What Language Do They Speak In Antarctica?

help support name explained by liking this video leaving a comment and subscribing to the channel to understand the etymology of Antarctica we first need to understand where the name Arctic comes from as despite these two places let's you being as far away from each other as possible their names are closely tied the name of the Arctic comes from the Greek Arctic coast which means of the constellation of the bear Ridge references Ursa Major a constellation supposedly bear shape that resides above the Arctic we can see the name of the Arctic within Antarctica so what does the and part at the start mean well no this doesn't reference the fact that there are many ends on the continent in fact from what I could tell unsurprisingly there aren't any ants native to Antarctica this ant part comes from Greek and means opposite of course we still see this quite often in language with the prefix anti meaning opposite of something the ant in Antarctica comes from this Greek anti prefix in fact if they included the I and called the continent and the Arctic that this name really does start to make sense as Antarctica is the complete opposite of the Arctic flash forward from this coining of the name to now and Antarctica has a population of around one thousand people over the summer months and around 200 during the winter so it's safe to say that despite how we humans have been able to make pretty much everyone a habitable society of this continent never really took off but nevertheless there are people living here which in itself is still rather impressive and of course these people have to get on with each other and communicate with one another so that got me thinking what language do they speak is there an official language of Antarctica well no Antarctica really is that barren the people who live there now aren't the remnants of an ancient tribe we have a make contact with yet there isn't any group of people like that in Antarctica the closest the continent has to an indigenous people or penguins there really isn't some sort of Antarctica's language I'm afraid so who are the people living in Antarctica on the whole they're scientists and research is based on the continents studying this barren land of course these research bases are populated by many people from around the world with these people bringing their own languages the current state of Antarctica is pretty odd to say the least is kind of in a state of being claimed and not being claimed if you look at a map of Antarctica you see that split up from the center kind of like a pie chart with various countries having claims to various parts of the and however it's also been decreed that an Tasker belongs to all of us is a whit state of existence and better people than myself have explained it better though if we ignore this for now we can see on a map that the continent is split up with claims from the nations of France in the UK in New Zealand Australia Norway Chile and Argentina with the Chilean and Argentine claims worriedly overlapping like I said it's a bit confusing however you also notice that one huge chunk of the continent is completely unclaimed this is the Marie Byrd land this is the single largest unclaimed an uninhabited place on earth so if you want some land for yourself go get it though I can't imagine you'll be living the most pleasant life there Richard Ebert let her fly over the area in 1929 and upon spotting it he named off his wife Marie Bird which I'm sure he meant is a nice gesture but namely huge uninhabited wasteland after your wife I don't know maybe they had some marital issues nevertheless as this land has remained uninhabited no one else is bothered giving it a new name anyway let's go back to the pastas are cultured in that are claimed by the Nations we have part about Tata claimed by France the United Kingdom New Zealand Australia Norway Chile and Argentina now this is really an eclectic group of countries France in the UK were known for claiming as much fun as possible back in the day like a mad game of Monopoly so they understand why they were make claims in the continent Norway were actually the first to reach the South Pole so that's why they have a claim to the land do I imagine coming from Norway to Antarctica it must be quite the trip of course New Zealand and Australia have ties at the UK and due to their location in the globe it makes sense for them to have claims there - same with Chile and Argentina they aren't countries I personally normally associate of claiming random land but I forget just how close these countries are to Antarctica so what name did these nations were slow to their claims of Antarctica well unfortunately on the whole they aren't really at all that fun majority we just named often nations who claim them we have the British Antarctic Territory the Australian Antarctic Territory the Chilean Antarctic Territory and Argentine Antarctica I'm not gonna lie that's pretty in consider of them especially for those of us who like talking about names however they weren't all this rude France New Zealand and Norway were nice enough to give their Atlantic claims unique names the French pop Antarctica is called advil island this land was discovered by French explorer jhula demoted evil and he too named it after his wife Adele demoted deville geez what is it with these men naming cold desolate places after their wives go go get some marriage counseling guys New Zealand's Ross dependency on antarctica is named after the British explorer James Clark Ross and of course the Ross Sea that lies next to the Ross dependency is named after this man too and once again the Norwegian claim in Antarctica is named after someone to being called Queen Maud land unsurprisingly being named after Queen Maud of Norway who of course was someone's wife this is the geographic breakdown of Antarctica and with this we should start to be able to understand what languages they speak on the continent and the short answer is a lot as I mentioned the people living here scientists and researchers from these nations who have cleaned the land it appears that English is the most popular spoken language of Antarctica this is due to the fact that the UK and New Zealand and Australia or have claimed lands on the continent all of which speak English plus English is also the international language of science and everyone in Antarctica are there for scientific reasons I would explain why they speak so much English too however it isn't just English on the continent Frank's the chilies and Argentina's claims it means that Spanish is spoken there too as is of course French and Norwegian do too DS been the oven nation that have claims on the land and what's really cool about this is that all these languages are reflected in the names of the research stations in Antarctica each station is run by specific nation and of course that it will have names we definitely won't go into all these names but we have things that the French run stations like the Dumont d'Urville named after the aforementioned French explorer whose wife lent her name to the whole French claim the Argentine camara base named after naval aviator Juan Rahman Kamala the Australian Mawson station named after Australian geologist Douglas Mawson the chilean arturo prat station named after chilean navy officer a taller prat a new zealand base called scott base named after the navy officer Robert Falcon Scott who wasn't a Kiwi were played a large role in Antarctica and really creatively there's a Norwegian base called troll named after some nearby mountains that reminded old trolls of Norwegian morphology these names are really fun and interesting but the UK decided to be born in a in their station station a station B station C and so on so that's already four languages that are spoken between these seven nations that have claimed Antarctica French Norwegian Spanish for Chile and Argentina and English for the UK Australia and New Zealand that's already quite the variety of languages to be shared between little more than a thousand people however they're even more languages on the continent remember how I was saying how even though these seven countries have claims the land in the Antarctic the continent is also considered to be for everyone this means that other nations can have research stations through the land claimed by other countries and of course these countries can give their bases names that derive from their own languages too so the countries our bases in Antarctica as well as the seven we've already mentioned are Belarus Belgium Brazil Bulgaria China Czechia Germany Ecuador Finland India Italy Japan the Netherlands Peru Poland Romania Russia South Africa South Korea Spain Sweden Ukraine the USA and Uruguay this by my calculation means they're 31 different countries with stations in Antarctica with roughly 21 different languages being spoken between them they were only included the main language of nations have motor languages so there very well could be more honestly I find this absolutely crazy despite how few people there are in this massive land there are so many languages being spoken here in fact it might possibly have the largest variation on languages any around the world when compared to population which really isn't too shabby for a place of little more than some snow and penguins however this got me thinking with this huge variety of languages would it be possible if somehow they merged and form some sort of native Antarctic language well probably not I haven't been there myself but I imagine people from various bases with various languages don't intermix that much I don't think there's a pub they could all meet at and a lot of the researchers aren't based there for a long enough time for a new language to form which really sucks perhaps we could dump a load of people with a variety of languages in Antarctica leave them a few generations and see if they come up with a new language or maybe not that sounds a bit inhumane that I said out loud though despite what I've just said there actually is a kind of language that has originated from Antarctica well sort of this is the slang and jargon that those who are based in Antarctica have come up with over the years there's actually quite a lot of them and they're really fascinating they'll be a link to them all down below so go check them out when you can some of my favorites a gumball which is the name for when snow comes up into your facial hair thingy a name for a new person on the continent coming from a pronunciation of FNG we aren't too sure the S stands for by the N and G stands for new guy slash girl it did John which is a letter from a partner not in Antarctica Cheech which is the shortening of Christchurch where many flight to get on and off Antarctica beaker and name for an unpopular scientist The Muppet fans in the room will appreciate that one bolo meaning burns out leftover for someone who's been there too long ice wife slash ice husband the name for someone you get very familiar with while in Antarctica even if you already accounted for outside the continent and green out the emotion felt when seeing or smelling green things again after being in Antarctica even at literally the bottom of the earth people are still able to create new language which i think is amazing the territories of Antarctica was suggested by Terry Kramer's and gents you iDEN and thanks their suggestions they were never honored as name explains patron saint of the territories of Antarctica do you have a good idea somewhere as name could be covered in a name explain video if so then please consider donating on patreon just one dollar a month helps keep the channel running and earns you a weekly chance to suggest somewhere to be turned into a video and you too could be a name explained patreon st. thank you to all my patrons who support name is reine on a monthly basis named explain depends on 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Published: Tue Aug 20 2019

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