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In this new episode of the Guess The Language Challenge you have another chance to win a cup of satisfaction! 🏆🤓🥳 Can you guess any of these languages? 🤓
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🙏🏼Special thanks to Raphael Turrigiano for participating in the game:
🎥 Raphael's channel about the phonology of ancient languages → @paleogloss, link → / @glossologia
🙏🏼Special thanks to the following creators:
(for helping out with making the video )
🎥 Justin z Filipin → ‪@justinzfilipin1595‬ 📱Instagram @justin_z_filipin
🎥 Sabtha → ‪@TheTamilChannel‬ 📱Instagram: → @thetamilchannel
🎥 Lucas → @guarani reko → / @guaranireko 📱Instagram @guaranireko
📸 Christopher McNally → 📱Instagram @christopher.mc.nally
🎤 Blessing Mokoena → 📱Instagram @iamblessingm
🎙 🎥 Kris Broholm → ‪@actualfluency‬ 📱Instagram @krisbroholm
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🤓 For those who would like to learn more about the languages featured in this episode, I enclose the transcription of what was said in the audio samples.
1. Ang imahinasyon ay walang hanggan. Ito ang pinakamataas na kalayaan sa lahat. Hindi lang mga artista ang nahahanga sa kalakasan ng imahinasyon pero pati mga pinakahusay sa mundo. Sa paraang ito pinapakita nila ang kaalaman nila.
2. கற்பனை என்பது ஒரு மிக உயர்ந்த சுதந்திரம் ஆகும். அதனை யாராலும் எங்களிடம் இருந்து பறிக்க முடியாது. படைப்புக் கற்பனையின் மகத்துவத்தை இந்த உலகின் காதலர்கள் மற்றும் கலைஞர்களால் மட்டுமல்ல, விஞ்ஞானிகளாலும் புகழப்படுகிறது.
3. Che, tembiapo porã apoháramo ikatu amoha'ãngahai porã che py'apýpe. Py'amongeta ningo iñimportanteve jekuaágui.Jaikuaáva omohembe'y ñaikumbýva , ha katu py'amongeta oañuã arapýpe ha mayma jahecháva, ñaikumbýva ha jaikuaava'erã.
4. Is í an tsamhlaíocht an cineál saoirse is airde agus ní féidir í a bhaint. Spreagann na ealaíontóirí agus na scríbhneoirí samhlaíocht chruthaitheach ar fud an domhain, chomh maith leis na heolaithe is fearr.
5. Nganele umdwebi ukudweba ngokukhululeka emcabangweni wami. Ukucabanga kubaluleke ngaphezu kolwazi. Ulwazi lulinganiselwe, kanti ukucabanga kuhlanganisa umhlaba wonke, kukhuthaza inqubekela phambili, kuzala ukuziphendukela kwemvelo.
6. Fantasien er den ultimative frihed, for der er ingen der kan tage det fra dig. Ligemeget hvor dårlig din situation er kan du altid forestille dig til et bedre sted, eller en bedre hverdag, et bedre liv faktisk. Og det er også vigtigt, en af de få forskelle mellem dyr og mennesker. Dyr, de lever i nuet - de har kun brug for at dække deres behov lige nu, mens mennesker kan forestille sig en bedre fremtid og en helt anden situation.
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🤗 Big hug to everyone reading my video descriptions! You rock! 🤓💪🏻

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@polyglotdreams 3 года назад

He is one of the most informed persons who has participated.

@wyqtor 3 года назад

Yeah, personally I am into this stuff too and I would have definitely asked for the script on the 2nd language... for me, it could have been any one of the Dravidian languages!

@polyglotdreams 3 года назад

@@wyqtor I guessed correctly for all the languages before the final answer but in the case of Irish, I needed his first comments. I study Zulu so that was easy. I have also studied some Danish and Tagalog. I was in Paraguay in 1976.

@allesindwillkommen 3 года назад

@Paleogloss is a professional linguist and has obviously had a very strong focus on phonetics and phonology in his studies. None of my PhD professors were as good as Raphael when it comes to general phonetics.

@ornessarhithfaeron3576 3 года назад

I like his funny words, magic man

@AimonsL_oignon 3 года назад

Yeah exactly, the earlier one had no idea lol I scored better than him

@puffyish 3 года назад

When you think you know languages than this guy appears...😳👏🏻

@SlipDownRokc 3 года назад

*then

@palkia192 3 года назад

I too am a “self-proclaimed language lover”, but this guy just left me feeling so demoralized.

@udraj914 3 года назад

same. I got only Tamil, that too coz its spoken in my country too

@choonbox 3 года назад

I got 3/6 (Tagalog, Irish, Zulu) I thought what Danish was, was like Luxemburgish or maybe Sami and the Paraguayan one I guessed was maybe a carribean language. Tamil seemed very foreign to me and I couldnt place it.

@NarnianLady 3 года назад

same here :) I am clueless when it comes to South East Asian or native American languages..

@maxkho00 3 года назад

@@choonbox I got 4/6 Irish (the strong Irish accent that Irish people have when they speak English), Filipino (due to the vast amount of Romance vocabulary), Tamil (those weird "t"s, but it didn't sound Indo-European, so must be Dravidian), and Danish (sounded like German but also like Chinese, so obviously Danish; although I did initially think that it was something like Swiss German, which also sounds extremely weird). For Zulu, I was confident it was Xhosa, as it was the only click language that I knew of before now. And for Guarani, that sounded completely alien to me, and it might as well have been martian lol (if it wasn't for that "importante"). I was figuring it might be native to the Americas because of that Spanish-sounding "importante", but that was the only clue that I managed to derive from it.

@viharsarok 3 года назад

Mee, too. I usually get perfect or near perfect scores in language recognition games so I consider myself very good at this but this guy is something else. I got 4/6 (Tagalog, Tamil, Zulu, Danish). As for Irish, I immediately recognized that it is a Celtic language but I couldn't tell which one. I've never even heard about Guaraní.

@AlinkaMosendz 3 года назад

In this piece Raphael is playing a crucial part, his guesses not just because, but they always have linguistic basis. Great episode of game!

@Martin253 3 года назад

What a beautiful message in Danish. Fantasy is a great enrichment in life. The contestant had a great way of showing how he was led to the conclusion of each language. I would love to be in one of these episodes.

@RedHair651 3 года назад

Me too!

@TheZcarekrow 3 года назад

Hvad var det? jeg kun laeser dansk

@MonkOrMan 3 года назад

Why was he laughing in the Danish one?

@matthewheald8964 Год назад

WHAT DID THE DANISH GUY SAY!?!?! I AM STUPID ANGLOPHONE FROM THE US; PLEASE TELL ME!!!

@oanasimon1983 3 года назад

I almost choked on my food at the last language, my husband is Danish ;). Great episode, I loved it. Rafael is really good!

@taylorgibb174 3 года назад

Even though I only guessed Tagalog and Guaraní correctly, I got a lot of satisfaction watching this video. The variety in the language samples is very nice and I learned a lot from Raphael explaining his guesses. I'm looking forward to the next episode.

@ronnyalvarado8116 3 года назад

1 - Tagalog ✅ 2 - Had 0 idea ❌ 3 - I heard the romance influence in there with them saying 'importante', but could not guess it ❌ 4 - I heard old english, but I never selected a language ❌ 5 - Had 0 idea ❌ 6 - Danish ✅ I need more romance languages if I want to win even a small cup of satisfaction :(

@Taubenschmied 3 года назад

I got a big cup of satisfaction today when I saw that another language guessing video from Norbert was out.

@effendi77 2 года назад

Rafael, you rock!!! I was able to identify only two, Tamil and Dansk, although I speak neither. Its the accent and tone.

@marianamarcassa3059 3 года назад

That was fantastic! And Nobert, I need to express that I really love your channel! Thanks for your work.

@melissahdawn 3 года назад

I am so excited! I am NOT a linguist, but I instantly knew the third one from watching "The Mission". I was screaming, ""It's Guarani!" I scared my son who asked me what was wrong. So far this was the first one I got right instantly, and had no doubt! (I have watched several of these)

@melissahdawn 3 года назад

I have a funny story about the 6th one, too. I had seen a few videos where Scandinavian speakers claimed that they recognized Danish because it sounded like someone was speaking with a potato in their mouth. That sounded like such an odd thing to say, but as I listened to the 6th language, I thought "I know it's Scandinavian, but it sounds really odd, like they swallowed a sock or something....must be Danish."

@tacoballack 3 года назад

Great episode Norbert! Raphael seems like such a interesting guy to talk to. I had medium cup of satisfaction: Tagalog, Tamil, guarani, Irish and Danish. Tagalog: I had coworkers trying to teach me this. (My first thought was Bengali) Tamil: I listen to two coworkers speak (Matti and Siva) this beautiful language on break time everyday. Guarani: couple days ago I watched a video from Langfocus about this language. Irish: It sounded Gealic and guessed Irish. I also went to school with an Irish man in brazil so it sounded vaguely familiar Danish: It sounded nordic to me then i remembered all the potato in mouth while talking memes for the danish people and got it right Pretty much the best episode for me:)

@kisnpisn4919 3 года назад

loved it! more of this kind of videos :) i immediately got 3spot on, 2 narrowed down to the correct region and recognized the origins of the remaining one. satisfactory to me in all ways 😁

@VasiliskGUU 3 года назад

That was pretty impressive! What an amazing hearing abilities! Music must be really easy for him.

@СветозарНовокрещенов 3 года назад

Wow, this guy is supersmart. I guessed the first language and the last one.

@gracepearson5905 3 года назад

Wow! I really hope to have skills like Raphael one day, I really want to study linguistics at university I love learning about different languages, their sounds and how they’re related to each other I only got 2 (Tagalog and Irish) so no cups of satisfaction for me today, but hopefully I’ll get there one day! Loving these videos, thanks Norbert

@jackisnotgreen 3 года назад

That is extremely impressive! I listened to the first one and thought it sounded like someone from the Middle East speaking Spanish. 😅 I only got the last one right because I thought it sounded a lot like a mix between German and a Scandinavian language. Total guess.😅

@viniciusfrattafritz4547 3 года назад

This is the best content RU-vid could have, surely

@katewilmot4375 Год назад

I'm so hooked on these videos😀

@squeezyjohn1 3 года назад

I got the medium cup of satisfaction! I'm so happy ... the only one I didn't get was the language from Paraguay.

@piachristel 3 года назад

This was a great show! You guys should do a follow-up!

@redsteddi 3 года назад

So so fantastic

@k.c1126 3 года назад

I was really surprised at how close I was able to get to the various languages! The only one that stumped me [ironically] was the Irish! For all the others I was in the correct region and in the case of the Philipino and Danish I had the correct name. This makes me nostalgic for my college linguistics study .... lol ... Thanks for such an engaging experience!

@annanystrom8323 3 года назад

Very fun and I learned a lot! Dziekuje bardzo :) I am from Sweden and I think Danish is very hard to understand.

@gregwochlik9233 2 года назад

I guessed Zulu / Xhosa upon first try. I had 30 years of exposure to it when I lived in that country. The map really helped, as Zulu is in the province of Natal. Zulu and Xhosa are neighbours, with Xhosa "taking" the Eastern Cape (the "next" province along the coast from Natal). I may be wrong, but I believe that Xhosa has a higher click frequency.

@whateverweather1535 3 года назад

love you Norbert

@katarinask139 2 года назад

He's so nice❤

@dragossh 3 года назад

The dude sliced through them like a hot knife through butter.

@samuelemorreale7510 3 года назад

My guesses were: 1. Filipino (kinda got right) 2. Something east Asian (got totally wrong) 3. Some sub Saharan African language (again totally wrong) 4. Gaelic (kinda right) 5. Zulu (got right) 6. North European language (region got right)

@archdukesnowman2240 3 года назад

My guesses: 1: Definitely from Phlippines, I guessed Tagalog. CORRECT 2: Initially had no idea and thought Amharic. Raphael's comments and the second listen led me to Southern India, so I guessed Tamil. Technically CORRECT, though I probably would have gotten it wrong without a clue. 3: Heavy Spanish influence, given all the nasals I guessed Guarani. CORRECT. 4: Definitely Celtic, given the heavy English-speaker accent it's probably Irish, or it could be Manx. CORRECT. 5: Click consonants, definitely Zulu or Xhosa. I guessed Zulu. *After the map reveal, definitely Zulu, Xhosa is further South. CORRECT. 6: Very Germanic, but the weird sounds are definitely Danish lol. CORRECT. So based on my own raw knowledge 5/6, technically 6/6. My knowledge of Indian subcontinent languages is pretty shaky. I probably would have used a script or map clue to get Tamil if it were me in the game.

@jetamtskheta 3 года назад

Norbert, it would be interesting to see if participants can recognize any languages of ethnical minorities of Russia (Komi, Adyghe, Osetian, Mari etc.). Sadly I cannot provide a sample of any of these, but it's just an idea, maybe there are some on internet.

@kl1541 3 года назад

Even though i speak Swedish the Danish one is still barely recognisable😂😂

@LUDO0698 3 года назад

This challenge has been harder then the last one. I barely knew the existence of these languages. I picked up only Danish

@choulth Год назад

Amazing! 😱

@Sarah.Riedel 3 года назад

These were hard!! I got Tagalog right, I was _totally_ wrong about Tamil (I guessed an indigenous American language like Navajo or maybe Inuit), and then I guessed Quechua and Xhosa. I got Irish Gaelic right because my mom's parents were from Ireland so I'm somewhat familiar with it. I actually guessed Faroese or Icelandic for the last one because I honestly didn't think that was what Danish sounded like. 😂

@RonFer1945 3 года назад

I've have to boast as I got them all correct, even before the clues, although Guarani, Tamil and Zulu were best guesses.

@Ecolinguist 3 года назад

Congratulations! The big cup of satisfaction goes to you! 🏆🤓🥳

@berrickd8653 3 года назад

It's unbelievable!

@RahulVerma-iv8ph 2 года назад

Damn this guy is super intelligent 🤓

@joespielhagen 3 года назад

Boy, I am deeply impressed...

@janhanchenmichelsen2627 3 года назад

Nailed Tagalog, Irish, Danish. Guessed Xhosa (not Zulu) and some "south Indian language". Just clueless in Paraguay, even missed the continent. But, I’m not a linguist!

@tommydahill437 3 года назад

My guesses on one listen--1:56 1. I'll guess Tagalog 4:23 Hindi? I cannot think of the names of other languages from India region at the moment. 7:07 An indigenous language from Central America? 10:33 Gaeilge, cinnte! Is breá liom an teanga. 13:14 I'll guess Bantu simply because I believe that it's from africa and that is a large language family. It's not Berber which are the only African languages that I have heard much of. 17:42 A dialect of German, I'd guess! Maybe Austrian or Swiss though I have no idea which.

@tommydahill437 3 года назад

I really like these hast thou ever a livestream considered?

@pedrotaq 3 года назад

I would've gotten 3 or 4. Danish, Guaraní and Filipino were quite distinctive for me, I might have guessed Irish, but I don't know if I would've guessed Tamil (I just heard that particular Indian "r" sound, so I might've said hindi), and honestly I don't know much about African languages (maybe I'd have only guessed that it was sub Saharan Africa) Very nice video and very friendly people. Cheers!

@arunsreenivasan2074 3 года назад

I got 1 and a half... Tamil (I speak it so no surprise) and I went for Xhosa so close but no cigar!

@austinnelson396 3 года назад

Got 3 right (not bad). 1. Tagalog was easy to figure out due to the loan words and accent! 2. Tamil, that one threw me off. I thought it was like Farsi or something. 3. Guarani was guessable thanks to the fact and loan words 4. Regarding Irish, I can’t believe I got that one wrong. I should’ve guessed it because of that person mentioning “Saoirse”, but went for Scottish Gaelic as parts of that audio sounded rather Germanic, and I knew that Scotland is close to the Faroe Islands, so I went with that 5. With Zulu, the map saved me as I was going to guess the wrong language (Xhosa) because of the click sounds 6. With this one…..I guessed Luxembourgish as it sounded much more German, but I knew it wasn’t German. Turns out it was Danish…(Danish really is a mind of its own)

@Guppieboi3 3 года назад

Excellent video and impressed with the linguistic knowledge shared. I was surprised Raphael stated he is from "America" and lives in Scotland. America encompasses all the Western Hemisphere nations, he could be from Canada, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, etc. Raphael I assume is from the "United States or 'U.S.'" Other than this, the video was flawless...ty

@Glossologia 3 года назад

Thanks for watching! I believe I said I'm 'American' - this is of course the endonym for people from the United States in English. When I speak Spanish however I say 'estadounidense' 😉

@Guppieboi3 3 года назад

@@Glossologia I listened to your self-introduction again 0:40 and you stated "I'm from America". Final Answer!~~ Just wanted to make sure I'm not getting hearing impaired..:) We're both with long dark hair, and might be asked if we have Native/Indigenous/First Nations blood. Continued success in your studies.

@Glossologia 3 года назад

@@Guppieboi3 Hah, you are correct! Still, 'America' is a common shortened form of '(United States of) America', though I do understand why fellow dwellers of North/South America might feel a bit miffed at this usage 😅

@afic10 Год назад

I’m quite proud of myself guessing most of these series, at least 98%, I’m not a linguist but I love history and geography so that always gives you an upper hand, my native language is Spanish.

@RRW359 3 года назад

I only got 2-3. I got wasn't sure if it was Phillipino until it mentioned Manilla at the end, then I knew. I don't know anything about African languages but since they showed South Africa I probably would have guessed Zulu. I knew the last one was Germanic and the thought of Danish did cross my mind but I'm not sure if I would have guessed it had he not said it.

@tntl6201 3 года назад

Ecolinguist we say don’t say “VERY WELL” we say VERY GOOD.

@Glossologia 3 года назад

Both are perfectly normal and correct expressions in English.

@tntl6201 3 года назад

@@Glossologia as a native speaker I have never hear “very well” after someone wanted state something was correct. Very well done for example or in the sense that all is well as in “I don’t agree with you but let’s move on”. Very well, let’s move on. Like I said I have never heard someone say “very well” with the intent of them wanting to communicate that you are correct. Never

@Glossologia 3 года назад

@@tntl6201 In my experience it's more common in the UK. Are you American by any chance?

@tntl6201 3 года назад

@@Glossologia I am from Manchester

@Glossologia 3 года назад

@@tntl6201 Huh, well idk what to tell you lol. I've heard plenty of both. Maybe my perception is off and it's more used in the US?

@Clairevoyante 3 года назад

I knew 3! Tagalog, Irish Gaelic and Zulu. I wish I had known all of them though ahhaha!

@Urtica.Urtica 3 года назад

Dla mnie test był zdecydowanie za trudny. Raphael poradził sobie doskonale. Podziwiam i gratuluję wygranej!

@stronglytyped 3 года назад

My guesses: 1) Spanish influence! Definitely language of Philippines... can't really tell the dialects apart, so guessed Tagalog. 2) Sounds a lot like Korean... but definitely not. Kind of sounds more like a Dravidian language. I'm guessing Tamil. 3) Spanish influence! Vowels sound different to spanish, hint of South East asian sound at the end. Not really sure. After lifeline was used, it was clear that it was Guarani. 4) Irish! That was my first thought. Then I thought about the different Goidelic languages... it didn't sound like Scottish Gaelic to me... I think Scottish Gaelic has more "sh" sounds in it. The speaker also had more of an Irish sing-song to their speaking. I also figured that statistically speaking, it probably wasn't Manx, given how few speakers there are of it. 5) Clicks! but it doesn't sound Khoisan. Sounds tonal, and a lot of open vowels... must be Bantu. Only Bantu languages with clicks I can think of are Zulu and Xhosa. I can't tell the difference between the two languages, but for some reason I feel like it is more Zulu. After the map lifeline, I felt stronger that it must been Zulu. 6) Danish. It can't possibly be any other language.

@Ecolinguist 3 года назад

Congratulations! The big cup of satisfaction goes to you! 🏆🤓🥳

@stronglytyped 3 года назад

@@Ecolinguist Yay! I'm going to print it out and keep it in my wallet for the memories.

@Ecolinguist 3 года назад

@@stronglytyped You clearly deserve it! 🏆

@vincem3748 3 года назад

I ended up getting no cup of satisfaction... just like the Rolling Stones. lol But I did get 2 out of 6 right! Tagalog was easy because I grew up around it. And I pleasantly surprised myself by guessing Danish correctly. Go me, lol I like saying lol. lol

@HugoJanKanAl 3 года назад

How? I mean really...HOW? I want more of this guy explaining me all the languages, but his channel only has 5 videos?

@fukpoeslaw3613 3 года назад

first I heard some Spanish and a lot of 'Indonesian', so that must be a Filipino language. then after quite a while I would'of guessed Hindi. So, not even close. third one was rather easy, some Spanish and the last word sounded like 'guarana' to me, so: guaraní! I also studied that via Duolingo for a few hours. the fourth one sounded like some British guy pronounced it and at the same time it was very different from English; so I guessed Welsh. Alas! the last one was either Swedish, Norwegian or Danish, but I couldn't understand even one word, so no Swedish, a pity I heard the answer already before I could guess... So, only two right, oh no, wait, I also guessed !Xhosa, so that's at least half a point, I'd say...

@Glossologia 3 года назад

Thank you so much for having me on Norbert, it was a pleasure! 😊

@user-ww3kv9rd2y 3 года назад

you were so good! nice job my dude!

@strangec73 3 года назад

You did fantastic! Really enjoyed this. I also liked how you explained how you came up with your answers, that was very informative. You should do something like that on your channel. Pick a language, tell a little history of it and dissect it like you did here.

@BoringExtrovert 3 года назад

You're amazing hats off

@ronnyalvarado8116 3 года назад

With how much knowledge you had of each language (history, which languages borrowed which, etc), that would be pretty cool to do on your channel if that becomes something you're interested in. Either way, you did fantastic and this was super enjoyable of an episode! Thanks for the lessons too, ha.

@LarsPallesen 3 года назад

That was super impressive! And this Dane was very pleased with how quickly you could determine that the last language was Danish :-)

@ScorpioMartianus 3 года назад

That was the most satisfying 20 minutes of my entire life! 🤩 Congrats to my frāterculō Raphael! Woooooooo!!!!!!! 🏆 🏆 🏆

@chrstiania 3 года назад

That was 20 minutes?

@sameash3153 3 года назад

LOL you said brotherbutt

@Glossologia 3 года назад

Grātiās Lūcī mī

@PodcastItaliano 3 года назад

Raph's a beast!

@intiorozco5063 3 года назад

Vir simplex sum; si ScorpioMartianum video, mihi placet.

@АлексейГриднев-и7р 3 года назад

Wow. He guessed the languages which I didn't know existed

@dorotaradozycka4765 3 года назад

exactly!!!

@SmallTownBigCity22 3 года назад

This guy is a kick ass linguist. How he was able to distinguish these particular characteristics of the languages was awesome. The guy from episode one needed lots of help from Norbert and the languages were more common. Rafael was able to figure out these rarer languages which was really impressive. I wish him luck with what he's doing in school with dead language reconstruction, I believe that's what he said he was doing, because having tried a class like that once in university, it's incredibly difficult.

@robroux5059 3 года назад

He had it on easy mode with Danish and Tamil . He would have lost if they gave him North American languages like Iriqouis or Sioux or Kuna or Mazahua and any of the Central Asian languages like Pashto, Uzbeck, Kazakh or even Tartar.

@Glossologia 3 года назад

@@robroux5059 It depends on the north American language, but yes, those would have been tough. I'm pretty confident on my central Asian languages though - Turkic is maaaybe my favorite language family and I have some familiarity with Iranian languages ;-)

@odoacredacalcutta5085 3 года назад

dead language reconstruction is an extremely difficult discipline that has a lot more to do with code decryption, that is a completely different skill from this (which is essentially a bunch of notions about phonemics). being able to recognize a language that is already known even you don't speak it is one thing, being able to reconstruct the grammar of one no one knows is another one.

@2008romboy 3 года назад

Me: How many languages can you recognize ? Raphael: Yes!

@pachonman95 3 года назад

As a Paraguayan, I have to say that I was certainly not expecting to hear Guarani in this video. It was a very pleasant surprise :) Thank you! Or should I say "aguyje" ;) Also, hats off to Raphael! He wasn't lying when he said he likes languages! Very impressive knowledge indeed.

@CanaldoMiauOfficial 3 года назад

*As a Brazilian... Also.

3 года назад

I see Guarani language covered a very big part of central S. America because the name of the state where my wife comes from, in Brasil, is a guarani name meaning "Long sea" (Pernambuco)

@shaydawn7376 3 года назад

It's a beautiful language :)

@Graybat12 3 года назад

El guaraní es un idioma hermoso. Me gustaría aprenderlo algún día. Saludos de un argentino en Gringolandia :)

@EsdrasCGguimaraes 3 года назад

Everything is understandable when I go to Ciudad del Este for shopping... Then... You guys start speaking Guarani and I get like🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

@imokin86 3 года назад

That's what a linguist does. Unlike a polyglot who speaks many languages, a linguist knows what languages are made of. Very professional, very articulate. Not just a pro but a good communicator.

@ControlledCha0s 3 года назад

You can be a polyglot and still possess a more in-depth knowledge of languages, but it's true that since that's not a requirement to be one, many polyglots don't care all that much about it. Here's an exception, though!

@TheZcarekrow 3 года назад

You don't have to be a polyglot to ignore what language is made of, most of us don't know our native language that much, yet we speak it

@matthewheald8964 Год назад

I knew just enough to almost understand what the heck he was talking about lol. He knows a LOT.

@anastasiah9636 3 года назад

This guy is impressive.

@Glossologia 3 года назад

That's very sweet of you :-)

@peterhall318 3 года назад

@@Glossologia You're so good at it! Greetings from Russia)

@anastasiah9636 3 года назад

@@Glossologia you did a fantastic job and thanks for the explanations!:)

@Tiqerboy 3 года назад

No kidding. I would have burned up all 3 lifelines in the first three languages alone. None I would have gotten on my own. I considered myself lucky just to get the right continent it came from.

@Dysacanthos 3 года назад

@@Glossologia Perfect analysis, well done Paleogloss! I really appreciate that thinking process.

@ДмитрийГолованев-и1г 3 года назад

This guy, Rafael is real Master of Languages! Fantastic game, incredible result. As for me I could guess only approximately like Indian, Celtic, Scandinavian, African🙂

@EwigerSeptember 3 года назад

Same thing, I could only guess Irish, the others only by their families or regions

@peripop6244 3 года назад

Lol, just "African" 😆😆

@ztsjaz7 3 года назад

Yo tambien, bueno, el filipino si, pero los demás solo por región.

@lumizu2091 3 года назад

@@EwigerSeptember I guessed Tagalog ( the first one ) but not any other

@EwigerSeptember 3 года назад

@@lumizu2091 I thought about Filipino, the logic was quite the same as Rafael had. But I had no idea of the names of the specific languages 😅

@angelicaaddo559 3 года назад

Danish is actually easier to discriminate from Norwegian and Swedish than these two from one another :)

@Glossologia 3 года назад

Indeed! And in particular, I feel like usually when it's Swedish I usually don't confuse it with Norwegian, but sometimes listening to Norwegian I can't decide if it's Norwegian or Swedish lol. Of course to speakers of a north Germanic language there shouldn't be any confusion haha

@angelicaaddo559 3 года назад

@@Glossologia haha same here! But with time, I got to notice how "more melodic" Norwegian is.

@angelicaaddo559 3 года назад

@@Glossologia Anyway, good job! Your knowledge is impressive! :D I could barely guess the continents haha (except for Danish).

@apmoy70 3 года назад

Indeed, the guttural r gave it away

@angelicaaddo559 3 года назад

@@apmoy70 That, and I think it sounds so German too! Sorry Danes!

@mxMik 3 года назад

I like his logic and an amazingly broad knowledge.

@natashaaba9420 3 года назад

It's such a pleasure ☺ to watch real linguistic professional. And you, Norbert, as awesome 👌 as usual 😀 👏, thank you.

@d0mnksantorski411 3 года назад

Indeed

@louismelahn1805 3 года назад

3:50 apart from the Spanish words (imaginación), the giveaway was the word “Manila” right at the end of the clip.

@isabeltrinidadechavez4190 3 года назад

This could easily be a joke, so ignore this if it was meant to be one haha. He says "kaalaman nila" = "their knowledge".

@ksubota 3 года назад

@@isabeltrinidadechavez4190 wow, I heard "Manila" too 😅

@wyqtor 3 года назад

@@ksubota Yeah, I heard it too :))

@melodia2772 3 года назад

@@isabeltrinidadechavez4190 oh I learned something today! I really thought they said Manila 😅

@alfonsomango_suyu 3 года назад

I heard Manila too. But for the spanish loanwords I thought it was Chavacano at first listening.

@Nikelaos_Khristianos 3 года назад

As a South African, this gent hugely impressed me. I'm actually from Natal where Zulu is spoken, so well done for guessing Zulu! 👏 I almost instinctively guessed Zulu as I soon as I heard it because it instantly reminded me of home. And to help out about the pronunciation of Xhosa, it is completely fine to say "Khosa", but it is pronounced with a hard clicking sound as you start the word.

@Glossologia 3 года назад

Haha yeah, I went and watched some tutorials on the pronunciation of Xhosa after the video so I think I have it down now. Thanks! :D

@ImaginaryMdA 3 года назад

I'm learning swedish, and I tried watching some tv in swedish. Until I figured out after several episodes it was actually in norwegian. XD

@nesser52 3 года назад

I think Swedish has a distinguished melody to it

@THjelm 3 года назад

@@nesser52 Swede here. I can totally understand how one can get the two mixed up. Firstly they are mutually intelligible and share a lot of vocabulary, although there are a lot of words that quickly give it away if you know which ones. The melody depends a lot on the dialect. There are Norwegian dialects whose melody is very similar to some Swedish dialects, whereas two Swedish dialects from different parts of the country may have very different melody (as well as Norwegian dialects from different parts of Norway).

@TheZcarekrow 3 года назад

@@THjelm Not Norwegian or Swedish here, but i once met a Swedish/Norwegian couple, they would simply speak their own language to each other and they would get everything, that's what they told me.

@THjelm 3 года назад

@@TheZcarekrow Oh yes. I have had plenty of conversations like that with Norwegians and Danes. No need to switch over to another language most of the time. I have even had a conversation with a Norwegian and a Dane at the same time, each in our own languages. You *will* stumble upon some words that are entirely different, though, so it helps to know a little bit about the vocabularies of the other languages.

@mahatmaniggandhi2898 3 года назад

i think the oslo dialect is actually closer to swedish than to other norwegian dialects. not totally sure tho

@mild_meme 3 года назад

I'm Scottish and I'm proud to have such a smart guy studying here Edit: No cups for me, I banked on Xhosa instead of Zulu 😕

@smithryansmith 3 года назад

If he can understand a Scotsman speaking English, he can understand anything! (Just taking the mickey:-)

@nicoc6387 3 года назад

I feel your pain. Who knew Zulu had so many clicks ? Not me. That one flummoxed me.

@mild_meme 3 года назад

@@smithryansmith A lot of non-Scottish really struggle with a Scottish accent, both understanding and reproducing (most of the time it ends up like Groundskeeper Willy, or a half Irish thing). If you can understand a thick Glasgow accent or Doric, for example, I'd say you're well qualified to be a linguist.

@udraj914 3 года назад

yep, even I was for Xhosa, granted I have only heard Trevor Noah speak it. btw,is it Xulu or Xhosa featured in Black Panther?

@Lhikan634 3 года назад

@@udraj914 The one in Black Panther is isiXhosa

@BrossIsindaHouse 3 года назад

6 out of 6 grade of satisfaction, because it was like the classic expert in movies and series when no one has a clue: "yes, no problem, this is my thing and I'm going to explain wtf is this", so young people watching it would say "woaaaah, amaaaaazing, I wanna be that when I grow up!" 👍 Bring him again, or any other linguist who can be like that! It's very cool 😁

@alyonamakarona Год назад

I am speechless. What an intelligent, pleasant and yet modest guest!! Thanks for the video. I did get lots of satisfaction while watching it!!

@yesid17 3 года назад

wow this guy knows his shit very impressive-i got them all except Zulu i thought it was Xhosa (even the map didn't help which killed me a little inside lol), i know a little bit of all of the others in the challenge thanks to duolingo and other language learning apps and i know a little bit of swahili but sadly no other central or southern african language :( in any case great video as always norbert! keep up the great work! would love to be on your show some time :-)

@Ecolinguist 3 года назад

Congratulations! The medium cup of satisfaction goes to you! 🏆🤓🥳

@Shareenear 3 года назад

Just so you know: the province shown in the map was KwaZulu-Natal, and the one right below that one is Eastern Cape, where Xhosa is mostly spoken

@airellrm4449 3 года назад

I didn't rewind and guessed before his explanations (and after lifelines but before his explanations for some languages) and got: 1 - Tagalog ✅ 2 - Tamil ✅ 3 - Guarani ✅ 4 - Welsh ❌ 5 - Zulu ✅ 6 - Swedish ❌ I got a small cup yay :D

@ashalorena8906 3 года назад

Me too!

@Ecolinguist 3 года назад

Yeap! The small cup of satisfaction goes to you! 🏆🤓🥳Congratulations!

@jasmadams 3 года назад

Yep, small cup here. I didn't know Guarani, and I thought Danish was Frisian.

@spideyfanboy 3 года назад

My guess was 1. Tagalog 2. Tamil 3. ??? 4. Irish 5. Amharic 6. Danish

@senantiasa 3 года назад

I thought number 4 was Welsh too!!

@mantequilla404 3 года назад

Speaking as a person who knows absolutely nothing about linguistics, I can proudly say I got 2/6 languages correct, 4/6 families correct, and 6/6 continents correct. Hooray for me!

@TheZcarekrow 3 года назад

Con seguridad tuve tagalo y danes, el irlandes tambien lo adivine, el tamil para mi podria ser desde arabe pakistani hasta hindu asi que el area si la tenia, el zulu lo ignoro por completo incluso viendo el mapa, en esa area solo ubico el afrikaans y el guarani tambien lo ignoro pero definitivamente suena nativa americana al igual solo con el dato la adivine.

@piteoswaldo 3 года назад

Same thing here! I got 2/6 languages (Tagalog and Guarani), probably 3/6 if I could get a lifeline for the Irish. 4/6 families, and 6/6 continents!

@堃Kun 3 года назад

Very impressive. Raphael showed well-structured deductive skills in his attempts at his final guesses. His comprehensive background knowledge of the phonological differences of the languages /language families is also apparent. Perfect ACADEMIC example for us. PS. (wondering the performance by a person with abundant practical exposures to different languages, maybe without as much professional grounds) Dzięki, Norbert.

@AmericanEnglishBrent 3 года назад

I absolutely love these types of challenges. More please. 🙏🏼😉👏🏼👍🏼

@AnonUser1977 3 года назад

I like how he explains his linguistic deductions.

@tatianavakhonina3305 3 года назад

That was a great lesson of humility for me, as it turned out I have a very vague idea about languages that aren't Slavic, Germanic or Romance! Had a lot of pleasure anyway! I'm absolutely in awe at Rafael's expertise and Norbert's talent at preparing these videos!

@matthewheald8964 Год назад

You said it.

@abelstropicalfruit8647 3 года назад

Finally a new episode of this! This series is very good.

@alphonsesequilpapa608 3 года назад

Yes! I wanna see more

@farovail6838 3 года назад

17:18 Everybody who's interested in languages has to laugh when he's playing number 6... You can clearly see him fighting against it 🤣🤣🤣

@MonkOrMan 3 года назад

Why what did it say?

@farovail6838 3 года назад

@@MonkOrMan It's because Danish has a rather funny pronunciation you immediately recognise if you once have heard the language 😉

@alicerey6291 3 года назад

@@farovail6838 yeah, that was the only one i guessed

@actualfluency 3 года назад

Thanks for inviting me to take part in this series, Norbert! I had a lot of fun reading the comments! Apparently it's really hard to fly under the radar when speaking danish.....

@Ecolinguist 3 года назад

Thank you for your contribution, Kris!!! 🤗

@Glossologia 3 года назад

Indeed, but it's hardly a bad thing to stand out! :)

@midtskogen 3 года назад

My guesses: 1. Tagalog 2. Telugu or Tamil 3. Quechua 4. Irish 5. Something of South Africa 6. Danish I'm pretty clueless about these languages apart from Irish and Danish which I instantly recognised (I'm Norwegian), but fascinating how surprisingly easy it was to get on the right track for the others. Still, this guy impressed.

@vincem3748 3 года назад

I also guessed Quechua for the third one, lol

@kawaiiburguer9079 3 года назад

I thought it was Quechua too :(

@wyqtor 3 года назад

It's not Quechua because there are no weird ejective consonants (a trait Quechua mysteriously shares with other languages spoken in the mountains, like Georgian)

@midtskogen 3 года назад

@@wyqtor I wouldn't know. My guess was simply something in Spanish South America, and Quechua was the only non-European language there I knew the name of. The first was pretty much given away by the last word "Manila". The second was clearly something from the Indian subcontinent (retroflex consonants!), and it sounded Dravidian, but it didn't sound like Malayalam (which in my ears sounds like a machinegun of syllables), and some sounds seemed a bit strange for Kannada, and the list of south Indian languages I know the name of was getting shorter. I've spent a month in south India, travelling through a few states, but are generally clueless about the languages other than having heard them 25 years ago. I've also been to Peru, but I don't think I heard Quechua spoken.

@krishnar1182 3 года назад

I’m genuinely surprised at how many of us guessed Quechua. I was sure it was from South America and then just guessed that as a major indigenous language .

@toxicbee990 3 года назад

10:30 it is so interesting that the flow and the intonation of irish resembles the accent of Irish people when speaking english...

@ThatBernie 3 года назад

That’s because the speaker was almost certainly an L2 speaker whose native language is (Hiberno-)English. The Irish government forces everyone to learn Irish in school, but the problem is that there aren’t enough native Irish speakers to employ as language teachers across the entire country, and so proficient (or sometimes just semi-proficient) L2 speakers are hired to teach the language in school, which has resulted in a variety of Irish that has extensive English influence in its phonology and grammar. If you listen to an actual native speaker from one of the Gaeltacht regions you will find it sounds much more “exotic.”

@Vegan123 3 года назад

It was in the Ulster dialect

@ClaraChroma 3 года назад

So happy you included Guarani 💚💚💚

@arwena102 3 года назад

Wow, I'm in love with this guy, seriously. I have enough linguistic knowledge to understand what Raphael was talking about, but to be able to actually hear these subtle characteristics of sounds in a foreign language after listening to one short sample just once? He's a genius!

@igorkhavkine 3 года назад

Wow, Raphael was really good! I sure got some satisfaction from this episode, but a purely subjective amount not to be measured by any cups. 😅 It was great to see someone sampling languages like a fine wine. Mmmm, I'm getting a hint of sandalwood and notes of nasal vowels... 😂

@Ecolinguist 3 года назад

Well said! 😂

@schizoidforjesus 3 года назад

Person: throws up Dane: what did you just say about my hair?

@beorlingo 3 года назад

Alternative: Throws Up Dane: And a very good day to you too!

@TheZcarekrow 3 года назад

Hold my smørrebrød

@jandamskier6510 3 года назад

Do you think you are funny?

@schizoidforjesus 3 года назад

oh wow look at you you're so smart and funny and cool wow

@TheZcarekrow 3 года назад

@Alan Ashury Stop whining for satan's sake

@plocus3592 3 года назад

The level of Raphael's expertise is absurd. Hats off to you, sir.

@zamrunikhalid9205 3 года назад

I'm Malaysian so I am quite familiar with the sounds of Tagalog and Tamil. I knew the third language was Celtic but couldn't really figure out which one. The fourth one was definitely South African because of its click sound but I couldn't distinguish between Zulu and Xhosa. But when the map was shown it was obvious that it was the map of Kwazulu-Natal. The last language was quite easy for me because of Danish unique vowel sounds.

@sachs6 3 года назад

I've laughed harder with the other guy, but I've learned so much more with this one! I think the satisfaction is not being right, but improving oneself. Its also fun how the only one I was immediately sure off, was the one he was initially least certain to guess: Guarani. I guess learning some dead classical Tupi wasn't worthless after all.

@Mara-ub3tq 3 года назад

Classical Tupí is cool

@Supperrman 3 года назад

Very impressive to see Rafael's thought process! As a speaker of a neighbouring language to the last one, I understood 95% of it and really enjoyed the message being said.

@malolelei3937 3 года назад

Could you please tell us what it was about?

@Supperrman 3 года назад

@@malolelei3937 I did not fully get the first part, but in general: It was about the value of fantasy, and what is different between animals and humans. Basically: In a bad situation, us humans can always imagine a better place/world/life due to the power of our fantasy and mind. And this is one of the few differences between animals and humans. Animals only live in the present, to cover their present needs, while humans are able to imagine a better future for themselves.

@malolelei3937 3 года назад

@@Supperrman Oh that's interesting. Such a positive message you wouldn't expect to hear in a language game. Anyways, thank you very much for the response. Have a nice time :)

@wyqtor 3 года назад

@@Supperrman A very apt message, considering the recent developments of how the COVID virus mutated in minks farmed for their fur in Denmark; this mutated virus was passed back to humans and this resulting variant was found to be resistant to antibodies and potential vaccines. All minks in Denmark had to be killed to prevent such events from happening again.

@erikamota2882 3 года назад

Wow, this guy Raphael is amazing! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Thank you for bringing him to your channel, Norbert. ❤️ Didn’t get any satisfaction from my guesses (never heard of Tamil), but I’m happy I got 2 of them immediately: Guaraní and Danish. 😁 Love from Brazil. 🇧🇷

@lisakitteh 3 года назад

This video was pretty cool, I loved the explanations that Raphael provided while trying to guess the languages. And he did great, he deserved that huge cup of satisfaction! I had no trouble identifying Tagalog and Danish, the others were not so easy. Maybe I'd guess Irish as well, but not the other 3. That's why these videos are always so interesting and fun to watch :)

@genevievenimhuiris5495 3 года назад

So happy they did Irish 🇮🇪

@raresremetan2001 3 года назад

Congratulations to Raphael, he is very good. I got my small cup of satisfaction, recognising Tagalog, Irish, Zulu and Danish. I am Romanian and I send you, Norbert my warmest and kindest greetings! It is a pleasure for me to watch your videos! I am myself a speaker of 6 languages with the ability of understanding some others to some degree. Thank you for the Latin VS Romanian ones, they were hugely inspiring! Keep on the great work, you’ve got all my support! Cześć bracie! P.S.: Please add some Germanic languages comparisons in the future, that would be very interesting! Bardzo dziękuje!

@markusnest9459 3 года назад

Wow, Raphael is just a-ma-zing ! (I am thinking that he might read from this that I am german speaking , coming from the cologne area and originally from the Ruhrgebiet area, which is fine : there is no hiding from Raphael)

@BlastKast 3 года назад

I got so excited to hear Danish when it came up. And the message was quite nice too talking about human imagination

@ykscalsan7240 3 года назад

What was the message can you write it in English

@gerald02121 2 года назад

@@ykscalsan7240 This is just from google translate, but I think it should be pretty close to the message. "The imagination is the ultimate freedom, for no one can take it from you. No matter how bad your situation is, you can always imagine a better place, or a better everyday life, a better life actually. And it is also important, one of the few differences between animals and humans. Animals, they live in the present - they only need to cover their needs right now, while humans can imagine a better future and a completely different situation."

@ykscalsan7240 2 года назад

@@gerald02121 thank you that was exactly what i was curious about