He just made it artificially complicated. All languages in Caucasus region can be divided into language families in more reasonable, simple way: 1. Indo-European; 2. Turkic; 3. Kartvelian; 4. Northwest Caucasian; and 5. Northeast Caucasian.

"All". Plus Mongolic and AA/Semitic, counted in the papers I've read (Chirikba, Catford, ...). What's more, the entire diversity of the three indigenous families is contained within the region. The representation of Indo-European and Turkic branches is incredibly varied. This is not a simple area.

it's still a lot of individual languages and 5 basic language families in such a small area is actually pretty unusual. Also Kalmyk which is very close by brings in a 6th family with mongolic

Ginni Hamadan Well, not actually that simple. While the situation in South Caucasus is simpler (there are only 3 major language groups: Indo-European (Armenian), Turkic (Azeri) and Kartvelian (Georgian, Megrelian and Svan)), North Caucasian languages - Northwest and Northeast Caucasian language families consists of lots of smaller language groups ( Avar-Andic, Dargic, Khinalug, Lak, Lezgic, Nakh, Tsezic, Circassian, Abazgi, Ubykh, etc.). There is also Russian language in North Caucasus (Since Russia invaded that area and now it's part of their federation), but it is not considered as indigenous language in Caucasus region.

+Nick Elson it's true 5 families don't look that complicated, but let me tell you, as a lezgin, I can't understand shit when the neighbouring avars speak, let alone chechens. I mean even being in the same family, the differences are much more significant than in, say languages of romance family.

Support to you brother from România!!!!

I really loved it!

@Beycan Han I believe the Ubykh are one of the tribes of Circassians whose dialect went extinct in the past few decades. It is good to speak with you, brother.

That is interesting, thanks for the link!

I'm impressed by how many people from the Caucasus have found their way to this video. In every day life, most of the world never hears any of your voices.

I'm also Tsakhur from north Azerbaijan,

Yep USA poorly defines people's racial origin and ethnic background terribly big time. Like for example calling mixed blood american indians (truly known as mestizo) from south of the US border the "hispanic race."

@@fragolegirl2002 or simply using "Eskimo" instead of who they really are.

@@cpd182js Yep they are called inuit if not mistaken.

@@fragolegirl2002 All Inuit are Eskimo but not all Eskimo are Inuit

Other way around.

yes this annoyed me a little -.-

It all depends on your perspective.

me too :)

Ioseb Dzamukashvili there weren't any barbarians, but there WERE native Americans, who had - and continue to have - beautifully unique languages and cultures.

killing people for nothing sounds like something everyone does and still continues to do

Ohh Avar is an Alien language! And Avari is one of the ethnic groups of Elves xD it seems really cool though, what do you call your language in Avar?

The Clichést Cliché Ever we call our language Магlарул мацl ( Ma£arul matztz). literal translation is "language of mountains". And we call ourselves "Maarulal" which means "people of mountains, highlanders"

Micober Ss dungi magharulaw))

How are the native languages of Dagestan doing? Are they surviving well?

John Smith yes we learn our languages at schools and also we learn russian. We know both our native language and Russian, though they are unbelievably completely different.

even Adjarian is not a dialect, it's just an accent

The difference between a language and a dialect (or accent) is not linguistic, it is political. אַ שפּראַך איז אַ דיאַלעקט מיט אַן אַרמיי און פֿלאָט - Max Weinreich A language is a dialect with an army and navy - Max Weinreich

@@edgarnmarschalek5113 there is so much truth in that...

Tornike Khantadze ფერეიდნული ქართული აღმოსავლეთ ქართული დიალექტია, დამოუკიდებელი ენა არაა როგორც მეგრულ-ლაზური და სვანური.

MAGA TURK Турки Laz is a Georgian language not Turkish

Same

There's tough competition, so I humbly appreciate the compliment!

For me it's pretty bland and meh.

that's cool. make another channel that does it better and i'll watch.

He didn't say there were special better ordained by GOD languages so it's no good. >:P ...lol =D

A lot of "educational" channels seem to just read headlines of articles and post it as a fact. Danger Dolan is probably the most infamous before they turned into a bizarre fetish channel.

😢😢

There are quite a few of us in the West who appreciate the cultural diversity (including some of the very intruiging traditions) of your region. Yes, we tend to be the types with advanced degrees in languages or history. However, for me, there's the additional appeal of regions of Eurasia that were NEVER talked about when I was a child because you part of the Soviet Union and all the attention was on Russians (who seemed mysterious enough!) And then ... I saw a traditional Circassian dance ... It was like a window to a whole other cultural world was suddenly opened up. :) P.S. (I realize your roots might come from the Circassian diaspora in Turkey, but to me Circassia is still in the Northwest of the Caucasus.)

Ęÿūį Æßñ Don't Basque people have the tradition of matadors? can't remember the name when the guy tries to kill raging bull? If so there is an old Georgian game (IF you can call it a game lol) that a person has to wrestle a raging bull but we didn't kill it as far as I know, it's called kuruli (კურული), I can give you wikipeadia link but it's in Georgian. ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%99%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98 You can you translator to translate it I think, sadly as far as I know we don't play that game anymore.

And the Uralic languages, like Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian.

It's called corrida, there's a Portuguese tradition of it too, and in Portugal they don't kill the bull

@@user-de3xr8le6b I've seen Minoan art that looks like it portrays a version of bull sports, too. Right in between Caucasus and Portugal. It was probably a widespread and ancient tradition - Portugal to Caucasus is a huge area! They must've been tough people to do this for sport, especially when you call the ambulance and a priest shows up, or some guy with torture tools. I'm assuming it was macho youths (like rugby or American football players) who performed this feat, and not slaves or prisoners, at least prior to a culture's decadence... that's the only way it could make sense to me, but I didn't come from their frame of reference.

@@masalias22 Hungarian doesnt predate indo europeans' arrival

"inbred anatolians" you say but dont forget that it was the inbred anatolians who saved caucasians ass by saving them. Ottoman turks saved these poor circassian by allowing them to settle in turkey. As for the Kurds, you are right.

Тхьэуегъэпсэу (тхьэм уегъэпсау) means 'May God give you perfection/ health' not May God keep you alive

@@juhuri6128 Хьэнапэжъ, апходэу жыпIэу хъунэкъым.

@Random Person Don't listen to him. I'm a Circassian and I don't hate nations. Peace ☮️

Thanks for using IPA

Bende yarı Çerkes, asimile olmuş ve Çerkesce bilmeyen bir ailedenim

Well they do But they literally can't do it in the Caucasus otherwise they will be kick in ass

John Smith "Circassian diaspora"

Brother X they did to caucasus actually

Your English is pretty good!

lol stop buddy ... most of them have like few hundred users ... do you speak Nakh i , or Vai Nakh .. i assume Vai Nakh and you don't even Know what Nakh i or Nae Makh is ... also Dualian or D'Valian or even D'eulian .. or D'evar' , D'e'ual language .. XD

Hello laz brother from east georgia wish you all the best.

Very nice they are part of indo europeans or isolted ?

@@paries1014 laz is in the kartvelian language family which is isolated and not similar to any language.

THIS IS A KARTVELIAN LANGUAGES I'M SVAN!!!

@@sandrovaro chill mate no need to screaming

MrAlvarogame Agreed

Reckless Roges this^ I also recommend that vid

Fun-ish fact: at our institute you can get credit points for taking Basque classes if you're doing a Caucasian linguistics degree. Because no-one knows what extant languages (if any) Basque is actually related to, and typologically it fits in well enough with the Caucasian languages, so that guess is as good as any :v

I've spent time in the Basque region and the language fascinated me. I agree, video please!

Ok so the second commenter on this comment commented about a video link about Basque of another great youtuber, but looking back at these comments, it isn't there anymore for some reason. So, I'll just recomment it, but without link (which was maybe the reason why it got removed?). Just look up this vid: "Basque - A Language of Mystery" and it's from the great language channel "LangFocus". Hope this helps!

@Random Person Georgians Chechnians and Circassians Dagestanis And Ingushetians are The Real Caucasians... armenians and Azerbaijanis Just Came Few Thousand Years Ago But We... We Are Autoctonus People... And According To History Georgia Is The First Country In Caucasia So...

@@user-sj6og7wi2q According to history Kurds had a Muslim dynasty in southern Caucasus , Shadadids and Rawdids

Lovely greetings from Azerbaijan.❤

@Random Person First Of all... We Are Not Dark... And Please... We All Know That Georgians are Only Real Caucasians In South Caucasus... And According To History. If Not Georgia All Of North Caucasian People Would Not Exist. And BTW, Kavkasieli(In Georgian) Must Be Free... That Is What Our Fathers Taught Us. And Which One Of North Caucasians Are Free???! And If We Are South Of The Mountain Than You Are North Of The Mountain... None Of Us Is On The Great Caucasia... Both Of Us Are North Or South Of It.

@Random Person Oooooh... :D

There are a bunch of resources on all sorts of Papuan languages, of many different families. A video on the core branches of Trans-NG shouldn't be hard at all. Comparing New Guinea to the Sentinel Islands is going way overboard.

+Ginni Hamadan And? It doesn't matter. NativLang will decide if he wants to do a video on the languages of New Guinea.

OH BOI i got into Papua recently and it was just... i hate the fact that 1. No one pays attention to them 2. The Wiki pages of most of them are super smol

Maybe all of new Guinea, not just the independent east

The Impish Dullahan

Good for you

Sam Abesh Agreed

Sam Abesh indeed, si qwash

+Sam Abesh there are many Circassians who live in Damascus since a very long time, maybe since 1800's

Anas Syria i know, i am a Circassian from Aleppo.

+Sam Abesh That great my friend. I was brought up in a neighborhood where a lot of Circassians live. I love and respect my Circassian friends, they are indeed among the most civilized people I've known. I even attended Circassian culture classes with them. For Адига! :)

Agreed, would love something Finnish/Karelian.

Saami languages!

Slashplite I second your choice

There are no evidence that the Uralic languages are related to either Turkic, Mongolic, or any other languages spoken in Siberia, Manchuria, Korea, Japan and so on. The only common thing they have are loanwords shared by each other.

+Ginni Hamadan What research?

You’re in luck, three years later! He uploaded a video on the languages of Siberia last month and one on Ainu in April.

Sunita Gupta

Giorgi Razmadze Armenian is durr. The y means the.

Because Hindu comes from Sanskrit which is a Indo-European language.

that's because Hindi like all other Indo European languages derives from proto-Indo European that is thought to have formed in the Caucasus.

Latin word for King Rex,Rey,Regain,Reign,Roy,Royal and Germanic Rix,Ric and Rick are all related to Indo-Aryan words like Raj or Raja etc etc though PIE so not surprising.

Oh, thanks for mentioning Lezgian.)

Hebrew yoxdu Azərbaycanda. Buradakı Yahudiler tat(juhuri lehçesi) ve rus dillərində danışırlar. Tat dilində dağ yəhudiləri, rus dilində de Avropa Yahudileri danışır.

@Baxışoff avar eşitməmişəm amma dağ (qorski) yahudiləri hamısı tatca danışır, öz ləhcələri var tat dilidən cuhuri deyirlər. KZfaqda mahnıları da çoxdur, elə digər tatlar da rahat başa düşürlər ləhclərini. Evropeyski yahudilər də rus dilində danışırlar. Amma avar dilində danışmağı ilk dəfədir sizdən eşidirəm.

@Jake Awake there is not Kurd in Azerbaijan

All of them are less then 5% of population in Azerbaijan. 95% are Azerbaijanin Turks

@Beycan Han убыхский язык был ближе к абхазскому чем к кабардино-черкесскому

​@@MegaRedada убыхи считали себя адыгами и говорили на адыгском языке. Всё убыхи сегодня считают себя адыгами и говорят на адыгском и не имеют отношения к абхазам.

alex cheng does it still exist to this day?

Yeah, more than 14 of them

Yes! Would be interesting to see :) My people (Maori) are descendants of Taiwanese Aborigines, so I'm pretty curious about their languages, would also be awesome to see a video about Polynesian languages :)

Ivatan, the indigenous langauge spoken in the Bataan islands in the northernmost province of the Philippines, are cousins of the Aboriginal Taiwanese languages. In the mainland (Philippines), no one can understand them since they are technically in a different subgroup of their own in the Malayo-Polynesian family. Example: Umsi ava su vahusa u kamates. (Eggplants do not grow tomatoes). Quote source Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivatan_language).

I thought aboriginals were in australia?

Salam qardaw.

selamlarr

@WHATS VIRAL? I think you are right They are decentdent of gok And magok

@Vahe Akopian Yes there is. Karachay, Balkar, Nogay, Kumyk are Turkic Caucasians. Eat shit you ignorant turd.

Aleykimi salam Kardaşım bende Ahıskalı Türküm

Same

Awww... 🥰

Did you just say “Circassian”?? My obsession with Circassia and those stuff is going crazy....

Not really

@@parsifal40 ok turk

@@roniNetewiKurdistan lol thats not a roast

Asalamoaleikum brother

and lazuri(laz)

Thats because they're not languages but rather dialects. Like Cantonese or fuzhounese

@@kardz1848 U are wrong. Search more about this issue please.

@@giorgishekiladze4282 except I'm not.

@@kardz1848 they are entirely different languages, georgian people such as me cant understand megrelian and svanuri, we cant even understand one word, its so different its a different language.

Yessss

*****​ I agree with you on most of what you said, I don't like this strong Arabian and Turkic influence either. As you said most of Chechens nowadays have Arabic or Turkic names, but Nakh ethnicities of Georgia have taken Georgian names and lastnames. Also Chechen language got influenced by loanwords from Arabic, Turkic and russian languages. But I doubt that Tush or Bats language is much cleaner than Chechen, because it got affected by Georgian language to the degree that its grammar changed and no is more Georgian than Chechen. At least that's what I read long ago. Don't now if that's true, tbh, will have to travel to Georgia and speak with them. About their culture - I have no idea about their culture, I mean they've got Nakh culture for sure, but how is it today? I heard that they are getting absorbed to the Georgian culture. I'm happy if they have preserved it close to the original Nakh culture And as a final point - no, unfortunately, all Nakh people got influenced by other nations and cultures. The difference is to which degree did they get influenced. I can only assume that Nakh ethnicities of Georgia got it less then us. P.S. are you a Nakh person by any chance?

*****​ 1. Take it easy sister, I didn't "teach" anyone, just said my opinion and views on the topic. I am myself not absolutely fluent in my own language because I've got no Chechen friends or acquaintances, my parents were seriosly affected by the soviet russification, I do not know how to dance our traditional dances, I don't follow most of our traditions. But, that's not because I'm a COWARD, as you said. I'm just out of our society, cause guess what, I can't find a good friend with a decent personality. Most of our youth are interested in either wrestling, religion or thugs "culture". I'm not interested in any of these. 2. Absolutely agree with you on this, I myself bear an ugly semitic name which I hate and will change soon for an old classic Chechen name. Have got any ideas? About "Peter" or "Alexander" - I think that would sound too slavic, even though the names are originally Greek/Roman. I like old Chechen names like Lamberd, Elberd, Baysangur, etc. 3. 4. Agreed on this fully I disagree on one thing - I don't think that ALL of Chechens were christians once. I have read that only the south western part of Chechens and Ingushes were converted to orthodox christianity by Georgians/Byzantins. And perhaps you didn't know, but Byzantine emperors didn't care about the religion when they spreaded their version of christianity to Caucasus, their goal was to spread their influence and make surrounding nations related to them, to serve their goals, to defend their borders. Nothing more than that. And as far as I know they even paid for converting to orthodoxy. Now you must understand one thing - I am not religious at all and hate all religions equally, but the orthodox heresy I hate more than any other branch of Christianity. I am absolutely ok with protestantism and I like Arian, Celtic and Manicheic Christianity, but no other religion harmed us more than orthodoxy. Just look at all the atrocities and genocides the "good orthodox " russians have been conducting to us for more than 300 years. If orthodox can coldbloodly kill half a peaceful nation, then fuck that religion. I would prefer if we Chechens remained pagans as we were before these semitic middle eastern religions even were a thing. Laramca.

***** I've sent you a message on Hangouts.

+Lola Schneemann I don't wanna provoke a negative reaction here, but I don't think you should blame Mansur or any other muslim ancestor for fighting in the name of Islam. I'm completely on your side when it comes to Islam, I also think it should've never been spread to Caucasus, but you have to understand the mindsets of people back in Mansur's times. Since ancient times, people allied more due to religion, rather than ethnicity. I mean, there were cases when ethnicity prevailed, but up until 20th century most of the world still considered religion above everything. I mean you just can't blame people of that era for their choices, cause you don't know what you would do, and what kind of worldview you'd hold. Again, I'm not on the side of muslims, as my ancestors were also fighting against arabs in ancient times, and I completely share your views on it, I just wanna say we shouldn't be harsh on our ancestors. They could've done questionable things, but they were doing what they thought was the right thing. Afterall, the Caucasian Imamate did present a pretty good resistance to russians, and if they weren't united, they wouldn't last even half of that. I personally hold views, that all caucasians should have united back then, that way we had a chance of securing our independence, but that was a different time...

Lola Schneemann, sorry about my bad english, but I think it's important to say, about no 2. Lambert comes from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements land, lant (land, territory) + berht, beraht (bright, famous) Similar versions are: Landebert, Landebercth, Landobert, Lanpreht etc. There is also a female version Landeberta. Elbert comes from old german name Adalberht adal, athal (noble) + berht, beraht (bright, famous) Is the source form of Albert. Both of them are beautiful germanic names, but the vainah name Lamberd is really a vainah one. I don't know if you are vainah but as a native speaker you can hear it, it literally means "mountain precipice". Lam - mountain and berd - precipice. There is also a shorter version of this name - just Berd. I don't know what names Elberd and Lors mean or wherefrom Konrad von Hötzendorf has the name Elbert (Lors is pretty common in surnames - Lorsayev, Lorsanov), but Berd, Lamberd are vainah names/words. p.s. the word "Eli" (Ela) is not chechen or ingush, it comes from arabian(?) name Ali. Chechens or ingushs don't know meanings of most names, but everyone knows the origin of Eli/Ela (in russian version the name is always written as Ali) You also wrote some chechen words wrong, with chechen latin alphabet it would look a bit different. Lyoma - is Loema (Lom-Eli - is a combined vainah and arab name) Lechi - would be Lecha Olkhasar - is Olhazar, another versions are Alhazur or Olhazur Khos - is Xhoza

It’s hard but great

big topic. Could include Dene, Haida, Navajo, Cree Indians of North America

uhh Caucasian in the US pretty much means white

Google "Caucasoid race" or simply Caucasian race. It's all in the skull shape which determines race (Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid). Caucasian doesn't necessarily mean european white. Most people do not know this though. However, this is somewhat deemed controversial, despite the research behind it. Also, Europeans are Caucasian.

Finns were once considered mongoloid. Just don't go telling Stormfronters that Finns are mongols. xD

That is because of some archaic 18th or 19th century bullshit they thought all white skinned round eyed people originated from that region.

There is at least one far right nationalist group that insists that the Finns and the Japanese are the same race.

its aqsua not abkhazian

the abkhaz cyrillic is wild

I am Armenian on my Fathers side & Georgian on my Mothers Inb many ways we are very similar, but also very different One thing for sure Armenians & Georgians are the backbone of Christianity in the region for almost 2000 years

Never thought of this🤔

@@arinaa4809 Me too, but then when I studied translation I learned about the isogloss which separates the dialects in a region. Back in time, people couldn't travel so far and some stayed in the same village their whole life. So they formed different dialects. :D

@@LearnGermanwithMarzipanfrau and that’s also why Swiss German is really different from German German? :)

@@arinaa4809 Yes, that's true. Germany is a lot flatter than Switzerland. So the dialects spread wider in flat regions than in regions with more mountains. :)

@@LearnGermanwithMarzipanfrau ight, thank you

The very same! It's cool to read this personal background. It gives some depth to the person behind the simple name, date, idea citations I encountered while researching the video. Thank you for sharing.

You didn't know Russia exists? What?

Which people havent been destroyed by russia? Tell me.