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hello everyone welcome to the Laing focused Channel and my name is Paul and this is mystery languages if you've seen one of these before then you know how it goes all play some audio of a language for you or I'll show you a written sample of a language and you can guess what language it is and if you don't know what language it is maybe you can guess what language family it belongs to or what country had spoken in or anything like that and similar to last time
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today's samples were submitted by Lang focus viewers on Instagram so let's get into the first language please listen aminika semi-firm osa emma de la cote tober mayo demos varios animes katrakas hue o una Tartaruga treadlow so hot oh oh sure dingus - fat sacado Pushkin's pass on facendo paratha snow job now let's see that one more time with writing Amina cosimo Formosa Emma de la cote Tober mayo demos various animals katrakas in Coelho una Tartaruga traklon so hot
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oh oh sure dings - fat sacado poses can space on fazendo who does not shout now here are a few more written samples que toma el gouna roba Ella could you live replaced at of the biblioteca Nogueira's very Stano t so what language do you think it might be [Music] the language is Galician Galician is a member of the ribeiro romance branch of the Romance language family it's spoken by around 2.4 million people mainly in Galicia an autonomous community in northwestern Spain which borders
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Portugal to the south it's a sister language of Portuguese with the two of them sharing a common ancestor in the 13th century some consider Portuguese and Galician to be two varieties of the same language because they're closely related and traditionally formed a dialect continuum but they do have two separate standard languages in their respective regions and many people will insist that they are indeed independent languages the sentences we saw have some features
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similar to Portuguese for example da a contraction of de plus aa which would be de la in Spanish but there are also some features that are specifically Galician for example this word fáááád this is a cognate of the-- nada in Spanish and Shannara in Italian but in Galician many nasal sounds have disappeared there were numerous little phonological distinctions between Galician and both Spanish and Portuguese okay on to the next language please listen Marisa con Marielena cascada study
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intestine Ababa Bolivia Ecuador Peru volatile and potato soup Takashi Miike suit this alley Hossam is XML allahu to sucks Mauricio tell about Teslas of cogsa Kunekune last sex his Ponyo hollandaise here English a called Mary Seacole person is not total on America Lana Roni Koval optimist now let's look at a few sentences in writing but AHA no study it aid the lioness Virata Rama to co-host my suit and out to Turkey so what language could it be [Music] the language is Estonian Estonian is the
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official language of Estonia and is spoken by around 1.1 million native speakers mainly in Estonia but also by a minority in Latvia it's a member of the finnick branch of the Uralic language family however around 30% of its vocabulary is borrowed from other language families like Germanic it's closely related to finish and more distantly related to Hungarian and like both of them it's a largely agglutinative language when looking at the written samples a hint that this
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might be Estonian is the vowel diacritics these vowels with umlaut diacritics also exist in Finnish but this vowel and O with the tilt is not used in Finnish another hint is that you see lots of doubled vowel letters to represent long vowels and on to the next language please listen with rosa la da gachi molybdenum trees or even a Paris castor - a penniless American TV channel Parc güell Acropolis perturbs this is - aluminium ecology Sam Craig Nettles hell mineral or tar weapon so that marry
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Sayoko nation dinner and course quality with radicals the algae at hidden column are joinin appears a Casa de mis alpha BC today now we'll look at a few sentences in writing may mean - original concert smelly man biblioteca Danzig neat Hollow mayor vive Schmidt umm Salama so what language could this possibly be the language is Georgian Georgian is the official language of Georgia a country in the Caucasus region of Western Asia adjacent to Eastern Europe it's a member
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of the cart valayan language family an independent language family that is not related to the indo-european family or any other language family as far as we know cart Valiant is also part of the language group called the caucasian languages because of its location in the caucasus region but the caucasian languages are not actually a language family but a regional grouping georgian is known for its rich phonology in particular in its consonants one feature is ejected consonants ejected consonants
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are globalised meaning that they are produced with simultaneous injection of air from the glottal area you do this by closing your glottis which feels like you're holding your breath for a second then you open the glottis with a burst of air while you produce the consonant listen to the first consonant of this word unset smelling and this one seeking another feature is that it contains many consonant clusters peevish m'p unset smelly some of these can get quite long
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but innately another language please listen to me amiss it can but it should be minibar Eden is Kim dr. Jinga dasa someday I have my own soccer I cannot build medium Rumble medium as shittin blue media engineers most even vinegar I know hon she hasn't been easy to learn or ask on now here are the written samples mean Kim satavahana caleda o can cut a powder and chaos scheming so what language do you think it might be [Music] the language is Kazakh Kazakh is a member of the kipchak branch of the
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Turkic language family it has around 15 million native speakers the majority of them in Kazakhstan where it's the official language one feature of Kazakh which is a feature of Turkic languages in general is vowel harmony vowel harmony means that the presence of one vowel can determine the vowels that appear in subsequent syllables in Kazakh if the last vowel in a word stem is a back vowel the vowels and suffixes must be back vowels as well this is the word meaning writers with the plural suffix
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at the end because the last vowel of the stem is a back vowel the plural suffix has a back vowel too if the first vowel of a word stem is a front vowel then all the vowels that follow both in the stem and in suffixes must be front vowels and this is the word meaning ships because the first vowel of the word stem is a front vowel the next vowel is a front vowel and the plural suffix contains a front vowel to recent loan words from other languages like Russian are an
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exception and don't necessarily have vowel harmony okay let's check one final language massacred on must be a hairy magic holy to famous river ah hey I got a vague hallelula hoop art oh let me post aqua so today me sang get a veto getting me Lito today me come Jake ahem ETTs corto ik multiple angle heavy colectomy bus the last Oh Jake I wrote zakah master Dima Sega Colima Ducato and now some written samples melaka hiccup leg had say a hip DNA grant aliamanu acoustic was not Hitler
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Asura 3 media nahi so what language do you think it is the language is Marathi Marathi is a language spoken in India in the state of Maharashtra and in parts of neighboring states and union territories in terms of the number of native speakers it's the third most spoken language with close to 90 million people speaking it as a mother tongue that's specifically within the borders of India if we count indo-aryan languages in all locations then Punjabi would be third
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since many of its speakers are in Pakistan Marathi is an indo-aryan language however it's undergone significant influence of Dravidian languages which is understandable when you see that it's spoken in areas adjacent to areas where Dravidian languages are spoken like all indo-aryan languages a large amount of Marathi vocabulary developed from Sanskrit but with different word forms since it's had many centuries to diverge but it also contains a large amount of words which
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were intentionally borrowed directly from Sanskrit and closely resemble the original Sanskrit words these words are called tats Amma's and they are a preferred source of vocabulary in written marathi and are also used to coin new technical words and the like spoken marathi also contains many such sanskrit borrowings for example the word for after nun third and the word for full or complete boom these are everyday words and don't necessarily belong to a formal register
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like you would expect for sanskrit loanwords well that's the end today's mystery languages video I hope you had fun guessing and I hope that you learned something new be sure to follow Leng focus on Facebook Twitter and Instagram and once again thank you to all of my wonderful patreon supporters especially these ones on the screen they are my top tier patreon supporters so many many thanks to them and to you thank you for watching and have a nice day [Music]
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