Tones? In MY Indo-European language?

[@spcxplrr]

as the guy who complained about loan words last time, i'd like to thank you for including loan words this time

[@zzineohp]

Thank you for giving me the idea!

[@GraemeMarkNI]

There are several IE languages with tones: Panjabi, Swedish, Croatian-and I’m sure there are more.

[@zzineohp]

Singlish

[@dafyddroff8084]

Limburgs

[@jasminekaram880]

@@andeve3 Elfdalian has tonal distinction.

[@jasminekaram880]

Lithuanian, Latvian and Limburg as well. :)

[@crusatyr1452]

Afrikaans is undergoing tonogenesis to my understanding. Rhea's Language Academy talks about it.

[@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500]

Imagine developing a language for an entire month and naming it "Nosian"

[@merrymerryjerry6736]

"in the words of doja cat, let me be a wu mao" bruh

[@malechex611]

Youre killing me with the names man

[@JustLooking]

With a basic word like "house" NOT being a native term in the Virhomenian family, I'm guessing that in your world Han culture influenced how Virhomenian-speaking groups _built_ houses. Many architectural terms would derive from Old/Middle Chinese; the equivalent words with proto-Virhomenian roots would refer to obsolete structures, or develop new meanings through figurative use. (Consider how English "beam" gained the "ray of light" meaning, if you need a real-world parallel.) Am I on the right track here?

[@zzineohp]

I'm just kind of winging it. But they were nomadic before settling in China, I could definitely see that.

[@TheBigGuyBillyBob]

I like this, but these names are NOT it.

[@zzineohp]

I entertained Throwsian instead of Growsisn, but I couldn't see that consonant cluster developing

[@AfterMath-e9e]

Prosian, written in cyrillic: Со тахас грэ со вирсьэссэс цэттэр ад ме смэйюас бэнгрд.

[@AfterMath-e9e]

Written with the russian romanization: "So takhas gre so virs'esses tsetter ad mye cmeĭyuas bengrd."

[@kijeenki]

@@AfterMath-e9ewhat kind of translit is that

[@LanceAbrams]

"I didn't have to add tones, they were already there. Proto-Indoeuropean IS a tonal language!" -Eleanor Shellstrop, probably

[@scurly0792]

This name sounds familiar but I don't know where from

[@girlinblack5361]

@@scurly0792she’s a character from the good place

[@scurly0792]

@@girlinblack5361 AHA THAT'S WHERE

[@LanceAbrams]

@@scurly0792 She's the main character in "The Good Place"

[@chrysolite2842]

3:40 this graph was so unexpected yet the connection is so obvious that I'm questioning why haven't I seen me or anyone else make it 😭 just peak comedy👌

[@I_Love_Learning]

What graph? The map?

[@chrysolite2842]

@@I_Love_Learning ye, the mandarin

[@I_Love_Learning]

@@chrysolite2842 Ah, yeah.

[@enderb0t]

I think the word your looking for is graphic not graph

[@chrysolite2842]

@@enderb0t Uuuww! You're right! Thanks

[@WynnofThule]

Dude, perfect timing. I've been working on a conlect of Ancient Greek and just learned that it was a tonal language and felt overwhelmed.

[@pawel198812]

Greek had pitch accent rather than tones. The only IE tonal languages in existence are located in South Asia, where it's a relatively recent innovation

[@WynnofThule]

@@pawel198812 I thought that counted though

[@pawel198812]

@@WynnofThule Is a moraic language with pitch accent the same as a tonal language with two level tones (L&H) and possibly two-moraic contour tones?

[@WynnofThule]

@@pawel198812 uhh...good question. But I also recently learned that apparently Mycenean wasn't like that (and neither was Arcado-Cypriot) so I won't be dealing with that in my case. Lucky me.

[@currypuddin6902]

sticking out your kyat for the conlang

[@crusatyr1452]

I'm happy someone's brain made this stretch lmao

[@dan_asd]

The immense contrast between the effort put into the proto indo european phonological evolution and Tonesian, Snowsian, adn Flowsian should be its own type of phonemic contrast

[@charlesoconnor4053]

camera framerate is approaching 1 fps as the videos go by

[@zzineohp]

It really is a problem though, I think it's happening because I have to process it twice to boost the volume to acceptable levels. Maybe I just need to include all the animated stuff after I process it 🤔

[@charlesoconnor4053]

@@zzineohp I think you should deliberately make the problem worse, it's got character

[@vampyricon7026]

I'm prefacing this by saying I love the series, so I hope you don't take my criticism as a "grr! youtuber doesn't know shit!" Given their position in the Chinese heartland, I would've guessed that they'd use the one-character-one-syllable method of writing (look up Tangut for a particularly disastrous result). I would also be surprised if the tones stayed the same even after the languages diverged: For your reference with tone heights going from 1 low to 5 high, Standarin has /55/, Cantonese had /53/ (now /55/), Hakka has /33/ or /44/, Kaohsiung Hokkien has /44/ with a sandhi form /33/, and Nanjingese has /31/ for the same ancestral tone. And given that they were present during the Middle Chinese period,* I'd expect the tonal languages to lose voicing to a tone split. You might also want to take a look at OC tonogenesis: The areal effects specifically applied to -s and -ʔ and the rest became the default tone (although the stop coda'd syllables were considered separate tones). *Side note: Don't use Wiktionary's "Middle Chinese" reconstructions, as they're made by taking a rhyme book (a guide to rhyming) that explicitly says it accommodates multiple dialects as a basis. Coblin's A Compendium of Northwest Chinese Phonetics is a much better basis for the work. (And if you're using the STCA stage or anything after, you can use Wiktionary's "Middle Chinese" to look up homophones, as they'd be accommodated by the rhyme book.)

[@zzineohp]

Yeah, I know I oversimplify the context whenever I present comments disagreeing with me, it's a problem 😭 I know it's very probable that it would switch to one syllable words only. But I didn't want it, so I willed the possibility out of existence. Not only is this true, it's actually already in the languages. I'm just that bad at pronouncing tones. I looked at doing this, but it doesn't really work because Virhomenian doesn't have aspirated plosives. I did do a ton of finagling to make it work in Growsian, but even then it's mostly just tenuis consonants, AND now they don't have affricates.

[@vampyricon7026]

@@zzineohp I wasn't saying that their words would become monosyllabic, but that they'd use two characters to write a disyllabic word, for instance. The only exception I know to that rule is Japanese.

[@zzineohp]

@@vampyricon7026 oh that's much worse! in my defense though, you cant exactly say "look up Tangut" like its Spanish

[@vampyricon7026]

@@zzineohp skill issue

[@valentinaaugustina]

as a wu mao i can confirm i am very likely to occur at the end of syllables

[@briank326]

From now on I'll never say "goodbye" anymore, only "smeö6 yä4"

[@spewn2123]

The Prosian videos have actually been helpful for helping me start making my own PIE-descendant langauges Chances are they're horiffically wrong, but it's fun (I just wanted to make a PIE language that keeps the laryngeals tbh)

[@zzineohp]

4:09 Uh, we have a word for that? It's called THE REAL WORLD! LOL! edit: never mind, you actually mentioned that :P

[@UhOhItsDorian]

Have you heard that new Virhomenian house album? Bengrd after bengerd

[@JohnSmith-of2gu]

The formation of Tone-sian is an educational look at how a language can develop phonemic tones. Cool! Also, it's a reminder of how damn WEIRD tonal languages sound to the western ear. The West Virhomenian languages sound like any other language in proximity to Europe. East Virhomenian ones, very similar aside from the tones, sound like robot martians are trying to speak it. Not at all... um, what's the auditory equivalent of "photogenic"? I don't know the right word.

[@etaoinwu]

looking at the various Chinese languages (e.g. Mandarin dialects), I really feel like tone values (pitch contours of each tone class) could change rapidly in time and differ greately between dialects. It doesn't feel realistic that the Tonalsians share such similar melodies

[@CristiChiri10]

I am proud that you're teaching me a lot of PIE on the way to making your conlangs. But I wonder, what are the sources for all of the possible PIE sound changes, or did you make up those sound shifts yourself? I can't really find a page where it lists all of them in a nice and simple way. Atm I'm very interested in PIE and I wanna make my own Indo-European language too. Nice video though

[@zzineohp]

Just made em up. Some of them are based on existing sound changes, but I just look at the existing sounds, and change what I don't like.

[@CristiChiri10]

@@zzineohp interesting. I can't really come up with any sound changes myself which is why I asked if there was a source for the sound changes you made for the language.

[@Moses_Caesar_Augustus]

You can find a list of sound changes from PIE in the Wikipedia articles for Proto-Germanic, Proto-Italic, and Proto-Celtic.

[@Eosinophyllis]

I can confirm I am more likely to occur at the end of syllables

[@arthurgabriel2625]

11:20 "Banged"

[@noelleggett5368]

In Russian, some stressed and unstressed vowels are pronounced differently. Unstressed O is pronounced like A. Unstressed YE is pronounced like YI.

[@anyalei]

Please do keep going

[@MemoryChip]

idk but irl there are deadly wars and famines in Sichuan (where verhomenian is) that basically killed everyone so hopefully that didn't happened in this time line.

[@zzineohp]

It might have-but those Virhomenians are hardy. They even had there own dynasty, the bian dynasty (Replacing what was the Shu dynasty in our timeline)

[@tricolorcircle]

I would like to see how the langauges evolved and when they split

[@zzineohp]

I'll put the spreadsheet in the description

[@I_Love_Learning]

What the heck is "Not gonna lie, Zzineohp is pretty daddy. Okay! Your move, Chris."?

[@zzineohp]

I don't know I spent the whole day editing I don't have the brain power to write a description

[@NemooSK]

Slovak mentioned! Where my long boys á é í ó ú ý at?

[@FebruaryHas30Days]

Make an Indo-European language that uses Hangul.

[@paiwanhan]

What do we have to do to get your to say that 7 times?

[@OkandUtlanning]

4:09 Are you saying China is democratic (in real life) or am I being very stupid

[@zzineohp]

Basically, I interject as a character who is, essentially a paid shill for China, who takes the opportunity to make an propagandistic statement about the country. After being corrected, he reacts poorly

[@MrRhombus]

The puns XD

[@mizutanirin]

yea but why are you using zhengzhang reconstruction and not baxter sagart

[@zzineohp]

Looks nicer

[@adnzip8198]

The Arabic at 2:56 😭😭😭

[@lettuceandotherveggies715]

ancient greek mention!

[@alananimus9145]

China is a democracy 😂😆

[@ankurmandloi5456]

Not the 'Avestani' 😭😭 That has so much wrong with it I can't tell you So I'm not going to

[@zzineohp]

Yeah I know I know dude

[@zzineohp]

Their fault for ending it in -sta while in that region

[@ChrisW101]

Where are the transcriptions man

[@Pokephosgene]

I am surprised that you chose to make most of the languages from the group non-tonal. Afterall, tonality surrounds them, and even a democratic China would exert pressure, leading to conformity. Languages which "sound" more Chinese would survive.

[@zzineohp]

Well I already had Prosian made, I wasn't gonna throw it away

[@lorefox201]

i hate each and every aspect of this good job keep cooking

[@friendly_sitie]

2:00 erm, what the svensk?

[@rayahui3768]

Lemme be a wumao Dead lmao

[@Poopick]

I dont like your romanization. Can you provide us with this sentense in all of those conlangs using the ipa please? Edit: forgot to thank for the interesting video, so thank you😊

[@perroquack]

Google drawings ahh

[@zzineohp]

Hey at least I'm not one of those paint guys

[@greasechild95]

another prosian video another video of zzineohp failing to pronounce tones and /r/. i will help you to learn these sounds.

[@zzineohp]

Bro what are you talking about? I literally pronounced them perfectly