Comments by "Юра Н" (@user-bi4eo3ys1f) on "The weirdest things about English" video.

  1. All or almost all turkic languages have the sound "ng", though the certain letter may be different. In Tatar it is "Ӊ ӊ", and the ending "ныӊ" / "неӊ" (nyng/neng) is used as ending of the possessive case, like 's in English. Also, this sound is at the end of words "иӊ" /ing/ (early) and "соӊ" /song/ (late). And how do you read the word "Nganasan" (a nation living in tundra)?
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  2. "Like you coffee?" - "I like matcha not" As a Russian, I say that in Russian the word "не" (not) can't appear in the end of sentence. "Любишь ли ты кофе?" /Lyubish li ty kofe?/ - "Я не люблю мачу" /Ya ne lyublyu machu/ (I don't know what is "matcha" and does it inflect in Russian, but it sounds near to the Russian word "моча" /mochá/ (urine), which inflects, in Accusative á changes to ú).
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  3. Hawaiian language has definite articles "ke" and "ka" (singular) and "na" (plural) and the indefinite article "he". Slavic languages has no obligatory indefinite articles, but sometimes use the numeral "one" as indefinite article. В одном маленьком городе жили котёнок Коржик, его братец Компот и их сестрёнка Карамелька - три кота. "In one small town lived kitten Korzhik, his brother Kompot and their sister Karamelka - three cats."
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  4. The sound "th" like in "that" exists in Bashkir. It is written with the letter "Ҙ" or "ҙ".
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  5. Russian has 44 sounds. Or more, or less - depends on how to count. If to interprete vowel pairs as difthongs then more, if to interprete them as non-connected sounds, and to merge "ы" with "и" and "э" with "е", then less.
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  6. In Udmurt negative sentences use negative particle which changes on persons and numbers. I don't speak Udmurt - Мон удмурт кылын уг верасько. We don't speak Udmurt - Ми удмурт кылын ум верасько. You don't speak Udmurt - Тон удмурт кылын уд вераськод. They don't speak Udmurt - Соос удмурт кылын уг вераськоз.
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  7. Afaik, in Shungan language (though I doubt about its existance) there is only one verb - кинеен/кихт (kineen/kiht), means approximately do/does. To express verbal meaning it uses combination "noun+kiht". Shartyk piisheen allozeen kineen = Clay cats jump, or Clue cats do jumps.
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