Each East Asian Languages Explained in 1 Sentence -ish 

Comment pinned. Very much appreciated.

Madagascar, yea that is a wild link isn't it?

It’s so sad that the Austronesian languages in Taiwan are almost gone 😢

I like you and your videos my friend 👍 ​@BenLlywelyn

​@@GobbiExists Funny fake news and disinformation. 🤡

That’s ok in china 😂

Bullshit history lesson !

You shall find out. But for now... shabbat shalom.

That’s a heck of a lot of wildly different language families (not just the languages they contain) spread across three continents and tens of thousands of islands. (There are over 3000 languages still spoken on the island of New Guinea).

This amuses me greatly.

@@BenLlywelyn wunderbar ❤‍🔥💍

It should be very doable. While I haven't studied the available material much myself, I do know that Tolkien was a linguistics fanatic, and that his fiction has often been described as an excuse for him to play around with various constructed languages of his own devising.

Will do.

Yes!

I will do, thank you.

Entertaining... Yes . Educational... No . His Chinese history lesson has factual errors .

άμα δεν πει τη μαλακία του για τους "καλούς Αμερικανούς" και την Ταιβάν δε μπορεί ο τρόμπας

Good advice!

@@BenLlywelyn I had paraphrased Einstein, who is supposed to have said in a 1933 lecture: “It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.”

Yours is better.

Talent with tones.

Texan tones and Welsh melody.

From what little I know of it, Xiang is heavily influenced by Hmong itself, and Yue, and older peoples, with a migration of people a long time ago from Wu, so I assume is very lilting and sing-song compared to the more nasal north.

@@BenLlywelyn -So like Italian vs French-

Texan tones and Welsh melody.

@@BenLlywelynI was wondering about that haha, it was like listening to my cousin except then he suddenly trills an 'r'

700 languages.😮

@@BenLlywelyn Yepp, waiting for the video then, better be good :D

Hope so!

@@BenLlywelynIt was! Korea already got me from the start :D Very interesting video, I wouldn't mind to see more.

Thank you kindly. Good to see you again.

Thank you. Glad to bring notice to the crimes against the Uyghurs that China has done.

​@@BenLlywelyn Already debunked > Uyghur "genocide-ethnic cleansing-slave labor"

Pol Pot, no noodles.

I will.

@@BenLlywelyn I just hope you don't butcher egyptian arabic

Lithuanian is more ancient than any other surviving Indo-European language. Claiming one language is older than another does not have to be misleading. I understood what he meant. Are you an academic by any chance?

@@jboss1073Lithuanian is no more ancient than any other Indo-European language. It just has somewhat more conservative features

@@confusedowl297 "Lithuanian is no more ancient than any other Indo-European language. It just has somewhat more conservative features" That is saying the same thing but with added academic pedantry.

@@jboss1073 No it's not. Saying a language is more ancient than another implies that it literally started earlier in time. Saying that a language is the same age, but has more conservative features than another means they're both equally ancient, but one of them has changed more than the other.

@@confusedowl297 " No it's not. Saying a language is more ancient than another implies that it literally started earlier in time. Saying that a language is the same age, but has more conservative features than another means they're both equally ancient, but one of them has changed more than the other." That might be the case IN ACADEMIC JARGON. However, University Professors are not the people who invented words. Instead, they just borrowed pre-existing words from a pre-existing language that was not spoken only by academics. And in that language, which all of us lay people speak, we can say, indeed, that Lithuanian is a more ancient language than the other IE languages, and we can mean by that the fact that it changed less than the others. You are incurring in the fallacy of thinking that words are ONLY YOURS and NOBODY ELSE can use a word that academics ALSO use. That is simply not true. You must be an academic to think that, however.

I am sure this topic will come in the future, after this series.

Drugs are bad for you, try oranges and push-ups.

@@BenLlywelynPossibly not as bad as handcrafting one's one personal mental illness, but yes, you have a point. Done the push ups, so now I just need to go and look for the right people to throw the oranges at.

Croeso.

Will do.

Other Turks.

@@BenLlywelyn oh, then it makes sense :P

It is too in depth for this video, or a comment on it. But in brief, Han hold the Chinese Plain, and used it to rule over the rest.

Korean is utterly fascinating, personally.

Still in practice, we'll try again and learn.

Yes!

Why do humans do these things?

Keep at it!

Good suggestion.

@@BenLlywelyn and for the next European language video, the Gascon language please😅as I am originally from Bordeaux

There are so many!

Good grief.

자유를 위한 동맹.

Winter there sounds nice.

Good idea.

It might be click bait.

Glad they are being recorded.

Diolch yn fawr iawn am ddweud felly, ac am wylio.

It is a joke.

@@BenLlywelyn ok thanks for clarifying i actually fell for it

Splendid.

Cool.

@@BenLlywelyn I'm just saying that because in your "Chinese government" statement you used simplified characters...

Not southeast Africa.

@@BenLlywelyn okay

It is coming up.

I wouldn't have it any other way.

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I love it 🇹🇼

🙂

Please listen again very carefully.

😀

😉

No. Malay, Catalan and Swahili were all regional trading languages.

Nice. Thank you.

😧

Will you excuse me for not mentioning 18th century poetry in such a short-winded compression too?

Why not?

if you know you know

Maybe a fun experiment? Yea, probably not.

Making up for lost time.

I agree. I also find a contradiction in how he calls language influences of capitalism and imperialism as "sprinkles" e.g; English and Spanish in Tagalog, English in Japanese and Dutch in Indonesian yet Chinese influences in Uigher and Russian influences in Mongolian are due to "communist nutters" seems to paint a very negative picture of communist countries while accepting the oppression of non-communist countries as indicative to history.

Did you watch Ben’s video on Welsh independence?

@@declanmcclelland Not yet, he's made a lot of content only found him the other day watched 4 vids, backstory and sprinkle vids.

Fair play. I’ve been following him from early days, I think sub 1k followers, pretty much most of his videos back then were all based on Welsh, I can’t knock him for that. I honestly couldn’t see how he would grow his channel from there but he’s done it well, grafted and branched out with his content. But yeah, his video on Welsh independence is thought provoking, and makes you think about Welsh independence in the context of the left/right political spectrum. Gwerth gwylio yn fy marn I x

​@@declanmcclelland Okay I watched it, yeah he really does not seem to like anything remotely left leaning and lumps it all together with utopianism/oppressor style politics. There's a big difference between the Soviet Union and Denmark, I'm not sure he sees it. I'm sure he called Israel a stable state, It's an ethno state who's leaders believe the total destruction/enslavement of another people is vital to their survival who's dominant ideology is so right wing it's fascist, all the parties are zionist. That is one ideology. He's an interesting guy, knowledgeable not sure how much his over the top pretentiousness is done to entertain or just him. Warped politics though. His main reason for being anti-independence is that he feels an independent Wales would in roughly his words be led by a utopian one ideology party. He forgot Japan DLP who have dominated in a similar way but hold different politics there are other examples. He's hiding behind ideology because it's not an ideology he shares imo. The reason Cymru doesn't have many political parties is because we only have 3 million population and most people are working class. Personally I think after independence the parties would splinter and reorganize themselves, the Tories couldn't exist as they are now, and probably even Labour and Plaid imo.

Thanks for watching.

@@BenLlywelyn In fact, your video is really good. As a Chinese, I can hardly imagine that a foreigner can explain our language in such detail. If you can change the flag to an internationally recognized one next time, I think your video will receive more Chinese love ☺️ Good luck with your videos getting better and better😄😄

Mae Llydaweg yno.

@@BenLlywelyn Ops 🤭