Hi great videos as always 👍 quick question about the Chinese course, when is it gonna back online? I'm really interested to try it out next time it is available 😁maybe January 2022 ? May the 4th be with you 👍👍
You could do a video on the Lord of the Rings universe as well. JRR Tolkien was a professor of linguistics and he invented the Elvish language for his books.
Yeah this would be a great idea... LOTR really was just an excuse for Tolkien to showcase his newly invented languages and he put in so much thought and care into them.
Ooooh yes please!! 🙏😄 Awesome suggestion. Tolkien took influence from Celtic and Finno-Ugric languages as far as I understand, which lead to his creation of such beautiful and functional languages. It's amazing that one of the greatest fictional worlds was built on a foundation its languages instead of the other way around.
I think it was even mentionned somewhere that, across the entire length of time the Galactic Republic existed, people were said to speak like Yoda more often then they did not.
"Weird Al" found a way to keep his Jedi robes even though his wife tries to discourage him from being a pack rat. It's cool that he has the 501rst perform with him during concerts.
When I saw Quechua, I was like whaat! That’s so cool! I didn’t know Quechua was used for a Star Wars language. I’m half Bolivian and I speak a few words I learned from my grandma so it’s pretty cool to see a language like this used, that is not spoken by many people outside of Bolivia 🇧🇴
An interesting fact is that Nien Nunb's language is a mixture of Kalenjin and Kikuyu. The actor who spoke those lines in ROTJ was a college student from Kenya studying in California.
9:10 Wow, I remember there was even like a meme out there of transcribing this phrase into Polish as "Tutaj mieszka dziabaducha?", which always sounded a bit funny, but I don't think anyone ever realized it was actually based on that language (well, at least I never would've expected it), so interesting!
Fun video! Thank you! Personally, I like Mando'a. A very good language for insulting idiots with. Plus, Karen Traviss, who really fleshed out Mando'a, threw some British slang into it, such as "skraan" (or as we'd spell it, "scran"), meaning "food." The thing that bugs me about Aurebesh is that at one point, it had a cool expanded alphabet which also gave individual letters to sounds like CH, SH, TH, KH, NG, OO, Æ, and Œ, but they seem to have been almost entirely overlooked in recent years. When I did more research into it, I found a lot more odd letters that didn't make the cut, were seen in a weird form on only one screen in ROTJ, or were used in "Aureboo," so I made a chart called The Sookcool Aurebesh to catalogue them. Might not be official, but I had a lot of fun with it, at least, because I slipped some gags in there. There was a troupe of Andean musicians busking and selling CDs and tapes in the shopping precinct area of my hometown many years ago, so I bought their tapes and CDs, and when listening to them, I definitely recognised a fair few Quechua words and phrases that I'd previously heard coming out of Greedo's mouth. One of the biggest shocks was listening to the Nelvaans in Tartakovsky's "The Clone Wars" micro-series, and catching through the heavy vocal processing that I'd heard some of their words in the Three Stooges' "Maharishi" routine. I asked a foreign colleague of mine, and she confirmed that the Nelvaan language is based on Hungarian.
Artificial cinematographic languages are a great fun for linguists by giving them opportunity of running their own experiments of how a language can work in different situations. Some languages, like Na'vy and Klingon, even have become to grow and develop as a system. People form communities of "native" speakers and offer courses for new learners. I've read about a guy< a professional linguist, who had started to teach his newborn son Klingon to get him it as his first language. There were not so many words and expressions to use, but anyhow they managed to go on with it. Luckily the adequately thinking mother had taught a the child English. The boy grew up and almost forgot his "native" tongue, being just only occasionally using it to entertain girls. For my mind it would have been better to learn something real, like Avestan for example.
@Zane Goebel - Everyday Indonesian I believe it's a matter of sandboxing: they may may have picked up different curious aspects of the languages they had met, add their fantasy of how a language may work if yo change some of it's conditions, mix it all together and produce a result. So, all items they know about suffixes, prefixes, cases, genders and quantity aspects of nouns - all goes into play. What if to use singular, double, triple (providing the aliens had three eyes) and plural for nouns and cases? What might happen if to use styles of speech depending on genders, age, maturity, knowledge, etc.? What if to mix and add some extra aspects of verbs?... You name it. And pronunciation. I believe there may be a lot of other ways of producing sounds than we already know. Olly has shown it in this video. Then, of course, the important thing is community, a group of enthusiasts backing up new ideas. It's important to get the new language been developing like a living body. Anyway, in "Avatar" it has happened to work.
Seemed a bit of a stretch with your plug at 7:26 this time around but I do love how you always try to put things together seamlessly! You turn the most dry aspects of youtube videos into some of the most interesting, as I'm wondering how you'll do it each time 😂
Amazing video for a Star Wars fan! Thanks for insight of these languages. Was very interesting to get some new information about Galactic languages. There are so many languages in the world to inspire someone to create a new language for the movie! I can't stop wondering and even if it feels like - oh, I saw so many different scripts and videos of differrent languages... nothing can surprise me! But then I find another language or script I haven't heard of! I think all my life won't be enough to get just a little glimpse of all languages of the world! By the way, jedi style suits you!
I read Wookieepedia. Sara Maria Forsberg, also known as SAARA, is a Finnish singer and TH-camr who created the Jablogian language spoken by the Kanjiklubbers in Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens. Her ability to mimic accents and speech melodies of different languages, which included Japanese, Estuary English, American with California accent, Swedish, French, Arabic and Spanish, using mainly nonexistent words, was praised by media in a number of countries. What I heard her speak in pseudo Finnish (her home language) sounds really convincing.
That makes me wonder, how did Han Solo learn to understand what Chewie is saying? (I only watched the prequel and the original trilogies and don't know if this was ever mentioned in the books or other parts of the franchise)
hello there. It's nice to meet you. My TH-cam name is FlutePlayer86, but my actual name is Amanda. I am a Star Wars nut, and I love learning languages. I am a musician myself, and have perfect pitch. In fact, Spanish is my secondary language. I can speak bits and pieces of other languages, and I am always open to learning new ones. My two favorite languages in the Star Wars universe of course art galactic basic and the language of the Ewoks. You're absolutely right about the language of the Sith. It is downright bone chilling. When you hear city is speaking it in the clone wars, gives me chills. Especially when he's performing that ritual.
The whole having different accent things reminds me of the movie ‘Death of Stalin’. All the actors speak English in it but none do a bad Russian accent, instead they all speak with their regular accents. That means there is a mix of accents kind of how it would be in the Soviet Union, since there are so many different Russian accents in the Union.
Ooooh. Get ready for my own conlangs as well... well... most of them are based in english tho. One will be based on greek, my native language and good luck olly cuz I remembered you said that you consider greek the 5th hardest language to learn
I know I'm late but I'd really appreciate if you could teach us the pronunciations for the sith words. I'm currently trying to learn to speak the language but I don't know the pronunciations on some of the double and triple consonants
Great video. So, seriously, if you wanted to add a sci-fi language to your list, where would you go? Knee deep in Spanish at the moment but I think a months introductory Hutt-ese would be fun. …or Klingonese for that Matter (although learning the script would be tricky)
@@storylearning You should do a video on Klingon. There's a woman who speaks it quite fluently and did all the dialogue for the new Star Trek series Discovery. It's actually quite impressively done. And the pronunciation is really good too by most of the actors, especially the guy who plays voQ. He nailed it! It's almost a pleasure to listen to him speak it. It's a funny language but when done well it's almost kind of beautiful. And again, the dialogue is impeccablely written.
If you want a language from Star Wars, then Mando'a is probably the only one developed enough so you can actually learn it. But nowhere near like Klingon from Star Trek. So your best bet would be Klingon, it has wealth of resources, online and offline and it is developed enough to actually hold a conversation in it, or read Hamlet in original Klingon as it should be :)
I think basic is the human language in wich you view the movie lol I don't remember quite well, when Bif Fortuna speak in an alien language in return of the jedi does he speak huttese or Twi'lek? Cuz many people pointed out the accent is nothing like when they speak basic (when they speak basic they have a french accent that Bib don't have) so it a bit confusing getting wich language he's using. Personnally I prefer Huttese cuz I just like to curse without people noticing (pretty much the same reason I like klingon). 😜
Hi Olly. Your (new) Russian Uncovered Storytelling has ceased enrollment. Is there a reason why? Any idea if it will open up again by Back Friday? Thanks!
We always begin new courses with a closed group so that we can work closely with the first students. It’s a way to ensure quality. We’ll probably reopen in the new year, but do join the waitlist if you’re interested in the course because we may be offering something special to accompany the public opening
Fascinating! Although, in truth, I’ve always detested the Eewoks. And Jar Jar Binx too. They struck me as gratuitously disneyfied characters in an otherwise most un-disney saga. I mean, their cuteness alone was enough to deduce, from their very first appearance, that they would survive every last ordeal they faced with a nauseating degree of powderpuff luck. But I digress. All the languages created for the Star Wars universe are truly fascinating in their own right, despite the lack of a proper cuteness crushing demise for Jar Jar in the plot. Me so want him so fall down go boom! Oops! There I go again. Better end it here. Cheers, mate! -Phill, Las Vegas
Ever since I heard of the "Darth Jar Jar" theory, I find keeping that in mind while watching the Prequels helps him suck less, as he's deliberately sowing chaos and steering events with his powers.
It is isiZulu, but remember who made the movie: Americans! They don't understand our SA languages, but no doubt also added some other voice manipulations to the Zulu recordings to distort the sound and make it cool for the characters. They have to sound alien, after all , not African. :)
Actually the way yoda speaks is like pig Latin talking the first word and putting it at the end like do you want to go the beach vs ho bra like go beach? Basically switching words around and shorting it
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Hi great videos as always 👍 quick question about the Chinese course, when is it gonna back online? I'm really interested to try it out next time it is available 😁maybe January 2022 ? May the 4th be with you 👍👍
You could do a video on the Lord of the Rings universe as well. JRR Tolkien was a professor of linguistics and he invented the Elvish language for his books.
you could even say he invented the books for the language!
Yes! I've heard there's influence from the Finnish language too
Yeah this would be a great idea... LOTR really was just an excuse for Tolkien to showcase his newly invented languages and he put in so much thought and care into them.
Ooooh yes please!! 🙏😄 Awesome suggestion.
Tolkien took influence from Celtic and Finno-Ugric languages as far as I understand, which lead to his creation of such beautiful and functional languages. It's amazing that one of the greatest fictional worlds was built on a foundation its languages instead of the other way around.
This is one of the Videos we didn't know we need.
😅Now you know!
the canon reason that Yoda speaks like that is because when he was born the grammar was different
I think it was even mentionned somewhere that, across the entire length of time the Galactic Republic existed, people were said to speak like Yoda more often then they did not.
I always heard (and it's the reason I like) is that he speaks that way so people will listen more closely to what he is saying and pay more attention
Perks of being a youtuber: when you tell your wife you want to buy a jedi robe and light sabre, you can actually come up with a good reason for it. ^^
And it counts as a business expense to boot!
😂
"Weird Al" found a way to keep his Jedi robes even though his wife tries to discourage him from being a pack rat. It's cool that he has the 501rst perform with him during concerts.
When I saw Quechua, I was like whaat! That’s so cool! I didn’t know Quechua was used for a Star Wars language. I’m half Bolivian and I speak a few words I learned from my grandma so it’s pretty cool to see a language like this used, that is not spoken by many people outside of Bolivia 🇧🇴
An interesting fact is that Nien Nunb's language is a mixture of Kalenjin and Kikuyu. The actor who spoke those lines in ROTJ was a college student from Kenya studying in California.
Cover Mando’a/Mandalorian next time please! It’s a very well rounded language, with lots of canon material and music!
Yes!!! I was like where is the Mando'a???
Ibic cuyir te ara
Kandosii!
Thank you for the insightful thoughts master Olly-Wan Kenobi
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THE best channel to learn about linguistics!
My dude this is one of the best videos you have ever done. May the Force be with you!
9:10 Wow, I remember there was even like a meme out there of transcribing this phrase into Polish as "Tutaj mieszka dziabaducha?", which always sounded a bit funny, but I don't think anyone ever realized it was actually based on that language (well, at least I never would've expected it), so interesting!
Amazing video! I wasn't expecting it at all!
I didn't know that Star Wars have so many constructed languages.
I just got my first french book, called "Ne Crie Pas. 30 Histoires D'horreur" so I can try your story learning method
Could you do a video on Hyrulean languages like Hylian, Gerudo, Zora, etc. at some point? I'd be really curious to hear your thoughts on them.
Fun video! Thank you! Personally, I like Mando'a. A very good language for insulting idiots with. Plus, Karen Traviss, who really fleshed out Mando'a, threw some British slang into it, such as "skraan" (or as we'd spell it, "scran"), meaning "food."
The thing that bugs me about Aurebesh is that at one point, it had a cool expanded alphabet which also gave individual letters to sounds like CH, SH, TH, KH, NG, OO, Æ, and Œ, but they seem to have been almost entirely overlooked in recent years. When I did more research into it, I found a lot more odd letters that didn't make the cut, were seen in a weird form on only one screen in ROTJ, or were used in "Aureboo," so I made a chart called The Sookcool Aurebesh to catalogue them. Might not be official, but I had a lot of fun with it, at least, because I slipped some gags in there.
There was a troupe of Andean musicians busking and selling CDs and tapes in the shopping precinct area of my hometown many years ago, so I bought their tapes and CDs, and when listening to them, I definitely recognised a fair few Quechua words and phrases that I'd previously heard coming out of Greedo's mouth.
One of the biggest shocks was listening to the Nelvaans in Tartakovsky's "The Clone Wars" micro-series, and catching through the heavy vocal processing that I'd heard some of their words in the Three Stooges' "Maharishi" routine. I asked a foreign colleague of mine, and she confirmed that the Nelvaan language is based on Hungarian.
Artificial cinematographic languages are a great fun for linguists by giving them opportunity of running their own experiments of how a language can work in different situations. Some languages, like Na'vy and Klingon, even have become to grow and develop as a system. People form communities of "native" speakers and offer courses for new learners. I've read about a guy< a professional linguist, who had started to teach his newborn son Klingon to get him it as his first language. There were not so many words and expressions to use, but anyhow they managed to go on with it. Luckily the adequately thinking mother had taught a the child English. The boy grew up and almost forgot his "native" tongue, being just only occasionally using it to entertain girls.
For my mind it would have been better to learn something real, like Avestan for example.
@Zane Goebel - Everyday Indonesian I believe it's a matter of sandboxing: they may may have picked up different curious aspects of the languages they had met, add their fantasy of how a language may work if yo change some of it's conditions, mix it all together and produce a result. So, all items they know about suffixes, prefixes, cases, genders and quantity aspects of nouns - all goes into play. What if to use singular, double, triple (providing the aliens had three eyes) and plural for nouns and cases? What might happen if to use styles of speech depending on genders, age, maturity, knowledge, etc.? What if to mix and add some extra aspects of verbs?... You name it.
And pronunciation. I believe there may be a lot of other ways of producing sounds than we already know. Olly has shown it in this video.
Then, of course, the important thing is community, a group of enthusiasts backing up new ideas. It's important to get the new language been developing like a living body.
Anyway, in "Avatar" it has happened to work.
Seemed a bit of a stretch with your plug at 7:26 this time around but I do love how you always try to put things together seamlessly! You turn the most dry aspects of youtube videos into some of the most interesting, as I'm wondering how you'll do it each time 😂
Dude you nailed this video. Super interesting!
Thanks Hassan!
Haha. Man. The research you do for these videos is amazing
This is great!!! Would love to see a video about the languages of Middle Earth and one from Westeros/Essos.
Amazing video for a Star Wars fan! Thanks for insight of these languages. Was very interesting to get some new information about Galactic languages. There are so many languages in the world to inspire someone to create a new language for the movie!
I can't stop wondering and even if it feels like - oh, I saw so many different scripts and videos of differrent languages... nothing can surprise me! But then I find another language or script I haven't heard of! I think all my life won't be enough to get just a little glimpse of all languages of the world!
By the way, jedi style suits you!
Soy un gran fan de Star Wars y de Olly. Muchas gracias por este fantástico video.
I'd like to point out Geonosian as well. I'm pretty sure it's developed quite a bit, similarly to Huttese, but correct me if I'm wrong.
I read Wookieepedia. Sara Maria Forsberg, also known as SAARA, is a Finnish singer and TH-camr who created the Jablogian language spoken by the Kanjiklubbers in Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens. Her ability to mimic accents and speech melodies of different languages, which included Japanese, Estuary English, American with California accent, Swedish, French, Arabic and Spanish, using mainly nonexistent words, was praised by media in a number of countries. What I heard her speak in pseudo Finnish (her home language) sounds really convincing.
Nien Nunb speaks Gikuyu the language of the largest ethnic group in Kenya.
That makes me wonder, how did Han Solo learn to understand what Chewie is saying? (I only watched the prequel and the original trilogies and don't know if this was ever mentioned in the books or other parts of the franchise)
Good lesson on grammar, it is.
Great video, love it
Enlightened, I have become, for Yoda's word order, I have learned
Do a video on Star Trek languages too
Love it! Maybe you could do an episode about the languages of Game of thrones, like the Dothraki 😊
This is such a fun video. Do Star Trek next. Heh!
excellent - how about the next video is on JRR Tolkien invented languages?
hello there. It's nice to meet you. My TH-cam name is FlutePlayer86, but my actual name is Amanda. I am a Star Wars nut, and I love learning languages. I am a musician myself, and have perfect pitch. In fact, Spanish is my secondary language. I can speak bits and pieces of other languages, and I am always open to learning new ones. My two favorite languages in the Star Wars universe of course art galactic basic and the language of the Ewoks. You're absolutely right about the language of the Sith. It is downright bone chilling. When you hear city is speaking it in the clone wars, gives me chills. Especially when he's performing that ritual.
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At your service
More of these I love it
Really fun video, Olly
This was awesome. I really want to learn to read and speak sith
The whole having different accent things reminds me of the movie ‘Death of Stalin’. All the actors speak English in it but none do a bad Russian accent, instead they all speak with their regular accents. That means there is a mix of accents kind of how it would be in the Soviet Union, since there are so many different Russian accents in the Union.
Wish I had Uhura’s talent.
Ooooh. Get ready for my own conlangs as well... well... most of them are based in english tho. One will be based on greek, my native language and good luck olly cuz I remembered you said that you consider greek the 5th hardest language to learn
Ένας Έλληνας! Τι κανείς;
@@philippospratsos4198 καλά. Εσύ;
I know I'm late but I'd really appreciate if you could teach us the pronunciations for the sith words. I'm currently trying to learn to speak the language but I don't know the pronunciations on some of the double and triple consonants
As I learn Japanese, I feel like it’s written the way Yoda speaks. It helps me as I practice. Lol
Haha I know what you mean
Yay, Star Wars! Yay, Quechua! Yay, language!
YES, the title and thumbnail are perfect, exactly as requested! For that, I clicked haha
Great video. So, seriously, if you wanted to add a sci-fi language to your list, where would you go? Knee deep in Spanish at the moment but I think a months introductory Hutt-ese would be fun. …or Klingonese for that Matter (although learning the script would be tricky)
You need to choose a language that is genuinely developed. Elvish or Klingon for example.
@@storylearning You should do a video on Klingon. There's a woman who speaks it quite fluently and did all the dialogue for the new Star Trek series Discovery. It's actually quite impressively done. And the pronunciation is really good too by most of the actors, especially the guy who plays voQ. He nailed it! It's almost a pleasure to listen to him speak it. It's a funny language but when done well it's almost kind of beautiful. And again, the dialogue is impeccablely written.
Duolingo has Klingon ;)
If you want a language from Star Wars, then Mando'a is probably the only one developed enough so you can actually learn it. But nowhere near like Klingon from Star Trek. So your best bet would be Klingon, it has wealth of resources, online and offline and it is developed enough to actually hold a conversation in it, or read Hamlet in original Klingon as it should be :)
You need to make a video on the languages in game of thrones
What about Mandoa?
1:41 Isn't it supposed to be "OVS" (object-verb-subject)?
I think basic is the human language in wich you view the movie lol
I don't remember quite well, when Bif Fortuna speak in an alien language in return of the jedi does he speak huttese or Twi'lek? Cuz many people pointed out the accent is nothing like when they speak basic (when they speak basic they have a french accent that Bib don't have) so it a bit confusing getting wich language he's using.
Personnally I prefer Huttese cuz I just like to curse without people noticing (pretty much the same reason I like klingon). 😜
I also like Mando'a. Great for insulting someone's intelligence (or lack thereof).
Hey, Olly! Really enjoyed the nerd fest! XD Can you make a video about the Star Trek languages, too?
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Fun video.
Hi Olly. Your (new) Russian Uncovered Storytelling has ceased enrollment. Is there a reason why? Any idea if it will open up again by Back Friday? Thanks!
We always begin new courses with a closed group so that we can work closely with the first students. It’s a way to ensure quality. We’ll probably reopen in the new year, but do join the waitlist if you’re interested in the course because we may be offering something special to accompany the public opening
No mention of mandoa?
Can't fit all the languages in. :)
Kandosii!
All the villains in Hollywood films have English accents.
Unless they're German, Russian, or Middle Eastern.
That's pretty cool haha
Shmi Skywalker, Swedish accent.
Basque sounds like a Star Wars language.
This video is either 6 months too late or 6 months too early 😂
Fascinating! Although, in truth, I’ve always detested the Eewoks. And Jar Jar Binx too. They struck me as gratuitously disneyfied characters in an otherwise most un-disney saga. I mean, their cuteness alone was enough to deduce, from their very first appearance, that they would survive every last ordeal they faced with a nauseating degree of powderpuff luck. But I digress. All the languages created for the Star Wars universe are truly fascinating in their own right, despite the lack of a proper cuteness crushing demise for Jar Jar in the plot. Me so want him so fall down go boom! Oops! There I go again. Better end it here. Cheers, mate! -Phill, Las Vegas
Ever since I heard of the "Darth Jar Jar" theory, I find keeping that in mind while watching the Prequels helps him suck less, as he's deliberately sowing chaos and steering events with his powers.
Alright boys I know what language I'm going to learn
Mandalorians speak Mando’a, which is even more developed than Huttese and is agglutinative.
U need this 3:03
Great, now teach me Sardaukar
So ... no Mando'a?
Man i know how to write in arebashu and now i now sith, why didn't rey get me to translate the dagger?or him? 8:53
So I don't know if it's the speed of the audio or what but I can't understand it at all. It just doesn't sound like IsiZulu. Maybe it's just me
It is isiZulu, but remember who made the movie: Americans! They don't understand our SA languages, but no doubt also added some other voice manipulations to the Zulu recordings to distort the sound and make it cool for the characters. They have to sound alien, after all , not African. :)
Mucha Shaka Paka to you, Olly
What what about twi'leks?
That one person who speaks Galactic Basic, or Kalmykian.
I actually want to learn Zulu but it's hard cause no one really teaches Zulu for free
What country are you in?
@@lisanarramore222 the u.s.
Actually the way yoda speaks is like pig Latin talking the first word and putting it at the end like do you want to go the beach vs ho bra like go beach? Basically switching words around and shorting it
Mando'a
Kandosii!
Jar Jar Binks is about to be cancelled.
Buen video, éxitos. Este video publiqué hoy th-cam.com/video/rUNJ0jYr36s/w-d-xo.html
de los idiomas más hablados en los países y puedes ver que idiomas hablan en cada uno de los países y que porcentaje de la población.
Is this Portuguese?
Did somebody say........ finnish?
-shadow the nord enjoyer
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You speak Sith? You’re under arrest!
your just going to forget Mando'a?
Wugaga hu uwamma woohiee wa-ha?
Why they dont make the jawa people speak like the irl jawa people (Javanese)
You really look like Arthur Wasely😉
👍🏻
It goes to show that british people can make good villains
Huttese but there are others.
star wars doesn’t use real conlangs like star trek
There is no need to learn alien language since most of them speak English, at least in the movies generally.😄