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When we talk about ‘English’, we often think of it as a single language. But what do the dialects spoken in dozens of countries around the world have in common with each other, or with the writings of Chaucer? Claire Bowern traces the language from the present day back to its ancient roots, showing how English has evolved through generations of speakers.
Lesson by Claire Bowern, animation by Patrick Smith.
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I speak Persian and French I can see related words like god and خدا coming from ğutha which became the two
What's crazy to me is that Lithuanian, a language located in the northern part of mainland Europe, is more closely related to Nepali, a language spoken 3,490 miles away, than Swedish, another Indo-European language, that is only 393 miles away.
Basque does not have an Indo-European origin. It's essentially a prehistoric language isolate still spoken today.
im sorry but thats a bulls**
Maldito sea el ingles
This video leaves the impression that Swedish was a major influence on English. In fact, it was the Danes who predominately introduced Danelaw and many of the words used today.
The differences in English within our own country is something that astounds me… the west coast has almost an entirely different dialect than the east coast.. the south is different from the north, and the corners have actual struggle in understanding each other… manifestation destiny might be our downfall due to language barriers lol!
Latin was the language of the ruling, academic and religious class throughout The Middle Ages.
That's crazy! We don't understand each others even though the origin of the languages we speak now are same
When a Latin language and a Germanic language have a baby, that's English.
Narrator sounds feminine
So… the Danish Anglians, Saxons, and Jutes did not contribute to the English language? Why should Swedish contribute? No Swedish Vikings went that way. This seems very incomplete.
To me Icelandic sounds a little bit like Danish with the R further out on the tongue. I imagine that's how they spoke in 800 AD.
Boys your mother is here SANSKRIT 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
How did you know my country that i live sweden
It must be less than 4000 years since the languages split, since the Tower of Babel sometime after the Great Flood.
Sanskrit 🎉
What about lot of Arabic words
Slightly misshaped and used???
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉Great lectures
I feel so grateful that Spanish is very similar to English 💗
Your supposed to pronounce Jutes as if it were spelled Yutes….
sanskrit is same as korean
I like english, German and russian
I was brought up in Philippines and was always amazed at the change in accent between cities and towns only short distances apart almost if you had immigrated
NOT 6,000 years more like 4,500.
The wanderer:
Oft him anhaga are gebideð,
metudes miltse, þeah þe he modcearig
geond lagulade longe sceolde
hreran mid hondum hrimcealde sæ,
wadan wræclastas. Wyrd bið ful aręd!
Swa cwæð eardstapa, earfeþa gemyndig,
wraþra wælsleahta, winemæga hryre:
“Oft ic sceolde ana uhtna gehwylce
mine ceare cwiþan. Nis nu cwicra nan
þe ic him modsefan minne durre
sweotule asecgan. Ic to soþe wat
þæt biþ in eorle indryhten þeaw,
þæt he his ferðlocan fæste binde,
healde his hordcofan, hycge swa he wille.
Ne mæg werig mod wyrde wiðstondan,
ne se hreo hyge helpe gefremman.
When there was a voting system to choose which language should be the mother language of america. They chose German vs English and the English language won with one vote leading.
So Skirt before Sh… what about Shirt before Sh???