HIS121 - The Sound System of OE

[@syamakosha2598]

Thank you so much for this great video! It's just what I wanted for the first look at the sounds of Old English. Thanks for making this video very visual too.😊

[@ulyaaliyeva7551]

Thank You so much Professor 👌🥰

[@quigonngaijin]

Perhaps your best video yet! (speech rate, visuals, efficiency). Thanks!

[@cdch10]

Awesome lecture! Thank you very much!

[@MissRikkiKat]

Thank you so much for making such a thorough, yet concise video. I have seen many videos on this topic so far, but not one of them could clarify things the way yours did. I am very anxious about my upcoming exam, but now that I've found your channel I feel like there's still some hope I will gauge the gist of OE. Keep up the excellent work!

[@melanphilia]

very magnificent lecture, thank you dear sir :)

[@ruthhay8702]

I loved this video! You were very thorough and did - I think - a much better job at pronouncing Old English than various Americans I've heard on KZbin (no doubt because you're German). I find it interesting that a lot of the sounds you mentioned, and words you mentioned, which are now pronounced differently in modern English, are still pronounced that way or very similar in Scots (for example, hoos instead of haus, licht instead of light with the 'gh' not pronounced).

[@oer-vlc]

Thanks a lot. In fact, using a German accent in pronouncing OE is my standard advice. And additionally, I tell my students to pronounce each "r" and use the Berlin-variant of "ge-" as in "gelyfan" [jə'ly:vən].

[@OrkarIsberEstar]

afaik german is, pronounciationwise, still closer to ancient tongues than their modern heirs. As example icelandic is, in terms of grammar and vocabulary still very close to old norse but a lot of linguists share the view that it was more pronounced like german. Simple reason - people before the islenskr fornit wrote as they spoke so it would be nonsense to write hver if you speak kver or write LL if you speak TL also hver from sound is much closer to other germanic languages than kver. likewise isolated dialects often differ a LOT in pronounciation from their mother language like brasilian is basicly portugese but sounds very different just like its the case with english and australian. so german, while it also had some changes in pronounciation, still is relatively close to its earlier forms which were closer to the germanic languages of their time than the modern ones are - pronounciation wise.

[@cdch10]

Why are not these videos about OE in the "History of English" playlist? :(

[@dlwatib]

I've got to wonder how much variation there was in OE. For instance, today some dialects of English have barely any monophthongs at all. One wonders just how far back such abuse/variation of the vowels goes. There would necessarily have been many formerly Celtic speakers who were learning OE as a second language. One should expect them to speak it with a Celtic accent, not a German one.

[@nigelwiseman8644]

Danke.

[@GrumpaGladstone1809]

Is it just me or is the long i in tide the same as the long e in grene (as pronounced here)????

[@jamessplayss]

That is strange , not sure about Shwa , our professor says that Shwa has appeared in the MidE period.

[@wombats1951]

And gelyfe the "g" was not prononced with voiced velar fricative like at the origine in Dutsh and proballly in Lowgerman?

[@wombats1951]

liht (light) was not said licht with x like in Dutch or South Bavarian and High Alemanic Dialekts? As long as I know in Middelhightgerman and in Middellowgerman the sound ç didn't exite and the it only had existed the sound x.

[@maksatbekzadayev5177]

Thanks for this information but i have one question : how has the word " macian" been changed to the word "make" ?

[@revnede]

There are myriads of reasons words change. We can trace the history of their changes, but a definitive "reason" why, for example, the Great Vowel Shift occured, are notoriously elusive. The general agreement seems to be that it had to do with the ethnic melting pot of medieval Britain. There are Middle English intermediate steps between "macian" and "make", such as "machen" and "maken". (Infinitives in ME take an "n" at the end, as in modern German.) Now we add "to" before the verb to indicate an infinitive, having dropped the "n" as redundant.

[@linguaphile9415]

It would have been nice if the Anglo-Saxons had used macrons to distinguish long from short vowels. ^^

[@wombats1951]

ship not with "s" and "ch" x, like in Deutsch schip ?

[@dlwatib]

The echo makes it hard to hear what you're saying.

[@istvancsiszar1118]

What do you think about reconstructing Ancient Egyptian pronunciation ? Of course I know it is not an Indo-European but an Afroasiatic language.

[@iceomistar4302]

Ic thancie thee

[@usquanigo]

I can detect no difference, nor imagine or create any difference between mys and hus. Same oo sound. On another channel, with words like Cyning, it's like (cue)n-ing. A slight yu sound in front of the u. That may or may not be correct, I don't know, but it makes more sense, as it gives separation. Whereas your pronunciation of the 2 is identical.

[@anguswu2685]

usquanigo the “y” sound is like the “yu” sound in “you” or “few”, or like the position of your lips when you whistle. The “u” in “hus” is just “oo”. In other words, /y:/ is pronounced in the same region as /i:/, whereas /u:/ is in the very back of your mouth. Try rounding your lips when you pronounce /i:/ and you’ll get /y:/

[@HANSMKAMP]

I sometimes do hear differences in the IPA and your pronunciation: - You wrote [ˈkisən], but you pronounced [ˈkɪsən]; - You wrote [ˈfylən], but you pronounced [ˈfʏlən]; - You wrote [ɡəˈlyːfə]m but you pronoucned [jəˈlyːvə]

[@oer-vlc]

Hans Kamp On the chart, the transcription is phonemic, indicated by slashes /../. For example, /gəˈlyːfə/ is actually pronounced as [jəˈlyːvə]. In 10:48 this particular allophone is explained. The same holds for the other cases. On the differences between phonemes and allophones I recommend our videos "The Phoneme I" and "II" or the respective micro-lectures of the playlist "Phonology". JH

[@HANSMKAMP]

The Virtual Linguistics Campus Thank you for answer, which made everything clear. Generally I like this video very much, and I also like your related videos about the history of the English language! Its history - although it is a Germanic language - is quite different from the other Germanic languages in Western Europe.

[@OrkarIsberEstar]

very well done =) One thing to add an immature funny comment...the thorn letter in the script you use together with the "orn" does look rather funny for those of us who write a p a bit different and watch porn ^^

[@MicahPachirisuGuy]

Its Thorn ya fishmonger!!!!