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Are animal signals ever like words? – Can Animals Grammar? #5
Are animal calls meaningful? Are they words? Animated signal profiles of prairie dogs, monkeys, insects and more.
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Sources for claims: docs.google.com/document/d/1tK2GjVO19cmd4fBnRwhHrZK7RKYo08nnD_XS10a1wRA/
Patronize me per creation: www.patreon.com/NativLang
Tip me once: www.ko-fi.com/NativLang
~ Shortly and sweetly ~
In previous parts we met animal signals from elephant calls to jacky dragon actions. Are these anything like human words? Let's get into the semantics of some suspiciously meaningful animal communication systems.
Please watch parts 1 through 4 for background and buildup. This one falls in the middle of building up from syllables (last time) to sequences (next time).
~ Resources ~
Art, animation and music by me. My sources document backs up claims and gives credit for images, fonts and sounds:
docs.google.com/document/d/1tK2GjVO19cmd4fBnRwhHrZK7RKYo08nnD_XS10a1wRA/#heading=h.t1f629ieweiz
In that same document I link to groups focused on animals, their habitats and the people who care for them. There's a narrative tie-in that I hope works at the end of the series; meanwhile I'll just mention and link:
docs.google.com/document/d/1tK2GjVO19cmd4fBnRwhHrZK7RKYo08nnD_XS10a1wRA/edit#heading=h.gpolixoat5xi
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Animals make "wild" syllables - Can Animals Grammar? #4
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Animated profiles of small sound and gesture units heard and seen in animal repertoires, from elephants to canids to jacky dragons. Subscribe for parts 5-8: ua-cam.com/users/NativLang Sources for claims: docs.google.com/document/d/1tK2GjVO19cmd4fBnRwhHrZK7RKYo08nnD_XS10a1wRA/ Tip me once: www.ko-fi.com/NativLang Patronize me per creation: www.patreon.com/NativLang ~ Shortly and sweetly ~ Last t...
Why talking animals disappointed most everyone - Can Animals Grammar? #3
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Did any trained animal ever really learn to speak? In my last animation, experts trained animal communication's biggest celebrities. Here the animal stars undergo scrutiny and one conference tanks hopes for future nonhuman linguistic marvels. Subscribe for parts 4-8: ua-cam.com/users/NativLang Tip me once: www.ko-fi.com/NativLang Patronize me per creation: www.patreon.com/NativLang ~ Shortly an...
Teaching animals to be grammatical - Can Animals Grammar? #2
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Humans tried to teach nonhumans to talk, training animal communication's biggest stars. Which animals did we teach to use words and sentences, and how good was their grammar? Subscribe for parts 3-8: ua-cam.com/users/NativLang Tip me once: www.ko-fi.com/NativLang Become my patron: www.patreon.com/NativLang ~ Summary ~ Last time I introduced my animated series about grammatical animals. We'll sp...
Can animals grammar? - introduction to my animated series
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Are animal signals word-like or even sentence-like? Are their sounds and signs somehow meaningful and structured? Let's spend some videos together exploring the possible linguistics of animal communication. In part 1 I'll introduce this series and the many grammatical animals we'll meet along the way. Groups to support: docs.google.com/document/d/1tK2GjVO19cmd4fBnRwhHrZK7RKYo08nnD_XS10a1wRA/edi...
SOV: Why is this the most popular word order across languages?
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When languages around the world build a basic sentence, 43% arrange the words this way: subject - object - verb. Who does this? (Hint: not English!) How is it unique? Why is it so popular? Subscribe for more: ua-cam.com/users/NativLang Become my patron: www.patreon.com/NativLang Check my sources: docs.google.com/document/d/1r3Am9jL5hVZr0YiQfm7okTtNO42MjG709dS2XUPs7MY/ ~ Briefly, with *spoilers*...
OSV: Why is this word order so rare in languages?
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There are six basic word orders. Which languages have different ones and where? Why is this one so rare? Sources: docs.google.com/document/d/1W9zHIS1T34aq2giAwWev1HKZkJ2_8gIyvfub96mOvSk/ Support: docs.google.com/document/d/1W9zHIS1T34aq2giAwWev1HKZkJ2_8gIyvfub96mOvSk/#heading=h.gpolixoat5xi Art, animation and music by me. Open doc above to read sources for claims and for pics, sfx. Subscribe fo...
What are (linguistic) nothings? ~ Reading comments and studying Saussure together
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My last animation about why linguists believe in invisible words was captivating, also confusing. Let me consider your feedback and try once more. Join me and we'll study zeros again. ~ Links mentioned this time ~ Sources for this video: docs.google.com/document/d/1_duCLZZVbNwpENJXCQJ6nWd2BWK_8-MZxDDzwdRhS3w/ Support impacted people: docs.google.com/document/d/1ywiOfzN5FZt2sh7s3V8EfCB54vUoHg4iA...
Why linguists believe in invisible words - the story of zeros
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Do languages have unspoken meaningful nothings? Grammatical ghosts? Syntactically significant silences? Linguists sure seem to think so. They've been writing zeros in their grammars for years. What are these nulls? Where do they come from? Are they really there? Subscribe for more: ua-cam.com/users/NativLang Become my patron: www.patreon.com/NativLang Read my sources: docs.google.com/document/d...
What makes Papuan languages so unique? - features from the area with the most languages
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Melanesia is the place with the most languages on earth, most of which are Papuan. These are the features that set them apart from surrounding language families. Solidarity: docs.google.com/document/d/1ywiOfzN5FZt2sh7s3V8EfCB54vUoHg4iA1VevAxgZeU/#heading=h.8iwaseaw0ce6 Voices: docs.google.com/document/d/1sI3YRMA6jM7GrqiWkGLXS-2FeMYGHhta1smhXQY6BG0/ Sources: docs.google.com/document/d/1ETctVEewo...
New Guinea - lessons from a cradle of agriculture and languages
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This island is home to bananas, sugarcane and more languages than anywhere else. Watch how words, crops and people connect in a place now known to be an original cradle of agriculture. Aid: docs.google.com/document/d/1ywiOfzN5FZt2sh7s3V8EfCB54vUoHg4iA1VevAxgZeU/#heading=h.8iwaseaw0ce6 Voices: docs.google.com/document/d/1sI3YRMA6jM7GrqiWkGLXS-2FeMYGHhta1smhXQY6BG0/ Sources: docs.google.com/docum...
Why French sounds so unlike other Romance languages
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Sound changes left French unlike Latin, Italian, Spanish or Romanian. How? Here's the recipe. Subscribe for more: ua-cam.com/users/NativLang Become my patron: www.patreon.com/NativLang ~ Briefly ~ Follow my animated recipe for a taste of how sound shifts changed French pronunciation throughout the ages: Latin, Gaulish and Frankish influence, an early Romance era of Oïl vs Oc, Old French, Middle...
Why West Africa keeps inventing writing systems
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These dozens of modern African scripts are adding a brand new chapter to the history of writing! Subscribe for more: ua-cam.com/users/NativLang Become my patron: www.patreon.com/NativLang ~ Briefly ~ Meet Adlam, N'ko, Vai and over twenty more scripts that capture West African linguistic features and give new visual representation to native West African tongues. Topics covered: - backstories of ...
The Languages of Africa
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My animation about the many languages, language families and language areas of Africa. Links to African & diaspora language/linguistic history creators: docs.google.com/document/d/1gbsoD71MNajMJFncLzZjz4E7AZnhoUhgPwGq9H5jSK8/ Subscribe for more: ua-cam.com/users/NativLang Become my patron: www.patreon.com/NativLang ~ Briefly ~ At first, the map of Africa's many languages seems complicated. Howe...
Writing doesn't always end in alphabets - the enigmatic Egyptian counterexample
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As hieroglyphic writing reached the end of its life, Egyptians didn't simplify it like the alphabets emerging all around. They made it even more complex. Meet what Egyptologists call "enigmatic" or "cryptographic" hieroglyphs. Subscribe for more: ua-cam.com/users/NativLang Become my patron: www.patreon.com/NativLang ~ Briefly ~ I'm following up on my tale of Egyptian phonology with this intrigu...
What Ancient Egyptian Sounded Like - and how we know
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What Ancient Egyptian Sounded Like - and how we know
Clocks around the world: how other languages tell time
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Clocks around the world: how other languages tell time
But are Mesoamerican glyphs still used today?
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But are Mesoamerican glyphs still used today?
Is this the earliest writing in Mesoamerica?
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Is this the earliest writing in Mesoamerica?
First Contact Survival Kit - learn an undocumented language from scratch
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First Contact Survival Kit - learn an undocumented language from scratch
The Languages of Siberia
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The Languages of Siberia
The Languages of Siberia - OLD (bad audio)
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The Languages of Siberia - OLD (bad audio)
The Ainu language - short history, plus a note about last speakers and pandemics
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The Ainu language - short history, plus a note about last speakers and pandemics
Mongolic: meet a language family, including Para-Mongolic
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Mongolic: meet a language family, including Para-Mongolic
Khitan: deciphering China's forgotten Para-Mongolic language
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Khitan: deciphering China's forgotten Para-Mongolic language
Language nods - meaningful messages from native speakers
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Language nods - meaningful messages from native speakers
African Romance: searching for traces of a lost Latin language
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African Romance: searching for traces of a lost Latin language
What English does - but most languages can't
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What English does - but most languages can't
Features English is missing - but most other languages have
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Features English is missing - but most other languages have
Altaic: Rise and Fall of a Linguistic Hypothesis
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Altaic: Rise and Fall of a Linguistic Hypothesis

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @rhydianrobbins6464
    @rhydianrobbins6464 Годину тому

    My friend is Turkish so I can understand some of the grammar and words of Turkish

  • @moshe5446
    @moshe5446 3 години тому

    Where could i learn how to interpretate these world like thy, thee, thou? I want to know how did they sound and how they were used in sentences because I don't understand some of them

  • @Sekuler_Adam
    @Sekuler_Adam 3 години тому

    Etruxes may have a connection with the Turks

  • @Zed7762
    @Zed7762 4 години тому

    Good video

  • @Zed7762
    @Zed7762 4 години тому

    Good video

  • @jackiepie7423
    @jackiepie7423 5 годин тому

    the was bitten by the cappabara, of course

  • @davideg.2969
    @davideg.2969 5 годин тому

    It’s so interesting to see and learn about the history of my region! Love from Tuscany

  • @damianscott3710
    @damianscott3710 8 годин тому

    Tonal languages sound ugly af.

  • @publicrelations4143
    @publicrelations4143 13 годин тому

    So funny that the British did not understand whom to groom since they never cared to check if the Ashanti even have a patrilinear succession system.

  • @skyem5250
    @skyem5250 14 годин тому

    the jokes about Georgia the country and Georgia, US makes me want to see a video about the Gullah/Geechee language in Georgia and South Carolina.

  • @AYVYN
    @AYVYN День тому

    Americans don’t value Atelic Verbs and Mass Nouns, which correlates with our perspective on jobs and individualism. I’ve heard all nouns in Japanese are mass nouns, they have a similar philosophy on work but are less individualistic. Maybe just a coincidence.

  • @KlipsenTube
    @KlipsenTube День тому

    The Franks adopted a Latin vocabulary, but kept their Germanic pronunciation. Like in Latin, they put adjectives after nouns - except for some ten of the most common (and sometimes their synonyms) which they still put before the noun. Basically, French is a Germanic language with almost exclusively Latin loan words.

  • @sadblob4577
    @sadblob4577 День тому

    My Latin teacher who has a whole ass degree in TWO LATIN LANGUAGES pronounces it with an American accent and I cannot express how much it makes me want to rip off my ears. It just sounds atrocious and like a crime

  • @user-to7zs1cn6i
    @user-to7zs1cn6i День тому

    Sounded like modern Africans

  • @andraselias995
    @andraselias995 День тому

    In Hungarian we have "kán" and "kagán" too.They both mean the chief of a tribe. I don't know if they are borrowed words from two different languages or some relics of old, but still interesting that both were preserved.

  • @klajdizemblaku8256
    @klajdizemblaku8256 День тому

    What a load of absolute nonsense is this again 😀 where on earth are you basing such 🚮 on?!

  • @oleksandrpotylko8054
    @oleksandrpotylko8054 День тому

    Alphabet looks like Russian

  • @beargreen1
    @beargreen1 2 дні тому

    Oh yeah that

  • @beargreen1
    @beargreen1 2 дні тому

    There's a dialect of English that no American can understand

  • @beargreen1
    @beargreen1 2 дні тому

    When you remember McKenzie

  • @beargreen1
    @beargreen1 2 дні тому

    I remember that old sound

  • @jamilabagash149
    @jamilabagash149 2 дні тому

    Just speculation!

  • @LeefUmbrella
    @LeefUmbrella 2 дні тому

    Candle is a bad example since it probably comes from Old English, which borrowed the term from Latin.

  • @ALEHOLLYESHORTS
    @ALEHOLLYESHORTS 2 дні тому

    1:31 in Italian, we say: 2 caffè, like 2 coffees

  • @RazzUK
    @RazzUK 2 дні тому

    Wow, just found this channel. our voice is so so similar to max Miller from Tasting History that I had go and check you weren't him!

  • @veronicaguzman3210
    @veronicaguzman3210 3 дні тому

    What?!?! Claudius is here?!?!?

  • @why5482
    @why5482 3 дні тому

    The way the box like characters work is that you have to let the people in before closing the door

  • @user-xq1xd3re7d
    @user-xq1xd3re7d 3 дні тому

    If the neo latin languages were an family ,french would be the one raped by the celtic languages while dalmatian would be the one killed by slavid languages

  • @squirrelvert
    @squirrelvert 3 дні тому

    Lots of good stuff in here but lots of little and one or two fairly big errors. Also it’s a fun video, but don’t let the high production values and 90% correctness and academic quality make you think that everything you’re seeing in it is accurate.

  • @Cacalopreiooooo
    @Cacalopreiooooo 3 дні тому

    ངབེ

  • @TheEbola
    @TheEbola 3 дні тому

    in Turkey we learn in school that our language is a part of the Ural-Altaic family which includes all the Altaic languages plus Uralic languages like Hungarian, Finnis and Estonian.

  • @ezzovonachalm9815
    @ezzovonachalm9815 3 дні тому

    Why not beginn with roman genealogy which were of greater interest for us than iroqui or bananish

  • @7N_GA
    @7N_GA 3 дні тому

    I think you can do this in arabic

  • @helpIthinkmylegsaregone
    @helpIthinkmylegsaregone 3 дні тому

    the Tower of Babel wasn't an attempt at explaining anything, it was a revealed/received story. "God of the Gaps" is a strawman argument. Religious narratives don't form from attempts to explain historical or a natural mechanics.

  • @cycrothelargeplanet
    @cycrothelargeplanet 4 дні тому

    2:18 You pronounced x as ʀ̥

  • @GaasubaMeskhenet
    @GaasubaMeskhenet 4 дні тому

    I'm still getting this vibe that we are/have been demanding too much before giving credit

  • @GaasubaMeskhenet
    @GaasubaMeskhenet 4 дні тому

    My cat can say 4 words that we've come up with together

  • @GaasubaMeskhenet
    @GaasubaMeskhenet 4 дні тому

    Ok but why is grammar the only thing were focusing on My cat says "wow" when he wants to be petted. He sats "aaaaam" when he wants "ham" (what we call wet food) why do we need grammar on top of vocabulary to acknowledge that animals can communicate to us and mean it?

  • @GaasubaMeskhenet
    @GaasubaMeskhenet 4 дні тому

    One of the apes at kanzi's center drew the symbol for Outside one day when it had been raining a lot so no one had been playing outside

  • @victoriaarakelian3210
    @victoriaarakelian3210 4 дні тому

    I ownder if "muluvanice" could be also "painted" or "drawn" meaning "I was painted by Laris"

  • @user-gn6gl9vm6y
    @user-gn6gl9vm6y 5 днів тому

    Why does English sound so unlike other Germanic languages?

  • @angusmackaskill3035
    @angusmackaskill3035 5 днів тому

    It doesnt, it sounds just like italian and Spanish

  • @cavitturnali3890
    @cavitturnali3890 5 днів тому

    I suspect it’s not “you peel us” but rather “you rob us.” Yes, I base this assertion on an unrelated language such as Turkish. However, if one were to look at a map they would be pleasantly surprised to find Turkey and Georgia are side by side. Indeed, Georgia was under Ottoman rule for quite some time and expressions such as these end up being borrowed from language to language. The word used for “peel”, “undress”, and “rob” is the same in Turkish. And it makes sense despite not doing so at first glance. However, one would recognize that in each case the verb expresses that something that belongs to something is being removed. Cloths from the body, wealth from a person, and the inedible exterior from a fruit or vegetable.

  • @angelsperanza9244
    @angelsperanza9244 5 днів тому

    The first empire but not the last to get too inflated to the point of collapse.

  • @yipperson2974
    @yipperson2974 5 днів тому

    can you do one on australian aboriginal languages?

  • @Rajae-mn7cx
    @Rajae-mn7cx 5 днів тому

    They talk annoying

  • @mirceavolosen2876
    @mirceavolosen2876 5 днів тому

    Love Hungarian. I learned Hungarian .Took me 2 weeks to read and write. I just finished reading the Bible in Hungarian. On the way to work, I am finishing the second audio in Károly Bible.

  • @freshprince69
    @freshprince69 5 днів тому

    Was the corpse an Etruscan? It's interesting how it got mummified in Egypt if that's true.

  • @Licensed1
    @Licensed1 6 днів тому

    Up Sut Aye Bow A-mem

  • @talbino7821
    @talbino7821 6 днів тому

    Sigh. That's what happens when a language that originally started its life as a Germanic language got chopped up and radically changed around over many centuries - compared to other languages which were untouched (for the majority of time) by outside influences. In its defence, English grammar is definitely far easier than some other languages out there. Where it trips everyone up is its incomprehensible spelling and pronunciation rules !