A Super Quick History of Niger

Regarding the pronunciation of Niger, in my understanding the traditional English pronunciation was and is ˈnaɪdʒər (Nigh-Jer). That’s just how we say it. It is, however, increasingly being pronounced niːˈʒɛər (Ni-Zhair) which is the French pronunciation. Since the latter has increased in popularity, the former is sometimes regarded as ‘wrong’, when it is nothing of the sort. It is simply the English rendering of the word, just as we say ‘Rome’ not ‘Roma’ and ‘Spain’ not España and ‘Munich’ not ‘München’.

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[theweirdfamilymemberuhave]

I’ve struck gold finding your channel! I love history and these short videos literally are the best. Keep up the great work :)

[reemademashki]

When will there be a day when mr history says it’s full name?

[PotatoHero-dz]

The pronunciation was changed from ny ger to nee jhair in the websters 10 edition in 2003. Before that all non french speaking western nations used ny ger.

Another change of pronunciation, like the constantly changing definitions. The internet was a mistake.

[RespectTheLogos]

Poor old Niger. It really needs a miracle to get out of this mess.

Next is the land of the Yorubas and the country with West Africa’s largest city Lagos… Nigeria! 🇳🇬

[Sealdrop]

i would never try to pronounce that country

[OnlyInMelsele]

Hello, I have recently watched your Alexander video and it reminds me of an debate I saw once. It is not a very well known debate, but it is: Is Charlemagne and the Frankish empire French or Belgian?
The Arguments of both sides are as follows:

French: The Franks were French, they became France and controlled most of France

Belgian: Charlemagne was probably born in Liège (Belgium), they controlled and settled the areas of modern Belgium before the French parts, the Frankish language is more similar to the Dutch/Flemish language.

I personally think they were Germanic because they settled in Modern North-Western Germany, Eastern Netherlands and very North-Eastern Belgium.

Could you please solve this debate? It would be highly appreciated.

!note, I haven't factchecked any of the arguments I listed earlier, so don't immediately assume they are all (completely) true!

[sansgmx]

love these "and as the centuries ____ by "

[goullet]

Great stuff! I mean it's a hard and sad history, but great delivery!

[Christ-bn]

When the titans say is a super quick history i didn't think it was that quick

[marcobisi]

I can say only one thing about Niger:
Cool flag

[Zyummysammy]

0:28 I thought it was steamed after something else and it was not the river

[bennorwood]

What country is up next and can you please do more short history video

[hamadagaming]

Mr history can you do history of Nigeria

[DavidMarkovic]

Please make the next video about serbia

[KAZVorpal]

You left out mention that the unrest and falling governments after their independence in 1960 were largely because of French interference, and economic colonization, and more recently because of US interference and imperialism.

[dawud]

History of Niger without the mention of the Songhai Empire. C’mon

[rimabros]

Welp, this is outdated and aged like milk

[barakdan]

Mine was the 70th like, almost felt bad doing it, almost

[qerqiztopulli]

Can you do a history of arvanites or kuci tribe