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In this clip from a "Mystery languages" video I play a sample of a language for you to try to guess.
Can you guess what language this is? (#1)
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Why did I think it was Afrikaans with the first spoken part.
Well, at least I got it right with the spoken form.
Same, I thought I was being clever with he Afrikaans guess until I saw fryslan
Definitely gives an Old Norse tongue feeling
It’s not similar to Old Norse at all.
@@dan74695 But it does give a Scandinavian feeling, though….
Not it all. Sometimes it sounds similiar to norwegian/swedish but thats also because these languages took many from english. Icelandic doesnt sounds like this at all
@ Icelandic pronunciation is very different from Old Norse.
@@dan74695 Yes but these people never heard any old norse pronounciation so theyre mostly talking about icelanding. But icelanding still doesnt have to do much with frisian.
Well, if Scots isn’t considered as a language, Frisian is the closest language to English.
The Frisian languages are the languages that are most closely related to English, but they have changed so much that Low Saxon(AKA “Low German”) and Dutch seem more similar to English.
Many things came to mind at first, Finnish, Estonian, Icelandic, Faroese and Old Norse, but after seeing the written form my choices got narrowed down to Frisian and Norwegian, since it was written on the text. Then, since I was leaning more towards Frisian(since I didn’t know how it really sounded, unlike Norwegian) I ended up choosing it. 😁
The speaker was talking about someone’s father being Frisian while his mom was Norwegian. To make it more confusing he said that India was his birthplace 🤣
I love these, thank you Paul.
Happy Holidays to you and your family.
Thank you, Inez! Happy Holidays to you too!
As a Native Dutch speaker from Belgium this messed with my head. I recognised the Dutch accent and some words but it felt strange and couldn’t understand it up until the end of the audio only section when it clicked.
I would have gotten this right away if i had stuck with learning it a few years ago!
I was born in the northwest of Germany and I can understand a lot of the sample. I would have thought Frisian was closer to Dutch or Low-German (which some elderly still speak here).
Frisian speakers went to Northumbria and coastal Southeastern Scotland 1500 years ago. For things that were known then (family, farming) they still use the same words.
Frisian.
As a Belgian native Dutch speaking person, it’s quite weird how much I actually understand. There are a lot of commonalities with English, Dutch, and Flemish dialects.
Ja man. Ik dacht eerst aan Afrikaans toen ik het hoorde. Dan dacht ik een scandinavinsche taal maar er waren gewoon te veel dingen die ik begreep dus koos ik uiteindelijk voor Fries.
Reminded me of one of those “What English sounds like to non-English speakers”
Same!
“How English SOUNDS”, not “sounds LIKE”.
@@Brisco1 stet.
I had this feeling travelling in Sweden 😅 kind of an English accent but I would not understand a single word of course
Interesting, with the audio I thought it sounded Scandinavian, maybe Icelandic or something. But I guessed it was Frisian when I saw the text.
Yes! My guess was like a niche Scandinavian language, like the dialect/language Faroese
Upon hearing it, I thought it was Swedish. But after seeing it written, I knew it was Frisian, the closest language to English.
I started hearing Danish, then Dutch. When I realised it was neither (or both, depending how you look at it), I guessed Frisian.
Same but the other way around. I’m used to hearing afrikaans because my family and friends speak it realised it was probably somewhat Germanic but couldn’t quite nail which branch so I guessed Frisian
You guessed right.
Belgian Dutch speaker here. I first thought it was Afrikaans, but I understand this language less then Afrikaans. Frisian it is.
If German, Dutch & Norwegian ever came together.
Cool! I reckoned it was some germanic derevation, but would not have guessed Frisian.
I miss these videos. So happy to see them again
It’s such a beautiful Germanic language. Very soft. I love these short language quizzes. Merry Christmas, Paul. ❤
For a second I thought “Did he play an old version of English?”
It kinda sounds a bit like German and Old English.