Language Birth; Language Death

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[@goobs..]

Hi Connor! I’m a Copt, and wanted to share some information regarding your section on Coptic. First, there’s a large diaspora of Copts, with around 500,000 copts in the US (namely in New York, New Jersey, Texas, and California.) Second, there are (probably) over 9 million Copts today, not 4 million as you said. Lastly, we hold the Coptic language very dearly, and I would guess that ~5 or 6 million Copts can read or sing in Coptic. Thank you so much for mentioning Coptic, and this video is awesome!!

[@legchairhistorian5496]

Yeah I was thinking that. I’ve heard of numbers as great as 30 million Copts, so 4 million seemed rather low

[@justaduck1664]

I have heard that coptix may have efected the arabic of egypt Mainly in word order, putting question words like what why and when at the end of the sentence (same for words like this and that) Or have i been lied too

[@Joelle_gray]

Y’all should really revive ur language for everyday use, it could be so cool

[@ConnorQuimby]

Thanks for letting me know! And this is so cool. Guess my prediction was wrong. Still better than anything Whatifalthist has ever said

[@angamaitesangahyando685]

​@@ConnorQuimbyWow, cool to see a shoutout to WIAH! Love you both! (On the topic - I wonder how known the Coptic writing system is though. The Berber languages do without one, and they're also more alive, ironically enough.) - Adûnâi

[@IoSaturnalia17]

CONNOR QUIMBY?? IN THIS ECONOMY???

[@borisk201]

I am glad to witness this in about 10 hours

[@cactuscreek5925]

it's like he never left

[@bowaxer7952]

As a native Basque speaker, I formerly apologize for giving you PTSD

[@matiasmendes8528]

peak content

[@vladimirskala]

As a native speaker of a dying language, this was quite informative.

[@Siamuntonute]

🤣🫵

[@HappyFlowerDE]

Hey Connor! At around 25:00 for the death of vulgar latin: Fun thing is that speakers of romance languages can still understand latin. Luke Ranieri, Satura Lanx et al. made some videos!

[@al3xa723]

HWTATATTtt what what WHATTT UES YE SY RSY EYS YES LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE SO EXCITED AGHHH

[@inept_]

Your best work yet

[@LFITZY1745]

Holy xnopyt, he's back

[@RainBrain26]

This is so nice to listen to while working. Thank you also for using lesser known (in the west) examples. You could have used anatolian Greek post Seljuk Invasion or the Slavic migrations. But you didn't and used examples from all around the world. Especially happy about the inclusion of South Sentinelese, I never thought about that they, of course, are linguistically isolated

[@allisonguthrie8257]

I’ve been a Métis learner of Michif for the past two years (Southern Michif), which is generally categorized by linguists as a mixed language. It definitely falls at the high-contact low-time end of this spectrum, although it’s neither considered a creole nor a pidgin. It formed when many Cree-speaking First Nations women around Manitoba/North Dakota married French-speaking men, and their children were raised fluently bilingual. It is thought these children began to speak Michif quite rapidly between each other and within their own communities. Michif is made of almost all Cree-origin verbs and verb grammar with French-origin nouns and noun grammar, which sounds almost artificial, until you begin to speak the language and realize it makes perfect sense given the grammar of those two languages. It retains accurate and fully complex grammar from both languages, including animacy from Cree and grammatical gender from French. Mixed languages of this sort are very rare, and I have read tend to occur only in situations where children are raised fluently bilingual among communities with those two languages where neither is held as more prestigious than the other.

[@pakhyeoncheol]

I’m frustrated that this isn’t currently out

[@ConnorQuimby]

it is 4 am here i will get killed by the algorithm

[@tomasje]

Algonquin Basque was so unexpected lmfao

[@roomcayz]

The sole fact I'm writing this in English (not my native language), which is the only language I'm using to communicate in my work without even leaving my country, says a lot

[@Loveolin]

YOOOOOOOOOO im so excited🥳🥳🥳

[@AiC_124]

Amazing thank you so much

[@Pascal-1]

I subbed when you stopped upload, didn't know it would turn out to be a good move lol Im really happy you uploaded again

[@legchairhistorian5496]

Great video. I’m incredibly happy to have stumbled on this channel.

[@Kick0a0cat]

I know it's not meant to be academic, but I'd be very interested in reading about this some more, do you have some sources for us? No pressure :)

[@beacebrocess]

Oogq booga!!!

[@lemon.linguist]

this video is amazing! konor kuvimbi

[@tu7765]

I can't imagine how crazy it would be to study the sentinelise language

[@zvidanyatvetski8081]

Great video as always!

[@The2bcooper]

quick lil 15 month side stop

[@utqiagvik1991]

Great video, nice to hear you mentioning Orokh, Nivkh and Ainu. Dziękuję!

[@vladimirskala]

12:18 Props on the Rusyn flag.

[@liamgarcia9408]

Bro really said :3 24:36

[@takashi.mizuiro]

where can i double like a video

[@ayu-fq4xm]

lets goooo

[@patronsaintoflostcauses4029]

WE'RE SO BARACK

[@eyeless_person]

4:02 BERBER MENTIONED 🦅🦅🦅

[@speedwagon1824]

Good video

[@humanfingers]

YAYAYAYA CONNOR!!!!

[@ashenen2278]

It's sad that forced deportation is often disregared not to be a part or form of a genocide... That's very great that you mentioned the Circassians/Adyghe!

[@limsowka]

You have an absolutely gorgeous cat 😻😻😻

[@kornsuwin]

holy hell

[@adriennequimby3983]

oh he cooked with this

[@adriennequimby3983]

HES BACCCKKKK

[@carterwood4197]

It was like you took great care to try pronouncing every language with their own names for themselves, until you got to Vedic Sanskrit where you just used the English name for it but with a pseudo-Indian accent lol. Sanskrit's name for itself is Saṁskṛtam (the short a's are schwas). As for Vedic (Vaidika), the Vedic people didn't really call their own language "Vedic" but instead Āryabhāṣā.

[@Joseph-pz5bo]

When did he use the native names? (Apart from Inglish)

[@angamaitesangahyando685]

What I do dislike about language channels on KZbin is treating non-Eurasian languages as equal to Eurasian. Like Oceania? Just why? - Adûnâi

[@dinofangzz]

Filnadn :) 🇫🇮

[@tygical]

this is not an africate

[@eliavrad2845]

What the Feynman are these diagrams?

[@fariesz6786]

10:45 how dare you lump my waterfowlian brethren in with food items? 🦢

[@windows-7-bootable-iso]

You use windows 7. nice