The Amazing Languages of Africa sounds grammar and writing systems of African languages

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Africa is home to amazing languages. In this entertaining video, I go on a linguistic safari around the languages of Africa, exploring their complex grammar, magnificent array of speech sounds (including the unique click consonants) and some of their home-grown writing systems. • Semitic languages span three continents and I look at how Amharic, the main language of Ethiopia, changes verbs at the beginning as well as the end and how it creates groups of words based on consonant roots. • I love the Bantu languages, with their large number of noun classes and far-reaching agreement and I look at how this works in Swahili. • The Khoisan languages of Southern Africa have an amazing array of speech sounds, including clicks, but please don't call them click languages . They have shared these sounds with their neighbours and I took Xhosa lessons to learn to incorporate them into fluent speech. As well as clicks, some African languages have ejectives, lateral fricatives (which they share with Welsh!) and syllabic nasals. • The Ge'ez writing system; used to write Amharic, Tigre and Tigrinya; is beautiful and works in a fascinating way, whereas Tamazight looks like it was created by a minimalist designer! • 0:00 Intro from Nairobi, Africa (that's a joke, by the way) • 0:43 Coming up • 1:07 Black History Month • 2:00 There is no such thing as a primitive language • 2:18 The language families of Africa • 2:27 Afro-Asiatic languages • 2:44 Semitic • 3:00 Verb conjugations in Amharic • 3:32 Consonant roots • 3:56 N G R consonant framework in Amharic • 4:21 Nilo Saharan languages • 4:55 Niger-Congo languages • 5:52 Bantu languages • 6:18 Bantu grammar • 6:26 Noun classes • 7:25 Swahili noun class agreement • 8:56 Conveying meaning using noun classes • 9:25 Using noun classes to differentiate between homonyms • 10:01 Comparison of Bantu names for region, person, people and language across languages • 10:44 Amazing repertoire of speech sounds • 11:05 The !xo language • 11:35 Khoisan languages • 12:17 Consonant repertoire • 12:29 Don't call them click languages • 13:29 English is a lisp language • 14:12 Sprachbund as an explanation of how unrelated languages can have similar features • 15:42 Shona whistled sibilants • 16:20 Common phonetic features • 16:24 Syllabic nasals • 16:37 Lateral fricatives • 17:13 Ejective consonants • 18:23 Burnley isn't on the Tibetan plateau • 18:34 Austronesian languages • 18:42 Malagasy • 19:39 Writing systems • 19:47 Tifinagh • 20:06 Ge'ez script • 20:16 What's an abugida? • 21:28 Outro • –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––- • FreeVectorFlags.com • By Miskwito (talk) - This vector image includes elements that hav been taken or adapted from this file: Afroasiatic languages.svg., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... • Llangollen Church By Mark Warren 1973 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... • Manchester Road • cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Robert Wade - geograph.org.uk/p/1317643Burnley2 • Dennis Jarvis / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Yak • Addis Ababa light rail • A.Savin (Wikimedia Commons · WikiPhotoSpace) / FAL • Malayo Polynesian By Masjawad99 - map based on with information on primary branches extracted from Smith, Alexander D. (December 2017). The Western Malayo-Polynesian Problem . Oceanic Linguistics 56 (2): 435–490. University of Hawai'i Press. DOI:10.1353/ol.2017.0021.., CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

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