33 Strange Language Facts That Will Blow Your Mind!
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- 🤓Are there really languages with no colour? No numbers? No time? Keep watching to find out 33 strange language facts that are sure to blow your mind!
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Another strange language fact from the Philippines is that Spanish (standard variety, not creole Chavacano one) is indeed spoken by a very few Filipinos as their first language. Spanish isn't longer taught in the primary and secondary schools in the Philippines, although I wish that someday, Spanish will be taught in the same equal footing as English as a second language.
Spanish is spoken by very few people in the present-day Philippines and is highly likely to die out altogether in the future
@@LOKI77able It won't die out, but it will remain the language of the elites.
@@lgzster It's not difficult to predict that it will still be spoken or used to some extent in some elite family and circles, as was the case with Dutch in Indonesia in the decades after independence (and probably - albeit to a very limited degree - even today)
You sound like you desperately want your colonizer's language
Spain rules the Philippines for 300 years - almost no trace of Spanish left. The United States rules the Philippines for 50 years - English is everywhere!
Olly is a great man for plugging his books and courses in his videos but i did buy his portuguese short stories at the book shop and it is a very decent resource. Well done Olly. Boa Sorte
Have you made a video about the dialect that seems to be developing in Miami that mixes English and Spanish vocabulary and grammar? Would love to hear more about that!
What I got out of this was Olly thinks it's humid in Arizona 😭🤣
Those first two facts make me even more determined to somehow learn my heritage language, Mennonite Low German. Apparently there are less than 500,000 speakers. I wish my parents had gotten me to speak it; I understand it more or less but actually speaking it is another story...
Also, maybe a course on Finnish is coming soon? 😅
Cool video… as always 😃
One of the most powerful videos you ever made on your channel I am gonna share it on my page Olly really impressive
The fact that the past is something that is physically in front of you (and vice versa) I think is pretty common in languages. Even English has it: "Stand before me!" or "They went after the prisoners who had escaped" (They were physically behind the prisoners chasing them down) There aren't too many examples you can think of, but I assume that English had more of this concept in the past.
It seems kinda like rowing a boat. You are moving forward backwards so you can see your past but not your future.
I think?
@@louisskins That's an interesting take.
For me, it's like standing in a line/queue. Whoever goes before you is in front of you. And whoever goes after you is behind you. If I go after a lady in a green dress, it means that you'll find me standing behind a lady in a green dress.
Olly, your videos are fascinating, thank you - I sincerely think you should publish a book about languages (the history of languages, their future, interesting language facts). Your knowledge and enthusiasm come across so strongly, and this would be a great next step!
Thanks for your video. Helps us learn so much about different kinds of languages all around the world.
My pleasure!
13:29, me listening to this and being a twin 😢😂
Aren't there younger official sign languages than Africaans?
Māori also has the concept of time where the past is in front of you and the future behind. Or at least it does traditionally, because a lot of us are learning it as adults these days a lot of the traditional phrases about time are getting twisted and reversed to line up with English world view.
Every atom? You mean every aminoacid, right?
I've learned that in Japan there's even a fourth way of writing. It's called Siddham, a syllabic writing system from India which came to Japan together with buddhist scripture. Afaik, today it's only used in Japan by buddhist monks, but no more where it originally came from.
I've been watching your videos for eight years plus....This one has made me laugh the most.
In Steven Pinker’s book “the Language Instinct” written in the 90’s the claim about Hopi language not having words referring to past and future is disputed.
the hopi one is wrong, this was something that was thought a while ago but has been debunkt since. they use aspects to communicate time, similar to yucatec mayan. but they can speak just as well about time as any other language
Idiolect! My personal way of speaking. Thank you, Olly! I will remember that one!
Or maybe about any endangered languages as ainu, hawaian, native americain.. it will help theese languages a lot
Yea, it would be awesome to see some dying languages covered and get some exposure. I want to learn a dying language some day to help it carry on.
@@RabbitFoodFitnessone doesn't help an endangered language carry on by learning it from the outside. the way you help an endangered language survive when you are not part of the community it exists in, is by protecting the survival of that community. protecting its land and ensuring resources for its people to transmit the culture to its young ones.
My particular accent tends to vary depending on my mood. I'm from New England (USA), though I tend to slide into a Southern American accent or New York accent without really trying. I've also been told I can do a passable Londoner, Liverpudlian, Scots and Irish.
@Olly Richards
In fact #27 you said something wrong. In fact, Guyana is also a country in South America where the sole official language is not a Romance language...
Do you have English courses?
@Olly Richards what stops you from not abusing animals in your lifestyle
Your channel is wonderful and I learn from it strategies for learning English,Try to host Tim Doner, I think he speaks 21 languages, to talk about all his secrets in learning foreign languages, such as how he chooses the sources of learning foreign languages, how he learns these languages, how he deals with grammar problems in these languages, what are all his strategies for learning languages, how many hours he spends in learning languages, and how He integrates and exercises linguistic immersion in these languages What are the conditions for learning two or more languages at the same time, and the methods used to learn more than two languages at the same time? What are his strategies for learning a foreign language at the very advanced and academic level? etc..
And a special talk about how to learn the Arabic language specifically because it is one of the most difficult languages in the world, the most poetic, eloquent, abundant in vocabulary and the great depth of meanings. Certainly he knows that and will explain the difference between his learning of Arabic compared to other languages of the world.
I'm bilingual because I speak Swedish and English, I also come from a smalll place in Lapland and when I speak to my parents and other relatives there are so many intonations and different vocabulary that none of the friends from Stockholm has any idea what we are talking about. To me it's the same language but at times I like to think of myself as trilingual.
I have the same thing because I speak Flemish, which is a dialect of Dutch, people from Amsterdam would have difficulties understanding me if I'm speaking to a family member, but I can of course speak "Standard Dutch" with a Flemish accent too, because it's used in formal situations. It's always funny to see them try to figure out what you're saying lol
Polish Scrabble? sounds fun. "Dobrze bawię się" 🙂
Irish has no word for "yes" nor the verb "to have"
For exemple such a Polish word - zruszczywszy 😅
The longest ACTUAL word is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Which is a lung disease from inhaling volcanic ash. Learned this word from getting tired of studying Spanish for a test in highschool 😂
14:20-14:25 is this true? what about Guyana?
That's simply not true about Suriname being the only non-Romance-speaking country in South America. There's also Guyana. Curaçao is also considered part of South America, with Dutch as its official language.
Imagine a clicking language having more speakers than latin 😭😂
Hi Olly. Amazing facts! Just a remark though on #14: I think the rule should be to indicate every amino acid in the molecule, rather than each atom, otherwise every carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen would have to be mentioned.
Nope
Latin, the most infamous language with 1,000 speakers 🗿
Basque is not unique in being called an isolated language with no proven contemporary 'relatives'. And it's maybe a bit misleading to say it had nothing in common with any other language. Its grammatical system, quite different from that of their indoeuropean neighbours, is paralleled by quite a bunch of other languages spoken outside Europe, as e.g. the kartwelian languages, and there's some evidence for former related neighbouring langs having existed before the indoeuropean invasion of Europe. Moreover, Basque has taken a lot of indoeuropean loanwords and is therefore sharing quite a bit of common vocabulary, especially with Spanish.
Isn’t it interesting that Japanese is in the top 20 most spoken languages? Differently from English, Portuguese, Spanish, that were brought by colonizers to half of the planet, Japanese is the official language of only one country with a very small land area. Fascinating! The size of Portugal, Spain and England combined is of course small compared to Russia, China or even India.
Indonesian, Turkish, Vietnamese also surprised me
In fact Japanese has more speakers than German, although the ranking shown in the video seems to suggest the opposite. Likewise, Portuguese is nowadays more widely spoken than Russian.
@@LOKI77able Yeah. Tons of content PT-BR online. Portuguese is my mother tongue.
But it’s interesting to know about German. How many countries speak German as official language? Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein? I wouldn’t know what other than Standard German would there be.
@@wladfiggs O alemão também é oficial no Luxemburgo, assim como numa pequena região aqui na Bélgica e no Suedtirol/Alto Adige que é uma província da Itália
English being number one indicates that second language speakers are also counted. Although in that light I would expect Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian language) to rank higher.
German scoring that high is a bit weird, ofcourse a few million Dutch are able to speak and understand some German, I'm Dutch and for me German is easy to read (newspapers, books) and I can have a conversation in German too, although I have absolutely no clue how to use the case grammar properly, maybe it's the same in Sweden and west Poland and the Chech republic.
@@LOKI77able Actually German is a bit more spoken than Japanese these days. Official data from 2022 says that German is spoken by 134 million people, while Japanese by around 125 million.
Nigeria 🇳🇬 made it to top 20 yayy
In Africa there are several such languages using celestial directions instead of egocentric ones.
In addition to that: there are languages all around the world with no written form, no sound, but used on TV, in universities, at work, in families, with dialects, with a range of styles (formal, polite, slang, familiar, modern, old-fashioned, young, old etc.) and being further officially recognized languages in many countries: the sign languages of the deafs. Videos about them will be very appreciated.
Nope
Hi olly, a special request.....please make some books & audio for the Frisian language. Sadly , i have struggled to find anything decent out there. Surely there will be a good market from everybody interested in Old English. £ £ 😂
16... I will have done that ...Past in the future?
I’m from Wenatchee and I didn’t know it went extinct damn
7:55 I thought this was something wild, fundamentally shaping the grammar or something, but this sounds just like Chinese languages? 😂
What?
@@jmwild22 in general 前 (front) is used to refer to earlier events, and 後 (back) is used for later events
Hey buddy . You forgot one of the oldest languages on the planet which is spoken in 3 countries as far as I know and it’s my mother tongue . Persian (farsi)
All three of the languages I speak
Afaik there are more than thousand artificial languages. Dulichenko listed already more than 900 about 30 years ago.
Sad that we lost Columbian-Moses.... but if it is recorded, wouldn't that mean that it is Dead, not Extinct?
Or is it not sufficiently recorded...
Aside from being the most linguistically diverse country, Papua New Guinea also has the greatest proportion of the world's languages, at around 12%.
Japanese has 3 writing systems. In a way, so does Mongolian but for different reasons...or heck maybe we can count 4 (if we wanna count Phagspa). We know modern Mongolian tends to be written in Cyrillic, which comes from when Mongolia was a Soviet state then there's a Romanised Mongolian and it's most commonly seen on things like social media (and it sometimes shortened, like "sain uu" becomes "snuu"), then there's Mongolian script, which is an official government language they're trying to use more widely and is more widely used in inner Mongolia and the fourth is Phagspa, which was derived from Tibetan script during Kublai Khan's time, because he didn't think Uighur script was sufficient for the Mongolian language (which Genghis Khan brought in), but you can still find things in Phagspa and you can set your Windows input to Phagspa if you want.
And to tag on from that interesting fact, Mongolian essentially has 2 ways of spelling things. This is because when Cyrillic was introduced, its spellings are closer to how the language sounds and means it's often shortened. EG. you might transcribe the Cyrillic for "came" as "irsen" (ирсэн) but for Mongolian script, it'd be "iregsen" (ᠢᠷᠰᠡᠨ). So Mongolian script tends to carry more of the history of the language, like how a lot of English's weird spellings are due to how it evolved and not because it's how words so, so in a way, what Cyrillic did was the equivalent of turning the word "through" into "thru" and "thought" into "thort".
That's really interesting, are you able to use any system, and is anyone able to?
@@CouldBeMathijs The main system you'll see & probably use is Cyrillic and it's mainly what people use, so it's everywhere. It's worth learning that when learning Mongolian and it only has a few extra letters that aren't in Russian Cyrillic, plus it's not too hard to learn even if some of the letters look like Latin ones and catch you off guard lol.
Me personally, I only know the Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet and am still a beginner with the language, I started trying to learn Mongolian script, but I know a guy working on making an online course for it, so I am kinda waiting on that.
Romanised Mongolian is more common on social media. There's no standardisation to it, but if you sound out a word and you know it, you'll recognise it, like with SMS speech in English. Though Mongolian websites will use Cyrillic and only a small handful support Mongolian script and if your browser supports it, like News.mn has a Mongolian script version of the site.
The Mongolian government's goal is to adopt Mongolian script more, hence it's use for official things and it's taught in school, but presently Mongolian script has its technical problems & is less practical so I don't know if it'd replace Cyrillic.
But it's also useful in reading some Mongolian texts and literature that are written in the script.
@@sae2705 I'm guessing the government doesn't want to be associated with it's Sovjet-past anymore so that's why they're moving to the Mongolian specific script? Why are you learning Mongolian if I may ask?
@@CouldBeMathijs On my understanding, it is moving away from that, yeah.
As for why I'm learning, I am interested in Mongolia, its history, culture, music & nomadism. I also plan to travel there.
Plus it's an interesting language.
22/33 is not bad right
Knew 1, 3, 6, 32, 33
Heard 2, 7, 19, 23,31 generally, forgot details
4, 5, 13, 18, 29 not surprising
8 I heard of this language, but didn't know most of that.
Didn't know 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30
14 knew of the protein, not the time taken to say it.
I thought there were 3-5 whistle languages
16 Heard a language did this. Didn't know which.
20 I heard this about Hawaiian, but it didn't count the glottal stop
21 I think 200 sounds low for the number of conlangs
It seems disputed whether sumerians or egyptians where first in writing their language. Both sumerologists and egyptologists claim their culture was first, and both tend to add some centuries to the proven oldest textual artefacts.
#16 I think ancient Hebrew is the same
If someone claims to be from the distant future as a time traveller, all you need to observe is the language. If he/she speaks like you or anyone else, then that person is completely a sham
If you were to time travel to ancient Rome, wouldn't you learn Latin first?
@@sergey1519 Supposing I learn Latin in 2023, will someone teach me the way people during the ancient times speak? Because I'm pretty sure it would be totally different
Or, to make it really easy, anyone who claims to be from the distant future is completely a sham.
Guys I knew all besides 10 do I need to take a break from language youtube?
What happens when you losing your teeth? The same as with a regular language!
I still cannot belive that you cant answer a question in Latin with a simple "yes" or "no", because Latin doesent have those word!
They(plural) are amazing that language has unending facts we(plural) may learn of.
This is why we(singular) love languages.
hell no. don't go kill fish instead
hey Olly , Guyana also don't speak a latin language because the official language is english
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I'm pretty sure that Guyana is in South American and that Guyana's official language is English, which is a Germanic language just like Dutch. So you are incorrect about Suriname being the only South American country whose official language isn't a Latin-based/romance language.
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İnformation which surprisied me is langest protein name,...Genau🎉
How old is a language? Afrikaans has an unbroken chain of people who learned it as children from their parents going back to Proto-Indo-European and probably beyond. Tok Pisin doesn't, nor does Nicaraguan Sign Language.
*46 languages only have a single speaker*. The story goes that an indigenous language of central Mexico only had 2 speakers, who were brothers, but unfortunately they had had a big argument and were no longer on speaking terms with one another ....
Stop
If you did a book series for Esperanto that'd be great, get us out of Duolingo
Can you talk about !Xõō i want to learn that language
No
В России посчитайте официальные языки. Думаю, будет далеко за 50.
И африкаанс не самый молодой. Вспомните македонский, молдавский, не говоря уже о ""черногорском" или "боснийском". Ну и украинский до кучи.
Correction: In Fact #12, about countries having the most official languages, you said something like _"India has 22 official languages but the Constitution only recognizes them at Regional level."_ I'm not sure what you mean by that. *India has 23 official languages for the Central (i.e. Federal) Government alone,* and 29 more at the regional level.
At the regional level, there are 28 states and 8 Union Territories. Each of them has separately and independently legislated official languages for its own use. These regional official languages total 51. Of those, 22 are also official languages for the Central Government, and 29 are not. (There's one official language of the Central Government-Sindhi-which is not the official language of any state or Union Territory.)
Interesting fact, Klingon has more speakers than Esperanto.
Nope and stupid to say
Top twenty languages in the world: Portuguese comes after Russian. People speak Portuguese in Brazil, Angola, Portugal, Cape Verde and Goa. That looks like more people than the total of Russian speakers, but I might be wrong, certainly because Olly seems to be very accurate.
it counts second language speakers
@@oravlaful I see! Thank you!
@@Thyme2sea Indeed Portuguese has more speakers than Russian, plus while the former is more and more widely spoken, the latter is losing speakers, not least because Russia's population has been shrinking for quite a long time now. By the way, Portuguese is also spoken in Mozambique, Sao Tomé e Príncipe as well as - to some extent - in Guinea Bissau and Timor Leste.
@@LOKI77able Obrigado!
@@Thyme2sea Disponha sempre :)
02:20 that’s not true. So far it was only one guy trying to teach them, maybe he was just a terrible teacher 🤷
Well, maybe. But when you think about it, it is hard to grasp the concept of counting if you have not been exposed to it from early childhood.
"So this guy wants me to remember a whole bunch of different names I've never heard before for a large amount of things that are all the same. How am I going to know which fish hook is called "Wun" and which is called "Tuh"? And then he wants me to give the SAME weird names to some totally DIFFERENT objects! And this is supposed to tell me whether I've got a large amount or a small amount? Any fool can see that at a glance! Oh, and I'm going to remember this useless procedure for months? I don't think so!"
Hot AND humid in Arizona? Naaah; you'll get plenty of heat but NO humidity. As a matter of fact; snowbirds often don't realize they're sweating so much because it evaporates so fast. In other words: Make sure you hydrate and drink plenty of fluids! Oh...and Thunderbird has great language classes for international business students.
Guyana doesn't exist confirmed!
One more wierd fact: Swedish is probably the language with the highest number of phonyms, more then 200, and a few of them can't even be discribed accuratly with the ipa chart
You speak as if you were hunted.