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  1. As a West African, it was fascinating to see the anatomical visualization of the deft needed to enunciate the 'gb' sound. I really can now understand how challenging it would be for a non-native speaker 😂
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  2. Time is an illusion invented by the Swiss to sell watches.
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  3. I think I could enjoy an episode on any of these separately.
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  4. "OTHER" Georgia is in the US, not the other way around
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  5. j"ai bien aimĂ©, ou comme on dit chez moi : /ʒbɛ̃nəme/
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  6. You missed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a joke about Back to the Future and the Aymara by the way
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  7. Actually, in Chinese æ—„ is mainly used as daytime, probably much more than 晝/昌 in everyday language, as in æ—„ć€œ (Day and night). Also, æ—„ and 月 means Sun an Moon, but also Day and Month at the same time.
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  8. As a child of a Danish immigrant who had a lot of trouble in Saturday Danish classes, thank you for this.
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  9. I am head over heels for West African writing systems for how inspiring they are at giving languages their own literary “faces.” I hope you’d look into the Cherokee syllabary and other Native American writing systems in the future!
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  10. I knew that the Caucasus has a lot of languages. but thats more than i expected.
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  11. Pretty good content here. A cut above other "educational" channels on youtube.
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  12. more mesoamerica PLEASEEEE
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  13. I am an Avar from Dagestan, and out language is very cool and strange. It has some grammar clauses that I havent seen in other languages. We have so many consonants. Some of then are impossible to pronounce for a foreigner. Our language is ergative. It is difficult to understand the idea of ergativity. It is opposite of accusative case. And also we have 16 grammar cases in avar language. Tabasaran language of Dagestan has 40(!) cases.
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  14. This video made me smile :D As a Georgian, I completely understand how challenging our language can be for "foreigners". This is why, if you are a tourist traveling through Georgia, people get so excited even when you know only a few Georgian words. We understand how difficult the language is... In any case, as someone interested in languages, I think, the "harder" the language is, the more interesting it gets to research about it and try to understand where things come from. წარმაჱებები!
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  15. As a Guatemalan who's been to Iximche several times, I never knew about that new stela. Awesome!
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  16. I'm Scottish, and there's a few little things here that I'd like to point out (please do correct me if I'm mistaken!) Scots Gaelic and Irish Gaelic are pronounced differently (gah-lic for Scots variant and gay-lic for the Irish variant) Many people I know in Scotland who have a second name like Menzies have their name pronounced "mingus" - as if with a silent z.
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  17. I have plenty of Raisins to post here.
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  18. Thank you for shedding the light on the most misunderstood cultures in the world
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  19. Please do a video on Old Chinese!! Edit: That's a lot of likes! Thanks everyone.
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  20. Can you do a video on Inuktitut or Greenlandic
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  21. Greetings from Mongolia! Your previous video about Mongol language was spot on!
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  22. As a native speaker, I have to say that I fell in love with your pronunciation!
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  23. Yesterday was Xidnaf, and today you. What a great week!
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  24. As a Mexican I deeply enjoy your content related to prehispanic cultures. They are fascinating. Thanks, NativLang.
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  25. You're so good at explaining complex things! I live in Italy and I don't have that much linguistic information because in Italy linguistics is not really a common thing. I know what I know because of you! Thanks!
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  26. I'm a simple man. I watch nativlang, I sign up for a linguistics and applied foreign language masters program in France. Thank you for reminding me of my passion for languages
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  27. Amusant, spectaculaire et surtout tout Ă  fait exact, ce petit bijou d’exposĂ© informe avec justesse et dĂ©tend tout Ă  la fois. En passant, merci d’avoir justement inclus le particularisme du franco-quĂ©bĂ©cois, langue de mes aĂŻeux, mon amour, ma passion. Il ne m’arrive pas souvent d’avoir le coup de foudre pour une prĂ©sentation du français sur le Net. Mais reposant sur des faits historiques et linguistiques avĂ©rĂ©s, la vĂŽtre est parfaite. Je vais dĂ©jĂ  la partager, d’abord dans des courriels adressĂ©s Ă  mes proches, et ensuite aux autres via Facebook.
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  28. Your videos are always a treat to see in my notification box, keep up the great work!
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  29. Great intro bits to get people interested in Papua! Some cool Did you Knows would have been that some of the sultanates with the most clout in history (controlling the spice hehe) spoke a Papuan language: Tidore and Ternate. Also, that the language range of TNG extended beyond the main island but all the way to Timor and possibly further west to Komodo. Plus...winged beans. We need more winged beans.
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  30. Don't worry, you did pretty well with the pronanciation. Nagyon ĂŒgyes voltĂĄl ;)
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  31. Papuan typology is perhaps one of my most favorite topics in all of linguistics! Hopefully I will get to study it more in-depth later in my university linguistics education ^.^
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  32. Thank you for making a video about my crazy language I always love your stuff
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  33. Animal communication was literally the reason I began studying linguistics, so let's just say this is very exciting for me!
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  34. But...I'm already subscribed for language! should unsubscribe then resubscribe?
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  35. As Thais, it's normal for six-hour-clock. I still use the six-hour-clock with the old version, not a modern one if I talk to the older generation.
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  36. you've come so far, hope you're doing alright! :) i actually remember a video you posted many moons ago where you were sat on the floor beside your bed talking about how hard things were for you lately and stuff. I felt for you, but also lowkey thought you were cute and just needed to probably eat more! hahaha Just a memory to share, I guess hehe
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  37. What did we do to deserve so many videos in a row?! ❀
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  38. Definitely makes the world feel a little warmer to know that somewhere out there NativLang is tirelessly reading linguistic articles and animating graphics just to emerge 4-5 times a year with what must be the some of the most esoteric, fascinating, and meticulously researched content which he then provides for free and all he asks for is tips and doesn’t even do an ad read. People say the internet is a dark place, but then you see this 😊
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  39. So happy you followed up with another Niugini video! It would have been a beautifully artistic (but herculean) task to map even the conservative accepted number of Papuan language families from eastern Nusantara to the Solomons, like the way you did for the African language families video. I like how you briefly touched on the migration history of the area to give some context of the languages in relation to Austronesian. I believe recent human genetic clustering studies show that there are 3-4 or more hyper distinct genetic clusters in the area that have more genetic distance than most human populations across the globe have with each other (i.e. they are the product of several very ancient separate migrations). Since you're a language-based educator, it is understandable that you would not cover this topic though.
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  40. НаЮаЮ ĐŽĐ°ĐČхаргууЮ баĐčĐœĐ°, ИлжОг
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  41. Perfect video, quite on time for me. Some Mandarin-speaking friends recently asked me whether Europeans have a common language basis (as have the sino-tibetic group). Now I can refer them to Your video :-)
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  42. I will say, having been there with you for a good part of it, I appreciate your own thoughts. You've helped me understand my own relationship with language, both my wife's native language of Nahuatl and my own dialect of Romani. Thank you for being there for me, and helping me to develop that understanding.
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  43. 10th. Love nativlang. You are awesome. You made me love linguistics
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  44. Shout out to Grandad!
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  45. I had a sheltie named Mackenzie who passed away when i was 6 years old, that collie was the reason I clicked the video!
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  46. Miau!! Hungarian here and I'm glad to see my "little" language made famous here ;) KöszönjĂŒk :)
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  47. I keep coming for the way you tell such humane stories involving languages, thank you for sharing.
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  48. Am I the only one who picked up on the Age of Empires reference in there?
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  49. Hey NativeLang, hello there! I had heard before about Vai script, and was pretty mesmerized about its history: it was Momolu Duwualu Bukele; a Liberian linguist, who created the syllabary inspired by the ancient Vai ideographic symbols. Greetings from Mexico!
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  50. Been waiting for you NativLang!
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  51. I wish YouTube had a 'love' button like on Facebook. I'd use it here.
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  52. You explained eclipsis better than I've ever seen, and you did it in like 2 sentences.
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  53. There are videos of David Crystal and his actor son performing Shakespeare in original and modern pronunciations. Seek them out, people: they're fascinating.
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  54. I stopped in the middle of the podcast I was listening to when the notification popped to come watch this video. New NativLang video = a good day!
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  55. shout out to that small little GĂ idhlig phrase! Tha mi ag obair an-drĂ sta ftw!
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  56. Not quite. In theory, you should round your lips when pronouncing that. Also *wh*ite for some speakers, such as Bob Ross, hence "Titanium Hwite".
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  57. We're starting a Commonlounge discussion on how mutations evolved from "sandhi" effects. Learn and share more: https://www.commonlounge.com/discussion/cc821edd1d1a4ae19520bdf66121252e/all/ad43fc4f9cb34a40a2a0eb7dc890cb10
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  58. @NativLang , thanks for the video, I’ve been a huge fan for some time! If you are planning on going into Nahua language more, especially in terms of modern speakers, as an indigenous speaker of these languages and fellow linguist, I’d be happy to help answer any questions you might have!
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  59. Interesting video (as always), though I have to agree somewhat with the other commenters complaining that it's a bit rambling. Hey!!! Is 7:04 a citation of Aert H. Kuipers? That's my (parents') old neighbour. I do recall him telling about Caucasian languages once. Also about the difficulty posed by the roots not appearing to have any vowels, and the discussions he'd had about the existence of a (proto-) language with no vowels at all. I'm so glad his work is still relevant today! He was such an amazing man; quite reclusive, yet very sociable. When asked, he could talk at length about the most diverse subjects -- mathematics, Japanese art, 19th century pianists, the many quirks of Slavic people (his wife, who lived in Canada, was Ukrainian by birth, and he himself taught Slavic languages at Leiden University). But his real passion was for languages. Upon retiring, he first spent some 15 years finishing his English <-> Salish dictionary, before finally getting to learn Mandarin; something he'd wanted to do ever since walking through Chinatown in New York when he was teaching there (somewhere in the 1950s, I think). I first met him when he was already aged 74; a nephew had left him a computer, and he'd heard I knew a thing or two about them. (Back then, I used to help people with computer problems after school). I explained to him how to turn it on, start Windows, & told him of drives and disks. He appeared interested, so I mentioned in passing that QBasic could be used for programming. When I met him again a week later, he'd written his first piece of software! 74 years old! He passed away a few years ago.
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  60. I would be very surprised if Catalan follows less Euroversals than Spanish. Catalan grammar is extremely similar to Spanish grammar (it was not so in medieval Catalan, but Spanish has had a lot of influence in modern Catalan grammar). I have checked Euroversals and all those Euroversals that I understand are fulfilled in Catalan. On the other way, Basque not being Indo-European has nothing to do with the fact that it does not follow Euroversals. Hungarian is not Indo-European either and follows a good deal of Euroversals. And Celtic languages are Indo-European and do not follow Euroversals.
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  61. it's 2017, but still: thank you for the work already done and to come in the future, keep it up!
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  62. when something is in Irish it's 'as gaeilge' . 'I nGaeilge' is closer to inside Irish or in the location of Irish. na hÈireann means the Irelands na is a plural the
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  63. following the Disney trend, maybe you could talk about the Polinesian languages
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  64. Will there ever be a video on how Yucatec deals with time, then? ngl that piqued my interest.
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  65. Never clicked so fast in my life. I was waiting for this video for so long. I am actually from MĂ©rida in the Yucatan Peninsula and have wanted to learn mayan for quite a while now, every time I hear such ancient language being spoken on the streets I get excited and want to learn it. Xi'iktech uts!
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  66. You have no idea how long I've been trying to find out how that Piraha letter sounds! Thanks so much!
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  67. This is great! I knew nothing about it...will be passing this on to my Hellenist colleague to see if he did.
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  68. I never knew Nahuatl was so beautiful
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  69. In Irish = As Gaelige
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  70. You have one of the most fascinating channels I have ever seen. Wonderful.
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  71. Lovely video, ÏƒÏ…ÎłÏ‡Î±ÏÎ·Ï„ÎźÏÎčα!
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  72. Augh, you misspelled "circle" in "inner circle"! It is making me crazy.
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  73. I just love your videos
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  74. This channel needs a "love" button! Thank you!!
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  75. I love your videos related to Mexican languages, please make more, they will be very useful when I go back to Mexico to learn Nahuatl
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  76. Everytime you upload a video I'm so happy. Your channel is great and please keep up the good work! I swear when I watch any of your videos I get goosebumps, haha
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