English has actually borrowed quite a few words from Hindi or Sanskrit, such as pajama, guru, mantra, bungalow, shampoo, cheetah, chutney, loot, jungle, thug, juggernaut, karma, avatar, and many others.
Another interesting fact about English is that because so many of the English settlers and conquerors travelled by ship, the modern English language is filled with nautical words and phrases, such as "even keel," "tide over," and "taken aback," just to name a few.
Babu and Raeen would probably be interested to know that English has even borrowed words from India. Jungle is one example.
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The Indo-European language family is a very interesting subject, the European and north Indian languages being connected is quite wild. The Vedic god Agni's name comes from the Indo-European h₁n̥gʷnis. The harsh H sound combined with the ng sound made a ''Ha'' sound amongst Arians, while it did a ''Hee'' sound amongst Europeans... This with the loss of the harsh H resulted in the word for ''Fire'' in Latin being ''Ignis'' while it was ''Agni'' in Sanskrit.
The guys were mesmerized by this video. Would love to see more educational videos. Just think if they learned English and then taught it to their children and grandchildren before long The Village would be speaking English
Sir, make them react to : -History of Cold War. -History of Rome. -Indo-Aryan languages. -History of Vikings. -French Revolution. -History map of India. -History map of USA. -Silk road.
I always found it interesting that the word for "football" (or fútbol) is the same in every language, even though the words for "foot" and "ball" are different.
In Croatian it's called nogomet, from noga meaning leg and metati, to put, place something somewhere. I believe it's the same in Slovenian and Bosnian (under Croatian influence, they use fudbal too). It was used in Serbian too, along with futbal and fudbal, but it was later settled on the latter. So now the word for us has a distinctly Croatian connotation, although we used it too in the beginning. Also, Italians call it calcio after the old rugby like game inherited from the Romans, who probably brought it to the Britain in the first place.
This was a great video and indeed Babu is a stunningly wise man. Simplified it can be said that indo-european (for example Latin=Roman, Celtic, Germanic and Slavic language families of Europe) are of the same origin as Sanskrt long ago (that is why we call the language family "indo-european"). By the long time the languages diverged almost beyond recognition but it is observable even today, that old basic words for simple everyday needs have frequently simmilar form in core of various European languages and Hindi Sanskrt. The indo-european languages started to spread a very long time ago, some estimates are about 1500 year before Christ, so some 3500 years before today but it seems it could be greatly more ancient (even some 3000 years before Christ plus 2000 till today), so it is understandable that the languages diverged greatly by the time. I am no scholar myself so forgive me if my answer isn't perfect. The core of these languages was probably the "Yamnaya culture", which had descendants also called "Aryans" (this is what the Nazi ideology distorted, and also why they adopted the Swastika symbol used in eastern cultures). Yamnaya culture and its descendants possibly are the origin of domestication of the horse and also possibly the inventors of the wheel, it was very expanzive and agressive culture so it spreaded quickly to the Europe on the one side, and to the India on the other side, spreading the proto-Indo-European language in the process.
What a video to come back to, it's been a while I last checked in to see how these legends are doing. The movement of people during pre written history is a fascination of mine and the development of languages. Even though I can't speak any other language than English and fair play for these two for trying. The British isles has been or still is a melting pot of different people and possibly since when Stonehenge was built. Where the history buffs think the ancient Britons were trading with mainland Europe back then and I've recently learnt that ancient greek people sailed up from Spain to settle in Ireland around that time. Then those people soon moved up to northern Ireland and spread into Scotland and drove the Picts further into the Highlands. Apparently it's the Welsh and the revival of the old Cornish language are the current surviving ancient languages of England and Wales. Which may have been widely spoken by the common folk until the first teachings of the English language we know of today. Through Roman, Saxon, viking and Norman occupations. It was the peasants who mostly spoke the old Briton languages and possibly the high society and traders of those times who spoke the occupying languages. Then everything soon followed suit when the British became masters of the sea along with their global trading counterparts from Holland, Portugal and Spain.
This is peak Babu. He's genius level here, absolutely right about how long it takes to build a language and why English has caught on-with the necessary addition of the ruthless imperialism for hundreds of years. But as others have said, so many examples of lend-words are not in here it’s almost underplayed that English is dominant because the level of influence by explorers, pirates, and commercial j sailors traveling port to port for centuries spreading the language gets underreported by historians. (And I’m literally an American historian).
Very nice. I think linguistics is a fsscinating topic. I find the history of writing and the alphabet particularly interesting. Maybe you can find some video about that to show them? Or maybe a reaction to one or the other RobWords video 😁
Literally hilarious and a little of a shame that they missed the words coming from India by talking over the bit that he said “India” in 😂 They’d probably have been excited to realise that! They seemed to really enjoy this and it was a good video for them because it taught them some stuff.
The parts of England are Wessex, Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex, East Anglia, and Kent. The city of London being a city state until integrating into the whole of England. The isle of skye being independent until also joining England. There were some crazy battles during the Viking age across England with a few kings that either fell in battle or were unfortunately tortured to nonexistence. England at the time was very unstable as often one king didn’t like another and it was constant war. It was never peaceful.
The English are so dedicated to borrowing words that they borrowed the word Hostle twice. Its still used in its orginal meaning in terms like Youth Hostle. But after the French droped the s, which for some reason they would like you to know that the word used to have an s in it by putting a little hat on the o. And so as Hôtel the word entered the language again as Hotel, minus the hat on the O. Because English is a linguistic kleptomaniac, English has the largest functional (used in everyday life) vocabulary of any language. If there is an idea that can be expressed in your language but English doesn't have a word for, they'll just take yours. Words that represent concepts English doesn't quite have a word for like Tao, Karma, jé né sais quoi, et cetera, etc.
like it said english where travelling all around the world and over the period of time of travelling all this places they borrowed many words and some are still get used and some don’t. language is evolving with time be it English or any other languages. cloth, food and language are some of things keep changing with times.
When a building is raining down arrows on your men you want to learn what that building's name is. I bet a lot of these words were learned on a battle field.
Commenting as a linguist: 1. I don't like the oversimplification that English is a global language. That may be because I'm from a country with low English fluency, however. 2. I think it's misleading to count P.I.E as English, while not outright said nor something that should've been left out, I think that it should have been more clear that P.I.E isn't mutually intellegible with English or any of it's modern descendants. 3. This is the first major nitpick, words don't just derive from one language. Languages constantly borrow from eachother. The video made this concept seem like one step when in fact it's much more complicated than that. 4. Even with this video being a few decades old, I'm still suprised to hear some archaic terms being used as examples. EDIT: 5. Mentioning the great vowel shift would've been nice.
England isn’t the powerhouse it once was. It’s now considered a stagnant economy. It’s because they refused to do what was necessary during the economic crisis of 2008. They did not fully understand the implications of hoarding money in the banks. The blow of Brexit really made things even worse. Then the pandemic just created a massive workforce shortage. Now the whole Ukraine war is draining the British economy dry. To try to compensate every single item has gone up in price which is making the citizens really angry. One more major event and the British economy could collapse. America however did the right thing by shifting gears during the economic crisis of 2008. They actually created jobs not losing them. The American economy simply went higher not lower because of our shift in outlook. We had to shift again during the pandemic to working remotely which actually made things easier as some jobs became easier although we still took a hit but rebounded fairly quickly. It meant that the extra capital could go where we liked. That’s when the Ukrainian war started hence the extra money went to them. Yet prices are still relatively stable and inflation is pretty steady not growing too much. It’s called being prepared and knowing the market.
Your history is a little off. America followed the example set by Britain in 2008 as did most countries. They both bailed out the banks. I think you mean after. The 14+ years of austerity. Although I can't think of too much economic stimulus in America in that time. So I don't think the comparison is apt. One thing that I only learned recently is that Britain borrowed 138 billion in 2008 compared to 234 billion during covid. That really shocked me. We'll never know if bailing out the banks was the wrong decision as we don't know what would have happened had they not. Likely we would be facing a different set of problems.
People have been writing Britain off for hundreds of years. Napoleon dismissed us as a nation of shopkeepers. It's certainly true that the country has many problems, made worse by bad governance from both parties for many decades. There are long term structural problems similar to those faced by many post-industrial countries including the U.S. There are social issues with an ageing population. However many people are now dismissing the country as irrecoverable. Some of us have heard this before. Things change, and Britain still has above-average levels of human capital, some of the best universities in the world, an educated and skilled population.
Actually English evolved from classical Latin into old English. It combined with the native Celtic languages to create old English. Latin also branched off into several other languages. But whatever. Old English mixed with some old Norse languages and frank (early French) languages. It also borrowed from Dutch during the pre colonial period. It moved over to America where it combined with native languages. Modern English has Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, polish, German, some Indian, a little African, and so many words that are classified as a different language because we learn to speak them. Basically English is a mix of many languages into one yet it keeps evolving as times change.
Nonsense. English is a Germanic language and it originated from the Anglo-Saxon. Latin came through loan words, some directly from latin and others from French.
Nonsense. I don't know what it is about native anglophones that they don't get the simple fact that every language in the world has influence from other languages. Probably just ignorance and "I'm special" mentality
English has no useul word for You; plural, NOT ONE official one! (we made up our own in the USA,: Y'all,Yyouse You'ns.) I see your language has several, that makes more sense for clarity. In Spanish, there is "formal" and "informal" You. (speaking to an official, or your family.) At least, those do have plurals as well. So much of USA English as it is spoken today is a combination of MANY languages! (we use them so commonly and most have no idea they are not, in fact, English terms) You only speak English? well, let's check that list.....Blessings to one who chooses to try and learn it, it will be no simple task!
English has a formal version of "you", it's "you" and an informal - "thou" (similar to French vous and tu) We also have a a plural for "you", it's "ye". It's still used in some places, and there's nothing preventing it being used again elsewhere except its perceived obsolescence. Town criers still call "Hear ye!" which is still well enough understood by those hearing it. "Youse" is also common in the north of England, and could easily spread to the south given time.
@Common Man Show Stop sucking up to the United States. First correction: United States and not America. Second correction: the continent is divided into 3 Americas, where there is North America where the United States is located, Central America and South America. If you weren't so drooling over the USA and expanded your channel, you would certainly have more followers. it would quadruple as would the likes. It stays there receiving 200 likes at most teaching these good people teaching only US culture
The United States is the most important country in the world, whether you are a fan or are anti-American. Therefore, emphasizing American influence makes natural sense. America (for good or bad) is the most powerful Empire the world has ever seen.
Almost everything you said is objectively wrong. There are two American continents. North America and South America. There is not one continent divided into 3 sections.
I don't think Babu realizes that this is a natural process, not created or directed by anyone. It is a process. It is not created, directed, or decided by people. No one "decided" to add a foreign word into the English language.
It's not entirely true. There are definitely loan-words and localizations that were consciously adopted or promoted. Lots of loan words were, of course, just organic but there are also many words that were quite deliberately adopted with subtly different meanings e.g. wardrobe and garderobe, warden and guardian, chocolate and cocoa.
English has actually borrowed quite a few words from Hindi or Sanskrit, such as pajama, guru, mantra, bungalow, shampoo, cheetah, chutney, loot, jungle, thug, juggernaut, karma, avatar, and many others.
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every language has borrowed something from one another.
Pajama is of course the most important word of these.
Crazy that sanskrit comes from tamil (the god of Indian languages)
90% Of European languages originates from India
Another interesting fact about English is that because so many of the English settlers and conquerors travelled by ship, the modern English language is filled with nautical words and phrases, such as "even keel," "tide over," and "taken aback," just to name a few.
Babu and Raeen would probably be interested to know that English has even borrowed words from India. Jungle is one example.
The Indo-European language family is a very interesting subject, the European and north Indian languages being connected is quite wild. The Vedic god Agni's name comes from the Indo-European h₁n̥gʷnis. The harsh H sound combined with the ng sound made a ''Ha'' sound amongst Arians, while it did a ''Hee'' sound amongst Europeans...
This with the loss of the harsh H resulted in the word for ''Fire'' in Latin being ''Ignis'' while it was ''Agni'' in Sanskrit.
The guys were mesmerized by this video. Would love to see more educational videos.
Just think if they learned English and then taught it to their children and grandchildren before long The Village would be speaking English
Sir, make them react to :
-History of Cold War.
-History of Rome.
-Indo-Aryan languages.
-History of Vikings.
-French Revolution.
-History map of India.
-History map of USA.
-Silk road.
Please make reaction to Starship IFT 5
I just love this guy on the left. Always open mind. Stay safe sir.
I would love a more in-depth video on P.I.E and the spread of the Indo-European langauges.
Now I want to know about the history of the Hindi language. :o
I always found it interesting that the word for "football" (or fútbol) is the same in every language, even though the words for "foot" and "ball" are different.
Americans even call their hand ball "foot ball". :D
In Croatian it's called nogomet, from noga meaning leg and metati, to put, place something somewhere. I believe it's the same in Slovenian and Bosnian (under Croatian influence, they use fudbal too). It was used in Serbian too, along with futbal and fudbal, but it was later settled on the latter. So now the word for us has a distinctly Croatian connotation, although we used it too in the beginning. Also, Italians call it calcio after the old rugby like game inherited from the Romans, who probably brought it to the Britain in the first place.
Don't underestimate the Babu 😁
That’s right 🙏
This was a great video and indeed Babu is a stunningly wise man. Simplified it can be said that indo-european (for example Latin=Roman, Celtic, Germanic and Slavic language families of Europe) are of the same origin as Sanskrt long ago (that is why we call the language family "indo-european"). By the long time the languages diverged almost beyond recognition but it is observable even today, that old basic words for simple everyday needs have frequently simmilar form in core of various European languages and Hindi Sanskrt. The indo-european languages started to spread a very long time ago, some estimates are about 1500 year before Christ, so some 3500 years before today but it seems it could be greatly more ancient (even some 3000 years before Christ plus 2000 till today), so it is understandable that the languages diverged greatly by the time. I am no scholar myself so forgive me if my answer isn't perfect. The core of these languages was probably the "Yamnaya culture", which had descendants also called "Aryans" (this is what the Nazi ideology distorted, and also why they adopted the Swastika symbol used in eastern cultures). Yamnaya culture and its descendants possibly are the origin of domestication of the horse and also possibly the inventors of the wheel, it was very expanzive and agressive culture so it spreaded quickly to the Europe on the one side, and to the India on the other side, spreading the proto-Indo-European language in the process.
I'm guessing you've seen the same videos that I have. Including the one where they look into starting and syllable sounds to words and phrases.
Have them react to "Starship Flight 5" successful historic rocket test!
What a video to come back to, it's been a while I last checked in to see how these legends are doing.
The movement of people during pre written history is a fascination of mine and the development of languages. Even though I can't speak any other language than English and fair play for these two for trying.
The British isles has been or still is a melting pot of different people and possibly since when Stonehenge was built. Where the history buffs think the ancient Britons were trading with mainland Europe back then and I've recently learnt that ancient greek people sailed up from Spain to settle in Ireland around that time. Then those people soon moved up to northern Ireland and spread into Scotland and drove the Picts further into the Highlands.
Apparently it's the Welsh and the revival of the old Cornish language are the current surviving ancient languages of England and Wales. Which may have been widely spoken by the common folk until the first teachings of the English language we know of today. Through Roman, Saxon, viking and Norman occupations. It was the peasants who mostly spoke the old Briton languages and possibly the high society and traders of those times who spoke the occupying languages.
Then everything soon followed suit when the British became masters of the sea along with their global trading counterparts from Holland, Portugal and Spain.
This is peak Babu. He's genius level here, absolutely right about how long it takes to build a language and why English has caught on-with the necessary addition of the ruthless imperialism for hundreds of years. But as others have said, so many examples of lend-words are not in here it’s almost underplayed that English is dominant because the level of influence by explorers, pirates, and commercial j sailors traveling port to port for centuries spreading the language gets underreported by historians. (And I’m literally an American historian).
Yes, but it sounds like he thinks people created the language. They did not. It is a natural process, not human-directed.
Very nice. I think linguistics is a fsscinating topic. I find the history of writing and the alphabet particularly interesting. Maybe you can find some video about that to show them?
Or maybe a reaction to one or the other RobWords video 😁
Literally hilarious and a little of a shame that they missed the words coming from India by talking over the bit that he said “India” in 😂
They’d probably have been excited to realise that!
They seemed to really enjoy this and it was a good video for them because it taught them some stuff.
The parts of England are Wessex, Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex, East Anglia, and Kent. The city of London being a city state until integrating into the whole of England. The isle of skye being independent until also joining England. There were some crazy battles during the Viking age across England with a few kings that either fell in battle or were unfortunately tortured to nonexistence. England at the time was very unstable as often one king didn’t like another and it was constant war. It was never peaceful.
The English are so dedicated to borrowing words that they borrowed the word Hostle twice. Its still used in its orginal meaning in terms like Youth Hostle. But after the French droped the s, which for some reason they would like you to know that the word used to have an s in it by putting a little hat on the o. And so as Hôtel the word entered the language again as Hotel, minus the hat on the O. Because English is a linguistic kleptomaniac, English has the largest functional (used in everyday life) vocabulary of any language. If there is an idea that can be expressed in your language but English doesn't have a word for, they'll just take yours. Words that represent concepts English doesn't quite have a word for like Tao, Karma, jé né sais quoi, et cetera, etc.
like it said english where travelling all around the world and over the period of time of travelling all this places they borrowed many words and some are still get used and some don’t. language is evolving with time be it English or any other languages. cloth, food and language are some of things keep changing with times.
When a building is raining down arrows on your men you want to learn what that building's name is. I bet a lot of these words were learned on a battle field.
Commenting as a linguist:
1. I don't like the oversimplification that English is a global language. That may be because I'm from a country with low English fluency, however.
2. I think it's misleading to count P.I.E as English, while not outright said nor something that should've been left out, I think that it should have been more clear that P.I.E isn't mutually intellegible with English or any of it's modern descendants.
3. This is the first major nitpick, words don't just derive from one language. Languages constantly borrow from eachother. The video made this concept seem like one step when in fact it's much more complicated than that.
4. Even with this video being a few decades old, I'm still suprised to hear some archaic terms being used as examples.
EDIT: 5. Mentioning the great vowel shift would've been nice.
What archaic terms?
It's "Prussia", not "Russia".
England isn’t the powerhouse it once was. It’s now considered a stagnant economy. It’s because they refused to do what was necessary during the economic crisis of 2008. They did not fully understand the implications of hoarding money in the banks. The blow of Brexit really made things even worse. Then the pandemic just created a massive workforce shortage. Now the whole Ukraine war is draining the British economy dry. To try to compensate every single item has gone up in price which is making the citizens really angry. One more major event and the British economy could collapse.
America however did the right thing by shifting gears during the economic crisis of 2008. They actually created jobs not losing them. The American economy simply went higher not lower because of our shift in outlook. We had to shift again during the pandemic to working remotely which actually made things easier as some jobs became easier although we still took a hit but rebounded fairly quickly. It meant that the extra capital could go where we liked. That’s when the Ukrainian war started hence the extra money went to them. Yet prices are still relatively stable and inflation is pretty steady not growing too much. It’s called being prepared and knowing the market.
we still in top 10
Your history is a little off. America followed the example set by Britain in 2008 as did most countries. They both bailed out the banks. I think you mean after. The 14+ years of austerity. Although I can't think of too much economic stimulus in America in that time. So I don't think the comparison is apt. One thing that I only learned recently is that Britain borrowed 138 billion in 2008 compared to 234 billion during covid. That really shocked me. We'll never know if bailing out the banks was the wrong decision as we don't know what would have happened had they not. Likely we would be facing a different set of problems.
People have been writing Britain off for hundreds of years. Napoleon dismissed us as a nation of shopkeepers. It's certainly true that the country has many problems, made worse by bad governance from both parties for many decades. There are long term structural problems similar to those faced by many post-industrial countries including the U.S. There are social issues with an ageing population. However many people are now dismissing the country as irrecoverable. Some of us have heard this before. Things change, and Britain still has above-average levels of human capital, some of the best universities in the world, an educated and skilled population.
Actually English evolved from classical Latin into old English. It combined with the native Celtic languages to create old English. Latin also branched off into several other languages. But whatever. Old English mixed with some old Norse languages and frank (early French) languages. It also borrowed from Dutch during the pre colonial period. It moved over to America where it combined with native languages. Modern English has Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, polish, German, some Indian, a little African, and so many words that are classified as a different language because we learn to speak them. Basically English is a mix of many languages into one yet it keeps evolving as times change.
Nonsense. English is a Germanic language and it originated from the Anglo-Saxon. Latin came through loan words, some directly from latin and others from French.
Nonsense.
I don't know what it is about native anglophones that they don't get the simple fact that every language in the world has influence from other languages. Probably just ignorance and "I'm special" mentality
English has no useul word for You; plural, NOT ONE official one! (we made up our own in the USA,: Y'all,Yyouse You'ns.) I see your language has several, that makes more sense for clarity. In Spanish, there is "formal" and "informal" You. (speaking to an official, or your family.) At least, those do have plurals as well. So much of USA English as it is spoken today is a combination of MANY languages! (we use them so commonly and most have no idea they are not, in fact, English terms) You only speak English? well, let's check that list.....Blessings to one who chooses to try and learn it, it will be no simple task!
you is a singular verb
"You bastards" seems to work well enough. heh
English has a formal version of "you", it's "you" and an informal - "thou" (similar to French vous and tu) We also have a a plural for "you", it's "ye". It's still used in some places, and there's nothing preventing it being used again elsewhere except its perceived obsolescence. Town criers still call "Hear ye!" which is still well enough understood by those hearing it. "Youse" is also common in the north of England, and could easily spread to the south given time.
@Common Man Show Stop sucking up to the United States. First correction: United States and not America. Second correction: the continent is divided into 3 Americas, where there is North America where the United States is located, Central America and South America. If you weren't so drooling over the USA and expanded your channel, you would certainly have more followers. it would quadruple as would the likes. It stays there receiving 200 likes at most teaching these good people teaching only US culture
The United States is the most important country in the world, whether you are a fan or are anti-American. Therefore, emphasizing American influence makes natural sense. America (for good or bad) is the most powerful Empire the world has ever seen.
Almost everything you said is objectively wrong. There are two American continents. North America and South America. There is not one continent divided into 3 sections.
I don't think Babu realizes that this is a natural process, not created or directed by anyone. It is a process. It is not created, directed, or decided by people. No one "decided" to add a foreign word into the English language.
It's not entirely true. There are definitely loan-words and localizations that were consciously adopted or promoted. Lots of loan words were, of course, just organic but there are also many words that were quite deliberately adopted with subtly different meanings e.g. wardrobe and garderobe, warden and guardian, chocolate and cocoa.