How to turn Proto-Indo-European into Chinese

[@humanteneleven]

you madman this is incredible

[@Aliphwhy]

The guy has came 🎉

[@amacsizbirkisi]

@@Aliphwhy the guy did WHAT

[@soratonin]

Years ago, I was Indo-European

[@jentegeeraerts1119]

Those were the days

[@Buorgenhaeren]

Thank God you were cured

[@ocignath3221]

Now im tocharian, later chinese

[@I_Love_Learning]

I will use the title of this video to prove proto-world.

[@taihao.multimedia]

Well, one of my conlang projects be like: "We were Sino-Tibetans but now we're Romans" a Sino-Tibetan conlang that sounds a lot like Latin

[@de-zo6ex]

that seems like a cool idea, how is it going?

[@埊]

ཟི་ཡོུ།

[@NetarAlt]

"Latin" would be cool!

[@xwtek3505]

Missed chance for making it like Greek. Y'know since you can place your conlang in Afghanistan (Balti is close by) and Afghanistan has a pretty large Greek influence.

[@Mustache_Sam]

I was confused by the title so I click the video. Now, after watching the video, I am more confused than before.

[@gargamel3478]

It's really tremendous to see a fellow Pole speaking actually proper English. Pozdrawia Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz, dumny wojak z Chrząszczyrzewoszyc znajdujących się w powiecie Łękołodzkim.

[@enricobianchi4499]

*Chrząszczyszewoszyc

[@unitariansavage8513]

Is he really prawdziwym polakiem? I missed that bit of lore but he absolutely looks Polish.

[@micheal5117]

dumny WHAT now?

[@AfterMath-e9e]

@@micheal5117 it's pronounced "vo-yock"

[@埊]

Kshekorz Przendzischikievitsch*

[@zzineohp]

💖💖💖ZZINEOHP IS THE MOST HUMBLE AND HEARTWARMING PERSON TO EVER EXIST💖💖💖

[@cutiecat413]

1st reply in comment history

[@secondpicture]

@@cutiecat413 True, in fact, it is the 1st reply in the ENTIRE history. I hope you are proud of yourself

[@Drathis]

This comment was clearly made by a bot smh

[@I_Love_Learning]

@DrathisZzineohp is a bot!?!?!???!??!!

[@Drathis]

​@@I_Love_Learningof course, the generic compliment to the youtuber, the frequent use of emojis, that's a comment bot if I've ever seen one

[@emilyvalentine4565]

8:40 fwiw my understanding is that the Baxter-Sagart Old Chinese reconstruction is generally considered more likely (in terms of ending up at Middle Chinese as per sources like the Qieyun, anyway) of the two, in part because there are more recent revisions to it and apparently B-S made use of some newer methods whereas Zhengzhang's were more traditional.

[@AfterMath-e9e]

well, Baxter-Sagart, has a name like B-S, it's gotta make up for it by being likely

[@greeses5482]

this video was so delicious, I wish it were a steak so I could devour it

[@PrismaticCatastrophism]

ეს რა ტიპის აუტიზმია?

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

my type

[@MaxwellCatAlphonk]

ŚПΟΛη кгIе OŚTΛS Ņ SAAгŐ

[@NetarAlt]

the beyond thing

[@埊]

Արմենիան ոնե․

[@JohnSmith-of2gu]

Huh, so did Tonesian develop tones while Chinese was still in the toneless Old Chinese phase? Heheh. I wish you went into the orthography a bit more- specifically, how is the Chinese logography adapted to write the big Indo-European pile of declension endings that aren't a thing in the analytical Chinese language? Just finding a phonetic approximation?

[@thethirdjegs]

I dreamed of making a sinicized proto-indoeuropean language too. Not introduce chinese-ness but evolve it that it resembles a sinitic language.

[@kori228]

1:01, the baʔ becoming Falling isn't wrong, but there's are intermediary steps. The actual tonogenesis is -∅︀ > 'Level' (Ping) > Mandarin voiceless = Level, voiced = Rising -ʔ > "Rising" (Shang) > Mandarin voiceless = Dipping, voiced obstruent > Qu > Mandarin Falling -s > -h > "Departing" (Qu). > Mandarin Falling Other varieties have a voicing tone split across all three, we can just say Mandarin only split the Level tone. Then there's a later merger where voiced obstruent "Rising" syllables become "Departing" in most varieties. 1:22 voiced obstruents in the Middle Chinese Level tone (so Mandarin tone 2) do get aspirated. So 平 is something like bi(æ)ŋ > /pʰiŋ˩˥/. Voiced obstruents in the 'Rising' and 'Departing' tone don't get aspirated. So 病 biæŋH > /piŋ˥˩/

[@clarkwoods4035]

Try doing indo-european into the most phonetically massive language ever

[@arthurgabriel2625]

What happens when an indo-european language enters the Caucasus basically

[@asphodelica]

You know what else is massive?

[@mollof7893]

My mom! ​@@asphodelica

[@megabytes6434]

Low taper fade, It's crazy how massive that meme still is​@@asphodelica

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

@@arthurgabriel2625 Ossetian?

[@maxhaddock6227]

I had wanted to do something like this for years, very well done, very cool

[@pas-giaw6055]

All hail great Siniąf'a conlangs

[@zzineohp]

@@pas-giaw6055 did you really use an apostrophe and then put my name in genitive

[@pas-giaw6055]

@@zzineohp yes

[@lavender_verandah]

Technically, "Chinese" means Sinitic languages so an Indo-European language can never be Chinese. It can only be in the Sinosphere including Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese, which are languages that are not Sinotibetan but under heavy Chinese influences

[@justinnamuco9096]

But thats not what he meant by chinese

[@fenghualiu2653]

that sentence definitely sounded more Lhasa Tibetan than Mandarin to me 😂

[@Hdoejabfjfoe]

There's a good linguistics video on yt that this oft cited high low class distinction between French and English is linguistics baloney

[@arcie.lastname]

3:44 ermm actually chase is also of French origin, you should've used 'hunt' as the example instead, I will now proceed to dislike every single video and comment you have ever made 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

[@MRCSANY]

lmaoooo

[@andrewosano7486]

I literally came here to say that lol

[@あぜると]

and "truth" comes from of old english, the french loan word equivalent would be "verity" from "vérité".

[@kobe4274]

The mewing cutaway sent me 😂

[@someroboticpizza]

A language with the strucrure of finnish, sounds of chinese and indo european origins.. neat.

[@kerbal255]

If a language of similar history exists we would probably have a way better understanding of old chinese

[@wujciowariatuncio5702]

jak późno, jak późno? dopiero czwarta, nad ranem...

[@alexanderKetiladze]

i love this series

[@thehexagon_yt]

6:03 wood and tree - древесина (material) и дерево (plant) arm and hand - рука и кисть foot and leg - ступня и нога

[@idguy4rainbowpheonix]

Cutaway gags aren't funny anymore. I already know what the inside if an object looks like

[@MaxwellCatAlphonk]

What the inside If the object looks like: Good! Make it look more like! Else: Make it look like to begin with

[@2tbk]

Entertaining

[@zhasilo]

If you remove consonant clusters and introduce competition among different consonants, the result will resemble Chinese more closely. Old Chinese like many of its Tibeto-Burman siblings, allowed the existence of consonant clusters, some even arising from morphological processes. However, Chinese lost these clusters over time, leaving behind a collection of characters that appear to have identical pronunciations but actually different, for example: 各 (reconstruction: klaːɡ ("different, separate, independent")) 客 keˋ ("guest, outsider" 宀 represents a building) 格 geˊ ("grid, framework, standard" 木 represents a tree) 絡 luoˋ ("net-like, cotton or hemp fibers, interconnected" 糸 represents fibers) 路 luˋ ("road" 足 represents feet) Another example: 監 (reconstruction: kraːm) 檻 kanˇ 鑑 jianˋ 艦 jianˋ (Note: This character is pronounced as "lam" in Hokkien and Cantonese, where southern Sino languages retains a different consonant) 藍 lanˊ I'm not sure whether ancient people retained certain consonants randomly or with intention (or both) (perhaps linguists have studied this?), but I think applying this rule in constructed languages could be fascinating. For instance, one could select different consonants based on the word's part of speech 😀

[@zhangwhack]

old chinese isn't tonal, innit?

[@LeontijVerchnevezkij]

No, words ending in "i" in russian can be declined through as plurals

[@baibhabmazumdar007]

Indo Europeans of Asia 🇮🇳🇮🇷🇵🇰🇦🇫🇧🇩🇳🇵🇱🇰🇲🇻🇦🇲🇹🇯🇷🇺

[@sphengosine]

damn stole my idea from 4 years ago (but did it with tocharian instead)

[@thecoolkittensarecool]

Actually, you don't need to use loan words for new things they find after migrating! Often, languages will repurpose old words in that situation

[@crèpebrûlée-l1d]

In future videos, can you use a voice changer for the first syllable of every video?

[@埊]

Taitele ou dis vidyrn gewritten in protoindoeuropean: hou tu tong putong yindu ou yuyan v zhongwen

[@mrgoldengraham027]

Man, I need to go to bed, and I am choosing the last shadow puppets over you when brushing my teeth. 😢😢🎉

[@amsa3245]

Tian is one word for day in Chinese (Дан [DAHN], аnd similar in Serbian.....)

[@zhangwhack]

Old Chinese for it is Ten. prehistoric sinitics probably had even more connections with the OG turks than we know, their sky is Tengri

[@siyacer]

I am Chinese

[@brenntagchem]

we wuz kangz n sheetz

[@anonymoususer_324]

Anti spiral

[@blackholesun4942]

strange

[@lepmuhangpa]

?

[@Benbeenbee]

3:08

[@drnorse3243]

Peak…

[@Hdoejabfjfoe]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mn2Vp6etmap5l7ssi=Yo92E9qhE7zVzQv_ I had a look around and this is the one I was referring to

[@cutiecat413]

Second