Germanic Languages Comparison 

I thought it was him!

Lmao

Next it'll be an array of european children.

@@OnlyGrafting But only blonde ones, to remind him of the good old Home Counties

Uh dont you mean FUCKING SLAM HIM INTO THE GROUND SO HARD HE SENT HIM TO THE 7TH DIMENSION

In der Tat

Zu viel Kölsch

To me as a german with a father living in Luxemburg, it sounds like... Home ♡

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Afrikaans was like Dutch on downers.

underrated comment

Lol

yes officer, I found the best comment

...written in English

​@@helloworld0911he's deaf

Irish is worse. They speak it with an English accent but all the phonemes except for /x/ are kind of the same. It’s a mess.

Try Scouse its not even legal tender

@@humbrix-allaboutthebuildin7891 Hey, I love my high-pitched brethren!

@@rugiiman8917 Irish is not a Germanic language, is Celtic.

Wait until you discover Frisian.

Ok ese

umbrellastation25 What?

Lord Voldemort just making fun of the Chicano about his inability to comprehend Germanic languages. Why?

umbrellastation25 Oh okay. Why what?

Did you say Fluggegecheimen?

Hahahah why?

Hahahhaha

It does sound like a bunch of gibberish edit: nau 😭 I posted this way back when I was still on my cringe phase. I don't dislike Dutch, I love Ajax 😍

@Lara It sounds like when you're rewinding a video with speaking parts.

They sound like they have a mouth full of wall nuts.

Nachvollziehbar 😂 die niederländische Schriftsprache versteht man aber ganz gut, finde ich.

Afrikaans is older Dutch so thats why

Im afrikaans and i understand dutch but i dont inderstand a word german

On nac, di kon osspionerto in da palas in hogplas de konagland-rik vin Frankrik and Doshlandrik. Der, ereen fond a svart kat, ereen bang. Ereen atalefall, ten, nin, ottach, sefn, six, fif, vour, tri, to, on, ereen lep vegi.

I think it's similar in Scandinavia, where every country, including Iceland, understand Norwegian, but they often struggle to understand one another.

"As a Swede i understood: 8: 0% Danish" Вы смайлик забыли поставить. ;)

I’m Danish and i can hardly understand her she’s talking super fast and is kinda mumbling Norwegian is much easier

​@@dorte3791I swear the Swedish chef in the muppets is actually speaking danish

😏

😂😂😂

The floor is made out of floor lol

Water is made out of water OMG

BLASPHEMIE!

As a Dutch native speaker i understand dutch very well!

See, this is why I fucking love Germans.

Exactly!!!

@@Drikkerbadevand omg I found u here again

Fuck you beat me to it

omgg

As a German I agree

That exaclty the opposite how Afrikaans sounds to Dutch natives. It sounds like simplified Dutch with less internationalised words. And some words in Afrikaans are not Dutch, but Low Saksen.

That's so cool - I just went to check it out and understood a lot of what the guy in the vid said. Thanks for the info

That's interesting you would say that, seeing that celtic monks inhabited the islands before the norse and lived somewhat side by side for a while. Celtic ancestry is very present and even some of the words are of celtic origin, such as "dunna" which is duck. In the other nordic languages it is and or anka. Some of the islands even retained the celtic names such as the two dímun islands. Very sharply noticed.

Im Norwegian and to me it sounded like Norwegian that i should be able to understand but still cant understand anything. It has the same tone and flow as Norwegian. Its strange because i have heard Faroese spoken before and then i understood like 95% of a 5 minute long conversation but i couldnt understand a single word this woman was saying. Maby its a diffrent dialect or something.

@@haraldsigurdsson1232 Yeah, it was like hearing someone nearby speak Norwegian. You can recognize it from the tone, but you are too far away to make out the words.

@@haraldsigurdsson1232 Yeah, as a swede I could understand some words. It's hard but not that different.

@@OloleThe Celtic (specifically Goidelic) influence on Faroese is a bit overstated but it is true, there is some influence there. The word 'dunna' is under dispute these days but other words which are definitely from Goidelic, i.e. Old or Middle Irish are: tarvur, grúkur, drunnur, ærgi, and some personal names like Kjartan and Njál(ur).

Livebullshity Gamer Isn’t this Dutch for “Work-related carelessness insurance”? I’m German, and I recognized some words

Richard Walter yes

Jiaxu Yu Or in German "Arbeitsungeschicktheitsversicherung" (word by word of course) They are really similar for real!

😭😭🤣

Arrbeisongschiktheidsverrzekering

As a dutch speaker, afrikaans is incorrect broken dutch

Yea, if dutch is what a doctors handwriting sounds like, than Afrikaans is what babies speak.

Afrikaans seems like flemish

@@_nycollee flemish speak dutch with a baguette in their mouth

Afrikaans is old Zeeuws, thats why it sounds somewhat between Flamish and South Hollandish.. its one of the most fun and easy dialects to speak as a Dutch tho... when your drunk

We don't. My family is from Køge (Zealand) and last time I was in Aalborg (Jutland) I thought I was in a different country for a while. 😂 Took a bit to get used to the way they speak.

Some linguists even think it's a creole of French. It's a lonely little language, no siblings to play with. So, it went out into the world and made everyone else speak it!

yes it did, English was influenced by various languages, espacially French, this is why English has this spelling: you write it that way but read it another way and it doesn't have rules how it is read

It came originally from Old-Frisian (which is Germanic, Ostfriesish is still spoken in Germany). But it has with the Angels, Saxons, Kelts, and then a while later French just partly took it over. I'd no longer call it Germanic,

@ ammalyrical @ebrun thanks for your insights! it's interesting, too that French and English both have gaelic/Celtic and German elements

@elbowache it's interesting how that developed. English is fond of borrowing from other language and very open to outside influence and it ended up being almost the lingua franca of the world right now

Alcohol is a feature in higher latitude countries :-)

Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Galician speakers talking to each other cheerfully Catulunians enter the chat: "I'm sorry what?" French enter the chat: "I'm sorry WHAT?" Occitania enter the chat: "I'M SORRY WHAT" Romansch enter the chat: "Now that's just German" Romanians enter the chat: "..."

Fuck yea. No brotherhood among Germanic peoples. Each one is just a bigger bastard than the other 😂

... I... I literally said exactly that to my boyfriend like a minute ago...

Andrea W what do u speak and what does he speak

He would've had to avoid them if they understood him. The beautiful thing about Yiddish is that there are both Germanic and Hebrew/Aramaic words for most things (though a Germanic term might be much more commonly used than a Semitic term and vice versa). So depending on how much a Yiddish speaker wants or doesn't want a German speaker to understand what they are saying, they can adjust their vocabulary accordingly. Yiddish can range from a 10% Semitic vocabulary to 50% depending on what the speaker wants.

My teacher told me there are Yiddish speakers who prefer to use more Germanic words and grammar. Fraynd instead of khaver for instance

What ns - Faroese sounds smooth like the other Germanic languages, not Farsi, pfff! Unless Frisian was misspelled because the name also starts with an F! Do hum’ns even understand what smooth means LMAO! Farsi is an Arabic language! Arabic languages and Chinese / Korean / Japanise and Turkish / other similar languages and most languages spoken in Africa etc and most languages are just so unrefined and unpleasant-sounding and have mostly non-pretty and funny / ridiculously funny words with repetition of the same syllable aka poorIy-constructed words, and are the exact opposite of smooth!

Norwegian is a truly smooth language, even smoother than Faroese, without the TH sounds - almost as perfect and refined as Dutch & English (despite the TH sounds, which should be pronounced like a normal D and T etc) which are the best languages ever! Modern Dutch & Modern English (and then Modern Norwegian) are the most refined and the most poetic and the prettiest languages ever, with the most logical patterns and rules qua word construction and letter combinations and pronunciation and grammar etc, which give words that perfect flow and harmony! And, one should read the actual words, instead of judging the language based on a video that doesn’t use a speaker that can actually enunciate and pronounce the words clearly and not speak fast / too fast etc, and should try finding videos with speakers that speak properly and clearly and not fast and that have a good-sounding voice, as it’s always the speakers’ fauIt, not the language’s fauIt!

Dutch sounds so epic - it’s a perfect language, like English, and is perfect for lyrics and poetry and songs, for example, the Flemish / Dutch versions of the songs that have the hunchback from Notre-Dame in the title, and the versions of the Frozen songs and Vaiana songs etc, Boos Op De Wereld etc! And Norwegian also! There are Norwegian versions for most of those songs as well, which show how refined and smooth Norwegian is - one should never judge the language by the tone of the voice of news ppl selected for such videos, instead of selecting the right vocal samples that have a good-sounding tone and a soft and warm and high voice with a clear sound! Do hum’ns even realise that it’s the speaks’ fauIt if it doesn’t sound ‘smooth’ or whatever, not the language’s fauIt!

And most voices aren’t a pretty voice with a soft and smooth sound, so one has to try finding vocal samples that are actually good-sounding, as the vocal samples selected in such videos just don’t do it justice, and if one’s voice has a non-pretty tone or intonation or speaks too fast and mumbles etc, most are going to think it’s the language that doesn’t sound good, because most know nada about pretty words and pretty languages and pretty sounds or great and logical pronunciation rules and good letter combinations, and most don’t bother reading the actual words and trying to find proper vocal samples that show how pretty Germanic languages are!

We waren in Eden . . . We vallen naar beneden . . . Een eindeloze vrijeval door de lucht . . . Daar heerste de regen . . . Zoals de eerste dag van lente . . . We wachten af voor hoelang hij duurst . . .

Because it uses tonal stress marking

@@davidhildebrandt7812 So does Norwegian. :) The other Germanic languages don't.

Different pronunciations mean different things. It's kinda like how the English use tonal changes to show emphasis or sarcasm, but with the pronunciation of the word making the definition entirely different.

It is called "pitch accent" if you are interested in looking at it on internet. It is used in Norwegian and Swedish but not in other Germanic languages. It is used in Japanese too.

i so love that about swedish

Well, it’s surprising I know, but they are called, Germanic languages, they all pretty much stem from one very old language, and grammatically it seems German or Dutch is closest to the original, being someone who can speak a fair amount of these, It seems like German is the base, and other Germanic languages have taken different parts of German, and left out others, like English turned “der, die and das” into “the” but another language like Danish just left that out entirely

@@Argos_RB Not sure if German would be a better candidate than other Germanic languages besides it is actually called "German". They all, including German, come from a common proto-Germanic "ancestor" and split up into different branches (Northern, Western and Eastern Germanic). Over the years the different "Branches" on that language tree have changed a lot. If anything, the language that has change the least is actually Icelandic that have changed much less the last 1000 years than other germanic languages and that could probably mean it could be closer to the old Proto-Germanic language than modern german.

@@Argos_RB no they all stem from old norse, in which case north germanic languages like danish norwegian and swedish are closer, icelandic being the closest. the western germanic languages, english dutch and german are slightly different, although english has the same sentence structure as northern germanic but dutch and german have their own.

@@Magnus_Loov The German language and the country Germany is only called "German" (from the word "germanic") in the English language. In Germany our language is called "Deutsch", which is basically the same word as "tysk", I guess how you would call it. The English word for it would be "dutch". This is pretty interesting, because you can see the similarity between Dutch and German there. I think German is quiet an interesting language in the Germanic branch. It sits somewhere between English and Dutch on the other side and Scandinavian on the other side. Luxemburgian and Yiddish are basically just German dialects btw

@@Alexander_01 Gernan as a language is called"Tyska" in Swedish. A german is called "Tysk". On the other hand we have a name for the collective folk group that historically existed in the whereabouts of what is now Germany and that is "Germaner" (where one person from it is actually called "German"). And we and many others call the whole language group "Germansk" . So there still is the fact that "German language group" is derived from the word "German" for the people who lived in the area which became Germany later on. When it comes to where the German language place in the "family tree" of languages it is made harder to judge by the fact that for different periods of time a lot of loan words were introduced into the different languages. Sweden was very influenced during the Hansa period and the Luther bible period. But later on we were influenced by French and even later English. England were influenced a lot by Danish invaders at that time. To me English feels closer to Swedish in grammar and also some basic words. Dutch also feels closer to Swedish were many very basic words are spelled closer to Swedish. But it is much easier to understand spoken German than Dutch which sounds to slurry. But, yeah, strictly speaking German, Dutch is part of the west Germanic stem. Swedish is part of the North Germanic. So in theory they SHOULD be more closely related. In practice though I am not sure. I mean the same is said for Swedish and Danish in the northern Germanic language group which are said to be more closely related (east Nordic) compared to Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroes, which are west Nordic languages. In practice now in modern time these languages have evolved (or not in the case of Icelandic which have changed the least) so much that Swedish and Norwegian are much more closely related and Icelandic and Norwegian are far, far apart.

Yes. And that is perhaps because, inspite of some sound changes, its overal character remained nearest to (Proto-)Germanic.

No German sounds the worst to me. So choppy and annoying.

@@sdf6508 it just sounds more distinct. It doesn't possess the softness of the other Germanic languages.

Anglosaxon

@@sdf6508 sorry for that....😩what can we do...🇩🇪perhaps you love russian...more?

To be fair she sounds surprised even to Swedes. She uses the "should it be like this?" tone of voice. It might be more pronounced in Swedish.

As a swede, I can tell you we don't talk like that normally, just like brits don't talk like BBC news anchors. The cadence and tonality is very exaggerated.

That's just how a lot of news reporters talk. It's not how swedish usually sounds

@@AslanW That's too bad. I think Swedish is the most beautiful of the Germanic languages, especially because of that uppity cadence.

Yeah swedish newsreporters has a very special candence when speaking

Stfu Dutch is superior🔥🔥 jk obviously

German sounds like Dutchmen doing an impression of a sims character

@@gamingwithpluis1963 Dutch sounds like a german with lots of nicotine in his lungs and a heavy voice talking in sims language

lmao

Hahaha fuck you😂😂

Plattdeutsch is closer to Dutch than high German, although it's spoken along the coast of the north sea in Germany.

How is that "uncanny"? Dutch is just a German accent

@Balder Geffen, van having ancestors from the lower Rhein region i can see similarities with your sentence. Dat is het niet = Das ist es nicht = Dat isset nit (Dialekt vom Niederrhein).

Hmm 🤔 vind ik niet...

To a native English speaker, it sounds like they’re speaking the language with a distorted Irish accent

Local host yeah I suppose that is true, it’s just harder to hear it that way when you speak the language.

That's just what I thought 😂

As an German and French speaker too

I don't hear french

As a Luxembourger, yes.

Me a native german speaker. I can understand Africaans actually better

(Danish person here) she actually kinda is. There's this specific way that news reporters usually talks, and it kinda sounds like she hasn't quite figured it out yet and therefore there's weird breaks between the words. I think it's frustrating to listen to

Lord Taemin Francesco Thanks for clearing that up.

Dalongabonk im Danish and i wanna say even to me her voice is pissing me off and her Zealand accent is pissing me off so yes the news people always try to look professional and They Sound like They lag

That's how it seemed to me too, and I know no Danish at all.

@@AlxzAlec lmao, "they sound like they lag" so true

Ahahahaha Danish is so difficult

Well, since you are writing in English, I will presume that English is a second Language of yours.

Du verstehst Englisch 100% nur weil du es mal gelernt hast.

@@euivets2892 das stimmt

Nah its not

the flemish generally enunciate better

Nonsense!

Nah, English is what Dutch sounds like when you're distracted by the French.

Dutch is what an english tv show sounds like when you start playing on your phone lmao

@@sprachen7122 You don't know what you are talking about.

@@sprachen7122 nah it sounds more like german i don't hear the english

Oh nein die ewigen Verlierer haha

Klassiker

Lol but of course! Aber hier sitze ich als Dortmund Fan und es scheint zu sein dass wir einen Sieg sogar nicht kaufen kann 😭

2. Liga ole

Großer Klub bei dem es gerade nicht so läuft

Afrikaans is not basically Dutch.

faroese is not like danish, its esentially a variant of icelandic or old norse.

i know this is bs because not even danish people understand 100% danish

@@Ndujlz as a dutch person who never studied or did anything with afrikaans, while not understanding every individual word, i could easily understand what they were talking about

@@RinkieGeintie doesn’t change the fact that Afrikaans isn’t basically Dutch

you haven't heard real gibberish if u haven't heard frisian

Wie bitte, die nächsten Verwandten der deutschen Sprache sollen unverständlich sein?

Danish: hold min øl Swedish: båda borde hålla min öl Dutch: Houden jullie eens mijn gouden bieren in Vlaanderen

Öl is 'beer' in Danish and Swedish as you said (and quite a few other languages), similarly 'to drink' and 'bottle of beer' in Irish (and all Gaelic languages) is ól. Also, drunk is ólta. Interesting because of the sheer distance. Must be a word as old as the Vikings. A lot came to our country centuries ago, only time I can think of it would've transferred. Our word for whiskey is best in the world: uisce beatha (water of life). Update: I googled it. Beer in old Norse was öl around the time of the Vikings.

Öl? What..? It means "oil" in German Imagine someone saying "I'm drinking oil"

@Gay Thağğ0t CockThrobber There's quite a difference in spelling and pronunciation there though, but yeah it definitely derived from öl as well. The distinction that's interesting I found though is that Gaelic languages which were very influenced by Norsemen didn't change the spelling or pronounciation, whereas Brythonic peoples (British, Breton, basque) whom had less contact with Norsemen have since changed it either slightly or altogether. The countries surrounding these such as Spain, Portugal, France have no word relative to öl at all, so it's clear the term migrated along with the vikings, and stayed unchanged where they had most influence. I'm aware of a few others such as 'trosc' for 'cod' coming from Thorskr. Ispín meaning sausage coming íspen. Long meaning ship coming from lang.

Not funny

the icelandic one was about a guy that got trapped under ice and died.

Also one about the plane crash near Moscow.

They had to take some depressing clips, they could have chosen anything else but they chose some depressing stuff.. *Well isn't that just great!*

@Herr Wolf not here it isn't

@@kristinnfreyr4931 I love that little cross you guys have above that D thingy! I have a Icelandic friend that everytime she says thor or R ahe spits in everyone's face. Do all icelandics have this difficult with R?

C’est marrant pcq au lux on fait ca mais avec le luxembourgeois. Si t’oublies un mot en luxembourgeois tu le dis en francais, allemand, anglais, portugais meme dans certains groupes. Du coup on commence souvent des phrases en lux et termine en francais ou l’inverse.

Why did I read this with a french accent

@@janbruggemann5636 Probably because I would say it with a French accent myself ? :)

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Perfect description!

@Simon Eminger thats interesting

Mainly central and eastern Europe

@Simon Eminger i know

Menxo Yydish and Afrikaas are the least German...

@@eeaotly I know because the colony in southafrica

That would be interesting. I know the dialect spoken in Limburg, The Netherlands is wel understood by people from Alsace. While I have problems to understand it.

There are actually two on display. The man to the left speaks very textbook Norwegian, and the woman on the right has more of a Western accent. That said, her dialect is pretty mild. In school, we had to have subtitles on some Norwegian movies because some of the dialects were incomprehensible. (Dales, I'm looking at you here.)

I once heard a Norwegian dialect and thought they were speaking Icelandic with a foreign accent.

you have studied every language under the sun xD

@@crsorsmth9951 Haha! Well…I know people who have studied and can fluently speak 10 languages so I’d say my repertoire is not actually so large after all 😅 (Four foreign languages - French is lacking from the list above…or five if you count a couple of courses of Italian but that I’ve mostly forgotten🤔)

Luxemburgish is a German dialect

Luxembourgish sounds like a dialect because it technically is.

If you take out most of the French loanwords then yeah, it's basically a very strong Franconian dialect spoken around the Lux.-German border

Interesting 🤔🤔

Well Afrikaans is descended from Dutch and a few other languages so it's understandable

@@barrage1308 neen broeder

@@bramsteenhoek2674 nee sorry ik bedoelde dat ik zelf ook zo er over denk

It is not old Dutch but old Zeelandish.

there’s a lot of loanwords, the grammar is pretty similar in some ways and compared to other languages the pronounciation is too! if you can speak German and English you’re already like 50% of the way to knowing Dutch. but yes, we have a lot of those ‘gggg’ sounds

Yeah Dutch is definitely the most similar language to English. I like to imagine that when I hear Dutch it's what a non English speaker hears when they hear someone speak English, without the guttural sounds.

Dutch is the King of England exporting english to the Lowland region via Hanover

English is the same family. Created in the end when vikings came to island. So that why for You English sound 50% as German. There so many French and local language 🙂

@@ushijimawakatoshi1675 Not realy. I thought that before but now i like it 😁🙂

Dwight Schrute 🫡

Well a lot of them do have a noticeable accent in English

Right. I visit them ever few years, and their English accent is pretty much non existent.

the Amish i have heard speak have a pretty noticeable accent in English, like they obviously arent speaking much of it outside of their jobs

@@thelastmemphian Yeah, I also think they have a pretty strong accent, at least in Lancaster

Carter W. It is.

Stefan Jacques no its not lmfao

LMAO TRUE

Spot on 😂

Listen to Gaelic... It's spot on Sims

The man sounds like he's trying to hit on someone in The Sims.

@@MinscS2 They always talk like that on RTL Nieuws / RTL News 😂

Noa Emanuels I am a Dutch speaker, but I learned the dialect of Limburg first. The people of Limburg cannot pronounce that guttural Dutch g. You can always pick us out.

Swiss German is more guttural. But neither compare to the gurglings, hiccups and glottal stops of Arabic, the new lingua Franca of Europe thanks to neoliberal capitalism.

Daarom is vlaams veel beter :) geen GGGGGG

Ich auch

YEAH SAME

Ja ich auch

Funny how I find it easier to understand Afrikaans than I do Afrikaaners speaking English. Or maybe it is this speaker's exceptional clarity and rhythm?

@@forgotsomething4995 Danish and Norwegian are way closer to Swedish, than German is.

@Ignatz Rosenbaum Oy vey!

It's literally impossible to steal a language. Nobody has "ownership" over a bloody *language.*

@TheCrazyKid1381 the name literally originated from the german word for "jewish"

@@coolbean9880 no it didn't. were do you think the supposed german word "yid' came from. the word origin is from the biblical name judah. And while that may seem far fetched, remember that the "y" sound was switched to the "J" sound. so really the name should be pronounced yudah. It's not a german word that's how the jews called themselves for centuries. Heck jews were the ones who names the language.

@TheCrazyKid1381 Where not even talking about converts here. originally the Jews just spoke old German. but as time went by the languages diverted a little bit from each other. also you wouldn't believe how much Hebrew there is in Yiddish. so while it isn't semetic it does have a lot of semetic influence.

Don't tell this to the ardent Boers, but due to the fact that Afrikaans is in fact more closely related to Frisian than Dutch, that makes their language 'very' closely related to English. Although you wouldn't say so..

As one of those "Boers" who has traveled the low countries extensively, Flemish is far and away our closest language sibling. Durch and Frisian too but I think Frisian relates just because of the German influence on both. We have a lot of English influence in South Africa due to iur Commonwealth history and it makes sense that the tempo of Afrikaans has slowed compared to Dutch to match English more over the centuries.

or like someone who is speaking gibberish before having a stroke

- And as a Dane I can say that is my exact same experience regarding Dutch 😂

@@ElectroIsMyReligion 😆

@@ElectroIsMyReligion Word! Dutch is the weirdest language of the lot

Aedificanus yes, because it comes from Dutch. But it’s evolved slightly differently due to influences from things like german and native South African languages.

in afrikaans we also have a lot of loan words and vocabulary similarities to vastly different languages like persian, indonesian etc

Fat Earther portuguese is another! I'm not 100% fluent but my mom's family is and between them and my intro linguistics professor i've heard a long list of languages involved with Afrikaans (please don't call it kitchen dutch lol). It's because of the huge presence of a diverse immigrant population to South Africa for a multitude of reasons spanning from the arrival of the Dutch to migrant workers, economic interests, war refugees etc etc. Just a side note, I'm not ethnically Afrikaner, my mom's family ended up there from russia and iran for a few reasons.

@Fat Earther don't call it kitchen dutch, please... Its cringe...

Even as German, I’m hearing the different emphasis.

I wonder why..

for me it's the sexiest germanic language.

Hahahah fannen zwar net mee bon

Ha! That’s what I thought

I think it's the other way round

I feel like everyone of these clips should not say how people talk because in denmark you have very different ways of speaking danish, the way the danish girl said was more like she didnt understand the words and was stopping after each word. They should come up with more exsaples.

@@bodiller9422 where were there words in that?! That was just unstructured sounds! Like you begin a word but can't be bothered to say more than a syllable of it

@@boahkeinbockmehr Man even tho im danish, this laungauge sucks ass. To understand danish you have to learn it of course haha

Bodiller I don’t completely agree trat Danish sucks, but I kinda wish we spoke Danish the way we did 75-100 years ago. There is a clear difference in the way words are pronounced.

@@paramaaz yeah... i think its called evolution

Im swedish and i understand danish better when im drunk 😂

@@edvins8863 I am Norwegian. I can understand Swedish drunk or sober. Danish however is impossible to understand, no matter how much I drink!

LivBD you need to drink danish beverages like carlsberg to make it work

@Onesie fan ツ Does it work?

Exactly! I always think that if I listen a little harder, i will be able to understand. Same with Norwegian and Dutch.

Congrats, your parents must be so proud 😄

@Celisar1 I don't think it's possible for anyone to be proud once they've been cremated

Surprising that Swedish is easier to you than Norwegian.

@@marcelbork92Idk why, it’s just easier for me to figure what they’re saying.

How about Dutch and German?

@M Norwegians and Swedes love making jokes about Danish pronunciation being impossible to understand. If you would like to research this subject more, just paste Kamelåså into the youtube search bar.

Alter Ego I do actually study German in school and could therefore understand a little bit. A few words here and there you know but Dutch. Nope. Didn’t understand anything

ಠ_ಠ It was a joke man

Emma Carlsson no danish really didn’t know it was that different

Simlish?

for the LAST TIME dutch doesn't sound like simlish, English is waaaay more similar.

Drunk sounding

AnglicoTheMonkey It sort of does. It's closer to English, no doubt, but it sounds like Dutch to many English speakers

@R. DB as a dutch I can agree our language sounds like simlish.

Hahaha! I was thinking the exact same thing.

It's actually the closest to icelandic, for me as an icelander i understand most but it's like a person with problems speaking haha

I’m Faroese! Currently living in Sweden and can speak Swedish. Most swedes think I’m from Western Norway when I speak Swedish, though😅

Just what my dad said after his trip to Føroyar: «I didn’t really understand what they said, but I could tell they were all westerners!» (we’re Norwegian...)

@@TheHarashi : Det har blitt sagt i Norge at både islendinger og færøyinger lærer dansk på skolen, men når de snakker dansk, da høres det ut som veldig nøytralt norsk.

Wow that is correct! Afrikaans actually is closer sounding to German, the Dutch have a strange accent. Afrikaans is like what Dutch sounded like 200 years ago.

Your perception of Luxemburgish is interesting, because as a French speaker I understood 0% of it. I understood the german part best (maybe 5 to 10%) because I learned basics of german in middleschool and highschool. Actually, appart from german, I understood 0%.

@@MrRubikraft As an American who learned English first and then French in school, I definitely found luxemburgish and then dutch to have the most french influence. But generally it was French that English has loan words for (more so in Dutch, whereas luxemburgish had more french-exclusive words). Oddly those were the words i was able to pick up on more easily than the germanic words close to english. Might be because American English doesn't have much interaction with Dutch or Luxemburgish while France obviously still has an ongoing cultural/demographic/linguistic interaction with both countries that would cause their vocab to be more like contemporary French. I expect I would have an easier time understanding either language written down but I'd still find "toilet" easier to understand than the dutch/luxemburgish equivalent to some germanic word we use more in english.

@@gevoel8293 I'm from Belgium and honestly Afrikaans accent is close to Flemish Dutch as we here in Belgium use a soft G sound and most of the time softly roll our R's. To me the Dutch often speak with some weird English like R, that on top of the G makes the language sound harsher.

I speak both German and English. Dutch is hard to understand when spoken. It is spoken so guttural. I agree, Afrikaans is easier to understand and seems less guttural. Reading Dutch is a different matter though, as it is much easier to comprehend the written Dutch than the spoken.

Finnish, their close neighbor? Finnish isn't a Germanic language, it isn't even and Indo-European language and Finland is close to Iceland. Last time I checked Finland is between Russia and Sweden.

@@Starkardur I know that silly. I also know that it's a Finno-Ugric language.

What the hell is a 'Brit'!? English, Welsh and Scottish live on an island called Britain! Got it!? Verstehen Sie!?

@@triplex2912 u ok?

Triplex 29 what’s your problem?

Lmao not in my accent trust me

@@twisted9285 Triplex 29 doesn't have a problem.

The language is essentially German but with a Hebrew accent. There are probably some other differences as well but in general that's what it is.

It's the language of Jews from the Rhineland who were kicked out of Western-Europe in the Middle Ages

@@Der.Preusse actually 40% of it derived from polish and russian so yeah

@@hashar9593 where do you get that number? To me as a German it doesn't sound much more different than just another dialect. Swiss German is arguably harder to understand for me.

A lot of the vocabulary also comes from Biblical Hebrew (Lashon Hakodesh) and Aramaic. For example, in the video the word for Egypt is מצרים which comes from Biblical Hebrew. Or, there are three ways to say question in Yiddish, one way comes from German, one Hebrew, and one Aramaic. Shayla, (Hebrew), kashyeh, (Aramaic), and frageh, (German). I do believe that about 70% of Yiddish is Germanic, as is the grammar and sentence structure.

It sounds pleasant to me

I heard a German guy say that it sounds like 'cute' German

A drunk Englishman trying to speak German.

@@Tflexxx02 Enshuldeegung mate, speken zie Inglish

@@arunadegroot8974 he's probably just a sad 13 year old 😉

Then, what does Austrian sound like? Here is an example ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pASluYwz14s.html

WhatTheFact what an original comment

@@Leo-uu8du Austrian is not a Language, it is a dialekt of German, like bavarian for example. If you want to have an example, take low-german, this is an own language.

@@kevinpagel2527 Actually Austro-Bavarian is as much of a language as Low-Saxon (that's the real name). The only difference is that Low-Saxon was made an offical language, because of its recognition in the Netherlands, a lot of propaganda and the resulting political pressure of the low-saxon federal state. On the other hand, there is a lot of counter-propaganda to prevent the same scenario in the south and you are the perfect example that it works...

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Yes

A classic phenomenon. As a German who speaks English fluently both languages sound extremely different to each other and the rest of the Germanic languages (with a few sounding more close to German and a few further away). The other ones sound far more the same to me. The better you know them the more you recognize how different they all are.

@@Ambar42 Ah I mean, of course every language sounds very differently, but apart from the pronunciation, it seems Germanic languages have a similar intonation when spoken.

@@Libroblanco456 True. We have a strong emphasis on certain syllables and express some sentences in the same way no matter the language.

@@Libroblanco456 えええ本とに

It is because they are all from the same root. It’s much like Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean all sound like they have similar tones, as does most Turkic languages in Central Asia. As an island language, Japanese have a more unique tone compared to other Asian languages due to its isolation, really only Ryukyuan which is similar.

I have a similar issue. I can read Dutch and understand basically everything because I can understand about 80% of the words because they look a lot like German but depending on the dialect I can't understand anything when someone talks to me. I can read all the other Germanic languages other than Islandic and Faroese and understand what is going on but Dutch and Africaans are definitely the easiest to understand. I can understand more spoken Africaans than Dutch sometimes.

Same

MarvelousSandstone true. I had no problems understanding 71 döda i flygkrasch (though it‘s probably not the most difficult phrase) but it was way harder to understand what she was saying.

Don't worry. Once you hear it more frequently and get use to differentiating similar sounding words it's a piece of cake

mathmusic Same about Spanish and Portuguese, and Chinese and Japanese I guess.

Icelandic is the most archaic and isolated one so not surprisingly. I mean Icelandic barely even changed for the last 1000 years so makes sense why you didn't understand it.

On nac, di kon osspionerto in da palas in hogplas de konagland-rik vin Frankrik and Doshlandrik. Der, ereen fond a svart kat, ereen bang. Ereen atalefall, ten, nin, ottach, sefn, six, fif, vour, tri, to, on, ereen lep vegi.

luxembourgish is very close to german but it sounds very different. It's like they are applying the intonation and flow of french on german.

“Greenlandic” is more of an Inuit language

@@tmajec But it contains elements of Danish.

@@jeannehall6546 very negligible and thus doesn’t make it Nordic. I’d rather look at comparisons with some of the first nations in Canada.

nani

@@J.T... tatsächlich eher andersrum, es war mal eine Art deutscher Dialekt mit hebräischen einflüssen. Aber es gibt tatsächlich auch Worte im deutschen, die von dem jiddischen beeinflusst sind. Sprachen sind echt interessant.

Well its just germans with hebrew influence in it, in fact most of vocal words are just germanic, its just the written that are hebrew

sounds like old-german,you understand 90% but 10% of the words you don´t

@@ryhanzfx1641 Yes, you are correct. But when you said "most" vocal words it only means "most" since there are still hundreds of hebrew words in yiddish for example the famous "chutzpah" or "shiksa". and that's why yiddish wordwise is more different to english than german. there are words in yiddish that allows you to use the german word or the hebrew word for example the german word for "end" is "ende" almost the same but in yiddish you can choose between the german word "ende"or the Hebrew word "suf".Then there are words that only have the hebrew word for example the word "object" is in yiddish "kheyfets" and no other word.and not to mention that yiddish has little bit of Slavic influence as well.

Not to mention the Flemmish

@@joaoreis1648 flemmish is literally just a dutch dialect

@@user-dq6hs4ry6z hmmm, but isn't Frisian a Dutch dialect as well? They seem pretty similar

@@joaoreis1648 no, they are actually not nearly as similar as you would think. The frisians are actually a different folk than the dutch and germans rather than just a regional dialect. They been around since before the roman expansion

@@user-dq6hs4ry6z My bad, I only speak Romance languages ( apart from English) which might explain why I couldn't see that from a pronouciation standpoint... if only I had looked at the grammar. Thanks for the insight!

Sofia Permjakova why not

I didn't mean to disrespect the language, just friendly joking.

Ya yem chlen

@@Oongaboongabigfatdoggy моя? 😏

and louxemburgish like grandma off her meds

Liam There is English, period...

Evi1M4chine the Latin was there first from the Romans with a little bit of Greek and Celtic roots, then the Anglo-Saxons came and mixed it with the Latin being spoke in England, then the Normans cane and mixed it with French. Realistically English isn’t even a Germanic language, only 1/4 of its origin is Germanic.

English is only English because it has borrowed so many words from other languages

@@sachemofboston3649 That is completly false. English originally was 100% a german dialect called Angel-Sächisch or Anglo-Saxon, there was no roman, greek or celtic that mixed with Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxons brought the language to britain. Later the Normans mixed some romance words and the Danes brought some north-germanic influences. But the english is still a purely germanic langauge, the entire grammar, sentence structure and basic vocabulary is germanic. The only thing the normans added was words, you can not form a compelte english sentence without using germanic words and it is entirely possible to speak english with using only germanic words, so "1/4 germanic" is complete bullox.

Timo Köhler you’re actually completely wrong, even linguists say only 1/4 of English vocabulary is of Germanic origin: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2OynrY8JCDM.html

the dude 42 hahahahahahah great way to express it

ITS because the langusges have tones

What a nice way of putting that.

the dude 42 That’s a really beautiful way to describe our language. Thank you :)

We are not trying! That's what we do! Greetings from Norway :D

Haha, kongekommentar!

Don't forget the Icelanders. :)

Hoàng Nguyên That’s a raping hat.

That's nice and all, but when the Anglo starts itching for colonies or the German starts eyeing up Belgium, that's when people get nervous. >;D

@@theobuniel9643 And Faroese!