AMERICAN REACTS To European Languages

[@EmmaCse]

Finnish is actually completely different than the other Nordic languages. It belongs to a whole different "language group" and has more in common with Hungarian. Estonian and Finnish is very similar. Swedish, Norweigan and Danish is very similar, especially in writing (a Swede kan write in Swedish to a Dane or Noweigan or vice versa). Danish, however, sounds very different than Norwegian and Swedish.

[@KohaAlbert]

Meanwhile very similar Finnish and Estonian are more like English vs Dutch - and Hungarian is Persian.

[@DJCashew-DJNarrow-DJWide]

They are asiatic or near asiatic languages.

[@arya_1503_fancade]

@@KohaAlbert hungarian and persian ain't even in the same family

[@KohaAlbert]

@@arya_1503_fancade I see! I should've been clearer... I meant that Hungarian relates to the former pair in the similar manner like Persian does to the later pair - kinda, for a figurative comparison. Even though Estonian, Finnish, and Hungarian are all Uralic languages, just like English, Dutch, and Persian are Indo-European languages - within the language families these are pretty different from one another even still. Within the Indo-European, Persian is an Iranic language, whereas English and Dutch are western Germanic languages (thus western-germanic much much more closely related to one another than with Persian). Similarly Hungarian is an Ugric language, whereas Estonian and Finnish are Balto-Finnic languages. Ugric and Finnic diverged from one another in the Uralic language family from since quite very early on (either just after, or even at the same time when Samoyedic diverged do separate branch). Furthermore, the closest relatives to Hungarian are other Ugric languages (respective subbranch within Uralic, but mutual intelligibility hardly noticable by a layman even between those - or so quite a lot of Hungarians seem to claim), and then further on the Hungarian itself has been isolated from the rest of the Uralic languages entirely for few millennia (since there's some attested literature in old Hungarian, it's fairly easily observable how much Hungarian alone has changed over just the past millennia - changes which have occurred during that time, have had to do with Hungarians own innovations and the languages "closer to home" with which they did have direct contacts - rather than to any other Uralic languages over all of that period). As for Hungarian vs Finnic - these languages are essentially at the opposite ends from one another in the linguistic family (and it's not just Hungarian which have had developments and innovations since the divergence and the separation). All of that has resulted in changes so great, that nowadays any average layman may consider oneself rather lucky for finding any recognizable similarities between the languages at all (without having learned anything about the other language).

[@angyliv8040]

It's interesting what you learn in the comments.

[@herrbonk3635]

15:05 When _"Finnish and Swedish kind of sound alike",_ you have probably heard a Finnish person speaking Swedish. They tend to do it with their characteristic prosody or melody. As others have already pointed out, Finnish (and Sami) are basically unrelated to the other nordic languages. Finnish and Swedish share thousands of words though, due to close proximity, and being the same country for six centuries. However, these words are decorated with the special agglutinative syntax of Finnish grammar, making them hard to recognize.

[@marspacebun]

what you call "russian alphabet" is called the "cyrillic alphabet" which is used by some slavic languages (others use the latin alphabet or both) and they're all part of the same big slavic language family tree which itself subdivided into smaller groups. that's why they remind you of russian, as it is the most popular one worldwide of the bunch. despite that, most speakers of the other slavic languages don't really understand russian and can only pick apart a few familiar-sounding words when they hear it. so, much like other language families, they all have differences despite being related and some are more mutually intelligible than others

[@tovarishchfeixiao]

The cyrillic is not only used by slavic languages.

[@dimitargenchev6932]

But most of the countries that use th3 Cyrillic alphabet are slavic​@@tovarishchfeixiao

[@KohaAlbert]

@@marspacebun Cyrillic is used also by many of the Turkic and most of the Uralic languages - besides many other languages. Heck, Cyrillic was the official script to write Mongolian at Mongolia. Meanwhile Cyrillic is next to alien (as in, illiterate in it, unless taken specific classes) to Turkish, Uralic languages in EU (at where the overwhelming majority of the native speakers reside), most of the Slavic languages (which are using and have ever only using only Latin script - say, Polish).

[@HeroManNick132]

And due to religion Catholic ones don't use the Cyrillic one which is made in the first Bulgarian empire.

[@HeroManNick132]

@@KohaAlbert Also to some Iranian languages like Tajik.

[@olsa76]

The Finnish language does not come from the same language branch as the Scandinavian languages. English is linguistically more closely related to Scandinavia than Finnish is. This is why many list Norwegian as the easiest language to learn for an English speaker and Swedish as number two.

[@1Anime4you]

Well, they are probably related at a much deeper level. New research heavily suggests that Indo-European and Uralic languages shared a common ancestor way back.

[@SairanBurghausen]

@@1Anime4youNah

[@1Anime4you]

@@SairanBurghausen Many linguistics have done analysis on this subject and they are building the corpus of a factual theory as we speak. There is a lot of evidence in support of the idea that Indo-European and Uralic languages are related.

[@1Anime4you]

@@SairanBurghausen If you do not wish to believe in science, go ahead.

[@SairanBurghausen]

@@1Anime4you Nope

[@MW_Asura]

Catalan, Basque and Galician are spoken in the regions of Spain. Galician is very close to Portuguese as they're both related. Romansh is a minority Romance language spoken in Switzerland

[@Nakkisesonki]

Isnt basque in france too

[@Alex-ds6sw]

​@@NakkisesonkiBasque and Catalan are both in France too. But most speakers of these languages are in Spain.

[@kennethcamilleri4678]

That big church as you called it……is the famous Norte Dame Cathedral in Paris France….it’s under major reconstruction……I went there in 2003 before the damage was made…it was tremendous sight to be hold…

[@Lemonz1989]

I’m a native Faroese speaker. Faroese and Icelandic are considered insular Scandinavian, while Norwegian, Danish and Swedish are considered continental Scandinavian. :)

[@stevenmora0017]

It is a curious case because norwegian is considered as more related to insular Scandinavian languages but because it has more contact with continental languages it is more similar to them.

[@Lemonz1989]

@ Yes, the Norwegian pronunciation is closer to Faroese than Danish, but they use a lot of Danish words.

[@theRAV4000]

25:35 this is cyrillic alphabet that is used by some slavic languages. Russia uses it but it was actually invented in Bulgaria. It is just an alphabet just like latin alphabet, the languages are different

[@CVery45]

Not in Bulgaria in Greece. And Slavic languages not different, these languages from one root, That’s why there are wars between the Slavs, because people like you are looking for difference, not the similarities. The Slavs need to learn cohesion from the Turkic-speaking and Finno-Ugric peoples, and even the Germans have more cohesion than the Slavs because of people like you who divide. Although you are Ukrainian, judging by your comment, you can’t expect anything else from Ukrainians

[@theRAV4000]

@@CVery45 lmao also im not ukrainian

[@CVery45]

@@theRAV4000 especially since you’re messing with the Slavs then

[@theRAV4000]

@@CVery45 bro you have a problem because I just said some facts, get help slavs are similar but also different

[@andriysychuk7799]

@@theRAV4000 Ok, I'm ukrainian and you've written well-known facts. But why the f'ck do you care that you can be associated with ukrainians? Are you scared by russians?

[@sagittariusa9012]

Romansh is an official language in Switzerland (but not many speak it). It is basically a mix between Alemannic German/Swiss German) and Latin. The name Romansh comes from Rom/Roman Empire and not from Romania (which is also named after Rom)^^

[@lumpek4149]

Yea Polish language is known for being speak fast without taking breath :D

[@leannetaylor6843]

So difficult...

[@a4kata40]

Cyrilic alphabet was created in Bulgaria 9 century.

[@MrNixtt]

And derived from Greek

[@HeroManNick132]

@@MrNixtt And Greek from Phoenician alphabet.

[@MrNixtt]

@@HeroManNick132 there is a big difference buddy. The Greek alphabet is often seen as superior to the Phoenician script because it introduced vowels, creating a fully phonetic writing system. Unlike the consonant-only Phoenician abjad, the Greek alphabet represented both vowels and consonants, making it easier to read, write, and adapt to various languages. This innovation allowed for precise phonetic representation, supporting the development of complex literature, philosophy, and science. Its adaptability and standardization also helped it spread widely, influencing alphabets like Latin and Cyrillic. By improving clarity and accessibility, the Greek alphabet set the foundation for modern written communication. And that’s not true for Cyrillic!

[@HeroManNick132]

@@MrNixtt And by thing logic you know Greek has only 24 letters while Cyrillic has at least 30 letters and the old one had nearly 50 letters like the Slovak Latin alphabet.

[@MrNixtt]

@ what the number of letter has to do with which one was more revolutionary better older and which one started so many things you know today? lol

[@senor-achopijo3841]

5:45 You're absolutely on point! Galician is closely related to both Spanish and Portuguese. You can think of it as a middle point between the two.

[@IAmThe_RA]

It's like portuguese spoken by a spaniard 😅

[@محمدالقحطاني-س1ق4ف]

Yes but i think it’s closer to spanish

[@Mixolixplosion]

​@@محمدالقحطاني-س1ق4ف​ Closer to Portuguese. They used to be one language (Galician-Portuguese) and then they parted ways. Phonetically, they sound more similar to Spanish (well Galicia is a Spanish territory, so Spanish influence is expected).

[@محمدالقحطاني-س1ق4ف]

@@Mixolixplosion thank you for the information!

[@tatianaferreira5998]

I'm portuguese and I can understand everything in Spanish and Galician cause it's very similar, it even has the same words but with different accent. I also can understand Italian cause it's also similar, but not as much as Spanish and Galician. French is also understandable to us, but we have to pay much attention. And it's easy for us to learn. Latin languages are all very similar.

[@drewgab3172]

I'm French, speak/understand Spanish at an intermediate level (because I studied!) and what you're saying is not true.

[@tatianaferreira5998]

@@drewgab3172 because you personally don't understand, doesn't mean the rest of us don't as well. You don't even know me, yet you're saying it is a lie that I understand Spanish and Italian and a bit of french, because of similarities to my own language. How arrogant can you be to think you know better than me what I know or not know?!

[@paulocorreia7942]

@@drewgab3172 Typical French. Can't admit that a Portuguese person can speak several languages. For you, the Portuguese are all bricklayers and janitors. That's why nobody likes the french. They were left with that image of the Portuguese of the 50s who fled the dictatorship and wars in Africa and yet stuck! Anyway, such a snob and idiot people!!!

[@MysticalRetreat]

pergunta a qualquer pessoa jovem vais ver que ninguém entende francÊs

[@aaronbelhandi4289]

@@MysticalRetreat Literal, pero creo que es normal porque el francés tiene muchas influencias de lenguas germánicas pero si prestas atencion ciertas palabras se entienden.

[@PKG-vo8du]

To bad we only saw 47 languages out of 100+ in Europe, the EU itself recognizes 64 different languages within the EU borders and then there are tons of different languages in Europe outside of the EU.

[@ati847]

At the Hungarian part those wasn’t shells she was holding. The Danube had a record low level and an old sunken ship was found in the river bed. She was holding coins form that ship.

[@Ependorrfka]

These were not all languages of Europe, there were mising of Kashubian and Sorbian languages (languages originating similarly to Polish, Czech and Slovak from the group of West Slavic language)

[@entwistlefromthewho]

As well as Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh the British Isles also has Cornish and Manx languages. Breton, spoken in the Brittany region of France, is closely related to Cornish and Welsh.

[@domiiinik4320]

Romansh is one of the languages used in Switzerland (the rest are German, French and Italian) but very few people can actually speak it Basque is very interesting language, because it's not similar to any other language in the world, it's completely unique and it's spoken only in Basque Country (in parts of Spain and France) You are right that Luxembourgish sounds kinda German, because it's basically a mix between German and French + some other words here and there Faroese is spoken on Faroe Islands that belong to Denmark and it's one of the 2 languages (the other one is Icelandic) that is the closest to the language of Vikings (despite Vikings coming mostly from Denmark and Norway, modern Norwegian and Danish are really different languages compared to what Vikings were using) Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian are basically one language but don't say that to them, they will get angry XD And these "russian letters" are not even Russian, it's called cyrillic alphabet and it originated in Bulgaria, it's also used by Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Serbia, North Macedonia, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Montenegro, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan (some of these countries also use latin alphabet like most of the western world) Maltese is mostly a mix of English and Italian with couple other words (main languages on Malta are Maltese, English and Italian)

[@escfuego]

Actually Maltese is more simmilar to arabic than italian or english, it is even considered a dialect of arabic

[@senor-achopijo3841]

Not surprised you've never heard of Romansh, tbh. I didn't know it existed until I went to Uni. It's an official language of Switzerland, though, alongside German, French and Italian.

[@tomeyboo]

Europe only has like 200 spoken languages which is not a lot compared to Papua New Guinea for example. They alone have like 850 languages.

[@inPetza]

the Romanian one wasn't really speaking fast, really moderate speed.

[@Mamaki1987]

Yes, russian, belarussian, ukrainian, serbian, makedonian and bulgarian use the same alphabet. Since they are slavic languages they are related. Just like German, English, Swedish, Dutch and Norwegin and probably some other languages as well. Or all the romance languages. Finnish and Hungarian are in a league of its one.

[@HeroManNick132]

Belarusian* Stop the Russification of Belarus! Serbian also officially uses Latin alphabet too like Montenegrin and Bosnian which sometimes is written in Cyrillic. Belarusian also has Latin alphabet.

[@swedishmetalbear]

These are just the main regional languages. There are also minority languages in most European countries too.. Sweden for example.. Not just Swedish.. Also Elfdalian, Gutnish, Miänkieli, Sámi, Romanes... Finland not just Finnish, Finland-Swedish, Karelian, Romani. Estonia, Not just Estonian, Ingrian, Estonian-Swedish (Almost died out), Ukraine, Ukrainian Russian, Crimean Tartar, Ukrainian-Swedish(About 10 living speakers left), Ruthenian. Etc.etc.

[@nurrnena7798]

I'd love to find some examples of Estonian-Swedish. When Estonian Swedes visited Stockholm during their cargo trips, Swedes always thought that their language was like ancient Swedish. But I don't think Estonian-Swedish is alive anymore. Even when they were still in Estonia, their language was already dying out.

[@michellekessler4288]

rumantsch is a language of switzerlan. Switzerland has 4 national languages, one is this.

[@HeroManNick132]

And also it's the least spoken one. In English is Romansh.

[@rafalkaminski6389]

Luxbourgish sound like an elegant, light german :)

[@vitalvolvol6862]

It is cyrillic alphabet, not russian. We don't say english alphabet for every language that uses latin alphabet.

[@stipe3124]

Actually Cyrillic letters and alot of vocabulary came from Bulgarian to Russian and not from Russian to Bulgarian, also it is weird when someone says every Slavic language looks like Russian since every Slavic language is story for itself and not always directly connected to Russian.

[@HeroManNick132]

Croatian with Cyrillic will look like Serbian (unless if you add the 2 extra letters from Montenegrin).

[@AntonyCamper]

Where are Kashubian, Silesian, Upper sorbian, Lower sorbian, Pomak, Gagauz, Netherlandish and so on languages???!!! There are many more languages then in this video. Almost in every country there are several languages.

[@HeroManNick132]

It's almost impossible to include every single European language because: 1. Either they don't have news channel. 2. They have barely any speakers. 3. Some languages are debated if they are dialects or languages. Like Silesian is often considered a dialect of Polish. Same with Pomak to Bulgarian. Or like Scots and English, Rusyn and Ukrainian and the list goes on.

[@abram6282]

To add to "I don't understand how you" comments, how can you say that greek alphabet is crazy and has to be hard to learn, bruh elementary school physics, you should be able to read at least half of the letters If for some reason not it is still very easy since it is an alphabet like Latin with only few characters nothing like Japanese or Chinese

[@nest1109]

I find the Greek alphabet easier than Cyrillic.

[@TheseTagsAreUseless]

portugese sounds for me like spanish person trying to speak french with an italian accent

[@joaoteixeira7410]

Thanks for not saying that dounds russian. 😅

[@KeesBoons]

Nice, some I didn't hear before. They missed out on some as well.

[@rechtech5474]

15:24 no we don't have apple stores

[@blueeyedbaer]

I speak Swedish fluently. I understood Norwegian perfectly, almost didn't understand anything in Danish and totally nothing in Finnish as it's an unrelated language.

[@ojgfhuebsrnvn2781]

I am not Greek but i am confused, it's not the first video of American i see commenting on Greek alphabet and talking as if he never seen it before? Don't you learn Greek alphabet on math? I don't know if it was modern alphabet or not but i remember in school we were told to learn whole alphabet and used it extensively throughout whole school and university. The only letter i don't know how it looks like is capital Xi. Ofcourse i don't know pronounciations of those letters in modern Greek but reading it and making some sense of words that has spread to other languages is not that difficult. So i wonder, does US teach math without use of Greek alphabet? p.s. I am trying to learn Dutch (just began so don't know much) but wtf is this pronounciation of most people? I turn on TV, turn on subtitles and cannot find any words that fits those subtitles. I am not trying to say it is bad but it gives impression as if everybody is talking like they have food in their mouth and forgot to swallow it. Some people speak clearly but most just mumbling smth. And i always hear them adding "E" sound at the end of the words that are not supposed to have it (i am not talking about adjectives) as if they just fill some space between words with "E" sound (in most cases i hear adding "E" to verbs even though it is not plural).

[@krewetkashrimp]

When you don't know a language there is always a feeling they speak fast. When I was in school english speakers sounds fast. It's just an illusion cause you don't know seperate words.

[@LynxLord1991]

Some of the are region who have their own language and cultures but are part of countries. Faroe Islands is part of the Kingdom of Denmark so is Greenland

[@mikaelwerner8146]

Denmark and Sweden .Norway Iceland Faroe are brotherfolks and Finland also we also hav Aland and Greenland in our Union Best wishes from Sweden and hope you will have an great summer

[@saturahman7510]

But our languages are not similar ! Greetings from Finland.

[@seanickle4781]

The Romanian speaking was very moderate, not fast at all in my opinion

[@محمدالقحطاني-س1ق4ف]

اللغات الاتينية حلوه مره اللغات الجرمانية جيدة الا الإنجليزية و الهولندية احلى اللغات السلاڤية احلى من الجرمانية لكن اللاتينية احلى

[@MrApocalyptica83]

just for information some country in europe have more than on official language , and some regional dialect too so in spain the spanish ou youlearn at school is the castillan , but in spain theres is the catalan , the basque , the galician , who are as official language , and regionale language and romanish is on of the 4 official language of swizerland alongside french italian and german

[@retowalti9227]

romansh is in switzerland a language only in one canton (state) spoken - so swiss has 4 languages = german, french, italian and romansh :)

[@joecachia2]

Maltese is the only semitic language in the world, that is written with a Latin alphabet. The GH , which is a single letter ( the one with a double line on the H ) is silent in the beginning and the middle of the word , but has the sound of a normal h when at the end. It has roots in the semitic origins of the language .

[@TransoceanicOutreach]

27 25 - ' Irish sounds like they have a potato in their throat' - THATS WACIST!

[@v24231]

Mostly I agree, yet the larger part of Istanbul is in Europe. Besides, one more relatively big Turkish city Edirne/Adrianople is in Europe as well.

[@diegoyuiop]

The way Italian news presenter talk is always funny

[@Fl1mper]

The subtitles at 7:04 are just amazing 😂

[@SinzPet-]

never hear Maltese b4 tbh sounds like a mix of italian and arabic to me

[@richlisola1]

It kinda is! It’s like Tunisian Arabic when Italian words, French words, and a smattering of English

[@HeroManNick132]

Maltese is a Semitic language.

[@joca1311]

Kazakhstan is not in Europe, it is Asia

[@محمدالقحطاني-س1ق4ف]

Small part of it in euorpe

[@odofajlhauer3507]

Some of Kazakhstan is on the European side of the Ural Mountains in Russia, hence theoretically it kind of is, (no seriously if you don't believe me try looking for the Ural mountain range the boundary of Europe with Asia), as is Georgia and Azerbaijan however on most maps they count major parts of the territory for countries in Europe so technically it's also not, it is and is not basically mainstream no and kind of yes so I see the confusion.

[@escfuego]

Catalan, Galician and Basque are from Spain

[@TGRIE402]

There is much more languages that wasn't included

[@HeroManNick132]

It's impossible to include them because: 1. Some languages are debated if they are dialects or different languages. 2. Some languages maybe don't even have own TV channel so finding spoken one can be a real challenge.

[@TGRIE402]

@@HeroManNick132 even if its dialects, they still need to be included since the people that speaking them consider themselves different ethnic group, also there is actual languages that wasn't included, for example breton, frisian, sami language

[@TGRIE402]

@@HeroManNick132 since this languages are endangered they have to be included otherwise people will forget that such people exist and they will not get any support from others

[@HeroManNick132]

@@TGRIE402 By dialects I mean like Scots and English for example (not to be confused with Scottish Gaelic which is Celtic), while Scots being Germanic. Breton like Irish, Manx, Welsh, Cornish, Scottish Gaelic are Celtic. Frisian actually has 2 variants (Western and Northern) but the Western one is more spoken. Saami also has 2 variants but the Northern one is more spoken. But some of these barely have any speakers left like Istro-Romanian for example (which is spoken in Croatia). Also there is Aromanian (spoken by the Vlachs in Greece, North Macedonia mainly). And some of them are extinct like Prussian, Polabian, Thracian for example. There are also more debated languages/dialects like: Catalan - Valencian Ukrainian - Rusyn Polish - Silesian Lombardian - Monegasque (although Monacans hate their national language and prefer to speak French). Latvian - Latgalian And the border with Europe is bit debatable since small part of Kazakhstan is considered in Europe but many people don't consider it European, like with the Caucasus countries. And yeah it's missing also Kipchak (the only Mongolic language in Europe.)

[@enemy1191]

@@HeroManNick132 Well if you just need an audio then you can find some on youtube, but yeah, if it's only clips from news then you ain't gona get all languages.

[@markusolofzon]

I would never have guessed there was so many female anchors

[@sivispacemparabellum395]

It's almost all female job. I wander if they are for equality there also! 😉

[@propertyrealestate9843]

Serbian is only partly similar to Russian. I am a native Russian speaker. Now I live in Serbia. For us, Serbian is fundamentally different, despite the presence of some words that we know. Serbian sounds more harsh and melodic at the same time. The sounds are more articulated, consonants without softening. The stress is placed on the syllables forward. Tonal variations and some Italian loanwords make Serbian sound a bit like Italian to Russian speakers.

[@HeroManNick132]

Tonal features also exist in all South Western Slavic languages but they are not really used. At least unlike Russian which is the least phonetic language, Serbian on the other hand is the most phonetic. Also don't tell me you live in Serbia due to political reasons?

[@maidaerdenhout]

You forgot Frisian ( in the north of the Netherlands)

[@nest1109]

Spoken in Ostfriesland, Germany, too, i guess.

[@alred3600]

And those are only the "official" ones, or better, a quite good try...As - like everything in Europe - the matter of defining what is a "language" is a quite difficult one, and it doesn't get simpler (and for sure linguistically completely wrong) if You try to shorten the process by simply using a chart of "officially recognized languages" as what qualifies and/or is recognized where as a language and why differs highly from country to country and is more dependent on historical border disputes and nation building processes and the actual and often highly conflictual status of ethnic minorities (and their languages) within those states than on an actual ethnic or linguistic entity or geographical spread. So in the end, in Europe, most minority languages aren't recognized as "official languages" on a national level, as long there isn't a severe ethnic and/or historical conflict behind, which enforced this process. On the other hand, due to other conflicts, historical developments and the formation of new nations, there exists quite a bunch of "official" national (recognized) languages, which under strictly linguistic patterns, rather resemble regional dialects and varieties of a bigger language continuum. And no, it doesn't help much, to check for the number of languages recognized by the EU, as this is done not in a scientific, but on a political base, to ve more precise on recommendation and application from single nations, nonetheless the EU does only recognize 24 languages as official and only 6 languages as "working languages" of/in it's institutions. And it's very similar in countries nor been part of the EU. So to find out, how many languages do actually exist and are spoken in Europe, You'd need a completely different, less political but more linguistical approach, which on the other side is backed by a big international organization, to avoid unilateral and/or nationalistic and ethnocentristic quarrels. The thing next to this would be the definition and listing under the standard of ISO-639-3 codes, which does list about 200 languages for Europe. This also does refer best to the selection of different languages made in the video, as many if them wouldn't qualify under the ISO-639-1 codes (which rather do refer to bigger families and groups of languages) nor to the ISO-639-2 code level, which mainly covers metalanguages. So a number of about 200 (native) languages spoken in Europe alongside ISO-639-3 norm is about the nearest You can get to the real circumstances and variety...which isn't too much for a whole continent, as in neighbouring Africa or Asia each several thousand languages are in existence.

[@IAmThe_RA]

Can you akso react to Asian languages uploaded by the same channel?

[@rafalkaminski6389]

Romansh sound a bit like italian, romanian with german sprinkles

[@rainbows5232]

i speak russian and from belarus, so for me a lot of them was like a test to see what i can pick up from other slavic languages. you can always pick up a few words here and there

[@joca1311]

Most of the Balkan languages (Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin) are practically the same language, renamed according to the newly created states...the differences are 2-3%. Macedonian is a mixture of Serbian and Bulgarian. Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian differ from each other by up to 10%. Czech and Slovak also, Romanian and Italian are similar. Danish and Norwegian too...

[@tic-tacdrin-drinn1505]

Romanian and Italian have some similar words but the grammars are different. Italian and Spanish or even Italian and Galician are more mutually intelligible

[@Pidalin]

@@tic-tacdrin-drinn1505 Similarly as Czech and Slovak, big part of vocabulary is similar, but grammar is slightly different, Slovak doesn't have vocative case etc.....and also their accent is very different. If you have no experiences with Slovak as a Czech, you can understand like 80%, words for animals and plants are mostly totaly different. I would say that we can understand each other better because of we are used to our regional accents which can be even more different than Czech and Slovak, so when you are a Czech, you probably know some Moravians or Silesians and when you understand them, you will probably understand even Slovaks. 🙂

[@MRZ_dookie]

Romanian and Italian come from tge same group, just like Danish/Norwegian and Slavic languages, no wonder they sound similar

[@SK-nw4ig]

Danish and norwegian are almost the same language, even closer than swedish and norwegian - and they are 95% mutually understandable. Finnish is nothing like them.

[@HeroManNick132]

And also they use the same alphabet. Finnish is not even Indo-European that's why it is so different because it's Uralic like Estonian, Hungarian, Komi, Karelian, Saami languages and the others spoken as minority in Russia and Estonia, Latvia.

[@Pidalin]

Irish always reminds me this scene kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2KxeoRmrd1nl6M but I would say it's more funny in Czech dubbing 😀

[@temochitadze229]

As a georgian i can read all of their alphabet script except armenian😂(even greek)

[@grovergrandle3018]

I didnt think that azerbaijan was europe

[@skylinwinter5970]

As a German, I can understand Luxembourgish , Dutch and Swiss German completely. Dutch is actually a mixture between German and English while luxembourgish is (I think) a mixture between French and German

[@felicepompa938]

Luxemburgish is actually one of the Franco-Rheinish dialects of german. A old person living in Trier probably speaks Luxemburgish already while speaking in its local German

[@nest1109]

Wenn Sie alemannisch verstehen, dann weil Sie aus Süddeutschland sind oder kommen Sie aus dem Norden? Herzliche Grüße von einem ehemaligen Adoptivschweizer.

[@saturahman7510]

Suomi ja eesti on samankuuloisia, eikö tuo tomppeli kuule !

[@v24231]

Lisäksi Karjalan kieli Petroskoin ympäristössä... Ja Karjalan kieli Tverin pohjoispuolella. Ja myös Mordvan kieli, Komin kieli (Komi kiv), udmurttien kieli (udmurt kiil)...

[@cerliezio]

I am flabbergasted by the ignorance.

[@constantindima523]

Romanian ❤

[@Tjaland-t6p]

English and French

[@paavohellstedt4949]

Sami language missing in this video.

[@cursedimageseveryday5559]

Hungarian is the closest thing to martian for like seriously: Megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért

[@petermikus2363]

22:23 46 total

[@bigstevie1690]

Scottish/English 😁

[@Bigmonster-u7c]

And you where are you from ❤😮😂

[@imwinningthisone7613]

Love how Belgium is always completely unrepresented in these vids

[@Bigmonster-u7c]

But your English too Hart 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Rubeus1000]

serbian, mointenegran, croatian and bosniac are in linguistic recognized as one language - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbo-Croatian with many dialects. Something like English spoken in England, Scotland, USA, Canada, Australia, South Africa. Different verbs for same thing, pronunciation, accents

[@kittylikemebluejay9723]

I wanted to hear the greek language and i ended up press the part where greek language is on this video

[@nest1109]

Azerbaidjan language and continental turquish are the same language?

[@AntonyCamper]

No

[@nest1109]

Letzeburgisch sounds like german and some light dutch.

[@nest1109]

I love romantsch.

[@miguelsaavedramaresca4126]

why is turkish here? they are not an european language

[@HeroManNick132]

They have more people than Greece in the European part.

[@enemy1191]

Azerbaijani and Kazakh isn't either. It's only put in because those countries kind of have some parts in Europe. Like Georgian and Armenian isn't European really too. But they are that line between Europe and Asia. Although if they include them, there could be so many other languages from Caucasus, mostly the ones in Russia part, like Chechen, Dagestani, etc.

[@v24231]

And what about Istanbul/Constaninople, apropos the largest city in Europe now? To me, it's definitely located in Europe.

[@HeroManNick132]

@@v24231 Istanbul is half in Europe, half in Asia. Counting it as the largest city in Europe is debatable since 9 million is in Europe and 6 million in Asia. Sure over 10 million Turks live in the European side with 8 million living in Germany more than 70 million live on the Asian side unlike Russia where geographically is more in Asia but 110 million out of 145 million people live in European part.

[@HeroManNick132]

@@enemy1191 Don't forget Kipchak which is the only Mongolic language spoken in Europe.