I read the old english Lord's Prayer out to my teenage daughter who knows nothing about old English and she guessed what it was after just a few lines.
Despite English being my native language and having learnt two Romance languages, I find pre-1066 Vulgar Latin easier to understand than English from the same time period.
Languages change. It would be impossible for a language not to change at least a bit in a period of over a thousand years. However, if there was _little_ change, English in that scenario would sound more like modern Icelandic, with the two possibly being mutually intelligible.
I wonder if the English and the original Scandinavians understood each other in the ninth century. To put it simply, did the English understand when the first vikings arrived?
Middle and Old English sound so much better. Middle English is the proof that a language can radically drift in just a few centuries without ending up sounding drunk like modern English.
That's because old english was fully germanic, also english and germanic descended from west germanic which later split off into Elbe Germanic (German branch) and West Sea Germanic (English and Frisian branch)
There's a surprising amount of variation in the modern Lords prayer, I've seen "trespasses" translated as "debts", which seems to be what it says in the middle English here. Even then, it may be a bit misleading to call this "modern english", I'm not entirely sure but that's probably the King James Bible. They pronounced it differently back then, and we don't use much of the vocabulary anymore, but at the same time (depending on your denomination and everything else) that IS what we say.
KJV was translated into Early Modern English, which Shakespeare also contributed to. Despite it was still being wildly understood, some of words, such as “thy” are obsolete now.
Old English speakers be like - we can get most of what the other germanic people say. We're Anglo Saxon after all... And that's pretty Germanic. Middle English speakers be like - bonjour, i mean, good day. Oui arre frenche vikinghes ænd oui chaou notte pronounce zé guttural "h", ænd oui chaou simplifie your grammar + change ze oueï you write but onlie with some words so thatte it becomes reallie confusing. Modern English speakers be like - in theory English is a Germanic language, but it's comprised of 60% Latin and French words. And what's up with the spelling rules? First you learn them, and later it turns out that there are dozens of exceptions...
This is a question I've always had in my head and never gotten a good answer, but to you folks to don't know English, what does it honestly sound like to you?
Here's the Timeline of English: • Old English is the first "proper" English. Evolved from Proto-Germanic and spoken by the Anglo-Saxons in the British Isles. "Beowulf" is an example of a famous text in Old English • 1066, Norman Conquest, bringing French dialectal loans into the language. Naturally, the people would inherit French loans into the language, however it was mainly the nobility that would speak French. Noblemen below Nobility would inherit French vocab. Lower noblemen would Naturally aspire to look higher class and would use French vocab. This would pass down the chain until the ordinary public would inherit French vocab. This is also why lower class livestock ("cow") comes from Germanic, but prepared food eaten by upper classes ("beef") comes from French. English begun to change into Middle English. "Canterbury Tales" is an example of a famous text in Middle English • Around the 1400s, English vowels begun to change in what is called "Great Vowel Shift"; nobody is sure why, but happens in every language. In addition, the Printing press came out and English was getting standardised. A century later, the Renaissance would occur and come to England, filling English with flourishing new vocab of different languages as well as new native words. Many authors of this period would influence English as we know it too. Slightly later, the Scientific revolution and Enlightenment would occur, having similar effect as the Renaissance. These factors combined would shift the language to Modern English, specifically Early Modern. Famous text in Early Modern English is... well Shakespeare. • Language Naturally changes over time, especially as the modern age creeps upon us. Hence English shifts into Late Modern English. LM English begins around 1700s or 1800s, famous texts include Charles Dickens. • Some linguists say we're still in Late Modern English. Others say we're in "Contemporary English" today. Some say Contemporary English is part of Late Modern, while others say it's the "third modern" after Early and Late Modern English. No matter which side you're on, Contemporary English (based on who you ask) begins around living memory (so post-WW2) and is influenced by a more connected world. So many new technologies and concepts that need new words. In addition, there's the Internet which connected the world and influenced Contemporary English. Not sure about famous texts, just pick your favourite one. I assume Harry Potter and Diary of a Wimpy Kid are famous texts in Contemporary English. Roald Dahl is like the bridge between Late Modern and Contemporary English.
"3yue to vs this dai oure breed ouer othir substaunce" sounds a bit awkward in today's english "give to us this day our bread or other substance". i feel like the word "substance" has been used very often in modern english for things like drugs. idk though probably its bcs im not a native english speaker
Its crazy how much easier it is to understand Middle English than Old English.
I read the old english Lord's Prayer out to my teenage daughter who knows nothing about old English and she guessed what it was after just a few lines.
Despite English being my native language and having learnt two Romance languages, I find pre-1066 Vulgar Latin easier to understand than English from the same time period.
Imagine if English didn't change and Old English was the main international language
Languages change. It would be impossible for a language not to change at least a bit in a period of over a thousand years. However, if there was _little_ change, English in that scenario would sound more like modern Icelandic, with the two possibly being mutually intelligible.
Þes mann lufaþ hu þis geþeode swegþ.
This man loueth hu this itheode souneth.
This man loves how this language sounds.
Software Engineers when their Prpgramming language starts updating:
Nice prayer Andy
Love from Nigeria🌍
fascinating! you can see the form of old words like guilt alll the way back in old English
I wonder if the English and the original Scandinavians understood each other in the ninth century. To put it simply, did the English understand when the first vikings arrived?
Amazing channel Andy 😊
Wow never knew English was so different back then
I love this 😍
Andy, could you do a video on the different dialects of Old English (i.e Mercian, Northumbrian, Wessaxon, Kentish)?
The old English sound like Germanic / North men, of course for the origin 🤘
Middle and Old English sound so much better. Middle English is the proof that a language can radically drift in just a few centuries without ending up sounding drunk like modern English.
I like old English sounds better than modern posh English or Middle English. Sounds like Swedish + German. (Nord) We can also read the history too :3
Old English sounds much closer to German than modern English. ☺
modern english SUX
That's because old english was fully germanic, also english and germanic descended from west germanic which later split off into Elbe Germanic (German branch) and West Sea Germanic (English and Frisian branch)
Wow! Try evolution of the language is stark!!!
Why does old english sound so much better than modern english?
less fr*nch
Because Old English was before the Frenchies poisoned our language after the Norman conquest
Englisc is betere
because modern english is a bastard child of german, latin, greek, and french, while old english is only of german and celtic
Because of the intonation, and because the R is pronounced a tap/trill, and not a bunched “hard R” as in modern English
There's a surprising amount of variation in the modern Lords prayer, I've seen "trespasses" translated as "debts", which seems to be what it says in the middle English here.
Even then, it may be a bit misleading to call this "modern english", I'm not entirely sure but that's probably the King James Bible. They pronounced it differently back then, and we don't use much of the vocabulary anymore, but at the same time (depending on your denomination and everything else) that IS what we say.
I’m not sure either why trespasses became the standard. Debts seems to be the more “accurate” translation from both the Greek and the Latin (debitas).
KJV was translated into Early Modern English, which Shakespeare also contributed to. Despite it was still being wildly understood, some of words, such as “thy” are obsolete now.
The more accurate term is "late modern" (~1700 or 1800s c to today) or "contemporary" (in living memory) English will be more accurate or precise
So Old English is the language spoken by Canute in Vinland Saga!
I love you Andy
Wow 😮
Now:I will take a poo
Middle english:E wille taike a pooeh
Old english ewi leta ketak keapo
tôi rất thích tiếng anh mình sẽ cố gắng học tiếng anh cho giỏi để gặp người ngoại quốc nói bằng tiếng anh 🇬🇧🇺🇸
You didn't tried very much to speak in English 😋
@Side XYZ Blm cringe.
Please don't, it's really not worth it. Go meet some nice Viet people instead.
Sending good wish as you study! Thank you!!
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Do more of these!!! 👍🏻👍🏻
LOVE ENGLISH LANGUAGE FROM ROMANIA
Old English sound like Icelandik
cool.
Old English speakers be like - we can get most of what the other germanic people say. We're Anglo Saxon after all... And that's pretty Germanic.
Middle English speakers be like - bonjour, i mean, good day. Oui arre frenche vikinghes ænd oui chaou notte pronounce zé guttural "h", ænd oui chaou simplifie your grammar + change ze oueï you write but onlie with some words so thatte it becomes reallie confusing.
Modern English speakers be like - in theory English is a Germanic language, but it's comprised of 60% Latin and French words. And what's up with the spelling rules? First you learn them, and later it turns out that there are dozens of exceptions...
Reason why English is Germanic.
Rest In Peace to the trilled and tapped r sound
Proto-Germanic and Proto-Indo-Europian should be added
Middle English us min preferance.👍🤴🏰🎪🃏⚔️
This is a question I've always had in my head and never gotten a good answer, but to you folks to don't know English, what does it honestly sound like to you?
British English sounds slightly decent, American English sounds HORRIBLE, a parody of a language.
And no, I'm not joking.
@@wintherr3527 Fr I like British English way better
@@wintherr3527 what about Australia/New Zealand, Hibernia, Alba English?
@@wintherr3527 I'm American and I'm honestly only like 20% offended by your answer.
You can just listen to Middle English to find out.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but middle English was used when normans invaded England right? Since middle English does show a bit of french influence on it
Here's the Timeline of English:
• Old English is the first "proper" English. Evolved from Proto-Germanic and spoken by the Anglo-Saxons in the British Isles. "Beowulf" is an example of a famous text in Old English
• 1066, Norman Conquest, bringing French dialectal loans into the language. Naturally, the people would inherit French loans into the language, however it was mainly the nobility that would speak French. Noblemen below Nobility would inherit French vocab. Lower noblemen would Naturally aspire to look higher class and would use French vocab. This would pass down the chain until the ordinary public would inherit French vocab. This is also why lower class livestock ("cow") comes from Germanic, but prepared food eaten by upper classes ("beef") comes from French. English begun to change into Middle English. "Canterbury Tales" is an example of a famous text in Middle English
• Around the 1400s, English vowels begun to change in what is called "Great Vowel Shift"; nobody is sure why, but happens in every language. In addition, the Printing press came out and English was getting standardised. A century later, the Renaissance would occur and come to England, filling English with flourishing new vocab of different languages as well as new native words. Many authors of this period would influence English as we know it too. Slightly later, the Scientific revolution and Enlightenment would occur, having similar effect as the Renaissance. These factors combined would shift the language to Modern English, specifically Early Modern. Famous text in Early Modern English is... well Shakespeare.
• Language Naturally changes over time, especially as the modern age creeps upon us. Hence English shifts into Late Modern English. LM English begins around 1700s or 1800s, famous texts include Charles Dickens.
• Some linguists say we're still in Late Modern English. Others say we're in "Contemporary English" today. Some say Contemporary English is part of Late Modern, while others say it's the "third modern" after Early and Late Modern English. No matter which side you're on, Contemporary English (based on who you ask) begins around living memory (so post-WW2) and is influenced by a more connected world. So many new technologies and concepts that need new words. In addition, there's the Internet which connected the world and influenced Contemporary English. Not sure about famous texts, just pick your favourite one. I assume Harry Potter and Diary of a Wimpy Kid are famous texts in Contemporary English. Roald Dahl is like the bridge between Late Modern and Contemporary English.
Modern English character had QUEEN ELIZABETH?!?!?
Your voice 😍
bro sus
Thankfully it changed
Y'all obsessed with Old English giving eugenics vibes. I think Middle English sounds so cute and it's basically just Modern English with a funny hat
What exactly does eugenics have to do with liking a language..?
Eugenics??? **colonial confusion**
Cope
Can you do Azerbaijani next
What about American English?
i love early modern english
"3yue to vs this dai oure breed ouer othir substaunce" sounds a bit awkward in today's english "give to us this day our bread or other substance". i feel like the word "substance" has been used very often in modern english for things like drugs. idk though probably its bcs im not a native english speaker
can you please make Tatar people, language and culture please
She’ll need volunteers.
@@JaredtheRabbit Татар теле
Привет ты знаешь русский ?
No
@No U I thought Andy was a guy? He's said so many times. some Filipinos just have really light voice.
Hет
When is "EME"?.
They sound like a mix of italian,irish, and modern english lol
Naa pod ka dri no tungod sa Els nimo nga subject..? 🤣🤣🤣
Middle English is better
The word for name
English : name
Sanskrit: nama
Japanese: namae
In Slavic languages: IME
In hausa it's suuna
Irish: ainm
Old Tamil - Peyar
Tamil - Peru
Telugu - Peru
Kannada - Hesaru
i don't understand
First
Old English >>> Mid English >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Modern English
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100th
Make English German again.
Do you mean "Germanic again"?
It was never German. Fool
English is not as conservative as other germanic languages.
Can English once again cleave to Angle Saxish English rather than this manmade crossbreed of today’s English?
No
It could have been prior to industrialisation and setting up America and other countries.
bro swore to not say any outlandish word
we tried, but it turned out, the fr*nch are not that bad
Old english sounds latin