The Sound of Ancient Languages. You Haven't Seen Anything Like This Before!

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Immerse yourself in the mesmerizing world of ancient languages with our captivating video. Experience the enchanting sounds of bygone civilizations as realistic characters bring them to life. Journey through time as you listen to the melodic tones of forgotten tongues, each carefully researched and expertly voiced. From the mysterious cadence of Egyptian hieroglyphics to the lyrical beauty of Latin, let the echoes of the past transport you to a realm of linguistic wonder. Discover the linguistic heritage of our ancestors and witness the power of language in preserving the legacy of ancient civilizations. Prepare to be captivated as history's forgotten voices resound once more.

[@LongLiveTheBeat]

As an English speaker, hearing the Old English makes me feel like the foreigner trying to learn modern English for the first time

[@thekamotodragon]

that's the one thing i remember from my English class, when they covered Shakespeare and previous literary works from before him. They said old English would be less and less intelligible to us modern speakers the farther you go back because of how it evolved over the hundreds of years. So shakespeare plays in their original dialect, mostly make sense to us, (and made WAY more sense script-wise in their original language) but further back, they'd really get hard to understand until you get to this old English, where you can only understand every like 20th word.

[@ibtiamat]

I didn't realize that there were so many rolling "R"s in Old English.

[@invisibl367]

Modern english is not anything hard to learn, probably the most simple language world wide, perhapse that's the reason it's used world wide.

[@meowcat5596]

@@invisibl367 it's not easy at all. the reason it's used worldwide is because white people rule the planet and hence we're all forced to live by their ideals

[@AuditorMadness]

Sounds german

[@thesjkexperience]

Now you know what your pet feels like when you talk to them.

[@JClover2]

😂

[@agc1161]

😅😅😂😂😂😂

[@FrozenMermaid666]

Norse / Germanic languages are the most refined languages ever with the prettiest and most poetic words, but these audio samples aren’t accurate at all, and the pronunciation isn’t right and isn’t clear, but I have the right Norse pronunciation rules - also, Proto European is not an Indo language, and it is a one hundred percent European language and it is also the first language ever created that was created by a dude of germanic origin from scratch a long time ago 2gether with the first writing system, which inspired all other languages and writing systems that exist today, either directly or indirectly, but mostly indirectly, as newer languages were created by modifying previous languages and by creating many new words based on the new spelling rules that their creators had set, so it’s also logically incorrect to have sentences implying that ‘languages split into other languages on their own’ which is totally untrue and not logically possible, as it’s a fact that each language was created by a dude and then taught to a group of ppl that he controlled, and languages didn’t change on their own, they were changed by their creators, but the previous languages are still there, so it’s not like they never existed, and, by the way, Proto Germanic and Norse come from Latin, so they have many similarities, but still, Norse languages are way more refined, they are as refined and as elegant as Modern English, though Latin is also a refined language, which is why it directly inspired most newer European languages the most, as Latin was the biggest language during those times, but anyways, it is also incorrect to refer to Latin languages as romance, since they aren’t romantic, and the truly romantic languages are the Germanic and the Celtic languages, with Icelandic being the most romantic language ever with the breathiest pronunciation, and, the Italic languages are Italian and the other Italian-based languages that haven’t been recognized as a language yet, and Latin most likely came from Ancient Greek or some other ancient Greek-based language!

[@FrozenMermaid666]

I am close to advanced level in Norse and advanced level in Icelandic and Norwegian, and I have the right Norse pronunciation, which is the most logical - by the way, I’ll use DH for the eth sound ð which is the TH sound in the English words this / the / that etc which is the approximant of D and not the approximant of T like the TH in the English words think / thing / thorn etc that represents the thorn letter þ and the thorn sound, and I will use AO for the ‘closed’ A sound that is like an A and O sound said 2gether in one sound (similar to the A sound in Hungarian) that kinda melts into a soft O sound! For example... - hvat sounds like hvat or vat or kvat - mæra sounds like mera - ávast sounds like avast - nágrindr sounds like naogrind:r - líkligr sounds like liklig:r or likliguhr - frænda sounds like freinda or freoynda or frenda - þat sounds like that - ræðir sounds like reidhir - hárr sounds like haruhr or har:r (could have also been har / harr) - gæfr sounds like gev:r or gevuhr - hverfa sounds like hverva or verva or kverva (any of them or all 3 could’ve been used) Also... - hæll sounds like heyl - saltr sounds like solt:r - mæla sounds like mala - drápa sounds like drapa or dropa - kæra sounds like kaera or kaira - ferr sounds like fer:r - jafna sounds like yavna - hœgri sounds like heoyri - girðing sounds like girdhing - hádegi sounds like haodegi - ørendislaust sounds like eorendislaust The word... - verr sounds like ver - ekki sounds like eki or ehki - þverra sounds like thverra - gegna sounds like gekna - vefja sounds like vevya - yfir sounds like ɪvɪr as in Icelandic - ætla sounds like etla - ofn sounds like ovn - náliga sounds like naoliga - sauma could have been pronounced either saima or seoyma like in Icelandic or both or even sauma as it is written - ofleti sounds like ofleti EY and EI are pronounced the way they are spellt, that is, normal e sound and normal i sound, like the ei in the English word eight, and, the letter J is pronounced like a normal i / y sound as in the English word yet... The emphasis of stress in Norse languages such as Norse and Icelandic etc is always at the beginning of the word - for compound words made of multiple smaller words, one should add a bit of stress at the beginning of each word that the compound word is made of and the most stress always at the beginning of the compound word... I don’t think there was any fixed way of pronouncing the diphthongs, and it’s most likely that the pronunciation of diphthongs such as AU would differ depending on the word, including pronunciations such as ai / au / ao / eoy / oy / ey etc, and it may have also differed depending on the region and accent, and the Æ / æ and æ̨ (and the ones with the accent) in Norse can have many pronunciations, depending on the word, so it can sound like e / ei / a / eoy / oey / uey / ai / ea / ae etc, depending on what sound sounds best and the most natural and easiest to say in each word, so one should use one’s intuition a lot in Norse, but in many Norse words such as ætla and stærri the æ is pronounced like an e sound, but anyways, for the diphthong AU I recommend an ai pronunciation in many words such as auga (aiga) and sauma (saima) etc, and an au or ao pronunciation when at the end of the word, for example, in adjectives that end in lauss... Ð and Þ are the eth and the thorn sounds - the eth letter ð is a type of d sound that’s less obvious like the th in the English word then and like the d in the Spanish word nada, while the thorn letter þ is a type of t sound that’s less obvious like the th in the English word thinking... Ø and Œ and Ö are pronounced eo and this is a normal e sound and a normal o sound said together in one sound, and the ǿ sounds kind of the same, and, it is the same sound as the o in Norwegian and Faroese and the œ in the French word cœur and the ö in German and Icelandic and Swedish... LL should be pronounced DL or TL like in Icelandic and Faroese in certain situations, for example, when a masculine noun in Norse ends in LL in its nominative form, it’s better to pronounce it like in Icelandic, so that it sounds a bit different from its accusative form which has only one L at the end, and in cases wherein the word would sound better with a TL sound, it should also be pronounced TL - however, most other times it can be pronounced like a normal L sound as it is easier... Now, the Rs are always different depending on the region and depending of the speaker in every language, but in Germanic languages, a soft normal R is usually used by most speakers and by younger speakers, and I highly recommend using a soft normal R aka a tap in Norse and in all other languages that aren’t English as soft Rs have the best and most refined sound, soft Rs that are pronounced as fast as possible being the types of Rs that truly suit such refined languages as Norse and the other Germanic languages, whereas rolled or prolonged or thrilled Rs sound very harsh and unrefined...

[@FrozenMermaid666]

Here are some sentences in the heavenly languages Norse and Icelandic... Ek heiti Freyja ok ek em at læra Norrænu því ek elski (elska) hana! (Norse) Hann ǫrninn vissi ekki hvaðan kemr Sólin... (Norse) Ek veit alt er þú veizt ekki! (Norse) Ég hef talað Ensku síðan þegar ég vas (var) tveggja eða triggja ára! En ég get líka talað Hollensku og Norsku og Spænsku og FornNorrænu! Ég get talað Íslensku reiprennandi og ég em (er) ekki með neina hreim! Ef ég gæti lært annað mál, hvað væri það? Það væri auðvitað Danska! Ég em (er) að hugsa að það er mikilvægt að læra að minnsta kosti eitt erlent tungumál, eða flest fallegu tungumálin! Svo ég valdi Íslensku og ég héld áfram að læra hana... Ég læri það í samhengi... Hvíslaðu að svaninum! En ertu frá hinum hlutanum? Ísland er ekki eitt sjálfstætt land ennþá! Þegar ég segi Ísland, hvað er það fyrsta sem dettur þér í (hug) hugi? Als ik Ijsland zeg, wat is het eerste wat naar boven komt bij jou? (These are some sentences in Icelandic / Norse / Dutch that I tend to revise a lot and analyze in detail - the words in these heavenly languages are just so pretty, they are áddìctive, and so poetic, I definitely wish I had learnt them in childhood, and they are one of the greatest works of art, and I feel this joy inside every time I see the Icelandic flag 🇮🇸 and every time I hear Icelandic, Norse languages being some of the languages that are the most fun to learn and speak and hear and see etc, because they are some of the prettiest languages ever, with gorgeous words and super cool modern sound patterns and sounds and pronunciation rules!) Also, here are some words in Gothic - namo, þein, hunds, þatist, ik, weis, eis, qen, brunna, wairþai, ains...

[@darqv9358]

I've always LOVED the way Latin was spoken. It was so powerful and boistrous, but still very classy and refined sounding.

[@JustAGuySlayingDragons]

Sounds like Italian to me

[@TalmoTheSell]

@@JustAGuySlayingDragonswell, Italian is derived from Latin

[@bobbiebeck5361]

​@@JustAGuySlayingDragonsno way!!

[@acylonepleidian9665]

That is a Patrician speaking late Latinuum Vulgus, not Classical Latin, my friend. If that gentleman was dressed like that, at the very least he had the income of a Lanista, at the most ideal we're looking at a Senator. If Senator, afraid to tell you, they spoke Greek or Classical Roman which is heavily imprinted by ancient greek. Watch some Metatron, I say it as a sincere suggestion because in essence you are right, I agree with your comment, what I cordially disagree with is that you took that modern latin made by an AI and you can hear the itallic lombardic 300 AD accent, not Cicero, not plutarch, not Cato. Matter of fact the owner of this channel used an LM from github that phoneticizes old writings, but couldn't bother credit the LM creator, or provide historical datation. Ancient Mayan? Oh, so you mean nahuatl? Ok, where's the clicks? That is modern, allthese are modern phonetizations of old texts which this dude was more busy putting some Civilization V cartoons with lipsync LM than providing datation, citation, source. I enjoy linguistics, and I know a few languages, but I don't stroke myself about being a polyglot, nor does it raise my brows much when some on YT go all "I'm polyglot", but you want proper latinuum? Coool. "American speaks Latin to Italians in Rome - watch their reaction! 😳 🇮🇹 polýMATHY 3.3M views 2 years ago" , or "Can I Fool Brits With a FAKE British Accent?! Langfocus 210K views 1 month ago" or Ben Llewllynn (Yeah, from the Welsh Llewllynn clan) KZbin channel to learn actual umbro-itallic, umbro-fascia itallian predating latin, merged with ancient greek to give you Classical Latin, which lasted a yawn worth of time, compared to the last Roman administration being tore down, since the other side of the Senate was Popularii who spoke Vulgus, especially after Julius Caesar raised the limit of allowed senators by adding Gauls, Illyrians, et cetera as part of the Popularii party (Populist/Liberal) with the Optimates (Think of MS, Alphabet, IBM, Space X, andgo down forbes top 100 and that's who was in the Optimates party.) Do you seriously consider a Nubian trader selling hunt meat at an Aegyptus merchant would speak umbro-fasci-proto latin? I'd show you the middle finger, but you'd probably think I'm flipping you off, that's the rough estimate of how much historical knowledge you have about Roma Antica.

[@Firecelebi]

​@@acylonepleidian9665Any links where you can hear real ancient Latin?

[@d4wnx]

crazy how probably in the next few centuries people gonna look back at us talking in the same confusion as we are while watching this rn

[@stringercorrales6627]

They’re going to be saying “skibidi toilet cringe Minecraft rizz chabizness? Lgbt pear/pearls rizz lol incel spunchbob ze/zim.”

[@AbelJosueDeJesusMartinezMujica]

​@@stringercorrales6627 Umm YASS kween Skinny-Legend Versace Boots-the-house-down S.L A.Y. kween hunty momma "And I oop-" daddy WORK (Tongue click) Charli XCX Snatch my WIG!

[@user-xq3kq4gy4v]

Say on Rizz?​@@stringercorrales6627

[@xiyi4764]

only if the earth is not destroyed by that time 😂

[@shafiezzahshafie8155]

And they would be surprised on how fast we talk nowadays

[@KyudoKun]

Props to the cameraman travelling all the way back to ancient times just to record the Ancient language for us to hear and be amazed!!

[@emmanuelquerol]

and able to convince them to talk to the camera lens.

[@UchihaFabio]

One day this overused comment will end. My God, what a cheap way to farm likes

[@emmanuelquerol]

@@UchihaFabio and when is that day?

[@koolkay_222]

​@@UchihaFabioI was the 69th like

[@alexanderlouie4397]

And convincing Terence Stamp to go along to play the Roman guy

[@SkieLoon]

This feels like walking through a dimly lit, super immersive museum wing with the speakers playing different languages as you walk passed each decorated display about the language being spoken.

[@weltonvillegal6258]

Exactly!

[@potatheadd]

When I go with my parents my siblings come too

[@kringle7804]

To me it feels like a time traveler when back in time to get interviews

[@TheCombraste]

A museum would never rip apart linguistic cultures and put AI's mumbling gibberish . As a Greek I feel insulted by this video .

[@kringle7804]

@@TheCombraste you speak ancient greek

[@edim108]

As a native Slavic language speaker Old Church Slavonic is like listening to a conversation in your native language through a door where you understand every 4th word. You can ALMOST make out what it's about. It's like hearing Italian when you're Spanish: it sounds so familiar yet so different.

[@user-kj4tw3jh2h]

Я как носитель русского языка понял что в старославянском говорилось что то о пророке (но и ещё встречались знакомые окончания слов)

[@derkonig162]

It sounds like Bulgarian

[@ZackDuck-rm4dt]

Something about those slower languages just hits harder. I cant understand what they say but it feels very important and clear. Slowing down to understand each other properly and to make our points solid

[@steveget1186]

If anything, they talked about God in Church Slavonic.

[@FrozenMermaid666]

Norse / Germanic languages are the most refined languages ever with the prettiest and most poetic words and the most Important languages that all should be learning, but these audio samples aren’t accurate at all, and the pronunciation isn’t right and isn’t clear, but I have the right Norse pronunciation rules - also, Proto European is not an Indo language, and it is a one hundred percent European language and it is also the first language ever created that was created by a dude of germanic origin from scratch a long time ago 2gether with the first writing system, which inspired all other languages and writing systems that exist today, either directly or indirectly, but mostly indirectly, as newer languages were created by modifying previous languages and by creating many new words based on the new spelling rules that their creators had set, so it’s also logically incorrect to have sentences implying that ‘languages split into other languages on their own’ which is totally untrue and not logically possible, as it’s a fact that each language was created by a dude and then taught to a group of ppl that he controlled, and languages didn’t change on their own, they were changed by their creators, but the previous languages are still there, so it’s not like they never existed, and, by the way, Proto Germanic and Norse come from Latin, so they have many similarities, but still, Norse languages are way more refined, they are as refined and as elegant as Modern English, though Latin is also a refined language, which is why it directly inspired most newer European languages the most, as Latin was the biggest language during those times, but anyways, it is also incorrect to refer to Latin languages as romance, since they aren’t romantic, and the truly romantic languages are the Germanic and the Celtic languages, with Icelandic being the most romantic language ever with the breathiest pronunciation, and, the Italic languages are Italian and the other Italian-based languages that haven’t been recognized as a language yet, and Latin most likely came from Ancient Greek or some other ancient Greek-based language!

[@FrozenMermaid666]

I am upper intermediate level in Old Norse and advanced level in Icelandic, and I have the right Norse pronunciation, which is the most logical, and by the way, I will use DH for the TH sound in the English words this and that, which is the approximant of D and not the approximant of T like the TH in the English word think, and I will use AO for the ‘closed’ A sound that is like an A and O sound said 2gether in one sound (similar to the A sound in Hungarian) that melts into a soft O sound! For example... - hvat sounds like hvat or vat or kvat - mæra sounds like mera - ávast sounds like avast - nágrindr sounds like naogrind:r - líkligr sounds like liklig:r or likliguhr - frænda sounds like freinda or freoynda or frenda - þat sounds like that - ræðir sounds like reidhir - hárr sounds like haruhr or har:r (could have also been har / harr) - gæfr sounds like gev:r or gevuhr - hverfa sounds like hverva or verva or kverva (any of them or all 3 could’ve been used) Also... - hæll sounds like heyl - saltr sounds like solt:r - mæla sounds like mala - drápa sounds like drapa or dropa - kæra sounds like kaera or kaira - ferr sounds like fer:r - jafna sounds like yavna - hœgri sounds like heoyri - girðing sounds like girdhing - hádegi sounds like haodegi - ørendislaust sounds like eorendislaust The word... - verr sounds like ver - ekki sounds like eki or ehki - þverra sounds like thverra - gegna sounds like gekna - vefja sounds like vevya - yfir sounds like ɪvɪr as in Icelandic - ætla sounds like etla - ofn sounds like ovn - náliga sounds like naoliga - sauma could have been pronounced either saima or seoyma like in Icelandic or both or even sauma as it is written - ofleti sounds like ofleti The emphasis of stress in Norse languages such as Norse and Icelandic etc is always at the beginning of the word - for compound words made of multiple smaller words, one should add a bit of stress at the beginning of each word that the compound word is made of and the most stress always at the beginning of the compound word... I don’t think there was any fixed way of pronouncing the diphthongs, and it’s most likely that the pronunciation of diphthongs such as AU would differ depending on the word, including pronunciations such as ai / au / ao / eoy / oy / ey etc, and it may have also differed depending on the region and accent, and the Æ in Norse can have many pronunciations, depending on the word, so it can sound like e / ei / a / eoy / oey / uey / ai / ea / ae etc, depending on what sound sounds best and the most natural and easiest to say in each word, so one should use one’s intuition a lot in Norse... The Rs are always different depending on the region and depending of the speaker in every language, but in Germanic languages, a soft normal R is usually used by most speakers and by younger speakers, and I highly recommend using a soft normal R in Norse and in all other languages that aren’t English as soft Rs have the best and most refined sound, soft Rs that are pronounced as fast as possible being the types of Rs that truly suit such refined languages as Norse and the other Germanic languages, whereas hard or prolonged or thrilled Rs sound very harsh and unrefined... By the way, it’s also important to know that in Norse and Icelandic the G is usually pronounced like a K sound, especially at the end of the word, and in many words the G is pronounced K even in the middle of the word, and there are also some words where the G is pronounced as a K even when it is at the beginning of the word, so it is normal to hear a lot of K sounds when there is a G in spelling - for example, lots of speakers of Icelandic will pronounce even the G in góðan (góðan daginn) as a soft K sound, without even realizing, and this pronunciation rule comes from Norse!

[@KTheAlphabetArtist]

​@@FrozenMermaid666 I've seen you before and I have to ask you something. Are you real?

[@_lordtachanka_2314]

@@KTheAlphabetArtist the ultimate yapper

[@AmberCommentsThings]

I won't lie, this sent chills down my spine. It's insane how English ~1000 years ago was basically a completely different language.

[@mateusbertolaccini2224]

Não havia sofrido influência do francês dos normandos. Imagina antes das invasões romanas e antes das invasões bárbaras. Como deveria ser a língua do primeiro povo a atravessar o canal da mancha?

[@FullmetalChuunibyou]

What’s worse is that English also changed in large part due to heavy influence from Latin and French (as well as Old Norse to a lesser extent). Nearly 60% of English vocabulary today has Romance origin because of borrowing (and about 5% is from Old Norse). This also forced English to simplify as these new vocabulary words could not easily be inflected with its existing grammar. As a result, the English language lost its gender and grammatical case systems, which are still prevalent in other Indo-European languages today. So, English has certainly changed a lot over the last thousand years. Some say English is the Frankenstein’s monster of languages. 😂

[@CorModo]

That's a good take, compared to these mostly nonsensical other comments under the vid.

[@MH-ms1dg]

@@CorModowhat comment was it?

[@vetlogmobaho703]

Ancient chinese still sound modern chinese 😂😂😂

[@hannahkaye.mp4]

all of these languages not only encompass a linguistic niche, but an entire society. people woke up every day in a time and place where each one of these languages came to them as effortlessly as thought. they spoke to their friends in this language. they fell in love with others who spoke it. they fought with nemeses and loved ones, and wrote poetry, sang songs, told stories and lies. to many people who came looong before us, one of these languages was their world. what would they think if they were thrown into this time, onto an older Earth, and realized that that world was gone?

[@raymondtonns2521]

they would feel like i do do now , a man out of place in the land of his birth

[@SilentHotdog28]

@@raymondtonns2521 I feel a bit like that. When I grew up, there were some people of other ethnicities, but mainly people of my own, now there are mainly Indian people with a mix of Chinese, Vietnamese, Sudanese, Phillipino, Pakistani, Nepali and other ethnicities. Indians are the large majority where I live and I feel out of place. It's not just the ethnicities, it's also the culture, the culture has changed so much in my area, it used to be a friendly community, now everyone is in a rush, people are rude, most people don't want to help others anymore........Things have changed.

[@odoylerules4503]

@@raymondtonns2521 "water flowing underground same as it ever was same as it ever was"

[@udiptatalukdar116]

​@@SilentHotdog28where are u from?

[@SilentHotdog28]

@@udiptatalukdar116 West of Melbourne, Australia.

[@bdog95]

My senior English teacher has learned Old English and when we were reading Beowulf, I still can hear her voice in my mind to this day speaking that

[@shadrach6299]

Our teacher read it to us in Middle English

[@Mone333Williams]

Me and my cousins speak in old English all the time as a inside joke becuz nobody talk like that at all now. Me and my brother grew up in church so our lingo caught in to others and now we all just "when does thou thinketh, ye may be scurrying off to thine trinket shop for some smoketh" 😅🤷🏾‍♀️😁. We learned old English from the KJV Bible during Sabbath and Sunday school. We didn't go to college for it.

[@hp4602]

that's not old English

[@shivabreathes]

The sheer scale and variety of human language is astounding. Hearing Egyptian made my hair stand on end.

[@kentix417]

Just keep in mind these are approximations. Ancient Egyptian didn't write any vowels in their texts so scholars don't really know what the words really sounded like. They have educated guesses of course but when you have no record of vowel sounds that makes it difficult. How do you say this word in English? Bd You don't even know how many vowels are missing.

[@Jim.Frantzisson]

As a Greek I understood the context in ancient Greek not because it hasn't changed over the centuries but because they teach us to read and study ancient Greek in high school in Greece

[@DG-qs1sr]

I'm Italian and I have the same experience with Latin. It is really close to my native tongue but I can deeply understand it only because we learned it at school

[@angelosmpesiropoulos7429]

Μου λες πως καταλαβες αυτα που ελεγε???🤣🤣 γιατι εμενα μου φανηκαν ξενα. Πρεπει να ασχολεισαι με τα θεωρητικα μαθηματα μαλλον.

[@Panos_Stayis]

Is the erasmic accent, used here, even valid;

[@SisselOnline]

similar to here in HK and China XD Learning the ancient Chinese in high school

[@Egw5]

@@angelosmpesiropoulos7429 Ή ξένος είναι και λέει μαλακιές ή απλά ασχολείται με τα αρχαία και τα φιλολογικά

[@ericwilestech]

I’m Icelandic, I’m fluent in old Norse and it’s very cool to hear how far this has gone. Old Norse is close but not constructing sentences correctly but individual words are correctly pronounced.

[@aparna3685]

Oh, that's so interesting, I was wondering what they say? can you translate it for me please?

[@ericwilestech]

​ @aparna3685 Yes he says just random words to be honest but a little makes sense, but here are the words he says "it's very windy brother, what have you been carrying so bowed woman ... we are brothers that are ripe (or developed) for the women for us to get good sex, I heard they're pretty good. Looks like god has sent us some good stuff to love instead of dying alone and forgotten. I have a better idea to ask god for better days to live..." then it ends. It's not quite correct but the AI is close haha.

[@lemmyhead8578]

I have been learning Icelandic and Old Norse. Having a hell of a time, but very fun.

[@h6502]

another Icelander here. understanding the guy wasrelatively easy. old norse guy: let's have a discussion brother. what have i done to attract women so poorly? the brothers are mature enough that women would come to us to have intercourse. why is it that we haven't had more success in these matters? I think I know better than that the gods have decided for me to die alone and abandoned. maybe he should try asking the ladies instead of sulking.

[@ericwilestech]

@@h6502 they blur the words but yeah similar

[@krisaaron8180]

Fun nonessential fact: the Mayan speaker looks like it was modeled on an actual person. If you haven't seen the film Apocalypto give it a watch (it's amazing although extremely violent) and see if you can spot the actor this seems to be based on. The entire movie is in the dialects that were spoken at the time and are still spoken in the region.

[@scuttledspatula8837]

I was looking for a comment related to this. I instantly recognised him as one of the villains in Apocalypto. Love that film.

[@jasminehill6312]

I thought the same thing!!!

[@vjaim874]

I was waiting to see if I was the only one who saw it 😂

[@sandram8516]

As a danish person, the Old Norse is pronounced in a way we still speak today and I also did understand a few words

[@jitaru3707]

As a Japanese speaker, Old Japanese was completely unrecognizable, as many of the sounds used simply don't exist in Japanese anymore. However when I see it phonetically written I can draw the connection. Edit: Ryukyuan in this video sounds much more like modern Japanese, likely because it is a language that is still spoken today and the version they were presenting is a modern version that evolved alongside Japanese

[@fugeki2249]

I translate classical japanese texts for my Ph.D. dissertation and only recognized a few words of what this AI was saying. I don't think you are the problem; the pronunciation in itself might not have been off, it might just be that the words it used simply did not exist. Nevertheless, the grammar made absolutely no sense whatsoever.

[@user-nf3kz9ee2n]

As far as I know, the modern 'h' of Japanese was 'p' back in the Old Japanese language. (And also 'chi' would be 'ti', 'tsu' would be 'tu', 'zu' would be 'du', etc)

[@thespectator5259]

I don't speak Japanese, but even I picked up how very much Ryukyuan sounded more Japanese than Old Japanese ironically enough. Pretty cool to have my thoughts confirmed by someone who actually speaks it.

[@A_Simple_Neurose]

@@fugeki2249 Same, I have a degree in Japanese Studies and have worked with classical texts before but this does not resemble anything I've read or heard before. I've spoken with Japanese people about this and this seems more like a hoax than anything. Then again, I'm not an expert. I wish the uploader provided sources, as far as I'm concerned this video is useless from a linguistic standpoint without proper sourcing or explanation on how it was made/generated. EDIT: This video is much more trustworthy in my opinion if only because of the rigurous notation used which at least shows that the uploader understands what he's doing. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqOlppmqgLaEh7s Either way this video, or at least that specific part seems to me like junk.

[@realbanana0305]

​@@user-nf3kz9ee2n makes a lot of sense tbh, I'm guessing that shi also used to be si

[@versailleschick1994]

My husband is Guatemalan, and he speaks the Mayan dialect of Achii. There are 23 Mayan dialects in Guatemala. 🇬🇹

[@Sugarsail1]

I spent some time in Guatemala and I laugh when ever I hear the Anglo-Latino narrative regarding the supposed "disappearance" of the Mayan Empire when I'm sitting having a beer with some guy speaking Mayan to me....I'm like dude, the Mayan Empire is right here collecting your colonialist welfare! LOLOL

[@kevaughnramsay9846]

@@Sugarsail1 Ok?

[@saturdayboy]

The Spanish empire forbid native languages? First news. Is there any evidence of such laws or is this just nonsense and revisionism?

[@versailleschick1994]

@@jjemail5284 Thanks for the correction. I meant languages 😅

[@Zulu369]

Fantastic! When I visited Mexico, I went to see the Chichen Itza. On my way to this historical place, we stopped over at Merida where I met some indigenous people who taught me a couple of words in the Mayan language: For example Chi for nose, etc ... I loved it.

[@Autumnns30]

Half a 'Phoenician' here 😃 thank you for the opportunity to hear this 🙏🏼 ❤

[@conchobar0928]

How did it sound? I recently had my mind blown learning that Hannibal's name is biblical Hannah + Ba'al = grace of Ba'al.

[@georgekallides2145]

As a greek, which reads in ancient greek, the pronunciation was awful. It's good to have an ai to read the text, but it's far from the truth..

[@philomelodia]

The Ancient Greek speaker is actually native speaker in modern Greek. He has a channel called podium arts. He goes into a lot of detail about why he pronounces it the way he does.

[@user-qj9uq8du2z]

As a history teacher, that was absolutely fantastic! Going to share parts of this with my class.

[@TLnetpilot]

Are you sure that AI is correct ? No you are not

[@martian_2876]

@@TLnetpilotWhat?

[@voltydequa845]

@@TLnetpilot «Are you sure that AI is correct ? No you are not» -- It is all fake. Depressing to see a teacher running to compromise the minds of his students. I hope that his students are free enough to answer him something in rhyme.

[@katkadospisilova]

@@voltydequa845 As someone who speaks Latin, I can confirm that the Latin at least is correct (in accordance with various in-depth studies by experts of ancient languages). Can't be 100% sure about the others though.

[@voltydequa845]

@@katkadospisilova «As someone who speaks Latin, I can confirm that the Latin at least is correct (in accordance with various in-depth studies by experts of ancient languages). Can't be 100% sure about the others though.» -- Had no doubts about Latin, since all this is based upon stochastic pattern matching nowadays passed as "AI out of 'machine learning'". Imho today's Latin pronunciation corresponds to the antique one for the simple reason that it survived through the Catholic Church. It had continuity because it was used actively, though in niche, learned in purity that saved it from 'dialect pronunciations'. But as for the rest, for example Slavic / Orthodox, the old languages were used just for liturgical reasons (translated: they didn't talk between them in old Slavic). They got the pronunciation patterns from liturgy and / or folklore, that were subject to temporal approximations. So Latin ok since it imitates how it is spoken today. As for the rest it's all bluff presented as certainty. I was answering, to the 'history teacher', because disappointed by his syllogism (as if this had anything to do with history). He could be impressed by the GPTParroting technique, but its history is extremely short and quite hyped. Oh, Mighty, save us from Matrix-like history! :)

[@burritonoodle4155]

I think the old English just sounds like Danish. Turns out the Danes took over a large part of England just like it states. You can really tell where people migrate to and from based on languages. Such a beautiful thing. So neat to hear all of these.

[@adamross1596]

It does sound almost like Scandinavian, which is very interesting given that they migrated to Britain over 1000 years ago.

[@Makuinv]

Sounds like finnish

[@RD-jc2eu]

@@Makuinv ????? Finnish is not a Germanic language (as Anglo-Saxon was). It's from a completely different language family, one which has no other related variants in Europe.

[@thoraengell-kofoed4450]

I kinda get it a bit with how the sounds from the words forms in the throat haha - but not at all at the same time (I´m from Denmark) we don´t have that tongue rolling at all

[@wrongturnVfor]

Lol, When you look at Europe and try to learn languages, you can clearly see the Norse languages branching out as you move south. On the other side you can see latin mutating into romance languages with heavy influence from arabic and all that meets in the cent re, Mixing with some celtic to form dutch. Which evolves in to the mishmash we call english. English aint a language. It is a frankemonster of 6 different ones, pretending to be a language. That is why the grammar and phonetics are so messed up.

[@XxCastlegirl_07xX]

I’m a native English speaker, but I’ve been studying linguistics, especially of Romance languages, for a while now and recognizing some of the Latin and old English words was crazy. Love languages!

[@carmenishere]

I get the same feeling listening to this as when I hear Baba Yetu from Civilization 4. It just fills one with a sense of awe to hear and see all that humanity has accomplished. It’s also sad there are so many worlds are stories within we will ever know. I’m grateful to live in a time where we can experience them all❤️

[@emjames9865]

Yes! That music is brilliant!!

[@theshianjun]

0:00 Old Norse 0:23 Mayan 0:54 Latin 1:28 Middle Chinese 1:58 Old English 2:27 Old Japanese 2:57 Old Church Slavonic 3:26 Proto-Celtic 3:56 Middle Egyptian 4:26 Ryukyuan 4:56 Ancient Greek 5:30 Phoenician 5:54 Hittite 6:24 Quechua 6:53 Akkadian

[@danil.6667]

❤

[@samirgabriel2627]

Good, but this is a Mini correct of my Coment, thank's but not necessary for all peoples. or, i don't know.

[@satriobimo4887]

Sayang, bahasa yg dituturkan oleh etnik² kuno di Indonesia Archipelago (Malaya/Sunda/Java) belum banyak digali....😢

[@petrosstefanidis6396]

Did ancient Greek actually have such sounds? That was so unexpected 🤔

[@Protagorasz]

Where is the hungarian? :)

[@hoofhearted4]

as someone who only speaks one language, other languages blow my mind. To think, every culture on earth, from small tribes, to large nations, all formed a language they came to understand in order to communicate. how so many tones and clicks and sounds can all translate to the same thing is so cool. everyone in the world looked at a tree and all made a word for it, that all sounded differently.

[@lilacbuni]

even cooler when u find out some "noises" can only be made by ppl who grew up with that language due to how their mouths form the noises being passed down genetically. Some alphabets are long (Japan has 3!) and some are very short and simple, just hearing today how some ppl struggle to pronounce letters in other languages due to it not being present in their alphabets is crazy enough e. g. Koreans don't have Z so it's often replaced with J so they would say Jebra if unfamiliar with English.

[@goat9295]

@@lilacbuni also there are some sounds that can't be replicated as well by other ethnicities due to how our mouths are shaped. Notice how can sometimes tell when a black person or white person is talking even if they're both speaking a language that they both grew up with.

[@Sr.Brownie]

There is only a set amount of sounds the human voice can make so there is mainly overlap only a few character vary. But those small differences can make pronounciation sound way off

[@TakiMitsuha2016]

I speak 4 languages and 3 or 4 dialects of the same languages😂😂😂

[@user-rw3bk6wp4m]

​@@TakiMitsuha2016 Are you European

[@DistractingTest]

Ryukyuan is definitively a pre-Japanese dialect correlate to early-middle spoken variants. What else could it possibly be, just listen to it. There is no disagreement of path, language is many-pathed and spread clearly from the mainland around the same time, thus also proto-Altaic in origins yes.

[@Amadeu.Macedo]

Outstanding! Thanks for another splendid upload, especially because the Akkadian presented here appears to be the version spoken in Nineveh, Assyria (the land of Aššur).

[@GabrielaTiborova]

I loved Akkadian the most. I have no idea what was said but it was almost hypnothising.

[@Amadeu.Macedo]

@@GabrielaTiborova Agreed. I would do anything to have the opportunity to learn Assyrian Akkadian.

[@slow390]

I'm Assyrian! 😊 A lot of our churches hold language classes 😄

[@Amadeu.Macedo]

@@slow390 Hello, Man of Aššur (this is how your great ancestors called themselves. What kind of church would teach Assyrian cuneiform script? LOL Thanks for your comment.

[@slow390]

@@Amadeu.Macedo not cuneiform but neo-Aramaic

[@paulmark992]

Timetable: 0:00 Old Norse 0:24 Mayan Language 0:54 Latin 1:30 Middle Chinese 1:58 Old English 2:27 Old Japanese 2:57 Old Church Slavonic 3:27 Proto-Celtic Language 3:56 Middle Egyptian 4:27 Ryukyuan Language 4:57 Ancient Greek 5:30 Phoenician Language 5:54 Hittite Language 6:24 Quechua 6:54 Akkadian Language

[@JustSlav98]

Old Church Slavonic can also be called old Bulgarian since that was its original name

[@MatteoBelongsInAmentalHospital]

they put middle egyptian in the middle lol

[@VioletScene2014]

Thanks

[@paulmark992]

@@MatteoBelongsInAmentalHospital talk like an Egyptian 🕺💃🏼

[@paulmark992]

@@VioletScene2014 you are welcome

[@sofia_aa]

6:25 Peruvian here! Yes, quechua is very commonly spoken in many regions here in Peru, but most people who speak it also know Spanish. Nowadays, many people are interested in learning it and there are many resources you can find online, however, it was not always like that. I remember when i was a kid people who spoke it or had a noticeable accent when speaking spanish were mocked and ridiculed, even kids at school. It was a shame, since it's such a beautiful language and people were ashamed to speak it. I am very happy to see it represented here and i hope one day i can learn it too!

[@marialalasmith9562]

It’s beautiful you want to learn such a beautiful language with ancient roots, keeping alive indigenous languages is so important. Those bullies are stupid and indoctrinated, because they can’t connect to something more ancient than their own nose.

[@linoleon100]

​@@V-XENO que miserable debe ser tu vida, todos los comentarios están llenos de gente compartiendo lo que saben de cada idioma, pero como esta habla español te la quieres dar en gracioso.

[@MrLuiyi02]

@@V-XENOÁbrase sapo. 🐸

[@zirenitamon]

@@V-XENO Tranquilo, yo le pregunté. :v

[@theodore4460]

yeah, city people would see you like uncultured village people right ?

[@JordanBeagle]

This is incredible, thanks for sharing

[@espnofficials]

as an arabian am proud. we and our ancestors speak the same and write the same. biggest example is quran. arabic the language of jannah. masha allah

[@darleneholt2736]

Arabic has also changed and evolved. Ignoring the different dialects of course and going with Modern Standard Arabic, which is the closest to Classical or Old Arabic there are still clear differences.

[@aravindulgent]

0:01 Old Norse 0:24 Mayan 0:53 Latin 1:29 Middle Chinese 1:57 Old English 2:28 Old Japanese 2:57 Old Church Slavonic 3:26 Proto-Celtic language 3:56 Middle Egyptian 4:26 Ryukyuan language 4:56 Ancient Greek 5:30 Phoenician language 5:53 Hittite language 6:23 Quechua 6:53 Akkadian language Edit: Lmao stop asking me why this or that language isn't here, I only listed what is there in the video and I'm not affiliated with Equator AI in any way. Also, these are all obviously extinct languages, so calm down about why your language does not appear here. Not everything is a conspiracy.

[@finishgoogl7960]

and Sanskrit ??

[@questionnowho]

@@finishgoogl7960 they intentionally not added one of the oldest language in the earth , cause the the creator of this video have ultra level of knowledge and he/she also can change the history

[@alhamdulillah23x]

@@AnhNguyen-hn9vj no its scary bro 😭😭

[@Moringa453]

The oldest language in the world that people still speak is Arabic

[@questionnowho]

@@Moringa453 it's Sanskrit

[@cyberre6547]

As a native german,the old english one reminds me of the way germans from bavaria speaks😮

[@88denji]

Whuat, no way 😂

[@wolke1536]

More like Low German or danish

[@faleravanbalen8175]

It’s nearly identical to Friesian language (north of the Netherlands, in Friesland) apparently this is derived from old english, so not very surprising that they sound the same, but Friesian is still spoken, rarely, but it hasn’t died out just yet

[@OnePlusOneEqualsOnePlusOne]

German, Frankia, Latin, and a few bits of others.

[@stellasonabilis9884]

@@faleravanbalen8175 ​​⁠ The other way around: Old English derived from the language of Anglones, Saxons and Friesians who invaded/settled Britain from 500 AD on.

[@keelhe893]

Amazing video… I always wondered how these languages sounded

[@ricardoreyes2654]

That was very interesting, having learned some linguistics in the past, I’ve always had a fascination with the development of language and neuro-linguistics! ❤ I hope More are made!!!

[@The23Anonymous]

As a German, i think i understand some bits of Old English. It sounds like a weird mixture of English and German

[@SetuwoKecik]

Old English sounded more Germanic, Until the Normans came and added french vocabularies.

[@Ge1Ri4]

As a native English speaker who has studied both modern German and Old English, I agree!

[@potentatewags]

English is derived from Germanic, just as modern German is. However, due to a lot of invasions and royalty crossover, English became influenced by French, Greek, and Latin.

[@rtwhitson3]

Just put Old German, Celtic (fading into Gaelic/Pictish), Old Nordic, French, Latin, and Greek into a blender, set it on LOW for two thousand years, and ... BINGO! You have ENGLISH! I LOVE this!

[@roddbroward9876]

It's basically the long lost cousin of Low German

[@TheSwitch747]

My grandfather would speak quechua regularly. I didnt realize how old of a language it was until i was older.

[@skywriter4308]

Quechua is definitely a pleasure to hear. I'm glad it survived. I would say that all languages are equally old though, in a sense; Italian, for instance, is just Latin, but taken at a different snapshot in time. In the same way, English is just how a certain variety of Old Germanic is spoken now. Who knows what Quechua sounded like three thousand years ago!

[@henrystoes6508]

@@skywriter4308 yes, it bothers me when people claim certain languages are older than others.

[@mananmody9355]

Why didn't you learn it?

[@mananmody9355]

@@henrystoes6508 dude English is clearly older than Latin. Romans were jealous of the British and so they rewrote history

[@skywriter4308]

@@mananmody9355 The point that I (and I suspect Henry's toes) was trying to make is that the labels we give languages are just for a certain stretch of time in history of a branch of some language. If we go far enough back in time, English recedes into Old Germanic (along with Dutch, High German, etc.), Latin/Italian recedes into Old Romance, and Old Germanic and Old Romance both eventually come from Indo-European. If both Latin and English descend from the same ancestor language, we can't really say that one is older than the other. The only thing we can really claim is that human language in itself is unfathomably old.

[@melodyszadkowski5256]

This was fascinating! Best thing I've seen of an educational nature in a while.

[@bijayale4686]

VERY INFORMATIVE VIDEO - with lov and progress wishes, From Nepal.

[@samirgabriel2627]

*Old Norse **0:00** ||* 0:37 *Mayan Language* 0:56 *Roman Empire* *(Latin)* 1:42 *Empire of China* 2:08 *Anglo-Saxon (English Ancient)* 2:40 *Ancient Japonese* 2:57 *Old Slavonic* 3:29 *Proto-Celtic Language (Common Celtic)* 4:00 *Egyptian Language* *(2000 BC)* 4:32 *Ryukyuan Language* 5:06 *Ancient Greek* *(1500 BC to 300 BC)* 5:43 *Phoenician Language* 6:01 *Hittite Language* 6:22 *Quechua* 7:12 *Akkadian Language*

[@mschoy1597]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@angrycharcoalcat]

Thanks Champ!!

[@7h268]

❤

[@user-co4hk7hk9t]

Where is Ancient Sanskrit Language 😢😢😢

[@SC-zq6cu]

@@user-co4hk7hk9t kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXSThnpjhNaSb5I

[@experienceexperte3096]

As one of the rare people who are able to speak the Phoenician language and appreciate its beauty, this video is approved.

[@kelvinflores1460]

Where did you learn?

[@blacklight4720]

Out of all examples in the video, Phoenician sounded the worse. I'm not sure what beauty you're talking about. The Phoenician example in the video, sounds like he is statering.

[@experienceexperte3096]

@@blacklight4720 I was talking about the beauty of the language, the interpretation is a little robotic. Why I approved this video is that he did include it. The stuttering you are talking about is just because you are unfamiliar with the language, it is normal for some of its dialects, and that is not stutter that is simple the word having repeated sounds in it, like many words may appear as stutter for those who don’t know English.

[@restojon1]

I'm sure that I can hear similarities in Phoenician and Maltese. It would make sense historically and geographically.

[@surfdocer103]

Suuuuure you can. …and I speak Assyrian

[@karlcantarella7982]

This is an amazing accomplishment. Incredible and informative. Thank you!

[@senji8583]

Seeing and hearing ancient history is very interesting... when you provide sources.

[@SoftTangerineDreams]

Would love a museum like this with actors walking around in their environments speaking their languages. Like the Old Norse in a look-alike viking village section of the museum and one sections for a pyramid-like area for the Egyptians. I think that would be cool. Not interactive as we wouldn't be able to understand, but watch and listen to them talk and "live their life" on a sort of stage. I think the idea is cool bur obviously needs a lot of work.

[@sarahestrada-nk1oi]

That would be so cool!! I’d love to go to something like that!

[@aliza_h]

I often wish I could go back in time as a sort of ghost. Like I can people-watch without anyone perceiving me. This sounds pretty similar, and I'd totally go to something like that!

[@forgottenvictories3951]

It's called reenacting lol. Good living history museums are able to pull this sort of thing off too

[@theoriginalkyttyn7724]

THAT is an _amazing_ idea!!!!

[@RandomGuy-uj4hn]

Pretty much sounds like the human zoo from the previous century to me 😅

[@gengotaku]

It’s really cool to hear old languages, because it inspires us to keep on learning. Old Norse sounds like Swedish to my ears. Middle Chinese reminds me of Cantonese which I am also learning. Old Japanese is impossible to understand, even knowing some Japanese dialects. The Ryukyuan language is still spoken on the main land of Okinawa and this version is the “Shuri” dialect, which was the standard language in Okinawa. I studied it when I lived there but most people don’t speak it because they were forced to learn Standard Japanese, Interestingly, Okinawans who fled to Brazil during the Japanese immigration still speak the language.

[@violett000]

Nooo, as a Swedish speaker, Old Norse definitely sounds more Icelandic.

[@muzikbud]

As a swedish speaker myself, the voice and the accent sounded like finnish to me.

[@hereiam2942]

​@@muzikbudAs a non swedish speaker, and scot, I also thought it sounded finnish to me. How strange.

[@ImagineHeroism]

When I was in Japan, I was part of a book club of sorts that would read and break down old texts (mostly Heian works). Which makes me wonder what era the Japanese was suppose to be from and how how they reconstructed it. I’m not sure how’d you reconstruct it other than written works. Which means you’re likely looking at 8-9th century works, which don’t sound anything like what was playing here.

[@viysnjor4811]

@@trekker7530 Not all of them are, some, like Old Norse, we know many of the accents and pronunciations because we have Icelandic and Faroese to compare it to, as well as old rhymes which don't rhyme in Icelandic or Faroese, but did in Old Norse. This kind of process of elimination and reverse extrapolation with cross referenced poetry or song is how we figure out a lot of these old pronunciations. It's how we learned, for example, that Middle English is much closer to a West Country or Irish sounding accent than modern British English

[@stevenleslie8557]

Some serious time has been put into this video. Thanks for that!

[@aunicornofthemultiverse]

❤ Thank you for making this video ❤ I really enjoyed watching and listening to this video ❤ please can you add discreet subtitles along the bottom of the screen...it would be great to read what the characters are saying ❤ lots of work and love have gone into the creation of this video ❤

[@koolandblue]

Maybe it’s the distant, echoing sound of the voice, but Middle Egyptian is exactly what I would think a “ghostly” language would sound like. It sounds like a spirit from another dimension.

[@adstix]

Keen observation! Perhaps the reason for this lies in the close connection between the powerful cult of Ra and ancient Egypt! It afforded the Pharaohs all kinds of occult powers and probably also made an ethereal impact on the language of that era!

[@SIMO-eb1hw]

if it was spoken normally like the rest you wouldn't think so

[@TiestoCalvinHarris]

It's like some ancient spell that will start put huge blocks of stones together

[@princcessmoon]

Omg yes I got a lil scared 😂😂😂

[@axamesvc]

I think that reason for this could be in such difficult climate conditions there at that times, espec. because of very high heat, dry air, dehydration and exhaustion. Guess they saved own body's energy in this way and that loud talking was very rare.

[@julianmahler2388]

For me as a non-native speaker, Ryukyuan sounds 95% like modern Japanese. I don't know if Japanese speakers can understand Ryukyuan, but if you're Japanese and wonder what your language sounds like to others, listen to Ryukyuan.

[@jonathandonovan1802]

My wife's japanese, she didn't understand any of the old japanese but understood everything in ryukyuan. hell even i did.

[@nenask]

sounds a bit like korean to me

[@hooligans7618]

@@jonathandonovan1802 same i understood a decent portion of ryukyuan and the old japanese was like ?????

[@jonathandonovan1802]

@@hooligans7618 i think they mockingbus here. who's valued thier sources?

[@42kellys]

Interesting that's what I thought, too.

[@Stradinaz_Dragon799]

This video was released on my 13th Birthday. (Yes, I was born in 2010) Thank you very much for this incredible video!

[@jajohnson7809]

As one with a years-long interest in languages, I thank you. Beautiful.

[@borislavgorlukovich8960]

I’m from Okinawa. Day to day, Modern Okinawans speak Japanese but with a different accent and vocabulary than mainlanders with a little ryukyuan mixed in depending on the social setting. Sometimes it’s 90/10 , 60/40, but when my family elders talk with each other it’s completely unrecognizable compared to Japanese

[@VinzentVega]

Where were you born? Ur nckname sounds like Slavic

[@erikeriks8788]

@@VinzentVega he is nothing but a slavic slave

[@poppymoon777]

You don’t look or sound like you’re from Okinawa 😜

[@ShesMongolianASMR]

Sure “Borislav” …. (Lol jk)

[@RusMentor]

​@@poppymoon777 You know that the far eastern Russian territory is not far from Japan, right? Vladivostok for instance... It is perfectly normal that he was raised in Japan.

[@sewerslidepark6656]

I don’t know what it is about some of these languages but I get this deep remorseful feeling in my chest hearing them. Like to know that there is bounds of cultural and love that flowed through their words and that they had words that have unexplainable definitions. Just for all of it to be lost in time.. but I guess that’s why it so important to acknowledge their place because of the significance these old languages have on all of us…

[@BrokenInBeauty]

♥️ Very beautifully said, I resonated and felt quite similarly as the video went on but felt unable to articulate it as beautifully descriptive as you did! 🗣️ 🌏

[@Photomx-mv4wn]

In reality, efforts to suppress indigenous languages, such as Maya, came with the Independence of Mexico during the 19th century. Throughout the viceroyalty of New Spain, Spanish scholars (especially Franciscan friars) made great efforts not only to understand native languages but also to create a grammar. Nahuatl was the second language in the world (after Spanish) to have a grammar treaty, followed by others such as Maya or Quechua, decades before English or other European languages had their own grammar treaties. Spaniards didn't impose spanish. That's a black legend.

[@pujang0]

why did the egyptian dude put a curse on me

[@anarabontheinternet]

As an Arab myself, I can confidently say Phoenician sounds like it has sounds similar/same to Arabic. Obviously, the two would have very unrelated words, as Arabic stemmed from Akkadian, not Phoenician, but it's still fascinating to hear an ancient semetic language such as Phoenician, and hear the sound similarities between a modern semetic language such as Arabic.

[@ethanpintar5454]

No actually Arabic is more closely related to Phoenician than to Akkadian. Akkadian is an East Semitic language while Arabic and Phoenician are both West Semitic Languages.

[@ultimatedark5969]

Pheonicain sounds closer to hebrew than arabic lol

[@MAE74961]

Phoenicians are from phoenix

[@mikeviking1000]

@@ultimatedark5969Phoenician and Hebrew are usually grouped together into a branch called Canaanite among the West Semitic languages. Arabic should be in a separate branch from them. So it would make sense that Hebrew and Phoenician are more similar to each other than either is to Arabic.

[@sarah-yu7yr]

More like north africain arabic

[@miniblasan5717]

As a Swede, it was actually quite difficult to understand Old Norse, but I can imagine that Icelanders will find it easy, while the Norwegians and Danes may find it a little easier than for us Swedes to understand Old Norse.

[@JhoferGamer]

it's from a comedy clip where a icelandic person does not understand what he's saying. He also mumbles a bit. I can only catch a few words, and I'm from western norway

[@Applestripe]

Swedish and Danish are East Norse, Norwegian and Icelandic are West Norse

[@jennyteresia]

As a Swede I found it easier to understand the old English than the old Norse…

[@thecommonlinnetsilsedelang820]

I’m learning Swedish and I didn’t understand a word 😂

[@miniblasan5717]

@@Applestripe Common sense for those of us who are slightly interested of the Germanic languages.

[@nouricleo6905]

Wow amazing As an Egyptian i've always wanted to hear our Ancient language

[@halex9075]

Something interesting to think about is that English is a bit of an odd one out for European languages due to not having genders. Old English did have genders in the language. The reason they were dropped in modern English is because as the Anglo-Saxons interacted with communities that settled in England such as small communities of Old Norse speakers, you had words for the same thing in each language that had different genders. Over time it became easier to just throw out genders for these types of blended communities and the practice slowly spread.

[@nakenmil]

The Old Norse sounds hilarious to my ears, because the way he speaks sounds like he's sitting down with you, after doing some forest work in the snow, having a cup of coffee, and telling you some anecdote or other. It's just sounds so casual. Love it.

[@thursoberwick1948]

Why do all these animations feature people who can't keep still like bobble heads?

[@pandarue]

​@@thursoberwick1948they look like that because they don't have any other animationd than the head movements, where most of us also speak with our hands and our bodies, so it never stands out.

[@thursoberwick1948]

@@pandarue They are distracting and irritating, and creepy. I saw this done previously on animations of Scottish poetry. I had to stop watching that channel, or at least looking at the screen while they were on.

[@luxborealis]

From what I understand of the Norse guy, he literally asks someone to sit down with him and chat because he’s got women troubles and is frustrated.

[@josephblomberg7077]

@@luxborealisI'm pretty he called a woman a witch towards the end, so that checks out.

[@eliskabrodova9193]

Fun fact: if you decide to study Czech language at one of the Czech universities, you are guaranteed to do a course in Old Church Slavonic. You won't be expected to fully master the language, but you'll spend most of your time learning about how it came to be, reading excerpts from Bible and trying to translate it to modern Czech. Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, I'd like to know if lessons like these are a thing in other Slavic countries...

[@izasvakoguglavrebadragankeba]

Serbian here and i understand all,except there are few words like Glusi and now it is Gluvi it means deaf people...and other.

[@hshx1n]

sounds like fun

[@eliskabrodova9193]

@@izasvakoguglavrebadragankeba See, that’s the most interesting thing. Gluši changed to hluší in modern Czech, the meaning remained the same. 😀

[@hshx1n]

@@IvanIvanov-ni4rs sounds even more interesting

[@eliskabrodova9193]

@@IvanIvanov-ni4rs Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Old Church Slavonic develop from Old Bulgarian? I mean, Old Church Slavonic is the first Slavic literary language, not the first Slavic language. And I also remeber something about Cyril and Methodius borrowing linguistic material from Old Bulgarian language when creating the system of Old Church Slavonic, but that might as well be me misrepresenting the stuff I learned.

[@TheAmitsch]

Thanks for sharing this. I was also expecting Sanskrit as one of the languages covered in this video. Also, it would have helped if you had shared the translation of what they are saying in their languages.

[@amobiivan9249]

This is amazing.

[@justanothermortal1373]

I love how language is something that constantly evolves.

[@saiberunato]

I always felt languages were basically organic - always in a state of change by evolving, adaptating, and mutating. Branches split off from larger groups and then develop separately. Different groups sometimes combine together. But are all still related somehow. Some, perhaps most will eventually become extinct, but new ones emerge to replace them.

[@robdom91]

Language is a symptom of human thought. It has to keep changing to accommodate its user.

[@diizzii]

Ikr.. I wuz actually like literally like foreal

[@suyahatesntr]

@@diizzii and people talk like this 😆😂

[@jotaleonel4818]

Thats what he said.

[@allenc6609]

As a Chinese speaker, the ancient pronunciation is absolutely fascinating. It just sounds like a dialect, the sound is very familiar to Hakka Chinese. That makes sense though as Hakka people originated from central China and then moved to the Southeast coast to avoid wars around the late Tang dynasty. Considering how isolated the community used to be, it is not surprising that the pronunciation is inherited from ancient times. Although I thought ancient Chinese would be somewhat close to what we speak today (Mandarin) or at least I can understand what they speak. Hell no, I wouldn't be able to communicate if I time-travel back in that era. As far as I can tell, the AI is reading poems and I can barely catch the last three characters to figure out what he actually reads 刘禹锡《乌衣巷》 and the second one from 白居易

[@escomz]

As a Cantonese speaker, It sounds a lot like a mix between, Cantonese, Hakka, Teochew and Hokkien. In fact Cantonese as well as all those languages I have just listed pre-dates Mandarin and is closest to Old Chinese. You can literally read an Old Chinese/ Middle Chinese poem in any of those languages and it will still rhyme, but not in Mandarin.

[@connaeris8230]

​@@escomzand what's the reason for Mandarin having changed so much? The various invasions by people who spoke different languages?

[@wurzel9671]

​@@connaeris8230also intrigued to find out

[@fanzhou2078]

@@escomznot any. the -u rhyme is terribly preserved in cantonese. e.g. the 东方夜放花千树 poem does not rhyme in cantonese. (it doesn’t rhyme in mandarin either, but it surely rhymed according to the rhyme texts when it was written)

[@yjusnibel]

Don't be deceived, ancient aramaic or Hebraic language is actually YORUBA language

[@ussfreedom4422]

Wow, this was fascinating!

[@Gallawenn]

Remembering latin classes at highschool. Wish my teacher was so energetic 😅 Thank you so much for this, so interesting.

[@inkadinkadoodle]

I just wanted to make my appreciation a bit more tangible, because I'm absolutely awe-struck by this beautiful presentation! Thank You!

[@holysoremelon8777]

yeah he put some really hard work in this

[@laoch5658]

yeah his AI worked hard@@holysoremelon8777

[@mediatrade-nk1su]

Why is there only 1 comment he deserves more

[@matronarona]

It is all AI...

[@stringercorrales6627]

@@matronaronaWhat the hell did they train AI with to verbalize so many dead languages?

[@TheMinarus]

Watching this makes me realize how crazily amazing it is that the human brain can create deep meaning out of sounds which are so varied and different and have their own particularities

[@dallas7000]

and what’s crazy is we’ve been doing it way before recorded history. These are just the languages we know of lol

[@TheMinarus]

@@dallas7000 Of course! the more you go back and frankly, the more languages there were to be fair given how isolated older civilizations and tribes were from one another and all had an independent language base with likely such a small number of speakers. All of them obviously disappeared and we have no idea of them... It's crazy

[@Raven5431]

I imagine even within their own societies people were constantly creating and learning new words. Everytime you met someone chance you might learn a word even if it ment the same thing you already had a word for since their was not as much collective learning.

[@darko.v]

Our ancient roots provide us with the pattern sensing ability, giving us a little boost whenever we understood a pattern. Birds evolved from dinosaurs and we can listen to their complex songs daily, maybe some of them chants of the old days haha. Imagine the future where an AI will be able to translate them to something understandable to us.

[@jurgenjung4302]

KZbin KANAL:'die Zuversicht' mit "Die grösste Verschwörung der Geschichte" /// Vielleicht interessiert es sie ja, es handelt von der deutschen Sprache.

[@AriaIsara]

Proto Celtic sounds amazing!! 😍

[@ChronicallyAmused]

This is amazing 😻

[@miguelpalma7077]

As a Peruvian it is great to know that more young people are interested in learning Quechua and that it is the most widely spoken native american language of the continent. Also Wari civilization was the one that expanded Quechua in the peruvian Andes six hundred years before the Incas, but the latter introduce the language in the territories of nowadays Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.

[@elmarquescon_s]

Deberían enseñarlo en las escuelas

[@chilliam00]

Shadow of the Tomb Raider game has NPCs that speak Quechua (if settings are turned on to hear background characters speak their native language).

[@aberamat3461]

when i was visiting peru i met and slept with a quechua family, this culture is amazing

[@miguelpalma7077]

@@aberamat3461 It is indeed. Andean culture is the foundation of our peruvian identity.

[@myblueskye777]

As I was listening I was wondering if the Native American Indians and the South American peoples are from the same origin, but spread out over time into different locations and establishing different languages. What do you think? I'm just curious, I hope you don't mind me asking for your hypothesis.

[@scottblack7182]

I dont even speak japanese but can clearly hear how different and more simplictic its sounds compared to modern japanese speech. Fascinating how languages change .

[@SamuraiSx19]

you relate I guess to Official japanese. Because even nowadays you can hear drastic differencies in spoken Japanese in various regions. Old Japanese to me sound most like spoken japanese from Kyoto to northern parts of Japan.

[@stratonikisporcia8630]

Well, this old Japanese didn't have the Chinese borrowed words, which implies no long vowels and a simpler CV structure rather than the current CVN. It really sounds like something you would expect to find in Oceania

[@MsGreenmermaid]

There's not as much of the stop start stop start two syllable sounds like mit - su/ bi - shi

[@catherinelsong]

@@stratonikisporcia8630 actually in this particular video, it sounds similar to chinese because it was generated in AI. I learned both Japanese and Chinese, but this one is odd

[@stratonikisporcia8630]

@@catherinelsong Yes, the accent is Chinese, but the text is definitely more Austronesian

[@rudetoy8264]

Excellence! Old languages brought back to life and CG character interpretation seal the deal for me 👍

[@AlphaBravoCharlie777]

Old Egyptian sounds like an explanation of my last night's dream

[@princealigorna7468]

You can hear the similarities to German in both Old English and Old Norse, but you can also hear how different they are to each other (Old English has a more melodic quality, while Old Norse is more rhythmic and sharp)

[@rey_nemaattori]

Being able to speak Dutch, English and German makes these old germanic languages extremely familiar whilst at the same time so foreign. It's like you can _almost_ understand them...

[@cuoresportivo155]

@@rey_nemaattori Totally agree. Don't think it would take long to understand

[@swankelly]

I was just thinking how the Old English sounds the most identifiable, for lack of a better word, to me. Maybe it's because Modern English, which is the what I'm used to hearing is still melodic? hmm

[@KingWilliamI]

I'm convinced that the Old English clip could be reciting Beowulf (a famed Old English epic poem). So it might only sound melodic because he's literally reciting poetry.

[@textus9459]

It Is not Old Norse but Icelandic.

[@cintabumi2004]

As a chinese native speaker who knows mandarin, cantonese, hakka and hokkien; middle chinese really sounded like southern chinese dialects of modern china, im glad I still speak and use these dialects besides of mandarin chinese

[@MrX-wd8cm]

I'm also a NC speaker, it sounded like a mix of all the dialects bar Mandarin, really weird but cool in a way. I'm not sure that this is correct though.Middle Chinese should be traceable by using not rimes but looking at the radicals and matching them to actual written texts of the time.

[@wukonz]

视频里古汉语说的是啥，听起来像一首诗，但完全听不懂

[@tanjunjie5588]

听起来有点越南语的味道 呵呵。。 里面有两首诗 诗歌一 乌衣巷 （刘禹锡） 朱雀桥边野草花，乌衣巷口夕阳斜。 旧时王谢堂前燕，飞入寻常百姓家。 诗歌二 问刘十九 （白居易） 绿蚁新醅酒，红泥小火炉。 晚来天欲雪，能饮一杯无？

[@ericktan68]

I agree the ancient middle chinese sounds almost understandable to me. The old english also sounds familiar but not understandable.

[@pasousa__]

Bro your profile picture ☠

[@vaughnslavin9784]

Amazing. Thank you!

[@sagitta_1982]

For what regards Ancient Greek, there are 2 theories about its pronunciation: the first: they use to spoke according the way suggested by Erasmus of Rotterdam (the one we Italians read Ancienf Greek) and the other: they used to speak in the same way modern Greeks actually speak (even if some studies disapprove both theories).

[@runjumpdie]

Old English was interesting to hear as a native English speaker. I’ve learned a few things about old English words and grammar and although I couldn’t understand most of what he was saying, I definitely picked up on a few words. English is sort of a hodge-podge language so it was cool being able to pick up on some of the words that have survived until today.

[@kyntyr5474]

It’s very similar to old Norse(regionally and linguistically), more Germanic than Norse though, since the Englanders are descended from 3-4 main Germanic groups, which congregated in England, and we now call the Anglo-Saxons. It’s awesome to see how similar the two languages are, at the time they would be mutually intelligible, much like if a Norwegian was to speak to a swede in their native language.

[@cheesehands3112]

@@kyntyr5474 Norse is Germanic. Specifically North Germanic, hence 'Norse'.

[@Giovanni_Team_Rocket_UK]

Old English is related to Old Frisian language in the Frisian area of the Netherlands. The Frisian language today is similar to Dutch and Dutch is similar to today’s English too.

[@cheesehands3112]

@@Giovanni_Team_Rocket_UK I'm not sure what that has to do with what I said. But yes. Anglo-Frisian languages are closely related to Dutch, since they're both West Germanic languages. Stop reading Google and start reading Wikipedia. It's free.

[@neosan3002]

Modern English has a lot of Latin and French mixed in

[@silviad.r.3536]

The Ancient Greek text is the beginning of the book XIX of Homer's Iliad. I studied it at school when I was 16. I'm 50 now and still remember it by heart. Absolutely fascinating.

[@onetolla7918]

αυθαίρετη αναπαράσταση βασισμένη στην κακοφορμισμένη Ερασμιακή προφορά. η ελληνική γλώσσα είναι μια ζωντανή ενιαία και αδιαίρετη στους αιώνες πριν και με τα Χριστό παρά τις εξελικτικές μικροδιαφορές. η επίσκεψη και συνομιλία με ελληνικούς πληθυσμούς σε χωριά εκτός κέντρου και περιφερειακά εκτός ελληνικών συνόρων είναι ικανή να δώσει μια ζωντανή εικόνα και ήχο σε όποιον αμφιβάλει για αυτό.

[@Cool-yr8go]

In which language is ancient Greek written 😅 why the new Greek language is too different with ancient in fact is nothing to do you know explain to me I'm curious 😅

[@Cool-yr8go]

@Numerius I didn't understand you say ancient Greek is from Latin and Italian 🤔

[@gm6719]

@@Cool-yr8go who told you that the modern Greek has nothing to do with the Ancient Greek?

[@Cool-yr8go]

Because with the new Greek difficult to translate the old Greek and it's weird 🤷 was just a question I don't understand

[@user-ni1gz7rh4o]

As an Egyptian we now speak Arabic so of course I don't understand but it is similar to the song of isis that the we had made for a celebration in Egypt 🇪🇬 and I love this song so much ❤

[@jennygnan418]

✋Italian here. As different as Latin is from Italian (and not too much), the sound, the way words and sentences are pronounced is so familiar! I studied Latin, but I would say it anyway: the cadence, the solid basis of the words, has remained over the centuries. I also studied ancient Greek, but I couldn't understand almost anything, distinguish the words, like I could when reading a text. Extremely fascinating.

[@westsidermetalhead4997]

As a Bulgarian, I was surprised and amazed of how much I actually understood from the Old Church Slavonic. It sounded like reading old Bulgarian text or some old folklore from a book with stories and fairy tales. Our priests sound almost the same when they do liturgies, words and prononciation.

[@tarasmanolov]

No problem with the nasal sounds? They kind of exaggerate them a bit. Don't they change how the words sound? I don't speak Bulgarian, so can't tell.

[@SystemClay]

As a Russian, I didn't understand anything XD

[@xh5133]

Yeah.. because Old Church Slavonic is Old Bulgarian......

[@K1ng_Rat]

​@@xh5133 this is a bold claim, full of untruthful nationalism, but you have some point

[@opentam]

@@SystemClay ask your local priest and he will understand it. Old church slavonic still use in orthodox chants

[@Eyes-of-Horus]

When I hear the Old English languages spoken I always remember Mr. Frola, an English teacher I had in high school. We were talking about Chaucer and he read it in its original form. It was quite interesting. I'm sure that most of the students sat there bored to tears. I liked him a lot as a teacher.

[@infiniteinspiration1628]

Brilliant ❤

[@hegeliandianetik2009]

where was this school?

[@katherinejones2216]

I also had a high school English teacher who studied old and middle English, and she read some of the original Beowulf to us

[@infiniteinspiration1628]

@@katherinejones2216 wowwwwww

[@timothyeachus7242]

Chaucer is Middle English but much closer than we to old English

[@gangpardos3833]

Kinda wish he put subtitles so you could get a sense of what things meant. They could either be telling you about the latest hunt or how they just destroyed a rival group

[@elzbietadrazek7758]

I am Polish, when I was in Romania (absolute beautiful country) I was told by the tour guide - the girl who studied Romanian filology that the Romanian language (not Italian) is the closest to ancient Latin. I was totally surprised, now I can hear that it is so.

[@fraewaru]

Serbian here. I understood most of Old Church Slavonic. A similar version of it is still used in the Serbian Orthodox Church, so that might have helped a bit. :) Additionally, I actually learned Old English at University, so that was very cool to listen to after all this time.

[@ketone4444]

Русский здесь , Старославянский тоже используется в наших православных церквях , довольно хорошо понимаю , 70% точно. Привет братьям Сербам 🇷🇸🤝🇷🇺 ❤❤❤

[@liubodimaka7272]

@@ketone4444 Old Bulgarian is used in your churches because the First Bulgarian Empire spread Christianity to the Kievan Rus

[@ketone4444]

@@liubodimaka7272 херню написал

[@teatimurin6345]

Да, кстати. Про Христа и церковь говорит, половина слов понятна.

[@jonaspittman6059]

Christ is risen, my friend!

[@lyrajaded]

This is one of the few ways I am okay with using ai. Really amazing that we can recreate these languages! There’s massive difference between understanding that a language is old and actually hearing it spoken. Hearing these reminds us that these cultures were real people who lived and breathed and laughed and sang and cried and created their own unique ways of expressing themselves. It’s grounding, humbling, and incredible. It’s ironic how a computer can let us connect to our humanity this way. What a time to be alive

[@Valskyr]

so glad that you, a literal fucking who, is giving the approval for the usage of ai in this video. i'll make sure to inform everybody else using ai that you said no though

[@lyrajaded]

@@Valskyr voice actors are literally having their voice stolen, on top of one of the major reasons why the writers and actors guilds are striking is because of ai - ie: people are using ai, not just as a tool, but as a way to actively steal art and take away money away from artists. Yeah, I don’t like ai. I have every right to express my opinion, the same way you have a right to turn into a huffy little b*tch because you took that opinion (doesn’t apply to you in any way) too personally

[@9860289]

My friend, why didn't you say the ancient Turkish language, because the history of this language is also very old, please add it.

[@josy3504]

I dont think their ai since it says their expertly voiced in the description but it doesn't exactly says its professionals.

[@Terszel]

@@Valskyr seethe

[@beniboi6992]

Question. If some of these languages have been extinct for a very long time, how do we know what it sounds like? Aren't we just guessing?

[@jamiekomodo1751]

I'll give the Old English a shot (it's lines 115 - 125 of Beowulf), but I'll make no attempt to alliterate it: 115 Gewat ða neosian, syþðan niht becom, hean huses, hu hit Hringdene æfter beorþege gebun hæfdon. Fand þa ðær inne æþelinga gedriht swefan æfter symble; sorge ne cuðon, 120 wonsceaft wera. Wiht unhælo, grim ond grædig, gearo sona wæs, reoc ond reþe, ond on ræste genam þritig þegna, þanon eft gewat huðe hremig to ham faran, Note the passage is about Grendel's first visit to Heorot: Then, after nighfall, he (Grendel) sought out the high-house (Heorot), [and saw] how the Ring-Danes, after their beerfest, had prepared it [for sleep]. In there he found, a band of nobles asleep, after their feasting, [far from the cares of the world], unknown to pain and sorrow. The misery-maker, unholy evil-one, grim and greedy, hastily, savage and fierce, from their rest seized thirty of the thanes; then off he went rejoicing in his spoils, away to his home

[@siruianniefang1088]

The most amazing thing about the Chinese language is that even though we can't fully understand the old language when it is spoken, but that if it is written down, we can understand things that were recorded way earlier than the middle Chinese in the video.

[@nekrataali]

I recently found this out about pictorial alphabets. Languages using pictorial alphabets may not be able to understand each other when speaking, but written down they can understand each other perfectly so long as both languages share an alphabet. It's why we've had more success preserving older translations of Japanese, Korean, and Chinese languages than something like Latin or even Middle English.

[@SunriseTango]

I was born in Eastern Europe and understood a big chunk of Old Church Slavonic. Middle Egyptian however, was hauntingly magical. It was like listening to time and the universe itself.

[@tibormalinsky8751]

Where exactly in Eastern Europe? Romania? Hungary? "Eastern Europe" doesnt mean anything particular.

[@bettyrouch1833]

The pronunciation of ancient Egyptian is mostly a guess, so I doubt that Middle Egyptians would understand the speaker in this recording today.

[@shamz5722]

@@bettyrouch1833i think the language is extinct , Egyptians only speak arabic in modern times

[@bettyrouch1833]

Yes, of course. Did you misunderstand my comment? I was saying that people in the period called "Middle Egypt" would probably not understand the speaker in this video, because they are so far removed in time and modern linguists cannot really know what the language sounded like. By the way, even Arabic speakers in our day who live in different countries can have a hard time understanding each other well, since there are various dialects of Arabic and different accents, too!@@shamz5722

[@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl]

​@@LucMtl1wrong a few villages still speak coptic as a first language

[@bubblymilkshake9055]

The fact that the mayan are still around really is a blessing !! Too bad most of their books have been burned but just the fact that people still speak the language and survived mass colonisation is really nice. So many stories and a super interesting culture to study!❤️

[@ricardoayala2023]

Thanks for the video.

[@sakaki912]

The Middle Chinese part is actually a recitation of two famous Chinese poems. Even though Middle Chinese is unintelligible to me, the phonemes of Middle Chinese still exist within several Chinese/Taiwanese dialects, such as Hakka and Hokkien, so I am able to recognize the similarities and recall the sources. Here are the transcriptions, juxtaposed with translations, of the two poems: 1:28-1:45 《烏衣巷》- 劉禹錫 「朱雀橋邊野草花，烏衣巷口夕陽斜。舊時王謝堂前燕，飛入尋常百姓家。」 "The Black Clothes Alley" by Liu Yuxi "Wild blooms beside Zhuque Bridge bide, at the mouth of the Black Clothes Alley, the sun sets aside. Swallows that once graced the noble halls, now seek the humble homes where common life resides." 1:45-1:57 《問劉十九》- 白居易 「綠螘新醅酒，紅泥小火爐。晚來天欲雪，能飲一杯無？」 "Questioning Liu Nineteen" by Bai Juyi "Fresh wine with a veil of verdant lees, a humble hearth of red clay glows. As twilight descends with the promise of snow, might you partake in a cup's warm glow?"

[@hilltownlady]

Thank you

[@icecold5707]

It actually sounded like a mix of modern mandarin and cantonese to me.

[@felikspark2513]

I right nuw cant read nun uf them ,but i know that 1 is Cantonese & anuther try replicat Mandarin !!! Why taiwan ??? Why it nut Furmusa as it used 2 be ???? And after this when i bought frying pans ,,made in taiwan !!! , fuck them !!! I still have stainless steel ring 2 remember !!! 8@8 $mile ...p.s.& yur generalissimus gaishek was nut best if he lust war agai st mao.... my & my maya support 1 world & 1 china & 1 My Kingdom policy '!'

[@mz2433]

these poems were composed with ancient pronunciation, why are the rhythm and tones in the poems still so perfect when we appreciate them in modern mandarin? Thank you sir

[@fannyboni472]

Thank you 🙏👍

[@meshawarq9952]

what is shown as Hittite language (06:01) is actually the Circassian language, which is still alive and spoken by 2-3 million people, myself included.

[@user-ib9qt5kf2t]

Which part of the world is this language spoken now

[@karashk]

​​@@user-ib9qt5kf2the language is originally from the north western Kaukasus regions of Russia, around Sochi and Krasnodar and northern Georgia. But speakers live mostly in Turkey and the Middle East due to being displaced by the Russians.

[@user-uv3ex3bc9l]

​@@karashk yeah he clearly has a middle eastern accent!! I was doing something and when I heard it I was like " wait a minute, is this Arabic??

[@kramhielvalenxa1617]

2:06 "your boone have done" LOL🤣🤣

[@delicateBruise]

One of the coolest and most interesting videos to ever exist❤