Can Southeast Asian Understand Each Other? (Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam) 

Southeast Asian languages are just too diverse. It's nothing like asking a Portuguese to understand Italian, a Dutch to understand German, a Swede to understand Danish or a Polish to understand Russian. Most of these languages are just totally unrelated, except for Indonesian vs Filipino. Technically they do belong to the Austronesian language family but at this point they have drifted too far apart to be even intelligible by a tiny bit. Indonesian also received huge Dutch and Arabic/Islam influences while Filipino got theirs from Spanish. Though their phonologies do sound similar to foreign ears.

Definitely Indonesian & Tagalog will have similarities at the root words, but due to the long years of colonisation ( Indonesia by the Dutch & Phillippines by the Spanish ), there will be loan words used in conversation. Interestingly, some Indonesian words and Tagalog words: Pain / Illness - Sakit in Indonesian and Tagalog Me / I - Aku ( Indonesian ) & Ako ( Tagalog ) Face - Muka ( Indonesian ) & Mukha ( Tagalog ) Expensive - Mahal in Indonesian and Tagalog Cheap - Murah in Indonesian and Tagalog Delicious - Sedap ( Indonesian ) & Sarap ( Tagalog )

I'm thai but i know the word 'anjing' because i alway fights with indonesian in the game 🤣

Of course they can’t understand each other 😅 Indonesian and Filipino are the only ones that are related under the same language family, Austronesian. Thai is a member of Kra-Dai language family, while Vietnamese is under Austroasiatic. But even if Indonesian and Filipino are sister languages, they wouldn’t be able to understand each other. That would be like asking English speakers to understand German without prior knowledge of the language 😂 One thing that they might have similarities in are loan words. Indonesian and Thai would have many similar loan words from Sanskrit and Pali, while Spanish loan words in Filipino and Portuguese loan words in Indonesian often overlap. I assume Violin can also speak Hokkien and Mandarin, but they’re not as useful if we’re talking about Vietnamese, because most of the Chinese loan words in the language (correct me if I’m wrong) are more similar to Cantonese or Hakka, if I’m not mistaken. My Vietnamese friend said that it’s easy for Vietnamese and Thais to learn each other’s languages because they’re both tonal, but I’m not sure if I can trust him 😁

Indonesia was so extroverted but warm. I like her. She seems very friendly but not too in-your-face intimidating.

Filipino and Bahasa Indonesia actually don't share that much grammatical similarities. Filipino languages are OLDER Austronesian, and thus retain a very complex grammar, including what linguists call the "Austronesian alignment", where the affixes of the verbs can change to highlight different parts of the sentences (not just the subject). This is the same in some other eastern Indonesian languages. There are literally dozens of different affixes that you can mix and match to change a word's meaning, tense, and context. In contrast, Bahasa Indonesia is a standardized dialect of Malay. It's influenced over the centuries by the neighboring monosyllabic languages in Mainland Southeast Asia and thus has a far simpler grammar system. With only like a dozen affixes. To a native Filipino, the sentence structure of Indonesian sounds Chinese almost, in the way that there are no tenses and very little connecting words. Note that this doesn't apply to other Indonesian languages, like the ones in northern Sulawesi for example, which are actually still part of the Philippine language subfamily and thus have very similar grammar. This also doesn't apply to older versions of the languages like Old Malay or Old Javanese which were more grammatically complex than their modern versions. That said, both are still Austronesian languages. What they share instead is a lot of VOCABULARY.

That Indonesian girl is like the glue that sticks the group all together in a group of friends

I freaking love how so diverse Southeast Asia is. Delicious food, beautiful varied natural landscapes, wonderful people, unique architecture, culture and languages, and on top of that, affordable to travel(coming from an American). It's my favourite part of Asia, hands down.

I always love the interaction between the South East Asians we're like close neighbors who share a lot similarities yet a lot of diversity 😅

Aku senang Sekali *Indonesia dan Filipina memiliki Kesamaan kemiripan dalam Bahasa Karena memang kedua negara ini adalah Serumpun yang Bersahabat sesungguhnya* . Filipina menghormati kedaulatan Rakyat Indonesia begitu Juga Indonesia sangat menghormati Kedaulatan Rakyat Filipina. Ada beberapa perkataan kosakata mungkin Mirip berbicara Orang Filipina dan Orang Indonesia. *Karenanya Kita Adalah Ras Austronesia berwajah sama namun memiliki tatanan Negara berbeda* . Banyak teman teman orang Filipina saya jumpai rata-rata mereka sangat bersahabat bahkan menyukai Indonesia. Salam cinta dari saya Orang Indonesia 🇮🇩🇵🇭🥰

Thank you for the content! Great vid

The Indonesian woman english accent is so cute tbh, more of her in this channel please. Just an idea, maybe make her say words in her language that are similar to portuguese, dutch, and tagalog. And let portuguese, dutch, and phipilines women to guess the meaning

Omg i love violin, penjelasannya on point banget

Indonesian and Tagalog are quite similar (and not the same) because of their Austronesian roots. A simple understanding is that Tagalog drew influence from Spanish while Bahasa Indonesia comes from a mixed bag of Arabic + Dutch + Malay roots. As a Southeast Asian, I have no problem distinguishing all these languages and it is not hard to learn any of these if you have roots in one of these languages. I see a lot of sharing on Tagalog and Bahasa Indonesia, so maybe I can share my observation on the other pair. Phasa Thai (Thai) and Tieng Viet (Vietnamese) are barely similar despite their geographical proximity (though divided by Cambodia and Laos). Thai, a Tai-Kradai language has some similarities with Lao, especially for those from Isan (Northeast Thailand). Isan Thai also speaks a different language from Central Thai people and leans more towards the culture of the Lao people (from Laos) and Khmer (Cambodian). While almost all Isan speak Isan and Phasa Thai, not all Thais can speak Isan. Then there are also people from Lanna (North Thailand) who speak a different accent because of their past influence from the Burmese Mon empire (Chiang Mai was previously part of Myanmar). My aunt is from Chiang Mai (Lanna) and speaks differently from those from Central Thai, so it makes it quite hard sometimes for me to understand. Thai words have deep roots in Sanskrit-Pali because of Buddhism, hence the words are mostly unrelated to most other ASEAN countries. Modern Thai also draws some form of Teochew (loan words) into daily conversation usage; for example "kao yee" for chair (which can be understood by Teochews and Hokkiens), "kek huay" for chrysanthemum (which also can be universally understood by Thai and these two groups of dialect speakers).. and these are just among the few words adopted from Guangzhou-Minnan dialect. So it is again not impossible for those in other parts of ASEAN who have these dialect roots, mostly Malaysia, Singapore, even Indonesia and some in the Philippines to understand a few of these words in Thai when they are spoken! While a long word like sawadee might sound very complex since it comes from India, the Thai word "Mai" or No/Not/Don't is also understood by Hokkien/Teochew natives. So if a Thai says "Mai", someone from those dialect can also assume it's a NO because it just sounds similar. Tieng Viet (Vietnamese) an Austroasiatic language has a strong linkage with the Guangxi dialect of Southern Yue even before China's rule. Many words sound similar to the Yue language of Guangxi/Guangdong and even Mandarin Chinese. (But please do not associate Vietnamese with Chinese language). This also means those with some knowledge of Yue (Cantonese) language or Hokkien, can understand some Vietnamese if you can navigate the varied accents of Tieng Viet. An example of a similar word would be "nguy hiem" - which means danger in Vietnamese, and can be understood by a Yue-speaking person even if they are not Vietnamese, but "mot hai ba" or 1,2,3 has no linkage with Yue or Teochew/Hokkien. Quang Cao - which means advertisement sounds almost like "Guang Gao" of Mandarin Chinese, so once again any Chinese from Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines or even Malaysia and Singapore can figure out that word because of its Chinese sounding similarity. Having said that, a Vietnamese would probably have no knowledge of Bahasa Indonesia, Thai and Tagalog because Vietnamese itself is a very complex language (with three accents) and has very little association with any of the other 3. This can be confirmed by my average Vietnamese peers as they are mostly quite unfamiliar with another foreign language bar English. But of course if you say "Mi or Mee", I think almost everyone in these groups can associate it with noodles, lol. The beauty of bringing everyone closer with food is just awesome. As a Mandarin, Malay, Hokkien and English native speaker - all of these were very useful in my learning of Thai and Vietnamese. SEA is a big area with lots of culture, and hundreds of languages linked to one another and beyond the languages, there are so many things to find out and like!

Indeed, there are many similarity between Malay, Indonesian, and Thai but it's mostly not normal, formal, or modern Thai. Older, or ruder Thai actually have many shared vocab with a little bit of twisting.

just if the Indonesian girl was from Java , she will be surprised that Filipina say *aso* for dog, yes in Javanese, dog is *asu* 😬 pito, walo in Tagalog cognates with pitu, wolu 7 - 8 and dont forget 5 (lima, limo, limong, lima, lima, and on and on) kambing, manuk, manok, hitam, itim, putih, puti and also many many more word similarities between bahasa indonesia, Bahasa Melayu, Bahasa Jawa, Sunda, Tagalog, Bisaya, Ilokano etc. because we are in same language family #austronesian ☺️

I am Indonesian, i love Philippines ❤❤❤

In Filipino, pa-picture is very slang. The proper way to say it is "pakuha ng litrato" but I bet the zoomers never properly learned Tagalog from native Tagalog speakers (not their non-Tagalog migrant parents) so the Tagalog heard in Manila in the past decade has been a half-assed Taglish version.

Tumbled upon this video while i was searching for videos dor findinf similarity and differences between asian peope of different south asian countries....There is a sense of uniqueness in south east Asia amd its culture, people, topography and everything from rest od the world...Being an Indian i am always fascinated by my neighbouring countries and would like to travel some day in nearby south east asian countries. also we indians have a part of the Northeast, which up to many extent has similarities with the south east asian...Would like to request u guys tonmake more of such collaborative content with different south east asian nations amd also people feom north east part of India, as we get to learn and get a hell lot of insights about these cultures, which are not so much highlightes bit yeah its gradually getting the limelight..👍❤️

In Thai I = กู (Ku) informal, vulgar Sun = ตะวัน (Ta Wan) ตา (Ta) = eye วัน (Wan) = day So the sun is basically day’s eye just like matahari in Indonesian.

Waiting to see Indonesian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch sitting together. I'm curious to know their language similarities. Recalling The three countries that occupied Indonesia. :)

uwuuuu kak violin keren bgt cantik dan pintar, i really like her.

Filipino language close related with Bahasa Indonesia, Javanese, Sundanese, especially Sulawesi really close to Filipina

As an Indonesian especially Javanese. The Tagalog is more similar with Javanese…. Ako = Aku (me) …. Aso = Asu (dog) i’m curious to met them both… wow interesting

Taking a photo in Indonesia is "memotret", the basic word is "potret" which is Indonesian translation for potrait. So memotret is the verb, or in english you can say "taking a potrait" = "taking a picture".

There's a lot of similarities with Philippines and Indonesia. Not just language, culture and religion but their genealogy. We from Philippines always view our Indonesia counsin as long lost family member 🤣😂😂🤣 Salam Dari filipina. Aku cinta indonesia Jaya he! 😅

Pa-picture is okay but if you really speak fluent filipino, picture would be litrato o larawan(image) to ask someone to take a photo you can say, pwede mo po ba akong kunan ng litrato(can you please take me a photo) in more casual instances you can day this or pwede pa picture which probably because of english influence being integrated as part of the language and english is also our national language along with filipino anyways

Would love to see one with Chinese Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese

Beforewatching the video, I already know that the Phlippines and Indonesian will have similarities as they both are Austronesian in origins

Please make more video about south east Asia

Filipino is the language among these that I'm most used to hear and understand a little bit , it had been before in the channel and especially the similarities with spanish

Completely unrelated 😅 We will have to start from scratch when learning each of these, unlike in some cases we may carry over acquired knowledge from another language (i.e. Spanish to Portuguese)

Doesn't know Violin is from Medan, should be she is a chinese and understand Hokkien and Medan dialect of Bahasa Indonesia which is close to Malay in Malaysia.

The one speaking Filipino doesn't sound native???? I don't know. I'm assuming she's not native to the Tagalog region because Filipino language was derived from Tagalog language and other existing languages here in the country + English + Spanish but mainly Tagalog and she got the accent.

When the Thai girl said Sun in Thai, I immediately remember P'Arthit of SOTUS 🥲 missing the series so much 💖

We also use "larawan" which is photo/depiction/something you see for tagalog, and "ang pangalan ko ay" is the literal translation of "my name is"

Ang kyut nung taga viet.

FYI, there is a Tagalog for taking pictures that you can use, like "kunan (short for kuhanan) ng litrato/larawan" instead of just "pa-picture (piktyur), which is a loan word.

Wow askot medan, pembawaannya kak violin suka banget deh

I hope next content about Indonesian hits song. I'm sure some of Indonesia's neighboring countries will recognize it. That would be fun.

Sering sering buat konten south east asia ya admin ^-^

i always love seeing southeast asian people hanging out with each other because it's like seeing siblings together 🥺 but i'm amazed that we're so different in terms of language! also i love that everyone giving a chance for everyone to talk and explain themselves it's heartwarming to see

the diversity is quite understandable if you consider dialect on each countries. Indonesia alone have around 700, so when someone use their native dialect, even in the same island at different region, no one would understand. 1 think that I catch that Tagalog word for dog _aso_ is similar not with Indonesian but one of the region native language of Javanese which rhey would say _asu_ 😊

Back then we're almost make Maphilindo (Malaysia-Philipine-Indonesia) as new entity beacuse of our same roots. Philipine is closer with Our local languange (java) when she said Aso. I definitely recognize we're is same roots because we said Asu for dog.

gotta say tho as a filipino, her pronunciation sounds kind of how a foreigner would say that sentence

Kak Violin seriusan ga sih itu hoodie MUSE? Aslian kalo suka band Muse mantep bgt:") Salfok jadinya hahaha

pertama liat violin terkesima, saat tahu dari medan semakin waaaaw hehe i'm from medan too, hi violin

wala ko kasabot uii.

7:55 Dog(English) = Aso(Filipino) = Asu(Javanese), hmmm interesting

In Indonesia we have so many local languages...and "aso" The dog spelling from Tagalog or Philippines so similar in Javanese languages (one of indonesians local languages)we call dog with Asu.. Wow.. 🙃🙃 just different in the last latter... Wow.... U with O

MUSE!! MUSE's T-shirt!! I like them too!!

I would like to add something on what the Filipina said as translation for "My name is". What she said was actually inaccurate and "Ako ay" actually translates to "I am" but in the context of saying your name, it should be "Ako si". The accurate translation should be "Ang pangalan ko ay".

In Thai, we have several words for the sun and one of them is ตะวัน (ta-wan), which comes from ตา (ta = eye) and วัน (wan = วัน), hence the eye of the day. Interestingly, the word for eye is the same as the second syllable in the word “mata”. Also, in Thai the Year of the Dog is called ปีจอ (pee-cho), with “pee” meaning year and “cho” is used to refer to the “Dog” specifically in the context of the zodiac and it’s pronounced so similar to the Vietnamese word for dog. Then the words for coffee in Thai and Vietnamese sound pretty similar, not to mention the syntax of Indonesian, Thai and Vietnamese where modifiers come after a noun (i.e. we say “chicken fried” instead of fried chicken.)

Sering2 invited Indonesian yaa min

I'm Indonesian who learned Thai like a decade ago, then currently working with bunch of Vietnamese and Filipino folks. So it's kinda interesting to me because I definitely understand most of the Thai and at the same time the Vietnames and Tagalog are very common to my ears even tho I don't understand it.

Tagalog Filipino and Bahasa Indonesia sounds similar because it parts of Austronesian language

in Thai, she also said that she likes chatting with friends at the end. I'm not Thai (but French) and that was my understanding practice ^_^

ASEAN can be mainly separated into two groups. The Austronesian, and the Mainland ASEAN. Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and Philippines are the Austronesian while Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia are the Mainlanders. While the Austronesian can understand each other on a certain level, the Mainlanders is more complicated as they are made up of several language families. However, both of these spheres has had a woven history together for thousands of years due to our geographical closeness, as well as influences from Hinduism and Buddhism culture.

All the languages sound very beautiful 😍I didn't understand a word, but it's good to learn what "goreng" means and also that it must be avoided when combined with anjing/hma/aso/chó 😂

Some time ago, Indonesian became the 10th official language at the UNESCO general assembly. Indonesia has the Big Indonesian Dictionary (KBBI) which contains official Indonesian vocabulary.

As i am SEA’s people , i would group the similarity of each language Thailand -Laos share around 40% similarity /Thailand-Cambodia share 10% / Malaysia-Singapore-Indonesia-Brunei / Philipines / Vietname

comparing indo and filipino to thai and viet is like comparing spanish and portuguese to german and polish indonesian and ph languages are more similar to pacific islander languages because they belong to the same language family although they are influenced by their neighboring country they would totally be lost in a conversation with mainland south east asia

ไทย ลาว ใกล้เคียงกัน รีเลทกันมากที่สุด คนลาวมาเห็นพิมพ์ภาษาไทยแบบนี้ ไม่ต้องใช้กูเกิ้ลแปลภาษาก็เข้าใจแล้ว

a bit of context that our fellow filipino guest missed is that hari also refers to araw or the day/sun... but i only hear it in old tagalog.. modern filipino language dont refer the sun or day to hari anymore.. its just about religious belief the sun being the god or king thats why hari is the sun even though indonesia got into muslim culture while Philippines became a christian nation.. this is because the hinduism culture merge with the next religion that came to indonesia and Philippines... the only thing im wondering as a Filipino myself, i dont understand why our Filipino word of sunday is Linggo.. i learned that indo and malay word for sunday is minggu which is shortcut for latin word of sunday which is domingo... in cebuano, another language in Philippines, they still use domingo as sunday so im still wondering why it became linggo in tagalog..

Like paper in indonesia kertas in maranao karatas and people in indonesia manusya in maranao(another language in the phillipines in musĺim area) manusya too

maari nyo ba kaming kunan nang larawan? -can you take us some pictures?..

Aso for Philippines and local Javanese we say also call anjing is asu in bahasa

They had the flags wrong in that scene :D 9:17 The woman with the green shirt is not from Vietnam.

4:59 tagalog of picture is "litrato", and for asking someone to take a picture its "pakuha naman ako ng litrato"

Interesting

When Violin says “Selamat”, I knew she’s coming from Medan!

Congratulations on Indonesian officially becoming the 10th language at the UNESCO 🔥🇮🇩

Ah Violin, i love her vibes ❤️🤍

The put the flags wrong close to the end 😅 I love this because I actually speak 4 of those languages ❤ I speak 12 languages in total.

Malaysia, Philippines And Indo have some similarities in Lang... esp Tagalog ...

Aku : Jawa (Indonesia) Ako : Tagalog (filiphina) Asu : Jawa (Indonesia) Aso : tagalog (filiphina)

Based on my experience, all my Medanese friends speak excellent English with pronunciation and inflection almost like native speakers when compared to my Jakartan friends who even went to international schools. I'm just curious about where the Medanese usually take their English lesson.

Cafe/Coffee Shop is called "Kapehan" in Filipino

Thai girls ❤❤❤

Thai - Lao - Some parts of China - Some parts of Myanmar Tai kadai language

Litrato uy! Anong pa picture amp!

Film some videos with kazakh language please

If this channel make similarity between indonesia, malaysia, brunei and singapore i guess it will be a lot similarity + filipino which is the most far than us(indonesia, brunei, malaysia, and singapore) but if we compare with all 11 SEA country well it will be have a lot very different language and words, SEA is so diverse than we can imagine

There are some similarities between Thai Isan and Lao otherwise as far as I know there are literally no similarities between Thai , Vietnamese, Indonesian and Philippines languages. There are already many differences between Northern, Central and Southern Vietnamese languages.

I am pleased to discover that ladies from other S.E. Asian countries are just as beautiful as the ladies here in lovely Chandrabagasashi (Bekasi) city 🙋‍♂🇮🇩🙋‍♂ Must be due to heavy intermarriages with Chinese settlers in the past.

i love the subtitles [SPEAKING IN INDONESIAN] best translation ever

Don't let the Malaysians stop us The Philippines, they are our closest brothers, a country that always respects Indonesia and vice versa, Indonesia really respects the Philippines. and of course these 4 countries are not part of the British Commonwealth. Indonesia is surrounded by the British Commonwealth of Nations. from west (India) east (Papua New Guinea) north (Malaysia Singapore) south (Australia)

They should try comparing all the other Filipino languages/dialect. cos theres a ton.

When the Vietnamese girl said "Gep Hun" for taking photo and Gep meaning catching. In Thai, the word "Gep" means to collect/catching so I was surprised how similar it is.

But if you know Ilocano, a local dialect in the Philippines, you’ll be surprised to know there’s a lot words that are similar to Indonesia.

indonesian language roots are from malay from northern part of indonesia, ASEAN Country will shock that hundreds of the ethnic in indonesia were speaking very different language.

"Mata Hari" For Sun we also have similar word in Filipino "Bahag Hari" for rainbow.

In Javanese language (Indonesia), we called dog "Asu", it's nearly same with Filipino language "Aso"

It's interesting knowing that Aso means Dog in Tagalog, while here in Indonesia, local language which is Javanese, the word for Dog is Asu 😂😂

Kuha means get Kuhaan mo ako ng litrato is the tagalog of Can you take a picture of me. That Filo representative not representing well😂

I think maranao(another language in philippines) it has similar word in indonesia

World frieends 😃

Philippines: Aso Javanese: Asu

The Filipina girl here has quite a distinct Melanesian feature, but all the other girls if we dont know their country, can also be mistaken as Filipina. I always see those looks anywhere in Philippines. But I also see some Filipino-looking Japanese, Korean, Chinese, even Tibetan-Himalayan ethnic. Dont be fooled by Philippine Entertainment, our Actresses & Beauty Queens are just some of the few Best stock of our mixed genes with the Western European, like Catriona Gray, Marian Rivera, Liza Soberano, Kim Domingo, Andrea Brillantes, Julia Barretto, Anne Curtis, etc. But real Filipina Asian beauty representation are our famous celebrities like Kathryn Bernardo, Nadine Lustre, Kim Chiu, Morissette Amon, Angel Locsin, Sam Pinto, Miriam Quiambao, Ariela Arida, etc. Coz Philippines is really Asian nation.

Aso is really similar with Asu in Javanese language, and that means dog also