers in Kolkata or as a default when I see a Non-Bengali.
And apart from that میں تھوڑی سی اردو جانتا ہوں۔
মই অসমীয়া বুজিব পাৰিছো but only because I know Bengali.
And I have a French Test tomorrow, so J'espère que tous ceux qui verront cela passeront une excellente journée.
I speak English, Hindi, Manipuri, Kuki, Assamese and Nagamese. I understand a bit of Nepali, Bengali and other Kuki-Chin languages upto a certain extent, all thanks to mutual intelligibility.
OMG
I like Nepali its fun
Sir, u forgot to mention Garo from Meghalaya. It is also Sino Tibetan language. U have only mentioned Khasi in the video. There are actually 3 major tribes in Meghalaya, Khasi, Jaintia and Garo.
@Permanent mark Pure rajput you're welcome
Thank you my native language is Malayalam. We are proud of Indias diversity
Northeast India, the most beautiful
Garo was there below bodo
Hahaha!! I thought garo, khasi and jaintia were name of mountain hills, I didn't know they were named after tribes.
Thanks 👍👍
I was suppose to fly to India Thursday but due to the Pakistan conflict all flights from Canada are cancelled. I waited almost two years for this tour! :(
Damn, man. I’m sorry to hear that. :( I hope you can reschedule once things calm down.
It's okay now
Brotha If u come to India pls pls pls do visit northeast India..
Oh I'm so sorry :( hope that you would be able to visit soon :) which side were you planning to visit?
Sorry to her that..... Atleast stay safe
My parents are from South and settled in Central India, I speak Hindi at home, English at workplace.
I understand Malayalam and Tamil. Can speak basic Malayalam. I understand little bit of Telugu due to the region I worked in . Can understand basic Punjabi and Urdu due to bollywood movies and songs. I am learning french from sometime, can read it slowly and get a jist, out of whats written. Accent and flow is difficult to understand. But I can relate some of the grammatical structures and words with Sanskrit. I believe Sanskrit has influenced lot of languages around the world.
Thank you for your time. God bless.🙏
I'm Lotha Naga
Languages spoken:
Lotha (Sino-Tibetian)
Sumi (Sino-Tibetian)
Nagamese (Assamese croele with blend of sino-tibetian)
Assamese
English
Hindi
French (I have forgotten most of it by now)
I wish there were more resources for learning Tibetan languages and Dzongkha
CUTENESS IS WHEN...
NORTH EAST N SOUTH IÑDIAN
PPL SPEKS IN HINDI😂🤣
@@dravidianteluguboy6322 what do u mean? I am an Assamese and I can speak hindi in a decent way( maybe some words will be incorrect)
@@prantoshduarah9997 YA.. BRO.. EVEN MY FRNDS R FRM #MANIPUR/MEGHALAYA... THEY SPEAK HINDI IN A DESCENT MANNER... BUT THEY COMMIT SOME MISTAKES... LIKE ME... SO THAT'S NOT A PERFECT HINDI MAN... SO SOUNDS FUNNY N NJOYABLE... 😂
THEY ALWAYS IGNORE... NORTHERN CITIES LIKE #NEW_DELHI/KOLKATA/MUMBAI
U GUYS ALWAYS PREFER SOUTHERN AREA TO SETTLE♥️
#HYDRABAD/BANGLORE/CHENNAI
I DON'T KNW Y... BUT V NJOY THOSE PPL SPEAKING SOME HINDI... HERE IN SOUTH😂
I'm from India 🇮🇳
My Mother Toungue is Konkani
I can speak Kannada ,Tulu,Tamil ,Hindi Fluently...I can understand Telugu and Malayalam but I can't talk much.. and yeah English as well..
I can speak Kannada, Tulu, Konkani, Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, English and manage with Marathi & Telugu. People who are from Mangalore/Kasaragod region can speak 3 to 5 languages by the time they are in High school, rest of the languages are learnt depending on where your life takes you.
@@sunilrao Yea.. I'm from Manglore..
@HAPPY FAMILY FRIENDS the place I live is called Manglore . It's in the Southern region of Karnataka... My mother tongue is konkani..the native language here is Tulu.. it's used by most of the people here in 3-4 districts... State language is ofcourse Kannada.. so I learnt these 3 languages from childhood.. studied Hindi and English in school.. I love movies.. I learnt Tamil through movies and Cartoon channels.. I can understand Malayalam ( though I can't talk much) because my city is close to Kerala border.. so I have many Malayali friends.. I can understand Telugu now because I've started watching Telugu movies .. Telugu is easy for me coz Kannada and Telugu are pretty similar.. but I don't know to write and read in any language other than Kannada , Hindi, English...
@HAPPY FAMILY FRIENDS I dnt know where you are from.. I'm from India .. and most of the Indians know atleast more than 3 languages.. so it isn't a big deal here for a person to know multiple languages.. because there are 200+ officially recognised languages and 1500+ dialects are spoken across the nation..
I speak dutch and english...
Meanwhile some of my friends in
USA: Hey! Can you teach me how to speak Indian 😂😂😂😁😁
I N D I A N
Okk
You gotta be like: Aight w h i c h o n e
Make them learn all 1000 language
Lol... INDIAN is not any language its use for native people of India..... its Hindi
@@mra.tripti Hindi? It depends on who they wants to communicate with..
Thank you for the information. I am from Tamil Nadu. My mother tongue is Tamil. I speak English, German C1-2 level (I studied in Germany), and Sinhala A2-B1(I can read and write I lived in Colombo for sometimes a little Hindi A2 ( can read and write)/Urdu ( cannot read and write) Spanish A1 (learning)
One country, one multicultural and multilingual society. As a cultural and lingual enthusiast, this really fascinates me.
Yes maybe, but it goes against development and Unity.
@@cataclysmal5315 that's true to some extent.
@@cataclysmal5315 here comes the normie
@@cataclysmal5315 unity is overraated
Love from India 🇮🇳
த - மி - ழ்
Tha-mi-zh
த-மி-ழ-ன்
Tha-mi-zha-n
Fun fact for those not tamils: the zh is english R, not spanish R or most languages R
Wish comment box had voice note facility
@Hessa shanavas cause malayalam script arrived from Tamil script
@Hessa shanavas bcoz Sanskrit+Tamil= Malayalam
@Hessa shanavas u need to learn history...malayalam is just a forgotten tamil left in the history that mixed with sanskrit.
I am from Karnataka ( India) , my mother tongue is kannada, 😍😍😍
ಜಯ ಕನ್ನಡ ಜಯ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ💛❤️
Namm Kannada dalli south kannada
Matthe north Kannada swalpa bere ithe
ಜೈ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಮಾತೆ
Yess..💛❤️
💞💞
I am a native Telugu speaker. I also read, write and speak English and Hindi. This is almost the same across most of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Many Telugu speakers in border towns and villages can understand and speak Tamil and Kannada. If one counts second language as well and not just their mother tongue, Telugu is next only to Hindi in the number of speakers.
“ తెలుగ దేలయన్న దేశంబు తెలుగేను
"తెలుగు వల్లభుండ తెలుగొకండ
ఎల్లవారు వినగ ఎరుగవే బాసాడి
దేశ భాషలందు తెలుగు లెస్స ”
-శ్రీ కృష్ణదేవ రాయలు
Excellent 👌
Some Telgu word are similar to kannada words.
@SIDDHAARTH MANIAN☺ 👍👍
Fantastic👏👏
Super🥺🥺🥺✨️
It's nice to see how India kept their native languages alive even after so many years of colonization. I wish we could say the same about South American countries.
mfcord That’s also because India was not a settler colony
@@Rajeevnair1959r Settler colony?
@Nik oh yeah I understand now
Quechua is still widely spoken in South America isn't it?
@Nik actually, 100,000 Brits used to live here in colonial times and 16,000 stayed after independence.
Hello! I am Manipuri (Meitei)I just wanted to add that even though Bengali script was and still is widely used for meiteilon(Meitei language), we have our own script called Meitei Mayek. Thank you for the video I enjoyed it a lot!
Wow I really wanna visit
But I am broke😔
Hi! I didn't know you had the Bengali script in Manipur. Love from West Bengal.
I was expecting him that he would mentioned Meitei mayek. Maybe he reads this comment and get the small correction. 😊😊
@@uditbhattacharya3952 Meitei Mayek (Manipur script) was replaced by Bengali script by Manipur King and Bengali priest a century ago(not sure of the history). We grew up learning the Bengali script. Some years ago, Meitei Mayek was re-introduced and now the younger generations are more influenced by the Meitei Mayek. But most of the local dailies and local TV channels still use the bengali script in one way or the other.
@@ninzapou oh I see. Thanks for the info! Take love!
I was Born in Malaysia and raised there. My native language is Tamil.malaysian Tamil is a bit different from India , Sri Lanka and singapore.we use malay words sometimes.lastly ,i can speak malay ,Tamil , English,and Spanish 👽👽