Old Saxon vs. German | How similar are they? | Language Comparison

[@BartGielingh]

I was in North Germany, speaking Dutch with my uncle. And a German asked us if we wore speaking Platt-Duuts. Or flat german. 😮 So much is the similarity between the two. Even more so than lower and high German.

[@TomWaldgeist]

Old Saxon compared to Plattdeutsch and Englisch would be interesting, too!

[@christiankastorf4836]

Who do you think had it easier at our university when we English students had to do Anglo-Saxon, us Northeners or those from "Northern Italy" like Swabians, Bavarians and so on.

[@Treinbouwer]

Platt and Dutch would be more interesting. Loads of examples resamble the Dutch dialects of Platdeutsch, in which case the language is called Nedersaksisch.

[@albionmyl7735]

I am German from the northwest part the homeland of the germanic Saxons Westphalia we share the Saxon horse on our flag with Kent.... We are deeply connected with our english cousins ❤

[@TheGPolyglot-Swe]

Thank you very much for this great video! 😊

[@hans7856]

Striking how little Saxon has changed. Much of these sounds have been conserved in the dialect of Twente, while in Dutch, German and English these sounds have changed. Long ī is still long ī [ie] for instance, while it became a diphthong in the other West-Germanic languages.

[@Compositae]

Old Saxon seems to be very close to old Dutch. Could you also make a comparison between these two?

[@learningoldgermaniclanguages]

I'm on it, sir.

[@christiankastorf4836]

Compare Dutch to Low-German. When someone speaks Dutch slowly, Norh-Germans will understand more than half of it without difficulty. It is much different with Frisian, though. Only Frisians can understand Frisian, and that will include our North Sea islanders who are familiar with their old language.

[@BartGielingh]

​@@learningoldgermaniclanguagesNiiiice 😊

[@ansibarius4633]

It is. There are some differences, most notably the preservation of different personal endings for the plural of verbs in Old Dutch, lack of the - os ending in masculine plural nouns, probable pronunciation of long u as ü, and some other developments like loss of unstressed ia and io, loss of h before s, etc., some of which however also took place in Saxon before the Middle Low German stage, so the extent of the differences may depend in part on the specific dialect and time period involved. (And of course, preservation of n before th in words like 'mond', 'kond' etc.)

[@claudioleuch435]

Theres also a lot of words that are similar in swiss german "eu" "sin" "mura"

[@Wuei108]

Neite wicken - means next week. My father said neite wicken to the farmers when he bought cattle.

[@masatwwo6549]

Super interesting how obvious the sound shifts are.. Also the details, that "Giu" sounds like "you" and "He" = "Er" You also try to put in the cognates. Great

[@christiankastorf4836]

It is a bit "unfair" to compare Old Saxon to High German. It would be more enlighting to show the similarities to Low German. There was this sound shift in the late Middle Ages that separated High German from Low German that did not take part in it. So in Low German we say "Abbel" or "Apel" for an apple and in High German it is "Apfel". In High German it is "zwei" (please, you people from the English world: a "z" ALWAYS is a "ts"-sound in German!!) , so it sounds like "tswy", and in Low-German it is "twee". And so on.

[@croatianwarmaster7872]

Is Gerne and English yearn related?

[@learningoldgermaniclanguages]

In some way yes. ġeorn (adjective) in old english became ye(a)rn (adverb) in later English. The verb to yearn came from ġeornan in Old English. However, yern is an alternate spelling of yearn (verb).

[@ReiKakariki]

Ancient Saxon sounds more beautiful in ortography and in phonetics comparing with hodiern germanics idioms. _💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚_