This language has EIGHTY FOUR consonants [Long Short]

[@CFurnace]

I think a beatboxer invented this language

[@jimjimmers8571]

Likely a French one, too

[@rudmillahnowrin9151]

Fr 😂

[@Firecracker511]

Yes

[@grrreen]

no, just an average conlanger

[@SNGeditzYT]

@@jimjimmers8571💀

[@CantWords]

Imagine going back in time to meet a native speaker just to say: " *O* "

[@manishpoojari9457]

ii, uu, e, o

[@rudmillahnowrin9151]

FR 😂

[@notuglyqualitymodels]

Not “o” more like between a and e. It’s typed like a backwards e

[@daSrilankanCat]

@@notuglyqualitymodelsno he meant for expanding his language

[@Wonderhoy-er]

@@notuglyqualitymodelsI prefer “uh” or “er”

[@Aziz_Kayum]

... which are impossible to pronounce *Pronounces them anyway

[@kshope855]

Aspirated consonants are kinda impossible to pronounce tho...

[@stickad_]

​@@kshope855Aspirated consonants are phonetic consonants in English

[@kshope855]

@@stickad_ my bad. i meant ejectives

[@stickad_]

@@kshope855 I can pronounce most ejectives with ease anyway

[@kshope855]

@@stickad_ it's probably my native language preventing me from pronoucing ejectives. because ejectives is not easy

[@lic.fernando140]

Rest in peace Tevfik Esenç, he was the last native Ubykh speaker and died in 10 octuber 1992.

[@zz.azalie]

Rest in peace, he choked from trying to say any Ubykh words, But in all seriousness, how did he die?

[@Choroalp]

Old Age​@@zz.azalie

[@zz.azalie]

@@Choroalp oh ok

[@fashiharz8584]

And I thought Arabic consonants are almost extensive. I was clearly wrong.

[@1sanitat1]

Nothing compares to the languages of caucasus 😂

[@Kiyoliki]

​@@1sanitat1except for maybe the Khoisan languages, which have an ABUNDANCE of click sounds.

[@thekickanoragm8559]

Sad thing is that even though Ubykh is an extinct language, a lot of Circassian and just in general Caucasian language do have an extensive list of consonant some of which sound exactly like someone choking😂

[@DinoBryce]

​@@KiyolikiNah, clicks are easy

[@Kiyoliki]

@@DinoBryce I personally struggle with aspirated clicks and some uvular clicks. Anything else is pretty easy.

[@bestbeekeeper8931]

i'm considering a degree in linguistics and i have to say one of the things i'm looking forward to the most is making as many silly sounds as possible to learn and understand phonetics

[@StanbyMode]

you must achieve phonetic enlightenment

[@realemperorkuzco]

Do you know about Agma Schwa's Cursed Conlang Circus?

[@bestbeekeeper8931]

@@realemperorkuzco i do not. enlighten me, please. i hadn't realized my life was so hollow

[@gabojill19]

@@StanbyMode check out "dolphin language" that guy is my favourite flavour of autism. He also make a "bird language"...just whistles, how the fuck is he able to create and hear the notes accurately is anyone´s guess.

[@realemperorkuzco]

@@bestbeekeeper8931 Ah, search for "Clong Critic Episodr 69: ...this thing" by Cadex Twenty-Four "The Language Gurgle" by Linguleum Those two are something. But I do recommend just checking out Agma Schwa's language in general.

[@gal749]

rest in peace Tevfik Esenç😔

[@kayragunes5050]

O kim

[@soapp405]

@@kayragunes5050 last native ubykh speaker

[@gooftrap7777]

At this point, you could just use every IPA consonant

[@elliuozaG]

Ubykh still lacks a lot of them, and some quite common otherwise. One thing I'm wondering is how come the name of the language appears to have two vowels that the language has not.

[@vpansf]

​@@elliuozaGThe name is a exonym, kinda like how China isn't natively called China, rather it's called Zhongguo.

[@haq248]

Also every possible and impossible ipa sound

[@sophroniel]

I read about the people that used to speak this language-it's terribly sad. The cause? Genocide. Because of course. 😔

[@flehue]

oh those russians

[@hirokitokuyama]

Genocide that Russians have committed

[@ashtar3876]

Genocide and ethnic cleansing is so fucked up, turns up so much in history

[@Ryroe]

OF COURSE, 1 of the 2 vowels is schwa. ffs

[@StanbyMode]

Schwa is the best and greatest vowel of all time

[@abarette_]

schwaGODS won.

[@heinrich.hitzinger]

​@@StanbyModeə

[@CallMeChrisOfficial]

​@@abarette_ə

[@PIZZAdayisback]

No, ɨ, ɯ, ɶ, ɵ, and ʏ​ are better. @@StanbyMode

[@Solar_Glyph]

Why did this make me think if Mandarin and French had a choking baby language? 😩😫🤣🤣🤣😅😅😅

[@AivRise]

If im not mistaken. The way how it has so many consonants is that charactiristics of vowel moved on consonant: like it had smth like /ku/ /ki/ that become /kʷə/ /kʲə/ over time

[@northernsines]

There is three consonants in ubykh, /ɐ/, /ɨ/, and /ə/, and there are some tapes with Esenç where he says words that distinguish these vowels as different phonemes. Anyways though, still a great video! Your pronunciation was funny to watch but also really skilled. I actually made a Latin transcription system for ubykh, when me and my friend nerded out about it, if you want to see! Fàx͂́e t̊q̊’èk̊ebže ḱ’èğin ezex͂́ešinèn èmr͂́en ǵiḱeq’èn. This is the first sentence of the “fish makes you smart” story with my system. Let me know what you think :3

[@RanmaruRei]

Too much diacratics. I would opt for letter combinations instead. It would look more clearer. Also, because Ubykh does not have so many vowels you can play with vowel letters as well. Similar to Slavic languages for example that [na] as на, but [nʲa] as ня. Even if it's just an othography, not a transcription, this method is used in practical transcriptions in Russian dialectology.

[@elliuozaG]

Oh, so maybe the name of the language only has *one* vowel that the language lacked.

[@northernsines]

*vowels

[@skyrider11910]

​@@RanmaruReinah, we don't need these slavic-like systems. Let's use mytho-epical version of circasso-ubykh-abkhaz writing instead

[@ellaalexeisdaughter2636]

> no recording of all sounds from a native speaker Tevfik Esenç: am I a joke to you

[@TheAssassin04]

Tevfik Esenç*

[@ellaalexeisdaughter2636]

@@TheAssassin04 ty

[@A1mog3]

it sounds like he's constantly switching between chinese, french, arabic and choking

[@nvdawahyaify]

I keep hearing people say that ubykh has just 2 vowels, but if that's the case why is the language called ubykh(using vowels that the language "doesn't have")? That is a question I haven't seen anyone else asking. If ubykh is an exonym, which language is it from, and what did the ubykh people call themselves?

[@pas-giaw6055]

Ubykh is an econym, and due to allophones of the vowels, the called themselves tʷɜxɨbzɜ

[@nvdawahyaify]

@@pas-giaw6055 thank you for answering my question. I appreciate it greatly. I know that my question could have come across as argumentative, but I didn't intend it that way, I just wanted to understand.

[@gunngg908]

​@@pas-giaw6055 do you know why it's so different in english? it's like the consonants got switched around for some reason

[@1sanitat1]

​@@gunngg908I believe it comes from what circassians called them

[@anonymm3152]

According to Wikipedia the name in English comes from its name in adyghe, which is "Убыхыбзэ" [wɘbɘxɘbzз]

[@seajelly2421]

Impressive recitation

[@user-ql9mg5zc8e]

that means if i choke, somebody can hear like i'm swearing😅 i panicked - you almost choked 20 times in a row besides of jokes, MashAllah, great job)

[@joe_z]

I'm more impressed that it only has two vowels than the fact that it has 84 consonants.

[@anonymouskitten4715]

This sounds like it’s from the cursed conlang circus

[@yajtubeteevee1677]

im making a submission for that rn

[@Aureus07]

How did this language evolve naturally 💀

[@AriaHarmony]

Someone was chocking and everyone was like "write that down write that down!" 😂

[@drezhb]

Notice how it has 2 vowels? This seems like a case of old vowels becoming new consonants

[@GalaxyStudios0]

​@@drezhbyeah like /tu/ > /tʷə/

[@greatonion137]

Music theory collab?? Les goo

[@cheliae8560]

😁👏👏🎓. OH MY GOSH!!! Well done!!

[@Stuffinround]

THIS is what maxxing out a skill tree looks like.

[@zacharywranovsky]

Sounded like it turned into French for a second there

[@chrisblackburn3354]

Sounds like a combination of several languages

[@acoolyoutubechannel7849]

“then there’s 18 ejectives which are like impossible to pronounce” them him: 🤫 👂

[@vexhatron1741]

Bless you

[@bisoahmad9067]

the sad thing that this language is extinct because of the Russian genocide against Circussian people

[@pasqualyagomompo3331]

You're right!! ❤thanks for remind us!

[@skyrider11910]

Rip to caucasian heroes of russo-circassian war😢🙏

[@SABDBL]

Trying to make a proto lang for your conlangs be like:

[@dwightdeisenhower53]

This language has every stereotype in one

[@Matick125]

Dude, I’d be chocking and out of nowhere a Ubykh native speaker would feel that I insulted his entire family

[@seize4085]

When you try to make a conlang but just have to throw all the consonants on the table in it

[@williamkeitaro8910]

Bro just became French for 5 seconds

[@XENOXTA]

80+ consonants and not a single dental fricative…

[@seniorblastoise2748]

Theyre rare dude

[@spanishislandsquattingduck3175]

​@@seniorblastoise2748 And a pharyngealized labialized uvular ejective is more common? 😆

[@dinokaijumaster1254]

@@spanishislandsquattingduck3175i mean.. the first guy has a point

[@SproutScouts]

As a native Ubykh speaker, I can confirm this

[@plasmuds_]

how do humans even think of the consonant [qʷˤʼ]

[@Kiyoliki]

Us caucasians (as in, the ethnic groups living in the caucasus) messed around with our throats and got some goofy sounds idk. My language has a much shorter consonant inventory although it has ejectives and its in the caucasus.

[@derdlerimdashayazilasidoyul]

​@@Kiyoliki yea, thats cool asf. Im from azerbaijan and even i sometimes bragging about caucasian languages, nice to be neighbors to those people. may your languages survive and thrive

[@Kiyoliki]

@@derdlerimdashayazilasidoyul Thank you brother. The Caucasus is a very diverse place, which has led to problems, but once you learn these specific ethnic groups's life, identity and culture, you start to appreciate and cherish it.

[@derdlerimdashayazilasidoyul]

@@Kiyoliki exactly, colorful lands indeed, both in terms of people and nature, btw what etnicity are you from?

[@Kiyoliki]

@@derdlerimdashayazilasidoyul Georgian.

[@watcher314159]

!Xóõ has almost twice as many consonants (most of them click consonants). And dozens of vowels.

[@MaxPeacock-c1o]

Someone was hawk tuah-ing on that thang when they made this language 😭😭

[@yoshirocks64]

I’m curious. Does this language have the most consonants in a language or is there another with more consonants? I also wonder, what language has the most vowels? And the opposite: what language has the least consonants and vowels? I’m pretty sure that 2 is the minimum amount of vowels a language can have as I have yet to find one with less than 2, but I could be wrong. 🤔

[@Designed1]

ǃXóõ has the most consonants (and sounds in total) of any language in the world with at least 87 consonants and 20 vowels. I'm not exactly sure which language has the most amount of vowels (mostly because vowels are kind of hard to analyze in languages) but I'm pretty sure Danish has the most vowels with 26 vowels. The language with the least amount of consonants is Central Rotokas, with only 6 consonants in total. And for the last question, technically 2 is the lowest amount of vowels we've found in a language, but there are some languages out there that don't distinguish between any vowel sounds, so you could say that those languages have 1 vowel or no vowels at all.

[@WhaleOfGray]

this sounds like a conglang i would make

[@tonylovesmusic6806]

that is comical i love it 😅

[@TheDez.]

French person having a stroke

[@roecatgaming]

Beatbox language

[@someinteresting]

Mom, the neighbour is having a stroke again.

[@angelhurtado55]

is like somebody was choking on a male, and felt like calling it a letter

[@not_estains]

new conlangers:

[@mbdg6810]

A language with so many consonants it creates letters that come with choke sounds 😀

[@lilamdan]

Mi hilmidkha? Who made you learn it? Who taught ? Who can teach me?

[@contentgarbage]

This is what Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is singing

[@Hailiqou]

I'm scared on what its proto-language would look like

[@w5527]

Schwa always appears

[@Poopick]

This phoneme inventory is glorious, and an empire shall rise and speak only this language alone. All hail the mother of all language families, Ubykh

[@BambinaSaldana]

0:31 🔥🔥

[@ashtar3876]

I need this video but with the context removed

[@Matt-jc2ml]

If you think this is a lot look into north caucus languages. I'm learning avar now and it has some very hard to pronounce sounds

[@Zegezer]

Well... Circassians are North Caucasians. And so yes, all Caucasian languages are complex (those that belong to the Caucasian group)

[@Matt-jc2ml]

@@Zegezer north Caucasian in this context isn't a geographic region but a language group. Not all the languages spoken there are north Caucasian languages. I think circassian isn't part of the same family. It's on the west side anyways, pretty far away from where the rest of them are spoken

[@spacecakes9367]

You can’t escape the schwa…

[@ZandoreFr]

x to the w power goes crazy

[@pasqualyagomompo3331]

Is ǝ a phoneme or an allophone? Can ə be stressed, be on a stressed syllable?

[@Larsbutb4d]

Speedran consonant IPA sounds 100% so much that they forgot to unlock vowels

[@Larsbutb4d]

They js unlocked the two most common ones 😭😭

[@noffill_zangezurian_edits]

Meanwhile the children who are watching this in front of their parents…

[@gamechep]

I think someone introduced them to the concept of vowels and every native speaker eventually got sick of their own language and whoever spoke it, they got "Ew, brother, ew, what's that brother?" And it was all downhill for Ubykh from there until it hit extinction.

[@Cweepee-AlienOnScwatch]

Is this where the International Phonetic Alphabet came from?

[@sn6owe]

Netflix: "are you still watching?" Someone's daughter: 0:48

[@cometlord1]

He's just speaking french

[@GideonSubramani]

How to become french tutorial

[@flomenmendoza1462]

84! - that one language

[@AlberGaming_]

0:21 nah what was bro doin 😳

[@hschmicknos]

Good correction in the cc from they to [I] 😂

[@alexcerny5881]

A caligrapher must have had a stroke before even writing that language

[@henriqueborba8035]

All of that just for the vowels be almost identical, why not /a/ and /i/ for example

[@SenghorAkatetsuShirohana]

get this: welsh has 26 consonant sounds and 0 vowel sounds

[@im-radio]

wait till he hears about taa....

[@taekwondoguy323]

mali

[@Writer_Productions_Map]

!Xõó

[@pogisworld2773]

0:32 to 0:41 Random beatboxer noises

[@addimesorho]

At one point, it sounds like that new cupcakke song 😂

[@rtperrett]

Interestingly Ubykh doesn’t have θ and ð like English does, nor does it have ħ and ʕ like Arabic does.

[@vpansf]

Dental fricatives are not very common, even people who speak English don't even pronounce dental fricatives as dental fricatives. They pronounce it as dental plosives rather than dental fricatives.

[@kori228]

bro just gave up on the alveolo-palatals, you just read them as plain palatals

[@abdulrhmanaun]

Did you know you are awesome 😎😎

[@rajalakshmi1121]

This giving, you a stroke

[@bazartv2.031]

/ubɨx/ is how you pronounc it, approximately

[@kronos_1337.]

Gawk gawk 3000

[@priyadarshanigalhena1164]

Sinhala too has a lot of voice consonants. Some of them you are pronouncing...

[@DorAntCr]

if they only have /a/ and /ə/, how do they pronounce the name of the language Ubykh?

[@country_hamster_236]

The word Ubykh is an exonym. The endonym is something like "Twaxabza", not sure exactly.

[@Kiyoliki]

Sadly its extinct now

[@vixy_p1420]

Why sadly?

[@vpansf]

It's also mentioned in the video.

[@vpansf]

​@@vixy_p1420Language documentation is very useful for linguistics and also relatively nice to have languages tbh.

[@vixy_p1420]

@@vpansf Language documentation sure. Languages themselves set people back when the language is not spoken by a lot of people and does not have many resources. It's better to let dying languages die

[@ambatucoom]

@@vixy_p1420 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_genocide

[@kuutti256]

I don't even think we can revive this language, it's just too difficult to teach anyone...

[@realhuman5688]

how many takes did this take?

[@gianlucatartaro1335]

I really don’t think that many of these count as individual consonants, sadly :( This language definitely has a lot of consonants still, but even English has more than what was listed, like the glottal stop and the voiced sh (I don’t have the IPA keyboard.) However, your list included many sounds that were simply combinations of two or more consonants, and while it would be cool if humans could produce that many consonants, the human mouth just can’t produce that many individual consonants. If we went by that definition, I could add sounds like “st” and “pr” to the English list of consonants. So while I do see that this sound has an extensive list of consonant clusters, I don’t think it’s that much more than most other languages.

[@Ahmed-yp6qt]

which ones are consonant clusters? Consonants with secondary articulation are not consonat clusters.Do you consider [w] a consonat cluster ?

[@FebruaryHas30Days]

Have you noticed a Chinese reference about the English consonsants?

[@Ryroe]

What do you mean?

[@FebruaryHas30Days]

@@Ryroe "b p m f"

[@Ryroe]

@@FebruaryHas30Days What a great explanation...

[@chrisfusion6945]

​@@FebruaryHas30Daysyou can't just claim theres a hidden message and refuse to explain what the message is

[@FebruaryHas30Days]

@@chrisfusion6945 Ever heard of bopomofo?

[@bwwlgaming]

What language does not have the vowel A?

[@L1M.L4M]

I wonder why it went extinct 👀 Edit: I meant it as a joke about it being too complex but dayum...

[@sergenuyar6635]

Ask the R*ssians

[@xolang]

gnocd 😢

[@skyrider11910]

Cuz of russians that tried to bring "civilization" to caucasus. You know, how Spain people did, or how British colonizes America. But even here russians were much, much crueler to circassians and ubykh as a part of them. Read the wiki page about the russo-circassian war. You'll get your answers.

[@ambatucoom]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_genocide

[@markussokk2847]

Sounds like Abkhazian.

[@tausifchowdhury8180]

Circassian to be precise. It was wiped by the Russians alongside many,many races who were squashed by the European "civilizers". And they call us savages because we don't let men kiss in public or let women roam half naked

[@ambatucoom]

That’s because it’s related to Abkhazian.

[@thagrossgod]

This language is part of the Abkhaz-Adyghe language group and is intermediate between the Adyghe and Abkhazian languages

[@indepth6mobile-official]

The Abaza language has 63 consonants and 2 (native) vowels and is still alive

[@Zegezer]

What is most remarkable is that Ubykh does not belong to and is not related to African languages, in which such consonants are the norm. In general, the Caucasus is an interesting place... (in a sense, it is the twin brother of the Balkans)

[@Zulkak1357]

Why the furst set of consonants sound like Ossas's name?

[@white_145]

> long short > look inside > 1:06

[@thwguywithwisdom4028]

him; gok gok gok gok hello to cupcakKe fans out there 👋

[@syahmimisnan1734]

No wonder why its extinct because just see how hard it is.

[@cassidinha69420]

Fun fact: Turkey and Jordan are the only countries that speak ubykh because there are ubykh imigrants there. It was originally a extinct language but it’s now a vulnerable one. I think so…. Another fun fact: ubykh is written in Cyrillic script

[@thereddestsuninthesky]

Ubykh has now become extinct with the death of its last fluent speaker, Tevfik Esenc

[@haq248]

Since when does Arabic have the zh sound?

[@FireFoxDestroyer]

Part of me doesn’t understand how the TikTok font has all these characters

[@SproutScouts]

It’s the International Phonetic Alphabet. It’s a widely used system.