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First I was like Portuguese or Romanian, but immediately I realize its not, then maybe a dialect of Arabic, or Hebrew or Kurdish or something in this region. And then of course its Georgian when you see the script
According to www.infoplease.com/askeds/how-many-spoken-languages , there are about 6500 living languages, but about 2000 of them have fewer than 1000 speakers, which leaves 4500 living languages with more than 1000 speakers. If you wanted to learn all 4500 in 100 lives, then 4500 languages / 100 lives = 45 languages per lifetime. I'd want a lot more than 100 lives lol
As soon as I heard 'A miña casa', I though "Wait, this is my language!". But then, the accent began to diverge to something castillian-sounding to my ears. Galego, without doubts.
I'm only a Portuguese learner but then I heard something foreign sounding and immediately thought of Galician. When I saw "coello" written like this, I was sure.
In Marathi the voice read: My house is two-storeyed and my room is in the second floor. I like spending time there a lot. There, I read books, compose music, write, work. Whatever the work be, i do it in my room. There is a big bed in my room. I spend a lot of time sitting on it. In short, I do all my work in my room itself. I could translate this because Marathi is my mother language.
I listen twice and then consider the writing & spelling and by considering his and another channel's teaching, I get fairly CLOSE to the right region as guessing answer but never the Correct country/ethnic groups. I don't cheat and jump to Google or searching.
Same. I'm a non-native Turkish speaker and it freaked me out the other day when I saw an interview with some folks speaking Uighur. I found I could understand the gist of what they were saying even though I've never studied Uighur.
I never recognized a language in these kind of videos of yours as quickly as the first one in this video. Being Portuguese it's easy to say it is Galician. By the way, actually the word "cear" exists in Portuguese! But nowadays, its most comon meaning in Portugal is: to take a light meal/snack after dinner (not the dinner itself). Yet it can be used to refer to dinner itself but it is rare and would be deemed as old fashioned I guess.
Bering Czech (si Indo-European And European) and being fond of languages I guessed this way: 1. Galician nearly immediately (after some seconds of disambiguity be sure it sounds like Portuguese but it isn't Portuguese), 2. Estonian by a tilde in writing (I wasn't sure whether it's Finnish or Estonian when hearing it). 3. I guessed Georgian looking at the writing (and the transcription - I'd determine it by any of them). I wasn't able to determine it before. 4. First I thought it's Mongolian but it's something strange with it so I guessed Kazakh or something like that. Cyrillic wasn't much helpful as all languages of this area are written in cyrillic but I did it - yesses… :-) 5) I was quite confused by that. First I guessed some Afro-Asiatic language and I've seen it's some Indian language according to the writing but I wasn't able to determine it. Thank you very much for these quizes. :-)
Its so crazy, you just (almost) recited my family history with those languages lol, my grandparents are born in georgia, grew up in kazhakstan and moved to estonia where my dad was born. I love those languages even though i dont know any of them :/
I DIED when I heard Marathi! I felt so damn proud for a moment that I heard my mother tongue on Langfocus 🤩 Paul, khup khup dhanyavaad (thank you very much in Marathi) (:
1-similar to portuguese but its not 2-similar to finnish but ıdk 3-Georgian because the writing style is specific and I have some Georgian friends 4-Kazakh because I am from Turkey and I can understand Turkic languages a little 5-İndian language because of writing system.
Hahaha pretty much the exact thought process as me. Except I have studied Portuguese so I recognized that #1 was a dialect of Portuguese from Spain as it has a clear Spanish influence.
Sabri K galician is not a dialect of portuguese. They are both languages developed from a single one called Galego-portugués. I'm galician so i know what i'm talking about hahaha
@@ramonvilaverdefernandez8704 I'm Portuguese and it's not clear whether we speak different languages or different dialects. I'm studying linguistics and there's a LOT of studies and theories about this! It's quite intriguing
In portuguese, there is a similar word: "colheu", but meaning only "he/she reaped (flowers, fruits)", never a book. Fun fact: "colher" in portuguese may be both "to reap" or "spoon"
That was my favorite one yet from this series. My results: I got *Galician* immediately. When spoken, I understood about 80% of it. When written, I said, "that's Galician". Oddly, I was surprised it was not MORE similar to Portuguese when I saw it written. When written, Galician looks more like Catalan (with the X's) or just Spanish. I also understood 100% of it when written. It is a good thing it was spoken first, because I recognized the deep phonological similarities to Portuguese, and I think the writing system may have been invented or reformed much later with heavy Spanish influence for political reasons. I am speculating wildly. My guess for *Estonian* was "messed up Dutch that is definitely not Dutch". My other sense was "possibly a pidgin language with two unrelated influences, at least one of them Germanic." I doubt that I have ever heard or read Estonian before, so I will give myself as many points as was possible in the circumstances. After hearing *Georgian* all I knew was "I definitely do not understand this language" and "I doubt this is an Indo-European language", which were both correct. After seeing the orthography (just the script, honestly), I immediately knew it was Georgian because I have read about Georgian. The script was a dead giveaway. After hearing *Kazakh* my guess was "from the Middle East" and also "likely Arabic-related or Semitic family". After seeing it written, I changed my guess to "messed up Turkish with a lot of Russian influence". Because "messed up Turkish" is not a language, and I knew I wouldn't actually guess it, I went in for Chechen. I was geographically close, but I didn't realize that Chechen is not a Turkic language and Kazakh is. If given this information, I would have said "well, it is obviously the Turkic language". After hearing *Marathi* I felt like "I can almost understand some of the words, but I definitely cannot understand any of them in reality. And "this is definitely an Indo-European language". After seeing it written, I said "this is definitely Indo-Aryan" (correct) and it is almost definitely from India or Iran. Both the native script and the transliteration into the Latin script show heavy Sanskrit influences (especially the use of macrons and H's in digraphs), so I decided it was from the Indian subcontinent and not from Iran. I have not heard of Marathi, so I will give myself as many points as possible under the circumstances. *Suggestion* On the written samples, show the written sentence, play the spoken audio, let me *try* to translate it, and then give the English translation. If this wasn't obvious, this means do *not* use the same three sentences each time. Those were good example sentences, though. I saw some cognates via Germanic and Latin sources, and the articles, pronouns, and inflected words were helpful (especially for distinguishing Galician from other Ibero-Romance languages - the lexicon was 100% Ibero-Romance, but the suffixes and mini-words were giveaways).
In relation to Galician writing system you are right when you write about it. In Galician we use the Spanish writing system but there is some people that thinks we must use the Portuguese writing system because, in fact, both languages have the same origin, Galician-Portuguese in the Middle Ages 😉
Except the 1st and 4th one, I guessed everything right. A fun fact, the script that is used for Marathi now is Devanagari script which is also used for Sanskrit and Hindi, but Marathi was written in its own indigenous script before the 1950s along with Devanagari, it's the Modi script.
Thank you Paul for including at least one Indian language. Being an Indian & a native speaker of Kannada language, I could easily identify Marathi since I have been living in the state of Maharashtra (where Marathi is spoken) from a long time. In your future ‘Guess the Language’ videos, I hope to see u including more Indian languages so that others (non-Indians) will get to know how much linguistically diverse India is. In India itself, every state had been formed on the basis of the language spoken in that region. Example: Kannada spoken in Karnataka, Marathi spoken in Maharashtra, Tamil spoken in Tamil Nadu, Gujarati spoken in the state of Gujarat,etc...Even within a particular state, you’ll find numerous dialects spoken of a particular language & there are examples of languages which are written in multiple scripts... Ex: The language of Konkani is written using different scripts such as Devanagari, Kannada script, Roman script and Malayalam....India is one of the few such countries wherein you’ll find the existence of languages delinking to more than one language families... Ex: The languages of Hindi,Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, etc belonging to the Indo European family, the languages of Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam belonging to Dravidian family, the languages of Santhali & Munda belonging to the Austro-Asiatic family & languages such as Tibetan, Mizo, Bodo & other northeast Indian language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan family. Where else can u find such a whopping variety of languages spoken? And believe it or not, most of the languages which I’ve mentioned are still in existence & being actively spoken inspite of globalization & the rising influence of English & other foreign languages. So my only request to u is to start making individual videos on different Indian languages!.. I bet that you’ll get a lot of content from the topic & Indian language enthusiasts like me will wholeheartedly support u in this endeavor. Keep up the good work & hope to see lots more from this wonderful channel of yours! Cheers👍🏽😊
How can a language sound gross? i mean sure it's a rough language but gross is a bit exaggerating it. and besides aren't you a Chechen bro? your language is rough sounding too you know.
Rainbow Stalin Sorry, that was poor choice of words indeed. My English is far from being fluent and because of my short vocabulary I often pick unfitting words to describe some things. What I meant was that Georgian (and Chechen too, as you noticed) sounds rough. In fact all of Caucasian languages I've heard sound harsh or rough, not like soft and flowing Italian or Ukrainian, or Scandinavian languages for instance. And that's neither bad nor good, it's just what it is and it's also just my humble opinion. I hope I brought some clarity with my explanation. Peace!
Hey Paul! I just want to say thank you for these great, educating videos! One can see how much effort you put into every single video. I think this is one of the best channels on RUclips 😊 please go on like this. Greetings from Germany!
Paul, as ever, you really are cyberspace's undisputed master linguist! Authoritative content, concise and engagingly put across. What more could one wish to have in order to learn? Full credit to you for your effort. Thank you for this, and all you've done for linguistics in cyberspace.
Langfocus Well, actions speak louder than words and in this case words, yours, are your action. No reasonable person could dispute how much effort goes into the finished article we get. A lot of research, reading around, I imagine a good deal of filtering the material you come across to make your relevant content, asking native speakers to assist (in various videos) not to mention video editing. I stand entirely by my original post.
From the ears of north a african berber, Estonian sounds has a little bit of japoneese sounds or accent . i know it's weird but that's what i am hearing.
Oh my God!! My mother tongue Marathi is featured on this channel! I don't know if you're going to see this comment, Paul, because this video isn't recent, but I'm so, so happy! I have binged your Mystery Languages series today and I'm absolutely thrilled that my "matru bhasha" (mother tongue) made an appearance! I saw from some of your other comments on videos that you don't intend to make videos on languages that take way too long, and I'm guessing Marathi is probably one of them, so I'm glad to have this little shout-out!! Thank you for all your brilliant content!
I'm a native speaker of Portuguese and I got Galician right. It helps that I know it exists. Thing is, it's clearly different from Portuguese, but still understandable. More so than Spanish, in a vacuum, but still too different to be Portuguese.
+isodoublet I was thinking that many words have the air that they would definitely be Portuguese, but the overall pronounciation was far too Spanish-sounding. That's how I decided it must be Galician. Also the other Portuguese r seemed to be constantly missing.
I hadn't watch the video and once I saw your comment, I knew I was right way before I even played the video. Eu falo galego, así que entón moitas grazas.
In Portuguese, we would also say "cear". In fact, Portuguese also has dropped a lot of "n's" which Spanish kept. The only difference here is usage. We use "ceia" usually to refer to a meal after dinner (jantar) but not dinner itself. We dropped the "n" too in all forms of this word.
I had so much fun trying to guess all these languages! This is really a nice game for Polyglots and all language passionates, keep on doing them since the video is super clean (good audio quality, Nice footage, interesting course...) it's great
Thanks! I’m glad you like it. These aren’t so popular because they don’t go deep into each topic, and most people enjoy going deep. But some people really like this so I make them once in a while.
I got Galician immediately because I speak both Portuguese and Spanish. I also got Estonian right because I traveled to Finland and Estonia and got familiar with its sound. The other languages were to hard to guess for me. Interesting video. Well done, Paul.👍🏼
Your metod for teaching is AWESOME. I'm subscribed to many language channels, but I discovered this one days ago and I LOVED IT. Please do polish! I can't wait to check it with your metod (Actually I'm studying polish). Saludos desde Polonia amigo!
kinda spoiler: 1º Galician for sure, my native language is portuguese, there's no other language to close like 'Galego' 2º No idea that was estonian, i know it's hard but i never heard before, and i though it was some creole language because it was talking about other european countries. 3º Georgian, No one use that alphabet except georgian of course 3º Thanks to the cirilic alphabet to indicate the region at least, but once again, i never heard kazakh before 4º the alphabet helped me to determine that the language is in India, but i only know the existance of Hindi, so doesn't help (and the language was Marathi)
Also PT native speaker, so I guessed Galician easily. Some background knowledge helped me guess the next 3 (the õ told me it was Estonian, alphabet told me it was Georgian, Turkic words + Cyrillic told me Kazakh), but you really need more in depth knowledge to guess Marathi.
I speak Portuguese, so I could have sworn that number 1 was Portuguese since I could comprehend what the girl was saying. Then I found out it was Galician. Damn, and I thought Spanish and Portuguese were similar! But really, awesome job, Paul. I love watching your videos!
My guesses: 1. Galician for sure. I was just listening to some Galician the other day. I can understand ALMOST 100% but not quite. 2. No idea. Maybe something indigenous in South America? I heard "Bolivia.." 3. Definitely Caucasian, not sure which. 4. Something Turkic with Russian accent mixed in. Could be a few, but I'll guess Uzbek? 5. Obviously something Indian but not Hindi so I've got no idea. Well hey not too bad! Only technically got 1, but I had an idea about 3 so that's not awful. Plus I learned Estonian sounds awesome, and is nothing like I imagined. Thanks Paul! Always super fun videos.
1. has to be Galician or something like that. It sounds like a mix of Portuguese and European Spanish(ceceo), and I've heard that Galician is similar to Portuguese. 2. Sounds so much like Finnish(Thanks Hydraulic Press Channel), but the writing is a bit different. I guess it must be Estonian? 3. Damn, I can't remember if this is Armenian or Georgian writing....I guess Armenian, because it sounded kind of "Greekish"? 4. Turkic of some kind. Perhaps Kazakh because of the Cyrillic writing? 5. Some kind of Indic language, since it is written in the Devanagari script and I heard a lot of "hai" at the end or the sentences. It doesn't seem to be Hindi, and a lot of words are longer than Hindi words. So maybe Marathi? Isn't that the very old one?
I’m coming to this video from years in the future. I didn’t know any of the languages in this video, *except* for Galician. I’ve never studied it, but I could recognize it right away because a majority of the words used in the samples were the same as Portuguese, but spoken with a “Spanish” pronunciation.
So, 1. It sounded like Portuguese, but it's not Portuguese. Galician? Yes. 2. It sounded like Finnish, but it's not Finnish. Estonian? Yes. 3. I recognise this writing system. Is it Georgian? Yes. 4. It's a Turkic language on Cyrillic script. Maybe, it's Kazakh? Yes, it is. 5. Looking on this writing system, it's some language from India. Is it Sanskrit? Nope, it's not. It's Marathi. 4 out of 5. Not bad. Thanks, I like this series.
Dude, I'm a Russian. People that speak Ugro-Finnic and Turkic languages are living in my country, as well as Georgians. Georgian and relative languages to Estonian and Kazakh, I heard irl. And Portuguese and Spanish are pretty big languages. So, Galician was pretty obvious.
Thanks that you keep making these Paul, I always enjoy them! So here's my guesses: 1. Hmmm, sounds like some mix between spanish and portuguese? Did I hear quatre-vingts in there? French influence? Possibly Corsican or Basque? Close enough I guess :) 2. First I was thinking it might be some south american native language because they seemed to be talking about some south american countries, but then I heard those others and tried to make sense of the accent, which sounds something a bit eastern european or nordic. After seeing it in writing I'm gonna guess Finnish or Saami. Darnit! So close! 3. Hmmm sounds russian, but at the same time sorta arabic because of the frickatives, so it might be from somewhere in between there. Azarbeijani, Kazahk, Uzbekh, Turkmen? Also close! I'm doing alright this time! 4. Sounds a bit like what Genghis Khan used to sound like in Civ5 but it's written in Cyrillic so maybe it's some Mongolian border dialect from the east of Russia? Manchu? Well shit should have noticed the turkic influence from the written samples as well :( 5. Speakers accent sounds vaguely Indian. Combined with the writing, I think it might be Nepalese. I don't know why my mind went to Nepal because of the writing, it's just normal sanskrit style writing.
1 - Galician. I study Spanish and Portuguese so I understood almost everything, and I know that Galician is very similar to both 2. Sounds unfamiliar, looking at the writing it looks like Finnish. I'm guessing Estonian 3. Sounds very Slavic. Looking at the writing tho, I think it's Georgian 4. Sound Semitic, but I'm gonna go with Uzbek because the writing is in Cyrillic and the anglicized text looks Turkic 5. The script looks a lot like Hindi, so I'm going with that, plus it sounds a tiny bit like Hindi
Bashkort is here. :D 1. Portuguese or some dialect of spanish. Galician.Well, I was close. 2. Finno-ugric language. Looking at the script. Obviosly not finnish. Estonian. I was right. 3. Georgian. I hear the language sometimes from my friends. Right. 4. Kypchak language. Kazakh. Right. 5. No idea. And I saw the script. Hindi the only indian language what i know. 3 of 5. I think passably enough.
1-Galician---interestingly, I understood it pretty well--I am fluent in Spanish (was a Spanish linguist in the US Army & married to a native speaker from Ecuador)--I've also attended language training for French & Indonesian as well. 2-Finnish 3-Georgian (only knew when I saw the script) 4-Turkish 5-Hindi Yay! Got 2 correct and 3 close-- Like a game of horseshoes.... Thank you for the vids. One of my fave channels
Hi Paul! The series is great and i am a big fan of it. The only thing i am missing is more african languages. i hope you put some african languags in the next.
I got Galician, Georgian and Kazakh spot on, but for some reason I managed to deduce that the second language was a Finno-Ugric language closely related to FInnish without realising it was Estonian. With Marathi all I could come up with was that it was a close relative of Hindi
I guessed: 1- Galician (sounded like portuguese but spoken with some type of spanish accent) 2- first finish but then Estonian after viewing the writen version 3- Georgian 4- first was not sure, azeri, armenian? Once saw the cyrilic letter it was obvious to me it was Kazakh (few languages are written in cyrilic but only a couple are not slavic. This was clearly not a slavic language) 5- a language spoken in India but not Hindi.
1. I recognized this language as a minor Romance language, and there have been many of them in this series. I abstained from further guesses. 2. Standard Estonian, kind of obvious to me as a Finn. 3. It sounded very Balto-Slavic to my ear (clear vowels + many consonant clusters + rolled Rs + some overall feeling) but the writing system revealed it was actually Georgian. Maybe I should listen to Georgian a bit more to train my ear. 4. The 1st person "men" in the written examples confused me for a while because it looks so Uralic (e.g. Udmurt "mon"), but the rest of it felt so Turkic/Mongolic that I guessed Tatar. A few minutes later I learned on Wikipedia that the initial b- in Proto-Turkic *ben has actually become m- in many branches of Turkic. Uralic influence? 5. I had an Indo-European and somewhat Indian feeling about this and even thought I heard a Sanskrit word ("sangit"). However, I was unable to hear very much of the typical Indian retroflexism. I eventually guessed Nepali because of this and the Devanagari script.
Wonderful! Kazakh, reminded me of Mongolian. As I arrived in Ulaanbataar's airport I was mesmerized by the announcement made over the loudspeaker at the airport, the language sounded like nothing that I've heard before.
when I heard the first one I was like OMG IT’S PORTUGESE (my native language is portuguese) then I thought wait that’s not portuguese but that’s SO similar, it bugged my brain. Then I guessed it was galego-portugues
Wow! For the very first time I scored in this "Mistery Language" ! I know the Galician language - and by the way, I am Brazilian. Galician is really very close to Portuguese. Sometimes it may sound confusing to Brazilian ears. I guess a Brazilian who doesn't know Galician may keep on changing his guesses like this: "Is it Spanish? It sounds a lot like Spanish sometimes, but it is not really Spanish. European Portuguese? No, now I know it is not the case. Maybe an ancient variety of Portuguese. Is it ?" I understand when people say it is close enough to may be considered a variety of Portuguese. It is really close, I agree, but as it has its own orthography and its pronunciation sounds also very close to Spanish (Castellano) I consider that Galician has more than simply political reasons to deserve its status of separate language (Understanding that the Romance family languages were - or are they still? - actually a long language continuum, and parts of that continuum became today's national languages). Ah, I also guessed right that the last language was a language from India but I didn't know about the Marathi language - pleased to meet it. Your channel is amazing Paul. You do a really outstanding job. I will not ask you anything, just keep up your great work, keep on surprising us with your passion for languages and therefore keep on feeding your subscribers' passion for such a rich area of knowledge. Muito obrigado.
By the way, the verb "cear" also exits in Portuguese. It just sounds a little old or too formal nowadays. I remember that my grandmother used to use it but also the verb "jantar" (much more common today). We still call Christmas dinner "A ceia de Natal". www.conjugacao-de-verbos.com/verbo/cear.php
So my major is Spanish, and for one of my classes, we actually watched a film where the characters were from Galicia, so we had to learn the differences between Spanish and Galician. When I heard it, it sounded vaguely like Spanish, but since I couldn't perfectly understand, I knew it had to be a language of Spain. Then it sounded vaguely Portuguese, but not quite enough to be Portuguese. So just from the audio I knew the first was Galician. For the second, I also have studied Finnish quite a bit. The audio sounded like someone speaking a bastardized version of Finnish, so I pretty quickly deduced it was Estonian. The third audio sample didn't remind me of any language, but when I saw the writing, I instantly recognized it as the Georgian script. The fourth I thought it was Ukrainian. The audio didn't remind me of any languages, but the written sample included letters that I recognized from Ukrainian, so that's why I went with that. For the last, honestly someone on Instagram spoiled it for me by mentioning Marathi. Otherwise I probably would have guessed Hindi just because I'm not too familiar with the languages of India.
1. I guessed basically Galician, I thought it was something like portuguese, but thought it sounded more spanish, and so I guessed the correct place, but didn't now the name. 2. I guessed Estonian, I was sure because of the till over the vowels, which they don't have in either sami languages or finnish. 3. Georgian, basically just by seeing the writing. 4. Kazakh, I heard it sounded pretty Turkic, and when I noticed it was using cyrilic, I knew it wasn't southwest-asian, and I found it sounded too Turkish to be Mongolian, and too Russian to be Uzbek, Tajik, Turkmen etc. 5. Something North-Indian (something Hindi-ish), I noticed him speaking about Holi (I think), and so I would suppose it would be a language of the Hindu-dominated part of India, and, the writing being very reminiscent of Hindi, I just guessed something not too far south and not too far west, which is closer to Hindi than to Bengali.
My guesses were 1. Portuguese or Maltese 2. Danish. But after written examples, I knew it was Estonian because of "õ". 3. Greek. After written example, I knew it was Georgian.
I came here looking for kazakh language and I found it! Thanks Paul! But the guy speaking has slight russian accent, which might affect some sounds and intonations
I just discover this video series and absolutely love it. It was so exciting to guess, even though I was terrible! I got the region right most of the times though :). Please make more if you have time! Looking forward to it!
If I make one of these that means I can’t make a different video. I have no spare time; it’s all a tradeoff. This series doesn’t perform well at all. After the first day, almost nobody watches the videos. If everyone who liked them shared them and they got more traction, I might be able to make more of them.
Love these videos! 1) I guessed Catalan, because it sounded like Spanish and Portuguese to me, but I couldn't think of other minority languages in the region (except for Basque, which I was sure it wasn't). 2) The audio had me thoroughly confused, but the writing sample made it easier. Looks like Finnish but a bit different, so I guessed Estonian. 3) The audio got me in the right region, but I guessed Georgian because of the alphabet. 4) Turkic language with Cyrillic alphabet - Kazakh is the only language I know with that combo, which is why I guessed that. 5) Didn't get much further than "somewhere close to or in India" - both based on audio and writing.
1. Galician/Catalonian because of similarity to Spanish. 2. Estonian/Finnish because of prolonged vowels and script. 3. Georgian because of the "Ts" sound and script 4. Central Asian Turkic, because of the similarity to Turkish and Persian loanwords! (Ketabkhane) and script. 5. Indo-Aryan because of the vague similarity to Persian (Eki/Yek/One (in English), Mi/Man/(Me in English)
how come Galician and Catalan could be very similar? While Galician sounds more Portuguese than Spanish and Catalan sounds like shorter and harder version of Spanish with some words that closer to French
Great video series!! 1. from hearing knew it would be some Ibero-Romance language, and put my money on Aragonese, but when seeing the text I knew it was Galician because the orthography looked similar to Portuguese. 2. Was almost sure it was Estonian just from the audio and 100% sure after seeing the text. It had a Finnish ring to it, but was clearly different. 3. Imagined it might be some Turkic language from the audio, but identified the Georgian alphabet. 4. Something Turkic or Mongolic. Shame I didn't recognize it specifically because I've listened to Kazakh quite a lot in the past. 5. Was almost sure it would be Hindi.
Some tough ones there, Paul! Great job. I make two guesses for each language, one after just listening to the spoken sample, and another after seeing the written sample: LANGUAGE No. 1: Latvian, Galician. I have no idea why the language sounded Baltic to begin with, because I seemed to recognise the Portuguese word "mais" but the "s" wasn't turned into the "sh" sound like in Portuguese. Once I saw the written sample, of course it was either Portuguese or Galician, but it sounded nowhere near as nasal or slurred as Portuguese so it wasn't that, and most of these Mystery Languages are quite obscure, so I picked Galician. LANGUAGE No. 2: Guarani, Estonian. I only thought it was Guarani because I swear I heard the word "Bolivia". I had no idea. In the written sample, the "o" with the tilde gave the game away instantly. LANGUAGE No. 3: Georgian, Georgian. Hooray! How could I possibly mistake those insane consonant clusters that make languages like Czech or Welsh look like a "CV-CV-CV-CV-CV..." Polynesian language or Japanese. I could feel the speaker trying to hammer those ejective consonants into my skull through my monitor. There was never any doubt. LANGUAGE No. 4: Ainu, Kazakh. The spoken sample sounded a bit like Japanese but with consonants at the end of syllables (I mean, consonants other than "n"). I thought it might have been an indigenous language like Ainu or Okinawan with speakers' accents influenced by Standard Japanese. The written sample was easier to figure out though - obviously a Turkic language written in the Cyrillic alphabet. Of which nowadays there is only Kazakh and (I think) Tajik and Kyrghyz. Uzbek and Azeri have moved to the Roman alphabet, I believe. LANGUAGE No. 5: Gujarati, Marathi. It was obvious from the first five seconds that it was an Indo-Aryan language, with sentences ending in a nasal "hai". The question was, which one. I first guessed Gujarati, but the written sample wasn't in the Gujarati script which has separate letters not connected with the upper straight line. So I guessed Marathi but I wasn't sure, it could have been Bengali or Bihari or Nepali or any number of other languages and dialects. It was a lucky guess.
1- Guessed right away, since I'm from Spain and it is really similar to Portuguese. 2- I had no idea. The languages from the Uralic family are quite a mystery. 3- With the audio I thought it was close to Russian, but the writing gave it away (such beautiful writing cannot be unnoticed!). 4- From the audio I couldn't guess much, but seeing the writing (and knowing it wasn't either Russian nor Ukranian by the audio) I thought it could be close to Bulgaria or so... 5- The writing told me it was Hindi but the audio didn't fit with that! 2/5 right 2/5 close enough 1/5 no idea
*Spoilers since some people are unable to not read comments before finishing the video:* #1: Guess: Galician | Correct | #2: Guess: Estonian | Correct | I'm Finnish, so... #3: Guess: Georgian | Correct | Writing system gave it away #4: Guess: Kyrgyz | Wrong | Thought it sounded a bit different to Kazakh I'm used to but close I guess #5: Guess: Punjabi | Wrong | Didn't think it was Hindi and didn't know other regional languages
great quiz! Really fun. I only guessed 1 2 and 3 (for the writing system, not phonetic) In some cable system in Mexico one channel from Galicia was included. Television de Galicia. It was really interesting to listen all the shows, I remember that I understand around 60%
I didn't get any of these by listening, but I could figure out their general area they came from: 1) Sounded like a derivative of Spanish or Portugese, more Portugese. I had never heard of Galician until now. 2) Sounded Nordic to me, and after seeing it written down, figured it had to be Finnish or Estonian. 3) I figured this one was from the Caucasian region, and I guessed Armenian. 4) Sounded a bit Turkish to me, so I figured Turkmenistan. Again I was close. The Cyrillic certainly suggested a former Soviet Republic. 5) I could tell this one was from India, but I am clueless on the different languages there. I guessed Bengali.
You guys are very smart. I only guessed galician because I'm in Galicia :'u(I have family here even though I'm from Madrid). By the way, I've been waiting for months the arrival of galician to this channel, thanks Paul. ¡Me encantan tus vídeos, muy instructivos!
Hoàng Kim Việt as a Russian native speaker I'll say that Georgian, Kazakh and Estonian in here sound kinda like the speakers use to speak Russian in their daily life and therefore, have a distinct Russian accent. In fact, it's a normal situation in post-Soviet countries. Each of those languages without an accent generally sound a little bit different, so they aren't that similar with each other.
i gussed 1. spanish ehh portuguese? answer:ohh 2. estonian answer: yaa 3. georgian answer: yaya 4. russian? answer: hmm 5. definitely not hindi (sounds like hindi spoken by an 5 year old) but is pretty similar, probably marathi answer:yayaya
Сергей Валиуллин Strange. I’m a native Rissian speaker from Estonia and the Estonian here was without any Russian accent whatsoever. It was a typical northern Estonian prononsuation.
3 out 5!! 😁😁😁 1. Really easy for me because i'm Galician! It was a real joke when i've heard the audio 😂 2. I've had to wait to watch its writing. I thought that you hadn't chosen Finnish because it would be so simple. So i've realised that it was Estonian 🤭 3. I've had to wait once again to watch its writing. When i've seen it i was sure that was Georgian 😏 4. I thought about Ukrainian but... mistake! 🥴 5. No idea! Playing all my life it wouldn't be enough to give the right answer 🤣
3/5! 1. As a Spanish speaker who understands maybe 30% spoken Portuguese, this was obviously Galician, given that it's so easy to understand and shares so many features and cognates with Spanish. I could understand like 99% of it when spoken, and all of it when I saw the text. 2. I've had a lot of exposure to Finnish, but this sounded odd, so it had to be Estonian. Confirmed by the text sample. 3. Recently I've had a lot of exposure to Armenian, this sounded like it but the writing is a bit roundier, so it had to be Georgian without question. 4. I guessed Mongolian based just in the sounds, was very pleasantly surprised that it's also a 'steppe' language although it's Turkic 5. I thought it sounded Dravidian so I was going to guess Tamil, but the writing looks more like Hindi, except perhaps less blocky. Still guessed Hindi, close enough I guess!
Yay mystery languages! Always love doing these, but they take some time for me, which is why this took me so long. I always like to share what I think separately after both listening and reading. Here we go. 1) Listening: Definitely belongs to the Romance language family, I heard a few Romance words in there as well. Portuguese would be my first guess. Reading: Knowing the obscurity of these, it’s probably going to be some creole language… but I’ll stick with my original thought, I see no reason to divert from it. Portuguese it is. After: Riiiight. There are a few more language on that Peninsula other than Spanish and Portuguese. I tend to forget that because I’m an ignorant foreigner. My bad. Anyway, I was pretty close, seeing as they are even sometimes considered one language. 2) Listening: I heard ‘Hollanda’ in there! Nice to hear my country spoken about in another language, I guess. Anyway, my suspicion started out as another Romance language but as she continued speaking, I felt more and more wrong. So, I don’t know. Completely going out on a limb here, so… Tagalog? Reading: The writing is screaming Finnish at me. The õ is the only thing throwing me off. You’ve already done Finnish on your channel and you tend to skip the languages you’ve talked about, so I’ll go for Finnish’s sister language, Estonian. After: YAAAAAAY I got one right! Dead-on. Actually been to Estonia, I speak exactly two Estonian words. Äitah = thanks, palun = you’re welcome. Also interesting bit on the õ, so I was right in being thrown off there. Glad I got one right, on to the next! 3) Listening: This is something Slavic, isn’t it? Well, I am terrible with Slavic languages so I’ll never get right which one it is, probably. I’m saying Croatian, just based on a hunch. The same hunch that said Tagalog in 2, so it’s probably wrong. Reading: Wrong! Sound the buzzer! Because I easily recognize that writing. This is Georgian. A Dutch TV program that I watch went to Georgia this year, which is why I recognize where the writing’s from. After: Not surprised at this one! Thanks to the Dutch TV show though. I was way off with Slavic too. 4) Listening: Slavic? Saying it again, I’m probably wrong again. That or maybe something Turkish-like. It’s hard to tell. I’ll go with Croatian again and get laughed at again probably. Reading: That’s Cyrillic script, but I think with some modifications. No way you’d be doing Russian, so it’s from a country close to there. Either Belarus or Ukraine. I’ll go with Ukrainian on a hunch. After: Wayyyy off. Oops. I’m never saying Slavic again. 5) Listening: No idea. Not even Slavic. Can’t place it anywhere. I’ll just say Tagalog again. Reading: Gotcha! I recognize that writing. This, my friend, is Hindi! Which is interesting because you have done a video on that and its differences with Urdu, but I don’t know any other language that uses that script. Hindi is my guess. After: Oops. Well, I was close. I’m not that good with Indian languages I guess. I did indeed learn some new things Paul! Thanks for hosting these, as always.
Galician i knew it ws it because i live in Spain. When I heard Estonian I thought it was Finnish and obviously the letters are quite similar in both languages and the way it sounds; but it's only normal since they belong to the same branch. Georgian I guessed it when I saw the transliteration. Sometimes the least known languages or the ones we never heard before are the hardest to figure out. I really like your videos. There is so much to learn about languages.
Dear Paul Your videos are fascinating and interesting and it is with an assuming pleasure that I listen to them and watch them. A few years ago, I read the novel "Les Bienveillantes" by Jonathan Littell. A disturbing novel, of course. While assigned to the Caucasus area, the main character chatted with another officer, who was a linguist and the latter spoke of the multitude of languages in this region, defining it as the Babel region. The scholarship expressed by the author in these few pages is fascinating. Reading this novel requires some courage, I would say, both for its length and for its content. Be advised.
1. Galician because it's a cross between Spanish and Portuguese. 2. Estonian because they have the o tilde which they don't use in Finnish, but they have the double a umphat which is in Finnish. 3. Georgian because of the writing system. 4. Kazakh because of the Cyrillic script. 5. Hindustan because of the writing system.
I guessed four first languages and for the fifth guessed that it was one of the languages of India. Didn't know which. As I speak Portuguese, I thought the first language was it, but then I heard something 'strange' and it could only be Galician. The second easiest guess was Georgian. Of course, seeing all of them written makes it much, much easier. Kazakh is transferring from Cyrillic to Latin script now. Thank you, Paul, for a great job!
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Listened to the recording: “Huh, wonder what this language could be”
Saw the writing: “Yep that’s definitely Georgian”
Georgian is the only one among the five i have already known the name before and guessed correctly.
i really like the writing in georgian, it is round and pretty.
My first guess was that it was Latvian.. And I live in Estonia :)
First I was like Portuguese or Romanian, but immediately I realize its not, then maybe a dialect of Arabic, or Hebrew or Kurdish or something in this region. And then of course its Georgian when you see the script
As armenian I guessed georgian language even without looking at the script lol
how i'd like to have 100 lives and learn all languages
I know exactly what you mean!
A smart thing is to have one's notes include multiple languages on the same page or entry.
According to www.infoplease.com/askeds/how-many-spoken-languages , there are about 6500 living languages, but about 2000 of them have fewer than 1000 speakers, which leaves 4500 living languages with more than 1000 speakers. If you wanted to learn all 4500 in 100 lives, then 4500 languages / 100 lives = 45 languages per lifetime. I'd want a lot more than 100 lives lol
Just try to remember your previous incarnations, or prepare for the next ones.
Wish :/
As soon as I heard 'A miña casa', I though "Wait, this is my language!". But then, the accent began to diverge to something castillian-sounding to my ears. Galego, without doubts.
Como Galicianar -> Falar o Portugués Nord, co acento castellano.
lol I heard animais and thought it was Portuguese then it started to sound like Spanish so I knew it was Galatian
I'm only a Portuguese learner but then I heard something foreign sounding and immediately thought of Galician. When I saw "coello" written like this, I was sure.
as a Galician I recognized it immediately
In Marathi the voice read:
My house is two-storeyed and my room is in the second floor. I like spending time there a lot. There, I read books, compose music, write, work. Whatever the work be, i do it in my room. There is a big bed in my room. I spend a lot of time sitting on it. In short, I do all my work in my room itself.
I could translate this because Marathi is my mother language.
Marathi aikun bara vatla, nahi ka?
@@nachiketmalpathak9039 ho na.
@@nachiketmalpathak9039 ho na
@@nachiketmalpathak9039 khup bara vatla
Thanks for the translation! ✨
Tip: Don't read the comments before watching this video
Already did I'm stupid
Oops 😅
I listen twice and then consider the writing & spelling and by considering his and another channel's teaching, I get fairly CLOSE to the right region as guessing answer
but never the Correct country/ethnic groups. I don't cheat and jump to Google or searching.
I hide the spoilers under a read more, wish more people did.
No shit.
I can't believe I got Marathi! I knew it is an Indian language, and the script seemed familiar. I screamed in excitement!
Turkic languages are very similar to each other. When I saw the kazakh script, i understood most of it
Same. I'm a non-native Turkish speaker and it freaked me out the other day when I saw an interview with some folks speaking Uighur. I found I could understand the gist of what they were saying even though I've never studied Uighur.
Did you notice he only coloured half of the letter Ы when highlighting it?
I never recognized a language in these kind of videos of yours as quickly as the first one in this video.
Being Portuguese it's easy to say it is Galician.
By the way, actually the word "cear" exists in Portuguese! But nowadays, its most comon meaning in Portugal is: to take a light meal/snack after dinner (not the dinner itself). Yet it can be used to refer to dinner itself but it is rare and would be deemed as old fashioned I guess.
Como Brasileiro foi fácil adivinhar que a primeira era a língua da Galícia.
Alșatian
I was close to recognise its location or near... ex, I kasakh lang. Similar Turkish and marathi sound Indian
Bering Czech (si Indo-European And European) and being fond of languages I guessed this way:
1. Galician nearly immediately (after some seconds of disambiguity be sure it sounds like Portuguese but it isn't Portuguese),
2. Estonian by a tilde in writing (I wasn't sure whether it's Finnish or Estonian when hearing it).
3. I guessed Georgian looking at the writing (and the transcription - I'd determine it by any of them). I wasn't able to determine it before.
4. First I thought it's Mongolian but it's something strange with it so I guessed Kazakh or something like that. Cyrillic wasn't much helpful as all languages of this area are written in cyrillic but I did it - yesses… :-)
5) I was quite confused by that. First I guessed some Afro-Asiatic language and I've seen it's some Indian language according to the writing but I wasn't able to determine it.
Thank you very much for these quizes. :-)
"Cear" é muito usado no contexto cristão tradicional. Tem hinos com a palavra, a Última Ceia, etc.
Its so crazy, you just (almost) recited my family history with those languages lol, my grandparents are born in georgia, grew up in kazhakstan and moved to estonia where my dad was born. I love those languages even though i dont know any of them :/
I absolutely love these mystery language videos. I surprised myself at how well I could place the samples geographically. Keep em coming.
I DIED when I heard Marathi!
I felt so damn proud for a moment that I heard my mother tongue on Langfocus 🤩
Paul, khup khup dhanyavaad (thank you very much in Marathi) (:
I'm Bengali and I understood that haha (even without context). We say khub khub dhonobaad.
I do not speak any Indian language and I guessed Gujarati. I felt proud to be one state off haha
@@lyadmilo cool, so where are you from and which languages do you speak?
@@rahuldhargalkar English French and Spanish
@@lyadmilo I was quite impressed that you could guess Gujarati! Do you know someone who speaks it? 😅
9:49 Marathi/Sanskrit word for "full" is related to equivalent words in European languages, like Romanian "plin", Irish "lán" and Czech "plný".
1-similar to portuguese but its not
2-similar to finnish but ıdk
3-Georgian because the writing style is specific and I have some Georgian friends
4-Kazakh because I am from Turkey and I can understand Turkic languages a little
5-İndian language because of writing system.
Hahaha pretty much the exact thought process as me. Except I have studied Portuguese so I recognized that #1 was a dialect of Portuguese from Spain as it has a clear Spanish influence.
Canavar Karagoz that feels good to think similar things(merhaba Türk kardeşim 😄)
Sabri K galician is not a dialect of portuguese. They are both languages developed from a single one called Galego-portugués. I'm galician so i know what i'm talking about hahaha
@@ramonvilaverdefernandez8704 I'm Portuguese and it's not clear whether we speak different languages or different dialects. I'm studying linguistics and there's a LOT of studies and theories about this! It's quite intriguing
@@sybilvachaudez1873 my guess was sardinian. Do you think they are close to each other?
Galician: "Ela colleu un libro prestado da biblioteca"
Portuguese: "Ela escolheu um livro emprestado da biblioteca"
Not "escolheu", escolheu has a complete diferent meaning, but indeed "buscou"
@@gajonoob5122 ou 'pegou'
@@meastrotorfe2022 exatamente
Español: Ella cogió un libro prestado de la biblioteca.
In portuguese, there is a similar word: "colheu", but meaning only "he/she reaped (flowers, fruits)", never a book.
Fun fact: "colher" in portuguese may be both "to reap" or "spoon"
That was my favorite one yet from this series. My results:
I got *Galician* immediately. When spoken, I understood about 80% of it. When written, I said, "that's Galician". Oddly, I was surprised it was not MORE similar to Portuguese when I saw it written. When written, Galician looks more like Catalan (with the X's) or just Spanish. I also understood 100% of it when written. It is a good thing it was spoken first, because I recognized the deep phonological similarities to Portuguese, and I think the writing system may have been invented or reformed much later with heavy Spanish influence for political reasons. I am speculating wildly.
My guess for *Estonian* was "messed up Dutch that is definitely not Dutch". My other sense was "possibly a pidgin language with two unrelated influences, at least one of them Germanic." I doubt that I have ever heard or read Estonian before, so I will give myself as many points as was possible in the circumstances.
After hearing *Georgian* all I knew was "I definitely do not understand this language" and "I doubt this is an Indo-European language", which were both correct. After seeing the orthography (just the script, honestly), I immediately knew it was Georgian because I have read about Georgian. The script was a dead giveaway.
After hearing *Kazakh* my guess was "from the Middle East" and also "likely Arabic-related or Semitic family". After seeing it written, I changed my guess to "messed up Turkish with a lot of Russian influence". Because "messed up Turkish" is not a language, and I knew I wouldn't actually guess it, I went in for Chechen. I was geographically close, but I didn't realize that Chechen is not a Turkic language and Kazakh is. If given this information, I would have said "well, it is obviously the Turkic language".
After hearing *Marathi* I felt like "I can almost understand some of the words, but I definitely cannot understand any of them in reality. And "this is definitely an Indo-European language". After seeing it written, I said "this is definitely Indo-Aryan" (correct) and it is almost definitely from India or Iran. Both the native script and the transliteration into the Latin script show heavy Sanskrit influences (especially the use of macrons and H's in digraphs), so I decided it was from the Indian subcontinent and not from Iran. I have not heard of Marathi, so I will give myself as many points as possible under the circumstances.
*Suggestion* On the written samples, show the written sentence, play the spoken audio, let me *try* to translate it, and then give the English translation. If this wasn't obvious, this means do *not* use the same three sentences each time. Those were good example sentences, though. I saw some cognates via Germanic and Latin sources, and the articles, pronouns, and inflected words were helpful (especially for distinguishing Galician from other Ibero-Romance languages - the lexicon was 100% Ibero-Romance, but the suffixes and mini-words were giveaways).
In relation to Galician writing system you are right when you write about it. In Galician we use the Spanish writing system but there is some people that thinks we must use the Portuguese writing system because, in fact, both languages have the same origin, Galician-Portuguese in the Middle Ages
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Except the 1st and 4th one, I guessed everything right. A fun fact, the script that is used for Marathi now is Devanagari script which is also used for Sanskrit and Hindi, but Marathi was written in its own indigenous script before the 1950s along with Devanagari, it's the Modi script.
Thank you Paul for including at least one Indian language. Being an Indian & a native speaker of Kannada language, I could easily identify Marathi since I have been living in the state of Maharashtra (where Marathi is spoken) from a long time. In your future ‘Guess the Language’ videos, I hope to see u including more Indian languages so that others (non-Indians) will get to know how much linguistically diverse India is. In India itself, every state had been formed on the basis of the language spoken in that region. Example: Kannada spoken in Karnataka, Marathi spoken in Maharashtra, Tamil spoken in Tamil Nadu, Gujarati spoken in the state of Gujarat,etc...Even within a particular state, you’ll find numerous dialects spoken of a particular language & there are examples of languages which are written in multiple scripts... Ex: The language of Konkani is written using different scripts such as Devanagari, Kannada script, Roman script and Malayalam....India is one of the few such countries wherein you’ll find the existence of languages delinking to more than one language families... Ex: The languages of Hindi,Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, etc belonging to the Indo European family, the languages of Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam belonging to Dravidian family, the languages of Santhali & Munda belonging to the Austro-Asiatic family & languages such as Tibetan, Mizo, Bodo & other northeast Indian language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan family. Where else can u find such a whopping variety of languages spoken? And believe it or not, most of the languages which I’ve mentioned are still in existence & being actively spoken inspite of globalization & the rising influence of English & other foreign languages. So my only request to u is to start making individual videos on different Indian languages!.. I bet that you’ll get a lot of content from the topic & Indian language enthusiasts like me will wholeheartedly support u in this endeavor. Keep up the good work & hope to see lots more from this wonderful channel of yours!
Cheers👍🏽😊
Paul please don’t stop making these. The possibilities are truly endless with this method
Georgian language is beautiful and has a gorgeous writing system
Sounds gross tho
How can a language sound gross? i mean sure it's a rough language but gross is a bit exaggerating it. and besides aren't you a Chechen bro? your language is rough sounding too you know.
Rainbow Stalin Sorry, that was poor choice of words indeed. My English is far from being fluent and because of my short vocabulary I often pick unfitting words to describe some things. What I meant was that Georgian (and Chechen too, as you noticed) sounds rough. In fact all of Caucasian languages I've heard sound harsh or rough, not like soft and flowing Italian or Ukrainian, or Scandinavian languages for instance. And that's neither bad nor good, it's just what it is and it's also just my humble opinion. I hope I brought some clarity with my explanation. Peace!
Yeah i understand no hard feelings bro.
Yes, I also find Georgian letters beautiful.
Hey Paul! I just want to say thank you for these great, educating videos! One can see how much effort you put into every single video. I think this is one of the best channels on RUclips 😊 please go on like this. Greetings from Germany!
Thank you! I appreciate that you just left a nice comment without adding a topic request at the end.
Ach! So happy to see my mother tongue Estonian here! 😍😍😍
Georgian is a gorgeous language. The consonant cluster gave me goosebumps! I really like your background music too. What a vibe
The kazakh language is my mother tongue :') thank u, Paul! I was very surprised
Салам алейкум, как говорится
Paul, as ever, you really are cyberspace's undisputed master linguist! Authoritative content, concise and engagingly put across. What more could one wish to have in order to learn? Full credit to you for your effort. Thank you for this, and all you've done for linguistics in cyberspace.
I deny all ties to the phrase "master linguist" (this is just my area of INTEREST), but I'm glad you appreciate the content! :)
Langfocus Well, actions speak louder than words and in this case words, yours, are your action. No reasonable person could dispute how much effort goes into the finished article we get. A lot of research, reading around, I imagine a good deal of filtering the material you come across to make your relevant content, asking native speakers to assist (in various videos) not to mention video editing. I stand entirely by my original post.
I got Estonian and Georgian, and wasn’t too far off on the other three. Appreciate this series immensely.
This comment ruined the video for me 🥴
From the ears of north a african berber, Estonian sounds has a little bit of japoneese sounds or accent . i know it's weird but that's what i am hearing.
Oh my God!! My mother tongue Marathi is featured on this channel! I don't know if you're going to see this comment, Paul, because this video isn't recent, but I'm so, so happy! I have binged your Mystery Languages series today and I'm absolutely thrilled that my "matru bhasha" (mother tongue) made an appearance! I saw from some of your other comments on videos that you don't intend to make videos on languages that take way too long, and I'm guessing Marathi is probably one of them, so I'm glad to have this little shout-out!! Thank you for all your brilliant content!
I LOVE THESE MYSTERY LANGUAGE VIDS
I love this. Please keep doing more of them. There are so many languages to hear. Out of all 7 videos, I have guessed one right.
1- I was thinking: "it's Spanish then Portuguese".
Same, as my dad is a native Spanish speaker. But it got weird farther in.
I am a portuguese native speaker, i also guess that was portguese.
I'm a native speaker of Portuguese and I got Galician right. It helps that I know it exists. Thing is, it's clearly different from Portuguese, but still understandable. More so than Spanish, in a vacuum, but still too different to be Portuguese.
+isodoublet I was thinking that many words have the air that they would definitely be Portuguese, but the overall pronounciation was far too Spanish-sounding. That's how I decided it must be Galician. Also the other Portuguese r seemed to be constantly missing.
I hadn't watch the video and once I saw your comment, I knew I was right way before I even played the video. Eu falo galego, así que entón moitas grazas.
I am italian and I understand perfectly the first language so much that I thought it was a dialect of north italy.
@@lexiepotter4411 occitan
i speak spanish and portuguese but i have never heard something about the galician language, but i undertood the 100% of what she said
In Portuguese, we would also say "cear". In fact, Portuguese also has dropped a lot of "n's" which Spanish kept. The only difference here is usage. We use "ceia" usually to refer to a meal after dinner (jantar) but not dinner itself. We dropped the "n" too in all forms of this word.
Muito bem
Wouldn't ceia usually refer to a more special meal? I've used it to refer to Christmas dinner and communion
@@JoaoPessoa86 se calhar também mas os meus avós no norte usavam essa expressão durante todo ano.
@@jamonte interesante. Sou de Salvador mas nunca ouvi "ceia" usada casualmente, sempre se referia à uma refeição formal
@@JoaoPessoa86 provavelmente é uma expressão em desuso tal como bem-haja. Actualmente quase ninguém usa bem-haja em vez de obrigado(a).
I had so much fun trying to guess all these languages! This is really a nice game for Polyglots and all language passionates, keep on doing them since the video is super clean (good audio quality, Nice footage, interesting course...) it's great
Thanks! I’m glad you like it. These aren’t so popular because they don’t go deep into each topic, and most people enjoy going deep. But some people really like this so I make them once in a while.
I got Galician immediately because I speak both Portuguese and Spanish. I also got Estonian right because I traveled to Finland and Estonia and got familiar with its sound. The other languages were to hard to guess for me.
Interesting video. Well done, Paul.👍🏼
Your metod for teaching is AWESOME. I'm subscribed to many language channels, but I discovered this one days ago and I LOVED IT. Please do polish! I can't wait to check it with your metod (Actually I'm studying polish). Saludos desde Polonia amigo!
kinda spoiler:
1º Galician for sure, my native language is portuguese, there's no other language to close like 'Galego'
2º No idea that was estonian, i know it's hard but i never heard before, and i though it was some creole language because it was talking about other european countries.
3º Georgian, No one use that alphabet except georgian of course
3º Thanks to the cirilic alphabet to indicate the region at least, but once again, i never heard kazakh before
4º the alphabet helped me to determine that the language is in India, but i only know the existance of Hindi, so doesn't help (and the language was Marathi)
Also PT native speaker, so I guessed Galician easily. Some background knowledge helped me guess the next 3 (the õ told me it was Estonian, alphabet told me it was Georgian, Turkic words + Cyrillic told me Kazakh), but you really need more in depth knowledge to guess Marathi.
Wow. You're amazing :O
any diet recommendations so I can get as smart as you??
I speak Portuguese, so I could have sworn that number 1 was Portuguese since I could comprehend what the girl was saying. Then I found out it was Galician. Damn, and I thought Spanish and Portuguese were similar!
But really, awesome job, Paul. I love watching your videos!
My guesses:
1. Galician for sure. I was just listening to some Galician the other day. I can understand ALMOST 100% but not quite.
2. No idea. Maybe something indigenous in South America? I heard "Bolivia.."
3. Definitely Caucasian, not sure which.
4. Something Turkic with Russian accent mixed in. Could be a few, but I'll guess Uzbek?
5. Obviously something Indian but not Hindi so I've got no idea.
Well hey not too bad! Only technically got 1, but I had an idea about 3 so that's not awful. Plus I learned Estonian sounds awesome, and is nothing like I imagined. Thanks Paul! Always super fun videos.
So are you learning Galician!?? 😱
I'm from Galicia in fact! 😂
I got the Galician one straight away. My family had just come back from holiday in Galicia, so I have been researching it the past week.
1. has to be Galician or something like that. It sounds like a mix of Portuguese and European Spanish(ceceo), and I've heard that Galician is similar to Portuguese.
2. Sounds so much like Finnish(Thanks Hydraulic Press Channel), but the writing is a bit different. I guess it must be Estonian?
3. Damn, I can't remember if this is Armenian or Georgian writing....I guess Armenian, because it sounded kind of "Greekish"?
4. Turkic of some kind. Perhaps Kazakh because of the Cyrillic writing?
5. Some kind of Indic language, since it is written in the Devanagari script and I heard a lot of "hai" at the end or the sentences. It doesn't seem to be Hindi, and a lot of words are longer than Hindi words. So maybe Marathi? Isn't that the very old one?
God damn, that was not half-bad! xD
Nicely done!
I’m coming to this video from years in the future. I didn’t know any of the languages in this video, *except* for Galician. I’ve never studied it, but I could recognize it right away because a majority of the words used in the samples were the same as Portuguese, but spoken with a “Spanish” pronunciation.
So,
1. It sounded like Portuguese, but it's not Portuguese. Galician? Yes.
2. It sounded like Finnish, but it's not Finnish. Estonian? Yes.
3. I recognise this writing system. Is it Georgian? Yes.
4. It's a Turkic language on Cyrillic script. Maybe, it's Kazakh? Yes, it is.
5. Looking on this writing system, it's some language from India. Is it Sanskrit? Nope, it's not. It's Marathi.
4 out of 5. Not bad.
Thanks, I like this series.
You got the right branch for the last one, so that counts as correct in my book.
I had the same situation dude
ppppfff lies ! you know you only got 1 right.
Dude, I'm a Russian. People that speak Ugro-Finnic and Turkic languages are living in my country, as well as Georgians. Georgian and relative languages to Estonian and Kazakh, I heard irl. And Portuguese and Spanish are pretty big languages. So, Galician was pretty obvious.
I was just joking. I only got one right. Becasuse I hardly ever have heard any of these languages.
Paul, your videos are incredibly interesting and amazing! Thanks.
Thank you!
Thanks that you keep making these Paul, I always enjoy them!
So here's my guesses:
1. Hmmm, sounds like some mix between spanish and portuguese? Did I hear quatre-vingts in there? French influence? Possibly Corsican or Basque?
Close enough I guess :)
2. First I was thinking it might be some south american native language because they seemed to be talking about some south american countries, but then I heard those others and tried to make sense of the accent, which sounds something a bit eastern european or nordic. After seeing it in writing I'm gonna guess Finnish or Saami.
Darnit! So close!
3. Hmmm sounds russian, but at the same time sorta arabic because of the frickatives, so it might be from somewhere in between there. Azarbeijani, Kazahk, Uzbekh, Turkmen?
Also close! I'm doing alright this time!
4. Sounds a bit like what Genghis Khan used to sound like in Civ5 but it's written in Cyrillic so maybe it's some Mongolian border dialect from the east of Russia? Manchu?
Well shit should have noticed the turkic influence from the written samples as well :(
5. Speakers accent sounds vaguely Indian. Combined with the writing, I think it might be Nepalese.
I don't know why my mind went to Nepal because of the writing, it's just normal sanskrit style writing.
Actually Mongolian Is USually Written In The Cyrillic Alphabet, Atleast In Mongolia.
Thanks for letting me know! TIL
What is an Eastern European accent??? It exists only in your imagination
These were easy. Probably because these are more familiar languages ? or because I have been watching your videos for so long ! Keep them coming !
1 - Galician. I study Spanish and Portuguese so I understood almost everything, and I know that Galician is very similar to both
2. Sounds unfamiliar, looking at the writing it looks like Finnish. I'm guessing Estonian
3. Sounds very Slavic. Looking at the writing tho, I think it's Georgian
4. Sound Semitic, but I'm gonna go with Uzbek because the writing is in Cyrillic and the anglicized text looks Turkic
5. The script looks a lot like Hindi, so I'm going with that, plus it sounds a tiny bit like Hindi
Damn, i really appreciate how much time and efford you might put into making these videos and figuring all of those languages out + in depth info!
The languages must be defended and kept for our posterities.
I really want someone to save Sardinian
From extinction.
If a language goes extinct, it simply means its time is up. You can't save everyone or everything!
Eck Centrique You can save languages
Resurrect them even
Georgian doesn’t need any defense 🙂😒😏 it is spoken by some 6 million people so... (I am georgian by the way) 🙂🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪
Bashkort is here. :D
1. Portuguese or some dialect of spanish. Galician.Well, I was close.
2. Finno-ugric language. Looking at the script. Obviosly not finnish. Estonian. I was right.
3. Georgian. I hear the language sometimes from my friends. Right.
4. Kypchak language. Kazakh. Right.
5. No idea. And I saw the script. Hindi the only indian language what i know.
3 of 5. I think passably enough.
1-Galician---interestingly, I understood it pretty well--I am fluent in Spanish (was a Spanish linguist in the US Army & married to a native speaker from Ecuador)--I've also attended language training for French & Indonesian as well.
2-Finnish
3-Georgian (only knew when I saw the script)
4-Turkish
5-Hindi
Yay! Got 2 correct and 3 close-- Like a game of horseshoes....
Thank you for the vids. One of my fave channels
1. Galician
2. Estonian
3. Georgian
4. Kazakh (Qazaq)
5. Marathi
Hey Paul! I’m a huge fan, I love these mystery language videos... so fun and interactive! Keep it up!
We need mystery language: Caucasus edition.
He did it.
or native american languages of western USA :)
Hi Paul! The series is great and i am a big fan of it. The only thing i am missing is more african languages. i hope you put some african languags in the next.
Langfocus I love your videos
Thanks!
You’re welcome
Paul, your videos are awesome! Please make more "Mystery language" videos! Hugs from Brazil.
I got Galician, Georgian and Kazakh spot on, but for some reason I managed to deduce that the second language was a Finno-Ugric language closely related to FInnish without realising it was Estonian.
With Marathi all I could come up with was that it was a close relative of Hindi
OMG i love the background music soooo much!!! Thanks for the video!! and the music :)))))
I guessed:
1- Galician (sounded like portuguese but spoken with some type of spanish accent)
2- first finish but then Estonian after viewing the writen version
3- Georgian
4- first was not sure, azeri, armenian? Once saw the cyrilic letter it was obvious to me it was Kazakh (few languages are written in cyrilic but only a couple are not slavic. This was clearly not a slavic language)
5- a language spoken in India but not Hindi.
Romain Demarais kyrgyz, tatar, uzbek, sahaa and many more turkic langs written in cyrillic
irrelevant thank you.. i actually did not know about this. So i got lucky!
1. I recognized this language as a minor Romance language, and there have been many of them in this series. I abstained from further guesses.
2. Standard Estonian, kind of obvious to me as a Finn.
3. It sounded very Balto-Slavic to my ear (clear vowels + many consonant clusters + rolled Rs + some overall feeling) but the writing system revealed it was actually Georgian. Maybe I should listen to Georgian a bit more to train my ear.
4. The 1st person "men" in the written examples confused me for a while because it looks so Uralic (e.g. Udmurt "mon"), but the rest of it felt so Turkic/Mongolic that I guessed Tatar. A few minutes later I learned on Wikipedia that the initial b- in Proto-Turkic *ben has actually become m- in many branches of Turkic. Uralic influence?
5. I had an Indo-European and somewhat Indian feeling about this and even thought I heard a Sanskrit word ("sangit"). However, I was unable to hear very much of the typical Indian retroflexism. I eventually guessed Nepali because of this and the Devanagari script.
1. Some kind of romance language, maybe a dialect of Portugese
2. Finnish or Estonian
3. Georgian
4. Turkish
5. Hindi
Wonderful! Kazakh, reminded me of Mongolian. As I arrived in Ulaanbataar's airport I was mesmerized by the announcement made over the loudspeaker at the airport, the language sounded like nothing that I've heard before.
when I heard the first one I was like OMG IT’S PORTUGESE (my native language is portuguese) then I thought wait that’s not portuguese but that’s SO similar, it bugged my brain. Then I guessed it was galego-portugues
Hey Paul. With generous use of pause and replay I got seven out of seven. FUN.
Wow! For the very first time I scored in this "Mistery Language" ! I know the Galician language - and by the way, I am Brazilian. Galician is really very close to Portuguese. Sometimes it may sound confusing to Brazilian ears. I guess a Brazilian who doesn't know Galician may keep on changing his guesses like this: "Is it Spanish? It sounds a lot like Spanish sometimes, but it is not really Spanish. European Portuguese? No, now I know it is not the case. Maybe an ancient variety of Portuguese. Is it ?" I understand when people say it is close enough to may be considered a variety of Portuguese. It is really close, I agree, but as it has its own orthography and its pronunciation sounds also very close to Spanish (Castellano) I consider that Galician has more than simply political reasons to deserve its status of separate language (Understanding that the Romance family languages were - or are they still? - actually a long language continuum, and parts of that continuum became today's national languages). Ah, I also guessed right that the last language was a language from India but I didn't know about the Marathi language - pleased to meet it. Your channel is amazing Paul. You do a really outstanding job. I will not ask you anything, just keep up your great work, keep on surprising us with your passion for languages and therefore keep on feeding your subscribers' passion for such a rich area of knowledge. Muito obrigado.
By the way, the verb "cear" also exits in Portuguese. It just sounds a little old or too formal nowadays. I remember that my grandmother used to use it but also the verb "jantar" (much more common today). We still call Christmas dinner "A ceia de Natal". www.conjugacao-de-verbos.com/verbo/cear.php
So my major is Spanish, and for one of my classes, we actually watched a film where the characters were from Galicia, so we had to learn the differences between Spanish and Galician. When I heard it, it sounded vaguely like Spanish, but since I couldn't perfectly understand, I knew it had to be a language of Spain. Then it sounded vaguely Portuguese, but not quite enough to be Portuguese. So just from the audio I knew the first was Galician.
For the second, I also have studied Finnish quite a bit. The audio sounded like someone speaking a bastardized version of Finnish, so I pretty quickly deduced it was Estonian.
The third audio sample didn't remind me of any language, but when I saw the writing, I instantly recognized it as the Georgian script.
The fourth I thought it was Ukrainian. The audio didn't remind me of any languages, but the written sample included letters that I recognized from Ukrainian, so that's why I went with that.
For the last, honestly someone on Instagram spoiled it for me by mentioning Marathi. Otherwise I probably would have guessed Hindi just because I'm not too familiar with the languages of India.
1. I guessed basically Galician, I thought it was something like portuguese, but thought it sounded more spanish, and so I guessed the correct place, but didn't now the name.
2. I guessed Estonian, I was sure because of the till over the vowels, which they don't have in either sami languages or finnish.
3. Georgian, basically just by seeing the writing.
4. Kazakh, I heard it sounded pretty Turkic, and when I noticed it was using cyrilic, I knew it wasn't southwest-asian, and I found it sounded too Turkish to be Mongolian, and too Russian to be Uzbek, Tajik, Turkmen etc.
5. Something North-Indian (something Hindi-ish), I noticed him speaking about Holi (I think), and so I would suppose it would be a language of the Hindu-dominated part of India, and, the writing being very reminiscent of Hindi, I just guessed something not too far south and not too far west, which is closer to Hindi than to Bengali.
The word was "kholi" = room
Paul u have so much knowledge ,i really admire u ,congratulations !!!
My guesses were
1. Portuguese or Maltese
2. Danish. But after written examples, I knew it was Estonian because of "õ".
3. Greek. After written example, I knew it was Georgian.
Bery e see each other again
No Guesses For 4 Or 5?
rate eightx I thought it would be over at 3 lmao
I came here looking for kazakh language and I found it! Thanks Paul! But the guy speaking has slight russian accent, which might affect some sounds and intonations
I guessed Portugeuse for the first one. Pretty close.
I just discover this video series and absolutely love it. It was so exciting to guess, even though I was terrible! I got the region right most of the times though :). Please make more if you have time! Looking forward to it!
If I make one of these that means I can’t make a different video. I have no spare time; it’s all a tradeoff.
This series doesn’t perform well at all. After the first day, almost nobody watches the videos. If everyone who liked them shared them and they got more traction, I might be able to make more of them.
1: Galician
2: Quechua?? (because I think I heard "Bolivia")
3: Georgian
4: Kazakh
5: Hindi.
Definitely heard Bolivia in there but then they mentioned Holland and England. The written examples didn't look Spanish inspired at all
I didn't base my answers off the written examples
Free Thinka My thoughts for no. 2 were exactly the same wtf XD
Last one is not hindi, it's marathi...
Free Thinka
1.Portuquese
2. Suomi or Eesti
3. Sakartvela
4.Kazakh
5. from India
Love these videos!
1) I guessed Catalan, because it sounded like Spanish and Portuguese to me, but I couldn't think of other minority languages in the region (except for Basque, which I was sure it wasn't).
2) The audio had me thoroughly confused, but the writing sample made it easier. Looks like Finnish but a bit different, so I guessed Estonian.
3) The audio got me in the right region, but I guessed Georgian because of the alphabet.
4) Turkic language with Cyrillic alphabet - Kazakh is the only language I know with that combo, which is why I guessed that.
5) Didn't get much further than "somewhere close to or in India" - both based on audio and writing.
1. Galician/Catalonian because of similarity to Spanish.
2. Estonian/Finnish because of prolonged vowels and script.
3. Georgian because of the "Ts" sound and script
4. Central Asian Turkic, because of the similarity to Turkish and Persian loanwords! (Ketabkhane) and script.
5. Indo-Aryan because of the vague similarity to Persian (Eki/Yek/One (in English), Mi/Man/(Me in English)
Galician and Catalan are very similar. If I hadn't spent years studying Catalan, I wouldn't have been able to tell them apart
That's a keen observation about Indo-Aryan languages! I'm a native Marathi speaker 😅😁
how come Galician and Catalan could be very similar? While Galician sounds more Portuguese than Spanish and Catalan sounds like shorter and harder version of Spanish with some words that closer to French
El català s'assembla a l'occità i a alguns llenguatges del nord d'Itália. I si la fonética del francés no fos tan rara s'assemblaria també.
Fun fact: "Ts" sound is also there in Russian with the letter ts Ц
Great video series!!
1. from hearing knew it would be some Ibero-Romance language, and put my money on Aragonese, but when seeing the text I knew it was Galician because the orthography looked similar to Portuguese.
2. Was almost sure it was Estonian just from the audio and 100% sure after seeing the text. It had a Finnish ring to it, but was clearly different.
3. Imagined it might be some Turkic language from the audio, but identified the Georgian alphabet.
4. Something Turkic or Mongolic. Shame I didn't recognize it specifically because I've listened to Kazakh quite a lot in the past.
5. Was almost sure it would be Hindi.
Some tough ones there, Paul! Great job.
I make two guesses for each language, one after just listening to the spoken sample, and another after seeing the written sample:
LANGUAGE No. 1: Latvian, Galician. I have no idea why the language sounded Baltic to begin with, because I seemed to recognise the Portuguese word "mais" but the "s" wasn't turned into the "sh" sound like in Portuguese. Once I saw the written sample, of course it was either Portuguese or Galician, but it sounded nowhere near as nasal or slurred as Portuguese so it wasn't that, and most of these Mystery Languages are quite obscure, so I picked Galician.
LANGUAGE No. 2: Guarani, Estonian. I only thought it was Guarani because I swear I heard the word "Bolivia". I had no idea. In the written sample, the "o" with the tilde gave the game away instantly.
LANGUAGE No. 3: Georgian, Georgian. Hooray! How could I possibly mistake those insane consonant clusters that make languages like Czech or Welsh look like a "CV-CV-CV-CV-CV..." Polynesian language or Japanese. I could feel the speaker trying to hammer those ejective consonants into my skull through my monitor. There was never any doubt.
LANGUAGE No. 4: Ainu, Kazakh. The spoken sample sounded a bit like Japanese but with consonants at the end of syllables (I mean, consonants other than "n"). I thought it might have been an indigenous language like Ainu or Okinawan with speakers' accents influenced by Standard Japanese. The written sample was easier to figure out though - obviously a Turkic language written in the Cyrillic alphabet. Of which nowadays there is only Kazakh and (I think) Tajik and Kyrghyz. Uzbek and Azeri have moved to the Roman alphabet, I believe.
LANGUAGE No. 5: Gujarati, Marathi. It was obvious from the first five seconds that it was an Indo-Aryan language, with sentences ending in a nasal "hai". The question was, which one. I first guessed Gujarati, but the written sample wasn't in the Gujarati script which has separate letters not connected with the upper straight line. So I guessed Marathi but I wasn't sure, it could have been Bengali or Bihari or Nepali or any number of other languages and dialects. It was a lucky guess.
1- Guessed right away, since I'm from Spain and it is really similar to Portuguese.
2- I had no idea. The languages from the Uralic family are quite a mystery.
3- With the audio I thought it was close to Russian, but the writing gave it away (such beautiful writing cannot be unnoticed!).
4- From the audio I couldn't guess much, but seeing the writing (and knowing it wasn't either Russian nor Ukranian by the audio) I thought it could be close to Bulgaria or so...
5- The writing told me it was Hindi but the audio didn't fit with that!
2/5 right 2/5 close enough 1/5 no idea
*Spoilers since some people are unable to not read comments before finishing the video:*
#1: Guess: Galician | Correct |
#2: Guess: Estonian | Correct | I'm Finnish, so...
#3: Guess: Georgian | Correct | Writing system gave it away
#4: Guess: Kyrgyz | Wrong | Thought it sounded a bit different to Kazakh I'm used to but close I guess
#5: Guess: Punjabi | Wrong | Didn't think it was Hindi and didn't know other regional languages
great quiz! Really fun. I only guessed 1 2 and 3 (for the writing system, not phonetic)
In some cable system in Mexico one channel from Galicia was included. Television de Galicia. It was really interesting to listen all the shows, I remember that I understand around 60%
I guess Georgian correctly because I am studying Georgian, Paul, Make a language profile on Georgian lol
Kenny Zeng Did you mean Paul Barbato from Geography now?
No. I am a polyglot. I speak Russian so I heard about Georgian and I have studied it for a few months.
Good luck with verbs xD
Thanks. I know there are 4 groups.
I think he has done Georgian...
Awesome!! Well done video.
New video!!! Hello from Lagos!!!
Aaaayyyyyy
Rotimi Babalola How is Lagos?
Lagos is very fine thanks
Love these mystery language videos.
I didn't get any of these by listening, but I could figure out their general area they came from:
1) Sounded like a derivative of Spanish or Portugese, more Portugese. I had never heard of Galician until now.
2) Sounded Nordic to me, and after seeing it written down, figured it had to be Finnish or Estonian.
3) I figured this one was from the Caucasian region, and I guessed Armenian.
4) Sounded a bit Turkish to me, so I figured Turkmenistan. Again I was close. The Cyrillic certainly suggested a former Soviet Republic.
5) I could tell this one was from India, but I am clueless on the different languages there. I guessed Bengali.
You guys are very smart. I only guessed galician because I'm in Galicia :'u(I have family here even though I'm from Madrid). By the way, I've been waiting for months the arrival of galician to this channel, thanks Paul. ¡Me encantan tus vídeos, muy instructivos!
I just guess right Estonian and Georgian, but even after seeing their discription. So many languages sound similar :-0
Hoàng Kim Việt as a Russian native speaker I'll say that Georgian, Kazakh and Estonian in here sound kinda like the speakers use to speak Russian in their daily life and therefore, have a distinct Russian accent.
In fact, it's a normal situation in post-Soviet countries.
Each of those languages without an accent generally sound a little bit different, so they aren't that similar with each other.
I made the mistake of thinking that Estonian was Finish, at first!
i gussed
1. spanish ehh portuguese? answer:ohh
2. estonian answer: yaa
3. georgian answer: yaya
4. russian? answer: hmm
5. definitely not hindi (sounds like hindi spoken by an 5 year old) but is pretty similar, probably marathi answer:yayaya
Сергей Валиуллин Strange. I’m a native Rissian speaker from Estonia and the Estonian here was without any Russian accent whatsoever. It was a typical northern Estonian prononsuation.
as same as me
3 out 5!! 😁😁😁
1. Really easy for me because i'm Galician! It was a real joke when i've heard the audio 😂
2. I've had to wait to watch its writing. I thought that you hadn't chosen Finnish because it would be so simple. So i've realised that it was Estonian 🤭
3. I've had to wait once again to watch its writing. When i've seen it i was sure that was Georgian 😏
4. I thought about Ukrainian but... mistake! 🥴
5. No idea! Playing all my life it wouldn't be enough to give the right answer 🤣
My guesses
1. Galician (Correct!)
2. Basque (Incorrect, Estonian)
3.Georgian(Correct!)
3/5!
1. As a Spanish speaker who understands maybe 30% spoken Portuguese, this was obviously Galician, given that it's so easy to understand and shares so many features and cognates with Spanish. I could understand like 99% of it when spoken, and all of it when I saw the text.
2. I've had a lot of exposure to Finnish, but this sounded odd, so it had to be Estonian. Confirmed by the text sample.
3. Recently I've had a lot of exposure to Armenian, this sounded like it but the writing is a bit roundier, so it had to be Georgian without question.
4. I guessed Mongolian based just in the sounds, was very pleasantly surprised that it's also a 'steppe' language although it's Turkic
5. I thought it sounded Dravidian so I was going to guess Tamil, but the writing looks more like Hindi, except perhaps less blocky. Still guessed Hindi, close enough I guess!
I noticed some Arabic-like words in Kazakh, like кітап/كتاب No mention of that?
They are Muslims, so Arabic influence is not something strange
giulia t not all of turkic languages but only muslim turkic languages
Yay mystery languages! Always love doing these, but they take some time for me, which is why this took me so long. I always like to share what I think separately after both listening and reading. Here we go.
1) Listening: Definitely belongs to the Romance language family, I heard a few Romance words in there as well. Portuguese would be my first guess.
Reading: Knowing the obscurity of these, it’s probably going to be some creole language… but I’ll stick with my original thought, I see no reason to divert from it. Portuguese it is.
After: Riiiight. There are a few more language on that Peninsula other than Spanish and Portuguese. I tend to forget that because I’m an ignorant foreigner. My bad. Anyway, I was pretty close, seeing as they are even sometimes considered one language.
2) Listening: I heard ‘Hollanda’ in there! Nice to hear my country spoken about in another language, I guess. Anyway, my suspicion started out as another Romance language but as she continued speaking, I felt more and more wrong. So, I don’t know. Completely going out on a limb here, so… Tagalog?
Reading: The writing is screaming Finnish at me. The õ is the only thing throwing me off. You’ve already done Finnish on your channel and you tend to skip the languages you’ve talked about, so I’ll go for Finnish’s sister language, Estonian.
After: YAAAAAAY I got one right! Dead-on. Actually been to Estonia, I speak exactly two Estonian words. Äitah = thanks, palun = you’re welcome. Also interesting bit on the õ, so I was right in being thrown off there. Glad I got one right, on to the next!
3) Listening: This is something Slavic, isn’t it? Well, I am terrible with Slavic languages so I’ll never get right which one it is, probably. I’m saying Croatian, just based on a hunch. The same hunch that said Tagalog in 2, so it’s probably wrong.
Reading: Wrong! Sound the buzzer! Because I easily recognize that writing. This is Georgian. A Dutch TV program that I watch went to Georgia this year, which is why I recognize where the writing’s from.
After: Not surprised at this one! Thanks to the Dutch TV show though. I was way off with Slavic too.
4) Listening: Slavic? Saying it again, I’m probably wrong again. That or maybe something Turkish-like. It’s hard to tell. I’ll go with Croatian again and get laughed at again probably.
Reading: That’s Cyrillic script, but I think with some modifications. No way you’d be doing Russian, so it’s from a country close to there. Either Belarus or Ukraine. I’ll go with Ukrainian on a hunch.
After: Wayyyy off. Oops. I’m never saying Slavic again.
5) Listening: No idea. Not even Slavic. Can’t place it anywhere. I’ll just say Tagalog again.
Reading: Gotcha! I recognize that writing. This, my friend, is Hindi! Which is interesting because you have done a video on that and its differences with Urdu, but I don’t know any other language that uses that script. Hindi is my guess.
After: Oops. Well, I was close. I’m not that good with Indian languages I guess.
I did indeed learn some new things Paul! Thanks for hosting these, as always.
1-Greek
2-Estonian or Finnish
3- Georgian
4-Kazak (i am turkish)
5-Hindi?
Galician i knew it ws it because i live in Spain. When I heard Estonian I thought it was Finnish and obviously the letters are quite similar in both languages and the way it sounds; but it's only normal since they belong to the same branch. Georgian I guessed it when I saw the transliteration. Sometimes the least known languages or the ones we never heard before are the hardest to figure out. I really like your videos. There is so much to learn about languages.
Mystery Languages 7: Back in the U.S.S.R.
Да товарищ
Папа Сталин
Barron Hung Ich hasse RUSSLAND
@@MoreTrenMoreMen69 then off to gulag you go
@@MoreTrenMoreMen69 Warum?
Dear Paul
Your videos are fascinating and interesting and it is with an assuming pleasure that I listen to them and watch them.
A few years ago, I read the novel "Les Bienveillantes" by Jonathan Littell. A disturbing novel, of course. While assigned to the Caucasus area, the main character chatted with another officer, who was a linguist and the latter spoke of the multitude of languages in this region, defining it as the Babel region. The scholarship expressed by the author in these few pages is fascinating.
Reading this novel requires some courage, I would say, both for its length and for its content. Be advised.
1. Galician because it's a cross between Spanish and Portuguese.
2. Estonian because they have the o tilde which they don't use in Finnish, but they have the double a umphat which is in Finnish.
3. Georgian because of the writing system.
4. Kazakh because of the Cyrillic script.
5. Hindustan because of the writing system.
You can also guess Marathi because it has "gh", which Hindi doesn't have, but uses the Devanagari writing system.
Dave d'Video Maker 5th is the Marathi....
It was just a guess (I'm talking to Syed).
Yeah also what he said "Hindustani" isn't a language lmfao
Yes it is. Look at this video if you wanna see it. ruclips.net/video/vxSd7p1i_TA/видео.html&vl=en
I guessed four first languages and for the fifth guessed that it was one of the languages of India. Didn't know which. As I speak Portuguese, I thought the first language was it, but then I heard something 'strange' and it could only be Galician. The second easiest guess was Georgian. Of course, seeing all of them written makes it much, much easier. Kazakh is transferring from Cyrillic to Latin script now. Thank you, Paul, for a great job!
Damn, I guessed every single one of these within a few seconds of hearing the original soundbite!
hosank well done
Hi im from germany and i just wanna say that this channel is the best channel i ever seen cuz im very interested about languages luv u also sorry 4 my bad english