Ben, my friend, native South American languages too! You will be surprised, how intelligent and beautiful is "TUPI" in Brazil. Tupi was something like the "lingua franca". Thanks!@@BenLlywelyn
Great video as usual. Please make a video showing the languages of Central America, this region is small but full of native languages that are unknown to many. Thanks for delivering this funny and informative content.
My idea would be a video about ancient languages like latin, sumerian or hittite. This might not be a region but its cool aswell. Anyways, I really appreciate your videos on languages. Keep doing this🏴
Maybe a video on Central American languages with a focus on indiginous languages. Or a video dedicated to Papua New Guinea Or one about the languages in Polynesia and Australia
@@mikloscsuvar6097 It could be a video formatted like this one. If you want to do every language in the HoA you need a lot of videos as well. This video shows the format that proves that it is possible.
I would like to see one about Siberia! :D And also, you have said that there are 103 languages spoken in Ethiopia. Ofcourse, you don't have the time to cover them all, but at least you could show a list about them at the end of the video.
Diolch, Ben. You have to admit, the Amharic writing system, and ones similar, are so cool. It's like the writing system the aliens would use to communicate to us. They do look like the Roswell hieroglyphics, And Ethiopian food is really, really good. Yum.
This was even more exotic than the East-Asia one, since there I at least knew most of the language names and a bit of their history. Here everything was new. So many languages? 103 only in Ethiopia? Well, I shouldn't be surprised, it's just logical. East Africa is from where humans originate, plus as far as I know there weren't any so big centralizer empire forces there like China and India in Asia or like the Roman Empire in Europa.
Ethiopia has been several highly centralised empires in its history, actually. But yes, it is relatively unknown to our cultural view. Thanks for watching.
Cushitic is actually currently three different language families, by the comparative method. There is no sound reconstruction of pro cushitic, it's pretty well agreed.that for example that the South lowlands Proto Cushitic, is as as proto Semitic
@@BenLlywelyn yes, the whole Afro Asiatic Phyllum, is, well, more sketchy than most would like to admit, as it does pay the bills for conferences, centred around the strong anything that might be related to biblical.... Specifically, Chadic, is as wide and diverse as Indo European more or less, but sparsely documented, no proto language construction, Cushitic, only this branch, of Oromo-Somali-Afar, has it's proto language at About 3rd millennia bce. Thanks for including Soqotri in the list! Often forgotten, and very interesting
Ben, this is completely unrelated, but twenty years ago I embarked on the project of learning how to say “may I have more garlic, please?” in every language ever conceived by man. I suppose I’ve failed, but if you ever wanted to do a garlic vertical deep dive…just saying.
אח שלנו עוד אחלה של שרטון שמסביר הרבה אל שפות אפריקאיות. אבל האם אתה יכול בבקשה יכול להוסיף לשרטון הבאה מוזיקת רקע Royalty Free, שפשוט ישמעו פחות את הקאטים בעריכה. חוץ מזה אני עדיין ממש נהנה מהשרטונים שלך.
The Tuareg languages might be interesting to you? And Toubou. I think Toubou is different. (People of the Tibesti Mountains if I'm not getting it backwards.)
Good video, but Tigre people are over 90% Muslim with very very few Christians. You might have gotten them confused with the Tigrinya, who are majority Christian. I’m also surprised you didn’t mention Harari or the Gurage languages (Silt’e is one of them) or their fascinating story of how they got to where they are…
What is your definition of arab, because it depends, do you mean speaking or ethnicly, if you say speaking then you are kind of right and kind of not right, you cant really call arabic one language its just like latin, its just its descendents are in denail, if you mean ethnicly then you are wrong, because if it was ethnic then the huge remenents of the past cultures langauges customs and even holidays wouldn't be still practiced
@@BenLlywelyn here is an intresting fact, In egypt we have a song called, "Wahawi wahawi eyoha" which is partly in ancient egyptian and means"the moon is coming is coming", and its sung by egyptian muslims in ramadan, so yeah is that an intresting fact
I haven’t even started to watch the video yet; I just wanted to let you know that I am offended! Why couldn’t you make the video 9:34 seconds? Why did you call it the Horn of Africa and not the Nose? Offensive! Edit: Now that I’ve finished the video, I would enjoy hearing about West and North African languages.
Why shouldn't you give Turkana people fish? Also it would be grand if you delved into the languages of the Alps; I have family from Trentino/Alto Adige and pretty much every individual valley has its own unique language/dialect!
So I started studying Spanish recently and wondered how one could appropriately insult all the branches of this language... perhaps in one sentence, even... But I'm an A1, so I guess I'll have to count on some guy on youtube to luck upon the idea and find it interesting enough to bother.
When you say your name, are you trying to pronounce the Ll as in Welsh, because is sounds wrong. You have a K sound in there where there shouldn’t be one.
@@BenLlywelynyou do? Not native though right? Have you ever done a video completely in Welsh. I’m not a Welsh speaker, but I spent a long time working at a large Welsh language broadcaster in Wales where the primary language amongst the workers was Welsh (the IT department was about the only place with English speaking people) and I had a lot of time to quiz my co-workers. I think it finally clicked with Ll when a baby was named Pwyll. If you can’t say Pwyll correctly it sounds like a completely different word. There no K sound.
Dude you are funny and yes the capital of Oromia is finfinne even though its called adis Ababa by our enemies :) Naagaayaa and peace from an Oromo sister :)
Man the somali language is older these languagrs you are saying they based on theses your version of history in which you see the world started ouropian history as well as arabs the languagee you are speaking had loned some words from kushitic like somali.
@@BenLlywelyn not a single word. Afaan Oromo might have some loan Amharic words but not the other way around. Most Oromos would have Amharic as their second language because that's the official language. I'm an Ethiopian. I know what I'm talking about.
Amharic does have alot of oromo words like gudifechha for example but the amount of influence has been over stated, agaw on the other hand is knee deep in amharic.
Also tigre is definitely a language, i speak some tigrinya and amharic , i can definitely tell you tigre is a very distinct language. The linguistis have also classified it as such. It's basically half way inbetween tigrinya,arabic,beja and ge'ez. Amharic and arggoba are more similar to each other and yet they aren't the same language, why do you think tigre and tigrinya are?
I'd love to hear you describe in one sentences the languages of central and/or south Asia Or alternatively (for algorithm considerations,) the different dialects of English accross the world (from the obvious; some note worthy groups of dialects from the Bri'ish Isles, general groupings of N. American dialects, Afrikaans, to the less ""formalised"" dialects such as Euro English, verneculars/pidgins, and English in former colonies accross Africa and Asia).
amharic and oromo first shared a border was in the 1600 after oromo migration.to say oromo has any influence in Amharic is not true. i suggest do more research on a topic next time @@BenLlywelyn
loan words goes both ways but to say amharic is founded on ge'ez and promo. is completely wrong. amharic is founded on ge'ez, agaw language and some others extinct language. Oromos and amhar only share a border since 1700 before that no one even knew what oromo is @@Zeyede_Seyum
There is one one horn Africa nation, and it Somalia 🇸🇴 and one claiming to be in the horn didn't check the map. There is one horn in Africa, and it's the furthest corner of Somalia 🇸🇴
Great you are actually doing it. Can't wait for more episodes of this
Love this so much. My neighbors are Amharic speakers so I hear it a lot. Also sometimes Tigrinia.
Very nice. Thank you.
Native American languages, please! I love this series, thank you for doing them.
Good suggestion.
That’d be a looonng video haha
@@beaconofchaos Well, this video is only for a single part of Africa so presumably that would be multiple videos
Regions. Several.
Ben, my friend, native South American languages too! You will be surprised, how intelligent and beautiful is "TUPI" in Brazil. Tupi was something like the "lingua franca". Thanks!@@BenLlywelyn
Yay! More sprinkles of different languages!
Great video as usual. Please make a video showing the languages of Central America, this region is small but full of native languages that are unknown to many. Thanks for delivering this funny and informative content.
A challenge!
My idea would be a video about ancient languages like latin, sumerian or hittite. This might not be a region but its cool aswell. Anyways, I really appreciate your videos on languages. Keep doing this🏴
Very correct benjamin
Ben, this is amazing 🙏
Maybe a video on Central American languages with a focus on indiginous languages.
Or a video dedicated to Papua New Guinea
Or one about the languages in Polynesia and Australia
Rubbish. Papua New Guinea require 10 videos or nothing. They are diverse like elfs in the First Age of Arda.
@@mikloscsuvar6097 It could be a video formatted like this one. If you want to do every language in the HoA you need a lot of videos as well.
This video shows the format that proves that it is possible.
Head explodes.
the languages of papua are so obscure most of them don't even have recordings online
@@BenLlywelyndo a video on ijaw language
I would like to see one about Siberia! :D
And also, you have said that there are 103 languages spoken in Ethiopia.
Ofcourse, you don't have the time to cover them all, but at least you could show a list about them at the end of the video.
That would take a very long time, my friend. When I have a team helping me, such things can be done.
@@BenLlywelyn Understandable.
Amazing video!! :D
Love the lore always, and you know my answer to your question :)
Diolch, Ben. You have to admit, the Amharic writing system, and ones similar, are so cool. It's like the writing system the aliens would use to communicate to us. They do look like the Roswell hieroglyphics, And Ethiopian food is really, really good. Yum.
Amharic script is cool. Ethiopia is a cradle of human civilisation.
ሀ ሁ ሂ ሃ ሄ ህ ሆ
ለ ሉ ሊ ላ ሌ ል ሎ
ሐ ሑ ሒ ሓ ሔ ሕ ሖ
መ ሙ ሚ ማ ም ሞ
ሠ ሡ ሢ ሣ ሤ ሥ ሦ
ረ ሩ ሪ ራ ሬ ር ሮ
ሰ ሱ ሲ ሳ ሴ ስ ሶ
ሸ ሹ ሺ ሻ ሼ ሽ ሾ
ቀ ቁ ቂ ቃ ቄ ቅ ቆ
በ ቡ ቢ ባ ቤ ብ ቦ
ተ ቱ ቲ ታ ቴ ት ቶ
ቸ ቹ ቺ ቻ ቼ ች ቾ
ኀ ኁ ኂ ኃ ኄ ኅ ኆ
ነ ኑ ኒ ና ኔ ን ኖ
ኘ ኙ ኚ ኛ ኜ ኝ ኞ
አ ኡ ኢ ኣ ኤ እ ኦ
ከ ኩ ኪ ካ ኬ ክ ኮ
ኸ ኹ ኺ ኻ ኼ ኽ ኾ
ወ ዉ ዊ ዋ ዌ ው ዎ
ዐ ዑ ዒ ዓ ዔ ዕ ዖ
ዘ ዙ ዚ ዛ ዜ ዝ ዞ
ዠ ዡ ዢ ዣ ዤ ዥ ዦ
የ ዩ ዪ ያ ዬ ይ ዮ
ደ ዱ ዲ ዳ ዴ ድ ዶ
ጰ ጱ ጲ ጳ ጴ ጵ ጶ
ጀ ጁ ጂ ጃ ጄ ጅ ጆ
ገ ጉ ጊ ጋ ጌ ግ ጎ
ጠ ጡ ጢ ጣ ጤ ጥ ጦ
ጨ ጩ ጪ ጫ ጬ ጭ ጮ
ጸ ጹ ጺ ጻ ጼ ጽ ጾ
ፀ ፁ ፂ ፃ ፄ ፅ ፆ
ፈ ፉ ፊ ፋ ፌ ፍ ፎ
ፐ ፑ ፒ ፓ ፔ ፕ ፖ
@@Zeyede_Seyum Beautiful - thank you!
Great series
I would quite like a video on the languages of southern Africa. There are some quite interesting and well known ones there, Xhosa in particular.
Oh we will get there. Many regions.
Eritrea has lots of italian sprinkles
This was even more exotic than the East-Asia one, since there I at least knew most of the language names and a bit of their history. Here everything was new.
So many languages? 103 only in Ethiopia? Well, I shouldn't be surprised, it's just logical. East Africa is from where humans originate, plus as far as I know there weren't any so big centralizer empire forces there like China and India in Asia or like the Roman Empire in Europa.
Ethiopia has been several highly centralised empires in its history, actually. But yes, it is relatively unknown to our cultural view. Thanks for watching.
And the regions where this centralised empire ruled has considerably less languages. That is 3 - Amharic, Tigrigna and Agew.
I really hope you do the indigenous languages of North America!
Difficult to find resources on those languages which include their historical influences. Maybe just the tribes themselves?
Cushitic is actually currently three different language families, by the comparative method. There is no sound reconstruction of pro cushitic, it's pretty well agreed.that for example that the South lowlands Proto Cushitic, is as as proto Semitic
Thank you.
@@BenLlywelyn yes, the whole Afro Asiatic Phyllum, is, well, more sketchy than most would like to admit, as it does pay the bills for conferences, centred around the strong anything that might be related to biblical.... Specifically, Chadic, is as wide and diverse as Indo European more or less, but sparsely documented, no proto language construction, Cushitic, only this branch, of Oromo-Somali-Afar, has it's proto language at About 3rd millennia bce. Thanks for including Soqotri in the list! Often forgotten, and very interesting
I would be happy to see a video about all the Turkic languages :)
Cool idea.
can you do asia too?
I have.
All horn African languages are found in Ethiopia except 4 which are found in Eritrea.
Ben, this is completely unrelated, but twenty years ago I embarked on the project of learning how to say “may I have more garlic, please?” in every language ever conceived by man. I suppose I’ve failed, but if you ever wanted to do a garlic vertical deep dive…just saying.
אח שלנו עוד אחלה של שרטון שמסביר הרבה אל שפות אפריקאיות. אבל האם אתה יכול בבקשה יכול להוסיף לשרטון הבאה מוזיקת רקע Royalty Free, שפשוט ישמעו פחות את הקאטים בעריכה. חוץ מזה אני עדיין ממש נהנה מהשרטונים שלך.
רעיון טוב. חלקם נעלבים מעוד מוזיקה, אבל אנחנו יכולים לראות.
@@BenLlywelyn אולי אז תשים את המוזיקה המובילה/המסורתית/ההמנון של אותה מדינה ברקע
בלי מוזיקה, יותר קל להקשיב ללא מוזיקה@@BenLlywelyn
How about some native Australian languages?
There are a lot.
No Gĩkũyũ language?
Edit: although as I think about it we'll probably feature in a bantu episode.
Something to look forward to.
Personally I found too many pauses between parts of sentences in this video. Increasing the speed doesn't help with that, sadly.
Some complain if I go too fast also.
Hey Ben. Your serie is delicious. West African / native American languages please
Nice. Thank you. West Africa will happen at some point.
After Africa series you should make one video especially for Papua New Guinea ( not all the languages but the most important).
That island is another planet.
@@BenLlywelyn True. I studied the plants there and most impressive is the giant banana trees they have. Biggest in the world.
Can you do languages in the Sahara
It will be part of the Northwest Africa video.
@@BenLlywelyncool
The Tuareg languages might be interesting to you? And Toubou. I think Toubou is different. (People of the Tibesti Mountains if I'm not getting it backwards.)
Part of this series, is enabling me to look shallowly into so many cultures for possible future videos going more in depth. Including Tuareg.
Here´s a challenge. Describing in one sentence the language isolates in the world (I´m a Basque speaker, you know)
Basque is included in the European video.
@@BenLlywelynI know, I saw it. And you also mentioned us when you described Spanish, something I have to thank you for.
Make a video about Arabic dialects please
Indeed. Thank you.
@@BenLlywelyn thanks
Amharic is a tropical semitic language! That's great! lol...
Please do Western Africa
We will get there.
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Good video, but Tigre people are over 90% Muslim with very very few Christians. You might have gotten them confused with the Tigrinya, who are majority Christian. I’m also surprised you didn’t mention Harari or the Gurage languages (Silt’e is one of them) or their fascinating story of how they got to where they are…
Thank you for watching.
1:57 Actually Addis Ababa was founded and built by Amharas not Oromos. In fact Gurages have more impact in the capital than them.
What is your definition of arab, because it depends, do you mean speaking or ethnicly, if you say speaking then you are kind of right and kind of not right, you cant really call arabic one language its just like latin, its just its descendents are in denail, if you mean ethnicly then you are wrong, because if it was ethnic then the huge remenents of the past cultures langauges customs and even holidays wouldn't be still practiced
Speaking, more so.
@@BenLlywelyn here is an intresting fact,
In egypt we have a song called,
"Wahawi wahawi eyoha" which is partly in ancient egyptian and means"the moon is coming is coming", and its sung by egyptian muslims in ramadan, so yeah is that an intresting fact
@@TheEternallyconfusedone وحوي وحوي دياحا is a somali word
@@poorindiansanddogsarenotal1276 well that is a pretty interesting
@@poorindiansanddogsarenotal1276 dies it have a simmler meaning to the egyptian phrase
Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia... In short, Pacific Islanders please!
Fascinating choice.
I haven’t even started to watch the video yet; I just wanted to let you know that I am offended! Why couldn’t you make the video 9:34 seconds? Why did you call it the Horn of Africa and not the Nose? Offensive!
Edit: Now that I’ve finished the video, I would enjoy hearing about West and North African languages.
Northwest Africa is on the list.
Why shouldn't you give Turkana people fish?
Also it would be grand if you delved into the languages of the Alps; I have family from Trentino/Alto Adige and pretty much every individual valley has its own unique language/dialect!
See my video on Romansh.
About the fish, there have been disease outbreaks and arguments with the central government.
So I started studying Spanish recently and wondered how one could appropriately insult all the branches of this language... perhaps in one sentence, even... But I'm an A1, so I guess I'll have to count on some guy on youtube to luck upon the idea and find it interesting enough to bother.
Thanks for watching.
When you say your name, are you trying to pronounce the Ll as in Welsh, because is sounds wrong. You have a K sound in there where there shouldn’t be one.
I speak Welsh.
@@BenLlywelynyou do? Not native though right? Have you ever done a video completely in Welsh.
I’m not a Welsh speaker, but I spent a long time working at a large Welsh language broadcaster in Wales where the primary language amongst the workers was Welsh (the IT department was about the only place with English speaking people) and I had a lot of time to quiz my co-workers. I think it finally clicked with Ll when a baby was named Pwyll. If you can’t say Pwyll correctly it sounds like a completely different word. There no K sound.
As a marxist i can confirm that I would change my language if i got power
Marxism is the religion of envy.
How so?
Marxism is the envy of economy. Nazi is the envy of economy but only as ethnics that are beter. Islam is both. With arab springels.
@@hanuta8859what is bro saying 😭
It’s for the best you never get in any position of power.
Dude you are funny and yes the capital of Oromia is finfinne even though its called adis Ababa by our enemies :) Naagaayaa and peace from an Oromo sister :)
Thank you.
Go back to kenya
Man the somali language is older these languagrs you are saying they based on theses your version of history in which you see the world started ouropian history as well as arabs the languagee you are speaking had loned some words from kushitic like somali.
Brazilian native languages with Portuguese sprinkles, please😊
oromo❤✅
💯💯💯👌👌💕💕
Siberia
Nice call!
You only skimmed on the horn and East Afrika.
Fair.
North Africa !
Good idea!
my vote is for siberia personally
😅 Tigre is an ethnicity not a language. Tigrigna is their language.
Amharic doesn't have any Oromo words.
Not a single 1?
@@BenLlywelyn not a single word. Afaan Oromo might have some loan Amharic words but not the other way around. Most Oromos would have Amharic as their second language because that's the official language. I'm an Ethiopian. I know what I'm talking about.
Amharic does have alot of oromo words like gudifechha for example but the amount of influence has been over stated, agaw on the other hand is knee deep in amharic.
Also tigre is definitely a language, i speak some tigrinya and amharic , i can definitely tell you tigre is a very distinct language. The linguistis have also classified it as such.
It's basically half way inbetween tigrinya,arabic,beja and ge'ez.
Amharic and arggoba are more similar to each other and yet they aren't the same language, why do you think tigre and tigrinya are?
mmmm language stew 🤤
Lot's of Lalalalala sprinkles in this stew 🤭
I'd love to hear you describe in one sentences the languages of central and/or south Asia
Or alternatively (for algorithm considerations,) the different dialects of English accross the world (from the obvious; some note worthy groups of dialects from the Bri'ish Isles, general groupings of N. American dialects, Afrikaans, to the less ""formalised"" dialects such as Euro English, verneculars/pidgins, and English in former colonies accross Africa and Asia).
Thick yet sweet.
do research before you speak amharic doesnt have a drop of oromo
They have been around one another a long time.
amharic and oromo first shared a border was in the 1600 after oromo migration.to say oromo has any influence in Amharic is not true. i suggest do more research on a topic next time @@BenLlywelyn
Thanks for watching@@yyyxx-p2v
@@yyyxx-p2v Relax man, there are dozens of Oromo words in Amharic specially in South Wollo & Shewan dialects for example:
Daabboo ዳቦ
Qe'ee ቀዬ
Abbaa warra አባወራ
Waancaa ዋንጫ
Qabato ቀበቶ
Araada አራዳ
Gaara ጋራ
Dullaa ዱላ
Diqaallaa ዲቃላ
Wedaaja ወዳጆ
Gaammaa ጋማ
loan words goes both ways but to say amharic is founded on ge'ez and promo. is completely wrong. amharic is founded on ge'ez, agaw language and some others extinct language. Oromos and amhar only share a border since 1700 before that no one even knew what oromo is @@Zeyede_Seyum
pronounced "ge-EZ" just fyi
Cheers.
caucasus!!! especially northern caucasus
Nice choice.
There is one one horn Africa nation, and it Somalia 🇸🇴 and one claiming to be in the horn didn't check the map. There is one horn in Africa, and it's the furthest corner of Somalia 🇸🇴
I hope fot peace in Somalia.
I love these videos
Glad you enjoy.
@@BenLlywelyn Also, I’d say for the next languages should be Native American languages or languages in India