I had intended to put this out on New Year's, but life and Christmas and work got in the way of that. Anyway, here it is! As I mentioned in one of my videos or posts at the end of last year, I have big plans going forwards - a new series as well as more videos outside of that. I hope you enjoy this video and I hope to see you for the net one! :D
Great video!! One of my goals is to learn all the languages spoken in my country, and some of these are kind of adjacent to what I'll be learning. Super looking forward to looking into them. Cheers!
Thanks! Really glad you enjoyed! Could I maybe ask which country that is? I'm struggling to think of many with few enough languages you could learn them all. Even if you don't get all of them though, that's a very worthwhile thing to try to do. Very commendable - good luck! :)
If you could, that'd be great of course, but Breton is still a great job. You're arguably making more difference there, too, since there are far fewer speakers and less exposure. :)
Interesting that you describe kurdish as one language and kurmanji, sorani & gorani as dialects, as I have spoken to kurds who have been rather open to describing them as separate languages
Yeah, the line's fuzzy. I believe they are considered separate languages, but are part of a dialect continuum, so there are a lot of intermediate varieties that don't constitute individual languages, but aren't necessarily dialects of one language or the other. I described them here as dialects more for convenience, I guess, but they probably are languages. That distinction is often artificial, of course - I'd probably usually refer to them as "varieties". Hope that helps! :)
I was so surprised to see the language i just today introduced myself in to my grandma there, hawaiian, i love it even though i hsve no particular reasons to learn it except for fun Also Indo-Iranian is not a fanily but a branch of the Indo-European
Glad to see someone interested in Hawaiian! It's such a cool language! Also, Indo-Iranian is indeed a branch of IE, but it can also be referred to as a family on its own. Family just means a group of related languages. You can have families within families within families. Just another term for the same thing. ;D
Ohhh, I definitely should have done that as the tenth one! I didn't think. Maybe I'll do a 1st of April video "why you should learn Uzbek". I actually have the first paragraph of a script for something like that from a while ago. :D
Not forgotten at all! This video only looks at 10 languages, so I had to choose carefully. I considered some Indian languages, but was trying to get a nice worldwide sample. I do mention Indo-Pakistani sign directly, but I understand that's not southern Indian as such. The languages of that region are very interesting, but I see no particular reason I should have included them over any other languages. There are a few southern Indian languages in an upcoming video I believe and if ever there are any languages you want me to look at, please let me know. Perhaps they'll make it next year! :)
I had intended to put this out on New Year's, but life and Christmas and work got in the way of that. Anyway, here it is!
As I mentioned in one of my videos or posts at the end of last year, I have big plans going forwards - a new series as well as more videos outside of that. I hope you enjoy this video and I hope to see you for the net one! :D
Great video!! One of my goals is to learn all the languages spoken in my country, and some of these are kind of adjacent to what I'll be learning. Super looking forward to looking into them. Cheers!
Thanks! Really glad you enjoyed! Could I maybe ask which country that is? I'm struggling to think of many with few enough languages you could learn them all. Even if you don't get all of them though, that's a very worthwhile thing to try to do. Very commendable - good luck! :)
@@LexisLang could be Poland, it has four languages indigenous to it, polish, Silesian, kashubian, and wymysorys, and also a rusyn dialect is there
Amazing video. Thank you
Thank you for watching, I'm so happy you enjoyed :D
If I manage to save enough time for it I may try to learn welsh this year, let's see how il'll unfold haha (but knowing Breton is a plus oc).
If you could, that'd be great of course, but Breton is still a great job. You're arguably making more difference there, too, since there are far fewer speakers and less exposure. :)
@@LexisLang sadly you're right haha
Interesting that you describe kurdish as one language and kurmanji, sorani & gorani as dialects, as I have spoken to kurds who have been rather open to describing them as separate languages
Yeah, the line's fuzzy. I believe they are considered separate languages, but are part of a dialect continuum, so there are a lot of intermediate varieties that don't constitute individual languages, but aren't necessarily dialects of one language or the other. I described them here as dialects more for convenience, I guess, but they probably are languages. That distinction is often artificial, of course - I'd probably usually refer to them as "varieties". Hope that helps! :)
I was so surprised to see the language i just today introduced myself in to my grandma there, hawaiian, i love it even though i hsve no particular reasons to learn it except for fun
Also Indo-Iranian is not a fanily but a branch of the Indo-European
Glad to see someone interested in Hawaiian! It's such a cool language!
Also, Indo-Iranian is indeed a branch of IE, but it can also be referred to as a family on its own. Family just means a group of related languages. You can have families within families within families. Just another term for the same thing. ;D
Ngl I was expecting Uzbek. I spend too much time on reddit
Ohhh, I definitely should have done that as the tenth one! I didn't think. Maybe I'll do a 1st of April video "why you should learn Uzbek". I actually have the first paragraph of a script for something like that from a while ago. :D
@@LexisLang Good Idea haha am looking forward to this :)
should learn*
Sorry?
@@LexisLang its a joke lol
Since when is Ukrainian a rare language?
Rare in the sense of "more rarely learned". Not the best word choice, but I couldn't really think of any better. :/
All the south Indian languages are forgotten
Not forgotten at all! This video only looks at 10 languages, so I had to choose carefully. I considered some Indian languages, but was trying to get a nice worldwide sample. I do mention Indo-Pakistani sign directly, but I understand that's not southern Indian as such. The languages of that region are very interesting, but I see no particular reason I should have included them over any other languages. There are a few southern Indian languages in an upcoming video I believe and if ever there are any languages you want me to look at, please let me know. Perhaps they'll make it next year! :)