These videos of anatomical pronunciation really does help in how one to visualize language, or at least the sound portion of it. Certainly gives hints in how one would attempt to create fictional languages of extrasolar sapients to a degree.
Huh. I live in the Puget Sound area, where pretty much every third or forth town, river, or other place has a name derived from Lushootseed / dxʷləšúcid. I never really realized how none of those names actually have nasal sounds in them, but you're right. That's what I love about linguistics, when it lets you notice things that you otherwise take for granted.
Same here! Well, we moved years ago, but I grew up there not a couple hours from the coast. We would take daily trips to the beach and go as far as far north as Astoria or sometimes Vancouver, in Washington. I also recognized one of the native languages you mentioned, “Quileute” which I’m sure some others might recognize, as the Quileutes gained notoriety from being showcased in the twilight saga. (Unfortunately) as it was fraught with inaccuracies. (I’m sure I don’t need to spell out what they are). I just think it’s interesting how language connects everything we associate with and connects us to each other. Again, I refer back to Twilight, Something we all relate to one way or another and in a way “Quileute” is brought into the spotlight.
Dziękuję bardzo osobie, która przetłumaczyła ten filmik na język polski. Z pewnością bardzo pomoże mi (i pewnie nie tylko mi) nauczyć się języka angielskiego. Szkoda, że nie udało się przetłumaczyć pozostałych filmików. Jednak tak jak na początku wspomniano, DZIĘKUJĘ BARDZO chociaż za ten film przetłumaczony.
LOLFlyingPotatoes I kind of do both. I guess? English isn't my native and I can't remember, but I'm strongly guessing I must've only pronounced "-ing", since the other doesn't exist in my native. But then adopted the other. Nope, I only use the other now. No "-ing".
essennagerry I used to say /iŋg/ because ŋ only happens as an allophone of n in brazillian portuguese (my main language). Now I can pronounce it correctly.
+Brennan Long This is something I thought about a few days ago, why *do* people decide that "nah, their word for their own language/culture/country/etc. isn't good, we need to make our own." I mean, I guess I can understand why people might not want to learn how to pronounce "qʷi·qʷi·diččaq", but there are plenty of languages that just decided to remake other languages' words for themselves such as: *Original English* Español Spanish Français French Nihongo Japanese Ellinika Greek
0:37 - nasal: reroute air through the nasal cavity examples: mouth and nose 1:01 - plosive: trap air altogether and release it in one go examples: party, born, tardy, dirty, king, garden 1:21 - fricative: almost all the air is trapped, creating a sort of hissing sound examples: fish, van, thought, this, so, zoo, shine, vision, loch, home 1:47 - approximant: slightly impede the air flow, creating an altered sound examples: run, yes, water [1] 2:42 - tap or flap: "one articulator is thrown against another is a single gesture" example: latter pronunction in American English as opposed to British English ([lærɚ], [latə]) 3:06 - trill: hold a sound in place and push it through the vocal cords, causing it to vibrate examples: rendezvous (French), simbi (Nias), rolled r 3:33 - lateral: liquidy "l" type sounds example: laugh 1. w is coarticulated, that is, articulated in multiple places at once. It's classified as labial-velar (back of the tongue against the soft palate + lips touching). As such it does not appear on table of consonants but rather in a section dedicated to coarticulated consonants.
The [x] sound you made for English "loch" was actually uvular, rather than velar. (IPA is a tall x for uvular fricative) Short [x] is velar fricative. Small point. Great videos!
4:16, and....thanks for replying and not making insults (or thinking I was insulting you or whatever)... its a rare thing to fine on the internet. And I do love your videos. :)
I see where the confusion is. He highlighted the labels for each column which all appear in a row, then highlighted the labels for each row which appear in a column. The narration was correct.
procrastinator99 No probs! ScotlandTom has it correct. I highlighted the labels for the columns and rows. I see how this may cause confusion. Apologies.
Great video, I've tried to understand the IPA but never fully understood some of the manners of articulation. By the way, the uvular trill is often called "r à la Edith Piaf" in French because she prononced the "r" this way, however this allophone is quite rare; the "r" is rather prononced as a fricative.
+Nameguy Using Serbian language (we have just simple AEIOU and no th), your sentence would be written like this: Rili grejt vidio. Teknks tu ju, aj ken rid IPA tu a gud ikstend.
The voiceless lateral fricative is found in Jämtland aswell! It's a region in the north-west of sweden where my father comes from, I've actually used this sound when constructing my own language!
I love you videos so much! I'm fourteen and have no idea what I'm going to do when I grow up. I've been really enjoying watching and am even considering making a conlang now, thanks to you :D
English is from England. That's why it's called English not American. 'Standardised' is the correct spelling in standard English. As is realise, memorise, etc. Americans just changed the spelling cos too many of you can't be bothered pronouncing the letters differently to how they are spelt
@@zappycrook1130 I think you mean spelled ;) In all seriousness though, I don't think it's fair to say English from England is the standard and all else is corrupted. English people came to what is now the United States and brought 1600s English with them, and in the New World it slowly evolves, it's separation from English English is slowed by contact. However, is English English not changing? It too has evolved in the past few centuries. Why then are not the various dialects of post-colonies considered equal daughters of their shared mother tongue of Early Modern English?
Small tip - we actually have 2 lateral approximants in English - l and L. Most clearly noticed in the word spelt 'little' [lɪtəL] - if you try pronouncing it as [lɪtəl] or [LɪtəL] you may notice the difference, and if you try to pronounce it [Lɪtəl] it will be very obvious. It may not be in every English dialect, but generally speaking a lateral approximant at the start of a word will be an [l] and at the end of a word it will be an [L]. Try 'illogical' vs. 'logically' and you should find a difference in the second lateral approximant.
As an American twelve year old, I usually voice the "t" sound in "latter", so it sounds like "ladder". The "l" and "r" sounds are voiced, so "ladder" sounds better to me, especially in casual conversation, where I just need to get people to understand the meaning of the sentence, instead of worrying that I got the pronunciation exactly right.
Americans tend to do that a lot, simplifying the pronunciation of words, such as "bath" in America vs "bahth" in the UK. Make of that what you will, but it's fascinating.
Personally, I, although I'm an 11 year old raised on the American West coast, grew up watching Irish TV programs, so I tend to pronounce a few things differently. Such as pronouncing the word "cicada" as "cicahda" with a long "ä" sound, rather than "cicada" as my fellow Americans say it. I also tend to say "mum" instead of "mom."
literal fruit not all British people pronouns bath “barth”. That’s only in the south. I’m 14 and from Cheshire and we say bath as does Scotland, Wales and all of Ireland
Interesting, plosive starts with a plosive, nasal starts with a Nasal, fricative starts with a fricative, lateral starts with a lateral and voiced starts with a voided sound.
Your favourite sound is also found in Norwegian dialects, particularly Trønder and Northern-Norwegian, such as the words kallj, kalltj (cold m/f, n), pronounced roughly /kaʎː/, /kaɬc/ (I hope that was correctly transcribed.)
Well, "loch" is not English, it's Gaelic. I don't think there are any [x] (voiceless velar fricatives) in English. If "loch" is English, so is "Chanukah".
scots english has the sound, and it is sometimes considered an english dialect. also english does contain one native word with the sound. the word "ugh".
If you think about it, we all trained ourselves to move different parts of our mouth in order to form sounds that people then label meaning to. That's cool
GiLM Don't worry space building is not going away. I'm going to set up this language thing and then switch back and forth between astronomy and linguistics.
>"/χ/" is velar, Uhh, no. /x/ is velar. and /χ/ is uvular. Anway, I was talking about his pronounciation. I find it difficult to tell the difference between the uvular and velar fricatives, but I'm pretty sure he's pronouncing it as an uvular, even though he's using the symbol for [x]
In the plosives segment, the image showed the mouth closed to make the sound, but you do not need to close your mouth to articulate the t, d, k, g consonants
TheJklgamer Ich bin halb deutsch. :P Deswegen finde ich die drei tonnen ganz einfach! (PS...I am not a fluent german speaker so apologise for the above sentence :s )
Artifexian Ich bin sheiße in Deutsch. Loved the video as always. Can't wait until you basically have your PhD in astronomy, linguistics, geography, sociology, theology, and psychology after learning everything but the kitchen sink for these videos.
I'm speaking and thinking so much English all the time that my native German has a British accent ôO I'm (re)learning German phonetics now. Wünscht mir Glück!
+RAGNARTHEVIKING9595 We as native english speakers. You may or may not be included in this set. same reason we call japanese japanese, because it is from where or whom the language originates.
Arainn Daley okay, well I was asking for the story behind it. Well call japan 'japan' because nihon became nippan in Chinese because of the way their alphabets work and english speakers fuged it into Japan somehow.
Im so confused i pronounce some of my θ sounds with a lateral-dental "thin, "thistle, thebes Bath, they" and it sounds more like a β but my lips aren't touching at all and in ɸ, β, θ and ð i can feel air going over my toung like in Father, Them, Bathe. Never realised i pronounced the th in they and them or bathe and bath differently till now but i can feel my toung make a different shapes to block or let air through in different ways in total i can feel 4 "th" sounds - is a toung restriction × is a lip restriction • is airflow •---• [ ] this, they x-•-x [ɸ,β] thought, other •-•-• [ð] That, them -•••- [θ] three Am i misunderstanding something?
I find it amusing that you can pronounce the harsh French uvular trill and the rare bilabial trill, but the inoffensive alveolar trill that many languages use to pronounce "r" remains beyond you. My brain struggles to interpret the Voiceless Lateral Fricative as a single sound: I keep hearing it as a palato-alveolar fricative (sh) followed by a lateral approximant (l)
I know it's a bit early for that, but I hope you do a good video about constructing writing systems in the future. The one I am focusing on is supoosed to kind of resemble runes, very angular. The conglang only has short vowels so I only need to modify a basic symbol with extensive sets of modifiers and I end up with a writing sytem that looks complicated but isn't. Sort of took my construction ideas from Hongul, except I made it moe angular.
Isn't there the [ç] in the beginning "human" and "huge"? As a German I'm always wondering, why it is so difficult for English-speakers to pronounce "ich" [ɪç]. Maybe because it's not an intial sound. But try to explain a German the difference betwenn "v" and "w"... ;)
If Makah lacks nasal consonants, how come the name of the language starts with a bilabial nasal? Is the name from a different language that does have nasal consonants?
+Bacon You are semi-right. They start as a plosive and end on a (usually) sibilant fricative, so they use a plosive + (sibilant) fricative to represent them. It's sort of like how a tap begins similarly to an approximant and is cut short by "flapping" your articulators together. I would call it one sound though.
If n is nasel whats the spanish ñ and i think its veey funny how english native speakers can't say r trill and spanish native speakers say most of the time English words like rich with the trill
Sometimes on the chart I see fricatives classified as either sibilant or non. Like on the IPA Wikipedia page right now. Anyone familiar what's the difference and if either classification is the official?
@3:58 English has two lateral fricatives not one, and both are used in the word lateral. The first 'L' is alveolar, and the last one is palatal, at least in American English...
I thought the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative (ɬ) was a speech impediment of Cantonese speakers from the villages. But it is a regular sound with Taishanese speakers.
Hah, I watched this and the video before it but I couldnt keep the info in my head, so I still dont know what any of the words for the columns or rows mean, or what most of the symbols for pronunciation are
Vidéos passionnantes, j'adore mais serait-il possible d'avoir les mêmes aussi complètes, travaillées et fondamentales ...sans la musique de fond ? Je suis pianiste et je n'arrive pas à me concentrer sur les paroles et c'est mon objectif, celui d'apprendre l'anglais! Le rythme de la musique plus le rythme incessant de la voix -j'aime- cela fait trop pour mon petit cerveau! Merci beaucoup. Marie
I'm sorry to say it, I don't know about your dialect, but in most dialects of English, well actually any language, there very rarely is a fricative [h]. It's always an approximant, although some languages, including Finnish and Arabic, have true fricative h's.
In most dialects of English there is a fricative that he missed. /ç/ is how most English speakers say the h in hue. Seeing as it's more common than the /x/ in loch I'm surprised that he missed it.
Since [B] is a voiced consonant, couldn't there be a theoretical "[P]", or is there is no language that uses a "voiceless [B]", therefore there is no IPA symbol for it?
Neo 2.4 Hylan-May IPA doesn't use capital letters, but I'm guessing that you mean /ʙ/. There isn't a dedicated symbol for a voiceless bilabial trill, but you can make any sound voiceless with this '◌̥'. So a voiceless bilabial trill would be transcribed as [ʙ̥].
Neo 2.4 Hylan-May Correct! If a sound does not feature (phonemically) in a least one human language it doesn't get a symbol in the IPA. The sound you are describing (voiceless bilabial trill) is more than doable. I'm going to cover how one un-voices things in the next IPA video...may include this sound. Just because its super fun to pronounce. :)
That's the one I mean. I have don't have quick access to the IPA symbol for "voiced bilabial trill" (mobile browsing), so I figured "B" was close enough.
Neo 2.4 Hylan-May Yeah, the IPA is basically impossible to type with a normal keyboard, that's why X-SAMPA was created. It's IPA but written with characters found on any keyboard. /ʙ̥/ would be written as B\_0 B\ being the trill ʙ and _0 showing the lack of voicing (◌̥)
