The Man Who Invented The German Language
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I dunno why you keep referencing esperanto when interslavic is a far better analogy.
You should read some of Martin's letters. The boy had a mouth on him.
Nice video, very interesting concept, it's kind of similar to what happened to italian whit dante alighieri
Something you might look into if you’re wanting to make a “language explain” series:
I once read about a man who was commissioned by the king of England to make a proper speech and writing guide to standardize English; the problem was that he thought Latin was the best language and English should just be Latin but with English vocabulary... and apparently thanks to him we got things like “Him and I” instead of “Me and him” even though either should technically be correct in English, but because that’s how Latin did, that’s how he said we should...
(Also, sorry that this was kind long and rambling, if I can find the book I read or other info, I’ll post it as a reply)
The Slovak language was invented similarly to German.
"The Man Who Invented [Standard] German"
Everyone Knows John H. German invented Germany and it language. If you clicked on this it was your fault
@@AWormsPurpose Exactly!
Lol
Non German speakers are always amazed, when I tell them, that nobody speaks [Standard] German naturally. It is a language we all have to learn in school.
@@zlate42 Actually people from Hannover more or less do
I invented the Korean language among with other things
Not really. You are not born 1000 years ago
@@iamgone8479
r/woosh
@@averyuncreativeperson1573 i am tired of people wooshing, but what does this mean? And Kim has not invented Korean. He is born late
@@iamgone8479
I... I genuinely can't tell if this is a joke or you're being serious
A Very Uncreative Person oh boy we got an uncultured swine on our hands
1871, not 1817, in 1817, Germany was still very much divided
Thanks Napoleon
Maybe he's talking about the German Confederation/Deutscher Bund. That was pretty much the start (mostly) voluntary German unification.
@@erraticonteuse It was created in 1815 and didn't really work like a nationstate
Although it's possible something happened in 1871, it's more likely he got the numbers switched. Thanks!
Edward J. Cunningham “Although it is possible something happened in 1871” *Wilhelm I was crowned Kaiser of a newly united Germany in the Hall of Mirrors*
There is actually a movement quite similar to what Luther did called "Interslavic", which aims to make a language based on the slavic languages than all slavic speakers can understand. There is also a similar movement with all the germanic languages (not just german, but english, dutch, swedish and so on too) called "Folkspraak". It's some really interesting stuff if you're into linguistics and I highly recommend looking into it.
I've heard of a similar concept for the native South African languages brought up before. Very interesting concept. I think Interslavic would be a great thing for the former-Yugoslav area
@@josh-ch9sm Well Serbo-Croatian is already there
Joshua Rafaeil Yugoslavia had already a united language. Serbian bosnian croatian and montenegrin are the same languages called serbo-croatian. Only macedonian and slovenian weren’t in this group and even they were very close to SC
Google Esperanto
@@chillaxo9863 yeah but two of the yugo-states didn't speak it as a native language
He didn’t „invented“ german, he standardized it.
He created the standard german language
No he invented the language in the 16 century
More like he translated the bible into his own dialect of German(Upper Saxony dialect) which popularized the dialect as there was no other German translation of the bible. Knowledge of that dialect grew and people started using it to communicate with Germans from other parts of Central Europe until it became the lingua franca of the region.
The th in Martin Luther is not pronounced like an English th but like a t. I just wanted to explain his name since the channel is called Name Explained. Okaybye.
That actually makes a lot of sense. German lost the dental fricative.
Well, yes, in German it is pronounced Luter, great.
But famous names often have alternate forms in other languages; from ancient Greeks to Genghis Khan. It's not wrong to call Ghengis Khan 'Gengis Kaan' in English because that's how we have called them.
Likewise, Luther is pronounced "Luther" in english when in regard to this specific person.
In English it’s pronounced as in “thumb”.
kokofan50 so it just kinda morphed into the dental plosive?
Calum Champion : I am german and i speak the name Lutter.
The Grimm brothers also helped in unifying the language with their collection of old folk tales
Also they started to write the first dictonary.
„Wenn der Groschen im Kasten klingt, die Seele aus dem Fegefeuer springt“ Indulgence trade in a nutshell 😉
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Cheers my German friend
Bist du Protestant?
Just to clear up the confusion Patrick obviously had in the video: High and Low German aren't really dialects of German like Saxon, Bavarian and so on, but rather the two big families of German languages. In Northwestern Germany (and the Netherlands for that matter), Low German (Plattdeutsch or Niederdeutsch) dialects and languages are more common, while in southeastern Germany, the High German (Hochdeutsch) dialects are more common.
But nevertheless, a very interesting video. I never knew Martin Luther "created" the unified German language.
He didn´t. He did play a very important role in shaping and unifying it, but Patrick exaggerated it a lot.
Technically, that specific German dialect Martin Luther spoke informed how he eventually wrote down his bible. German spelling was not generally standardized back then but there were different regional standards (in the mentioned upper and lower German). His bible spread so much though, the way he spelled words had an impact on what would later become standard in all of Germany. Although, it is worth noting that German still changed a lot after Luther's death. It's like modern English is not what Shakespeare wrote down.
@@elonmush4793 I like that comparison. Martin Luther is to German as Shakespeare is to English.
Why is it called high/low German?
@@nninjastrike2127 Altitude of the regions. In Germany you have flat lands, fields, swamps in the North, and hills and mountains in the South. That's also why Lower Saxony is more to the North than Saxony.
What about Finnish? It is basically the same thing as German and was "created" by Mikael Agricola (who actually was Luther's student).
@@jorgen1990
How so?
@@jorgen1990 Ei, sinä
Is It Basically The Same Thing As German Though?
@@rateeightx I meant that literal Finnish was created the same way basically.
@@rateeightx No. Not at all. Finnish is not even similar to the norse languages because Finnish is not a Germanic language.
"Martin Luther hate grammar rhetoric and logic..." It's like finding out Tiger Woods hated golfing.
Mikael Agricola translated the Bible into Finnish and he played a big part in creating the written language for Finnish
I normally wouldn't toss in my two cents like this, but as this is name explain, and I took Latin in highschool and never get a chance to use it, agricola is the Latin for farmer. It was also used as a Roman cognomen, the third name tacked on the end, e.g. Africanus, Germanicus, Felix, etc.
@@termeownator And not only in Latin, but also in Spanish "agricola" means farming or agriculture, so for me is kinda surprising finding that in a Finnish name.
@@EduardoEscarez In that time people would translate their names to Latin. His real name would be farmer in Finnish or something.
@@sualtam9509 He could have been finsvensk, and not suomi (finnish as swedes call it), but he wanted the majority people of the land to get read the Bibel, like in Germania. He did invent the name Agricola, because he was farmer.
Agricola is Latin for farmer. The German equivalent is Bauer. Which was Agricola’s real name.
German was a language back then, but there was no standard version of it. The language was made up of several dialects, that can be categorised into higher and lower German. It was hard to understand each other, but it still was one language. The thing Luther did was inventing a language for all germans most people could understand
Most of those dialects, with some changes of course, still exist.
There are, however, fewer speakers all the time.
I think it was for the best, honestly.
Not even 'kinda'...
Luther put a lot more effort into creating a widely understood, idiomatic translation of the bible than probably anyone before him, and he deserves credit for that, but he in no way 'invented' the (modern) German language.
Regional written standards (distinct from dialects) existed before Luther, and his translation is mostly based on the one used in east central Germany at the time. I am not saying his work wasn't influential for standardization, without it modern German would certainly look different (more western or southern dialect features probably), but it is hardly the one main source.
I totally agree. It's like saying Shakespeare invented English...
I agree. Yet his version of the bible became and remained the most common book in Germany by a very far margin for a long time and led that specific dialect to become the de facto Standard for the German language.
Also judging by his own words he translated the bible from a very old (and therefor more original) greek version and not the latin one, which most priests used, but he did also use a latin version to teach himself Greek.
There's also a quite intriguing story behind how he came to do all that.
I can imagine that if it werent for Luther, Low German and High German would be two different languages (and two different countries?) nowadays.
No. Luther did not unify Germany and we would have found another book or something else to unify our language with. For comparison: Way less than 50% of USA-inhabitants actually stem from an English speaking country, yet they managed to pretty much all learn English.
Edit: Oh wait, are you being sarcastic? Then nevermind.
@@onurbschrednei4569 Lower German is still a completely different language with different grammar and vocabulary. What Luther actually combined were high and middle German.
While those two dialects gradually became more similar and merged as a result, lower German largely stayed alive and separate. For northern Germans, especially in rural regions, Standard German remained a second language that people learned to converse with outsiders (or perhaps to read the bible).
My father can actually claim to have grown up bilingual as a result.
Meanwhile I, who has little to no problem understanding the Bavarian dialect, can only decifer about 70% of what my father's talking about when conversing with my grandfather.
Not to be a jerk but I think you meant 1871 Germany became a nation
no, he mean 1817
go learn history
german confederation was created i 1817
@@gutsjoestar7450 The German Confederation (Deutscher Bund) was created in 1815 and was not a nation state but rather an alliance of states without a central government. Both you and the creator of this video are mistaken.
Catholic church: *exists
Martin Luther: I'm about to end this man's whole career
While 80 million Lutherans is impressive, 1200 million Roman Catholics doesn't look like he ended anything.
@@johnkilmartin5101 It was a joke
@@scrambled5948 Better Joke:
Lutherans: "Faith alone."
St. James the Lesser: I'm about to end this man's whole career.
@@johnkilmartin5101 yeah luckily
@@KIJIKLIPS Well it did spawn the Jesuits in response.
I love this nice change of pace. As a language nerd, I can't help but smile when I see something like this on one of my favourite channels. Keep it going.
1:18 Haha. Your Klingon drawing is so cute ☺️
"apple"
"pomme"
*800 years of war. Humans are great
Reddit joke
"persil"
"perejil"
Haiti vs. Dominican Republic
Arian extra white!
No grandpa it's Ariel! XD
wow, such an original and informative comment. Humans are great
"the only words from God are the ones in the bible"... "this isn't a word-for-word translation of the bible"
Luther wasn't the most coherent lad ever
Your move Protestants.
Basically Jesus said something metaphorically, some people wrote it down years after his death and translated it in a bunch of different languages. And today some people take every word absolutely literally, although the meaning could have changed dramatically. Life of Brian is a must watch movie when talking about this ;)
@@elonmush4793 And this is why Catholics just have the Latin Gospel translated for us by St. Jerome. Prevents mis-translations.
Umm, didn't they write everything in Old Greek and Aramaic and then translate it to Latin? This doesn't prevent mis-translations at all.
9:33 Um. Higher German and Upper German? 🤔🤔
Hochdeutsch ('Higher German')
= a) "Standard German" as well as
b) "'Upper German' PLUS 'Central/Middle German'"
-- 'Central/Middle German' consists dialects like 'Hessian', 'Franconian', 'Upper Saxon'/'Thuringian', still being closer to 'Upper German', but showing traces of 'Low German' --
und
Oberdeutsch ('Upper German')
= 'Alemanic' and 'Bavarian'/'Austro-Bavarian German'.
@@patrickpleil223 High German, yes. Higher German? No.
@@patrickpleil223 upper Saxon have no relation to lower Saxons. The upper Saxons got their name from a dynastic shift.
@@SeBi-lv3de ?
Which of these would fit better to the name "High German", a Dutchman or an Austrian?
This is an extraordinary episode!! Amazing job!! 👏
The different German "languages" were extremely similar and had very few differences so it wasn't as hard as combining 2 random languages he really invented standard German which combined dialectical differences
Come on, you're acting as if they're all just different dialects, when it is actually completely correct to refer to them as different languages.
If they were just different dialects I, as a native German speaker, should at least be able to understand most of what is being said when my grandfather, my father and my uncles converse in Lower German.
Yet, even though this has been a common occurrence over the course of my childhood, I'm still only able to decifer about 70% of what is being said at any given time.
I understand Bavarian better than the language of my ancestors and it's all because of this high-and-middle-german mix we call Standard German.
Lower German has different grammar and a largely different vocabulary.
If this isn't a different language, we might as well refer to Spanish as an Italian dialect.
@@lube6966 yeah I agree idk what 1 year ago me was on
I really enjoyed that Patrick. I think you should do more videos like this
I like this! I want to see more like this
Nice video dude. Keep up the good work!
Name Explain: "Hey, sorry, I am not gonna talk about names, but German in this vid. Anyway, lemme explain where this name came from." 😂😂
As a Protestant, honestly so much more respect for him now than I had before, and there was plenty before. Ugh such an inspiration.
I'm also proud of the what the white race accomplished.
Totally cool!!!! I am here for it!
I got the notification for this while learning about Luther in class. Both summaries of his life were good!
"Martin loofah"
Brilliant stuff! Also as a quick tip for a video, there was a finnish guy named Mikael Agricola, who was basically the same as Luther, but for finnish ;)
I thought Agricola was German.
I'm always fascinated by how noises became words
Martin Luther known for his book: On The TH-camrs And Their Lies
This is totally cool! Now do a video about how what we think of as Italian is basically just the dialect of Florentine that Dante spoke/wrote The Divine Comedy in!
There is an interesting coincidence in the fact that Michael King Sr. changed his name and his son’s to Martin Luther King. Their initials became MLK, the Roman equivalent of the spelling (consonants only) of “Melekh,” the Hebrew word for ...
KING!
aha I'd never thought about that, even if it's not a perfect equivalent of מלך, what a cool coincidence!
Its also "Malik" in Arabic means king
brrr uuuh Yes, Hebrew and Arabic are related members of the Semitic family, like English and German!
Shalom and Salaam!
I'd love to see you talk about languages as well
Someone also made the Korean language.
Basically the ruler realized that the language, especially wrighting, was way to complicated, especially to the poor, do he made it REALLY easy to learn, to the point were the wealthy at the time got mad because pretty much all of the poor could read and wright
Interestingly the Italian language was also invented in modern times to be the common language of a unified Italy. Previously it was just the Florentine dialect.
well, it was adopted as a national language in modern times
but the story is similar, Dante Alighieri basically invented Italian between the 13th and 14th century
I thought he used his own Tuscan dialect.
Martin Luther did not invent the German language he standardized it
.... as was mentioned many, many times in the video
Looks like Gabriel Neves doesnt finish videos
and even the claim "he standardized it" is an exaggeration
Awesome video! I feel the need to point out, though, that Luther did not teach that God should not be feared, and that although Sola Fide does mean "faith alone," it is a statement that needs to be made in the context of salvation. That said, great job on this video, mate! I definitely learned a thing or two.
9:22
He lived between Higher and Upper German areas?
He obviously liked the thin line...
Do another video like this!
Things you learn in 7th or 8th grade protestant religion class in Germany. Some things also earlier or later and also in history or german class
Fun Fact: there's a Playmobil Luther figurine and every protestant teacher or pastor I know owns one. Also I know three different guys whose fathers are pastors. And I've also heard the question "catholic or protestant?" after the revalaton of this information. Admittedly there was alcohol involved but still kinda funny imo
In South Africa we have the languages Afrikaans, an Africanised Dutch including English, Malay and German influences and Fanigalo which used to be spoken in the mines, a mix of Afrikaans English and the Bantu languages to facilitate easy communication between the mine owners and managers and the miners, often migrant work from the homelands.
Michael Meyer-Palmer
woahh malay??? now i'm intrigued!!! tell me more hahahahaha
@@karl-oppa5261 It's most prominent in the cape but the most commonly used malay-derived word is baie, meaning 'very', derived from the malay word banyak.
Michael Meyer-Palmer
hahahaha thanks !!!
10:13 Die Kalligraphie ist wunderschön!
Aber der Protestantismus ist hässlich.
Ist das nicht eher Typographie?
I DEFINATLY THINK it would be a nice idea to do language stuff too as many names of things are a result of the language the name came from.
I guess everyone who's standardized a language's various dialects into one unified 'standard language', can be considered an inventor of a language. it's happened in almost every country and their major languages i guess.
@@arcni1213 Yes I know, and I also know that at the time of French Revolution, the language we call French wasn't widespread across South of France (Occitania, Acquitaine) too. Is that correct?
@@arcni1213 yes, i understand. it is similar to the Punjabi language in Pakistan, which contains "dialects" that are actually their own languages with their own histories, with similarities with bordering tongues as well.
@@arcni1213 standardizations of languages is a fucked up ordeal in any case
@@arcni1213 I guess even in Germany, the Low German languages of North Germany had been compromised by this standardization as well.
[ˈlʊtɐ] is how you pronounce Luther which is spoken more like Lutter (litter but with a short u)
We definitely should get a Language Explain
He standardized German he didn't invent it, German existed before Martin Luther standardized it, everyone just spoke different Dialects
Have you watched the video?
@@abrakadabra2192 Yeah! Its funny, but not that much close to the truth.
Perhaps as one of the most famous examples of modern languages being created, I’d be interested in your analysis of both modern Hebrew (and if you have the time, also MSA (Modern Standard Arabic))
Thanks
Please go ahead with more language explains 👀
Greetings from a guy speaking Standard German with a few Swabian and Bavarian elements here and there (or generally Southern German elements)
if this becomes a series, could you do Italian
the story is pretty similar, but Dante made it because he wanted to be respected by the intellectuals of the time even if he wrote in a common language (well, not really common, more like language of the educated people that didn't speak Latin)
my native language was basically made to write poems and this one book
3:55 Holy shit, that's the town my family's from. Never thought I'd see that on TH-cam.
This is really fascinating, I didn't know that he combined German languages, I learned in school that he used his own dialect.
A more realistic estimate of total Esperanto speakers is around 300,000, perhaps 25,000 with a high level of proficiency, and only about 9000 who speak it completely fluently.
Martin Luther did not invent the German language. In fact, he was proud that the language of his translation was close to the way people actually talked. (There were other German bible translations before him.) He merely played an important role in the development of a unified written German language because his writings and his Bible were so widely read.
Martin Luther did not have the Didache because the written copy of this book of Christian Tradition, which has always been honored by the Catholic Church, but was lost for hundreds of years. Consequently, Luther didn’t understand that teachings of the Church that are not found in the Bible are authentic practices of the early church.
This story is such common sense to a german like me. But of course: it's just as foreign to english people.
Wait... Metaxas? Didn't he write a biography of Maximilian Kolbe so flawed and ahistorical that it's impossible to finish a page without hitting an error? His name sounds so familiar.
Actually, esperanto was meant to be a lingua franca in Europe across various language borders, it did succeed for a while until English became more popular and esperanto's purpose had been fulfilled by the English language
This pretty much highlights the fact that European nations were a collection of various minor ethnicities that happened to dwell at a place were a nation-state was born.
It's not the neat little blocks that each national myth dictates they are, and that had been historically revisioned to appear.
Diversity as well as minorities have been smashed by the behemoth of the nation-state.
German as a self identifying people existed before the nation state (deutsch - belonging to the people). Also germany is still exactly for that reason a federation based primarily on tribal states (though some got mixed up after ww2). In places like britain or france, which have a historical and ongoing centralization on their capital i can see your point to some degree, however germany is in my opinion, as a german who identifies first as a ripuarian, the exact counter example of your thesis. The drive for an united germany came from the people, not the governments of the time and our parliament is not for no reason called the federation's Thing.
What minorities?
Two people who are very alike can live on each side of a border and be forced into thinking they're wildly different because of their nationality. Also, borders are a rather arbitrary product of centuries of wars. To me, this ongoing project of de-emphasising borders within the European Union is a great accomplishment.
@@chillaxo9863 For example Frisians, Low Saxons and Sorbs.
@@boahkeinbockmehr Et givt us minnerheiden noch vandage, wy sint ni alle gån.
You should start a second channel named "Lang Explain"
I think many European languages went through such a proces. My native language Dutch was also standardized by a Bible translation (though this was done by a state appointed committee) called the Statenvertaling (the States translation). It was also based on the different (Frankish) languages, mostly on the dialect which was spoken in Antwerp at the time. This standardized Dutch became so important that it influenced the Low Saxon dialects of the east in such a way that they have changed into Dutch dialects, rather than Low Saxon ones. Only Frisian survived as a non-Dutch language in the Netherlands, though Low Saxon is gaining some recognition now.
Called Nederduits or Nederlands Duits.
First was Indo-Germanic. Proto-Germanic evolved from that which ultimately developed into West and North Germanic dialects. The continental West Germanic dialects formed a continuum as the modern Dutch and German dialects also constitute. But mutual intelligibility was lost at the end of the Early Medieval Period. All these continental West Germanic dialects and their speakers acquired a name, derived from Theodisk (theod =people, theodisk = by the (Germanic) people). English "Dutch" and German "Deutsch" evolved from Theodisk. Dutch, German and Almain (from French Allemand = German) meant the same before the 19th c.. Out of the many dialects a number of chancery languages evolved. But written communication required much improvisation, like applying the High German Consonant Shift in case people in the Netherlands, Rhineland or North Germany wanted to send a letter to a High German addressee but didn't master the right High German chancery language. Luther tried to invent a chancery language which was intelligible to the largest number of people. He based it on the most prestigious 15th c. High German chancery language, "Gemain Teutsch" (Common German), used by the Imperial Chancery in Vienna. But he modified its Austro-Bavarian by East Franconian and by East Central German (Upper Saxon) vernacular and minor additions from other High and Low German/Dutch varieties. Luther applied the new compound "High German" (Hochdeutsch) for translating the Bible which promoted it greatly. But only in the middle of the 18th c. Hochdeutsch got established as the sole literate language everywhere except in the Low Countries (Netherlands and Flemish Belgium) where Nederduits (Low German)/Nederlands Duits (Lowland's German) got the literate language. From original Hochdeutsch modern Standard German (Standard-, Hoch-, Schriftdeutsch) evolved. People learned writing in Hochdeutsch in school but spoke their respective High or Low German dialect for communicating with each other until the middle of the 20th c..
Great video, it's always interesting to know just how many modern things have come to exist because of religion. I mean, it's hard to be critical of ML and the movement he inspired, since there was an obvious moral corruption on the part of the institutions at the time (probably still remain to the present). About other thing, it was curious to me just how relevant it was to adhere to the holy writings for ML, according to the video. Yet, it seemed necessary/useful for him to simplify it and make use of common sayings, etc. Which helped the regular folk come closer not only to religious teaching, but to literacy and together among themselves, as a nation.
Please do a video about Ferdowsi and Persian language.
Something you might look into if you’re wanting to make a “language explain” series:
I once read about a man who was commissioned by the king of England to make a proper speech and writing guide to standardize English; the problem was that he thought Latin was the best language and English should just be Latin but with English vocabulary... and apparently thanks to him we got things like “Him and I” instead of “Me and him” even though either should technically be correct in English, but because that’s how Latin did, that’s how he said we should...
(Also, sorry that this was kind long and rambling, if I can find the book I read or other info, I’ll post it as a reply)
Sounds like a great story, leaving a comment to keep tabs
That's also why it's "bad grammar" to end a sentence with a preposition, which (to paraphrase Winston Churchill) is an absurdity up with which I will not put!
my reformed butt got way too excited seeing Luther on your channel
You forgot to mention that Martin Luther even invented new words
like Lutheran
The roots of German were already there. I used German as my language for my Ph. D. in English, and then I took Old English (West Saxon dialect) for a linguistic course. If I didn't know what a word was, I guessed it's German meaning, and I was right 95 percent of the time. My prof also took me to task for pronouncing Old English with a German accent, to which I replied, "So how does anyone know what Old English sounded like?"
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You are such a cool guy and ur videos are fucking good!!! I’m German and I love ur perspectives and obviously ur jokes eg about the clickbait 🤣🤣. Smoking a fat saruch n listening ze the best rn!!!
Me :(who is interested in geography, history, linguistics and name history)
This video is like a rar occasion treat thing
as i understand it, he did not make some sort of amalgamation of german dialects for his translation. rather, he translated the bible into the saxon dialect, with the addition of glosses for various german dialects. in his own words, albeit translated to english: "i use the common german tongue in order that both north germans and south germans may understand me. i speak according to the saxon chancery which is followed by all princes and kings in germany." in this way, he did not invent the standard german that you reference, but he certainly popularized it beyond courts and legal documents. my source: archive.org/details/historyofgermanl00supeiala/page/78. please cite your sources.
I was just reading about this in German class
Fascinating video! I’d love to see more videos on how languages change over time, as well as how Christianity and the Bible has helped transform languages (such as the King James Bible for English)
If you want to do another video about a person who "invented" (or re-invented) a language, I reccomend looking into Eliezer Ben-Yehuda.
3:27 Why did you commit the sin of connecting Denmark and Skåne on the map?
I just realized you uploaded this video during Reformation month. Was that intentional?
Modern Hebrew has a similar origin story - it was pieces together by Yehuda Ben Eliezer from ancient Hebrew and made accessible to the early Jewish settlers of Palestine.
Im interested why the Der, Die, Das Artikel Came from and why he created them :D
There's a lot of parallels with Dante, the church, and Italian here!
"Some of the priests were corrupt. Their priorities were making money to build huge churches."
To be friar, that's far from the worst thing a priest could spend money on.
My city has a street called Martin Luther Ring, it's kinda an hommage too both as Ring rhymes with King and can be misread from a distance
Great insight into Martin Luther's pivotal role in shaping the German language and his profound impact on Christianity. The link between language, religion, and historical context was brilliantly explored. Kudos!
I'm sorry, 5 ads in one 13m video?!
An indulgence is not actually the remission of sins, but the remission of temporal punishment due to sins. And they can only be granted after the sins have already forgiven.
hey dude can you link the chart of Languages u have at 0:58? much apreciated.
That's the Indo-European family, just googling the name will provide several images like that one
4:35 Are you telling us that modern lawyers don't need metalogic?!
Didn't Dante Aligheri create standard Italian?
What is espretentio?
I invented my own language. Oya lun ona vie ertien yiet ona ux, it means I love you. Only me and my boyfriend speak and write it 😂
I want to get into conlanging myself. Very cool!
Ackchyually! Luther's influence on the German Language is often highly overstated.
These videos always collect the general knowledge on a subject without examining it critically and therefor perpetuate misonceptions.
For example there had been already 14 printed translations of the bible into German before Martin Luther's. The first hand-written translations date back to the 9th century that makes 70 translations total.
As a member of the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church of America) Thank you for such a wonderful video on a man so important to my religious beliefs.
Who is Loofa? Or did you mean "Luther" with a "TH" sound?