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I'm glad this video has sparked conversation even if it is about my name rather than the language I'm speaking. I think the main thing to keep in mind when watching videos on a channel that is about different languages and different people groups and their cultures is to distance ourselves from our anglocentric, francocentrinc, germanocentri, etc view and to embrace others as they are. I understand if someone has been sensitized to a word because it looks like another word but not all that shines is gold(!!) Negar is not a cognate of the n word. It is not even from the same language family. Even then you have to keep in mind the word "Negro" is still used in most romance languages to refer to the color "black". So please keep your petty jokes at the door and if you're still confused about anything, a simple google search will do you good!
Thank you for your video, Negar. Like Persian, but maybe even more, your language sounds very elegant, refined. Really enjoyed how it sounds, the frequent use of fricative consonants and so on. I had long wished to hear how other Iranic languages from Iran, excepting Persian and Kurdish, sound, including Mazanderani. I also agree with your comment very much. Appreciating other cultures and languages also require us to immerse fully in them without the limits, biases and tendencies of our own. I had my own video speaking my particular accent of Brazilian Portuguese uploaded to this great channel some months ago, I think these videos allow us to have a great cultural exchange. Cheers from Fortaleza, Brazil!
I’m Iranian I speak standard persian. From what I understand she was in the metro wearing headphones and she heard something that sounded familiar around her. and she found it was a women speaking mazandarani. I assume she talked to the women couldn’t fully understand that part but then her last point was that it’s a small world.
I'm ethnically mazani but my parents didn't teach me the language. That's why I understand her words perfectly but can't speak it myself😞 She's so fluent.
Mazandaranis, Gilaks, Azeris, etcetera they're all ethnically Persian at the end of the day, it's just that in the Caspian region the dialects they speak share certain topological features with languages from the South Caucasus (Georgian, Armenian, etcetera) whereas standard Persian doesn't.
@@RICO_SUAVE_86_ mazandarani isn't persian. Mazandarani is northwestern iranic like kurdish language. Persian is southwestern iranic language. Regarding scolars, Mazdandarani and Kurdish, Gilak, Azeri come from Mèdes. But persians from persian.
@@lavieenconfinement3511 this is true. There is a link between all the aforementioned groups to the medes. In fact, according to genetic studies, Azeris and Kurds share the most in common genetically, and are believed to descend from a common gene pool, probably the Medes.
@@lavieenconfinement3511 "Iranic Peoples" and "Persians" are not the same thing. Persians are a sub-group of Iranic Peoples, as are Tajiks, Ossetians, Pashtuns, Etc. Medes were an Iranic Group that migrated a little earlier than the Persians to the Iranian Plateau thousands of years ago. But at the end of the day, we are all Iranic Peoples
@@persianguy1524 You know we can hear the language for ourselves and can tell that it's not Persian? Who are you trying to convince with your obsessive comments? And even though what she speaks is under huge Persian influence, you still can't understand it. If you heard Mazandarani from 100+ years ago you would understand 0%. It's not from Middle Persian either, it has northwest Iranic features which Middle Persian lacks. Any linguist will tell you that.
@@persianguy1524 well if you'd know linguistic you wouldn't say that, its not just a dialect. Dilami, Gilaki, Mazandarani, Shahmirzadi and Talysh are daughters of the Caspian Iranian language, which came from North Iranian language, which came from western Iranian language which came from Middle Persian language and so on... . and the mother is indo-european language.
@@Aertemisiae they are from Northwestern Iranian Language group we don’t have northern Iranian language group And the rest I agree with you and also that Mazdarani or as they call it Tabari is language and not a dialect to Farsi
I had heard that Mazandarani is almost a completely different language when it comes to Persian, and it holds a more conservative way of speaking as opposed to todays Farsi (without outside - Arabic - influence) and my goodness it is so beautiful 🥹
@@persianguy1524stfu we don’t speak middle persian lurs do we have our own vocubulary and speak and own grammar stop spreading lies you persians don’t even speak the Original persian
@@eto_chelovekthat comes from the influence of persian they brought the arabic words into our Languages but I have no Problem with arabic words I rather have them than persian words
Bro it's almost Persian! All Persian speaker could understand at least 70% of it. I myself just didn't understand 1 sentence. Although the grammar is a bit different, but it is clear for us. The only problem we encounter speaking with Mazanis is the speed of their speaking. This girl is speaking tooooo slowly in compare with real speed.
@@phscience797 Thanks for your reply. I only speak English, French and Spanish for now and I want to learn some middle Eastern languages too. I think I will start with Hebrew. I like Arabic a lot too, probably will learn it later. Languages are usually barriers but when you learn them, they become bridges that makes you Closer to lots of people.
@@Kevin-jc1fx If you're into learning languages, I can be useful to learn a bit about historical linguistics; while it doesn't directly help you learn a new language, if you're learning a lot of languages it can help the transitions from one to another, and give a good baseline of what exactly you're learning. For example, in the middle East you have two major language families, Semitic and Iranian, and the languages of each group will be very diverse but will still have much in common due to shared ancestry.
@@jared_bowden Indeed, I am very interested in that. It's definitely something I will try to look up more. One day I watched a 4 minutes video and I thought the person was speaking Spanish but by the end I realized it was Portuguese but I understood him with no difficulty having not learned Portuguese yet. It .add me realize that the common history some languages share make them very similar in many ways.
@@johnharing3971 Yeah, I'd say it's kind of in the middle ground between "dialect" and "different language". As a Persian speaker, I can mostly understand this, but it's a bit tough, and not everything gets through to me. Now I was raised in the United States, but neither of my parents can understand Mazandarani or Gilaki perfectly either, and they're Persian speakers who were raised to adulthood in Iran, where these languages are native. I would compare it to the difference between Portuguese & Galician, or between standard Beijing Mandarin and other "dialects" to the east and south. Definitely not as similar as British vs. American English tho. Lol, sorry for the novel, I thought you might find the depth interesting.
@@nimakay620 Thanks. The Spanish and Galician comparison makes perfect sense. As a second language Spanish speaker, Galician makes sense but has about 20% words that are exclusively used in Portuguese that are not understood.
In Persian her name translates to "painted." People shouldn't be so paranoid every time a language has a word vaguely resembling an English racial slur. Edit: I may be wrong on the translation, so could someone confirm? Again, it has nothing to do with racial slurs.
@@solanwheeler7377 narrow-minded Anglocentrics and their usual annoying obsession with thinking the whole world abroad functions according to their own very specific cultural, historical and linguistic background {rolls eyes}.
@@ygorcoelhos Seriously. Says much about the conscious/subconscious mind of Anglophone speakers of a particular part of the world. Imagine just SEEING that name (because it wasn't pronounced in the video) and reflexively associating with a racial slur your people called other people. And joking about it. That level of inculcation is quite sad.
@@dipthongthathongthongthong9691 indeed! For what it's worth, that name is also written exactly like the Portuguese verb "negar" meaning "to deny, negate, decline"... but for some reason it didn't even cross my mind that that name was like a certain word in Portuguese (probably pronounced differently, though). I think we are just a bit more used to not automatically "read" the rest of the world with the lenses of our own particular cultural experience. I have noticed a similar problem in the accusations of "blackface" against foreign customs and practices that have no racial, let alone disparaging meaning at all, and the utter incapability to understand that people elsewhere can identify and think about race in a completely different (much less binary/dichotomic) way, not seeing everyone literally in simplified black-and-white tones.
It is a very beautiful Persian name meaning: "sweetheart, idol or beloved.", it also means "pattern and painting". The Phonology, melody and rhythm of the Persian Language is rather different from English/American-english, which cause that a world written identical would sound quite different in these languages. The stress in Persian language is usually on the final syllable. In the case of of this beautiful word, the sound pattern would be "Neh - Gar" with the the stress solely on the "Gar". Hence hearing this name, one could in no way find any audio associations with the English word written in the same maner.
"Allaho Akbar" is an arabic phrase it has nothing to do with persian and a native persian speak would never say "allaho akbar" the phrase "allaho akbar" means "god is the greatest" a persian would instead say "Khoda Bozorge" meaning "God is Great/Big"
