Langfocus Paul 🪬

This is actually true

The Balkan Sprachbund is an area in which there is contact and mutual influence between languages that aren't closely related, including Slavic languages, Greek, Albanian, Romanian, and others. A sprachbund is an area of linguistic contact which causes languages to converge (ie. become more similar). Of course they don't converge towards being the same language, but some features become more similar.

Greek words spread via Arabic

@porfiriy Thanks! I’m glad to hear that. I put a lot of time into the visuals.

@langfocus I appreciate the high quality fonts/typesetting in your videos

The GLOBAL impact of Greek vocabulary

@RealityRowan @steroid_druid The map shows Kurdish in green rather than yellow, which means that it’s a related language, but not the same language.

@steroid_druid @langfocus Idk about the other varieties but Kurdish and Persian aren’t anywhere close to being as similar to each other as Indonesian Malay is to Malaysian Malay

Persian is a pluricentric language (a language with multiple standardized forms).

@LongZavier @RealityRowan Right, Persian speaking areas are shown in yellow on the map.

@RealityRowan @langfocus Kurdish is explicitly shown as a different language on the map, nobody considers it a variant of Persian OP was talking about Dari and Tajik

@ranxarad Thanks! I’m glad you like it. This is a really old video. I made a much better one of the same topic last year, which is on my Youtube channel (Langfocus). The title is similar: “How Similar are Arabic and Hebrew (Reboot)”

Thanks for this wonderful video! I’m a native speaker of Hebrew and now doing my first steps in MSA and the similarities are really cool. On the other hand, for someone who speaks say only IE languages they both probably look quite weird 😎 I’m sure that in a longer video you could have added more examples (for example - when an MSA word is the same as a less-used synonym of that word in Hebrew, like the words for “rain”). But the idea comes across beautifully in your video, and that’s what matters most. Thanks again!

In this video from 2015 I talk about how similar the Arabic and Hebrew languages are. This was one of my first videos AND IT SHOWS! lol. But I hope you find the content interesting anyway.

@p89295434 Middle Easterners from the Caucasus?

@langfocus Albanians are not Europeans, that's why. They're Middle-Easterners from the Caucasus.

Albanian's place in the Indo-European language family. Why is it all by itself? It's a language isolate within the IE family, meaning that it forms its own branch of Indo-European, with no other languages.

@maafriz After 11 years of this I’ve seen it all.

@langfocus Servian bots found this, well it was nice knowing you Paul.

Arabic "stole" vocabulary from Sanskrit?

The Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family, which includes the Turkish spoken in Turkey, Azerbaijani (in Azerbaijan and part of Iran), Qashqai (another minority language in Iran), and Turkmen spoken in Turkmenistan.

The spread of Greek words through Aramaic & Arabic

The Baltic languages today

The Chinese language - basic info

@JRRRulfo It has largely been replaced by Hochdeutsch. The map is just showing the consonant shift.

@langfocus Yep. But I've lived in 6 and 7 and didn't hear Low German even once.

The High German Consonant Shift resulted in some systematic differences in Dutch and German pronunciation.

@dykitantsi Different maps show different things, and this one isn’t showing official languages of countries.

@langfocus I love when Indo-European languages can always be the base paint (painting the whole areas with the paint tool) but other language groups like Georgian here are depicted as not spoken where it is an official language ❤️ Definitely not political views playing out!

The Caucasian languages are a group of languages consisting of three language families that are indigenous only to the Caucasus region. There are other languages spoken in the Caucasus region, but are indigenous to other regions as well, so they are not included in this group of languages.

@ogzzby Katakana’s development from Chinese characters is well-documented.

@langfocus Similarity between Göktürk Letters (Orkhon and Yenisei Inscriptions) / Hiragana and Katakana.

Development of the Japanese writing system