From a long-time fan: Andy’s one for sure! I feel like not many say that, but you’re so talented at pronouncing virtually every single language there is, be it some obscure Austronesian language, a regional French variety or even Samoyedic, you always nailed it pretty much as best as possible. Your Filipino accent is often nonexistent:) . And we’ve all used to hear it it’s already iconic of this channel. But you can always go forward and experiment with other styles as well👍🏻
Like it or not your voice is very recognizable, and characteristic of this channel. I'm sick and tired of anonymous AI voices in youtube videos and shorts
I talked to an Ainu guy in the Lake Akan Ainu village, and he said while there are a few very good Ainu speakers who are still trying to teach the language, there are no native speakers left. We also got to see a private Kamuinomy ceremony, and I asked the elder about the meaning he chanted for 20 minutes, he said he didn't know, it's just something he's memorized for the sake of the ceremony like how Japanese buddhist monks just memorize the sutra chants but don't understand them.
Understandable since they faced terrible discrimination in the past. Very few full-blooded ainu left and many others tried to hide their heritage and blend into the general japanese population
Out of curiosity, these Sutras are they spoken in Chinese or Hindi? I remember as a kid we learned Latin prayers before ever learning actual Latin in basic Catechism. That's fascinating to know.
@@bensantos3882 @bensantos3882 it's a mess of old Chinese with Sanskrit words and phrases, with japanized pronunciation. Despite most chinese characters still being used in todays Japanese for meaning, the pronunciation used in buddhism (each character can be pronunced differently depending on contest) is quite obsolete or rare, and the grammar doesn't match at all. Also when Sanskrit is used, it was written with the closest pronunciation characters with little regard for the meaning. Closest thing in english would be reading greek with a very weird pronunciation and catching on only a couple words but only if you read it very closely. But worse.
the Basque substratum in castilian Spanish explains a lot of the rather strange differences, that seperate Spanish from Latin and other Romance languages, like the dislike of the letter "F": hogar, harina, hacer, ... Why does Spanish drop the Latin "F" in so many words? Because the Basque language doesn't have this letter and Basque speakers who were forced to switch to Castilian just could't pronounce it.
Basque's future is a lot gloomier than people seem to think. Most Basque speakers speak Spanish or French better and never or rarely ever use Basque and it's becoming more and more influenced by those languages in every possible way. As a native Basque speaker it hurts.
@@LV-426... Let's compare two languages now, so you can see why this situation is indeed worrisome. 1-English, influenced strongly by romance languages and other languages world wide. However, English is evolving much MUCH more slowly, it's a strong language with millions of Native and monolingual speakers, in many areas it's the sole dominant language. English takes words and CREATES them. It's. Super healthy dynamic language which is influenced and influences, which loans words but also spontaneously comes up with them because with so many speakers this is bound to happen. English is getting richer, adding to itself. Basque on the other hand is changing WITHIN 50 YEARS to the degree that my monolingual grandma (one of the very few left) struggles to understand the "Basque" spoken on the streets in the town she grow up in, even by my younger cousins. Basque isn't the dominant language ANYWHERE in the world, Basque is being bombarded by other dominant languages and produces LITTLE to NOTHING because it's in no position to do so. The issue isn't change and context matters a lot. Basque isn't becoming richer like English is, Basque is seeing its vocabulary completely replaced at an alarming rate and many younger Basque speakers don't know any idioms or any slang whatsoever and simply say them in Spanish or French literally code switching because they don't have other tools, not by simple choice. Basque is being swallowed. We'll soon start speaking French or Spanish thinking that we're speaking Basque.
Hopefully language preservation for Basque can learn from the efforts to preserve Celtic languages across Ireland, UK, and Brittany. Revival of languages like Cornish, and Manx had been very successful over the past couple decades.
@cieranoneill7290 Basque is doing 10 times better than any of those languages so that's not precisely comforting. They talk about our efforts in those countries so just imagine.
For me the Basque language is so mysterious!💜 And I like it a lot, I used to live in Basque country of France and tried to learn it but none spoke it around me so it did not happen.
Basque isn't mysterious as it is the only remaining non indo European language of western Europe. But the most mysterious for me is nihali, burushaski from indian subcontinent. Before indo European languages Indians mostly speak dravidian, austroasiatic languages but from where is languages came is still a mystery. May be they were too isolate to preserve a proto dravidian, tribal languages for 10000 years.
@@munmunsarkar1726Basque is mysterious in the sense that it's the only hypothetical link to the unknown native languages of Europe before the arrival of the IE settlers, and even that is uncertain.
@@gf4453 I know even Estonian, all belong to uralic language family. Maltese afro asiatic language family, Turkish in turkic language family. Georgian in Caucasian language family.
It's sad that Haida and Ainu are in such decline. I remember in 1977 I saw a Haida woman speak her language at a kind of linguistics forum. She was probably about 60 at the time, and she said as a child, she couldn't speak anything but Haida. I understand Haida is considered an enigma. Greenburg thought it was related to Na-Dene, but apparently that is not considered true by many linguists.
Some good news is that Haida is being revitalized. We live on Vancouver Island and my kid’s school had someone come teach them some Haida. There’s also a lot more media being created in Haida or at least incorporating it. In general from what I’ve seen across BC lately, there’s been a push to revitalize Indigenous languages. Some Nations have their own schools now so kids can learn their language, and it’s being brought into schools more too. I’ve been learning the NAPA (North American Phonetic Alphabet) and bits of some of the Indigenous languages of BC.
As far as i can understand we know too little of Minoan: there's not even a fully deciphered text, the phonetics is unclear because its only partially derived from the later Linear B alphabet ( which is proto-greek not minoan). We know so little it's not even known whether it's an isolate or within another language family.
Etruscan hasn´t left any living descendants, except for a couple of words that were assimilated into Latin. The same happened to its sibling language, Rhaetic.
What fascinates me about the Zuni language is that it requires twice as many words to say the same thing. I have translations of English texts in Spanish, Western Apache, and Navajo (Diné) and each are roughly the same length. But, Zuni requires twice as many words to say the same thing!
The list of isolate languages is most likely far larger than this. Love hearing them. Among Native language of the Americas is so diverse in sounds. Love Basque...they offer so much now for learning it now. I'm 71.....decades ago you couldn't find any books offered in English...now books WITH audio. It's great. Sure hope the ones with the least speakers WILL be strengthened...like Ainu
@@Gunavati1even if they are language isolates, they cannot escape the influence of the surrounding languages, often in the form of accent and vocabularies.
I loved this - super interesting! Just was confused about a few things: I thought there were only vague theories about what Sumerian might have sounded like, so was curious how the spoken sample was derived; Also, the intro says language isolates are not part of language families, etc. - yet the explanation of Sandawe says it is part of the click language family. Thanks
Burushaski. According to one theory, burushaski is part of the superfamily of languages which includes north Caucasian ( vaynach, kabarda, etc) languages, and na dene languages ( navajo, tlingit, etc)
Ainu isn’t confirmed to be Austronesian. Japanese languages that are Austronesian were killed of by the stronger Japanese Yayoi Empires and Jomon northern tribes and erased most of their history, leaving only 2 words in the vocab of Austronesian Japanese languages.
I noticed that too. (For those of you who may not know, apoy is Filipino (Tagalog) and api is Indonesian-Malay.) Also, the Ainu word for hand is similar to the Japanese word "te" and the word for earth has some resemblance to Japanese "tsuchi", the ancient pronunciation of which was "tuti". It's hard to know if these words point toward a common origin, if they are coincidences, or if they are borrowings, and if they are borrowings, which direction the borrowing went. I have long wondered if Japanese and the Ryukyuan languages may have evolved from a pidgin of Proto-Korean, Proto-Austronesian, and perhaps other sources, or maybe Ainu was the pidgin of Japanese and Austronesian, it's hard to know for sure, but nonetheless intriguing.
I recently became fascinated with the Noongar Aboriginal language in Australia...not extinct however not many fluent speakers left. Organizations working to revive it. I downloaded and printed out PDFs available.They tribal members run a few organizations which of which has free online course with audio. Out of all the Aboriginal languages literally only Noongar popped out at me. Love it that so much is available and accessible. Also Native American languages as well....not just USA but those spoken in Canada and South America too. I'm thrilled the world's opened up more
I was so confused when I saw a video with all of Andy's style and then hearing this voice. I was like "damn who made this video" and the channel's title was ANDY'S 😂😂 Ive noticed she's (you if you're reading this Andy) have been trying for a paradigm change these days
Establishing mono-lingual communities is vital with early education and children, especially orphans, raised in these environments will ensure native speakers. They can then be taught the dominant local languages in a bilingual setting as is done in many countries to teach 1-2 other languages from a young age resulting in multilingual proficiency.
Zuni is pretty cool. Ive heard it spoken some in Arizona. I'm currently learning Navajo. I love the Navajo Language and I have several people at work that speak it fluently so I can practice too.
So classifying Mapudungun as an isolate is a bit weird. Officially, it's considered to be the largest member of the Araucanian language family. Thing is, the existence of other varieties in this family seems to be not the result of related languages, but a case of Araucanian expansions which took place after the arrival of Europeans. This resulted in the loss of some languages completely unrelated to Mapudungun and their replacement with a form of it. Today the only surviving example of this seems to be huilliche, but information regarding that language is hard to come by.
Sé que hablas español, por lo que te escribo lo siguiente (está escrito en español antiguo por si te fijas): "...en todo el Reino de Chile no ay mas de esta lengua que corre desde la ciudad de Coquimbo y sus terminos, hasta las yslas de Chilue y mas adelante, por espacio de casi cuatrocientas leguas de Norte a Sur ... porque aunque en diuersas provincias destos Indios ay algunos vocablos diferentes, pero no son todos los nombres verbos y aduerbios diuersos, y assi los preceptos y reglas deste Arte son generales para todas las provincias". Luis de Valdivia, 1606, "Al Lector en Arte y gramatica de la lengva general que corre en todo el Reyno de Chile, con vn Vocabulario y Confessionario". De nada!!! ✌😎
@@oierelorduygoyeneche674 Nik betidanik etxien euskeraz ein det ta batzuten debei zailtasunak dazkat bizkaitarra ulertzeko 😅😅. Nik Gipuzkuko euskera hitz eitten det ta debei ne herriko euskera, guaixe bertan erabiltzen hai naizena.
Wow Ainu sure sounds, by an untrained ear, like some west coast native languages. So much so that my first guess would have some west coast native language.
The Ktunaxa people of the Kootenays in Canada, Is an isolate language, based on the people living in between two mountain ranges. The Rockies and the Purcell mountains. They did not encounter Caucasians until the late 1800’s. Then by 1890, a Residential school was buikt and the Aboriginal people had to learn English and were forbidden to speak their own language. Also, in Mexico City, I met a woman who said she did not speak Spanish at home, she spoke a language that sounded closer to a Chinese language and some of the words were the same. She said speaking the Chinese language was easier than learning Spanish when she went to primary school in Mexico City. I asked where she was from and she said a little town, just outside Mexico City.
Though these are isolates, one important word has similarities between quite a few of these languages. This may indicate a previous language group. The word for mother in Ainu - unu, Basque - ama, Sumerian - ama, Burushaski - nana, Purepecha - nana. Considering mother is likely one of the first words learned by a child, it's significance is great.
El volcán de Parangaricutirimícuaro se quiere desemparangaricutirimicuarizar. It's a tonguetwister, but the only reason it's hard for Spanish speakers to say is that the place name is Purépecha. It's not like "tres tristes tigres".
There is also the Nihali language spoken in the border region between Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh in India. It is mow mostly influenced by the languages around its territory.
Correction here 6:40 Tik : soil ✓ Birdi : earth BuSaye : land Name , Ayeek my name Goyeek your name Eyeek his name Moyeek her name Oyeek their name Meek our name There is single word for the word name all parts of body and many other things 😅
Thanks Andy. I am in favour of your own voice in narration of videos. But whatever is easiest for you in the end. I know how much time and effort it takes to make these videos.
Interesting to see some of these isolated languages have similar words for mother and father, even though they are completely isolated from each other.
I have known about Euskera for a long time, of course, but I was ignorant of the other isolates. The existence of these languages begs the question: "where did they come from?"
What's interesting is how they still end up taking on the inflections and vowel sounds of their unrelated neighbors. Much less so (or not at all) with the indigenous American languages, but the Eurasian languages really sounded like their dominant neighbors.
I would also like to add the xinca lenguage. It's the only pre-invasion lenguage spoken in Guatemala that doesn't derivate from proto-mayan. Sadly, it has very few speakers nowadays.
I believe that minority languages should be preserved as they provide a cultural bridge to the speakers and hopefully continuity of cultural roots of those peoples. This requires effort and sympathy from majority speakers surrounding them. Something which ironically has been over-ridden by unimaginative assimilation efforts and non-sympathetic mass education.
Sandaweki! All the sounds it has, we have within the Nguni dialect continuum. I'm happy to see it in this video. However, East Africa has another language isolate, which is has many clicks, it is the Hadza language spoken by the Hadzabe.
interestingly despite the decline of ainu a linguistic isolate language and the prominence of japanese in former ainu areas, japanese itself is actually a linguistic isolate
Isolates from the largest. 1) Japanese (Currently, for political correctness, reclassified as the Japonic family which comprises Japanese islands and Okinawa islands). 2) Korean (Currently, for political correctness, reclassified as Koreanic family which comprises Korean Peninsula and some part of the adjacent Manchuria where a lot of Koreans are living) Note: Japanese and Korean share the same syntax. But phonics and basic words are totally different. It is assumed that the Japanese language developed from Korean syntax over the Jomon base during the 2,300 BP~1,700 BP period. Jomon is the root of Okinawa people and Ainu people. Even though these two people look very different, the DNA structure is very similar. Note: Some basic Korean words are very similar to Tamil language. About 100 years ago, an American missionary, Dr. Homer Hulbert, wrote a book 'A Comparative Grammar of the Korean Language and the Dravidian Languages of India'. Dravidian is a branch of Tamil language. 3) Basque language If you do not pay too much attention to political correctness, Japanese and Korean are the largest and second largest isolates. 120 mil. users and 80 mil. users, respectively. Basque, the third largest, is 1 mil. users. Usually, an isolate means that the indigenous people have historical background in that specific locality for thousands of years. Jomons, the base of the Japanese people, came to Japan more than 25,000 years ago. Proto-Koreans came to the Korean Peninsula about 25,000 years ago, when the Last Glacial Maximum began. These are people with very deep roots in the locality.
While these are language isolates it seems that they are still heavily influenced by the languages surrounding them, maybe in the accent or vocabularies, making them still sound similar to their neighboring languages.
in Burushaski language part, i heard MUSAFIR, means tourist, which may have borrowed from aerabic. u can see the power of influence of arabian culture in such isolated language
Well, thanks to Arabic influences one can find similar words in a huge area stretching horizontally from the Balcans to Indonesia and India, and vertically from Balcans all the way to Tanzania. Sometimes this words are more colloquial or dialectal in the borrowing language, but they still exist nevertheless. One such example which comes to my mind is "dunya", دنيا (world) which was borrowed from Arabic into Greek as ντουνιάς, into Georgian as დუნია, dünya in Turkish, दुनिय in Hindi, dunya in Indonesian and Swahili... Another such word which suprised me a bit is Georgian ფიქრი (pikri) "thought" which is taken from Arabic (فكر), but was borrowed also in other languages (Indonesian mempikiran "to think", Swahili kufikiri... Many times, of course, such words were not taken directly from Arabic but intermediary through Turkish or Persian, but still, we deal with a huge sphere of cultural/linguistic influence...
@mareksagrak9527, thanks to Arabic influences indigenous languages and cultures have been destroyed in a huge portion of the world. Unfortunately, Islamic conquest calls for total erasure of all “jahiliyya” (ignorance), which is how their sacred text calls pre-Islamic indigenous culture.
@@brawndothethirstmutilator9848 Indeed, one has to remember also the downsides or darker part of the expansions of "great cultures" or "great spheres of influence". This is the case with Arabic expansion as well as European culture with the damage it brought upon colonisating numerous tribes across the world. Still, I would not exaggerate that all pre-arab native cultures were completely erased or replaced by Muslims. Syncretism did happen in certain cases, and Arabs in general borrowed a lot from their predecessors in terms of architecture or schools of thought (neo-platonism was very influencial among Arabic intelligence). I'd argue that in Indonesia, which is now the biggest Muslim country so far, there is rather an effective mix of Islam with previous traditions of "Indian sphere of influence". Ancient Egyptian culture, on the other end, was practically dead and replaced with Christian/Coptic one several centuries prior to Arabic invasion, at Egyptians' own will...
I wonder how they started. Maybe as sacred languages? Maybe as kids raising alone somehow? Or maybe huge mental or mouth issues that somehow became rule?
Maybe you forgot LADIN a language officially recognized spoken by LADINS a minority group who lives across the North Eastern Alps in Italy, Austria and Switzerland.
the words for mother and father in some of these languages are uncannily similar, just as they are in related languages. which begs the question... are they really isolated, or are bits of the puzzle simply missing?
So many Native American languages listed. I wonder if they are really isolates or just distinct members of the several languages families known from America. Do any of them use the sentence-word structure?
Encouraging people to keep speaking a rare language - and pass it on to their children - just makes life harder for the kids. In the real world, they need outside languages to get by in life, whether it's English or Russian or Mandarin or any other major language. Being forced to learn an entire language just because outsiders think it's cool is actually cruel.
If nobody is around to speak these languages, it will just fade away like Latin, but unlike Latin it will not even be part of any classic, legal or religious words. I wish I could speak and understand Latin.
Basque was standarized under the Franco Regime, what you learn today as ''Basque'' in any school is the Batua crafted by linguists by command of Francisco Franco. The ''repression'' during the world war and early cold war was the standard in every country. USA also forbid any publication or radio broadcast in japanese and german (italian was impossible) and not only in USA, they enforced Mexico and Central America to do the Same. France, United Kingdom, Sweeden, Finnland, etc. Many countries did the same as Franco with minority languages but hey, it's always the basque and catalan the langauges ''repressed''.
Kusunda. Just gotta throw that out there. A single-speaker language isolate in Nepal. It comes from a forest-people way of life, in a country that has been taken over by people who cut forests down to farm. If ever a language spoke wisdom from a biodiverse past into a monoculture present, Kusunda would be it. But it hangs by a thread in a dangerously impoverished country.
New voice or Andy's voice?
Andy
Andy is the best! ❤
From a long-time fan: Andy’s one for sure! I feel like not many say that, but you’re so talented at pronouncing virtually every single language there is, be it some obscure Austronesian language, a regional French variety or even Samoyedic, you always nailed it pretty much as best as possible. Your Filipino accent is often nonexistent:) . And we’ve all used to hear it it’s already iconic of this channel. But you can always go forward and experiment with other styles as well👍🏻
Andy's voice,please!!
Like it or not your voice is very recognizable, and characteristic of this channel. I'm sick and tired of anonymous AI voices in youtube videos and shorts
omg andy hit puberty
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Bro is a legend 🗿
@@ilovelanguages0124I always thought you were a girl Andy.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I talked to an Ainu guy in the Lake Akan Ainu village, and he said while there are a few very good Ainu speakers who are still trying to teach the language, there are no native speakers left. We also got to see a private Kamuinomy ceremony, and I asked the elder about the meaning he chanted for 20 minutes, he said he didn't know, it's just something he's memorized for the sake of the ceremony like how Japanese buddhist monks just memorize the sutra chants but don't understand them.
Understandable since they faced terrible discrimination in the past. Very few full-blooded ainu left and many others tried to hide their heritage and blend into the general japanese population
That's so sad, hope they can start properly revitalising it and remove some of the stigma
Out of curiosity, these Sutras are they spoken in Chinese or Hindi? I remember as a kid we learned Latin prayers before ever learning actual Latin in basic Catechism. That's fascinating to know.
@@bensantos3882 @bensantos3882 it's a mess of old Chinese with Sanskrit words and phrases, with japanized pronunciation. Despite most chinese characters still being used in todays Japanese for meaning, the pronunciation used in buddhism (each character can be pronunced differently depending on contest) is quite obsolete or rare, and the grammar doesn't match at all. Also when Sanskrit is used, it was written with the closest pronunciation characters with little regard for the meaning.
Closest thing in english would be reading greek with a very weird pronunciation and catching on only a couple words but only if you read it very closely. But worse.
@@bensantos3882- it is in Sanskrit
Last time I was this early, Sumerian was still being spoken! 😭😭😭😭
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Ud reeeaaaaaaa
Iltam zumra rashputi elatim
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Lol at the graphic for Sumerian. Guy posing with his pet lion for a glamour shot at the mall.
AHHH WHO IS THIS RANDOM PERSON, BRING BACK THAT FILIPINO WOMAN WE’VE GROWN TO LOVE-
It was a jump scare when I clicked on the video and heard a random man. Not THE Filipino woman we live 😂
@@justakathings It has to be just text-to-speech 😭✋ Our linguist queen with her glamorous Filipino accent was held hostage- ;-;
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How do you know she's filipino? Ive nevee seen her.
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Iam Spaniard and i proud of Basque language for incalculable cultural value
the Basque substratum in castilian Spanish explains a lot of the rather strange differences, that seperate Spanish from Latin and other Romance languages, like the dislike of the letter "F": hogar, harina, hacer, ...
Why does Spanish drop the Latin "F" in so many words? Because the Basque language doesn't have this letter and Basque speakers who were forced to switch to Castilian just could't pronounce it.
@@ekesandras1481what about the basque “F”ueros? Or is that not basque word
Nice Biscay dialect of Basque, a rare one to hear nowadays 😉
Are you basque? I love the basque country ❤ beautiful landscape; traditions and nice people.
Basque's future is a lot gloomier than people seem to think. Most Basque speakers speak Spanish or French better and never or rarely ever use Basque and it's becoming more and more influenced by those languages in every possible way. As a native Basque speaker it hurts.
A language being influenced is normal. For example, all European tongs have influenced each other historically, and nobody has a problem with it.
@@LV-426... Let's compare two languages now, so you can see why this situation is indeed worrisome.
1-English, influenced strongly by romance languages and other languages world wide. However, English is evolving much MUCH more slowly, it's a strong language with millions of Native and monolingual speakers, in many areas it's the sole dominant language. English takes words and CREATES them. It's. Super healthy dynamic language which is influenced and influences, which loans words but also spontaneously comes up with them because with so many speakers this is bound to happen. English is getting richer, adding to itself.
Basque on the other hand is changing WITHIN 50 YEARS to the degree that my monolingual grandma (one of the very few left) struggles to understand the "Basque" spoken on the streets in the town she grow up in, even by my younger cousins. Basque isn't the dominant language ANYWHERE in the world, Basque is being bombarded by other dominant languages and produces LITTLE to NOTHING because it's in no position to do so. The issue isn't change and context matters a lot. Basque isn't becoming richer like English is, Basque is seeing its vocabulary completely replaced at an alarming rate and many younger Basque speakers don't know any idioms or any slang whatsoever and simply say them in Spanish or French literally code switching because they don't have other tools, not by simple choice. Basque is being swallowed. We'll soon start speaking French or Spanish thinking that we're speaking Basque.
i do my best to keep it alive by repeating certain words and phrases. kaixo, aupa, eskerrik asko
Hopefully language preservation for Basque can learn from the efforts to preserve Celtic languages across Ireland, UK, and Brittany. Revival of languages like Cornish, and Manx had been very successful over the past couple decades.
@cieranoneill7290 Basque is doing 10 times better than any of those languages so that's not precisely comforting. They talk about our efforts in those countries so just imagine.
wow, Andy become an Adult now, nice voice Andy
For me the Basque language is so mysterious!💜 And I like it a lot, I used to live in Basque country of France and tried to learn it but none spoke it around me so it did not happen.
Basque isn't mysterious as it is the only remaining non indo European language of western Europe. But the most mysterious for me is nihali, burushaski from indian subcontinent. Before indo European languages Indians mostly speak dravidian, austroasiatic languages but from where is languages came is still a mystery. May be they were too isolate to preserve a proto dravidian, tribal languages for 10000 years.
@@munmunsarkar1726Basque is mysterious in the sense that it's the only hypothetical link to the unknown native languages of Europe before the arrival of the IE settlers, and even that is uncertain.
@@munmunsarkar1726if being the only remaining one isnt mysterious. Idk what is.
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Hungarian and Finnish are non-Indoeuropean, too.
@@gf4453 I know even Estonian, all belong to uralic language family. Maltese afro asiatic language family, Turkish in turkic language family. Georgian in Caucasian language family.
I love languages and hope no language disappears. To me language is not just words and phrases but culture.
Basque is really chad.
Thank you 😎 eskerrik asko
Eskerrik asko lagun, hi debai Chad bat haiz!
Nice to see some of the lesser known isolates like Mapudungun, Haida, Zuni and Sandawe!
I have met many Zuni people, many children still learn it =)
It's sad that Haida and Ainu are in such decline. I remember in 1977 I saw a Haida woman speak her language at a kind of linguistics forum. She was probably about 60 at the time, and she said as a child, she couldn't speak anything but Haida. I understand Haida is considered an enigma. Greenburg thought it was related to Na-Dene, but apparently that is not considered true by many linguists.
Some good news is that Haida is being revitalized. We live on Vancouver Island and my kid’s school had someone come teach them some Haida. There’s also a lot more media being created in Haida or at least incorporating it. In general from what I’ve seen across BC lately, there’s been a push to revitalize Indigenous languages. Some Nations have their own schools now so kids can learn their language, and it’s being brought into schools more too. I’ve been learning the NAPA (North American Phonetic Alphabet) and bits of some of the Indigenous languages of BC.
Expected Minoan to be in the video but glad to see Burusho being included a very mysterious language isolate
As far as i can understand we know too little of Minoan: there's not even a fully deciphered text, the phonetics is unclear because its only partially derived from the later Linear B alphabet ( which is proto-greek not minoan). We know so little it's not even known whether it's an isolate or within another language family.
It's most likely IndoEuropean. But we don't know for sure.
Etruscan hasn´t left any living descendants, except for a couple of words that were assimilated into Latin. The same happened to its sibling language, Rhaetic.
What fascinates me about the Zuni language is that it requires twice as many words to say the same thing. I have translations of English texts in Spanish, Western Apache, and Navajo (Diné) and each are roughly the same length. But, Zuni requires twice as many words to say the same thing!
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Great video thanks for sharing.
Amazing linguistic content! 👏👏👏
The list of isolate languages is most likely far larger than this. Love hearing them. Among Native language of the Americas is so diverse in sounds. Love Basque...they offer so much now for learning it now. I'm 71.....decades ago you couldn't find any books offered in English...now books WITH audio. It's great. Sure hope the ones with the least speakers WILL be strengthened...like Ainu
Strangely enough, Basque language sounds like Spanish, accent-wise. They have no own accent.
@@Gunavati1 regional like Valenciano and Catalan and Galego and more all have Spanish accent.
@@piroskaracz3621 true, but these are more romance languages.
@@Gunavati1even if they are language isolates, they cannot escape the influence of the surrounding languages, often in the form of accent and vocabularies.
This was Verry Intresting Video to watch Thank You Andy😄
I loved this - super interesting! Just was confused about a few things: I thought there were only vague theories about what Sumerian might have sounded like, so was curious how the spoken sample was derived; Also, the intro says language isolates are not part of language families, etc. - yet the explanation of Sandawe says it is part of the click language family. Thanks
Burushaski. According to one theory, burushaski is part of the superfamily of languages which includes north Caucasian ( vaynach, kabarda, etc) languages, and na dene languages ( navajo, tlingit, etc)
Not anymore. That hypothesis has already gotten out of traction. Burushaski is now considered a totally isolated language without any known relatives.
@pabloalvez915 i will review , thank you
The flag in the last section is not that of Tanzania, but rather of Namibia.
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Ainu : ape.
Austronesia : apoy /api.
Tagalog: Apoy, Kalayu.
lima gang!!
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 Ainu is not lima geng. It isolated language
Ainu isn’t confirmed to be Austronesian. Japanese languages that are Austronesian were killed of by the stronger Japanese Yayoi Empires and Jomon northern tribes and erased most of their history, leaving only 2 words in the vocab of Austronesian Japanese languages.
I noticed that too. (For those of you who may not know, apoy is Filipino (Tagalog) and api is Indonesian-Malay.) Also, the Ainu word for hand is similar to the Japanese word "te" and the word for earth has some resemblance to Japanese "tsuchi", the ancient pronunciation of which was "tuti". It's hard to know if these words point toward a common origin, if they are coincidences, or if they are borrowings, and if they are borrowings, which direction the borrowing went. I have long wondered if Japanese and the Ryukyuan languages may have evolved from a pidgin of Proto-Korean, Proto-Austronesian, and perhaps other sources, or maybe Ainu was the pidgin of Japanese and Austronesian, it's hard to know for sure, but nonetheless intriguing.
I recently became fascinated with the Noongar Aboriginal language in Australia...not extinct however not many fluent speakers left. Organizations working to revive it. I downloaded and printed out PDFs available.They tribal members run a few organizations which of which has free online course with audio. Out of all the Aboriginal languages literally only Noongar popped out at me. Love it that so much is available and accessible. Also Native American languages as well....not just USA but those spoken in Canada and South America too. I'm thrilled the world's opened up more
I was so confused when I saw a video with all of Andy's style and then hearing this voice. I was like "damn who made this video" and the channel's title was ANDY'S 😂😂 Ive noticed she's (you if you're reading this Andy) have been trying for a paradigm change these days
Establishing mono-lingual communities is vital with early education and children, especially orphans, raised in these environments will ensure native speakers. They can then be taught the dominant local languages in a bilingual setting as is done in many countries to teach 1-2 other languages from a young age resulting in multilingual proficiency.
#freefilipinowoman
where?? i want one too.
@@rizkyadiyanto7922no I mean he means free the Filipino woman which is Andy, the original person behind this channel
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 😂😂😂
@@SopokistaJr I don't understand.
Zuni is pretty cool. Ive heard it spoken some in Arizona. I'm currently learning Navajo. I love the Navajo Language and I have several people at work that speak it fluently so I can practice too.
So classifying Mapudungun as an isolate is a bit weird. Officially, it's considered to be the largest member of the Araucanian language family. Thing is, the existence of other varieties in this family seems to be not the result of related languages, but a case of Araucanian expansions which took place after the arrival of Europeans. This resulted in the loss of some languages completely unrelated to Mapudungun and their replacement with a form of it. Today the only surviving example of this seems to be huilliche, but information regarding that language is hard to come by.
Sé que hablas español, por lo que te escribo lo siguiente (está escrito en español antiguo por si te fijas):
"...en todo el Reino de Chile no ay mas de esta lengua que corre desde la ciudad de Coquimbo y sus terminos, hasta las yslas de Chilue y mas adelante, por espacio de casi cuatrocientas leguas de Norte a Sur ... porque aunque en diuersas provincias destos Indios ay algunos vocablos diferentes, pero no son todos los nombres verbos y aduerbios diuersos, y assi los preceptos y reglas deste Arte son generales para todas las provincias".
Luis de Valdivia, 1606, "Al Lector en Arte y gramatica de la lengva general que corre en todo el Reyno de Chile, con vn Vocabulario y Confessionario".
De nada!!! ✌😎
Wonderful. I love listening to those languages.
I'm a native basque speaker and omg i found the sample you chose pretty rough to follow. The dialect is very distinct to mine
Ez zara horren hizkuntz nativoa izango bizkaitar bati ulertzen zailtasunak izateko.
@oierelorduygoyeneche674 Zein zara zu, euskalkien polizia?
@@oierelorduygoyeneche674 Nik betidanik etxien euskeraz ein det ta batzuten debei zailtasunak dazkat bizkaitarra ulertzeko 😅😅. Nik Gipuzkuko euskera hitz eitten det ta debei ne herriko euskera, guaixe bertan erabiltzen hai naizena.
Very informative thanks.
Maybe Andi has laryngitis or is sick today, so that’s why she had AI guy talking today. If so, get well soon!
¿Dónde está la mujer filipina que todos amamos?
en la Maison
Wow Ainu sure sounds, by an untrained ear, like some west coast native languages. So much so that my first guess would have some west coast native language.
The Ktunaxa people of the Kootenays in Canada,
Is an isolate language, based on the people living in between two mountain ranges. The Rockies and the Purcell mountains. They did not encounter Caucasians until the late 1800’s. Then by 1890, a Residential school was buikt and the Aboriginal people had to learn English and were forbidden to speak their own language. Also, in Mexico City, I met a woman who said she did not speak Spanish at home, she spoke a language that sounded closer to a Chinese language and some of the words were the same. She said speaking the Chinese language was easier than learning Spanish when she went to primary school in Mexico City. I asked where she was from and she said a little town, just outside Mexico City.
Kaskian was likely an isolate to, although there's a theory that links it to Kartvelic languages
Fascinating.
Burushaski: "exist, proceeds to say the word "I" in their language"
All slavic languages: ...what?
what is the voice actor
Ai?
Probably AI, maybe Andi has laryngitis or too sick to speak today
The languages were prob real people submissions to Andy’s email, then the voice is AI
Though these are isolates, one important word has similarities between quite a few of these languages. This may indicate a previous language group. The word for mother in Ainu - unu, Basque - ama, Sumerian - ama, Burushaski - nana, Purepecha - nana. Considering mother is likely one of the first words learned by a child, it's significance is great.
Turkish mean "ANA"
El volcán de Parangaricutirimícuaro se quiere desemparangaricutirimicuarizar. It's a tonguetwister, but the only reason it's hard for Spanish speakers to say is that the place name is Purépecha. It's not like "tres tristes tigres".
Albanian is always an interesting isolate
12:10 I don't know why, I love Haida. It seems so strange with lots of particular sounds.
👋 (][) Bonjour (][) 👋
Je suis Basque. Et fier de l'être.
Bonjour! Je suis "Texan". 🤠
@ragingjaguarknight86 bravo !
au texas*, il existe une ville qui s'appelle ~ ' paris. '
* nord-ouest de,
There is also the Nihali language spoken in the border region between Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh in India. It is mow mostly influenced by the languages around its territory.
Very cool. 😎👍
Very strange bizkaittarra. Good find.
You forgot Kutenai Language, Yuchi Language, Beothuk Language and Tunica Language they’re language isolates too
Correction here 6:40
Tik : soil ✓
Birdi : earth
BuSaye : land
Name , Ayeek my name
Goyeek your name
Eyeek his name
Moyeek her name
Oyeek their name
Meek our name
There is single word for the word name all parts of body and many other things 😅
Thanks Andy. I am in favour of your own voice in narration of videos. But whatever is easiest for you in the end. I know how much time and effort it takes to make these videos.
I hope for the next turn, hopefully with Nihali and Kusunda involved (may a volunteer be found)
Interesting to see some of these isolated languages have similar words for mother and father, even though they are completely isolated from each other.
which begs the question... are they really isolated? or are bits of the puzzle simply missing?
I have known about Euskera for a long time, of course, but I was ignorant of the other isolates. The existence of these languages begs the question: "where did they come from?"
What's interesting is how they still end up taking on the inflections and vowel sounds of their unrelated neighbors. Much less so (or not at all) with the indigenous American languages, but the Eurasian languages really sounded like their dominant neighbors.
I would also like to add the xinca lenguage. It's the only pre-invasion lenguage spoken in Guatemala that doesn't derivate from proto-mayan. Sadly, it has very few speakers nowadays.
At 4:51 the Sumerian speaker mentioned Great God Ishtar thank you ❤for that
It's a pity that the Ket language is not included in the review. The Kets are an indigenous Рoly-Asian people of Siberia.
small correction, isolates can have connections to other languages through loans, calques and various other ways.
And here I was thinking the International Standards Organisation had finally developed a standard Pilates program ...
Geez english is a true Language killer T_T
I believe that minority languages should be preserved as they provide a cultural bridge to the speakers and hopefully continuity of cultural roots of those peoples. This requires effort and sympathy from majority speakers surrounding them. Something which ironically has been over-ridden by unimaginative assimilation efforts and non-sympathetic mass education.
pls make a part two and include Brazil!!!!
10:47 “yak toht” sounds like the Belarusian phrase “like that one” (masculine form)
Please, Andy s voice. Thank you.
Andy you forgot nihali language of india only 2000 speakers left a language isolate from India.
Sandaweki! All the sounds it has, we have within the Nguni dialect continuum. I'm happy to see it in this video.
However, East Africa has another language isolate, which is has many clicks, it is the Hadza language spoken by the Hadzabe.
Sawubona Siyabonga! Ngibona igama elizulu.
@@Dobjob yebo, sawubona kunjani?
@@siyabongamviko8872 ngiyaohila! Unjani ‘mngane wami?
@@Dobjob siyathokoza
interestingly despite the decline of ainu a linguistic isolate language and the prominence of japanese in former ainu areas, japanese itself is actually a linguistic isolate
Actually thats not the Languages-isolates,but the only surviving languages of their language families.
Isolates from the largest.
1) Japanese (Currently, for political correctness, reclassified as the Japonic family which comprises Japanese islands and Okinawa islands).
2) Korean (Currently, for political correctness, reclassified as Koreanic family which comprises Korean Peninsula and some part of the adjacent Manchuria where a lot of Koreans are living)
Note: Japanese and Korean share the same syntax. But phonics and basic words are totally different. It is assumed that the Japanese language developed from Korean syntax over the Jomon base during the 2,300 BP~1,700 BP period. Jomon is the root of Okinawa people and Ainu people. Even though these two people look very different, the DNA structure is very similar.
Note: Some basic Korean words are very similar to Tamil language. About 100 years ago, an American missionary, Dr. Homer Hulbert, wrote a book 'A Comparative Grammar of the Korean Language and the Dravidian Languages of India'. Dravidian is a branch of Tamil language.
3) Basque language
If you do not pay too much attention to political correctness, Japanese and Korean are the largest and second largest isolates. 120 mil. users and 80 mil. users, respectively. Basque, the third largest, is 1 mil. users.
Usually, an isolate means that the indigenous people have historical background in that specific locality for thousands of years. Jomons, the base of the Japanese people, came to Japan more than 25,000 years ago.
Proto-Koreans came to the Korean Peninsula about 25,000 years ago, when the Last Glacial Maximum began.
These are people with very deep roots in the locality.
Pls make numbers in all language isolates
While these are language isolates it seems that they are still heavily influenced by the languages surrounding them, maybe in the accent or vocabularies, making them still sound similar to their neighboring languages.
You put the Namibian flag for Sandawe instead of Tanzanian flag. 😉
in Burushaski language part, i heard MUSAFIR, means tourist, which may have borrowed from aerabic.
u can see the power of influence of arabian culture in such isolated language
Well, thanks to Arabic influences one can find similar words in a huge area stretching horizontally from the Balcans to Indonesia and India, and vertically from Balcans all the way to Tanzania. Sometimes this words are more colloquial or dialectal in the borrowing language, but they still exist nevertheless.
One such example which comes to my mind is "dunya", دنيا (world) which was borrowed from Arabic into Greek as ντουνιάς, into Georgian as დუნია, dünya in Turkish, दुनिय in Hindi, dunya in Indonesian and Swahili...
Another such word which suprised me a bit is Georgian ფიქრი (pikri) "thought" which is taken from Arabic (فكر), but was borrowed also in other languages (Indonesian mempikiran "to think", Swahili kufikiri...
Many times, of course, such words were not taken directly from Arabic but intermediary through Turkish or Persian, but still, we deal with a huge sphere of cultural/linguistic influence...
@mareksagrak9527, thanks to Arabic influences indigenous languages and cultures have been destroyed in a huge portion of the world. Unfortunately, Islamic conquest calls for total erasure of all “jahiliyya” (ignorance), which is how their sacred text calls pre-Islamic indigenous culture.
@@brawndothethirstmutilator9848 Indeed, one has to remember also the downsides or darker part of the expansions of "great cultures" or "great spheres of influence". This is the case with Arabic expansion as well as European culture with the damage it brought upon colonisating numerous tribes across the world. Still, I would not exaggerate that all pre-arab native cultures were completely erased or replaced by Muslims. Syncretism did happen in certain cases, and Arabs in general borrowed a lot from their predecessors in terms of architecture or schools of thought (neo-platonism was very influencial among Arabic intelligence). I'd argue that in Indonesia, which is now the biggest Muslim country so far, there is rather an effective mix of Islam with previous traditions of "Indian sphere of influence".
Ancient Egyptian culture, on the other end, was practically dead and replaced with Christian/Coptic one several centuries prior to Arabic invasion, at Egyptians' own will...
@mareksagrak9527, Lucid points. Refreshing to have a thoughtful exchange in the comments.
Misafir means guest in Turkish.
Is there a similarity between Ainu and Navajo?
New voice sounds gentle tbh
That is the Namibian flag not the Tanzania
Send prayers to Japan, they're going through a lot right now! 🙏
I wonder how they started. Maybe as sacred languages? Maybe as kids raising alone somehow? Or maybe huge mental or mouth issues that somehow became rule?
Maybe you forgot LADIN a language officially recognized spoken by LADINS a minority group who lives across the North Eastern Alps in Italy, Austria and Switzerland.
Burushaski has many Arabic words that I have understood quite easily !menمن who , laki لكن but ...etc. Interesting really ..
the words for mother and father in some of these languages are uncannily similar, just as they are in related languages. which begs the question... are they really isolated, or are bits of the puzzle simply missing?
Maybe because a baby calls out for his mother first and most babies make similar sound. So that makes word for mother.
I would very much like to learn Basque, Burushaski, Sandawe, Haida, and Zuni.
3 of the 10 languages featured in this video use the word "tata" as father. Yet they have "no known relatives or connections to other languages." 🤔
Yes, one word doesn't mean anything and words for mother and father are almost always a combination of the most easiest sounds for babies (m, d/t)
The flag in the segment on Sandawe is the flag of Namibia, not that of Tanzania.
Except Basque and Zuni, the other languages kinda sound a bit similar amongst themselves, I dont know how to explain it well.
So many Native American languages listed. I wonder if they are really isolates or just distinct members of the several languages families known from America. Do any of them use the sentence-word structure?
Encouraging people to keep speaking a rare language - and pass it on to their children - just makes life harder for the kids. In the real world, they need outside languages to get by in life, whether it's English or Russian or Mandarin or any other major language. Being forced to learn an entire language just because outsiders think it's cool is actually cruel.
Why this AI voice?
We should upload rare languages into AI to preserve them for future generations.
If nobody is around to speak these languages, it will just fade away like Latin, but unlike Latin it will not even be part of any classic, legal or religious words. I wish I could speak and understand Latin.
Basque was standarized under the Franco Regime, what you learn today as ''Basque'' in any school is the Batua crafted by linguists by command of Francisco Franco. The ''repression'' during the world war and early cold war was the standard in every country. USA also forbid any publication or radio broadcast in japanese and german (italian was impossible) and not only in USA, they enforced Mexico and Central America to do the Same.
France, United Kingdom, Sweeden, Finnland, etc. Many countries did the same as Franco with minority languages but hey, it's always the basque and catalan the langauges ''repressed''.
Kusunda. Just gotta throw that out there. A single-speaker language isolate in Nepal. It comes from a forest-people way of life, in a country that has been taken over by people who cut forests down to farm. If ever a language spoke wisdom from a biodiverse past into a monoculture present, Kusunda would be it. But it hangs by a thread in a dangerously impoverished country.
All language families were language isolates at the beginning before they started to spread and divert
The sandawe is in Tanzania, you showed the map of Tanzania but the flag of Namibia
Is this TTS?