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.
@@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
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
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
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.
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?
English 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. 😂
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 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.
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 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.
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.
It is amazing that I can understand middle Chinese with ease. It is the poem 乌衣巷 of the Tang poet 刘禹锡 and 问刘十九 by 白居易. This version sounded more like the 吴 dialect than what I imagine old Chinese would be like.
Interesting. I only know and somewhat have a grasp on modern Chinese (simplified in writing) and I could recognize a little of the Middle Chinese, but it made sense why it had its idiosyncrasies. It’s in a whole other dialect, though I haven’t heard people speak the Wu dialect much, so I wouldn’t have recognized it.
Yes, I think if one knows more Chinese dialects, the easier it is to understand Middle Chinese because each dialect inherits some of its qualities, I know Cantonese and Hakka and easily understood the words in the video.
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) TH-cam 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.
@@elkmeatenjoyer3409 not being able to communicate with anyone would definitely be a very valid worry amongst disease, hunger, violence, etc. Especially because it makes a few of those things more likely.
As a native English speaker, I can only describe old English as sounding familiar, almost like you’re half asleep and listening to someone in a different room
What makes New English sound the way it does today is the influence of Latin. Today, the language we speak comprises about 60% Latin words, with about 10% French, and a bit of Irish and other languages from the region. The only reason why English is considered a Germanic language is that the base of the language is Old English and not Latin.
@@Dacangri2 60% Latin and 10% French? English is roughly 30% French and 15-30% Latin (sources conflict, Wikipedia says 15% Latin but others say 30%). A large portion of every day words that you speak colloquially are Germanic as they were used by commoners while ‘posh’ words are mostly French and Latin (languages of nobility and clergy)
@@vegetableman3911 I would urge you to use better sources than Wikipedia…anyone can put whatever they want in there…I made a Google searched and literally the first thing that pop off. rharriso.sites.truman.edu/latin-language/latin-and-english/#:~:text=English%20is%20especially%20rich%20in,Latin%20origin%20due%20to%20borrowing.
@@vegetableman3911 I would urge to use better sources than Wikipedia…anyone can literally write anything they want in there. Made a Google search and quite literally the first thing that came out substantiate my claim. rharriso.sites.truman.edu/latin-language/latin-and-english/#:~:text=English%20is%20especially%20rich%20in,Latin%20origin%20due%20to%20borrowing.
Timestamp: 0:00 Old Norse - 🇳🇴 0:24 Mayan language 0:54 Latin - 🇮🇹 1:29 Middle Chinese - 🇨🇳 1:59 Old English - 🏴 2:27 Old Japanese - 🇯🇵 2:57 Old Church Slavonic - 🇷🇸 3:27 Proto-Celtic language - Western Europe 3:57 Middle Egyptian - 🇪🇬 4:28 - Ryukyuan language - Ryukyu islands 4:56 Ancient Greek - 🇬🇷 5:31 Phoenician language - 🇱🇧 5:54 Hittite language - Turkey 🇹🇷 6:23 Quechua - The Inca empire.
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
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.
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
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.
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)
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.
@@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. th-cam.com/video/lrBuftKQQQY/w-d-xo.html Either way this video, or at least that specific part seems to me like junk.
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
@@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.
@@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.
@@rinalaskaa «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! :)
I felt the same way with the old English, Latin, and Proto-Celtic! I only speak English and French but have been around a lot of Gaelic speakers, have a German speaking mother, and come from an area where English tends to be spoken in a heavily Gaelic/Gaelig manner moreso than in a standard North American English tv accent/city accent kind of manner. It's so cool how unknown languages can catch the ear like that! I always feel that way when I hear Spanish or Portuguese because I speak French (Italian is a bit too different sounding for this - written, definitely same thing though). Very cool that ancient languages can also have this effect!
This is from an icelandic sketch comedy show that might resemble old norse, but I wouldn't consider it academically accurate. I gonna find the original.
What a bunch of misinformation. Danish sounds like a frog throwing up, this sounded more like Icelandic (which it should, all the other languages in Scandinavia became more Germanic since Christianity took over)
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.
@@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.
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
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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
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...
I’m a Ukrainian-Russian speaking person and I can still understand some of the old Slavic church language. It’s very beautiful. Also, ancient Egyptian is such a wonder to me. So beautiful.
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.
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.
@@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
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.
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!
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 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
@aliashoury2215 Sanskrit is the oldest language and Veda is the oldest Text , ramayan and Mahabharata worl largest epic,if you don't believe on that information search on internet ,or collect some info from books
Senti, bello, io sono italiana... Noi italiani parliamo più o meno in quel modo, ma non siamo ubriachi 😅. Rispondimi solo se hai capito ciò che ho scritto 😂. Ovviamente sto scherzando! I'm kidding, of course! 🌸
As a native speaker of Romance languages, Portuguese and Spanish, and having studied Latin at the University, I could understand the central point of the speech in Latin. He is delivering a celebrative speech about the concepts of liberty, the empire, and unity.
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!
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.
@@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.
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.
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!
@@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.
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…
♥️ 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! 🗣️ 🌏
These are all incredible but for some reason the last one, Akkadian, struck me the most. Maybe because of the fascinating and insane history of ancient Mesopotamia. The people, kings, and history of Assyria, Babylon, Sumer and Akkad are overwhelming, mind blowing and impressive. The shit they did coming from a desert landscape is truly epic. No pun intended.
LMAO, epic. Have you listened to Peter Pringle's music? He makes beautiful renditions of ancient Mesopotamian stories and lyrics. th-cam.com/video/dDRD3c-WAec/w-d-xo.htmlsi=VNc9S4E34kbIe8pM
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.
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!
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
@@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.
As a German, I'm always surprised at how much Saxon there is in the Anglo-Saxon English... But of course, it's a very young language in this compilation and very close to modern English and German.
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
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!
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!
Obviously I am very real, as one can see / hear from the pics and vocal recordings and from the intel way of writing - in fact, everyone with yt is real, as yts are clearly not making themselves, and, anyone that has an yt is supposed to know that!
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?"
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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
My husband is from Japan and we’ve noticed similarities in Japanese and Native American words or place names. There is a train stop in Tokyo that’s okachimachi. There is a town near us called Okauchee. Pronounced the same. Nagawaukee, Neosho etc. It’s fascinating for sure.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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 😅
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.
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
Approximate Time Stamps: 0:00 Old Norse 0:24 Mayan 0:54 Latin 1:30 Middle Chinese 1:59 Old English 2:28 Old Japanese 2:58 Old Church Slavonic 3:27 Proto-Celtic 3:57 Middle Egyptian 4:27 Ryukyuan 4:57 Ancient Greek 5:32 Phoenician 5:55 Hittite 6:24 Quechua 6:54 Akkadian
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 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
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
As a french speaker add a frankish accent to the proto celtic and you litteraly have the french prononciation.Impressive to what extent this language has not changed.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
As a Slav I'm proud to have understood about 10% of the Old Church Slavonic bit. Edit: didn't expect such a surge of thumbs up. Whole 500. Thanks I assume! Btw people... feel free to check my lyrics parodies! Just sayin' 😀
I understood like 50%, but other 50% i really don't know what it can be, because Church Slavonic was formed by dialect of Old Bulgarian and i'm not into South Slavic languages, but i also have feeling, that it's just a different sentences that aren't connected to eachother, or it's just because it 's not a full text
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
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.
@@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)
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.
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.
@@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.
5:30 Phoenician is fascinating, it sounds somewhere between Hebrew and Arabic, and the letters look like western European letters or even almost like Norse runes. I will say though, Phoenician probably isn’t the source for ALL modern European scripts. Kartvelian (Georgian, Abkhazia), and some Turkic (Azerbaijan), have scripts based in Iranian / Persian, and Arabic scripts. Granted they’re Caucasian / Caucasus, and also countries spanning both eastern Europe and western Asia, so perhaps I’m nitpicking here.
Phoenician and Hebrew were at first two dialects of the same language. The Phoenician/Paleo-Hebrew script is basically the same and it is the origin of most writing systems in the world today.
@@user-sh3cf7kd6e That makes a lot of sense from what I recall about Phoenician history and how it tied in with the early Hebrews. Thanks for the info! I do think Eastern and many American indigenous languages and Polynesian peoples have something completely different going on, and given how many languages are in China and India alone, I don’t know if “most languages around the world” is quite accurate. But you do appear to be right that most western languages are deeply rooted in the Phoenician alphabet, and that’s really awesome.
@@user-sh3cf7kd6e Although with many eastern and indigenous languages having a “Romaji” transliteration of their language with “Roman letters” for use on the internet or transliteration of languages with no written form, you could be right that most writing forms are technically based in the Phoenician alphabet 🤔 Fascinating!
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)
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...
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
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.
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
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
@@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
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.
When I wrote my M . A. paper about Old English almost 40 years ago , I tried to imagine its pronunciation, sounds and intonation . It was amazing to hear it in your video. Excellent !! ❤
Old Japanese just sounds like broken Japanese, but it's almost like there's a heavy focus on phonetics. But I guess since many of these languages were written like the Okinawan Ryukan (some of their preserved texts about song/rituals), I think symbolism plays a huge part. Words are easier to remember when you can associate them with imagery. So who knows! But this is amazing.
it honestly sounds like an english based text to speech reader trying to speak normal modern japanese. that's what makes me believe the intonation/phonetics and long pauses in this video for 'old japanese' are completely wrong. it was probably spoken as fast as modern japanese, with more or less similar phonetics. Quite a few of the words seem to be the same... its like the difference of a regional accent turned up to 200% Even the 'middle chinese' just sounds like slow, laggy chinese, it seems that for asian languages the text to speech is reading out individual words, instead of reading the lines as a full fluent sentence.
@@treesaregreen The phonetics of Ancient/Old Japanese were in fact quite different from modern Japanese or even Classical Japanese. To summarize some of the main differences quickly: All sounds of the modern "ha" row were instead pronounced like the "pa" row - there was no /h/ or /f/ sound yet. Modern /Shi/ was pronounced as /si/, /chi/ as /ti/, /tsu/ as /tu/ and /fu/ as /pu/. There were variant pronunciations of many of the "-i", "-e" and "-o" columns (but not for each row respectively), which were probably realized as a combination of the modern mora and a secondary sound. So you had both /ki/ and /kwi/ as well as /ke/ and /kye/ and /ko/ and /kwo/ as examples (going by the most recent research). They were written as one mora when using manyogana (phonetic representations of sounds through specific kanji in a way similar to how we use hiragana and katakana today). The /u/ sound appears to have been rounded (like in English) instead of unrounded (as in modern Japanese) The language also had a few more sounds that are not represented in today's phonology: /ye/, /wi/ and /we/ These differences were at least partially related to the more complicated verb system of the language compared to the contemporary one. /b/, /d/, /z/ and /g/ were probably pre-nasalised (meaning they were pronounced in a similar way as the /ng/ sound in English "finger", or how the mora /n/ still behaves in modern Japanese intervocally). The pitch accent system appears to have been similar to early modern Japanese. And yes, words are in large parts mostly equivalent to modern Japanese, the conservative Chinese script is probably responsible - but the pronunciation can be quite different. Compare the phrase "father and mother", "chichi-haha" in modern Japanese, but "titi-papa" in Ancient Japanese.
@@sertakiThanks. Now it makes more sense to me. Papa was probably baba before, and baba was mama even earlier (like it still is in many other languages from Italian to Slavic to Chinese). And Titi too must have same origin as English daddy, Ukrainian Tato. After all, such family words are the most ancient ones.
@@sertaki That makes sense, phonetics was the wrong word for me to use. Its the pacing, intonation and pitch accent that seems completely wrong. there's HUGE pauses inbetween every word and the tone RESETS with each word. meanwhile the next language in the video, Old Church Slavonik, is a solid string that actually sounds humanly spoken with varying emphasis across the sentence. AI needs data or input to learn from and i doubt that there's a collection of audio recordings of spoken ancient japanese for an AI to copy/learn from. AI and TTS are two seperate things. they used some cheap TTS, or an English TTS, or simply: the wrong TTS. by using an unsuitable TTS they completely butchered the entry for Old Japanese. (even if grammatically correct, it was spoken innacuratly.) Most of them came out nicely, but this 'AI channel' is a sham, they're even promoting a blatant scam in the video description...
Oh God, this is WONDERFUL !! Please more !!! Here are some languages I'd love to hear: 1. Mongolian as spoken in the era of Genghis Khan 2. Sogdian, the lingua franca of the Silk Road, spoken by Greeks, Arabs, even Chinese 3. Algonquian and other American Indian languages of the U.S. North East 4. Basque 5. Ancient Egyptian in the era of the Pharaohs. 6. What Carthaginian sounded like. 7. Ladino, the language of some of my ancestors (Judeo-Spanish)
As a chinese descent, I find it interesting how middle chinese sounds like a fusion of multiple Chinese dialects. The ones that sounded most prominent to me were Cantonese and Hakka. Common mandarin words such as flower and grass were easily identified. What I'm really curious is how do people actually know how these languages were spoken
Mostly using series of writings. If you've writings, especially in languages as well documented as Chinese(including various dialects), you can sort of trace how a language develops and then infer from there. Or you could have an author, like latin did, who outright writes a book on how you speak the language(of the 'vulgar' peoples latin) .
The Middle Chinese is well defined by the Qie Yun system, so the pronunciation is pretty much known. Each syllable has one of the 36 initial consonants (arranged as p ph b m pf, phf, bv, mv, t, th, d, n…), i or w or no glides, either a front or a back main vowel of 4/5 levels of mouth opening level very similar to Modern English, and open with no ending or closed with one of the six ending consonants -m -p -n -t -ng or -k. Open or nasal ending syllables can have one of the level, rising, or descending tones, plosive ending syllables take the entering tone. None of its Modern descendants match the whole thing well. But one can have a fairly accurate guess of the actual MC sounds. No one has a definitive idea of the sounds before MC though.
@@willl237 If you meant for the Middle Chinese in the video, yeah.The rime tables are on Middle Chinese. 隋唐宋的综合标准。of which the pronunciation is pretty much known. For the Old Chinese (秦汉三国）before that , nobody has a definitive idea. You only got 反切，a rough idea of pronunciation of starting and ending parts of a syllable. The Archaic Chinese before the 1st empire would be even murkier.
I saw a book yesterday in the Amnesty International Bookshop where I work, Learn Old English 😄 I think I might go and buy it tomorrow! This must be one of the most incredible things I’ve actually ever seen (I’m a linguist of modern European languages, a bit limiting; but I realise how many people have no concept of another language and I’m soo grateful for the gift. What I’d like to know is … How On Earth Did You Find This Out!!!! 😂 It’s insane and so beautiful!
I’m Italian and I understood quite well the latin part😳. It’s a very interesting video, but I would suggest to put the languages in a kinda chronological order, like putting the Indo-European language who were the first to be speaked next to the beginning of the video (after the other not-Indo-European maybe) so we could listen the evolution of these languages in the centuries. (I hope to had written clearly😅)
for me, as a Romanian speaker, it seems out of place like everywhere else to listen the sound of the Latin language with an Italian accent It's hilarious
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.
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
As a native Arabic speaker its fascinating how Arabic is persevered over so many centuries. Something i have taken for granted. We can read and understand poems from 15 centuries ago. Even the Quran is understood in its original form.
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.
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.
This is very insightful. Which is precisely why communist party tried to destroy Chinese people's tie to their own history, culture and identity by trying to eliminate the pictorial characters replacing them with alphabet, luckily they were not able to go all the way and resulted in simplified Chinese instead. Communist government will stop at nothing to control people
@@nekrataali Chinese is ideographic/logographic and only some characters are preserved as their pictographic forms. Also Chinese doesn't use "alphabets", they're "characters". 馬/马 used to be a drawing of a horse, but as you can see it looks nothing like one. Fun fact, simplified Chinese actually reset a lot of characters back to their pictographic forms, like 網(net) was turned back into 网.
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.
There are several Ryukyuan languages even today. These islands (Amami, Kunigami, Okinawa, Miyako, Yaeyama, and Yonaguni) all have their own dialect and are almost entirely different from one another, however, Japanese is still the primary language for the Ryukyu island chain.
If we look at it from logical point of view it's all Japanese languages - Japan peninsulas. Official modern Japanese is also dialect of Tokyo area and is just accepted as official form of Japanese language. Complexity of Japanese history (if we look on Japan as nowadays - all archipelago country) tells us about Old Japanese as pretty unified language spoken in middle islands. While Ryukyu kingdom and Hokkaido with Ainu people were separate countries but still close to each other by language and look (something like old Slavic countries formed by various Slavic trbies like Croatia, Serbia, etc - language is from Slavic group and is pretty similar only variations differentiate them). After Shogunate period rule of prohibition to leave regions contributed to slowly changing Old Japanese to dialects, so each region which grew up separately through centuries strted forming own ''languages'' i mean dialects of Japanese which totally sounded and looked different from each other. After Meiji period Official Japanese as we hear nowadays was established by using only one dialect in Tokyo area as official one. Even nowadays if you hear Japanese from other regions their local language can be really different in sound esp from official spoken one. As for old Ryukyuan language as one neighborhood former kingdom next to ''Japanese'' one which by that I mean not japanese in our modern context but on dynasties in middle islands, it does sound similar to both neighbours - Korean and middle-island japanese, naturally.
Ryukyuan languages are the only other members, with Japanese (old Japanese to current), of the Japonic family, although Hachijo language (Izu islands) is hotly debated as a potential 3rd member.
@@abnercarvalho-batista1523Parece ser um discurso político, algo sobre o quão forte/sortudo é o governo e como as diferentes classes da cidade/império estão unidas sobre um único objetivo.
Being Polish I can understand some of what is said in Old Church Slavonic, and it's a wild trip :D language evolution is fascinating. To think that some words sound very similar to what is used today, after so many centuries is just mind blowing. Thanks to language there's a connection to previous generations from so long ago, how awesome is that? :)
@karolina8465 It feels like it is a mix of Ukrainian, Polish, Bulgarian and others (imho) languages. And as I said below, I remembered the words of my teacher in my university that every single language changes itself til 100% throughout 1000 years. So being an 🇺🇦Ukrainian (form ancient the Kievan Rus) I can pick up several words from Old Church Slavonic only.
As a native Spanish speaker, I loved to listen to Latin and to say i could understand a significant % of what was said. My Latin studies paid off! Inalso loved hearing Old English and Old Norse. WOW. Hearing all these beautiful has been delightful. Music to my ears! languages
@@isabelbelem9062 Creo que es porque el portugués suena diferente y eso hace que esté más alejado del latín. El italiano y el español suenan más como latín que el portugués.
It's really interesting project. As a japanese, there is something I notice. An outfit and hair style of woman at japanese scene isn't ancient ages. Ancient japanese language is from 8 centry, but the clothes and hair style come from edo era. Edo era is from 17 centry to 19 centry. It's a small point, but I add this note for everyone's learning.
Are we on something like "Candid Camera"? Or it is you that are so naif to not recognize that it was trained on actual recordings, with a great degree of "freedom" ( to f. you as the clickbaiter pleases) ?
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...
@@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.
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 .
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.
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
@@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
I am Italian and I could understand almost all of the latin speech. Interestingly, we study latin in high school, but the written form is much more difficult to learn. I am under the impression that the audio version would make more people familiar with it. I hope in the future AI could help revive this old language ! Ps. Some Catholic Churches still deliver services in Latin, but because of the chanted rhythm it is not always easy to understand.
@@NomadicTraveler-f8phe 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.
I've been waiting for exactly this Thank you so much for the upload A I has braught the past to life I watch ancient historical docs all the time but this is literally the first time I get to actually hear how it was spoken 😃
2:57 as a person who fluently speaks Ukrainian and Russian (they both are not my mother tongues) and also understands Czech and Serbian, I can confirm that I almost understood completely the old church Slavic. Amazing!
Well, that`s interesting bc I am fluent in Serbian, German and English and I understood just few words of the Old Church Slavic but I must admit that phonetically it sounds very familiar to me.. Far away from understanding any of the other old languages....
@@fannyboni472 This what I have understood: He speaks about Jesus Christ and that prophets had said about Him. Then he says that Jesus came so that the blind could see and the deaf could hear the Word of God and that this is the reason why you(those to whom he speaks) are hearing this words.
It's actually quite expected that modern Ryukyuan sounds closer to modern Japanese than Old Japanese (essentially, the proto-language for both). Most Slavic languages also generally sound closer to each other than to Proto-Slavic. That's because subsequent developments aren't entirely independent; they're largely predefined by the original phonology and may be open to areal influences to the top of it.
Old Japanese has closer relations to its south East Asian heritage - indigenous Japanese like the ainu are genetically and culturally linked to their south East Asian brethren and heavily influenced old Japanese
@@AshenAshAshy Ainu is an isolated language with no established external connections. No established specific genetic connections between modern Ainu and other populations have been revealed either. Overall it seems that the core part of the Ainu's ancestors have settled the most of the archipelago (minus the southernmost part, where poorly attested independent populations existed) very long ago, before the formation and subsequent diffusion of the modern Mongoloid race (which happened circa 6-8 thousand years b.c.). As for the Japanese, it seems their origin is tricomponent: the Jomon substrate (local acrchaic varieties of Ainu, which weren't particularly numerous but still managed to leave various traces) and the rapidly breeding Yayoi rice farmers, which, in turn, look like mostly a mix of migrants from Korea and from some more southern area (speculatively, Yue kingdom, which was conquered by Chu during roughly the same period; that's also in line with the mentions of Yue having a navy - something uncommon for the region of the time).
@@AshenAshAshy I've always wondered if those doubled-up words (apparently term is 畳語) in Japanese which are not onomatopoeic are an Austronesian language remnant -- common form in Tagalog, Malay, etc.
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As an English speaker, hearing the Old English makes me feel like the foreigner trying to learn modern English for the first time
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.
I didn't realize that there were so many rolling "R"s in Old English.
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.
@@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
Sounds german
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
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
Μου λες πως καταλαβες αυτα που ελεγε???🤣🤣 γιατι εμενα μου φανηκαν ξενα. Πρεπει να ασχολεισαι με τα θεωρητικα μαθηματα μαλλον.
Is the erasmic accent, used here, even valid;
similar to here in HK and China XD
Learning the ancient Chinese in high school
@@angelosmpesiropoulos7429 Ή ξένος είναι και λέει μαλακιές ή απλά ασχολείται με τα αρχαία και τα φιλολογικά
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.
Exactly!
When I go with my parents my siblings come too
To me it feels like a time traveler when back in time to get interviews
A museum would never rip apart linguistic cultures and put AI's mumbling gibberish . As a Greek I feel insulted by this video .
@@TheCombraste you speak ancient greek
Is so impressive how humans can create so many different sounds, so many different words in all the languages that existed and still exist!
I won't lie, this sent chills down my spine. It's insane how English ~1000 years ago was basically a completely different language.
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?
English 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. 😂
That's a good take, compared to these mostly nonsensical other comments under the vid.
@@CorModowhat comment was it?
Ancient chinese still sound modern chinese 😂😂😂
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?
they would feel like i do do now , a man out of place in the land of his birth
@@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.
@@raymondtonns2521
"water flowing underground
same as it ever was
same as it ever was"
@@SilentHotdog28where are u from?
@@udiptatalukdar116 West of Melbourne, Australia.
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.
Oh, that's so interesting, I was wondering what they say? can you translate it for me please?
@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.
I have been learning Icelandic and Old Norse. Having a hell of a time, but very fun.
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.
@@h6502 they blur the words but yeah similar
It is amazing that I can understand middle Chinese with ease. It is the poem 乌衣巷 of the Tang poet 刘禹锡 and 问刘十九 by 白居易. This version sounded more like the 吴 dialect than what I imagine old Chinese would be like.
Interesting. I only know and somewhat have a grasp on modern Chinese (simplified in writing) and I could recognize a little of the Middle Chinese, but it made sense why it had its idiosyncrasies. It’s in a whole other dialect, though I haven’t heard people speak the Wu dialect much, so I wouldn’t have recognized it.
Yes, I think if one knows more Chinese dialects, the easier it is to understand Middle Chinese because each dialect inherits some of its qualities, I know Cantonese and Hakka and easily understood the words in the video.
聽到飛入尋常百姓家就知道了
@@彭海星 no wonder I heard the Chinese recitatal sounded like some mixture of 闽、粤、客dialects..
I understand to
I've always LOVED the way Latin was spoken. It was so powerful and boistrous, but still very classy and refined sounding.
Sounds like Italian to me
@@JustAGuySlayingDragonswell, Italian is derived from Latin
@@JustAGuySlayingDragonsno way!!
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! 😳 🇮🇹
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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) TH-cam 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.
@@acylonepleidian9665Any links where you can hear real ancient Latin?
Getting transmigrated into one of these eras would be a nightmare. I'd bawl my eyes out the moment they start speaking.
Fr lmaooo
That would be the last of your worries.
@@elkmeatenjoyer3409 not being able to communicate with anyone would definitely be a very valid worry amongst disease, hunger, violence, etc. Especially because it makes a few of those things more likely.
I'm pretty sure they'd be very confused about some schmuck in unusual looking clothing trying to speak in an tongue that doesn't even exist yet
Learn cherades
As a native English speaker, I can only describe old English as sounding familiar, almost like you’re half asleep and listening to someone in a different room
Wicked familiar. Old Latin to. But so strange to. Like you wanna ask “Come again?”
What makes New English sound the way it does today is the influence of Latin. Today, the language we speak comprises about 60% Latin words, with about 10% French, and a bit of Irish and other languages from the region. The only reason why English is considered a Germanic language is that the base of the language is Old English and not Latin.
@@Dacangri2 60% Latin and 10% French? English is roughly 30% French and 15-30% Latin (sources conflict, Wikipedia says 15% Latin but others say 30%). A large portion of every day words that you speak colloquially are Germanic as they were used by commoners while ‘posh’ words are mostly French and Latin (languages of nobility and clergy)
@@vegetableman3911 I would urge you to use better sources than Wikipedia…anyone can put whatever they want in there…I made a Google searched and literally the first thing that pop off. rharriso.sites.truman.edu/latin-language/latin-and-english/#:~:text=English%20is%20especially%20rich%20in,Latin%20origin%20due%20to%20borrowing.
@@vegetableman3911 I would urge to use better sources than Wikipedia…anyone can literally write anything they want in there. Made a Google search and quite literally the first thing that came out substantiate my claim. rharriso.sites.truman.edu/latin-language/latin-and-english/#:~:text=English%20is%20especially%20rich%20in,Latin%20origin%20due%20to%20borrowing.
Timestamp:
0:00 Old Norse - 🇳🇴
0:24 Mayan language
0:54 Latin - 🇮🇹
1:29 Middle Chinese - 🇨🇳
1:59 Old English - 🏴
2:27 Old Japanese - 🇯🇵
2:57 Old Church Slavonic - 🇷🇸
3:27 Proto-Celtic language - Western Europe
3:57 Middle Egyptian - 🇪🇬
4:28 - Ryukyuan language - Ryukyu islands
4:56 Ancient Greek - 🇬🇷
5:31 Phoenician language - 🇱🇧
5:54 Hittite language - Turkey 🇹🇷
6:23 Quechua - The Inca empire.
Accadico
6:54 🇮🇶🇮🇶🇮🇶🇮🇶Where is Akkadian?
Church slavonic Serbian flag???
6:54 Akkadian - 🏴
My husband is Guatemalan, and he speaks the Mayan dialect of Achii. There are 23 Mayan dialects in Guatemala. 🇬🇹
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
@@Sugarsail1 Ok?
The Spanish empire forbid native languages? First news. Is there any evidence of such laws or is this just nonsense and revisionism?
@jjemail5284 Thanks for the correction. I meant languages 😅
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.
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
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.
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)
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.
@@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.
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Either way this video, or at least that specific part seems to me like junk.
@@Smin-f3h makes a lot of sense tbh, I'm guessing that shi also used to be si
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
Old Church Slavonic can also be called old Bulgarian since that was its original name
they put middle egyptian in the middle lol
Thanks
@@MatteoBelongsInAmentalHospital talk like an Egyptian 🕺💃🏼
@@VioletScene2014 you are welcome
1:58 "wildfire nelson, to the nifty calm, hand houses"🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯
you're deaf
LOL
Lol
As a history teacher, that was absolutely fantastic! Going to share parts of this with my class.
Are you sure that AI is correct ? No you are not
@@TLnetpilotWhat?
@@TLnetpilot «Are you sure that AI is correct ? No you are not»
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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.
@@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.
@@rinalaskaa «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.»
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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! :)
As a danish person, the Old Norse is pronounced in a way we still speak today and I also did understand a few words
I felt the same way with the old English, Latin, and Proto-Celtic! I only speak English and French but have been around a lot of Gaelic speakers, have a German speaking mother, and come from an area where English tends to be spoken in a heavily Gaelic/Gaelig manner moreso than in a standard North American English tv accent/city accent kind of manner. It's so cool how unknown languages can catch the ear like that! I always feel that way when I hear Spanish or Portuguese because I speak French (Italian is a bit too different sounding for this - written, definitely same thing though). Very cool that ancient languages can also have this effect!
As a Danish person I didnt understand a word. My best guesstimate would be something about a bear?
This is from an icelandic sketch comedy show that might resemble old norse, but I wouldn't consider it academically accurate. I gonna find the original.
Like latin form a Italian
What a bunch of misinformation. Danish sounds like a frog throwing up, this sounded more like Icelandic (which it should, all the other languages in Scandinavia became more Germanic since Christianity took over)
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.
It does sound almost like Scandinavian, which is very interesting given that they migrated to Britain over 1000 years ago.
Sounds like finnish
@@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.
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
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.
0:17 what is my cusion "yapping" about?
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.
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.
@@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.
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
I speak 4 languages and 3 or 4 dialects of the same languages😂😂😂
@@TakiMitsuha2016
Are you European
Now you know what your pet feels like when you talk to them.
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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...
i love this! 😂 "now you know how your pet feels when you talk to them" 😁👍 i even tried to imagine it for a second. you made my day. 🙌...
😂
*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*
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Champ!!
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Where is Ancient Sanskrit Language 😢😢😢
@@Kiran-t8i9o
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I’m a Ukrainian-Russian speaking person and I can still understand some of the old Slavic church language. It’s very beautiful.
Also, ancient Egyptian is such a wonder to me. So beautiful.
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.
Nooo, as a Swedish speaker, Old Norse definitely sounds more Icelandic.
As a swedish speaker myself, the voice and the accent sounded like finnish to me.
@@muzikbudAs a non swedish speaker, and scot, I also thought it sounded finnish to me. How strange.
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.
@@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
As a German, i think i understand some bits of Old English. It sounds like a weird mixture of English and German
Old English sounded more Germanic,
Until the Normans came and added french vocabularies.
As a native English speaker who has studied both modern German and Old English, I agree!
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.
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!
It's basically the long lost cousin of Low German
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.
and Sanskrit ??
@@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
@@AnhNguyen-hn9vj no its scary bro 😭😭
@aliashoury2215 it's Sanskrit
@aliashoury2215 Sanskrit is the oldest language and Veda is the oldest Text , ramayan and Mahabharata worl largest epic,if you don't believe on that information search on internet ,or collect some info from books
Old nordic is the most badass language I’ve ever heard.
Latin sounds like an Italian got drunk and a little high and just started shouting in the town square.
IA assumed a modern Italian accent. I doubt it sounded like that.
I feel like Latin sounds like Spanish French and Italian all together in one lol as if they were drunk
yeah that's pretty much it
Senti, bello, io sono italiana... Noi italiani parliamo più o meno in quel modo, ma non siamo ubriachi 😅. Rispondimi solo se hai capito ciò che ho scritto 😂. Ovviamente sto scherzando! I'm kidding, of course! 🌸
@@oolivegreen
Well that’s where they’re all from
As a native speaker of Romance languages, Portuguese and Spanish, and having studied Latin at the University, I could understand the central point of the speech in Latin. He is delivering a celebrative speech about the concepts of liberty, the empire, and unity.
As Brazilian, I understand the tone and the general speech theme too.
Having studied Latin for many years, I could understand some expressions. The pronunciation was very well done.
So cool
Thank you for that! I speak Italian but not Latin; very useful ☺️
The whole thing gives me goosebumps - just fantastic.
@@novalmaxxed German and Anglo-Saxon????
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!
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.
@@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.
@@V-XENOÁbrase sapo. 🐸
@@V-XENO Tranquilo, yo le pregunté. :v
yeah, city people would see you like uncultured village people right ?
Gave me chills. Most never even give thought, to how languages really sounded. Thank you.
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
Our teacher read it to us in Middle English
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.
that's not old English
That's not Old English. Old English (also known as Anglo-Saxon or Anglish) would be "Iċ bidde þē þæt þū sprece slāwor."@Mone333Williams
@@Mone333Williamsincorrect usage. You don’t understand the grammar to use it properly.
My grandfather would speak quechua regularly. I didnt realize how old of a language it was until i was older.
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!
@@skywriter4308 yes, it bothers me when people claim certain languages are older than others.
Why didn't you learn it?
@@henrystoes6508 dude English is clearly older than Latin. Romans were jealous of the British and so they rewrote history
@@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.
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…
♥️ 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! 🗣️ 🌏
Or maybe your soul remembers hearing and speaking those languages in a past life.
🙄@@Betty-qz5zd
These are all incredible but for some reason the last one, Akkadian, struck me the most. Maybe because of the fascinating and insane history of ancient Mesopotamia. The people, kings, and history of Assyria, Babylon, Sumer and Akkad are overwhelming, mind blowing and impressive. The shit they did coming from a desert landscape is truly epic. No pun intended.
LMAO, epic. Have you listened to Peter Pringle's music? He makes beautiful renditions of ancient Mesopotamian stories and lyrics. th-cam.com/video/dDRD3c-WAec/w-d-xo.htmlsi=VNc9S4E34kbIe8pM
I just wanted to make my appreciation a bit more tangible, because I'm absolutely awe-struck by this beautiful presentation! Thank You!
yeah he put some really hard work in this
yeah his AI worked hard@@holysoremelon8777
Why is there only 1 comment he deserves more
It is all AI...
@@matronaronaWhat the hell did they train AI with to verbalize so many dead languages?
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.
That would be so cool!! I’d love to go to something like that!
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!
It's called reenacting lol. Good living history museums are able to pull this sort of thing off too
THAT is an _amazing_ idea!!!!
Pretty much sounds like the human zoo from the previous century to me 😅
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
Where were you born? Ur nckname sounds like Slavic
@@VinzentVega he is nothing but a slavic slave
You don’t look or sound like you’re from Okinawa 😜
Sure “Borislav” …. (Lol jk)
@@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.
As a German, I'm always surprised at how much Saxon there is in the Anglo-Saxon English... But of course, it's a very young language in this compilation and very close to modern English and German.
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
If anything, they talked about God in Church Slavonic.
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!
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 the ultimate yapper
Obviously I am very real, as one can see / hear from the pics and vocal recordings and from the intel way of writing - in fact, everyone with yt is real, as yts are clearly not making themselves, and, anyone that has an yt is supposed to know that!
old English : "rrr"
modern English :"uyh"
More like nuh uh
Weird how we dont pronounce r in english like the other germanic languages right?
They used to be more like MEN back in the days
@@kingkayfabe5358easier than the german r i must say. the only germanic language with a preserved thrill r is probably icelandic
@@ramyahwash5455bro what 😭
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?"
Thank you
It actually sounded like a mix of modern mandarin and cantonese to me.
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 '!'
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
Thank you 🙏👍
My husband is from Japan and we’ve noticed similarities in Japanese and Native American words or place names. There is a train stop in Tokyo that’s okachimachi. There is a town near us called Okauchee. Pronounced the same. Nagawaukee, Neosho etc. It’s fascinating for sure.
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.
Brilliant ❤
where was this school?
I also had a high school English teacher who studied old and middle English, and she read some of the original Beowulf to us
@@katherinejones2216 wowwwwww
Chaucer is Middle English but much closer than we to old English
As one of the rare people who are able to speak the Phoenician language and appreciate its beauty, this video is approved.
Where did you learn?
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.
@@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.
I'm sure that I can hear similarities in Phoenician and Maltese. It would make sense historically and geographically.
Suuuuure you can. …and I speak Assyrian
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.
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.
@@kyntyr5474 Norse is Germanic. Specifically North Germanic, hence 'Norse'.
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.
@@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.
Modern English has a lot of Latin and French mixed in
4:08 strange as it may be but that sounds exactly like I think the Pharaohs of Egypt would sound like.
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.
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.
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 😅
@Numerius I didn't understand you say ancient Greek is from Latin and Italian 🤔
@@Cool-yr8go who told you that the modern Greek has nothing to do with the Ancient Greek?
Because with the new Greek difficult to translate the old Greek and it's weird 🤷 was just a question I don't understand
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.
Where exactly in Eastern Europe? Romania? Hungary? "Eastern Europe" doesnt mean anything particular.
The pronunciation of ancient Egyptian is mostly a guess, so I doubt that Middle Egyptians would understand the speaker in this recording today.
@@bettyrouch1833i think the language is extinct , Egyptians only speak arabic in modern times
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
@@LucMtl1wrong a few villages still speak coptic as a first language
Kudos to the person who sailed the seven sea to record this for us!
You're welcome kind stranger
Most definitely! And how on EARTH did they find all this out I would really like to know 😄 🤸🏻♀️
and also traveled through time
The old Arabic is so shitty bro what😂
youre welcome everybody
Approximate Time Stamps:
0:00 Old Norse
0:24 Mayan
0:54 Latin
1:30 Middle Chinese
1:59 Old English
2:28 Old Japanese
2:58 Old Church Slavonic
3:27 Proto-Celtic
3:57 Middle Egyptian
4:27 Ryukyuan
4:57 Ancient Greek
5:32 Phoenician
5:55 Hittite
6:24 Quechua
6:54 Akkadian
Thank you
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
and what’s crazy is we’ve been doing it way before recorded history. These are just the languages we know of lol
@@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
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.
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.
TH-cam KANAL:'die Zuversicht' mit "Die grösste Verschwörung der Geschichte" /// Vielleicht interessiert es sie ja, es handelt von der deutschen Sprache.
I love how language is something that constantly evolves.
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.
Language is a symptom of human thought. It has to keep changing to accommodate its user.
Ikr.. I wuz actually like literally like foreal
@@diizzii and people talk like this 😆😂
Thats what he said.
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.
Deberían enseñarlo en las escuelas
Shadow of the Tomb Raider game has NPCs that speak Quechua (if settings are turned on to hear background characters speak their native language).
when i was visiting peru i met and slept with a quechua family, this culture is amazing
@@aberamat3461 It is indeed. Andean culture is the foundation of our peruvian identity.
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.
As a french speaker add a frankish accent to the proto celtic and you litteraly have the french prononciation.Impressive to what extent this language has not changed.
As a french speaker I can't hear ANY similarity with Proto-Celtic. Must be the frankish accent...
@@plevasus It's more a question of intonation for me
France used to be celtic before the germanic franks the latin romans
@@bababoi9294 France and the French are not Latin
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.
Русский здесь , Старославянский тоже используется в наших православных церквях , довольно хорошо понимаю , 70% точно.
Привет братьям Сербам 🇷🇸🤝🇷🇺 ❤❤❤
@@ketone4444 Old Bulgarian is used in your churches because the First Bulgarian Empire spread Christianity to the Kievan Rus
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Да, кстати. Про Христа и церковь говорит, половина слов понятна.
Christ is risen, my friend!
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.
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!
if it was spoken normally like the rest you wouldn't think so
It's like some ancient spell that will start put huge blocks of stones together
Omg yes I got a lil scared 😂😂😂
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.
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.
Why do all these animations feature people who can't keep still like bobble heads?
@@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.
@@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.
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.
@@luxborealisI'm pretty he called a woman a witch towards the end, so that checks out.
Love the sound of some of these. They just hit the ear so much smoother than some more modern languages.
As a Slav I'm proud to have understood about 10% of the Old Church Slavonic bit.
Edit: didn't expect such a surge of thumbs up. Whole 500. Thanks I assume! Btw people... feel free to check my lyrics parodies! Just sayin' 😀
I understood like 50%, but other 50% i really don't know what it can be, because Church Slavonic was formed by dialect of Old Bulgarian and i'm not into South Slavic languages, but i also have feeling, that it's just a different sentences that aren't connected to eachother, or it's just because it 's not a full text
Для беларуса дастаткова зразумела.
@@DzmitryKrakadzeyau А мені, як українцю теж досить зрозуміло
@@Вгостяхугеймера-м1к 🤝
Who asked weird dogs?
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
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.
@@escomzand what's the reason for Mandarin having changed so much? The various invasions by people who spoke different languages?
@@connaeris8230also intrigued to find out
@@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)
Don't be deceived, ancient aramaic or Hebraic language is actually YORUBA language
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.
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.
Pheonicain sounds closer to hebrew than arabic lol
Phoenicians are from phoenix
@@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.
More like north africain arabic
5:30 Phoenician is fascinating, it sounds somewhere between Hebrew and Arabic, and the letters look like western European letters or even almost like Norse runes. I will say though, Phoenician probably isn’t the source for ALL modern European scripts. Kartvelian (Georgian, Abkhazia), and some Turkic (Azerbaijan), have scripts based in Iranian / Persian, and Arabic scripts. Granted they’re Caucasian / Caucasus, and also countries spanning both eastern Europe and western Asia, so perhaps I’m nitpicking here.
Phoenician and Hebrew were at first two dialects of the same language. The Phoenician/Paleo-Hebrew script is basically the same and it is the origin of most writing systems in the world today.
@@user-sh3cf7kd6e That makes a lot of sense from what I recall about Phoenician history and how it tied in with the early Hebrews. Thanks for the info! I do think Eastern and many American indigenous languages and Polynesian peoples have something completely different going on, and given how many languages are in China and India alone, I don’t know if “most languages around the world” is quite accurate. But you do appear to be right that most western languages are deeply rooted in the Phoenician alphabet, and that’s really awesome.
@@user-sh3cf7kd6e Although with many eastern and indigenous languages having a “Romaji” transliteration of their language with “Roman letters” for use on the internet or transliteration of languages with no written form, you could be right that most writing forms are technically based in the Phoenician alphabet 🤔 Fascinating!
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You can just write in Google Images "Phoenician to Latin chart"
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)
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...
@@rey_nemaattori Totally agree. Don't think it would take long to understand
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
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.
It Is not Old Norse but Icelandic.
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
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
@@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
My friend, why didn't you say the ancient Turkish language, because the history of this language is also very old, please add it.
I dont think their ai since it says their expertly voiced in the description but it doesn't exactly says its professionals.
@@Valskyr seethe
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.
My wife's japanese, she didn't understand any of the old japanese but understood everything in ryukyuan. hell even i did.
sounds a bit like korean to me
@@jonathandonovan1802 same i understood a decent portion of ryukyuan and the old japanese was like ?????
@@hooligans7618 i think they mockingbus here. who's valued thier sources?
Interesting that's what I thought, too.
Amazed at how "Apocalypto" uses the Mayan Language. Still the best movie of all time.
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
They’re going to be saying “skibidi toilet cringe Minecraft rizz chabizness? Lgbt pear/pearls rizz lol incel spunchbob ze/zim.”
@@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!
Say on Rizz?@@stringercorrales6627
only if the earth is not destroyed by that time 😂
And they would be surprised on how fast we talk nowadays
As an arab speaker the phoenician is like someone making up a language without changing the accent.
sounds like early jewish ahh language to me dawg
Yup with all kkafs in there , akkadian felt kinda similar too
Im norwegian and thats exacly what norse sounded like to me
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Phoenicians probably had their own accent but it was lost to time
When I wrote my M . A. paper about Old English almost 40 years ago , I tried to imagine its pronunciation, sounds and intonation . It was amazing to hear it in your video. Excellent !! ❤
It's cool to hear someone speak Latin. It really is quite similar in the way it sounds to Spanish.
Old Japanese just sounds like broken Japanese, but it's almost like there's a heavy focus on phonetics. But I guess since many of these languages were written like the Okinawan Ryukan (some of their preserved texts about song/rituals), I think symbolism plays a huge part. Words are easier to remember when you can associate them with imagery. So who knows! But this is amazing.
it honestly sounds like an english based text to speech reader trying to speak normal modern japanese.
that's what makes me believe the intonation/phonetics and long pauses in this video for 'old japanese' are completely wrong.
it was probably spoken as fast as modern japanese, with more or less similar phonetics.
Quite a few of the words seem to be the same... its like the difference of a regional accent turned up to 200%
Even the 'middle chinese' just sounds like slow, laggy chinese,
it seems that for asian languages the text to speech is reading out individual words, instead of reading the lines as a full fluent sentence.
@@treesaregreen I concur. The "AI" on this channel still needs some work lol ^_^
@@treesaregreen The phonetics of Ancient/Old Japanese were in fact quite different from modern Japanese or even Classical Japanese.
To summarize some of the main differences quickly:
All sounds of the modern "ha" row were instead pronounced like the "pa" row - there was no /h/ or /f/ sound yet.
Modern /Shi/ was pronounced as /si/, /chi/ as /ti/, /tsu/ as /tu/ and /fu/ as /pu/.
There were variant pronunciations of many of the "-i", "-e" and "-o" columns (but not for each row respectively), which were probably realized as a combination of the modern mora and a secondary sound. So you had both /ki/ and /kwi/ as well as /ke/ and /kye/ and /ko/ and /kwo/ as examples (going by the most recent research). They were written as one mora when using manyogana (phonetic representations of sounds through specific kanji in a way similar to how we use hiragana and katakana today). The /u/ sound appears to have been rounded (like in English) instead of unrounded (as in modern Japanese)
The language also had a few more sounds that are not represented in today's phonology: /ye/, /wi/ and /we/
These differences were at least partially related to the more complicated verb system of the language compared to the contemporary one.
/b/, /d/, /z/ and /g/ were probably pre-nasalised (meaning they were pronounced in a similar way as the /ng/ sound in English "finger", or how the mora /n/ still behaves in modern Japanese intervocally).
The pitch accent system appears to have been similar to early modern Japanese.
And yes, words are in large parts mostly equivalent to modern Japanese, the conservative Chinese script is probably responsible - but the pronunciation can be quite different.
Compare the phrase "father and mother", "chichi-haha" in modern Japanese, but "titi-papa" in Ancient Japanese.
@@sertakiThanks. Now it makes more sense to me.
Papa was probably baba before, and baba was mama even earlier (like it still is in many other languages from Italian to Slavic to Chinese).
And Titi too must have same origin as English daddy, Ukrainian Tato.
After all, such family words are the most ancient ones.
@@sertaki That makes sense, phonetics was the wrong word for me to use.
Its the pacing, intonation and pitch accent that seems completely wrong.
there's HUGE pauses inbetween every word and the tone RESETS with each word.
meanwhile the next language in the video, Old Church Slavonik, is a solid string that actually sounds humanly spoken with varying emphasis across the sentence.
AI needs data or input to learn from and i doubt that there's a collection of audio recordings of spoken ancient japanese for an AI to copy/learn from.
AI and TTS are two seperate things. they used some cheap TTS, or an English TTS, or simply: the wrong TTS. by using an unsuitable TTS they completely butchered the entry for Old Japanese. (even if grammatically correct, it was spoken innacuratly.)
Most of them came out nicely, but this 'AI channel' is a sham, they're even promoting a blatant scam in the video description...
Oh God, this is WONDERFUL !!
Please more !!! Here are some languages I'd love to hear:
1. Mongolian as spoken in the era of Genghis Khan
2. Sogdian, the lingua franca of the Silk Road, spoken by Greeks, Arabs, even Chinese
3. Algonquian and other American Indian languages of the U.S. North East
4. Basque
5. Ancient Egyptian in the era of the Pharaohs.
6. What Carthaginian sounded like.
7. Ladino, the language of some of my ancestors (Judeo-Spanish)
Are you Sephardic? Me too
Hopefully it's Basque without the Spanish accent.
@@musiktranen Family stories say yes but no DNA proof yet.
Isn't Carthiginian basically phoenician?
Egyptian is at 4:00
As a chinese descent, I find it interesting how middle chinese sounds like a fusion of multiple Chinese dialects. The ones that sounded most prominent to me were Cantonese and Hakka. Common mandarin words such as flower and grass were easily identified.
What I'm really curious is how do people actually know how these languages were spoken
Mostly using series of writings. If you've writings, especially in languages as well documented as Chinese(including various dialects), you can sort of trace how a language develops and then infer from there. Or you could have an author, like latin did, who outright writes a book on how you speak the language(of the 'vulgar' peoples latin)
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The Middle Chinese is well defined by the Qie Yun system, so the pronunciation is pretty much known. Each syllable has one of the 36 initial consonants (arranged as p ph b m pf, phf, bv, mv, t, th, d, n…), i or w or no glides, either a front or a back main vowel of 4/5 levels of mouth opening level very similar to Modern English, and open with no ending or closed with one of the six ending consonants -m -p -n -t -ng or -k. Open or nasal ending syllables can have one of the level, rising, or descending tones, plosive ending syllables take the entering tone.
None of its Modern descendants match the whole thing well. But one can have a fairly accurate guess of the actual MC sounds. No one has a definitive idea of the sounds before MC though.
they know exactly what old chinese sounded like because of rhyme tables. Books that tell you how words were pronounced
@@willl237 If you meant for the Middle Chinese in the video, yeah.The rime tables are on Middle Chinese. 隋唐宋的综合标准。of which the pronunciation is pretty much known.
For the Old Chinese (秦汉三国）before that , nobody has a definitive idea. You only got 反切，a rough idea of pronunciation of starting and ending parts of a syllable. The Archaic Chinese before the 1st empire would be even murkier.
I was thinking the same. How do we know this is how the languages were actually spoken.
I saw a book yesterday in the Amnesty International Bookshop where I work, Learn Old English 😄 I think I might go and buy it tomorrow!
This must be one of the most incredible things I’ve actually ever seen (I’m a linguist of modern European languages, a bit limiting; but I realise how many people have no concept of another language and I’m soo grateful for the gift.
What I’d like to know is … How On Earth Did You Find This Out!!!! 😂 It’s insane and so beautiful!
I’m Italian and I understood quite well the latin part😳. It’s a very interesting video, but I would suggest to put the languages in a kinda chronological order, like putting the Indo-European language who were the first to be speaked next to the beginning of the video (after the other not-Indo-European maybe) so we could listen the evolution of these languages in the centuries. (I hope to had written clearly😅)
Italicho barbaros. Latine pulcharus.
@@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008 oops
eu não entendi muito do latim, só algumas palavras
I agree. Chronological progression would be intetesting. But Egyptian and Asian languages sound very alien. And no mention of Indian (india) language.
for me, as a Romanian speaker, it seems out of place like everywhere else to listen the sound of the Latin language with an Italian accent
It's hilarious
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.
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
Swedish and Danish are East Norse, Norwegian and Icelandic are West Norse
As a Swede I found it easier to understand the old English than the old Norse…
I’m learning Swedish and I didn’t understand a word 😂
@@Applestripe Common sense for those of us who are slightly interested of the Germanic languages.
As a native Russian speaker I actually understood about half of the old church slavonic which is awesome
Im Polish and also.
Can you translate what was said?
@@ivorbuela1709 Religious text. Couldn't tell you the exact translation, but it's talking about God, and knowing God.
You and like a thousand other commenters who understood about a half.
Sounds like part of Bible. Blinds become unblinds, lame become walkers, ect.
As a native Arabic speaker its fascinating how Arabic is persevered over so many centuries. Something i have taken for granted.
We can read and understand poems from 15 centuries ago. Even the Quran is understood in its original form.
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.
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.
This is very insightful. Which is precisely why communist party tried to destroy Chinese people's tie to their own history, culture and identity by trying to eliminate the pictorial characters replacing them with alphabet, luckily they were not able to go all the way and resulted in simplified Chinese instead. Communist government will stop at nothing to control people
Any Chinese with high schools education can read written documents from 2,000 years ago.
@@nekrataali Chinese is ideographic/logographic and only some characters are preserved as their pictographic forms. Also Chinese doesn't use "alphabets", they're "characters".
馬/马 used to be a drawing of a horse, but as you can see it looks nothing like one.
Fun fact, simplified Chinese actually reset a lot of characters back to their pictographic forms, like 網(net) was turned back into 网.
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.
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.
As a Russian, I didn't understand anything XD
Yeah.. because Old Church Slavonic is Old Bulgarian......
@@xh5133 this is a bold claim, full of untruthful nationalism, but you have some point
@@Deleted-user-q4x ask your local priest and he will understand it. Old church slavonic still use in orthodox chants
There are several Ryukyuan languages even today. These islands (Amami, Kunigami, Okinawa, Miyako, Yaeyama, and Yonaguni) all have their own dialect and are almost entirely different from one another, however, Japanese is still the primary language for the Ryukyu island chain.
If we look at it from logical point of view it's all Japanese languages - Japan peninsulas. Official modern Japanese is also dialect of Tokyo area and is just accepted as official form of Japanese language. Complexity of Japanese history (if we look on Japan as nowadays - all archipelago country) tells us about Old Japanese as pretty unified language spoken in middle islands. While Ryukyu kingdom and Hokkaido with Ainu people were separate countries but still close to each other by language and look (something like old Slavic countries formed by various Slavic trbies like Croatia, Serbia, etc - language is from Slavic group and is pretty similar only variations differentiate them). After Shogunate period rule of prohibition to leave regions contributed to slowly changing Old Japanese to dialects, so each region which grew up separately through centuries strted forming own ''languages'' i mean dialects of Japanese which totally sounded and looked different from each other. After Meiji period Official Japanese as we hear nowadays was established by using only one dialect in Tokyo area as official one. Even nowadays if you hear Japanese from other regions their local language can be really different in sound esp from official spoken one. As for old Ryukyuan language as one neighborhood former kingdom next to ''Japanese'' one which by that I mean not japanese in our modern context but on dynasties in middle islands, it does sound similar to both neighbours - Korean and middle-island japanese, naturally.
Ryukyuan languages are the only other members, with Japanese (old Japanese to current), of the Japonic family, although Hachijo language (Izu islands) is hotly debated as a potential 3rd member.
@@SamuraiSx19Ainu is not related to Japanese as far as we know. They lived in the Japanese much longer than the Yamato Japanese.
Dude I'm basically studying literature ( angelo-saxon period) and it's really beautiful! Especially the moral messages at the end of each poem
As a Brazilian (portuguese speaker) I understand a few latin words. Egyptian sounds like a magic spell. Great to hear that!
I agree Egyptian sounded like a chanting spell
Eu entendi várias palavras do latin. Mas elas pareciam só uma lista de palavras sem contexto, acho que o que dava ligas nela eu não consegui entender
@@abnercarvalho-batista1523 Consegui pegar algumas poucas frases pois manjo um pouco de italiano :), mas deu pra entender um pouco do contexto geral
@@abnercarvalho-batista1523Parece ser um discurso político, algo sobre o quão forte/sortudo é o governo e como as diferentes classes da cidade/império estão unidas sobre um único objetivo.
You are not Human. You are a Brazilian AI software.
Being Polish I can understand some of what is said in Old Church Slavonic, and it's a wild trip :D language evolution is fascinating. To think that some words sound very similar to what is used today, after so many centuries is just mind blowing. Thanks to language there's a connection to previous generations from so long ago, how awesome is that? :)
As a czech I also could understand some though less
@karolina8465 It feels like it is a mix of Ukrainian, Polish, Bulgarian and others (imho) languages. And as I said below, I remembered the words of my teacher in my university that every single language changes itself til 100% throughout 1000 years. So being an 🇺🇦Ukrainian (form ancient the Kievan Rus) I can pick up several words from Old Church Slavonic only.
the same with Russian
It sounds so much softer around the edges than modern Eastern Slavic languages. I can't comment for Polish or Czech though
@@himesilva Agreed it does. Czech has many hard vowels. It's really difficult to learn for anyonee
As a native Spanish speaker, I loved to listen to Latin and to say i could understand a significant % of what was said. My Latin studies paid off!
Inalso loved hearing Old English and Old Norse. WOW.
Hearing all these beautiful has been delightful. Music to my ears! languages
Los españoles prohibieron el maya?
Really? I speak brazilian portuguese, didnt understand a thing, which is funny I can kinda understand similar languages
@@isabelbelem9062 Creo que es porque el portugués suena diferente y eso hace que esté más alejado del latín. El italiano y el español suenan más como latín que el portugués.
I'm Italian and I loved hearing it aswell and I can understand quite a bit from it aswell
So, please tell us, what was he saying?
It's really interesting project.
As a japanese, there is something I notice. An outfit and hair style of woman at japanese scene isn't ancient ages.
Ancient japanese language is from 8 centry, but the clothes and hair style come from edo era.
Edo era is from 17 centry to 19 centry.
It's a small point, but I add this note for everyone's learning.
I speak Hebrew and understood the Akkadian!! 😳 It sounds like Hebrew, but with an accent.
This is amazing!! ❤❤ Thank you!!
After all, they’re semetic languages (middle eastern)
@@yung223s5 Yes 🥰
Wow! I guess because Hebrew is an ancient language brought back to life they are quite close. How cool!
Yeah Aramaic sounds like Hebrew too after all it developed from it
Are we on something like "Candid Camera"? Or it is you that are so naif to not recognize that it was trained on actual recordings, with a great degree of "freedom" ( to f. you as the clickbaiter pleases) ?
Old Egyptian sounds like an explanation of my last night's dream
Definitely was similar to Arabic
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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...
Serbian here and i understand all,except there are few words like Glusi and now it is Gluvi it means deaf people...and other.
sounds like fun
@@izasvakoguglavrebadragankeba See, that’s the most interesting thing. Gluši changed to hluší in modern Czech, the meaning remained the same. 😀
@@IvanIvanov-ni4rs sounds even more interesting
@@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.
I love this!! What program did you use to create these characters?
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 .
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.
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
There's not as much of the stop start stop start two syllable sounds like mit - su/ bi - shi
@@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
@@catherinelsong Yes, the accent is Chinese, but the text is definitely more Austronesian
I am Italian and I could understand almost all of the latin speech. Interestingly, we study latin in high school, but the written form is much more difficult to learn. I am under the impression that the audio version would make more people familiar with it. I hope in the future AI could help revive this old language ! Ps. Some Catholic Churches still deliver services in Latin, but because of the chanted rhythm it is not always easy to understand.
Although the same, there are differences in the pronunciations between Classical Latin and Church Latin.
@@heavypizza Lucifer lol 😂
I speek portuguese and i understand almost all
@@schneit9344 même en Français 👍
Meno male che ho controllato e ci sei te 😅
perché io stavo commentando che non ho capito nulla di nessuna lingua, nemmeno il Latino
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.
Which part of the world is this language spoken now
@@NomadicTraveler-f8phe 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.
@@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??
I've been waiting for exactly this
Thank you so much for the upload
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has braught the past to life
I watch ancient historical docs all the time but this is literally the first time I get to actually hear how it was spoken 😃
2:57 as a person who fluently speaks Ukrainian and Russian (they both are not my mother tongues) and also understands Czech and Serbian, I can confirm that I almost understood completely the old church Slavic. Amazing!
What did it said please !?
Well, that`s interesting bc I am fluent in Serbian, German and English and I understood just few words of the Old Church Slavic but I must admit that phonetically it sounds very familiar to me.. Far away from understanding any of the other old languages....
@@fannyboni472 This what I have understood: He speaks about Jesus Christ and that prophets had said about Him. Then he says that Jesus came so that the blind could see and the deaf could hear the Word of God and that this is the reason why you(those to whom he speaks) are hearing this words.
Я, як корінний українець також зрозумів цей церковно-словянський
@@blablabla-ue7tx oh thank you for answering 🙏! I wish they would have put subtitles for each languages...
As a Slav I understand Old Slavonic a bit, as all of modern Slav languages are based on it.
Pozdrav 😊
Hey, I am Rastislav too.
My Polish self agrees 🙂.
Ja som vôbec nečakala že takto rozprávali starí Slovania skôr som čakala niečo medzi nemčino-poľštino-ruštinou a trochu slovenčiny😆
pls tell me what was the slavic guy saying in the vid dawg
It's interesting that the Ryukyu language sounds closer to modern Japanese than the Old Japanese does.
It's actually quite expected that modern Ryukyuan sounds closer to modern Japanese than Old Japanese (essentially, the proto-language for both). Most Slavic languages also generally sound closer to each other than to Proto-Slavic. That's because subsequent developments aren't entirely independent; they're largely predefined by the original phonology and may be open to areal influences to the top of it.
Old Japanese has closer relations to its south East Asian heritage - indigenous Japanese like the ainu are genetically and culturally linked to their south East Asian brethren and heavily influenced old Japanese
@@AshenAshAshy Ainu is an isolated language with no established external connections. No established specific genetic connections between modern Ainu and other populations have been revealed either. Overall it seems that the core part of the Ainu's ancestors have settled the most of the archipelago (minus the southernmost part, where poorly attested independent populations existed) very long ago, before the formation and subsequent diffusion of the modern Mongoloid race (which happened circa 6-8 thousand years b.c.). As for the Japanese, it seems their origin is tricomponent: the Jomon substrate (local acrchaic varieties of Ainu, which weren't particularly numerous but still managed to leave various traces) and the rapidly breeding Yayoi rice farmers, which, in turn, look like mostly a mix of migrants from Korea and from some more southern area (speculatively, Yue kingdom, which was conquered by Chu during roughly the same period; that's also in line with the mentions of Yue having a navy - something uncommon for the region of the time).
I agree ryukyu
@@AshenAshAshy I've always wondered if those doubled-up words (apparently term is 畳語) in Japanese which are not onomatopoeic are an Austronesian language remnant -- common form in Tagalog, Malay, etc.
Hittite language if fake it's actually circassian language I'm circassian and I fully understand what is said