Europe's Most Secret Languages

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  @LivingIronicallyinEurope · 2 weeks ago · pinned

  :_XDD:Enjoyed the video? :yt:SUBSCRIBE :yt: For more like it! Or check out part 1 for more languages <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oSHNe5Y6pU">https://youtu.be/6oSHNe5Y6pU</a>

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  @tadesubaru1383 · 2 weeks ago

  As a Basque speaker, I can confirm that we are actually aliens hiding in plain sight and trolling anyone who visits

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  @HerrDinkleWinkle · 2 weeks ago

  Living ironically became a phoenetics teacher im crying

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  @Ajet_ · 2 weeks ago

  Last time I was this early Oradea was called Nagyvarad

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  @rattyattata · 2 weeks ago

  I am a Sami speaker, a little fun fact is that we have around 300 different words describing snow

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  @hellene_shubin · 2 weeks ago (edited)

  As an Azov Greek it would be cool if you mentioned our language. The language is barely alive nowadays. There&apos;s also the Urum Greeks in Crimea

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  @elimalinsky7069 · 2 weeks ago

  There&apos;s also the Ossetian language in the Caucasus, which is the last living remnant of the Iranic languages once widely spoken on the eastern European steppe, and in Hungary as well among the Jassic people, whose language died out in the 16th century.

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  @Eirafel-f6l · 2 weeks ago

  As a Scottish Gaelic speaker, it was so cool hearing Manx. It&apos;s so similar!

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  @FelixIakhos · 2 weeks ago

  My uni professor discovered that the extinct dialect of the Byzantine greeks was actually still alive but hidden for years. <br>After the mandated population exchange of the treaty of Lausanne the &nbsp;Greeks in Turkey were forced to move to Greece where they were punished if they spoke their own dialect. Eventually the dialect was thought to be extinct because it was only ever spoken in private. That is until my old professor Mark Janse went to the region to investigate the old language and found out there was actually someone who still spoke it. After he spoke to them he found out there were actually multiple people who were still fluent, and he worked with them to release dictionaries and books. The dialect is slowly growing again, the world is full of wonder.

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  @BlazeLycan · 2 weeks ago

  Swede here, with some extra context regarding Elfdalian.<br><br>Apparently, the main reason the Swedish government considers the language as a dialect has to do with it being on the extreme end of a specific dialect continuum known as &quot;Ovansiljan&quot;. Essentially making it difficult to draw a line on where Elfdalian ends and Swedish begins. As such, our language institute classifies it as being a Swedish dialect because it exists within our borders, which the Swedish people aren&apos;t actually that much of a stranger of because the same could be said regarding Norwegian and to a lesser extent Danish. It&apos;s even known that a Norwegian and a Swede on either side of the Scandian Mountainline that forms the border have an easier time understanding one another than they do with a speaker from Oslo/Stockholm despite supposedly speaking the same language.<br><br>As for me, I personally consider Elfdalian to very much be a separate language, and I even have an interest to one day learn it. While I understand the whole &quot;ovansiljan&quot; continuum problem, I personally think that we can just draw the line at the Elfdalian County and/or where a &quot;dialect&quot; has more mutual intelligibility with Elfdalian vs Standard Swedish. After all, we know the extremes so it should not necessarily be too difficult to make a comparative analysis. If the exact border becomes fuzzy, then let people themselves decide whether their verity is Elfdalian or Swedish. We aren&apos;t exactly having a problem from it as evidenced by the fact that we do in part celebrate our mutual intelligibility with Norway (and Denmark, I suppose).

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  @emilkjellberg9043 · 2 weeks ago

  You wildly overestimate the number of elfdalian speakers there are only about 3000

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  @jach99 · 2 weeks ago

  János, please research the mystery why the parking meters in the Cluj airport have Basque on them as the fourth language after Romanian, Hungarian and English

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