GERMANIC: ENGLISH & ICELANDIC

[@MapsCharts]

It's actually more similar than I thought, I always considered Icelandic as a quasi-isolate within the Germanic family

[@tenzoRaperi]

Icelandic is as isolated among the Germanic languages ​​as Sardinian is among the Romance languages, you can see a clear difference in some respects, but compared to the others it doesn't seem like an alien language, the similarities are clear anyway.

[@MoLauer]

Well, it's pretty close to Faroese..

[@TheMouseandTheWall]

@MapsCharts It kind of is. Innovations such as the switch from being synthetic to analytical shaped the other Germanic languages but not Icelandic. They also construct native words for modern concepts that other Germanic languages tend to take borrowings for

[@TheMouseandTheWall]

@@MoLauer Yeah but the gap between Faroese and Icelandic is much larger than the gap between the continental Scandinavian languages

[@hepbep_]

Happy new year guys!

[@goulven05]

Happy new year!

[@germanhernandez8646]

Feliz año nuevo Andy. Gracias por el gran trabajo, ya no solo a lo comparativo en lenguas, sino también a pequeños tips en cuanto a las culturas vinculadas a cada grupo lingüístico. Deseos para que tu comunidad crezca más el año que viene 🎉😊

[@diandradeeke]

very interesting. in saxon language they ask "Wo geiht di >datthath

[@armandonobrega5282]

Hello, Andy. Happy new yearS for you and family. And i hope see the comparison between " Old Frisian " and " Old English " soon. Congratulations for your work.

[@peaceandjustice-123]

Happy new year Andy🎉🎁🎅🎄🎆🎆 I am very happy of your work and I learned a lOOOOOOt from your videos.I hope and I am sure that you will continue that work and developpe to a better level. You are a very good person Andy doing this, thank you for your work and God bless you !🕊🕯⛪️🎁🎄

[@goulven05]

Wonderful video, and happy New Year to you Andy! 🥳🥳

[@Avoiceofone]

They totally are, I recognized it off the bat when I started learning Icelandic. Same when I started learning French, I was astounded at all the vocabulary we share in common. For example, in Icelandic they say Thu ert, and in early modern English, we said thou art, same meaning.

[@Enno9]

There were a few words that almost sounded the same as in German.

[@MateoMalagón-i3e]

Good video

[@UaBoy_2023]

Исландский- единственны язык, сохранивший архаичность во всех сферах языка

[@claudioflocco7456]

Strange sounds for final NN & LL 😯

[@justakathings]

From my knowledge, everything devoiced when it came at the end of the word e.g. b > p etc. It can be hard to imagine n with no voice to it but it’s almost as if there’s an h before the sound. Then nn and ll hardened to something like tn and tl. It happened in other places as well but I don’t know the history of Icelandic well enough to say anything about those situations

[@03_105_geohappel]

Happy new year 🎊

[@МарселАбдыразаков-ч5о]

Kyrgyz and altai languages please

[@ИнгаПавловна-т3э]

r в окончаниях именительного падежа мужского рода очевидно соответствует z в окончаниях готского языка? Последствия сигматического номинатива ?

[@aureltoniniimperatorecomun4029]

Yes

[@sunduncan1151]

I’m interested in Icelandic because of Sigur Rós. Iceland and Faroese sound closer to Old Norse than other North Germanic languages.

[@VijayachandramouliChandramouli]

Plsssssss...... Make an another separated video of proto indo European and proto indo iranian languages plssssssss........... 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@cristianmendozaflores7359]

Happy new year Andy! 🎉

[@pincopallino8130]

catalan and lombard pls

[@Pepek94]

Icelandic is one of the most conservative languages.

[@89Awww]

The only two germanic languages to preserve dental fricatives look and sound nothing alike!

[@TheMouseandTheWall]

That’s not true. You can obviously see the stronger relation between English and Icelandic than a more distant but related language like Persian

[@justakathings]

@@TheMouseandTheWall 100% agree. The similarities are hidden in the inflections that Icelandic has. But if you listen to nouns on their own, many of them sound very similar between the 2 languages

[@Mikefightercool22]

@@TheMouseandTheWall It’s true tho, Icelandic and modern English sound nothing alike. No native English speakers will understand Icelandic and Persian is not part of the Germanic family language.

[@TheMouseandTheWall]

@ Icelandic and English share obvious cognates and structure. If you compare other Indo-European languages the similarities are much much more faint. I’m not referring to the Germanic branch when I say family. I’m talking about the *Indo-European* family, which Icelandic, English, Persian, and numerous others such as Hindi or Albanian are a part of. Icelandic and English are closely related since they both descend from Centum Indo-European which later became Proto-Germanic.

[@Mikefightercool22]

⁠​⁠@@TheMouseandTheWall English and Icelandic today has nothing comparable in the letters and writing despite being both Germanic, English is more like a romance Germanic mixed since it got messed up very badly by when Normans conquered England and since then it kept getting more messy since then. Persian is also thousands of years far away from being close to Western Indo European languages since they are based in the western Asian region. If you wanna compare old English and modern Icelandic then they would definitely sound almost alike and easier to understand each other.

[@AttlasSous-bs1ue]

Can you do vedio about skibidi english please

[@marcelbork92]

3:14 Many of the Icelandic words & phrases Anglos cannot understand, but Germans can.😉

[@luzyczakdrugiemiejsce]

1:49

[@priyanthisandarath1365]

english = Saxon norman creole Icelandic = neo norse

[@C_In_Outlaw3817]

I struggle with The idea of English being a creole but yea I’ve heard that tossed around.

[@captainje]

True

[@priyanthisandarath1365]

@@C_In_Outlaw3817 because in reality english is hybrid language with germanic roots with overwhelmingly latinate influences on vocabulary and so on.

[@C_In_Outlaw3817]

@@priyanthisandarath1365 I know. However, creole languages develop quickly following a pidgin intermediate . It took centuries for Latin/french loanwords to enter into English and for common folk to start using them. Also, the fact that you can create sentences with just Germanic words and Latin/french words usually only supplement speech is where I question the whole creole thing. Like with Haitian Creole or Jamaican patois 90% of their vocab derives from their IE counterparts , French and English respectively. There’s still a lot of native vocab to maintain the English language without use of romance words (or at least a ton of romance words) . But I get it it’s slowly becoming a popular theory nowadays

[@thewind7113]

English: six Icelandic: sex Language quibble 😅