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hello everyone welcome to the Laing focused Channel and my name is Paul and welcome to another edition of mystery languages if this is your first time watching a mystery languages video then let me tell you how it goes I'll play you a sample of a language or a couple of samples of a language and you can listen and guess what each language might be you might not get the exact language but you might get the region or the language family or something like that and that's a partial
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success in itself today's language samples were submitted by Lange focused viewers via Instagram so I'm especially excited about today's episode so let's get started please listen yes some value of appra managements new Virage re-boiler hidey-ho kevorkian in kakapo clay by tony al-khawaja Darva pot mutant onion add relieve our stock about Hakeem use on on the carpets Agricola Sivaji head now high Otara chin Kotova constant now let's look at a few samples with writing yes Suman Grinnell mechanic
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at all huh Cousteau now get care trail Garrard era needs yes champ Joshi I see echo so what language do you think it might be [Music]
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the language is Armenian Armenian is the official language of the Republic of Armenia but more than half of its speakers live in other countries in Armenian minority communities it's a member of the indo-european language family but it forms its own branch of indo-european because its links to other languages in the family are not really known but it has borrowed a large amount of vocabulary from Persian so Persian speakers might recognize a lot of words in Armenian the stress in Armenian
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generally falls on the final syllable of the word not always but it usually does unless the word has the definite article or a possessive adjective at the end if we read along with the sentences we heard before we can notice that the stress usually comes at the end yes umem Ganahl mechanikat or how cousteau on this recording this word sounds like it has the stress on the first syllable like tani but in other sources it sounds more like honey with the stress on the second syllable that
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might depend on the sentence level stress of this sentence as a whole nah get care trail gara gara needs yes champ Joshy I see Eric oh there are two standard varieties of Armenian Western Armenian and Eastern Armenian which have some significant differences the variety that you heard in the samples was Eastern Armenian this map shows the distribution of Western Armenian and Eastern Armenian dialects at the beginning of the 20th century but most speakers of Western Armenian now live in
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diaspora communities okay now on to the next language please listen why mister last night Mr Mandela cooks on dumpling and when they say you see listen I need a picnic or another dumpling on flannery in Waianae Galit what the girl giving is only a man at tennis a pig named Penelope nibble nibble I love a sort of movie secondly a policeman second fiddle man why Annie not good natella say I mean not good at all where them people are really really wicked Natalie penis
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tickle tickle when I have flown on a merit LS a girl actually me lick Nutella said I serve in ela pity garden now let's look at a few more sentences with writing they wanna buy some clues she borrowed a book from the library we now go on all dinner tonight so what language could it be the language is Jamaican Patois as the name suggests Jamaican Patois is spoken in Jamaica it has around 3 million native speakers it's an english-based creole that developed in the 17th and 18th centuries
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through contact between african slaves and english-speaking slave owners the official language of Jamaica is English and Jamaican Patois is spoken on a continuum with standard Jamaican English that means that in some situations speakers will be essentially using standard English with a characteristic Jamaican accent well in other situations speakers will mix English with varying degrees of patois and at the very casual end of the spectrum speakers might use Jamaican Patois
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exclusively the three sentences that we saw on the screen were pretty close to standard English but the longer reading that you heard was full-on Jamaican Patois but we do see some grammatical and phonological changes in those three sentences take the third one for instance Managua or Deena tonight Jamaican Patois uses me as the subject pronoun rather than I the negative is na instead of not and noticed that there is a double negative with no being used where any would be
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used in English notice that going to is abbreviated to go on and of course the pronunciation is different to Deena and tonight are close to the standard English equivalents just with slightly different pronunciation and spelling to match and on to the next language please listen kuan-yin eh eh yeah we ate the Inigo alumina and attaboy attaboy perro Ontario a terracotta classy lady already caught up eating salmon and you ought to hear an ample gain the Hayley
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has a 300 jana alle alle da la da da la materia a technical Mia Azealia Norah para to Jana Samina unless you Thomas to you today yeah next we'll look at a few sentences with writing a Java SE Shana hi everybody kept a name you really take away that's in the more in could we heard a bit so what language could this possibly be [Music] the language is Guarani Guarani is an indigenous language of South America it's spoken by over 6 million people including most of the population of
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Paraguay where it's an official language alongside Spanish it's also spoken in parts of neighboring Argentina Bolivia and Brazil it's a member of the 2p language family which consists of around 70 languages scattered throughout South America one feature of Guarani that we can notice is that every syllable consists of a consonant plus vowel or a lone vowel a syllable cannot end in a consonant and there are no consonant clusters to me this gives the language a
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pleasant light floating quality kind of sing-songy but without tones another thing that adds to this quality is granny's nasal sounds Guarani has six oral vowels and six nasal vowels also all voiced stops are either pre nasalized before an oral vowel or nasalized before a nasal vowel there's also nasal harmony meaning that stressed nasal vowels cause other surrounding sounds to become nasal as well we can see an example of this in this sentence Noah say Shauna this is the word for
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clothes and this is a future ethics showing that the noun will be obtained in the future this affix has a nasal vowel which makes the earlier vowels nasal as well listen for it a u.s. Asiana a u.s. Asiana all right so let's check out one final language please listen tardes shawarma and macaque focus on Chalmers ferrule Amnon show mercy Mars fatal Amish Gilligan's fakin tarantella fish because our maka of Lamech lon coma vision is Brahma humor labor Martian spas Prevot dock at Arkham Dom
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fain now let's look at a few samples with writing the welcome ad iconic for she'll our air is sucked on Leland Nev egg dinner gamma nacht so what language do you think it might be [Music] the language is Irish as you can probably guess Irish is the historical language of Ireland it's still spoken as a native language there by a minority of people and is learned as a heritage language by most others to varying degrees it's also known as Irish Gaelic and is a member of the Celtic language
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family one interesting feature of Irish is that all consonants have two forms a broad form and a slender form depending on the surrounding vowels there are three broad vowels and three slender vowels that determine which form of the consonant is used the slender form of the consonants are palatalized which generally sounds like a yeah placed right after the consonant if we look at this word Tiana we see this consonant twice the first is before a narrow vowel and the second is after a broad vowel
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the broad form is huh but the narrow form is like yeah not ha there are similar pairs for all consonants we can see another example of this in the word jinnia the D sound is next to a narrow vowel so it's palatalized like deer or Jill jr. I don't know if all speakers say the narrow consonants the same way and to be honest I can't hear it in this word on the recording we listen to but I can hear it in this sample from the fourvel website jr. Dean yeah Daniel
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the geniu engineer in this sample we can hear the narrow D sound as well as a narrow n which makes the sound yeah well that's all for today's mystery languages video thanks to all the Lang focused viewers who submitted their language samples via Instagram there will be more of mystery languages videos in the future so follow me on Instagram to stay in the loop be sure to follow Lange focus on Facebook Twitter and Instagram especially Instagram that's my favorite
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and that's where you can keep in touch with me more than the others and once again thank you to all my patreon supporters especially these amazing people right here on the screen they are the top tier patreon supporters so many thanks to them as always and to everyone else thank you for watching and have a nice day [Music]
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