The language only three men speak - BBC News

Badeshi used to be the common languages of a small mountain village in northern Pakistan - now there are only three people left who can speak it.
Video by Zafar Syed, BBC Urdu
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[@muhammadshaffin2916]

"The language only three men speak" The translator: 🗿

[@danielandersson3067]

Bro this comment is hilarious.

[@thisdeath]

yea i was thinking like if only 3 people speak it then how did they translated this conversation? is the guy the 4th one somehow lol jk

[@edboss36]

If one of them speak another language (like Urdu) then it's doable

[@thisdeath]

@@edboss36 ohh ig that's how :0

[@muhammadshaffin2916]

​@@edboss36 Bro, I speak Urdu. And I can confirm that they weren't speaking even an ounce of Urdu, it sounded more like Arabic to me.

[@woori1264]

when a language dies not only words, grammar rules, vocabulary dies but also the hundreds or thousands of years of cultural knowledge from generations

[@seryio5835]

Absolutely agree!

[@cristi37]

Romania, which still has some Dacian traditions: well yes but actually no

[@thephilosophermma8449]

Yeah like what’s the point of preserving useless cultures

[@daniellacastro1210]

Brilliantly said.

[@mimorisenpai8540]

@@cristi37 dacian tradition extinct

[@cursedtortilla101]

Imagine being bilingual in Badeshi and trying to put it on your resume to find out only 2 other people speak it 💀

[@fav21lintaorafael11]

You have value as an artifact of cultural preservation :) :) :)

[@hhhhhhhhhhhhhnhhhhhhh]

And I think I have an idea. What are they gonna do? Check? Put me in a position where I need to know it? They are NOT doing business with 3 old guys.

[@Samirustem]

Prople boast about speaking languages to show of brain power. Even if language is dead it brings another perspective to speaker. I undertsand younmaybe joking but there are people who actually think so

[@hhhhhhhhhhhhhnhhhhhhh]

@@Samirustem please learn English Jesus christ

[@Andromeda_GALaxy48]

@@Samirustem you need to work on your English

[@olivermoore7020]

For the people saying "Surely the translator spoke it to!" (Or variations thereof). The translator would have spoken a more commonly spoken language that the three men also understand (a lingua franca). Translator (in lingua franca): "Say something in Badeshi" Three men: "[speaks Badshi] - that was 'This is a beautiful village' [in lingua franca]".

[@muhammadabdullahkhurram5892]

I was desperate to find out how the people documenting this video translated it. Thank you very much❤ I now know الحمدلله

[@h._.349]

this language sounds very similar to other dominant languages spoken in that area so its not hard for the editor to understand i as a pakistan who can speak punjab and urdu could make sense out of their sentences and understood what they said

[@olivermoore7020]

@@h._.349 Interesting! Thank you for your insight.

[@benthejrporter]

I hope it can be saved by people learning it. My great uncle and aunt were some of the last native speakers of "Groesbeeks", a dialect spoken in just one small town in the south east of the Netherlands. But then the local university recorded hours of conversation with them and wrote a book about it, with a dictionary and grammar. Now a few students are learning it.

[@adelinesimmons8152]

Might not be perfect

[@ibrahimdiiriye2180]

@@adelinesimmons8152 better than doing nothing !

[@marcoarrieta4983]

@Pleoryo Exactly. Unfortunately in this world, monolingual people give unvalid opinions.

[@blackfeathers2166]

This is so awesome!

[@1saamor897]

that’s actually stupid 😂

[@cerdaspediaindonesia8926]

Just make the badeshi dictionary in some big pile of stone to freaked out the future archiologyst.

[@lebronjames5157]

Yeah, but we’ll never know how to pronounce it correctly...

[@hafiziskandar9786]

you smart 😂😂😂

[@station12a4]

JustinsGfx shouldn't be a problem if they use the phonetic alphabet

[@WISEMARTIAL]

I haven't take a shower for 7 weeks, but Son! You should learn some English before you initiate this badeshi dictionary. Everything is wrong from your KZbin name to what you write!!

[@Nunawariyaku]

Maybe, he doesnt speak english like main language.. like me. Do you think everybody speak english? or what? :/ You should ask him if he speak english like main language before say "You should learn some english before you initiate this badeshi dictionary", maybe he can iniciate this badeshi dictionary with another language.. you know.

[@hestonworld5389]

I live in Tajikistan, and here we've got an ethnic group called the Yaghnabs who speak Yaghnabi which is the ancient Sogdi language of a society that's lived in the territory of Tajikistan more than 6000 years ago,i.e. around 4000 BC. And it can be considered as one of the most ancient languages of the world. But sadly, the language is endangered and can be lost because the new generations are emigrating from the Yaghnab Valley and assimilating among natives. Yaghnabs live in a valley far from civilization, and each year their population is drastically diminishing. Unfortunately, the grammar, vocabulary and all its written structure has been lost to time, meaning that the language has been preserved only in its spoken form by their elders hence making its learning almost impossible. It really makes me sad to think that somewhere in the future there will be no people left to speak this language that has existed for centuries.

[@redshankyman4181]

That is heartbreakingly melancholic. So many stories must exist in a language that ancient.

[@fastlane777]

I heard about Yaghnabs, they had Greek roots. When Alexander the Great conquered Persia they stayed in those Valleys for years and mixed with these people.

[@Al-hamidiTG]

Yaghnabs

[@Kuningaz93]

6000 years is impossible because the forerunners of the Indo Iranian people and languages the Yamnaya steppe pastoralists, were still living in Southern Russia/Ukraine around that timeframe.

[@xshayahyawzi3666]

​​@@Kuningaz93according to kurgan hypothesis right? What about that actually sound anatolian hypothesis which pulls PIE people to 8000 BCE And given the language disparity between different ie branches, it appears far better.

[@mariyam9861]

I'm so glad they got interviewed, they seemed wizened and proud as the last 3 speakers of Badeshi. It sounds so similar to Urdu, with the words for "my name" and "my village" being almost the same, with slightly different pronunciations... if the native Urdu speakers of Pakistan to pick up no Badeshi and the language won't be totally gone... also the last word Said Gul said was "khatam" meaning end or demise in Urdu too.

[@ummibraheem887]

I picked up a lot of Pashto in it too

[@suhelmallick]

it means camp language. urdu was first by turksand then hindi was developed in 17th century by removing persian and arbic words@@Jaekh-gf9wl

[@suhelmallick]

i am aware of that.@@Jaekh-gf9wl

[@Ahmad_northern2004]

It seems similar to shina

[@onfire6520]

means something along those lines in Arabic as well

[@ChristophersMum]

This needs to be researched before these men die, so people can trace their cultural past.

[@imposter-982]

They look like pathan people I think they are

[@ts6070]

Mrchicken 123 these guys are not Pathan but rather an older Indo-Aryan ethnic group which predates the coming of the Indo-Iranian Pathan’s who have moved into the area from the west firstly giving their daughters in marriage then the language and culture changes slowly from one generation to the next so sad that people judge a book by its cover..

[@ts6070]

Dontfight Againstthetruth this is not an ethnic label but an accepted indo-European language classification, sorry are you an Iranian anthropologist?

[@moderncontemplative]

ChristophersMum agreed

[@FancyFarmOFFICIAL]

INDEED

[@Kianglekable]

Document this language, and the wisdom it embodies! I know this because I'm a speaker of a language under siege by more dominant ones I must say that we're in a healthier position than Badeshi, but I can't help but feel sorry for its plight A loss for humanity

[@toxicodendronorientalis8992]

What wisdom is spoken in Badeshi language? Great literature works? Scientific or philosophical papers? Nope, just another set of words to describe primitive agricultural techniques. Mankind will be OK even without it.

[@georgetware2098]

What's your language out of interest?

[@Kianglekable]

Georgios Ware It's a language or a "dialect", depending on perspective My language is Teochew

[@ioannispolemarkhos7364]

Teochew, one of the purest version of Chinese, with 8 tones compared to Mandarin's 4- characters that sound the same in Mandarin are differentiated with Teochew. Where can an English speaker learn Teochew?

[@Kianglekable]

Ioannis Polemarkhos Try Gaginang.org I think they've developed some basic apps as teaching tools as well

[@ZHx-sr5qk]

Looked it up on wikipedia and it says that the linguist Zubair Torwali is trying to preserve/record it. Hopefully more people will learn it so it wouldn't get lost in time for good

[@KurdForever]

0:20 In Kurdish Sorani, we say = Min nawim Said Gull I hear almost same. "Min Nawê Said Gull"

[@NetChalakwan]

Rastit

[@monopoly340]

And in Urdu: 'mera Naam said gull"

[@JustStudioSix]

RIP BADESHI

[@Swukelz]

Not yet

[@lilyad7951]

Swukelz _TY on the way

[@soop1565]

Swukelz _TY its treason,theb

[@150_asharifadhilaha2]

I hope someone freeze them and put them on the museum

[@soop1565]

ashari fadhilah akbar what e.e

[@imaginx806]

Sounds like Russian,Urdu and Arabic put together.

[@adammusa982]

You must know a lot of languages then :)

[@alikhanmoazzam]

Pashtu and Persian not Hindi at all

[@imaginx806]

I was saying what it sounds like. Obviously Urdu and Hindi come from farsi.

[@user-ly6xs2yn8n]

Willow Green he did say a few Arabic words though. I heard "Hal" which means condition in Arabic, also "shro'a" which means to start something.

[@VortexbeastWaaagh]

+Muhammad Moazzam yeah I hear some Farsi in there

[@fakename6658]

Three guys translating all those wikipedia articles to Badeshi. Thats a lot of work!

[@hhamk3656]

God bless these amazing men of the Earth

[@peeper2070]

Imagine in hundreds of years only 3 people left in the world speak English

[@slaggerthord31]

Everybody else speaks german by then. This time we'll do it!

[@sleeexs]

@@slaggerthord31 Wait..

[@name-le6yi]

@@sleeexs yeah wait...

[@arjunghanekar6140]

@@sleeexs lmao

[@MaoRatto]

@@slaggerthord31 ... German is more likely to die first before English ever could due to. 1. German never end up spreading all over the world 2. Got ex-communicated in America which was a national super power 3. Bad associations 4. Linguisticly German is a harder language than English when I look at the case systems retained, and pronouncation being stricter. English however is about to soil its own name due to being often associated with cancel culture people.

[@lizy6743]

When I read the title I thought that three guys just got together and decided to make up their own secret language haha! This is much sadder.

[@g718ny]

That's what I thought too hahahaha. And then it turned out to be sad

[@sas2742]

I'm a Pakistani.I never knew about this language .my goal is to learn languages that are dying .if ay source is possible I will learn it inshallah

[@StrangerApex724]

I'm an Indian Hindu I pray to Shiv that you will achieve it bro 🙏

[@heisenberg3082]

Come to Jesus my friend

[@iisk3ldo]

stop bringing religion into this you idiots. hes a muslim

[@kugakun2316]

​@@heisenberg3082 no we don't accept pagan

[@xaiphon7251]

@@heisenberg3082 he's already closer to Jesus than you will ever be, don't worry my friend.

[@parminder_sandhu]

if only 3 men know this language, then who translated it for subtitles?

[@Tallborn5]

yo momma

[@parminder_sandhu]

​@@Tallborn5where are your subtitles

[@shashishekharjha1991]

language shouldn't die they are heart of our emotions and expressions

[@euclois]

languages don't die, they evolve, they merge. they are living things.

[@MargaritaMagdalena]

​@@euclois What languages emerged from Badeshi?

[@euclois]

@@MargaritaMagdalena ask yourself instead, where did badeshi come from? ;)

[@MargaritaMagdalena]

@@euclois Why?

[@redturquoise]

well you see when 2 people named euclois and margaita magdalena-

[@snensnmt]

The fact that only 3 people know this language, makes me wanna learn it.

[@nitaseely6830]

Now I know it too, just few words

[@darius684]

Meen badeshi jobe aasa

[@Yusuf-ok5rk]

who are you gonna talk with?

[@vim6459]

@@Yusuf-ok5rk they could teach it to others in hopes of keeping it alive

[@nihatbalc625]

@@Yusuf-ok5rk with himself 🤷‍♂️

[@judebrianlardera]

I wish I could go to Pakistan so I can learn the Badeshi language before it's too late. It's sad to see the Badeshi language being critically endangered.

[@abdalaalenzi3748]

how you can practice the language when no one else speaks it:)?

[@judebrianlardera]

@@abdalaalenzi3748 Maybe I'll find them.

[@bahrom942]

Before too late? Okay what if you learned, after 100 years you're dead, would you bring 1K children and teach them Badeshi. Be logical

[@Dude-hs7zm]

@@bahrom942 we literally have the internet, through it you and thousands of others discovered this language. If we created an audio dictionary and posted it online for free, thousands more would have the opportunity to learn it. I think what they’re saying is actually quite logical.

[@ashehoyt3535]

Someone needs to to document it and people need to learn it we need to save languages it is a link to our history of humanity

[@kozaramoja6558]

Absolutely. And I think it's a real shame to see how so many people seemingly look down on those who actually care to preserve them. I understand some it comes from sheer ignorance or lack of understanding, but the amount of people who think like this is genuinely sad. Yet we're the bad people for spending our time on 'useless' stuff to them.

[@bahrom942]

So Badeshi culture is our history foundation of our civilization? You have zero history knowledge, it's just small national which didn't had much impact on world history

[@Cassiemorg]

I’ve been reading about Badeshi. It’s a beautiful language, and it makes me sad that when these three men die, it will die with them😢This is a language that has not been classified as a spoken language for at least three generations....it’s incredible that these men still speak it. I speak English and French, and recently I’ve been attempting to learn Mandingo. I was planning to try to learn Arabic next, but I would love to learn Badeshi, but for obvious reasons, I haven’t been able to find someone to learn it from. I bet these three men have fascinating stories to share😊It’s amazing that they have kept this beautiful language alive for this long 💙

[@hotlemonade6643]

One Love "Mandingo"😂

[@agai9611]

blue orange 😂

[@hitlersorangepig5030]

My friend knows how to speak Mandingo, would like to meet him?

[@chee-max6460]

blue orange o hello Islam is the 2nd most common religion, its spread all over the world

[@kozaramoja6558]

@@hitlersorangepig5030 not the OP but I'm honestly interested. I wasn't aware that this language family existed (Mande).

[@benjaminfriedman5350]

Have some more people learn the language so that the language never dies

[@mistersmith6163]

Better yet, place the language in a computer database.

[@kentonchen4877]

If that's what it takes to preserve the language. Then it's better to let it die

[@mrman6570]

No offence, but the people who inherited this language don't care to speak it, why should you?

[@bmona7550]

Mr Man It's useful for linguists and historians who might find some artifacts there. It has no other reason to preserve but that

[@mrman6570]

If people want to learn this language and care so much about preserving and learning from it, then they can go there and learn it themselves and I hope the local community would not be harassed or forced into learning a language they don't care about.

[@raeplaysval]

there is a rare somberness to seeing something on the brink of evaporation

[@leeharuchiyo351]

i speak pashto (a language spoken in parts of north/west pakistan and parts of afghanistan, and a lot of the words they are speaking are the same in our language. the tone and accent are exactly like pashto

[@timmysleftnutsack5075]

It’s an iranic language, Pashtuns tajiks balochis Kurds will all have these similarities

[@ecstaticprem]

Only 3 knows badeshi... One knows English too

[@tukevah]

Yeah they said that only three can speak it it doesn't mean that they cant speak other languages u stupid.

[@bilalamjad2884]

Prem Garala but that’s not you

[@ladhkay]

Sounds like Hindi, Pahari and nepali mixed together

[@user-fk5hl3rt8y]

Always there must be an indian involving himself , smfh.

[@yuvrajchandgude1682]

Right. I can also hear some hindi

[@hemantsinghmehta4870]

Yeah I am pahadi(uttarakhandi)... And yess you are right it seems like mixture

[@shradhyeshrestha298]

yes you are right some word are nepali language

[@thereisnousernameforme2726]

3mor shwi5 he is indeed right fool. There is hindi in it

[@officialreactvibes7675]

(Badeshi) Meen naao Rahim Gul thi: (English) My name is Rahim Gul (Badeshi) Meen Badeshi jibe aasa:(English) I speak Badeshi (Badeshi) Theen haal khale thi: (English) How do you do? (Badeshi) May grot khekti: (English) I have eaten (Badeshi) Ishu kaale heem kam ikthi: (English) There is not much snowfall this year

[@qaziumer8994]

@@srmaz565 stfu your hindi is 18th century language

[@knowledgedesk1653]

@@qaziumer8994 Oldest hindi works are from 14th century

[@Useryoutubeka]

I am the only one left who speaks Guṅćū language, this language is independent just like Albanian(Shqiptire) is, and I made it myself. It has its own script and I can write anything: Manatlāq! Noqāmān Pacman(not actually) gō, noqū āthlokuzo ṭivlānmāoṅ, khe uto thagh qagā gō, ɓe ṭasalɓaqť to vū aćgulkhuzo! (Hello, My name is Pacman, I wish well for you, the one who is reading this, may he/she live even more than hundred years) Kōmmenṭbōks noṅkujoṅ lu lzā'āth zagvāťā tūjmā ḍāguzo. Write in comments whether you won't to learn this language.

[@Kashmiri_Separatist]

Bro what?? 😂 You made a language ?

[@MohamedRynx8]

You actually made your own fricking language!? How did you do that?

[@TotallyAChannel]

@@MohamedRynx8conlangers exist

[@MohamedRynx8]

@@TotallyAChannel I didn't know Conlangers even existed

[@Rehan02]

Who translate this then 🙄

[@znyznyzny]

Rehan Khan them lol

[@imaginx806]

They asked them to say some phrases presumedly. For all we know they could be speaking gibberish.

[@ARUNSINGH-pe2qt]

Probably anyone of those three men knew more than one language and translated it for them

[@lustroussnow]

Rehan Khan I will his dialect is very similar to Indic languages even most of words are easily understandable

[@waranle961]

😂

[@SurenAghabekyan]

Wait looks like that I understand what they say, can we say that I am the fourth one to speak this language?????

[@cgherardini1]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZanh4GdqL6sZs0

[@shineethebestofall]

please be sarcasm

[@obinator9065]

Languages often show similarities. For example think of all those words in English that originated in Latin, these can be transferred to many other European languages too.

[@Stollkeer]

Donald Trump i think this is not Agdmator or something like that man

[@shishaceo5204]

I too can read subtitles.

[@chinmayjoshi3592]

I could understand half without subtitles. Would love to learn this language.

[@sharidlone3806]

This is so familiar with our kashmiri language...I can feel what they are saying

[@okaymea]

This is so sad, I feel sorry for these men cause they seem to really love their language. Scholars should have it written down somewhere so it can be preserved for people that might be interested in learning the language

[@mcbrians.8508]

Dhul Qarnayn came across a people who scarcely understands a saying (speaking in this language), but by means of sorcery they were able to speak with the king. They said thus: "Hail King of Macedon, please help us for Gog and Magog destroys the land."

[@Elyron-wv3ne]

​@@mcbrians.8508i heard they were chased down by Alexander to where?

[@mcbrians.8508]

@@Elyron-wv3ne i read somewhere in the 90th parallel. look this line of the earth and you will see that it points to North Siberia near the arctic circle. Probably one of the mountains located there lies the iron gates of the North

[@amirb2899]

It seems mixture of Kashmiri Pashtu Urdu and might be other local languages involved with its own pronunciation.

[@Aws895]

Aamir B it is actually related to Kashmiri being a Dardic language

[@amirb2899]

Waqar Shah It seemed so.

[@Aws895]

Aamir B there are a lot of these small languages in northern Pakistan particularly chitral. They are all related to Kashmiri however they have very little speakers. Some of them are even spoken in Afghanistan. In one way they are our(Kashmiris) closest relatives.

[@isaz597]

As a Kashmiri I feel bad for them.

[@ariadnecassiel9725]

Is Az yeah, I know how it feels. Koshur is practically dying out

[@user-xy5bo4cu2m]

Something needs to be done to document archive all these various languages, mythologies, etc.

[@laurasfar18]

There's a language no man speak. It's very hard to understand and make sense out of. My wife speaks it and all other women too.

[@laurasfar18]

Kurama Kyuubi It originated from the dephts of hell

[@lshaaa]

Niki Lauda DK feminism

[@tumarmah2968]

Too bad money talks.

[@bonniecurrie4906]

Niki Lauda DK 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@pierre-spencerperkins2930]

Hey, I speak gurrrrl to

[@kamalh876]

I am a Pakistani Gujjar from Punjab. This language is very similar to Gojri and I was able to understand what they were saying.

[@ssajid40]

Kamal Hadeir interesting

[@lonmnb]

you just understand some phrases

[@suraj-op2bx]

Kamal Hadeir m a Hindu Gurjar..... Chaley mere. Gel....gujjar k.

[@giftysingh3925]

you're a gujjar, are you a Hindu?

[@ariadnecassiel9725]

Kamal Hadeir not very similar. It's more of a mix of Kashmiri, Urdu, Pashto

[@maxpower7402]

Sogdian language also "Died" but in Yagnob people talking in dialect of Sogdian(yagnobi dialect)

[@Editzyoutube01]

I can speak 🗣 this language it is my Mothertounge❤ from (Neel j&k india) sry for bad grammar😅

[@IlhaamOR]

North Pakistan was one of the most beautiful places I have visited in the world....

[@IlhaamOR]

Lived in Islamabad and Lahore

[@IlhaamOR]

Feliciano Ernesto Guevara there are all varieties....

[@timvanrijn8239]

is is dangerous with the kasmir situation?

[@ariadnecassiel9725]

Feliciano Ernesto Guevara Pakistan is a country which hoards many ethnic groups. Pakistani is not a ethnicity, its a nationality. Pakistan hoards the following ethnic groups : Balochi, Sindhi, Kashmiri, Punjabi, Pashtun

[@ariadnecassiel9725]

tim van rijn the Pakistani government have illegally occupied kashmir, I wouldn't say dangerous as its not as bad as the genocide taking place in Indian occupied kashmir. Kashmir is beautiful, you should visit.

[@arshikanwal1116]

As a Pakistani, I really think we need to start promoting our diversity and different races, instead of everyone just hating on each other! We really need to come together.

[@Grimy_Aaronarr]

Arshi kanwal people who get don't along are easier to manipulate and control. Sad way the world works.

[@agentfries1560]

Sadly, you punjabis and Sindhis are always in power and you want it to be fully your language, my people will never let you people into converting us to the same tounge as you people, the same goes for you people killing us chithralis and pashtos just because we were speaking our own tounge and not Urdu.

[@mememmm5428]

@@agentfries1560 LOTS OF LOVE TO THE CHATRALYAN(CHITHRALIS)

[@iSyriux]

This is all because of Islam and Turks

[@Haris-qo1hx]

@@agentfries1560 bro I am Punjabi and I never killed any Pashtuns

[@luckythinkersfight1677]

Sounds so similar to Pashto! Most of their words can be found in the Pashto language. I could make sense of the sentences without the translation. Has this language been preserved? Any updates?

[@user-wn3dl3rk8r]

who translated those lines if no other person knows the language😮😮

[@Almas_Tanvin]

I was searching for this comment 😂😀

[@ZaidAlwayz7]

The three people told them

[@ts6070]

So sad..

[@harkeeratdate2015]

+Harold Cutler, Jr . There already is a cross over - Sanskrit, and Indian language is the oldest living spoken language, so old we can only estimate. words like gau, became cow. ma which is mother, piter, meaning father, is father planet Jupiter, algebra, is algebra and algorithm is algorithm. there are many many more.

[@harkeeratdate2015]

Harold Cutler, Jr . That's incest. Rather, 1 man is = to like the whole of humanity and verily, the afbrahamic ways of life are only for like the whole.of humanity. The only way of life acceptable for like the whole.of humanity is Islam. I follow Sikhi. We have a preserved and miraculous text too.

[@harkeeratdate2015]

Harold Cutler, Jr . Then pity and shame on you. Our King is The Creator of death himself. He's The King of kings. Compared to him you're not even a prince. Princess' were Guru's

[@harkeeratdate2015]

Harold Cutler, Jr . You said, "Volcano". Yes, we told you about that. We flocked where the animals flocked and led us to a cliff which filled and became puddles. You was lied to. I wish I could just get myself to be compassionate enough to introduce myself to you and intellectually free you.

[@harkeeratdate2015]

Harold Cutler, Jr . And FYI, I believe in evolution but not Darwins theory of evolution, never have and never will

[@thatstuff7639]

Me and my cousin have a language together where’s my video about “Only two boys speak this language “

[@user-ir2er8fn5f]

Big Shaq gay

[@thatstuff7639]

kingkarim you ain’t had a childhood if you didn’t make ur own language up with ur cousin/brother

[@nismor3417]

Big Shaq no worries, my prime language is Malay, I able to speak English quite well and understand basic German. My mothers family do have their own language and I able to understand them entirely. This shitty hater ain't nothing.

[@user-ir2er8fn5f]

Big Shaq no I had a great childhood. I went Disney Land, watched cartoons played PlayStation and played hide and seek. Making up a language isn’t really the perfect childhood

[@aahmed4541]

The ting goes skrrrrraaa pa pa pa pa.. skibida pa.. ka ka purru boom!

[@Sarahh_28]

Badeshi is an interesting language like a total mix of Shina (Balti) , Hindko (Kashmiri), Chitrali and pashto that's how I felt though it's not a mixture but a different language. I'm pashto speaking I thought he was speaking pashto it sounded like that but it was obviously not pashto but understandable the way the third man say " ay da de tarafa kegi" which is pashto but then I heard Urdu words like " gaon " but Urdu is our national language so it's understandable why is he using Urdu words

[@iranickid]

i am a pashtun too, badeshi and pashto are both indo-iranian languages which is probably the reason they sound similar or maybe because of the geographical position of the place badeshi is spoken. idk but badeshi does sound like an iranian language.

[@yalaltgemgui3687]

May be that language are from Mongolia (Mongolic language-Mughal)

[@titan9259]

The language sounds Indo-Iranian

[@stevewilson4718]

😂Mughal speak Persian & Hindustani

[@kshitijpatel1360]

​@@stevewilson4718why are you hiding behind a fake name when you're Indian 🤦🏻‍♂️😭 Don't be ashamed

[@stevewilson4718]

@@kshitijpatel1360 I don't need to hide Just do a simple search

[@akhripasta2670]

​@@kshitijpatel1360Irony🇵🇰🤡

[@KingTotoroOkumura]

They should standardise it and put it in the curriculum. It’ll be like Welsh, if they don’t wanna learn they can drop it after school but at least they’ll be exposed to it and know some and then some will choose to carry it on.

[@JohnSmith-vi9hi]

This isn't like Welsh, from the sounds of it there was only a few hundred people fluent in it at its peak

[@UmarAli-zc8xs]

Pakistan is not Wales. They would be lucky to even go to a school, forget about learning Badeshi.

[@NoahDancaster]

it's a useless language they won't be able to use to communicate with anyone. It's a waste of school resources. We have a second language prioritised in our schools called "New Norwegian" which is heavily focused on here and take away from learning about other important stuff. These old and useless languages SHOULD die, it's social evolution like another poster stated.

[@fia4459]

Tsinat Gebreselassie they have schools there actually but they speak different languages there like balti,wakhi, burshuskhi,shina,Urdu.They've already got so many languages that they speak so including this old one will be a bit of a problem.

[@annewilson6096]

"standardize it and put it in the curriculum" >.>

[@vedant6273]

*You will never know what this comment was* :)

[@CHAOS80120]

Vedant Capoor Because it's so similar to Pashto and Urdu that it's barely a unique language...kinda dissapointing that I could understand a so called dying rare language

[@vedant6273]

CHAOS80120 ohh k

[@abdulwahabnour1587]

I think the elders also know another language so that the journalist can understand!!!

[@nabilahmedkhan8052]

+Country John lol !

[@HomebrandFishfood]

Illuminati stay the fuck where you are

[@lllIIIIIlIlIIllll]

Hey guys. I speak Badeshi as well. My generation spoke it.

[@NicoA223]

Really?

[@lllIIIIIlIlIIllll]

@@NicoA223 Yeah

[@NicoA223]

@@lllIIIIIlIlIIllll Cool!

[@lllIIIIIlIlIIllll]

in fact, the person on the far left is my grandfather@@NicoA223

[@NicoA223]

@@lllIIIIIlIlIIllll oh wow that’s awesome!

[@nathan1507]

This sounds like Pashtun with a sprinkle of Slavic sounds. Sorry if I'm wrong.

[@superpuper926]

Of course we all want to speak in English, French, Spanish etc. And people spend their time and money to learn languages,but it's a big mistake and shame not to be able to speak in your native language. Wouldn't be surprised if our world soon become monolingual.

[@deonhall22]

Super Puper soon? Really soon? That seems like a huge exaggeration.

[@lukewolf4086]

Esperanto has historically never done well. It would be a miracle if Esperanto ever managed to come even close to the top 10 most spoken languages. It will most likely be the language of one of the dominant superpowers of the world. Esperanto is not immediately useful whereas Chinese, English, and Spanish are.

[@toxicodendronorientalis8992]

Language is a tool, not moral value. If your native language doesn't give you an opportunity in life, nothing to be ashamed if you don't speak it.

[@Mr_Trump]

It would be better if there was only one language. Everyone could understand each other

[@carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977]

Toxicodendron orientalis Every language does give you opportunities. If it does not it is because some people try to wipe it off. Some people (like us Catalans, or the baltic states, or Kurds) resist it and keep them alive, and therefore, the language is useful if you go to live there. What you saying is pure supremacism.

[@aliullah9440]

For Those Who Wonder,They Live in Bishigram Valley in Maydan,located in Swat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

[@user-li1gp2jw8k]

Iced out Ali pretty sure this is Gilgit Baltistan...

[@desirelabelle2199]

I need to learn it and continue it.

[@user-xe1pr3it9l]

If KZbin wouldn't recommend me this video i wouldn't know about this language.BTW are these men still alive?

[@irwincrook567]

0:43 Beautiful eyes

[@ahmedarslan192]

This is just one of the dardric family of languages spoken in remote valleys of northern Pakistan. This sounds mutually intelligible to other major dardric languages. It would be easy to teach to speakers of kohistani language. Which is in lo danger of extinction

[@ShaukatkhanYousafzai-sx7et]

I'm from kohistan...and i can understand what they are said man

[@Spinosaurus44]

Lovely village and lovely people. It’s sad that their language is dying, but what can be done about it? Hopefully it survives in writing for future generations to see and learn from.

[@hamzasheikh8317]

I’m an Urdu speaker from Pakistan, there are so many similar words, I am actually understanding everything they’re saying in Badeshi 💀 Guess there’s a fourth one

[@GameZone-ox1bu]

Omg

[@dawoodkhan-uy2yf]

the king of pes and dls Paulo josefu i.

[@Pining_for_the_fjords]

How does a comment just saying 'Omg' get 78 likes? 😂

[@UglyMaleee]

yea, OMG! can I get like too? LUL

[@GameZone-ox1bu]

UglyMaleee yes bro

[@hassanislam7227]

Wtf 97 likes ? Just by saying omg haha

[@samanthanicdhaibhi5789]

So sad :( I'd love to learn it and try to keep it alive. If only others felt the same

[@bokohatam7139]

Badeshi language is actually Shina language of Gilgit Baltistan particularly spoken among people of Chilas and Kohistan

[@Eastwood007x]

Sad to see a language dying with these men. All too often though, good behavior and practices, knowledge, and wisdom are what come to pass with older generations.

[@moseskudia3835]

Who added subtitles? Lol

[@unpopularopinion6200]

ザ、キングMoses They told the journalists the meaning in Urdu so made it possible for them to translate I think that's how they did it

[@moseskudia3835]

I'm joking, I assume at least one of them knows a second language as well.

[@Maalil01]

ザ、キングMoses ofcourse they know urdu

[@fia4459]

christopher watts America is literally a shit hole right now and they don't need to go anywhere near your racist, bigoted country.They live near the Himalayas in a beautiful region and they're very happy.

[@MrBaskr5]

S R 👌👌👌👌👌👍

[@user-kf6oy1gq8v]

It sounds great, I would love to learn that

[@patricelanauze8301]

Their souls are not filthy . They are not polluted by industries . They are not cupid and full of avidity like most of bipeds are . They are not sullied with money . They don't eat chemical products from factories . Their brains are not polluted by violence of movies or sex videos . I really love them . And they don't mess up our blue planet .

[@miseisean2847]

This is what the British did to us irish

[@asdfgh6210]

This is what cancer did to my cells. oof

[@matasaga9715]

We need to call it what it is: genocide. The English need to pay for it.

[@michaeldonohue8111]

In terms of loss of language, yes to a lesser extent. We still got ours laddie

[@spfi3111]

Yes...pay for something ancestors did a long time ago. That's like blaming all Germans for the Third Reich or all Russians for Stalin. It needs to be acknowledged, but there's no point punishing people who didn't do anything wrong.

[@michaeldonohue8111]

true, but there is still a massive degradation of the Irish by the British in terms of person to person attitude . That is just common sense, yes it is not all British people but in reality, theres no point in saying thats what 20% of the British did to us Irish. Plus, if it was a more serious generalisation with deep negative effects like, black people stole from us, that is far more a detrimental generalisation that "Thats what the British did to us Irish"

[@unstablesaint6609]

Language only 1 person speaks ..Sean Paul

[@asaadiqbalkhan6265]

Hahaha

[@mmm6325]

Prasanth Mahadevan Shanda Pol

[@Utsav_Nayak]

bud bangbaang 😆

[@dannydbrown90]

Prasanth Mahadevan sean Paul speaks English? 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@nasnaqib6223]

Bro your so funny in the song busy he makes his own words technically

[@kilanspeaks]

It has been five years, is there any update on the Badeshi language?

[@YOURTUBE350]

You guys won't believe it. I brought the whole language that only 3 people are speaking. I my nephew And our friends. Is it interesting?

[@luis9286]

If it was in my village you wouldn't be considered among the men but a child who has no say in the community,so it's compulsory to know your language .

[@freedomfighter2463]

Luis. k If it was in my country, I would write a book and just look at the blank pages

[@Propaganda13]

"Min nam" - My Name. Im 4th man speaking this language now

[@thepremaritaldiaries]

In Somalia, there's also a dialect that is similar to this one. It's called Af May may and it's rarely used or known to many.

[@Bolivian05]

Damn I'm recommended this NOW???

[@Krankenwagen571]

😂😂😂

[@chinesesparrows]

Wow more people speak memes than this actual language.

[@justicewarrior9187]

That village is beautiful!!

[@ironMan-dp7pp]

Translator laughing in the corner 😂

[@sanamalik7484]

They can speak urdu also ..so

[@breee4093]

I don't know much about languages, but I do know a (very) little German, and this seems to have a bit of a similar sound.

[@sectorgovernor]

They are in the same language family... Though they are very distant relatives

[@yvuine]

I am kind of interested learning *basic* badeshi words 😛 its because I want to learn as much languages I can (right now I can only do english, filipino, a little spanish and korean)

[@xeixi3789]

Rh0s3 I'm Filipino. Also, there are many Filipino dialects/languages. Theres Ilocano, Pampangan, and many many more the main or official dialect/language is Tagalog & English. Funfact, one of our main languages used ro be Spanish but not much speaked it noe due to free from Spanish influence, massive American influence, and the rapidly growing population.

[@MikhaelAhava]

Fireb0ar07 most Filipinos or in my place could speak at least 3 languages/local dialects, some people I know could speak 5/6. I could speak in 3.

[@xeixi3789]

MiguelPpM Woah, i'm half kapangpangan and half manilan. I can't even speak Kapangpangan I can only speak Tagalog and English both very fluently.

[@anthonyolson5368]

and now people will speak this language to be,"cool."

[@tahaazmeerkhan8992]

If only 3 people speak badeshi how was BBC able to translate it

[@notbryan255]

they aren't speaking it, also they could translate it too.

[@hamzaasif911]

I can understand a few words they're speaking, like 'haal'(condition) and 'gaown'(village). Perhaps it's a distant dialect of Pashto?

[@seeda.6594]

it's the same in hindi and urdu

[@braindeadidiot]

InshaAllah may this language flourish once again

[@muhammadnaveed7856]

Real Caucasians, belonging to Kohistan district of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province in Pakistan they are some of the very few pure Indo-Aryans left in the area, largely untouched by the outside society, they are the indegenious people living there since the very first Indo-Aryans came to this area of the subcontinent. This is Dardic division of the indo aryan group of languages. They occupy one of the most beautiful places on earth, lush green forests, clear mountain streams, tall mountains in the middle of the most wastern part of the mighty Himalayas ( also known as Karakorum ). At the same time they are poor, mostly illiterate mountain people with rich culture and civilization

[@imposter-982]

muhammad naveed they're actually afghans

[@muhammadnaveed7856]

Mrchicken 123 i am afraid that,s not the case, these people are very distinct people than afghans, most of the afghans are of the ethnic iranian origin like pukhtoons and tajiks, while most other afghans are of the mixed iranian, mongolians and turks origin. On the other hand these people belong to what is known as indo-aryans. Their customs, language and civilization is different from that of afghans or nearby pukhtoons. They are as old and native to the region as are afghans and are as pure in their genetics as well

[@imposter-982]

muhammad naveed pathans are afghans originally they only have Iran blood because when they got exiled by the Assyrian army they travelled to Afghanistan so shut up

[@imposter-982]

muhammad naveed they wear the same clothes as afghans u idiot

[@imposter-982]

Hedz Almador they wear clothes like them and look like them so I assumed

[@jadeheart6838]

This is so sad... Languages should never die out, they are a large part of culture and history. At least that is how I feel.

[@judebrianlardera]

Same! However, some extinct languages are planning to revive.

[@peterlautze9717]

i bet you that there are women that still speak it as well

[@judebrianlardera]

@@peterlautze9717 Wait! Are there women who can speak Badeshi?

[@Proxuius]

@@peterlautze9717 no

[@Proxuius]

@@judebrianlardera no

[@ChaostessX3]

I would like to learn Badeshi! 😢

[@TheAncientTale]

From the wise words of Elias Canetti: “There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.”

[@notbryan255]

unfortunately theres some mfs in these comments that were like "lol who cares about this language, offered nothing to the world"

[@TheAncientTale]

@@notbryan255 Shame, that this is the world we live in, no?

[@elmothegreat4785]

I would love to learn that language imagine how that would look on a resume?!?

[@yello-nate9796]

They would probably think you're lying And you couldn't even prove it. Sadly

[@samikjain5837]

@@yello-nate9796 Or its easy to prove it. Heard of gibberish?

[@MattJohno2]

I'm gonna try learning it. Maybe I can save it!

[@ochrechap]

For real?

[@darrenkhosasi1252]

How did it go?

[@ochrechap]

Matt, Darren wants to know how it went. And so do I

[@federalbureauofinvestigati2725]

Me and the bros keeping it a secret from everyone

[@user-rt5pl1hy1l]

As a Hindi speaker I noticed that there were some words which were the same as in hindi.... Such as Gav(village) and khatam(end).....

[@raider8sox]

I would love to learn badeshi! Sounds very interesting!

[@SamiHero1]

Arabic and Northern Pakistani languages amalgam. I can't speak Northern Pakistani languages but I do have a knowledge of Urdu Arabic & Hindi and I was really able to understand 50-70% of what they were saying.

[@falcontakaofficial]

Man don't feel pain. Men:

[@SILUX1]

I only understand one word he said gaon which he used for Village I'm a Indian Hindi speaker

[@yasameenm6806]

Aww languages are beautiful I hope the youngsters take some interest and learn so it doesn't die out

[@slayedclaw317]

Nah

[@RetroRift.]

​@@slayedclaw317yes, keep your "Nah" to yourself

[@barastrasz4157]

​@@RetroRift. expecting the young to bend over backwards for some extremely niche language that will never have a use in the modern world is foolish. Languages die when they don't have a use anymore, that's it.

[@jeongbun2386]

@@barastrasz4157bro why are you so mad at people caring about other people like 😭 we are trying to be positive

[@fav21lintaorafael11]

@@jeongbun2386 Aww languages are beautiful I hope y̶o̶u̶n̶g̶s̶t̶e̶r̶s̶ people take some interest and learn so it doesn't die out. I think he's mad about the particular age group targeted in the post, and he doesn't care what stupid things he has to say to refute that point. "They always make the young bend over backwards whilst not doing any of the work themselves!" when that's not even the point of the post