Each East Asian Languages Explained in 1 Sentence -ish

From Chinese to Japanese, Indonesian to Vietnamese and Mongolian, the languages of East Asia are rich in layers often unfamiliar to the West - each language with its own cultural make up. In this video we make it simple to understand the cultural make up of each language in East Asia - compressing them each into 1 sentence, so you know and you can explore further with this amazing knowledge. Enjoy!

00:00 Beginning
00:53 Korean
01:42 Chinese
02:30 Japanese
03:05 Ainu
03:25 Mongolian
04:02 Vietnamese
04:39 Tagalog
05:13 Wu
05:49 Cantonese
06:28 Lao
07:00 Tibetan
07:51 Uyghur
08:31 Javanese
08:58 Indonesian
09:41 Malay
10:14 Khmer
10:47 Thai
11:23 Burmese
11:58 Hmong

With Pexels, Pixabay

[lightzebra]

The Austronesian languages are such an interesting group. Some nobodies in Taiwan 1500 BC were like "Hey let's sail south" and now you have people in Madagascar and Hawaii sharing vocabulary

[kleinornot]

I wonder how would sub Saharan languages would fit in this series . Subscribed.

[hanuta]

Omg i love these videos please continue this series!

[anthonytran]

60%-70 % Vietnamese vocabulary had significant chinese influence and had used chinese character historically for many centuries factually. Vietnam originated from China, located in SEA nowadays due to political reasons and country expansion, nonetheless.

[jezusbloodie]

I am so hyped that this is going to be a full series!!

For april fools, might be fun to release one of Tolkien's Middlearth and rest of Arda.

[johannesbowman]

Every time he says "sprinkles" it is the most oddly satisfying thing.

[Antpaok]

Here before the algorithm blows this up, can't wait to see the success of this series!!

[MIF-iqsq]

I feel sorry for Bro’s social credit score 💀💀💀

[cvw]

Amazing content!!! I love the way you mingle history with linguistics in a simplified way for almost anyone to understand. As a great man once said "simplify, simplify, simplify, but not more than necessary" or something to that effect.

[gyara]

These videos are really relaxing for some reason.

[NekromDj]

You are SO entertaining AND educational - please continue the great work

[TheOneSin]

Oh my, this is going to be interesting!

[EternalKorvo]

In the process of learning Japanese and Korean and, it’s going so well.

[zhouwu]

Please let me know what you think of Xiang. You mentioned it only in reference to Hmong. But since it's my dialect, it means a lot to me, even if it means almost nothing to most other people 😅😅😅

[CristiChiri]

haven't watched the video yet but I know it will be entertaining. I would like all (or most) of the asian languages next video, would be good too

[justaduck]

Make middle eastern languages explained in one sentence

[laabh]

Always love seeing this series, hoping you do one exclusively for South Asia next ( or even just Bharat, since it alone has 700 langauges or at least that's what we're taught, could be higher, 22 major ones for sure)

[lightzebra]

5:27 A bit controversial, but I'd love to hear your reasoning for using the word "ancient" to describe a language. I know that the Wikipedia article for Wu does this as well, but claiming that any language is older than another is a bit misleading. Wu has seen its own innovations over the centuries -- it has not been stagnant.

[aromanian-socialist]

make a video about aromanian since you forgot us in the previews

[jonchius]

As a person with an East Asian-looking avatar, I love this and this series of language summaries!

10:35 Sounds very familiar to somewhere, but where? :)