@kakahass8845
About Arabic it's technically neither. It's classified as a "Dialect continuum" basically A can understand B which understand C which understands D which understands E but E and A can't understand each other.
@HulluRichie
Politics also play a big part in this topic, at least in Europe! My home country of Finland alone has multiple dialects of finnish that were considered their own languages; in fact standard finnish is a rather recent language and is mostly based on what was then considered an academic language. I also speak a minority language that isn't officially recognised anywhere.
@deebdelkey389
I feel extremely sad when language die it like a piece of history dies Infront of us
@jcortese3300
Even the dividing lines between what we think of as well-established separate languages is blurrier than we think. I've seen conversations take place between Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese speakers where literally no one speaks the same "language" but there are zero comprehensibility problems, and it just looks like a perfectly normal conversation between three people. And to be honest, I know that Scots people speak English fine, but when they talk to one another -- in English -- I can get maybe one word in ten, if I'm lucky. Otherwise, I can't even tell it's English. I've had the same experience of some very quick, very fluent backcountry American accents, and I'm American!
@lesussie2237
The distinction between one language and another is deeply political. Arabic and Mandarin have mutually unintelligible speakers and are usually considered single languages, yet Serbo-croatian, scandinavian languages, and Malay which have high mutual intelligibility are split into multiple languages, mostly following national borders
@MijnAfspeellijst1234
Frisian is a official langues in The Netherlands, but over time less and less people speak it. And even thought it should be allowed to be in parliament, its rarely used. The dutch goverment did put more effort and funds recently into preserving the frisian langues.
@christianheichel
I wonder if what you described with Arabic language is is anything similar to what is going on with Portuguese and Spanish?
@Girjon05
As a Sami, we have lost a lot of our language. There uses to be several different Sami languages, however only the big 3 are remaining, however even these 3 are under threath. Take northern Sami as an example. It's the most spoken out of all the Sami languages, however it's losing it's value. Words are forgotten, especially those that speak of nature and especially reindeer herding. A lot of Norwegian words are mixed in with the Sami language, and more and more words are forgotten about. So while i don't think the language will dissapear anytime soon, the words definetly are, and it's a shame, since the Sami language is a wordy language, with tons of different words describing nature
@Langwyrm
1:03 for Urdu and Hindi it's pretty much the other way around - linguists originally thought they were different languages but they are now described as one
@CaptainBlitz
1:21 As a native Arabic speaker, I feel obligated to correct something here. Most of these are dialects. NOT separate languages. I speak Kuwaiti Arabic, but that's just a dialect. I can perfectly understand Omani Arabic, Hijazi Arabic, Levantine Arabic, and so on, even though I was never taught them. However, if you move far enough to the northwest of Africa, you do start to get dialects that are very very different than those in the middle east. But most Arabic speakers still consider that Arabic even though they barely understand it.
@doujinflip
At first I thought they started counting programming languages too 🧑‍💻
@chad_b
I'm Canadian of Irish descent. I like speaking English and being able to communicate with so many people around the world but part of me wishes I was able to speak the language of my ancestors as well
@joshuahillerup4290
I'm not sure that it makes sense to say that Yurok is 10,000 years old. It's like saying English is 6,000 years old, just because we can trace back English around that far back all the way to PIE
@Modernwildturkey
It also probably helps that while it's been awhile since we stopped creating new spoken language, new sign languages are constantly being created and developed which would be such an interesting video in itself
@patrickjohansson2800
2:46 you thought you could sneak some ithkuil into your video without me noticing? I will start translating it now, be back in 10 years with the translation.
@chribu_
That fact that people made the afford to learn Yurok even though no one was speaking it and then proceeded to teach it to kids makes me so happy for some reason :D
@Unknown_nobody-p7b
So true . Im a lebanese and i can barely understand sudanese . Even though i refer to both as “arabic” . So i was shocked when i knew that the UK or USA alone “have different accents”
@purplemarsmotionpictures
It has been a great pleasure discovering this effect on my own. I have been fascinated with Indo-European languages my whole life and over the years more and more dialects have turned into languages in their own regards. Then when we see the distinct features of the new language being closer to proto-indo-european we learn so much about our ancestors!
@stellart5664
I wonder if at some point we'll start seeing new internet based languages.
@ayushchaudhary4360