Evolution of Spanish from Latin: Palatal Consonants

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[@isbestlizard]

I love that clues can be gathered as to how ancient languages were spoken based on common misspellings! A whole field of research made possible by humans making mistakes :D

[@tenminutespanish]

Indeed. This is a very big part of how we track phonological chage over time.

[@bobthabuilda1525]

Been really excited to see this series continue. Great stuff, as always!

[@tenminutespanish]

Thanks for the support. Glad you liked it.

[@Enceladus2106]

Love this series as a historical linguistics enthousiast :) Keep it up ❤️

[@tenminutespanish]

Thank you!

[@englishwithbatayneh5908]

Thank you ! WE can not wait to see the next video in this series

[@tenminutespanish]

I'm so happy you liked this video.

[@user-ke6tb8jt1x]

Could you make series of what makes spanish sound spanish Like the series Rachel'English analyzing films and shows . It would be very helpful . And thank you for this amazing content

[@TranscendentalMiner]

I really enjoy watching your videos! Would you please make a video about the apical s in Spanish?

[@09Josso]

I’m fascinated by your channel! I’m a native Spanish speaker who has a pretty much native pronunciation after 20 years of learning English. Everything I know about English pronunciation came from years of practice and massive exposure. I’m teaching myself French now, and I realized that if wanted to achieve a native-like pronunciation in a third language within a matter of years (and not decades!) I needed the help of phonetics and phonology. Surprisingly, the more I study English and Spanish phonetics/phonologies (and their relationship), the easier I find it to understand French phonetics and phonology. So thank you for inadvertently helping a French student in their studies! 😂

[@Sonnen_Licht]

I love the way you present the information in the video,

[@tenminutespanish]

Thank you!

[@liambell49]

These videos are so interesting.

[@tenminutespanish]

@@liambell49 Thank you!

[@watchmakerful]

Early stages of this development resemble more Italian than Spanish.

[@walterwheeler1035]

Do you have a video on the Spanish from Equatorial Guinea? Not highly important, but lately KZbin has been suggesting me Spanish videos from there. So, it would be interesting if you had any insights on what make it unique from a phonetics standpoint.

[@tenminutespanish]

It is my understanding that in Equatorial Guinea, people speak their native African language in the home and use Spanish in education, business, and such things. In other words, Spanish is no one's native language there. As a foreign language, Equatoguinean Spanish contains African vocabulary words. It also has significant grammatical alterations. For example, Equatoguinean Spanish makes no distinction between indicative and subjunctive moods. And the pronunciation is heavily influenced by African languages. There are parallels between Equatoguinean Spanish and various dialects of English. For example, English spoken in Nigeria, Ghana, India, Trinidad and Tobago, and other places is heavily influenced by local languages. Sometimes, the influence of local languages is so strong, English is spoken with the unaltered phonology of a local language, and their accent is barely understandable to native English speakers from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, etc. I have heard Equatoguinean Spanish in KZbin videos and didn't have a hard time understanding it, but the African accent was obvious. I have never seen a resource that attempted to describe in detail the phonology of Equatoguinean Spanish, and I suspect the reason is that, since it is no one's native language, it isn't considered a natural organic dialect.

[@decaalv]

I agree with your idea of "feeling that something does not belong in a word". Sometimes we say things that sound awkward and we question ourselves and self-correct. Sometimes we just go "meh" I will just keep saying it like that. Soon enough you have kids and your kids get made fun in school for the way the say something, and they have to choose whether to just change or keep the badly spoken word. Ridicule and mockery is a powerful language regulator specially in a language like spanish that has an imperial vigilante in the form the RAE.

[@Xarmutinha]

Most if not all of the old Spanish words or late latin versions are actually modern Portuguese 😮😮😮

[@antoniomultigames4968]

I also noticed this although the opposite also It happens in old portuguese. As in: Madre - mare - mae - mãe Padre - pare - pae - pai Calente - caente - quente Animales - animaes - animais Luna - Lũa - Lua Celo - ceo - céu Dolor - dor Color - cor Mançana - maçãa - Maçã Lana - lãa - lã Sano - são Perdonar - perdõar - perdoar Irmana - irmãa - irmã

[@PyroPerchlorate]

He’s not dead!

[@tenminutespanish]

Yay.

[@PyroPerchlorate]

@@tenminutespanish Yo my guy, i reallly appreciate ur work, like a ton! is there a way i can donate to you? I also was wondering if you could give me some advice. I’m half Mexican, my family is from guadalajara, and i don’t sound gringo it’s just there is something a little off that makes me not sound native. Idk what could be wrong. Thanks again and i really appreciate you.

[@tenminutespanish]

@@PyroPerchlorate Send me an email and we'll talk about both things. [e-mail]

[@PyroPerchlorate]

@@tenminutespanish Ok i sent you an email, I might have sent two on accident mb.

[@user-le3uc9kn1q]

@@tenminutespanishI love your stuff bro!

[@BobbyBermuda1986]

What do you think of this specific path to get from Latin /kt/ to Spanish /tʃ/:? /nok.te/ -> /nox.te/ (lenition) -> /noj.te/ (lenition + assimilation w/alveolar /t/) -> /no.tje/ (metathesis) -> /no.tʃe/ (palatalization + affrication) /ok.to/ -> /ox.to/ (lenition) -> /oj.to/ (lenition + assimilation w/alveolar /t/) -> /o.tjo/ (metathesis) -> /o.tʃo/ (palatalization + affrication) Perhaps in this scenario, steps 1 to 3 would be shared between Spanish and Portuguese, with Spanish in this case evolving further in both cases, and Brazilian Portuguese evolving further and similarly, but only in the case of words ending in orthographic 'e'.

[@stuartjohnson9019]

Great video.

[@tenminutespanish]

Thank you!

[@kennethschwartz898]

If you cannot roll the R how do you pronounce 1) R at the beginning of a sentence 2) RR

[@espartaco2028]

I had the honor and great pleasure of exchanging with Dan, who turns out to be not only a genius of Spanish and an honorable family man with strong values but, a kind and sharing person. He´s very busy and is on his own course. I am so grateful to use this oportunity to humbly present myself as an avid learner of Spanish, and mildly so, of German as of yesterday. It would be the fulfilment of a life goal to meet a fellow, like myself, in their 30s to 50s who, like me, somehow, whether decades ago like Dan or two years ago like me, discovered Spanish and it absolutely carved new pathways into the destiny of our lives! I am literally looking for an acquaintance who is open to becoming a lifelong brother in Spanish. I´m moving to Spain in 2028. How much I would appreciate someone to share the fascination of living in Europe, of taking on a new identity and becoming someone NEW! So very few of us!!

[@tuhiaako3073]

What fonts do you use for the intro and where could I get them? Thanks.

[@TitoHabif]

It may be the Romanus font. But I'm not fully sure.

[@joeyparrish21]

Can you make a video focusing on the pronunciation of the letter J? Your videos are incredibly helpful!

[@mrrobertbates]

My dude keeps learning

[@tenminutespanish]

Never stop learning, right? I'll do a couple more videos on Latin to Spanish evolution, then I'll think of a different topic. Maybe some more dialectology. Maybe some more pronunciation. I avoid doing videos on grammar, because I don't want to repeat topics that lots of other people have covered. I love grammar topics, but so many other people have done so much with grammar I think it would be a waste of my time.

[@joeyparrish21]

@@tenminutespanish Do you have any channel recommendations for improving Spanish grammar? Your teaching style has been the most effective for me by far

[@tenminutespanish]

@@joeyparrish21 Thank you so much. I'm happy you've gotten something out of my videos. I'm sorry, but I have no recommendations for you. I don't follow any other Spanish channels.

[@sentientcookie9518]

yay

[@spanishwithrobyn]

Do you offer zoom classes in order to improve accent and pronunciation? Also, how does someone contact you?

[@tenminutespanish]

I currently do not offer classes. I occassionally accept recordings and make videos for people. I haven't done that in a while. My email is [e-mail]

[@eldarasgarov]

Ascensor, piscina in these combinations it is hard to ceceo [c] sound. It is normal? Any spanish rules for it?

[@tenminutespanish]

All of my observations are that Spaniards pronounce both s and theta in words like these.

[@Deep-Sarcasm]

Would you know how and why all the verbs in Spanish end in ir, er, ar? Do any other romance languages have that? Does latin? Do any other languages?

[@tenminutespanish]

Latin had a more complex system that reduced -ar, -er, and -ir in Spanish and Portuguese. In Italian, the Latin system reduced to -are, -ere, and -ire. I'm not sure about the other romance languages

[@nigelwiseman8644]

French and italian have similar distributions. Spanish ar verbs are er in French. Spanish ir and er have similar correspondences in French.

[@tj-co9go]

French has three verb classes I: -er II: -ir III: -re IV: irregular verbs (which can end in -er, -ir or -re, of course)

[@cyka6blat989]

Hey what’s difference between χ and ʁ?

[@Hiljaa_]

Voicing

[@cyka6blat989]

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