Each Middle Eastern Language explained in 1 sentence - ish

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  • From Arabic to Hebrew, Turkish to Kurdish and Persian, the languages of the Middle East are rich in layers often unfamiliar to the West - each language with its own cultural make up. In this video we make it simple to understand the cultural make up of each language in the Middle East - compressing them each into 1 sentence, so you know and you can explore further with this amazing knowledge. Enjoy!
    00:00 Beginning
    01:11 Turkish
    01:29 Cypriot Greek
    01:45 Kurdish
    02:08 Zaza
    02:42 Luri
    03:01 Persian
    03:38 Gilaki
    03:59 Mazanderani
    04:21 Qashqai
    04:45 Aramaic
    05:21 A word
    05:59 Arabic
    06:24 Mehri
    06:58 Coptic
    07:17 Siwi
    07:41 Hebrew
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 201

  • @mmadaus
    @mmadaus 3 місяці тому +125

    babe wake up, new video by Ben with sprinkles just dropped

  • @moor4016
    @moor4016 3 місяці тому +88

    The Hebrew part was beautifully done, keep bringing us more language videos and more sprinkles Ben!!

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому +10

      I am glad you liked that part. Diolch/ Thank you. And no, I will not stop now.

  • @anaisgarcia2609
    @anaisgarcia2609 3 місяці тому +36

    We need a special video for the "love triangle" of Kurdish....

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому +5

      Indeed

    • @stefanodadamo6809
      @stefanodadamo6809 3 місяці тому +2

      ​@@BenLlywelynI'm afraid it will end up banned. Age-restricted stuff, you know... 😂

    • @zack2804
      @zack2804 3 місяці тому +2

      There's really only two notable Kurdish "dialects" (quotation marks, because that in itself is disputed). These two are Sorani and Badini (Kurmanji). Sorani is more similar to Farsi (down to the grammar), while Badini is more influenced by Turkish. I don't know about Aramaic, but I would consider the Arabic as the "sprinkles".

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому +2

      Oh no, let's hope not.

  • @almami1599
    @almami1599 3 місяці тому +26

    Waiting for a video about Arabic variations
    this is My fav series

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому +7

      Noted. Thank you.

    • @Nabi.Migration
      @Nabi.Migration 3 місяці тому +4

      @@BenLlywelyn When you're waiting for Ben for a video about your own language XD.
      Epic

  • @cennethadameveson3715
    @cennethadameveson3715 3 місяці тому +37

    Someone in work asked me what do they speak in Iran, I said mainly Farsi with a few other language sprinkles. The "sprinkles" is down to you Ben!😂

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому +12

      Changing the world 1 doughnut at a time.

    • @Parkinski27
      @Parkinski27 3 місяці тому +5

      "I speak Persian" 😎
      "I speak Farsi" 🤓

    • @derdlerimdashayazilasidoyul
      @derdlerimdashayazilasidoyul 3 місяці тому +1

      ​@@Parkinski27 nah farsi far chadder sounding

    • @jlljlj6991
      @jlljlj6991 2 місяці тому

      ​@@Parkinski27 My Iranian colleagues tend to say "I speak Iranian" most of the time I think. I don't recall them ever calling it Persian, though. Farsi as well, it's interchangeable, but one of them said a lot don't know the term and if you say Iranian, people who are not that interested in languages will not be as confused :D

  • @timbliss9587
    @timbliss9587 3 місяці тому +13

    Great efforts are made to preserve the sanctity of the Hebrew language, so many of the swear words are Arabic, Russian, Yiddish and English... sprinkles!

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому +5

      Swear words in Arabic are expressive.

  • @evilgoose6768
    @evilgoose6768 3 місяці тому +2

    Love this series!

  • @user-zr8mm9ib8s
    @user-zr8mm9ib8s 3 місяці тому +5

    What an awesome channel for a language enthusiast like me

  • @Noah-qp6oe
    @Noah-qp6oe 3 місяці тому +2

    Great video!!

  • @daMacadamBlob
    @daMacadamBlob 3 місяці тому +11

    Would be awesome if there was a video on sub-Saharan African or Native American languages.

  • @stephenchappell7512
    @stephenchappell7512 3 місяці тому +11

    The East used to be Near Middle and Far but now it starts straight away with Middle
    The Near East btw used to mean Anatolia and the Levant in other words the closest part of Asia to continental Europe

  • @frankiexpentaxangeli
    @frankiexpentaxangeli 3 місяці тому +5

    my fav series

  • @amyray4726
    @amyray4726 3 місяці тому +6

    It feels so wierd to be a native Hebrew speaker. I must say, all the words are quite short and concise which is nice, but the language also feels half-baked at times

  • @sergioromanomunoz8155
    @sergioromanomunoz8155 3 місяці тому +18

    I loved the final language. It was beautiful. With sprinkles of humor.
    Honor the language of the Kings and the Prophets.

  • @BluebirdJDAM
    @BluebirdJDAM 3 місяці тому +3

    Benjamin, You are AMAZINGLY STUNNING!!! ESPECIALLY concerning the Hebrew and the minorities' languages of Iran and Arabian peninsula. Wow, your talent, your Sprachgefühl for each and every mentioned language/dialect/linguistic space is just unfathomable!!! תודה מכל הלב על היותך חבר בשעה נוראה זו!!! אתה אדם מדהים, כשרוני ומיוחד. עם לב אוהב ומלא אהבת חינם. בהצלחה!!!!!

  • @georgios_5342
    @georgios_5342 3 місяці тому +3

    Greeks didn't "forget that they were Hittites", the large parts of coastal Anatolia that were inhabited by Greeks were never Hittite, and even Central Anatolia became Greek speaking after large waves of Greek migration, not just assimilation. Large new cities were built from nothing

  • @the_Dark_Knight_12
    @the_Dark_Knight_12 3 місяці тому +25

    Can't wait for caucasian, central asian and north african... love your videos man👍

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому +4

      Thank you very much. Diolch.

  • @Nabi.Migration
    @Nabi.Migration 3 місяці тому +3

    Another good video, Ben :D.
    I have to admit that as a middle eastern myself i didn't know about some of these languages. The hebrew part crowned the show as intended. It's also interesting to see more converts to Judaism. I would love to watch your take on the arabic varieties.
    It's great to see into your thoughts and life.
    After watching your video about your journey through life, from the USA to Britain and then becoming Welsh, I couldn't help but reflect on my own journey. One point that particularly caught my attention was the perception of neo-liberalism and social liberalism. It really made me think about my own beliefs and values.

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому +3

      Thank you. I will be sharing more of my journey in the future for you. As there is a soul behind this channel.

  • @lauciansylvaranth2285
    @lauciansylvaranth2285 3 місяці тому +21

    As a Hebrew speaker I loved it. A cool part you might not have known, and certainly didn't speak of, was that in it's resurrection many new words were invented, often to describe modern things. Both the legendary Hebrew poet and writer, Hayim Nahman Bialik, and Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, contributed a lot to these process. We mostly ended up going with Eliezer Ben-Yehuda's version of things, although they both invented words and pushed for the revival of the language. I think it is a very curious part of the revival, the case that certain very common words can be attributed to specific people, I can't think of any other tongue where this phenomenon is as prevalent.
    Moreover modern Hebrew is filled with English, but I guess that is more teen-speech than anything else.
    But overall I loved the part about Hebrew, some justice to my beautiful mother tongue.

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому +4

      Yes. Czech, Finnish, Japanese and Welsh all have this phonomenon for new words created - but no where near the level of Hebrew! Beautiful.

    • @omerrwire-
      @omerrwire- 3 місяці тому +3

      יש גם הרבה מילים בעברית מיידיש וגרמנית והעברית המודרנית היא בנויה מהרבה צורות מילים ודרכי הגיה מגרמנית כמו שמוזכר
      בסרטון. תראה שבתנ"ך מדברים בצורה מאוד שונה. הדרך שהיום מדברים זה מודרניזציה מגרמנית

    • @CastChaos
      @CastChaos 3 місяці тому

      @@BenLlywelyn I thought many languages had it so that one or more literaturists decided that it needed a huge upgrade and so created and updated a whole lot of words and grammar, mostly because so many new objects, notions and processes were invented at other parts of the world and entered international use that given language needed to catch up. I know that it happened at least twice with Hungarian in the last 200 years (before then, it was just handled by taking from Latin, Greek and Slavic languages) and I think I remember the same for German. Also, Japanese handled it via carbon copying part of the English dictionary. I didn't know about Czech and Finnish doing so and since I'm just interested, not an expert, I didn't know about Welsh (unless if you mean the Celtic -> Briton change and also the Briton-Anglosaxon history piece later, Arthur forgive that I mention). I guessed the Latin languages didn't need it, for they just kept sharing ideas through the centuries slowly word by word. At least I regularly read the etimology of Spanish words on a Spanish site and that is how it seems. As for Hebrew, might it be because the diaspora, so Jews met the speakers of so many hundredsof languages all over the world...?
      I never thought of this as a separate topic, but if it's so, it also worths a video. Or more. How a language formed is outmost interesting to be explained in one minute and will always be my favourite format, but a small breakdown with examples like "X type of words, like XY and YX got from XYZ language to ZYX around Y time because of this and that" or "these words were created in this language by this person artifically". Also identifying very old words (predating Latin and more or less preserved in a language today). This is a really interesting facet of learning about languages.

  • @thebeststoryevertold
    @thebeststoryevertold 3 місяці тому +1

    Good series on languages.

  • @TurkishFunAccount
    @TurkishFunAccount 3 місяці тому +2

    The video I was looking for letz go

  • @Impasta_Tronic78
    @Impasta_Tronic78 3 місяці тому +3

    rather splendid indeed, keep up the great content! (not a pipe bomb threat)

  • @laabh9949
    @laabh9949 3 місяці тому +2

    Ayy, another vid from my favourite series. Also, Having an intro is a good choice, but I feel this is too uh...jolly? you should have smth that matches your almost sassy vibe, also waiting for Indian languages vid >:)

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому +2

      What about saxophone?

    • @laabh9949
      @laabh9949 3 місяці тому +1

      @@BenLlywelyn if its volume is low......it could be epic! (and ofc credit me (*^ ‿ ⁢*)♡)

  • @jezusbloodie
    @jezusbloodie 3 місяці тому +3

    Excellent video once again. I could listen to your voice for hours.
    I'd love a video on the Arabic dialectcontinuum.
    By the way, have you seen the recent works on northern European multiethonolects by H"istory with Hilbert" here on YT? If not, I'd wager you'd find it interesting.

    • @jezusbloodie
      @jezusbloodie 3 місяці тому +1

      My dutchness is appalled, Appalled I say, at you learning Hebrew over Dutch as your fourth language,? VB it fair enough if you describe Hebrew like that. Beutifully.

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому +2

      History with Herbert is a good channel.

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому +1

      Dutch still has the best and cutest word ever for English - Engels.

  • @estheay3611
    @estheay3611 3 місяці тому +4

    I can only imagine what sentences Ben could come up with for conlangs, like Toki Pona!

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому +3

      They would be destroyed.

  • @cv5w
    @cv5w 2 місяці тому

    Great content! I have a few pieces of unsolicited advice (I know, it's easy to comment and it's hard to create content, so I hope my humility is not lost on you when offering these thoughts). I would make sure to mention the language family for each language you analyze (e.g., Aramaic is an early Afroasiatic language; or semitic, etc) and I would explain what Semitic languages are (how related topics are created from basic consonant clusters), what Turkic languages are (agglutinative, Asian steppe nomads, etc.) just a few tidbits to put the categories in context. I wish you had spent a little bit more time describing the resurrection of Hebrew by Jewish scholars, and how they were able to recreate such a long dead language. A sentence or two explaining why the language of Moses/Abraham and the language of Jesus were different would have also been interesting.

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  2 місяці тому

      Many videos could be devoted to Hebrew. Thank you.

  • @christopherellis2663
    @christopherellis2663 3 місяці тому

    Thank you.

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому

      Very welcome! And glad to see you.

  • @user-bk7wp4bx5n
    @user-bk7wp4bx5n 3 місяці тому +1

    Hey Ben, how do you view languages dying and people not speaking a language corresponding to their origin? does it make them less?
    Arabization had different flavor due to migration, mixing (instead of outright replacement even of replacement happened due to conflicts but as far as I know, it's no different from replacement of arabs to other arabs ) and being the language of poetry religion and a lingua franca.
    Making Arabization rather a pleasant process in which many people really liked claiming to be Arabs, though probably many of them like me indeed have 100% Arab origins.
    My tribe is Zamoura, which means cultivated olive, this is further conformed by the area where cultivated olive is still there,
    also I'm not aware of any Arabic origin of this word, I asked a Moroccan Berber, and she told me she knows this word,
    also it's known in Algeria, (Eric Zammour)
    Personally, I define myself as Arab-Berber, though if we go by father's tribe I'm Zammouri (Berber).
    however, due to Arabic origins and also being culturally Arab for many of us, the right term is Arab Berber like Anatolian Turks.
    Some claim Berbers are Arabs or Semitic people, but for me, I'm Libyan, Arab Berber, though some people are hurt by hearing Berber!
    What are your views on heritage languages?
    Especially when they lack
    1- religious significance,
    2- lack the community, as my tribe is Arabized since forever
    3- common in remoted areas or other communities such as Mount Nafousa and Zouara (I'm sure you heard of them)
    these
    4- lack of material for the language and limited utility
    if I ever marry berberophone from Morocco I'd make sure to immerse myself in their berber speaking area,
    but other than that I cannot see a way around it.
    Arabic is a great language, I'm not sure how accurate are the ones who claim to be Shareef (meaning to relate to the house of the prophet of islam)
    but from mothers side I have that origin, her grandmother was Greek so she's white.
    funnily if we track it by mother side for three generations I'd be Greek today, therefore the question of identity is not a clear-cut,
    if I were Orthodox this would have solidified an entirely distinct identity

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому +1

      Identity is not clear cut, I respect that. As for Arabisation, it has been one of the most violent processes in all of human history, as we are seeing across the Sahel in Africa today, still on-going. Berbers fought wars to retain their identity, and beliefs and languages over centuries. And that in itself does not mean that you cannot be both Arab and Berber, of course you can. As for heritage languages, all languages are heritage languages.

    • @leventtrolley9135
      @leventtrolley9135 3 місяці тому

      ​@@BenLlywelynAre you really serious when you say that Arabization is the "most violent" process that has taken place throughout the ages?
      I respect your opinion (everyone's else), but since you are talking about history, there must be a real deep look into whatever it is. The issue here is not just an opinion, like apples being sweeter than grapes. It seems that you have not read about the most violent processes in history yet? Haven't you read about "Exploring the Americas"? Haven't you read about the colonization of Africa and what happened in each region and the "popularization" of European languages ​​there?
      I don't know what you mean by it being the "most violent" process in history. Arabization took place in a very simple manner, with the massive migration of Arab tribes and their settlement within local communities (across what's known today as the Arab world). If you are talking about Arab control over North Africa, bloody battles certainly took place, but they were not the "most violent" battles in history as you described them. Was them violent? Yes. Is it the "most violent" thing that happened in history of mankind? That sounds funny to answer.
      By the way, Arabization also did not happen because of a religion or because people accepted Islam and the like. Rather, people started speaking Arabic even before they converted/accepted (or forced if you like it) to Islam. This may be strange to hear, but it is the reality, because Arabic is an imperial language (meaning by this, it is a language of an empire, several states/sultanates and empires throughout the Middle Ages, not one), and you know.. How much the Arabs, and with them the Arabized ones, sought to develop Arabic over the succeeding centuries and because of the great influence of Arabic in science, knowledge and culture/arts on the peoples under which the Arabs ruled. As for the Berbers, the Berbers who mixed with the Arabs took Arabic from them (Why? Because Arabic had all the influence needed to), but those who did not mix with them still speak Berber to this day. It is simple, isn’t it?

  • @newworldforbest
    @newworldforbest 3 місяці тому +2

    "I listened up to when he said Arabic comes from a person claiming conversation with an angel. This is totally incorrect; Arabic existed before Prophet Mohammed (pbuh)."

  • @sasi5841
    @sasi5841 3 місяці тому +14

    What happened to pontic greek (basically khoine greek with some turkish and georgian sprinkles). The live around trebizond, turkey

  • @thomashernandez8700
    @thomashernandez8700 3 місяці тому +4

    u funny new subscriber here

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому

      Appreciate that. Thanks. Gracias.

  • @justaduck1664
    @justaduck1664 3 місяці тому +3

    Please make a video on the so called arabic dialects, or more accuretly the arabic descended langauges with sprinkles and sometimes grammer from the languages that used or are still spoken in those regions,
    For example egyptian arabic has alot of grammer from coptic with greek coptic turkish italien english and french sprinkles

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому +1

      Thank you for answering that question. I will do... at some point.

    • @justaduck1664
      @justaduck1664 3 місяці тому +1

      @@BenLlywelyn yeah its gonna be hard to simplfy thousands of years of history into one sentence, god be with you amiin

  • @yuribliman8999
    @yuribliman8999 3 місяці тому +3

    I don't know how to count the languages I speak coz I am bilingual, anyway Hebrew is slowly beginning to be my next language. I thought it would be Italian. Thank you for the sprinkles!

  • @pheeku6996
    @pheeku6996 2 місяці тому

    Coptic was mentioned, yay 😊

  • @Gronk574
    @Gronk574 3 місяці тому

    One of the first thousand to see this video. Yeah!

  • @idiosyncraticmushroom3030
    @idiosyncraticmushroom3030 3 місяці тому +2

    Can't wait to hear when he does Native American languages!

  • @Balthazare69
    @Balthazare69 3 місяці тому +2

    I didnt hear about 80% of these languages😮😮

  • @goonyougoodthing
    @goonyougoodthing 3 місяці тому

    Could you do a video on languages with debated language status like 'Ulster scots'?

  • @Trolligi
    @Trolligi 3 місяці тому

    You should do Siberian languages in a video too (I can help you with that if you would like, I know way too much about Siberia)

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому

      Oh? What information do you have?

  • @marioricomeza2839
    @marioricomeza2839 3 місяці тому

    A breakdown of the arabic dialect (languages cough cough) would be great!

  • @AyalSharon
    @AyalSharon 2 місяці тому

    Thanks for showing Hebrew some love! But a small correction: Hebrew is more closely related to ancient Aramaic (both are Northwest Semitic languages) than to Arabic . Portions of the books of Daniel and Ezra in the Bible are written in Aramaic.

  • @miri-818
    @miri-818 3 місяці тому

    if there not already videos about yiddish and ladino I would like it very much; and it would be interesting to hear about South Afrika's many official languages

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому +1

      I have a video about Ladino for you in my catalogue of videos.

    • @miri-818
      @miri-818 3 місяці тому

      ​@@BenLlywelynThank you, I will look for it! 🇮🇱🧡

  • @qpdb840
    @qpdb840 3 місяці тому +1

    There are some languages you forgot and one of them is Gorani but great video

  • @davidvaughn367
    @davidvaughn367 13 днів тому

    Zaza?!
    I always love learning about a language I have never heard of before, especially when its name is That fun to say.

  • @NotaHACPOASpy
    @NotaHACPOASpy 3 місяці тому +3

    Sprinkles

  • @CastChaos
    @CastChaos 3 місяці тому

    The Middle East always interested me, most especially in ancient age contest, probably because, as far as I know, there were the first civilizations formed on the Fertile Crescent, with the Sumers and then Babylon that kept changing ruler nation. Egypt, Arabians, Persians... so romantic. Aramaic always seemed so mystical. Whenever I read something about anything related to the Middle East, Aramaic seems to the Middle East like Latin to Europe.
    Actually, the "sprinkles" surprise me sometimes. I never even dreamed that Turkish would have anything to do with French! :O

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому +1

      We have had English, French, Latin, and before it Greek as the language of study
      The middle east has had far more than 4 such languages.

    • @CastChaos
      @CastChaos 3 місяці тому

      @@BenLlywelyn Truly fascinating. Especially if one thinks about it deeply. All the wonderful science and culture that was made and practiced on those languages.

  • @-adultfigureskaters3708
    @-adultfigureskaters3708 Місяць тому

    Thanks for another amazing video

  • @ilopollo
    @ilopollo 3 місяці тому

    niiiice

  • @Jewish_Israeli_Zionist
    @Jewish_Israeli_Zionist 3 місяці тому +1

    I'd be more than happy to help you with Hebrew (it's my native language)

  • @homerosmolinero131
    @homerosmolinero131 3 місяці тому +3

    You didn't put enough sprinkles on Turkish!

  • @BulgariaNationalist
    @BulgariaNationalist 3 місяці тому +1

    Would you do extinct languages?

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому

      Good idea. After the living it would be.

  • @moshiria
    @moshiria 3 місяці тому

    can someone explain how Farsi got Mongolian sprinklers?

  • @ZasadniczoKlimek
    @ZasadniczoKlimek 3 місяці тому

    Love it. With Polish sprinkles 🇵🇱😘

  • @SaadAltuilaai
    @SaadAltuilaai 3 місяці тому +1

    Are you sure Abraham spoke Hebrew? A man who is claimed to be born in Iraq would have probably spoken Accadian not Hebrew.

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому

      Abraham in Hebrew means father of multitudes.

  • @hman1025
    @hman1025 3 місяці тому +5

    עם ישראל חי!

  • @Kyle_Broflowski1997
    @Kyle_Broflowski1997 3 місяці тому

    i edge to your videos

  • @Totjunke13
    @Totjunke13 3 місяці тому

    3:38 WHAT?
    I want someone to explain me how Persian has Mongolian spinkles in it - the Mongolian attack was quite a while ago, is that the reason?
    This was so surprising!

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому

      Yes. Mongolia ruled present day Iran for a while.

  • @Sanel_C
    @Sanel_C 3 місяці тому +1

    Have you done the Bosniak language Ben? Asking because I'm a Bosniak, living in USA for 30 years now and i speak both languages fluently. Zdravo or alahimanet.

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому +1

      See the Serbo-Croatian in the European languages video.

  • @saadkawani
    @saadkawani 2 місяці тому +1

    Bro, Zaza and luri also kurdish dialects.

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  2 місяці тому

      Depends on who you ask.

    • @saadkawani
      @saadkawani 2 місяці тому

      @@BenLlywelyn yeah, but it's the truth, don't try to hide it.

  • @ThePanEthiopian
    @ThePanEthiopian 3 місяці тому

    My man you forgot the brothers of mehri, shehri and socotri.

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому

      There are so many languages!

  • @CristiChiri10
    @CristiChiri10 3 місяці тому +1

    I say the languages of india deserve their own video, there are just too many

  • @miri-818
    @miri-818 3 місяці тому +1

    Hebrew❤my Love

  • @kasrakh982
    @kasrakh982 2 місяці тому

    Thank you for using the real iranian flag 🦁☀️

  • @nagichampa9866
    @nagichampa9866 3 місяці тому

    I'd say today no one can exist without offending someone! Oh well!

  • @clivebradley2633
    @clivebradley2633 3 місяці тому +1

    Ble mae'r Cymraeg? Ti 'di anghofio ni?-

    • @hermask815
      @hermask815 3 місяці тому +2

      Welsh was in other videos already. Or are there some clandestine Welsh in the Middle East that we’ve missed?

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому +1

      Mae'r Gymraeg mewn llwyth o wideos 😉. Gweld yr un ar ieithoedd Ewropeidd mewn 1 frawddeg.

  • @datboin8669
    @datboin8669 3 місяці тому

    once you run out of languages you should do a video about dead languages!

  • @stonkplay1223
    @stonkplay1223 3 місяці тому

    No pontic?

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому +1

      Sorry, so many languages!

    • @stonkplay1223
      @stonkplay1223 3 місяці тому

      @@BenLlywelyn I understand that "zaza" is more important. It would be appreciated to have a one sentence explanation of my exiled peoples' language! Maybe in a future video perhaps!😄

  • @axolotl-guy9801
    @axolotl-guy9801 3 місяці тому +1

    Why not Dutch as your fourth Language 😅. Can it be your fift language. 😂

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому

      There is always room for 5 in a hatchback.

  • @sicko_the_ew
    @sicko_the_ew 3 місяці тому

    The great sea prophet, Tristan Jones, revealed knowledge by revelation that he had of the uncontaminated nature of the true Welsh people, such has his own self, and this was that they are a Lost Tribe of Israel, wanderers of the far seas, settled on the Promised Land. His evidence involved something I don't quite get about his nose. And maybe his hair colour or something.
    He had his mockers, but they remained silent while his words made them money, so he did not have to suffer the kind of scorn upon his writings that some do. In later years, though, they have emerged to cast doubts and whatever aspersions are, upon his memory. One I read said first he sent in very practical and down to Earth sailing tips, and quite ordinary accounts of the usual kind of sea voyage to something like Practical Sailing (or maybe Yachting World - who can tell?), and the editors rejected these, suggesting that he just write in "his own voice", instead of as if writing an essay for school.
    So he did, and began to Proclaim, Proclaim, Proclaim. (Actually in truth he did very little proclaiming, but it sounds better this way. He'd mainly just tell you what a great sea dog his dog was, and so on, really.)
    Now those very same mockers who had invited him to just go wild and write according to his own vision and audition and what the genie in the bottle says, have come back to claim that those stories of his that they published (on their paper, not his) were all just fiction. And fiction that got more and more unbelievable with every telling, even. As my granny would say, they now accuse him of telling Yarns. Yarns that they were quite happy to publish if the gulls wanted to believe them.
    I've heard what they have to say, and I don't want to believe them, so I shan't. I believe that Tristan Jones took his little coracle to Israel, once (so he could go and visit Home), and managed to get it shipped overland to the Red Sea. (I seem to remember he couldn't get permission to sail the Dead Sea, but might just be imagining this). And I believe he sailed the Red Sea.
    And I believe everything else he ever said (mainly just because I prefer it to whatever the mockers might say was the case). He went to South America, and had his yacht trucked over the Andes. He went to Madagsacar with a representative of the Ethiopian Navy. He even spent a Winter icebound in the Arctic. I refuse to be deprived of these happy memories just because someone now, after sales have started to drop, as they do, comes along and claims he just made it all up, and was inspired to push things as far as he possibly could.
    Of course the main thing as far as your video goes is that he was Welsh, considered himself to thereby be Hebrew, and was not just a legend, but maker of legends. (And legends are better believed to be lived - except when the belief entails an obligation on the reader to go and murder some innocent people for no good reason at all.)
    I hope his soul rests on good seas (whatever those may be). He was a kind man. That much is obvious from his writings.
    And what else really matters, really? I mean really.

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому

      Welsh and Hebrew are not related. But we do share similar sized homelands and great tribulations.

    • @sicko_the_ew
      @sicko_the_ew 3 місяці тому

      @@BenLlywelynIndeed. I think perhaps Tristan Jones had feet of clay when it came to this prophecy thing. I hadn't thought of the homeland size match before, but yes, you're right. He could tell a good story, anyway.

  • @korfrag6865
    @korfrag6865 3 місяці тому +1

    What is your 3rd language?

    • @Nabi.Migration
      @Nabi.Migration 3 місяці тому

      I was also wondering. English Welsh ------ Hebrew.
      I'll guess Spanish.

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому +1

      français.

  • @Merlinfoop
    @Merlinfoop 3 місяці тому +2

    Armenian language please!

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому +2

      It will be with the caucasian languages when I make that one.

  • @gooshnpupp
    @gooshnpupp 3 місяці тому +5

    Hebrew never died. Actually it was spoken by Jews fluently. Not as a day to day language, but mostly to read scripture, write commentary, poetry, and to communicate with different Jewish communities around the world

  • @pinwyrdd
    @pinwyrdd 3 місяці тому

    ...gyda sbrincls

  • @user-nv4lc6yy7o
    @user-nv4lc6yy7o 2 місяці тому

    I thought this was a language channel not a political one.

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  2 місяці тому

      Im honest.

    • @user-nv4lc6yy7o
      @user-nv4lc6yy7o 2 місяці тому

      Don’t see any “honesty” about the Kurdish language in Iraq and the Arabic, Syriac and Turkish language in Rojava though.

  • @buckmanley1233
    @buckmanley1233 3 місяці тому +2

    This guy really doesn't like Arabic. You can tell by the way he speaks about.

    • @buckmanley1233
      @buckmanley1233 3 місяці тому +2

      Also really biased in favor of Hebrew. Really cringe-inducing ending

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому

      No hatred of Arabic. Just love of Hebrew. Watch as you wish.

    • @user-ei4ce8np9s
      @user-ei4ce8np9s 3 місяці тому

      Just say you're Muslim @@buckmanley1233

  • @xJUn1nHOx
    @xJUn1nHOx 3 місяці тому

    Talk about Brazilian Portuguese, the true Portuguese language. Lol

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому +1

      Maybe a video comparing them sometime.

  • @belamorkanal
    @belamorkanal 3 місяці тому +1

    Hebrew is becoming my fourth language as well 😄
    I'm glad you appreciated this beautiful language without letting the mass media corrupt your mind the same way it did to many "progressive" westerners
    I subscribed

  • @shinwaramin8582
    @shinwaramin8582 3 місяці тому

    bakhtyari ,, hewrami

  • @roymorris2231
    @roymorris2231 3 місяці тому +2

    אח שלנו אתה פשוט עלוף בשביל החלק האחרון, וזה באמת היה כיף לראות את הכל, אבל החלק האחרון פשוט ריגש אותי🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому +1

      תודה בחביבות.

    • @roymorris2231
      @roymorris2231 3 місяці тому

      @@BenLlywelyn תודה רבה, חברינו.

  • @Zaman805
    @Zaman805 3 місяці тому

    Khorosani, Azerbaijani, Gorani, Baluch, and Feyli you forgot them

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому

      So many!

    • @justaguytryingtosurvive
      @justaguytryingtosurvive 3 місяці тому

      Khorosani is a dialect more than a language
      He is probably saving Azari for the Caucasian languages
      I don't like to seperate the Goranis, the Feylis, and the Zazakis from other Kurds. They are all genetically, culturally, and historically the same. If you wanna seperate them then you should also seperate Sorani, Kurmanji, Kelhori, Leki, and many other Kurdish languages as seperate entities. I as a kurd have said it before and I will say it again, Kurdish is not a language, it's an identity. As a Soran I can't understand any of the other kurdic languages (as I like to call them). So either you see them all as one language, or as seperates
      Maybe he's saving Baluchi for south Asian languages

    • @EsfandiarNokhodaki
      @EsfandiarNokhodaki 3 місяці тому

      Khorasani Is Persian Accent
      Gorani also is Kurdish accent

    • @justaguytryingtosurvive
      @justaguytryingtosurvive 3 місяці тому

      Sorry I was mistaken, Khorasani is a Turkic language. So I think he is saving it for central Asian languages or something

    • @justaguytryingtosurvive
      @justaguytryingtosurvive 3 місяці тому

      @@EsfandiarNokhodaki I think they are talking about Khorasani Turkish, not the regional dialect.
      And for Gorani, as I've said before, it's its own language just like all the other Kurdic languages. If you see Gorani as a Kurdish dialect, then you gotta also see Zazaki, Shebaki, Lori, and Bakhtiari as dialects of Kurdish as well. You either see them all as separate, yet related, languages, or all of them as one language.
      I can't tell you what you should believe in, because ultimately, as the saying goes, languages are just dialects with armies.
      Swedish and Norwegian are closer to each other than Gorani and Sorani yet you classify them, Swedish and Norwegian, as different languages while treating Gorani and Sorani as the same

  • @Threeangels1976
    @Threeangels1976 3 місяці тому +4

    Propaganda channel. u should be ashamed of ur bias. Ugh.

  • @dysprosiumdead5078
    @dysprosiumdead5078 3 місяці тому

    id apperciate it more if you just called kurdish an iranian/iranic language instead of indo iranian. thats like calling calling ukrainian a balto-slavic langauge

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому

      It is not like Balto-Slavic.

    • @dysprosiumdead5078
      @dysprosiumdead5078 3 місяці тому

      @@BenLlywelyn why

    • @dysprosiumdead5078
      @dysprosiumdead5078 3 місяці тому

      @@BenLlywelyn would you call hindi or urdu an indo-iranian language??

    • @miri-818
      @miri-818 3 місяці тому

      iranian and indo-iranian are both correct for kurdish, indo-iranian is on more basic level; indoeuropean ->indoiranian->iranian

    • @miri-818
      @miri-818 3 місяці тому

      baltic and slavic: not derived from each other, just on "parallel" level

  • @palestinianman2011
    @palestinianman2011 3 місяці тому

    You should NOT use the KSA flag to represent the Arabic language. Use the flag of the Arab league, please.

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому

      Ŵwps.

    • @amal2755
      @amal2755 2 місяці тому

      @@BenLlywelynDo not listen to his words. The origin of the Arabic language is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. As for the rest, such as the Levant, Egypt, Morocco, and others, they spoke Arabic because of the Islamic conquests from the Arabian Peninsula and the conquerors from Saudi Arabia. For example, Egypt did not speak Arabic until after Amr bin Al-Aas conquered it from Mecca in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and until the best book in the Arabic language was revealed, the Holy Qur’an, it was revealed in Mecca and Medina, they are the origin of the Saudi Arabic language 🇸🇦

    • @amal2755
      @amal2755 2 місяці тому

      اذا كنت من الدول الامصار فأنت تعرف انك لم تتحدث العربية الا بعد الفتح الاسلامي العربية والقران لم ينزل في بلدك اكتب دولتك واعرف من فتحا من شبه الجزيرة ^السعودية^ اذا كنت من مصر اعرف ان من عرب لسانك هوا عمرو بن العاص القرشي رضي الله عنه قبلها لم تكن تتحدث العربية

    • @amal2755
      @amal2755 2 місяці тому

      @@BenLlywelynEven the seven closed places were hung by Imru' al-Qais in the Arabian Peninsula, specifically Saudi Arabia🇸🇦

  • @KhiatMokhtar
    @KhiatMokhtar Місяць тому

    اللغة العربية لم تعطها حقها استاذ...هي اقدم من مجيء الاسلام..وشكرا

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  Місяць тому

      عدل. هناك ثراء لذلك.

  • @LordDamianus
    @LordDamianus 3 місяці тому

    Dude, you're insulting every language in your videos. Wtf wrong with you?

  • @Lagolop
    @Lagolop 3 місяці тому +2

    While Yiddish is based on Medieval High German, it is also "sprinkled" with Aramaic, Hebrew, and Slavic borrow words. PS Ikh farshteyn a bisl Yiddish ober ken nisht redn gut ;)

    • @BenLlywelyn
      @BenLlywelyn  3 місяці тому +2

      Astounding.

    • @Nabi.Migration
      @Nabi.Migration 3 місяці тому

      I speak standard high German and i got everything you said. Das is gut !!! sehr gut sogar.

    • @Lagolop
      @Lagolop 3 місяці тому

      @@BenLlywelynYou mean "oysergeventlekh" ...
      Blaybn gezunt, un shtark :)
      BTW, the one thing I noticed is that if you can pronounce Welsh words, Dutch words and Old Scots, you can easily pronounce the guttural "KH" sound in Yiddish words. My first wife's grandmother was fluent in the Welsh language.

    • @Lagolop
      @Lagolop 3 місяці тому

      @@Nabi.Migration In Yiddish; dos iz gut. Zayer gut. I have no idea what "sogar" means.

    • @Nabi.Migration
      @Nabi.Migration 3 місяці тому

      @@Lagolop haha ja zayer gut.
      yiddish is apparently written phonetically.
      So sehr becomes zayer.
      Sogar means "even".