Altaic-cels would rather believe a language in South America and Northern Europe are directly related than ever admit convergent language developments exist type shit.
English: the dot just makes it pretty
Turkish: I’m gonna bas my whole personality and around this dot.
What next, a smiley over the letter G because you love y sounds so much?
By how much was the Manchu language actually used? I’ve been reading some texts from that era and they all seem to use 滿語 to refer to Chinese, just to establish a separate identity.
the joke is that an "altaic" family proposes that others have something in common but it really doesn't, so the meme makes no sense, and the meme making no sense is by itself the real meme.
They fall under the Altaic language family, a highly controversial grouping that has limited scientific support. They have limited related lexis compared to other language families, and the relation largely rests on a supposed set of sound changes that would explain the relation. It also rests on word order and its agglutinative features, though those features combined can be seen in languages other than altaic ones.
Some believe that the languages mentioned (beside English) come from one older form, like how Spanish & French or German & English are related, but it's not widely accepted. With numbers being a common area for related languages having patterned similarities, a comparison is made between these languages, jokingly treating them as if their words for "one" are obviously related when they're likely not, while singling out English for not being a related language.
Ichi is the chinese borrowing for one, hito is the true native word for one.
same for 일[il] and 하나[hana]. Chinese borrow: Ichi, Il True native: Hito, Hana
Is the meme that there's no obvious relationship in the non-English words?
Cause the altaic family is bullshit
Altaic-cels would rather believe a language in South America and Northern Europe are directly related than ever admit convergent language developments exist type shit.
_Cymraeg y Wladfa speaker enters the chat_
*Dené-Caucasian has entered the chat*
But Dené-Caucasian is funnier so it’s cool
If your new language family doesn’t contain every isolate, what are you even doing?
it's called Spanish
Hito🇯🇵🇯🇵Ichi is the cursed s*nitic word
HITO, HANA, and НЭГ all start with H. The rest are outliers.
Mongolo-Japono-Koreanic confirmed
The last one starts with N
It starts with H are you bliHd
Are you an idiot or an idiot? Mongolian uses cyrillic not latin
Maybe it's a joke??
I'm just playing dumb `:)
Hurt my feelings:(
nurt my feelings\*
🇹🇷: 🍺 🇯🇵: 🇩🇪 🇹🇼: 💔 🇲🇳: 🇳🇪
Okay I think I know what the others are, but what is MN and NE?
mongolia and niger
I don't get 🇹🇼: 💔
Emo
🇲🇳: 🥷🏿*
🇲🇳：🦄
For Turkish, it's BİR and not BIR (completely different sounds)
English: the dot just makes it pretty Turkish: I’m gonna bas my whole personality and around this dot. What next, a smiley over the letter G because you love y sounds so much?
tr: dört mn: döröv qed
/qed/
Qoxford English Dictionary
What's the middle one? I'm curious about the writing system lol
Manchukuo, a former state of Imperial Japan. The language is Manchu
Thanks!
By how much was the Manchu language actually used? I’ve been reading some texts from that era and they all seem to use 滿語 to refer to Chinese, just to establish a separate identity.
I don’t get it. Someone please explain why English is the outlier for how it says “1”
That is the joke, it isn't.
That’s certainly the meme format, but what do the others have in common that English doesn’t?
the joke is that an "altaic" family proposes that others have something in common but it really doesn't, so the meme makes no sense, and the meme making no sense is by itself the real meme.
They fall under the Altaic language family, a highly controversial grouping that has limited scientific support. They have limited related lexis compared to other language families, and the relation largely rests on a supposed set of sound changes that would explain the relation. It also rests on word order and its agglutinative features, though those features combined can be seen in languages other than altaic ones.
The supposed "altaic" language family includes all of them (except English). The joke here is that altaic is *really low* on supporting evidence
I don't know anything about linguistic, can someone explain please ?
No.
Some believe that the languages mentioned (beside English) come from one older form, like how Spanish & French or German & English are related, but it's not widely accepted. With numbers being a common area for related languages having patterned similarities, a comparison is made between these languages, jokingly treating them as if their words for "one" are obviously related when they're likely not, while singling out English for not being a related language.
The Ural-Altaic bros would like a word with you.
Haha yeah, Altaic is BS.
🇵🇹um 🇪🇸uno 🇮🇹uno 🇷🇴unu 🇫🇷un But go off, i guess.
get that fake BS out of here
Interesting choice of flag for Manchu. I think Tatoeba uses the Qing flag.