Each East Asian Languages Explained in 1 Sentence -ish

[@markovucic]

Thanks!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Comment pinned. Very much appreciated.

[@lightzebra]

The Austronesian languages are such an interesting group. Some nobodies in Taiwan 1500 BC were like "Hey let's sail south" and now you have people in Madagascar and Hawaii sharing vocabulary

[@BenLlywelyn]

Madagascar, yea that is a wild link isn't it?

[@GobbiExists]

It’s so sad that the Austronesian languages in Taiwan are almost gone 😢

[@amerdoom6491]

I like you and your videos my friend 👍 ​@BenLlywelyn

[@peekaboopeekaboo1165]

​@@GobbiExists Funny fake news and disinformation. 🤡

[@hanuta8859]

Omg i love these videos please continue this series!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Will do.

[@johannesbowman2194]

Every time he says "sprinkles" it is the most oddly satisfying thing.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Yes!

[@kleinornot3763]

I wonder how would sub Saharan languages would fit in this series . Subscribed.

[@BenLlywelyn]

You shall find out. But for now... shabbat shalom.

[@noelleggett5368]

That’s a heck of a lot of wildly different language families (not just the languages they contain) spread across three continents and tens of thousands of islands. (There are over 3000 languages still spoken on the island of New Guinea).

[@MIF-iq1sq]

I feel sorry for Bro’s social credit score 💀💀💀

[@AMYZhang-ro5qc]

That’s ok in china 😂

[@peekaboopeekaboo1165]

Bullshit history lesson !

[@jezusbloodie]

I am so hyped that this is going to be a full series!! For april fools, might be fun to release one of Tolkien's Middlearth and rest of Arda.

[@BenLlywelyn]

This amuses me greatly.

[@jezusbloodie]

@@BenLlywelyn wunderbar ❤‍🔥💍

[@Wishbone1977]

It should be very doable. While I haven't studied the available material much myself, I do know that Tolkien was a linguistics fanatic, and that his fiction has often been described as an excuse for him to play around with various constructed languages of his own devising.

[@Antpaok]

Here before the algorithm blows this up, can't wait to see the success of this series!!

[@GeorgeFiladelfiotis]

άμα δεν πει τη μαλακία του για τους "καλούς Αμερικανούς" και την Ταιβάν δε μπορεί ο τρόμπας

[@anthonytran5492]

60%-70 % Vietnamese vocabulary had significant chinese influence and had used chinese character historically for many centuries factually. Vietnam originated from China, located in SEA nowadays due to political reasons and country expansion, nonetheless.

[@NekromDj]

You are SO entertaining AND educational - please continue the great work

[@BenLlywelyn]

I will do, thank you.

[@peekaboopeekaboo1165]

Entertaining... Yes . Educational... No . His Chinese history lesson has factual errors .

[@cv5w]

Amazing content!!! I love the way you mingle history with linguistics in a simplified way for almost anyone to understand. As a great man once said "simplify, simplify, simplify, but not more than necessary" or something to that effect.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Good advice!

[@cv5w]

@@BenLlywelyn I had paraphrased Einstein, who is supposed to have said in a 1933 lecture: “It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.”

[@BenLlywelyn]

Yours is better.

[@gyara7329]

These videos are really relaxing for some reason.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Talent with tones.

[@meabhmurphy9090]

I love how calmly he speaks

[@BenLlywelyn]

Texan tones and Welsh melody.

[@TheOneSin7]

Oh my, this is going to be interesting!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Hope so!

[@TheOneSin7]

@@BenLlywelynIt was! Korea already got me from the start :D Very interesting video, I wouldn't mind to see more.

[@EternalKorvo]

In the process of learning Japanese and Korean and, it’s going so well.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Korean is utterly fascinating, personally.

[@CristiChiri10]

haven't watched the video yet but I know it will be entertaining. I would like all (or most) of the asian languages next video, would be good too

[@zhouwu]

Please let me know what you think of Xiang. You mentioned it only in reference to Hmong. But since it's my dialect, it means a lot to me, even if it means almost nothing to most other people 😅😅😅

[@BenLlywelyn]

From what little I know of it, Xiang is heavily influenced by Hmong itself, and Yue, and older peoples, with a migration of people a long time ago from Wu, so I assume is very lilting and sing-song compared to the more nasal north.

[@katakana1]

@@BenLlywelyn -So like Italian vs French-

[@lightzebra]

5:27 A bit controversial, but I'd love to hear your reasoning for using the word "ancient" to describe a language. I know that the Wikipedia article for Wu does this as well, but claiming that any language is older than another is a bit misleading. Wu has seen its own innovations over the centuries -- it has not been stagnant.

[@jboss1073]

Lithuanian is more ancient than any other surviving Indo-European language. Claiming one language is older than another does not have to be misleading. I understood what he meant. Are you an academic by any chance?

[@confusedowl297]

@@jboss1073Lithuanian is no more ancient than any other Indo-European language. It just has somewhat more conservative features

[@jboss1073]

@@confusedowl297 "Lithuanian is no more ancient than any other Indo-European language. It just has somewhat more conservative features" That is saying the same thing but with added academic pedantry.

[@confusedowl297]

@@jboss1073 No it's not. Saying a language is more ancient than another implies that it literally started earlier in time. Saying that a language is the same age, but has more conservative features than another means they're both equally ancient, but one of them has changed more than the other.

[@jboss1073]

@@confusedowl297 " No it's not. Saying a language is more ancient than another implies that it literally started earlier in time. Saying that a language is the same age, but has more conservative features than another means they're both equally ancient, but one of them has changed more than the other." That might be the case IN ACADEMIC JARGON. However, University Professors are not the people who invented words. Instead, they just borrowed pre-existing words from a pre-existing language that was not spoken only by academics. And in that language, which all of us lay people speak, we can say, indeed, that Lithuanian is a more ancient language than the other IE languages, and we can mean by that the fact that it changed less than the others. You are incurring in the fallacy of thinking that words are ONLY YOURS and NOBODY ELSE can use a word that academics ALSO use. That is simply not true. You must be an academic to think that, however.

[@nagichampa9866]

For Japanese I was expecting something like "Imagine ancient Koreans deciding to change their vocabulary, then adding Chinese words and writing all the while speaking with mostly Polynesian-like phonemes"...

[@amosamwig8394]

what a peaceful channel

[@laabh9949]

Always love seeing this series, hoping you do one exclusively for South Asia next ( or even just Bharat, since it alone has 700 langauges or at least that's what we're taught, could be higher, 22 major ones for sure)

[@BenLlywelyn]

700 languages.😮

[@laabh9949]

@@BenLlywelyn Yepp, waiting for the video then, better be good :D

[@justaduck1664]

Make middle eastern languages explained in one sentence

[@BenLlywelyn]

I will.

[@justaduck1664]

@@BenLlywelyn I just hope you don't butcher egyptian arabic

[@christopherellis2663]

Well-covered. 😊

[@BenLlywelyn]

Thank you kindly. Good to see you again.

[@aromanian-socialist]

make a video about aromanian since you forgot us in the previews one!(pls)!!!!!

[@BenLlywelyn]

I am sure this topic will come in the future, after this series.

[@surroundgatari]

Great video much like the last two! East Asia really blows my mind with how many completely unrelated languages dominate different societies. 8:05 props for mentioning this, as those nuttos very much would want oblivious westerners to think nothing of the sort is going on...

[@BenLlywelyn]

Thank you. Glad to bring notice to the crimes against the Uyghurs that China has done.

[@peekaboopeekaboo1165]

​@@BenLlywelyn Already debunked > Uyghur "genocide-ethnic cleansing-slave labor"

[@jonchius]

As a person with an East Asian-looking avatar, I love this and this series of language summaries! 10:35 Sounds very familiar to somewhere, but where? :)

[@BenLlywelyn]

Pol Pot, no noodles.

[@norielgames4765]

This was really informative

[@Trolligi]

Im a shanghainese (wu) understander lol, trying to learn to speak shanghainese from my relatives

[@BenLlywelyn]

Keep at it!

[@Sonilotos]

Great video! But one thing kind of bugged me: Saying Uyghur has Turkic "sprinkles" is kind of like saying Iranian has Indo-European sprinkles, or like saying Phoenician has Semitic sprinkles. I mean... they are literally that??

[@BenLlywelyn]

Other Turks.

[@Sonilotos]

@@BenLlywelyn oh, then it makes sense :P

[@koloravit]

great content!!

[@oliverhughes610]

매우 흥미롭습니다! 저는 반공주의를 즐깁니다.

[@BenLlywelyn]

자유를 위한 동맹.

[@servantofaeie1569]

Uyghur, despite the name and both being Turkic, is not descended from Old Uyghur (the language which used the script that the Mongolian script came from). In fact they are from different branches of Turkic. The modern descendant of Old Uyghur is called Western Yugur (not to be confused with Eastern Yugur, a Mongolic language spoken by the same ethnicity). Pretty complicated, isn't it?

[@BenLlywelyn]

Why do humans do these things?

[@ChildishSoap]

Bro's going to die trying to do a one sentence video for the Philippine languages💀

[@BenLlywelyn]

There are so many!

[@blaisewilliams5101]

Greetings. How do you do. Thank you very much for sharing these insights. Much appreciated.

[@astrotter]

This is all genuinely interesting, but I'm kind of hypnotized by your mannerisms

[@BenLlywelyn]

Texan tones and Welsh melody.

[@astrotter]

@@BenLlywelynI was wondering about that haha, it was like listening to my cousin except then he suddenly trills an 'r'

[@PLScypion]

In short: Malay is the rainbow cake with rainbow filling and rainbow sprinkles that will cause you to have rainbow linguistic hallucinations.

[@dawsonbrown8863]

Great videos, I'm trying to learn Cymreag and it's not as easy as I thought, any tips.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Croeso.

[@sicko_the_ew]

Good of you to also make some implicit mention of all the Newspeaks. Doubleplusgood, even. Temptation now is to have a sniff of that stuff. Not quite a powder. I think it might actually be my own snot. I wonder how it got there? I could rehome it then. Nah ... nah, better to go find the powder. Or better still, have another go at developing my very own mental illness. :D

[@BenLlywelyn]

Drugs are bad for you, try oranges and push-ups.

[@sicko_the_ew]

@@BenLlywelynPossibly not as bad as handcrafting one's one personal mental illness, but yes, you have a point. Done the push ups, so now I just need to go and look for the right people to throw the oranges at.

[@the_Dark_Knight_12]

I love this series keep it up 👍 please do the middle eastern languages and the central asian ones... and the caucasian ones 😅😂 please

[@BenLlywelyn]

Will do.

[@vidadaniel8734]

I was waiting for Ryukyuan as I live in Okinawa

[@BenLlywelyn]

Good suggestion.

[@vidadaniel8734]

@@BenLlywelyn and for the next European language video, the Gascon language please😅as I am originally from Bordeaux

[@Mrnosilence]

Hello Ben, thank you for this wonderful video, I really loved this type of video, something that almost many people still don't talk about, I appreciate it 🥹

[@hory-portier]

Isn't there multiple languages under the name Chinese? You put Cantonese as Cantonese, so was Mandarin under the 'Chinese' name? btw. Which one do they speak in Taiwan and did it evolve differently yet, or is the separation too fresh?

[@BenLlywelyn]

It is too in depth for this video, or a comment on it. But in brief, Han hold the Chinese Plain, and used it to rule over the rest.

[@marioricomeza2839]

Do you live in kaohsiung ?

[@BenLlywelyn]

Winter there sounds nice.

[@titiwa632]

Taiwan uses traditional characters, not simplified characters.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Cool.

[@titiwa632]

@@BenLlywelyn I'm just saying that because in your "Chinese government" statement you used simplified characters...

[@Qwerka]

800 likes nice!

[@FrithonaHrududu02127]

I double dog dare you to do one of these videos just on the languages of New Guinea

[@BenLlywelyn]

Good grief.

[@finncloison5072]

I think you overdid it a little. The video was great, but shorter sentences I think were cooler and more poetic. I understand, that explaining a language with one sentence is hard, but you managed it perfectly in the previous videos

[@BenLlywelyn]

Still in practice, we'll try again and learn.

[@AMYZhang-ro5qc]

As a Chinese, I sincerely hope that you can change the national flag of China to the current internationally recognized official flag🥲.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Thanks for watching.

[@AMYZhang-ro5qc]

@@BenLlywelyn In fact, your video is really good. As a Chinese, I can hardly imagine that a foreigner can explain our language in such detail. If you can change the flag to an internationally recognized one next time, I think your video will receive more Chinese love ☺️ Good luck with your videos getting better and better😄😄

[@mmadaus]

10:00 I lost it

[@aristagne]

You included Southeast Asian languages

[@BenLlywelyn]

Yes.

[@dustgreylynx]

Respect for the true Chinese flag! Big fan of your work, btw, keep going!

[@SaChea-dl4rz]

You failed to mention that the khmer language is heavily influenced by sanskrit, pali and later french.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Sanskrit deserves its own video.

[@SaChea-dl4rz]

​@@BenLlywelynthen you should not mention that thai had indian, chinese, English and Portuguese. While on the other hand Laos, vietnam and Cambodia are former French colony. Both Laos and Cambodia are also indian influenced. French is a secondary language of Cambodia.

[@FrithonaHrududu02127]

Did you happen to see the cZECH linguist that is recording the last three native speakers of SARKESE.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Glad they are being recorded.

[@mihaiilie8808]

Make one about the oldest languages in the world, from Africa. The 6,5,4 clicks languages. The bosimani, San, has the most clicks and its the oldest.

[@BenLlywelyn]

It might be click bait.

[@Poopick]

What are your sources bro? I'm hearing here traces of linguistic conspiracies.

[@BenLlywelyn]

It is a joke.

[@Poopick]

@@BenLlywelyn ok thanks for clarifying i actually fell for it

[@valetech8751]

pleas do one on the aboriginal / native languages of south america. We got so much going on down there but Spanish / Portuguese kinda killed it which is a shame because the languages are still spoken if a bit moribund

[@BenLlywelyn]

Good idea.

[@jezusbloodie]

Love (mis)pronounciation edits and the shade that's seeping in, but I'd loved it even more if it were expanded to "colonial nutters", "imperialistic nutters", "religious nutters", "aristocratic nutters" , etc. for any forced top-down attempts to change language. But since communists openly admitted to doing this, I can see why it might be unclear as to where to draw the lines elsewhere. My favourite sprinkle in a language is probably the Japanese for "tomboy" or non-conforming-woman, coming from the Dutch for "untamable"

[@huyluong3902]

I like your intro to the Vietnamese language... ;) * Cough cough cops

[@CastChaos]

Outmost interesting! Some I didn't even heard about so far. That, and that I know less about these languages than for example of in Europe, it makes it also feel like some fantasy novel. I was especially interested in your take on Korea, it always interested me, how a Japanish language got a footing among Chineseish ones, but even developing a completely different sign alphabet. So then they are practically like Japanese, only that those moved east extreme early in human history, while Koreans didn't move around too much.

[@Mouse-p5s]

Taiwan(x) ZhongHuaMinGuo(o) 🇹🇼

[@fabiomorandi3585]

So you're saying Malay has knocked other languages out in a back alley and rifled through their pockets for spare words and grammar like English did?

[@BenLlywelyn]

No. Malay, Catalan and Swahili were all regional trading languages.

[@TheLeftPath]

The south koreans were so open-minded they massacred anyone who was differently minded!

[@BenLlywelyn]

😧

[@주안석-c3v]

South Koreans-no. South Korean dictators-yes.

[@almami1599]

Waiting for middle eastern and north African languages

[@BenLlywelyn]

Splendid.

[@radiojet1429]

Diolch, Ben. As far as Taiwan - rwy'n cytuno a chi.

[@kakalushkklush102]

Mingalar bar! 🇲🇲

[@DemiGodSpeciaL]

This channel is so underrated. Sad.

[@BenLlywelyn]

It is coming up.

[@WaMo721]

southeast is also east asian?

[@BenLlywelyn]

Not southeast Africa.

[@WaMo721]

@@BenLlywelyn okay

[@ZootBurger]

Mae gennych lais siarad hardd, ac mae eich fideos yn wybodus ac yn ddifyr. ❤

[@BenLlywelyn]

Diolch yn fawr iawn am ddweud felly, ac am wylio.

[@malloryemclaren]

Sprinkles 💦

[@BenLlywelyn]

🎇

[@michaelchr4239]

lets go Taiwan!!

[@depresso_espressooo]

I love how you used the Taiwanese flag for Chinese!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Yes!

[@cupcakkeisaslayqueen]

One thing i dint understand: youre talking as if japanese is related to korean, which it is not

[@BenLlywelyn]

Please listen again very carefully.

[@DrosYGymraeg]

Diddorol. Diolch am Rhannu.

[@juliaschiero659]

The amount of anti-commie propaganda in this is crazy 😂

[@BenLlywelyn]

Making up for lost time.

[@cymru_am_byth]

Your political leanings are definitely more American than your adopted country Ben... MIght want to take a look at the left wing history of Cymru a bit more, our left wing politics and the fact that we are an open welcoming country go hand in hand. Not all communist experiments are alike, frankly not all self proclaimed communist states are communist. North Korea is more a despotic monarchy. Marx/Engels never left a blueprint of how a communist nation should function to my knowledge so it's no wonder many countries interpretations have been questionable and differ widely. #sprinkles

[@antonolo4670]

I agree. I also find a contradiction in how he calls language influences of capitalism and imperialism as "sprinkles" e.g; English and Spanish in Tagalog, English in Japanese and Dutch in Indonesian yet Chinese influences in Uigher and Russian influences in Mongolian are due to "communist nutters" seems to paint a very negative picture of communist countries while accepting the oppression of non-communist countries as indicative to history.

[@declanmcclelland]

Did you watch Ben’s video on Welsh independence?

[@cymru_am_byth]

@@declanmcclelland Not yet, he's made a lot of content only found him the other day watched 4 vids, backstory and sprinkle vids.

[@declanmcclelland]

Fair play. I’ve been following him from early days, I think sub 1k followers, pretty much most of his videos back then were all based on Welsh, I can’t knock him for that. I honestly couldn’t see how he would grow his channel from there but he’s done it well, grafted and branched out with his content. But yeah, his video on Welsh independence is thought provoking, and makes you think about Welsh independence in the context of the left/right political spectrum. Gwerth gwylio yn fy marn I x

[@cymru_am_byth]

​@@declanmcclelland Okay I watched it, yeah he really does not seem to like anything remotely left leaning and lumps it all together with utopianism/oppressor style politics. There's a big difference between the Soviet Union and Denmark, I'm not sure he sees it. I'm sure he called Israel a stable state, It's an ethno state who's leaders believe the total destruction/enslavement of another people is vital to their survival who's dominant ideology is so right wing it's fascist, all the parties are zionist. That is one ideology. He's an interesting guy, knowledgeable not sure how much his over the top pretentiousness is done to entertain or just him. Warped politics though. His main reason for being anti-independence is that he feels an independent Wales would in roughly his words be led by a utopian one ideology party. He forgot Japan DLP who have dominated in a similar way but hold different politics there are other examples. He's hiding behind ideology because it's not an ideology he shares imo. The reason Cymru doesn't have many political parties is because we only have 3 million population and most people are working class. Personally I think after independence the parties would splinter and reorganize themselves, the Tories couldn't exist as they are now, and probably even Labour and Plaid imo.

[@Алиса-м7н7ж]

Hey care to expain why you didn't have a single mention of horrific treatment of Koreans by Japanese, if you want to educate us on history so much?

[@BenLlywelyn]

Will you excuse me for not mentioning 18th century poetry in such a short-winded compression too?

[@finncloison5072]

-150 000 social credit

[@BenLlywelyn]

I wouldn't have it any other way.

[@canesno1fan]

Should get a few little pinks in here at some point crying about the flag behind Chinese

[@servantofaeie1569]

I love it 🇹🇼

[@BenLlywelyn]

🙂

[@ΔημητρηςΓιαννακοπουλο]

Algorithm comment

[@BenLlywelyn]

😀

[@floris4972]

i got a feeling he is not a very big fan of the ccp

[@BenLlywelyn]

😉

[@smith-qk5xz]

Not fond of the quite useless and juvenil anti-communist stand points, beside that the video was interesting

[@BenLlywelyn]

Saving our future from the Marxist cult is not juvenile, it is necessary.

[@weiyuzhu9373]

1. These are not one sentences; your Eurocentric model isn't working here. 2. and I just don't think you are capable of "explaining" anything of Asian languages. 3. Moreover, if you would prefer to use the Taiwan's flag instant of the Chinese flag - that is not something of liberalism. That is RACIST I challenge you since you feel like more Westernized non-white people, like Japanese or increasingly South Koreans, are better. I was appreciating your efforts for preserving endangered languages. BUT, you are disappointing!

[@9du4ze2]

...political comments in the future 😅.,same "flavor " naturally..😅

[@BenLlywelyn]

Nice. Thank you.

[@o_s-24]

I recommend you don't visit china

[@loogloogloogr]

Why not?

[@amosamwig8394]

if you know you know

[@BenLlywelyn]

Maybe a fun experiment? Yea, probably not.

[@fredericosampaio6457]

Ben, if you happen to go back to Europe, please don't forget Gascon and Breton ( plîs, Ben, cofia siarad am " asconeg" a Llydawned yn hwyr).

[@BenLlywelyn]

Mae Llydaweg yno.

[@fredericosampaio6457]

@@BenLlywelyn Ops 🤭