5 Languages from the COLDEST Places on Earth
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🥶 The coldest places on earth have some of the most fascinating languages! In some of these places, it's winter all year round. In today’s video, we will be looking at 5 of the absolute coldest places around the world. What languages do they speak? And what do these languages have in common? Grab a blanket and some hot cocoa–it’s about to get really cold!
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0:00 – Intro
0:25 – Cold Language #1
2:28 – Cold Language #2
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6:04 – Cold Language #3
9:00 – Cold Language #4
11:16 – Cold Language #5
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Brr! Fascinating languages, though. Thanks as always, Olly!
Glad you like them!
It’s -15 degrees cold here in Southern Finland at the moment🥶😄
Brr! Stay warm!
@@storylearning Thanks mate, I’ll try my best😁
Täällä Kanadassa viime viikolla oli -40. 😅 Now it’s only -20. 😂
@@corinna007 Oho toi -40 on jo aika paha. Täällä Etelä-Suomessa on välillä jotain -20 astetta ja minusta sekin on jo liian kylmä. Ihan muutama pakkasaste on ok. Täällä myös tuulee aika paljon meren takia ja tuulen kanssa aina tuntuu vielä kylmemmältä. Tsemppiä sinne Kanadaan, kyllä se kesä joskus vielä tulee(toivottavasti)👍😃
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Crazy that I just a Sakha friend just a week before this came out 😮
And Manchu definitely deserves to be on this!!
1:22 I did this experiment of turning hot water into steam at -15 degrees 🙂 it looks very nice
I’ve also done this before :))
-4 °F = -20 °C Windchill – 31 °C here in Minnesota
Brr!
I think that Latin scripts may not be used due to lack of contact with the Greek and Roman Empires. They Greeks and Romans spread all over the place but maybe it was just too cold for them in these cold cities.
Good point!
of course the cyrilic alphabet is based on greek and invented by a greek…
Have you yet learned where the greek got it from…? The Phoenicians. Who in turn got their 22 letter from Egyptian hieroglyphics around 12th century BCE
@@theEtch
I was thinking the icelandic language would be among the 5. Very surprised to see Turkey there. 😮
I expected at least one scandinavian language, as a kind of placeholder for all of them, and also Finnish to be there. Som interresting curve balls instead 🙂
Due to the warm Gulfstream Scandinavia is not as cold as other places at that latitude. I was expecting Mongolia though, and I have not been disappointed. It has the coldest capital in the world.
@@jacobv6492 They have snow in May. If that is not cold enough for you I don’t know what is.
@@arita2002 It doesn’t get that cold in my region, I live in southern Sweden and it at most gets down to -15C, you have to go to the most northern parts if you want really cold temperatures (a few weeks ago it was around -43C). I think the record lowest in Sweden was -53C.
@@wariods3588 The northern part of Sweden is still Sweden.
I was expecting to hear a Sámi language or Tibetan or Yaghan. I was not expecting to hear Turkish.
Surprises all around!
Turkish is one of my most favourite languages in the world but I didn’t expect it to be included in a video about the coldest places on Earth. 😮 I had seen before the video with the boiling water turning into snow but I had no idea it’s from Erzurum. By the way, I have been admiring the word “yakamoz” for a long time, too. 🌅
As a Bulgarian learning Turkish I find Sakha very interesting, too. It’s kind of crazy to read Turkic words written with the Cyrillic alphabet.
Caucasian winter may be terrible, like in Canada and worse.
The perfect language video for January! Really enjoyed.
Happy to hear that!
@@storylearningThank you for the video.
You do have a beautiful word similar to “yakamoz” in English, although it is very seldom used: kumatage.
Nathaniel Bowditch’s 1854-edition of _The American Practical Navigator_ defines it as “a bright appearance in the horizon, under the sun or moon, arising from the reflected light of those bodies from the small rippling waves on the surface of the water”.
Fascinating! Thank you for sharing.
Videonuzun açılışını, ülkemle ilgili yapmanız çok güzeldi.🇹🇷❤️Bu yüzden çok sağ olun.🙏Sizi severek takip ediyorum. 🙂
İstanbul’dan sevgiler…
Heh, I did wonder if Mongolia and the Sakha Republic would appear on here. I am learning Mongolian. And somebody did send me a handbook on the Yakut/Sakha language once but dunno if I’ll try learning it, Tuvan is what I plan to focus on once I’ve got my Mongolian to a good enough level, maybe one day I’ll give Sakha, but depends how many languages it is viable for me to learn before they start impacting each other, however, resources on Yakut as scarce for English speakers, heck, more so than Tuvan but might be better for Russian speakers. And I keep running into reasons why I should learn Russian.
And the Yakut channel you showed, Kiun B, is one I am subscribed to because she does some pretty awesome videos on Yakut life. I highly recommend her channel if for anyone fascinated by other cultures & their way of life, because she does some pretty in depth videos of documentary quality. And living out there does seem kind of insane, but they’re pretty well adapted to it.
With the Turkish, I was thinking “could this be a Siberian Turkic republic” and was thinking along the lines of Yakut, well, glad I at least go the right language tree. I didn’t expect Turkey because I always think of it as a hot place.
These are excellent language goals. Keep me updated on your progress!
How are you learning Mongolian? Online, or living in the country?
Well, my geography isn’t that bad. I guessed all of these correct. As for alphabets – let’s see. Some are in the Middle Asia, where Latin alphabet didn’t reach, Turkish is practically between Europe and Asia, Inuit is a indigenous language of far north, and influence of Russian Cyrillic alphabet is prevalent in most of the countries that Russia has ever influenced or occupied.
Well done!
@@storylearning Thanks. 🙂 I’m trying to geographically learn the languages, if that makes sense. When you know where the language is spoken and can point it on the map it’s easier to grasp many minutia – culture, influences, similarities, differences etc. 🙂
Makes me think of when my gran would call us from Dalarna, she would casually mention that it was -25C outside. Sort of sad that I never took the time to get to know her, bit hard now that she’s gone.
Edit: speaking of language, she lived close to älvdalen, a place in Sweden where an ancient viking language known as Elfdalian still exists.
That is super interesting! Thanks for sharing.
@@storylearning you’re welcome ☺
A Sakha linguist here☺️ Thank you for including our language into your video and yes, as it is already mentioned below in the comments, the clips represented here poorly demonstrate the Sakha language, but I guess it was just difficult for you to find good ones without actually knowing the language 😊 sadly, most of the Yakut films do not have English subtitles but I can suggest you “Haulout” (2022) and a short 2022-cartoon movie Тымныы Оҕуһа – Бык Холода – Byk Kholoda (literally – The Bull of the Cold)
Oh and there’s also a Novgorodov alphabet of Yakut language which was widely used in the republic in the beginning of the 20th century and which btw was based on the Latin alphabet. I wish we still used it because it would become more accessible to foreigners, and we would be able to have “direct relationships” with other languages, without Russian always being an intermediary language 😑
Thank you so much for your insights! Sakha is a beautiful language.
Полумеры. Проще сразу перейти на английский, т.к. это “would become more accessible to foreigners”.
Hello Olly, really enjoyed the video, it was a brrrrfect start to my day 😄
One little thing, the first clip in the video with the cats and the cows, the lady seems to be talking Hindi…
Best wishes!
Good catch! Tough to find a tour of Erzurum with someone speaking Turkish. The part about Turkish comes right after that clip.
Yup! I scrolled through the comments specifically to see if anyone else caught that. Another funny thing, though the subtitles said “cow,” the woman was actually talking about water buffaloes 🤣.
Here in the Po Valley north of Milan it’s 3 o’clock and we gave -1°C…
Quite normal.
Italian won’t ever be a cold language. Our local dialect, just a bit more…
The language being spoken in the opening scenes with the cats and cows is not Turkish. It’s Hindi or perhaps a close relative. (Source: 24 years of listening to my husband speaking Hindi with his family).
Good catch! Tough to find a tour of Erzurum with someone speaking Turkish. The part about Turkish comes right after that clip.
I was flabbergasted when it was pointed out that the clip was from Turkey :P. Had to re-listen a few times to make sure that I did not somehow forget my native language.
@@storylearning FWIW, the latter clip sounds exceedingly unnatural with the accent in use
Good to know. Thank you!
It makes me happy to see Inuktitut in this video. 😊 I hope the Inuit can keep their language alive. I would’ve liked to see the Sami languages, too, though. Also, here in my area of Canada last week it was -40°. 😂 But I didn’t mind at all because November and December were stupidly warm and I hated it.