Reigarw Comparisons
We compare some of the most popular languages in the world, what are the odds and probability of speaking certain language, which language has the most alphabets. Which language has the most words? How many words does English, Spanish, Arabic or Hindi have? What is the most difficult language to learn? What are the major languages of the world? We visualize the animated scale of alphabets, characters and words.
Disclaimer:
Only words of languages with over 20 million speakers are included otherwise the video would get too long. The only exceptions are the top 5. Thus apologies if your language is not included.
Only Alphabets with a usage of above 50 million, according to World Atlas, are included, with some exceptions. Video makes no distinction between speech, dialect and literacy.
Number referenced for words tend to be the largest dictionary that can be found online. Dictionary referenced in video. There may be bigger dictionaries though.
Usage or number of words may be outdated, but are often after 2010. More info in references.
There is difficulty researching between different formal definition of letters, diacritics and circumflexes, whichever probability and number given for the Alphabets are stated in the sources. There may be unintentional mistake, kindly comment if spotted.
Sources and References: https://pastebin.com/Ahx6TT0B
Music: Adventure by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License
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List of Languages and Words featured:
Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Chinese, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Korean, Latin, Malay, Marathi, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese.
List of Alphabets and Scripts featured:
Arabic Alphabet, Armenian Alphabet, Bengali Alphabet, Burmese Alphabet, Chinese Characters, Cyrillic Alphabet, Danish Alphabet, Devanagari Alphabet, Dutch Alphabet, Filipino Alphabet, Finnish Alphabet, French Alphabet, German Alphabet, Greek Alphabet, Hebrew Alphabet, Hungarian Alphabet, Icelandic Alphabet, Italian Alphabet, Japanese Kana, Japanese Kanji, Kangxi Radicals, Khmer Alphabet, Hangul Alphabet, Kurdish Alphabet, Latin Alphabet, Lithuanian Alphabet, Polish Alphabet, Portuguese Alphabet, Spanish Alphabet, Swedish Alphabet, Tamil Alphabet, Telugu Alphabet, Thai Alphabet,Turkish Alphabet, Vietnamese Alphabet, Welsh Alphabet. .
Do pause the video when the "English Words" appear. What is the first word that you see?
Hiragana & Katakana is easy to learn
Kanji is Hard Af
I'm half japanese(and American) , kanji made me suffer…
3:28
"Tought feel talk bad soon body dog family direct pose tease song measure door product black short numeral class wind question happen complete ship area half rock order life south problem told knew YOU since top whole king street lock multiply nothing choosr stay wheel full force blue object decide surface deep motion"
It doesnt make any sense reading it
I had to crank up the resolution to 720p just to see what text i see and i'm wearing glasses which mean it was two times way harder to see…
Korean letters: 24
Korean words: 1,100,000
Turkish language has 115k words and I bet I only know the meaning of around max 7.3k of them when It’s my native language
Uh… excuse you, Vietnamese doesn’t have Z.
0:47 look closely at the Burmese alphabet and there will be a butt
In the Philippines, the letter C is removed
German has infinity words
Korean:we don't know all the words😂
I'll teach you some Korean instead.
Hello- 안녕하세요(annyeonghaseyo)
Hi- 안녕(annyeong)
Bye- 안녕히 가세요(annyeonghi gaseyo)
Good- bye – 안녕히계세요(annyeonghigyeseyo)
Have you been well?-안녕하셨어요?(annyeonghasyeoss-eoyo)
(안녕)annyeong is same
wait a minute..Arabic has 12.3 million words not 120000..okay!?
2:02 finally polish words
My eyes 👁👁
Basically kinda proves that English is harder to other countries than what most people from English speaking countries actually think
Thank you for not forgetting about Russia And Cyrillic:_)
You are wrong , I have the proof
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://lonet.academy/blog/learn-the-million-word-arabic-language/%23:~:text%3DArabic%253A%252012.3%2520million%2520words%253B,Russian%253A%2520130%252C000%2520words.&ved=2ahUKEwjg7rOf_cTuAhWNzoUKHS9aABMQFjACegQIAhAE&usg=AOvVaw0f6byhIYRYCP15DL9tBtnX&cshid=1612055184784
Nice video. But you used wrong reference in Russian language. In the Russian language, a dictionary is a book where words are written that cannot be checked according to the rules, you need to know them by heart, so the fact that you used the dictionary was a mistake, in Russian there are definitely not 150 thousand words, there are much more of them.
ué pq colocaram que português não tem kwy e nem incluíram os acentos?
Java 2:08
So the shortest language is the 1st ten numbers we learnt in elementary?
Everyone watch this until everyone in the comment say 'Noooo. Arabic has 12M words'.
Where is Amharic
https://youtu.be/vCJl3rhpjOg
I didn't see my mother tongue Punjabi here….it has 41 alphabets in total….
It's absolutely impossible to calculate the exact number of musical melodies. You need to combine musical rests, all the notes in the chromatic scale, rythm and all posible harmones for each note, supposing that you are doing only 4 part writing. That would be a VERY large number…
Wow i malay already know that malay have many words.
You had shown russian alphabet as "Cyrillic alphabet", when Cyrillic is a complete writing system, shame on you
Where is my language🗿
How to get demotivated to learn a language :
Russian Words: 150,000
Me (Speaks Chinese): LOL (proceeds to learn Russian
Also me: Dies in Grammar
Actually in Arabic there are over 11 million words not 120 000 like some people think
There's no Baybayin..
always has been 😪
This first word I saw on English words was “Comparison”
Coincidence?
El español tiene un 89% de similitud con el portugués, pero el portugués tiene el cuádruple de palabras wtf
The reason why korean has a lot of words
English: Yellow
Korean: 노랗다, 누렇다, 누르스름하다, 누리끼리하다, 샛노랗다….etc
English: Blue
Korean: 파랗다, 새파랗다, 퍼렇다, 시퍼렇다, 푸르스름하다,파르스름하다, 푸릇하다….etc
When I saw arabic words I thought it was only one word several times.
YOU LOL
TRUE LOLLOOOOL
2:33 Im romanian, i can confirm there are a lot of words in romania!
but musical melodies arent words… no?
how do I say "hello how r u" in musical melodies?
1:24 tamilandaa🔥🔥💪💪
I appreciate the effort put into this video, but I have some gripes with some things in it:
1. Arabic's not an alphabet, it's an abjad. Look up the difference, it's slight but important.
2. Again, many of these "alphabets" are actually abugidas or syllabaries.
3. There are way, way more maths symbols than that.
4. The number of words counts are silly, not because it's an estimate (obvs), but because it probably only refers to recorded words. There are likely way more than 20,300 words in Swahili, for example. Swahili's been a Lingua Franca for tens of millions of people for centuries, and as a trading and everyday language you'd expect far more words than that. My point is the word counts don't really mean much.
Arabic word
12000000
Imagine there's a guy watching this with his photographic memory
Cries in multilingual
Is this unique/root words, or including conjugations, affixes, etc?
Javva masuk :v
Btw greek has 91 million words, sooooooooooooooooooooooo
Greek language has more than 5mil words
very nice video but..
there is a mistake here..
Arabic language has over than 12 million word and reference used talks about a little part of language.
Words are calculated with derivability. For example, there are more variations of a word in English than in Turkish. However, in the daily speaking language, Turkish stands out with more words. Also, if you want to look at anyone in terms of difficulty, you need to know how old the language is, what routes it has passed and how much it has assimilated. Of course there is also phonetics. Finally, if you want to learn different languages, it will be easier for you to start by choosing one from your own language family.