Ossetic is the language of Northern Osseatia, which is a part of Russia and Southern Osseatia which is a break-away region of Georgia. It is an Iranian language and a decedant of the Scythian language. I think it is the only living northern Iranian language. It would be a nice subject for a video I guess. Or you can make one about Iranian languges in General. Keep up the good work.
Dari is not „Old Persian“, it's a modern language. Ossetic is not like Dari, Tajiki or Farsi, it's more related to Pashto, Yaghnob and, well, that's it, the „Easterna subgroup“ of the Iranian languages is not large. Ossetic has no language intelligible without much learning, it's more like an isolate (it is not in terms of genealogical classification, of course).
+Tiziano de matteis I've got to say, it's a really interesting language! It has interesting phonology. From reading a bit on Wikipedia, I was familiar with Ossetic even before watching the video, but still...Now I know how it sounds!
Yes, funny assumption. When I decide for Danish, I do it because I hear strong influence from German language, which could be true, if they lie next to each other.
Yeah, I speak a good chunk of Danish so i did understand a bunch of the words, but it just sounds different from Norwegian or Swedish, more of those back of the throat sounds. Potato language.
@@RichieLarpa No, just some borrowed German words and some loan translations ( using similar constructs for the bigger words), many of them distorted almost beyond recognition now - and it doesn't sound like German at all, only some sounds do here and there. Most (basic) words by far are however very similar to their Norwegian and Swedish counterparts ( c. 95 % & 85 % ) - and even to their English ones ( around half of the Germanic ( OE + ON ) part of English! ). And the same goes for the grammar, which is far simpler than that of German - and even has many similarities with that of a basic older English ( without the use of "do" and "-ing" with verbs ).
@@Bjowolf2 Like half of Danish's vocabulary is from Low German, and the pronunciation sounds German-influenced to me, it sounds like Drunk Low German or something.
Paul, even if you're not a polyglot, you help and encourage others to pursue language and the love and study of it. Your videos are always entertaining and informative, and I absolutely love this game! Keep up the good work!
I thought I was poor linguist, but as a Czech, I can almost immediately understand Slavic languages. Russian and Ukrainian was too easy for me in that case...
The trick to differentiate Polish from Russian is that Polish consists of continuous "psh" "sh" and "ch" sounds. The Ukrainians call Polish people "Psheki" in a slang reference.
Hello, I am 17 and I know Kazakh, because it's my native language. I also speak Russian due to the fact that I live in country, which was the part of Soviet Union. I think in both of them. I have been learning English for 3 years. Sometimes there are some problems with articles, but I find a lot of similar vocabulary between Russian and English, so it helps me a little. Today, I have scored 6,5 in my IELTF examination. Paul, I want to say you: thank you from Kazakhstan. Your channel and works are amazing, facinating and really great. I start to be inreresred in linguistics because of you. Nowadays, I am going to learn the Ancient Greek and improve my English skills. I wish I had teacher as you. :D
I'm bad at distinguishing between Russian and Ukrainian, but in this case it sounded much similar to Yugoslavian languages so it had to be Ukrainian since it sounds more "soft" than Russian.
It was funny how in the Finnish one at the beginning the speaker used a lot of English loan words, for example; pointti = point, and ideoita = ideas. Hearing those words some might have thought it was an Indo-European language. Good job on getting that one right!
They are probably loans via Swedish - there is a large Swedish speaking minority in Finland, access to Swedish TV for decades and many Finns go to Sweden next door for work and studies etc.
UltraWorlds LinkToon000 Aamir Chhapra It might not be a coincidence though. Do you guys know the "history of the entire world I guess" video by bill wurtz? I saw the video within hours of it is release and left a comment. There was more than 8000 comments. Yet one dude named "marvelfannumber1'" found my commen. I knew him from before, I often find and talk to him. He found my comment on the bill wurtz cideo and replied to it. My comment had no likes and it was likely at the bottom. I asked him how he did it and he said, and I quote: "It was simply the first one that showed up for some reason." , out of 8000+ comments. A lot of people told me that I am pretty much everywhere. But could it be because of some sort of system in youtube you guys find my comments? Or maybe not. Anyway the "marvelfannumber1" thing was not normal.
Great video Paul, I had so much fun watching :) By the way, I have transcribed the Turkish audio sample. It goes: “...içinde içki varmış gibi ve sarhoş taklidi yaparak yolda yürüyor, böyle bir alışveriş merkezi gibi bir yerin ortasında yürüyor, ve işte otobüse gitmek istediğini filan söylüyor karşısına çıkan insanlara. Hollywood'da galiba oluyor olay. Tabii buradaki erkekler, şey, daha yengeç, yani artık kartal moduna geçiyor millet...” which roughly means: "...as if there was a drink in it and she walks, pretending to be drunk, in the middle of a place like a shopping mall, and she says that she wants to get on a bus or something. I think it happened in Hollywood. Of course, the men act like hunting eagles (meaning they tried to take advantage of the girl's drunkenness)..." I guess he is talking about the “drunk girl in public (social experiment)” video. But he is talking kinda fast so I can understand why it wasn’t so obvious that it was in Turkish.
An Alsatian (dog) goes into a telegraph office and asks the clerk for a form. The dog writes: woof woof woof, woof woof woof, woof woof woof. The clerk says, "I notice you plan to send nine woofs. We're having a special this week, and you can send ten woofs for the same price." The dog replies, "But that wouldn't make any sense."
I enjoyed this video a lot! 1. Ukrainian sample has a hard diaspora accent, Canadian I suppose. 2. What?! You don't know what Ossetic is? =) Ossetic IN NOT Slavic language. It is Iranic but sounds a bit similarly to Russian due to its prosodia.
I'm from western Ukraine but live in the US. I right away knew it was Ukrainian but I could recognize a lot of the pronunciation mistakes that Ukrainian Americans make. I suppose they're pretty similar across Ukrainians living in English speaking countries.
Ossetic albeit is Iranic, is very distant from 'mainstream' Iranic tongues. Ukrainian actually is similar to Russian in some its varieties, especially eastern. But western has its particular pronunciation, intonation. Moreover, this very accent, I suppose, is a 100 years old conserved Western dialect. And this dialect REALLY differs from Russian and isn't similar to it whatsoever.
This was a really fun video! I think it might help me a bit when I go to play The Great Language Game myself. I noticed that the further you get the more choices they give you!
I also enjoy Paul's videos. If you are interested in languages you might like to know that there are not degrees of uniqueness; Something is unique or it isn't, "so unique" ironically is such a common mistake and isn't unique.
Reckless Roges Interesting! in my language the equivalent of "unique" is totally on a spectrum. but you're right, in english it is silly to think that something is "uniquer" than something. :-)
"Arabic family language" what tf does this even mean?! Ossetic is an Eastern Iranian language, it's an Indo-European language and nothing in its prosody sounds even remotely similar to any Semitic language. How do you get this is beyond me.
What I enjoyed most about this video is all your sharing about your process of narrowing the answer down. I think anyone who watches this video will benefit by scoring higher on the Language Game and on your Mystery Language videos, and more generally by gaining a greater appreciation of the variety of languages!
Dude as a Turkish I've never heard spoken Uzbek before and this was so weird. I couldn't guess Uzbek but after you guessed it right I listened to it again and after focusing I picked Turkic and Arabic words with an alien pronunciation. I think I need to study some other Turkic languages
+yağmur seven Ooooh thank you for giving me the information :) As for Japanese, we hardly understand spoken Ryukyuan languages (even written ones) which belong to Japonic family , but Ryukyu islands are in Japan and it seems they speak Japanese instead of them in resent years.
inui tatsumi Well at first listening to uzbek it feels kinda weird and like a different language but after like 20 seconds when you get you understand what is spoken slightly you understand its uzbek and if you still being listening or hearing to it after like some minutes you mostly understand and try to talk your speech fits to it
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for me I know it's Uzbek because it sound like Turkish but it's not Turkish lmao
"I don't understand what the hell they're saying so I think it's Danish" This is a thought I've had a few times myself when eavesdropping on someone in a public place who is speaking a language in other than English.
I think the two easiest distinctions between Polish and Russian are the stress pattern and the "singing l". The stress in Polish always falls on the penultimate syllable (and when it occasionally doesn't, speaking like it does isn't a big mistake), whereas in Russian there's more variation. The "singing l" is absent from Polish entirely. There's just the regular l and w you know from English (though to make things more complicated the w sound is spelt 'ł' and the letter 'w' is pronounced 'v').
Hey Paul, I like your videos a lot! Could you make a video about Grimm's law? I think it is an interesting topic and it shows clearly that English can be classified as a Germanic language. Greetings from Germany
Oh boy, that brought back memories! I'm a technology consultant, and I travel a lot to meet clients in different countries. I can't tell you how many times I've woken up jet-lagged in my hotel room, to the sound of gibberish coming from the radio-alarm! 🤣
Have you ever considered doing a video on the languages of India? Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, Telugu, Marathi, Punjabi, etc. I've known for awhile that there are many different languages throughout the region, but i've never really known the differences between them or what makes them culturally distinctive other than their locations within Indian States.
There's nothing very interesting about the differences between the Indo-Aryan languages (Hindi, Guj, Punj, Marathi). They seem to have evolved from older "Prakrit" languages, which were common speech "corrupted" languages that existed in parallel to the "refined" Sanskrit in different regional areas. Some have diverged more recently than others and use different writing scripts, so the level of mutual intelligibility depends on that. India was just a bunch of warring kingdoms and princely states cut off from each other before unification after WW2, so each region had a different culture and language that was distinct, although all Hindu. Dravidian languages like Tamil and Telugu are a different language group altogether, probably derived from languages spoken by Indian natives before they were pushed southwards by the Indo-Aryan invasion. They have a lot of Sanskrit loanwords and influence, weren't affected by the Persian/Arabic influences from Muslim invasions in northern Indian, and seem to have influenced development of nearby Indo-Aryan languages like Marathi. I don't think the Dravidian languages are mutually intelligible either. They use different writing scripts as well, although all abugidas.
As someone who can speak russian it was so ammusing hearing a perfectly good paragrapth and then you say its not russians and click polish, I mean you and I bough heard Rassiskaja Federacija in the recording itself. When you called turkis ossetian it was also very strange since I know that ossetian is a very europian language, and that obviously sounded like a turkik language.
Ossetic is the only living language descended from a Scythian language, more specifically Sarmatian or Alanic. It belongs to the East Iranian branch of Indo-European and is considered extremely conservative. Ossetic was instrumental in reconstructing Proto-Indo-Iranian and Proto-Indo-European at that. Ossetia is an autonomous republic within the Russian Federation (some of it is in Georgia and this Ossetian-Georgian territory has been claimed by Russia since 2008). It is situated in the North Caucasus region between Circassia and Ingush-Chechnya. The Ossetians are predominantly Orthodox Christians and are the only Iranian ethnic group practicing Christianity.
I think it might depend on vocabulary. It's actually a second time this week I hear someone saying that Polish sounds a bit French. It confused me at first, but I'm pretty sure it's because of the nasal vowels and the voiced sibilants (French "j" /ʒ/ - voiced palato-alveolar sibilant being very similar to Polish "ż" or "rz"/ ʐ/ - voiced retroflex sibilant, and kind of to "ź" /ʑ/ voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant). Also yes, confusing Polish with Russian is one of easiest ways to "trigger" a Pole :)
The Russian examples are not very clear, both of them (the first one is even with an accent). But that's fair, most of the examples are radio pieces (and that makes the game close to real life guessing a language).
You beat me! Well done =D I felt cocky when you missed on Russian, which I have studied, but you regained it on your Swahili guesses. I "lost" by one playing alongside you, missed out just before. I am a language geek who can speak several, but I'm evidently not an expert at pinpointing languages that are obscure to me. Lastly, being Swedish I think that the selection of languages gave me a big advantage also, given the high prevalence of Nordic languages.
I got a lot of these right from being a choir kid 😂 I’ve sung in so many languages that I recognize some of the sounds. I only speak English and Spanish, though.
I'm loving the closed captions trying their best to make sense of what they are captioning! I watch a lot of subtitled films and series and even though I don't speak anything other than English sometimes I question what they are translating. Frequently in period dramas they use modern terminology such as in a 20's series they used the term Ms when I know it was not around until the 60's or later. In the case of some films where there is a little English sprinkled in I see they are not always putting what they are saying.
xDD I'm AMAZED that the first one was Paraguayan spanish. I'm paraguayan and the accent is hard even for other latin america countries to grasp. Great channel dude!
That language game was awesome. I got most of the ones you did and missed most of the same, and from your comments I was doing the same thing you were doing: looking for phonetic patterns where I didn't know the language. I have been around Russian enough and speak a bit of Russian so I picked those examples up where you missed one. What was important to me was that I was doing the same thing you were. Even where I didn't know a language, if I picked up phonetic qualities that I knew belonged to a language group, I narrowed it down.
You seem to immediately notice that a language is slavic, I'm a native Polish speaker so I don't feel it that way, I just recognise similar words, soo if you could tell be by what distinct features you are able to tell it's slavic right away as a non slavic speaker, I'll be very glad, cause I got curious watching this video.
I don't speak any Slavic language, but I can always tell whether it's a Slavic language. It's about the high amount of consonant clusters, the many "sh" sounds and such. I can't really distinguish well between the Slavic languages, though.
for me was really funny and enjoyable you didn't recognise Russian (1st time), when it was the sample with classical accent, but you recognised Ukrainian, while this sample provided one of the Western Ukrainian dialects. Anyway, congratulations!
Carlos Rios georgia, caucasus, not the states xD. georgia,azerbayan armenia... and southossetia in georgia, its an independent region. they speak iranian languages in the middle of caucasian languages..a very complicated confusing melting pot. but im not till sure if ossetic is osetian?
Well, Northern Ossetia is in Russia, and South Ossetia not in Georgia anymore. So you are totally wrong. But ossetic is Iranic BTW, so maybe not such totally wrong)))
I speak English as a native and know enough French to pass as a 2 year old Frenchman. But I did just as well as you, just from the sounds and elimination. It really helped that I heard "Uzbek" in the Uzbeck sample.
Andrij S The sounds in Russian are alot harsher to me with Ukrainian sounding similar to other European Languages ( thats usually how I distinguish them xd)
You had made an awesome video about Turkish language and failed here? That can't be :D But it was a gossip conversation or from a tv show or youtube video maybe, and the voices wasn't as clear as news or any other formal speaking.
The uzbek one totally said "Uzbekistan"
Sergio Celina, Yeah I heard it too.
And the Russian one mentioned "Russian Federation"
leipero, more like Rassiyskaya Fidiratsiya :D
he said "Uzbekiston" which means Uzbekistan in Uzbek language.
Andrij S uzbekistan in uzbek is O'zbekiston
Ossetic is the language of Northern Osseatia, which is a part of Russia and Southern Osseatia which is a break-away region of Georgia. It is an Iranian language and a decedant of the Scythian language. I think it is the only living northern Iranian language. It would be a nice subject for a video I guess. Or you can make one about Iranian languges in General. Keep up the good work.
Ossetic is a north-eastern Iranian language like Yaghnobi and many others.
It's an Iranian Language Descendent of the Scythians
Ossetic is an Iranian language spoken in the Caucasus region that has been heavily influenced by Caucasian languages and Russian!
This answer should be displayed as the first one. :-)
Dari is not „Old Persian“, it's a modern language.
Ossetic is not like Dari, Tajiki or Farsi, it's more related to Pashto, Yaghnob and, well, that's it, the „Easterna subgroup“ of the Iranian languages is not large. Ossetic has no language intelligible without much learning, it's more like an isolate (it is not in terms of genealogical classification, of course).
And when Russia invaded Georgia back in 2008, it was to protect the unrecognized country of South Ossetia within Georgia's official borders.
Calvin Yahn Oh god! Now that you mention South Ossetia it's perfectly clear, buf i never made a connection before! :-)
+Tiziano de matteis I've got to say, it's a really interesting language! It has interesting phonology. From reading a bit on Wikipedia, I was familiar with Ossetic even before watching the video, but still...Now I know how it sounds!
I like you use same criterion as me: "I don't understand a word, it must be Danish."
Yes, funny assumption. When I decide for Danish, I do it because I hear strong influence from German language, which could be true, if they lie next to each other.
Yeah, I speak a good chunk of Danish so i did understand a bunch of the words, but it just sounds different from Norwegian or Swedish, more of those back of the throat sounds. Potato language.
@@RichieLarpa No, just some borrowed German words and some loan translations ( using similar constructs for the bigger words), many of them distorted almost beyond recognition now - and it doesn't sound like German at all, only some sounds do here and there. Most (basic) words by far are however very similar to their Norwegian and Swedish counterparts ( c. 95 % & 85 % ) - and even to their English ones ( around half of the Germanic ( OE + ON ) part of English! ).
And the same goes for the grammar, which is far simpler than that of German - and even has many similarities with that of a basic older English ( without the use of "do" and "-ing" with verbs ).
@Christian Luong Larsson Of course you do - the vocabularies of those two languages are 95 % the "same", the Norwegian folks are just poor spellers 😂
@@Bjowolf2 Like half of Danish's vocabulary is from Low German, and the pronunciation sounds German-influenced to me, it sounds like Drunk Low German or something.
you don't need to focus. you need to langfocus.
HA!!!!
Rodrigo de Alencar lol
Lol 😂😂
Lang is the german word for long. Makes it even better
Lang, focus.
"Whenever I have no idea what any of the words are, it's Danish."
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
DrSunTzu Yeah, that was pretty good. As a Dane, I've definitely heard that before.
For me it´s Danish when it sounds a bit as Northern Dutch, but I don´t understand anything or just very few words :DDD
DrSunTzu Danish is Swedish if you have a muffin in your mouth
I thought it was Norwegian with a potato in your mouth... :D
before watching this flick i had no idea how Norwegian sounds 😂 but it was surprisingly smooth and pleasant, that it was
In Sweden, Danish is referred to not as a language, but a throat condition. ^_^
Hahahahahaahhahaaahahahahahahhahahahah! I Get It! I Live In Sweden, And the Potato Mouth Thing Joke. AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
(Lays Down In Floor, Eyes Open, Like When You Lie Like Garbage In Undertale)
We have the same with Frisian. (^_^)
Swedish sounds weirder. You guys have this rising intonation at the end of words.
Tack För Att Göra Mig Ledsen.
Paul, even if you're not a polyglot, you help and encourage others to pursue language and the love and study of it. Your videos are always entertaining and informative, and I absolutely love this game! Keep up the good work!
John Ishan Shah He technically is a polyglot though, even though he doesn't like to be called that.
"Now I will fail and embarrass myself in front of you all."
You are now officially a youtuber.
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the Russian one actually said "Российской Федерации" (Rossiyskoy Federatsiyi), which roughly means 'of the Russian Federation'
Samovar maker. Of the Union of socialist Soviet republics
The dude in the recording tolked about politics, as far as I can tell
Samovar maker roughly? You mean exactly ?
Yes. And Uzbek said "Uzbekiston"
I thought I was poor linguist, but as a Czech, I can almost immediately understand Slavic languages.
Russian and Ukrainian was too easy for me in that case...
In in the uzbek one i heard the word "uzbekistan"
Me too
And in the Russian one the speaker said российская федерация.
Andrej Prevodach mean?
"Russian Federation" - pronounced rossiyskaya federatsiya.
Andrej Prevodach I don't think many none Russian speakers could catch that.
The trick to differentiate Polish from Russian is that Polish consists of continuous "psh" "sh" and "ch" sounds. The Ukrainians call Polish people "Psheki" in a slang reference.
Vadim the Russians called them so, I mean that name came from Russia but still is used among Ukrainians too
We call Polish people 'Polandio' in Bengali (Bangladesh).
And the w sounding ł
isn't it pejorative?
@@millie5205 it is
Hello, I am 17 and I know Kazakh, because it's my native language. I also speak Russian due to the fact that I live in country, which was the part of Soviet Union. I think in both of them. I have been learning English for 3 years. Sometimes there are some problems with articles, but I find a lot of similar vocabulary between Russian and English, so it helps me a little. Today, I have scored 6,5 in my IELTF examination.
Paul, I want to say you: thank you from Kazakhstan. Your channel and works are amazing, facinating and really great. I start to be inreresred in linguistics because of you. Nowadays, I am going to learn the Ancient Greek and improve my English skills.
I wish I had teacher as you. :D
The Ukrainian one had a strong Western accent, it is very unusual pronunciation, even though I speak Ukrainian natively.
It's Ukrainian as spoken in Australia based on the accent, some words and the fact that he talks about banking in Australia
It's seems like Canadian diaspora sreaker
I'm bad at distinguishing between Russian and Ukrainian, but in this case it sounded much similar to Yugoslavian languages so it had to be Ukrainian since it sounds more "soft" than Russian.
Yeah, lol, he sounded a little bit like an Eastener trying to mock Western Ukrainians with this over-exaggerated accent and too many wrong stresses.
@@soyjoyy I believe easterners sound more surzhik, but westerners just go wrong stresses with ukrainian words
the Uzbek said Uzbekistan, the spanish one said Paraguay, the Russian said Russian Federation. wtf this game
hausa one said boko haram and also mentioned muhamudu buhari(president of nigeria)
D I am Uzbek.
Lucifer Salom., Calesan / Calesis? Yashemasis? Tuzumasis? I am from Tashkent so the language might be different.
And yet the Swahili one said Bagdad
@@artnemiz1 the way they say baghdad 😂 but sadly i think it got mentioned in bad news which is annoying lol
Really enjoying your channel, which I only discovered about a week ago. Informative, humorous, and with humility! Thanks/merci/obrigada/blagodarya!
Thanks! I appreciate it. 🙂🙏🏻
Ossetic is an Iranian language spoken near Georgia.
Ossetic is actually an Indo-Iranian language, not a Slavic language.
Yeah, I've learned that since playing the game.
何非 Iranian
@@Langfocus but it kinda makes sense, since Ossetia is partly in Russia, and Ossetian has a lot of Russian influence.
It was funny how in the Finnish one at the beginning the speaker used a lot of English loan words, for example; pointti = point, and ideoita = ideas. Hearing those words some might have thought it was an Indo-European language. Good job on getting that one right!
They are probably loans via Swedish - there is a large Swedish speaking minority in Finland, access to Swedish TV for decades and many Finns go to Sweden next door for work and studies etc.
@@Bjowolf2 I think those particular words he mentioned might actually be more recent English loanwords, but I get what you're saying.
@@SocialistFinn1 Hah! Idea is neither recent nor English. Try Greek.
"I don't know what the hell they are saying, so it's probably Danish"
Hahaha, made me laugh!
Vi kan sende Paul en bombe for hans mobning af de Danske _ord_.
Maybe he wil understand that then? 😂
@ꅏꑀꁲꈜꑀ꒒ 😂😂😂
But then we shouldn't mention what Swedish men sound like, should we? 🙄
Or Norwegians when they get excited? 😂😂😂
@ꅏꑀꁲꈜꑀ꒒ Nice try, but we don't use ß, ë, ö, ð, and ï in DK 😂
This video is different and awesome. I like the idea!
totally unrelated, why do i see you everywhere i go
UltraWorlds i see him too. literally on 75% of the history videos i click on
me too
UltraWorlds LinkToon000 Aamir Chhapra It might not be a coincidence though. Do you guys know the "history of the entire world I guess" video by bill wurtz? I saw the video within hours of it is release and left a comment. There was more than 8000 comments. Yet one dude named "marvelfannumber1'" found my commen. I knew him from before, I often find and talk to him. He found my comment on the bill wurtz cideo and replied to it. My comment had no likes and it was likely at the bottom. I asked him how he did it and he said, and I quote: "It was simply the first one that showed up for some reason." , out of 8000+ comments. A lot of people told me that I am pretty much everywhere. But could it be because of some sort of system in youtube you guys find my comments? Or maybe not. Anyway the "marvelfannumber1" thing was not normal.
what is your video-to-comment ratio?
Great video Paul, I had so much fun watching :) By the way, I have transcribed the Turkish audio sample. It goes: “...içinde içki varmış gibi ve sarhoş taklidi yaparak yolda yürüyor, böyle bir alışveriş merkezi gibi bir yerin ortasında yürüyor, ve işte otobüse gitmek istediğini filan söylüyor karşısına çıkan insanlara. Hollywood'da galiba oluyor olay. Tabii buradaki erkekler, şey, daha yengeç, yani artık kartal moduna geçiyor millet...”
which roughly means: "...as if there was a drink in it and she walks, pretending to be drunk, in the middle of a place like a shopping mall, and she says that she wants to get on a bus or something. I think it happened in Hollywood. Of course, the men act like hunting eagles (meaning they tried to take advantage of the girl's drunkenness)..."
I guess he is talking about the “drunk girl in public (social experiment)” video. But he is talking kinda fast so I can understand why it wasn’t so obvious that it was in Turkish.
This channel should win an award on one of the most useful and informative channel on UA-cam
LMAO! I love how he pronounced Jacksepticeye at 1:05. I know it was intentional, but it was funny lol
"I don't understand what the hell they're saying, so I think it's Danish" sound about right!
you've got a very wise dog there
Mickey is all-knowing.
can you please make a video about the scots language or yiddish ?
+Langfocus Can u make Albania language and its Illyrian and Pellasgic ancestors lang. :)
Dalai Dogma
Dogfucius
that dog part was hilarious,and the video was great. thank you!
My pleasure! I'm glad you liked it!
Langfocus 😊
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Hey I didn't see any dog, could you please post the time on video where we can see his dog?
A User thank u. I'm also a fellow ReVulv. And HEY FAM!!
I don't expect comedy from your channel, but i always get a few chuckles from your videos :)
Focus, Paul. Focus. Langfocus.
you know in tagalog "focus lang" means "just focus"
An Alsatian (dog) goes into a telegraph office and asks the clerk for a form. The dog writes: woof woof woof, woof woof woof, woof woof woof. The clerk says, "I notice you plan to send nine woofs. We're having a special this week, and you can send ten woofs for the same price." The dog replies, "But that wouldn't make any sense."
i don't get it
Brilliant!
I love it
I enjoyed this video a lot!
1. Ukrainian sample has a hard diaspora accent, Canadian I suppose.
2. What?! You don't know what Ossetic is? =)
Ossetic IN NOT Slavic language. It is Iranic but sounds a bit similarly to Russian due to its prosodia.
Yeah, that must be what threw me off. I looked up Ossetic after the game and it made sense.
I'm from western Ukraine but live in the US. I right away knew it was Ukrainian but I could recognize a lot of the pronunciation mistakes that Ukrainian Americans make. I suppose they're pretty similar across Ukrainians living in English speaking countries.
I knew right away it was Ukranian, but the prononciation hinted at Bulgarian as well ...
Ossetic albeit is Iranic, is very distant from 'mainstream' Iranic tongues.
Ukrainian actually is similar to Russian in some its varieties, especially eastern. But western has its particular pronunciation, intonation. Moreover, this very accent, I suppose, is a 100 years old conserved Western dialect. And this dialect REALLY differs from Russian and isn't similar to it whatsoever.
This 'americanized' accent sounds horrible to me as to a fluent Ukrainian speaker :)
the website is now down because of you lol
lol, they should probably host their website on a real server, not shared hosting.
I can only wonder what happened when Pewdiepie made his video.
Someone will have to rename "the Slashdot effect" to "the Paul effect".
Ah so that's why I couldn't play it! I just played along with the video
Bishal Lol wow
Which website?
"One of those super polyglots selling e-books" 😂😂😂 savage
* scratches that off my career goal list * 😂😂😂
This was a really fun video! I think it might help me a bit when I go to play The Great Language Game myself. I noticed that the further you get the more choices they give you!
Thanks! I'm glad you liked it. I've played it a couple more times since and it varies quite a lot. They must have some kind of randomizing algorithm.
Your sense of humor and personality are so unique, that is really amazing to me.
I also enjoy Paul's videos. If you are interested in languages you might like to know that there are not degrees of uniqueness; Something is unique or it isn't, "so unique" ironically is such a common mistake and isn't unique.
Reckless Roges Interesting! in my language the equivalent of "unique" is totally on a spectrum. but you're right, in english it is silly to think that something is "uniquer" than something. :-)
Do a vid on Ossetic please
MrDirtBaggins Or on all Iranian Languages to be more broad.
"Arabic family language" what tf does this even mean?! Ossetic is an Eastern Iranian language, it's an Indo-European language and nothing in its prosody sounds even remotely similar to any Semitic language. How do you get this is beyond me.
leipero Actually Ossetic has barely any arabic loanword
I think I am ready to help with that :)
Vjaĉesláv Ivanov mi renkontas vin ĉie
LOL you broke their website.
Yep - confirmed - the site is unreachable
What I enjoyed most about this video is all your sharing about your process of narrowing the answer down. I think anyone who watches this video will benefit by scoring higher on the Language Game and on your Mystery Language videos, and more generally by gaining a greater appreciation of the variety of languages!
I love The Great Language Game. It's REALLY hard when they put closely-related languages as choices - - the Slavic ones get me every time!
I can’t tell the difference between Ukrainian and Russian 😭
11:38 I guess you could say you need to LANGfocus. I don't know, that was terrible. I apologise.
you stole my joke
I knew it was hausa when it mentioned 'Boko Haram'
The musical bit at the beginning also sounded African.
I think they also mentioned Muhammadu Buhari, the President of Nigeria.
gcf xnbv same though I've no idea what does it means, I've just heard these words in African context before.
I think you didn't get Russian because the man had a bit of a speech defect ☺
I've just finished playing this game and my score is 1850! Thank you so much for showing such a good game!
That Hindi part was funny for me...
i am a native speaker of both Hindi and Marathi
jackspedicy lol
nice new haircut Paul!
Thank you!
Could you do somali
it has a rich history and is quite amazing
Langfocus So you live in Japan? Awesome dude!
Your dog was savage..
Mickey don't screw around
Dude as a Turkish I've never heard spoken Uzbek before and this was so weird. I couldn't guess Uzbek but after you guessed it right I listened to it again and after focusing I picked Turkic and Arabic words with an alien pronunciation. I think I need to study some other Turkic languages
Oh, I had thought that Turkish people understand a little Uzbek...but I guess I was wrong.
+yağmur seven I see :) So you can't only understand some of written Uzbek, but also some of written other Turkic languages, I guess...
+yağmur seven Ooooh thank you for giving me the information :) As for Japanese, we hardly understand spoken Ryukyuan languages (even written ones) which belong to Japonic family , but Ryukyu islands are in Japan and it seems they speak Japanese instead of them in resent years.
inui tatsumi
Well at first listening to uzbek it feels kinda weird and like a different language but after like 20 seconds when you get you understand what is spoken slightly you understand its uzbek and if you still being listening or hearing to it after like some minutes you mostly understand and try to talk your speech fits to it
for me I know it's Uzbek because it sound like Turkish but it's not Turkish lmao
"I don't understand what the hell they're saying so I think it's Danish" This is a thought I've had a few times myself when eavesdropping on someone in a public place who is speaking a language in other than English.
But actually with many deep similarities with English - for historical reasons 😉
I think the two easiest distinctions between Polish and Russian are the stress pattern and the "singing l". The stress in Polish always falls on the penultimate syllable (and when it occasionally doesn't, speaking like it does isn't a big mistake), whereas in Russian there's more variation. The "singing l" is absent from Polish entirely. There's just the regular l and w you know from English (though to make things more complicated the w sound is spelt 'ł' and the letter 'w' is pronounced 'v').
No, it's actually the crappy sound quality and the presence of the word "бlyaт"
Ossetic is a language spoken in the Caucasus, it is an Iranian language, thus related to Farsi
I guessed the Russian after 3 seconds.I'm a language master! :D Nah,I am kidding,I am just Polish :P
miss independence im learning polish)))
How to identify a Russian: look for the ")))".
cool! :D
miss independence I don't even speak any Slavic languages, but I immediately recognised Russian. Must be the Balkanic PTSD
When I played this I guessed russian but it was polish :(
Hey Paul, I like your videos a lot!
Could you make a video about Grimm's law? I think it is an interesting topic and it shows clearly that English can be classified as a Germanic language.
Greetings from Germany
Oh boy, that brought back memories! I'm a technology consultant, and I travel a lot to meet clients in different countries. I can't tell you how many times I've woken up jet-lagged in my hotel room, to the sound of gibberish coming from the radio-alarm! 🤣
9:54 ... you have to... Langfocus? :D
At least two jokes about that among the comments :)))
“The worlds most famous and popular language is music.” - Psy. 🎵🎵🎵
I like PSY 👍
Have you ever considered doing a video on the languages of India?
Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, Telugu, Marathi, Punjabi, etc.
I've known for awhile that there are many different languages throughout the region, but i've never really known the differences between them or what makes them culturally distinctive other than their locations within Indian States.
There's nothing very interesting about the differences between the Indo-Aryan languages (Hindi, Guj, Punj, Marathi). They seem to have evolved from older "Prakrit" languages, which were common speech "corrupted" languages that existed in parallel to the "refined" Sanskrit in different regional areas. Some have diverged more recently than others and use different writing scripts, so the level of mutual intelligibility depends on that. India was just a bunch of warring kingdoms and princely states cut off from each other before unification after WW2, so each region had a different culture and language that was distinct, although all Hindu.
Dravidian languages like Tamil and Telugu are a different language group altogether, probably derived from languages spoken by Indian natives before they were pushed southwards by the Indo-Aryan invasion. They have a lot of Sanskrit loanwords and influence, weren't affected by the Persian/Arabic influences from Muslim invasions in northern Indian, and seem to have influenced development of nearby Indo-Aryan languages like Marathi. I don't think the Dravidian languages are mutually intelligible either. They use different writing scripts as well, although all abugidas.
9:54 "I'm getting tired I have to focus".
Would you say you have to... LANGfocus????
eeeeeeeh
Lol
As someone who can speak russian it was so ammusing hearing a perfectly good paragrapth and then you say its not russians and click polish, I mean you and I bough heard Rassiskaja Federacija in the recording itself.
When you called turkis ossetian it was also very strange since I know that ossetian is a very europian language, and that obviously sounded like a turkik language.
Ossetic is the only living language descended from a Scythian language, more specifically Sarmatian or Alanic. It belongs to the East Iranian branch of Indo-European and is considered extremely conservative. Ossetic was instrumental in reconstructing Proto-Indo-Iranian and Proto-Indo-European at that.
Ossetia is an autonomous republic within the Russian Federation (some of it is in Georgia and this Ossetian-Georgian territory has been claimed by Russia since 2008). It is situated in the North Caucasus region between Circassia and Ingush-Chechnya. The Ossetians are predominantly Orthodox Christians and are the only Iranian ethnic group practicing Christianity.
I don't know if I'll forgive you thinking Russian is Polish :'(
Vickynella They sound a bit the same though that's why he failed . I like polish language
Heeey :D Don't make me more angry xd
Carpe Diem literally this
I think it might depend on vocabulary. It's actually a second time this week I hear someone saying that Polish sounds a bit French. It confused me at first, but I'm pretty sure it's because of the nasal vowels and the voiced sibilants (French "j" /ʒ/ - voiced palato-alveolar sibilant being very similar to Polish "ż" or "rz"/ ʐ/ - voiced retroflex sibilant, and kind of to "ź" /ʑ/ voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant).
Also yes, confusing Polish with Russian is one of easiest ways to "trigger" a Pole :)
The Russian examples are not very clear, both of them (the first one is even with an accent). But that's fair, most of the examples are radio pieces (and that makes the game close to real life guessing a language).
Some of them have some obvious clues like in the Uzbek clip the guy said Uzbekistan haha
You beat me! Well done =D
I felt cocky when you missed on Russian, which I have studied, but you regained it on your Swahili guesses. I "lost" by one playing alongside you, missed out just before.
I am a language geek who can speak several, but I'm evidently not an expert at pinpointing languages that are obscure to me.
Lastly, being Swedish I think that the selection of languages gave me a big advantage also, given the high prevalence of Nordic languages.
I've tried 3 times and my best score was 750. Greetings form Poland, Paul. I love your channel :)
@Langfocus I guess because of your recommendation, the website can't handle the traffic any more lol
Yeah, they really should have their website on a better server. They must have the $5 hostgator plan. lol
I got a lot of these right from being a choir kid 😂 I’ve sung in so many languages that I recognize some of the sounds. I only speak English and Spanish, though.
I love this guy, he's so relatable!!❤️
That was fun! Looking forward to your in depth exploration of Ossetic. :-)
I got exactly the same score - 950 :) The 'when you don't know what it is, it's Danish' strategy works really well!
Ossetic is a language spoken in Russia/Georgia
It's spoken in Iran near georgia
Ossetic belongs to the Eastern Iranian branch, nothing to do with Slavic mate
Ossetic is an Iranian language.
Descendant of Scythian
I'm loving the closed captions trying their best to make sense of what they are captioning! I watch a lot of subtitled films and series and even though I don't speak anything other than English sometimes I question what they are translating. Frequently in period dramas they use modern terminology such as in a 20's series they used the term Ms when I know it was not around until the 60's or later. In the case of some films where there is a little English sprinkled in I see they are not always putting what they are saying.
xDD I'm AMAZED that the first one was Paraguayan spanish. I'm paraguayan and the accent is hard even for other latin america countries to grasp. Great channel dude!
I can say that was Canadian Ukrainian, because there was a lot died words that now don’t used in Ukrainian.
Hey Paul! Can you please do a video on the Jamaican Patois i would really appreciate that! :)
Speaking of Norwegian & Danish, When are you gonna make a comparison video on the two??
T-Mag 3004 He made a video comparing Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish
This thing is awesome! Played it twice myself. First time score: 350. Second time score: 1300.
The turkish didn't sound like Turkish. I guessed ossetic as well.
As a native Turkish, I can say that was quite natural.
Dang! I only got 250 on the same before I came back and watched you play it!
Where are you guys from?
I'm from the Netherlands
Hans De Jong
🇦🇺:)
Hans De Jong 🇰🇿
Hans De Jong Catalonia ^^
Finland!
Guillem lm is this Spain?
I don't speak Hausa, but after the first second or two I was like "Hausa!!!"
Thanks for the link Paul - I am quite good at this game because I spend a lot of time on busses in south London.
That language game was awesome. I got most of the ones you did and missed most of the same, and from your comments I was doing the same thing you were doing: looking for phonetic patterns where I didn't know the language. I have been around Russian enough and speak a bit of Russian so I picked those examples up where you missed one. What was important to me was that I was doing the same thing you were. Even where I didn't know a language, if I picked up phonetic qualities that I knew belonged to a language group, I narrowed it down.
You seem to immediately notice that a language is slavic, I'm a native Polish speaker so I don't feel it that way, I just recognise similar words, soo if you could tell be by what distinct features you are able to tell it's slavic right away as a non slavic speaker, I'll be very glad, cause I got curious watching this video.
Mitrydates Pruski
'Sk' 'shk' 'bl' and 'ch' sounds stand out when listening to a Slavic language imo
as well as short syllables
I don't speak any Slavic language, but I can always tell whether it's a Slavic language. It's about the high amount of consonant clusters, the many "sh" sounds and such. I can't really distinguish well between the Slavic languages, though.
for me was really funny and enjoyable you didn't recognise Russian (1st time), when it was the sample with classical accent, but you recognised Ukrainian, while this sample provided one of the Western Ukrainian dialects.
Anyway, congratulations!
paul well done! good idea. yes, ur rigth!! ossetic is iranic from osetia in georgia
uwwalon dude, Georgia is in the east coast
Carlos Rios georgia, caucasus, not the states xD. georgia,azerbayan armenia... and southossetia in georgia, its an independent region. they speak iranian languages in the middle of caucasian languages..a very complicated confusing melting pot. but im not till sure if ossetic is osetian?
Well, Northern Ossetia is in Russia, and South Ossetia not in Georgia anymore. So you are totally wrong. But ossetic is Iranic BTW, so maybe not such totally wrong)))
Beautiful game! And, I had very similar guessing as yours :)
I speak English as a native and know enough French to pass as a 2 year old Frenchman. But I did just as well as you, just from the sounds and elimination. It really helped that I heard "Uzbek" in the Uzbeck sample.
The moment when your native language comes out so unexpectedly😂
Great that Ukrainian appeared there. You all can clearly hear the difference between Russian 4:15 - 4:34 and Ukrainian 8:07 - 8:40
I've also liked it, both Ukrainian and Russian have their beauties, but for me, as a learner of Polish, Ukrainian sounds more beautiful.
Exactly my friend.
Andrij S The sounds in Russian are alot harsher to me with Ukrainian sounding similar to other European Languages ( thats usually how I distinguish them xd)
as russian i have to saym i find ukranian language very beautiful, but no way the polish, because of pshshshsshshshshshsh sounds
Юрий
Гагарин lol
You had made an awesome video about Turkish language and failed here? That can't be :D But it was a gossip conversation or from a tv show or youtube video maybe, and the voices wasn't as clear as news or any other formal speaking.
Woah I didn't even know this website existed, This is Awesome you did a great job too.
6:43 Now I could've gotten that question right. I was thinking Turkish for that one.
"Jackspedicy"
yes
HUEHUEHUE
Mickey is BR
huehue gibe doge treats plos
And he plays online games!
Fala povo BR
you made me laugh 7:23 😂😂 nice dance
And the way he stopped just kills me 😂😂😂😂
I think this language game does not exist anymore 😞