More Extinct Languages We Should Bring Back

[@captainahab1533]

I think we should first and foremost revive Gothic. Not only because their alphabet is pretty neat, but mainly for the purpose of more effective gatekee... communication in the goth subculture.

[@captainahab1533]

@Imanol Aizpurua The Visigothic Script is indeed the Latin alphabet. The reason it survived in Spain has to do with the fact that the Visigoths conquered and ruled large swaths of Spain during and immediately after the migration period. However, that's not what I was talking about. There is a greek-derived alphabet created by the Gothic bishop Wulfila, which was then used for a Gothic translation of the bible. In his mind runes = pagan, which to him meant they weren't fit for the translation of the bible. Got us a pretty neat alphabet though...

[@captainahab1533]

@@amaya3660 I'd actually love to, but I don't know where to start learning it tbh.

[@y_e_s_L]

i agreed with you but the last part was fucking cringe

[@rateeightx]

If somebody made Gothic Rock in actual Gothic I would love them for it.

[@HappyBazinga]

When youre a croat

[@nova-nigermapping5535]

Hey! Polabian speaker here. our language is very germanized! (around 15%) but there is the "Polabian Revivalization Movement". Our flag resembles the english one but the upper left and lower right corner is blue (like the sorbian blue.) Slüva Polåbsťă!

[@brm5844]

So true bestie slay

[@tijnaltena5718]

Do you have discord by chance? The Polanian writing you posted seems very interesting, with those umlauts. I speak German as well but I would like to learn more about the language.

[@brm5844]

@@tijnaltena5718 He does have it but imma let him deside if he wants to give it

[@viperking6573]

as a guy who is learning German and Polish I love this.

[@lordedmundblackadder9321]

Based

[@arthurs4093]

In France, we're bringing back the regional languages. Whole university departments are dedicated to these (including in the overseas for Tahitian), and bilingual schools have opened (noticeably in Brittany)

[@sgt.mcgillicuddy2948]

Marrant.. en la Louisiane, on a des écoles d’immersion pour la même raison sauf ici c’est pour le français

[@thewitheredstriker]

That's awesome! I thought the French government was still doing nothing, so I love this news.

[@alyaly2355]

What about languages like Picard, Norman, Gallo, Wallisian, Futunan and many other languages? Are they also being taught?

[@Syagrios]

@@alyaly2355 none of the regional language are taught just like that. You must choose one to learn in certains schools that have them. But you will do extra hours. For example in Toulouse you can learn occitan. Picard, I am not sure, isn't the language dead now ? Also The author of the vid is completly out of context by speaking about gaulish revival. We don't even know how the gaulish sounded, french have like 50 gaulish word in it.

[@alyaly2355]

@@Syagrios Picard isn’t dead. It still has thousands of speakers. The French KZbinr, Norman, is a speaker of Picard.

[@Louisianish]

Thanks for the shoutout to my heritage language, Louisiana French! My grandparents were part of the last generation in Louisiana to have been raised as monolingual Francophone (my parents’ generation grew up bilingual). I learned the language from my grandparents and my dad, and I’m attempting to raise my 2 year old son speaking it. I’m beginning to see the fruits of my labor, but I won’t lie, it’s extremely difficult to raise a child in a language when it isn’t your first, and you’re surrounded by English.

[@sgt.mcgillicuddy2948]

Gardez notre langue mon frère. Mon objectif c’est le même que le votre. C’est difficile en la Louisiane aujourd’hui mais j’essaye donner l’honneur à mes grandparents par sauver la langue et l’utiliser avec mon enfant.

[@iamothemakhnovist20]

Courage, l'anglais aux États-Unis broie toutes les autres langues et il faut résister à cet impérialisme linguistique. Bonne chance !

[@Maxzes_]

Have 5-10 children and make them have 5-10 grandchildren, teach them to speak french, and then hope they continue the language until then. Make sure they all learn about how important keeping the language and cultural heritage is. Suddenly, in a few generations, Louisiana has many, many french people.

[@Bruce_Games]

I wish I knew Cajun french

[@iamothemakhnovist20]

@Osh *qu'on parle français en Lousianne

[@paveldolgopolov7420]

You should have also mentioned the two Sorbian languages while speaking about Polabian. They're still alive, although not particularly well. They're fascinating, I'm somewhat of a Sorbian language enthusiast myself despite living in Russia

[@ConnorQuimby]

Sorbian is cool yeah but I didn't mention them since they're just moribund. I could have mentioned Slovincian as well but it's just Polabian but more boring.

[@paveldolgopolov7420]

@@ConnorQuimby Well, maybe my impression is biased here, but at least Upper Sorbian is definitely not on the "moribund" stage. There is education, radio, modern music in the language, heck, even a small region where the language is spoken by all the generations. I imagine that even when/if there will be no more really native speakers of it, there is still gonna be quite a community of people who acquired it in a conscious age

[@ConnorQuimby]

@@paveldolgopolov7420 Endangered, not moribund, that's what I meant.

[@robertab929]

@@paveldolgopolov7420 Just a thought. Maybe try to cooperate with Linguistic/Slavic departments at Polish/Czech/Slovak Universities (like universities in Wrocław, Praha, Bratislava). Try to have student exchanges between Łużyce and mentioned countries. Or some other activities. It might help you with revival of languages.

[@Yalen.The.Untaggable]

Hey let's revive Manchu! There are a couple colleges in Northeastern China that used to give free classes but they stopped since like 2005, and there's a website that works as some sort of Manchu newspaper but other than that there isn't anything so widespread, and as one of the official languages of the last dynasty of China, it's worth it

[@coomchamp991]

CCP wouldn't like that one a whole lot

[@sauronthemighty3985]

We should bring back Khitan too.

[@ramp597]

there are like 20 manchu speakers even though there are millions of manchu

[@sauronthemighty3985]

@@ramp597 I have actually met a girl who is manchu at uni. She was very nice

[@jeffrey2326]

@@coomchamp991while I’m not a fan of the CCP They do put some funds into stuff like this

[@alamhossain3316]

So basically Jersey Dutch is American version of afrikaans

[@ConnorQuimby]

yeah pretty much

[@Arviragus13]

amerikaans

[@highseervehk]

​@@Arviragus13 which is actually the Dutch word for 'american' lol

[@highseervehk]

​@@Arviragus13 your batushka cover is sick gj

[@9_9876]

​@@highseervehklike the Dutch word for African is probably afrikaans

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

GAULISH HELL YEAH!!! Lets not forget Gaulish had an independent Optative form of verbs (expressing the meaning of wishing the verb were true, or wishing it would happen), plus the really freaken simple bi- prefix + root + Subj. suffix future form.

[@TayaRamadan-wy1fz]

Is enough Gaulish known so there could be a revival?

[@angoose2515]

@@TayaRamadan-wy1fzI’m not sure, I would would be willing to bet that a Gaulish revival is unlikely since most of what is known about the language is based on place names and personal names. Maybe there are a few actually useful words that are known but from what I can find there is really nothing extensive. I could be wrong though, and I’m all ears for anyone wanting to correct me.

[@ThursoBerwick]

​@@TayaRamadan-wy1fzI've seen Gaulish comic strips. Something is happening.

[@ConnorQuimby]

rest in peace lithuanian. for ever in our hearts

[@Xnoob545]

???

[@ConnorQuimby]

@@Xnoob545 Lithuanian went extinct this morning. It was my fault. It was an accident I swear

[@Xnoob545]

@@ConnorQuimby you liar, we still use it

[@ConnorQuimby]

@@Xnoob545 Who is we? I saw it with my own eyes. The lifeless soul of a language, gone of my own accord.

[@Xnoob545]

@@ConnorQuimby tiesiog norėjau pasakyt, kad Lietuvių kalba vis dar egzistuoja.

[@duskendawne2239]

What about the Hittite language? It was an indo-european language spoken by the people of the Hittite Empire, which ruled eastern Anatolia during the bronze age

[@9_9876]

Who would speak it? Hittites? Where are they?

[@Choroalp]

@@9_9876 Anatolian Turks. Most Anatolian Turks actually have more Anatolian ancestry than turkic.

[@kutaykalender2321]

@@Choroalp but most groups in the nearby geography have little or no turkic genetic admixture. average turkish have %30-35 medieval oghuz turkic admixture(min %2-3, max %65-70). saying this is like saying bulgarians should speak thracian or serbocroatians should speak illyrian or italians should speak etruscan or englishman should speak brythonic or french should speak gaulish.

[@Choroalp]

@@kutaykalender2321 Gerizekalı. Hititlere ne olduğundan bahsediyordum

[@buddyltd]

Making Gaulish come back would be extra funny because so much of Romantic French art relies upon the idea of an unbroken history between the Gauls and the modern French nation. If you were to bring back Gaulish, they would be unable to oppose the existence of said language without seemingly invalidating their historical mythology. Maximum trollage!

[@CheLanguages]

What a coincidence. I've just come back from Andalucía (Cordoba) and I have studied a lot about Andalusian Spanish. I've also read quite a lot about Mozarabic, which heavily influenced Andalusian Spanish too. I have considered doing a video on it soon, there is even a movement in Andalucía to classify the dialect as its own language, 'Andaluh'.

[@kire929]

Ah yes, people from Spain love trying to balkanize the country

[@CheLanguages]

@@kire929 bruh

[@hyperion3145]

You can look into Romandalusi and AndaluhGeeks, they do a lot in Mozarabic and Andalusian Spanish

[@vulpes7079]

Y'all need a better orthography

[@tiagorodrigues3730]

The problem with reviving Mozarabic is that we have *very little* idea of how it went, and it probably wasn't one linguistic variety, either, so how do we even start? By conlanging off a couple of dozen _kharja_ stanzas in mediaeval poetry?

[@pan3964]

give the Bulgarians an ancient Greek language they don't own and then proceed to call them Macedonians disregarding history. A really smart solution

[@TheGogeta222]

Worked with Israel too

[@basedmusician8752]

Pretty sure that was satire.

[@nikoking825]

Also technically the ancient language of today's North Macedonia was Paeonian a separate extinct Indo-European language. And Ancient Macedonian was a local form of Doric Greek.

[@oyungogdfrust4136]

dividing people by race instead of languages elevates nationalism to racial segregation

[@DeVolksrepubliek]

YES, please we must revive Jersey Dutch! As a Dutch person living in New York, this is my dream.

[@SnowAngel10329]

rest in peace dacian i will never forget you

[@celty5858]

So France doesn’t support non-standard French. 😕 One day when I was reading about Louisiana French, I saw that the French government gives funds to French language schools there but only for the standard dialect, not the local one. I think that’s messed up.

[@noahschwartz1222]

I saw your note about no hope for European Jewish languages to be revived and you'll be glad to know that the two major European Jewish languages, Yiddish and Ladino, are both experiencing a revival liturgically and culturally! In many western Sephardic synagogues Ladino courses are being offered and Yiddish is having a revival largely within the American Ashkenazi Jewish community as well as to a lesser extent in Israel. However the various Judeo-Arabic and Judeo-Aramaic languages/creoles formerly spoken by eastern Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews are still dying as far as I know.

[@BigJFindAWay]

There is also a revival of Bukhori going on among the younger generation of Queens’ huge Bukharian community. It’s being led by the chief rabbi of that community who I think is a Bukharian Lubavitcher and he gives talks in the language.

[@ThursoBerwick]

From what I can see the Yiddish revival is more successful although I'd hope it wouldn't just be the usual ultraorthodox types... They are very clannish and most people of Adhkenazi descent don't come from that background.

[@pascalbaryamo4568]

@@noahschwartz1222 is that in the US and Canada? I’ve never heard of someone in Germany Poland or the Netherlands who speaks these languages, sadly (and from what I get Yiddish is being heavily influenced by American English)

[@giuseppedelfino8246]

L2 speaker of Griko (Calabria) here, that is of the intangible heritage of the Ancient Greek colonization in Southern Italy.

[@jonpaulyc-eng474]

Polynesian from NZ here; I always wanted to bring back Moriori, so I was very happy to see the NZ govt is creating efforts to do just that!!

[@BigJFindAWay]

There ought to be an effort to get the Chatham Islands to make Moriori as official language there.

[@9_9876]

Nice

[@etorawa9367]

I loved hanging out with my Maori friends when I travelled to NZ in the early 00's as a college student. One thing I learned is that there were many Maori dialects that have disappeared and one of them was all vowel without consonants. I imagine that would've been one heck of a dialect to understand.

[@9_9876]

@@etorawa9367 I imagine that a dialect of a language that removes all consonants completely would be just so different that it'd be a different language

[@ThursoBerwick]

South Island Maori as well. I gather some official names in the far south have been re-spelled to conform with the local dialect(s). Presumably the Maori at the other end of South Island would have been more like North Island.

[@MCKevin289]

As a New Jerseyan thank you for covering Jersey Dutch! It’s such a little known language. I thought only me and one of my history professors in college were the only ones who knew about it lol.

[@h-Qalziel]

I think it would also be nice to revive Pictish as it was the oldest known language spoken in Scotland and was eradicated by the surrounding countries; Ireland gave Scotland Scottish Gaelic, England gave Scotland English and Scots, and Norway gave Scotland Norn, but Scotland had Pictish! Also who wouldn't want another celtic language!

[@h-Qalziel]

And yes, I know that Pictish probably came from another part of the world and overtook the original language but still, we have to stop somewhere, otherwise Scotland would have no language whatsoever and that would be sad...

[@infinite5795]

@@h-Qalziel but wait? Did Pictish have an influential rich literary tradition before Ireland Gaelic speakers conquered it?

[@h-Qalziel]

@@infinite5795 Influential? Probably not. It has affected the names of places around the areas where it was spoken and possibly altered the vocabulary of Scottish Gaelic, differing it more from Irish, but apart from that it never really left its nook in Scotland. Rich Literary Tradition? Probably not. It depends what you mean by this but the only known texts written in Pictish are written in Ogham into stones and caves and the Picts used a distinct variation of Ogham to the ones in Ireland meaning that they are very difficult to transpose. Even when it is vaguely transposed into the Latin script all they usually say is 'this person wrote this' or 'this is the boundary', not very helpful. In fact, so little is known about what the language was like, linguists can't even determine the etymology of the Pictish language; whether it was a Brythonic P-Celtic language (the original Celtic language of the island of Great Britain, which Welsh descends from), a Goidelic Q-Celtic language (the original Celtic language of the island of Ireland, which Irish and Scottish Gaelic descend from and the one that deposed Pictish from its area), or perhaps it wasn't even an Indoeuropean Language and was there before the spread of the language which almost every language in Europe and South West Asia descend from. We do, however, know it was quite different from the Brythonic and Goidelic languages of the time in the first millennia thanks to accounts of the language written from outsiders. But I guess the answer is 'no, it did not.'

[@hya2in8]

scotland would have three native languages lol

[@viperking6573]

Was it a P celtic like welsh?

[@graf]

another reason to revive polabian is to make the very prescriptivist polish linguistic community mad that another "non standard variant of the polish language" (as they'd probably label it) showed up :p

[@ImpastaTronic78]

Przeglądam filmy językowe na youtubie a tu nagle graf jumpscare w komentarzach. A no i powodzenia Śląskiemu, żeby ich w końcu kiedyś rozpoznali.

[@Riym2]

wszystko fajnie, ale kiedy uhc?

[@Liethen]

Interesting thing to note is that there were areas of New York and North Carolina with significant numbers of Scottish Gaelic speakers. Most were loyalists and moved to Canada after the war. Would have been interesting if they had remained in the US as a significant local language. Almost happened in North Carolina, since it was still spoken there during the Civil War era. Canadian Gaelic is interesting in that it comes from a dialect of Scottish Gaelic that has since died out in Scotland. Sadly I don't think the Scotts language made it to America. Would have been interesting if Hillbillies spoke an Appalachian Scotts language.

[@simonpetrikov3992]

As a southerner it would have been painful to learn in a yankee school if I had to go to one

[@ThursoBerwick]

The last native born Gaelic speaker in the Carolinas died in the 1920s, which is a lot later than you'd think. The last native born Ontario speaker died within my lifetime. You're wrong about Canadian Gaelic though. It is a combination of multiple Scottish dialects, including some from islands which still speak the language. Mainland Gaelic is teetering on the brink though.

[@honeycomblord9384]

I'm so hyped for that Tocharian video. Kinda crazy how a whole branch of Indo-European languages just dissapeared. Also, I see you're a fan of Opeth. Nice to see that.

[@ConnorQuimby]

I wore my MAYH shirt in my 1000 Q/A video, Morningrise and MAYH are my favourite of their albums.

[@infinite5795]

We want Pali and Vedic Sanskrit to be revived back!

[@ਗੁਰਸਿਮਰਸਿੰਘ]

Punjabi is having many pali and vedic words. the civilization itself started in Punjab after all

[@BigJFindAWay]

There is a town where Sanskrit is the language of the town. The young people all speak it. It’s a totally modern town in every way--cars and motorcycles, internet access--but all communication and business is done in Sanskrit.

[@ramp597]

why vedic sanskrit and not regular sanskrit. people dont really know how vedic sanskrit was exactly spoke since its just a reconstruction of how sanskrit was speaks in ancient times

[@kingofnuggets7304]

Aren't the Theravada monks speaking Pali ?

[@ramp597]

@karaqakkzl making sanskrit the official language of india is like making Latin the official language of italy

[@viperking6573]

I would also love for African Romance and Dalmatian Romance, but also Thracian omg. Nuragic would be great but apart from some words in Sardinian everything else has been forgotten:c

[@viperking6573]

I agree with this guy

[@92xhqi88]

I don’t think we have nuragic words leff. Sardinian dialect comes from latin with a huge phoenician/punic influence, but nothing remains from the old pre-indoeuropean language, or at least nothing that we can be sure of.

[@viperking6573]

@@92xhqi88 Yeah sure, we can't be sure, but there are many words of which the origin is unknown! thurpu, tilipirche, tilicherta, tiligugu, nurache, pattada, and many more that don't come to mind right now

[@swalhal3701]

i'd love to know a bit more about the languages you mentioned, like a few features that made them unique like you did with polabian. Also, with a chad's face like that i wouldn't personally bother to animate that much in the videos tbh

[@char_isma]

great video, the live chat was pretty fun 👍

[@tedperkoski7534]

I wish we could bring back Old Prussian, you know the Baltic people who lived in East Prussia before the Teutonic Knights

[@ConnorQuimby]

I know at least academically it's being revived/worked on. It's a little tricky though given the geopolitical and demographic history of Baltic Prussia over the past 100 years

[@amaya3660]

@@ConnorQuimby The Prussian revival is far from just being academic. In fact, they even have native speakers. Their revival has been a huge inspiration for me working on Gothic 💖

[@9_9876]

​@@amaya3660it has like 200 people lol pretty sure not even half are from kaliningrad oblast the whole thing is a joke

[@maolalidh6881]

Languages I would like to bring back (both indo-european and non) are Gothic, Lenape, Gallaecian,

[@LukeTheGreat1]

4:17 Macedonia is Greek, not slavic. After bulgarians started mass migrating to the balkans, Macedonia became a slavic nation. Macedonia was originally Greek (and still is) the modern so called “macedonians” are just bulgars. Cope

[@qcthecat1615]

Great channel! Waiting for this channel to get the love it deserves 😎

[@kitdubhran2968]

I would love any video you’re willing to put out about the tocharian languages. I’m a big fan of them too!

[@chimera9818]

Your channel got revived like Hebrew

[@celty5858]

I think it would be cool if Crimean Gothic were revived. There’s communities online where people learn and speak ancient Gothic, but its sister language could get some love too.

[@Uhh260]

Crimean Gothic is barely attested, it's primary source of attestation comes from Flemish diplomat Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq. It is very likely that the Crimean Gothic written down by Busbecq has been corrupted and influenced by his native Flemish. The speaker who provided him with the vocabulary was also very likely to have been a native Greek speaker who learned Crimean Gothic, not being a native speaker of the language, but I don't think it's stated. I don't think theres enough reliable material to revive the language.

[@pieterjanzaal2056]

Interesting video Con! It’s a shame we aren’t on the same team anymore! Go enjoy this season at UB!

[@ConnorQuimby]

Bedankt Pieter, ik hou van je bro. Mis het spelen met jou. Ik zal onze wedstrijden weer voor je livestreamen.

[@patronsaintoflostcauses4029]

Finally, some good KZbin content.

[@gearsie_]

holy crap, the algorithm recommended me the previous version of this video yesterday. wild 😳

[@p00bix]

Late to the party but to expand on the bit about Tocharian: Linguists now pretty much all agree on a picture for the early evolution of Indo-European. First, the Anatolian languages diverged from all other Indo-European languages. Its really difficult to reconstruct the 'true' earliest form of Indo-European, since its difficult to tell which unusual features from Anatolian were innovations from after the split, or relics of elements lost in all other Indo-European branches. A couple hundred years later, Non-Anatolian PIE split into the Tocharian languages on one hand and "Late Proto-Indo-European" by the other. By figuring out which unusual Tocharian features are or are not shared with Anatolian or Late-PIE, we can get a **far** better picture of what the older forms of Proto-Indo-European would have looked like. While we still struggle to figure out what the common ancestor of Anatolian+Tocharian+Modern IE languages would have looked like, we actually have a pretty good idea what the common ancestor of Tocharian+Modern IE languages looked like. So Tocharian isn't just a neat semi-obscure branch of Indo-European languages that happened to go extinct, it's literally an earlier-diverging cousin to the Late-Proto-Indo-European which all modern IE languages are descended from. And its really cool to see how Tocharian retains elements of Early PIE that are missing from all modern IE languages.

[@AJAYSINGH-ns1vv]

Do you have any proof that any so called indoeuropian language predates sanskrit which is indegenous to India. This whole thing about indo europian language predating sanskrit is only a theory without any evidence.

[@jeffrey2326]

@@AJAYSINGH-ns1vvanskrit and Iranian are descended from a branch of Proto Indo-European called Indo-Iranian Whereas other languages such as English, Russian, Albanian, Latin, Greek come from other branches Do you seriously think Sanskrit was always just spoken in India, if that’s what you think, then you’re thinking of Dravidian languages like Tamil Indo-European speakers originated in the area around the Black Sea and migrated west and eastwards (For example in the west in Spain, Basque is a language that was already spoken before the Indo-European came) Not to mention, some speakers also made their way to present day western China where they were speakers of Toquarian Do you seriously not know what human migration is And yea, there’s evidence to back the theory, there are a ton of basic vocabulary that all of these languages have in common For instance, the numbers which only sound different because of sound shift over time Terms like brother, father, mother, and sister have remained much the same The first part of the name of the Himalayan mountains Also has a cognate in Latin with Hima being cognates with Latin Hiems meaning snow The terms for ruler or king is also a common term For example Rex in Latin, Rix in Gaulish, Raj in Sanskrit, rich in Germanic languages etc The term Sun also has cognates For example sol in Latin and Surya in Sanskrit Twin also has cognates for example Ymir in gothic, Geminus in Latin (y sound shifts to g, such shifts are common in Indo-European), Yama in Sanskrit etc Man: manuṣya in Sanskrit, manus in Iranian, man in English obvious etc You’re seriously not offended because you’re Indian right

[@p00bix]

@@jeffrey2326 Hindu Nationalists believe in some really wacky pseudohistory. 🤣

[@zimriel]

@@AJAYSINGH-ns1vv hindutva replyguys are most annoying replyguys. even Christian creationists are giving up. but hindutva's are still denying the copious evidence that the R1a Sintashta BVLLS from the northern Aral sea are their daddies

[@hexateron]

we should bring back ancient akkadian and sumerian for the giggles

[@robertberger4203]

How about the crazy Ubykh language , which was related to Circassian and whose last speaker died. in Turkey a little over 30 years ago in Turkey and left. examples of his language on tape - you can hear it on KZbin on the I Love Languages channel with that last speaker . Ubykh had more consonant languages than any but the Khoi San languages and only about two vowels .

[@wireplay-1.5metre]

i wanted to suggest tocharian in the comment, but you mentioned!!!!! this is so surprising and rare to see someone mention tocharian

[@leonardotonietti2062]

as someone studying gaelic, i'm ready to bring back even more extinct or diying languages

[@ThursoBerwick]

Gaelic has a lot of cultural issues. It had a big fight to get broadcasting going and now BBC Alba has problems which are 75% in English, defeating the point in it.

[@DaEpikMan]

I have a theory that a Gaelic language existed in Australia during the colonial period due to the amount of Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Cornish people who colonised Australia. Probably was more of a Creole between the languages and English, maybe with Dutch in places like cape York? I'm not sure, but it may have existed at some point.

[@reigen4030]

Where is the evidence? Because Cornish had been dying for over 200 years by the time Australia was colonised and Welsh was being suppressed

[@user-pv8lp6ht3z]

Welsh and Cornish didn’t speak any form of Gaelic. The Gaelic language was only Ireland, Scotland and Isle of Man. Wales, Cornwall and Brittany all spoke Brythonic. Both Gaelic and Brythonic are Insular Celtic languages.

[@ThursoBerwick]

​@@reigen4030There is evidence some Cornish may have been used in Australia. There is an area of South Australia which is closely associated with Cornish people and Cornish words have entered Aussie dialect. "Fossick" is one of them, it means to hunt around or prospect and is in common use. Note also the mining connection. A lot of Cornish would have moved there because of their skills in that area. The later history of Cornish is extremely hazy. One thing is for sure,.that Dolly Pentreath was *not* the last Cornish speaker and that some of it was being used decades later.

[@ThursoBerwick]

​@@user-pv8lp6ht3zThere is an extremely good chance that Gaelic may have lasted a generation or two in some parts of Oz, just from the sheer number of Irish and Scots who moved there. It is suspected that Ned Kelly may have had an Irish accent because he grew up in a remote area with two Irish parents. Some other early white Australians probably heard their parents speaking Irish or Gaelic with each other, much like many born in Australia more recently will have grown up around Chinese, Greek and Italian. Australian English does have some Celtic loanwords, and a few of them don't seem to be in use in other forms of English. "Bogan" may be such a word although its etymology is contested.

[@kennystrydom2579]

Love your content! Keep it up

[@Livyscool123]

Louisiana French is near extinct when I go back there for college I'll have to learn it at least I have some relatives who still speak it.

[@the1andonlysausage]

FYI, as of 2017, Wymysorys still has 20 speakers, or a bit less.

[@tristianosstuff2444]

He stated in video one that this would be revival for language not currently being revived, but Norn very recently began revival with slight deviations from the original as the didn’t write it. They are calling it Nynorn.

[@egbront1506]

Seems to be moribund already. That Nynorn website hasn't been updated in years.

[@ThursoBerwick]

It's not a thing. None of them were based in Orkney and Shetland and there was no local interest. A website isn't the place to start a revival.

[@leolucas1980]

There are some Brazilians who would like to revive Old Tupi. There are even some courses available. Most people study it just for historical perspective, but a few is actually updating the vocabulary.

[@arielhyla]

The attitude of this video is exactly how I feel. I think we should linguistic diversity is awesome and i would only encourage cool things like multilingualism and many more colorful cultural identities

[@9_9876]

lol

[@SgtRocko]

I can TOTALLY get behind your dream of reviving Jersey Dutch. I'm a retired translator - lived in NYC and Monmouth County, and I'd never even heard of this (not even from Washington Irving! *sigh*). My native language is Yiddish, and when we go to Amish Country, it's always a treat to talk to them in Yiddish and have them answer in Deitsch. SO close (they always get a kick out of us showing them how to spell words in Yiddish). Also appreciate the shout-out to Kaschubian (speak it too - to add to the trifecta, my daughter-in-law is from Salonika, and a native Ladino speaker... she & my son had it written into their Ksuveh that their kids will speak Yiddish and Ladino BEFORE they're taught Hebrew). Okay, blithering - love your vids, keep 'em coming!

[@DavidJimenez-ux2lw]

That's so fucking based, yiddish and ladino in one man. The new Askhenazi-Sephardic unified jew, that man is destined to conquer banks all over the world

[@darksouls_guy1656]

@@DavidJimenez-ux2lw The Final Boss of Banking

[@ThursoBerwick]

I always thought the Hasidim and Amish had a curious resemblance. It's not entirely a coincidence. Their origins are clearly Mittel Europa way back and have imprinted certain late 18th/early 19th century traits from that region as a reaction against modernity.

[@ՆոլանՊետրոսյան]

Me and my homies only speak in proto-indo-european

[@kaman_kaman]

We should revive english

[@vulpes7079]

We should fucking murder it

[@jeffrey2326]

At this point our language isn’t really “English” anymore but a mixture of a ton of random languages

[@Weezerfann74]

Bring back Caucasian languages specifically old georgian

[@JohnDove-d8d]

1.65 Billion. I think we're okay.

[@JohnDove-d8d]

Saxon on the other hand is it's sister tongue with only a few million speakers left in Germany.

[@madmasseur6422]

I'd add Gothic to the top of the list. It's so well preserved that with enough effort people could actually revive it unlike some languages on this list like Gaulish

[@ConnorQuimby]

Yeah the reason I didn't mention Gothic was because I talked about it in Top 10 Writing Systems, and it's good to rotate subjects. Also cause Celtic revivement is such a thing already

[@amaya3660]

I make content on Twitch/KZbin in Gothic if you're ever looking for audiovisual content in your TL ^^

[@madmasseur6422]

@@ConnorQuimby Fair, the Gothic script is just beautiful so good choice there. Also how far along have people gotten when it comes to reviving Gaulish?

[@madmasseur6422]

@@amaya3660 Yes please :D I checked out some of your vids really quickly and you got a new sub my guy, I hope you continue making more videos in gothic, this is fantastic :)

[@amaya3660]

@@madmasseur6422 I'll certainly try to, thank you so much! :3

[@Kcoste08]

Wow, Jersey Dutch blew my mind! I actually backed the video up to make sure I understood right.

[@martalli]

There has been a concerted effort to revive the Miami language that was spoken from Ohio to Illinois at one point, spearheaded by the Miami Nation and Miami University of Ohio. This might be a great topic to cover

[@ThursoBerwick]

Confusing it isn't spoken in Florida! (I think there is a Miami uni/college and I came across this anomaly a while back.)

[@viniquecursahistoira]

Great video bro! It revived my interest in dead languages (sadly didn't revive the languages)

[@PLKartofel]

Polabian and Old Prussian would be so cool in Central Europe, as it would make Central Europe more diverse and it would do some trolling to the Germans as mostly they made those languages extinct

[@turetiietis1989]

Would be great to see a revival of Prussian and with that a resurrection of a Baltic State of Prussia on the once Prussian territories, which now belong to Russia (Kaliningrad) and Poland (Warmia-Mazuria, Pomerania and Kuyavian-Pomerania) besides Estonia, Latvia and Lituania.

[@9_9876]

​@@turetiietis1989as long as russia loses kaliningrad

[@dimosthenistserikis5901]

North Macedonia is a Slavic country and it has literally nothing to do with the Macedonian dialect of Ancient Greek.

[@embryomystic]

I have ideas for a modern Tocharian language spoken by a minority in China which has partially joined the Sinosphere, acquiring a bunch of Sino-Xenic vocabulary. It can be written phonetically in the Tocharian script, but it can be written more compactly using a mixture of that and Chinese characters, kind of like how Japanese does it. In my fictional history, there is also a population of Muslim speakers who use Perso-Arabic characters and far less Chinese loans, but there are less of them and they're in the process of assimilating to Uyghur culture and language.

[@ava-he9li]

In Andalusia we don't speak different because of the Islamic influence, we speak different because of the weather being hotter than the rest of the country and because we are the poorest region of the country, while other regions were working in industry we were still working the land in agriculture...

[@oyungogdfrust4136]

can you tell me how hot weather is supposed to affect a language

[@Wolfsbach]

can't wait for the Tocharian language video

[@Artur_M.]

Yes, go Polabian and Old Prussian! Also, I saw what you did at 4:40. 😁

[@SpaceFRce]

they will.summon aleksandr the great lol

[@AndreasEvgenikos]

Hilarious that your Macedonian solution is literally: make them Greek, therefore Greeks, especially in the region of Macedonia, won’t protest

[@iamleoooo]

Polabian Prussia: "more like plebian"

[@itspugsley8203]

he’s just like me fr. nah but actually, i’ve heard of jersey dutch and was interested in it but i’m even more interested in minority european languages in the us like new mexican spanish, louisiana, missouri, muskrat, and new england french, and even weird languages like alaskan russian dialect (including ninilchik and kodiak alaskan russian which are basically creoles)

[@MrExtraordinaire16]

Yay a new video

[@luchadorito]

Dalmatian because not only would it be hilarious to have ethnic slavs speaking a language close to french but a Dalmatian Revivalist movement would cause italians to enter in to the whole balkan hypernationalist political and cultural discourse/pissing contest and the memes about that would be absolutely immaculate, top tier entertainment

[@BBarNavi]

TBH Sicilian is more qualified to do that…

[@EmmaMaySeven]

A quick note on the origin of Breton: even though some migrants may have left Britain to escape the English attacks, it's likely that other left fleeing Irish attacks, and yet others settled there in the late Roman Empire. Several early Breton saints clearly lived in the early 500s, yet Wessex didn't reach Dumnonia (where the Breton migrants originated) until late 500s.

[@ThursoBerwick]

The Vannetais/Gwened dialect may also include Gaulish features, at least according to some research. He never mentioned that.

[@jeffrey2326]

I kinda want to see African Romance, Dacian/Illyrian Romance and maybe Egyptian (Coptic) revived

[@Michael_the_Drunkard]

Dacian/Thraco-Romance is still alive as Romanian.

[@richardalvarez1084]

Is it possible to revive taino language or the Guanche language?

[@oyungogdfrust4136]

the tainos were all killed in slave labor before their language had a chance to be written

[@charbird20]

What about Cajun French and Creole? I live in Louisiana and the health of these languages are in deep trouble. Even the accents of these languages when a fluent speaker speaks English are dying out!

[@ThursoBerwick]

I'd suggest they have better revival prospects than most indigenous languages.

[@LilyArtemis14]

He returns!

[@wizardite]

As a Bulgarian who loves Macedonia and who has learnt a lot from a Macedonian friend of mine about history, the Bulgarian government has no issues with Macedonians claiming an identity of their own, that is a common misunderstanding.

[@demi5136]

Language, though, is a pretty fundamental part of a national identity; especially in Europe. Look at the Northern Balkans, for example. Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian are, technically, just dialects of Serbo-Croatian, but our separate standards are at the core of our national identities (even if that *is* a bit problematic). Declining Macedonia's claim to its own language is, by all means, taking an issue with their claim of an identity.

[@wizardite]

@@demi5136 Hmm even though an argument could (and I believe should) be made for that, I don't think taking it as granted is a very wise choice. In Europe alone we see that an identity doesn't necessarily need to be tied to its own unique language. That is not to say I do not support my government accepting Macedonian as a separate language, I very much do. Actually if you look at some of our intellectuals you will see that the opinion that Macedonian is just a Bulgarian dialect is quite rare.

[@jonathankaiel9123]

I love your channel! You’re so handsome! You’ve got this! Have fun in school, but don’t miss out on your hobbies✨❤️

[@ryansenft3315]

Fun fact about Martin Van Buren: He's the only US president to not be a native English speaker. Dutch was his first language.

[@sovennfiy855]

i would love to see not only macedonian, but also phrygian revive, and it's cultures as well

[@Yk9o]

It wouldn't make sense for North Macedonia (aka FYROM) to try to speak ancient Macedonian again begause they never did, since they have no historical connection to the ancient Macedonian dialect. The people there speak a Bulgarian dialect becauses they arrived and settled there in the 6th century during the middle ages as part of the slavic diaspora in that region. The ancient Macedonian dialect is one of many ancient Greek dialects that was spoken further south of the currect "North Macedonia" country, in the Greek region of Macedonia (at the time one of the many ancient greek city states) 800+ years prior to the slavic diaspora. This is why Greece today have a problem with FYROM having decided to rename their country as the "Republic of Macedonia" because the region of Macedonia in Greece still exists and that causes issues and confusion, as well as the inaccurate historical confusion (hence FYROM, had to add "North" their new country name and become "Republic of North Macedonia", to try to reduce the confusion with the actual Macedonia region in Greece).

[@sovennfiy855]

@@Yk9o as well as turkish people have no reference with ancient phrygian people, who spoke a hellenic language rather then a turkic one. I'm a slav, so I'm avare there are no connection between modern macedonian and ancient macedonian languages, as well as their people, since they are slavish and hellenic respectively. sadly that those folks no longer exist

[@wankawanka3053]

​@@sovennfiy855 Phrygian wasn't a hellenic language

[@sovennfiy855]

@@wankawanka3053 but phrygian was closest language to greek.. almost like its another dialect, wasn't it?

[@theshibalover]

@@Yk9othank you for mentioning this, I was looking in the comments for someone to say something. This KZbinr mentions Ancient Macedonian as it’s own separate Hellenic language (debated) and acts like Spokiani spoke it before Alexander

[@GenerationX1984]

Revive Cumbric. It's a Brythonic language that was spoken in northern England and the southern border of Scotland. Some people think it might have been related to the ancient Pictish language.

[@ThursoBerwick]

Very little material. Norn has more.

[@solinvictus6562]

Id honestly love to learn more about tocharians, The tarim basin is one of my favorite areas in Imperator : Rome.

[@rateeightx]

2:15 that actually sounds pretty interesting. I always find local languages spoken in an area completely different from their relatives, Such as European languages endemic to the Americas like Hunsrik or Talian (I think the latter's technically a dialect but shh), To be quite cool, Although I feel like there are far less in the Anglosphere than places colonised by other countries, So it'd be interesting to hear about some that there are.

[@mininudoalem7950]

Talian is a dialect, it's basic just venetian fruit saladed with a bunch of other italian languages (lombard, furlan, bergamasque, etc) and a pinch of portuguese words. Can't speak about Hunsrik, but we also have eastern pomeranian here, which is really cool

[@atrumluminarium]

Also the Corfiot and Qawsri dialects of Maltese. Maltese has half a million native speakers and 90% of them are on Malta. It would be nice to revive it in other places where it has also been spoken in the past.

[@sanuku535]

Alexander The great family was actually Born in a region northwest from saloniki. Behind The mountains. I knowsl this from I think video by invicta and its why I am on Greeces side nominally. In either case. I also like Old minority languages and would like to travel 1h put of My City and see comunites of foreigners speaking thwir own way.

[@brm5844]

The Slavic minorities in Aegean Macedonia that are already less than a hour away from you reading this:

[@captainjack6010]

@@brm5844 So you say that people speaking an idiom originating from Slavic invaders that invaded parts of Macedonia 800+ years after Alexander are less than an hour way from those that read what you wrote?

[@Kristiano100]

@@captainjack6010 What idiom? It's a fully fledged part of the Macedonian language, specifically their dialect of Macedonian.

[@captainjack6010]

@@Kristiano100 You think Alexander spoke what they speak?

[@captainjack6010]

@@Kristiano100 Do you think Alexander spoke Slavic?

[@asinglebraincell6584]

i would love to see a tocharian video just cause i love hearing about it lol

[@fivantvcs9055]

Hi ! Very interesting video! I've just discovered your channel, a very good one !

[@hya2in8]

3:56 andalusia does have their own regionalism, & they sort of have their own regional language, some andalusian nationalists claim that andalusian castilian is its own language & they even have a separate orthography (although it kind of sucks because it makes so many changes that it only represents a fraction of speakers aside from being generally unelegant)

[@OwnM3Z0]

Imagine if Andalusia just one day splits from Spain and converts to Islam lol *reconquista: season 2*

[@9_9876]

It does not have any language. I speak andalusian, it's just a Spanish dialect. And nobody knows that orthography. I do because I heard about it in a newspaper mocking it.

[@danielescalantedemedeiros.]

Soy andaluz y el único sitio donde he visto que diga que el andaluz es un idioma es en el menú de idiomas del Minecraft XD

[@baller84milw]

The Slavic influence in northeast Germany/Pomerania is very seldom discussed or known about, and few people realize how widespread it is-not even just linguistically, but genetically. My grandparents were "Germans" from the region and DNA tests show they were both around 50% Slavic/Polish. I found out our last name also comes from either extinct Polabian or Pomeranian Slavic languages from the area, so it was very coincidental to stumble upon this video.

[@dylanplumley280]

We should also being back the language that existes in chalcolithic iberia. Which is said to be the oldest written language ever found. It is written in runes before any runes in scandinavia or elsewere.

[@daddrankthelastbeer4054]

lmao good luck with your analysis on wæstjysk!

[@xhoques]

Peraonally I want the old Shu language back. The major language in Sichuan area is a variety of Mandarin, a relatively new and a very major language of China. But history books have recorded the old Shu kingdom, developing very independently from central China in a few centuries BC.

[@TayaRamadan-wy1fz]

How much is it known about the Shu language?

[@xhoques]

@@TayaRamadan-wy1fz Not much. All we know is their ancient bronze culture and the fact that Sichuan chinese had been so different, up until the Mongolian and the Mandarin speaking immigration wiping out the original language.

[@annepoitrineau5650]

Visiting your channel for the first time. I really enjoyed it. I speak 6 languages and I am planning to add Mongolian to the list (now that I am re-assured that it is not tonal. Tonal languages scare me a bit...)

[@Argacyan]

I would have no problem with Polabian being revitalized, if there wasn't official ignorance towards & a lot of slavs still glorifying the genocide of Germans & as a result their dozen local languages & dialects east of the Oder river. It would be an absolutely one-sided affair, in favour of the party that made a lot of stuff violently extinct within living memory.

[@env0x]

I actually just learned recently that i have far-back ancestors from the Orkney Isles so I would be all for bringing back Norn.

[@ThursoBerwick]

The people locally are interested in their Scots dialect, not Norn. Every attempt I've seen has been by outsiders other than an occasional musical piece.

[@env0x]

@@ThursoBerwick even just music or poetry would be interesting imo

[@keithhanley7796]

Gaulish is in fact being revived -- there are several metal bands such as Eluvetie who are writing songs in the language. It's also used by a number of neo-Druidic pagans.

[@ThursoBerwick]

Poor examples. Especially the latter group. They're essentially larpers and hobbyists. Show us kids being raised to speak it, full length novels written in it and use in the workplace and then we're being serious.

[@bernd_das_brot6911]

You lost me with Polabian but roped me back in with Jersey Dutch

[@SVK91]

there's something very soothing about your voice

[@bigchungus1920]

Really like this channel

[@punished4890]

I would love to hear how Dacian sounded

[@cynfaelalek-walker7003]

Bro started an intentional crisis just to annoy his Bulgarian friend.💀🤝

[@yourboiFluff]

We should add charokee bc I’m charokee and want it to come back like Navajo did

[@kutaykalender2321]

i will speak for languages ​​that are completely extinct (languages ​​that can be revived), phoenician(i am very surprised that no one wrote about it in the more than 600 comments), akkadian, some south arabian peninsula, some native american languages and maybe some anatolian languages(by hellenized anatolians) should be revived. because the direct genetic heirs of those who spoke these languages ​​at the time are still alive and their numbers are millions.