I like the examples of "heart" and "hound" to show how sounds can change.
@TheThekingrass7 жыл бұрын
Really like these videos, great job
@TomRNZ7 жыл бұрын
In an extinct Australian Aboriginal language called Mbabaram, their word for _dog_ is _dog._ The language is completely unrelated to English, and the similarity is just pure coincidence.
@annaireton8816 Жыл бұрын
Ah yes the floor is made out of floor
@domception91087 жыл бұрын
Excellent as usual. Thank you!
@HiddenXTube7 жыл бұрын
One of the best channels about language on youtube!
@funzjag7 жыл бұрын
This is a very interesting channel! I've no choice but to subscribe. Peace and love from West Virginia!
@causilvestrini70006 жыл бұрын
I love these videos, they're utterly interesting and both the drawings and the words are chiefly done. Thank you and please keep them coming! :-D
@inventorofmachines5 жыл бұрын
You guys are awesome. Nice pictures too.
@EliGoldfish5 жыл бұрын
Super informative, concise and the whiteboard visual aids are pretty to look at AND reinforce the concepts well.
@sillysod336 жыл бұрын
Wonderful video, so informative, thank you! 🙏🏼
@thomashogan163 жыл бұрын
His drawings are fantastic! What a talent. How I wish I were still teaching English...I'd have used these all the time.
@sararielle7 жыл бұрын
We can look at commonalities to create what a potential proto-language may have looked like but we learned from the construction of "proto-romance" from various modern romance languages that our reconstruction may have important pieces missing. "Proto-Romance", for instance, was missing the case system we see in Latin (the *actual* proto-romance language) because none of the remaining descendants retain explicit case structures.
@rzeka7 жыл бұрын
Isn't Proto-Romance just Latin though? or are you talking about Proto-Italic?
@sararielle7 жыл бұрын
That's the point. The proto-Romance language *was* Latin. Unlike many proto- reconstructions, we actually have the proto- language in this case to compare our reconstruction to. So the researchers used the standard methods to do a reconstruction based on modern Romance languages and then compared it to Latin as a way of seeing how good the methods are. i'm trying to track down the original paper. I'll let you know when I find it.
@rzeka7 жыл бұрын
Sara Melnick OH okay, I get it now! That makes perfect sense, sorry I misunderstood you. That's actually a really important point that I've never thought about before. I'd love to see the papers please do let me know.
@gf46707 жыл бұрын
Not true. "Latin" was not the proto-Romance language, but there also wasn't exactly a "proto-Romance" to begin with, merely a gradation of dialects that evolved out of colloquial Vulgar Latin over many centuries and geographic extent. For instance, Iberian Romance is largely descended from somewhat earlier dialects since the Latinzation of Iberia was quite early, whereas the Gallic Romance and many Italian forms evolved out of later variants which showed certain innovations that had developed among the more-native Latin population in Italy, and there was of course a Balkan version as well which developed into Romanian. Often it's stated among Romance linguists that Spanish and Portuguese are descended from "Republican" vulgar Latin and Italian and French from "Imperial" vulgar Latin. And this isn't to say that they weren't mutually intelligible or even the same language, they most certainly were, but the strains of influence constituting the "proto" in their development are extremely complex and dynamic across time and space. And this is where the study of Romance is very important is illustrating many of the common subtleties of language change that we've found also apply to other languages like Chinese. Basically what I'm saying is that an actual "proto" language of Romance (and Latin) lay further back in history to probably closer to the Punic Wars, back when Old Latin was a much more unified language community and before the standardized version we call "Latin" had started to be formulated around the 1st Century BC and from which the colloquial Latin of the soldiers and merchants DID NOT develop. Also the existence of the cases in Latin (classical or vulgar) are obvious to linguists even without the ancient texts. Romanian has retained 4 cases and the others have several unique features about them, especially certain preposition peculiarities, which make it clear that what they descended from used grammatical case to denote syntactic relationships.
@tideghost3 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't by that logic, Sanskrit should be considered as the Proto-Indo-Aryan language? The way the Indo-Aryan languages arose is quite similar to Vulgar Latin diverging into different languages. Sanskrit was like Latin, not widely spoken, while Prakrits were spoken by commoners and in daily life.
@torrawel5 жыл бұрын
tiny note: when the latin alphabet arrived in Mexico, the word became written as "xocolatl" . The Nahuatl word started with a "sh" sound, which, in those days, was still part of the Spanish language and written with the letter x. Later (especially in Spain) the sound shifted to Spanish "j" (jota, as in: Don Quixote, Ximénez &... Mexico) and eventually to "ks". In modern-day Nahuatl it is still used as an "sh" sound. Which means that Mexico (a Nahuatl word by the way), is pronounced "Meshico" (actually: Mēxihco: "meh-she-'ko"). And Nahuatl was THE Aztec language, not "an" Aztec language (an "Aztecan" language would be correct)
@theblackryvius66133 жыл бұрын
Very interesting stuff
@tideghost3 жыл бұрын
IPA would help...
@torrawel3 жыл бұрын
@@tideghost for sure! But it would also make it more boring :). Aztec glyphs are also still used in Mexico (for example in the national flag). They look a lot better than the Latin alphabet or IPA😉
@sigutjo7 жыл бұрын
Brilliant as always!
@rjspangler14886 жыл бұрын
Yeah, excellent job!
@miunone097 жыл бұрын
It's "xocolatl"! With an X!
@CanuckJim7 жыл бұрын
Kerd and kun for dog reminded me of the Scots Gaelic for dog: cù
@imokin867 жыл бұрын
BennyGesserit, it is indeed related to them, if I remember correctly. Does an N show up if you build a plural or an oblique case of cù?
@CanuckJim7 жыл бұрын
Yes! "Coin" is the plural - I believe that's the spelling (my grandad spoke it but I, being a truly dumb child, never thought to learn!)
@imokin867 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that proves it.
@nromk7 жыл бұрын
no in Spanish you can not say can for dog, the word you are looking for is canino, which can be implied to all members of the dog family in science, a wild dog or wolf in some cases, and a another way of calling a man a dog
@Furienna4 жыл бұрын
@@nromk And yet, "kanin" in Swedish means "rabbit". Go figure...
@taeyeonsnose70034 жыл бұрын
This was well explained and the drawings are amazing! Really well done :)
@sgs69916 жыл бұрын
In náhuatl it is Xocolatl
@pewp_tickalar7 жыл бұрын
such a well-constructed video. hours of Wikipedia-reading expressed in just a few minutes
@yoroshiku1377 жыл бұрын
Noticed for the first time after countless videos that the guy drawing on the board looks elsewhere for a reference of what to draw. That killed the Magic a little.
@Stellarainn5 жыл бұрын
Romance
@t.k.abrams47206 жыл бұрын
That map at the end is so awful
@lialanikaija71277 жыл бұрын
all languages descended form one language the nofastic language.
@louisxvii21377 жыл бұрын
This video is a propaganda lie.
@americannotamericant17737 жыл бұрын
нαρργ моνие is it because they didn't add Russian? Well my friend your language is complete nonsense so it is neither related to Germanic or Latin Romantic languages.
@americannotamericant17737 жыл бұрын
The Idiodyssey he downplays the true legitimate facts that these languages are familiar his notion of the other is obscure and quite ridiculous. His name and his demeanor towards the fact and also his name makes me think he is Russian. Also the more educated Russians can speak English.
@americannotamericant17737 жыл бұрын
The Idiodyssey he downplays the true legitimate facts that these languages are familiar his notion of the other is obscure and quite ridiculous. His name and his demeanor towards the fact and also his name makes me think he is Russian. Also the more educated Russians can speak English.
@rzeka7 жыл бұрын
What are you on about? The comparative method is pretty hard to prove wrong. If you're going to try to deny it, the evidence is really stacked against you. And propaganda for who? Who is benefiting from having people think languages are related to each other? If someone is going to make up a lie, why lie about this? and uhh other guy, Anthony, I don't see anything that would suggest he's Russian. The letters in his name are Greek - and even then, they're not even spelling anything in Greek, they're made to look like English. So if anything I would think he's an English speaker. And even if he is Russian why is that relevant?
@americannotamericant17737 жыл бұрын
rzeka well bull shit me lmfao well either way his complexions on the language relationships is totally wrong