Look at history...as a Briton I am far more related to the Greece of Homer than the present "occupants" lets look:...Bysantium, Rome, Ostrogofs,Bulgars Turks ? years, and others...
Modern "Greeks" are no more" Greek" than I am! they simply enjoy a lingua-franca
Is this guy Greek? err...and what is a Greek! beside a common lingua franca in the geographical area of Greece! "Greeks" vanished with the Roman conquest!
A Christian traveller commented in circa 350,the country is empty!...
In short: modern Greeks are of Bulgar/Slav and Turkish descent! the Greek language,sinple a lingue-franca.....is for some reason used as a tool for nationalism
english is more romance then germanic btw..... 46% of the vocabulary goes back to latin and french, and only 33% to a MIX of german/celt languages. Modern english dont want to say "we are a bit german" anymore, so they end up saying "we are dutch"... well... it turns out the english language has only an influence of 1% dutch-steming vocabulary. apart from the syntax (which has unique errors pointing out another origin then plain germanic) english is romance, with strong germanic influences.
@000000AEA000000 I think that's a bit misleading. Most of the borrowed vocabulary in English most people never use. The true percent of native words used in everyday spoken and written English actually ranges from 75%–90%. Futher, Latin never influenced English grammar; unlike Norse which made big changes to word order, gender, words usw. English is Germanic with a large (mostly unused) vocabulary from Latin and Greek.
@JohnMatrix89 Interesting Post. Can you link me to your source please? 90 % is surely off when you know romance languages. According to my sources (my english teacher and I checked it on wikipedia) speak of MODERN English, as in the Language we can use here. And yes, I spoke of syntax, so we agree on the grammer, although I have seen in a documentary on how english is a mixed-up language with unique learning-mistakes pointing to the theory that english was not a native language.
@000000AEA000000 My source was Pure Saxon English: Or, American to the Front by Elias Molee. One could also do it the hard way and do a Google search for the most frequently used English words and go down the list and check the origin of each and every word. The numbers you listed look similar to Joseph M. Williams in Origins of the English Language where he surveyed thousands of business letters and found most words that are of technical or scientific nature use mostly Latin
@000000AEA000000 and French based words. Of course to be fair a lot of words of French origin were borrowed from the Franks, to whom France is named after. So some of the French words that were borrowed into English were actually old Frankish in origin.
Even indian literarture, the Mahabharata , called the island Sveta-Dvipa which means White Island thought associated with Albion. one passage quotes "On the northern shores of the Ocean of Milk there is an island of great splendour called by the name of White Island. The men that inhabit that island have complexions as white as the rays of the Moon and that are devoted to Narayana" Narayana just means original man.
The early invasions didn't really mongrelise the country as there was little genetic variation. Perhaps culturally mixed, I guess. There's little genetic difference between a Celtics, Gemanics or even Gaelic. They were really regional & independant identities. Americans (of european roots) is another identity forged in modern times.
The history of England "land of angles" is older, when England was called Albion (White Island). According to one source, Albion became Britain which was a greek-roman name for the island. Another source says Britain is named after a trojan called Brutus who settled here, but this is not recorded in the classical text. Also Prettanic islands which is found in welsh sources. Quite a confusing really. But Albion is the original name for the whole island.
Lol I love how everyone calls English a "mongrel" language/nation even though all languages have bits and pieces borrowed from each other, not just English and every nation has at one time or another shacked up with at least a couple other ethnicites
When the Anglo Saxons invaded Britain they Killed all of the native people living in england at the time (the Celts). they brutally murdered them in an act of ethnic cleansing. Genetic research has proven this. 'Ethnic cleansing sounds to me like' what the Germans were doing to the Jews and Romanies, I'd say the English are no better.
AND WHO THE FUCK IS EDDIE IZZARD TO LECTURE ON THIS SUBJECT? THAT FUCKING SHITSTABBER CALLS IT ENGLAND WHEN ENGLAND NEVER EXISTED AS A STATE UNTIL THE UNIFICATION OF THE ENGLAND KINGDOMS AFTER THE ARRIVAL OF THE ANGLES, SAXONS AND JUTES
WHAT THE FUCK????? HOW ARE WE ANY MORE MONGRELISED THAN ANY OTHER NATION - TYPICAL IGNORANCE TOWARDS THE ENGLISH PEOPLE!!!! WE ARE A MIX OF NORTHERN EUROPEAN GERMANIC PEOPLE YOU IGNORANT CUNT
Yes, we are mongrals, Even the traditional white brit is a mix of Germanic, Celtic and many many other sub groups that have settled Britain in the ancient times, but you are as ugly as sin. lol. So i'd rather be a mongral.
@rudeydudey05 - Eddy Izzard = left wing liar. You = successfully brainwashed.
(Genetic Statistics) British Isles - White English - 55% Celt (Northern) 21% Germanic (Western) 19% Scandinavian (Northern) 5% Other/Foreign. White English - overall genetic make up - 74% Northern European Homogeneity - 21% Western European - 5% Other/Foreign.
@unfukkkmee you look like you have a terminal illness you Greek poof - you wankers were ruled by the Turks for 400 years. Tosser. "Brits" are not an ethnicity dickhead, but English is. We are Germanic, get it right. And what the fuck is wrong that?
@unfukkkmee the English, Dutch, Germans and other Germanic nations come from the same origins. We are not ethnic Germans you inbred Greek twat. Siberia is in Russia you stupid cunt. The Greeks were also avid homosexuals and loved fucking boys, you fucking diseased looking cancer patient. JUST ACCEPT YOU WERE RULED BY TURKS AND ARE AS MONGRELISED AS ANY OTHER NATION IS. YOU ARE DELUDED AND RETARDED IF YOU THINK THAT GREECE IS PURE GREEK. EVERY NATION IN THE WORLD IS "RACIALLY IMPURE" - CUNT
@JimBell1984 ALL TEST DNA SAYS THE GREEKS OF TODAY ARE REAL GREEKS FROM ANCIENT YEARS THE ANGLO-GERMANS FUCKED LITTLE BOYS LIKE U IF SENT I SENT IN HOSPITAL SON OF WHORE
@unfukkkmee What you say is bullshit. You Greeks only fucked women to have more faggot fucked up offspring. You fucked men for enjoyment. You were ruled by Turks and they fucked you in Cyprus. Your English is also shit. And your women all have hairy faces, and you still looks like you have AIDs or lukemia, you fucked up arse-fucking cock-sucking shit-licking faggot Greek cunt. You are one of the ugliest pieces of shit I have ever had the misfortune to lay my Germanic/Anglo-Saxon eyes on.
@JimBell1984 BARBARIAN DIRTY anglo saxon WHORE FROM SIBERIA. LISTEN THE '' turks '' LOST THE FIGHT BY REAL GREEK CYPRIOTS OF 1963-1964,1967 WE lost THE FIGHT OF 1974 AFTER BY TRAITORS
@unfukkkmee errr....how am I from Siberia, you thick twat? you Greek wankers are pussies, we have far more fight in us. You Greeks idolised homosexuality. CUNT
@unfukkkmee no, the Greeks did not create everything. Although they may have contributed to humanity they are not responsible for everything. You arrogant disease ridden cunt. You think there are any pire bred nations in the world then you are fooling no-one but yourself. You are a ridiculous piece of shit and you look like you have aids. I will ask again....how the fuck am I from Siberia? andneed I remind England's empire was far larger and greater than the Greek Empire. Greeks fuck men.
@unfukkkmee you know nothing of history cunt. The Germanic peoples had their own system of democracy, and there are many good points as well as bad in many other cultures you Greek arse-bandit.
Oh, so if you ever see me what are you gonna do? try and fuck my arse and give me your aids? you dirty leprotic prostitute
@JimBell1984 THE GERMANS ARE UNPOLITIST BARBARIAN WITHOUT HISTORY. LISTEN NOW WE GREEKS MAKE U HUMANS EVERYONE KNOWS HO THE DEMOCRACY IS GREEK. BUT germs HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS DEMOCRASY
@JimBell1984 - Unfortunately you are wrong, despite the historical invasions of England, the white English people are still more Northern Celt - 55% than Western Germanic - 21%
@LittleDirtyBlonde23 Where did you get those figures from? Walter Bodmers ongoing study has consistently shown the English have primarily Anglo-Saxon/Danish Viking origins.
Iam so glad british people like you exist. I am so fed up by the "we are so damn germanic" english dudes. Does not help when you explain them basic math either.
and that´s the story of Maures in Europe; a strictly local Iberian bussiness, most of the time not including more than half of the peninsula and certainly not ever ruling anywhere other !
You cannot HIT or SCARE anyone,or SCREAM,SCOWL or DIE without using scandinavian verbs,nor can a FELLOW or a HUSBAND look in ANGER through the WINDOW at the SKY without using scandinavian nouns.You cannot do without essential pronouns like THEY,THEIR and THEM,not to speak of BOTH and the SAME, nor can any Englisman do without a descriptive inventory of adjectives which includes not only ODD,UGLY,ILL.WRONG and SCANT,but also HAPPY,MEEK and LOW !
You might think German is all Germanic, but it has almost as much Latin words as English, yet they retain German accent, because the Germans didn't migrate and diversify their accent. When the English moved to the British Isles, they seperated anything that could influence their accent.(The celts were seperated by water) Even the Normans didn't stay long. Due to the mass migration and seclusion , we can conclude that Modern "England" English sounds more accurately like Old English in essence.
English still retained it's Germanic grammar and rules. There is a myth going around that Norman (Old French) gave English it's "s" at the end of plural nouns, however that is a lone developement that some other Germanic languages have.
Speaking Norman was reserved for high class citizens (Norman settlers) ,while English people adapted to using the Romance words to express things of importance, which is why English generally has French words of high register , and little to none of Old English.
I think most people that posted a comment to this video must be absolutely stupid.
Some people are saying that English comes from Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, or Celtic languages. English is a west Germanic language. It was heavily influenced by Northern Germanic phonology , which gave us Þ or "th" and a few Scandinavian words.
in around 1066 AD , Normandy attacked the Angles of Saxon that migrated to the British isles. They completely conquered the English and mixed up their language.
@alexross8 heh " a few scandinavian words " - try a few thousand words ! actually between 2000 and 3000 words of which more than 1000 remains today; the very core of colloquial english concerning everything about household,livestock, farming, buildings, fishing, sailing,trading, family, warfare, local community,nature etc.From app 800 up untill the beginning of the plantagenet era norse vocabulary became the body of the english language, then gradually replaced by french as the major influence.
@alexross8 and through the centuries some other atleast thousand words survived in english dialects.Yet,during the past 200 years theese dialectal uses have somewhat vanished as standard english reached out still further.A few samples of modern dialectal uses; arr(scar),big(build),blowt(softly),brott(steep),car(pond),crake(crow),dag(dew),elt(knead),flit(move)gar(do,make),gawk(cuckoo),hoast(cough),keek(look),laik(play),lig(lie),lop(flea),neave(fist),rig(back),seng(bed),speer(ask),yammer(moan)...
@adventussaxonum I think when he says "the dialects gradually combined" he is referring to the differing Germanic dialects, not the Brythonic. I do not think Brythonic ever had much impact on English.
There's a book called Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue that covers this in detail. One of the larger examples is that when we ask questions and stick "Do" or "Does" to a verb - "Do you eat butter?" "Does that hurt", that comes from those languages (it's a feature that essentially doesn't exist outside Brythonic languages in the Indo-European language family).
@MiracleMile90 - "Accurately"? what Celtic input is there in English, other than the odd geographic term? Friesian, yes! French,a later superficial addition . Doesn't alter the fact that English is basically West Germanic.
@adventussaxonum: "Doesn't alter the fact that English is basically West Germanic."
Sorry, but not entirely so. Even in the old days English, at least the common man's version, was quite the mix(although not the type that the nobles and other higher classes spoke. Unfortunately.).
A linguistics man myself, there is much wrong with this program. But sure, we (English speakers) can go to any other "Germanic" country and communicate just fine. Lol.
"old" anything will be hard to understand with any sort of "modern" variant we have today. Ie: old Norse to modern Swedish, old English to modern English, heck even old Gaelic to modern... Well you get the idea.
Even 1800 American english is a far cry from
Modern American English. Languages and such evolve, it's just the way
The Romans didn't leave England-they left Britain. England was a creation of the English invaders- surprisingly! Also ,it's not Gangly-Jangly etc. Anglo-Saxon or English will do, Eddie!
He forgot to mention the occupation of Eastern Lowland Scotland by the Angles,too!
Just a small point- she sounds rather Welsh - nice accent though!
The sound you here in modern american english has a direct link to middle swedish und jutish ( north germany) Det ljud du hör i modern amerikans engelska har en direkt länk till mellan svenska och jutiska.
I don't believe that there is a particular Y-DNA haplogroup that distinguishes the Celts from the Anglo-Saxons as they both belong to three major haplogroups R1b R1a and I.
Izzard's view is typical of the politically correct liberal / left. These kind of programmes are constantly pumped out by the politically biased media as propaganda to promote the global capitalist agenda of the elite. This agenda being the colonisation of our homelands with cheap labour immigrants. The indigenous British are a homogenous northern european people with roots thousands of years old. Izzard is a traitor to his own people.
There are the Hebrides Islands ( islands of Hebrews?) north of Scotland. Does anybody know why these islands were called by this strange name? Who named them like this?
From the 5th to 12th century, Old English was spoken widely on these islands, bible translations, riddles, chronicles, letters and much more besides, however there is an element of foreigners that detest and are envious of this, because while all of Europe was stuck with Latin England had its own tongue, which makes it one of the oldest, of course it evolved in time and changed to what we speak today, but it needs to be acknowledged more.
english/latin /abandon/abandounen/abbey/abeie/account/acont/acquit/acquiter/ address/addreser/adjust/adjuster/admit/admittere/adult/adultus/adultery/adulter/advantage/avant/advise/advisare/affix/affixare/agitate/agitare//air/aer(greek)abscence/absentia/abyss/abussos(greek)access/accesus/accident/accidere/account/acont/accurate/accurare/accuse/accusare/acquire/acquirere/act/actus/add/addere/advertise/avertir/affect/affectus/agitate/agitatus/agony/agonia(greek)60 percent of english is latin
DNA say's if your grandfather was born in England you have a 75% chance of being descended from hunter-Gatherers who came here just after the last ice-age, this is a few thousand years before "celts" had left Asia.
@hetrodoxly many english surnames in the south are french, butcher/boucher/beaumont/beaumont/ coup, cape/capo/lay/laycock/lecoque/barber/pizzey/serjent/
@hetrodoxly 100 percent correct mate, people can change their names, dna tests have been carried out on the english, the results were very mixed, some english have 90 percent north european dna, some only 50 percent, norman tebbit from the conservatives turned up 69 percent north european, 31 percent south east european, the thing is, that the british militiary went all over the world,india/portugal/malta/ middle east/jamaica and so on, that`s why some obscure dna turns up in english people.
Stephen Oppenheimer (born 1947) is a British paediatrician, geneticist, and writer. He is a member of Green Templeton College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and carries out and publishes research in the fields of genetics and human prehistory.
"If your grandfather was born in England you have a 75% chance of being descended from the indigenous population that came here just after the last ice-age" 9000-1500 years ago
Bryan Sykes Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College.
The Blood of the Isles.
The genetic makeup of Britain and Ireland is overwhelmingly what it has been since the Neolithic period and to a very considerable extent since the Mesolithic period.
@hetrodoxly i agree with you, white tribes have populated the british isles for years,long before the celts/romans/saxons/ i think dna tests have proved this
@joy2559 - Let me correct you on that one! It was the English/Scottish/Welsh/Irish troops that made up the British army and went all over the world killing others and then dying themselves. They were military boys, not family makers, and they couldn't of possibly brought foreign DNA back to Britain because men to not get pregnant, you stupid moron! Britain hasn't been invaded and raped since 1066, that is almost a thousand years of white racial preservation.
Every time a new word needs to be thought of for deeper concepts deeper thoughts and illegal substances, people tend to look to French, Latin or Greek.
When you look at the title, it's about the *origins* of English. So that's something different from word counts & adding up percentages.
Now the next episode is about buying a brown cow from a Frysian farmer. So that's not on a Paris market, nor somewhere in Rome.
'Influenes'? I think it's 'influences' you're trying to write.
So Celery is Italian? And Congress and Homosexual are Latin..? Is there any news in that? Everyone knows. And the Dutch & Germans use them as well.
Because virtually everyone has a past with the Romans - and if you've been invaded by William or Napoleon, either way you're going to end up with a terrible amount of French in your vocabulary.
english/spanish mucho/much/daga/dagger/pieazas/pieces/piratas/pirates/ora/hour/botas/boots/avenida/avenue/bastards/bastardos/drog adictos/drug adictos/monumentos/monuments/parques/parks/batalla/battle/homosexuales/homosexuals/rio/river.estomago/stomach/cockroach/corona/crown/banana/banana/brisa/breeze/cremesin/crimson/huracan/hurricane/ijada/jade/macho/macho/patio/patio/coliflores/cauliflowers/jerz/sherry/tamate/tomato/arma/arm/revolver/revolver/pistola/pistol. 56% of english is latin
Time Team Series 15 episode 9 - 43 minutes in makes it clear genetically that we are not a mongrel nation. This is fed to us by the controlled media to brainwash the masses into being sympathetic with unacceptable levels of immigration. I tried to publish the clip but Youtube has blocked it. The whole episode is on Channel 4 - Time Team.
Series 15 | Episode 9 - Saxons on the Edge, Stonton Wyville, Leicestershire
ich will (kaufen) eine braune kuh..... macht milch. ||||| Well i really tried to find a german equivalent of bycgan (buy) but i wasnt able to come up with a word that sounds like that and means to buy.
@AnonymousWhitePerson English comes mostly from Scandinavian. Its not thhat much of a basterd language. English has included some Latin words, for certain purposes but much of English is germanic. Dutch, English and Danish are very close. Old Danish for example was closer to Anglo Saxon than German or Dutch. Dutch and German are pretty close to come to think of it. However, even middle age english was very close to anglo-saxon mixed with some old norman french.
Well I'd say English is safely inbetween Frysian, Saxon and Norse. Some words are undeniably Norse/Danish like 'sky' and 'ask'. But to say Frysian is equal to Saxon is not quite right - it's like saying Norse is equal to Saxon! They were neighbours but it's not the same thing. (& I'm not Frysian myself in case you wonder)
@DaDazey over 50 percent of english is from old french and latin, a few examples, please, gibbet, plaster, colour,peace, visit,army,plural,local,market,arm,stomach,souvenir,solicit,seduce,response,regiment,public,protest,front,easy,poison,palm,modern,manner,combat,army,obey,leisure,junior,primary,school,just,involve,infernal,impulse,idea,group,generous,fable,face,forest, if you buy the collins concise dictionary in hard back it gives the origin of english words,
@DaDazey it is very much a mixed language some of it is old germanic, old french and old latin, some norse, some greek words, there is a dictionary called the collins concise dictionary, the hard back version will give you the root origin of the word,it is said that 10 000 words in english were derived from old french. this dictionary verifies that.english is only 33 percent Germanic now, because of the french influence and the roman catholic influence.
@joy2559 You'll find french words like Theatre and Realise in just about any language - in Dutch & German as well so that doesn't really count. Same applies to the Greek influence.
At heart (=Frysian word) English is inbetween Norse, Saxon and an awful lot of Frysian! I'm sorry to cite such an unfashionable influence but it's tough sometimes.
@DaDazey english and old french words please/plaise, butcher/boucher,caution/ cautio,cave/cavus.celery/celeri(italian) charge/chargier.chase/chas.chisel/cisellus.combat/combattre.common/communcomplain/complaindre.decay/decair.damage/damnum.danger/dongier,deform/deformare.derange/desrengier.detail/detailler.determine/determinare.dialect/dialekt(greek) diamond/diamant.dimension/dimensio.dinner/disner.dinosaur/dinosauros(greek)direct/directus.discrete/discretus. dadazey you don`t know english.
@DaDazey Heart is part of a widespread Indo-European family of words for the ‘cardiac muscle’, which all go back to the common ancestor *kerd-. From it come Greek kardíā (source of English cardiac (17th c.)), Latin cor (whence French coeur, Italian cuor, Spanish corazón, modern Irish croidhe, Russian serdce, and Latvian sirds. Its Germanic off-spring was *khertōn, which produced German herz, Dutch hart, Swedish hjärta, Danish hjerte, and English heart.In Old English heorte ( from danelaw era ? )
@joy2559 A mixed language is a creole, which English is not. They just borrowed a lot of words from latin because that was lingua franca at that time. But then again, all languages borrow heavily from each other.
@JohnMatrix89 A majority of the words in English are of Latin (including French) origin yet it's Germanic. That's not normal. You assert that "all languages borrow heavily from each other," yet a difference of degree can become a difference of kind. While many IndoEuropean languages have been influenced by each other, particularly by Latin, English was so influenced to an unusual degree, given the COMBINED effect of Latin and French (which also has mostly Latin roots).
@baigandine I'm not quite sure what you are getting at. Are you saying English is a creole or hybrid language? English borrowed a lot of words from Latin, yes but the words were Anglicized. Plus most of those words no one uses anyway. And we still use our own pronunciation and grammar. French has had a lot of influence from other languages as well, especially Germanic but it is still based in Latin.
You can say that about most languages, French more than English, archaeologist for many years struggled with the date that the language entered Britain, it can be proven that many features in the landscape had English names prior Roman conquest, for the last two years linguists from around the world have been working on the problem, a white paper recently published states the English Language entered Britain between 2000-6000 years ago and was probably the language of the Iceni.
,the Old Irish phonetic−phonological system provides a more plausible model for reconstructing the phonetics of pre-Roman Celtic in Britain than the British Celtic system. The conclusion is that there is phonetic continuity between pre-Roman British Celtic and Old English, which suggests the presence of a pre-Anglo-Saxon population shifting to Old English.
This article appears in English Language and Linguistics Vol. 13, which you can read on Cambridge's site or LINGUIST.
@hetrodoxly Thanks for that. However I remain skeptical of much Celtic influence on Old English. I would have to agree with most linguists that Celtic had little effect on English vocab and grammar. Coates, Sampson and the faculty at Marburg all have written about the lack of evidence to support these extreme views.
Archaeologist have struggled for years with the fact that they can prove English names for features in the landscape existed in "England" pre Roman invasion, this and the latest DNA results prompted by Archaeologist (Francis Prior, guy who found flag fen) for linguists from around the world to work on the problem, they recently released a white paper after two years with the results, this is the latest work.
@hetrodoxly I am not sure which DNA results you are referring to? Bodmer released preliminary results a couple years ago with a DNA map that shows England as predominantly AngloSaxon/Germanic. I don't take much of what Pryor says seriously. I prefer the likes of Härrke or Amphlett, much more objective without a hidden agenda.
Bryan Sykes Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College.
The Blood of the Isles.
The genetic makeup of Britain and Ireland is overwhelmingly what it has been since the Neolithic period and to a very considerable extent since the Mesolithic period.
Bryan Sykes Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College.
The Blood of the Isles.
The genetic makeup of Britain and Ireland is overwhelmingly what it has been since the Neolithic period and to a very considerable extent since the Mesolithic period.
"If your grandfather was born in England you have a 75% chance of being descended from the indigenous population that came here just after the last ice-age" 9000-1500 years ago
Bryan Sykes Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College.
The Blood of the Isles.
The genetic makeup of Britain and Ireland is overwhelmingly what it has been since the Neolithic period and to a very considerable extent since the Mesolithic period.
"If your grandfather was born in England you have a 75% chance of being descended from the indigenous population that came here just after the last ice-age" Stephen Oppenheimer is a British paediatrician, geneticist, and writer. He is a member of Green Templeton College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and carries out and publishes research in the fields of genetics and human prehistory.
@hetrodoxly I don't really take Oppenheimer's results seriously either, or Sykes for that matter. They are relying on those outdated studies for their data. The problem is they used such small chromosomes in those you cannot distinguish between the different clades of R1b. S21 of instance is a very common subclade in England, Germany, Netherlands etc, but it is not common in Ireland and South Europe.
population) if every village had a 9000 year old skeleton you'd find the results would be the same, the vast majority of what we used to know on the subject came from one man "the Venerable Bede" and everything that came after was built on this platform and people are still quoting him, though he'd never left Northumbria born and died their, he's responsible fore the name "Anglo-Saxon" in affect he invented Anglo Saxon.
three relatives, two direct descendants of the 9000 year old cheddar man were found in the local village (these are the only people in the British Isles that can claim with all certainty to be descended from the indigenous
@hetrodoxly There is an important caveat with this. Sykes has never published his findings for peer review (neither has Oppenheimer). Ancient DNA studies can be plagued with problems, such as contamination. He would need to be forthcoming and publish the methods with which he extracted and analyzed the DNA and connected it with the modern world in a peer reviewed journal. Only then can we use this as evidence of ancient mtDNA in modern English populations.
I think it's you with the hidden agenda? Sykes is well respected was and still is a pioneer, he's not recanted anything in his book "blood of the Isles" If the indigenous people of England (some say they were killed by the "celts") were exterminated by invading Saxons etc. where's the archaeological evidence, Graves?
@hetrodoxly Sykes is only respected by those that agree with his views. Most DNA researchers today don't. Case in point, I sent my y-chromosome in 2002 to Sykes. He claimed mine was of Norse (Norwegian) viking origin. Further research into I1 haplotypes by Dr. Ken Nordtvedt revealed I was actually of a Danish/AngloSaxon variety, I1 AS2 to be exact. Where is Sykes at with all this new research coming out?
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Now I know why my brother,when he has an ichy ass: uses the expression,Wow there must be a Greek ship in!
Following the comments below,all was revealed!
alanvt1 1 month ago
Look at history...as a Briton I am far more related to the Greece of Homer than the present "occupants" lets look:...Bysantium, Rome, Ostrogofs,Bulgars Turks ? years, and others...
Modern "Greeks" are no more" Greek" than I am! they simply enjoy a lingua-franca
alanvt1 2 months ago
Errr,and the Italians in the south under MOSLEM occupation? I guess you forgot about them eh? haha
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@alanvt1 I don't forget south Italians, they're white too.
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ALL ARYAN!
alanvt1 2 months ago
Is this guy Greek? err...and what is a Greek! beside a common lingua franca in the geographical area of Greece! "Greeks" vanished with the Roman conquest!
A Christian traveller commented in circa 350,the country is empty!...
In short: modern Greeks are of Bulgar/Slav and Turkish descent! the Greek language,sinple a lingue-franca.....is for some reason used as a tool for nationalism
alanvt1 2 months ago
English : 69% Brittons 20% Germanics 2% Romans (or Alans).
The English are like the other Europeans.
For example with Italians:
north west Italians : 50%-60% Gauls 1%-4% Germanics 4% Romans (or Alans)
center north Italians : 65% Gauls 5%-9% Germanics 4% Romans (or Alans)
Italians from province of Trieste : 25%-39% Gauls 5%-10% Germanics 2-% Romans (or Alans)
north east Italians : 65% Gauls 5%-9% Germanics 3%-5% 2% Romans (or Alans) ecc.
azzuri111111 2 months ago
english is more romance then germanic btw..... 46% of the vocabulary goes back to latin and french, and only 33% to a MIX of german/celt languages. Modern english dont want to say "we are a bit german" anymore, so they end up saying "we are dutch"... well... it turns out the english language has only an influence of 1% dutch-steming vocabulary. apart from the syntax (which has unique errors pointing out another origin then plain germanic) english is romance, with strong germanic influences.
000000AEA000000 3 months ago
@000000AEA000000 I think that's a bit misleading. Most of the borrowed vocabulary in English most people never use. The true percent of native words used in everyday spoken and written English actually ranges from 75%–90%. Futher, Latin never influenced English grammar; unlike Norse which made big changes to word order, gender, words usw. English is Germanic with a large (mostly unused) vocabulary from Latin and Greek.
JohnMatrix89 2 months ago in playlist Curios - Eng: Origins of the English Tongue
@JohnMatrix89 Interesting Post. Can you link me to your source please? 90 % is surely off when you know romance languages. According to my sources (my english teacher and I checked it on wikipedia) speak of MODERN English, as in the Language we can use here. And yes, I spoke of syntax, so we agree on the grammer, although I have seen in a documentary on how english is a mixed-up language with unique learning-mistakes pointing to the theory that english was not a native language.
000000AEA000000 2 months ago
@000000AEA000000 My source was Pure Saxon English: Or, American to the Front by Elias Molee. One could also do it the hard way and do a Google search for the most frequently used English words and go down the list and check the origin of each and every word. The numbers you listed look similar to Joseph M. Williams in Origins of the English Language where he surveyed thousands of business letters and found most words that are of technical or scientific nature use mostly Latin
JohnMatrix89 2 months ago
@000000AEA000000 and French based words. Of course to be fair a lot of words of French origin were borrowed from the Franks, to whom France is named after. So some of the French words that were borrowed into English were actually old Frankish in origin.
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LittleDirtyBlonde23 4 months ago
What's the name of the show ?
novakbates 5 months ago
Even indian literarture, the Mahabharata , called the island Sveta-Dvipa which means White Island thought associated with Albion. one passage quotes "On the northern shores of the Ocean of Milk there is an island of great splendour called by the name of White Island. The men that inhabit that island have complexions as white as the rays of the Moon and that are devoted to Narayana" Narayana just means original man.
Jeorney 6 months ago
@Jeorney: As advanced as India was at one time, to be honest, I doubt even they knew Britain even existed.
MiracleMile90 5 months ago
The early invasions didn't really mongrelise the country as there was little genetic variation. Perhaps culturally mixed, I guess. There's little genetic difference between a Celtics, Gemanics or even Gaelic. They were really regional & independant identities. Americans (of european roots) is another identity forged in modern times.
Jeorney 6 months ago
The history of England "land of angles" is older, when England was called Albion (White Island). According to one source, Albion became Britain which was a greek-roman name for the island. Another source says Britain is named after a trojan called Brutus who settled here, but this is not recorded in the classical text. Also Prettanic islands which is found in welsh sources. Quite a confusing really. But Albion is the original name for the whole island.
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ThomasRowsell 8 months ago
Lol I love how everyone calls English a "mongrel" language/nation even though all languages have bits and pieces borrowed from each other, not just English and every nation has at one time or another shacked up with at least a couple other ethnicites
PaddySnuffles 8 months ago
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the english are pure and native
EXIDEBANDENGLAND 9 months ago
When the Anglo Saxons invaded Britain they Killed all of the native people living in england at the time (the Celts). they brutally murdered them in an act of ethnic cleansing. Genetic research has proven this. 'Ethnic cleansing sounds to me like' what the Germans were doing to the Jews and Romanies, I'd say the English are no better.
david880brown 9 months ago
haha what he says about Dutch makes no sense at all.. she must have thought he's hopeless lol.. love this video though :)
luciakijne 10 months ago
Lol at the end it was akward she didnt know what to say
iLuvBarRefaeli 10 months ago
AND WHO THE FUCK IS EDDIE IZZARD TO LECTURE ON THIS SUBJECT? THAT FUCKING SHITSTABBER CALLS IT ENGLAND WHEN ENGLAND NEVER EXISTED AS A STATE UNTIL THE UNIFICATION OF THE ENGLAND KINGDOMS AFTER THE ARRIVAL OF THE ANGLES, SAXONS AND JUTES
JimBell1984 11 months ago
WHAT THE FUCK????? HOW ARE WE ANY MORE MONGRELISED THAN ANY OTHER NATION - TYPICAL IGNORANCE TOWARDS THE ENGLISH PEOPLE!!!! WE ARE A MIX OF NORTHERN EUROPEAN GERMANIC PEOPLE YOU IGNORANT CUNT
JimBell1984 11 months ago
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For a ripping Norse/Saxon story, try Sigurd's Saga on YouTube.
steleona1 1 year ago
unfukkkmee
Yes, we are mongrals, Even the traditional white brit is a mix of Germanic, Celtic and many many other sub groups that have settled Britain in the ancient times, but you are as ugly as sin. lol. So i'd rather be a mongral.
P.S. Clearasil might clear your face a bit.
rudeydudey05 1 year ago
@rudeydudey05 wash your mouth out you filthy fucker.
jasonkanerichardson 1 year ago
@jasonkanerichardson rudeydudey is somewhat right you thick cunt
JimBell1984 11 months ago
@rudeydudey05 - Eddy Izzard = left wing liar. You = successfully brainwashed.
(Genetic Statistics) British Isles - White English - 55% Celt (Northern) 21% Germanic (Western) 19% Scandinavian (Northern) 5% Other/Foreign. White English - overall genetic make up - 74% Northern European Homogeneity - 21% Western European - 5% Other/Foreign.
LittleDirtyBlonde23 4 months ago
THE BRITS ARE MONGRELS
unfukkkmee 1 year ago
@unfukkkmee AND YOUR ANCESTORS WE RAPED BY WAVES OF TURKS YOU ILL LOOKING GREEK TWAT
JimBell1984 11 months ago
@JimBell1984 THE GREEKS never RAPED.
THE GREEKS DESTROYS mongols MANY TIMES IN HISTORY BURN IN HELL SON OF WHORE AND LEARN HOW THE british IS NOT ethnic U ARE GERMANS
unfukkkmee 11 months ago
@unfukkkmee you look like you have a terminal illness you Greek poof - you wankers were ruled by the Turks for 400 years. Tosser. "Brits" are not an ethnicity dickhead, but English is. We are Germanic, get it right. And what the fuck is wrong that?
JimBell1984 11 months ago 8
@JimBell1984 ARE NOT turks THEY WAS ottomans. the english ARE ethNic GERMANS. THE GREEKS FUCKED U DIRTY BARBARIAN FROM SIBERIA IN CYPRUS 55-59
THE GREEKS FUCKED UR turkoFONES FRIENDS 1912-1913 AND 1963 1964
unfukkkmee 11 months ago
@unfukkkmee the English, Dutch, Germans and other Germanic nations come from the same origins. We are not ethnic Germans you inbred Greek twat. Siberia is in Russia you stupid cunt. The Greeks were also avid homosexuals and loved fucking boys, you fucking diseased looking cancer patient. JUST ACCEPT YOU WERE RULED BY TURKS AND ARE AS MONGRELISED AS ANY OTHER NATION IS. YOU ARE DELUDED AND RETARDED IF YOU THINK THAT GREECE IS PURE GREEK. EVERY NATION IN THE WORLD IS "RACIALLY IMPURE" - CUNT
JimBell1984 11 months ago
@JimBell1984 ALL TEST DNA SAYS THE GREEKS OF TODAY ARE REAL GREEKS FROM ANCIENT YEARS THE ANGLO-GERMANS FUCKED LITTLE BOYS LIKE U IF SENT I SENT IN HOSPITAL SON OF WHORE
unfukkkmee 11 months ago
@unfukkkmee What you say is bullshit. You Greeks only fucked women to have more faggot fucked up offspring. You fucked men for enjoyment. You were ruled by Turks and they fucked you in Cyprus. Your English is also shit. And your women all have hairy faces, and you still looks like you have AIDs or lukemia, you fucked up arse-fucking cock-sucking shit-licking faggot Greek cunt. You are one of the ugliest pieces of shit I have ever had the misfortune to lay my Germanic/Anglo-Saxon eyes on.
JimBell1984 11 months ago
@JimBell1984 BARBARIAN DIRTY anglo saxon WHORE FROM SIBERIA. LISTEN THE '' turks '' LOST THE FIGHT BY REAL GREEK CYPRIOTS OF 1963-1964,1967 WE lost THE FIGHT OF 1974 AFTER BY TRAITORS
unfukkkmee 11 months ago
@unfukkkmee errr....how am I from Siberia, you thick twat? you Greek wankers are pussies, we have far more fight in us. You Greeks idolised homosexuality. CUNT
JimBell1984 11 months ago
@JimBell1984 THE GREEKS BORN THE LOGIC THE GREEKS CREATED EVERYTHING WHO HAS THE HUMANITY
imBell1984 U ARE ULTIMATE BARBARIAN MIXED RACE FROM TATAROMONGOLID UR MANEATER FROM SIBERIA
unfukkkmee 11 months ago
@unfukkkmee no, the Greeks did not create everything. Although they may have contributed to humanity they are not responsible for everything. You arrogant disease ridden cunt. You think there are any pire bred nations in the world then you are fooling no-one but yourself. You are a ridiculous piece of shit and you look like you have aids. I will ask again....how the fuck am I from Siberia? andneed I remind England's empire was far larger and greater than the Greek Empire. Greeks fuck men.
JimBell1984 11 months ago
@JimBell1984 1 UR ULTIMATE BARBARIAN
2 THE emgland HAD NEVER empire. THE ENGLAND HAS POSSESSION LINE 3 U DO FANATIC PROPAGANDA AGAINST GREECE.
IM NOT liar. LISTEN EVERYTHING HAS THE HUMANITY ARE FROM GREEKS.
OK ? CHEAP ANGLOSAXONIC WHORE
unfukkkmee 11 months ago
@unfukkkmee 1) I am a civilised Englishman (with northern Irish blood too)
2) England had a huge Empire, do you know anything about history
3) Fanatic propagada against Greece? wtf are you talking about?
You are a lying little shit, you have given me now facts, you just talk bullshit
you have not answered;
A) why do you think i come from siberia?
B) why ancient Greek men liked fucking other men?
You have retarded views bordering on nazi you stupid fucking cunt - UGLY GREEK COCKSUCKER
JimBell1984 11 months ago
@JimBell1984 NAZIS ARE JEWS LIKE U SON OF SLUT IF U CATCH IN ROAD I SENT U IN HOSPITAL DONT MAKE ME CRAZY ANGLOSAXON WHORE.
LISTEN TO ME VERY WELL THE GREEKS MAKE U HUMANS. THE ANCIENT ENGLISH WAS MANEATER MONSTERS WITHOUT POLITISM AND WITHOUT LOGIC
unfukkkmee 11 months ago
@unfukkkmee you know nothing of history cunt. The Germanic peoples had their own system of democracy, and there are many good points as well as bad in many other cultures you Greek arse-bandit.
Oh, so if you ever see me what are you gonna do? try and fuck my arse and give me your aids? you dirty leprotic prostitute
JimBell1984 11 months ago
@JimBell1984 THE GERMANS ARE UNPOLITIST BARBARIAN WITHOUT HISTORY. LISTEN NOW WE GREEKS MAKE U HUMANS EVERYONE KNOWS HO THE DEMOCRACY IS GREEK. BUT germs HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS DEMOCRASY
unfukkkmee 11 months ago
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@unfukkkmee for a start that is bulshit....look up the "thing" you dickhead - you still haven't answered my questions, you greek faggot
JimBell1984 11 months ago
@unfukkkmee I believe you're megalomaniac and a psychopath.
You doesn`t know anything else about the Anglo-saxons and the other Germanic
tribes (Frisians and Jutes) who settled down in 450 AD, you Greek wanker.
Waiguurd 1 month ago
@unfukkkmee lols,the greeks stole writting from the Phonecians and just about everything else from the Hittites,go play in a motorway fella :)
2manynegativewaves 10 months ago
@2manynegativewaves STOP THE ULTIMATE PROPAGANDA AGAINST GREECE. phoenician IS GREEK WORD
AND HERMES WROTE IN GREEK LANGUAGE 50.000 BC THE GREEK LANGUAGE CREATED THE phoenician LANGUAGE. LISTEN NOW
hitties and phoenicians COPIED ALL GREEK POLITISM AND CIVILAZATION
unfukkkmee 10 months ago
@JimBell1984 check out Alan Wilson and the true history of Britain and also the Coelbren Alphabet, it's worth it.
Gozzmaster 7 months ago
@JimBell1984 - Unfortunately you are wrong, despite the historical invasions of England, the white English people are still more Northern Celt - 55% than Western Germanic - 21%
LittleDirtyBlonde23 4 months ago
@LittleDirtyBlonde23 Where did you get those figures from? Walter Bodmers ongoing study has consistently shown the English have primarily Anglo-Saxon/Danish Viking origins.
JohnMatrix89 2 months ago
Iam so glad british people like you exist. I am so fed up by the "we are so damn germanic" english dudes. Does not help when you explain them basic math either.
Thank you for thinking.
000000AEA000000 2 months ago
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unfukkkmee 1 month ago
YES THE GERMANIC BARBARIANS ARE MONGRELS.
unfukkkmee 1 month ago
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE HAS 80.000 WORDS, THE 40.000 ARE HELLENIC WORDS
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MrStarbuck123 3 weeks ago
@unfukkkmee NOBODY CARES WHAT YOU THINK!!
MrStarbuck123 3 weeks ago
@MrStarbuck123 BARBARIAN LISTEN TO ME. MY WORDS ARE THE TRUTH
unfukkkmee 3 weeks ago
and that´s the story of Maures in Europe; a strictly local Iberian bussiness, most of the time not including more than half of the peninsula and certainly not ever ruling anywhere other !
FenceThis 1 year ago
You cannot HIT or SCARE anyone,or SCREAM,SCOWL or DIE without using scandinavian verbs,nor can a FELLOW or a HUSBAND look in ANGER through the WINDOW at the SKY without using scandinavian nouns.You cannot do without essential pronouns like THEY,THEIR and THEM,not to speak of BOTH and the SAME, nor can any Englisman do without a descriptive inventory of adjectives which includes not only ODD,UGLY,ILL.WRONG and SCANT,but also HAPPY,MEEK and LOW !
FenceThis 1 year ago
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zeinbrug 1 year ago
Wow, he does a really good Dutch accent! (I am Dutch.)
AutumnHippie 1 year ago
Wow, he does a really good Dutch accent! (I am Dutch.)
AutumnHippie 1 year ago
. . . SO the host is Chris Jericho's long lost twin.
LinkSOB 1 year ago
ENGLISH= I can stick my little finger up my nose and pluck snot out. DANISH=Jeg(yi) kan stikke min lille finger op min naese og plukke snot ud.
psviking1 1 year ago
You might think German is all Germanic, but it has almost as much Latin words as English, yet they retain German accent, because the Germans didn't migrate and diversify their accent. When the English moved to the British Isles, they seperated anything that could influence their accent.(The celts were seperated by water) Even the Normans didn't stay long. Due to the mass migration and seclusion , we can conclude that Modern "England" English sounds more accurately like Old English in essence.
alexross8 1 year ago
English still retained it's Germanic grammar and rules. There is a myth going around that Norman (Old French) gave English it's "s" at the end of plural nouns, however that is a lone developement that some other Germanic languages have.
Speaking Norman was reserved for high class citizens (Norman settlers) ,while English people adapted to using the Romance words to express things of importance, which is why English generally has French words of high register , and little to none of Old English.
alexross8 1 year ago
I think most people that posted a comment to this video must be absolutely stupid.
Some people are saying that English comes from Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, or Celtic languages. English is a west Germanic language. It was heavily influenced by Northern Germanic phonology , which gave us Þ or "th" and a few Scandinavian words.
in around 1066 AD , Normandy attacked the Angles of Saxon that migrated to the British isles. They completely conquered the English and mixed up their language.
alexross8 1 year ago
@alexross8 heh " a few scandinavian words " - try a few thousand words ! actually between 2000 and 3000 words of which more than 1000 remains today; the very core of colloquial english concerning everything about household,livestock, farming, buildings, fishing, sailing,trading, family, warfare, local community,nature etc.From app 800 up untill the beginning of the plantagenet era norse vocabulary became the body of the english language, then gradually replaced by french as the major influence.
FenceThis 1 year ago
@alexross8 and through the centuries some other atleast thousand words survived in english dialects.Yet,during the past 200 years theese dialectal uses have somewhat vanished as standard english reached out still further.A few samples of modern dialectal uses; arr(scar),big(build),blowt(softly),brott(steep),car(pond),crake(crow),dag(dew),elt(knead),flit(move)gar(do,make),gawk(cuckoo),hoast(cough),keek(look),laik(play),lig(lie),lop(flea),neave(fist),rig(back),seng(bed),speer(ask),yammer(moan)...
FenceThis 1 year ago
English originated from Arabic!~Arabic is the first language in the world which was given to us by Allah!
groundzerobuild 1 year ago
@groundzerobuild
You're funny.
HaloGrndr 1 year ago
Hey guys I need a help with some old english texts :( Someone interested?
MILENITA1804 1 year ago
Could Eddie expand on how the Brythonic dialects and Anglo-Saxon "merged" - other than the odd use of "Avon" (Afon) or "Bre" (Bryn) in place names?
English is West Germanic with an overlay of fancy Latin(French) vocabulary
adventussaxonum 1 year ago 5
@adventussaxonum I think when he says "the dialects gradually combined" he is referring to the differing Germanic dialects, not the Brythonic. I do not think Brythonic ever had much impact on English.
JohnMatrix89 1 year ago
@adventussaxonum I think he means the dialects of the Germanic tribes, although it is possible that Brythonic influences English syntax.
enzedbrit 1 year ago
@adventussaxonum
There's a book called Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue that covers this in detail. One of the larger examples is that when we ask questions and stick "Do" or "Does" to a verb - "Do you eat butter?" "Does that hurt", that comes from those languages (it's a feature that essentially doesn't exist outside Brythonic languages in the Indo-European language family).
GeneralRidley 10 months ago
@adventussaxonum: Or more specifically, and accurately, a mixture of Frisian, Celtic, with some French here & there. =)
MiracleMile90 7 months ago
@MiracleMile90 - "Accurately"? what Celtic input is there in English, other than the odd geographic term? Friesian, yes! French,a later superficial addition . Doesn't alter the fact that English is basically West Germanic.
adventussaxonum 5 months ago
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@adventussaxonum: "Doesn't alter the fact that English is basically West Germanic."
Sorry, but not entirely so. Even in the old days English, at least the common man's version, was quite the mix(although not the type that the nobles and other higher classes spoke. Unfortunately.).
MiracleMile90 5 months ago
english
are 43% ancient greeks
shitbomp 1 year ago
A linguistics man myself, there is much wrong with this program. But sure, we (English speakers) can go to any other "Germanic" country and communicate just fine. Lol.
"old" anything will be hard to understand with any sort of "modern" variant we have today. Ie: old Norse to modern Swedish, old English to modern English, heck even old Gaelic to modern... Well you get the idea.
Even 1800 American english is a far cry from
Modern American English. Languages and such evolve, it's just the way
vwbora1point8T 1 year ago
The Romans didn't leave England-they left Britain. England was a creation of the English invaders- surprisingly! Also ,it's not Gangly-Jangly etc. Anglo-Saxon or English will do, Eddie!
He forgot to mention the occupation of Eastern Lowland Scotland by the Angles,too!
Just a small point- she sounds rather Welsh - nice accent though!
adventussaxonum 1 year ago
Proud to be a Mongrel! Scotish, English, Welsh, Austrian, German!
windmoveswater 1 year ago
The sound you here in modern american english has a direct link to middle swedish und jutish ( north germany) Det ljud du hör i modern amerikans engelska har en direkt länk till mellan svenska och jutiska.
mannen33bast 1 year ago
I don't believe that there is a particular Y-DNA haplogroup that distinguishes the Celts from the Anglo-Saxons as they both belong to three major haplogroups R1b R1a and I.
BoxBayUK 1 year ago
@Aenglaland yeah but the native britians were the celts and the anglo saxons called them welsh.
Traductus5972 1 year ago
Izzard's view is typical of the politically correct liberal / left. These kind of programmes are constantly pumped out by the politically biased media as propaganda to promote the global capitalist agenda of the elite. This agenda being the colonisation of our homelands with cheap labour immigrants. The indigenous British are a homogenous northern european people with roots thousands of years old. Izzard is a traitor to his own people.
paterliber 1 year ago
There are the Hebrides Islands ( islands of Hebrews?) north of Scotland. Does anybody know why these islands were called by this strange name? Who named them like this?
alltoone2 1 year ago
@alltoone2 The Roman-Greek astronomer Ptolemy
JohnMatrix89 1 year ago
From the 5th to 12th century, Old English was spoken widely on these islands, bible translations, riddles, chronicles, letters and much more besides, however there is an element of foreigners that detest and are envious of this, because while all of Europe was stuck with Latin England had its own tongue, which makes it one of the oldest, of course it evolved in time and changed to what we speak today, but it needs to be acknowledged more.
Woodlander65 1 year ago
@Woodlander65 Germanic people never spoke Latin, they always spoke germanic and english is a west-germanic language, the youngest in the family !
FenceThis 1 year ago
english/latin /abandon/abandounen/abbey/abeie/account/acont/acquit/acquiter/ address/addreser/adjust/adjuster/admit/admittere/adult/adultus/adultery/adulter/advantage/avant/advise/advisare/affix/affixare/agitate/agitare//air/aer(greek)abscence/absentia/abyss/abussos(greek)access/accesus/accident/accidere/account/acont/accurate/accurare/accuse/accusare/acquire/acquirere/act/actus/add/addere/advertise/avertir/affect/affectus/agitate/agitatus/agony/agonia(greek)60 percent of english is latin
joy2559 1 year ago
PC, BS.
DNA say's if your grandfather was born in England you have a 75% chance of being descended from hunter-Gatherers who came here just after the last ice-age, this is a few thousand years before "celts" had left Asia.
hetrodoxly 1 year ago
@hetrodoxly many english surnames in the south are french, butcher/boucher/beaumont/beaumont/ coup, cape/capo/lay/laycock/lecoque/barber/pizzey/serjent/
joy2559 1 year ago
@joy2559
? A Norman invader could have a whole village using his name,
DNA doesn't lie.
hetrodoxly 1 year ago
@hetrodoxly 100 percent correct mate, people can change their names, dna tests have been carried out on the english, the results were very mixed, some english have 90 percent north european dna, some only 50 percent, norman tebbit from the conservatives turned up 69 percent north european, 31 percent south east european, the thing is, that the british militiary went all over the world,india/portugal/malta/ middle east/jamaica and so on, that`s why some obscure dna turns up in english people.
joy2559 1 year ago
Stephen Oppenheimer (born 1947) is a British paediatrician, geneticist, and writer. He is a member of Green Templeton College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and carries out and publishes research in the fields of genetics and human prehistory.
hetrodoxly 1 year ago
@joy2559
Origins of the British
Stephen Oppenheimer
"If your grandfather was born in England you have a 75% chance of being descended from the indigenous population that came here just after the last ice-age" 9000-1500 years ago
hetrodoxly 1 year ago
@joy2559
Bryan Sykes.
Bryan Sykes Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College.
The Blood of the Isles.
The genetic makeup of Britain and Ireland is overwhelmingly what it has been since the Neolithic period and to a very considerable extent since the Mesolithic period.
hetrodoxly 1 year ago
@hetrodoxly i agree with you, white tribes have populated the british isles for years,long before the celts/romans/saxons/ i think dna tests have proved this
joy2559 1 year ago
@joy2559 - Let me correct you on that one! It was the English/Scottish/Welsh/Irish troops that made up the British army and went all over the world killing others and then dying themselves. They were military boys, not family makers, and they couldn't of possibly brought foreign DNA back to Britain because men to not get pregnant, you stupid moron! Britain hasn't been invaded and raped since 1066, that is almost a thousand years of white racial preservation.
LittleDirtyBlonde23 4 months ago
When you read the Wikipedia entry, English is described as an 'Anglo-Frysian' language. Pherhaps there's a reason for these things.
DaDazey 1 year ago
Every time a new word needs to be thought of for deeper concepts deeper thoughts and illegal substances, people tend to look to French, Latin or Greek.
When you look at the title, it's about the *origins* of English. So that's something different from word counts & adding up percentages.
Now the next episode is about buying a brown cow from a Frysian farmer. So that's not on a Paris market, nor somewhere in Rome.
DaDazey 1 year ago
@joy2559
'Influenes'? I think it's 'influences' you're trying to write.
So Celery is Italian? And Congress and Homosexual are Latin..? Is there any news in that? Everyone knows. And the Dutch & Germans use them as well.
Because virtually everyone has a past with the Romans - and if you've been invaded by William or Napoleon, either way you're going to end up with a terrible amount of French in your vocabulary.
DaDazey 1 year ago
english/old french./latin/colour/colour/command/commander/commission/commissio/company/compaignie/compass/compas/conceal/conceler/conference/conferentia/confess/confesserconfide/confidere/confident//confidens/confirm/confermer/confiscate/confiscare/conflict/confligere/confront/confrontari/confound/confondre/confuse/confusus/conngratulate/congratulari//congress/congressus/connect/connnnectere/conscious/conscius/conscript/conscirebe/consider/considerare/contain/continere/consume/consumere/
joy2559 1 year ago
sorry to cite such influenes, but it`s hard at times imbecil!
joy2559 1 year ago
english/spanish mucho/much/daga/dagger/pieazas/pieces/piratas/pirates/ora/hour/botas/boots/avenida/avenue/bastards/bastardos/drog adictos/drug adictos/monumentos/monuments/parques/parks/batalla/battle/homosexuales/homosexuals/rio/river.estomago/stomach/cockroach/corona/crown/banana/banana/brisa/breeze/cremesin/crimson/huracan/hurricane/ijada/jade/macho/macho/patio/patio/coliflores/cauliflowers/jerz/sherry/tamate/tomato/arma/arm/revolver/revolver/pistola/pistol. 56% of english is latin
joy2559 1 year ago
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joy2559 1 year ago
Time Team Series 15 episode 9 - 43 minutes in makes it clear genetically that we are not a mongrel nation. This is fed to us by the controlled media to brainwash the masses into being sympathetic with unacceptable levels of immigration. I tried to publish the clip but Youtube has blocked it. The whole episode is on Channel 4 - Time Team.
Series 15 | Episode 9 - Saxons on the Edge, Stonton Wyville, Leicestershire
geolabuk 1 year ago
ich will (kaufen) eine braune kuh..... macht milch. ||||| Well i really tried to find a german equivalent of bycgan (buy) but i wasnt able to come up with a word that sounds like that and means to buy.
JazzB1987 1 year ago
@JazzB1987 That's because it's a Gothic word: 𐌱𐌿𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bugjan).
AndreR241 1 year ago
English is a Mongrel Heathen Language, an arcane Germanic Mistake.
AnonymousWhitePerson 1 year ago
@AnonymousWhitePerson English comes mostly from Scandinavian. Its not thhat much of a basterd language. English has included some Latin words, for certain purposes but much of English is germanic. Dutch, English and Danish are very close. Old Danish for example was closer to Anglo Saxon than German or Dutch. Dutch and German are pretty close to come to think of it. However, even middle age english was very close to anglo-saxon mixed with some old norman french.
seamuspowers 1 year ago
@seamuspowers finally someone with insight and reason.I 100 % support your statement while thou speaketh the truth !
FenceThis 1 year ago
hahaha the gangly-frangly-saxsons
bassassin1837 1 year ago
Brea butter & tsiis is gut Ingliis & gut Frysk! -
Bread butter & cheese is good English & good Frys!
Let's not forget Frysian is a first century A.D. language.. Arguably older than most Germanic languages! (though probably as old as Norse)
& special honours go to Old Dutch 'Holt park' and 'Olde hove'! Figure those out yourself.
DaDazey 1 year ago
Ehm, maybe I should throw in some Frysian here:
it dream - the dream
us dream - our dream (many boats are called that way)
greate pier - great pier
it stream - the stream
..list goes on..
under it reid - under the reid
swiet grien tsiis - sweet green cheese
DaDazey 1 year ago
@DaDazey frisian was close to old saxon and sounded the same.
seamuspowers 1 year ago
@seamuspowers
Well I'd say English is safely inbetween Frysian, Saxon and Norse. Some words are undeniably Norse/Danish like 'sky' and 'ask'. But to say Frysian is equal to Saxon is not quite right - it's like saying Norse is equal to Saxon! They were neighbours but it's not the same thing. (& I'm not Frysian myself in case you wonder)
DaDazey 1 year ago
@DaDazey over 50 percent of english is from old french and latin, a few examples, please, gibbet, plaster, colour,peace, visit,army,plural,local,market,arm,stomach,souvenir,solicit,seduce,response,regiment,public,protest,front,easy,poison,palm,modern,manner,combat,army,obey,leisure,junior,primary,school,just,involve,infernal,impulse,idea,group,generous,fable,face,forest, if you buy the collins concise dictionary in hard back it gives the origin of english words,
joy2559 1 year ago
@joy2559
You forgot realistic and deviant. So English is a Latin language at heart?
DaDazey 1 year ago
@DaDazey it is very much a mixed language some of it is old germanic, old french and old latin, some norse, some greek words, there is a dictionary called the collins concise dictionary, the hard back version will give you the root origin of the word,it is said that 10 000 words in english were derived from old french. this dictionary verifies that.english is only 33 percent Germanic now, because of the french influence and the roman catholic influence.
joy2559 1 year ago
@joy2559 You'll find french words like Theatre and Realise in just about any language - in Dutch & German as well so that doesn't really count. Same applies to the Greek influence.
At heart (=Frysian word) English is inbetween Norse, Saxon and an awful lot of Frysian! I'm sorry to cite such an unfashionable influence but it's tough sometimes.
DaDazey 1 year ago
@DaDazey english and old french words please/plaise, butcher/boucher,caution/ cautio,cave/cavus.celery/celeri(italian) charge/chargier.chase/chas.chisel/cisellus.combat/combattre.common/communcomplain/complaindre.decay/decair.damage/damnum.danger/dongier,deform/deformare.derange/desrengier.detail/detailler.determine/determinare.dialect/dialekt(greek) diamond/diamant.dimension/dimensio.dinner/disner.dinosaur/dinosauros(greek)direct/directus.discrete/discretus. dadazey you don`t know english.
joy2559 1 year ago
@DaDazey Heart is part of a widespread Indo-European family of words for the ‘cardiac muscle’, which all go back to the common ancestor *kerd-. From it come Greek kardíā (source of English cardiac (17th c.)), Latin cor (whence French coeur, Italian cuor, Spanish corazón, modern Irish croidhe, Russian serdce, and Latvian sirds. Its Germanic off-spring was *khertōn, which produced German herz, Dutch hart, Swedish hjärta, Danish hjerte, and English heart.In Old English heorte ( from danelaw era ? )
FenceThis 1 year ago
@joy2559 A mixed language is a creole, which English is not. They just borrowed a lot of words from latin because that was lingua franca at that time. But then again, all languages borrow heavily from each other.
JohnMatrix89 1 year ago
@JohnMatrix89 A majority of the words in English are of Latin (including French) origin yet it's Germanic. That's not normal. You assert that "all languages borrow heavily from each other," yet a difference of degree can become a difference of kind. While many IndoEuropean languages have been influenced by each other, particularly by Latin, English was so influenced to an unusual degree, given the COMBINED effect of Latin and French (which also has mostly Latin roots).
baigandine 1 year ago
@baigandine I'm not quite sure what you are getting at. Are you saying English is a creole or hybrid language? English borrowed a lot of words from Latin, yes but the words were Anglicized. Plus most of those words no one uses anyway. And we still use our own pronunciation and grammar. French has had a lot of influence from other languages as well, especially Germanic but it is still based in Latin.
JohnMatrix89 1 year ago
@JohnMatrix89 english is a mix, honest, i am english, it`s not unique, some scando-germanic, some french, some roman
joy2559 1 year ago
@joy2559
You can say that about most languages, French more than English, archaeologist for many years struggled with the date that the language entered Britain, it can be proven that many features in the landscape had English names prior Roman conquest, for the last two years linguists from around the world have been working on the problem, a white paper recently published states the English Language entered Britain between 2000-6000 years ago and was probably the language of the Iceni.
hetrodoxly 1 year ago
@hetrodoxly i see your point, the problem is, we don`t have much info on the really old tribes that settled in british isles, so we will never know.
joy2559 1 year ago
@joy2559
Well, we know English was being spoken here over 2000 years ago.
hetrodoxly 1 year ago
@hetrodoxly Your source on that?
JohnMatrix89 1 year ago
@JohnMatrix89
,the Old Irish phonetic−phonological system provides a more plausible model for reconstructing the phonetics of pre-Roman Celtic in Britain than the British Celtic system. The conclusion is that there is phonetic continuity between pre-Roman British Celtic and Old English, which suggests the presence of a pre-Anglo-Saxon population shifting to Old English.
This article appears in English Language and Linguistics Vol. 13, which you can read on Cambridge's site or LINGUIST.
hetrodoxly 1 year ago
@hetrodoxly Thanks for that. However I remain skeptical of much Celtic influence on Old English. I would have to agree with most linguists that Celtic had little effect on English vocab and grammar. Coates, Sampson and the faculty at Marburg all have written about the lack of evidence to support these extreme views.
JohnMatrix89 1 year ago
@JohnMatrix89
Archaeologist have struggled for years with the fact that they can prove English names for features in the landscape existed in "England" pre Roman invasion, this and the latest DNA results prompted by Archaeologist (Francis Prior, guy who found flag fen) for linguists from around the world to work on the problem, they recently released a white paper after two years with the results, this is the latest work.
hetrodoxly 1 year ago
@hetrodoxly I am not sure which DNA results you are referring to? Bodmer released preliminary results a couple years ago with a DNA map that shows England as predominantly AngloSaxon/Germanic. I don't take much of what Pryor says seriously. I prefer the likes of Härrke or Amphlett, much more objective without a hidden agenda.
JohnMatrix89 1 year ago
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Bryan Sykes.
Bryan Sykes Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College.
The Blood of the Isles.
The genetic makeup of Britain and Ireland is overwhelmingly what it has been since the Neolithic period and to a very considerable extent since the Mesolithic period.
hetrodoxly 1 year ago
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Bryan Sykes.
Bryan Sykes Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College.
The Blood of the Isles.
The genetic makeup of Britain and Ireland is overwhelmingly what it has been since the Neolithic period and to a very considerable extent since the Mesolithic period.
hetrodoxly 1 year ago
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Origins of the British
Stephen Oppenheimer
"If your grandfather was born in England you have a 75% chance of being descended from the indigenous population that came here just after the last ice-age" 9000-1500 years ago
hetrodoxly 1 year ago
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Bryan Sykes.
Bryan Sykes Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College.
The Blood of the Isles.
The genetic makeup of Britain and Ireland is overwhelmingly what it has been since the Neolithic period and to a very considerable extent since the Mesolithic period.
hetrodoxly 1 year ago
Origins of the British
Stephen Oppenheimer
"If your grandfather was born in England you have a 75% chance of being descended from the indigenous population that came here just after the last ice-age" Stephen Oppenheimer is a British paediatrician, geneticist, and writer. He is a member of Green Templeton College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and carries out and publishes research in the fields of genetics and human prehistory.
hetrodoxly 1 year ago
@hetrodoxly I don't really take Oppenheimer's results seriously either, or Sykes for that matter. They are relying on those outdated studies for their data. The problem is they used such small chromosomes in those you cannot distinguish between the different clades of R1b. S21 of instance is a very common subclade in England, Germany, Netherlands etc, but it is not common in Ireland and South Europe.
JohnMatrix89 1 year ago
@JohnMatrix89
population) if every village had a 9000 year old skeleton you'd find the results would be the same, the vast majority of what we used to know on the subject came from one man "the Venerable Bede" and everything that came after was built on this platform and people are still quoting him, though he'd never left Northumbria born and died their, he's responsible fore the name "Anglo-Saxon" in affect he invented Anglo Saxon.
hetrodoxly 1 year ago
@JohnMatrix89
three relatives, two direct descendants of the 9000 year old cheddar man were found in the local village (these are the only people in the British Isles that can claim with all certainty to be descended from the indigenous
hetrodoxly 1 year ago
@hetrodoxly There is an important caveat with this. Sykes has never published his findings for peer review (neither has Oppenheimer). Ancient DNA studies can be plagued with problems, such as contamination. He would need to be forthcoming and publish the methods with which he extracted and analyzed the DNA and connected it with the modern world in a peer reviewed journal. Only then can we use this as evidence of ancient mtDNA in modern English populations.
JohnMatrix89 1 year ago
@JohnMatrix89
I think it's you with the hidden agenda? Sykes is well respected was and still is a pioneer, he's not recanted anything in his book "blood of the Isles" If the indigenous people of England (some say they were killed by the "celts") were exterminated by invading Saxons etc. where's the archaeological evidence, Graves?
hetrodoxly 1 year ago
@hetrodoxly Sykes is only respected by those that agree with his views. Most DNA researchers today don't. Case in point, I sent my y-chromosome in 2002 to Sykes. He claimed mine was of Norse (Norwegian) viking origin. Further research into I1 haplotypes by Dr. Ken Nordtvedt revealed I was actually of a Danish/AngloSaxon variety, I1 AS2 to be exact. Where is Sykes at with all this new research coming out?
JohnMatrix89 1 year ago