The Evolution of One to Seven from Proto-Indo-European to English

How one through seven evolved from PIE to Modern English.

[@SuperNovaJinckUFO]

He sounds so relieved when he finally gets to the english version

[@Redorgreenful]

SuperNovaJinckUFO It’s so much work to pronounce those words OMG it would make me not want to say numbers, period

[@leod-sigefast]

LOL he does sound a bit pissed off up to that point!

[@michelenintricepsi6529]

@@Redorgreenful People who uses "period" irrelevantly are obnoxious. ( and usualy fat feminists )

[@emmacroquevielle9929]

Actually je doesn't prononce all : he still have an american accent on all of his videos.

[@jf2801]

I'm relieved, personally. The amount of iterations is super uncomfortable and tense. It gives me anxiety. Sorta like not having a resolution in music or plots.

[@casper1581]

Apparently Proto-Indo-Europeans really liked their vibrato.

[@ABAlphaBeta]

They sung everything in near-rhyming dactylic hexametre, didn't you know?

[@timomastosalo]

@Greg Moonen Welsh five is pimp, or was it pump, which is aid nearly the same. Something close to that was early in the list.

[@gothikgaming9066]

@@timomastosalo the Celts were the first Indo European culture to enter Europe from what I know so it makes sense

[@timomastosalo]

@@gothikgaming9066 Usually languages change faster in the center of the culture, like Latin changest first in Rome. So it's possible and likely, (Insular) Celtic kept some more archaic forms. And English has through it's history been in contact with many cultures since leaving the angle of Denmark and Germany. That usually speeds up changes. And the likelyhood of them entering Europe as (one of) the 1st of the Indo-Europeans, is confirmed also by that Celtic languages have some grammar features other Indo-European languages don't. So they were in contact with languages of other language groups.

[@honved1]

@@timomastosaloi noticed a lot of of them were similar to the welsh. 1 to 7 in welsh is; Un Dau Tre Pedwar Pump Chwech Saith.

[@Treblaine]

[when you're high AF and a cop asks you to count from 1 to 7]

[@Wes-dr3hx]

Hahahaha

[@saia24]

That way you can't be wrong at any era you're on still lol

[@NeoTheRevolution1]

God tier comment

[@Burn_Angel]

When you're so high you end up in the past.

[@barsbay7598]

I laughed too hard at this

[@johanandhira5429]

Hold the door Hol the dor Hol dor Ho dor Hodor

[@Burn_Angel]

Hor

[@YataTheFifteenth]

Hodor Hordor Mordor It's all connected

[@chinmaychandraunshuh]

Hodor Odo D

[@chinmaychandraunshuh]

@Islander Local Nace

[@counterkidnapping1737]

Lol. From English to ancient

[@debsy101games]

When you’re sent back in time but you don’t know what year it is so you just do this

[@mm_ww_2]

happens to me all the time

[@bilalthefighter829]

#relatable

[@thementhologist5348]

and start saying sex a lot when saying the word six lol

[@FreddieHg37]

* Huey Lewis and the News starts paling in the background *

[@EdKolis]

This is literally how those dialup modem tones worked. That's why the faster ones took longer to connect because they had to check if the other side supported more and more increasingly faster speeds!

[@samovarmaker9673]

Modern English: Six Old English: Six but with medieval tone Proto-Indo-European: "Sex lol"

[@redwaldcuthberting7195]

Old English six 'siex.'

[@adoust3921]

Its actually shesh

[@aryachris1908]

In swedish Its Sex literally

[@johnnorthtribe]

Yes we still use the old for 6. Sex. But this word have also the same meaning as English sex.

[@novvain495]

In proto Indo European it's more like /ˈsecs/ not /'seks/

[@otwchu5999]

BRUH, WHY IS MY FURNITURE LEVITATING

[@jk-gb4et]

Lmao

[@ErickTosar]

@@jk-gb4et LFMAO!!!!

[@tammcd]

PIE > Pre-Germanic > Early Proto-Germanic > Mid Proto-Germanic > Late Proto-Germanic > West Germanic > Archaic Old English > Old English > Late Old English > Middle English > Late Middle English > Early Modern English > Modern

[@ABAlphaBeta]

Yes?

[@radziwill7193]

Proto-Slavic > Proto-Germanic

[@anthemsofeurope2408]

@@radziwill7193 No, Germanic have nothing to do with slavic

[@NRooster]

@@anthemsofeurope2408 true

[@Dracopol]

It sounds like at one stage English was invaded by Norse sounds, is that possible? One form of "four" is fø:wor .

[@TheKeksadler]

I love how with four, people just slowly realized that it was *way* too complicated to say for what it was worth.

[@dantonalmeida711]

The funny thing is that in portuguese we say "quatro" wich sounds very similiar to "kwetwor".

[@EugeneAyindolmah]

@@dantonalmeida711 and Spanish "cuatro"

[@fabiolagiorgio839]

Well the First form sounds a lot like "quattro", in italian.

[@midge_gender_solek3314]

in Russian it's "chetire", which is even harder than PIE

[@GotPotatoes24]

French was like "okay, 'quatre' is only worth one syllable, but we're gonna leave a really difficult consonant cluster at the end just to be assholes."

[@tiberiusG]

1:56 Now you're talkin' my language :)

[@ABAlphaBeta]

RIP you and Gaius

[@ABAlphaBeta]

RIP you and Gaius

[@ABAlphaBeta]

Semper recordavimus

[@heraldtyr6198]

@@ABAlphaBeta Quid est recordavimus, lol?

[@heraldtyr6198]

Salve, Tiberi, mi frater! Longos vitae annos tibi!

[@slamwall9057]

We did it! We time travelled! But to what year? Let me ask that guy over there "How many fingers am I holding up?" "Seks" We are in 4000BCE

[@huseynhasanov8162]

Slam Wall LOL

[@chyngyzkudaiarov4423]

you'd have to say "houf mainf fiëng:erz aim Ï gholdîn ub" though

[@MrAwawe]

Could also be modern day Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, German or a myriad of other languages.

[@slamwall9057]

@@MrAwawe the fact that a word can just not change over 6000 years is amazing

[@sabikikasuko6636]

How many fingers am I holding up? Sehs Yeah that wasn't helpful

[@WhoElseButZane]

Someone better make a techno remix of this

[@mae1203]

you read my mind.

[@ArtyCraftZ]

Fascinating how much 'closer' the various Slavic dialects sound to PIE than do Germanic dialects such as English and German.

[@rikospostmodernlife]

Well, that's because they were 'more primitive' or 'less inventive' language wise

[@midgetponey7121]

Macedonicus The romance languages do even more

[@NiePieerdol]

@@rikospostmodernlife Not really about being inventive or not. English vocabulary, unlike slavic languages, is heavy influenced by Latin

[@aze8710]

@@NiePieerdol russian language is more havier influenced by both latins and german languages. I say that as a russian speaker.

[@levilima9925]

I had the same feeling. But I'm a speaker of Portuguese.. The proto indo European reminded me of the words that we use for numbers here. We're all connected in the end.

[@baguette7851]

Why is ur voice so shaky lol

[@ABAlphaBeta]

I have crippling depression

[@baguette7851]

@@ABAlphaBeta Same

[@TheRealFlenuan]

@AB sómHos h₁ésmi

[@nepamirskuzkameskovojomeli2396]

He had a vibrator stuck inside his throat as he said the numbers.

[@servantofaeie1569]

AB do u really have crippling depression or are you doing that old meme

[@miketacos9034]

I love how 3 was three twice.

[@ahmadtarek7763]

Do you know what letter is in your thumbnail ?

[@jameshender3162]

@@ahmadtarek7763 Ofcourse he knows

[@h-hhh]

@@ahmadtarek7763 n

[@samuelhedengynna5181]

I believe he is saying the numbers in various stages of language between PIE and modern English. In some of these stages the pronounciation of particular numbers were unchanged. So three were the same in middle English, early modern English and modern English, or something like that.

[@slamwall9057]

It was "three" and then did a whole loop only to end up right back where it started

[@agodawg]

That video was such an experience. I think it would be very interesting to hear that evolution with other numbers or words.

[@ABAlphaBeta]

I'll make sure to do some more like it!!

[@musicaremcasa7628]

Maybe on words like Father Mother etc, Love , Day. They all sound similar nowadays, would like a historical comparison like this

[@DeutscheDemokratischeRepublik]

As a German, this shows all of the sudden how germanic the English language is

[@daanwillemsen223]

I speak Dutch, it's basicly English and German combined

[@DeutscheDemokratischeRepublik]

@SpangeBab this is actually a false fact, English has influences of french in it as it was previously Anglo-Saxon which was basically fully germanic, it was only in the 11th-12th century where french influence came in due to there being a war, which england lost around that time, after the war, nobles, merchants, etc from normandy came and english developed

[@daanwillemsen223]

@@DeutscheDemokratischeRepublik All languages have influences from other countries. The Dutch language for example has lot's of French vocabulary because of Napoleon. I think Luxembourgisch and Flemmish Dutch have more French influence than English. Grammarly English is realy a Germanic language. Thinking English is a distinct language is more a British-exceptional thing

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

The Oeuf - “all of the sudden”?

[@redwaldcuthberting7195]

Germanic languages developed in southern Scandinavia. Being Germanic doesn't always correlate with being German ie Deutsche.

[@scubaremastered]

For some reason, this is actually really beautiful.

[@thebeastincarnate5736]

Sanskrit 1. One एकम् (ekam) 2. Two द्वे (dve) 3.Three त्रीणि (treeni) 4. Four चत्वारि (chatvaari) 5. Five पञ्च (pancha) 6. Six षट् (shat) 7. Seven सप्त (sapta) 8. Eight अष्ट (ashta) 9. Nine नव (nava) 10. Ten दश (dasha)

[@samuelmoore668]

shat

[@thebeastincarnate5736]

@@samuelmoore668 And the Latin for six is ... SEX 6 really is the coolest number

[@Dakappon]

Sabta is sabaa in Arabic

[@spahbed7150]

Really close to Persian, almost identical to the old Avestan!

[@thebeastincarnate5736]

@@spahbed7150 What are the numbers in old Avestan? I'm interested

[@thematrix1101]

Crush: Hey you need something from me? Me: 1:56

[@palhairthegreat7643]

1:56

[@gabobei1991]

*sehs*

[@emilyforrester]

In Icelandic: Einn Tveir Þrír Fjórir Fimm Sex Sjö

[@martaleszkiewicz5115]

What's "sex" then in Icelandic?

[@haiironosora9714]

@@martaleszkiewicz5115 Six

[@rodrigoadrianrodriguezaedo4477]

@@haiironosora9714 WTF

[@sannawiklund7298]

Kynlíf

[@dennisrheinhard5175]

In Old English An Twa Þreo Feower Fif Seox Seofon

[@TNCo230]

Lithuanian: Vienas Du Trys Keturi Penki Šeši (š = sh) Septyni First forms sounds very lithuanian...

[@lewisham]

** Apparently it’s the closest language to PIE

[@nitinkini3176]

** It must be so amazing to speak a language that preserves so much of the common link that unites all Indo-European Languages!

[@Optimistas777]

N K Lithuanian here. Only if you do know it and appreciate it ;D most of the people don't really know/care

[@crazypsychovirgoman6990]

@Islamist Reactionary إرتجاج الإسلامي thank lord we don't tho

[@mrmoth26]

Polish: Jeden Dwa Trzy Cztery Pięć Sześć Siedem Osiem Dziewięć Dziesięć

[@samuelwheeler9678]

A fair few English accents that still make "four" two syllables.

[@marlonmontelhiggins8570]

And, let's not forget NATO phonetics; "four" is "fower".

[@samuelwheeler9678]

@aattitude Lancashire for one. "Foower"

[@leod-sigefast]

@@samuelwheeler9678 My parents have traditional Lancashire accents and still pronounce it like that: foower.

[@gnarzikans]

​@aattitude also various southern united states accents maintain a sort of "two-syllable" pronunciation, as in "foh-wur" this is actually fairly consistent with a lot of words that we write in english as apparent diphthongs but then pronounce as monophthongs (eg heaven, bread, loose, etc) in other words, at one time people pronounced the word as "foh-uhr," or "hey-ah-ven," so that's why we write it that way (or better yet, the people who were writing the words down pronounced them that way). and although the majority of english speakers "simplify" the vowel sound today, there are many places (generally more rural or isolated) that pronounce them "the old way"

[@middler5]

@@marlonmontelhiggins8570 Oddly the working class Dublin accent pronounces 4 like that too.

[@ilvibos3512]

Russian 1 Odin 2 Dwa 3 Tri 4 Chetiri 5 Piat 6 Shest 7 Sem

[@hudey1807]

vosem devet desit

[@konq9779]

Polish Jeden Dwa Trzy Cztery Pięć Sześć Siedem

[@NotOrdinaryInGames]

Soviet Union was a Russian empire in everything but name, with Russian as standard language for everyone. Don't rewrite history when you know you're lying.

[@jan_kisan]

@Iron Crusher you know nothing about the USSR or soviet system overall. stop spreading bullshit. never before and never after would Russian culture grow on the same scale as in the Soviet time.

[@l5475]

@Iron Crusher correct!!! Aryans were Slavs. It's a unrecognized fact!

[@pablolostum]

In Spanish: Uno Dos Tres Cuatro Rumba sí, ella quiere su rumba, ¿Cómo?

[@carpii0576]

Que cantas?

[@BabySonicGT]

Wa

[@dermmerd2644]

Arabic: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

[@kinhamid9665]

!!!!????

[@alexia3673]

Good one

[@al_fletcher]

*Hindu

[@wallacebell9719]

@@kinhamid9665 The number symbols that we use in most languages are from Arabian scholars.

[@Larrypint]

Wrong it's indian ( hindu) and the numbers we use today in the digital world look like the numbers from Albrecht dürrer .

[@abrahemsamander3967]

I learned about indo European languages today and this was recommended. Seeing each become English was very satisfying.

[@rtam7097]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6WydqB-h5aZhdk Evolution of Hindi numbers from P.I.E

[@JelqSmith]

It’s mind blowing hose close they are to the modern words. There really wasn’t that much of a change to many of these. It’s awesome that our language is still very reminiscent of proto indo european. Beautiful.

[@Burn_Angel]

75% of the comments: Lol why you sound funny 25%: Uno Dos Tres Cuatro Cinco Seis Siete

[@haiironosora9714]

Owchow Nuayvay Days

[@h-hhh]

ek twe tre feer fef sex lol (lenny) 7

[@haiironosora9714]

@Yoel Armas Macías My comment was a joke on some of the oblivious pronunciations anglophones are prone to making in Spanish, and in Portuguese as well (my native language).

[@haiironosora9714]

Also don't you guys dare whooshing him, referencing that sub on KZbin comments is one of the lamest things one can do you homunculi.

[@Burn_Angel]

@@haiironosora9714 r/amitheasshole

[@novideoshereable]

In my two native languages: Persian: 1. Yek 2. Do 3. Se 4. Chahâr 5. Panj 6. Shesh 7. Haft Danish: 1. En 2. To 3. Tre 4. Fire 5. Fem 6. Seks 7. Syv

[@djmuscovy7525]

Danish 5 & 6 seem to be messed up

[@novideoshereable]

@@djmuscovy7525 oh yeah, fucked those up. idk how that happened. i skipped five lol, i'll just edit them

[@GotPotatoes24]

French: 1. un 2. deux ("deuh") 3. trois ("tghwa") 4. quatre ("catgh") 5. cinq ("sank") 6. six ("seece") 7. sept ("set") Irish: 1. aon ("pain" minus the "p") 2. dó ("dough") 3. trí ("tree") 4. ceathair ("KYAH-her") 5. cúig ("COO-ig") 6. sé ("shay") 7. seacht ("shocked") (Pronunciation included because God knows both of these languages have the worst spelling systems)

[@djmuscovy7525]

@@GotPotatoes24 interesting Irish 4 similar to French 4 and different from English 4. I know English is Germanic, not sure about Irish.

[@swapnilsonawane9874]

In my native language Marathi, 1. Ek 2. Don 3.Teen 4. Chhar 5. Pach 6. Saha 7. Saat

[@OjvavojAnebWTFOMGLOL]

In Czech: jedna dva tři čtyři pět šest sedm

[@danielrucker8837]

These get oddly close to Welsh rather quickly: Un (in), dau (die), Tri (tree), Pedwar (as written), pump (pimp), chwech (kwek), and saith (scythe).

[@andreipop5805]

Your 6 is very similar to the Romanian 5 "cinci". The "ci" sound is pronounced as the English "chi" so you reas it as "chinchi"

[@danielrucker8837]

MC King so sorry, it’s actually pronounced kwek but the ch is a guttural sound you make with your throat- like the proper pronunciation for “loch”

[@gijsvandergiessen1150]

It’s so interesting that near the middle iterations of each number it sounds very close to Dutch! Before eventually becoming more English sounding. But it seems at some point English or pre-English sounded more like Dutch. Super interesting!

[@marcot3868]

Well the English moved from Germany sooo

[@clintonreisig]

German, too

[@MonsieurChapeau]

That’s because Old English resembles Dutch and German much more than modern English (although Frisian then Dutch are English’s closest cousins)

[@alexcoon6876]

Puberty hit four like a bus

[@Sockem1223]

I love this! I'd like to hear this in other languages. I imagine Celtic langs would be quite interesting

[@ABAlphaBeta]

Depends, the evolution has fewer steps, like dwoi > dwāw > dwau > dwô > dau.

[@hiccacarryer3624]

@@ABAlphaBeta interesting to see ketuar > peduar pymp> funf etc

[@DogsShallWorshipMe]

the numbers are very similar to welsh

[@MacRiocaird]

Irish: Aon, Dó, Trí, Ceathair, Cúig, Sé, Seacht

[@MandolinRich]

@@MacRiocaird grma

[@robertlozyniak3661]

This sounds like it could be the auditory equivalent of a "loading" or "progress" animation.

[@kentix417]

I was happy when it ended.

[@astra5128]

In french - un (nasalized [ɛ] now, nasalized [œ] before) - deux [dø] - trois [tʁwa] - quatre [katʁ] - cinq [sεk] with nazalized ε - six [sis] - sept [sεt]

[@rodrigoadrianrodriguezaedo4477]

In Spanish - Uno - Dos - Tres - Cuatro - Cinco - Seis - Siete

[@astra5128]

Doffy Rob Yes you’re right

[@davifonseca.a.m7442]

Português Um(nasalised U) Dois(dojs) Três(Trejs) Quatro(Kwatru) Cinco(Sinku)nasalised i Seis(Sejs) Sete(S3chi)open e This is the phonology of the numbers

[@salomez-finnegan7952]

What you mean to say is “modern standard Parisian” - not “French”

[@andreafiori3244]

Italian: Uno Due Tre Quattro Cinque Sei Sette

[@davifonseca.a.m7442]

Em português Um Dois Três Quatro Cinco Seis Sete

[@RaisonDetre96]

It’s easy to see how the Balto-Slavic, especially Lithuanian, retained more of the original Proto Indo European foundation. Lithuanian 1-7: Vienas Du/Dvi Trys Keturi Penki Šeši Septyni

[@andriibondar4029]

The closest one to PIE, in my opinion ))

[@RaisonDetre96]

@@andriibondar4029 Indeed. That's what linguists say too.

[@rtam7097]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6WydqB-h5aZhdk Evolution of Hindi numbers from P.I.E

[@davidgibbs881]

Welsh numbers ('u' is pronounced 'i', 'ch' is similar to 'j' in Spain, 'wy' is pronounced 'oi'): 1 - un 2 - dau 3 - tri 4 - pedwar 5 - pump 6 - chwech 7 - saith 8 - wyth 9 - naw 10 - deg

[@wellesmorgado4797]

Maybe it is a coincidence, or not, but these countries carry some of the largest yamnaya (probably the original PIE speakers) ancestry also.

[@jesusvermillionthemereoleo5660]

0:48 when the cop sees you stealing

[@QteaTheSwag]

I love these videos so much!!! Super interesting. Maybe you could label what stages of language they’re in?

[@mat2468xk]

Can we get more videos like this? I really like the concept.

[@emokiller907]

Hi to all fellow Indo-Europeans, we should start treating each other better and remember our ancestors for the language they gave us, peace to all of you my bréhtērs ( < PIE for Brothers) :)

[@Coregame3]

That will never happen because White people are selfish.

[@nosecamos1392]

Primitive or ancient humans probably had a relation with sounds that we'll never fully understand. They were probably trying to mimic sounds of nature and trying to speak musically in a very intense way. O.K.. I know this is obvious.

[@ABAlphaBeta]

This is the onomatopeic theory of historical and comparative linguistics!

[@pentelegomenon1175]

I bet they didn't.

[@greatwolf5372]

Hindi: Ek Do Theen Char Paanch Che Saat Aaht No Das

[@Pao234_]

The roots are pretty noticeable, it looks similar to Spanish haha

[@AlexMilenk]

At least 70% of numbers are more-less similar in Serbian.

[@cataclysmal5315]

European numbers are similar to Indian numbers, because Europeans borrowed it from Indians, search Hindu-Arabic Number system. Indians were first to create the number writing system...

[@ottovon5182]

@@cataclysmal5315 Yes, its right but this is true for the written numerals. The way these numbers are pronounced is due to Hindi being an Indo-European language.

[@cataclysmal5315]

@Otto Von nope Europeans did not have any numbers system before Hindu-Arabic they did not use numbers before Indian number integration, all the numbers in writing system are taken from the Indians.

[@miglius1992]

In Lithuanian 1. Vienas/Viena 2. Du/Duh/Dua 3. Tris/thris 4. Keturi/ketri 5. Penki/penke 6. Sesi/sheshi 7. Septini/Septin Impressive on how much simular to what Early stage of English was.

[@Moishe555]

Oh I love this song!

[@dontask7657]

In my language One Two Three Four Five Six Seven

[@rodrigoadrianrodriguezaedo4477]

Hahahahahahaha xdxdxdxd

[@kyspace1024]

Wait that looks familiar. What language is that?

[@AlexMilenk]

This looks like American, or even Australian. 😁

[@arielbemeliahu8619]

@@AlexMilenk canada uses it too i think

[@kyspace1024]

@@rodrigoadrianrodriguezaedo4477 Oh, no wonder. I'm not a proficient speaker.

[@colangelog09]

4 had a solid beat going

[@Gray13475]

Gaeilge(Irish): a Náid - [n̪ˠaadʲ] - Zero. a Aon - [een̪ˠ] - One. a Dó - [d̪ˠoo] - Two. a Trí - [t̪ˠɾʲɪ] - Three. a Ceathair - [cahəɾʲ] - Four. a Cúig - [kuuɟ] - Five. a Sé - [ʃee] - Six. a Seacht - [ʃaxt̪ˠ] - Seven. If one wants to go further: a Ocht - [ɔaxt̪ˠ] - 8 a Naoi - [ˈn̪ˠii] - 9 a Deich - [dʲɛç] - 10 a Aon déag - 1&10(11) a Dó dhéag - 2&10(12) a Trí déag - 3&10(13) a Ceathair déag - 4&10(14). a Cúig déag - 5&10(15). a Sé déag - 6&10(16). a Seacht déag - 7&10(17). a Ocht déag - 8&10(18). a Naoi déag - 9&10(19). a Fiche - 20.

[@rodrigoadrianrodriguezaedo4477]

OMG

[@niccolopaganini1782]

Love how it starts ok, reaches a climax with weird intensity and then comes down as latin approaches, and then English

[@lithuanian_mapper]

These numbers in Baltic languages: Prussian (A Baltic language, don't confuse it with Preussen): Aīns Dwāi Trīs Ketturjai Pēnkjai Ussjai Septinnjai Lithuanian: Vienas Du Trys Keturi Penki Šeši Septyni Latvian: Viens Divi Trīs Četri Pieci Seši Septiņi Surprisingly similar to PIE, to be honest

[@m4rx3l84]

in polish: 1 jeden 2 dwa 3 trzy 4 cztery 5 pięć 6 sześć 7 siedem

[@freezyboy1023]

In Serbian🇷🇸 1 Jedan 2 Dva 3 Tri 4 Četeri 5 Pet 6 Šest 7 Sedam

[@Alice-gr1kb]

I find it funny that you kept a pitch accent all the way until modern English

[@RashFeuer26]

He's all excited and trembling... and then pure boredom

[@Alice-gr1kb]

RashFever yeah.

[@MultiSciGeek]

He got so tired he had to stop at 7.

[@bensomethingetc]

I like that we basically had already developed the word three, then said "we can do better", and tried everything else under the sun before just going back to what we started with.

[@vladtimofte6511]

2:01 ............THE NUMBER OF THE BEAAAAST! \m/

[@weirdkidfromspace]

A man of culture I see

[@adammessina6182]

Very interesting video the evolution of languages are awesome

[@almor2445]

I'm in awe of how this shows how similar "four" is to "Pedwar" the welsh for four.

[@mistyminnie5922]

It's so interesting to see other languages in the earlier versions

[@nitinkini3176]

In Konkani (an Indo-Aryan Language derives from Sanskrit): eka (“ay-kuh”) doonee (“doh-nee”, dental d) theenee (dental th) chaari pancha (“paanch-uh”) sa (“suh”) saath (“saath-uh”) aath (“aaTH-uh”, cerebral aspirated t) nowva (“now-vuh”) dhaa (“DHaa”, dental aspirated d) Most Indian-Aryan Languages have numbers from 1-10 that are *almost* mutually understandable.

[@tideghost]

Yeah, I speak Hindi and they are intelligible. But I notice Konkani doesn’t have schwa deletion and keep the sound at the end of the consonants.

[@annalisette5897]

Great video!

[@Nobody-zn3yv]

1:15 sounds like a beat

[@Nobody-zn3yv]

@Luke Whitehawk no u

[@Sandra.Molchanova]

Such a meditative recording to listen to

[@nightvisiongoggles]

This has always gotten me curious. Filipino/Tagalog, along with other Philippine languages, are Austronesian languages, however there seem to be very noticeable similarities with Indo-European numerals. 1=Isa/una (Greek prefix 'iso'; 'una' means 'first' and is not from the Spanish for the number one) 2=dalawa/duwa 3=tatlo/tulo 4=apat/upat 5=lima/luma 6=anim/unum (six seems to have been derived from somewhere else) 7=pito/pitu

[@moymoythehappymonkey3155]

@@artworks7510 the numbers 2 and 3 are almost universally cognate.

[@IAmFrankieA]

The best sing along ever!

[@senantiasa]

Lullaby..

[@julesgosnell9791]

A very nice illustration of sound change over time - granular enough that each step can be understood in isolation whilst allowing appreciation of the entirety of the change - like an audio in-betweening of e.g. a picture of a fish->amphibian->reptile->mammal.... -more vocab / PIE descendents please.

[@bruceburns332]

Nice, thank you for the content.

[@bradjones2329]

The four is really interesting. 4 in Welsh is Pedwar. Very close.

[@serhataslan2528]

Kurdish: 1 Yek 2 Do 3 Se 4 Char 5 Penc 6 Shesht 7 Heft 8 Hesht 9 Neh 10 Deh Strong similarities

[@traiancoza5214]

Not "strong" but non-negligible

[@Vil9876]

Lithuanian 1 vienas, 2 du, 3 trys, 4 keturi , 5 penki, 6 šeši (shashy) 10 dešimt (dashimt) Kurdish lives in the homeland of indoeuropean

[@traiancoza5214]

@Mø Nälayé I don't know.

[@bltbabak]

Persian Yek Do Se Chahar Panj Shesh Haft Hasht Noh Dah

[@hexkobold9814]

With this you can see the link between the Indian and the European sides of the Indo-European family. Kurdish "penc" resembles with Hindi "paanch" and Greek "pente" (still found in English words like "pentagon" and "pentagram").

[@jan_kisan]

we need more lineages like this!

[@Judesmood118]

Can we get one of these but show the exact same progression, with your amazing pronunciation - in EVERY (or at least a nice handful) of Indo-European modern languages. I'd love to ear the way these words diverged by region. step by step. anyway, awesome content!

[@patsinclair6208]

thanks for this!

[@philmstud2k]

Like an ancient game of Telephone.

[@Zack-xz1ph]

1:05 interesting how 'kwetwor' became four in english, and Spanish they kept the beginning sound of the word, /kwa-trro/

[@mandieh4204]

I wish I could upvote this a million times.

[@herodotus1601]

punjabi one - ek two - do three - tin four - chaar five - panj six - shea seven - satt eight -atth nine - non ten - dus

[@hexkobold9814]

What do you think about the theory that Indo-Europeans originally used a base-8 numeral system? The words for "nine" and "new" are very similar.

[@touieg1211]

1:56 call me childish, but I giggled

[@nanov.5493]

Whoever was reading that... wow just spellbound... that pronunciation and intonation. 🙇🏽‍♀️

[@rain51dbb]

Wow it's amazing how the first four is kwetuor and in Portuguese the word is quatro and Spanish cuatro, they probably have the same origin

[@raduleu293]

Yep, they do have the same origin...

[@marcot3868]

The Portuguese and Spanish are even closer than to other PIE because they are Latin. In Italian you say Quattro and in French is Quatre

[@rodrigoadrianrodriguezaedo4477]

Numbers to 1 to 7 in Spanish 1 Uno 2 Dos 3 Tres 4 Cuatro 5 Cinco 6 Seis 7 Siete

[@mdlunasofficial7478]

Great work 💐💕💕💝 thank you very much!

[@bravechicken1]

I'm at number 4 and it's so interesting how similar it sounds to the Welsh word (Pedwar)

[@finnsalsa9304]

Finnish: 1 - yksi 2 - kaksi 3 - kolme 4 - neljä 5 - viisi 6 - kuusi 7 - seitsemän Oops, wrong language family

[@rodrigoadrianrodriguezaedo4477]

Exactly, Finnish is not an Indoeuropean language

[@luissuarez5153]

Sounds like a Korpiklaani song

[@viniciustavares3369]

Portuguese: Um Dois Três Quatro Cinco Seis Sete

[@jcavs9847]

BRASIL PORRA/PORTUGAL CARALHO

[@rupestreviajante6664]

bem q tava estranhando n achar outro br nessa parte do KZbin kkk

[@Flitalidapouet]

WOW WOW WOW amazing work ♥

[@mark_a_schaefer]

I love the part where Grimm's law suddenly kicks in and all those p's become f's, the k's become h's, and the t's become th's.

[@thematrix1101]

In bengali: Ek Dui Teen Chaar Paach Chhoy Shaath Aat Noy Dosh

[@matejgregoric4400]

In Slovene: Ena Dva Tri Štiri (sh-teh-ree) Pet Šest (shest) Sedem

[@saia24]

What are these new symbols/letter presented here and how can I learn to pronounce ir? I tried looking but can not find it by my means

[@lucawits648]

I like seeing how different numbers seem to be Insipirsed from different language groups. Really puts into into perspective just how much of a mashup English really is.

[@redwaldcuthberting7195]

Mash up? What are you talking about... This is the evolution of 1-10 from P. I.E to new English.

[@lucawits648]

@@redwaldcuthberting7195 and I'm saying that English is a mixture of many different languages. This video shows different pre and early English words that have a background that are not English. English is heavily influenced by early German and Danish invaders. Later then by Norman's in 1066, which spoke French. This video highlights how English as a language has many influences of many other languages. That is simplified by saying "English as a language, is a mash of other languages".

[@redwaldcuthberting7195]

@@lucawits648 You totally misunderstand this video it's the evolution of P.I.E to through Proto-Germanic, Englisc' old English' to new English. English is a West Germanic called thus because the Angles a West Germanic tribe. There are no loan words in this video...

[@c.i.a8359]

@@lucawits648the English numbers are 100% germanic no loan word here

[@SagucuTegin]

"Oynoz" to " a'n " is my favourite.

[@partizanlegis]

Greek: Éna Dhío Tría Téssera Pénte Héxi Heptá Hoktó Ennéa Dhéka

[@wordart_guian]

Dh for delta?

[@minskghoul]

@@wordart_guian in modern Greek all Ancient Greek voiced stops (beta, delta, gamma) are fricative (vita, dhelta, ghamma) since Byzantine time.

[@wordart_guian]

@@minskghoul yes but I was confused by your translitteration since you write 5 as pente (instead of pende) thus delta is written as dh but simple d is not used

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

βωρδάρτ - Your observation is correct.

[@andynixon2820]

Phonetically this sounds similar to Latin languages which is interesting . Probably because they are so geographically close in origin .

[@gammamaster1894]

Fascinating

[@pedrojuan8050]

When you try to pronounce four but accidentally summoned the great old one

[@SirWalrusBananas]

Why are 8 through 10 not included? Are the origins, or maybe the evolution from PIE to English, not as clear?

[@Burn_Angel]

8 to 10 weren't discovered yet.

[@Sawrattan]

What's weird is totally non-Indo-European languages of Indonesia or Philippines have vague similarities : 2 dua (d-w) 3 telu (t-r/l) 7 witu (w/p-t). Yet the other numbers are nothing like PIE. Curious how these evolved.

[@ClydeDatastruct]

Interesting. The Cebuano language even has: 2 - duha 3 - tulo 7 - pito

[@topg2820]

It's because of Indian/Hindu influence in that region, 2 and 3 are very important numbers used in Hinduism

[@topg2820]

Not only numbers, Indonesia still has alot of influence from Hinduism like the name Indonesia itself (Indos-India, Nesos-Islands or Indian Islands), your emblem Garuda, your national ideology Panchashila, your language bahasa Indonesia from the Sanskrit word bhasha or bhaas which means language, etc.

[@unfetteredparacosmian]

Most of it is probably a coincidence, however many of the worlds unrelated languages seem to have a d-sound in their number 2...

[@ronin47-ThorstenFrank]

The really interesting thing I noticed is that I use in at least two cases (2 and 4) the PIE pronoinciation in my local dialect :-O

[@Themuslimtheist]

This was oddly therapeutic.