The Languages of Siberia 

Siberia is home to many different languages such as Sspanish, Sportuguese, and Sbasque

Siberia has two seasons: The Frozen Solid Season The Mosquito Season

I’m Russian and your pronunciation of Russian word and names was incredibly good and way better than I could expect from a foreigner

The rush you get when Nativlang cites one of your professors

Greetings from Siberia! I myself native Russian speaker. Unfortunately, living here all life I've never met any native Siberian and as well never heard their language and didn't know anything about them, so your video was very useful for me. The natives of my region speak Khanty and Mansi language and I was surprised to know that it's the same language family with Hungarian...

That's a cool video I'am turkic man (hakas) from Siberian mountains of Sayan and I wanna say that you did a good job to give people simple information about small languages of my land Thank you ☺️

Wow man. I live in Siberia and I've learned so much. Not only you nailed your Russian pronunciation, but also you've managed to pronounce something in Chukotkan! I couldn't help but become your patron.

Greetings from Novosibirsk, largest city of Sibiria

As a Hungarian its very painful to see how the Uralic languages (and ofc others) disappear :(

This is the first time i've seen his face

Tuvan, altai and khakas are also very important siberian turkic languages. They are official languages.

Your Russian is spot on. Very good, especially the tricky final B in Ob. Also, so pleasing to see a reference to a paper by someone I went to college with.

Where I live we will hit -40 (we hit -50 with the windchill this winter) in the winter and 35 C in the summer, quite the range

8:45 i'd rather repeat "chukotko-kamchatkan" all day than try to pronounce "ӆыгъораветӆьэн йиӆыйиӆ" once.

who still remember their knowledge only in our left ear??

Oh, Siberia. My second home. Stranger on the internet: "Where are you from?" Me: "I'm from Serbia" Stranger on the internet: "Oh, isn't it cold there?" 😂😂😂

8:48 your pronunciation of chukchi language is so good. I am Chukcha but i dont speak my language. I heared it from my grandma many times.

There needs to be movies or games set in the Russian empire. It was crazily diverse and had the weirdest politics of anywhere in the world.

I saw Australia there. I would love to see you address it one day. There are so many Aboriginal languages, sadly they are extinct or severely endangered. They are beautiful and diverse languages with a fascinating culture

My first try had an audio issue the whole way through. Thanks for waiting while I fixed, rendered and uploaded! (Old one is still up if you're eager to compare or you need the audio export error experience: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rQskz_HQnRQ.html )

My family descents from the mansi people & I wasn’t able to learn a lot of the language that my great grandfathers mother thought him. It was very beautiful and I hope to learn and discover my roots as I go. This was an amazing video! I hope more people watch this and become educated on Siberia . Thank you!

It's time to rewatch the vid to support LangFocus' hard work fixing everything for us :)

Relating to this topic (more specifically Yupik) I’d be intrigued to see an animation on the Inuit languages from east Siberia all the way to Greenland. I’ve been studying them myself and have found their relations and history amazing. Thanks for the great video!

I’ve been fascinated with Siberia for a while now. I feel like most people don’t realize how vast it is, not just west to east, but also north to south. There’s so many natural wonders, nature, different cultures, animals, beauty, and enough land to make a continent of its own but all anyone seems to think is that “its all just cold.” I’d really love to see some of it for myself one day.

I swear, your videos always seem to make time disappear, and never fail to leave me with a smile.

I was living in north of Siberia all my childhood. Unfortunatelly we were never tought the locals’ language (Nenets in my case) - what a shame :( I can only say “hi” in Nenets and that’s it.

Siberia is actually one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world that is in amount of languages spoke per 1mln of ppl

thank you so much for talking about my homeland with such passion) and for doing away with that 'constant cold' myth xD actually, this spring was so much warmer in my hometown near Krasnoyarsk than it was in Moscow.

I found a grammar of Chukchi a few weeks ago and it’s really cool, it resembles Mohawk because of all the noun incorporation madness!!

8:25 that counting system is very similar to Japanese. You have different ways of counting round objects, flat objects, long objects, people, money, etc. that’s not so surprising seeing how close it is to Japan :)

The fact that you pronounce the words and the names in every topic language the way they are pronounced by natives and not in that atrocious american accent is one of many reasons i religiously follow this channel.

Warm greetings from Sakha! (Or Yakutia) thank you for such an informative video :) I’m grateful for popularizing such a diverse heritage we have in these seemingly empty lands!

As I run into your channel for the first time, it's been extremely satisfying to hear all those proper nouns pronounced absolutely correctly. In particular, Kamchatka nearly drove me extatic.

I'm happy to see you cover us native arctic ppl and our languages. Nenets here. Sadly never learnt my mother tongue, but plan to try eventually

I thought an wide area with little in the amount of people would make them more isolated and therefore increase the amount of languages or dialects in the area. Maybe it is the fact that most live in the same area in the south.

Greetings to Turkic siberians (Yakuts, Khakassians, Altays, Shors, Chulyms, Tofalars, Tuvans)

I am from Siberia and I maybe knew 10% of this. Thanks!

Hello from Yakutia! 👋

Making plural the default makes a lot of sense to me, things are called single because they're being singled out from a group, and referring to a thing apart from its singular instances is necessarily referring to a plurality.

7:08 The Yeniseian-Dene language connection was interesting. I've always been interested in the Siberian connection to the languages of the Americas.

It's not all isolated though. Novosibirsk is the third largest city in Russia.

also, NativLang as a Siberian Russian I would say we don't speak the Northern Govor, mostly it's the mix of all dialects and for the most part people speak the literature variant (the thing is during 60-80s there was a really big migration to Siberia for the construction of giant industrial complexes, also in Siberia you could get more earnings so the people from both Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR and Belorussian SSR moved to Siberia)

Oncorhynchus mykiss (мыкижа, I pronounce the species name like мыкиж with ж devoiced): the species name of this trout is from a Kamchatkan language.

*right ear has rejoined the chat*

I was born in the JOA (ЕАО). Very few people speak Yiddish there but it is taught in schools.

It would be nice if you could also talk about the Saami languages of Northern Scandinavia in a separate video perhaps?

Saskatchewan Canada has that exact same temperature variation, lived it the last decade, I'd know lol. -54C is the coldest I've seen.

I'm Russian and I'm able to repeat "Chukotka-Kamchatsky" three times tops.

By far one of my favorite channels. I miss the regular uploads

I'm rewatching it, because technically, it's a new video, and I watch all your new videos!

I loved this where you describe an entire area's linguistic diversity rather than a particular language family. I have some suggestions that you might want to look into: The northeastern part of India, so many language families, languages and dialects, I'm sure you'll be interested to dig in (Sino-Tibetan, Thai Kra Dai & so much more...) There's also the south Asian region which is in continuation to the previous region including South China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia etc Then there's the famous Papua New Guinea! I'd love to see all this! Also maybe subcontinental India? 😁😅 Anyway love your work!

Can you tell more about that counting system? And it would be interesting to have a whole episode about numbers in general!

I would love to learn Chukchi, as well as Sakha and Evenki. These languages sound awesome, and are so fascinating.

I live right on Amur river, but all the languages I've heard is Chinese, from Chinese people working in here, and actually I've met one native belorussian. And according to linguistic map of Siberia, that we learned from school, the entire area around Amur river is populated by Russian speakers, with small villages that speak other east slavic languages, like Ukranian. That got me thinking, that maybe Xibe and Nanai languages have almost or completely died out.

Your videos routinely go well over my head, but I love watching how you explain them, and I'm sure more knowledgeable people than me can vouch for the quality of the research itself.

Your quality content is appreciated even more during quarantine. Hope you’re well, and thank you!

The love you make your videos with sparks me such joy!

Just fascinating! Thank you for sharing this information!

I am so amazed Im watching a video about my native languages (Sakha and Evenki) almost nobody heard of

Oh! You’re very cute. Took me aback seeing you as other than a cartoon. Thanks for your videos. They’re a lot of fun

Oh, this video is such a pleasure to watch! Your pronunciation is quite good! It's a pity the video is only 10 minutes long. I hope we'll see more stories about Siberian tongues!

Yeniseian languages such as Ket are still connected to indigenous American Athabaskan languages like Chipewyan, Dine (Apachean and Navajo languages) It’s also theorized to also be the result of a back migration from Beringia and North America to Siberia.

Thank you for another interesting video I learn so much from you💟

These are some of my favorite videos. I adore the fact that they are animated.

Quite a fascinating region. I love the huskies from there. I really want to visit. Russia is so vast and has lots to offer

Your channel makes me so so happy this is the kind of thing I get excited about and no one gets it!!! I would take a whole class on just this topic if I could

Thanks a bunch for your effort and love for language. I'm always looking forward to your videos.

The world record for the largest range of teperarture change actually belongs to the Siberian town of Verkhoyansk (from +37°C to -68°C, making a Δ105°C difference).

Siberia really has it all You want a language with 40 verb tenses? Shor and Khakas, you're welcome. A language that sounds like if Kazakh and Polish had a baby? Shor is still here. Wanna Klingon? Here's Mongolian for you. A Turkic language that sounds Mongolic? Tuvin, Khakas and Yakut have entered the chat. Add some Polish to it - and you have the Shor dialect of Khakas. Wanna something really creepy and psychedelic? Alright, we've got Khanty. Wanna something chilling and beautiful? Nganasan is here. You want a language with some really bizarre phonetical features like, let's say, the long shwa? We also have it in Ket. Wanna something glitchy where the glottal stop(including the VOICED glottal stop) is everywhere? Welcome to Nenets with its poetic tundra dialect and the creepy forest dialect. A language where verbs have evidentiality? A language that has different words for different types of ghosts, demons and... swamps, and where you can even express that you feel bad for someone just by adding another suffix to a verb? Welcome to Mansi.

I updated the Wikipedia page on Nivkh thanks to your comment on it

Neat video! Thanks for uploading!

Well, then I get the chance to tell you again how awesome your videos are! I've been following this channel since the Toth's Pill series. I'm pretty sure you'll eventually go back to my beloved Mesoamerica and expand more on its linguistic diversity.

I would love a video on West African languages. I know French and Swahili are most common, but I see no mention of Wolof or other common languages when I research. Wolof and French are the only languages spoken (aside from English) among the very large population of West Africans that I work with. Maybe West Africa is too broad of a term (as they are mostly from Senegal and Mauritania); I just find it odd that they all speak Wolof but there is almost no mention of Wolof when looking into West African languages.

This is fascinating! Thank you so very much!

Beautiful animations. Thank you for putting in so much work into these wonderful videos. As a language enthusiast, your videos still bring the most nerdy joy. Thank you!

Love these vids! Keep it up!

I really love your content. I’ve been hoping you’d do a video about the language diversity of the Levant that isn’t just limited to Arabic. As there are very little content on this topic on the internet!

Fantastic animated story about the cultures of such a vast and varied part of the world. Thank you, Josh!

I seriously can't get enough of these videos. I wish they could be longer! But I understand if the animation is too laborious

Thanks for that great video! Could you talk about the Native American languages in South America in your next video please?

5:47 I heard "reindeer hurters and writers"... 😂😂😂 Am I the only one to mishear this passage???

So excited to watch this video. Huge fan of your stuff, love how much work you put into all your videos

Wow. I live in Kamchatka, in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, and I was very pleased to see my city in your video

Would love to see you do a video on Euskara (Basque).

2:44 As a siberian from Tomsk (Western Siberia) I claim, that we sometimes have a temperature +40 C. And in July +30 C can be normal. ) And -36 C is normal in my region mostly, but nearly everything which is located on the East (compare to Yenisei) has in winter -50 - -60 C.

This one was sooo interesting! Thank you! I love your content 🤩

What a great topic, thank you!!

Nativlang, can you please make a video on Bantu noun classes. Thank you very much.

The mechanism appears to be that nouns are fundamentally thought of as ''mass" -the singular then becomes the derived form "one of those"

Congrats, Josh. Great work!

Fascinating as always

Really interesting video, and I'd love to see one on the theory that the NaDene languages are descended from Siberian tongues.

You mentioned the link to Dene briefly here. Have you already done a video on how language in the Americas relates to migration theories? That would be really cool.

So cool and thank you for covering these languages.

I literally love your videos so much; it's great learning about languages I didn't even know existed until now :))

Do a whole video on Ket, we’re ready haha

I'd love to see you go deeper into Japanese, Italian and the history and diversification of English. With that last one, less on the pronunciations and more on the differences in vocabulary and colloquialisms between Posh, Cockney, Australian, Kiwi, Canadian and the 3 unique dialects in America (New England, Texan and Hawaiian).

There's nothing better than a Nativlang video to take your mind off a lockdown. Watching your videos, I always just instinctively feel like I'm in good company. Thanks for sharing your passion - it's infective ;)

Diolch, enjoyed as always, keep up the hard work!😙

i hope you can make languages from the Philippines. i've been watching your bids it's very informative. love from the Philippines ❤️❤️❤️