Why GREEK sounds like SPANISH ? 🇬🇷🇪🇸
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- In this insightful video, we delve into the fascinating world of linguistics to uncover the reasons behind the striking similarities between Greek and Spanish languages. 🇬🇷
Explore the historical, cultural, and linguistic connections between these two ancient tongues, and gain a deeper understanding of how they have influenced each other over time. Through engaging discussions and captivating examples, we'll help you appreciate the beauty and complexity of these languages, and perhaps even inspire you to learn more about them. 🇪🇸
So, press play and join us on this enlightening journey through the linguistic realms of Greece and Spain!
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It got pretty ridiculous when the AI voice narrator started saying the individual words across the languages and using the same American English pronunciation for all of them. LOLZ.
NO FR THE when she said the me too in Greek is "Ki Ego" I was like WHAAAAT, then i had to translate it in my head it sounds so different mg
All Europe languages ( Latin Cyrillic) based on the Greek writing system and Alphabet
All sciences have Greek names
All medical words comes from the Greek language and Greek letters are used in Maths Physics Chemistry
That is so true !
I am a fluent Greek speaker. The narrator is mispronouncing the Greek words.
Many of them.
Exactly
Yeah. This is something I've always noticed, and the topic is one I like -- so I gave it a click. But those mispronunciations rankled me. I didn't detect bot-speak, but maybe that's what it was. Anyhow, I didn't finish the 6 minute presentation because of this detail.
And spanish words too... totally wrong
AI is a work in progress
Whaat? I'm a Spanish speaker and I have never ever felt that Greek sounds anything like Spanish. By the way... you're butchering Spanish in the video, and I guess Greek as well. From the way you're pronouncing, they do sound the same: like some English lady who has no idea of how Spanish is pronounced. Or is it an AI speaking?
Some of these blokes who upload videos on TH-cam (about everything and then some) believe that the whole world is made up of gormless people.
Im Greek and when I hear Spanish speakers abroad i mistake them for Greeks for the first half minute. Then I realise..
How a Greek can hear s Spanish speaker for 30 seconds (it is a long time) before he can realise that the Spanish bloke is not a Greek, is a real mystery to me.
1:09 English is a stressed timed language, Spanish and Greek are syllable timed, so this video got that point wrong. The vowel letters should be pronounced as in Spanish and Greek, not as English. Spanish and Greeks vowels are gorgeous sounding. Redo this video to fix the errors, and mistakes because the presentation of it is very interesting.
If he redoes the video, there will be no video left. The problem is that his main thesis is wrong: that Greek and Spanish sound like each other.
My dear when speaking about Greek language show a bit little more respect. Greek were evolved long before Latin and Latin borrowed most Greek words to form the Latin Language and not the other way around. Let me give you a hint. Did you know that Rome is a greek word and do you know what it means? So I would dispute Greek sound as Latin because of Latin and I would do a bit deeper research on this.
You mention Latin’s influence on Greek, but just like the Romans borrowed the Greek Gods, they borrowed a lot of the language and concepts of the Greeks. So they came first.
Greek enriched by Latin Language is a joke! What source do you use propaganda publishers?
Greek language and alphabet is way older than Latin.
How can you say the opposite?? Latin has influenced Greek?? You are kidding us.
You think you are talking to uneducated??? Come on now. Before you make a video study better.
I speak European Spanish and I can identify. But I suppose it's kind of true. Greek in my ears can sound similar. But yeah. For those who speak neither of the languages it can be a cause for confusion.
Spanish doesn't sound like Greek. I am a Spanish speaker and recently visited Greece. I fell in love with Athens and Greek cuisine, it is marvelous and I did not know. However, the language sounds nothing like Spanish. This week, I started learning Greek and my comment holds, it does not sound similar to Spanish in general. What I have noticed, though, is that some words have similar sounds: bazo in Greek, meaning "vase", sounds similar to vaso in Spanish, meaning "glass". There are some similarities like this one, but aside that, they sound different.
Of course they are completely different languages, but as a Greek native speaker, I have been mistaken as Spanish one often 😀
I’ve overheard Greeks speak amongst themselves and I’ve mistaken it for Spanish on several occasions. I’m fluent in Spanish.
As someone who knows history, and someone who has heard both Spanish and Greek, I have to say that I find this video factually incorrect. While I am by no means an expert on either languages, and I cannot speak either of them, I can however tell them apart quite easily. As for where the Greek language derives from, I would think that Latin had Greek influences and not the other way around since Greek is by far an older language. Both might have roots in the Proto-European language, but to suggest that Latin influenced Greek, is to insult Greek.
Χαίρετε. No, suggesting that "Latin influenced Greek" is no insult. It's a known fact, even though the Greek influence on Latin is much greater and more profound, the Latin still has contributed a lot into formation of modern Greek.
Words like σπίτι (home - it replaced the native οίκος), σέλα (saddle), πόρτα (door - it mainly replaced the native θύρα), πουλί (bird - mainly replaced όρνις or πτηνό) are clear Latin borrowings into Greek Koine which later passed all the way to modernity. One of the most important modern Greek diminutive suffixes -ούλης/-ούλα/-ούλο, as well as patronymic -πούλο (like for example in Παπαδόπουλος) are also Latin borrowings and you will not find them, for example, in ancient Greek. And these are just examples.
Latin also had a lot of presence in Eastern Roman Empire (incorrectly known as "Bysantine"), since it was a natural continuation of ancient Rome. By those times, even more Latin terms related to army, administration etc. were used in Greek than it is today.
Still, Latin influence over Greek is exclusively lexical and Latin did not affect the way Greek has developed phonologically. Also, I do not think that a bunch of similar words (either being Greek borrowings in Latin or Latin borrowings in Greek) is the real reason why Spanish and Greek sound similar (a statement with which I don't agree fully; Maybe from afar they sound a bit similar, but it's very easy to discern them, as you mentioned it above, without even actually knowing them).
That's what I meant, that's correct ! 💯
Latin and Latin based languages have heavily influenced modern Greek and as a speaker of both I can tell you that Greek and Spanish people confuse each other when they go abroad
@@MatildeVallespinCasas Οντως. Ξέχασα να αναφέρω και τα βενετσιάνικα που μας έχουν δώσει αρκετές πολλές λέξεις, μεταξύ των άλλων στους τομείς όπως η ναυτική...
Μιας και είμαστε στο θέμα λατινοειδών επιδράσεων, η λέξη "παρέα" έχει ενδιαφέρον, επειδή δανείστηκε από Ισπανοεβραίους, άρα είναι συγγενής του ισπανικού "pareja"
@MatildeVallespinCasas Greek has influenced much more the Latin. Rhere are two ways influences but the Greek one is greater. Either we will say the accurate truth otherwise we are kidding.
And Portuguese from Portugal sounds like a Russian or Ukraine
Oh yes probably ! 🙏
I'm Mexican and to be honest, Greek does NOT sound like Spanish.
Perhaps it's because they way they interact with each other. Hispanics yell at each other when having even the simplest conversation. When my mom spoke I could hear from down the block.
My sister's ex-boyfriend was Greek. Same thing. They all yelled when they talked.
We yell indeed that's for sure 😅
SPANISH SOUNDS LIKE GREEK
Yes, at least to people who speak none of these languages ! 😁
I know, right?!? let’s get the order right. And Latin influenced Greek? Maybe in the margins, but if you peer into the etymology of many Latin words you will see a lot of them come from the far more Ancient Greek. Let’s remember that the Greeks had colonies throughout the Mediterranean when the Latins were just a small tribe being attacked by the estrucans. And a certain Alexandria conquered the known world and spread Greek language and culture around.
I'm an AI bot and this AI bot is embarrassing. Please don't use their incompetence to judge the rest of us. Thank you.
Man you really blew this by using AI voice, this video is pointless if all of the sounds are pronounced by an English accent voice, your content and idea was good so it's a shame.
The meaning of this video is not the pronunciation but the ideas 🤗
@@yourgreektranslation Certainly, but the text of the video specifically contains phrases introducing the pronunciation in both languages, making the viewer think we are going to hear how the word sounds in Spanish and then in Greek... and we then hear identical American English for both. Rather absurd. AI just can't fill the shoes of a human being, now can it?
Absolutely true. Im Greek and they often confuse me for a Spaniard when I talk. Even in Spain I was confused as a Catalan.
And I thought it was only me 😅
As a speaker of both I have lived that when in London
3.06 i guess the makers of this video are not linguists, otherwise they would know that Latin is based on greek and not vice versa.the only thing that corresponds to the truth is the fact about musicality in the sound of these languages which is also true about italian.by the way i am a native greek and teacher of english
ancient Greek has also deeply influenced Latin so when words end up the same in modern languages is a counterloan of a counterloan from ancient Greek to modern and for ancient Greek to Latin to Spanish. Not that modern Greek don't have any Latin influences but mostly its from ancient Greek.
I agree as well 😄
“Kai ego” and “yo también “ am I missing something or misunderstood? They don’t sound anything alike
Yes because the narrator is not a native speaker 😤
This all sounds quite silly. Only AI is capable of producing that kind of nonsense. The very ideia that Spanish sounds like Greek is preposterous.
Many people who speak none of these languages recognise the fact that they do sound alike ☺️
@@yourgreektranslation I have never met one, sorry. You are probably mistaken.
I am a native Greek speaker living abroad and can confirm it as a fact: When overhearing Spanish people talking in the background (e.g., a cafe), it's always a "oh! Greeks" turn-the-head feeling for a few seconds (or much longer, if there's noise). Another fact is that Greeks usually pronounce Spanish perfectly without thinking about it.
@@nemorneI am seeing this type of comment a lot. It might be true for Greek speakers who listen to Spanish, but not the other way around. To my ears, Greek sounds quite different from Spanish, aside some words of Greek origin. And even then, while the sound of the word is similar, the accent is different.
this is completely WRONG
Would you like to explain? ☺️
It is so untrue and ridiculous that Latin influenced Greek. The Greek language is the oldest language in the Western world and it is actually the Greek language formed the basis(βασις) of all the other languages. It is thanks to the Greek language that the rest of Europe speaks what It speaks in each and every area of the continent. The microcosmos of Greece formed the macrocosmos of Europe
And the Ancient and Classicsl Greeks gave us so much more;
What?!
Don't you think these languages sound similar enough ? 🤗
Never thought of those two sounding similar at all...there's a fact that I've been listening to Greek every time i went there for summer vacation...
Also I came in contact with Spanish very early on trough tv sope operas that were on tv every day, so you had to hear it...
So maybe to my ear they sound nothing alike...but I can understand that to the ear that did not hear a lot of both languages it can sound similar...idk.🙂@@yourgreektranslation
Never thought of that as a Greek as well, but there were a few times when I was abroad that people thought I was speaking Spanish instead of Greek 🤗
Also Basque language sounds very similar to Greek.
Oh really? Didn't know that,sounds interesting! 🤗
@@yourgreektranslation Hello !!
You can try first νεβμα τυφλή εμπιστοσύνη that you might know, and then just open Berri Txarrak Biziraun. I use both them to show how similar can be them, but even if grammaticaly Basque is more similar to Turkish.
@@YamalGaseaRuiz Hm, I wouldn't say that Turkish grammar is similar to that of Basque just for both of them being agglutinative languages. Basque is more typologically close to Georgian (sharing such for example polypersonalism and ergativity, traits basically absent in Turkish), .
But it's an interesting observation that Basque can sound similar to Greek. Personally, I rather cannot relate to that, since they both sound pretty different in their own unique ways for me.
@@mareksagrak9527 Hello ! Its very difficult to evaluate if Bask is closer to those languages like Turkish, Hungarian, Japanese or even Native American languages. If you know Quechua and Turkish are very suspicious about how similar are them.
The theory about grupping Basque and Georgian also includes Chinese and Na Dene languages, I just think they drunk a lot of beer before saying that because as far as I know Im a Spaniard living in Turkey I know Basque very well even if I cannot speake it as I do with Turkish, and Im in the side of Basque language being close to Altaic, Uralic, Japanese, Native American and others of that type, and not Caucasian languages that have not been related to anything.
@@mareksagrak9527 I forgot another thing, Georgians are taking a very big effort to be Europeans (as others) and they way they try is to be similar to Bask people, Berbers also try to link themselves to Bask people. I think both of them are quite farer away in history than Turkish, Etruscan, Sumerian and others that resemble more.
I couldn't listen to more than half a minute of this video, uhhh
We are sorry you didn't like the video. Thank you for the valuable feedback anyway ☺️
For AI produced content, I'm impressed.
AI has been used in some points, regarding the media, please note that the content and ideas are original ☺️
@yourgreektranslation what about the voice?
There's absolutely no way somebody could mistake Greek for Spanish or vice versa. Romanian maybe but not greek
You can tell them apart but for someone like me who doesn't speak either, it takes a couple more seconds of listening to differentiate them. They definitely sound similar to foreigners
Happened to me though ! ☺️
They don't sound similar to me as a Greek,but foreigners have confused me as Spanish ! ☺️
@@yourgreektranslation As a Spanish i feel them very similar in sound, the first time I just landed in Athens more than 20 years ago I thought there were a lot of Spaniards there, then I approached them and they were Greeks, by the way ego mporo na milao liga elinika episis.
Feel free to learn some Greek facts from our channel as well ! 🤗