Uncommon European Languages Explained in 1 Sentence

From Galician to Georgian, to Poland's other language, Scotland's other language and Romanian 4th language, the languages of Europe are an astounding patchwork of humanity and a rich tapestry of history - each language with its own cultural make up. In this video we make it simple to understand the cultural make up of many of Europe's smaller languages - compressing them each into 1 sentence, so you know and you can explore further with this amazing knowledge. Enjoy!
0:40 - Faroese
0:51 - Occitan
1:00 - Sámi
1:22 - Georgian
1:39 - Sardinian
2:02 - Yiddish
2:25 - Tatar
2:42 - Sicilian
3:14 - Romansh
3:41 - Rusyn
4:21 - Frisian
4:34 - Maltese
4:54 - Galician
5:14 - Burgundian
5:47 - Mari
6:01 - Kashubian
6:22 - Scots
6:38 - Walon
7:13 - Romani
7:59 - Gagauz
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[@markovucic]

Thanks!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Very generous. Appreciated. I'll pin you thank you Dioch / thank you.

[@davidwebster9788]

Love the facial expressions.

[@jansoltes971]

I found myself imitating them while talking to people. 😂

[@kakalushkklush102]

Same comment here

[@AnDrEi_aLeXaNdRu]

Same

[@Stefanism]

As a history student, a heraldry+vexicology enthusiast and a Romanian, I have one remark about representing the găgăuz language with one of the modern interpretations of the medieval flag of Moldavia. It would have been far better to use either the flag of the Republic of Moldova or the one of their autonomous unit, as they have no connection to the period and the people that used it in the Middle Ages for they settled this territory much later. The aurochs is a beloved symbol of the Romanians and especially for the Romanians living in the historical lands of Moldavia.

[@christopherellis2663]

Da, that is an aurochs

[@BenLlywelyn]

Fair.

[@craigcook9715]

The aurochs was important enough to Germanic speakers, that it might have gotten its own rune: "Ur", the second in the orderings I know, (Elder, Younger, and Anglo-Saxon). Then again, maybe that rune had a different origin. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur_(rune)

[@hoi-polloi1863]

Lovely video! I think most of the French area languages could be described as "Celts speaking bad Latin mix in with Germans speaking even worse Latin. At sword-point."

[@BenLlywelyn]

Sword point. Yikes. And thank you.

[@pollball598]

Thank you for including tatar language with❤ from Republic of Tatarstan! Бәхетле булыгыз!

[@NekromDj]

For the Kashubian you could use the black and yellow horizontal flag. I would agree it is understandable by Poles but I would argue I am able to understand Slovak and Ukrainian better sometimes than Kashubian (depending on the context spoken about) - either way great job! Also Silesian, Alsacian, Greenlandic, Savoy, Kazakh - there is more to discover! Love your vids.

[@RooiGevaar19]

tbh if we adapted our Kashubian orthography better to our language pronounciation, then our language would resemble Slovak more than Polish, our official Polish-like orthography sucks and does not go well with some of our sounds and accents

[@BenLlywelyn]

Thank you for that.

[@Avalk]

Can’t believe you quoted my comment on Sardinian, and thanks for the corrections and integrations

[@CastChaos]

This is even more interesting than the one with the bigger languages. Quite certain, if a small language can survive for so long, it must have an interesting story.

[@FrithonaHrududu02127]

This was really fun. Thanks

[@PJDubbing]

Malta mentioned. 🇲🇹 🎉 . I always tell my international friends that Maltese is like a cheese cake. An arabic base/crust, a sicilian and italian as the cheese and french, english raspberry drizzle.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Delicious.

[@RainDelay]

Loving this! Loved the first part also!

[@mateolopez2099]

Great video. Was worried about the lack of languages on the other video, but makes sense.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Thank you.

[@shadow-op7bc]

0:40 - Faroese 0:51 - Occitan 1:00 - Sámi 1:22 - Georgian 1:39 - Sardinian 1:58 - Hebrew 2:02 - Yiddish 2:25 - Tatar 2:42 - Sicilian 3:14 - Romansh 3:41 - Rusyn 4:21 - Frisian 4:34 - Maltese 4:54 - Galician 5:14 - Burgundian 5:47 - Mari 6:01 - Kashubian 6:22 - Scots 6:38 - Walon 7:13 - Romani 7:59 - Gagauz

[@BenLlywelyn]

Thanks.

[@shylockwesker5530]

Thank you. I enjoyed it very much.

[@shadow-op7bc]

Ciekawy film, czekam na kolejne z innymi kontynentami. 😊

[@BenLlywelyn]

Następna jest Azja Wschodnia.

[@omerciftci4673]

I enjoyed this immensely as I did the one on European languages. And yes, a similar video on Middle Eastern languages would be great.

[@tim90003]

Uw brein zou van grote waarde kunnen zijn voor de wetenschap. Voor mij is het kenmerkend voor de moderne tijd dat een genie uit Wales op mijn KZbin voorpagina komt om me te vertellen over alle talen van welke ik nooit ook maar één woord zal begrijpen. Ben benieuwd hoe veel u begrijpt van deze reactie. In mijn optiek gebruik ik gevorderde zinsstructuren en geavanceerde grammatica, maar terwijl ik dit typ zie ik ook hoe sommige woorden _eigenlijk_ gewoon Engelse woorden zijn met harde G sprinkles. Desalniettemin geef ik u kudos voor uw toewijding aan het studeren! Indrukwekkende talenten.

[@falconiusazurius5572]

Vreemd genoeg kon ek die hele bostaande geskrewe stuk lees en verstaan. Nie hoofsaaklik as gevolg van heelwat woorde wat soortgelyk of selfs identies aan my eie taal is nie, maar wel grootendeels die struktuur wat baie bekend voorkom. Dankie.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Bedankt. Ik ben geen genie - mijn werkethiek is geweldig. En ik begrijp ongeveer 25%.

[@rodjones117]

Zijn naam is Welsh, maar ik weet niet zeker of hij dat ook daadwerkelijk is.

[@pgwasilewski]

Such a great series of videos is starting as we see!1 Naprawdę świetnie jest zobaczyć, jak wreszcie języki z centralnej i wschodniej części Europy zostają uwzględnione w filmikach o różnorodności językowej tego kontynentu i horyzont dla szerokiej publiczności zachodu nagle znacznie się poszerza 👏🏻 Kiedy idzie się zwiedzić British Museum w Londynie, rysuje się pewien obraz świata - opisane są wszystkie regiony tej planety, od Wysp Brytyjskich, przez wszystkie Ameryki, po daleką Azję, jednak o krajach słowiańskich można dowiedzieć się jedynie z pojedynczych wzmianek... Imperium Brytyjskie nigdy nie zawędrowało do tej części kontynentu, prze co historia naszych regionów jest zupełnie nieznana dla mieszkańców Zachodu - tym bardziej zachęcam do zwiększania kontentu o naszej historii, szczególnie w kontekście wszystkich wydarzeń ostatnich miesięcy i lat... Love your videos and can't wait for the new ones!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Ciekawy jest Twój komentarz na temat nauki Imperium Brytyjskiego o niewkraczaniu na ziemie słowiańskie.

[@schockmetamorphose7729]

Du hast gesagt wir sollen in einer beliebigen Sprache kommentieren, also mache ich das mal: Cooles Video, wie schon so oft!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Ich bin froh, dass es dir gefallen hat. Danke schön.

[@dinofangzz]

Do you think you could do an indepth dive video on the differences and history slovenian, bcs, macedonian and bulgarian, id love to see that and im sure quite a few people also would, love the content btw👍

[@miovicdina7706]

A linguistics enthusiast from Belgrade, Serbia, I second that.

[@dinofangzz]

@@miovicdina7706 oh really, im extremely interested in learning serbian, but i cant seem to find anyone willing to teach or help me, do you think you could help?

[@BenLlywelyn]

That would be cool. And will take some reading.

[@miovicdina7706]

@@dinofangzz I don't know...I might... What is your first language? Are you interested in online classes with a native Serbian speaker? Only conversation, or grammar and linguistic stuff, too? What is your current level, do you speak or understand any of it?

[@dinofangzz]

@@miovicdina7706 my first language is english, im interested in online classes with a native serbian speaker, i havent been able to find any cus im broke, i want to learn all, conversation, grammar and everything inbetween, i know the basic, numbers, letters, cyrillic alphabet, and can pronounce words decently well.

[@stonkplay1223]

Amazing content, special appreciation for the near-death experiences with the gurgling, yet a couple of small things: Kashubian actually does have some sort of presentable flag (looks like the old Habsburg Austria flag), I am definitely aware that you know that flag you put for gagauz was the Principality of Moldavia, and not the Gagauz flag, and on a final note, for the Walloons, they have a special red rooster, that avoided its head from getting chopped (unlike some neighbours as you said). Other than that, hats off to the Georgian vowel-hate precision lol!

[@rensbakker]

Lekker bezig, joh!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Gewaardeerd.

[@davidvaughn367]

Love the sprinkles.

[@lkl3210]

Didn't know about Mari and Kashubian, thanks for the info

[@RooiGevaar19]

The latter one is my national one. Pòzdrówczi z Kaszëb. 🖤💛

[@BenLlywelyn]

Welkommen.

[@dmitriyb5206]

So cool of you to include Tatar and Mari languages. Wish you'd talk about Chuvash language too, it's kinda in the middle of these two :D But it'd be a herculian task to meantion everything, so this is not a complaint. Cool video

[@BenLlywelyn]

Thank you. I will do a specific video for the languages of the Eurasian Russian space.

[@dmitriyb5206]

@@BenLlywelyn woah, that would be a herculian task

[@galileor.cuevas9739]

Kinda disappointed he didn't say Galician was Portuguese spoken by Spanish speakers with a dash of Visigothic, and Gaulish.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Gaulish?

[@LuDa-lf1xd]

We know Galician as a bridge between Spanish and Portuguese. We usually understand the written language but the Portuguese people have a strong accent.

[@fueyo2229]

​@@LuDa-lf1xdactually, Galician it's a bridge between Portuguese and Asturleonese, and Asturleonese is the bridge between Galician and Spanish

[@lucasribeiro7534]

​​​@@fueyo2229 yeah... I'd say the "bridges" go like this: Portuguese > Galician > Mirandese > Leonese > Asturian > Castilian

[@fueyo2229]

@@lucasribeiro7534 Yeah but there are actually different brigdes that connect Portuguese and Spanish Portuguese > Galician > Galician-Asturian or Mirandese > Leonese/Western Asturian > Central Asturian > Cantabrian/Eastern Asturian > Castilian Also further south you have others A Fala and Extremaduran also connecting Portuguese with Castilian. Also difficiult connecting Leonese and Castilian nowadays bc most Leonese dialects, specially those more similar to Castilian are extinct.

[@mojyoqueen350]

Kashubian and Polish are similar? As one of my uni professor said - I hope you all know Polish well enough, to not understand a word from Kashubian. After all they are literally a different nation, who just happens to live in Poland. But that's just a fun fact - your video was great :)

[@RooiGevaar19]

Kashubian and Polish is like Danish and Swedish respectively, our script might look similar, but our pronounciation is much more complex and richer than Polish one. And yes, we are our own Pomeranian people, but Poles and Germans wanted our lands, and both tried to assimilate us, and eventually 20th century made us fall under Polish rule.

[@user-lr5jx5yw7n]

Its like polish mixed with german and some czech i think, its pretty understandable by poles

[@BenLlywelyn]

Thank you.

[@Alkusanat]

loved these videos! In Portugal we also have another official language called Mirandês, wich is Asturoleonese surviving in northeastern Portugal with a strong Portuguese pronounciation and used by smugglers for a long time.

[@BenLlywelyn]

A fascinating part of the world I hope to see.

[@bepivisintainer2975]

Exellent video as usual. My native toungue is East Lombardian. A language very akin rethorumantsch. As you requested im going to write some comments in lombardian. A ta engrassie fes stagn. A gho üt bo tep a dat a trà amó turna. Catà föra ö canál cumpagn dol tò, ol ta mena anfin a sent en rós de parlà. Sperom c'am pöl sögötà a les, sent e dscor en di nos'c parlà. Sögöta 'ssé😊

[@lsthero5863]

As a catalan I had a lot of contact with galician speaking Galícians, and I love their language. It’s so unique…

[@TurkishFunAccount]

I am looking forward to seeing my native language (Türkçe) in your videos. Keep up the great work love your videos man. Greetings from Türkiye.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Kind of you. Thank you.

[@Lemonz1989]

I’m a native Faroese speaker, and this is a pretty good explanation 😋

[@leopartanen8752]

As you mentioned, Sámi is a language group. There are currently still nine existing Sámi languages, altough three of them are going to die soon and one of them very soon.

[@improverr]

Ваша обізнаність у лінгвістиці та історії вражає! Цікаво, з якого віку Ви почали вивчати мови? А ще, які мови краще вчити першими, щоб легше було вчити інші? Я українець, що знає англійську. Дякую!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Я рано познайомився з іспанською. Пізніше я познайомився з французькою та валлійською, а потім з німецькою та івритом.

[@Edarnon_Brodie]

Bhideo sgoinneil! Bu toil leam Cruithnis fhaicinn am measg nan cànanan seo uaireigin. Air an t-slighe, tha mi an-dràsta ga ath-nuadhachadh. Is dòcha gum faic an saoghal fhathast a’ chànan Cruithneach) I really want to see more videos like this. I alreday sad this, but your channel is a pure treasure. So, I can only say Albidosi agem, Duv ro cen tir - Alba!

[@tantuce]

What language is this, please?

[@Edarnon_Brodie]

@@tantuce First one is Gaidhlig, or Scottish Gaelic. And the last one is Pictish. An extinct language, which was completely unknown till I started to translate it. So, technically I'm the reconstructor of Pictish.

[@sufuiskabes]

it’s really weird how at first i thought i understood it due to the similarities to geailge (irish)

[@BenLlywelyn]

Tha barrachd a’ tighinn.

[@surrealsoul9120]

I've really enjoyed this format, would love to see a Middle Eastern video as well!

[@BenLlywelyn]

There will be.

[@HATECELL]

Wallisserdiitsch is when some German speaking Swiss thought: "Wallis kinda sounds like Wales, so let's make our dialect sound as weird to other Swiss as Welsh sounds to the English"

[@Chris-mf1rm]

I saw a video (Rob’s Words) recently that said the words “Wallis” and “Wales” are related in that both are the names given by Germanic speakers to the local Gaulish or Celtic speakers. “Gaulish” is cognate with “Wallisch” and “Welsh”.

[@valeriademontmartre]

Hope you will mention Latgalian at some point as well!

[@tedi1932]

Diolch Ben. Who would have thought that there were so many European languages? Amazing!!

[@dkalambokis78]

Really? 50 countries x 50 centuries? Who would have thought

[@aaananas]

Ben, thanks for mentioning the Tatar language, which is my mother tongue. You don't usually see youtubers mentioning it in their linguistics-oriented videos You're quite right with the mentioning of the Islamic influence. Tatar is full of Arabic words and phrases, which are used in everyday life. It helps me greatly with my Hebrew studies, since both Arabic and Herbew are semitic languages I study Hebrew for religious reasons. Judaism enlightens me as well as it did you when you decided to convert. However, I find it a bit troublesome to seek proper guidance in the environment I happen to be in - my surroundings are mostly Muslim (I was born in a Muslim Tatar family, although I've never prayed in a mosque ever, and I bear an Arabic name) , Orthodox (Russians) and Atheists. Can you give me an advice on how should I advance my learning of Judaism in a such situation?

[@honsuaman8743]

һәерле кичләр, ватандашым. Син чыннан да татар телендә камил сөйләшә аласың? Нидән яһүд диненә күчерергә ихтыяҗын чыга? Ни булды?

[@the_Dark_Knight_12]

Great video again very informative funny xD

[@klausolekristiansen2960]

Ja tak. En video om mellemøstlige sprog ville være godt.

[@ander4163]

Nahiko bideo zehatza, Zorionak!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Euskara beste giza maila bat da.

[@thebiblepriest4950]

I think I recall that Sicily was the casus belli for the First Punic War, because the Carthaginians were messing around there, challenging the Greek city-states, and Rome came to their defense? Meanwhile we Calabresi were watching from across the Straits of Messina, but then Hannibal came over the Alps and brought the war all the way down to us, and so we have a city called Catanzaro, from the original Castra Hannibalis ("the camp of Hannibal"). None of those people knew that they were crossing modern borders that wouldn't exist for a couple of thousand years yet. But along the way they were creating the languages of Italy!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Italia has a very rich tapestry of language.

[@mariadespina80]

Wikipedia: The Sardinian language (in Sardinian: lingua sarda) is the main language spoken in Sardinia, Italy and is considered to be the most conservative Romance language. Due to this history of the island, which was isolated from the mainland for thousands of years, and only in recent times was it easier to communicate with the mainland, it was possible to maintain certain characteristics of the archaic vulgar Latin language that disappeared in other areas! Also, the Sardinian language has many words that are closer to Romanian (Romania, ancient Dacia ) than to Latin or Italian, although the influence of these two languages on the Sardinians lasted for hundreds of years. Sardinia was colonized by the Sardinians, who migrated, like the Latins from the Danube region. Dacia, was conquered by the Romans in 238 BC, The island would then come under the influence of the Byzantine Empire, Spain, with the Spanish language heavily influencing the language, especially in the administrative realm.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Sardinia is not a place I would turn down a week's visit to during a cold Welsh early spring.

[@reed6134]

Adoro os teus videos! You should look into Astur-Leonese and its' portuguese cousin Mirandese!

[@fueyo2229]

I speak Asturleonese! I'd wish he had done it

[@PeoplecallmeLucifer]

can I just ask what is the current stance on the Basque-Kartvelian linguistic connection? Because I've seen so many proven-disprove arguments I'm losing my mind!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Nothing proven there is a link between Basque and Georgian. Only that Basque, Finnic, Hungarian, Georgian, some Siberian groups and some Native American groups, all share some very rare traits, and we think that over 10,000 years ago, there may have been a link. But it is so far back we don't know.

[@SuperMcScotty]

Danke sjoean wa kèl! Leuk filmpske typ auw muk hé

[@MatthewMcVeagh]

Not bad. Of course there are loads more - and without including the tens of Caucasian ones (but you already included Georgian). There are many more languages in Italy and France, there's Sorbian, you did West Frisian but there's East and North Frisian as well, Istriot, Istro-Romanian, Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian, and if you're going to include Mari you might as well include all the other languages of European Russia (Karelian, Permyak, Zyrian, Udmurt, Chuvash, Kalmyk etc.) Props for including Gagauz.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Will have to do one on Russian Languages!

[@fueyo2229]

More in Spain too. Asturleonese and Aragonese, the first one is my native language.

[@patrykkulpok6908]

Thank you for giving the spotlight to kaszëbsczi jãzëk. Could you do the same to silesian language/ślōnskŏ gŏdka?

[@Acocietoobchodzi]

I agree with you! Pyrsk chopie!🍻

[@BenLlywelyn]

I need to read more about it.

[@part9952]

Sau geiles Video oba Österreichisch host nu imma ned hinzugfügt. Wa mega wonnst des in am drittn video mochast 🙌🏻🙏🏻

[@everysoundthereis]

Er hed im erschte Video alli drü Länder (Dütschland, Öschtrich und Schwiiz) in Dütsch zämegfasst.

[@avantelvsitania3359]

This format is amazing. A part 3 of Europe should include more languages of present day Russia: Udmurt, Komi, Chuvash, Erzya, Moksha, Bashkort, Izhorian, Votian, Karelian, Vepsian, Seto, Livonian. Also Nenets (although you could cover the Samodeic languages in a Siberian related video) And of course the North Caucasus, from Adhyge to Lezgian, although it could be a separate video as well. Keep up, from a celt speaking Latin with pre-hestoric and Arabic sprinkles!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Thank you. Looks like we will do the Middle East and East Asia, at least, and see how this format goes.

[@tantuce]

Where exactly Livonian language is in Russia. Are you mistaking the countries again? Liivi or Livonians are in Latvia. You are welcome

[@caslook.kalliades]

भिडियो राम्रो लाग्यो।धन्यबाद

[@nimmen]

Awesome!

[@accaeffe8032]

Brilliant 😊

[@klausolekristiansen2960]

Det er både interessant og morsomt.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Jeg er glad du likte den.

[@diomedes8791]

Ինձ բացարձակապես դուր է գալիս, թե ինչպես ես լեզուները հանում իրենց էության մեջ՝ ուրվագծելով նրանց ծանոթ կապերը հանրագիտարանի հոդվածի և արձակ բանաստեղծության միջև խաչի տեսքով: Մեծ սեր Մայր Երկրի վրա ինչ-որ տեղից

[@BenLlywelyn]

Հայերենը գոյատևման էպիկական հեքիաթ է և արժանի է ավելի մեծ ուշադրության:

[@yagoalvarez7919]

I'm very happy with the fact you included Galician, however I think you should have mentioned that is similar to Portuguese

[@BenLlywelyn]

Fair.

[@Yes-qj4bi]

Love the thumbnail because its like midevil eu4 flags

[@BenLlywelyn]

Cool.

[@jhrykkjutku]

Occitan is NOT old French.

[@the_Dark_Knight_12]

Did he say that? NO!

[@Arandomczechguy]

What about Silesian, Sorbian(upper lusatian serbian and lower lusatian serbian) and basque?

[@cringe1020]

Silesian is a Polish dialect

[@Arandomczechguy]

@@cringe1020 your name is a polish dialect, a trash one

[@byali4360]

Watch the previous video for Basque.

[@_grayven1202]

Great video. But that was the Moldovan Principality flag from medieval times, not the Gagauz flag.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Thanks.

[@Henderson101]

So, Welsh was in the other video right? There are 3 times as many Scots speakers as there are Welsh speakers. I would say that outside of the UK, both are lesser known languages.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Yes it was.

[@miovicdina7706]

Yes, yes, and YES! These languages really are like that 😁 Fantastic.

[@lubieplackixd9223]

include other language of the caucasus, like the circassian dialects, georgian dialects, chechen, etc. oh and also, how about you make a video about dead languages? etruscan, other preindoeuropean, phoenician, hittite, etc

[@norbertsobon5621]

Came here for the sprinkles, please don't disappoint me Ben!

[@norbertsobon5621]

60s in, thank you!!!

[@BenLlywelyn]

You got.it.

[@ogy19]

Would have loved to see Sorbian represented, it's a slavic language spoken in east germany

[@BenLlywelyn]

Yes, fair shout.

[@ogy19]

@@BenLlywelyn still great content tho, very educational in simple way. Keep it up!

[@RooiGevaar19]

For Kashubian, our national flag is black and yellow. 🖤💛 Anyway, thank you very much for having us mentioned! Greetings from our national homeland of Kashubia. ❤ Dzãkã baro za wspòmink ò naji! Pòzdrówczi z rodni zemi Kaszëb! ❤

[@BenLlywelyn]

Powitanie.

[@BadPiggiesGamer9]

Habsburg

[@RooiGevaar19]

@@BadPiggiesGamer9 coincidence, btw Baden-Württemberg flag is the same

[@BadPiggiesGamer9]

@@RooiGevaar19 Ik

[@Hadar1991]

@@RooiGevaar19 Yes it is coincidence. Kashubian flag has the same ancestry as Vorpommern. Basically Pomerania was ruled by cadet branch of Polish Piast dynasty, they used a griffin as their symbol. Due to historical reason Pomerania and Pomerelia changed few time their overlord (Poland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden etc) and is now Pomerelia is in Poland, while Pomerania is split between Poland and Germany, but all those regions use griffin in their coat of arms, due to House of Griffin (cadet branch of Polish House of Piast) ruling this region for centuries, but use different colours to differentiate the coat of arms, and each flag just takes colours from respective coats of arms. What is the most surprising that those part of Griffin domain that were inside Holy Roman Empire kept the traditional Polish white and red colours, while those that were outside HRE and more connected to Poland went with more German looking black and yellow. :P

[@sachacendra3187]

0:08 heres my attempt (you may clearly see my bias aha): Galician, Mirandese, Portuguese, Asturleonese, (Asturian, Lleonese, Asturo-Galician), Castillian/Spanish (Cantabrian, Andalusian, Estremaduran), Ladino, Navarese, Aragonese, Catalan, Gascon, Occitan (Langadocian, Auvergnat, Tolosan, Provençal, Vivarese, Vivaro-Alpin, Limousin, Occitan Dauphinois, Croissant (yes this is real look it up), Niçois, Piemontese Occitan), D'Oïl languages (French/Francian, Norman, Poitevin, Angevin, Gallo, Tourangeau, Berichon, Bourguignon, Champenois, Picard (Chtimi), Lorrain, Franc-Comtois, Walloon (Picardo-walloon), Orléanais), Francoprovençal(FP)/Arpitan (Lyonnais, Forézien, FP Dauphinois, Borgondan/FP Bourguignon, FP Franc-Comtois, Savoyard, Valdotan, Piemontese Arpitan, Gessois, Bressan, Romand (Genevois, Vaudois, Fribourgeois, Valaisan, Neuchatelois), Gallo-Italian (Piemontese, Ligurian, Lombard, Romagnol, Emilian), Venetian, Romansh, Ladin, Friulian, Central Italian (Italian, Tuscan, Corsican, Elban, Northern Sardinian, Roman, Umbrian, Abruzzian) Southern Italian (Napolitan, Campanian), Larger Sicilian (Sicilian, Puglian, Apulian), Sardinian, Griko, Breton, Basque, Welsh, Cornish, Manx, Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Scots, English (Northumbrian, Cumbrian), Frisian (Northern and Western), Dutch (Hollandic, Flemish), Saxon, Low Frankish, Upper Frankish, Yiddish, Swabian, Alsatian, Swiss German/Alemanic (Low Allemanic, High Allemanic, Highest Alemanic (Walser (Titsch, Waliser Dütsch), Austro-Bavarian (Austrian, Tyrolian, Bavarian), German, Thuringer, Upper Saxon, Brandenbürger, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian (Nynorsk, Bokmål), Dalecarlian, Geat, Skanish, Faroese, Icelandic, Polish, Mazovian, Kashubian, Sorbian, Czech (Bohemian, Moravian), Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian/Montenegrin/Serbo-Croatian/SBC, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian, Romanian/Daco-Romanian (Valachian, Moldavian, Moldovan, Transylvanian), Istrio-Romanian, Greek (Demotic, Pontic, Crimean), Tsakonic, Rusyn, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Livonian, Estonian, Finish, Carelian, Sapmi, Mordvian, Komi, Crimean Tatar, Volga Tatar, Nenetsin, Mari, Hungarian, Chechen, Ossetian, Abkhazian, Dagestani, Georgian, Armenian, Azeri, Kurdish, Turkish, Roma, Maltese.

[@Acocietoobchodzi]

Mazowian is dead now but in south Poland exist still Silesian

[@sachacendra3187]

You're probably right it's dead u_u Numerous Romance dialects i've cited here too sadly, and technically Cornish and Manx are only revived. I guess i could've cited other maybe dead languages like Dalmatian that actually disapear about at the same time than Neuchâtelois or Genevois in Switzerland @@Acocietoobchodzi

[@fueyo2229]

Mirandese and Estremaduran are part of the Asturleonese languages, Galician-Asturian is a dialect of Galician not its own languages and not Asturleonese

[@fpostolache]

Good and I like your accent, welsh I suppose. Wallon is french just with few words different and accent like romanian and romanian in the Moldova. It's not a different language.

[@jasminekaram880]

I would add Phonecian Carthaginians to the list of the people to make up the Maltese. :)

[@BenLlywelyn]

Fascinating.

[@justaduck1664]

Will you include arabic as a single language or alot of closely releted languages

[@BenLlywelyn]

Good question.

[@justaduck1664]

@@BenLlywelyn yeah like how are you gonna describe egyptian arabic, like it has been influinced by Coptic: Greek: Turkish: Italien: French: English:

[@nonusolarozationeatoumatic6239]

As a Sicilian speaker it's both sad and wholesome how our language evolved, I'm day by day angrier Italy wants to replace our language and even the online sicilian dictionary was eliminated😢😢they hate us and want us to be robots living in a third world island

[@BenLlywelyn]

Keep speaking Sicilianu.

[@PrinceOfLightUnderAthenianSky]

Why the Swiss instead of the Graubünden flag for Romansh? It would be the perfect choice!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Romansh deserves more attention across Switzerland.

[@PrinceOfLightUnderAthenianSky]

@BenLlywelyn I understand. The same could be said for Occitan and France though, and you used the Languedoc flag. Anyway, the main reason I'm bringing this up is because Romansh is an official language of Graubünden.

[@mma_misha]

are you gonna do surzhik sometime?

[@BenLlywelyn]

That's cool, need to learn more about that.

[@tantuce]

Surzhik - the lazy combination of Ukrainian and Russian. A mid point of Ukrainisns of being completely Russified. A deliverately made up dialect in hopes that would take over Ukrainian so the Russians can point at it "oh look, it's got Russian words in it, that means you are Russians, and Ukrainian doesn't exist" The sole existance of Surzhik hurts every philologist.

[@Nehauon]

All of these little sprinkles… making me hungry for language

[@ComradeDany]

It would be very cool if you would also talk about Moldavian language that was the official language of moldova until february 2023. Moldavian or Moldovan nowdays is considered romanian but they are different since in moldavian we usually say half of the phrase in romanian (but with some differences in the accent and pronuntiation) and the other half in russian and many other differencies. In summary when a moldavian talks to a romanian the romanian guy will not understand anything.

[@The_Bashar]

Am fascinated by Galicien!

[@danp420]

complimenti per il video molto molto interessante

[@BenLlywelyn]

Grazie mille.

[@pauloalves3073]

Try "Mirandês"

[@BenLlywelyn]

Oh.

[@HF06]

Mano estava à espera dessa

[@fueyo2229]

And the other Asturleonese languages

[@danielhuber-er9qe]

Could you do bavarian accents?

[@BenLlywelyn]

Tough one. Challenging. Maybe.

[@n.schurr2529]

What is Sorbic like? Spoken in Germany? Placed between Germany and Poland?

[@maxeon09]

Upper and Lower Sorbian are closely related, west slavic languages spoken in the regions of Upper and Lower Lusatia, stretching across the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg, as well as the polish Voivodeships of Lower Silesia and Lubusz.

[@romanbober6207]

Germany, Poland and Czech Republic

[@BenLlywelyn]

An island refuge.

[@jana_t]

Right. During the 30-year war and the plague, the areas connecting the Sorbs with other Slavic languages were completely emptied and then resettled by Germanics - thus the island situation.

[@jana_t]

And Sorbian is like Czech, Polish and Slovak got twins, one leaning more towards Polish (G), the other leaning more towards Czech and Slovak (H), and to say "with German sprinkles" would definitely not be enough, it is rather like the German neighbours moved into their house and beat them up several times for speaking Sorbian. Not so much lately. I am being told by Czech and Slovak and Russian speakers that we sound Polish and by Polish speakers that we sound Czech or Slovak - with a heavy German influence.

[@LastKingLKArthur]

Of course, you just have to subscribe to videos like that. I like that you something sound like Grand Moff Tarkin. I do that too, but for you it’s obviously native(?) for me it’s just words like “through” for shits and giggles

[@BenLlywelyn]

Thank you for subscribing.

[@markadal]

An you do fruilan and ladin? And Venetian.

[@jrnstm7849]

Now I’m curious to know how many languages you speak.

[@BenLlywelyn]

3.5

[@jrnstm7849]

@@BenLlywelyn Impressive! which ones?

[@BenLlywelyn]

Welsh, English, French@@jrnstm7849, and I have significant knowledge of Dutch, German, Latin (giving me basic understanding in all Romance Languages) and my Hebrew is growing so fast it will surpass my Dutch soon.

[@helgaioannidis9365]

I know officially Germans just speak German, but one could argue that someone from Hamburg can't understand Alemannic and Bavarian and then there's also Sorbian in Germany as a minority language. And also in Italy there's Friulian, Napolitano, Griko, ... Would love to see a video about those

[@BenLlywelyn]

Sorbian would be fascinating.

[@CristiChiri10]

thank you very much for explaining all of this to me, now I understand european languages better

[@BenLlywelyn]

Excellent.

[@mariamartinusz9699]

All the recommendations in the comment section😂. When you think, you're done with European languages, it figures, there's always more.😂 Great video again.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Thank you for coming back.

[@randyt3558]

Would love to hear a sentence on Quebec, Canada French. Bonjour.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Good idea.

[@freemind360]

obrigado

[@kativera3888]

Great video bu you forgot about the Finno-Samic lnguages.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Did I?

[@kativera3888]

I guess not 🎉😅

[@guigui11001]

Picard is what you get when gauls learned latin from roman soliders stationned on the Limes, before being submerged by franks. With two spoons of french a spoon of flemish and a bit of spanish sprinkles.

[@Weird0Productions]

What do you mean when you say Faroese has English drippings?

[@BenLlywelyn]

Words fall from the media waves. :)

[@user-yo3gg6bx8e]

How about Samogitian, Latgalian and maybe Old Prussian?

[@kzmax13]

@ben, thanks! It is wild! Please, do Latgalian. ;)

[@user-yo3gg6bx8e]

@@kzmax13 also Curonian and Samogitian would be sweet.

[@rafalkaminski6389]

Kashubian is more Polish than Polish 😅

[@user-yo3gg6bx8e]

@@rafalkaminski6389 interesting fact

[@BenLlywelyn]

See my Old Prussian video from a while back.

[@ericfoxprime]

Je hebt nu twee keer betekenisvol in het Nederlands gegorgeld. Ik heb mij maar geabonneerd.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Vriendelijk bedankt.

[@lihns]

taking a shot every time he says sprinkles

[@mariamerigold]

1:38 theres a load of flags on the seafront where i live in mid wales. This one is amongst them, and i assumed it was the secret assassin club of england 😂 it's a country's flag, thats brilliant! What a cool flag! I am so uneducated 🫠😂

[@BenLlywelyn]

Nice. Secret assassin club.

[@chemik1918]

I partially know the southern Polish kind of Romani, it has some of its own words and then words which were replaced with Polish words because everyone forgot them, I'm guessing. So you're speaking a totally different language but some words are Polish suddenly.

[@user-lr5jx5yw7n]

Cygański jest świetny

[@chemik1918]

@@user-lr5jx5yw7n jest jest, potwierdzam

[@alessandro_natali]

Me: *Sardinian gets mentioned* Also me: *subscribes*

[@BenLlywelyn]

Thank you.

[@HubertSylwester]

6:00 Kashubian flag is black and gold