26 Languages in 26 Minutes
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- 26 short language profiles - one for every letter of the alphabet!
These languages are from around the globe and every inhabited continent. Some are rare or endangered, while others are in frequent use.
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Folk Round by Kevin MacLeod
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26 Minutes, 26 Letters, 26 Languages!
Some of them you've probably heard of before, but I tried to include a range from across the world and with varying speaker counts. One thing they all are, however is interesting. Which language(s) interested you the most?
If you're interested in old or extinct languages, there's a vocab short coming out in two weeks. 20th November - keep an eye out! I'm also currently working on a Christmas-themed video for next month, so make sure you don't miss out on that. ENJOY!! :)
Excellent, it's nice that most of them were relatively unknown languages (at least for English speakers!)
Absolutely! I'm quite interested in the rarer languages and it's fascinating how many there are to discover, even within the limits of documentation!
1.Akan🇬🇭 0:01
2.Bengali🇧🇩 0:57
3.Coptic🇪🇬 1:55
4.Dhivehi🇲🇻 2:52
5.Eyak🇺🇲 3:55
6.Frisian🇳🇱 4:54
7.Greenlandic🇬🇱🇩🇰 5:47
8.Haitian Creole🇭🇹 6:42
9.Inuit sign🇨🇦7:39
10.Javanese🇮🇩8:34
11.Ket🇷🇺 9:35
12.Laal🇹🇩🇨🇫 10:21
13.Malaylam🇮🇳 11:15
14.Nahuatl🇲🇽 12:01
15.Ossetian🇷🇺🇬🇪 12:50
16.Pirahã🇧🇷 13:46
17.Quechua🇵🇪🇧🇴🇪🇨 14:48
18.Romanian🇷🇴 15:45
19.Swahili🇹🇿 16:48
20:Tok pisin🇵🇬 17:47
21.Uyghur🇨🇳🇰🇿🇰🇬🇺🇿 18:55
22.Vietnamnese🇻🇳 20:05
23.Welsh🇬🇧🇦🇷 21:17
24.Xhosa🇿🇦 22:34
25.Yoruba🇳🇬🇧🇯 23:48
26.Zaghawa🇹🇩🇸🇩 24:56
Wow, that must've taken you quite a while. I didn't chapter this video because it's more or less one language a minute. Nice work with the flags, too (although Frisian would be more fitting with the Netherlands flag than the German one). :)
Ossetia 🇬🇪
Frisian should be the Dutch flag instead
yo this is actually pretty good how does this not have more views
Really glad you like the video! I'm a small channel (and I don't actually think the current thumbnail's great). If you know anyone you think'd like it, send it over to them. Again, I'm really glad you've enjoyed. :)
@@LexisLang No problem, I will! And yes, I think you should improve the thumbnail a bit, but the content is very informational and entertaining. Keep it up :)
Dude make more! The fact video has so many views way more than subs mean you hit on something that folks want!
I enjoyed making it too! I'm starting to plan another of these, but I want to get one or two more videos out before I just repeat. It will come, though. Hope you enjoyed! =D
Really great vid!! I always love finding more linguistic related content
Thank you! I'm just adding what knowledge and passion I can to the world. I think decent linguistics-y channels are relatively rare, so hopefully I can join in some small way. :)
Your channel is always so fascinating and informative. I've learnt a lot already. And the soft voice and music help me sleep when insomnia hits. Looking forward to more on the conlang series! BTW my favourite in this video is Coptic. Going to learn more about it right now!
Thank you! I'm glad I've been able to teach you things! Hopefully my videos are helping you sleep by being relaxing rather than boring, but it sounds like you enjoy them, so I'm happy. The next conlang video won't be as involved as the last, so hopefully it won't take 5 months to make, like the phonology one did! Coptic is amazing. Ever since this video released, I've had it on my list to do a full video about it. Thank you for watching! :D
@@LexisLang haha not boring at all, just relaxing. The combination of softness and mental stimulation (something meaningful to focus on) really does the trick! I looked into Coptic and the more I learn, the more intriguing it is. And yes, I could tell it took a lot of effort to make that massive, dense-with-information video to such a high standard. I'm glad you know your efforts are well appreciated by many.
Thank you! I do try to be relaxing, but I thereby walk a fine line with boring, so I'm keen to get the balance right. I'm glad you enjoy! :D
Amazing video packed with very interesting information. It deserves a lot more than 1.9K views
This is pretty underrated! More people should know this!
Thanks! I think it's quite interesting. :)
Very interesting. Thank you so much!
Thank you, I'm so glad you liked it! =D
I like the last part of the video. I hope the Zaghawa language will officially use the Camel script.
Hope on the future, all language/dialects will have their own unique writing script.
Writing systems are interesting. It's highly unlikely every language will have a separate script, but it is fun to learn about the rarer ones.
Do you think Zaghawa's your favourite language on the list, then?
Fun fact, the Uyghur script is not an abjad like the Arabic script, but rather an alphabet derived from the Arabic script
Very cool! I only did a little looking into the script, but I remember trying to type some for the video and thinking it seemed very alphabet-like. Thanks for sharing that! :D
you should do Guarani, a language preserved in Paraguay as co official language with spanish, sue to the low # of spanish that were sent to the region and not being seen as too iportant, they had to speak the local language. Resulting in majority indigenous so the children that would grow up to be in Government would be bi-lingual. Then the 1st leader mad a policy of no 2 spanish can marry each other which furthered race mixing an bi lingualism as well as missionaries developing a lain alphabet and writing system for it. It was suppressed for many years but it is spoken by majorrity and became national then an official language in the 20th century.
Thanks for the suggestion! I have a list of languages I want to cover and I had Guarani on there as an interesting one, but I didn't know it was that interesting! I'm hoping to get the next of these out as my April video and I've already started work on it. I've got a list already. I could change it, but I have enough languages per letter to do more of these, so maybe it'll crop up in a future 26 langs! :D
@@LexisLang yessir, and dont worry, ive seen people editing videos and it does take a long time to do so.
Wow, never thought someone put my language on the list, matoh tenan Lik👍.
Javanese I assume? :)
@@LexisLang yo karoane nu, that's for sure.
Do a part 2 please! with other 26 languages or interesting words across the world
It's on the list! It may be a while before it happens, but there should be enough languages for each letter to do another run through. Maybe even two!! :)
@@LexisLang great 👍
Nice background music
I like it, too, but it is quite piercing, so it may change in coming videos. :)
Awesome video 👏🏻
Very glad you enjoyed! :)
nice vid, I've got a question, how did you do the family trees?
I drew them myself. It took quite a while to get them all looking right. So happy you enjoyed the video! Thank you for watching! :)
@@LexisLang Oh, that explains why they are so neat then ! Keep up with the good work !
WHATTTT IM A COPT I NEVER SEE COPTIC ONLINE!!1!1!!1
ⲭⲉⲣⲉ! I'm glad I could help share your language with the world! :D
How does a language with only 20 speakers have dialects?
Speakers in different areas will speak systematically different forms of the language. These will likely be the remainder of earlier, far larger groups which may have been documented before the speaker count got so low. It doesn't matter if there are 20 or 20000, so long as there are more than 1. :)
es un poco triste porque si bien el nahuatl tiene 1.7m de hablantes estoy seguro que el 99% solo lo habla en su pueblo y cuando van a las ciudades lo olvidan porque aqui se discrimina a la gente que no hable español, ingles o cualquier idioma que sea considerado "bueno" o "avanzado" y eso se puede ver en las ciudades y la gente discrimina cuando hablan en otro idioma pero quedan sorprendidos y tratan como si fueran reyes a cualquiera que hable ingles o un idioma de europa o cualquier idioma de un pais avanzado y cuando se encuentran a una persona indigena la tratan mal y por eso cuando ves a una persona indigena que habla un idioma nativo es normal que te responda en español para no ser discriminada y se nota enseguida en su acento y forma de hablar que no hablan español de forma nativa aunque si hay unos que te hablan en su idioma y no saben español y es mas comun aqui en el sur de mexico cerca de centroamerica ademas de que generalmente quien habla esos idiomas es una persona con razgos indigenas y de clase baja y aqui hay un gran problema de clasismo y racismo e importa mucho tu estatus social y color de piel y nunca entenderé el por qué y mas en una region con tanta pobreza y desigualdad y con personas de tantas etnias diferentes
Eso es tan triste de escuchar!
That is sadly something you see all too often worldwide. It's very hard to remove those biases, especially if speaking the indigenous language is an economic disadvantage. The first thing we can do to help is spread awareness, which is what I hope to do here. I assume you're Mexican - do you speak an indigenous language? I'd love to hear if you do!
(So sorry - no hablo español) :)
@@LexisLang solo hablo español y un poco de ingles
interesting
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed!
I thought, that you would speak every one of those for 1 minute, and not English. 😜😜😜
Sadly not. Interesting idea, but maybe quite intimidating. :)
Malayalam has the world's most beautiful writing system in my opinion
It certainly is very pretty, especially when handwritten. I'm not sure what my favourite script is, but I can definitely see why Malayalam's yours. :)
The video is glitching going to other places
Yes, I'm aware of a few audio bugs in this. I did what I could, but they're still there. If you're having other glitches, I'm not sure what that could be. Hope you enjoyed the video, though!
Ossetian is not pronounced Oh-see-shun. Try O-set-ian
The Oxford English dictionary reports that both /ɒˈsɛtɪən/ and /ɒˈsiːʃn/ are "correct" pronunciations in British English (and the equivalent in AmEn). Obviously I don't speak RP, so my specifics are different, but the general idea's the same. :)