The Language Sounds That Could Exist, But Don't

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The International Phonetic Alphabet: one sound for each symbol, and one symbol for each sound. Except for the sounds we can't make. Pull down the description for the references! MORE LANGUAGE FILES: • Tom's Language Files
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REFERENCES:
Harbeck, J. (2009). Presented at the 30th annual Editors’ Association of Canada conference, Toronto, June 6, 2009.
Algeo, J., & Pyles, T. (2004). The origins and development of the English language (5th ed.). Boston, Mass.: Thomson/Wadsworth.
Nicolaidis, Katerina (2005). "Approval of new IPA sound: the labiodental flap". Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 35 (2): 261.
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@TomScottGo 4 жыл бұрын

And that's it for this run of the Language Files! Thanks to co-authors Gretchen McCulloch and Molly Ruhl, and animator Stephen Houston-Moore. And to answer the question that'll get asked ten times in response to this, these videos and comments get scheduled weeks in advance so I don't have to worry about actually being online when they launch.

@phwaedih 4 жыл бұрын

Pls more language files in future 🙏🙏

@ResilientVulture 4 жыл бұрын

3 weeks ago? Someone explain this please thanks

@lunaraine 4 жыл бұрын

i was actually just about to ask how this comment was made 3 weeks ago (no offense) so thanks for answering that ^^ also great series can't wait to see more in the future (if you're up for doing more that is)

@hiebrantsify 4 жыл бұрын

Next video - Languages that exist but shouldn't

@TotoDG 4 жыл бұрын

A’ight, see ya in three years.

@carrotmandoespixelmon1296 4 жыл бұрын

“By all means try it” if you think I haven’t been imitating a dying owl for the past 30 seconds already...

@vinos1629 4 жыл бұрын

Same

@phs125 4 жыл бұрын

I think I can do it. Say kaaaa, but don't change position of your tongue. Keep it near the throat so that there's a layer of saliva that vibrates.

@CathodeRayKobold 4 жыл бұрын

RRRR! RRRRRRR! Wait, that's uvular. *Makes Gollum sounds.*

@Concretizer 4 жыл бұрын

@@phs125 i just tried this and it's quite cool

@shitinsahu2267 4 жыл бұрын

@@phs125🤣 But can you form that layer of saliva at will? For sure it isn't always there.

@loopiloop 4 жыл бұрын

The distinct lack of him trying to pronounce non-symbol phonemes displeases me

@evilelf6188 4 жыл бұрын

The sounds that could make this into an awesome youtube vid, but don't.

@DerWaschbar2 4 жыл бұрын

You mean what's expected from the title?

@TheBrokenSolstice 4 жыл бұрын

Idk, a back of the throat trill is just a gargle sound, isn’t it? I can do it just fine with my uvula..

@bradbradlylife9918 4 жыл бұрын

phuc ewe I can do that with the seed I swallow. The sunflower seed. I got it from my mailman.

@bradbradlylife9918 4 жыл бұрын

phuc ewe Here's the mail it never fails it makes me want to wag my tail

@ViceroyoftheDiptera 2 жыл бұрын

Of note: "hiccough" is a back-formation, "hiccup" is the older term. The spelling -cough came about from false-association with coughing.

@jhonbus Жыл бұрын

Let's do this with more words. Oughots oughore oughords! (Actually that last one should definitely oughork!)

@myhlosic Жыл бұрын

@@jhonbus i literally cannot read this

@sarcasticmoray6648 11 ай бұрын

@@myhlosic I think he said, “what’s more words?”

@nadirhikmetkuleli7335 10 ай бұрын

Hiccup is associated with an unattested Old English verb Hiccan* and up as we know it, (Hicce up!*). Equivalents of unattested hiccan can be found in many languages in Germanic family. Frisian: Hikke, rarely hikke op Dutch: Hikken Danish: Hikke Norwegian: Hikke Swedish: Hicka Icelandic: Hiksti

@PC_Simo 5 ай бұрын

That definitely makes sense 🤔.

@williamjones7163 Жыл бұрын

Took a beginning Spanish class once that had a bunch of teachers in it. They were complaining how hard Spanish was. The teacher asked how do you pronounce "comb", "tomb", "bomb" and why are they pronounced that way. Suddenly Spanish words were making a whole lot of sense.

@alexpallaressierra7730 11 ай бұрын

Spanish is very easy to read, but has more words

@koalaunknown 11 ай бұрын

@@alexpallaressierra7730 Spanish has way fewer words than English; it’s not even close.

@luxraider5384 10 ай бұрын

spanish is very easy.

@julianburke7225 9 ай бұрын

@@luxraider5384yeah

@_fedmar_ 8 ай бұрын

Spanish is very simple! Few words, not many grammar rules, and just the right amount of tenses.

@boeman6702 3 жыл бұрын

"A velar trill is judged imposibble." Me for 5 minutes: *gghhghhhhhhhghgrhhgggrghrgrgggrghr*

@Balou 3 жыл бұрын

I dont know if this is meant, but in german the r is regulary made in where you speak the k

@AlohaFourpeaks_ 3 жыл бұрын

+111

@Guilhermetwc 3 жыл бұрын

@@Balou that's i thought, in portuguese also there are a few words you speak the R in the same place where you speak the K

@porpus2117 3 жыл бұрын

I did it? Maybe unless I’m not thrilling the right place but it was really easy

@Rinkerbro 3 жыл бұрын

I just made the predator sound

@BurazSC2 3 жыл бұрын

new pick up line: "hey baby, don't mean to brag, but I can velar trill"

@bee4622 3 жыл бұрын

Thats literally throwing up tho 😂

@ferociousfeind8538 3 жыл бұрын

"Mother can I have loose folds of tissue along my velum?" "For food?" "Yes." _actually produces velar trill_ Velar trill time

@malachiwilliams4938 3 жыл бұрын

@Yokai369 Oh, that’s good.

@JulianDanzerHAL9001 3 жыл бұрын

you could do a glottal lateral approximant - with some help

@nathanfryar3773 3 жыл бұрын

I immediately tried

@phylk4683 2 жыл бұрын

My parents are actually linguists and phoneticists and they always say to me “haaaarrrr kkkkk ha! Ooooowwwaaallllah qah-zah-blahc-kaaaahhh! At 2pm”. Always brings a tear to my eye if I’m being honest.

@missingtexturez 2 жыл бұрын

Kinda wanna hear that

@phylk4683 2 жыл бұрын

@@missingtexturez its definitely special

@charvie1147 2 жыл бұрын

Looks like a google meet code

@kcufbla 2 жыл бұрын

Is that Klingon?

@astrobiojoe7283 Жыл бұрын

You're Cardi B's child?

@dilldoe1492 2 жыл бұрын

Learning English is difficult, it can be taught through tough thorough thought though…

@dilgeatakan9366 5 ай бұрын

And they are *wildly* similar to each other. I mixed 2 of those up just because my mother language doesn't have dental fricatives /θ/ and /ð/ and I pronounce them as alveolar plosives /t/ and /d/.

@Miracle12348 17 күн бұрын

My head is spinning

@lonestarr1490 4 жыл бұрын

I can totally imagine a bunch of scientists sitting together trying to produce all kinds of strange sounds just to decide whether a box of the table should be white or gray.

@JaimeIsJaime 4 жыл бұрын

sounds like a lot of fun

@cogithefool4284 4 жыл бұрын

You definitely haven't attended a phonetics class then.

@Flobbled 4 жыл бұрын

There's a party game hidden here...

@christianwetzel2199 4 жыл бұрын

@@Flobbled or a big bang theory episode

@cenedra20 4 жыл бұрын

That's why phonology was my favorite course, it was funny as hell to sit through the class, every class 😄

@susmitislam1910 3 жыл бұрын

So this is basically a periodic table of human linguistic elements.

@georgiangelov13 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! I have never imagined that way.... I always see the chart as a Map of Coordinates, and when meet the x and the y you’ll get a Linguistic sound cool

@Jr-ft9ii 3 жыл бұрын

A periodic table of sounds 😜

@BidwellRunner 3 жыл бұрын

Well, it's only the consonants. You need another table for the vowels.

@nayaland9115 3 жыл бұрын

Oh wow I never thought of it that way

@obviativ123 3 жыл бұрын

Affricates are molecules ... ?

@mder3a Жыл бұрын

Of all the things you make videos about, linguistics are by far my top favourite. They have really made my ears more sensitive to things in speech I never knew existed, and have made me realise that what I thought was unique to certain languages probably exists in other languages, but just really less emphasized and less central to them.

@shadow8005 8 ай бұрын

I’m taking a linguistics class this semester and I couldn’t stop laughing imagining a language based on the sound you make when choking on water

@cheesuschrist4473 5 ай бұрын

French

@Miracle12348 17 күн бұрын

NO-

@alyanahzoe 15 күн бұрын

@@Miracle12348 then, what is it?

@Miracle12348 14 күн бұрын

@@alyanahzoe what is what?

@alyanahzoe 14 күн бұрын

@@Miracle12348 the sound you make when choking on water.

@sleepyLili 4 жыл бұрын

I'm a little disappointed that we didn't get to hear how those "possible but never used in any language" consonants sound like.

@pogogo51 4 жыл бұрын

Come on! Brbrbrbrbr! We know you want to!

@EmeraldMinotaur 4 жыл бұрын

Some of them do make limited appearances in some languages. If you research a little bit, you can figure out how to make them yourself.

@b3z3jm3nny 4 жыл бұрын

One has your bottom lips on your top teeth like /v/ but you don’t actually let any air escape like a /b/ or a /d/; you just let the air pressure build up with a perfect seal.

@BigShrimpin_ 4 жыл бұрын

@@b3z3jm3nny So silence then?

@safebox36 4 жыл бұрын

Put the tongue to your roof of your mouth and breathe in while making any sound...there's one for you, a sound that's not used in any language (technically). It is used in some stereotype nerd accents but other than that, not a lingual sound.

@JohnFoley1701 3 жыл бұрын

I just tried a glottal lateral, now i need a fresh shirt.

@horstherbert35 3 жыл бұрын

glottal lateral is basically what death metal vocalists do

@BierBart12 3 жыл бұрын

@@horstherbert35 RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW

@mr.flibblessumeriantransla5417 3 жыл бұрын

@Jim Panse I know you were probably joking, but in case not I thought I’d point out that most singers who use those kinds of growls are usually relying on the “False Glottis” also called the “False Vocal Chords,” which are two soft fleshy folds in the vocal tract which don’t vibrate on their own, but can be brought closer together by constricting the muscles in your neck, which when combined with forcing air out of your lungs, produces a sound usually at least an octave lower than can be produced with your normal vocal chords. Alternatively, violently forcing air through your throat while constricting your normal vocal chords can also achieve that “gravelly” sound, but will damage them if done repeatedly.

@larks. 3 жыл бұрын

Make sure it’s a red shirt

@rathole36 3 жыл бұрын

Same-

@shangerdanger Жыл бұрын

funny you said "hawaii" which has a written glottal stop in hawaiian "hawai'i"

@derekschmidt5705 6 ай бұрын

How is that funny? He pronounced it correctly to demonstrate exactly what he intended to demonstrate at the time it was appropriate to demonstrate it.

@kidzbop38isstraightfire92 5 ай бұрын

@@derekschmidt5705was just about to give same reply. Way to stay on his ass!

@quintonconoly 3 ай бұрын

How so many subs

@dannahbanana11235 8 ай бұрын

"English isn't a language, English is three languages in a trench coat"

@TheManWithTheFlan 3 жыл бұрын

although i thought i could pronounce things thoroughly enough, "hiccough" just ploughed right through me.

@telloy9467 3 жыл бұрын

Nice!

@mixtlillness9825 3 жыл бұрын

That must’ve been tough.

@charlene.w.6124 3 жыл бұрын

niceee one

@Jason-re4dw 3 жыл бұрын

Most people seem to use hiccup as hiccough isn't a word you write down often.

@Kai_On_Paws_4298 2 жыл бұрын

How i say it: h-ih-ck-auff. Am i right?

@JoaquinMartinezKeen 4 жыл бұрын

someone should make a machine to pronounce the grayed-out areas.

@jamyreaf 3 жыл бұрын

@@piggyzig ok... where

@sophiaw8177 3 жыл бұрын

I feel like im missing a reply...

@rdaisydraws 3 жыл бұрын

You could always try pink trombone

@alexandrei8275 3 жыл бұрын

@@rdaisydraws ah, yes the pink trombone

@mohdkhairi7591 3 жыл бұрын

That why dubstep come in

@PaulNDeputy 11 ай бұрын

As retired Speed-Language-Pathologist with a specialty in phonology, I enjoyed your presentation (as well as others you’ve made). They say you can always learn more and I have through you. Thank You.

@jorgee2320 2 жыл бұрын

I learned IPA symbols and it helped me pronounce any language I want to learn easily. While other people struggle for long times to be able to pronounce a single word, pronunciation is not a big issue for me anymore.

@kitioppa 4 жыл бұрын

The language sounds that could exist but don't. *proceeds to talk about the ones that do exist and the ones that can't

@penngheeney 4 жыл бұрын

Exactly! Very interesting video, but also highly disappointing given the title.

@larsatticus6807 4 жыл бұрын

Technically the white spaces are in that category- they could exist, but not yet.

@fpsgod3028 4 жыл бұрын

@@larsatticus6807 youre actually dumb

@Wigalot 4 жыл бұрын

@@fpsgod3028 could you explain why he's dumb?

@colefrazier4371 4 жыл бұрын

@@Wigalot we wanted to hear them

@HakureiReimuOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

"You can't get your tongue down in your throat" Well, not in this website

@E4439Qv5 3 жыл бұрын

**Seinfeld theme**

@ShufTheXD 3 жыл бұрын

**credits rolling**

@leerye2227 3 жыл бұрын

**some laughing in the background**

@xtremefps_ 3 жыл бұрын

But what if I have surgery to allow me to do it 🤔

@StormTheSquid 3 жыл бұрын

I think I just laughed so hard I made one of the greyed out sounds XD

@sadiesavanna8369 2 жыл бұрын

Not me being in my room trying to pronounce the letters like: aEH lLiH Eei rrRrRr zxsßa BbUh cUHCFah

@amiga2025 2 жыл бұрын

this is how you raise demons.

@pineappleisthebest8768 2 жыл бұрын

I don't know how you're so good at talking about topics I assume will be boring but then making really interesting videos about it

@almostfm 3 жыл бұрын

As someone once said: English is a language where "cough" "rough" and "through" don't rhyme, but "pony" and "bologna" do.

@wesleymays1931 3 жыл бұрын

English isn't a language. It's 3 languages in a trench coat pretending to be one.

@Somnogenesis 3 жыл бұрын

@@wesleymays1931 Yes, and in the one I speak those two things don't rhyme at all - I automatically see the latter as "bo-lon-ya", as in the city.

@Q75 3 жыл бұрын

Wth is bologna

@macaroon_nuggets8008 3 жыл бұрын

@@Q75 Some weird processed meat.

@Q75 3 жыл бұрын

@@macaroon_nuggets8008 ok

@tiggysheppard3170 3 жыл бұрын

Them: “Velar Trill is impossible” Chewbacca: GRGRGRGRGRGRG

@ashrose6946 3 жыл бұрын

who needs English when you have Shyriiwook?

@hellcrafter5965 3 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't Chewbacca's vocals count as a uvular trill though?

@tiggysheppard3170 3 жыл бұрын

@@hellcrafter5965 I honestly have no clue 😂

@ferociousfeind8538 3 жыл бұрын

@@tiggysheppard3170 For that distinct gargling sound, I'd definitely prescribe a uvular trill, or fricative. It's something waaay back there, with something bouncing around.

@nagranoth_ 3 жыл бұрын

for humans...

@vitonildo 2 жыл бұрын

One of the most interesting videos I ever watched in KZfaq. Thanks, Tom.

@caroleanderson4020 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for book recommend. I've been shopping vainly for a new book to read during hibernation. This one is good for the job.

@YellowBunny 4 жыл бұрын

Are you choking? No, I'm just practicing the glottal lateral approximant.

@sorenkair 4 жыл бұрын

That would be a hilarious retort if you weren't suffocating.

@craideus1943 4 жыл бұрын

Bless you

@Asidders 4 жыл бұрын

Danes.

@Tondadrd 4 жыл бұрын

Of course, I am choking! *?L ?L ?L*

@generrosity 4 жыл бұрын

(gargle gargle)

@jaewok5G 4 жыл бұрын

"a language with words that can only be pronounced while momentarily choking on a bit of undercooked salmon" - this sounds like something douglas adams would've invented.

@SoluKissin 4 жыл бұрын

I can already read it in the slight condescension I read Hitchhiker's in.

@ChasMusic 4 жыл бұрын

I've heard the x in German, Yiddish, Hebrew, and, I think, Arabic, is best approximated by the sound of trying to clear a fish bone from your throat. (Don't swallow one just to try, please. Just pretend.)

@metaparalysis3441 4 жыл бұрын

@@ChasMusic I learn quranic arabic and I think you mean hamzah which I refer as a short a sound

@emilwibergh1014 4 жыл бұрын

Basically Danish.

@spencer6580 4 жыл бұрын

This is the best comment in youtube history

@MuMulen100 2 жыл бұрын

this one video taught me more about phonetics than an entire year at university. wish I'd seen this sooner!

@crayolasun Жыл бұрын

My son has apraxia so I've been exposed to these before but never in such depth! Thank you! Also, more examples would be utterly fascinating!

@kijeenki Жыл бұрын

a·prax·i·a | āˈpraksēə | noun • inability to perform particular purposive actions, as a result of brain damage

@Brockohliflower 4 жыл бұрын

'by all means, try it' *spends 10 minutes unintentionally insulting Donald Duck's grandma*

@TheShadowflare1 4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

@chickenintrousers6723 4 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment right here

@fatherindia4810 4 жыл бұрын

666 likes ur welcome

@hirandompeopled4968 4 жыл бұрын

700

@graceswan4353 4 жыл бұрын

I can make a trill in the k area what does this mean for humanity

@thomasmelbournemusic4182 4 жыл бұрын

Just me who wants a simulation to hear what the impronounciable sounds would sound like?

@utetopia1620 4 жыл бұрын

Only possible in the fifth dimension.

@blastodermis 4 жыл бұрын

It'll be speaking the language of gods

@S0up3rD0up3r99 4 жыл бұрын

Do you want to summon elder gods? Because that's how you summon elder gods!

@KuraSourTakanHour 4 жыл бұрын

I think this is a Job for AI generated speech

@larsatticus6807 4 жыл бұрын

I want someone to build a robot that can troll in the back of their throat. But usually robots use human voices to make words... hm.

@Samiju 2 жыл бұрын

This is so interesting, I loved every second of this video.

@foolyboi2640 2 жыл бұрын

Love how Tom Scott can make a video on the most mundane topics and I’ll still watch all of them

@randoiguess 2 жыл бұрын

We've been spelling 'Briʔish' wrong this whole time

@jangamecuber 2 жыл бұрын

b˞ɪʔɪʃ

@huskyfluffers9017 2 жыл бұрын

I§&

@Lexaine 2 жыл бұрын

Bri'ish

@quickfeather 2 жыл бұрын

thats so good lmao

@kaiserwilhelm1914 2 жыл бұрын

Ish

@abolishgender3240 2 жыл бұрын

The best thing is to imagine a group of phonologists and linguists trying to judge whether a sound is impossible or not, these PhDs and postdoctorals making choking sounds without stopping the movement of air, trying to roll their Ks....

@miniraptor3211 2 жыл бұрын

Honestly, "trying to roll/trill your K's" sounds like an insult for someone trying something impossible. Might keep that one for later.

@yaboimagnus4776 2 жыл бұрын

as someone taking an alevel on linguistics that is currently at the phonetics section, that is exact what my class sounds like every single lesson , and it really is hilarious

@juliaabreus 2 жыл бұрын

@@yaboimagnus4776 I'm so glad I'm still doing online classes, nobody can hear me choking over sounds that I theorically could make bcs they exist in my language but not in my accent

@freyafreyat 2 жыл бұрын

"OMG tom was that a pharyngeal plosive? 😍"

@zjmullan 2 жыл бұрын

@@miniraptor3211 Not really. If you're that sensitive, stay off the internet.

@SteveJones313 8 ай бұрын

I can't get over Tom pronouncing "tongue" as "tong"

@miztahrayeproductions2942 2 жыл бұрын

So glad this was suggested to me. Subscribed immediately.

@j.surnamez3588 2 жыл бұрын

fun party game: gather all your friends and you all take turns trying to make the FORBIDDEN SOUNDS and then vote on who did it best

@Molybdaenmornell 2 жыл бұрын

And make sure someone cleans up the spit and treats the sore throats.

@nemui9654 2 жыл бұрын

*accidentally summons demons*

@Anonymous-df8it 2 жыл бұрын

I tried to do the 'velar trill' and here's what I did (spoiler: when I tried it, I failed): 1. Bring your tongue to the back of your mouth. Also, keep the tongue on the top of your mouth, like rolling your r's. 2. Open your mouth wide to give your tongue space. 3. exhale, but don't let the air go around the side Verdict: I was able to make the tongue vibrate, but it moved forward slightly meaning it was more of a palatal trill instead!

@Tzshchsjsjxijyo 2 жыл бұрын

@@Anonymous-df8it congratulations you just made me pronounce a breathy r, is that even a thing

@bearcubdaycare 2 жыл бұрын

@@Molybdaenmornell I wonder if this isn't really the thing about them being listed as impossible...

@elietheshark1497 4 жыл бұрын

I want to imagine a bunch of 1890s era gentlemen sitting around a table in a very official building trying to make those impossible sounds and choking on their own voice limitations like khhhhhhkllkkkhhhhhhhhhhhhhkkhhsssssshhhhhhkkllllhhhhhuuuuuuuuuh

@nikkiofthevalley 3 жыл бұрын

That would be hilarious!

@sherbatt4769 3 жыл бұрын

Rutherford, for the last time we can't make a bilabial lateral fricative. Now let's try a labiodental lateral fricative.

@RandomPerson-py8yi 3 жыл бұрын

@@sherbatt4769 I laughed

@adararelgnel2695 3 жыл бұрын

@@sherbatt4769 omg 😂😂😭

@ayskura1076 Жыл бұрын

I appreciate these videos Tom :) it made me. Think about split tongue if some sound deemed impossible (or even outside the table) are made actually possible by using half of tongue for something and half for other. Same with piercings on tongue or on cheeks.

@Term-0 7 ай бұрын

I have been trying to researching phonetics, but couldn't find a way in, until you mentioned the international phonetic alphabet. Thank you.

@Ryutix 4 жыл бұрын

3:59 Today I learned that I speak welsh when the sun hits my eyes

@alphamoonman 4 жыл бұрын

Comedy genius

@lewisbaitup6352 3 жыл бұрын

Its like a disturbed snake

@AnasHart 3 жыл бұрын

Minecraft spiders lmao

@Elias-hm7we 3 жыл бұрын

Vampire hiss

@keyesey0796 3 жыл бұрын

Today i learned that i speak welsh whenever i go to school

@KyleJMitchell 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, I had completely forgotten about that spelling of 'hiccup'.

@Narsuaq 4 жыл бұрын

Same

@Sammie1053 4 жыл бұрын

Only reason I remembered it is because of that Barshens video where they used the mouth separators

@BetaDude40 4 жыл бұрын

I think it's kind of interesting how you can clearly see in British English that "cough" and "hiccough" are clearly derived from some jerking motion in the lungs producing a course sound. I never made the connection because I use American English, and it's interesting that you acknowledge how similar they are!

@girv98 4 жыл бұрын

@@BetaDude40 funnily enough, they're actually not related at all. The reason it's spelt like that is the same reason 'island' has an 's'. Someone thought they were related and changed the spelling to reflect that.

@nerdsimulator9646 4 жыл бұрын

*sameeeeee

@aggersoul23 2 жыл бұрын

Ive watched this vid years ago, but never did I think about specialising in it. Now here I am, once again, between now and then. A phonetic expert _-_

@almosthuman4457 8 ай бұрын

a nice trip back in time and it's still interesting

@TheObamasMamas 4 жыл бұрын

I was hoping he’d try some of the sounds that are possible but never used

@vin-goldi 4 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking!

@mina0rahman 4 жыл бұрын

Same.

@vojtechdubcak6135 4 жыл бұрын

A lot of them are actually used. But they do not contrast with other phonemes, there are simply allophonic. They have no dedicated symbol. For example, labiodental plosives are [p̪ b̪], bilabial flap is [ⱱ̟], uvular lateral approximant is [ʟ̠] and so on. The chart doesn't feature the labialized voiced alveolar fricative trill [r̝ʷ] which is a phoneme in czech and even contrasts with /r/, /ʒ/ and/rʒ/. If Tom were to pronounce for instance the voiceless retroflex lateral fricative /ɭ̊˔/ (which is a sound that doesn't exist in any language according to this video), you probably wouldn't hear the difference between the alveolar one (/ɬ/) and the retoflex one. And you would be disappointed saying "But both of them sounded the same." Now you can see that the title is a little misleading.

@travcollier 4 жыл бұрын

@@vojtechdubcak6135 Phonetic production and perception are different 'filters', of course. My fav example was a Japanese professor who would use l and r flawlessly in English, but literally couldn't perceive the difference when listening. Though, totally deaf people who learn how to speak is more impressive.

@P3vlogVid 4 жыл бұрын

I wanted to like your comment but it's at 666

@gccwang24 3 жыл бұрын

- Everything the light touches is a possible sound - What about that shadowy place? - That's beyond our borders. You must never try to pronounce them

@thesaltedlamp3444 3 жыл бұрын

Wait... So, who are Scar and the Hyenas???

@user-zl1fx3lw9c 3 жыл бұрын

@@thesaltedlamp3444 The loose folds hiding out in your throat that come out to laugh at you if you choke on food in exactly the wrong way.

@ananttiwari1337 3 жыл бұрын

@Alexander Nawrot moo

@kishanikent964 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you KZfaq for showing me this 2 years later I will do great things with this empecable knowledge.

@GigaAndy 2 жыл бұрын

Really interesting video thanks Tom.

@gomezfriesen 3 жыл бұрын

I thought from the title you would be pronouncing the letters that can be pronounced but are not found in languages. I would love to hear those.

@tolgacetiner1243 2 жыл бұрын

Me too

@figgynewton5664 2 жыл бұрын

Ack, ookrq, brrrpup, meow, and rvoof, or something

@ellasedits_ 2 жыл бұрын

@@figgynewton5664 all of those are used in at least English and possibly more as onomatopoeias

@ursulap.6722 2 жыл бұрын

Seriously, I feel clickbaited :-/

@GiraffeFlavoredCondoms 2 жыл бұрын

@@waggyn My brain: eSports League..? English.. sign language? Eastern... Saint.. Louis?? OH! English Second Language!

@christeebs 4 жыл бұрын

I'd appreciate a deeper look at this video. 20 minutes of Tom making noises pls

@asterism343 4 жыл бұрын

_but what if it was asmr_ ...just kidding that'd be extremely cursed

@elietheshark1497 4 жыл бұрын

"20 minutes of Tom making noises." +14.8 point for phrasing

@reimandume9107 2 жыл бұрын

Much appreciated Sir

@73hhK41 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Scott! I have a REALLY long uvula, and I can trill a k type of sound. It makes an interesting sound, a bit like dragging a chair across a floor, or sometimes like a shallow purr of a cat (something like that).

@CaptainMorghan4152 2 жыл бұрын

But could we use an AI to simulate those “impossible” sounds? It would be really cool to hear them

@breadispain454 2 жыл бұрын

@thatoneasian5660 2 жыл бұрын

@@breadispain454 mans straight up declined the idea

@CaptainMorghan4152 2 жыл бұрын

@@breadispain454 yes

@kjarakravik4837 2 жыл бұрын

There are sounds certain animals make that humans can't. Maybe it's a bit like that?

@MrNikeNicke 2 жыл бұрын

The chart doesn't really describe sounds, but how they're produced, so if it can't be produced, there is no sound it corresponding to the chart.

@AdeleiTeillana 4 жыл бұрын

Well, I'm disappointed. I thought you were going to actually sound out what the sounds in the white boxes would be. 😕

@bradbradlylife9918 4 жыл бұрын

Well that's what u get for being homeschooled

@alejrandom6592 4 жыл бұрын

do it yourself

@Liamhvet 4 жыл бұрын

@@bradbradlylife9918 i dont like you

@nottoofast 4 жыл бұрын

@@bradbradlylife9918 I also don't like you

@bradbradlylife9918 4 жыл бұрын

I feel like I'm in highschool again They don't tell u that when u drop out, the world drops out with u 🏄

@toni7808 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve always thought about other letters so thank you

@MaddieFishblob Жыл бұрын

WAITTTTTT! Now I understand why when writing Arabic words using the English alphabet, some of the letters nonexistent in English are written as the numbers 2 and 3. There’s a 3 and a symbol similar to 2 on this chart! 😆 one of the great mysteries of the world unexpectedly solved tysm

@finnnaginnn Жыл бұрын

The "3" is more of a "z" with a tail.

@thevalarauka101 8 ай бұрын

the one that looks like a 3 is an old Z with a tail (for the zh sound) and the one like a 2 or a ? is a glottal stop

@jeremy1392 4 жыл бұрын

Everybody: "this is cool" Fantasy Writers: "This looks like a job for me."

@Daelyah 3 жыл бұрын

...as an aspiring writer, I feel only slightly called out...

@anthonyt4154 3 жыл бұрын

someone can make a fictional language from this haha let's give languages besides Klingon and Elvish a chance

@Alchemy818. 3 жыл бұрын

I mean, I made two languages with clicks, whistles, hums, and chirps. They’re spoken by mermaid like creatures (clicks, whistles, hums) and harpy like creatures (whistles, chirps) so there’s that.

@danielsjohnson 3 жыл бұрын

"...so everybody. Just follow me." I'm probably overthinking this, but you reminded me of Eminem.

@obviativ123 3 жыл бұрын

Am I the only conlanger who creates languages without stories? I mean, most people also don't need stories for their pictures/drawings.

@meisteraffe2239 2 жыл бұрын

The Velar-trill is just the sound Perry the Platapus makes

@khaitranngoc4176 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. The secret to velar trill is revealed, it's just an edited voice of Dee Bradley Baker.

@inkanonymous3064 2 жыл бұрын

EXACTLY I LITERALLY THOUGHT THE EXACT SAME THING!!!

@ewanhendry1106 2 жыл бұрын

I was literally thinking that!!! and we can definitely do it

@minecat1839 2 жыл бұрын

Agent P!!!!!

@kalebwingfield 2 жыл бұрын

wouldnt that be more uvular rather than velar?

@Lpp360 9 ай бұрын

Wow man nice video.

@meilia7748 2 жыл бұрын

the reason why that glottal stop occurs in “hawai’i” is because the hawaiian language actually uses the glottal stop as a letter, called the ‘okina. the closest a modern keyboard can get to writing an ‘okina is using an apostrophe, which is what i’m doing here, but in reality, the ‘okina is a separate character and it is included as a letter in the hawaiian alphabet. it’s also present in words like a’a (a type of lava) and pa’u (a traditional skirt). The ‘okina can’t just be left out of words either, because, and using pa’u as an example, “pau” just means “done”, not “skirt.” It affects pronunciation and meaning, and it’s really just a fascinating part of hawaiian language.

@sonictailsandsally 2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of a similar concept in Japanese: いた (ita) vs いった (itta)

@beth12svist 2 жыл бұрын

@@sonictailsandsally Doubled consonants are a thing in Finnish as well. I've also somewhat recently realised that English as an overarching concept does not necessarily differentiate vowel length the way many languages including my own (Czech) do - even though I also think many dialects of English actually do (just like some dialects of Czech kind of don't), it's just that English on the whole has a habit of dismissing such differences...

@AJthe13th 2 жыл бұрын

oh cool, that's something new that I just learned. So that's why there are a lot of apostrophes when we read hawaiian words in english

@OogyTheMango 2 жыл бұрын

An ‘okina is typically depicted as a backwards/upside down apostrophe. If you're using a mobile keyboard and hold down the ' key it might show up: ‘ Otherwise you have to use a special shortcut on the computer.

@bitmap4766 2 жыл бұрын

A glottal stop is a separate letter in Klingon as well!

@DoctorDex 4 жыл бұрын

Every time you mention the international phonetic association, I imagine a kind of Jedi council for human speech.

@NoahHornberger 4 жыл бұрын

they are always on the streets handing out chap-stick, bottled water, and loads of alphabet soup

@raywilliams6717 4 жыл бұрын

@@NoahHornberger I want an alphabet soup will All possible letters/characters!! It would be amazing.

@lioraselby5328 4 жыл бұрын

What about the droid attack on the glottal laterals?

@graysongdl 4 жыл бұрын

That's what I've always thought of when Tom mentions the Unicode Consortium.

@ZeppelinBigFan 4 жыл бұрын

I just wanted a beer.

@CGlatz-bs4vo 2 жыл бұрын

« but just because of the limitations of being human » damn this is powerful

@astrovation3281 2 жыл бұрын

This def made my appreciation for languages and the way we talk work bigger

@phillipsandgren3094 4 жыл бұрын

"Imagine making the sound like ga or ka with a trill" *Perry the Platypus noise intensifies.*

@quadpad_music 4 жыл бұрын

DUDE I WAS THINKING JUST THAT. I seriously wonder how that noise was made for the show. I mean, it was probably a foley artist, but how?

@normiedorian6873 4 жыл бұрын

@@quadpad_music its not hard you raise the back of your toung up where the hard bump is and put the rest down like a slide and blow air out, it also sounds like the predator if you slow it down/ blow less air out

@joeybarela363 4 жыл бұрын

@@normiedorian6873 I almost choked on my own tongue trying to do this, now I just feel dumb

@compulsivecommenter990 4 жыл бұрын

That would be a ʀa and a qa

@nuxapower 3 жыл бұрын

@@quadpad_music Palatal Trill

@martijnvanweele6204 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine meeting aliens and trying to learn their language: "No, you're saying it wrong; it's said with a velar trill." "How am I supposed to make a velar trill!?" "You press your globox against the back of your throat." "Humans don't have a globox." "What an awful way to live..."

@Majima_Nowhere 3 жыл бұрын

"Imagine having no globox This post was made by the X̷̢̡̧̧̡̢̨̨̘̙̭̩̩̩̤̤͕͙̮̜̬̺̭̪͉̼̲͈͉͓͉̮̻̮͚͔̺͖̞̯̜͎̯͚̣̣̗͍̩̻̘̤̲̪̺̘͚̠̟͎̜̠̩͚̎̀̿̿͆̎̕̕͜͜ͅͅe̸̛̛͎͙̟̘͙̻͇̠̰̪̫̻̘̓͐̉́́͂̅͊͌̅̾̄̌̇͊̉̌̓̌̋̒̈́͑͋̓̒̂͐̈́̄͋͆̆̾̀̃̉͑́̆̈́̕͘͜͝͝͝͝͝ṇ̷̨̧̧̢̡̧̨̛͎͈͈͖̰͕̗̱̤͚̱͙͚̗̰̳͈͙̠̦̗̪͈̤̥̥̮͕̳̻̯̫͈̬̱̟̳̞̬̙͕̼̦̮̲̹͍́͛̈̾́͛̿̎͌̔̋̒̎̈́͆̑͆͑̄̈́̓́̓̈́̑̔̈́̋͌͛͂̀͆̃̈́̒͌̈́̆̄̂͒̒̀̔͗͆́̉͘̚͘͘̚͜͜͜͠͝o̷̧̢̭̣̲͖̜͓̖̪̾̀̂̿͑̂̈́̋̄̈́̈́͛̊̅͐́͗̉́͆͋̀̾͆̇̊̋̅͒́̓͛̈́͛̇̇̄̐́̂̽́͒̉̚̚̚͘̚͝͠ gang"

@cheesecakelasagna 3 жыл бұрын

@@Majima_Nowhere This but unironically.

@colorfulchameleon9891 3 жыл бұрын

But there are probably some sounds humans could make that they can't "you can't make a friative dental? How quaint"

@martijnvanweele6204 3 жыл бұрын

@@colorfulchameleon9891 No. If sciencefiction has taught me anything, it's that aliens are always humans plus.

@colorfulchameleon9891 3 жыл бұрын

@@martijnvanweele6204 Honestly I personally dislike sci-fi for that reason. I think it'd be more interesting if aliens were completely unique species. But you're right. In modern sci-fi, they are just humans - BUT BETTER.

@linguini1517 Жыл бұрын

I've seen a conlang that uses literally every slot on the table,including the impossible ones. Also, the table is changed so it is around 144x120 instead of the normal size, with the normal table fully inside of it

@kaengurus.sind.genossen 7 ай бұрын

Was it a candidate for the cursed conlang circus?

@linguini1517 7 ай бұрын

@@kaengurus.sind.genossen yes

@pikchassis 6 ай бұрын

@@linguini1517 what was it

@linguini1517 6 ай бұрын

@pikchassis I forgot, its in agma schwa's cursed conlang circus

@s4yum1 2 жыл бұрын

Finally my Linguistics major helped me understand one of your videos.

@lumpwurtroot 3 жыл бұрын

"Try and make a velar trill" Well i would if i knew what velar or trill meant

@goldeviolets4314 3 жыл бұрын

Brig B Velar means it’s made at the same place where /k/ and /g/ are made, and a trill is a manner of articulation

@CaveyMoth 3 жыл бұрын

[Cat purring noise] Is this really impossible for people?

@goldeviolets4314 3 жыл бұрын

Cavey Möth A cat purring noise isn’t a Velar Trill

@goldeviolets4314 3 жыл бұрын

Actually it’s kind of like an alveolar trill

@starrix4712 3 жыл бұрын

And I thought trills were only assigned to kitties

@statelyelms 2 жыл бұрын

I was hoping for him to make some of those ignored, but possible sounds.

@blockyhour4224 2 жыл бұрын

Same

@javieralejandrotrianapaz6343 2 жыл бұрын

I'd like to give a symbol to the postalveolar trill: a horizontally flipped r

@moonbyme Жыл бұрын

as a linguistics student, im proud that i can understand this video. i did learn something afterall

@christopherperez9845 10 ай бұрын

As a stem student I’m glad there was a organized graph to make me understand it

@indubitablyamy Жыл бұрын

i might have done it wrong but the "velar trill" was really easy

@kenny7593 2 жыл бұрын

I want a video with all of the "possible, but unused" sounds being pronounced.

@ancients6498 Жыл бұрын

I thought that was this video, I'm so disappointed

@artifactU 10 ай бұрын

i wish, but i doubt anyone currently alive iz able to do a palatal trill

@SuryaBudimansyah 7 ай бұрын

Sounda like a TikTok challenge

@Akovor_ 4 жыл бұрын

My mum walked into my room and wondered why i was going "haghh" and "lllllhhhh" in front of my computer

@xraptor10 4 жыл бұрын

I laughed out loud picturing this...

@Jayden3649 4 жыл бұрын

@LaBelle424242 stop using that many emojis. It makes your comment hard to read, and you don't even need to include them since if you sentence makes sense you won't need to use emojis.

@acat4701 4 жыл бұрын

@LaBelle424242 go back to Instagram or stop spamming emoji like some normie. Your comments are making me sick due to the overuse of emoji.

@IIIRobIII 4 жыл бұрын

That sounds like an NPC from Oblivion that ate a poison apple

@Naomi-gr7fm 4 жыл бұрын

@@acat4701 You could just... ignore it.

@steakfilly5199 Жыл бұрын

Came back here to say this video introduced me to phonetics a while back and now I’m mostly fluent in ipa and It’s one of my favorite hobbies. Thank you

@honkhonk9089 Жыл бұрын

0:12 I remember how I was trying to get to the Slough station in London and didn’t know how to say it.

@user-pk9qo1gd6r Жыл бұрын

It's your fault for every having such a dumb idea as to try and get to Slough

@ohifonlyx33 3 жыл бұрын

Alternate title: Language Sounds That Can't Exist. I thought we'd hear the sounds that we actually COULD use.

@drausino 3 жыл бұрын

I agree. I was slightly disappointed. Those white boxes scream RPG potential.

@Laeiryn 3 жыл бұрын

I assure you, if it's a sound the human vocal tract can make, someone somewhere at some point in history has used it in a language. Clicks are a good example but so is, say, Fluffy's bit of comedy about how that 'tsk' sound means entire paragraphs to a Latina mother.

@wesleymays1931 3 жыл бұрын

I can produce 2 separate pitches at the same time. Hint: I'm _not_ using my larynx to produce those pitches.

@AlexBrown9635 2 жыл бұрын

Tom: **impossible and unusable sounds** Beatboxers: I recognize the council has made a decision, but given that it's a *stupid* decision I've elected to ignore it.

@Loctorak 2 жыл бұрын

Tom: talking about spoken language. Beatboxing: not a language. Or in other words: how many English words require you to make a noise like a record scratch to say them? Z-z-z-zero.

@sheridan5175 2 жыл бұрын

@@Loctorak How very English centric And besides, you're reffering to the letters in white. OP was referring to the letters in grey.

@kidsdomath1330 2 жыл бұрын

You mean like clicks or ejectives?

@notablediscomfort 2 жыл бұрын

[laughs in deathcore]

@user-mv9vg8nc5o 2 жыл бұрын

Liked for the marvel reference

@niaj.2684 2 жыл бұрын

great video!

@user-xiaoyaoniangwangbo Ай бұрын

this is so interesting to watch

@Kluneberg 4 жыл бұрын

Pronouncing the grey boxes is how you summon Cthulhu and open portals to other dimensions.

@patrickreilly478 4 жыл бұрын

You know, you jest, but Lovecraft's preferred pronunciation of Cthulhu actually attempts to use a glottal trill, and sounds just awful...

@C28_Music 4 жыл бұрын

bios47 and with the black boxes, you can alter reality

@dreadcthulhu6842 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, that is correct.

@hobobobo5244 4 жыл бұрын

I wanted to here some of the sounds that aren't in any language :/

@thenthson 4 жыл бұрын

Given that there is a language that if I am not mistaken is just straight up whistling

@ApollyonZKX 4 жыл бұрын

You mean hear right?

@candicehoneycutt4318 4 жыл бұрын

Anonymous User They do have a spoken language, but the whistling was mostly used to have a conversation over a wide space from a distance.

@kasirrokas5473 4 жыл бұрын

Try arabic 😐👌🏻

@thenthson 4 жыл бұрын

@@candicehoneycutt4318 I didn't know that. Thank you

@valtteripennanen4043 Жыл бұрын

Forgot that this is from three years ago and still suprisingly holds up with that familiar Tom Scott style

@sol_mental 2 жыл бұрын

This video is too precious

@marbleracingstudios9552 2 жыл бұрын

Let’s be real. We all tried to make every sound that was deemed “impossible”

@iwbmo 2 жыл бұрын

i couldnt think up how

@emilys1418 2 жыл бұрын

I ended up making gargling noises for most of them

@crazywyvern4704 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t know if I’m doing it right but I think I can make the L sound in my throat, I’m probably just stupid though

@natekurz4029 2 жыл бұрын

In Hebrew we use the chhh sound

@thelocalnecromancer1224 2 жыл бұрын

I didn't. I simply didn't understand how any of it worked.

@aisforamerica2185 4 жыл бұрын

i was today years old when I learned hiccup is spelled "hiccough"

@TheDestructiveGiant 4 жыл бұрын

It's not

@blueshoes5145 4 жыл бұрын

Where did you get that info from ?

@user-df4zw7yb4v 4 жыл бұрын

That's the noun form of the word "hiccup."

@the_biblioklept2533 4 жыл бұрын

Weeb Trash It objectivily is. Both varients are correct

@KingsleyIII 4 жыл бұрын

@A is for America: "Hiccough" is the British spelling.

@anwarmi2000 Жыл бұрын

Very informative

@lightning_11 2 жыл бұрын

0:00 - "English spelling is a mess" You have just summarized all my pain for the last two years...

@henryrichard7619 3 жыл бұрын

“You can’t pronounce all those ‘P’s” _laughs in unvoiced bilabial trill_

@kurzeme 3 жыл бұрын

@The Flying Dolphin Gemination would only yield a long pause and possibly, a release into a schwa

@kurzeme 3 жыл бұрын

@The Flying Dolphin better

@ferociousfeind8538 3 жыл бұрын

@@kurzeme _non-pulmonic bilabial release time_

@AbdulHaseeb-ze7pu 3 жыл бұрын

(letting your lips hang loose without using your vocal cords. Think the raspberry "pffff")

@eclipse-music 3 жыл бұрын

For those interested (i.e., only me) that would be written /ʙ̥/

@DanielHarris171 3 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: My wife’s grandparents worked as Bible translators in Brazil and discovered two phonemes which has never been used before in the indigenous language they were working with.

@SM-yz4hi 2 жыл бұрын

that’s really cool! do you remember what they were?

@Inktron 2 жыл бұрын

whaat

@lucianasoriagutierrez5593 2 жыл бұрын

That's so cool! Love to everyone who is translating the Bible to indigenous languages!! "The best missioner is the Bible in the native language. It doesn't need vacation and it isn't consider foreigner"Cameron Townsend

@JohnGisMe 2 жыл бұрын

I heard that someone translating the bible into a language used by a Pacific islander group had trouble translating the word "mountain" as the native population had never seen any.

@georgecabrera9039 2 жыл бұрын

So you're parents are continuing the Spanish inquisition today🤔