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In Ireland we have a phrase 'tír gan teanga, tír gan anam.' It means 'a country without a language is a country without a soul'. It highlights the importance of protecting native tounges. Languages are important parts of our cultures.
Yesterday I found a speaker of South Sami, a critically endangered indigenous language of Norway spoken by only 600 in the '90s. On an anime forum. Cool.
Ireland is officially bilingual with English and Irish. Irish is taught in schools and in areas called Gaeltachts but English is the dominant language by far.
Just out of curiosity, how many people in Ireland would actually be able to speak Irish? I watch a video were a person asked people in the street things in Irish to see if they understand him basically no one did except a few.
@@jjosephs6521 Irish (Gaeilge) is an official language in the Republic of Ireland, and is mandatory in primary and secondary education. Most people know at least some Irish, though only about 2% of the population claim to be fluent.
Daniel Why is there no push for decolonization? You are independent, yet you are losing your heritage to a colonial language. And it is very possible to revive it! Herbrew was revived in Israel because the Jewish people pushed for it.
@@glebsokolov9959 Ireland is decolonised and there are pushes being made to revive Irish, the problem is that most people don't seem to want it enough sadly. If you ask Irish kids what their least favourite subject is I can guarantee that most of them will say Irish
Aduantas You are decolonized legally, as in you are now a sovereign nation. However, getting rid of English as the main and only language Is key to decolonizing socially. It is very similar the story of the Ukraine within the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union. Most people in Ukraine, even ethnic Ukrainians, speak Russian on daily basis. Nothing was done about it until 2014, when government started making plans to return Ukrainian the status of the main language everyone must speak. On September 1, 2020 all Russians schools within Ukrainian controlled territories will switch to Ukrainian instruction. This will be costly, as staff had to be educated and all books would have to be bought in Ukrainian language this time. However, this will definitely decolonize Ukraine and will help the country have a better national identity. Even though I am Russian and it might seem like bad news for me, I think it’s not a bad thing at all. Ukrainians deserve to be a separate nation/ethnicity and, as long as they will still offer a Russian language class in every school, they would not be discriminating anyone. Ireland just doesn’t want to spend money to save Irish, but just offering a class in Irish is not enough. All school instruction needs to be in the language.
Languages are awesome. I personally know Russian (My native language), Polish, Croatian, German, Spanish, (I grew up in Poland, Croatia, Germany, and Spain) and English.
Despite all the differences in language, the English word "dog" is exactly the same as the Mbabaram word "dog", both of course referring to our cute canine friends.
@@mikespearwood3914 In English? Yes, not sure about that Australian language, but when I read about it in one article it mentioned there where cognates in neighboring languages, unlike in the Germanic siblings of English which still use cognates to hound for Canus lupus familiaris.
Cantonese and Mandarin are different languages, but they’re both under the Chinese umbrella because they share same written systems. (Both Mandarin & Cantonese can be written in Simplified or Traditional Chinese)
Except all those languages are official at the national level in South Africa, while in India Hindi and English are the only official languages at the federal level (although the federal government has been trying to push Hindi nationally). The other languages are only official at the state or union territory level. But in essence both use English as their main along with another local language.
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions English and hindi are official languages are only for government purposes only and u can use all 22 languages and no natianol language
@@ishthiaqshaik1083 Legally there is no national language In India. Hindi & English is the language is of Union Govt. And province level you can as many as language you keep. 22 Languages are recognized for Federal/Union level administration.
@@TheRealPog1 From quick research, about 95% in Kosovo speak Albanian. Serbian is an official language though its speaken by less than 2%. More speak Bosnian in Kosovo than Serbian.
@@GeographyWorld The northern region of Kosovo, where most of the Serbian speakers live, boycotted the census, so their numbers are underrepresented. It's almost certain that they, at the very least, have more Serbian speakers than Bosnian.
"In order to be considered a language, a system of communication must have vocabulary, grammar, syntax, and people who use and understand it. Mathematics meets this definition of a language. ... Math is a universal language. The symbols and organization to form equations are the same in every country of the world."
The symbol and organisation of math differs depending on country. For example, in English or western countries we generally use thousands as a unit for exponentials of 10, but some use 10 thousand like in countries in East Asia, or 100 thousand for India. Some culture may use non decimal system to count. Even the syntax we use to calculate math differs country to country. In English decimals are represented with . and exponentials with , , but in many countries in continental Europe it is the opposite or you can use : to represent division. So the interpretation of math are not universal either
@@EmpireTVDragon I agree in part, my comment was a quote. Maths is a universal language because whether you write in Roman numerals X + X = XX or Arabic numerals 10 + 10 = 20, the concept of 20 things is the same. What ever symbology you use the actual physical structure of something does not change. Take a simple equation like F=mg , Force is equals to mass times acceleration due to gravity. Instead of writing F=mg I could change all the symbols to $ - @& , but that wouldn't change the actual force.
@@jjosephs6521 well the same could be said about languages. Language are just different way to express something. Different languages use different term and structure to describe them. But fundamentally, you are describing the same thing. Like 85 in French is read as something like 4 20s and 5, and in English it's 8 10s and 5
I mean this just isn’t true. Try going to China or Japan with your western numerals and see how far that gets you. Or in Arab countries where they use Arabic numerals (not the modified ones we use, but basically the original ones) and you won’t be able to read it. In certain situations counties that use the Cyrillic alphabet will also use Cyrillic numerals (which you won’t be able to read). Then you have Mesoamerican cultures or ancient Egypt that used pictograms to represent numbers. I agree in part that you can represent anything my Maths, but that really doesn’t help you if you can’t read the Maths.
Norwegian, Swedish and unfortunately Danish are all very similar. They can all communicate with each other without trying to switch language. Danish however has very odd phonology, but in written form it is basically the same as Norwegian and very similar to Swedish.
0:52 I like how that map shows French Guiana and Suriname as speaking Spanish, shows Mali speaking Arabic while their official language is French, shows Cameroon as having French as an official language while they have English too, shows Equatorial Guinea speaking French while the country is a former Spanish colony with Spanish, French and Portuguese being its official language, central Africa also has French not English as its official language. It also paints Central Asian countries with the same color as Turkey while they do not have the same official languages (although they are all part of the Turkic family). It shows India as having a single national language while it is obviously wrong. It also forgot many countries like Estonia, Latvia, Hungary or Ukraine which also have one single official language and colors countries like the USA which do not have any national or official language. It does not even show the border between Angola and Namibia! This map is all wrong! x)
@@TheRealPog1 I know. But their only official language is Ukrainian (which is in fact a slavic language!) which means that the country should have been colored. This was my point.
Mutual intelligibility is cool, but one-way intelligibility is where things get really interesting, also cases where there is only written or spoken intelligibility
I lived in Tahiti 20 years ago, and as a 20 year old American, I spoke better Tahitian than almost any teenager on the main islands thanks to French. Sad to see languages die.
IN CHINA, WE LEARN OUR OWN LANGUAGE AT HOME AND LEARN MANDARIN AT SCHOOL. MOST CHINESE CAN SPEAK AT LEAST TWO KINDS OF CHINESE LANGUAGE SUCH AS MANDARIN AND CANTONESE
0:30 I love just how little "Russian" is shown in Ukraine, whilst almost everyone not living in western Ukraine usually speaks Russian. Well, at least they did the last time I had a trip across Ukraine (Moscow-Kiev-Odessa-Sevastopol in a car in 2010)
That's because Scots is a completely different dialect. A native English speaker can probably understand if they listen carefully and pay attention to context but a non native English speaker might get caught up in the words they use in Scots but not English, the different pronunciation, and slightly different sentence structure. Here in there US we have African American vernacular, which you might run into the same issue of understanding.
@@ronaldonmg Just to make sure, you're not confusing Scottish English (the set of dialects of English spoken in Scotland) and Scots (the Germanic language, sibling to the English language). Because many people get those two confused.
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions I am not confusing them. Scots is a westgermanic language in its own right. I heard it in a few youtube-videos. Some parts are earily similar to my native Dutch :-)
This is must be the reason why Yugoslavia collapsed into these countries as of what took place between the 1980s-2000s for heavily political reasons. 3:48
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions I know but back then people living there didn't have that much of a problem with not being independent because they were never independent
@@incog0956 No, not neccesarily. Serbia and Montenegro were independent kingdoms before the foundation of Yugoslavia. For Bosnia and Croatia, they were independent during the medieval era, but that arguably doesn't count. The main reason Yugoslavia fell was because it was run almost exclusively by Serbs. The Serbs ruling the country effectively treated it as the Serbian colonial empire, which if you think about it, it kinda makes sense why the other countries would want to leave what was effectively Greater Serbia. In my opinion Yugoslavia could've worked out if the Serbs didn't exploit. P.S. By "Serbs" I mean the serbs ruling the country, not neccesarily every serb.
You are confusing cause and effect here. The dialects of serbo-croatian were deliberately "unmerged" by chauvinist politicians. One example being that Serbia uses Cyrillics while Croatian doesn't. [I don't live anywhere near Yugoslavia]
I think of languages as fences that circle collections of dialects. These fences aren’t walls but lines in the sand, and dialects might straddle these lines
Languages like Icelandic and Faroese are noticeably different spoken and written, but both speakers can read and understand the spoken language each other. Here you'd consider it a different language both in speaking and writing. However if we take Norwegian it's mostly just speaking since Bøkmål is based on danish with minimal variant (note that only a minority in Norway use Nynorsk), so spoken it's a different language, but in all practicalities written it's the same as danish.
It's called asymmetric intelligibility. There are languages that are close enough to each other that speakers don't have much of a problem, but then you have others where one speaker is better at understanding the other but not visa versa.
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions I'm aware. Italian and Spanish tend to be that a speaker of one has an easier time understanding the other. Norwegian has the easiest time of understanding all Norse languages.
In Indonesia, there is +-500 local languages. I speak sundanese with 50 millions speakers, then move hundreds km away, i can hear Javanese or Malay Betawi that i know little about...
1:58 Are English and Turkish completely different? Here I give you an example in Kazakh which is related to Turkish, for example the word boss in the Kazakh bastik, the word belt - beldik, big - biik, ice - aiaz, kent - kent, block - bolek, elk - elk, listen - estu, seldom - seldr, ox - ogz, so - sol, baby - bobe, clean - klen, hard - kat, other - ozge, me - men, measure - mezhe, mouth - auz, teeth - tis, sense - sezn, collapse - koulau etc, as u can see turkic and English languages have more similarities between than diversity
Технодом Технодом yeah but these are just some cherrypicked examples. there are far more differences than similarities. a lot of these word similarities can be chocked up to coincidence, both languages borrowing from the same word, or borrowings from english into kazakh.
@@forkrunner2208 cherry picked? Oh man, do you know that the word cherry in Kazakh language cheye? You see that similarity! And u think this is just a coincidence?
Scots has been getting more anglicised over the past century or so as a result of English being the language of education and Scots being frowned upon. A fairly non-anglicised form of Scots is described in the attached website: www.scots-online.org/grammar/index.php Course, I'm assuming the Scots speakers mentioned in the video isn't speaking 'broad' Scots as described in the website. I don't quite speak as Scots as described in the website so I couldn't say if it's mutually intelligible with English or not
I Hope To, When I Have Kids, Try To Raise Them Bilingual, Or Even Trilingual, In English As Well As Some Minority Language Or Another. On A Semi-Related Note, Can One Person Raise Children In Different Languages? Like Raise One Child Speaking English And Another Speaking German?
You could try, but it'll have to be an effort of not just both parents but all family members. Anyways, I've heard of parents where one speaks to their child in one language, while the other in another to raise them bilingual.
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions Aye, I've Heard Of That, I Think I've Even Heard Of Some People Raising Children Trilingual, Where One Parent Speaks To Them In One Language, The Other In Another Language, And Then They Also Go To A School In A Third Language. I Wonder If There's A Limit Go How Many Languages A Child Can Grow Up Speaking.
Please stop abusing the capitals. It's annoying. Yes, it's perfectly possible to raise a kid in 2 or more languages. The famous (chess-playing) Polgar-sisters were raised in 6 (Esperanto being one of them, IIRC). The "trick" seems to be to never mix the languages. You either link every language to certain company, or to certain times of the week
Unfortunately in today's world, the more people that speak a language, the greater the benefit of speaking that language. As a counterexample, as explained to me by my wife, take rural villages in Kenya. The village people only speak their tribal language (they are supposed to learn Swahili and English in school, but their education is poor, and this doesn't happen--more on that later). They can communicate fine with the next village over; next village over it starts getting difficult; next village over is a struggle; fourth village over is hopeless. Knowing only their tribal language, they are fairly trapped within a small bubble of villages their whole lives. Anyone who manages to learn Swahili and/or English will use their language skills to find better opportunities in a city and not go back to their village to teach it, or anything.
So the amount of languages in the world depends on how you see it, and there probably exist people who are so strict that they would place it in the hundreds, as well as people who are so permissive that they would place it in the tens of thousands, but the sane range is in the thousands somewhere.
Long answer: A LOT and more contantly evolving until humanity becomes a literal single nation and even then accents might as well turn it into different languages with due time. Short answer for a big part of the world: ENGLISH Ps: Also I dont remember the name of the language but somewhere in asia there was a tribe with only two living descendants who spoke it and they dont because they got into a fight with each other, not even making a single recording for the generations to come because of that xD
Just a dinosaur with internet access The last two people that know that language had a fight and won’t make a recording with the other one so since they don’t get along instead of recording a regular conversation, record an argument
Just a dinosaur with internet access The last two people that know that language had a fight and won’t make a recording with the other one so since they don’t get along instead of recording a regular conversation, record an argument
Tell me where you are from, without telling me where you are from. I'll start. "Bûter, brea en griene tsiis, wat’dat net sizze kin is gjin oprjochte Fries"
Afrikaans is more mutually intelligible to Dutch than the dialect Zeeuws(from the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands) but Zeeuws is not a language(there are many many forms of Zeeuws because my province used to be a lot of small islands and almost every village and city has its own version of Zeeuws). Dialects sadly also die out, because I usually speak Dutch and not Zeeuws(my parents can speak Zeeuws, but they too speak usually Dutch).
I agree that _Afrikaans_ should be seen as just South African Dutch, but just like the video said politics and culture have made it a different language, solidified via a different orthographic standard.
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions Dutch has grammatical gender, Afrikaans does not. In my view, that makes it a different language Zeeuws is not officially acknowledged as separate language yet
I'd say it's around 5000, it was 6000 a century ago. It was 12000 in 1500 A.D. and 15000 in 500 B.C. most languages died either from forced assimilation or genocide. Ps the chick at 4:23 looks alot like kourtney Kardashian.
My own country India has languages like Hindi Bhojpuri Rajasthani Gujarati Kannada Tamil Maharathi Telegu Assamese Kashmiri Haryanvi Punjabi Sindhi English Urdu Odia French Sikkimi Bengali Sinhali Malayalam Bundelkhandi Etc. But I know khanubis knows that more people speak kannada than the people live in Canada
Mutual intelligibility alone is not a good rule for figuring out what’s a language and what’s a dialect. You’ve likely pissed off a lot of people for calling Scots and Azeri dialects of English and Turkish respectively
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Without the capital A the channel name looks really wierd
In Ireland we have a phrase 'tír gan teanga, tír gan anam.' It means 'a country without a language is a country without a soul'. It highlights the importance of protecting native tounges. Languages are important parts of our cultures.
Adrian Kwok - That‘s what I‘ve been saying this whole time!
The best vids ever man, love the content
What about Hindi and Urdu? Completely intelligible to both, but still considered different languages
* technically South Africa has 11 official languages. They're considering to make South African Sign Language the 12th but it's not yet official.
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India: Keep talking...
That’s stupid asf
Yesterday I found a speaker of South Sami, a critically endangered indigenous language of Norway spoken by only 600 in the '90s. On an anime forum. Cool.
At least there a man of culture
Not only in norway tho
@@mofflarn8997 That is true.
@@danboekenoogen4957 They are here but hidden.
Nah I hate Tamil and China
Ireland is officially bilingual with English and Irish. Irish is taught in schools and in areas called Gaeltachts but English is the dominant language by far.
Just out of curiosity, how many people in Ireland would actually be able to speak Irish?
I watch a video were a person asked people in the street things in Irish to see if they understand him basically no one did except a few.
@@jjosephs6521 Irish (Gaeilge) is an official language in the Republic of Ireland, and is mandatory in primary and secondary education. Most people know at least some Irish, though only about 2% of the population claim to be fluent.
Daniel Why is there no push for decolonization? You are independent, yet you are losing your heritage to a colonial language. And it is very possible to revive it! Herbrew was revived in Israel because the Jewish people pushed for it.
@@glebsokolov9959 Ireland is decolonised and there are pushes being made to revive Irish, the problem is that most people don't seem to want it enough sadly. If you ask Irish kids what their least favourite subject is I can guarantee that most of them will say Irish
Aduantas You are decolonized legally, as in you are now a sovereign nation. However, getting rid of English as the main and only language Is key to decolonizing socially. It is very similar the story of the Ukraine within the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union. Most people in Ukraine, even ethnic Ukrainians, speak Russian on daily basis. Nothing was done about it until 2014, when government started making plans to return Ukrainian the status of the main language everyone must speak. On September 1, 2020 all Russians schools within Ukrainian controlled territories will switch to Ukrainian instruction. This will be costly, as staff had to be educated and all books would have to be bought in Ukrainian language this time. However, this will definitely decolonize Ukraine and will help the country have a better national identity. Even though I am Russian and it might seem like bad news for me, I think it’s not a bad thing at all. Ukrainians deserve to be a separate nation/ethnicity and, as long as they will still offer a Russian language class in every school, they would not be discriminating anyone. Ireland just doesn’t want to spend money to save Irish, but just offering a class in Irish is not enough. All school instruction needs to be in the language.
The Hawaiian language too it's almost in extinct in 80's but nowadays it has been recovering..
#FreeHawaii
“FreeHawaii
Languages are awesome. I personally know Russian (My native language), Polish, Croatian, German, Spanish, (I grew up in Poland, Croatia, Germany, and Spain) and English.
Lijepo
If you know Croatian you know basically Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin and understand other Slavic languages like Ukrainian, Slovenian or Bulgarian.
For knowing my languange (Polish) i salute you
@@TheRealPog1 јако.
а да ли знаш најбољи језик на свијету?
Despite all the differences in language, the English word "dog" is exactly the same as the Mbabaram word "dog", both of course referring to our cute canine friends.
BorisXanovavich lol
so?
Yes, but that's pure coincidence.
For some reason “pure" was autocorrected to "life”, weird.
They literally can't trace where the word "dog" has it's origins.
@@mikespearwood3914
In English? Yes, not sure about that Australian language, but when I read about it in one article it mentioned there where cognates in neighboring languages, unlike in the Germanic siblings of English which still use cognates to hound for Canus lupus familiaris.
1:01 hey I know that's Singapore
*+*
My country! 🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬
Short answer: There are so many you can’t learn them all
Mr. Clyde M. All polyglots: WANNA BET
Mr. Clyde M. Sounds like a challenge
Cantonese and Mandarin are different languages, but they’re both under the Chinese umbrella because they share same written systems. (Both Mandarin & Cantonese can be written in Simplified or Traditional Chinese)
The Chinese writing system is fascinating. It's basically its own language since it can mostly be learned whiteout learning any spoken language.
South Africa: I have lots of languages.
India: Hold my lassi.
Except all those languages are official at the national level in South Africa, while in India Hindi and English are the only official languages at the federal level (although the federal government has been trying to push Hindi nationally). The other languages are only official at the state or union territory level. But in essence both use English as their main along with another local language.
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions English and hindi are official languages are only for government purposes only and u can use all 22 languages and no natianol language
@@ishthiaqshaik1083 Legally there is no national language In India. Hindi & English is the language is of Union Govt. And province level you can as many as language you keep.
22 Languages are recognized for Federal/Union level administration.
Indonesia : hmm, amateurs.
@@svenandersen India has the world's second highest number of languages (780), after Papua New Guinea (839).
Why was Kosovo included in the map of Serbia. Recognise them or not, they speak Albanian.
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Because some people there are still people who are Serbian maybe
@@TheRealPog1 From quick research, about 95% in Kosovo speak Albanian. Serbian is an official language though its speaken by less than 2%. More speak Bosnian in Kosovo than Serbian.
@@GeographyWorld Ok idk i just tryed to answer
@@GeographyWorld The northern region of Kosovo, where most of the Serbian speakers live, boycotted the census, so their numbers are underrepresented. It's almost certain that they, at the very least, have more Serbian speakers than Bosnian.
"In order to be considered a language, a system of communication must have vocabulary, grammar, syntax, and people who use and understand it. Mathematics meets this definition of a language. ... Math is a universal language. The symbols and organization to form equations are the same in every country of the world."
@@patart3846 You can do that with logic symbols, everything can be expressed in math
The symbol and organisation of math differs depending on country. For example, in English or western countries we generally use thousands as a unit for exponentials of 10, but some use 10 thousand like in countries in East Asia, or 100 thousand for India. Some culture may use non decimal system to count. Even the syntax we use to calculate math differs country to country. In English decimals are represented with . and exponentials with , , but in many countries in continental Europe it is the opposite or you can use : to represent division. So the interpretation of math are not universal either
@@EmpireTVDragon
I agree in part, my comment was a quote.
Maths is a universal language because whether you write in Roman numerals X + X = XX or Arabic numerals 10 + 10 = 20, the concept of 20 things is the same.
What ever symbology you use the actual physical structure of something does not change.
Take a simple equation like F=mg , Force is equals to mass times acceleration due to gravity.
Instead of writing F=mg I could change all the symbols to $ - @& , but that wouldn't change the actual force.
@@jjosephs6521 well the same could be said about languages. Language are just different way to express something. Different languages use different term and structure to describe them. But fundamentally, you are describing the same thing. Like 85 in French is read as something like 4 20s and 5, and in English it's 8 10s and 5
I mean this just isn’t true. Try going to China or Japan with your western numerals and see how far that gets you. Or in Arab countries where they use Arabic numerals (not the modified ones we use, but basically the original ones) and you won’t be able to read it. In certain situations counties that use the Cyrillic alphabet will also use Cyrillic numerals (which you won’t be able to read). Then you have Mesoamerican cultures or ancient Egypt that used pictograms to represent numbers. I agree in part that you can represent anything my Maths, but that really doesn’t help you if you can’t read the Maths.
That 4 language sign is in Singapore where the 4 official languages are English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil
Nonononononono people speak Sumerian, Who doesn't? 5:54
Norwegian, Swedish and unfortunately Danish are all very similar. They can all communicate with each other without trying to switch language. Danish however has very odd phonology, but in written form it is basically the same as Norwegian and very similar to Swedish.
*Sad Esperanto noises*
the virgin Esperanto vs the Chad Toki Pona
esperanto estas malutila merdo
🙄
1:40 is Singapore too or...?
Normie
0:52 I like how that map shows French Guiana and Suriname as speaking Spanish, shows Mali speaking Arabic while their official language is French, shows Cameroon as having French as an official language while they have English too, shows Equatorial Guinea speaking French while the country is a former Spanish colony with Spanish, French and Portuguese being its official language, central Africa also has French not English as its official language.
It also paints Central Asian countries with the same color as Turkey while they do not have the same official languages (although they are all part of the Turkic family).
It shows India as having a single national language while it is obviously wrong.
It also forgot many countries like Estonia, Latvia, Hungary or Ukraine which also have one single official language and colors countries like the USA which do not have any national or official language.
It does not even show the border between Angola and Namibia!
This map is all wrong! x)
Ukrain is slavic
@@TheRealPog1 I know.
But their only official language is Ukrainian (which is in fact a slavic language!) which means that the country should have been colored. This was my point.
@@azhadial7396 oki
it also colors mainland russia but not its exclave
What language do they speak in Suriname? Dutch?
Mutual intelligibility is cool, but one-way intelligibility is where things get really interesting, also cases where there is only written or spoken intelligibility
Khanubis: uploads
Me trying to stop a nuclear conflict: omg i have to watch
I lived in Tahiti 20 years ago, and as a 20 year old American, I spoke better Tahitian than almost any teenager on the main islands thanks to French. Sad to see languages die.
You forgot to include
Minecraft Enchantment Table Language
Hey bruh you're here too,the new y. Justin w/chicken popcorn pic
He only meant real languages, not fictional languages.
Eggy543 who said it was fictional
Really you're not mention Papua New Guinea and or Indonesia 🙄
Oh, yeah he forget it
IN CHINA, WE LEARN OUR OWN LANGUAGE AT HOME AND LEARN MANDARIN AT SCHOOL. MOST CHINESE CAN SPEAK AT LEAST TWO KINDS OF CHINESE LANGUAGE SUCH AS MANDARIN AND CANTONESE
Did you mean to write that all in caps?
0:30 I love just how little "Russian" is shown in Ukraine, whilst almost everyone not living in western Ukraine usually speaks Russian. Well, at least they did the last time I had a trip across Ukraine (Moscow-Kiev-Odessa-Sevastopol in a car in 2010)
Mark Dombrovan he said countries sometimes say they have a different language than another for political reasons
Since 2014 there's been a huge push to encourage the Ukrainian language, it's working slowly I think but time will tell if it sticks
Impeach Wolodymyr Zelens'kyj ❗
According to Ethnologue, there are 7,139 languages in the world, including 3,018 endangered languages (42.27%).
I know English on a good enough level, but I did not understand a thing coming from a Scottish shopkeeper, when I was there XD
That's because Scots is a completely different dialect. A native English speaker can probably understand if they listen carefully and pay attention to context but a non native English speaker might get caught up in the words they use in Scots but not English, the different pronunciation, and slightly different sentence structure. Here in there US we have African American vernacular, which you might run into the same issue of understanding.
@@NikkyElso
Ebonics or A.A.V.E. is nothing like Scots, because Scots is it's own language.
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions yes, it SEEMS to be a dialect because the Scots-folk have been anglified to a very high degree.
@@ronaldonmg
Just to make sure, you're not confusing Scottish English (the set of dialects of English spoken in Scotland) and Scots (the Germanic language, sibling to the English language). Because many people get those two confused.
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions I am not confusing them. Scots is a westgermanic language in its own right. I heard it in a few youtube-videos. Some parts are earily similar to my native Dutch :-)
Here in the Philippines, can distinguish another language just on the other town. My province alone hosts about 20 different dialects.
0:59 I can tell this sign is from my country (Singapore).
Hello brother,i'm Indonesia
I speak French and Spanish and Portuguese and English and Chinese and Japanese. I grew up in Mexico
How many official language There will be?
Bolivia:-yes
Unlike most countries with multiple official languages, at least last I checked, they are all equally official with Spanish.
Normie
This is must be the reason why Yugoslavia collapsed into these countries as of what took place between the 1980s-2000s for heavily political reasons. 3:48
It collapsed because everyone wanted their own country and be free from the communist regime
@@incog0956
Yugoslavia was created why before it was Communist.
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions I know but back then people living there didn't have that much of a problem with not being independent because they were never independent
@@incog0956 No, not neccesarily. Serbia and Montenegro were independent kingdoms before the foundation of Yugoslavia. For Bosnia and Croatia, they were independent during the medieval era, but that arguably doesn't count. The main reason Yugoslavia fell was because it was run almost exclusively by Serbs. The Serbs ruling the country effectively treated it as the Serbian colonial empire, which if you think about it, it kinda makes sense why the other countries would want to leave what was effectively Greater Serbia. In my opinion Yugoslavia could've worked out if the Serbs didn't exploit.
P.S. By "Serbs" I mean the serbs ruling the country, not neccesarily every serb.
You are confusing cause and effect here. The dialects of serbo-croatian were deliberately "unmerged" by chauvinist politicians. One example being that Serbia uses Cyrillics while Croatian doesn't. [I don't live anywhere near Yugoslavia]
I think of languages as fences that circle collections of dialects. These fences aren’t walls but lines in the sand, and dialects might straddle these lines
China out of all countries recognizes so many languages?
Not at all. The Chinese government cals all spoken sinitic languages "dialects of chinese"
Languages like Icelandic and Faroese are noticeably different spoken and written, but both speakers can read and understand the spoken language each other. Here you'd consider it a different language both in speaking and writing. However if we take Norwegian it's mostly just speaking since Bøkmål is based on danish with minimal variant (note that only a minority in Norway use Nynorsk), so spoken it's a different language, but in all practicalities written it's the same as danish.
It's called asymmetric intelligibility. There are languages that are close enough to each other that speakers don't have much of a problem, but then you have others where one speaker is better at understanding the other but not visa versa.
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions I'm aware. Italian and Spanish tend to be that a speaker of one has an easier time understanding the other. Norwegian has the easiest time of understanding all Norse languages.
You didn’t answer my question correctly but I did enjoy your video
Im from nroth mesopotamia
I know 5 langauge
Kurdish Cantrel
Kurdish northern
English
Arabic
Mongolish
ur smart i think?
In Indonesia, there is +-500 local languages. I speak sundanese with 50 millions speakers, then move hundreds km away, i can hear Javanese or Malay Betawi that i know little about...
Nice video. Iove them keep the great work up
1:58 Are English and Turkish completely different? Here I give you an example in Kazakh which is related to Turkish, for example the word boss in the Kazakh bastik, the word belt - beldik, big - biik, ice - aiaz, kent - kent, block - bolek, elk - elk, listen - estu, seldom - seldr, ox - ogz, so - sol, baby - bobe, clean - klen, hard - kat, other - ozge, me - men, measure - mezhe, mouth - auz, teeth - tis, sense - sezn, collapse - koulau etc, as u can see turkic and English languages have more similarities between than diversity
Технодом Технодом yeah but these are just some cherrypicked examples. there are far more differences than similarities. a lot of these word similarities can be chocked up to coincidence, both languages borrowing from the same word, or borrowings from english into kazakh.
They are not examined by similar words but word order, grammar and same language roots
@@forkrunner2208 cherry picked? Oh man, do you know that the word cherry in Kazakh language cheye? You see that similarity! And u think this is just a coincidence?
2:05 Every Canadian Australian, and New Zealander Got Made At That
Nobody has ever spoken about Czechoslovak language. There has never been such a thing. You are very wrong about that.
nice video khanubis
I agree
United States: We recognize 28 languages.
Mexico: Hold my taco.
Well, in India, it's not all indigenous languages are recognized, if u come by that way, it's more than 1,300.
Scots has been getting more anglicised over the past century or so as a result of English being the language of education and Scots being frowned upon. A fairly non-anglicised form of Scots is described in the attached website:
www.scots-online.org/grammar/index.php
Course, I'm assuming the Scots speakers mentioned in the video isn't speaking 'broad' Scots as described in the website. I don't quite speak as Scots as described in the website so I couldn't say if it's mutually intelligible with English or not
I Hope To, When I Have Kids, Try To Raise Them Bilingual, Or Even Trilingual, In English As Well As Some Minority Language Or Another.
On A Semi-Related Note, Can One Person Raise Children In Different Languages? Like Raise One Child Speaking English And Another Speaking German?
You could try, but it'll have to be an effort of not just both parents but all family members. Anyways, I've heard of parents where one speaks to their child in one language, while the other in another to raise them bilingual.
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions Aye, I've Heard Of That, I Think I've Even Heard Of Some People Raising Children Trilingual, Where One Parent Speaks To Them In One Language, The Other In Another Language, And Then They Also Go To A School In A Third Language. I Wonder If There's A Limit Go How Many Languages A Child Can Grow Up Speaking.
Please stop abusing the capitals. It's annoying.
Yes, it's perfectly possible to raise a kid in 2 or more languages. The famous (chess-playing) Polgar-sisters were raised in 6 (Esperanto being one of them, IIRC). The "trick" seems to be to never mix the languages. You either link every language to certain company, or to certain times of the week
U forgot the romance of french
Unfortunately in today's world, the more people that speak a language, the greater the benefit of speaking that language. As a counterexample, as explained to me by my wife, take rural villages in Kenya. The village people only speak their tribal language (they are supposed to learn Swahili and English in school, but their education is poor, and this doesn't happen--more on that later). They can communicate fine with the next village over; next village over it starts getting difficult; next village over is a struggle; fourth village over is hopeless. Knowing only their tribal language, they are fairly trapped within a small bubble of villages their whole lives. Anyone who manages to learn Swahili and/or English will use their language skills to find better opportunities in a city and not go back to their village to teach it, or anything.
Hahahaha Singapore construction signs
In Nepal only 123 languages are spoken 😉😉 but you didn't mentioned it 😧😧but its ok 💖nice video💖💖💖
*But how many Toyota Corollas can we fi... Sorry wrong channel*
I'm Bolivian and unfortunately I only speak Spanish and a little Quechua. ☹️
Correction China has three India has official 22 languages and then South Africa has 11 official languages
0:58 wait why are Namibia and Angola one? 0_0
3:45 where is Bosnian 20 kilometer coast
Lol
6:11 beautiful place, where is it? I'm guessing equatorial Africa.
Learn languages?
Nah, just scream "SPEAK ENGLISH!"
0:48 Who wants Angolan-Namibian Union?
There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today.However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers.
So the amount of languages in the world depends on how you see it, and there probably exist people who are so strict that they would place it in the hundreds, as well as people who are so permissive that they would place it in the tens of thousands, but the sane range is in the thousands somewhere.
I there 1000 county’s?
Absulately not dialect but they are different languages. Scots is a different Germanic language. It is a linguisticaly fact
03:16 wtf is that?
The different dialects of Arabic.
Mess in middle messy east
It has more😊.
@@kareemtheeb1478 Ah you saw it as well
(In the Egypt region right?)
@@Ida-xe8pg r/woooosh
the philippines alone has 100+ languages. And im not talking about dialects or accents like the Japanese or Chinese have.
Mark Forster says in his song "194 Länder" that there are 6½ thousand languages.
1:08 Twelve? Last I Heard It Was 11, They Get An Extra Language Somewhere?
Apparently South African Sign Language.
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions Aw, That Means My Joke That They Have Elven Languages As Official Doesn't Work Anymore!
definitely more than 50
I mean you're not wrong.
Nah, I wouldn't say it's that much
Bro i have one question: did languages still made this days??
Pakistan recognized 12
Long answer: A LOT and more contantly evolving until humanity becomes a literal single nation and even then accents might as well turn it into different languages with due time.
Short answer for a big part of the world: ENGLISH
Ps: Also I dont remember the name of the language but somewhere in asia there was a tribe with only two living descendants who spoke it and they dont because they got into a fight with each other, not even making a single recording for the generations to come because of that xD
Generic nigga straight white male picture
They should record a argument
The Perfect Mix what the hell is that supposed to mean?
Just a dinosaur with internet access
The last two people that know that language had a fight and won’t make a recording with the other one so since they don’t get along instead of recording a regular conversation, record an argument
Just a dinosaur with internet access
The last two people that know that language had a fight and won’t make a recording with the other one so since they don’t get along instead of recording a regular conversation, record an argument
Tell me where you are from, without telling me where you are from.
I'll start.
"Bûter, brea en griene tsiis, wat’dat net sizze kin is gjin oprjochte Fries"
ach gittoweggek
Afrikaans is more mutually intelligible to Dutch than the dialect Zeeuws(from the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands) but Zeeuws is not a language(there are many many forms of Zeeuws because my province used to be a lot of small islands and almost every village and city has its own version of Zeeuws). Dialects sadly also die out, because I usually speak Dutch and not Zeeuws(my parents can speak Zeeuws, but they too speak usually Dutch).
I agree that _Afrikaans_ should be seen as just South African Dutch, but just like the video said politics and culture have made it a different language, solidified via a different orthographic standard.
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions Dutch has grammatical gender, Afrikaans does not. In my view, that makes it a different language
Zeeuws is not officially acknowledged as separate language yet
Why is Kosovo lumped with Serbia? They're their own separate country, and they speak ALBANIAN.
We have a lot of arabic dilex
I could be wrong but in Azerbaijan I think it’s called Azerbaijani Turkic and not Azerbaijani Turkish
A person from Iraq or any Middle Eastern Arab country would never understand someone from Morocco
The answer is more than 1
I know only 5 languages
Malayalam
Japanese
English
Tamil
Hindi
Yeah Scots is a language not a dialect. Try talking to a Scots speaker outside Edinburgh. Or hell try speaking to a speaker of the ‘Doric’ verity!
I'd say it's around 5000, it was 6000 a century ago. It was 12000 in 1500 A.D. and 15000 in 500 B.C. most languages died either from forced assimilation or genocide.
Ps the chick at 4:23 looks alot like kourtney Kardashian.
I speak castilian and english
Question: if i know English and a little bit of French what could a possible 3rd language?
Spanish
Whatever you feel like, go crazy
My own country India has languages like
Hindi
Bhojpuri
Rajasthani
Gujarati
Kannada
Tamil
Maharathi
Telegu
Assamese
Kashmiri
Haryanvi
Punjabi
Sindhi
English
Urdu
Odia
French
Sikkimi
Bengali
Sinhali
Malayalam
Bundelkhandi
Etc.
But I know khanubis knows that more people speak kannada than the people live in Canada
@Manav Gyaan yo bhai, cool
It's Sinhala, not Sinhali and it is spoken in Sri Lanka, not India.
@@parthbonde2106 oh oops
@@parthbonde2106 It can also be written as Sinhalese, I think?
@@souhridyobose4362 may be
@Scots is a different language to English.
India 22 not 32
There no any separatist movement in india
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separatist_movements_of_India
Do you live under a rock?
At least 7.
What the world are you living on
@@hanuchopra7768 i mean he is not wrong
@@anemu3819 are you guys are mad!
@@hanuchopra7768 when he said at least seven he meant that there are more than seven r/woooosh
@@anemu3819 no he meant less than 7
More than 5
fun fact : indonesia has about 700++ languages but we only have 1 offficial language indonesian.
a.k.a and or dialect :)
How Languages Many
At least 4
*Credits roll*
At least nine...
like quebec
Mutual intelligibility alone is not a good rule for figuring out what’s a language and what’s a dialect. You’ve likely pissed off a lot of people for calling Scots and Azeri dialects of English and Turkish respectively
i know many languages. austrailian, american, english, irish…
American? Australian? Lol
@@fullmetaltheorist yes it was a joke
same
I know tamil, english, American, Australian, new Zealandian, south African, canadian and gibraltarian.
Ok guys, I speak KokBorok Language
How many of you know about it?
Ik tamil and english
At least five
Maybe 6…
You didn’t mention Frisian! I actually thought you were going to cause it is the closest language to English if you don’t count Scots.
In this case I don’t think all animals of the same species even speak the same language
Really talking about amount of Languages without mentioning Papua New Guinea and or Indonesia
*PATHETIC*
India has the second-largest amount of languages in the world after Papua New Guinea, I'm disappointed that India wasn't mentioned in the video.
@@Rishi123456789 India is the 3rd and India is mentioned in the video btw