Very interesting work. I knew that relations between Basque fishermen and Icelanders had not always been cordial. Hello from a Basque and ... Breton family!
Ben, greetings from Mexico. Another brilliant video. It is amazing how far the Basque people travelled. Travala, can also com from Spanish, Trabaja. And ''mala'' is a direct Spanish word. Evil.
This is a very interesting subject, the Basque whale hunt took them very far, as far as Iceland, but I was unaware of this historical fact and this meeting of languages between Basque and a Scandinavian language like Icelandic.
the speaking of basque in western europe outside whats now the basque goes back to a much older time. the ancient primitive proto ancestor of basque was the language of the mesolithic peoples of western europe. though newer languages came, including “indo-european” large mesolithic communities still survived in isolated coastal refuges and still spoke the much more ancient language form. i like to call this much more ancient parent language of basque from the mesolithic as “Iberic”.
Hi Ben. Do you believe that English will become the lingua franca globally? It seem like that kind of naturally, but however there are the french and German countries that want to maintain and extend their linguistic territories. I know Macron had a concrete plan in this direction. In the same time in their countries the attitude toward English is enemy like.
English is the current global lingua franca, more or less. What I can say is I do not think it will become more so than it presently is, as globalisation begins to break up in to regional power blocks.
Very interesting video Ben. Had no idea about this.
Thank you for another very interesting video Ben. It always amazes me how far people managed to travel at time.
It was quite a distance.
As a native speaker of Basque, this impressed me
Mila esker.
Absolutely fascinating... eskerrik asko Ben!
Thank you.
Very interesting work. I knew that relations between Basque fishermen and Icelanders had not always been cordial. Hello from a Basque and ... Breton family!
Trugarez / Eskerrik asko
The word for tickle in Icelandic is "kítla" and the L is a hard L that sounds sort of like a K-L sound. Similar to the pigeon word for tickle.
Very cute.
Ben, greetings from Mexico. Another brilliant video. It is amazing how far the Basque people travelled. Travala, can also com from Spanish, Trabaja. And ''mala'' is a direct Spanish word. Evil.
Mexico has so many languages!
Your accent surprised having the preconception of reading your last name haha
This is a very interesting subject, the Basque whale hunt took them very far, as far as Iceland, but I was unaware of this historical fact and this meeting of languages between Basque and a Scandinavian language like Icelandic.
Indeed. Far away ventures.
Hey Ben! Are you from North Wales? Your own accent is quite rhotic.
I am from quite a few places. I live in Wales yes. In the North.
@@BenLlywelyn yeah, that's what I thought. I like researching accents, so just wondering.
he sounds american and im from north wales (conwy)
the speaking of basque in western europe outside whats now the basque goes back to a much older time.
the ancient primitive proto ancestor of basque was the language of the mesolithic peoples of western europe.
though newer languages came, including “indo-european” large mesolithic communities still survived in isolated coastal refuges and still spoke the much more ancient language form.
i like to call this much more ancient parent language of basque from the mesolithic as “Iberic”.
I wonder where those communities were.
Hi Ben. Do you believe that English will become the lingua franca globally? It seem like that kind of naturally, but however there are the french and German countries that want to maintain and extend their linguistic territories. I know Macron had a concrete plan in this direction. In the same time in their countries the attitude toward English is enemy like.
English is the current global lingua franca, more or less. What I can say is I do not think it will become more so than it presently is, as globalisation begins to break up in to regional power blocks.
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Very interesting. Now, how about Basque-Algonquin pidgin?
Indeed!
@@BenLlywelyn also, it's pretty darkly funny that there was a law allowing Icelandic people to kill any Basques until, what, 2016, was it?
@@hysterikole1idaho references ?
@@priyanthisandarath1365 hunh?
3:24 xD