Channel: NativLang

Category: Education

Tags: linguisticslanguagesenglish linguisticslinguistic typologyenglish languageanimation

Description: English has unusual linguistic features most other languages don't! These skills really make English unique compared to other languages around the world. Subscribe for more: youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=NativLang Become my patron: patreon.com/NativLang ~ Briefly ~ The second of two fun, experimental takes on features English lacks and has. Part one lives here: youtube.com/watch?v=5iLpKFA1ADQ Last time we met skills English is missing compared to other languages, now it's time for what it does have: - (its spelling system) - suppletive ordinals - obligatory plurals - definite and indefinite articles - possession with "have" - perfect with "have" - passive voice - asymmetric noun-pronoun alignment - particle comparative with "than" - interdental fricatives - rhotics - r-colored vowels (ahem, "coloured") - nounless adjectives with "one" Thank you for watching, and see my sources doc below for even more! ~ Credits ~ Art, narration and animation by Josh from NativLang. My doc full of sources for claims and credits for music, sfx, fonts and images: docs.google.com/document/d/1rlNzQz2JRUOgE5BG9ppKzzMBbUI7r-4qOdLcd_vUqzA