5 More Mysterious Language Isolates.

Shalom, I am back with a second video on language isolates as you all loved my last video on the subject. These languages all have nothing in common except that they are alone in the world's languages, with no related tongues. Today we'll be discussing another 5 of these languages from all corners of the Earth.
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Sections:
00:00 - L'introduction
00:36 - Langue Un
03:24 - Langue Deux
05:54 - Langue Trois
08:07 - Langue Quatre
11:30 - Langue Cinq
15:56 - Fin
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Links:
Nihali vocabulary - en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Append...
Nihali spoken sample - • Words of Life Nahali P...
Additional information - The source I found is dubious as it could potentially be Kalto, also called "Nahali", which is not the same language as mentioned in the video. The description says that the language is Nihali, Nahali and Kalto, so don't take this as a definitive source.
Chabo vocabulary - en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Append...
Laal vocabulary - en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Append...
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Credits:
Production - me
Graphics - Microsoft PowerPoint
Recording - OBS Software
Editing - Microsoft ClipChamp
Samples - Wikipedia (yes it is a source), Omniglot
Voiceover - me
Disclaimer - All content is researched, written, produced and voiced by me. I and only myself own the rights to this video.
Extra disclaimer - I made a few pronunciation mistakes in this video, don't pull me up on it or I will tell you to read the disclaimer that you're reading right now ya putain!

[@CheLanguages]

I hope you all enjoyed this continuation on language isolates! Let me know what you all thought of the video!

[@aguyfromflorida4842]

i think including features of grammar is a very good thing to keep doing in future videos cause i think it's important for this information to be spread in a video which people would learn in a way that we might not have learnt otherwise, and the length is fine honestly im not sure people have an issue with long videos

[@ksiistoyiiwa]

Just a quick pronunciation note: the place name Skidegate is pronounced (more or less) "skiddih-git" in Canadian English.

[@CheLanguages]

@@ksiistoyiiwa The one correction I get for pronunciation is for an English name LOL. Thank you though, I had no clue. Canadian English has some really interesting pronunciations for place names which is something I've noticed before

[@AvrahamYairStern]

Grammar inclusion was great. Huave was awesome btw

[@CheLanguages]

@@AvrahamYairStern thank you for the feedback. I'm glad you enjoyed learning about these languages

[@janmelantu7490]

“I apologize if this video was too long” well it’s much shorter than most videos I watch

[@CheLanguages]

LOL I guess, I struggle with video that are too long but sole KZbinrs will happily rant for an hour and expect everyone to watch it. I feel kinda bad whenever I make something around 20 minutes because I know myself I would be bored, but it does deem aa good amount of views seem to enjoy the longer videos anyway

[@Purplecocobolo]

⁠​⁠@@CheLanguages i know i haven’t gotten bored watching something 20 minutes as im used to watching videos that are multiple hours long. if you made an hour long video, id probably watch the whole thing.

[@ldubt4494]

​​@@CheLanguages what are you on about 17 minutes isnt long at all; theres stuff out there that goes 30 or 60 minutes. Your video is short to medium in terms of length.

[@CheLanguages]

@@Purplecocobolo that's good to know thanks, but I probably wouldn't be able to make an hour long video myself

[@CheLanguages]

@@ldubt4494 that's true, I count it as long because I'm used to watch videos up to 10 minutes in length. I'm not a long videos kinda guy

[@stevejohnson3357]

A movie was recently shot in Haida but the actors had to learn their lines word for word from elders. Another west coast language revitalization attemp being made is Squamish, close to the Whistler resort near Vancouver.

[@weepingscorpion8739]

Cool. I will need to check that out. Squamish I believe is the language that uses as a symbol for the glottal stop, and that in and of itself is pretty fascinating.

[@CheLanguages]

That's cool! I see their revitalization movement must be going well if they came out with a movie!

[@CheLanguages]

It's interesting how much these languages have in common with Semitic languages, Northern Haida having pharyngeal consonants for example

[@NeichoKijimura]

It's a good day when an obscure linguistics youtuber uploads 🙂

[@CheLanguages]

I graciously accept my title as Obscure Linguistics KZbinr, my goal is complete! Thank you for your support

[@AvrahamYairStern]

Che Languages is the best

[@CheLanguages]

@@AvrahamYairStern that means a lot

[@christopherellis2663]

Love it. My stamp collection got me into writing systems and language when I was nine, 66 years ago.

[@CheLanguages]

That's very cool! I have a collection of Israeli stamps myself

[@christopherellis2663]

@@CheLanguages💙💛❤️

[@CheLanguages]

@@christopherellis2663 thank you. Are you Romanian?

[@christopherellis2663]

@@CheLanguages Australian, living in România. ( retired)

[@CheLanguages]

@@christopherellis2663 what made you move to Romania from Australia? Is it because it's cheaper so if you retire there you'd have a lot more money proportional to the local economy?

[@GustafUNL]

Very good video! My only request, unreasonable as it may be, is to include audio dialogue samples if you can ever find them. Those always give you the best sense of the language, naturally. But I understand it's probably difficult to find audio samples for many of these small, isolated languages. That said, this is my first time seeing one of your videos, and I've already subscribed! Very good channel it seems.

[@CheLanguages]

Not unreasonable at all, people have made the suggestion before. My only problems are what you mentioned, and also copyright. Plus I'm not too sure how to actually edit it in, I'm still not very skilled with my editing, I'm still learning. If you enjoyed this video, check out the part 1 to this video! I hope you enjoy the videos on my channel and welcome!

[@GustafUNL]

@@CheLanguages I've done some editing stuff before, this doesn't help with the copyright problem, but what I would do is use some audio recording/editing software, for me, audacity, to record the audio (You might have to edit the input source to your computer's audio output if it's set on your microphone.) and then import it to the video editor, for which I personally use hitflilm express, in which you can just drag the audio into the editor. I'd imagine other software would be similar. Lol, yeah I use all the free software but it works fine for me. Might not really be very helpful advice, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a problem simple advice like that couldn't help with. Your editing seems pretty good already after all. Anyway yeah, I will gladly enjoy your channel. :)

[@CheLanguages]

@@GustafUNL I've heard of Audacity, is it free? Thank you for the advice

[@GustafUNL]

@@CheLanguages Yeah, it's free.

[@CheLanguages]

@@GustafUNL awesome

[@xeonicSR]

very interesting, hopefully these languages still survive as time goes on

[@CheLanguages]

That's the goal, sadly some languages can't be saved however because no one is interested in preserving them. I like to think the isolation of some of these languages will actually help them to be preserved longer

[@miles8456]

Makes my day when CheLanguages uploads!

[@CheLanguages]

That's great to hear!

[@AvrahamYairStern]

Agreed

[@CheLanguages]

@@AvrahamYairStern thank you

[@believeinpeace]

Thank you. Very educational. I like the grammar and long videos are good

[@CheLanguages]

That's all amazing feedback thank you!

[@gazoontight]

Another great one. My favorite is Haida.

[@CheLanguages]

Thank you for the support as always! I'm glad it hear it, I think my favourite is probably Huave or Laal

[@ikurasake]

Love hearing your voice

[@CheLanguages]

Thank you! I hope you enjoyed the video!

[@amj.composer]

More Indians need to know about nihali!!!

[@CheLanguages]

Definitely! It would be a shame to lode such a unique language

[@mareksagrak9527]

Oh yeah, Nihali! My favourite isolate from that part of the world. Minority inside a minority

[@CheLanguages]

Yeah it's crazy! Korku I'm definitely going to have to talk about in another video

[@mareksagrak9527]

@@CheLanguages That definitely should be spoken of! As far as I am familiar with different cases of number borrowings (like Japanese borrowing Chinese numbers alongside with native ones or Kra-Dai replacing native numbers completely by Chinese ones apart from Hlai) Nihali is weird with having only the word for "one" (bidi/bada) native, 2-4 taken from Dravidian and the rest from Hindi (apart from 20 - iso which seems to derive from Korku). I just wonder what it could infer. Maybe yhat proto-Nihalis were hunter-gatherers who, like Piraha for example, knew only one-many distinction, than they met Dravidians, later indo-aryans and Korku? Or maybe sth completely different? Only guesses can be made Also it's so sad that Nihali has so little documentation. Nagaraja's work is the only bigger source I know so far. I also find it quite curious that when speaking about Hindu valley civilization, people tend to refer to Dravidian, even Munda languages, but proto-Nihali seems to be permanently skipped, even though it should be examined as a possibility as well

[@CheLanguages]

@@mareksagrak9527 good observations. I guess Nihali will be a mystery though because so much of it's vocabulary is foreign

[@bunk_foss]

Lost my wallet just now. My day is better since this was posted. Thank you!

[@CheLanguages]

I'm sorry to hear about that man. Hopefully some language isolates did make it better, are you insured? A friend of mine got mugged recently but his bank was able to fully compensate him, check with your bank so you don't lose too much.

[@aguyfromflorida4842]

awesome

[@CheLanguages]

Thank you!

[@AvrahamYairStern]

Huave was my favourite, but I liked all the languages on this list too

[@CheLanguages]

That's great to hear! I'm glad you enjoyed the video

[@AvrahamYairStern]

@@CheLanguages no problem

[@rafalkaminski6389]

I like this series to be continued.

[@CheLanguages]

THank you for your feedback

[@dadsonworldwide3238]

That Natchez native American connection is not a big surprise if you look outside of 1900s structuralism

[@CheLanguages]

What do you mean? Tell me more

[@dadsonworldwide3238]

@CheLanguages This is all speculation, but with 1900s structuralism, you know it's been very antithetical towards a lot of truths when it comes to such topics. since before the trail of tears what was once the Mississippians, cherrokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw etc etc personally was thought to have affiliations in the Yucatan Mexico and South America. But in much more recent times, a last tribe knowing this family Ties may have migrated just before the Louisiana purchase fleeing Mexico and whatnot. They may have fanned out some starting in goergia or Bama, then moved on into the French quarter or pushed over.

[@dadsonworldwide3238]

I was blessed to know my 1890s born great-grandmother and her other peers of the first gen born out of the Civil, many moved in own claiming 350 hectors on the homestead act land claims . These old women ,first-generation black slaves, 3rd gen white Irish, and Chickasaw native would Cann tomatoes and sew quilts because the men share cropped. And i was a kid listening to the old women gossip and that, of course, was one such topic that I found was more widely spread among the south is the connection the Natchez natives had with the Yucatan..

[@dadsonworldwide3238]

@CheLanguages I can vouch for their gossip being very different than ours today. So much of what those old folks knew was very well educated even from the most impoverished beginnings.

[@dadsonworldwide3238]

@CheLanguages This same source told me in 1970s about during the nepolianic war that British ancestors were visiting & writing letters home from ottoman empire turkey about the city of Enoch / eden described biblically at the mouth of the tigeris and Euporatis rivers. Of course, gobleki wasn't officially discovered until the 1990s, and it worked to protect the sites by not really letting those rumors spread. "I'd assume." But still, when it comes to the history of nations, people ,,places and things, these old 1700s-1800s classical American sources definitely hold value & benefit for those willing to give them the time of day..

[@awedelen1]

Huh. Very interesting. 🤔 I would not have guessed Chitimacha would have a link to Huave.

[@CheLanguages]

Well it might not, or maybe it does. It shares lexical similarity, but it could be via a third language? It would be cool if they were related though

[@awedelen1]

@@CheLanguages I agree. It would be fascinating if it were proven true.

[@CheLanguages]

@@awedelen1 I think DNA testing could give us some insight, but it's not always 100% conclusive

[@Dagrqv]

It is very interesting with language isolates. In the map showen in the beginning, though, I would have expected to see Japanese and Korean. As far as I know, these are two isolate languages.

[@CheLanguages]

Thank you for the support. Japanese and Korean are usually referred to as their own language families (Japonic and Koreanic respectively) due to the presence of other languages besides Japanese, e.g. Ryukyuan languages, and other languages besides Korean e.g. Jeju language

[@jdogdoggo]

very interesting stuff

[@CheLanguages]

Thank you!!!

[@jdogdoggo]

no problem bro i love your channel@@CheLanguages

[@CheLanguages]

@@jdogdoggo thank you that always makes me happy to hear

[@LearnRunes]

If a language has different dialects then, if those dialects were to grow to the point of becoming mutually unintelligible, wouldn't that create a situation where the language is no longer an isolate but rather a small family?

[@CheLanguages]

I would argue so yes. I made this same argument with Albanian and Armenian, which have formed their own small branches.

[@thekathal]

hell yeah

[@CheLanguages]

Thank you for the support. Which part dif you enjoy the most?

[@skiti1720]

Can you please do a video on Low Saxon/Low German varieties?

[@tlatolcalli682]

The grammar bits were pretty cool. And I would like to add that just because pronunciation isn’t perfect, It shouldn’t stop you from trying. You’ll get corrected by someone someday somewhere believe it.

[@CheLanguages]

Thank you! I always try to be respectful and try to pronounce things when I can, but some people tend to complain. Of course I won't stop trying. And thank you for the feedback on the grammar!

[@tlatolcalli682]

@@CheLanguages I really like the job you’re doing here, Mr. So what if people complain? I’m just glad I got to know all of these languages and all these new people! I remember when I was barely learning English. It sounded so so cool and I didn’t give up! Even though I still need a little touchup in my punctuation and ideal idea arrangement: I still believe that I got pretty high up there, but it was because I had both the good and the bad perspectives on pronunciation. Because I was not enamored with my own mistakes.

[@CheLanguages]

@@tlatolcalli682 thanks for the support! It means a lot and is good motivation for me to continue learning. Thank you once again

[@flavi9692]

Will you do another forggoten turkic langauges?

[@CheLanguages]

I want to at some point, but I'm not sure if my viewers do. The last one didn't do so well

[@SZYSZYSZYSZYSZY]

Hell yeah

[@CheLanguages]

Hell yeah indeed. Which language was your favourite?

[@SZYSZYSZYSZYSZY]

@@CheLanguagesHard to say! I wish we lived in a world without human limitations because truly every language I stumble upon is deeply interesting and I wish I had the time and memory capabilities to remember in-depth information about every single one. Thank you for these videos

[@CheLanguages]

@@SZYSZYSZYSZYSZY indeed, ly only regret is that I'll never learn or save every language in the world. I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@justaduck1664]

Wait xaida kil. Is the word "kil" releted to the uralic base worf for language "kel"

[@smuecke]

Definitely. Haida-Uralic language family confirmed.

[@justaduck1664]

@@smuecke now lets tie in ket and ainu

[@CheLanguages]

No way I didn't notice that? Altaic possibility??!!!!!

[@CheLanguages]

Real

[@CheLanguages]

Ket is probably in there somewhere

[@stanislavkocur3408]

I have a question. I have a feeling that french might in next 100 or 200 years develop a tonal system. Why? In the 1000 or so years of its existence this language changed so much and was so reduced that many words sound the same. Though written differently, many words sound the same and usually each word by itself might not be understood without an context. Often it ks clusters of words that are cognitivelly identified rather then individual words. If this trend continues, I guess in next 100 or 200 years french might become dependent on a tonal system so that words can remain indetifiable from their sounding. What do you think? An example: pont (bridge) might lose its nasal sound replaced by a certain tone whereas peau (skin) will have a different tone and peu (little) yet another one.

[@justaduck1664]

Will you cover elamite

[@qpdb840]

I hope so too and my city is an Elamite name Elam or Ilam ایلام or it’s religious name Hussein abad

[@CheLanguages]

That's a good idea for another time! Here I wanted to cover only living isolates though

[@CheLanguages]

Awesome!

[@Karymmm]

Video on celtic languages next?

[@CheLanguages]

Probably not. I've talked about them enough across several videos before. Check out my video on Iberian languages, on Revived languages and my Shorts videos if you want to see them.

[@hubb8049]

Is Zuni mysterious enough to be featured in this series?

[@CheLanguages]

Definitely, or maybe on my video on Indigenous North American languages

[@hubb8049]

@@CheLanguages Very nice! I'm looking forward to that vid

[@CheLanguages]

@@hubb8049 I'm glad

[@bernardfinucane2061]

The translation of "our father" seems to be "Christian god" in Huave.

[@CheLanguages]

Interesting. Do you know some Huave?

[@bernardfinucane2061]

@@CheLanguages No, just looked at the text in the video! Xeteatiun looks like Christian, dios looks like god in Spanish. Also cielo is heaven in Spanish. With three of the first five words such a close match, it can hardly be a coincidence. I also see mundo siempre amen and tiempo.

[@CheLanguages]

@@bernardfinucane2061 Dios is definitely a Spanish loanword and Cielo too. I'd noticed these too, but not the translation you noticed so you might be right

[@AWSMcube]

Keep the grammar parts 👍

[@CheLanguages]

Thank you for the feedback! I hope you enjoy the video!

[@siyacer]

my hamster is a language isolate

[@CheLanguages]

Real. Laal Hamster

[@SplendidMisanthropy]

Anyone else associated Xaayda Kil with Eesti keel?

[@CheLanguages]

Someone else did. It's quite interesting, possible Altaic evidence? I'm still skeptical though

[@madizo9056]

Attend pourquoi le nom de ta chaîne est en français ?

[@CheLanguages]

Ce n'est pas le cas, ma chaîne est en anglais. Mais, si ton ordinateur est en français ou hébreu, ma chaîne se montrera en un de ces langues parce que j'ai écrit des descriptions pour eux.

[@rupalibiswas5128]

এখানে সবচেয়ে মধুর ভাষা

[@CheLanguages]

Indeed

[@chandraathithan11]

கல் தோன்றி மண் தோன்றா காலத்தின் முன் தோன்றிய மூத்த மொழி தமிழ் மொழி

[@CheLanguages]

Even older than Nihali or Harrappan? I guess we'll never know

[@chandraathithan11]

@@CheLanguages you guess you will never know not we will.

[@CheLanguages]

@@chandraathithan11 LOL

[@p00bix]

This video is almost word-for-word plagiarized from the Wikipedia articles on each language. Disappointing.

[@mattsmith7772]

I disagree, I tried to verify your comment on the Hauve and Nihali sections as struggled to find any plagiarism, other than using images from the huave pages. Edit: On second review, the video appears sourced entirely from Wikipedia, and the narrator even reference Wikipedia by name at some point in the video.

[@p00bix]

@@mattsmith7772Try this then: On the left side of your screen, have a window with the Video playing. On the right side, have the Wikipedia article for Hauve. Some sentences are reworded and others are skipped, but every single thing mentioned in the video is right there in the Wikipedia article--and its all in the same exact order, no less!

[@mattsmith7772]

@@p00bix I will definitely give it to you that the video is largely inspired by the wiki pages. Hopefully he dug into the actual sources… makes me wonder how many of the video essays I watch are just thinly veiled plagiarism😬

[@CheLanguages]

Well first of all, you can't really 'plagarize' a Wikipedia article, it's open for use by anyone. Secondly, there isn't a lot of info about these languages and though I did use some other sources like Omniglot for samples, Wikipedia usually has the most info about these small languages. Unless I pay a ridiculous amount for an Ethnologue account or comb through peer-reviewed articles, I'm not going to get much more info than the Wiki article already has. That being said, I did provide some more info on each language than what is just found on Wikipedia. I try and word things on my own a bit, but sometimes they're already well written. For videos about more well-known languages, I usually have the luxury of providing more info, but here with these languages, there wasn't much else I could do.

[@CheLanguages]

It's not "entirely sourced", again Omniglot and Language Museum provided some samples

[@alyaly2355]

No way bro called Chad ‘Central Africa’. Also, real question, why do you always judaize flags? I have nothing against Jews, but you also did this with the Arab league flag, which kinda pissed me, as well as others, off.

[@CheLanguages]

I've never used the Arab league flag?! Also, it's a צ for Tchad צ'אד, it's just a letter in a script, doesn't mean it's Judaized (Aramaic also used Hebrew script, which we called Assyrian script btw). I wanted to create a distinction between Tchad and Romania. Also Tchad is basically Central Africa. It literally borders the Central African Republic, and it's definitely not North African culturally speaking

[@alyaly2355]

@@CheLanguages Not the Arab league flag I mean, but an arab flag. Yes, Chad is Central African, but not the Central African Republic. People can get very confused. Also, Chad is kinda culturally North African, especially the North. Over 60% of the population is Muslim and speaks Arabic. They have a unique group of Arabic dialects called ‘Chadian Arabic’ which are very similar to the dialect of Alexandria, for some reason.