LingoLizardIn language based discussions about language learning and linguistics occur, not all languages get time in the spotlight, here are the 10 most spoken languages you might not have heard of! Special thanks to Language Simp for appearing in this video! Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:32 Amharic 3:07 Kannada 5:10 Javanese 7:32 Hausa 9:50 Wu Chinese 12:36 Tamil 14:47 Telugu 16:31 Marathi 18:36 Punjabi 20:09 Nigerian Pidgin 22:22 Outro
Special thanks to Wren for helping research for the Tamil and Telugu sections, and all the volunteers who reached out to proofread the video before launch
10 Most Spoken Languages Youve Never Heard Of (feat. Language Simp)LingoLizard2023-02-25 | In language based discussions about language learning and linguistics occur, not all languages get time in the spotlight, here are the 10 most spoken languages you might not have heard of! Special thanks to Language Simp for appearing in this video! Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:32 Amharic 3:07 Kannada 5:10 Javanese 7:32 Hausa 9:50 Wu Chinese 12:36 Tamil 14:47 Telugu 16:31 Marathi 18:36 Punjabi 20:09 Nigerian Pidgin 22:22 Outro
Special thanks to Wren for helping research for the Tamil and Telugu sections, and all the volunteers who reached out to proofread the video before launchThe Most and Least Linguistically Diverse CountriesLingoLizard2024-10-05 | Papua New Guinea is the most linguistically diverse country in the world, but what are the least linguistically diverse countries? Watch for a journey through the diverse and not-so diverse lands!
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:39 Top 10 4:15 Top 50 8:05 Top 100 11:07 Unique Chapter Title 13:43 Bottom 10 17:35 OutroThe Most Confusing Cyrillic LetterLingoLizard2024-09-21 | Within Cyrillic, the Russian, Ukrainian, and Bulgarian alphabets have different ways of pronouncing a certain letter.How Similar Are Vietnamese and Thai?LingoLizard2024-08-30 | The Vietnamese and Thai languages aren't too different from each other, but just how similar are they?
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:48 Phonology 7:07 Writing Systems 8:17 Vocabulary 10:18 Grammar 11:53 OutroWhat Makes Each of the Romance Languages Unique (Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and more!)LingoLizard2024-07-27 | This video covers each of the Romance Languages, namely Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, Asturian, Catalan, Occitan, Neapolitan, Venetian, Sardinian, Romansh, and Latin, and goes over their unique attributes!
Sources: The Romance Languages, by Rebecca Posner Modern Spanish Grammar, A Practical Guide, by Juan Kattán-Ibarra and Christopher J. Pountain Portuguese, An Essential Grammar, by Amélia P,. Hutchinson, Janet Lloyd, Cristina Sousa An Approach to the Asturian Language, by Frías Conde X. Catalan: A Comprehensive Grammar, by Max W. Wheeler, Alan Yates, Nicolau Dois Phonetics and Phonology of Romance Languages: Occitan, by Damien Mooney French Grammar and Usage, by Richard Towell, Roger Hawkins Modern Italian Grammar, A Practical Guide, by Anna Proudfoot The Rhaeto-Romance Languages, by John Haiman Romanian: An Essential Grammar, by Ramona Gönczöl Gildersleeve’s Latin Grammar, by Basil L. Gildersleeve
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:53 Common Features 5:43 Spanish 9:49 Portuguese 14:40 Asturian 17:04 Catalan 19:35 Occitan 22:02 French 27:22 Romansh 29:50 Italian 34:56 Neapolitan 37:21 Venetian 38:56 Sardinian 42:17 Romanian 46:24 Latin 48:49 OutroIts also pronounced pronounciation.LingoLizard2024-07-06 | A video about language evolution, prescriptivism, and the prono(u)nciation of a certain word.French, but Every Letter Is Pronounced.LingoLizard2024-06-15 | French has a lot of silent letters. What if it didn't, and every single letter was pronounced?
Thanks to Selim for providing audio for the sample text!
Links to my Patreon and Discord server can be found in the channel description.The Bengali (Bangla) language is cool and not enough people talk about it.LingoLizard2024-06-01 | The Bengali language, also known as Bangla, is very neat in my opinion, from its pleasant sound in songs, to its simple but interesting grammar, and not enough people in language spaces discuss it.
0:00 Introduction 3:08 Sounds 5:36 Writing System 6:52 Vocabulary 7:20 Grammar 11:28 OutroEverything there is to learn about Hangul!LingoLizard2024-05-04 | An extensive video going over everything there is to learn about Korean Hangul, from its elegant simplicity to its interesting but more complicated quirks.
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:52 Korean Phonology 2:39 Letters 7:41 Spelling Rules 9:29 Allophony 10:50 Irregularities 13:50 Obsolete Letters 15:44 OutroConlang Critic Critic Episode One: jan MisaliLingoLizard2024-04-12 | I wanted to make a simple April Fool's video reviewing every episode of Conlang Critic by jan Misali, but it turned into an hour and a half long nightmare. Enjoy.
My utmost thanks to Daniel Swanson, Jack Eisenmann (aka Esperantanaso or Ostracod), Dr Olivier Simon, and Nikomiko for their appearances in this video!
Intro 0:00 Lojban 1:18 aUI 4:01 Vötgil 5:21 Láadan 7:57 Ygyde 9:44 Ithkuil 11:35 Wolflandic 13:29 kay(f)bop(t) 14:52 Klingon 18:15 Na’vi 20:23 Fluidlang 22:00 Toki Pona 24:02 Esperanto 28:06 Ido 30:54 Volapük 32:22 Dovahzul 34:01 Interlingua 35:21 Solresol 36:50 Loglan 38:20 Zese 40:23 Futurese 42:55 Lingua Franca Nova 43:58 Interslavic 45:10 Folkspraak 47:07 Dothraki 49:04 Novial 50:33 IS 53:41 Drsk 55:10 Sambahsa 56:52 Sindarin 1:01:15 Poliespo 1:06:16 Kēlen 1:07:42 Lingwa de Planeta 1:10:06 Viossa 1:14:00 Iqlic 1:23:38 Quenya 1:25:55 High Valyrian 1:27:22 Outro 1:28:28How Similar are Russian and Polish?LingoLizard2024-02-17 | The Slavic languages are all fairly similar to each other. Russian and Polish are the two most spoken ones, which leads to the question of how Similar Russian and Polish are.
Thank you to Iry for providing audio samples of Russian and Aizu for providing audio samples of Polish!
Sources: Modern Russian Grammar - A Practical Guide, by John Dunn and Shamil Khairov Polish: An Essential Grammar, by Dana Bielec
My Patreon page and Discord server are always in my channel descriptionWriting English With Writing Systems Youre Not Supposed ToLingoLizard2024-01-20 | I was bored one day, so I made cursed adaptations of English but written with different writing systems.How Many Languages Are Needed To Travel Across Every Country?LingoLizard2023-12-23 | There are lots of countries, with lots of languages, and people like traveling to many of them. So how many languages are needed to travel across every country?
Ethnologue: ethnologue.comMaking Sense of the Thai Writing SystemLingoLizard2023-12-02 | The Thai Writing System is notoriously complicated, this video is an attempt to make sense of it, explaining why its many quirks exist, and hopefully make it easier to learn.
thank to ItsPForPea, check out his channel if you like PvZ! @ItsPForPeaWhat is the 2nd Most Widely Used Writing System?LingoLizard2023-11-04 | It's clear that Latin is the most widely used writing system by far, but which one is the runner up? Out of Cyrillic, Arabic, Hanzi/Kanji, and Devanagari, which one is the 2nd most widely used?Most Common Sounds NOT in EnglishLingoLizard2023-10-14 | This is a casual list of the 15 most common sounds that are not present in English, data taken from PHOIBLE...and Wikipedia because I'm an amateur NOTE: I realized that the alveolar trill /r/ does occur in some English dialects, and the Wikipedia page for "pronounciation of /r/ in English" lists 3 dialects where it occurs in, so it may very well not count. Wikipedia also lists the "sinitic symbols" as alveo-palatal sounds, instead of pure palatal sounds. It's still a bit strange that this only occurs in Australia, and things from Wikipedia should be taken with a grain of salt.
Patreon and Discord server are in the channel description!How Similar are Vietnamese and Cantonese?LingoLizard2023-09-23 | Learn 150+ languages with quality native-speaking teachers on italki🎉. Buy $10 get $5 for free for your first lesson using my code LIZARD5: Web: go.italki.com/lingolizard App: https://italki.app.link/lingolizard The Vietnamese and Cantonese languages have a noticeable amount of similarities, but just how similar are they? #languagelearning #languages #italki #language 0:00 Intro 2:38 Vocabulary 4:10 Sounds 8:22 Writing Systems 10:01 Grammar 12:26 Outro Special thanks to Vitamin S for providing the Vietnamese audio samples, and Tsikli for providing the Cantonese audio samples!What Makes Each of the Germanic Languages Unique (English, German, Dutch, Swedish, and more!)LingoLizard2023-09-09 | This video covers the unique traits of the Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, Afrikaans, Yiddish, and more!
timestamps:
0:00 intro 1:00 Common Traits 4:43 English 9:15 Scots 10:57 Dutch 14:31 Afrikaans 16:25 Limburgish 17:59 Frisian 19:37 Standard German 24:07 Bavarian 25:18 Low German 27:17 Luxembourgish 29:32 Yiddish 31:39 North Germanic 32:15 Swedish 35:40 Danish 37:39 Norwegian 39:33 Icelandic 43:43 Faroese 46:10 Elfdalian 47:55 Gutnish 48:55 Old Norse 49:48 Gothic 50:42 OutroA language where you touch grass (Agma Schwa Cursed Conlang Circus)LingoLizard2023-07-29 | Have you ever wanted a language where you touch grass? I'm not sure why you'd want that, but here you go!
Music during the Touching Grass signing section is "Make it Crisbee!", from the Bug Fables OST youtu.be/4SBBNDda7a8
0:00 Intro 0:38 "Phonology" 1:58 Morphology 3:47 Grammar 6:07 SampleWhen Spanish Nouns Change Gender (except not at all)LingoLizard2023-06-03 | Most feminine nouns in Spanish take the definite article "la". However, some instead take "el", the masculine definite article. Does this mean some Spanish nouns change gender? Read the second part of the title to find out!Assamese - The Most Awesome LanguageLingoLizard2023-04-22 | In this video, I talk about how the Assamese langyage is the awesomest, the most awesome language known to humankind. This was supposed to be an April Fools joke so...April Fools?
you should totally do what the video says to do at 7:01
Sources: Jain, & Cardona, G. (2007). The Indo-Aryan languages. Routledge.
Tebay, S. & Zimmermann, E., (2020) “Exceptionality in Assamese vowel harmony: A phonological account”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro 0:47 Assamese 1:53 Phonology 3:43 Writing System 4:22 Grammar 6:35 AwesomenessHow Everyone Is Family In Vietnamese (Kinship Pronouns)LingoLizard2023-03-18 | Pronouns in Vietnamese work quite differently from what they are in English, to the point where everyone can technically be called family through kinship words! Learn more in this video!
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Thanks to K Klein for making a cameo and voicing the British English diphthongs! Check out their channel here: youtube.com/@kkleinHistory and Evolution of the Japanese LanguageLingoLizard2022-11-14 | A video going through the history and of the Japanese language, with many of the changes in sound and grammar, and the historical context of the language throughout the ages!
0:00 Intro 0:58 Old Japanese 4:32 Early Middle Japanese 7:10 Late Middle Japanese 8:42 Early Modern Japanese 10:20 Modern Japanese
#Japanese #language #languages #linguisticsWhat Makes Each of the Slavic Languages Unique (Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, and more!)LingoLizard2022-10-15 | This video goes through all the traits shared among most Slavic Languages, as well as the linguistics of what makes each of the languages unique, including Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Czech, Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovak, Slovene, Belarusian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, as well as lesser known ones like Rusyn, Silesian, Kashubian, and Sorbian!
Special thanks to Iry for providing examples and audio clips for Russian and Ukrainian, Aizu for providing examples and audio clips for Polish, Mamutinda providing examples and audio clips for Czech and Slovak, and Hijerovit for providing examples and audio clips for Serbo-Croatian
0:00 Intro 0:25 General traits 3:50 Russian 5:55 Ukrainian 7:02 Rusyn 7:40 Belarusian 8:30 Polish 9:40 Silesian 10:16 Czech 11:45 Slovak 12:28 Slovene 13:25 Serbo-Croatian 14:57 Bulgarian 16:19 Macedonian 17:21 Old Church Slavonic 17:59 Kashubian 18:19 Sorbian 18:53 OutroWhy there is no Hardest Language to LearnLingoLizard2022-09-18 | Languages are a lot of things, and while many are a challenge to learn, there is, linguistically speaking, no such thing as a hard language, and there is no hardest language to learn.
#language #language #languagelearningWhat are the Weirdest Languages in the World?LingoLizard2022-09-06 | A lot people call some languages weird, be it through sounds or through their features, but which languages have features so bizarre that they could be considered on of the weirdest in the world?
#language #languages #linguisticsJapanese sounds a *little* bit like Russian.LingoLizard2022-08-21 | When reading phonological descriptions of Japanese and Russian, there a good amount of similarities between their sounds, as I share in this video!
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#language #japanese #russianThe language where EVERYTHING can be a verbLingoLizard2022-08-13 | Have you ever spoke a language and wondered if everything could be a verb? Well, the aztecs have you covered with Nahuatl!
#language #languages #verbs #linguisticsWhat Makes Simplified Chinese So SimpleLingoLizard2022-07-27 | You often see subtitle options for both simplified chinese and traditional chinese when looking at language options, but what makes simplified chinese so simple? find out in this linguistics video!
#chinese #language #languagesWhy X sometimes sounds like Z (in English)LingoLizard2022-06-15 | Have you ever looked at the magical instruments that are xylophones and wonder why x is pronounced as z instead of ks? This is why X sometime sounds like Z (in English, at least.)
#language #languages #alphabet #linguisticsWhy Some Languages Lack a P SoundLingoLizard2022-05-31 | Ever wondered why some languages like Arabic have no p sound and others like Japanese and Vietnamese have a relative lack of p's? Watch this amateur linguistics video!