@@nidhishshivashankar4885 thank you so much! That's very kind. Do you have any requests?

Trabajando :)

Of the play? Which character were you thinking?

You are too kind. Let me see what I can do :)

Indeed it is. However, which Quechua? I believe it's a standardised form of Cuzco Quechua, though I'm not sure. However, Google can say whatever they wish - they also have 'Arabic' but Arabic is also very diverse - I believe they use Modern Standard Arabic for Google Translate.

@InsistentlyInterdisciplinary yeah, I think is the standard quechua version.

@@Elior1030 But even then, that's only a standard for one region of one country. Even within Ecuadorian Kichwa, itself a branch of the Quechuan family, there are many varieties and the 'Kichwa unificado' the so-called unified Kichwa, is seen by some as a positive force to unify people and by others as one variety which nobody speaks per se, but which is based on the the 'Sierra' or Andean varieties, and which imposes itself on and erased diversity.

Thank you!

Certainly not. The area is rather safe in comparison to many and the people living on the border are incredibly friendly and welcoming. Many are multi-ethnic malokas (traditional structures serving as centres in many communities) with people of various indigenous communities who have come together after being displaced.

Thank you!

I do a little, yes. I am learning/working with a number of varieties. Are you interested in these languages?

@@InsistentlyInterdisciplinary been learning kichwa from Ecuador on my own for the last to years. I love the language😄

@@InsistentlyInterdisciplinary how many languages do you speak?

@@5y77 I am a speaker and student of a number of languages. It's hard to say how many I do or don't speak etc. How about you? Also, have you seen that I have a playlist on the channel devoted to ideophones (sound symbolic, performative descriptors) in Kichwa?

@@InsistentlyInterdisciplinary yes I just finished watching the playlist. Im more familiar with quichua chimborazo. It sounds a bit different

Bars?

@@InsistentlyInterdisciplinary oh I just like the prologue, thanks for posting this though because it helped me study for an assignment in my English class

Oh thanks! Anytime.@@sawyernate53

Also helped me revise, thanks

haha. Thank you. It was an unforgettable experience and I ended up learning a lot from the Napo and Pastaza Runa (Kichwa), Wao (Waorani) and Achuar.

@@InsistentlyInterdisciplinary Glad to hear that mate, knowledge is indeed blissful especially when we can see it working in life. I have mailed you, kindly check and revert back when you find it convenient.

Yeah of course! This is part of a larger interview with Dr. Janis Nuckolls on working in the Amazonian region of Ecuador -- I also have other videos about 'Language' as a system - such as about how people can understand each other across languages etc.

@@InsistentlyInterdisciplinary Thanks bro I am planning to go for PhD in linguistics just I don't have any experience or knowledge as of now. Found this short informative. Thanks for reverting, I will check that video Kindly let me know if you have experience or contacts in linguistic anthropology

That's amazing! Where are you applying? I have a video with Nick Emlen which may be helpful too. He is a linguistic anthropologist at Groningen.@@jharkhandisamurai

@@InsistentlyInterdisciplinary Currently I haven't applied but thinking about IITs in India, they do have robust social sciences department just I am not sure how will it all happen. I did my Master's in Anthropology here in distance program hence got no such exposure.

@@jharkhandisamurai I see! Well, feel free to contact me at [email protected] and maybe you can tell me more and I can see if I can get you in touch with someone relevant to you.

Hey there! Thank you so much! There are also plenty more videos on this channel about lexical iconicity (word iconicity). This is an extract from a talk I gave over Zoom so I thought I'd upload it - I can see about uploading more of it, but do check out the other videos here. Thanks again!

@@InsistentlyInterdisciplinary Oh, I see, I must have misunderstood. I'll check them out!

@@yohan1539 It may be a series I suppose - you're not wrong in that, but for now those are what I have - 'Was Saussure Wrong' and loads of excerpts from other presentations - video quality varies depending on date and for what the video was originally intended. Enjoy!

Sure! That's a good point. This is just an excerpt from a longer video, airing tomorrow, where there will be examples. You are right though!

You are so right! Yes, it's funny how we are sometimes told not to copy, but what is much of the instruction we receive in education even, but some call to copy our peers and betters - mixed messages indeed!

Very interesting. Perhaps I could research that and make a comparable video. :) Thank you for your comment.

It is and becoming more so!

Thank you.@@InsistentlyInterdisciplinary

Thank you very much! Poetry gatherings are ever so fun!

Gracias y pagarachu por tu comentario. Ari :) Nda (cómo se dice en Kichwa de Pastaza). Have you looked at Amazonian Kichwas in Ecuador? Puede ser muy interesante :)

@@InsistentlyInterdisciplinary si, tambien hay un dialecto de Kichwa en Colombia kichwa inga pero no tuve la oportunidad 😥

@@waytakaq sí, sí voy a Colombia para un congreso, pero no tengo tiempo suficiente para ir a a los Ingahablantes

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No, fair, this video was full of 'musings' I was thinking about... I shall endeavour to make a more systematic and clearer video in future. :)

@@InsistentlyInterdisciplinary thank you Austin. warm greetings from Indonesia

@@titojulyharyanto3397 Thank you! I'd love to visit your country! I am very interested in your amazing diversity of, well, everything there :). Btw, there are plenty of other videos, including on iconicity, on this channel, so please feel free to peruse. Also, please ask any questions you may have here in the comments; I'm sure to reply.

And yes, you are right, in a sense. Some ideophones are onomatopoeic in nature, and others are more 'psychic' in the sense that they copy and emotion, which doesn't have a sound in nature, but we humans extrapolate, our cognitive system creates an association between an emotion and a sound. Or take 'doki doki' in Japanese: doki doki copies the heart-beat, but it does not mean heart-beat (that'd be a simple onomatopoeia... a direct sound to meaning mapping. Rather, doki doki evokes the sound of a heartbeat to describe a feeling (excitement, fear, in combination) that is naturally paired with a sound (your heart beating in your chest as you experience that emotion). Does that makes sense? I really should make a simple video and just say what I wrote here. Thanks for your question - it might lead to new things :)

As I am still learning, I don't feel qualified to say. :)