Dialect coach Erik Singer analyzes some of the most famous “constructed languages” in movie and television history. Which real-life languages inspired “conlangs” like Klingon and Dothraki?
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Languages Covered: Na’vi, Dothraki, Klingon, Sindarin, Parseltongue, Ewokese, Shyriiwook, Divine Language, Mork Speak, Groot Speak, Malkovich, Furbish, Heptapod.
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He looks like Dennis from always sunny
So these languages actually have logic behind them? Here I was thinking they just make up some gibberish without even thinking about it. Guess I learned something new today.
Edit: Halfway through the video now. This is blowing my mind.
Seriously, Hodor?
What's your favorite conlang and why?
To me it is Valyrian followed by Sindarin. IMHO the latter sounds even nicer, but it's a bit too soft, thus lacking a bit of dynamic (e.g. harsher sounds for important or rude words) and it's a bit too nasal. I also like the sound of languages similar to Latin and Japanese (not piling up consonants). That's why I like the divine language too.
Funfact: some animals use distinct words e.g. for predators, but to us they sound pretty much the same, since they use pitch and overtunes instead of a ton of syllables like most of us.
Similarly, foreign languages often have different concepts. For instance, they might have 5 words for saying no depending on the context (for being polite), have here/there/yonder (the latter English lost) or some weird cases, or a gender for objects….
I'd love to see this guy break down the historical depictions from ERB
Star Trek Discovery uses so much Klingon so I'm glad this video exists bc I can judge and fun to understand how it works. Also Erik is my favorite person lol
What a missed opportunity to examine Simlish!
dah-noh-lah!
I would think Viggo Mortensen is a Danish actor 😛
This is great. I'm a linguist and this makes me happy. But it's also just really well put together. Cool analysis.
09:49 americans…….. always forgetting that Dutch has the most agressive R sounds on the planet throughout their whole language……
Well…..there is "the American R" in Chinese. I think it's not "that" rare……?
conlangs was what originally made me major in linguistics
WHAT ABOUT TRIGEDASLENG
DENNIS REYNOLDS
i need eight thousand of these linguistics videos please and thank you
Hodor
at 7:33 lies the secret to pronounce the mandarin yv sound. he nailed it, as expected from an accent expert.
Keradzhang im na ta showxa ere Lang Belta?
Malkovich is a pokemon
Yo, where the fuck is Cybertronian?
I'm a little shocked he of all people pronounced "Maori" wrong.
Walking carpet fuzz ball. LOL
Guys I think he's a heptapod
I'd love to see what he thinks of the dragon conlang Bethesda made for Skyrim!
Another good place you can find a tapped r-like sound is in Japanese. You have to tap your tongue on the roof of your mouth like an English "L", and it kind of gives it a "D" like sound. Hell, I used to mistake Japanese for Apple "Ringo" (りんご) like it was pronounced "Dingo" But I was a foolish language learner then. Now I understand so much about so many languages, such as their grammar and other things.
Where's Minionese?
niger
congo languages
2:05 made me proud of being bilingual #igboboy
Yoda disapproves lmao
we saw this video in my history of languages class and our final project was to create our own made up language or study an already existing made up language and this video helped me a lot.
WIRED is like buzzfeed, but not shit and informative
This is my favorite show on YouTube next to First We Feast
Why is it that it's OK to use English as the main language in SciFi/Fantasy, but any other language has to be invented? 🙂
"Accent Expert"? Can this guy solve the curious case of Tommy Wiseau?
No Simlish from The Sims? lol that would be intersting to look at. But very interesting video.
If he does another video on conlangs I would like to see him do Al bhed form Final Fantasy 10.
This is the first time I have seen that the CC auto-generated English is actually accurate with the words
SIMLISH PLZ
What is the name of the song which Sheldon sings while playing the piano?
I always get called American because of how I pronounce my rs. Because British doesn’t even use it
Ha ha… The little bear said "bunda"!
-Me being a child
I thought there was no word for 'thank you' in Dothraki.
I would love to see your take on Trigedasleng (by the guy who made Dothraki) in the tv show "The 100".
I love these and can't wait to see more!!!
Navajo has ejectives too, I seem to remember…