ENGLISH, ANGLISH, & OLD ENGLISH

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MODERN ENGLISH (sometimes New English or NE (ME) as opposed to Middle English and Old English) is the form of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, which began in the late 14th century and was completed in roughly 1550.
ANGLISH The aim of Anglish is: English with many fewer words borrowed from other tongues. Because of the fundamental changes to our language, to say that English people today speak Modern English is like saying that the French speak Latin. The fact is that we now speak an international language. The Anglish project is intended as a means of recovering the Englishness of English and of restoring ownership of the language to the English people.
OLD ENGLISH or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the mid-5th century, and the first Old English literary works date from the mid-7th century. After the Norman conquest of 1066, English was replaced, for a time, by Anglo-Norman (a relative of French) as the language of the upper classes.
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[@Magnetshroom]

Anglish is just like English without any Latin and French words.

[@vahkiel1042]

it's literally that, except you didn't mention the other loanwords

[@goodday2760]

When the influx of French, Latin and Italian words was most intense, people who were fond of using them were called inkhorn writers. To this day, we can see that many of these words have 'native' equivalents that can be used in their place. After all, many of them were borrowed not for a new concept, but to save the perceived space used when talking highly literally.

[@marcasdebarun6879]

Yes that's the point

[@someonejustsomeone1469]

Only those? Are the thousands of loanwords from Asian languages included?

[@yonikuncoro7704]

I just wanna ask, I checked on Wiktionary, the word "done" is a West Germanic word. Then, why they don't use this word in Anglish?

[@viictor1309]

The "give us today our bread for this bread" line made my brain stop working for a minute.

[@samtheking5759]

Get a bread for bread, simple. Bread gets bread.

[@DyivuLee]

😂😂😂

[@whateverVIE]

The correct German word for "enemy" is "Feind". "Feund" is no actual German word but similar to "Freund", which means "friend" - the opposit :D

[@magnus00125]

Ja das hatte ich auch gemerkt Ein FEHLER! :D

[@Lingist081]

Yeah it’s fiend in English

[@prezentoappr1171]

@@Lingist081 also foe kinda like there are cases derivatives of two from old english but now are diff words eg twixt and twain etc

[@jacob_and_william]

It's funny when Modern English agrees with Old English rather than Anglish.

[@Sindraug25]

Yeah, some of the choices Anglish used in the Lord's Prayer were odd. This is how I would have written it: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us. And lead us not into costening, but set us free from evil.

[@HollcomeTook]

@@Sindraug25 Yeah, I wondered about that the weird choices. I was like, "what? 'Our' and 'this' and 'evil' are from Latin?"

[@paulemboy6066]

In fact english was like a romanian of the germanic languages as it has been influenced by the other european languages mainly French, Latin and Greek as a result. English has changed rapidly over the decades.

[@viictor1309]

What a great analogy, I haven't thought of it but indeed it is.

[@filipino437]

I thought English influenced french

[@RodavMetal92]

@@filipino437 In recent decades, yes. But originally French influenced English because the former was considered more prestigious than the latter in the early 2nd Millennium.

[@darius684]

I'm surprised at how much English has changed compared to old Japanese which just sounds like a strange dialect

[@c.norbertneumann4986]

According to grammar, English was strongly inflienced by Old Norse.

[@michalreingraberskaliasmiz185]

I would use "stead" as place. "Instead of" means literally in place of. Or "steady" means placy, like standing on a place. For city, I would use "town" or "borough", like "Burg" in German.

[@Rubtsovskball]

Interesting. "Miasto" means "city" in Polish, and "mesto" means "place" in Russian.

[@nutyyyy]

Yes and stead is found in place-names in England.

[@modmaker7617]

Andy you have such a cute sweet voice. You're a great language presenter.

[@zacharyyan4898]

This is the first time I’ve heard you read off entire paragraphs

[@xyz874]

You from Poland?

[@Sanzianabel]

old english is so beautiful

[@philomelodia]

The old English word for bread is closer to the modern English word loaf. I think it actually makes more sense to ask for a loaf than it does to ask for some bread. What if he only decides to give you a little slice. 😆

[@user-zq5zg9qd6e]

Surprisingly in Russian we have the same word "хлеб" (hleb), it's derived from Goth language

[@gavinrolls1054]

well there´s also O.E. brēad, so it is odd

[@REDnBLACKnRED]

Lmao. You can have a bite. lol 😂

[@kristiano100]

@@user-zq5zg9qd6e hleb isn’t actually derived from gothic, it’s from proto-slavic which all Slavic languages descend from, the reason it’s similar is because Gothic and all european languages share ancestry with Slavic as the indo european language family, hence the similarities in hleb

[@shizukakawakami6084]

@@kristiano100 I also heard that хлеб is Gothic and not Proto-Slavic. Though Goths could borrow it from Proto-Slavic. But I don't believe it since Old English also had hlāf...

[@over7532]

This is truly beautiful. More of this please! The evolution of english is so captivating!

[@dasmesser4079]

Omggg you speaking Old English is like music to my ears, your voice is so sweet I love the channel!! Keep it up

[@mirmir9368]

This is my first time hearing Andy speak quite a long text. What a soothing and calm voice.

[@mukta230]

in a way its too bad we gave up old english. such a beautiful sounding language.

[@BatAskal]

It's funny that we blame (give credit) the French for changing English while the Vikings did the most work disassembling its original grammar and remade it into a language we are familiar with today.

[@ruhmuhaccer864]

That is sadly not substantiated by first hand resources.

[@kawaiilotus]

This sounds interesting, can you link me to some interesting things of this sort?

[@BatAskal]

@@kawaiilotus Viking influence over English language: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXWkhmaKpdqhra8

[@KAIisMYPROPERTY]

Old English sounds beautiful!

[@angela_merkeI]

Small mistake/typo during ðe German/Anglish/English comparison: Ðe German word for fiend is "Feind", not Feund. I love this channel, keep the good work up. :)

[@mysteriumvitae5338]

It is interesting, however, that fiend does exist in normal English, too, not just in Anglish. In the meaning 'demon' or 'devil' rather than enemy, though.

[@jeremias-serus]

how are you going to write ðe for the twice but not write “I love ðis channel”? cmon man at least be consistent

[@noone679]

Why are you spelling th like that?

[@Sci0927]

The one that is red is not German it’s old English which is different

[@sameash3153]

stop trying to revive thorn and eth. you will never revive thorn and eth.

[@karolkowalski3424]

Great Work 😍❤️

[@harisghumman8397]

Anglish is to English as Hindi is to Urdu...Anglish is English without any Italic,Hellenic,and Romantic words...Hindi is Urdu without any Semetic,Turkic,and Iranic words...But the script of Anglish and English is same,however the scripts of Hindi and Urdu are different.

[@AllanLimosin]

Damn! I always wanted to see a comparison of Old English and Anglish!

[@andreiii204]

Out of three old English is the best one, it's pure English It more similar to the Frisian language

[@003mohamud]

English is a germanic language influenced by a latin language, while french is a latin language influenced by a germanic language. 🤔

[@kidgaminggaming5731]

French people are Germans that's why

[@VitalijKaramakov]

old english and anglish sound awesome....

[@Blastnikov]

Your language is cool, too! Among Slavic languages, I only know Ukrainian, but Belarusian sounds pretty

[@VitalijKaramakov]

@@Blastnikov if you know ukrainian u can understand belarusian quite easily)))) thank u)))

[@user-fl1dc9ju3g]

Wonderful! I also have a own english-based conlang. It's called "Inglish".

[@kfxrtune]

Nice!

[@c.norbertneumann4986]

The day will come when ecerybody will spwak Anglish.

[@kawaiilotus]

Could you tell me more?

[@cougher9000]

i ting that alredy exist

[@averageenjoyer4404]

What is it like?

[@JYC512]

Your voice is very soft and pleasant. I liked it!

[@achmadtete5182]

I love old English and Anglish

[@XiWein]

Her accent and voice is so calming and soothing. She can do some ASMR vids haha

[@magnus00125]

There are also cases where German uses a word derived from Latin, where English does not. English: The window (This is likely from Danish/Old Norse: Vinduet) German: Das Fenster Swedish also uses Fenster here: Fönstret It's very random which word is chosen by the people it seems! I am sure the germanic word for window exists in German and Swedish too, but was not chosen in this case.

[@7mad211]

or like the verb (write) while all other germanic languages use latin verb for the verb (write) german:schreiben came from latin (scribe)

[@prezentoappr1171]

old high german actually uses some old words found as old english synonyms in wiktionary. From wiktionary: Displaced native Old English ēagþȳrel (literally “eye hole”). The “windows” among early Germanic peoples were just unglazed holes (eyes) in the wall or roof that permitted wind to pass through. ēagþȳrel, ēagduru, fenester.

[@darshanpatel.1782]

Love your voice Andy, would love more such commentary style videos. ❤

[@qazntj5144]

Greatings from Qazaqstan, I liked this video, that's very interesting to know and study about English language's history

[@asgerhougardmikkelsen8770]

It's interesting how Feund means enemy but Freund means friend in german

[@user-qi8pp1rr2q]

Fiend originally means enemy in English, but now its meaning is closer to “devil”. And we have “foe” in English, which is Germanic and also means “enemy”.

[@c.norbertneumann4986]

The German word for "enemy" is actually "Feind", and not "Feund".

[@mrmiskeen8284]

In german enemy is = Feind not Freund Freund =Friend But in my local lower franconnian dialect friend means friend, and enemy means fijand

[@diesesphil]

It was actually a typo. Enemy in German is Feind not Feund So even closer to Fiend (an "ei" in German is btw pronounced like an english "I" )

[@scarybird977]

The German word for enemy is actually Feind, not Feund. The video had a typo

[@sdominik3945]

"steven" for "voice" just cracks me up you have so calming steven!

[@leonardoamorim2518]

Very good👏👏👏👏

[@MrMorgan316]

Absolutely beautiful work done by you. I hope you do more work like this!

[@centralasia186]

old English sounds very nice and epic to me

[@ivandinsmore6217]

Great video. You have a lovely accent and a gentle soothing voice. I could listen to you all day.

[@mrmiskeen8284]

I'm german and I speak German and our local lower franconnian language. I understand the human rights declaration in Anglish quiet well, also the vocabulary. The Angels and the Saxons conquered Britain and established their language in Britain after them the Danes came and had also a big impact on the english language. It's also interesting to know, that the Angles and Saxons came from northern Germany not far away from Danmark, and their language was also related to Norse

[@noone679]

Angels?????

[@dansoderberg4753]

and the jutes

[@dunnohow2live997]

You got some strangely controversial version of "Anglish" here. It's rather an attempt to make English not germanic but German. They're making germanic calques (from German too) instead of using native words that actually were replaced/displaced with/by their Romanic equivalents. For example: the actual word displaced by beautiful was "fair", not "sheen", also they use "deor" instead of "deer" (while the actual English deer could be "hart" in Anglish), "stead" instead of "borough", "forone" (calqued from German "vereinen") instead of simply "one" (past tense - oned)

[@handel1111]

Your voice Andy is ASMR, love it

[@phantomshadow1869]

There is something special in old english that anglish cannot copy

[@volvagianintendo6465]

That's forthan it is Mootish Anglish

[@aubreywang3937]

OE had more Germanic features that Anglish cannot express, Anglish is basically modern English with only Germanic words, the language itself is still not that Germanic enough.

[@amabarbigrl]

As a non native English speaker, I really like the idea of Anglish and it sounds very good to me

[@tammijatti9164]

Beautiful job!

[@nostalgiakarlk.f.7386]

Wow, I've never heard Andy talk at length before

[@metalmaniacsubtitulado5170]

That text in 1:40 was written by me!

[@maolalidh6881]

I like these kinda more personal speaks, its very nice!!

[@z4dlarry420]

Anglish is English if you google translate it 100x and Old English is Icelandic that had a child with german

[@gyara7329]

I really like your voice. Thanks for the breakdown.

[@florinparlo5124]

Andy I love your voice 🥰💞

[@flyingduck91]

anglish is pretty cool

[@diegorojasmendez4213]

Beautiful voice

[@valmarsiglia]

"Give us today our bread for this bread"?

[@haskalah]

It would be interesting to compare old English with low German or German dialects spoken 300 years ago. It sounds like a mixture of scandinavian and low German

[@ngophuocvy7625]

Thanks a lot! It helps me as a start to study my subject.

[@adamwnt]

I like your introduction part giving infos and am delighted to hear your voice more

[@john2791]

Wonderful job!!

[@Davlavi]

very cool thanks.

[@luckneh5330]

I think many people who wish for Anglish forget that some latinized grammar is imbedded within english. Some examples include: no dangling prepositions (even though this was a stupid move by people who wanted to make english more "latin-like" even though language is a germanic language, The rule of no split infinitives was adopted from Latin because Latin has no split infinitives. Small things like that though, but it's just the small stuff that people often forget that add up to the bigger picture. I get that they can be changed though since language is not pure, but at the same time, just notice the details

[@goodday2760]

Split infinitives have been accepted throughout English ever since Star Trek's phrase "to boldly go". The advocates for that Latin rule lost that debate completely.

[@ryanjackson1251]

English isn’t derived from Latin, there are other languages they have a svo structure that’s not germanic, would you say then, those languages’ grammar is embedded within english? there numeral of languages that share similar grammar structures you can’t say that their structures are embedded in eachothers language and so on and so forth

[@diogorodrigues747]

02:10 Most those words in modern English are actually borrowings from Latin. "Peace" comes from "pax", "victory" comes from "victoria", "voice" comes from "vox", "question" comes from "quaestionis", "animal" comes from "animalia", "people" comes from "populu", "enemy" comes from "inamicus" and "city" comes from "civitas". "Catch" is also a Latin loanward, but it was influenced from French and changed the meaning. As for "beautiful", it is a junction of "beauty" and the suffix "-iful", and "beauty" comes from French "beauté". In French, "beauté" is a loanward composed of "beau" and the suffix "-té", and "beau" comes from Latin "bonus".

[@7mad211]

how catch is latin verb? then why the past tense of it is cought? which sound like germanic verb think=thought bring=brought catch=cought

[@filipinojalapeno1527]

beau comes from latin bellus, bonus becomes bon in french

[@filipinojalapeno1527]

@@7mad211 it comes from latin captiāre

[@tankiwolf]

this is what i need!

[@leonillgordon5887]

Anglish is easy to understand for English speakers

[@happysolitudetv]

This means a lot to me. Also, can we appreciate her Old English?!

[@huguesdepayens807]

Anglish should be the norm.

[@alanjyu]

William the Conqueror and later kings Frenchified the language.

[@arthurmoran4951]

It could be but you would lost your advantage in the easiness you have in both Germanic languages and romance languages to learn them, and instead only the Germanic languages would be easy for you to learn

[@joseg.solano1891]

@@arthurmoran4951 lose*

[@goodday2760]

@@arthurmoran4951 A person's native language is ideally as easy to learn as thinking itself. Loan words are kind of like packages, or abbreviations, or initialisms: they're codified, rather than intuitive, so their foreignness never completely fades away with common use.

[@arthurmoran4951]

@@joseg.solano1891 sorry English not be my first tongue

[@pocketfella5176]

Very interesting, Thank You

[@mori6154]

A comparison between Scotts and Anglish would be interesting. Greetings from Germany

[@amogusadrarju4728]

Anglish is like English but the german and anglish words are pronounced alikely

[@nancyrivas5917]

Cool!

[@TVYTVlogsInPH]

the voice so cute

[@joshiitv3599]

Hello i love languages in here my country Philippines

[@e-ffrayaning]

hi! i want to learn catalan and i speak spanish so thats gonna be easy but i wish you could do a video of that beautiful language

[@Obnoxiousteadrinker]

This is cool

[@atlantis4516]

Old English seems german to me, and I like it!

[@Cahootian]

I felt a bit sad hearing that my country (Ireland) has nearly no more of the Irish language

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

Today we wield both kind of uncleftish doings in weapons, and kernelish splitting gives us heat and bernstoneness. We hope to do likewise with togethermelting, which would yield an unhemmed wellspring of work for mankindish goodgain.

[@platoon1026]

Could you make one for Spanish?

[@CowboysNo1Fan]

English way back when was inspired by Old Norse and Icelandic!

[@leeMagaret]

How to get icelandic?

[@katunyuz1319]

@@leeMagaret ??

[@darshanpatel.1782]

@@leeMagaret you want to get a whole language?

[@belle_pomme]

@@leeMagaret what do you mean by 'how to get icelandic'?

[@neocell710]

Nope!!! It was made by Germanic tribes, it wasn't "inspired" it's its own language.

[@henryhargraves4184]

I love how the old English is of “thy will be done on earth as is in heaven” is “become rice”

[@eewag1]

You’ve changed! You now explain more

[@umutumsensin5515]

The sound of the old English is similar to Spanish Language

[@darkdelta3377]

nice

[@FenriZzShortz]

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[@tennesseedarby5319]

Interesting… I saw cyninga, which is reminiscent of Welsh cwningen. Not sure if they’re related as one means king and the other sheep, but still interesting

[@mizulightblue]

2:18 there is a mistake, it is Feind in German, not Feund

[@angycucumber4319]

ok

[@doublex85]

Wonder why Anglish didn't put "Soothly" where OE had Soþlice for Amen. Also just now learned that adverb ending -ly comes from -like!

[@Emese-cl5jc]

So intersting, for me the old english seems rather danish, than English, as an outsider

[@WarriorofSunlight]

The modern English version of the Lord’s Prayer is actually more conservative than the Anglish version, save for a few words. The type of English used there is actually a few centuries old, and uses archaic word orders and constructions that aren’t normally used anymore. You can see these when reading a Shakespearean play, or see very very similar word orders and constructions when studying German. The Anglish version was actually more like modern English in its syntax.

[@svenherrmann6096]

One thing I don't get is why they use some different words in Anglish, when the english equivalent is already germanic. E.g. wickedness for evil

[@shawnv123]

because the english version is less germanic

[@matthiasbergner8911]

Well, enemy in German is actually "Feind".

[@leslies.contemplacion7803]

Wow your so smart i din't know that im so dumb but your so smart iloveyour langguange😊

[@lordgrabsome6553]

I stand for Anglish Movement

[@bittersuite17]

I’m learning Norwegian and Old English pronunciation is similar to Norwegian. The words are not similar but they sound like the same language lol

[@zubiii29911]

At 2:27 cyninga should be written as “cyniŋa” because the letter Eng (Ŋ, ŋ) makes the "ng" sound. Same with “æþeliŋas”.

[@MixerRenegade95]

Similar to the Spanish ''N'' with the curve line above it?

[@tjstarr2960]

No, she spelled "cyninga" correctly if we are talking about Old English. The letter "Eng" doesn't exist in Old English, it was a letter invented by linguists to write the sounds of languages.

[@mykytka7133]

Is it your real voice?? It's very beautiful ❤️

[@SupremeShittyCraps]

Yes, it is his real voice.

[@christinahamilton7676]

You hear that voice in practically every video on this channel.

[@babkagazad5027]

@@SupremeShittyCraps Not his, her

[@mykytka7133]

@@SupremeShittyCraps his?

[@mysryuza]

I would have liked to speak in Anglish

[@christiang.7926]

enemy is Feind in German - not Feund

[@k.z.3646]

I discovered your channel searching for YT videos about Salish languages. Is there a chance of that material's return?

[@hagenneblung14]

I am German and can read Old English without any problems. I understand it because I can also read and speak Low German.

[@dreampop7559]

I love anglish

[@QBunny9]

I appreciate her amazing pronunciation!

[@gaoelnlaojehc8913]

Seems cool! May I ask who voiced this? It seems like all are dictated by a single Filipina woman. Is this correct? BTW luv your vids and more support to this channel. Thank you :)

[@aaronmarks9366]

Andi herself voiced all of the audio for this video :)

[@pokemonhacker01]

not sure if she's single but she's definitely filipino

[@CannibaLouiST]

So the Nazis actually were saying "sye hail"?

[@c.norbertneumann4986]

"Sye hail" sounds better than "victory hail".

[@yuhdlwrm]

omggg madam andy when ang face reveal mo? charot

[@Iaszund]

bruv si andy ay lalaki makikita mo sa Instagram nya, baka gf nya nagsasalita.

[@jrexx2841]

@@Iaszund ano insta nya??