Siberia is home to many different languages such as Sspanish, Sportuguese, and Sbasque
@jakubpociecha88194 жыл бұрын
Depends if you mean Siberia in Seurope or Siberia in Sasia
@Htrad4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the laughs
@seamusogdonn-gaidhligarain27454 жыл бұрын
Take your like and get out of here /s
@thomyorke76224 жыл бұрын
and Scatalan
@elijahkinnane27304 жыл бұрын
@Rudy09 r/whoosh
@crazy_fan46144 жыл бұрын
I’m Russian and your pronunciation of Russian word and names was incredibly good and way better than I could expect from a foreigner
@travelsandbooks4 жыл бұрын
In my experience, linguists tend to be extremely good at pronunciation, even if they can't speak much vocabulary.
@michelle30774 жыл бұрын
@@travelsandbooks That's because linguists learn to use IPA.
@Mr.Nichan4 жыл бұрын
@@travelsandbooks Some professional linguists are actually quite bad at pronunciation of other languages, because a lot of linguists don't focus on that, but instead on things other things, like English syntax or cross-linguistic semantics. I also think some people may just be better at it (or just more interested in it) for various reasons. I also sometimes wonder if people with some introduction to linguistics are discouraged or loose interest in pronouncing things when they learn about how ideas about "correct" pronunciations are pretty silly and the oft over-exaggerated differences adults have learning new sounds compared to infants (which I think are probably largely negated by learning phonetics and deliberately training ones ears).
@ethanoverwatch4074 жыл бұрын
@@travelsandbooks Cheru
@j.clementec.m.15584 жыл бұрын
he's a linguist
@b.griffin3174 жыл бұрын
Siberia has two seasons: The Frozen Solid Season The Mosquito Season
@ulovil4 жыл бұрын
I live here, and we say jokingly: there is only two seasons here: 1)white winter 2) green winter
@TheExalaber4 жыл бұрын
In Minnesota they like to say that there are only two seasons, shovel, and swat. Here in Saskatchewan, it is much the same, but with less snow and more wind.
@readisgooddewaterkant78904 жыл бұрын
In Stockholm there are only three seasons. Hot and cold and somewhere in the middle.
@KateeAngel4 жыл бұрын
Saint-Petersburg has two seasons: warm rainy and cold rainy with rainy snow
@majacovic51414 жыл бұрын
Sasons in Dalmatia: wind, sun, fire & rain
@shams_ud_din3 жыл бұрын
That's a cool video I'am turkic man (hakas) from Siberian mountains of Sayan and I wanna say that you did a good job to give people simple information about small languages of my land Thank you ☺️
@abbeyrhapsody32053 жыл бұрын
Greetings from a Turkic woman! (Northern Cypriotic)
@@Yrkr785 wdym- I'm from Northern Cyprus, just search for it, the westerns trying to make it seem like only the rums live in there but the half of the island is filled by the Turks like me
@Yrkr7853 жыл бұрын
@@abbeyrhapsody3205 yes expect the Turks like you are aren’t ethnic turkics
@abbeyrhapsody32053 жыл бұрын
@@Yrkr785 have you even searched the turkic history? our first ancestors were from siberia (this is the place where the first turks appeared and started to form little dynasties) then the oghuz branch migrated to the west (the gagauz turks, cypriotic turks, azeri turks, turkish turks etc) and today, westerns turks (for the Turkish and Cypriotics) have %70 ancient anatolian dna (such as lydian and etrusque and btw etrusque people are proto-turkish and it is stated) and %30 old turkic dna (siberian and central asian) also there isn't a thing called as "ethnic/true turk" bcos if you feel like you are a turk, then you are indeed a turk as Ataturk said. For example many Yakut Turks feel like they are Russian even though they are the Turks with one of the most Turkic dna. While The Anatolian (turkish) Turks feel like they are indeed Turkic, while they are the Turks with one of the least Turkic dna but this doesn't mean that they are not "turkic". Anatolian Turks both embrace their ancient anatolian and old turkic dna and are very proud of it.
@Cantskatemcd4 жыл бұрын
The rush you get when Nativlang cites one of your professors
@MarkBonneaux4 жыл бұрын
Who was it?
@rahuldhargalkar4 жыл бұрын
Oh Wow! What a moment of pride
@Artexerxes1014 жыл бұрын
@@MarkBonneaux It might be Edward Vajda. Now I wonder if he's cited any of my professors.
@dawenappu93104 жыл бұрын
right? I should have expected it, Vajda won't shut up about Ket (his enthusiasm's so infectious) and yet...
@gammamaster18942 жыл бұрын
@@dawenappu9310 I love his enthusiasm, as you say, it's so infectious.
@katyatrue36864 жыл бұрын
Greetings from Siberia! I myself native Russian speaker. Unfortunately, living here all life I've never met any native Siberian and as well never heard their language and didn't know anything about them, so your video was very useful for me. The natives of my region speak Khanty and Mansi language and I was surprised to know that it's the same language family with Hungarian...
@MrApplehair3 жыл бұрын
It’s called neo nazi Russian politics and imperialism that destroyed local culture, stole their lands and killed people.
@katyatrue36863 жыл бұрын
@@MrApplehair should I feel guilty about it? I'm not responsible for what my ancestors did.
@KateeAngel3 жыл бұрын
@@MrApplehair your comment is ignorant. What did have Russian Empire have to do with neo-n@zis? It existed even before the original n@zis. Also, funny to listen about destroying natives from a westerner. While in the USA >100 natives ethnic groups totally disappeared, in Russia, every single one, even significantly reduced in size, still exist
@KateeAngel3 жыл бұрын
@@katyatrue3686 your ancestors probably were ok. Most of them were exiled to Siberia against their will, or came during Soviet times to develop industry in already extant Russian cities
@katyatrue36863 жыл бұрын
@@KateeAngel My ancestors came to Siberia in 70s for large (compared to other regions of the USSR) salaries. Most people are like that.
@a_martynovich4 жыл бұрын
Wow man. I live in Siberia and I've learned so much. Not only you nailed your Russian pronunciation, but also you've managed to pronounce something in Chukotkan! I couldn't help but become your patron.
@wtc51982 жыл бұрын
Chukotkan is the branch of a language family, Chukchi is the language
@Elnadrius4 жыл бұрын
Greetings from Novosibirsk, largest city of Sibiria
@Elnadrius4 жыл бұрын
@sneksnekitsasnek nope
@jakubpociecha88194 жыл бұрын
@@Elnadrius Most people in Siberia aren't
@user-wl3ky7oz5h4 жыл бұрын
Hello from Sakha, fellow bros from entire World!
@danjkeehokage4164 жыл бұрын
sneksnekitsasnek I’m native, nenet
@jakubpociecha88194 жыл бұрын
@@danjkeehokage416 cool,glad to see a nenet here
@timi16554 жыл бұрын
As a Hungarian its very painful to see how the Uralic languages (and ofc others) disappear :(
@Ser_Lefty3 жыл бұрын
I agree. It's inevitable and eventually useful as communication becomes easier, but sad none the less. I hope we get a video on the family some day. As a Finn learning about Hungarian is facinating and I would love to know more about our eastern roots, the history of the family and what common remnants of languge we share today.
@nikitaberejnoy43593 жыл бұрын
in the end you guys can hang out with turks)
@daki22233 жыл бұрын
I'm from America and learned a little Welsh and someone was walking their dog with his wife and was speaking Welsh and I tried to have a conversation with him and he said he was Manx and spoke Manx and never has spoke manx cause no one else does it is very sad to languages die out
@luishernandezblonde3 жыл бұрын
True bros. Unfortunately, big powers love extermination. Think how America did to Red Indians, how Russia did to Siberians, how Australia did to Aborigines, how Arabs did to Amazighs and Copts, how Turkey did to Armenians and Greeks. So sad and so painful. I hope Hungarians will never lose its language. Greetings from your ally Poland.
@gamermapper2 жыл бұрын
@@luishernandezblonde not only America, also Canada, see the residential schools, also I think they don't like being called red and we'll their skin isn't even red
@imokin864 жыл бұрын
Your Russian is spot on. Very good, especially the tricky final B in Ob. Also, so pleasing to see a reference to a paper by someone I went to college with.
@tasse05994 жыл бұрын
Why is it considered tricky? Because it's voiceless?
@imokin864 жыл бұрын
@@tasse0599 it's "soft", i. e. palatalized. From my experience, it's hard for English speakers to pronounce this type of consonant.
@armincal98344 жыл бұрын
But my friend, ob is not a slavic name anyways, in fact a few places and cities east of nizhniy novgorod have slavic names
@imokin864 жыл бұрын
@@armincal9834 absolutely. Historically not Slavic. But we still use it in Russian. Like Manhattan, historically not an English word, but now a geographical name in English.
@tasse05994 жыл бұрын
@@imokin86 Ah, ok, so it's spelled Обь in Russian. I assumed it was spelled just like the preposition. I knew, that some consonant sounds in Russian become unvoiced, when they appear at the end of a word, just like in my native language of German, e. g. падеж-а /ʒ/ -> падеж /ʃ/ or an example from German: Bad-es /d/ -> Bad /t/.
@adonaiyah21964 жыл бұрын
This is the first time i've seen his face
@Ida-xe8pg3 жыл бұрын
He did a face reveal long time ago
@PC_Simo3 жыл бұрын
@Amal That is true.
@NoblePineapples4 жыл бұрын
Where I live we will hit -40 (we hit -50 with the windchill this winter) in the winter and 35 C in the summer, quite the range
@Ida-xe8pg4 жыл бұрын
-50 holyschit, where I live the temp range is b/w ~24-42 C most of the time its b/w 30-38 C
@adonaiyah21964 жыл бұрын
Where do you live
@k.umquat86044 жыл бұрын
Where I live, it rarely gets sub zero temperature. I am shocked.
@NoblePineapples4 жыл бұрын
@@adonaiyah2196 Central Alberta, Canada
@Panatesu4 жыл бұрын
Same. West Siberia.
@gnjc34803 жыл бұрын
Tuvan, altai and khakas are also very important siberian turkic languages. They are official languages.
@MpSniperM19114 жыл бұрын
who still remember their knowledge only in our left ear??
@Fnidner4 жыл бұрын
good times
@paulisconi22644 жыл бұрын
People reading this years from now won't get the joke, but I do.
@ashenen22784 жыл бұрын
Aaaah. So it wasn't just me😅😅😅😆😆
@ismata32744 жыл бұрын
i do! 😆
@karmakanic4 жыл бұрын
Never forget #monoforever
@user-vi4zw6zu4c2 жыл бұрын
Oh, Siberia. My second home. Stranger on the internet: "Where are you from?" Me: "I'm from Serbia" Stranger on the internet: "Oh, isn't it cold there?" 😂😂😂
@Jacob-yg7lz4 жыл бұрын
There needs to be movies or games set in the Russian empire. It was crazily diverse and had the weirdest politics of anywhere in the world.
@TheExalaber4 жыл бұрын
The dead ideas podcast did a good series on serfdom, and for their story telling section they told the lightly fictionalized tale of a serf that ran away to work the Ukrainian oil fields where he was kidnapped by Turkish and caucasian rebels. They even described a card game that is played by the descendants of Ukrainian immigrants to the region in which I live, durrok.
@horacegentleman32964 жыл бұрын
Too bad communism happened huh?
@Jacob-yg7lz4 жыл бұрын
@@horacegentleman3296 Not really communism, more like the Russian nationalism that accompanied communist rule. Similar things happened all over the world in the early 20th century, just look at what happened in the Ottoman empire for example.
@horacegentleman32964 жыл бұрын
@@Jacob-yg7lz is this a "but that wasn't real communism" argument? I mean I do agree it doesn't matter if it's a left boot or a right boot on your neck you still can't breathe. Authoritarianism is destructive.
@Jacob-yg7lz4 жыл бұрын
@@horacegentleman3296 I never said it wasn't true communism. I agree, authoritarianism is destructive, especially when mixed with nationalism.
@swancrunch4 жыл бұрын
8:45 i'd rather repeat "chukotko-kamchatkan" all day than try to pronounce "ӆыгъораветӆьэн йиӆыйиӆ" once.
@anwardiggs87484 жыл бұрын
Agreed.
@Dominik-lc4pl3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for spelling it out, I couldn't read it in the font used in the video
@swancrunch3 жыл бұрын
@@Dominik-lc4pl can you read it now?
@Dominik-lc4pl3 жыл бұрын
@@swancrunch Yes!
@hisham_hm3 жыл бұрын
I think that was an intentional flex!
@catherine22684 жыл бұрын
I saw Australia there. I would love to see you address it one day. There are so many Aboriginal languages, sadly they are extinct or severely endangered. They are beautiful and diverse languages with a fascinating culture
@DertekN3 жыл бұрын
8:48 your pronunciation of chukchi language is so good. I am Chukcha but i dont speak my language. I heared it from my grandma many times.
@organicenglishinput Жыл бұрын
Do most people speak Russian in Siberia then? It's really interesting to hear
@DertekN Жыл бұрын
@@organicenglishinput There is a lot of nationalities in Siberia, everyone speak Russian, also they speak their own language and in schools can learn it more.
@r_47.o502 жыл бұрын
My family descents from the mansi people & I wasn’t able to learn a lot of the language that my great grandfathers mother thought him. It was very beautiful and I hope to learn and discover my roots as I go. This was an amazing video! I hope more people watch this and become educated on Siberia . Thank you!
@ekesandras148111 ай бұрын
the Khanti and Mansi are linguistically the closest relatives to the Hungarian, closer than Estonian, Komi of Finish. That's why it is beliefed that the West Siberian swamp taiga is the original homeland of the Hungarians, from where they started migrating away about 2000 years ago.
@PC_Simo8 ай бұрын
@@ekesandras1481 *or Finnish.
@SirMethos4 жыл бұрын
I swear, your videos always seem to make time disappear, and never fail to leave me with a smile.
@chataignevendemiaire71724 жыл бұрын
Hello from Yakutia! 👋
@rogofos4 жыл бұрын
Siberia is actually one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world that is in amount of languages spoke per 1mln of ppl
@luishernandezblonde3 жыл бұрын
But as long as Putin maintains in power, the Siberian natives would have no chance to develop or take pride of their languages.
@vufcyfxcyyfccfugvi7466 Жыл бұрын
@@luishernandezblonde You don’t know what you’re talking about
@Adhjie Жыл бұрын
u sure of that vs the languages of papua islands?
@PC_Simo8 ай бұрын
@@Adhjie The OP said: *_”ONE OF_* the most…”, not: *_THE MOST…”,_* though 🫤.
@nae_eoneo Жыл бұрын
Relating to this topic (more specifically Yupik) I’d be intrigued to see an animation on the Inuit languages from east Siberia all the way to Greenland. I’ve been studying them myself and have found their relations and history amazing. Thanks for the great video!
@WarriorofSunlight4 жыл бұрын
I’ve been fascinated with Siberia for a while now. I feel like most people don’t realize how vast it is, not just west to east, but also north to south. There’s so many natural wonders, nature, different cultures, animals, beauty, and enough land to make a continent of its own but all anyone seems to think is that “its all just cold.” I’d really love to see some of it for myself one day.
@katzlang4 жыл бұрын
It's time to rewatch the vid to support LangFocus' hard work fixing everything for us :)
@kobovad4 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, LangFocus :)
@dyskr4 жыл бұрын
Kobovad hello everyone welcome to the langfocus language, my name is Nativlang
@jt....4 жыл бұрын
@@dyskr *Hello LangFocus, NativLang here
@Salsmachev4 жыл бұрын
I'm just waiting for the Nativlang/Lanfocus/Biblaridion/Artifexian/Jan Misali ultimate language nerd crossover episode
@6sentient4 жыл бұрын
The fact that you pronounce the words and the names in every topic language the way they are pronounced by natives and not in that atrocious american accent is one of many reasons i religiously follow this channel.
@user-xb9yv2ci4c3 жыл бұрын
I am German and normally Germans try to pronounce as accurately aa as possible. Not always successful.
@wtc51982 жыл бұрын
That's the magic of the International Phonetic Alphabet
@siyacer4 ай бұрын
"atrocious" selfcentered, much?
@AWSMcubeАй бұрын
@@siyacer what
@rubbedibubb50174 жыл бұрын
I found a grammar of Chukchi a few weeks ago and it’s really cool, it resembles Mohawk because of all the noun incorporation madness!!
@KingOfHeroes19964 жыл бұрын
I think it's really cool finding similarities between Siberian/East Asian languages and those of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, really lends significance to the once existing land bridge between Siberia and Alaska.
@user-ye6zh9kg7n3 жыл бұрын
yeah typical polysynthetic lang :)
@Gdescarlett4 жыл бұрын
As I run into your channel for the first time, it's been extremely satisfying to hear all those proper nouns pronounced absolutely correctly. In particular, Kamchatka nearly drove me extatic.
@wtc51982 жыл бұрын
The International Phonetic Alphabet really helps with pronunciation
@JeroenDoes4 жыл бұрын
I thought an wide area with little in the amount of people would make them more isolated and therefore increase the amount of languages or dialects in the area. Maybe it is the fact that most live in the same area in the south.
@varana4 жыл бұрын
I think this "fewest languages per area" statistic is just because Siberia is so large with so few people. Even with considerable linguistic diversity between the communities, comparable or even bigger than the diversity between equal amounts of people elsewhere, the area is so incredibly huge, that it averages out at only a few languages per km2.
@PC_Simo4 жыл бұрын
@varana312 My thoughts, exactly.
@NovaHessia3 жыл бұрын
The amount of "languages per capita" is actually rather high in Siberia. Even before the Russian expansion, many languages only had a few hundred or thousand speakers. It's just that there are really *that* few people in the region.
@Shy_guy97952 жыл бұрын
Warm greetings from Sakha! (Or Yakutia) thank you for such an informative video :) I’m grateful for popularizing such a diverse heritage we have in these seemingly empty lands!
@ariana_2083 жыл бұрын
8:25 that counting system is very similar to Japanese. You have different ways of counting round objects, flat objects, long objects, people, money, etc. that’s not so surprising seeing how close it is to Japan :)
@PC_Simo2 жыл бұрын
Yep. I still remember my brain exploding, when I first heard of that Japanese counting system in the 10-part ”documentary-series”, ”Nousevan auringon Kajo” (”The Gleam of the Rising Sun”), being a Markus Kajo -fan 🤯.
thank you so much for talking about my homeland with such passion) and for doing away with that 'constant cold' myth xD actually, this spring was so much warmer in my hometown near Krasnoyarsk than it was in Moscow.
@WK-bo6qv3 жыл бұрын
I have Oymyakon and Verkhoyansk on the weather app on my phone just to see how cold it gets in the winter and how hot it gets in the summer
@DragonQuicksilver2 жыл бұрын
I'm an American but I lived in Krasnoyarsk for a little while. I miss it, it's such a lovely city. Это мой русский дом)))
@Sirzhukov4 жыл бұрын
I'm Russian and I'm able to repeat "Chukotka-Kamchatsky" three times tops.
@antonishedsp20364 жыл бұрын
Чукотка-Камчатский
@PC_Simo2 жыл бұрын
I repeated "Chukotka-Kamchatsky" five times on my 2nd try (4 times on my 1st try); and I’m Finnish, and not just any Finnish, but a slow-ass Tavastian 😅.
@Sirzhukov2 жыл бұрын
@@PC_Simo Finnish is also phonetically complex. Well, it is a complex language in general, so no wonder you had no problems with Russian. Wish NativLang made an in-depth video about Finnish.
@PC_Simo2 жыл бұрын
@@Sirzhukov Yeah, that is true. Also, so do I.
@Eugensson4 жыл бұрын
I was living in north of Siberia all my childhood. Unfortunatelly we were never tought the locals’ language (Nenets in my case) - what a shame :( I can only say “hi” in Nenets and that’s it.
@maxi64573 жыл бұрын
Hm... I know someone who teaches Nenets
@mr22guy3 жыл бұрын
I was never taught the language of my ancestors but I have started to learn it. Lucky for me, there are online classes. Best of luck to you.
@pesetmekyokkacssart74832 жыл бұрын
Merhaba sizleri belgeselde gördüm. Gerçekten ilginç bir yaşamınız ve bizlerle bağınız olduğumuzu düşünüyorum.
@tunahan44182 жыл бұрын
@@pesetmekyokkacssart7483 ??? Olsa bilirdik
@pesetmekyokkacssart74832 жыл бұрын
@@tunahan4418 anladım
@bbcmotd4 жыл бұрын
I am from Siberia and I maybe knew 10% of this. Thanks!
@maxi64574 жыл бұрын
Where from Siberia?
@robertdullnig36254 жыл бұрын
It's not all isolated though. Novosibirsk is the third largest city in Russia.
@denalihedgehog4 жыл бұрын
South of Siberia is populated, yes. But to the North of Trans-Siberian railroad it will be hard to find a city (Norilsk and Yakutsk, and that's probably it), and it might take you many days before you drive from one village to another
@Cybernaut5513 жыл бұрын
Interesting, thanks for the geography discussion.
@arolemaprarath32483 жыл бұрын
@@denalihedgehog Question, is Russia going to developed its Far East? Like build a huge city in existing cities? I'm curious....
@le_synthesis25852 жыл бұрын
@@denalihedgehog if you say "drive", then there is a road suitable for cars. In the places where such roads exist in Siberia, the settlements are situated along them and it's rather several hours of driving from one to another.
@saveggg71413 жыл бұрын
also, NativLang as a Siberian Russian I would say we don't speak the Northern Govor, mostly it's the mix of all dialects and for the most part people speak the literature variant (the thing is during 60-80s there was a really big migration to Siberia for the construction of giant industrial complexes, also in Siberia you could get more earnings so the people from both Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR and Belorussian SSR moved to Siberia)
@Oddn77514 жыл бұрын
I'm rewatching it, because technically, it's a new video, and I watch all your new videos!
@ChariMahariel2 жыл бұрын
I'm happy to see you cover us native arctic ppl and our languages. Nenets here. Sadly never learnt my mother tongue, but plan to try eventually
@dg-hughes4 жыл бұрын
7:08 The Yeniseian-Dene language connection was interesting. I've always been interested in the Siberian connection to the languages of the Americas.
@Theringodair3 жыл бұрын
And the Ainu in Northern Japan.
@larshofler82982 жыл бұрын
@@Theringodair No linguistic connection found with other languages, Ainu appears to be an isolate. But Ainu-related peoples might have migrated along the coastline to the Americas, leaving behind some limited cultural and genetic contribution.
@wtc51982 жыл бұрын
I remember reading someone proposed a Nivkh-Algic relationship, so there's another one for ya
@Adhjie Жыл бұрын
@@larshofler8298 also a genetic trait in Javanese people, as of now tho no known connections with the language not sure if austroasiatic has retroflex or Kawi got it from mix era influence of sanskrit retroflex and madurese also has it so yeah thats far like up to the end of java from india
@Shareenear4 жыл бұрын
Siberia really has it all You want a language with 40 verb tenses? Shor and Khakas, you're welcome. A language that sounds like if Kazakh and Polish had a baby? Shor is still here. Wanna Klingon? Here's Mongolian for you. A Turkic language that sounds Mongolic? Tuvin, Khakas and Yakut have entered the chat. Add some Polish to it - and you have the Shor dialect of Khakas. Wanna something really creepy and psychedelic? Alright, we've got Khanty. Wanna something chilling and beautiful? Nganasan is here. You want a language with some really bizarre phonetical features like, let's say, the long shwa? We also have it in Ket. Wanna something glitchy where the glottal stop(including the VOICED glottal stop) is everywhere? Welcome to Nenets with its poetic tundra dialect and the creepy forest dialect. A language where verbs have evidentiality? A language that has different words for different types of ghosts, demons and... swamps, and where you can even express that you feel bad for someone just by adding another suffix to a verb? Welcome to Mansi.
@computernoob24 жыл бұрын
Your quality content is appreciated even more during quarantine. Hope you’re well, and thank you!
@tagootuesday65214 жыл бұрын
By far one of my favorite channels. I miss the regular uploads
@pierreabbat61574 жыл бұрын
Oncorhynchus mykiss (мыкижа, I pronounce the species name like мыкиж with ж devoiced): the species name of this trout is from a Kamchatkan language.
@rahuldhargalkar4 жыл бұрын
Aha!
@KrillvinPingvin4 жыл бұрын
It would be nice if you could also talk about the Saami languages of Northern Scandinavia in a separate video perhaps?
@pentelegomenon11752 жыл бұрын
Making plural the default makes a lot of sense to me, things are called single because they're being singled out from a group, and referring to a thing apart from its singular instances is necessarily referring to a plurality.
@HaseOster4 жыл бұрын
Oh, this video is such a pleasure to watch! Your pronunciation is quite good! It's a pity the video is only 10 minutes long. I hope we'll see more stories about Siberian tongues!
@FirstnameLastname-qe3ry4 жыл бұрын
*right ear has rejoined the chat*
@ismata32744 жыл бұрын
and we re happy to hear that.
@SalsadArte2 жыл бұрын
Can you tell more about that counting system? And it would be interesting to have a whole episode about numbers in general!
@fuzzythoughts80204 жыл бұрын
Saskatchewan Canada has that exact same temperature variation, lived it the last decade, I'd know lol. -54C is the coldest I've seen.
@TheSpadaLunga4 жыл бұрын
90% of Canadians live in the south of the country. To be honest, it upsets me because I live in the far north of Russia and I want more people to suffer like me lol
@yukonexpatriate40174 жыл бұрын
Appropriately enough, the climate of most of inland western Canada is basically exactly the same as the climate you find in Siberia. Tons of similar species too, you could probably get dropped in one forest or the other and have quite a challenge figuring out which continent you were on until you ran into someone to talk to.
@yukonexpatriate40174 жыл бұрын
@@TheSpadaLunga Shout out from a 10% person. Latitude can be a bit misleading though, some southern Canadians in the prairies have way colder and harsher winters than we have in the Yukon.
@cw30864 жыл бұрын
I thought the same thing. I was like "Oh! Just like the center of north America!"
@TheSpadaLunga4 жыл бұрын
@@yukonexpatriate4017 By the way, this winter in Russia was abnormally hot. There was almost no snow in Moscow. I was there in January and the weather was the same as in the summer in the place where I live. How was it in Canada?
@dorny35254 жыл бұрын
I live right on Amur river, but all the languages I've heard is Chinese, from Chinese people working in here, and actually I've met one native belorussian. And according to linguistic map of Siberia, that we learned from school, the entire area around Amur river is populated by Russian speakers, with small villages that speak other east slavic languages, like Ukranian. That got me thinking, that maybe Xibe and Nanai languages have almost or completely died out.
@ANTSEMUT13 жыл бұрын
They possibly might just speak their own native language in private/at home/with family and just use "Chinese" as a lingua franca in business dealings.
@dorny35253 жыл бұрын
@@ANTSEMUT1 Nope, actually Chinese speak Chinese with friends and family but trying to speak Russian at work because obviously Russian speakers do not understand Chinese. I've actually searched a little bit and it turns out that these languages are still alive but there are only few thousand native speakers left and they live in very remote areas.
@ANTSEMUT13 жыл бұрын
@@dorny3525 ooooh, anecdotally though a lot of ethnic Russian people i met while studying in Auckland New Zealand could speak Mandarin fluently. Not enough community support/resources to keep their respective languages more "vibrant?" I guess.
@Adhjie Жыл бұрын
@@dorny3525 moribund thats so sad i hope its not that worse like endangedered save them please philanthropist - linguist hope
@Will-lj3io4 жыл бұрын
I updated the Wikipedia page on Nivkh thanks to your comment on it
@eomguel90174 жыл бұрын
Well, then I get the chance to tell you again how awesome your videos are! I've been following this channel since the Toth's Pill series. I'm pretty sure you'll eventually go back to my beloved Mesoamerica and expand more on its linguistic diversity.
@NotHPotter4 жыл бұрын
Your videos routinely go well over my head, but I love watching how you explain them, and I'm sure more knowledgeable people than me can vouch for the quality of the research itself.
@debsy101games4 жыл бұрын
Someone: "Hey my landmass! How many languages do you want?" Siberia: "Yes."
@nicosmind34 жыл бұрын
It looks cold on your landmass. I never knew anyone owned it though. All hail Queen Hayley!
@TheJopeToons4 жыл бұрын
Not only languages, but language families!
@denalihedgehog4 жыл бұрын
Caucasus: Am I a joke to you?
@Mr.Nichan4 жыл бұрын
@@TheJopeToons Yeah, that's probably why the linguist said Siberia was the least linguistically diverse (probably per unit area I would guess). The several dying and never very populous language families/branches have only about 40 languages total, whereas places like Southern Africa or even India have many hundreds of languages, but mostly in only in a few families. The truly insane place is New Guinea, which has more languages than any other part of the world AND they belong to many different families (though a very large fraction are probably in the Trans-New-Guinea family and there are definitely areal features).
@emretorun14364 жыл бұрын
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@revinhatol10 ай бұрын
Apparently, Chukchi has a vigesimal (base-20) counting system similar to Nahuatl (Aztec), Welsh, Irish and Manx.
@rahuldhargalkar4 жыл бұрын
I loved this where you describe an entire area's linguistic diversity rather than a particular language family. I have some suggestions that you might want to look into: The northeastern part of India, so many language families, languages and dialects, I'm sure you'll be interested to dig in (Sino-Tibetan, Thai Kra Dai & so much more...) There's also the south Asian region which is in continuation to the previous region including South China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia etc Then there's the famous Papua New Guinea! I'd love to see all this! Also maybe subcontinental India? 😁😅 Anyway love your work!
@suryatejas30132 жыл бұрын
Even, I would like a video from him on this topic.
@PC_Simo4 жыл бұрын
The world record for the largest range of teperarture change actually belongs to the Siberian town of Verkhoyansk (from +37°C to -68°C, making a Δ105°C difference).
@78625amginE4 жыл бұрын
Oh! You’re very cute. Took me aback seeing you as other than a cartoon. Thanks for your videos. They’re a lot of fun
@sant_vauls4 жыл бұрын
ahhh ikrrr
@ReplyToMeIfUrRetarded11 ай бұрын
siberia and scandinavia both have some of the most interesting languages, in my opinion.
@arkevarohe3 жыл бұрын
Wow. I live in Kamchatka, in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, and I was very pleased to see my city in your video
@zabaanshenaas4 жыл бұрын
I would love to learn Chukchi, as well as Sakha and Evenki. These languages sound awesome, and are so fascinating.
@wtc51982 жыл бұрын
Chukchi is one of my favorite languages, especially the [ł] sound
@S3lkie-Gutz9 ай бұрын
@@wtc5198 I also adore Chukchi, the ł sound sounds very similar to the ł sound in my language(Inuktut, specifically the paalliq dialect in the Keewatin area of mainland Nunavut) maybe it stayed as an archaic mechanism while our thule and Sivullirmiut ancestors crossed the Bering strait into Alaska and Canada?
@nucainchicksaw44114 жыл бұрын
Thanks for that great video! Could you talk about the Native American languages in South America in your next video please?
@ChefRafi4 жыл бұрын
Which of those languages are you interested in? I have videos in Guarani and two varieties of Quechua.
@daron66162 жыл бұрын
Yeniseian languages such as Ket are still connected to indigenous American Athabaskan languages like Chipewyan, Dine (Apachean and Navajo languages) It’s also theorized to also be the result of a back migration from Beringia and North America to Siberia.
@AverytheCubanAmerican4 жыл бұрын
Quite a fascinating region. I love the huskies from there. I really want to visit. Russia is so vast and has lots to offer
@sion84 жыл бұрын
I feel you are a team of people, because there's no way one person comments so much!
@yukonexpatriate40174 жыл бұрын
Huskies didn't just come from Siberia, a lot of Husky breeds were developed in North America too! Although if you go back a few tens of thousands of years, everyone native to North and South America was, at some point, a Siberian.
@imokin864 жыл бұрын
Do come and visit Russia when the pandemic is over!
@sodinc4 жыл бұрын
@@sion8 i feel like i`m subscribed to Avery`s comments
@Nooticus4 жыл бұрын
Yes sion I’m pretty sure that must be the case too.
@user-qy3jq9kr1d4 жыл бұрын
I'm a quarter Chukchi, but I grew up speaking Russian, and my grandparents decided not to teach my father our native language because they believed Soviet propaganda about adopting Marxism and forgetting your own culture and language, plus they weren't legally allowed to teach it anyway. Sort of how they prohibited people in countries like Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan from speaking any other language than Russian. As a side note, I find it interesting how Russian has changed since the final decade and collapse of the Soviet Union. A good way to explain this is with the difference between North Korean and South Korean. The biggest difference is that North Korean describes things with a bunch of adjectives instead of just giving it a name. For example, South Korean has a word for ice cream, but North Koreans would call it, in literal translation, "frozen dairy product". The difference between modern and Soviet Russian is the exact same; people in the Soviet Union spoke Russian like the robots they were expected to be. I wish my grandparents would've been alive to teach me Chuuk as a child because my parents migrated to the US before I was born, and it would've been legal, too.
@jonathancross3097 Жыл бұрын
That's a shame to hear. I was surprised to find that there are actually a decent number of people from all over the world learning Chukchi (not a huge amount but more than I expected; I created a community online that now has almost 50 members). Its grammar is a killer but I hope that more people will take interest in Siberian languages and keep those languages and cultures alive.
@NativLang4 жыл бұрын
My first try had an audio issue the whole way through. Thanks for waiting while I fixed, rendered and uploaded! (Old one is still up if you're eager to compare or you need the audio export error experience: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qILWnK2VfbahiLM )
@yumallah4 жыл бұрын
No idea what you're talking about, watched the original and didn't notice any issues with it.
@limetheslime14 жыл бұрын
Thanks for fixing this; it was difficult to listen to originally.
@TK-rd3yn4 жыл бұрын
I noticed it but I thought it was on my end
@ganzaa8444 жыл бұрын
@@yumallah Me too, I too didn't hear anything wrong with it.
@NativLang4 жыл бұрын
@@yumallah The voice was set to come out of the left channel only. Whoops!
@WyattRyeSway3 жыл бұрын
I was born in the JOA (ЕАО). Very few people speak Yiddish there but it is taught in schools.
@newrgoon4 жыл бұрын
I am so amazed Im watching a video about my native languages (Sakha and Evenki) almost nobody heard of
@whinnymuir44224 жыл бұрын
Hey, if you're a native Sakha speaker, do you think you might be interested in helping out with a translation project for English speakers who are interested in studying it?
@newrgoon4 жыл бұрын
Whinnymuir yeah of course
@Raidon85373 жыл бұрын
Hello to Yakuts! Do you consider yourself a Turkic?
@trikebeatstrexnodiff3 жыл бұрын
@@Raidon8537 who cares if they do or not. they are turkic and speak a turkic language. it is like asking to a german if they are germanic
@stone89053 жыл бұрын
@@trikebeatstrexnodiff Russification dude. they gonna lose their language soon
@biedisunizlietne4 жыл бұрын
The love you make your videos with sparks me such joy!
@laffy7204 Жыл бұрын
I wonder if since the Ainu language is both in Japan and Siberia, perhaps other languages like Japanese or Korean originated from Siberia too
@kagar3465 Жыл бұрын
Idk about Japanese but Korean, yeah probably. They are originally from Manchuria before settling in the Korean peninsula and they are genetically related to Evenks and Oroqens, both south Siberian peoples but this could aso just be admixture from the Jurchens (also Tungusic) who have lived along side the Goryeo in what is now North Korea for centuries ultimately being assimilated into the Korean population.
@katelillo19324 жыл бұрын
These are some of my favorite videos. I adore the fact that they are animated.
@inupiaq84203 жыл бұрын
I’ve always think what if humanity started in the America’s cause the land bridge that sunk was about 15 thousand years ago, and every religion and culture talks about a flood that happened thousands of years ago
@mariksen3 жыл бұрын
5:47 I heard "reindeer hurters and writers"... 😂😂😂 Am I the only one to mishear this passage???
@JennRighter3 жыл бұрын
I would love a video on West African languages. I know French and Swahili are most common, but I see no mention of Wolof or other common languages when I research. Wolof and French are the only languages spoken (aside from English) among the very large population of West Africans that I work with. Maybe West Africa is too broad of a term (as they are mostly from Senegal and Mauritania); I just find it odd that they all speak Wolof but there is almost no mention of Wolof when looking into West African languages.
@barrettdecutler89792 жыл бұрын
I think Swahili is more East and Central Africa bu this sometimes considered a pan-African or trade language. Other West African languages include Nigerian ones like Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, and maybe also Fulani. Maybe check out Moses McCormick. He speaks some of them.
@Moeller7504 жыл бұрын
There's nothing better than a Nativlang video to take your mind off a lockdown. Watching your videos, I always just instinctively feel like I'm in good company. Thanks for sharing your passion - it's infective ;)
@ericwright85924 жыл бұрын
I seriously can't get enough of these videos. I wish they could be longer! But I understand if the animation is too laborious
@Kruncklenucker4 жыл бұрын
Would love to see you do a video on Euskara (Basque).
@elvenlament Жыл бұрын
*raises hand* could you do a video about yiddish / various jewish languages? id love to see a linguists take on them.
@c7edwards4 жыл бұрын
Fantastic animated story about the cultures of such a vast and varied part of the world. Thank you, Josh!
@Floraa152 Жыл бұрын
This one was sooo interesting! Thank you! I love your content 🤩
@Mattteus4 жыл бұрын
I like that you used Iı İi to represent Turkic languages
@DrWhom4 жыл бұрын
The mechanism appears to be that nouns are fundamentally thought of as ''mass" -the singular then becomes the derived form "one of those"
@hannahrose45854 жыл бұрын
Your channel makes me so so happy this is the kind of thing I get excited about and no one gets it!!! I would take a whole class on just this topic if I could
@Nekomikuri4 жыл бұрын
So cool and thank you for covering these languages.
@mckernan6034 жыл бұрын
Do a whole video on Ket, we’re ready haha
@160p2GHz3 жыл бұрын
You mentioned the link to Dene briefly here. Have you already done a video on how language in the Americas relates to migration theories? That would be really cool.
@jannetteberends8730 Жыл бұрын
The Ob and the Lena sounds very familiar. When a Dutch crossword puzzle asks for a river in Russia, the answer is one of these two.
@ekmalsukarno23024 жыл бұрын
Nativlang, can you please make a video on Bantu noun classes. Thank you very much.
@ceruchi20844 жыл бұрын
Seconded!
@John_Weiss4 жыл бұрын
We Patreon patrons are the ones who get to decide on that. 😁 He puts together a list of t about 5 or 6 topics that he should do next, then asks his Patreon patrons to vote on them.
@Hafessor4 жыл бұрын
I really love your content. I’ve been hoping you’d do a video about the language diversity of the Levant that isn’t just limited to Arabic. As there are very little content on this topic on the internet!
@ArturoStojanoff4 жыл бұрын
Both my ears enjoyed this video.
@jacobparry1774 жыл бұрын
Diolch, enjoyed as always, keep up the hard work!😙
@overworkedcna4124 жыл бұрын
Can you do a whole video on Yiddish? My family still speaks it :)
@ChefRafi4 жыл бұрын
What variety of Yiddish? I’m working on a third Yiddish video. Would you like to help - I just need help with one saying.
@paranormal174 жыл бұрын
RIP left ear only video 2020-2020 it was too pure for this world
@vufcyfxcyyfccfugvi74664 жыл бұрын
If I'm not mistaken the territory shown on this map includes the Siberian region and the Far Eastern region. It is not only Siberia.
@kadenvanciel9335 Жыл бұрын
One thing I want to tell you, Josh, there is a language hypothesis that Lichen introduced me and others to, known as the Uralo-Siberian theory, which claims that several Siberian languages alongside the Finnic languages and the Eskimo-Aleut tongues are all one super-family. I hope people are scrutinizing it in case Michael Fortescue is anything like Greenberg, the Moscow Altaicists, Reulen, etc.
@FieldLing639 Жыл бұрын
It has plenty of scrutiny, don't worry.
@diogofelss Жыл бұрын
Hope I'm not too late, but I am a conlanger, and this video inspired me to create a new conlang based on some siberian languages, especially chukchi and nivkh, both languages wich I am fascinated on.
@dhawthorne16344 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see you go deeper into Japanese, Italian and the history and diversification of English. With that last one, less on the pronunciations and more on the differences in vocabulary and colloquialisms between Posh, Cockney, Australian, Kiwi, Canadian and the 3 unique dialects in America (New England, Texan and Hawaiian).