How about the Cherokee Alphabet? I just found out about it. It has 85 symbols that represent sounds like kana. It's taught in schools, but it is at risk of dying out. You could offer it to the schools that teach the language.
This is by far the most comprehensive and fun to look at each letters. I'm astounding by the many references you can find and put it into practice ,this video should be recommended to many russian learners beginners. Much love 😊
Just a little tip - memorise Russian alphabet (it's not that hard, way easier than to learn 2k hieoglyrps of Mandarin +entirely new concept of 4 tones) and boom - you are ready to undererstand, like, 70% of current Russian language. Like, 'Студенты и Профессоры Санкт-Петербургского Университета' means 'Students and Profeasors of the Saint Petesburg University'...
Fun fact. From what I have learnt so far, there is no letter J in Cyrillic but when you think about it, what sounds are required to even make a J sound? In English, it's like... djuh sort of.. well, anyway, in Russian you use the D sound and the soft J sound (which is the S in pleaSure).. add them together Д+Ж = J John = Джон There are other really cool things about Cyrillic that I just love! If you know the sound that every letter makes, you can basically read Russian! And vice versa, if you can read Russian, you can likely pronounce the words out loud! So cool!
I liked an explanation that soft sign is actually pronounced like a very soft vowel “e”, and the hard sound works as a brief stop between the neighboring sounds. Like if you say “подъём” (a climb), you actually say “под ём” (which means nothing per se), but making the pause really-really brief.
man, this was awesome. I was hoping to learn Cyrillic for geoguessr purposes. when I saw it on your screen during the montage, I knew it was the right video. subbed. thanks for making this. excited to see more from you.
thank you for the video! i was planning on learning russian and this is a great starting point to memorize the characters. my memory isn't typically the best but this video really helped my nail my memorization! to anyone else trying to do the same, it helped to have cyrillic words on the side and try to read them yourself off memory while going through the video.
AKMOT alone is worth the thumbs up. Helped me a lot. I always imagine bl as "oo-wee" like you're reacting something really good or really bad but step on the W and make it at the back of your throat more. Might be wrong but that's what it sounds like to me lol.
¿En serio? ¡Pues dile a tu hermano que lea este texto en español por ti, y siéntete orgulloso de tener a alguien que sabe leer el segundo idioma más hablado en el planeta (después del chino mandarín, claro está)!
4:37 Here's how to double peg this one: His mnemonic is chef and he uttered an "Eh" that sounded almost exactly like HowToBasic's whenever he gives a thumbs up. And who's the best chef in the world? HowToBasic! Eh 👍!
@NelsonDellis I could help but notice that you listed 4 languages, but your alphabet list is very russo-centric. For instance, you completely missed: Ukrainian: Є (Like in 'yes'. Е is used in ukrainian and most every other slavic language for the vowel in pane) І (Like in the word 'seen'. И in Ukrainian takes on the french 'u'). Ї (As heard in 'Yeet'.) Ґ (As heard in 'goblin'. Г takes on a sound in Ukrainian with no good equivalent in english, sounding like a heavier 'h') Bulgarian: Щ (as in 'shtick'. the softer 'sch' used in russian is exclusive to that language.) Serbian: Ј (as seen 'boys' and 'youth'.) Љ (as seen in the spanish 'ella') Њ (as seen in 'union' and 'onion') Ћ (as seen in 'witch' and 'pitch') Ђ (as seen in 'edge' and 'legitimate') Џ (as seen in 'Jury' and 'Judge)
which books you recommend to read to learn and improve memories techniques? My goal is to improve learning concept and information in my master degree's courses
The pronunciations were perfect. Right up until 'щ'. [shch] is how it is usually transcribed, but it does not represent the sound it makes. Just like 'th' is not actually read as two sounds of 't' and 'h', but stands in to denote its own sound as a whole. 'щ' also is read as a single sound (close to 'ш', but softer), not as a combination of 'sh' and 'ch'.
Sir, your pronunciation is very correct as for a non-Russian-speaking person! I must add though that the Russian letters for ee and oo came from one Greek letter ypsilon aka upsilon. Russian letters for b and v also came from one Greek letter beta aka vita... Russian letter l obviously came from Greek lambda. As for the letter ы, I personally wonder why English speakers studying Russian always make a tragedy out of its pronunciation. Yes, you were ABSOLUTELY right - that is practically the same sound as in the one-syllable English words where i is put between the consonants or is placed before the consonants. Well, perhaps, in Russian it is rougher, more brutal sounding. But basically, approximately, yes - that's the sound ih, more or less the one in the English words like ill, rib, this. For my native Russian speaking ear, for example, that's quite the vowel sound from the English word "this". Some English speakers also pronounce that sound in the beginning of the word "enough". French speakers sometimes describe it as "i posterieur" - "backside i", or so. It's i when the tongue is moved to the back of the throat. And, to be totally correct, the letter щ does not sound QUITE like sh+ch in Russian, that's an approximation. In Russian it sounds quite like soft long version of ш - it is [sh:']. Since the concept of softness is alien to Germanic languages including English, yes, probably it is a good approximation. In any case, щ is the only definitely long sound of Russian language, it tends to sound like long, like a double one that may help to identify it in speech.
The д in some handwritings/fonts is also a Greek delta on stilts, and the shape difference from Greek is also in line with the lambda being Λ and the delta being a lambda on a line
Всё же this звучит иначе, ближе звучит rosEs, softlY. Ну и Щ длинная в формальности литературных норм. На деле же, никто длинну Щ не измеряет в речи, и я слышу как краткую версию, так и длинную (последнее, чаще в старых фильмах и чтении стихов).
Cirilick Alfabet is a Bulgarian Alfabet.....Bulgarian LETHER Created in Bulgaria in the Old Capital Name Preslav in |X and X century....Countres like Russia Belarus and Ukraine there Language come from Bulgaria
It is indeed the English alphabet, we wouldn’t call our modern derivative by its predecessors. Not an exact timeline but generally accepted evolution: Phoenician -> Greek -> Latin -> German/Anglican -> English
but ы makes the sounds uh and ee combined or to make that sound easier get a pencil and hold it with your mouth and try to say e without your tongue touch the pencil.
Don't tell anybody I will tell you already you know 5th language, ask me the secret 👀 example 👉 д - ደ , ж - ዠ , ю - ዬ 🤷 did you see the shape of words little bit change but same sounds and same meaning! SO 😂😂😂 congratulations 🎉👏 your 5th language is Ethiopian official " Amharic" language ! Good luck great fucking legend
I just start to learn russian and I ditch reading and start learning to speak and how to pronounce the words first 😂 Writings just like any other language is like a whole language.
He deserves more like but unfortunately very hard to find such channels m if u type memory strategies then other channels will pop out , please change to memory strategies with nelson or something like that so others will be benefited from such videos.
Try grouping verses by subject. Also there's a bible app called- Bible Offline w Audio kjv by Mr. Rocco. In its menu are multiple languages and versions available.
X letter sound is like the CH sound of the Scottish sound Lochness. X is the Greek letter Xa. Here in the Netherlands we know the hard letter sound form the town name Scheveningen. The Russian B sounds in the Netherlands like W sound, like William or V(W)odka (водка ). B=V=W.
The one thing i can find in online or in the 3 textbooks im reading is how to actually translate a Russian word into english so i can understand it. Everything i find tells how to pronounce a word in Russian but not how to get the meaning in English. The first small word i cam upon was West. I saw the Russian word for west and looked at the alphabet to try to translate it to english for me to read it but it doesnt translate that way. Im so stuck on this
@@NelsonDellis Yes, I really enjoyed them :). I want to create some video content myself. I like your video editing (and your memory advice too). I want the same type of video editing, simple but really enjoyable. Thank you for taking the time to answer. Have a great week.
one little thing: it's not Russian "H" looks like an English "H", but the English "H" looks like a Russian "H." Big difference, dude. Same with all the other letters here. Ah, yeah, one more thing: it's not that "Я" is a "backward R," but "R" is a "backward Я."
This one seems a little...rushed. Perhaps you could consider a format with illustrations beside you rather than cutting back and forth? #FeedTheAlgorithm
Cirilick Alfabet is a Bulgarian Alfabet.....Bulgarian LETHER Created in Bulgaria in the Old Capital Name Preslav in |X and X century....Countres like Russia Belarus and Ukraine there Language come from Bulgaria........
08:10 There's no "montenegrin" (or "bosnian", or "croatian") language - it is all one the same Serbian language. Like many nations speak English or Spanish language, the Serbian is spoken in large part of former Yugoslavia.
Montenegrins are ethnic Serbs whose statehood was created in parallel with the restoration of Serbian statehood in the 19th century. A large part of Montenegrins still consider themselves Serbs or at least still call their mother tongue Serbian and not "Montenegrin". In the Balkans there is great chauvinism among the nations that emerged from the collapse of the former Yugoslavia. Because of that, the newly formed nations do not want the language they speak to be called Serbian, so they call it "Croatian", "Bosnian", "Montenegrin", and they build elaborate quasi-scientific theories about the "non-Serb" root of their nations and languages. Like if Australians, for some reason, started to hate England and consequently called their language (which is still English) "Australian".
What other symbol/character sets should I make a video about learning?
Chinese Characters 😅
arabic
Try some alphabet with many similar letters, for example thai.
@@rozencrantz yes, arabic
How about the Cherokee Alphabet? I just found out about it. It has 85 symbols that represent sounds like kana. It's taught in schools, but it is at risk of dying out. You could offer it to the schools that teach the language.
I think a video for memorizing Anatomy, or pharmacology(medical subjects) would be amazing! Great video as always
This is by far the most comprehensive and fun to look at each letters. I'm astounding by the many references you can find and put it into practice ,this video should be recommended to many russian learners beginners. Much love 😊
Just a little tip - memorise Russian alphabet (it's not that hard, way easier than to learn 2k hieoglyrps of Mandarin +entirely new concept of 4 tones) and boom - you are ready to undererstand, like, 70% of current Russian language.
Like, 'Студенты и Профессоры Санкт-Петербургского Университета' means 'Students and Profeasors of the Saint Petesburg University'...
Fun fact. From what I have learnt so far, there is no letter J in Cyrillic but when you think about it, what sounds are required to even make a J sound? In English, it's like... djuh sort of.. well, anyway, in Russian you use the D sound and the soft J sound (which is the S in pleaSure).. add them together Д+Ж = J
John = Джон
There are other really cool things about Cyrillic that I just love! If you know the sound that every letter makes, you can basically read Russian! And vice versa, if you can read Russian, you can likely pronounce the words out loud! So cool!
There is the letter Џ in South Slavic cyrillic, it makes the sound you're looking for
@lred1383 thanks for that info!! Very cool to know!!
Also u have Ю and Я for many of the other J sounds (with a vowel afterwards)
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@@alexsetyapranarka9191dzhon
Yeah, i memorized all of them.
...But, after the video ended, i couldn’t remember a single letter.
Learning is all about taking notes after what you've seen.
Hit a Russian alphabet video for children........more straight forward. This video may have helped someone......
Russian is a Slavic language, part of the Indo-European family. It's closely related to other Slavic languages such as Polish, Czech, and Bulgarian.
@@PoisonelleMisty4311 Misty - "Made her mine" by DOGMA ............ judging by your channel, you may find this band interesting.
@@PoisonelleMisty4311 Misty, judging by your channel, you might find the song "Made her mine" by DOGMA interesting.
Ь and Ъ letters are soft and hard signs. They make consonants sound softer or harder.
I liked an explanation that soft sign is actually pronounced like a very soft vowel “e”, and the hard sound works as a brief stop between the neighboring sounds. Like if you say “подъём” (a climb), you actually say “под ём” (which means nothing per se), but making the pause really-really brief.
man, this was awesome.
I was hoping to learn Cyrillic for geoguessr purposes. when I saw it on your screen during the montage, I knew it was the right video.
subbed. thanks for making this. excited to see more from you.
Same here, ability to read cyrillic is really a game changer. Russia is unforgiving.
thank you for the video! i was planning on learning russian and this is a great starting point to memorize the characters. my memory isn't typically the best but this video really helped my nail my memorization! to anyone else trying to do the same, it helped to have cyrillic words on the side and try to read them yourself off memory while going through the video.
When you already know russian, but still are watching this❤
Я тоже хаха
лол
True
Я тоже😂😂😂
Bulgarian here, we created cyrillic so its a given lol
You should write a short book with all different alphabets, Moris code, Nato phonetic code, and sign language alphabet.
AKMOT alone is worth the thumbs up. Helped me a lot.
I always imagine bl as "oo-wee" like you're reacting something really good or really bad but step on the W and make it at the back of your throat more. Might be wrong but that's what it sounds like to me lol.
Ура, теперь я умею читать по-русски!
Ura, tjepjer' ja umjeju čitat' po-russki!
@@elchile336 correct!
@@elchile336Ura, teper' ia umeiu chitat' po russki!
А по-монгольски?
My son has done it since 5, he's 9 now, adhd autistic apraxia, he knows the Spanish alphabet, and many more.
¿En serio? ¡Pues dile a tu hermano que lea este texto en español por ti, y siéntete orgulloso de tener a alguien que sabe leer el segundo idioma más hablado en el planeta (después del chino mandarín, claro está)!
Just made the decision of learning Russian using my memory palaces so this should help a lot. Thanks!
4:37 Here's how to double peg this one: His mnemonic is chef and he uttered an "Eh" that sounded almost exactly like HowToBasic's whenever he gives a thumbs up. And who's the best chef in the world? HowToBasic!
Eh 👍!
Helpful thanks… i just discovered that all these letters look completely different again when they are handwritten… 📝😧
@NelsonDellis
I could help but notice that you listed 4 languages, but your alphabet list is very russo-centric. For instance, you completely missed:
Ukrainian:
Є (Like in 'yes'. Е is used in ukrainian and most every other slavic language for the vowel in pane)
І (Like in the word 'seen'. И in Ukrainian takes on the french 'u').
Ї (As heard in 'Yeet'.)
Ґ (As heard in 'goblin'. Г takes on a sound in Ukrainian with no good equivalent in english, sounding like a heavier 'h')
Bulgarian:
Щ (as in 'shtick'. the softer 'sch' used in russian is exclusive to that language.)
Serbian:
Ј (as seen 'boys' and 'youth'.)
Љ (as seen in the spanish 'ella')
Њ (as seen in 'union' and 'onion')
Ћ (as seen in 'witch' and 'pitch')
Ђ (as seen in 'edge' and 'legitimate')
Џ (as seen in 'Jury' and 'Judge)
Yeah, he addressed it
8:00
@@Упоротаявыпькричитвночи and very poorly
which books you recommend to read to learn and improve memories techniques?
My goal is to improve learning concept and information in my master degree's courses
He has books 🙂
Reading again and again is a shorter time solution!
Very clever ! Thanks for the video and sharing clear thoughts .
The pronunciations were perfect. Right up until 'щ'.
[shch] is how it is usually transcribed, but it does not represent the sound it makes. Just like 'th' is not actually read as two sounds of 't' and 'h', but stands in to denote its own sound as a whole.
'щ' also is read as a single sound (close to 'ш', but softer), not as a combination of 'sh' and 'ch'.
The legend is back
Just imagine the sound of the letter "Ы" as being punched in the gut and the grunt that results
Sir, your pronunciation is very correct as for a non-Russian-speaking person! I must add though that the Russian letters for ee and oo came from one Greek letter ypsilon aka upsilon. Russian letters for b and v also came from one Greek letter beta aka vita... Russian letter l obviously came from Greek lambda.
As for the letter ы, I personally wonder why English speakers studying Russian always make a tragedy out of its pronunciation. Yes, you were ABSOLUTELY right - that is practically the same sound as in the one-syllable English words where i is put between the consonants or is placed before the consonants. Well, perhaps, in Russian it is rougher, more brutal sounding. But basically, approximately, yes - that's the sound ih, more or less the one in the English words like ill, rib, this. For my native Russian speaking ear, for example, that's quite the vowel sound from the English word "this". Some English speakers also pronounce that sound in the beginning of the word "enough". French speakers sometimes describe it as "i posterieur" - "backside i", or so. It's i when the tongue is moved to the back of the throat.
And, to be totally correct, the letter щ does not sound QUITE like sh+ch in Russian, that's an approximation. In Russian it sounds quite like soft long version of ш - it is [sh:']. Since the concept of softness is alien to Germanic languages including English, yes, probably it is a good approximation. In any case, щ is the only definitely long sound of Russian language, it tends to sound like long, like a double one that may help to identify it in speech.
The д in some handwritings/fonts is also a Greek delta on stilts, and the shape difference from Greek is also in line with the lambda being Λ and the delta being a lambda on a line
Cirilick Alfabet is a Bulgarian Alfabet.....Bulgarian LETHER Created in Bulgaria in the Old Capital Name Preslav in |X and X century>....
Entire russian alphabet came from medieval greek plus extra letters invented for sounds absent in greek
Всё же this звучит иначе, ближе звучит rosEs, softlY.
Ну и Щ длинная в формальности литературных норм. На деле же, никто длинну Щ не измеряет в речи, и я слышу как краткую версию, так и длинную (последнее, чаще в старых фильмах и чтении стихов).
At least I already know that (и ) is (i) and (у) is (u)
Incredible! So helpful! Thank you!
What are they officially called?
The mnemonics really do help. спасибо!
This helped me so much I thank you for this video.
"Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes." Love that clip!
Cool video now I know at least how to pronounce the letters. Thanks for the upload.
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Awesome video. Thanks.
Two extra second would make it easier to 'digest' the info...
Pause button, my friend
Excellent video
Thanks! Russian is a very interesting language!
Cirilick Alfabet is a Bulgarian Alfabet.....Bulgarian LETHER Created in Bulgaria in the Old Capital Name Preslav in |X and X century....Countres like Russia Belarus and Ukraine there Language come from Bulgaria
Always looking forward for your contents
I think it’s called the Roman Empire Alphabet, not the English Alphabet. Some call it the Latin Alphabet.
It is indeed the English alphabet, we wouldn’t call our modern derivative by its predecessors. Not an exact timeline but generally accepted evolution:
Phoenician -> Greek -> Latin -> German/Anglican -> English
just brilliant, although the yacht is kinda stretching it
Interesting, you remember the ch sound the way I do, also the IO (u) sound.
but ы makes the sounds uh and ee combined or to make that sound easier get a pencil and hold it with your mouth and try to say e without your tongue touch the pencil.
as for russian-speaker this is hilerious to me :D
me learning russian as my fourth language, thank you so much for this.
you are a fucking legend
Don't tell anybody I will tell you already you know 5th language, ask me the secret 👀 example 👉 д - ደ , ж - ዠ , ю - ዬ 🤷 did you see the shape of words little bit change but same sounds and same meaning! SO 😂😂😂 congratulations 🎉👏 your 5th language is Ethiopian official " Amharic" language !
Good luck great fucking legend
I just start to learn russian and I ditch reading and start learning to speak and how to pronounce the words first 😂
Writings just like any other language is like a whole language.
Thank you very much, it helps me a lot!
Please do a video on chemical reaction memorizing
He deserves more like but unfortunately very hard to find such channels m if u type memory strategies then other channels will pop out , please change to memory strategies with nelson or something like that so others will be benefited from such videos.
Cute idea. Now do lowercase italics [laughs maniacally]
Excellent. I really enjoyed the video.
I have just got your book, could you please tell me where to start on your youtube channel?
www.youtube.com/@NelsonDellis/playlists
Так много фетиша вокруг моего родного алфавита. Niiiize
mm yeah those hot letters got me acting unwise.
😂😂😂
Perfect video👍
The X basicly makes the sound a swan makes when you get to close
Very good vid. Nicly done
1:16 Already Soviet/Russian
How do you organize and manage really huge memory palaces like your 2000 location for 10,000 digits of pi.
Some of these mnumonics are a little reaching but are imaginative nonetheless
قُلۡ هُوَ ٱللَّهُ أَحَدٌ (1)
Qul huwal laahu ahad
ٱللَّهُ ٱلصَّمَدُ (2)
Allah hus-samad
لَمۡ يَلِدۡ وَلَمۡ يُولَدۡ (3)
Lam yalid wa lam yoolad
وَلَمۡ يَكُن لَّهُۥ كُفُوًا أَحَدُۢ (4)
Wa lam yakul-lahoo kufuwan ahad,
This was so cool!
I am so dumb, I just watched a series called Alya sometimes hides her feelings in russian and then went to learn russian. 💀👍👍
Danke, das video war groß helfe :D
Hi, wondering if you'll address the situation on Everest this year?
Аи стилл дон'т но рассиан😂
Do this for Serbian this really helped
Have you ever tried to memorize the bible? I know many Bible verses in Spanish but it's hard for me to remember in what book they are. ❤ your content!
Juan 3:5 + hechos 2:38=tito 3:5
Los busqué todos bellísimos!!!
Try grouping verses by subject. Also there's a bible app called- Bible Offline w Audio kjv by Mr. Rocco. In its menu are multiple languages and versions available.
Щ is more like shya sound
Great video.
Х is more like Kh. There is no H in Cyrillic. However, it is not Kh like in Khaki but a bit different.
The rest is perfect.
It acts like an h
you can't describe this sound with letters. As a Scot it comes naturally to me though lol
@@Ltasty yeah it is like doing some weird thing with throat, lol.
X letter sound is like the CH sound of the Scottish sound Lochness. X is the Greek letter Xa. Here in the Netherlands we know the hard letter sound form the town name Scheveningen. The Russian B sounds in the Netherlands like W sound, like William or V(W)odka (водка ). B=V=W.
Sounds like a quickly whispered toned “Huh” with a subtle k at the end
The one thing i can find in online or in the 3 textbooks im reading is how to actually translate a Russian word into english so i can understand it. Everything i find tells how to pronounce a word in Russian but not how to get the meaning in English. The first small word i cam upon was West. I saw the Russian word for west and looked at the alphabet to try to translate it to english for me to read it but it doesnt translate that way. Im so stuck on this
4:30 you are wrong
Х is not pronounced as the hhh-sound. It is pronounced as the dutch g-sound
Dude you're great
Мне всё равно на каком языке читать или писать. Ещё я знаю олбанский, olbanian is a kind of obscured second russian
Thank you for your video. Very useful. I always wanted to learn the Putin language but I got stuck with the alphabet.
Лайк за Тютчева, чел 👍
Зачем я это смотрю?
Чтобы научиться читать по-русски, очевидно
7:49 it is pronounced same as the romanian Î
Latin , Cyrilic and greek alphabet are all look pretty same at least 80%
i want to suprise my parents, they can speak bulgarian and my dad can speak russian
NELSON i BEG YOU MAKE A VIDEO HOW TO MEMORIZE CHINESE SYMBOLS JAPANESE KANJI, HIRAGANA KATANA.
You lost me after AKMOT. I think I need to rewatch this at 0.5 speed.
Where can I get the Russian childrens book?
On paper or pdf?
hello Nelson. I love your editing. What software did you use to make the motion graphics ? Thank you very much.
Wolé
I edit with Premiere Pro/After Effects. The motion graphics are pretty basic, but I'm glad you enjoyed them :)
@@NelsonDellis Yes, I really enjoyed them :). I want to create some video content myself. I like your video editing (and your memory advice too). I want the same type of video editing, simple but really enjoyable.
Thank you for taking the time to answer.
Have a great week.
Hello Nelson, would it be possible to buy the hardcover Russian version of your book for kids in Europe?
hardest part is remembering them all
hello can you give us your thoughs about Dual N-back?
The alphabet is Bulgarian, not Russian, it was created in Preslav literary school in IX century.
It looks different from the IX century alphabet, besides that it has letters that don't exist in other scripts, so it's Russian
not to mention that I was doing so superior quality in my school you ll get it ok
Actually I find it a pretty good advise
one little thing: it's not Russian "H" looks like an English "H", but the English "H" looks like a Russian "H." Big difference, dude. Same with all the other letters here. Ah, yeah, one more thing: it's not that "Я" is a "backward R," but "R" is a "backward Я."
Hm it seems great but it's helping with the Russian pronunciation not the English translation(besides the example words in the video)
That’s correct.
ы sounds like УУЙ
Cool!😊
ak moat is crazy
in a word in the start of this video is "сияньeм" or "seeyaneeyem"
This one seems a little...rushed. Perhaps you could consider a format with illustrations beside you rather than cutting back and forth? #FeedTheAlgorithm
Спасибо
Awesome👍👍👍👍
Are we telling him about cursive?
I don't speak Russian but i have heard lot of Russians speaking english
And I'm 100% sure they don't pronounce t as we do
так и есть
Cirilick Alfabet is a Bulgarian Alfabet.....Bulgarian LETHER Created in Bulgaria in the Old Capital Name Preslav in |X and X century....Countres like Russia Belarus and Ukraine there Language come from Bulgaria........
08:10 There's no "montenegrin" (or "bosnian", or "croatian") language - it is all one the same Serbian language. Like many nations speak English or Spanish language, the Serbian is spoken in large part of former Yugoslavia.
Montenegrins are ethnic Serbs whose statehood was created in parallel with the restoration of Serbian statehood in the 19th century. A large part of Montenegrins still consider themselves Serbs or at least still call their mother tongue Serbian and not "Montenegrin".
In the Balkans there is great chauvinism among the nations that emerged from the collapse of the former Yugoslavia. Because of that, the newly formed nations do not want the language they speak to be called Serbian, so they call it "Croatian", "Bosnian", "Montenegrin", and they build elaborate quasi-scientific theories about the "non-Serb" root of their nations and languages.
Like if Australians, for some reason, started to hate England and consequently called their language (which is still English) "Australian".