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SOURCES AND FURTHER READING
British Overseas Territories: en.wikipedia.o...
History Of Gibraltar: www.historic-u...
Why the Spanish language is losing ground in Gibraltar: english.elpais...
Llanito: theculturetrip...
Akrotiri: www.britannica...
Cayman Islands History: www.explorecay...
Cayman Island Dictionary: archive.ph/201...
Bermudian English: www.bermudiana...
Turk and Caicos Creole: dbpedia.org/pa...
Turk and Caicos Name Origins: www.visittci.c...
Falkland Island English: dialectblog.com...
Pitcarin: www.stamps.gov....
Any watching from a British Overseas Territory?
Jamaica
If only the US still counted.
former, canada
@@thewetzelsixx9009 lol
Watching from Gibraltar. Absolutely loved your version of Llanito, which is btw 100% just a dialect. I can also confirm that both Llanito and Spanish are mainly dying out, cos people my age (me included) pick up English a lot easier than Spanish. However I can understand written and spoken Spanish near perfectly and still speak in a really weird mix of English and Spanish, although predominantly English, so Llanito isn't really dying but more like changing
Hope this helped, love the videos :)
Besides English and Scots, there is also Doric. And there are Norman French dialects in the Channel Islands.
Isn't Doric a Greek language?
@@bluemym1nd You'd think so, but no, it's the more northern variety of Scots.
@@clasqm didn't hear about this one. Still, intresting
@@bluemym1nd en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doric_dialect_(Scotland)
There's also Scottish Gaelic
The Pitcairn Islanders have a way interesting history. If you've ever watched Mutiny on the Bounty and wondered what happened to the mutineers, well they all ended up on Pitcairn with their Tahitian brides. There's about 1,000 or Pitcairn Islanders but only about 40 are left on the island. If I remember correctly, their language is called Pitcairn-Norfolk...
Last I heard the UK govt was trying to get people to leave the island.
But it's definitely not Pit-carin!
It's named after a soldier named Pitcairn, not anything on the island. That soldier's brother fought in the battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts, fyi.
I LOVE THE FACT YOU INCLUDED THE LOUGH NEAGH IN NORTHERN IRELAND IN YOUR MAP
It's pretty thicc
rud maith a rinne siad
@@AlvinSeville1 is ea!
This piqued my interest as someone of British and Polynesian descent. lol
Ditto; English and Hawaiian here. 🌺
Same.
So on both sides your ancestors were proud, industrious Island colonisers and sailors
@@indiekiddrugpatrol3117 haha depends on your motives wether or not I allow you the priveledge of my agreeance with you.
@@maiamaunsell9527 what do you mean by my motives?
I've seen videos online of Llanito speakers, and if you're fluent in English and Spanish, it's pretty easy to understand, even if it is a bit slangy. But it also reminds me of the American-grown version of the same, Spanglish, which is pretty common among the native-born children of immigrants from Spanish-speaking countries.
It's definitely an exercise in rapid code-switching.
Gibraltar 🇬🇮 is currently the only British Overseas Territory I’ve been to.
Thanks for the info. Hope you get to go to some others too
@@mrgoldengraham027 - I would definitely like to. I’ve only been outside of England once; went on holiday to southern Spain, then down to Gibraltar for a few hours. I’m going to Egypt in October. I haven’t even been to the other countries in the UK, but I’m sure I will.
@@JediSimpson I like to think that there would be appeal for natural spaces that can be explored without so much private or restricted property getting in the way.
Free the body, free the mind, break free from any and all lock downs.
Bermuda is currently the only one I've been to (I'm in Canada) - such a pretty one, I have to say!!!
@@yodorob what a contrast, eh? 😉
I went to Bermuda in the summer of '89 as a Midshipman. We had six 40' sloops which we sailed down the Chesapeake Bay then out to Burmuda. It was supposed to be a short stop for resupply, etc., but turned out much longer as a hurricane rolled through and we waited it out on land.
I had never heard of a beach getting washed away before that, but it happened during that time. I was almost, but not really a tourist then. In all my travels, that's about as close as I ever got to that status.
Are mopeds still the way that visitors get around, and are the frogs still a road hazard?
The Hong Kong dialect of English is one of the few tonal Germanic languages, along with Swedish and Norwegian.
Gibraltarians speak English with a curious accent that sounds distinctly continental European, like a cross between RP, Swiss and South African.
the chinese pronunciation of english is itself tonal. hong kong english isn’t special
@@redsamson5185 : Hong Kong English is a pidgin that's passed down through generations, whereas people in other areas of China only learn English at school & through imported popular culture, so no geographically-specific characteristics are passed on & it can't be called a dialect.
How is Hong Kong English Tonal? Just because they modulate their tone when they speak English doesn't make it a tonal language. The change in tone must also change the meaning of the word and this pattern must be present in the majority of the vocabulary.
@@ccityplanner1217 pidgins that are passed down through generations become creoles. does it look exotic to you to hear someone speak incorrectly?
Norwegian and Swedish are not tonal languages. They just have pitch accent.
The difference:
Tonal languages: Every syllable has a tone.
Pitch accent: Only one tone per word. (typically centred around the stressed syllable)
As an English creole speaker, while I don't know anything specifically about Cayman English, I think it's a bit disingenuous interchange the words "Englishes" "Creoles" and "Dialects". I think where there are ambiguous borders it's useful to not use ambiguous terms like language and dialect. I think it's more correct to say creole language, with majority of it's words from English but grammatically dissimilar to any genetically inherited version of the language.
Again, I don't know specifically about the ones mentioned here (and I doubt it is possible to know without being there since these recieve very little attention), but in Atlantic English Creoles in general, things like gender neutral third person pronouns, focus, use of bare nouns, associative plurality, analytical tense and aspect marking and tenselessness make them very much unlike Englishes even if they are locally perceived as such. Native English speakers from the US Canada and England have a great deal of difficulty understanding me (a Jamaican) when I speak in my creole but because of the official status of English and it's perception as correct speech in Jamaica you will likely simply be told people speak English. But, contrary to this, are many many stories of complete incomprehensibility of people's speech even when they are deliberately trying to speak slowly and carefully.
And this is why I think the terms shouldn't be glossed over so quickly and in such an ambiguous way
The BIOT was inhabited by French creole speaking people (before they were forcibly relocated) but technically a part of the UK has its language rooted in French (along with the Channel Islands)
Pitcarin?
i know, right?
My brain at the intro: "Languages from the UK that aren't English? *GASP* ARE WE GETTING A TOLKIEN LANGUAGE VIDEO?!
Oh .... Languages from the British territories... That's cool too... *Takes off ears, & Hobbit slippers & cancels order for second breakfast*
No Guernésiais or Jèrriais :((
9:49 the british rule was not an uninterrupted process. For example, in 1833 they were inhabitants from continental Argentina that were expelled by the british. Since the issue has always been a point of dispute between Argentina and the UK, that should help explain why there is no influence from Argentina to the isles.
And don’t forget the war in the early 1980s. Mighty Maggie kicked the Argentines out; NOW they can cry for Evita!
Is there historically unbiased evidence that can show this event happening
@@natenae8635 Sadly, I don't think there is any unbiased version of the events. There's a version where they were expelled, and one where they were in chaos and the British restored order. But, without taking any side, is safe to say that they were occupied by Argentinians from 1826 up to 1833, when later became occupied by British people. And ever since, Argentina has complain to Britain. I say this just to explain why there is no influence from Argentinian culture to the isles, not to try to prove any point. Also that's why I didn't mention any previous history from 1833 because it wasn't relevant.
@@MisaelKpo Well I was referring to possibly archaeology as a potential method or something like that. But to me I think the whole issue should be but in the past. If the native population is now in favor of British rule no one can force the Falklands Colonies to join Argentina.
British overseas territories are not considered part of the UK.
They are under the control of the British government, but neither overseas territories like the Falklands not crown dependencies like the Channel Islands are part of the United Kingdom.
France considers its overseas territories to be legally part of France proper.
The UK does not do the same.
So they belong to, but are not part of the UK?
@@PRDreams yes
@@dandixon8080 thanks. Just wanted to know. We have the same type of thing in the USA. The territories belong to, but are not part of the USA.
Precisely
A bit like how Guam and Puerto Rico are US territory but aren't part of any state.
The UK is only England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Places like the Falklands aren't part of any of those, even though they are British territory, and the inhabitants are citizens.
Great job as always. Thanks for picking my topic!
~The Channel Islands are part of the UK~
Nevermind, they're Crown Dependencies
What's interesting is in Antarctica, they got themselves a dialect that is really unique. When you wanna say you're cold, you say bloodycold there.
It would’ve been nice if you had explained the names of the oversees territories as well.
yeah, that would’ve been great.
And former colonies
Somebody should sponsor Jackson Galaxy for a trip to the Isle of Man so he can study up on his Manx immersion style.
10:31 Is this a typo of the Pitcairn islands as it is written Pitcarin here and he pronounces it as Pitcarin only to show it as Pitcairn on the next frame.
It's Pitcairn idk what he's doing in the video lol
He's fat-fingering the titles.
So thoroughly interesting, entertaining drawings and nice music.
Turks and Caicos English is influenced by Bahamian English in a similar fashion to Cayman Islands and Jamaica.
I think it's a bit disingenuous to call them Englishes. They aren't really English they just use majority English words
Influenced isn't quite the right word. The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos were once the same country, that was inhabited by the same set of people, and many of those people migrated throughout the archipelago as a whole. So, TCI English isn't 'influenced' by Bahamian English it's just the continuation of what the people had already been speaking only now it's under a new country name or across a new border if you will.
2:35 For some reason I keep thinking that this territory is called Monsterrat.
Before seeing the video guesses:
Scotts
Welsh
Cornish
Irish
What is Picts
Pictish language no longer exists
@@shrekisthebestanime3644 oh... forgot about that... they were cool guys, yeah I remember them
Manx.
Welsh is my favorite
If Argentina/Uruguay had become British in the early 1800s, as it almost did, here are what would change about this video:
1) The Falklands and the South Georgia/South Sandwich Islands would be indisputably Argentine (and there would be no conflict between Argentina and the UK over the Falklands), and it would be a territory along the lines of Canada's Northwest Territories/Yukon/Nunavut or Australia's Northern Territory, most probably called (on an official basis) the Falkland and South Atlantic Islands Territory, but sort of with the history/pedigree/culture/geographic isolation of Newfoundland;
2) The British Antarctic Territory would be instead the Argentine Antarctic Territory, and the only claim dispute whatsoever would be with the Chilean claim, especially in the strategic and relatively warm Antarctic Peninsula; and
3) There would be a Spanish-English bilingualism not unlike in Canada or (white) South Africa, as well as something akin to Gibraltarian Llanito, US Southwest Spanglish, or the like.
Plus, Uruguay would be included as an Argentine province (in case any one of you were wondering), and Argentina would be so much more developed and stable, and in fact part of the G8 (equivalent to the real-life G7)!
No love for the dialects of the channel islands? There's a whole bunch of Norman derived romance languages
I wouldn't be too surprised to learn that Bermudan English isn't as influenced by AmE as people think it is. Southern American dialects actually take a lot of cues from British English, so it's not unreasonable to think American English just reinforced what was already there.
It's St. He- LEE- na. A variety of card solitaire is called "Napoleon at St Helena", also known as "Forty Thieves".
(The names of card games might be a good subject, if you haven't done it already!)
As far as Bermuda goes, it's said that the closest speech to Elizabethan English is to be found in isolated pockets of the southeastern U.S. such as Tangier and Smith Islands in Chesapeake Bay. Do Bermudians speak American English, or just a very old English English?
Newfoundlanders speak elizabethan english
@@Ryan98063 But with kind of an Irish accent. Newfoundland definitely has a unique accent!
People from Tangier must be good Shakespeare translators
Irish is not recognised as an official language. There was some case in Coventry I believe, where a bloke wanted to have an irish inscription on a gravestone for his Irish mother but there were objections. Can I point you towards the debate surrounding the Irish language act in Northern Ireland? Sure, some people speak it but they've learned it themselves for the most part. It doesn't get taught in schools.
Yanito would be a creole
England's very own Romance tongues are found in the Channel Islands
Bermuda and Antigua were allies of Virginia in the English civil war, siding with the royalists, whereas Massachusetts sent troops to England to help Cromwell, which I believe was the seed of the north/south divide in the US
I did not know that. Fascinatung.
I was thinking this video would be on, for example the Norse languages of Orkney/Shetlands.
Those languages are extinct
@@k.umquat8604 yeah they speak with more doric words now, as I speak Doric and can understand some words where others can't
You said it multiple times but British Overseas Territories are explicitly NOT a part of the UK. They have their own independent governments but rely on the UK for defence and foreign policy. Same goes for the Crown Dependencies. Such a glaring oversight casts doubt on all your work.
It's as accurate as most of what you'll find on the internet, i.e. only approximately. Good enough for a chap mumbling in his bedroom.
There are the languages of the Channel islands too.
The Channel Islands are not a part of the United Kingdom though.
Yeah, I think they are the same status as the Isle of Man.
Sarkese ,Jèrriais ,Dgèrnésiais are goodies too. I wish Norn was still around. Does Genoese/Ligurian influence Llanito. Theres a bunch of Genoese people there. I think there's still a tiny amount of Cypriot Arabic speakers too, might b wrong. Bermuda is probably a bit like gullah geechee maybe
I love your videos BUT:
You seriously need to gain up the volume on your videos. there is a severe difference of volume between your videos and almost all other videos on youtube. not to mention the ads that come up in between are jarringly more intense in volume.
Just make it louder, please!
im curious about if the people of the british overseas territories see themselves as british or not
personally i don’t haha
@@chad541 very interesting
Pitcairn, not Pitcarin. Yikes.
That was painful, especially when he had it written correctly several times but still pronounced it wrong.
@@amiscellaneoushuman3516 He also wrote it wrong at one point
Pitcairn (Island) is pronounced "pit-can" in British English. This is how the locals pronounce it:
ruclips.net/video/vPZHzfRXzjA/видео.html
The American pronunciation is different (and incorrect IMHO).
The British Indian Ocean Territory is a fake colony, nominally ruled by administrators who also have other jobs at the Foreign Office in London. In fact it is an American war base and torture camp, though there are a few British soldiers whose only job is to raise and lower the Union Jack over their hut. It's a handy base for bombers flying to Afghanistan or Vietnam and back.
The islands used to be ruled from Mauritius, but Harold Wilson took them away just before independence and deported the inhabitants to Mauritius so that the Americans could have a free hand in the new "British Colony."
The other thing the BIOT does is to allow the British to say the sun never sets on their empire ...
I’d love to watch your videos but I can’t hear them with any background noise
If there are any native speakers of Pitkern watching this please let me know.
There are some videos on RUclips of people visiting the island and getting the locals to talk the local language.
This isn't exactly Name Explain but I wont complain
What if Nothern Ireland Join Ireland???
That's the cutest cactus ever
SO unique!
2:32 **Angry Argentinean noises**
The Overseas Territories both are and aren't technically part of the UK, depending on exactly how you define it. Under the UK's laws they are *not* considered part of the UK, so the UK laws don't apply to them unless explicitly stated otherwise. Most of them are self governing in nearly all respects, so it's rare that the UK passes any laws that directly apply to them.
However they are the sovereign territory of the UK and the UK represents them internationally, so in that context they are part of the UK.
In a nut shell a Federation
@@xmappergamer1002 It's not technically a federation. In theory the UK *could* step in and take direct control, which is usually not possible in a federal system.
It's just that the UK government chooses not to do that unless there's a very good reason (e.g. government corruption, as happened in Turks and Caicos about 10 years ago).
Also they have no representation in the UK Parliament, which makes them not really comparable to states in a federation.
Why is the volume on this video so quiet??
How about Romany?
Anybody else spot the CGP Grey ester-egg ? :P
where??
The music, right?
@@lp-xl9ld yep, think so
History of the Union Jack ruclips.net/video/WVZQapdkwLo/видео.html - I think it's used in other videos too.
Although I was thinking it was from the "The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England Explained" one (ruclips.net/video/rNu8XDBSn10/видео.html) or the one about "How Scotland Joined Great Britain" (ruclips.net/video/p3HnMLq8m9U/видео.html) but I misremembered
Also Easter* egg, sorry
I was thinking this was related to a Maori New Zealander immigrant community in the UK. Then I remembered Pitcairn.
welcome
Not Even Mentioning Welsh Romani Or Shelta (Although Granted The Latter Is Technically From Ireland), Smh My Head.
I don't really feel like calling them "Languages of the United Kingdom" is an apt description, English is the Lingua Franca of the United Kingdom
Welsh is restricted to Wales
Gaelic is restricted to Scotland
Irish is restricted to Northern Ireland
Scots is restricted to Scotland and Northern Ireland
Cornish is restricted to Cornwall
The Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey are not part of the United Kingdom so the languages spoken there aren't languages of the United Kingdom
It's mostly just people in London, Northern Ireland, and foreigners that call themselves British, most Scottish people say that they're Scottish, most Welsh people say that they're Welsh, and most English people say that they're English
Cornwall (Kernow) is a Royal Duchy not a county, we have a Royal Duke not a count
Nowhere in the UK has a count and I really don't see why our subdivisions are called counties
Many of those island were empty landmasses that the UK claimed
"A time of great seafaring"? Pitcairn was found and settled by mutineers.
You're a bit faint, PF. Turn up your recording volume, if you don't mind. BTW, I'm half way through and this is another winner! To use a sporting analogy, this is a three base hit that brings in two base runners for a run each. Not a home run, because..... it's a bit faint!
Oh, and I once had it described to me that Falkland Islands English is when a Derbyshire accent runs headlong into a Border Scots accent!
Alternate channel: language explain
That background music has got to be the most annoying thing I have heard this month. Also, politely, the pronunciation of so many of these place names was so far off it would not have been clear without the map. Really interesting topic, but feels like this was a pre edited video.
I think the music is intentional and it's an Easter egg in reference to another famous video about the UK from CGP Grey
Name Explain: *complains about American English*
Also Name Explain: *pronounces “Caribbean” in the American way instead of the British/Caribbean way*
do a video on scots
came to this channel a few years ago for the interesting ethymologies, stayed for the badly mispronouncing of most of the names :)))
In this video 'Pitcarin' takes the cake :))
Yes. The narrator is putting on an accent trying to sound BBC posh but struggling with his THs - "The British overseas territories are raVVer unique Fings" 😀
They should make llanito an official language.
They shouldn't cos no one really speaks it anymore
@@patuco8104 that could change if it was an official language.
@@stuartblittley3531 trust me mate I live here and I can tell you it wouldn't work
@@patuco8104 oh. well, i guess you’d know.
A hybrid language informally known as Spanglish is spoken in the Latino communities in the US.
The West Indies is probably better than Carribbean, because not all of the West Indies are in the Carribbean
Bermuda is definitely not in the Caribbean
Bermuda is its own region, in the Sargasso Sea rather than on or around the Caribbean Sea. If there were more islands around it (esp. to the north and east where there are seamounts), they might collectively be called the Sargasso Islands.
English is the most widely spoken languanguage regarding second language speakers, not native speakers! Hindustani, Mandarin and Spanish have more native speakers.
"Hindustani" is extinct. Most of the people recorded in the UK as speaking Urdu, and many of those who are said to speak Punjabi, actually speak Mirpuri, the language of Azad Kashmir. Similarly most "Bengali" speakers in the UK actually speak Sylheti. British statisticians don't recognise those languages, as they are not taught in schools in Pakistan or Bangladesh.
The other widely spoken South Asian languages include Gujarati, Punjabi and Tamil (from Sri Lanka).
Most of the Chinese spoken in the UK is Cantonese (from Hong Kong), not Mandarin.
Similarly the Greek and Turkish are mostly Cypriot.
do a video on ll
No! They are NOT a part of the United Kingdom! They are crown dependance which is not the samething as being apart if the UK.
Americanese
It's Pitcairn not Pitcarin.
Do Russia next
The audio is pretty bad
It's "Pitcairn", not "Pitcarin".
How do you get Pitcairn so wrong, after a simple typo? Pitcarin doesn't even exist, that's so hard to get wrong, almost as if you didn't do your research though I know you do indeed do your research.
i’m sorry, can you explain?
@@stuartblittley3531 Explain what? Patrick was pronouncing Pitcairn as Pitcarin because of a typo somewhere. Such a hard mistake to make if you do your research.
@@explorernate oh. sorry, i knew that i just was confused for a sec with ‘Pitcarin doesn’t exist’. i understand now lol
PIT - CARE - N not PIT - CAR - IN
had to CRANK the volume to hear this.
6:56 There are a lot of Turks in north London.
I think from Turkey, not from the Turks and Caicos.
We should tugboat the entire United Kingdom all the way to the South Pacific.
Gah-lick, not gay-lick.
I'm from cornwall and I speak some cornish C:
The Ukay
Forgot about Geordie ⚫⚪⚫⚪
PitCAIRN...not PitCARIN. Sorry.
The Falklands are British!! Las Malvinas son inglesas!! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Inglés is English
Britanico is British
@@shrekisthebestanime3644 well u know what I mean lol
Las islas brittanicas sont Argentina
Lima gang
The isle of man was not is not and will never be part of the UK
Wait, the British Overseas Territories are not part of UK. They are, as the name suggests, overseas territories, not integral parts of the UK. There are islands in the UK (Scilly, Orkney, Wight) which are represented in parliament. Gibraltar, Falklands, Pitcairn, etc., have a very different constitutional status. Every time you refer to the territories as "UK soil" or "part of the UK" it grates on me quite a lot... Perhaps change the title / video audio? Aside from that, cool video!
Also, Pitcairn = "pit-kern" not "pickrin"
RULE BRITANNIA!
I can just imagine what a similar video about the US would be like
I’m surprised that for a channel dedicated to explaining names, you are so bad as pronouncing the place names in this video.
Irish is still spoken in Montserrat
No its not, lol
@@codymcmanus8686 It may not be, but Montserrat was settled by many Irish people, among others. And, Montserrat has been known as the Emerald Isle of the Caribbean, at least until the devastating volcanic eruption of the mid/late 1990s!
Lol early
Why isn’t Australia 🇦🇺 not mark on the World map? The aboriginal languages
Is'nt Australia a Independent Country?
The British Overseas Territories are the places which are still under the UK's jurisdiction. Australia is an independent country, so it's not included.
@@Psyk60 👍🏼 thx 😊
@@Psyk60 but it is still part of the British Empire
@@xmappergamer1002 I guess that depends on your point of view. What counts as the "British Empire" in this day and age?
I'd say no, it's not part of the British Empire because Britain has no jurisdiction over Australia. But you could argue it technically is still part of the Empire because it shares a monarch with Britain.
Las Malvinas son Argentina
Shut up
@@shrekisthebestanime3644 No
@@bobmcbob9856 Based
Legítimamente, sí. Y Gibraltar es legítimamente español. E Israel está en territorio legítimamente palestino (sí, GB fue una parte importante de ese problemita).
Piratas imperialistas.
🇫🇰🇬🇮
🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy are bigger exports imo.
GO VEGAN name eplain
There might be a chance he’s already vegan.
He is vegetarian
🙄😒
@@mollof7893 vegans have very low testosterone
tf is this comment? also tf is this reply section?