Languages of the African Horn explained in 1 sentence.
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Күн бұрынFrom Amharic to Somali, Oromo to Ge'ez and Tigrinya, the languages of the East African Horn are a great cultural gift to the world. In this video we make it simple to understand the cultural make up of this region where Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic Languages collide - compressing them each into 1 sentence, so you know and you can explore further with this amazing knowledge with less trouble. Enjoy!
00:00 Beginning
00:25 The Horn
01:53 Oromo
02:19 Afar
02:40 Amharic
03:02 Ge'ez
03:28 Somali
03:52 Soqotri
04:18 Tigrinya
04:45 Beja
05:29 Saho
05:46 Gumuz
06:11 Wolayitta
06:28 Tigre
06:52 Agaw
07:19 Sidama & Gedeo
08:05 Silt'e
08:24 Turkana
08:41 Anuak
09:04 Question
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@kleinornot3763 2 ай бұрын
Great you are actually doing it. Can't wait for more episodes of this
@dbcote8909 2 ай бұрын
Native American languages, please! I love this series, thank you for doing them.
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Good suggestion.
@beaconofchaos 2 ай бұрын
That’d be a looonng video haha
@katakana1 2 ай бұрын
@@beaconofchaos Well, this video is only for a single part of Africa so presumably that would be multiple videos
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Regions. Several.
@ALEIJADINHOPATRIOTA 2 ай бұрын
Ben, my friend, native South American languages too! You will be surprised, how intelligent and beautiful is "TUPI" in Brazil. Tupi was something like the "lingua franca". Thanks!@@BenLlywelyn
@mmadaus 2 ай бұрын
Eritrea has lots of italian sprinkles
@user-fw1ge4lh5n 2 ай бұрын
Great series
@amiwho3464 Ай бұрын
Ben, this is amazing 🙏
@briancops3798 2 ай бұрын
Maybe a video on Central American languages with a focus on indiginous languages. Or a video dedicated to Papua New Guinea Or one about the languages in Polynesia and Australia
@mikloscsuvar6097 2 ай бұрын
Rubbish. Papua New Guinea require 10 videos or nothing. They are diverse like elfs in the First Age of Arda.
@briancops3798 2 ай бұрын
@@mikloscsuvar6097 It could be a video formatted like this one. If you want to do every language in the HoA you need a lot of videos as well. This video shows the format that proves that it is possible.
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Head explodes.
@belstar1128 2 ай бұрын
the languages of papua are so obscure most of them don't even have recordings online
@BroMan-vm5gt 2 ай бұрын
@@BenLlywelyndo a video on ijaw language
@laabh9949 2 ай бұрын
Amazing video!! :D Love the lore always, and you know my answer to your question :)
@ephraimbrener9143 2 ай бұрын
Love this so much. My neighbors are Amharic speakers so I hear it a lot. Also sometimes Tigrinia.
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Very nice. Thank you.
@ilzambongo1401 2 ай бұрын
Great video as usual. Please make a video showing the languages of Central America, this region is small but full of native languages that are unknown to many. Thanks for delivering this funny and informative content.
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
A challenge!
@cyka6blat989 2 ай бұрын
I love these videos
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoy.
@cyka6blat989 2 ай бұрын
@@BenLlywelyn Also, I’d say for the next languages should be Native American languages or languages in India
@dinofangzz 2 ай бұрын
Can you do a deep dive on the balkan languages at some point please
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Been looking at Albanian vs. Romanian?
@dinofangzz 2 ай бұрын
@@BenLlywelyn i was thinking more as a whole, like between the slavic languages and greek, and maybe where they came from
@amadeus3165 2 ай бұрын
My idea would be a video about ancient languages like latin, sumerian or hittite. This might not be a region but its cool aswell. Anyways, I really appreciate your videos on languages. Keep doing this🏴
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
That is a good idea too!
@Wishbone1977 2 ай бұрын
I would quite like a video on the languages of southern Africa. There are some quite interesting and well known ones there, Xhosa in particular.
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Oh we will get there. Many regions.
@CastChaos 2 ай бұрын
This was even more exotic than the East-Asia one, since there I at least knew most of the language names and a bit of their history. Here everything was new. So many languages? 103 only in Ethiopia? Well, I shouldn't be surprised, it's just logical. East Africa is from where humans originate, plus as far as I know there weren't any so big centralizer empire forces there like China and India in Asia or like the Roman Empire in Europa.
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Ethiopia has been several highly centralised empires in its history, actually. But yes, it is relatively unknown to our cultural view. Thanks for watching.
@ahmedopone4080 2 ай бұрын
And the regions where this centralised empire ruled has considerably less languages. That is 3 - Amharic, Tigrigna and Agew.
@admiralbem7458 2 ай бұрын
I would like to see one about Siberia! :D And also, you have said that there are 103 languages spoken in Ethiopia. Ofcourse, you don't have the time to cover them all, but at least you could show a list about them at the end of the video.
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
That would take a very long time, my friend. When I have a team helping me, such things can be done.
@admiralbem7458 2 ай бұрын
@@BenLlywelyn Understandable.
@radiojet1429 2 ай бұрын
Diolch, Ben. You have to admit, the Amharic writing system, and ones similar, are so cool. It's like the writing system the aliens would use to communicate to us. They do look like the Roswell hieroglyphics, And Ethiopian food is really, really good. Yum.
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Amharic script is cool. Ethiopia is a cradle of human civilisation.
@Zeyede_Siyum 2 ай бұрын
ሀ ሁ ሂ ሃ ሄ ህ ሆ ለ ሉ ሊ ላ ሌ ል ሎ ሐ ሑ ሒ ሓ ሔ ሕ ሖ መ ሙ ሚ ማ ም ሞ ሠ ሡ ሢ ሣ ሤ ሥ ሦ ረ ሩ ሪ ራ ሬ ር ሮ ሰ ሱ ሲ ሳ ሴ ስ ሶ ሸ ሹ ሺ ሻ ሼ ሽ ሾ ቀ ቁ ቂ ቃ ቄ ቅ ቆ በ ቡ ቢ ባ ቤ ብ ቦ ተ ቱ ቲ ታ ቴ ት ቶ ቸ ቹ ቺ ቻ ቼ ች ቾ ኀ ኁ ኂ ኃ ኄ ኅ ኆ ነ ኑ ኒ ና ኔ ን ኖ ኘ ኙ ኚ ኛ ኜ ኝ ኞ አ ኡ ኢ ኣ ኤ እ ኦ ከ ኩ ኪ ካ ኬ ክ ኮ ኸ ኹ ኺ ኻ ኼ ኽ ኾ ወ ዉ ዊ ዋ ዌ ው ዎ ዐ ዑ ዒ ዓ ዔ ዕ ዖ ዘ ዙ ዚ ዛ ዜ ዝ ዞ ዠ ዡ ዢ ዣ ዤ ዥ ዦ የ ዩ ዪ ያ ዬ ይ ዮ ደ ዱ ዲ ዳ ዴ ድ ዶ ጰ ጱ ጲ ጳ ጴ ጵ ጶ ጀ ጁ ጂ ጃ ጄ ጅ ጆ ገ ጉ ጊ ጋ ጌ ግ ጎ ጠ ጡ ጢ ጣ ጤ ጥ ጦ ጨ ጩ ጪ ጫ ጬ ጭ ጮ ጸ ጹ ጺ ጻ ጼ ጽ ጾ ፀ ፁ ፂ ፃ ፄ ፅ ፆ ፈ ፉ ፊ ፋ ፌ ፍ ፎ ፐ ፑ ፒ ፓ ፔ ፕ ፖ
@radiojet1429 2 ай бұрын
@@Zeyede_Siyum Beautiful - thank you!
@user-zr8mm9ib8s 2 ай бұрын
I would be happy to see a video about all the Turkic languages :)
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Cool idea.
@davidfriedman1567 2 ай бұрын
Hey Ben. Your serie is delicious. West African / native American languages please
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Nice. Thank you. West Africa will happen at some point.
@mihaiilie8808 2 ай бұрын
After Africa series you should make one video especially for Papua New Guinea ( not all the languages but the most important).
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
That island is another planet.
@mihaiilie8808 2 ай бұрын
@@BenLlywelyn True. I studied the plants there and most impressive is the giant banana trees they have. Biggest in the world.
@LucaMelchionna-lmelk 2 ай бұрын
Ben, this is completely unrelated, but twenty years ago I embarked on the project of learning how to say “may I have more garlic, please?” in every language ever conceived by man. I suppose I’ve failed, but if you ever wanted to do a garlic vertical deep dive…just saying.
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
If you record it... I'm cool with that.
@roymorris2231 2 ай бұрын
אח שלנו עוד אחלה של שרטון שמסביר הרבה אל שפות אפריקאיות. אבל האם אתה יכול בבקשה יכול להוסיף לשרטון הבאה מוזיקת רקע Royalty Free, שפשוט ישמעו פחות את הקאטים בעריכה. חוץ מזה אני עדיין ממש נהנה מהשרטונים שלך.
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
רעיון טוב. חלקם נעלבים מעוד מוזיקה, אבל אנחנו יכולים לראות.
@roymorris2231 2 ай бұрын
@@BenLlywelyn אולי אז תשים את המוזיקה המובילה/המסורתית/ההמנון של אותה מדינה ברקע
@ThePanEthiopian 2 ай бұрын
All horn African languages are found in Ethiopia except 4 which are found in Eritrea.
@WalterWallace-ov8uj 2 ай бұрын
Please do Western Africa
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
We will get there.
@Francisqolito 2 ай бұрын
No Gĩkũyũ language? Edit: although as I think about it we'll probably feature in a bantu episode.
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Something to look forward to.
@sicko_the_ew 2 ай бұрын
The Tuareg languages might be interesting to you? And Toubou. I think Toubou is different. (People of the Tibesti Mountains if I'm not getting it backwards.)
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Part of this series, is enabling me to look shallowly into so many cultures for possible future videos going more in depth. Including Tuareg.
@dude926 2 ай бұрын
Make a video about Arabic dialects please
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Indeed. Thank you.
@dude926 2 ай бұрын
@@BenLlywelyn thanks
@ALEIJADINHOPATRIOTA 2 ай бұрын
Amharic is a tropical semitic language! That's great! lol...
@whiskeysk 2 ай бұрын
Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia... In short, Pacific Islanders please!
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Fascinating choice.
@pauliusbaranauskas7915 2 ай бұрын
So I started studying Spanish recently and wondered how one could appropriately insult all the branches of this language... perhaps in one sentence, even... But I'm an A1, so I guess I'll have to count on some guy on youtube to luck upon the idea and find it interesting enough to bother.
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching.
@arnazaron 2 ай бұрын
Brazilian native languages with Portuguese sprinkles, please😊
@anaisgarcia2609 2 ай бұрын
Here´s a challenge. Describing in one sentence the language isolates in the world (I´m a Basque speaker, you know)
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Basque is included in the European video.
@anaisgarcia2609 2 ай бұрын
@@BenLlywelynI know, I saw it. And you also mentioned us when you described Spanish, something I have to thank you for.
@HamiticKushitic Ай бұрын
Dude you are funny and yes the capital of Oromia is finfinne even though its called adis Ababa by our enemies :) Naagaayaa and peace from an Oromo sister :)
@BenLlywelyn Ай бұрын
Thank you.
@miyod 2 ай бұрын
Personally I found too many pauses between parts of sentences in this video. Increasing the speed doesn't help with that, sadly.
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Some complain if I go too fast also.
@NekromDj 2 ай бұрын
North Africa !
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Good idea!
@vivianeden9529 2 ай бұрын
my vote is for siberia personally
@williamdavis9018 2 ай бұрын
Siberia
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Nice call!
@vlnvlaclogbaerhpno 2 ай бұрын
Good video, but Tigre people are over 90% Muslim with very very few Christians. You might have gotten them confused with the Tigrinya, who are majority Christian. I’m also surprised you didn’t mention Harari or the Gurage languages (Silt’e is one of them) or their fascinating story of how they got to where they are…
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Thank you for watching.
@TheSkaBouncer 2 ай бұрын
Why shouldn't you give Turkana people fish? Also it would be grand if you delved into the languages of the Alps; I have family from Trentino/Alto Adige and pretty much every individual valley has its own unique language/dialect!
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
See my video on Romansh. About the fish, there have been disease outbreaks and arguments with the central government.
@jezusbloodie 2 ай бұрын
mmmm language stew 🤤
@jezusbloodie 2 ай бұрын
Lot's of Lalalalala sprinkles in this stew 🤭
@jezusbloodie 2 ай бұрын
I'd love to hear you describe in one sentences the languages of central and/or south Asia Or alternatively (for algorithm considerations,) the different dialects of English accross the world (from the obvious; some note worthy groups of dialects from the Bri'ish Isles, general groupings of N. American dialects, Afrikaans, to the less ""formalised"" dialects such as Euro English, verneculars/pidgins, and English in former colonies accross Africa and Asia).
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Thick yet sweet.
@RB3565 17 күн бұрын
You only skimmed on the horn and East Afrika.
@BenLlywelyn 16 күн бұрын
Fair.
@Henderson101 2 ай бұрын
When you say your name, are you trying to pronounce the Ll as in Welsh, because is sounds wrong. You have a K sound in there where there shouldn’t be one.
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
I speak Welsh.
@Henderson101 2 ай бұрын
@@BenLlywelynyou do? Not native though right? Have you ever done a video completely in Welsh. I’m not a Welsh speaker, but I spent a long time working at a large Welsh language broadcaster in Wales where the primary language amongst the workers was Welsh (the IT department was about the only place with English speaking people) and I had a lot of time to quiz my co-workers. I think it finally clicked with Ll when a baby was named Pwyll. If you can’t say Pwyll correctly it sounds like a completely different word. There no K sound.
@justaduck1664 2 ай бұрын
What is your definition of arab, because it depends, do you mean speaking or ethnicly, if you say speaking then you are kind of right and kind of not right, you cant really call arabic one language its just like latin, its just its descendents are in denail, if you mean ethnicly then you are wrong, because if it was ethnic then the huge remenents of the past cultures langauges customs and even holidays wouldn't be still practiced
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Speaking, more so.
@justaduck1664 2 ай бұрын
@@BenLlywelyn here is an intresting fact, In egypt we have a song called, "Wahawi wahawi eyoha" which is partly in ancient egyptian and means"the moon is coming is coming", and its sung by egyptian muslims in ramadan, so yeah is that an intresting fact
@poorindiansanddogsarenotal1276 2 ай бұрын
@@justaduck1664 وحوي وحوي دياحا is a somali word
@justaduck1664 2 ай бұрын
@@poorindiansanddogsarenotal1276 well that is a pretty interesting
@justaduck1664 2 ай бұрын
@@poorindiansanddogsarenotal1276 dies it have a simmler meaning to the egyptian phrase
@Zeyede_Siyum 2 ай бұрын
1:57 Actually Addis Ababa was founded and built by Amharas not Oromos. In fact Gurages have more impact in the capital than them.
@hanuta8859 2 ай бұрын
As a marxist i can confirm that I would change my language if i got power
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Marxism is the religion of envy.
@hanuta8859 2 ай бұрын
How so?
@florinvoinea5203 2 ай бұрын
Marxism is the envy of economy. Nazi is the envy of economy but only as ethnics that are beter. Islam is both. With arab springels.
@Trolligi 2 ай бұрын
@@hanuta8859what is bro saying 😭
@MoonManMoonMan 2 ай бұрын
It’s for the best you never get in any position of power.
@davidross2004 2 ай бұрын
I haven’t even started to watch the video yet; I just wanted to let you know that I am offended! Why couldn’t you make the video 9:34 seconds? Why did you call it the Horn of Africa and not the Nose? Offensive! Edit: Now that I’ve finished the video, I would enjoy hearing about West and North African languages.
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Northwest Africa is on the list.
@user-nm3fl6ps4v 2 ай бұрын
Man the somali language is older these languagrs you are saying they based on theses your version of history in which you see the world started ouropian history as well as arabs the languagee you are speaking had loned some words from kushitic like somali.
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Somali deserves a documentary!
@user-nm3fl6ps4v 2 ай бұрын
@@BenLlywelyn the question is that the name somali had been seen in litrature of historic books at the 14th cencury by ahmed gurey time but there was different names of this society as well as their language which needs to be discovered .starting from prophet nouh there was a great kingdom that had ruled arab penussula and hindiya up to africa the last king was ahmed negash the name of that kingdom was a hamasien kingdom in which the arabs had pronounced differently as habasha there were two ellev tribes of that nation some of them are still in horn of africa but the arabs dont want that history as well as ourope always they write about there own verssion cose it is threat to them.
@user-nm3fl6ps4v 2 ай бұрын
@@BenLlywelyn in yuquslavia they use the word tollaay when i asked them it has the same meaning of somali help me. In swidhish they use two words danan and bar the same meaning of somali english the word sab written sap almost the same meaning of somali the word gibil the same meaning as somali arabic many words are from somali etc.
@003mohamud 2 ай бұрын
@@user-nm3fl6ps4v Cringe.
@lubieplackixd9223 2 ай бұрын
caucasus!!! especially northern caucasus
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Nice choice.
@meronica Ай бұрын
😅 Tigre is an ethnicity not a language. Tigrigna is their language. Amharic doesn't have any Oromo words.
@BenLlywelyn Ай бұрын
Not a single 1?
@meronica Ай бұрын
@@BenLlywelyn not a single word. Afaan Oromo might have some loan Amharic words but not the other way around. Most Oromos would have Amharic as their second language because that's the official language. I'm an Ethiopian. I know what I'm talking about.
@DaT1aGEnDerANdRosExUaL 2 ай бұрын
How about some native Australian languages?
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
There are a lot.
@natmanprime4295 2 ай бұрын
pronounced "ge-EZ" just fyi
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Cheers.
@user-kb8hp4nt5b 2 ай бұрын
do research before you speak amharic doesnt have a drop of oromo
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
They have been around one another a long time.
@user-kb8hp4nt5b 2 ай бұрын
amharic and oromo first shared a border was in the 1600 after oromo migration.to say oromo has any influence in Amharic is not true. i suggest do more research on a topic next time @@BenLlywelyn
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching@@user-kb8hp4nt5b
@Zeyede_Siyum 2 ай бұрын
@@user-kb8hp4nt5b Relax man, there are dozens of Oromo words in Amharic specially in South Wollo & Shewan dialects for example: Daabboo ዳቦ Qe'ee ቀዬ Abbaa warra አባወራ Waancaa ዋንጫ Qabato ቀበቶ Araada አራዳ Gaara ጋራ Dullaa ዱላ Diqaallaa ዲቃላ Wedaaja ወዳጆ Gaammaa ጋማ
@user-kb8hp4nt5b 2 ай бұрын
loan words goes both ways but to say amharic is founded on ge'ez and promo. is completely wrong. amharic is founded on ge'ez, agaw language and some others extinct language. Oromos and amhar only share a border since 1700 before that no one even knew what oromo is @@Zeyede_Siyum
@thegreatnormad3424 2 ай бұрын
There is one one horn Africa nation, and it Somalia 🇸🇴 and one claiming to be in the horn didn't check the map. There is one horn in Africa, and it's the furthest corner of Somalia 🇸🇴
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
I hope fot peace in Somalia.
@Niceboy777 2 ай бұрын
Can you do languages in the Sahara
@BenLlywelyn 2 ай бұрын
It will be part of the Northwest Africa video.
@Niceboy777 2 ай бұрын
@@BenLlywelyncool
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