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William the Conqueror was called that because he conquered England, as he was Norman French he brought his French language with him which is why so many English words are French based. The Norman French were partly descended from the invading Vikings to.
Scots/english etcis a Germanic Language .
Gaelic , Gaeilge , Welsh, Manx, Cornish are a Celtic language
The Norman royals spoke French. The English population spoke English, the Welsh spoke Welsh. And so on.
Can u do a vid on the tons of different accents in Ireland coz there 1 for like every county
Really the name England stems from Englaland, or Land of the Angles (a Germanic group of people, next to Saxon) both the Angles and the Saxons is sort of whats now Denmark and Germany. Being that the Angles name in their early form of German was spelt Engle. From the fall of the Roman Empire in Britain, which was in the 300s uptil the year 1066 was the Angles and the Saxons (hence Anglo-Saxon) mixed with the Vikings, in 1066 was the Norman Conquest lead by William the Conqueror who were French (was a relative of Edward the Confessor the penultimate Anglo-Saxon Monarch was the Monarch of Wessex (whats now London) or West Saxon.
"Germans invented English "! LoL Nope. The root of English comes from Old English as Spoken by the Angles who came from the South East of Denmark (which btw did not exist as a country at that time), The Saxons who came from North Western Germany, the Jutes who came from The Jutland peninsula (clues in the name!) of Denmark and to a lesser Extent The Frisians (from what is now the Netherlands and the Frisian Islands off the coasts of The Netherlands and Germany. Frisian is the closest language relative of English. All the above were Germanic tribes (not German) and the languages they spoke belong to the North Sea Germanic (or Ingvaeonic) sub branch of the West Germanic branch on the Germanic Language tree. So Germanic not German.
TO be fair, Modern English is predominantly rooted in Romance Languages.
English comes from England
German IS Germanic lol.
@@ThatDamnPandaKai No
@@kilipaki87oritahiti no it isn't that's a common misconception. German is just a Germanic language, have a little goggle search, Germanic does not mean German or Germany.
If a language is Germanic it doesn't mean Germans invented it. It's just the name for a group of related languages.
Standard German itself is a koine of many old dialects. I have no trouble understanding northern dialects but southern dialects are ????
Just to fill you in on the French being the official language, it was spoken by the Normans led by William the Conqueror who conquered England in 1066. He spoke French, and the language spoken by the nobility was French for about 4 centuries but the common people spoke english the whole time. You can see this clearly in the way we name domestic animals - we use French word for the meats (like mutton, veal, beef, pork) but germanic ones for the living animals (sheep, calf, cow, pig). This is because English speakers were farming the animals but French speakers were eating them.
yup - it's also why English is such a rich language with seemingly two seemingly identical but nuanced words for the same things. As I sometimes say, to speak English well you need both the know-how and the savoir faire.
I’m from Ireland and that sample of the Irish person speaking Irish was from the local news RTÉ ( like Fox or CNN) so she had to be really clear and pronounce things correctly because she is speaking on national television. Also not all Irish speakers sound like that it depends where you are from in Ireland 😁🇮🇪
True
He was joking about how the Irish names a pronounced. He then goes back and corrects them but I think he confused you and you thought they were new names so to be clear: Niamh = Neev, Aoife = eefa, Siobhan = Shivon, Aoibe = Eve
ok good
Niamh = Ni-uv
@@niaofl I think it depends on accent 😂 If I said it how you've typed it it would sound more like knee-yuv (like rhymes with bruv)
Scots and Scottish Gaelic are two different languages. 🏴
Yup! Scots is largely a dialect of English...mostly Germanic in origin; sometimes even more so than Modern English itself. Wee, for instance, is cognate with the German wenig (weeny). Bairn is straight Scandinavian; the Norwegian for child is barn. That's not to say that there aren't some Gaelic influences too.
@@matt_white you are correct in all bar one part of your statement... Scots is NOT a dialect of English. Yes they have a similar entomology however both have differences in their influence, thus making them separate languages. For example there is more French and Spanish influences in English compared with more Nordic and Gaelic influences in Scots. Scots is actually an older language than the English language we know today and as a result is more in line with the Dutch language.
Yuep. Scots Gaelic and Manx derive from Old Irish. Both are very similar to Gaelige.
@@barryb90 Yep! Also, Manx is written with English phonetics, as an Irish person, you must say it in your head with English phonetics and try to translate the sound into Irish to try to understand it.
@@fromireland8663 From Northern Ireland myself and when I was learning Gealic I did exactly that. Was easier for myself!
You cheered for the Vikings but booed for the English 😂 they both invaded Ireland
Vikings assimilated. English colonised, robbed, subjugated and outlawed the irish language. But different.
@@madden150 What about the Normans who invaded England?
@@uK8cvPAq No comparison whatsoever. If there was, you'd be speaking French.
@@madden150 Well actually the ruling classes of England did speak French at the time.
@@uK8cvPAq Quite true, yet they didnt outlaw the native English language and force all to speak French
Germanic is a group of languages - it doesn’t mean German here
Gaelic isn't on that Germanic map, it's not a Germanic language
It is a Celtic language
Part 2 is certainly needed, I need to see your reaction to Cornish!
...and Manx.
Hoping Hilbert included Romany so she reacts to that as well.
Ireland is not a British Isle/Island. This is an outdated Imperialistic and Possesive term that is not recognised by the Irish Government nor by the Majority of Irish people living in Ireland.
19:37 He's wrong there, Naomh isn't pronounced like "Naomi" - it's like a cross between "neev" and "nave", depending on region/accent. There's no "ee" sound at the end, either way :)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it the name Niamh that is pronounced like that and Naomi is pronounced with the ee on the the end? At least here in England Naomi is pronounced with ee at the end.
Thats I thought. The Irish gaeliac pronunciations were way off.
Yeah I went to school with a girl called Niamh and we just called her Neve like Neve Campbell although it was spelt like this. Was apparently correct as for 4 years that was her name
@@naomid5806 Naomi is pronounced with an ee at the end, but there's no ee at the end of Niamh and Naomh. Niamh/Naomh both end in "mh", which is a "v" sound in Irish: so they can only be "neve" or "nave", but never "Naomi" :)
The names mean very different things: Naomi comes from a Hebrew word meaning "pleasant", but Naomh is an Irish word for "saint".
Niamh is pronounced ‘Neev’. And Naomh is pronounced ‘nave’. Naomh is translated to Saint. In my secondary school each class is named after a Saint for example my class this year was named ‘Naomh Pádraig’ meaning Saint Patrick.
I don't think she understood that he was purposely mispronouncing the Irish names and then pronounced them right with the phonetic spelling
American history is like a spinoff of European history, largely copied from the main series, but not nearly as good with a much shorter length. 😂
Bit like 'the office' except the US version went on longer
The Scottish Goverment does recognise Gaelic and Scots as Official Languages as well as English.
Its just UK Government that doesn't, as it's based on London and majority of politicians are English and so UK overall is very England-centric.
Germanic doesn’t mean German. Germanic tribes and Germans of Germany are two completely different things.
Don’t get me wrong, they did/do occupy the same areas, but Germanic tribes were also found all over the west of Europe, so Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, France.
Saxons and Anglos were Germanic tribes.
I do highly suggest you react to the Angelo-Saxons as the main kingdoms of England:
Wessex, Mercia, Northumbria. As well as the Britons (not what you think)!
Goths, too who migrated south from Sweden, Götland, Göteborg, the visitors ruled Spain, the Ostrogoths central Europe, Northern Italy.
@@willrichardson519
Oo did not know that :) thanks for info!! =D
@@croceyzx2433 hence the blue eyes of the Spanish ruling class :-)
So much "migration" in European history!
French may have been the "Court Language" - but that's not at all what the ordinary folk spoke...
Irish and scottish arent races theyre nationalities so its like u saying u r american not that u r black
Ah, you're right! So nationalities would be Irish/Scottish and race would be white.
@@FavourInternational ye exactly
They are Celts/Picts would be completely different race's to Anglo Saxons. Celts originated from Northern Spain/Basque region.
@@Adamosullivan75 'Celts' is a pretty broad, kind of ambiguous term that's applied retrospectively to various groups whilst contemporarily it's used to describe the nations/cultures where the celtic languages remain to some degree.
@@Adamosullivan75 Genetically all the pre-modern peoples of the British Isles are incredibly similar. The English are ancestrally almost as Celtic as the other nationalities, and those are only 'Celtic' due to Celtic overlay on the majority of DNA which is from the previous peoples, especially Neolithic and Paleolithic. The Anglo-Saxons only contributed a fraction of the inheritance of the modern English.
The humble potato is infact from Peru, we did invent crisps in Ireland though.
Beannachdan bho Ghaidhealtachd na h-Alba. Tha Gàidhlig agam bho thùs. Tha e spòrsail daoine fhaicinn a’ faighinn a-mach nach e Beurla an aon chànan a tha ga bruidhinn an seo. Bhideo sgoinneil!
[Greetings from the Scottish Highlands. I am a native speaker of Gaelic. It's fun to see people discovering that English isn't the only language spoken here. Great video!]
The British and Royal Navy abolished slavery .......
14:12 Even if there had been no Kings back then and they were all democracies you would still have had conflicts for resources between different tribes.
We do consider Scots a native language, it’s just not seen as official to the UK government which is governed by the parliament in England
There is no official language of the UK.
I don't know what the hell video you're watching but it's not very good for someone trying to actually learn. He pronounces a lot of things badly and his attempt at humour is unhelpful with the Irish names segment because he doesn't have the correct name displayed when providing the (apparent) correct pronunciation. Being Irish I knew what names he was referring to but I could clearly see how confusing it could be. Yeesh.
I think he was joking about how people try to pronounce them.
He missed out Norn which was spoken in Shetland Orkney and Caithness only a few words remain in common use.
Shetlandic, too?
@@willrichardson519 Shetland dialect is a form of Norn with other influences. From the Scots Language Center Shetland
When using English, we say 'Shetland dialect' or just 'the dialect'. 'Shetlandic' is an English name used when writing in English. But, for dialect speakers among dialect speakers, the word is 'Shetland' (pronounced Shaetlan). The name of the speech and the name of the islands are the same.
The modern Shetland dialect shares much with other branches of Scots, though the legacy of Norwegian is obvious still in place-names, vocabulary, expressions and pronunciation.
Peerie is small in Shetland and Peedie is small in Orkney
The reason Scots and Gaelic aren’t Scotland’s official language? Both languages have been actively suppressed by England for centuries. Speaking Scots at school would, and still does, get you admonished or punished.
Really? So the Scottish government punishes children for not speaking English?
Gaelic is taught here in Scotland in schools. My nephew goes to the Glasgow Gaelic school which teaches kids from ages 3 up to 18. It isn’t punished. In fact there has been a push for more people to learn our language, especially in the central belt as not many people can speak it here as opposed to the north. Only wish I learnt it sooner. Just starting to learn it now in my 20s
Wow, in Ireland everyone does Irish in school and there are many only Irish speaking schools
Ever heard of the 'Welsh Not? It was the times. Get over it.
Germanic doesn’t mean German they just come from the same route
There’s absolutely no Hebrew influence on Gaelic!
There is a semitic influence though
@@adhamhmaodhogbuachoconchob3772There is literally no linguistic evidence of Hebrew (or rather Semitic) influence on Gaelic. Zero. Just because they are both VSO language or have conjugated pronouns is not proof of any link.
@@adhamhmaodhogbuachoconchob3772 Advanced concept
I spat out my drink when he listed the western isles, goddamn it. Fucking Bob.
28:10 monarchies aren’t solely to blame. The Roman republic was just as expansionistic, so it’s more just about power.
you seem to be confused about the difference between race and nationality…
Watching Favour getting baited by the Irish names 🤣🤣🤣
yep haha
Thanks for doing this.
Normans are not Nordic. Normans are from Normandy on the north coast of France. William the Conqueror invaded in 1066.
Also, William is the grandson of Rollo, brother of viking king Ragnar.
By the 16th the main reason that Ireland was invaded via Dublin was religious as the Catholic French and Spanish always wanted to use Ireland as a springboard to Invade Protestant England and Scotland
The Scottish and Irish pipes are actually not the same. Scotland have the bagpipes while Ireland have what are called the Uilleann pipes. Both are very similar sounding they are played very differently
i speak cornish or Kernow well .
The English tried to wipe out the Welsh language and it was illegal to speak it in our past. The language survived and a third of the people of Wales now speak it - the language is growing. Interesting fact - 16 of signatories of the Declaration of Independence were of Welsh descent.
Everyone in Scotland used to speak Gaelic but a long long time ago in 1616 the King of England made it illegal to speak Gaelic 🏴
The king of England in 1616 was actually Scottish..... He was James I of England and James VI of Scotland. His mother was Mary Queen of Scots.
11:38 Irish/Scots Gaelic (they pronounce it "Gallic" up there) are Celtic languages. Scots is a very different language, of Germanic origin.
Was going to put in this correction but you saved me doing this😀
The Norman's was the name of the French ppl at the time and thats why we spoke French in England before and why the language retains many words that are French - because we were conquered by them many years ago
An bhuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas?
11 years of Irish classes and only know this sentence😐
LÉIGH ANOIS go cúramach, ar do scrúdpháipéar, na treoracha agus na ceisteanna a ghabhann le Cuid A.” *BEEP* This also haunts my nightmares.
Ciúnas bóthar cailín bainne
@@everyonelovesdee beeeeepppppp
When you think about it it's a bit dark.
Also Níl is agam. This came extremely in handy for me for the short amount of time I spent on honours Irish class for junior cert.
Watching this born in Scotland was funny. Everyone in Scotland speaks English but scots is a completely different dialect. Scots is a thing I was brought up with and is totally natural to me
Scots does sound like English with a heavy accent which is why its debated whether it is its own language and not just a dialect.
15:00 There was a hurricane in the UK in the late 1980s and it did a lot of damage.
Ooh I remember it well
Those 'English' who invaded Ireland 900 or so years ago were Normans
Maybe, but from 1169 to eventual freedom 1919, there were plenty of invasion waves and at some point the people involved will probably be called "english"
I don't think many people in Scotland can speak Scottish Gaelic since it's not an official language of the UK. While here in Ireland, Irish is an official language and we learn it for 14 years, and its taken very seriously right up until your final year exams so the majority of us would know Irish but speaking it is very different because we don't learn fundamentals of having a conversation and we only can learn it with other Irish speakers that's why people go to a Gaeltacht in Donegal which is where all the Irish speakers go and speak Irish.
Interesting that you mentioned that Gàidhlig sounds like a mix between English and Hebrew. The Insular Celtic languages share a lot of structural similarities with the Semitic languages in the Middle East. It's one of those odd connections.
Not sims talk 😭💀
14:15 Potato crop was was first cultervated in South American in what's now Peru by the native inca's, it was Sir Thomas Harriot that brought potatoes back to Britain from the New Found Land, Virginia, then later Sir Walter Raleigh introduced potatoes to Ireland. Norman's was French, William the conqueror etc.
"Shetland" = "Not Orkney" ... lol, I'm sure the Shetlanders will love that. But, hey, at least they aren't in a box :D
It isn't today's Germans, it's the Germanic tribes, back at the time of the Roman Empire, 2000 yrs ago. Today's Germany has only existed for 150 years.
[17:35] You are mistaken, with respect, when you say "the Scots call their Gaelic Scots and the Irish call theirs Irish". The language called Scots, which is really a dialect of English, is completely different to either version of Gaelic. Scots is the language of Burns Poetry.
Irish people do generally call the Irish language Irish rather than Gaelic. To distinguish between the Scottish and Irish versions of what is essentially the same language (they're about as dissimilar to each other as are the Scandinavian languages Swedish, Danish and Norwegian) the Irish version is pronounced Gay Lick whereas the Scottish is pronounced Gah Lick. Alternatively, just try saying the word "garlic" with a Boston accent to get the Scottish version. :)
"Are there goats in Scotland?" They have the good sense to keep away 😄
I think you were getting confused somewhere in the middle. Scots and Scottish Gaelic are two different languages. Scots is a Germanic language and stems from Old English and Scottish Gaelic is a Celtic language.
I speak Welsh. Felly, dere m'laen, hogan.
But yeah, you're right with Gaelic. It's the same with Welsh. It's been pushed back over the centuries to more remote areas of Wales to the West. Dialects of Old Welsh were spoken throughout what's now England before the Saxons arrived. Cornish still has a lot of words that are identical or nearly identical to their Welsh counterparts.
do a part 2 definitely
You didn’t realise, but that’s actually a pretty good place to pause, because the Celtic languages in this video belong to a different branch to the Celtic languages you’ll react to in the next video :)
That picture of Ireland is the Doolough Valley in Mayo on the R335 road.
Scotland has bag pipes Ireland has uilleann pipes. Bag pipes you blow into to inflate, Irish pipes you use bellows attached to the arm to inflate
Yep and uillean (pronounced illun) means elbow in the Irish language. It's called that because you pump air into the bellows using your elbow
So it's ok for the Irish to have gone to Scotland and imported their language, but it's not ok the other way around? Oh-kay... (doesn't even understand the depth of water she's treading...).
I think the Irish sounder very harsh because it was a News reader so its not going to flow or sound conversational. Irish actually sounds very similar to Scottish Gaelic. Also I think you need to rewatch the Irish names part :P Niamh = Neeve, Siobhan = Shiv - awn etc
The second I saw your reaction to the word Sassenach I knew you'd been watching Outlander. 😉
I have never learned Scots but it’s pretty easy to understand. That’s why it’s more like a dialect than an language to some people.
Im irish born and raised and your right we use the bagpipes like our Scottish cousins but we have another instrument call the uilleann pipes you should definitely do a reaction on them especially hymm of the sea or midnight walker alos pog mo thoin means kiss me arse
19:47 oop I think it’s a Bill Nye the Science Guy reference 😂
In the USA, the settlers simply annihilated most of the original people.
The Germans did not create all of those languages. The German language did not even exist back then. All of those languages naturally evolved from one ancient language from the Germanic area of Europe as tribes traveled around and formed new civilisations etc. German stems from Proto-Germanic just as English and the others did. And by saying ‘they’re credited for’ all the languages, you do realise that the Germanic people are not Germans but the people of all of those countries, we have the same ancestors going back to those times.
My grandfather was taken to court as my aunties could not speak English only when Gaelic when they went to primary school. He was fined 5 shillings (25p)
What it was like in those times
Language aren’t ‘invented’, they evolve.
The aristocracy spoke French as they came over from Normandy with William the Conqueror. The common people spoke various languages, mostly English in England.
I have been in a BIG hurricane out in the Caribbean. But the ones that hit the coasts of Scotland are just as big and just as fierce.
We have a few here I been told cornish dont exist no matter what people say that from people who are born and raised there 🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜
Naomi is originally a hebrew name. It's in the bible in the book of Ruth.
@@galoglaich3281 Naomh/Niamh is a very popular name in Ireland. You can't throw a stone without hitting at least two of them!
1 Germans didnt create Scottish gaelic. The Irish did. 2 The normans were descendants of nordic people that were given land in normandy. And the normans actually conquered England
And Ireland doesnt use the bagpipes they have the harp
Scots and Scottish gaelic are NOT the same language
@@seanmckinney6334 Uillean pipes come from Ireland.
Not the Harp.
@@gerardflynn3899 obviously is seeing as it’s the national emblem. And the CELTIC harp comes from Ireland.
Germanic is not the same as German. The Scandinavian languages for instance are also Germanic.. Proto-Germanic developed in to English, Scots, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Frisian, Dutch, Jiddish, German, Afrikaans... But not Gaelic (and the other variants of Celtic languages).
Whole respect to you. Love. Love. Best love from Belfast Northern Ireland ❤️
We act like America isn't doing this in the Middle-East 👀👀
Normans people from Normandy
Who were Viking settlers originally.
@@shonagriffiths8907 but I assume they identify as French rather than Scandinavian
Vikings came from Scandinavia.
They are
Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
Sometimes I think this phone has a mind of its own.
@@bandlover341Viking warbands used to sail up the Seine and burn large parts of Paris to the ground as a Summer trip. Finally one French king gave them land (which was eventually to be known as Normandy - land of the Norse) on the understanding they would guard the Seine and stop other Vikings sailing up it and attacking Paris yet again. Ultimately they adopt the French language but they don't see themselves as French. They are Normans and if you look at pictures of the Bayeux tapestry you see quite clearly the men constructing the long ships for William the Conquerors invasion of England. It was a longship invasion.
Germaniac is not the originator of gaelic. Gaelic is far older and comes from the same era of ancient Egyptian and Ancient Sumerian, that's how old it is, germaniac is far younger. Also Ireland didn't invent the potato, for crying out loud the potato came from the americas. As for the names, he was joking with his pronunciations, the second group with the phonetic spelling of the sound was the right way, Niamh = Neev. Aoife = E-FA. Siobhan = Shi-vaughan.
Try the poems or Robbie Burn's written in Old Scottish (which is not Galidh)
Per acre of land is usually 12,000- 15,000 pounds but get as low as 5,000 per acre
When you get a moment, look into the Celtic League, and what their opinion of England is.
You are confusing Scots with Gaelic. Scots is not Gaelic. It is a dialect of English with Germanic influences while Scots Gaelic is true Gaelic derived from Irish. Scotland itself derives its name from the Irish Scotti, a tribe of Irish colonists who settled on the west coast many centuries ago,
I'm a descendant of Clan MacIntosh Jacobites who were sold as indentured servants in the American colonies.
As others have pointed out, Scots and Scottish Gaelic are two separate languages. In outlander they speak Scottish Gaelic
He showed different language trees. Gaelic is not on the proto German one.
Gaelic has more in common with welsh, Cornish and Breton in France.
In Scotland it's Gaelic pronounced Galick
In Ireland they speak Gaelic pronounced Gaylick
Very similar but entirely different also
no it's not gaelic in ireland it's gaeilge. (gale- ga)
@@ericakate8308 my Mrs is a Donegal lassie
Thank you for your interest in our culture! From ireland🇮🇪❤️
We did not ALL speak French. Only the ruling class.
Gaelige is pronounced Gwale ga. 🇨🇮
It's spelt Gaeilge
Scot comes from the Latin for Irishman - scotus. Also it was the Irish tribe of Scoti who invaded Scotland.
The English was not made by the Germany’s it was made in England
if you look at old english, it has features from German
@@RunrigFan it has features from all languages but she said it was made in Germany at the start even tho it wasn’t
HAHHAHAA when he was taking the piss of the Irish names oh no
A lot of this history of invasion comes from monarchy and rulers wanting more land and power. However, a lot of it is to do with religion. Note how in the video he mentions that the English were Protestant (Irish were Catholic but this is talking way after people who claimed to be Christian decided to kill of any other religion or culture on the Islands, hence our population was familiar with this type of reason for invading).
I'm From England my ancestors are from Scottish, Irish, English and Welsh
The languages in Scotland are based on sea borne trade and contact. The west coast faced Ireland while the east coast faced northern Europe. Shetland and the Orkney Isles, along with the far north Scotland spoke a version of Norse as they were part on Norway until the fifteenth centaury.
Sassanach, when used in Scots (perhaps in Gaelic too), is a derogatory racial slur used on the English. It denotes the foreign heritage of English ancestry and, when used in certain contexts, reduces the Englishman to nothing other than an alien invader who should 'go home'.
my grandmother who was born in done gal in 1910 could speak it also my mother who was born in 1940 spoke it she was given a small financial inducement to speak it as it was getting less popular than in previous years this would have been in the mid fifties when my mother was in her teens
Plenty of people only speak irish in the west of donegal
@@seancurran8108 fair enough I don't know if your replying to me I just remember someone saying my mother went to national school somewhere around letter Kenny and she was given a small financial reward (not a lot ) to either learn the language or keep speaking it I have just remembered this after watching this clip it has lain dormant in my.memoey for years ha ha