Each Middle Eastern Language explained in 1 sentence - ish

[@mmadaus]

babe wake up, new video by Ben with sprinkles just dropped

[@Itisjustasaganow]

Yeeessss

[@moor4016]

The Hebrew part was beautifully done, keep bringing us more language videos and more sprinkles Ben!!

[@BenLlywelyn]

I am glad you liked that part. Diolch/ Thank you. And no, I will not stop now.

[@anaisgarcia2609]

We need a special video for the "love triangle" of Kurdish....

[@BenLlywelyn]

Indeed

[@stefanodadamo6809]

​@@BenLlywelynI'm afraid it will end up banned. Age-restricted stuff, you know... 😂

[@zack2804]

There's really only two notable Kurdish "dialects" (quotation marks, because that in itself is disputed). These two are Sorani and Badini (Kurmanji). Sorani is more similar to Farsi (down to the grammar), while Badini is more influenced by Turkish. I don't know about Aramaic, but I would consider the Arabic as the "sprinkles".

[@BenLlywelyn]

Oh no, let's hope not.

[@timbliss9587]

Great efforts are made to preserve the sanctity of the Hebrew language, so many of the swear words are Arabic, Russian, Yiddish and English... sprinkles!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Swear words in Arabic are expressive.

[@BluebirdJDAM]

Benjamin, You are AMAZINGLY STUNNING!!! ESPECIALLY concerning the Hebrew and the minorities' languages of Iran and Arabian peninsula. Wow, your talent, your Sprachgefühl for each and every mentioned language/dialect/linguistic space is just unfathomable!!! תודה מכל הלב על היותך חבר בשעה נוראה זו!!! אתה אדם מדהים, כשרוני ומיוחד. עם לב אוהב ומלא אהבת חינם. בהצלחה!!!!!

[@almami1599]

Waiting for a video about Arabic variations this is My fav series

[@BenLlywelyn]

Noted. Thank you.

[@Nabi.Migration]

@@BenLlywelyn When you're waiting for Ben for a video about your own language XD. Epic

[@LiorSultanov]

What an awesome channel for a language enthusiast like me

[@cennethadameveson3715]

Someone in work asked me what do they speak in Iran, I said mainly Farsi with a few other language sprinkles. The "sprinkles" is down to you Ben!😂

[@BenLlywelyn]

Changing the world 1 doughnut at a time.

[@yerkishisi]

​@Parkinski27 nah farsi far chadder sounding

[@jlljlj6991]

​@Parkinski27 My Iranian colleagues tend to say "I speak Iranian" most of the time I think. I don't recall them ever calling it Persian, though. Farsi as well, it's interchangeable, but one of them said a lot don't know the term and if you say Iranian, people who are not that interested in languages will not be as confused :D

[@Alonoda]

Proud Hebrew speaker here, this was lovely and nicely done Ben! Wish you much luck learning - בהצלחה :)

[@the_Dark_Knight_12]

Can't wait for caucasian, central asian and north african... love your videos man👍

[@BenLlywelyn]

Thank you very much. Diolch.

[@daMacadamBlob]

Would be awesome if there was a video on sub-Saharan African or Native American languages.

[@BenLlywelyn]

There will be. In time.

[@sergioromanomunoz8155]

I loved the final language. It was beautiful. With sprinkles of humor. Honor the language of the Kings and the Prophets.

[@nitzan33]

As a Hebrew speaker I loved it. A cool part you might not have known, and certainly didn't speak of, was that in it's resurrection many new words were invented, often to describe modern things. Both the legendary Hebrew poet and writer, Hayim Nahman Bialik, and Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, contributed a lot to these process. We mostly ended up going with Eliezer Ben-Yehuda's version of things, although they both invented words and pushed for the revival of the language. I think it is a very curious part of the revival, the case that certain very common words can be attributed to specific people, I can't think of any other tongue where this phenomenon is as prevalent. Moreover modern Hebrew is filled with English, but I guess that is more teen-speech than anything else. But overall I loved the part about Hebrew, some justice to my beautiful mother tongue.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Yes. Czech, Finnish, Japanese and Welsh all have this phonomenon for new words created - but no where near the level of Hebrew! Beautiful.

[@עומר_בוצר12324]

יש גם הרבה מילים בעברית מיידיש וגרמנית והעברית המודרנית היא בנויה מהרבה צורות מילים ודרכי הגיה מגרמנית כמו שמוזכר בסרטון. תראה שבתנ"ך מדברים בצורה מאוד שונה. הדרך שהיום מדברים זה מודרניזציה מגרמנית

[@CastChaos]

@@BenLlywelyn I thought many languages had it so that one or more literaturists decided that it needed a huge upgrade and so created and updated a whole lot of words and grammar, mostly because so many new objects, notions and processes were invented at other parts of the world and entered international use that given language needed to catch up. I know that it happened at least twice with Hungarian in the last 200 years (before then, it was just handled by taking from Latin, Greek and Slavic languages) and I think I remember the same for German. Also, Japanese handled it via carbon copying part of the English dictionary. I didn't know about Czech and Finnish doing so and since I'm just interested, not an expert, I didn't know about Welsh (unless if you mean the Celtic -> Briton change and also the Briton-Anglosaxon history piece later, Arthur forgive that I mention). I guessed the Latin languages didn't need it, for they just kept sharing ideas through the centuries slowly word by word. At least I regularly read the etimology of Spanish words on a Spanish site and that is how it seems. As for Hebrew, might it be because the diaspora, so Jews met the speakers of so many hundredsof languages all over the world...? I never thought of this as a separate topic, but if it's so, it also worths a video. Or more. How a language formed is outmost interesting to be explained in one minute and will always be my favourite format, but a small breakdown with examples like "X type of words, like XY and YX got from XYZ language to ZYX around Y time because of this and that" or "these words were created in this language by this person artifically". Also identifying very old words (predating Latin and more or less preserved in a language today). This is a really interesting facet of learning about languages.

[@Nabi.Migration]

Another good video, Ben :D. I have to admit that as a middle eastern myself i didn't know about some of these languages. The hebrew part crowned the show as intended. It's also interesting to see more converts to Judaism. I would love to watch your take on the arabic varieties. It's great to see into your thoughts and life. After watching your video about your journey through life, from the USA to Britain and then becoming Welsh, I couldn't help but reflect on my own journey. One point that particularly caught my attention was the perception of neo-liberalism and social liberalism. It really made me think about my own beliefs and values.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Thank you. I will be sharing more of my journey in the future for you. As there is a soul behind this channel.

[@stephenchappell7512]

The East used to be Near Middle and Far but now it starts straight away with Middle The Near East btw used to mean Anatolia and the Levant in other words the closest part of Asia to continental Europe

[@evilgoose6768]

Love this series!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Kind. Thank you.

[@amyray4726]

It feels so wierd to be a native Hebrew speaker. I must say, all the words are quite short and concise which is nice, but the language also feels half-baked at times

[@BenLlywelyn]

Fascinating.

[@thebeststoryevertold]

Good series on languages.

[@frankiexpentaxangeli]

my fav series

[@ImpastaTronic78]

rather splendid indeed, keep up the great content! (not a pipe bomb threat)

[@georgios_5342]

Greeks didn't "forget that they were Hittites", the large parts of coastal Anatolia that were inhabited by Greeks were never Hittite, and even Central Anatolia became Greek speaking after large waves of Greek migration, not just assimilation. Large new cities were built from nothing

[@BenLlywelyn]

With a pinch of salt.

[@ardayildiz-si3ho]

Pls Anatolian Greeks are the main source of Turkish ancestry and they are genetically mostly Anatolian only some in the bigger cities have mixed Greek ancestry even many Greek islanders are more Anatolian

[@ardayildiz-si3ho]

I mean nevertheless they’re related people but that doesn’t change the fact that they’re more anatolian

[@Noah-qp6oe]

Great video!!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Thank you.

[@estheay3611]

I can only imagine what sentences Ben could come up with for conlangs, like Toki Pona!

[@BenLlywelyn]

They would be destroyed.

[@sasi5841]

What happened to pontic greek (basically khoine greek with some turkish and georgian sprinkles). The live around trebizond, turkey

[@BenLlywelyn]

Good one. Important.

[@alfonsovelasco7005]

And also Mariupol Greek.

[@laabh9949]

Ayy, another vid from my favourite series. Also, Having an intro is a good choice, but I feel this is too uh...jolly? you should have smth that matches your almost sassy vibe, also waiting for Indian languages vid >:)

[@BenLlywelyn]

What about saxophone?

[@laabh9949]

@@BenLlywelyn if its volume is low......it could be epic! (and ofc credit me (*^ ‿ ⁢*)♡)

[@jezusbloodie]

Excellent video once again. I could listen to your voice for hours. I'd love a video on the Arabic dialectcontinuum. By the way, have you seen the recent works on northern European multiethonolects by H"istory with Hilbert" here on YT? If not, I'd wager you'd find it interesting.

[@jezusbloodie]

My dutchness is appalled, Appalled I say, at you learning Hebrew over Dutch as your fourth language,? VB it fair enough if you describe Hebrew like that. Beutifully.

[@BenLlywelyn]

History with Herbert is a good channel.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Dutch still has the best and cutest word ever for English - Engels.

[@yuribliman8999]

I don't know how to count the languages I speak coz I am bilingual, anyway Hebrew is slowly beginning to be my next language. I thought it would be Italian. Thank you for the sprinkles!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Welcome!

[@idiosyncraticmushroom3030]

Can't wait to hear when he does Native American languages!

[@newworldforbest]

"I listened up to when he said Arabic comes from a person claiming conversation with an angel. This is totally incorrect; Arabic existed before Prophet Mohammed (pbuh)."

[@BenLlywelyn]

With a pinch of salt.

[@TurkishFunAccount]

The video I was looking for letz go

[@Threeangels1976]

Propaganda channel. u should be ashamed of ur bias. Ugh.

[@BenLlywelyn]

🤨

[@cv5w]

Great content! I have a few pieces of unsolicited advice (I know, it's easy to comment and it's hard to create content, so I hope my humility is not lost on you when offering these thoughts). I would make sure to mention the language family for each language you analyze (e.g., Aramaic is an early Afroasiatic language; or semitic, etc) and I would explain what Semitic languages are (how related topics are created from basic consonant clusters), what Turkic languages are (agglutinative, Asian steppe nomads, etc.) just a few tidbits to put the categories in context. I wish you had spent a little bit more time describing the resurrection of Hebrew by Jewish scholars, and how they were able to recreate such a long dead language. A sentence or two explaining why the language of Moses/Abraham and the language of Jesus were different would have also been interesting.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Many videos could be devoted to Hebrew. Thank you.

[@SaadAltuilaai]

Are you sure Abraham spoke Hebrew? A man who is claimed to be born in Iraq would have probably spoken Accadian not Hebrew.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Abraham in Hebrew means father of multitudes.

[@معاذالسعداوي-ك4ث]

Hey Ben, how do you view languages dying and people not speaking a language corresponding to their origin? does it make them less? Arabization had different flavor due to migration, mixing (instead of outright replacement even of replacement happened due to conflicts but as far as I know, it's no different from replacement of arabs to other arabs ) and being the language of poetry religion and a lingua franca. Making Arabization rather a pleasant process in which many people really liked claiming to be Arabs, though probably many of them like me indeed have 100% Arab origins. My tribe is Zamoura, which means cultivated olive, this is further conformed by the area where cultivated olive is still there, also I'm not aware of any Arabic origin of this word, I asked a Moroccan Berber, and she told me she knows this word, also it's known in Algeria, (Eric Zammour) Personally, I define myself as Arab-Berber, though if we go by father's tribe I'm Zammouri (Berber). however, due to Arabic origins and also being culturally Arab for many of us, the right term is Arab Berber like Anatolian Turks. Some claim Berbers are Arabs or Semitic people, but for me, I'm Libyan, Arab Berber, though some people are hurt by hearing Berber! What are your views on heritage languages? Especially when they lack 1- religious significance, 2- lack the community, as my tribe is Arabized since forever 3- common in remoted areas or other communities such as Mount Nafousa and Zouara (I'm sure you heard of them) these 4- lack of material for the language and limited utility if I ever marry berberophone from Morocco I'd make sure to immerse myself in their berber speaking area, but other than that I cannot see a way around it. Arabic is a great language, I'm not sure how accurate are the ones who claim to be Shareef (meaning to relate to the house of the prophet of islam) but from mothers side I have that origin, her grandmother was Greek so she's white. funnily if we track it by mother side for three generations I'd be Greek today, therefore the question of identity is not a clear-cut, if I were Orthodox this would have solidified an entirely distinct identity

[@BenLlywelyn]

Identity is not clear cut, I respect that. As for Arabisation, it has been one of the most violent processes in all of human history, as we are seeing across the Sahel in Africa today, still on-going. Berbers fought wars to retain their identity, and beliefs and languages over centuries. And that in itself does not mean that you cannot be both Arab and Berber, of course you can. As for heritage languages, all languages are heritage languages.

[@leventtrolley9135]

​@@BenLlywelynAre you really serious when you say that Arabization is the "most violent" process that has taken place throughout the ages? I respect your opinion (everyone's else), but since you are talking about history, there must be a real deep look into whatever it is. The issue here is not just an opinion, like apples being sweeter than grapes. It seems that you have not read about the most violent processes in history yet? Haven't you read about "Exploring the Americas"? Haven't you read about the colonization of Africa and what happened in each region and the "popularization" of European languages ​​there? I don't know what you mean by it being the "most violent" process in history. Arabization took place in a very simple manner, with the massive migration of Arab tribes and their settlement within local communities (across what's known today as the Arab world). If you are talking about Arab control over North Africa, bloody battles certainly took place, but they were not the "most violent" battles in history as you described them. Was them violent? Yes. Is it the "most violent" thing that happened in history of mankind? That sounds funny to answer. By the way, Arabization also did not happen because of a religion or because people accepted Islam and the like. Rather, people started speaking Arabic even before they converted/accepted (or forced if you like it) to Islam. This may be strange to hear, but it is the reality, because Arabic is an imperial language (meaning by this, it is a language of an empire, several states/sultanates and empires throughout the Middle Ages, not one), and you know.. How much the Arabs, and with them the Arabized ones, sought to develop Arabic over the succeeding centuries and because of the great influence of Arabic in science, knowledge and culture/arts on the peoples under which the Arabs ruled. As for the Berbers, the Berbers who mixed with the Arabs took Arabic from them (Why? Because Arabic had all the influence needed to), but those who did not mix with them still speak Berber to this day. It is simple, isn’t it?

[@jasminekaram880]

@@leventtrolley9135 A lot of wrong things here, Abdel Al-malik made Arabic the sole official language of the caliphate, taking the legal prestige of provincial languages like Coptic. And there was suppression, how strong varied, during al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh‎ Coptic was extremely suppressed, and people who spoke it openly in Cairo would get persecuted, hell he would take walks and walk into people's houses just to see that they were not speaking Coptic. This led to the Cairo area being one of the first areas the Coptic language lost. No need to romanticise the history of the MENA world.

[@pheeku6996]

Coptic was mentioned, yay 😊

[@christopherellis2663]

Thank you.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Very welcome! And glad to see you.

[@Balthazare69]

I didnt hear about 80% of these languages😮😮

[@davidvaughn367]

Zaza?! I always love learning about a language I have never heard of before, especially when its name is That fun to say.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Fun name.

[@justaduck1664]

Please make a video on the so called arabic dialects, or more accuretly the arabic descended langauges with sprinkles and sometimes grammer from the languages that used or are still spoken in those regions, For example egyptian arabic has alot of grammer from coptic with greek coptic turkish italien english and french sprinkles

[@BenLlywelyn]

Thank you for answering that question. I will do... at some point.

[@justaduck1664]

@@BenLlywelyn yeah its gonna be hard to simplfy thousands of years of history into one sentence, god be with you amiin

[@thomashernandez8700]

u funny new subscriber here

[@BenLlywelyn]

Appreciate that. Thanks. Gracias.

[@Gronk574]

One of the first thousand to see this video. Yeah!

[@AyalSharon]

Thanks for showing Hebrew some love! But a small correction: Hebrew is more closely related to ancient Aramaic (both are Northwest Semitic languages) than to Arabic . Portions of the books of Daniel and Ezra in the Bible are written in Aramaic.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Thank you for watching!

[@miri-818]

if there not already videos about yiddish and ladino I would like it very much; and it would be interesting to hear about South Afrika's many official languages

[@BenLlywelyn]

I have a video about Ladino for you in my catalogue of videos.

[@miri-818]

​@@BenLlywelynThank you, I will look for it! 🇮🇱🧡

[@marioricomeza2839]

A breakdown of the arabic dialect (languages cough cough) would be great!

[@CastChaos]

The Middle East always interested me, most especially in ancient age contest, probably because, as far as I know, there were the first civilizations formed on the Fertile Crescent, with the Sumers and then Babylon that kept changing ruler nation. Egypt, Arabians, Persians... so romantic. Aramaic always seemed so mystical. Whenever I read something about anything related to the Middle East, Aramaic seems to the Middle East like Latin to Europe. Actually, the "sprinkles" surprise me sometimes. I never even dreamed that Turkish would have anything to do with French! :O

[@BenLlywelyn]

We have had English, French, Latin, and before it Greek as the language of study The middle east has had far more than 4 such languages.

[@CastChaos]

@@BenLlywelyn Truly fascinating. Especially if one thinks about it deeply. All the wonderful science and culture that was made and practiced on those languages.

[@qpdb840]

There are some languages you forgot and one of them is Gorani but great video

[@TuxLinuxOfficial]

Sprinkles

[@BenLlywelyn]

❇✳️

[@homerosmolinero131]

You didn't put enough sprinkles on Turkish!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Fair.

[@goonyougoodthing]

Could you do a video on languages with debated language status like 'Ulster scots'?

[@BenLlywelyn]

Maybe.

[@gooshnpupp]

Hebrew never died. Actually it was spoken by Jews fluently. Not as a day to day language, but mostly to read scripture, write commentary, poetry, and to communicate with different Jewish communities around the world

[@buckmanley1233]

This guy really doesn't like Arabic. You can tell by the way he speaks about.

[@buckmanley1233]

Also really biased in favor of Hebrew. Really cringe-inducing ending

[@BenLlywelyn]

No hatred of Arabic. Just love of Hebrew. Watch as you wish.

[@שלמה-נ1ח]

Just say you're Muslim @@buckmanley1233

[@heyitsme90210]

Definitely zionist vibes

[@ted9030]

​@@heyitsme90210Look at his other videos its obvious he hates arabs and muslims

[@belamorkanal]

Hebrew is becoming my fourth language as well 😄 I'm glad you appreciated this beautiful language without letting the mass media corrupt your mind the same way it did to many "progressive" westerners I subscribed

[@BenLlywelyn]

Thank you! Todah!

[@Trolligi]

You should do Siberian languages in a video too (I can help you with that if you would like, I know way too much about Siberia)

[@BenLlywelyn]

Oh? What information do you have?

[@saadkawani]

Bro, Zaza and luri also kurdish dialects.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Depends on who you ask.

[@saadkawani]

@@BenLlywelyn yeah, but it's the truth, don't try to hide it.

[@BulgariaNationalist]

Would you do extinct languages?

[@BenLlywelyn]

Good idea. After the living it would be.

[@ZasadniczoKlimek]

Love it. With Polish sprinkles 🇵🇱😘

[@moshiria1]

can someone explain how Farsi got Mongolian sprinklers?

[@BenLlywelyn]

War.

[@Jewish_Israeli_Zionist]

I'd be more than happy to help you with Hebrew (it's my native language)

[@BenLlywelyn]

Feel free to write me.

[@CristiChiri10]

I say the languages of india deserve their own video, there are just too many

[@BenLlywelyn]

Hundreds!

[@hman1025]

עם ישראל חי!

[@BenLlywelyn]

כן זה כן.

[@Sanel_C]

Have you done the Bosniak language Ben? Asking because I'm a Bosniak, living in USA for 30 years now and i speak both languages fluently. Zdravo or alahimanet.

[@BenLlywelyn]

See the Serbo-Croatian in the European languages video.

[@Totjunke13]

3:38 WHAT? I want someone to explain me how Persian has Mongolian spinkles in it - the Mongolian attack was quite a while ago, is that the reason? This was so surprising!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Yes. Mongolia ruled present day Iran for a while.

[@nagichampa9866]

I'd say today no one can exist without offending someone! Oh well!

[@miri-818]

Hebrew❤my Love

[@ThePanEthiopian]

My man you forgot the brothers of mehri, shehri and socotri.

[@BenLlywelyn]

There are so many languages!

[@roymorris2231]

אח שלנו אתה פשוט עלוף בשביל החלק האחרון, וזה באמת היה כיף לראות את הכל, אבל החלק האחרון פשוט ריגש אותי🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

[@BenLlywelyn]

תודה בחביבות.

[@roymorris2231]

@@BenLlywelyn תודה רבה, חברינו.

[@ilopollo]

niiiice

[@Kyle_Broflowski1997]

i edge to your videos

[@BenLlywelyn]

Thanks for watching.

[@GeorgeFiladelfiotis]

I thought this was a language channel not a political one.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Im honest.

[@GeorgeFiladelfiotis]

Don’t see any “honesty” about the Kurdish language in Iraq and the Arabic, Syriac and Turkish language in Rojava though.

[@Zaman805]

Khorosani, Azerbaijani, Gorani, Baluch, and Feyli you forgot them

[@BenLlywelyn]

So many!

[@justaguytryingtosurvive]

Khorosani is a dialect more than a language He is probably saving Azari for the Caucasian languages I don't like to seperate the Goranis, the Feylis, and the Zazakis from other Kurds. They are all genetically, culturally, and historically the same. If you wanna seperate them then you should also seperate Sorani, Kurmanji, Kelhori, Leki, and many other Kurdish languages as seperate entities. I as a kurd have said it before and I will say it again, Kurdish is not a language, it's an identity. As a Soran I can't understand any of the other kurdic languages (as I like to call them). So either you see them all as one language, or as seperates Maybe he's saving Baluchi for south Asian languages

[@EsfandiarNokhodaki]

Khorasani Is Persian Accent Gorani also is Kurdish accent

[@justaguytryingtosurvive]

Sorry I was mistaken, Khorasani is a Turkic language. So I think he is saving it for central Asian languages or something

[@justaguytryingtosurvive]

@@EsfandiarNokhodaki I think they are talking about Khorasani Turkish, not the regional dialect. And for Gorani, as I've said before, it's its own language just like all the other Kurdic languages. If you see Gorani as a Kurdish dialect, then you gotta also see Zazaki, Shebaki, Lori, and Bakhtiari as dialects of Kurdish as well. You either see them all as separate, yet related, languages, or all of them as one language. I can't tell you what you should believe in, because ultimately, as the saying goes, languages are just dialects with armies. Swedish and Norwegian are closer to each other than Gorani and Sorani yet you classify them, Swedish and Norwegian, as different languages while treating Gorani and Sorani as the same

[@korfrag6865]

What is your 3rd language?

[@Nabi.Migration]

I was also wondering. English Welsh ------ Hebrew. I'll guess Spanish.

[@BenLlywelyn]

français.

[@clivebradley2633]

Ble mae'r Cymraeg? Ti 'di anghofio ni?-

[@hermask815]

Welsh was in other videos already. Or are there some clandestine Welsh in the Middle East that we’ve missed?

[@BenLlywelyn]

Mae'r Gymraeg mewn llwyth o wideos 😉. Gweld yr un ar ieithoedd Ewropeidd mewn 1 frawddeg.

[@sicko_the_ew]

The great sea prophet, Tristan Jones, revealed knowledge by revelation that he had of the uncontaminated nature of the true Welsh people, such has his own self, and this was that they are a Lost Tribe of Israel, wanderers of the far seas, settled on the Promised Land. His evidence involved something I don't quite get about his nose. And maybe his hair colour or something. He had his mockers, but they remained silent while his words made them money, so he did not have to suffer the kind of scorn upon his writings that some do. In later years, though, they have emerged to cast doubts and whatever aspersions are, upon his memory. One I read said first he sent in very practical and down to Earth sailing tips, and quite ordinary accounts of the usual kind of sea voyage to something like Practical Sailing (or maybe Yachting World - who can tell?), and the editors rejected these, suggesting that he just write in "his own voice", instead of as if writing an essay for school. So he did, and began to Proclaim, Proclaim, Proclaim. (Actually in truth he did very little proclaiming, but it sounds better this way. He'd mainly just tell you what a great sea dog his dog was, and so on, really.) Now those very same mockers who had invited him to just go wild and write according to his own vision and audition and what the genie in the bottle says, have come back to claim that those stories of his that they published (on their paper, not his) were all just fiction. And fiction that got more and more unbelievable with every telling, even. As my granny would say, they now accuse him of telling Yarns. Yarns that they were quite happy to publish if the gulls wanted to believe them. I've heard what they have to say, and I don't want to believe them, so I shan't. I believe that Tristan Jones took his little coracle to Israel, once (so he could go and visit Home), and managed to get it shipped overland to the Red Sea. (I seem to remember he couldn't get permission to sail the Dead Sea, but might just be imagining this). And I believe he sailed the Red Sea. And I believe everything else he ever said (mainly just because I prefer it to whatever the mockers might say was the case). He went to South America, and had his yacht trucked over the Andes. He went to Madagsacar with a representative of the Ethiopian Navy. He even spent a Winter icebound in the Arctic. I refuse to be deprived of these happy memories just because someone now, after sales have started to drop, as they do, comes along and claims he just made it all up, and was inspired to push things as far as he possibly could. Of course the main thing as far as your video goes is that he was Welsh, considered himself to thereby be Hebrew, and was not just a legend, but maker of legends. (And legends are better believed to be lived - except when the belief entails an obligation on the reader to go and murder some innocent people for no good reason at all.) I hope his soul rests on good seas (whatever those may be). He was a kind man. That much is obvious from his writings. And what else really matters, really? I mean really.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Welsh and Hebrew are not related. But we do share similar sized homelands and great tribulations.

[@sicko_the_ew]

@@BenLlywelynIndeed. I think perhaps Tristan Jones had feet of clay when it came to this prophecy thing. I hadn't thought of the homeland size match before, but yes, you're right. He could tell a good story, anyway.

[@kasrakh982]

Thank you for using the real iranian flag 🦁☀️

[@axolotl-guy9801]

Why not Dutch as your fourth Language 😅. Can it be your fift language. 😂

[@BenLlywelyn]

There is always room for 5 in a hatchback.

[@datboin8669]

once you run out of languages you should do a video about dead languages!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Good shout.

[@astridliliencron]

[@KhiatMokhtar]

اللغة العربية لم تعطها حقها استاذ...هي اقدم من مجيء الاسلام..وشكرا

[@BenLlywelyn]

عدل. هناك ثراء لذلك.

[@heyitsme90210]

How did hebrew get yiddish and german influence if it’s from the middle east?

[@BenLlywelyn]

The Cherokee are not from Oklahoma.

[@AllanCaetano_SP]

Perhaps you should ask yourself why Yiddish got so much influence from the Middle East if (((the people)) who speak it didn't come from the Middle East, as you seem to be implying.

[@IOSPBITBRNO]

Aramaic Speaker, I come from the Nineveh plains and speak the dialect of Alqosh. We are Assyrians of the Chaldean Catholic Church. This dialect falls under NENA(North Eastern Neo-Aramaic). It has been spoken for over 2700 years and is endangered currently. I can read, write, and speak “Surit”, what we call our dialect of Aramaic. ܝܬ݇ ܒܝ ܩܪܝܢ، ܟܬܒܢ، ܘܡܚܟܢ “ܣܘܪܝܬ”، ܡܗ ܩܪܚ ܠܫܢܢ ܕܐܪܡܝܬ.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Keep it going. Have kids.

[@IOSPBITBRNO]

@@BenLlywelyn I want to have 10, you are admirable.

[@IOSPBITBRNO]

@@BenLlywelyn My dream is to have Aramaic be treated like Latin is. Aramaic, in my opinion, is the greatest lingual & alphabetical innovation in human history. It introduces the concept of the Alphabet, still with us in our modern day. Greek, Latin, and Aramaic are the three most important ancient languages. Aramaic happens to be the oldest out of the three!

[@stonkplay1223]

No pontic?

[@BenLlywelyn]

Sorry, so many languages!

[@stonkplay1223]

@@BenLlywelyn I understand that "zaza" is more important. It would be appreciated to have a one sentence explanation of my exiled peoples' language! Maybe in a future video perhaps!😄

[@xJUn1nHOx]

Talk about Brazilian Portuguese, the true Portuguese language. Lol

[@BenLlywelyn]

Maybe a video comparing them sometime.

[@Merlinfoop]

Armenian language please!

[@BenLlywelyn]

It will be with the caucasian languages when I make that one.

[@dysprosiumdead5078]

id apperciate it more if you just called kurdish an iranian/iranic language instead of indo iranian. thats like calling calling ukrainian a balto-slavic langauge

[@BenLlywelyn]

It is not like Balto-Slavic.

[@dysprosiumdead5078]

@@BenLlywelyn why

[@dysprosiumdead5078]

@@BenLlywelyn would you call hindi or urdu an indo-iranian language??

[@miri-818]

iranian and indo-iranian are both correct for kurdish, indo-iranian is on more basic level; indoeuropean ->indoiranian->iranian

[@miri-818]

baltic and slavic: not derived from each other, just on "parallel" level

[@palestinianman2011]

You should NOT use the KSA flag to represent the Arabic language. Use the flag of the Arab league, please.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Ŵwps.

[@amal2755]

@@BenLlywelynDo not listen to his words. The origin of the Arabic language is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. As for the rest, such as the Levant, Egypt, Morocco, and others, they spoke Arabic because of the Islamic conquests from the Arabian Peninsula and the conquerors from Saudi Arabia. For example, Egypt did not speak Arabic until after Amr bin Al-Aas conquered it from Mecca in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and until the best book in the Arabic language was revealed, the Holy Qur’an, it was revealed in Mecca and Medina, they are the origin of the Saudi Arabic language 🇸🇦

[@amal2755]

اذا كنت من الدول الامصار فأنت تعرف انك لم تتحدث العربية الا بعد الفتح الاسلامي العربية والقران لم ينزل في بلدك اكتب دولتك واعرف من فتحا من شبه الجزيرة ^السعودية^ اذا كنت من مصر اعرف ان من عرب لسانك هوا عمرو بن العاص القرشي رضي الله عنه قبلها لم تكن تتحدث العربية

[@amal2755]

@@BenLlywelynEven the seven closed places were hung by Imru' al-Qais in the Arabian Peninsula, specifically Saudi Arabia🇸🇦

[@shinwaramin8582]

bakhtyari ,, hewrami

[@BenLlywelyn]

Hmmm.

[@pinwyrdd]

...gyda sbrincls

[@BenLlywelyn]

gyda ffloch.

[@LordDamianus]

Dude, you're insulting every language in your videos. Wtf wrong with you?

[@BenLlywelyn]

Be nice.

[@TuxLinuxOfficial]

But it's funny

[@Lagolop]

While Yiddish is based on Medieval High German, it is also "sprinkled" with Aramaic, Hebrew, and Slavic borrow words. PS Ikh farshteyn a bisl Yiddish ober ken nisht redn gut ;)

[@BenLlywelyn]

Astounding.

[@Nabi.Migration]

I speak standard high German and i got everything you said. Das is gut !!! sehr gut sogar.

[@Lagolop]

@@BenLlywelynYou mean "oysergeventlekh" ... Blaybn gezunt, un shtark :) BTW, the one thing I noticed is that if you can pronounce Welsh words, Dutch words and Old Scots, you can easily pronounce the guttural "KH" sound in Yiddish words. My first wife's grandmother was fluent in the Welsh language.

[@Lagolop]

@@Nabi.Migration In Yiddish; dos iz gut. Zayer gut. I have no idea what "sogar" means.

[@Nabi.Migration]

@@Lagolop haha ja zayer gut. yiddish is apparently written phonetically. So sehr becomes zayer. Sogar means "even".