10 Most Spoken Languages Youve Never Heard Of (feat. Language Simp) LingoLizard 2023-02-25 | 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 Links to videos from others:Japanese topic vs subject markers: youtu.be/FknmUij6ZIkyoutu.be/hjr2uYnDd68Korean topic vs subject markers: youtu.be/fCxLNRLntc0youtu.be/E2jrWqBDilMErgativity explained in detail: youtu.be/kFzt_GHNd1MSources: core.ac.uk/download/pdf/160608313.pdfhttps://llacan.cnrs.fr/publications/Caron2011_Hausa_Grammar.pdfifra-nigeria.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=89:guide-to-standard-naija-orthography-an-nla-harmonized-writing-system-for-common-naija-publications&catid=67:naija-languej-akedemiapics-online.info/surveys/17https://www.uni-giessen.de/en/faculties/f05/engl/ling/confs/spcl/index_html/docs/Oshorenoya_Esizimetor escholarship.org/uc/item/1wv209q5(Native speakers, Wikipedia, Language Gulper)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
The Most and Least Linguistically Diverse Countries LingoLizard 2024-10-05 | 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!Ethnologue LDI list: ethnologue.com/statistics@LinguaPhiliax's Yakko's World Parody: youtu.be/odFHrTFrgAI?si=UCu6MO4lsz6jHJXdPatreon: patreon.com/LingoLizardTimestamps:0:00 Intro2:39 Top 104:15 Top 508:05 Top 10011:07 Unique Chapter Title13:43 Bottom 1017:35 Outro
The Most Confusing Cyrillic Letter LingoLizard 2024-09-21 | Within Cyrillic, the Russian, Ukrainian, and Bulgarian alphabets have different ways of pronouncing a certain letter.
How Similar Are Vietnamese and Thai? LingoLizard 2024-08-30 | The Vietnamese and Thai languages aren't too different from each other, but just how similar are they? Sign up for Ling to learn any language today!ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/20snx75pSupport me on Patreon! patreon.com/LingoLizardTimestamps:0:00 Intro2:48 Phonology7:07 Writing Systems8:17 Vocabulary10:18 Grammar 11:53 Outro
What Makes Each of the Romance Languages Unique (Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and more!) LingoLizard 2024-07-27 | 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!Patreon: patreon.com/LingoLizardDiscord: discord.gg/FCkw7jwR2wSources: The Romance Languages, by Rebecca PosnerModern Spanish Grammar, A Practical Guide, by Juan Kattán-Ibarra and Christopher J. PountainPortuguese, An Essential Grammar, by Amélia P,. Hutchinson, Janet Lloyd, Cristina SousaAn Approach to the Asturian Language, by Frías Conde X.Catalan: A Comprehensive Grammar, by Max W. Wheeler, Alan Yates, Nicolau DoisPhonetics and Phonology of Romance Languages: Occitan, by Damien MooneyFrench Grammar and Usage, by Richard Towell, Roger HawkinsModern Italian Grammar, A Practical Guide, by Anna ProudfootThe Rhaeto-Romance Languages, by John HaimanRomanian: An Essential Grammar, by Ramona GönczölGildersleeve’s Latin Grammar, by Basil L. GildersleeveTimestamps:0:00 Intro 0:53 Common Features 5:43 Spanish9:49 Portuguese14:40 Asturian17:04 Catalan19:35 Occitan22:02 French27:22 Romansh29:50 Italian34:56 Neapolitan37:21 Venetian38:56 Sardinian42:17 Romanian46:24 Latin48:49 Outro
Its also pronounced pronounciation. LingoLizard 2024-07-06 | A video about language evolution, prescriptivism, and the prono(u)nciation of a certain word.
French, but Every Letter Is Pronounced. LingoLizard 2024-06-15 | 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. LingoLizard 2024-06-01 | 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. Link to p@treon can be found in the channel descriptionGravel Institute video: youtu.be/eATr7e03N6w?si=Hfm8C2LX8jctiXgR0:00 Introduction 3:08 Sounds5:36 Writing System 6:52 Vocabulary 7:20 Grammar 11:28 Outro
Everything there is to learn about Hangul! LingoLizard 2024-05-04 | An extensive video going over everything there is to learn about Korean Hangul, from its elegant simplicity to its interesting but more complicated quirks. Subscribe if you enjoyed the video!Patreon: patreon.com/LingoLizardTimestamps:0:00 Intro 1:52 Korean Phonology2:39 Letters 7:41 Spelling Rules 9:29 Allophony 10:50 Irregularities13:50 Obsolete Letters15:44 Outro
Conlang Critic Critic Episode One: jan Misali LingoLizard 2024-04-12 | 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.Daniel Swanson's channel: youtube.com/@UCDEnQPb2DGDdozI6kOCHPfw kay(f)bop(t) for Travelers: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1EBO0NcsJQjqDFEdJTeDWsgZ6BU63-8d&si=BMq3BIl2yT4lucYKLichen the Fictioneer's channel: youtube.com/@UCRownfSlImbUGOjuf7_RPJg Aronora's video about Sambahsa: youtu.be/6KkQiTZpzrQ?si=Fe9XekmqrntQHgpHViossa Discord: discord.gg/7hdbmvwmc9jan Misali's channel: youtube.com/@UCJOh5FKisc0hUlEeWFBlD-w My utmost thanks to Daniel Swanson, Jack Eisenmann (aka Esperantanaso or Ostracod), Dr Olivier Simon, and Nikomiko for their appearances in this video!Intro 0:00Lojban 1:18aUI 4:01Vötgil 5:21Láadan 7:57Ygyde 9:44Ithkuil 11:35Wolflandic 13:29kay(f)bop(t) 14:52Klingon 18:15Na’vi 20:23Fluidlang 22:00Toki Pona 24:02Esperanto 28:06Ido 30:54Volapük 32:22Dovahzul 34:01Interlingua 35:21Solresol 36:50Loglan 38:20Zese 40:23Futurese 42:55Lingua Franca Nova 43:58Interslavic 45:10Folkspraak 47:07Dothraki 49:04Novial 50:33IS 53:41Drsk 55:10Sambahsa 56:52Sindarin 1:01:15Poliespo 1:06:16Kēlen 1:07:42Lingwa de Planeta 1:10:06Viossa 1:14:00Iqlic 1:23:38Quenya 1:25:55High Valyrian 1:27:22Outro 1:28:28
How Similar are Russian and Polish? LingoLizard 2024-02-17 | 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 KhairovPolish: An Essential Grammar, by Dana Bielec0:00 Intro0:43 Vocabulary2:27 Phonology4:57 Writing6:02 Grammar11:41 OutroMy Patreon page and Discord server are always in my channel description
Writing English With Writing Systems Youre Not Supposed To LingoLizard 2024-01-20 | 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? LingoLizard 2023-12-23 | 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.com
Making Sense of the Thai Writing System LingoLizard 2023-12-02 | 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! @ItsPForPea
What is the 2nd Most Widely Used Writing System? LingoLizard 2023-11-04 | 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 English LingoLizard 2023-10-14 | 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 amateurNOTE: 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? LingoLizard 2023-09-23 | 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/lingolizardApp: https://italki.app.link/lingolizardThe 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 Sounds8:22 Writing Systems10:01 Grammar 12:26 OutroSpecial 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!) LingoLizard 2023-09-09 | 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 Traits4:43 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 Germanic32:15 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 Outro
A language where you touch grass (Agma Schwa Cursed Conlang Circus) LingoLizard 2023-07-29 | Have you ever wanted a language where you touch grass? I'm not sure why you'd want that, but here you go!Support me on Patreon! patreon.com/LingoLizard/membershipAgma Schwa's Cursed Conlang Circus 2 announcement video: youtu.be/_2fhHUuMxcAMusic during the Touching Grass signing section is "Make it Crisbee!", from the Bug Fables OST youtu.be/4SBBNDda7a80:00 Intro 0:38 "Phonology"1:58 Morphology3:47 Grammar6:07 Sample
When Spanish Nouns Change Gender (except not at all) LingoLizard 2023-06-03 | 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 Language LingoLizard 2023-04-22 | 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 7:01Sources: 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 Intro0:47 Assamese1:53 Phonology3:43 Writing System4:22 Grammar6:35 Awesomeness
How Everyone Is Family In Vietnamese (Kinship Pronouns) LingoLizard 2023-03-18 | 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!Please subscribe to channel if you enjoy the video!Sources:web.archive.org/web/20070309161642/http://accurapid.com/journal/38viet.htmweb.archive.org/web/20060912130700/http://www.educ.utas.edu.au/users/tle/JOURNAL/Articles/Ho/Ho.html
A Video All About Diphthongs LingoLizard 2023-01-07 | A video showcasing everything about the linguistics of diphthongs within the various languages of the world, when vowels come together and unite in a single syllable in a particular language.Thanks to K Klein for making a cameo and voicing the British English diphthongs! Check out their channel here: youtube.com/@kklein
History and Evolution of the Japanese Language LingoLizard 2022-11-14 | 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 Intro0:58 Old Japanese 4:32 Early Middle Japanese7:10 Late Middle Japanese 8:42 Early Modern Japanese 10:20 Modern Japanese#Japanese #language #languages #linguistics
What Makes Each of the Slavic Languages Unique (Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, and more!) LingoLizard 2022-10-15 | 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-Croatian0:00 Intro0:25 General traits3:50 Russian5:55 Ukrainian 7:02 Rusyn7:40 Belarusian8:30 Polish9:40 Silesian10:16 Czech11:45 Slovak 12:28 Slovene13:25 Serbo-Croatian 14:57 Bulgarian 16:19 Macedonian17:21 Old Church Slavonic 17:59 Kashubian 18:19 Sorbian 18:53 Outro
Why there is no Hardest Language to Learn LingoLizard 2022-09-18 | 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 #languagelearning
What are the Weirdest Languages in the World? LingoLizard 2022-09-06 | 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?Please subscribe if you enjoy!Chilean Spanish clip: youtu.be/otDhTyaom84Taa clip: youtu.be/cSoq2hy0CUg#language #languages #linguistics
Japanese sounds a *little* bit like Russian. LingoLizard 2022-08-21 | When reading phonological descriptions of Japanese and Russian, there a good amount of similarities between their sounds, as I share in this video!Please subscribe if you enjoy the video!#language #japanese #russian
The language where EVERYTHING can be a verb LingoLizard 2022-08-13 | 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 #linguistics
What Makes Simplified Chinese So Simple LingoLizard 2022-07-27 | 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 #languages
Why X sometimes sounds like Z (in English) LingoLizard 2022-06-15 | 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 #linguistics
Why Some Languages Lack a P Sound LingoLizard 2022-05-31 | 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!#language #languages #linguistics
