History of the Algic Languages

[@tabortime.entertainment]

I've lived up in Humboldt County, California where the Wiyot and Yurok tribes are. It's always struck me how incredibly different their languages look/sound from their Athabascan neighbors- even to a layman.

[@hoangkimviet8545]

Thanks for introducing this language family.

[@CostasMelas]

You're welcome :)

[@iroquoianmapper]

Very neat and accurate work, classification and modern distribution are shown correctly, but did you not think that Proto Algic splited earlier, about 7000 years ago?

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you very much. In fact, the bibliography suggests a date of 5000 BC for the Proto-Algic and 1000 BC. for the Proto-Algonquian, with no satisfactory models to bridge the gap.

[@feanorasia0414]

At least this didn’t decline as much as the uto aztecan langauges

[@SKITNICA95]

they are shattered in sparsely habited area

[@dicoquellochevoglio961]

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[@Cobijadetigre-ix8vt]

False, in percentage and population the Uto-Aztec languages ​​are more extensive, they literally only seem more why Canada is too uninhabited

[@tianming4964]

Geographically Uto-Aztecan declined but there are still more than 1 million speakers of Nahuatl alone, the biggest Uto-Aztecan language. Compare that to Cree which is the largest Algic language and doesn't even have 100k speakers.

[@lucasjames7524]

Incredible work! Love your videos and your channel! ❤

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you very much

[@leonardo_fratila]

It's amazing to see these langueges are still commonly spoken! Faboulous video!!❤❤❤

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@max.lw.]

These videos are always a treat when they come out

[@micahistory]

Great video, thanks for covering these lesser known language families

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@micahistory]

you're welcome@@CostasMelas

[@BacKhaBacKha]

Thank you. And also looking forward to a Mayan video.😊

[@CostasMelas]

You're welcome :)

[@jaykaufman9782]

I get so exicted whenever a Costas Melas video comes out! Thank you!!

[@CostasMelas]

You're welcome :)

[@galgar5660]

They were the Indo Europeans of North America

[@dieletztekavallerie395]

Many people will misunderstand this though. :D

[@galgar5660]

@@dieletztekavallerie395 just because of their strong expansion😁

[@qpdb840]

@@galgar5660and today the Indo European languages is the most spoken language family in the world

[@GL-iv4rw]

But they weren't as imperialistic

[@clouds-rb9xt]

@@GL-iv4rwHow do you know?

[@prn_97_]

I never knew blackfoot split so early. I always thought it was closer to cheyenne and arapaho

[@commanderjnm2008]

keep in mind that linguistic proximity to another language within a particular language group is not necessarily dependent merely on "how late vs how early" the split occured. Language proximity is also greatly affected by its physical geographical location. Naturally, dialects/languages spoken in physically proximity to another language speaking area will be thus greatly affected by that other language. Just how for example Welsh has great linguistic and cultural influences from English, and Breton has great linguistic and cultral influences from French respectively, even though both Welsh and Breton are both Celtic languages (and not Germanic nor Romance languages) because their physical location and proximity to their respective languages has influenced their vocabulary, syntax, and phonology. This rule would apply to almost every language on earth. So linguistic proximity cannot solely be reduced to WHEN they split, but WHAT EXTERNAL SURROUNDING FACTORS affected the language at any given epoch in history too.

[@ben_noah]

It's amazing to think how many events happened during this time. lovers met each other. young men became ancient old men. traditions arose and disappeared. someone promised to return and disappeared forever. a three thousand year long story ended overnight.

[@cleon_cleon]

Thanks!

[@Nastya_07]

I could have pointed this out earlier but the existence of a common Yurok-Wiyot (Ritwan) node is controversial nowadays.

[@untitledjuan2849]

Please do the history of the Chibchan, Arawak, Tupian or Carib language families

[@CostasMelas]

I would love to make them

[@Alvaro_Litti]

I love your videos Costas ❤ there's no one like you

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you very much

[@commanderjnm2008]

@@CostasMelas are you greek, Costas Melas?

[@Anwwoo]

Neat video.

[@飛流直上三千尺哪個宅]

How did they manage to expand so dramatically??

[@HF7-AD]

Low population density

[@matthiasbehrendt6112]

Nomadic Lifestyle

[@andrefarfan4372]

Nice video

[@CostasMelas]

Thanks

[@Juno-gi6fj]

Hey! Amazing video once again :) I was wondering if you could tell me what you use to make these videos? I'd like to make one of my own fantasy world I've been working on.

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you. I mainly use paintnet and blender

[@regabrielexv]

Great video. RIP native American languages in USA

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@Crxyzen1]

They migrated between the shores of America 🥲

[@qpdb840]

Can you make a video on the biothic language spoken in Newfoundland

[@commanderjnm2008]

"Algic languages". Spoken by the aquatic plant-organisms, the "Algae". Didn't know that aquatic organisms had their own languages and dialects too. XD

[@tanhukim9963]

Ha Ha Ha so funny. Get out of our lands

[@commanderjnm2008]

@@tanhukim9963 "Get out of our lands". I'm not American and I don't live in America either, if that's what you mean. lol

[@chickenoraria7559]

I thought of Algeria.

[@Whoyouwishyouwere]

Are you going to do the Athapaskan family soon?

[@CostasMelas]

I have made it as Dene-Yeniseian

[@Whoyouwishyouwere]

@@CostasMelas alright thanks alot 😊

[@untitledjuan2849]

The Algic tribes: going from sea to shining sea 2,700 years before the Americans

[@elvenrights2428]

And where did proto algic language come from? People came in North America more than 12.000 years ago. Therefore the algic language family must be split off another language family already present in North America or came to America by ships from Asia at around 3.000 BCE?

[@HF7-AD]

Iirc it was speculated that the people who crossed over were actually a very small amount, so it's possible the ancient ancestor was just the language of a tiny tribe that has been gone and forgotten in Asia for millenia

[@randomguy-tg7ok]

It's probably too far back in history for us to know. Languages must have come from _somewhere,_ but past a certain point entropy takes its toll and it's completely impossible to figure out what went on.

[@tommy-er6hh]

They did not all come as a lump. The last Native americans were the Eskimo, who came by boat from Siberia, and reached Greenland about the time the last medieval vikings there died.

[@elvenrights2428]

@@tommy-er6hhAs i read in the book Jared Diamond "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed", Vikings, living on Greenland, encountered eskimos on Grenland.

[@Apt_TarakSembai]

​@@randomguy-tg7oksmall things you know ,this is good

[@huynhphat369]

Eastern Altaic: Tungusic, Jomonic, Japonic, and Koreanic. Please.

[@CostasMelas]

I have made the Tungusic languages

[@huynhphat369]

@@CostasMelas Thank. I saw it. Can you make a hypothetical video about Proto-Uralo-Altaic or Proto-Altaic?

[@NoN-xj2bg]

Yurok 🤝 Viyot

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

I still have no idea why the krī prefer writing with 55 letters instead of 13. What is the point of silibaries? Also yea they should definetly learn to speak their own language, then they wouldnt care for Kanadas french english devide.

[@PatriotischerChrist]

😊🎉

[@YamalGaseaRuiz]

😭😭😭

[@Симуляцияреальности-ж6ф]

It's sad to see how native Americans lost almost all their land after 1600

[@king_halcyon]

Fun fact: Semen is actually nutritious and edible.

[@yassineanassine7905]

What does this have to do with the video?

[@josieschultz4241]

I hate what my ancestors did. I would happily not exist if it meant all of the rich and fascinating native american cultures could have survived

[@Sponge416]

Cuck

[@matthiasbehrendt6112]

They did to the pre-Algic populations the same what colonists did to them. I'm always surprised people view trans-oceanic expansions different then continental expansions. It's all as old as humanity or even older. Just look on territorial fights of animals. Same story of one land claimed by more than one.

[@mehmetbenli8058]

our cousins🇹🇷