Hanziyu: The (cursed) Language of Characters

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  • @eleanormally
    @eleanormally  Рік тому +650

    Corrections:
    1. 爱 does not break down into a 心. This was from the traditional characters, which itself doesn't break down into 友.
    2. 汉子 should be 汉字。Can thank the pinyin keyboard suggesting the wrong one to me every time for that.

    • @ythanzhang
      @ythanzhang Рік тому +85

      A possible translation for 汉子语 woud be "chad lang" instead of 汉字语(hanzi lang)

    • @phonxil4592
      @phonxil4592 Рік тому +20

      if you don't have this pinned, I honestly can't tell if it's intentional or mistake XD

    • @kierahicks9314
      @kierahicks9314 Рік тому +17

      汉子=man
      汉字=character
      😁

    • @jeffkevin3
      @jeffkevin3 Рік тому +26

      @@kierahicks9314 Perhaps she didn't make a mistake.
      She just meant to create a language that only real brave men (汉子) are able to speak. 🤔
      Try to speak in a BRAVER version? You should try 漢子語 instead of 汉子语. 🤣

    • @sal_strazzullo
      @sal_strazzullo Рік тому

      The 2nd thing happens to everyone eventually 😂 we can all relate

  • @SupahTrunks7
    @SupahTrunks7 Рік тому +1293

    I feel like this is extra cursed because of how logical it all is. Every step makes a completely absurd amount of sense and yet only makes things worse

    • @Yang02517
      @Yang02517 Рік тому +28

      gladly we the system she introduced in the video is rarely used in teaching and using the language. We seldom remember how the caracter should be read by it's so called radiant

  • @shuu-wasseo
    @shuu-wasseo Рік тому +775

    as a native chinese speaker... i must say i am very impressed with how unnecessarily long all the words are 😭

    • @町兔
      @町兔 Рік тому +14

      啊啊啊啊20年了,现在我也经常不记得一些字怎么写😢

  • @oyc7946
    @oyc7946 Рік тому +565

    As someone who speaks Mandarin, Hokkien and Cantonese regularly I feel like I'm listening to someone speaking Thai, Korean and Cantonese all at once

    • @clu691
      @clu691 Рік тому +35

      as someone who speaks mandarin, cantonese, and taishanese, you're not wrong (tho i'd replace korean with hmong)

    • @scrawlerrovmia5513
      @scrawlerrovmia5513 Рік тому +7

      i think Vietnam too..XD

    • @ВладиславФесенко-к1м
      @ВладиславФесенко-к1м Рік тому +23

      Bro essentially created Hyperasian

    • @gunjchowwiwat8357
      @gunjchowwiwat8357 8 місяців тому +4

      ​@@clu691as someone who speaks Thai and Hmong, I don't even know what I listened to. I have better chances understand Mandarin than this😅

    • @Lumegrin
      @Lumegrin 5 місяців тому

      ​@@ВладиславФесенко-к1мthis should be the pan-asian auxlang

  • @markivanov1375
    @markivanov1375 Рік тому +1520

    Incredible. Not only did you come up with an unbelievably cursed conlang, you also wrote lyrics for Vivaldi's Winter. Mad respect

    • @tony757
      @tony757 Рік тому +152

      It’s a hanziyu version of the opening from the bee movie lmao

    • @randint
      @randint Рік тому +63

      @@tony757 I'm pretty sure that it was just the Chinese version of the opening pronounced in Hanziyu. I did not observe the grammar changes (i.e. killing compound words) mentioned at 10:10.

    • @markivanov1375
      @markivanov1375 Рік тому +39

      @@tony757 I know, the tonemes just went really well with the background music, as if the text were lyrics

    • @farleyharper1270
      @farleyharper1270 Рік тому +4

      ​@@randinttrue

    • @freshbread4039
      @freshbread4039 Рік тому +4

      @@tony757 0_0 seriously??

  • @danielholt6480
    @danielholt6480 Рік тому +1217

    Learning actual Mandarin Chinese has never seemed so easy!

    • @Tasorius
      @Tasorius Рік тому +20

      It would be easy enough if it had an accurate romanization that allows you to see how it is supposed to be pronounced, but the system that is widely used just makes it more difficult...

    • @whohan779
      @whohan779 Рік тому +14

      @@Tasorius I don't quite get that. Why are the several Pīnyīn inaccurate for formally speaking their respective dialect? I realize that adding ш, ж & ч equivalents into Latin or vice-versa q, ü/v & x (maybe even ŋ) into Cyrillic (preferably not with needless diacritics as they're mainly used for vowel tones) could help, but otherwise the system seems perfect.
      How would any phonetic writing system ever satisfy any relevant dialect? I guess, the CPC just wants to eradicate them slowly, which solves this problem.

    • @iandavidvillaloboswong5180
      @iandavidvillaloboswong5180 Рік тому +46

      ​@@Tasorius If we are talking about accurate romanization, english should be the first language to be changed lol.

    • @Tasorius
      @Tasorius Рік тому +13

      @@iandavidvillaloboswong5180 Pinyin is inconsistent within itself. Sometimes you clearly hear a diphthong in Mandarin, but there is only one vowel written with pinyin, and sometimes it's a completely different vowel sound but it is written as the same vowel in pinyin. It just adds an extra level of difficulty to an already very difficult language.

    • @ythanzhang
      @ythanzhang Рік тому +6

      ​@@Tasoriuscan you provide some examples? As a chinese maybe I'm just too used to the system but I can't really think of such a case.

  • @alanhe4476
    @alanhe4476 Рік тому +293

    this is taking "a picture is worth a thousand words" completely seriously and then deciding to speak emoji

    • @MsZsc
      @MsZsc Рік тому +30

      a language where you speak the hexadecimal colour value of every pixel in a 1080p still image
      or animate it

  • @Cadey
    @Cadey Рік тому +1450

    Who hurt you? Did the grammar hurt you? 10/10 cursedness. I'm sending this to my Chinese speaking friends.

    • @jellyfishno.22
      @jellyfishno.22 Рік тому +78

      Why be happy when you can 𝙨𝙪𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧?

    • @crispiio
      @crispiio Рік тому +4

      as a chinese person, 操

    • @Moircuus
      @Moircuus Рік тому +17

      Grammar hurt us all.

    • @EL_File4138
      @EL_File4138 Рік тому +41

      A single food would defeat this cursed language. 𰻝𰻝面, as showed in the video, a character with the most strokes in the "common" character list in Simplified Chinese.
      (You'll need a font that at least supports Unicode 13.0 to correctly display this character)

    • @liooeyabie
      @liooeyabie Рік тому +28

      ​​​​​@@EL_File4138I see this word used in every videos introducing Hanzi languages. As a native Mandarin and Hokkien speaker, may I humbly ask you, *how the fuck do I pronounce this word in my mother tongue?*
      I don't need no Hanziyu to defeat myself in understanding Hanzi.

  • @lauraqueentint
    @lauraqueentint Рік тому +504

    as a cantonese native im simultaneously impressed, confused, impressed again, and intimidated. great job, i'm bewildered!

    • @MIO9_sh
      @MIO9_sh Рік тому +34

      saying hello has never sounded so much like a whole essay

    • @oioio-yb9dw
      @oioio-yb9dw Рік тому +3

      Lol

    • @mavmav0YT
      @mavmav0YT Рік тому +1

      cantonese nuts lmao gottem

  • @breearbor4275
    @breearbor4275 Рік тому +454

    This is a perfectly logical system and I see absolutely no problem with this whatsoever. Thank you Eleanor for fixing Chinese.

  • @NoOne-yv2ei
    @NoOne-yv2ei Рік тому +326

    For anyone that didn’t notice, the conlang had the background music of “Winter” by Vivaldi, and is the bee movie script

    • @RedHair651
      @RedHair651 Рік тому +19

      All the cursed conlang circus entries use the opening lines of the bee movie as examples.

    • @NoOne-yv2ei
      @NoOne-yv2ei Рік тому +5

      @@RedHair651 i know, it’s in Chinese so i pointed it out

    • @Albinojackrussel
      @Albinojackrussel 10 місяців тому

      Thanks for confirming. I figured it was the bee movie, but couldn't confirm

    • @StockyScoresRaoraPantheraFC
      @StockyScoresRaoraPantheraFC 7 місяців тому

      ​@@NoOne-yv2eishi Shi Shi Shi shi

    • @PlaguevonKarma
      @PlaguevonKarma День тому

      The Chinese is the script Google Translated, it's beautiful

  • @KumeSumigawa
    @KumeSumigawa Рік тому +847

    As a native Mandarin speaker, this is pain 🥲

    • @Scrolte6174
      @Scrolte6174 Рік тому +10

      💀

    • @joshuachan6317
      @joshuachan6317 Рік тому +70

      I feel your pain as a native Cantonese speaker 😢

    • @sycani
      @sycani Рік тому +1

      yeah... wait hi kume

    • @Scrolte6174
      @Scrolte6174 Рік тому +10

      @@joshuachan6317 Actually, I'm planning to learn Cantonese!

    • @NCXitlali
      @NCXitlali Рік тому +9

      I'm learning mandarin as an 8th language and this is more cursed than Kanji...

  • @fuhdsji
    @fuhdsji Рік тому +245

    Wow! Thank you for solving the problem of mandarin speakers knowing how to speak a word, but not knowing how to write it by making it impossible to speak a word without knowing how it's written

    • @cola5323
      @cola5323 Рік тому +18

      This comment is underrated

  • @calarquist3617
    @calarquist3617 Рік тому +565

    THIS is what a true cursed conlang is, if this doesnt win (or whatever the competition is for) then i give up

    • @abxy_real_official_since2020
      @abxy_real_official_since2020 Рік тому +10

      Poliespo is the true cursed conlang.

    • @livedandletdie
      @livedandletdie Рік тому +24

      @@abxy_real_official_since2020 Nah, Toki Pona is the true cursed conlang... However, I think one could make an even more cursed conlang pretty easily.
      Like a conlang with a very very very strict word order, but extremely complex writing system, that makes it hard to know what word goes where and with a very limited phonetic inventory.
      I mean, the world is ones oyster, one could have a word that begins in the previous sentence, and ends in the next, you could change reading direction at random... there's so many actually ways to make a language cursed beyond belief.

    • @raspberryjam
      @raspberryjam Рік тому +29

      ​@@livedandletdieextremely complex writing system with extremely strict word order, with words bridging from the previous sentence to the current? By god, I think that's just blockchain as a language

    • @runeanonymous9760
      @runeanonymous9760 Рік тому +5

      Thandian

    • @andrewliu6592
      @andrewliu6592 Рік тому +1

      @@livedandletdie frameshifting conlang

  • @semicolontransistor
    @semicolontransistor Рік тому +45

    Public Health Warning:
    If you are a Chinese speaker, watching this video may cause auditory discomfort, existential crisis, degraded language function, loss of sanity, and severe EMOTIONAL DAMAGE. Viewer discretion advised.
    -- People's Health Comitte (Probably)

  • @Rose_Nebula
    @Rose_Nebula Рік тому +150

    7:30 “that was an example of a classic linguistics technique called lying” FACTS

  • @AgmaSchwa
    @AgmaSchwa Рік тому +78

    I have opened Pandora's box and I now reap the consequences

  • @NJHuocaozi
    @NJHuocaozi Рік тому +104

    I have a PhD in Chinese phonology, and this makes perfect sense. Beautiful

    • @artugert
      @artugert Рік тому +1

      Is that a joke?

    • @NJHuocaozi
      @NJHuocaozi Рік тому +20

      Not at all; every rule has a sound phonological or phonetic explanation, except in the case of exceptions, which are expected in natural language

    • @rickliao7259
      @rickliao7259 Місяць тому +1

      What Japanese phonology? Kanji pronunciation is almost as cursed as this.

  • @user-id9bn1ic9v
    @user-id9bn1ic9v Рік тому +113

    The classical linguistics technique of lying is so slept on and I’m so glad you brought it up

  • @pomumterrestre8725
    @pomumterrestre8725 Рік тому +372

    This was beautiful. I loved how it's basically like looking at a different language's usage of the Latin script and saying, "It probably sounds like this," but worse (read better).

    • @seeranos
      @seeranos Рік тому +60

      It would be very funny to look at the Latin alphabet as if it were describing mouth positions like Hangul does and try reading it lol

    • @Deschutron
      @Deschutron Рік тому +34

      As an aside, my favourite case of looking at a different language's usage of the Latin script and saying "it probably sounds like this," is Cherokee script.

  • @Trolligi
    @Trolligi Рік тому +130

    Oh no… I am a native mandarin speaker and an understander of Shanghainese, this is gonna be a wild ride lmao

    • @Trolligi
      @Trolligi Рік тому +50

      Yeah this is beautiful, absolutely beautiful

  • @yieraishi
    @yieraishi Рік тому +34

    1:35 One cool thing is that even though 又 means again, the character original represents the right hand, and the character 友 meaning friend, is actually 又+ 又, so hand in hand.

  • @nutronstar45
    @nutronstar45 Рік тому +87

    petition to make eleanormally say the entire bee movie script in hanziyu

  • @juneegbert3650
    @juneegbert3650 Рік тому +134

    somehow i hate how this all works out, this is an idea i had in my head when i was in chinese school
    would make 言文 texts only slightly less tolerable

  • @maedothemaid8368
    @maedothemaid8368 Рік тому +101

    This language is absolutely cursed, as a Chinese I can prove it, and I'm loving it. The pronunciation somehow creates a near uncanny valley effect, like if someone remix mandarin into the style of that “Everywhere at the end of time” album. 谢谢你的研究!真的超棒,我要学会了用来加密通话,笑死。

    • @rkazunov
      @rkazunov Рік тому +8

      谁懂得了这个嚎叫😂

    • @maedothemaid8368
      @maedothemaid8368 Рік тому

      lol @@rkazunov

    • @Jeekc
      @Jeekc Рік тому +3

      I can see this system usable when combined with 五筆 🤔

    • @maedothemaid8368
      @maedothemaid8368 Рік тому +1

      It would be fantastic for typing, but vocal communication might be too complicated @@Jeekc

    • @forbiddenchannel4901
      @forbiddenchannel4901 Рік тому

      我好害怕。

  • @coolbrotherf127
    @coolbrotherf127 Рік тому +249

    I'm just imagining how extra confusing this would be to a Japanese speaker.

    • @sponge1234ify
      @sponge1234ify Рік тому +39

      the kanas read with Hanziyu as well 😭😭

    • @fynnfish
      @fynnfish Рік тому +5

      It was 😂 I tried to read the sentences at the end (I’ve been learning Chinese for 2 weeks now and know like 4 grammar points in total now lol) and I had no idea what I was reading it was so bad omg

    • @forbiddenchannel4901
      @forbiddenchannel4901 Рік тому +3

      @@sponge1234ifyplease don’t

  • @worldcomicsreview354
    @worldcomicsreview354 Рік тому +103

    When the "solution" is so bad you may as well keep the "problem"

  • @dyld921
    @dyld921 Рік тому +162

    This is truly cursed but I'm loving how logical it all is.

  • @thesaucepasser4074
    @thesaucepasser4074 Рік тому +361

    So you basically made a horrible mix of Ithkuil and Kay(f)bop(t)

    • @jamesderiven1843
      @jamesderiven1843 Рік тому +23

      Kay(f)bop(t) is still my favourite Hanson album.

    • @livedandletdie
      @livedandletdie Рік тому +5

      @@jamesderiven1843 I think you mean MMMBop... XD

    • @jamesderiven1843
      @jamesderiven1843 Рік тому +3

      Yes. That was the joke.

    • @whohan779
      @whohan779 Рік тому +8

      With the quite important difference that Ithkuil was made for utmost briefness (the speech should be formed & arrive immaculately - which almost any human is incapable of), while here the quite stringent rule of one syllable per character gets replaced by "Hope your characters don't have lots of strokes, otherwise you'll suffer one.".
      This basically introduces all the trouble of by-heart calligraphy into speech.
      Though I must admit, I understand how Ithkuil is supposed to work, but not Kay(f)bop(t).

    • @thesaucepasser4074
      @thesaucepasser4074 Рік тому +5

      Ithkuil and Kay(f)bop(t) are actually really similar, they're both highly agglutinative, Kay(f)bop(t) just shows incrediblly precise but redundant info.

  • @viictor1309
    @viictor1309 Рік тому +126

    you just pushed hanzi logic of radicals and orthography to a whole other level, it's just unhealthy. lol

  • @adam17tt
    @adam17tt Рік тому +90

    Original Mandarin: one sound for one word
    Hanziyu: NINE SOUNDS for 能
    Also, as native Mandarin speaker, Hanziyu does sound like Mandafin... Cursed af 😂

    • @NoverMaC
      @NoverMaC Рік тому +2

      it sounds more like Thai or Vietnamese to me lol

    • @d.b.2215
      @d.b.2215 Рік тому +8

      ​@@NoverMaCVietnamese speaker here. It sounds nothing like Vietnamese (or Thai for that matter)

    • @pieman3141
      @pieman3141 Рік тому

      Mandarin has a number of characters that have more than one pronunciation. A basic example is 企鹅: is it qi3 e2 or qi4 e2?

    • @zerodicks
      @zerodicks 11 місяців тому

      Why that character pronunciation so weird? As a native Chinese speaker, can’t understand anything

    • @neverdestroyerofworlds
      @neverdestroyerofworlds 2 місяці тому

      no, its actually prob 2-3 words for one sound most of the time

  • @lycrashampoo
    @lycrashampoo Рік тому +47

    it is hilarious to me that this is doing what Hangul does backwards with .00000001% the efficiency, amazing job!

  • @aiocafea
    @aiocafea Рік тому +63

    this is absolutely glorious
    truly the platonic ideal of a cursed language

  • @user-nd7rg5er5g
    @user-nd7rg5er5g Рік тому +15

    I'm crying. The music is fun and you keep cheerfully explaining this conlang, but I'm crying.

  • @haibeipei
    @haibeipei Рік тому +12

    I love the chaotic energy radiated from this video all the way from the beginning to end

  • @紫纱云璃
    @紫纱云璃 Рік тому +41

    As a Chinese, you successfully made me unable to speak my native language after watching this video. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!🤣.

    • @zerodicks
      @zerodicks 11 місяців тому

      me too 😂I even didn’t understand what was she said 😅

    • @zerodicks
      @zerodicks 11 місяців тому

      Why is it so complicated

  • @ashaler__
    @ashaler__ Рік тому +21

    every day i see a new conlinguistic barrier broken, and i shed tears of joy. what will conlinguists do next

  • @Eric-sy1xu
    @Eric-sy1xu Рік тому +8

    This feels like almost an exploration of a Gödel number for every character in Chinese characters. Love it.

  • @SurfTheSkyline
    @SurfTheSkyline Рік тому +33

    What a treat, I am so glad for the second circus because it has given us gems like this

  • @derbdep
    @derbdep Рік тому +27

    As someone who studied Kanji and the radicals, this is indeed cursed.
    Hanziyu wins the cursed cIrcus, and the conlanglympics.
    Good job! It is pain.

  • @koytru
    @koytru Рік тому +5

    I adore the soundtrack, thank you for yoinking the music straight from my childhood

  • @subversiveasset
    @subversiveasset Рік тому +23

    I feel like i have stumbled upon secret knowledge that i was not meant to know.

  • @OurHourglass
    @OurHourglass Рік тому +17

    When you said the full name of the language, my eyes opened wide as I realized what was happening. God bless you for whatever comes next, and thank you for your repeated use of the ramen character. When I continue this video, I look forward to hearing you say it in 汉字语.

  • @aloysiuskurnia7643
    @aloysiuskurnia7643 Рік тому +22

    oh my gosh "strokeme" is such a beautiful word, I'm in love

  • @professorariel
    @professorariel Рік тому +22

    7:30 Ah yes, my favorite linguistic technique

  • @nduduzoblose4355
    @nduduzoblose4355 Рік тому +49

    I love how it sounds like I'm listening to vietnamese ASMR. Amazingly done brav❤️🔥🔥

    • @d.b.2215
      @d.b.2215 Рік тому

      It sounds nothing like Vietnamese omg

    • @nduduzoblose4355
      @nduduzoblose4355 Рік тому

      @@d.b.2215 It sounds nothing like vietnamese you say? You're certain?
      Then what does it sound like to you?

  • @Insert_Creativity_Here
    @Insert_Creativity_Here Рік тому +6

    I completely lost what you were saying about halfway through, I love it.

  • @suyangsong
    @suyangsong Рік тому +14

    When you said “they should’ve been speaking all languages write” I knew I was in for a wild ride

  • @seigiman9620
    @seigiman9620 Рік тому +10

    Amazing, someone finally made Chinese²
    - me, a Chinese person

  • @RedHair651
    @RedHair651 Рік тому +4

    As a lyingologist myself, I approve of this tonal inventory

  • @J3Puffin
    @J3Puffin Рік тому +5

    For the first video you’ve shared this is scarily well-done. Also the style gives veeeery similar vibes to the winner from last year, big ups for the complete onslaught of information thats still comprehensible and seems so cursed but in the way assembly code is cursed. *applause*

  • @anderudp
    @anderudp Рік тому +7

    This left me emotionally scarred. 10/10 would conglang again.

  • @Matherian2
    @Matherian2 Рік тому +7

    Hamburger is 汉堡 (han fortress) because "Burg" is the German word for fortress or walled city, which was directly translated.

    • @埊
      @埊 Рік тому

      and 堡 just means 'ground which protects'

  • @apollofell3925
    @apollofell3925 Рік тому +75

    I'm halfway through this video wondering to myself "How the hell does anyone in China even manage to read?" And then remembering 1. A video where native Japanese speakers on the street struggled read Kanji and 2. Every time I see the word "bourgeoisie"

    • @xXJ4FARGAMERXx
      @xXJ4FARGAMERXx Рік тому +4

      It's almost the same
      In English there's at least some reliable hints (this word starts with a "b", it probably starts with a /b/ sound) but with 汉字 the hints that exist are unreliable.
      So basically it's just a harder version of English spelling.

    • @apollofell3925
      @apollofell3925 Рік тому +15

      @@xXJ4FARGAMERXx Humans: invent words and writing
      Humans: but what if we made it harder?

    • @MsZsc
      @MsZsc Рік тому +1

      the thing is, i can recall characters from memory but cannot write from memory on a blank paper outside my own name. I can read stuff and remember it and it really isn't that much harder than the hypocrisy that is english language "rules"

    • @infernaldisdain8051
      @infernaldisdain8051 Рік тому +9

      @@MsZsc Difference is English language rules are a soup of rules from a large selection of languages from Anglo Saxon, French, Latin and Greek mixed together with whatever was in the fridge because England got ruled by and traded with a crazy amount of countries. The rules are usually fine though, consistency is not promised however.

    • @waleed4017
      @waleed4017 Рік тому +7

      English monolinguals try not to sound ethnocentric challenge (impossible).

  • @SonorianBnS
    @SonorianBnS Рік тому +3

    This is beautiful, you seriously have a talent at presentation

  • @viaris1725
    @viaris1725 Рік тому +4

    I understood a good half, and that half terrifies me to my soul.
    Great video!

  • @kennethye4374
    @kennethye4374 Рік тому +8

    The greatest thing is that any of the Chinese classics can be read directly in this language.

  • @eee2726
    @eee2726 Рік тому +5

    native Chinese speaker here, that super complicated word that is composed of the bunch of "之穴心馬系月" stuff is actually pronounced biang but it isn't actually type-able due to how complex it is
    also the last bit that was read in hanziyu is actually an excerpt from idk where but goes along the lines of "according to the laws of flight, bees should not be able to fly. their wings are simply to small to lift their chunky bodies. but bees still fly because they don't care about things that humans consider impossible" (isn't a line by line translation because i'm too unbothered to go back to check but as a general reference yes this is accurate enough)

    • @shockhtoropi7143
      @shockhtoropi7143 Рік тому +1

      It's the beginning of Bee Movie!

    • @eee2726
      @eee2726 Рік тому

      @@shockhtoropi7143 sheesh i see!

    • @埊
      @埊 Рік тому +1

      where in biang is 之? shouldnt it be 辶?

    • @eee2726
      @eee2726 Рік тому

      @@埊 yeah but i don't know how its pinyi so i found that as an alternative oop

    • @埊
      @埊 Рік тому

      in 拼音 it is zou.@@eee2726

  • @valentinaaugustina
    @valentinaaugustina Рік тому +6

    “the four cardinal directions” i hope you will attend my funeral, this killed me

  • @AelecTi
    @AelecTi Рік тому +4

    As a Chinese college student, this video hurts my brain.
    It's basically a phonetic language version of mandarin, just likes Korean.

  • @ElFlaccoBlanco
    @ElFlaccoBlanco Рік тому +3

    I shall patiently await for all your videos to come. :)

  • @hunterblacc4336
    @hunterblacc4336 Рік тому +9

    I got lost about 7 minutes but this was an experience.

    • @asdkotable
      @asdkotable Рік тому +3

      As someone whose Chinese is no bueno and who has never been good with linguistics.... I got lost at around 5 minutes in. I think I had a stroke and hallucinated the rest of the video.
      Anyway, beautiful and cursed, this woman should win some kind of Nobel prize for something or another.

  • @AlmondShinShap
    @AlmondShinShap Рік тому +16

    This is actually really good, I enjoyed this video, great job, and good luck!

  • @resonate72
    @resonate72 Рік тому +1

    Incredibly cursed conlang, I was wheezing by the end of it. I hope you win because my god, this deserves it!

  • @unquietthoughts
    @unquietthoughts Рік тому +27

    漢字語 (pronounced [hän.tɕˀä.ʌ̹] in Korean diction) actually means Sino-Korean vocabulary in Korean. As a Korean who knows thousands of Chinese Characters, this feels cursed lmao

    • @chenganran
      @chenganran Рік тому

      认识汉字的韩国人?你是法律从业者吗,我实在想不出韩国还有什么职业需要汉字

    • @StockyScoresRaoraPantheraFC
      @StockyScoresRaoraPantheraFC 11 місяців тому

      So in Korean they have glottalized consonants?

    • @unquietthoughts
      @unquietthoughts 11 місяців тому

      @@StockyScoresRaoraPantheraFC Yeah, "tenis". It is rather a result of sandhi, as 字 alone sounds like /tɕä/

  • @taube637
    @taube637 Рік тому +9

    this language is radical

  • @ladasodaexplains3355
    @ladasodaexplains3355 Рік тому +3

    11:40 it took me 2 seconds to realize you're going to start reading the bee move script using the Chinese script, that's enough youtube for the day

  • @Weeping-Angel
    @Weeping-Angel Рік тому +4

    I’m telling you this is a video that everyone has to see at least once in their life

  • @animanya394
    @animanya394 Рік тому +12

    Oh my god, this is epic. Like, this is literally awesome.

  • @nevreiha
    @nevreiha Рік тому +2

    this video pissed me off, I hope whoever made this conlang is happy with what they've brought upon the world.

  • @KooShnoo
    @KooShnoo Рік тому +5

    this is literally the greatest video i have ever seen. this is the best thing ever. i love it.

  • @immortalenbyarchivist2822
    @immortalenbyarchivist2822 Рік тому +3

    top 10 videos that made me go "oh my god" out loud the most. great job. "strokeme :)" elevated me to a separate plane of existence.

  • @robincray116
    @robincray116 Рік тому +4

    1:20 There is a story behind the mess in the right. A common theory of its origin is that a student scholar once paid for his noodles with some sick calligraphy in lieu of actual money.

  • @Blueyzachary
    @Blueyzachary Рік тому +3

    THE SOUNDTRACK FOR THIS VIDEO MADE ME FEEL SOMETHING

  • @suyangsong
    @suyangsong Рік тому +6

    ……….holy shit this is by far the most cursed hanzi Conglang I have ever seen

  • @hhht7672
    @hhht7672 Рік тому +9

    This was such a fun video to watch! It made me feel like I was 14 watching conlang critic for the first time, and by the end of the video I had such a stupid grin on my face :,,)) great stuff

  • @zach3212
    @zach3212 Рік тому +3

    as a chinese person, i am spiraling into madness. beautiful video. thank you

  • @Armadeus
    @Armadeus Рік тому +13

    hongkonger here, this is absolutely brilliant, had me laughing half the video

  • @magnuswinther9019
    @magnuswinther9019 Рік тому +6

    I think you created a code for Chinese dissidents...

  • @teddyfail
    @teddyfail Рік тому +2

    As someone who speak Cantonese and mandarin, Absolute cursed video from top to bottom, including the bee movie script. Great work

  • @CashewNuts0
    @CashewNuts0 Рік тому +47

    Ah kanji, the sole reason why I still feel like a toddler trying to read anything in japanese even after almost a decade of studying the language.

  • @aaronmorris1513
    @aaronmorris1513 2 місяці тому +1

    I enjoyed watching this video, but 30 minutes later I was hungry again.

  • @tfwthewhen
    @tfwthewhen Рік тому +11

    what chinese sounds like to non chinese speakers:

  • @SalmonCaramel
    @SalmonCaramel Рік тому +2

    Your choice of music throughout the video is impeccable!

  • @jnliewmichael4235
    @jnliewmichael4235 Рік тому +11

    The UA-cam algorithm truly works in mysterious ways. Promoting a YT channel's first video, interesting!
    Also, trying to understand the motive behind this monstrosity is definitely futile. XD
    Also, me trying to figure out what is going on with the voice. 😵‍💫

  • @DaniSC_l1
    @DaniSC_l1 Рік тому +2

    sounds Vietnamese, Thai, and some Chinese dialects all smashed together

  • @octogus
    @octogus Рік тому +5

    I have never seen a more beautiful language this is incredible

  • @Kirinboy39
    @Kirinboy39 Рік тому +2

    Really appreciating the hanziyu reading of the opening of the Bee Movie

  • @kasugaryuichi9767
    @kasugaryuichi9767 Рік тому +12

    I got cancer from this, keep it up!

    • @NCXitlali
      @NCXitlali Рік тому +1

      I bursted out laughing reading this!!! Omg!!!

  • @TheOldVoid
    @TheOldVoid Рік тому +6

    Im suprised your channel is under 300 subscribers. It deserves deffinetly 100k

    • @wippo42
      @wippo42 Рік тому +5

      This is their first video, so they're doing well

  • @henrywong7607
    @henrywong7607 Рік тому +3

    I loved this video, went to check your channel to see more and... what the hell this is your first video?! This is incredibly good for a first video, congrats. I can't wait to see what else you have in store (if you do plan on making more videos).
    The conlang is absolutely cursed also.

  • @fariesz6786
    @fariesz6786 Рік тому +2

    the most cursed part of this is that it actually works.
    i love it.

  • @aliakseilyshchytski223
    @aliakseilyshchytski223 Рік тому +5

    Well, if you define a "friend" as a person who you would like to see or talk to "again" you can kinda see how they are connected

  • @KidGibson
    @KidGibson Рік тому +2

    This video is like reading the entire car manual and understanding combustion in an engine to a physics degree of understanding to drive a car to the store….

  • @SillyLittleTree
    @SillyLittleTree Рік тому +3

    that's ...like LAYERS of cursed lmao

  • @MatrixTheKitty
    @MatrixTheKitty Рік тому +2

    i love the "i dunno" tone and "strokeme" XD

  • @TheThinKing
    @TheThinKing Рік тому +4

    i really thought "well this ain't so bad," until you explained the split into pairs at 6:03 "oh... oh no"

  • @GogakuOtaku
    @GogakuOtaku Рік тому +1

    Did not expect this much Nintendo music, but I liked it.

  • @Sussyslvt
    @Sussyslvt Рік тому +3

    woah, brand new channel.. im subscribing

  • @Likes_Trains
    @Likes_Trains Рік тому +2

    Bro the music in this video gave me such a nostalgia trip. Especially rare to hear the super monkey ball trax!

    • @KooShnoo
      @KooShnoo Рік тому +1

      What's the super monkey ball song? Timestamp?

    • @Likes_Trains
      @Likes_Trains Рік тому +1

      ​@@KooShnoo3:41 I forgot the name of it but it's from super monkey ball deluxe or 2. I'm gonna try to find out the name and get back to you

    • @instantramen_
      @instantramen_ Рік тому +1

      @@KooShnoo at 5:00 there is another one, pretty sure it's the alternate monkey ball 1 menu theme! was also super hyped to hear it :)