Spread of the Indo-European Languages in Eurasia

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  • @kayvonrad3044
    @kayvonrad3044 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1230

    I like that you can see small unique groups for brief moments like the celtic galatians in anatolia, the indo-aryan mitanni leaders in northern assyria, the eastern germanic goths who migrated to crimea, and the hellenic-speaking phoenicians. Also I didn't know an Indo-aryan language was spoken in the altai mountains for a long time

    • @hereisyoursign6750
      @hereisyoursign6750 3 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      Yep, the Indo-Europeans were the original horselords before it was cool, only to be subsumed by the Altaic peoples from the east

    • @musheggasparyan9225
      @musheggasparyan9225 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Armenians are indo-european too

    • @StuffandThings_
      @StuffandThings_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      @@hereisyoursign6750 horelords have _always_ been cool. There's pretty much two main groups who do well in history, horselords and farmers.

    • @collin-theonlyandone2299
      @collin-theonlyandone2299 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      @@hereisyoursign6750 Indo-Europeans are not technically the "Original Horselords". That would be the non-IE Botai Culture who are responsible for the first domestication of horses for horseriding purposes in modern day Kazakhstan

    • @collin-theonlyandone2299
      @collin-theonlyandone2299 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @Devvrat Mishra No. It is likely the first domestication of elephants happened during the peak of the Indus Valley Civilisation in the subcontinent 4000 years ago. As we know, IVC is not Indo european/vedic

  • @98267024
    @98267024 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2114

    My horse can’t stop rearing after watching this

    • @based4560
      @based4560 3 ปีที่แล้ว +136

      Kinda feel bad for Tocharian branch

    • @whoreofdragonstone1031
      @whoreofdragonstone1031 3 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      @@based4560 assimilated by Turkic and Mongolic speakers right?

    • @based4560
      @based4560 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@whoreofdragonstone1031 yup

    • @whoreofdragonstone1031
      @whoreofdragonstone1031 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@based4560 I assume they’re the ones who gave the aforesaid groups pastoralism?

    • @based4560
      @based4560 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@whoreofdragonstone1031 I suppose

  • @herrbucketeer2674
    @herrbucketeer2674 3 ปีที่แล้ว +766

    This is one of the most beautful things i have ever seen
    *wipes tear

    • @aryyancarman705
      @aryyancarman705 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Agreed

    • @theskv21
      @theskv21 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      One thing that would make it more amazing would be if we had a rough idea of the non-IE languages around the map

    • @celtofcanaanesurix2245
      @celtofcanaanesurix2245 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      tell that to the Indus Valley civilization, and the Early European Farmers

    • @celtofcanaanesurix2245
      @celtofcanaanesurix2245 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@theskv21 agreed, I’d love to know more about the early history of Vasconic

    • @vishnuvardhan3047
      @vishnuvardhan3047 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@celtofcanaanesurix2245 there is no Aryan race. It is just fake

  • @daeiadolf5575
    @daeiadolf5575 3 ปีที่แล้ว +790

    love all of my indo-european brothers from 🇮🇷 IRAN 🇮🇷

    • @nobody7220
      @nobody7220 3 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      thx love from India🇮🇳

    • @szymonovsky9783
      @szymonovsky9783 3 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      I Love Iran from Poland 🇮🇷❤️🇵🇱

    • @johannesnicolaas
      @johannesnicolaas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Love from Holland.

    • @daeiadolf5575
      @daeiadolf5575 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@johannesnicolaas ♡♡♡ love u

    • @daeiadolf5575
      @daeiadolf5575 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@szymonovsky9783 ♡♡♡♡
      we have lot of Poles in Iran.
      they came to iran during world war

  • @carteradams43
    @carteradams43 3 ปีที่แล้ว +881

    You can see the effects of Alexander's Empire, the Turkish empires such as the Ottomans, the Roman/Byzantine empire, etc. so clearly... also never knew of that little Greek holdout in India. I knew the language probably spread there but didn't think it would ever hold out to this day, considering it's been so long since Alexander's Empire. I will admit, I felt a hint of sadness watching the Anatolian language die. It seemed to be one of the oldest branches and it held out for so long.

    • @stsk1061
      @stsk1061 3 ปีที่แล้ว +122

      That's Nuristani, not Greek.

    • @carteradams43
      @carteradams43 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      @@stsk1061 I tried making an edit saying that, but it didn't save for whatever reason. but yeah, you're right.

    • @steffenseitter4791
      @steffenseitter4791 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      @@stsk1061 Greek >>> Greco-Bactrian Kingdom >>> Greco-Indian Kingdoms. Nuristani is that very small Dot in that Timeperiod

    • @yolemae6580
      @yolemae6580 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      alexanders empire was not the only greek one. there was the indo greeks as well.

    • @frostflower5555
      @frostflower5555 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      I always felt sadness about Anatolia and wonder where did the Hittite and Luwian languages go. Also Syria and Iraq were Indo-European speakers before.

  • @worlddata8982
    @worlddata8982 3 ปีที่แล้ว +747

    Indo-European language family is the most spreaded language family in the world. Indo-European languages are the majority language in more than 48 countries🌍🌏.
    I am a Sinhala speaker, an Indo-Aryan language from Sri Lanka🇱🇰.

    • @zulu2885
      @zulu2885 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Dude , I'm a native hindi speaker , tell me if there's mutual intelligibility on your side , do you guys have record of ancestry from regions in india , fascinated to know

    • @worlddata8982
      @worlddata8982 3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      @@zulu2885 Yes. Sinhalese genes are made with 72% Bengali/Odisha genes, 12% Gujarati genes and 15% South Indian genes.

    • @zulu2885
      @zulu2885 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@worlddata8982 so essentially they're north indians then , pretty cool , this is not taught or known , how old is this migration and what were the reasons mate

    • @worlddata8982
      @worlddata8982 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@zulu2885 Prince Vijaya arrived in Sri Lanka in 536 BCE on the day of the demise of the Lord Buddha. He was the son of the King Sinhabahu of Wanga Kingdom. King Sinhabahu banished Prince Vijaya and his team from the kingdom (For this reason, some Sri Lankans are reluctant to accept Vijaya as a their ansestor) . Their ships sank near Sri Lanka and they were able to swim to Sri Lanka. When he laid his hand on the shore, his hand was covered with copper. Copper in Sanskrit is called "Thamba" . known as copper "Thamba" in also Sinhala. Hence he called Sri Lanka "Thambapanni". At that time, "Yaksha people" of North Indian Aryan origin lived in Sri Lanka. Prince Vijaya married a Yaksha women. Her name was "Kuweni". There were constant clashes between Vijay's group and the Yakshas. Vijaya's group who were angry with Kuveni for being a Yaksha woman lied to Prince Vijaya about her. Prince Vijaya believed them to be true and Kuveni was banished from the palace. She went to the Yakshas. Because she was married to Prince Vijaya, she was killed by the Yaksha people who were angry with her. Her son and daughter escaped and they are ansestors of Vaddas (aborgines). The Veddas also have the genes of the Deva people who lived in the hill country. Prince Vijaya and his team married with South Indian princesses. But Vijaya had no children. After him, Sri Lanka was ruled by his ministers. In 437 BCE Prince Pandukabhaya became the king. He was half yaksha-half Bengali. He could united Yakshas and Bengalis. He made the Sinhala nation. Hence he is known as the first Sinhala king.

    • @zulu2885
      @zulu2885 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@worlddata8982 wo!!, This is internet at its best , thank you good sire for this detailed answer , it would've taken me hours to get this info otherwise , idk but aren't yakshas and rakshas mythological terms , also what defines a yaksha , aren't vedda the orginal inhabitants of india before the arrival of Iranian farmers and steppe Aryans , I always thought veddas are essentially tamil , I'm also most curious to know mutual intelligibility between bengali and Sinhalese , is it closer to tamil or bengali or orriya , also how Buddhist is srilanka , do they celebrate diwali or holi , and what exactly do people think of Ravana in Sri Lanka , I know it's a lot but kinda curious about it all especially when talking to someone as knowledgeable and culturally aware as you are
      Thanks for the info

  • @Hunter-915
    @Hunter-915 2 ปีที่แล้ว +214

    Indo-Europeans: *surround the Caucasus*
    Caucasians: I will surely survive

    • @rggalas
      @rggalas 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Wait... Does not so-called "Caucasian" race or "Indo-Europeans" are modern names of Aryans? Lol

    • @TheSpecialJ11
      @TheSpecialJ11 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      ​@@rggalas The word "Caucasian" to describe Indo-European peoples is entirely ahistorical. Some anthropologist thought Caucasians were beautiful and more or less just assumed that's where Europeans originated. And Aryan is just one specific Indo-European group the Nazis co-opted the name of despite Germanic peoples having no relation to them beyond shared lineage from Proto-Indo-Europeans, as this map demonstrates.

    • @Dex-trDeffended-kq3nl
      @Dex-trDeffended-kq3nl หลายเดือนก่อน

      On the contrary, the Caucasians persecuted the Indo-Europeans ) and the Iranians had a neutral attitude

    • @Dex-trDeffended-kq3nl
      @Dex-trDeffended-kq3nl หลายเดือนก่อน

      @meme-potentialsearch8010 Russia as the weakest nation, which managed to lose to Chechnya alone many times, what else can I say that Russia fought against Chechnya for 400 years, against Circassians for 150 years, against Dagestanis for 45

    • @StudyBuddy-jj5pb
      @StudyBuddy-jj5pb หลายเดือนก่อน

      yep

  • @morshedalmahi3418
    @morshedalmahi3418 ปีที่แล้ว +117

    Just thinking about Indo-European language family makes me so happy . I feel like I'm part of such a huge and magnificent family . Love to all other Indo-European speakers from a Bengali-speaker .

    • @marcobelli6856
      @marcobelli6856 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Love from an Italic speaker❤️

    • @romayi_seviyorum.117
      @romayi_seviyorum.117 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      A lie makes you happy? Average Indian...

    • @plimpus4668
      @plimpus4668 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ​@@romayi_seviyorum.117Ok turk

    • @morshedalmahi3418
      @morshedalmahi3418 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      @@romayi_seviyorum.117 Which lie ? What are you talking about , Turkic man ?

    • @morshedalmahi3418
      @morshedalmahi3418 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@marcobelli6856 💞💕

  • @eiliakashkoli2348
    @eiliakashkoli2348 3 ปีที่แล้ว +404

    Rip Iranic People In Euroasian steps, Central Asia and western China 💔

    • @SchmulKrieger
      @SchmulKrieger 3 ปีที่แล้ว +142

      The Turks and Mongols destroyed them.

    • @himalayas1647
      @himalayas1647 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      @@SchmulKrieger tocharians still exist but in few numbers. Search for red head people in Tajikistan or east turkestan

    • @collin-theonlyandone2299
      @collin-theonlyandone2299 3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      @@SchmulKrieger The slavs also "destroyed" Scythians and Sarmatians of Eastern Europe according to your comment, you forgot that detail

    • @artaxes3164
      @artaxes3164 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      *ANGRY TURKİSH MAN JOİNED THE CHAT*

    • @eho6380
      @eho6380 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@himalayas1647 The Tocharians don't exist anymore and have been assimilated.
      Also, Tajiks didn't descend from the Tocharians.

  • @Pandadude-eg9li
    @Pandadude-eg9li 3 ปีที่แล้ว +472

    Interesting that Pre-Proto-Germanic, Proto Italic, Vedic Sanskrit, Avestan, Hittite, Mycennean Greek, Late Proto-Balto-Slavic, and Proto Celtic were all spoken at the same time (1500 BC).

    • @SchmulKrieger
      @SchmulKrieger 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Proto Italo-Celtic along with Proto Germanic. Proto Italic is younger than Proto Germanic.

    • @Pandadude-eg9li
      @Pandadude-eg9li 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@SchmulKrieger I thought Proto Germanic, as it was reconstructed, was from 600 BC.

    • @Nullius_in_verba
      @Nullius_in_verba 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@SchmulKrieger italo-celtic along with Pre-proto Germanic. In the video is represented too earlier only to show classification I think.

    • @SchmulKrieger
      @SchmulKrieger 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Nullius_in_verba you should improve your English. I haven't understood what you wanted to say.

    • @tusharthegreatest176
      @tusharthegreatest176 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      No bro vedic sanskriti is more older and i really don't believe this theory

  • @iamseamonkey6688
    @iamseamonkey6688 3 ปีที่แล้ว +582

    this video has been a long time coming.
    i'm calling it here: this is the magnum opus of your channel. truly phenomenal work.

    • @CostasMelas
      @CostasMelas  3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Thank you very much

    • @aryyancarman705
      @aryyancarman705 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      *Megh2nom h3epos because its a PIE video😎😎

    • @Lechoslaw8546
      @Lechoslaw8546 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Pity, this video has been based on unfounded research. In fact PIE as presented never existed. The real PIE was Protoslavic, a mother language of most European languages plus Avestian and Sanskrit that derived from it.

    • @iamseamonkey6688
      @iamseamonkey6688 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@Lechoslaw8546 you have to be a troll.

    • @sbg019
      @sbg019 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Lechoslaw8546 😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @NaderKhorasani
    @NaderKhorasani 2 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    From Iran, greetings to all Aryan family✋🏻

    • @arabianinferno6918
      @arabianinferno6918 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You are Dravidian

    • @levi6466
      @levi6466 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@arabianinferno6918 how anIranian can be dravidian?

    • @Indo-Aryan9644
      @Indo-Aryan9644 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      🇮🇳❤️🇮🇷

    • @indianboy59
      @indianboy59 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@arabianinferno6918 stop pointing fingers at others and speak for yourself

    • @AdiHaiKya
      @AdiHaiKya ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Shukriya Brother 🇮🇳❤️🇮🇷

  • @iliastephnadze
    @iliastephnadze ปีที่แล้ว +129

    Indo-European: "spreads to Europe and Asia*
    Georgia: No

    • @DWithDiagonalStroke
      @DWithDiagonalStroke 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      Never underestimate the kartvelians

    • @konstantinbush295
      @konstantinbush295 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      Hungary, Finland, Estonia, Basque country: No

    • @Crxyzen1
      @Crxyzen1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Turkic: "well, I will spread over them"

    • @Mrnosilence
      @Mrnosilence 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@iliastephnadze Malta, Basque, Finland, Estonia, Hungary, Georgia, Kalmykia, Udmurt, Tatarstan, Dagestan: Nope

    • @Geoguy678
      @Geoguy678 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@MrnosilenceAh yes, my favourite country Anatomy

  • @Geomapper-r5j
    @Geomapper-r5j 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    From iceland all the way to Sri lanka.what a massive diversity but united as indo european 😂

    • @pritsingh9766
      @pritsingh9766 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sri lankas often try to relate themselves with it but truth is they stole some words from sanskrit ,to relate themselves with hindus of north India Hahahaha. Sri lanka is more close to China and their loans and here you talk about unity after harming hindus in your country.

    • @jhaaayushh
      @jhaaayushh 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      no way a sri lankan is related to an icelandian genetically.

    • @PikaPluff
      @PikaPluff 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jhaaayushh Humans share 99.9% of their DNA. You might wanna rephrase that.

  • @BorisNVM
    @BorisNVM ปีที่แล้ว +53

    You can see the Basque country in Spain being alone in the world, also Finland, Estonia, Hungary and Transilvania in Romania having mainly a Uralic language. Romania isolated with an Italic and a Romance language. Also France has a region called Brittany where they speak a Celtic language called Briton. Iran, Afghanistan and Taijikistan are speaking mainly almost the same Iranian language.

    • @GAMER123GAMING
      @GAMER123GAMING ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah.... we... we watched the video bro

    • @BorisNVM
      @BorisNVM ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@GAMER123GAMING it is more for the people who don't know the places' names, and for my entertainment, I had fun remembering certain topics.

    • @alekseypetrov8520
      @alekseypetrov8520 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Afghanistan is not totally Iranian speaking country, there are many Turkic and Mongol peoples - Uzbeks, Turkmens and Khazara. On the contrary, in Uzbekistan Tajik is the second speaking language and is especially widely speaking in Samarkand and Bukhara cities. Uzbek itself is heavily influenced by Persian linguistic features and vocabulary.

    • @1123-p4e
      @1123-p4e 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@alekseypetrov8520👍👍👍👍👍👍✌✌✌✌

    • @cosmincasuta486
      @cosmincasuta486 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Transilvania!???? Are 2 and a half counties of minority speaking hungarian!!!

  • @Indo-Aryan9644
    @Indo-Aryan9644 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I am Indo-Aryan form India 🇮🇳💪😁👌

    • @AdiHaiKya
      @AdiHaiKya ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I hope we Indo-Aryans will make our own country.. different from Dravidian 👍🏼

    • @tanhukim9963
      @tanhukim9963 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@Coginito 👍

    • @indianboy59
      @indianboy59 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@AdiHaiKya too late. Mixing between these genetically, phenotypically and racially distinct populations already happened about 2500 years ago and is still happening. Today in North India, the historic hotbed of Indo-Aryan culture, people can be of diverse phenotypes and colour ranging from Black to Whi-te and the most dominant one, pale Brown. So the question is, who will live in this new country? Because only a few 100,000s of people have retained their original Indo-Aryan features.

    • @ChromeMan04
      @ChromeMan04 ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s a language group

    • @Indo-Aryan9644
      @Indo-Aryan9644 ปีที่แล้ว

      Indo-Aryān is an Ethno-linguistics group kid 🤡
      Aryān Ethnicity + langauge
      1B + people belong to it

  • @idkman858
    @idkman858 3 ปีที่แล้ว +168

    Holy crap you actually did it

  • @dershogun6396
    @dershogun6396 3 ปีที่แล้ว +269

    Knowing that many of us in europe and asia and Amerika have people from one single tribe 6000 years ago as common ancestors just changed how you see the world. Suddenly, everyone feels like family. This is why such things matter, they further our horizon and thus change how we go through life.

    • @matthewmckenna3109
      @matthewmckenna3109 3 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      But this shows the evolution and spread of a language, not genes. The language doesn't necessarily follow the genes.

    • @dragooll2023
      @dragooll2023 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@matthewmckenna3109 But in the cause of the Aryan conquests it surely does.

    • @matthewmckenna3109
      @matthewmckenna3109 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@dragooll2023 I can't believe that the Aryans completely exterminated all the peoples they invaded. There will have been miscegenation, over a long period.

    • @dragooll2023
      @dragooll2023 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@matthewmckenna3109 Check the genetic studies, usually only samples from north russia, the baltics and a few others i forgot still have old european dna
      edit: everyone still has old european dna, but the indo-european still has predominancy

    • @marz3079
      @marz3079 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Then again if we go back further, all of us humans throughout the world can trace our ancestry back to folks in Africa, so really we're all one big family in the end.

  • @edomin1148
    @edomin1148 2 ปีที่แล้ว +449

    I am quadrolingual and can speak 4 Indo-European languages. I was able to find many similarities between them. Armenian was my 1st language. Farsi or Persian 2nd. English 3rd and finally Spanish.
    Its cool to see these cusines still share much in common.
    I would have to say Armenian stands out the most word wise, but similar in sentence structure to English.

    • @kakalimukherjee3297
      @kakalimukherjee3297 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      I know 4 as well; Bengali, Hindi, English and Spanish. Bengali and Hindi are quite similar, and English and Spanish are...not so much. English is by far the most difficult among these lol.

    • @iigutierrez1472
      @iigutierrez1472 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I can speak 3, Spanish, English and Portuguese.

    • @chipaguasustudios
      @chipaguasustudios 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Hola amigo

    • @edomin1148
      @edomin1148 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@chipaguasustudios
      hola, Feliz Navidad.
      Hello, Merry Christmas.
      բարև, շնորհավոր Սուրբ Ծնունդ
      barev, shnorhavor Surb Tsnund
      سلام کریسمس مبارک
      (Salam, keristmas mobarak)

    • @tasshznoclue1006
      @tasshznoclue1006 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      5 German French Italian Romansh and english

  • @aramnersesian5521
    @aramnersesian5521 3 ปีที่แล้ว +259

    As someone who is obsessed with languages, and whose ancestry is basically an Indo European melting pot (English, Armenian, Romani, Dutch, German, Scottish, Slovak, and Greek) I must say, I love this! Thank you so much!

    • @CostasMelas
      @CostasMelas  3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Thank you

    • @dragooll2023
      @dragooll2023 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @FAKE VIRUS BREWERIES Romani?

    • @anawkwardsweetpotato4728
      @anawkwardsweetpotato4728 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@dragooll2023 But Roma or Romani are preferred; g*psy, g*tano, ts*gan (and variations) are considered ethnic slurs by many Romani people.

    • @anawkwardsweetpotato4728
      @anawkwardsweetpotato4728 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm predominantly Afro-descendant, but I also have a buffet of Indo-European ancestry in my family tree. Nice to find a fellow Indo-European mixie obsessed with languages! 😋

    • @feudaljester7581
      @feudaljester7581 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ur very special

  • @atbing2425
    @atbing2425 3 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    Dude, straight up one of the best i have seen.

    • @CostasMelas
      @CostasMelas  3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Thank you very much

    • @DanksterPaws
      @DanksterPaws 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Your videos are very helpful too!

  • @king_halcyon
    @king_halcyon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +191

    You deserve more subscribers, dude! Not everyone can patiently make this masterpiece!!! Don't need to worry about Iceland, Germanic ones are there we know.

    • @CostasMelas
      @CostasMelas  3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Thank you very much

    • @prateekatt
      @prateekatt 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Devanagri Script in which Sanskrit and Hindi are written in very complex and sophisticated, It writes every word as it is pronounced which no other script does.
      How come a group of nomadic people who invaded India according to the Aryan invasion theory have such a advanced script and language, because the Aryan invasion theory is false.
      Sanskrit originated in India and it is the language of the Sindhu valley civilization, the most advanced of the time which built brick houses when the world was living in mud/wooden houses.
      Sanskrit is the language of the gods and the mother of all languages. And Hindus are the true Aryans.

    • @gravityWR
      @gravityWR ปีที่แล้ว

      The migration would have occured about 4000 years ago. The Devanagari script is only 1300 years old according to google. I'd say 27 centuries is enough time to develop an advanced writing system.

    • @instantdominator2121
      @instantdominator2121 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@prateekatt Indo-Aryans were slowly migrating into India during the late Harappan period. By 1500 BCE, they had completely settled there. In that time period, Proto-Indo-Aryan evolved into Vedic Sanskrit and the people who spoke it were Aryans mixed with the previous inhabitants of India, from whom they incorporated lots of cultural aspects. So by 1500 BCE, they had formed an advanced Indian Culture and had started to compose the Vedas. By 500 BCE, Sanskrit had already began to evolve into local dialects called Prakrits. The oldest written form of any Indo-Aryan language we find in India are the edicts of Ashoka from around 250 BCE. They were in Magadhi Prakrit and were written in the Brahmi Script. This is the oldest deciphered script in India and is the ancestor of all the modern Indian Scripts, even the South Indian scripts, even though their languages are unrelated to any Indo-European languages. From Brahmi, evolved Northern Brahmi > Suraseni Brahmi > Nagari > Central Nagari > Devanagari. Devanagari script became recognisable by 1300 CE. So Devanagari wasn't the script used by the Aryans, and they didn't even use its ancestor, Brahmi, during the Vedic period. So they had more than a thousand years to develop the Brahmi Script from scratch. And also, developing scripts from scratch is super easy for even a single individual, and I have done it many times. The Koreans also did it. So it would be a piece of cake for an advanced culture with a thousand years at hand. Remember, they had already become an advanced culture by 1500 BCE, after migrating, mixing with the locals, adopting many of their traditions, and adjusting to the standards of a metal using, agricultural civilisation. Also, they didn't even need to make it from scratch. As I said, they definitely mixed with and adoption many traditions of the Harappans. So it is possible that they might have learnt their script as well, just like how the Akkadians learnt cuneiform from the Sumerians, which continued to be the major script of the Middle-East for centuries after the Sumerians, even though the Sumerians soon went extinct. So, Brahmi could even be a descendent of the Indus Script. In that case, they would have just borrowed their writing system from a previous civilisation, just like how the Akkadians did, instead of making it themselves. So overall, there is absolutely no reason why a civilisation deriving it's cultural roots from an ancient nomadic tribe cannot have a sophisticated writing system.

  • @flemishnationalist-prayfor9809
    @flemishnationalist-prayfor9809 3 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    Crazy to think that Hindi, German, Spanish, Persian, etc, are all related.

    • @DanksterPaws
      @DanksterPaws 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      And how fast it changed!

    • @HistoryandOtherStuffwithBV
      @HistoryandOtherStuffwithBV 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Also, if you consider the Centum-Satem split, it's also crazy to think that Tocharian, despite all of its immediate Indo-European neighbours being Satem, was actually Centum. And further, how the likes of Serbocroatian or Lithuanian are more similar to the likes of Hindi, Farsi or Armenian than they are to the likes of Greek, French or English.

    • @captainch6182
      @captainch6182 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@HistoryandOtherStuffwithBV Yes it is indeed interesting, but remember that (for example) just because both Balto-Slavic and Indo-Iranian are satem languages does not mean that they are sister languages. Some of the features would have probably developed independently and some of them probably transferred between populations while Indo-European was still mostly on the steppe. Maybe you already knew that, but I want to just make it clear to whoever reads this that the centum-satem line does not mean that the people and languages on either side are genetically closer to each other, and indo-European migrations are a lot blurrier than we think, lol

    • @HistoryandOtherStuffwithBV
      @HistoryandOtherStuffwithBV 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Genetically speaking, Europe has been roughly the same since the Neolithic - well before the Indo-European migrations. And you are right that borrowings from neighbours also play an importance in vocab and grammar. Sprachbunds are a thing both within and across language families

    • @aryyancarman705
      @aryyancarman705 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not that much actually

  • @lotta1517
    @lotta1517 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I am finnish (finnish a finno-ugric language) and i have to say first time learning a indo-european language was very difficult, but after that it has been very easy to learn other european languages!
    Right now i speak english, swedish, german and little bit spanish, and i understand norwegian because its so similar to swedish haha.

    • @fabiangamx6288
      @fabiangamx6288 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Good for you. I'm learning swedish, but I'm spanish speaker (rioplatense castilian dialect) understand germanic languages is tricky for someone who speak romance language.

    • @lotta1517
      @lotta1517 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@fabiangamx6288 Lycka till med svenska, jag gillar det mycket! Germanic languages have their own challenge, but everyone who knows english (so basically the whole world haha) is also able to learn those languages better!

    • @fabiangamx6288
      @fabiangamx6288 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@lotta1517 Yes you right, today every person has to use english, I use it for learn Swedish.
      On the other hand, I'm very surprised at see that lenguaje has some similar words (in pronunciation) that means exactly the same as those in spanish.
      For example;
      "jag"="yo"; "gratis"="gratis"; "Tårta"="torta".
      It even has a reflexive pronoun "dig" equivalent to "ti" in spanish.
      But english is easier to learn.

    • @lotta1517
      @lotta1517 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@fabiangamx6288 Oh very cool to know that even swedish and spanish have some similarity in words (and grammar?) Very far away, but they are both indo european so that explains it. Finnish has loaned some random words from swedish, but thats the only thing.

    • @fabiangamx6288
      @fabiangamx6288 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@lotta1517 The grammar is different, it's simpler, in spanish you have a variety of verbal conjugations. As a Spanish speaker, it is intuitive, for a foreigner it is a nightmare, as far as I know.
      I understand that finish is a uralic language it's quite different from swedish, danish and other germanic languages.

  • @balto9674
    @balto9674 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Interesting to see this as my someone of eastern iranic ancestry (Afghanistan). Being a possible descendant of these tribes and peoples is very interesting despite the conflicts and marginalization and influence of other groups such as arabs and turks which have kind shifted our identity a bit since then.

    • @rediettadesse2828
      @rediettadesse2828 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Does language mean possible ancestry ?:)

    • @judsonwall8615
      @judsonwall8615 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Crazy to think that my language spoken in the middle of the US, and your language in Afghanistan, come from the same people. Cheers to worldwide brotherhood

    • @Raidon8537
      @Raidon8537 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Turco-Mongols defeated Iranians.

    • @balto9674
      @balto9674 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@judsonwall8615 Yah haha its weird how things end up but interesting.

    • @balto9674
      @balto9674 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rediettadesse2828 Possibly, I’m not too certain on the specifics since other groups of people get acculturated and languages pass down. In my case my ethnicity of being a descendant of the scythians makes it likely but other groups could have mingled in. To me its more of an identity with some genetic admixture involved, however you frame it. Cheers

  • @nostradam96
    @nostradam96 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Interestingly, 5-6 thousand years ago in Eurasia (excluding the Far East) there were many tribes and languages, of which almost nothing remained. Basques in the West, the peoples of the Caucasus, something northwest of the Himalayas. We know about the rest only by the results of excavations. Who they were is unknown. And the rest was filled out by representatives of 4 language families. The Indo-European peoples have the largest territory. Semites spread from the Sahara to the northeast, Turks from the Mongolian steppes to the west, and Finnish peoples to the west from the Ural Mountains.

  • @amiirezashojaee5291
    @amiirezashojaee5291 3 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    My heart melted away along with the scythian language

    • @mahatmaniggandhi2898
      @mahatmaniggandhi2898 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      😢

    • @eiliakashkoli2348
      @eiliakashkoli2348 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Mehmet Malkoç
      Inshallah mongolistan kültürlari helel Olson abdulmehmot yalmoz Berlin 🙊

    • @amiirezashojaee5291
      @amiirezashojaee5291 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @Mehmet Malkoç it was mostly replaced by Russian tho

    • @VVV.12345
      @VVV.12345 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      There is a very small neo-shythian community in the caucasians that survived the extinction

    • @gabode4910
      @gabode4910 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@VVV.12345 the ossetians?

  • @matthewmckenna3109
    @matthewmckenna3109 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    1)This is fascinating.
    2)Some comments on here assume that the spread of the IE languages is identical to the spread of a particular gene pool. Not so. Modern speakers of IE languages have a very mixed genetic inheritance.
    3) Doesn't the space in the middle of Europe where non-IE Hungarian intervened appear far too late?

    • @judsonwall8615
      @judsonwall8615 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Not sure when he puts the arrival of the Magyars, but they arrived on the Pannonian/Hungarian plain around 900 CE. Of course, other language speaker would’ve been there, so they wouldn’t have immediately had a monopoly on the language.

  • @flemishnationalist-prayfor9809
    @flemishnationalist-prayfor9809 3 ปีที่แล้ว +249

    Imagine if the Proto‐Indo‐Europeans came back to live today and discovered that 40% of the world population was speaking a descendant of their language. That would either be a mindblow or a massive ego boost.

    • @sunshineimperials1600
      @sunshineimperials1600 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @Pan Indo-Europeanist, agnostic, Aryan supremacist Like what lands? More of Africa and of the Middle East? China?

    • @dimitrisps1997
      @dimitrisps1997 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@sunshineimperials1600 like more lands in Anatolia and M. East ( Assyria, Anatolia, Egypt ) that could speak Hellenic languages or Helleno Iranian

    • @Bepples
      @Bepples 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @Pan Indo-Europeanist, agnostic, Aryan supremacist Good grief your username and opinion are cringe. "Our race is the best one, now if only other races wouldn't oppress us". Cognitive dissonance much?

    • @Bepples
      @Bepples 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @Pan Indo-Europeanist, agnostic, Aryan supremacist If your race is so supreme why does it apparently get oppressed?

    • @Poffean
      @Poffean 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Pan Indo-Europeanist, agnostic, Aryan supremacist based

  • @kirilll7806
    @kirilll7806 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    HOLY.... THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE AND THIS VIDEO IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY

  • @lukasbrucas3027
    @lukasbrucas3027 3 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    Whoa! Now this is an ambitious video! Very interesting too, I never knew the Anatolian languages arrived to Anatolia through the Balkans, I've always thought they arrived through the Caucasus. I guess that explains why there are so many non-Indo-European languages spoken in the Caucasus.
    Fantastic video! Great job.

    • @CostasMelas
      @CostasMelas  3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Thank you

    • @celtofcanaanesurix2245
      @celtofcanaanesurix2245 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      both are about equally likely theories

    • @king_halcyon
      @king_halcyon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@celtofcanaanesurix2245 agreed

    • @mahatmaniggandhi2898
      @mahatmaniggandhi2898 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@celtofcanaanesurix2245 i think balkan is more accepted but caucasus is also possible

    • @ArthaxtaDaVince777
      @ArthaxtaDaVince777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      This video is based on a theory, it's not a solid fact, nor is the video very accurate. It's still a fun video and well made.

  • @MrEsChannelYT
    @MrEsChannelYT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    I can tell you put a lot of effort into this, so much attention to detail and events. Extremely impressive.

    • @tanhukim9963
      @tanhukim9963 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This thesis will soon rot. Because your cultures and your words are not the same at all. You are just a language family formed by the exchange of languages.

  • @rfresa
    @rfresa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    It is so interesting to look into how language evolves over time, and the similarities that exist in such seemingly different cultures.

  •  3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    That tiny island of Greek in Afghanistan survived for centuries...

    • @CostasMelas
      @CostasMelas  3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      The different colour in Afghanistan is about the Nuristani Languages. The Greek language faded out after 4th century AD

    •  3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@CostasMelas NOOOO YOU RUINED MY DIRTY TROUGHTS

    • @carteradams43
      @carteradams43 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@CostasMelas NOO

    • @iSyriux
      @iSyriux 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Adhishree Singh It is sure and they are Dardic and not related to Alexander the Great directly, but the reason why they look white is because they are descended from the Vedic Aryans who invaded India, but they never mixed with the local IVC people, so they retained their original steppe genes.

    • @lolololllll
      @lolololllll 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Aman Yadav who gives a shit what we call them. Aryan, steppe-pastorals, indo-europeans, etc. What matters it that they did exist and easily provable through genetic, linguistic and geographical analysis

  • @irinakolcheva5212
    @irinakolcheva5212 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I`m very glad that Paleo Balkan languages are included. :)

  • @netopir3804
    @netopir3804 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This is very accurate! I am impressed by this work.

  • @rosintruder6867
    @rosintruder6867 3 ปีที่แล้ว +186

    Nice video, sadly that two most famous Indo-European languages - Latin and Greek were completely ousted from their former areas/spheres of influence - north Africa, Egypt & Anatolia

    • @AD-yq8rl
      @AD-yq8rl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Almost all languages lost some of their sphere of influence throughout the time. Don’t be sad, get over it.

    • @rosintruder6867
      @rosintruder6867 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      @@AD-yq8rl
      Agree, but many Greek scholars lived in Egypt, especially Alexandria. After Arabian conquest all of them were prohibited, expelled or kіІІеd, great library of Alexandria with its priceless manuscripts, artworks and scientific works were destroyed, many Roman and Greek libraries in north Africa and Anatolia got same violent fate

    • @GrigRP
      @GrigRP 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Nothing sad about it. These languages spread by force and were rightly removed.

    • @ignotumperignotius630
      @ignotumperignotius630 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@regabrielexv this is false; the byzantines preserved the ancients, not the arabs (who got it second hand).

    • @rosintruder6867
      @rosintruder6867 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@regabrielexv In fact after Arabian conquest Greek spoken language disappeared in Egypt in next 200 years, indigenous Coptic language extinct till 14th century AD because of hatred and perscutions from Arabian side. I don't mind, Caliphate had a good rulers and scholars who respected culture and science of conquered peoples, but majority of medieval Arabian population hated Greeks, Latins and Copts

  • @pas1994ok
    @pas1994ok 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I waited for this moment for a long time, this video is amazing, it's too sad to know that some of those amazing peoples are now extinct

    • @batobeste1988
      @batobeste1988 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And what about all who they extint?

  • @ihavenoname6724
    @ihavenoname6724 2 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    Συγχαρητήρια, πολύ ωραίο animation, το ταξίδι της γλώσσας είναι και το ταξίδι της Ανθρωπότητας (έπρεπε να γράψω κάτι βαθυστόχαστο). Καλές Γιορτές.

    • @gojotigan92
      @gojotigan92 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      глубоко копнул. и тебе счастья.

    • @jainysail2941
      @jainysail2941 ปีที่แล้ว

      Θα αποθηκεύσω αυτό το βίντεο, θα το βάλω σε ένα δίσκο flash ή σε έναν σκληρό δίσκο, και έριξα τον σκληρό δίσκο στον ωκεανό, και στον ωκεανό ο δίσκος πηγαίνει και θα διατηρηθεί για 4000 χρόνια, και κάποιο τυχαίο παιδί όταν το ανακάλυψαν στη Μεσόγειο (επειδή η γη είχε ήδη καταστραφεί), το βρήκαν, το έβαλαν σε μουσείο και πιθανότατα διατήρησαν την ινδοευρωπαϊκή γλώσσα, για

  • @jugaranjannath5490
    @jugaranjannath5490 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I am a native Assamese speaker from Assam (the Eastern most tip of India) , sending love to all fellow Indo European brothers

  • @Nullius_in_verba
    @Nullius_in_verba 3 ปีที่แล้ว +175

    Everything is detailed and in right place,subgroups,timing,nothing is left to chance..really well made..

    • @CostasMelas
      @CostasMelas  3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Thank you

    • @kayvonrad3044
      @kayvonrad3044 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@Devvrat Mishra I think the Iranic words in Uralic are borrowed when the Sarmatians/Alans migrated into Europe and settled in Hungary and some parts of the Roman empire when the Mongols attacked the Sarmatians. They had a lot of interaction with the Magyars because the migrated through the lands of the Magyars which at the time was near Ukraine. They also interacted with other Uralic tribes while migrating. There are still a lot of Sarmatian folk stories found in Hungarian culture. Those Sarmatians in Europe could have borrowed many Uralic words into their language too, but we don't know because they are extinct.

    • @Nullius_in_verba
      @Nullius_in_verba 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Devvrat Mishra indo iranian and expecially iranians migrated eastward together with hungarian and samoyed..some yeniseian people involved too(see the seima-turbino horizon). The absence of uralic words in the avestan and vedic language is because these two migrated too South to enter in contaxt with uralian..unfortunately the only iranian language with these contacts(those that lived in tje steppe alongside hungarians) are extint and not well known to study uralic influence. Im talking about scythian,saka,alanic and sarmatians.

    • @Nullius_in_verba
      @Nullius_in_verba 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Devvrat Mishra then its a mistery, but in the case of nomadic tribes maybe its possibile that a dominant tribe doesnt find necessary to acquire words from a tribe that could be less advanced in tech or warfare..is not the same case in which local rivers or territorie's names could be acquired from who lived there,for example neolithic societies..

    • @Nullius_in_verba
      @Nullius_in_verba 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Devvrat Mishra it depends on when these cognates begun to be part of the the various IE languages..about avestan and vedas,its interesting the fact of their common shared culture in the BMAC,a cultural complex derived from middle easterners people that mixed with both Iranian and aryans. I dont believe that such animal's terms could exist in taiga and tundra environments at the same times.

  • @malekaltayari3936
    @malekaltayari3936 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Respect Indo-Europeans from Afro-Asiatic Tunisian

    • @iSyriux
      @iSyriux 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow is that you in your profile picture? Literally cannot tell you apart from an Italian

    • @АндрейБогуславский-б9о
      @АндрейБогуславский-б9о 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      J'étais en Tunisie. Tout le monde parle français.

  • @mattc9998
    @mattc9998 3 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    Lol love how Italic is just skirting around the Estruscans

  • @devasdin3207
    @devasdin3207 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Fun fact: Basque is Non-Nostratic language

  • @celtofcanaanesurix2245
    @celtofcanaanesurix2245 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Great! this a valuable recourse for those learning about history

  • @tasosltss1988
    @tasosltss1988 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Πραγματικά εξαιρετική δουλειά, άξια της προβολής που παίρνει! Θερμά συγχαρητήρια και ευχαριστούμε πάρα πολύ για το λεπτομερέστατο αυτό βίντεο!!

    • @CostasMelas
      @CostasMelas  3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Ευχαριστώ πολύ

  • @axpowrt3456
    @axpowrt3456 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    R.I.P tocharian .
    Tocharians are very underestimated. Imagine you are a few people who move 1500 km away from your family in Siberia and then move towards Xinjiang and survive in that
    wild nature for thousands of years. Tocharian were truly based

    • @arman3291
      @arman3291 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Uighurs are their descendants.

    • @auraledgereal
      @auraledgereal 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They weren't.
      After 900AD Tocharians assimilated into The Uyghurs.

    • @Mrnosilence
      @Mrnosilence 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@axpowrt3456 There are still some tribes among Xianjing but I think they are few

    • @axpowrt3456
      @axpowrt3456 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Mrnosilence Their genetics exist among them,but their entire culture and language no longer exists and has disappeared

    • @sundeepparhar1126
      @sundeepparhar1126 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Xinjiang wasn't nearly as wild or desertified back then, when Tocharian still existed. Back then, there was a massive lake (the Ancient Lop Nur) right in the middle of it- roughly 2/3rds the size of Lake Ontario and larger than Lake Titicaca. But the Tocharians' ancient kingdoms, and their population, went into terminal decline, when the flow of the primary river feeding into it suddenly dropped off, and the lake started to dry out.

  • @noway6379
    @noway6379 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    It's interesting how Armenian 🇦🇲 been shrank after the Armenian Genocide 1915. But it shows Karabagh as Armenian speaking. That's interesting a lot!

    • @jojoma5988
      @jojoma5988 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Because nothing like that happened, the lies of the Armenians

  • @TheDragonHistorian
    @TheDragonHistorian 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Great job! This will be remembered as a legendary video

    • @CostasMelas
      @CostasMelas  3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thank you very much :)

    • @alexangelo1998
      @alexangelo1998 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Dragon Historian
      , do you plan similar video about Altaic languages in your channel? If this hypothesis can be taken

    • @화이팅-t2q
      @화이팅-t2q 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@alexangelo1998
      Altaic language hypothesis has long been debunked.
      It's just thought to be a Sprachbund rather than a single unified language family.

    • @king_halcyon
      @king_halcyon 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@화이팅-t2q yeah, at least Turkic Mongolic and Tungusic speakers have similar DNA and they may have a common language in the distant past, possibly.

    • @화이팅-t2q
      @화이팅-t2q 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@king_halcyon
      Then every language is related to each other if we go back very long time ago.

  • @thrillingplanet9958
    @thrillingplanet9958 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Eurasia has so much untold history this is beautiful

  • @chesminsky
    @chesminsky ปีที่แล้ว +8

    It's interesting that Hungary, Estonia and Finland are not Indo-Europeans after all.

    • @grantottero4980
      @grantottero4980 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Malta (partially), Basque Country (partially), Saami regions in Scandinavia (partially), Gagauzia (partially), the Turkic or Finnic autonomous republics in Russia (partially) and the European part of Turkey too...
      But, after all, why putting our focus only on the lands within the conventional borders of Europe? Think about the Anatolian part of Turkey: it is outside modern conventional borders of Europe, but it has had a history fully intermingled with that of Europe and some of the oldest IE languages (maybe the very origin of IE family) were indigenous of Anatolia. Nevertheless, it has lost its IE character, because of events which happened in middle age and modern age. And that's really a remarkable fact...

  • @hayots_lernashkharh
    @hayots_lernashkharh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +100

    Just a reminder for some people…. linguistic families (ex: Indo-European, Semitic, Uro-Altaic, etc.) doesn’t correlate to genetics. That would mean that a Mexican would be fully Spaniard based on the language they speak, which is of Spanish origin. Yes, Mexican do contain some Spaniard DNA as well as indigenous American DNA, but they aren’t full Spaniards as a native of Spain would be. Hope this clears up the confusion for certain people.

    • @حيثلاانت
      @حيثلاانت 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Im arabian with 60% persian genitics

    • @maxofthetitans
      @maxofthetitans 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bro, you know there are Mexicans who are white right? And have no or minimal native mix…as well as fully indigenous blooded Mexicans who have very little Spanish genes…come on…you sound ignorant.

    • @pangeaplay8938
      @pangeaplay8938 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      But that means that linguistic families have a genetic correlation as well, it applies to Semite and Arian languages as well, so there si a genetic correlation un any case

    • @Teapoid
      @Teapoid ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Culture matters more than genetics anyway

    • @XavierbTM1221
      @XavierbTM1221 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mexicans are 50% Amerindian + 40% African + maybe 10% spaniard

  • @tristansoendergaard7867
    @tristansoendergaard7867 3 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    Avengers endgame: “the most ambitious crossover ever” Costas Melas: “Hold my beer, will ya?”

    • @king_halcyon
      @king_halcyon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well, I guess it was made by Indo Europeans LOL.

    • @clouds-rb9xt
      @clouds-rb9xt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@king_halcyon crazy how far it spread

  • @theknave4415
    @theknave4415 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I don't agree with all of the choices, here, but it is a great tool for visualizing changes over time.

  • @milekarlica9464
    @milekarlica9464 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Great work... Thracian language looks like such an interesting topic.

  • @aaronmarks9366
    @aaronmarks9366 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm blown away. This is the best IE linguistic map I've come across on TH-cam. Absolutely oustanding.

    • @AKu-xs5vg
      @AKu-xs5vg 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's not even that good, he didn't fill in Finland until the 1300s when it was clearly IE before all of western europe

  • @vilzmik7846
    @vilzmik7846 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Love my Indo Iranian brothers from Pakistan.🇦🇫🇵🇰🇮🇷🇮🇳🇹🇯.Pray 🙏 for Kurdish people our fellow Indo Iranian brothers.indo Aryans and Iranians has one orign.love and respect to our fellow Indo European brothers of europe

    • @spiranova5780
      @spiranova5780 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Love from India. To all Indo Iranian Brothers and sisters.❤️❤️

    • @aadithyaawali7484
      @aadithyaawali7484 ปีที่แล้ว

      We all are aryans

    • @Agnostic7773
      @Agnostic7773 ปีที่แล้ว

      🚩

  • @NoName-zc4mv
    @NoName-zc4mv 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    as a Kurd I am proud to be of Indo-European ancestry Greetings to my fellow Indo-European ancestry.

    • @ahuman2482
      @ahuman2482 ปีที่แล้ว

      @dimensional X Language is the gateway to civilization.

  • @nuralibolataev4474
    @nuralibolataev4474 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "Yes, I can digest milk, how could you tell?"
    Some chad nomad on a chariot

  • @eduardis2213
    @eduardis2213 2 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    Շնորհակալություն ձեր կատարած աշխատանքի համար, վստահ եմ որ մենք,հայերս գոյատեւել ենք մեր լեզվի շնորհիվ,լեզուն դա ազգի հոգին է։

    • @adsoyad8971
      @adsoyad8971 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Diliniz də bir dil ola. Bir çəlləyin içinə 4-5 daş atıb qarışdırdıqda, diliniz çəlləyin içidən çıxan səsə oxşayır. 🤣🤣🤣

    • @gaskjs6544
      @gaskjs6544 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@adsoyad8971 says someone who doesnt even have an alpahbete xddd

    • @sofiahammond8838
      @sofiahammond8838 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@gaskjs6544 Turks have their own alphabet
      Go and read some dont talk about the thing that u dont know
      Ahhahah

    • @gaskjs6544
      @gaskjs6544 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sofiahammond8838 its literally english but with few more signs stupid fuck and before that they just used arabic language go learn some shit

    • @edmonddp
      @edmonddp ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@sofiahammond8838 show us that, turks used before arabic alphabete, now use latin since Ataturk

  • @mikaelortiz1739
    @mikaelortiz1739 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    This is a masterwork. Perfection! Thank you Costas from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

    • @CostasMelas
      @CostasMelas  3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thank you very much

  • @thenoobprincev2529
    @thenoobprincev2529 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Could have been done better in regards to the Iranic branch after 1000.Persian was the languague of the court and administration for most regions from Bengal bay to literally modern day Bosnia,yet you just colored central Asia with shades of dark green in the time frame of 1300-1900.I mean it was literally the official languague of India for example till 1830s.

  • @joseinaciosilva3065
    @joseinaciosilva3065 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    É impressionante ver a retração das linguas celtas em relação ao domínio que tinham no século 1 AC.

  • @PasanMahindapala
    @PasanMahindapala 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    ආයුබෝවන් (Ayubowan) to all my Indo-European friends, from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 different by blood but tied by words!

    • @Novosibirsk34
      @Novosibirsk34 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Fuc*k Dravidians love to my Sri Lankan friends from North India 😊😊

    • @farhadmehransetad5610
      @farhadmehransetad5610 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Actually by blood we indo European all got one same ancestors from porto indo European but in time we became very very different

  • @averageviewer6279
    @averageviewer6279 3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    The Slavs avenged fallen Iranian areas

    • @iSyriux
      @iSyriux 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Yes it is said that the slavs are a combination of Baltic and Scythian (Iranic) cultures
      There are many iranic words in slavic languages and russians have a large R1a gene which is andronovo (scythian/indo-european) genes

    • @collin-theonlyandone2299
      @collin-theonlyandone2299 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@iSyriux Slavs existed as its on Indo-European group before Scythians even migrated to Eastern Europe from Siberia. So rather they being a combination of Baltic and Scythian cultures, they are a separate IE group that took influences from Baltic and Scythian people who once existed in the majority Slav lands

    • @kimrizo1938
      @kimrizo1938 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@iSyriux the Slavs assimilated the peoples with the gene R1a1, just as the Turks did

    • @averageviewer6279
      @averageviewer6279 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @Mullerornis You take words too seriously to be on the internet

    • @julianfejzo4829
      @julianfejzo4829 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      They too assimilated Iranian people

  • @juanjoramirez01
    @juanjoramirez01 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    To keep in mind: Hindi is more related to Icelandic (so far that it's not even on the map) than to Tamil

    • @rameshraghothama8324
      @rameshraghothama8324 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      right just like how Swedish is more closely related to Sinhala than it is to Saami.

    • @cinema6444
      @cinema6444 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      but due to extensive contact of years. there is lot of sanskrit words in dravidian languages and reverse too.

    • @joel12388
      @joel12388 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      But as a Tamil. I can understand Hindi, Sanskrit then Icelandic.

    • @AtheistNationalist
      @AtheistNationalist 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      A tamil who understands hindi? Dont lie 😂​@@joel12388

  • @alphalatinbet
    @alphalatinbet 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Would’ve been interesting to see what the Tocharian languages could’ve evolved into had they survived. Great video!

  • @iliabashel
    @iliabashel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    So no one is going to point out how Georgia in small area like Caucasus stayed away from indo european influence such a long time? especially considering the fact that it all started right above the Caucasian mountains.

    • @nobody7220
      @nobody7220 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      no! they were highly Influenced by Indo-European Grammer in their language found in proto-Kartvelian language are many Proto-Indo-european words!!

    • @rhimbdlzad7566
      @rhimbdlzad7566 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      words such as ღვინო and მკერდი in Georgian are believed to be of Proto-Indo-European origin

    • @nobody7220
      @nobody7220 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@rhimbdlzad7566 yes they are!

    • @nobody7220
      @nobody7220 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rhimbdlzad7566 th-cam.com/video/C4JPMYHTZis/w-d-xo.html

    • @rediettadesse2828
      @rediettadesse2828 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It didn't start in India? Whose more ancient ?

  • @deidara8neji
    @deidara8neji 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Wonder what happened to armenian language and greek language in Anatolia all of a sudden at the beggining of the 20th century ?
    Something that never happened I guess...

    • @Daniel-jm7ts
      @Daniel-jm7ts 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      A peaceful relocation to a place with nice and friendly environment

    • @화이팅-t2q
      @화이팅-t2q 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      There were genocides and population exchange during WW1 and Turkish war of independence.

    • @deidara8neji
      @deidara8neji 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@화이팅-t2q turkish war of "independance" is ironically funny.
      They were litteraly the rulers of the empire 🤣🤣

    • @화이팅-t2q
      @화이팅-t2q 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@deidara8neji
      They were defeated in WW1 and their territory was partitioned.
      So Mustafa Kemal established another governemtn in Ankara and waged Turkish war of independence.

    • @deidara8neji
      @deidara8neji 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@화이팅-t2q I know all that story. The name is simply dumb

  • @AmandaRibeiro528
    @AmandaRibeiro528 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Indo European speaker here 🙋My group: Italic. Language: Portuguese (Brazilian). I'm half Indo European, half tupian.

    • @joaocamilo8843
      @joaocamilo8843 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@brigantiasmemerepository6439 você é burro?

    • @LiviaSeraphine
      @LiviaSeraphine 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@brigantiasmemerepository6439
      Tua interpretação de texto esta podre.

    • @norskhuauei2426
      @norskhuauei2426 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I doubt that there's much European genes in you. Only a few of Brasilians can call themselves white

    • @shottex9801
      @shottex9801 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @Norsk Huauei Iranians, Indians and Armenians are not considered white either, but they are still categorized as Indo-European. You are mixing colour with culture/language.

    • @LiviaSeraphine
      @LiviaSeraphine 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@norskhuauei2426
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Brazilians

  • @greatwarrior2k291
    @greatwarrior2k291 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    My fellow Indo-European brothers and sisters, we all have one common ancestry and place of origin. We are one, and much love from a Kurdish American.

    • @turkx6
      @turkx6 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Kurds are barely Indo-European, mostly BMAC and Chalcolithic Iranian.

    • @KALÉSFOOTBALLCLUB
      @KALÉSFOOTBALLCLUB 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂

    • @_e7192
      @_e7192 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@turkx6 why?

    • @turkx6
      @turkx6 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@_e7192 I mean by DNA.

    • @Saleh_Al_3anzi
      @Saleh_Al_3anzi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Europeans would welcome you to their countries. ;))

  • @Ruslan-rp8th
    @Ruslan-rp8th หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Греки в малой Азии(Турции) составляли большинство до правления Младотурков,Мустафа Кемал Ата-тюрк лично вырезал греческие деревни

  • @DanksterPaws
    @DanksterPaws 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I like how starting from 5:35 you can see something taking over the steppes and soon after the Roman empire collapses

    • @thepizzaman_2241
      @thepizzaman_2241 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      At 5:35 it's still BC age, romans where just starting to raise, you ignorant

    • @DanksterPaws
      @DanksterPaws 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@thepizzaman_2241 I dont think you read my comment correctly. I never said they collapsed at 5:35.

    • @carteradams43
      @carteradams43 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You know they play a big part in the fall of Rome, so seeing them slowly approach even before the Romans began to expand is kinda ominous

    • @squiresuzuki
      @squiresuzuki 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Can you explain what you mean? What's taking over the steppes

    • @carteradams43
      @carteradams43 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@squiresuzuki To put it shortly, a bunch of people who would invade and destroy the Western Roman Empire

  • @MiThreeSunz
    @MiThreeSunz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    A simply fantastic video! I’m enamoured by PIE and IE languages as well as DNA and genetic lineages. This presentation was very cool and eye opening! Well done! 👍😊🇮🇹🇨🇦

  • @kurdistanfedaisi
    @kurdistanfedaisi ปีที่แล้ว +84

    8:55 Armenian Genocide 😥

    • @dilshanpushpitha7329
      @dilshanpushpitha7329 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      😢

    • @cosmotect
      @cosmotect 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Yep

    • @anonim8406
      @anonim8406 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      YEEEAAAAHHHH 🐺🐺🐺🐺🐎🐎🏹🏹🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🐺🐺🐎🐴🏹Altaic language is better

    • @msitso
      @msitso 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      @@anonim8406, i’m Turkic Chuvash and shame on you! It's so disrespectful! I wish the long-suffering Armenian people a bright future and prosperity✌️☮️❤️🇦🇲
      Čovašsempe armjansem hristian tovanösem!❤☦️ I'm so sorry for the all pain that my southern török relatives did to you💔😭

    • @erentashan3505
      @erentashan3505 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      What

  • @commanderjnm2008
    @commanderjnm2008 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Keep in mind that a split in a language group (for instance from 1500 B.C, like... the transition phase, from Indo-Iranian into Indo-Aryan and Proto-Iranian respectively. or for instance from Proto-Balto-Slavic into Proto-Baltic and Proto-Slavic respectively), does NOT in any way indicate a LOSS of mutual intelligability between the two groups that split. What the transition era indicates however, is that certain linguistic FEATURES of a given set of languages (either Baltic, Slavic, Indo-Aryan, Iranian respectively), by let's say around 900 B.C (600 years after the first split respectively), would have and would possess clear-cut distinguishable linguistic features in one group/set of languages that are no longer present (or have evolved differently) in the other splinter group-set of languages. But even by around 900 B.C for instance, a proto-Slavic speaking tribe would have LITTLE problem (at most) to communicate with the proto-Baltic speaker, as even though certain major linguistic changes have occured, there would still be so many vocabulary cognates and mutual physically-close contact in terms of proximity. A proto-Balt would have probably had occasional circumstances where he or she would communicate with a proto-Slav and they would at times possibly even learned new vocabulary quickly from each other, as the Proto-Baltic and Proto-Slavic (even after the split in circa 1500 B.C) had 70% of the core vocabulary very very similar, and their ethnic cultures would have still been very influenced by each other's presence constantly, thus ensuring both cultural and linguistic understanding. It wasn't until Poland officially into Catholicism in around 1000 A.C (because of Polish King Mieszko who converted to Catholicism at that time), that Poland would have undergone a major cultural shift, and also when Lithuania later converted into Christianity at around 1400 A.C or so. So cultural or religious change has the highest amount of linguistic changes as well, thus impact heavily on mutual linguistic intelligibility.

  • @Maus_Indahaus
    @Maus_Indahaus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Splendid work! There are several errors here and there, but still amazing

    • @CostasMelas
      @CostasMelas  3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Thank you

    • @clouds-rb9xt
      @clouds-rb9xt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Name some, I'm a nerd

    • @Maus_Indahaus
      @Maus_Indahaus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@clouds-rb9xt Well... I don't know if I should, as there are some people that would disagree and be really offended for what I have to say.

  • @henrykkeszenowicz4664
    @henrykkeszenowicz4664 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I speak English, Polish, Ukrainian and know a few German and Latin words. When I first heard Parthian and Farsi languages, they sounded fairly familiar.

    • @ChristopherTanne-se3pz
      @ChristopherTanne-se3pz 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes buddah means wake up like slavic
      Vedas means knowing like slavic
      Noworoz new year like slavic. There many similars

  • @Exoneos
    @Exoneos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    What's amazing is that each language got some influence from already existing local people that spoken a totally different language. For instance in europe and between France and Spain there is the Basques people I wonder if their language influenced the Latin language that are the French and Spanish ?

    • @plumebrisee6206
      @plumebrisee6206 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well ,not in French .
      But I know that Occitan got a little bit of influence from Basque .
      Occitan was basically a Gallo-Romance language spoken in like the 1/3 South of France .
      Gallo-Romance language are basically ->
      -French (Gallo-Roman of the North)
      -Occitan (Gallo-Roman of the South)
      -Provençal (Gallo-Roman of the Est/Gallo-Roman of the Alps)
      Provençal was spoken in the French speaking part of Swizertland ,Savoy ,the County of Nice ,Lyon and It's Surrounding (actual 2nd most important city of France) ,Aoste and the Area of Influence the Bourguignon had (West of Swizertland ans North of Lyon)
      The 2 other Gallo-Roman language are still spoken but Provençal is almost extinct and Occitan have seen since a big decrease since the Annexion by France in the XII and the XIII century ,the Revolution and the Third Republic

    • @egunezasca2036
      @egunezasca2036 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      There are many spanish words that are influenced by basque. For example:
      "Left"
      In basque: "ezkerra"
      In spanish: "izquierda"

    • @wertyuiopasd6281
      @wertyuiopasd6281 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Gaullish language spoken by Gauls, called French today, influenced latin and other people. As well as modern French for agriculture and war, as well as places' names over the whole territority of France for cities, villages, etc.

  • @prisonmike781
    @prisonmike781 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    See that little Iranian spot above the Armenians? That's osetians! They are often being forgotten, though they are also indo-european (Iranian group). I'm glad author didn't forget to add them.

    • @axpowrt3456
      @axpowrt3456 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      U are ossetian??

    • @prisonmike781
      @prisonmike781 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@axpowrt3456 nah I'm russian

  • @sahilsingh6048
    @sahilsingh6048 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Like how iranians used to extend from ukraine to persian gulf

    • @sahilsingh6048
      @sahilsingh6048 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@arman3291 ?

    • @arman3291
      @arman3291 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sahilsingh6048 ok

    • @hisenburger2
      @hisenburger2 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah western Iranians hold their empire but
      Rip scythians-sarmatians

  • @Geomapper-r5j
    @Geomapper-r5j 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Love from indo aryan language speaker(sinhala language) in sri lanka

  • @995-h5d
    @995-h5d 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Georgia be like : you will not pass !

  • @arieljourdan2375
    @arieljourdan2375 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I love how the Basque language has managed to hold out all this time.

  • @ГригорРостов
    @ГригорРостов 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    big love from Armenia

    • @Δούρειος_96
      @Δούρειος_96 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Greetings from Athens :)

    • @yousafdaudzai3078
      @yousafdaudzai3078 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      If you ever feel sad for your language
      Remember us Pashtuns aka Afghans (Schythians) Ossetians (Schythians) Iranians you will feel a little bit good.

    • @AleksBaghdasar
      @AleksBaghdasar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@yousafdaudzai3078 if we will look what percentage we lost, Armenians lost more)

    • @yousafdaudzai3078
      @yousafdaudzai3078 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@AleksBaghdasar We both suffered at the Hand of the Turks

    • @alphabet2494
      @alphabet2494 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@yousafdaudzai3078 I think you are right. and I also think we all suffered a lot because of them. it's time to fix the situation and return yours

  • @XazarDeniz563
    @XazarDeniz563 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    9:07 hungary: Alien among strangers

    • @Mrnosilence
      @Mrnosilence 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Finns: let's all stay here together 😊
      Hungary: I'm moving
      Finn's:😔

  • @usta6573
    @usta6573 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    You are a legend Costus Melus

  • @keithlachtnain
    @keithlachtnain 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    For anyone why Finland, Estonia and Hungary aren’t marked with a colour, it’s because those language are from the Finno-ugric branch and aren’t Indo European languages

  • @collin-theonlyandone2299
    @collin-theonlyandone2299 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Hey Costas Melas, a very good and informative video on the spread of IE languages! I do have a slight issue I'd like to raise up if you don't mind.
    The theory that the Wusun of Western China were Indo-Aryan is hotly debated and only one Historian, Christopher Beckwith supports this theory based on just a relatively flimsy linguistic connection. Here is what I posted when replying to another comment:
    "OP is not entirely correct. That isolated group is apparently the Wusun people (not Yuezhi) and there is not a strong academic consensus that they were Indo-aryan people. Really only one historian, Christopher Beckwith, asserts that the Wusun were indo aryan people and this is based on relatively flimsy linguistic evidence that the Wūsūn can be reconstructed as Old Chinese "Aswin" and hence a perfect transcription of Old indic aśvin meaning the "horsemen". The asvini twins were deities of vedic religion so this is the claim he uses when asserting that Wusun were indo aryan. This is not a good linguistic connection between Wusun and Aswin and he does not point any other evidence for the indo-aryan hypothesis for Wusun."
    I should also point out that we have no idea if their ethnonym corresponds with their spoken language. Others have asserted that their ethnonym is of Iranic origin so I have noticed that the indo-iranian terminology is more neutral in academic circles. What do you think? Cheers

    • @collin-theonlyandone2299
      @collin-theonlyandone2299 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @yitzhak shekkelsteingoldmanberg "probably Wusun were actually dravidians", sorry mate, that already reeks of bad history. I'll stop there

    • @perpetualsystems
      @perpetualsystems 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@collin-theonlyandone2299 I'm not supporting this guy, but that's not a very productive way to debate with someone

  • @ScottJB
    @ScottJB ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Then in the 16th-18th c, Slavic spread all the way to the Pacific, Italic spread over much of the Americas, and Germanic spread across the globe.

  • @gerillazack77
    @gerillazack77 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Would be nice if you could make updated Y-DNA spread map, including maritime spread of out of Africa branches all over Middle East Europe, Central Asia, South East Asia, Australia, East Asia via Americas...

  • @piotrberman6363
    @piotrberman6363 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    There is a lot of guess work in this video. I think that there are two processes: relative isolation and differentiations, so new languages/language groups, and expansion/assimilation, so language groups expand geographically driving others to extinction (as languages). This video lumps putative "Venedi" with "Balto-Slavs" which is hugely uncertain, and I am guessing there are more such guess works.

  • @chrisr5307
    @chrisr5307 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    so weird to think all of our ancestors lived along the Volga at one point. From the western tip of Europe all the way to India.

    • @ibrahimhalilmarsil9735
      @ibrahimhalilmarsil9735 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yea probably Indians assimilated by white people

    • @tusharthegreatest176
      @tusharthegreatest176 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ibrahimhalilmarsil9735 no actually

    • @rajjat4308
      @rajjat4308 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @dash Rex the same is true for many Ethinic Europeans it is just that IE mixed with already white pepole there if you take a DNA test and your haplogroup (maternal ) if not U or H than one of your female ancestors was not IE and highest IE is found in Norwegian who only are 50% steepe releated

    • @rajjat4308
      @rajjat4308 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ibrahimhalilmarsil9735 Most indians can drink milk it is the best way to know if you are IE not if you cannot digest milk or get diarrhea for drinking milk than you are not IE

    • @rajjat4308
      @rajjat4308 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ibrahimhalilmarsil9735 I guess you are Pakistani well all Pakistani have Indian genes because Pakistan is a recent creation it didn't existed before 1947

  • @نظرياتديجيمونية
    @نظرياتديجيمونية 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I would like to see angry indic comments with their indocentrism 😁

    • @EliasRoy
      @EliasRoy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dravidian languages 🦾

    • @Crxyzen1
      @Crxyzen1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@EliasRoyDravidians only surviving pre-Indian languages alongside the Burushaski

  • @richardreinertson1335
    @richardreinertson1335 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Let's just appreciate how the Slavic language family spread from a fairly localized language and then pretty much took over all of Eastern Europe, and also major influenced Romanian.

    • @tahaymvids1631
      @tahaymvids1631 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Still amazes me. Like I know that other existing languages were just absorbed but it still baffles me how all those languages just went poof.

    • @Dex-trDeffended-kq3nl
      @Dex-trDeffended-kq3nl หลายเดือนก่อน

      To begin with, the Slavic language has borrowings from Arabic, Turkic and small peoples, especially the Russian language for the most part consists of languages from other peoples, words such as "dedushka, vorotnik and babushka" are taken from the Chechen language 😂😂😂

  • @orekiok8939
    @orekiok8939 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    ♥️ to all my European and middle East brothers from 🇮🇳

    • @grandetristesse3370
      @grandetristesse3370 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Im not sure if india IS part of thé indo-europeans maybe Pakistan but anyways your welcome

    • @orekiok8939
      @orekiok8939 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@grandetristesse3370 well actually Pakistan and Afghanistan was the path between India and Europe trade . Indian needed guns and some high tech things and European needed some gold , diamonds and clothes fabrics or sculptures. So yup . And you will see that many Sanskrit words and Slavic words are same

    • @grandetristesse3370
      @grandetristesse3370 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@orekiok8939 slavic ? Im part russian and speaks and thé language and dont see that close-ness between our languages

    • @limejuice2043
      @limejuice2043 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@grandetristesse3370 there r some words tho u can google it bro v sanskrit and slavic similarites. also its called "INDO"- europeans so ig in a way they are

    • @redfrank773
      @redfrank773 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@grandetristesse3370 you do relaise the national langauge of Pakistan is literally urdu right?

  • @poseidonokeanos9094
    @poseidonokeanos9094 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I WAS JUST WAITING FOR IT! ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΏ ΠΆΡΑ ΠΟΛΎ

  • @rorychivers8769
    @rorychivers8769 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It's the Italo-Celtic connection that really fascinates me. To think that the conquered Celts and the conquering Romans could have been one and the same people if not for a chance of history.
    Also, not shown in the video: the possibly thousands of receding extinct languages in all the initially white marked areas....

    • @Based.Afghan
      @Based.Afghan 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Linguistics doesn’t equal genetics. The italics were indo european just like celts but their geography made them mixed with Mediterranean dna

  • @ponchomakesvideos
    @ponchomakesvideos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Also so sad to see the celtic languages vanish like that :(

    • @collin-theonlyandone2299
      @collin-theonlyandone2299 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's crazy to see how widespread the celtic languages once were, now they are only confided to the UK and few other regions in Western Europe.

    • @Nick-us8qh
      @Nick-us8qh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@collin-theonlyandone2299 At least they survived, while Thracian is now completely gone

    • @One-IronOX
      @One-IronOX 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Nick-us8qh well some linguists debate that albanian could be a branch of thracian 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • @stylembonkers1094
    @stylembonkers1094 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thanks Costas, that was stupendous. Great work.