Germanic Language Family 1 of 5

Alexander Arguelles presents a series of videos to provide introductory overviews of the languages of the world. Working diachronically through various language families in turn, he demonstrates how to identify each language, translates a text sample to show how it works, and discusses its genetic affiliation and cultural context. For further information about the series, please refer to http://www.foreignlanguageexpertise.com/

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Education

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• polyglottery
• Germanic
• Language
• Family

[silvr94]

Dear ProfASAr,

I really appreciate these videos. Thank you very much! I have a question concerning Grimm's and Verner's Law and hoped you might be able to help me.

Is it correct that Proto-Indo-European words underwent a consonant shift according to Grimm AND THEN the shift system changed to that of Verner? Or is Verner's Law the correct version of the consonant shift and Grimm's Law is incomplete? I understand both versions and I am now trying to understand the controversy of the law dating.

[ProfASAr]

@silvr94 Verner's Law is about explaining an exception or anomaly in Grimm's Law, not so much a question of before or after - the dating issue will always be a point of controversy.

[fearoftigers]

Professeur, can I ask what is regarded to be the oldest known indo-european language? Would it be Sanskrit? You mention a possible common language coming from what we now call Ukraine, is there any evidence of what this language would be? Great series by the way, really enjoying all of your videos!

[ProfASAr]

The chronology of all of this is very controversial. The common language would be proto-Indo-European and it is entirely reconstructed, thus there no hard evidence of it. Sanskrit and Avestan are generally considered to be older in their forms than Greek, but the surviving written attestations of this last are probably the oldest things that we have.

[StrictlyBG]

The germanic language is THE BEST language in the world ;)

German (fa sho) English etc..

[PakistaniShaheen]

and the language closest to the proto-indo-european language is lithuanian as it did not change like other IE languages didnt

[Shekimarali]

Professor, have you ever thought of germanic languages being the youngest languages, products of turkic languages of Europe aryanised and turning into-european starting 2500 years ago the process completed by IX-XII cc. Real Aryans how into-europeans are called were slavs. the more nomadic turkic (don't confuse with today's turks who are as modified genetically as west europeans were modified linguistically turning from turkic speakers to IE) pp.'s lgg is what is seen in modern germanic lggs

[Askar9992]

dutch is so ugly

[9zreed]

@Germericanboi well I don't know for sure, since i wasn't there. perhaps your argument could be correct to a degree. But as I learned it Proto-Germanics were less civilized than Roman societies and spent much of their time attempting to attack and destroy the Roman Empire. I am sure Romans weren't good to them either, but as I learned it, they attacked first. I have only German, Anglo-Franco blood in me, too, so I'm not just siding with Rome for no reason.

[Xcokedav096]

William Jones? Father of language evolution?

[IrOn26igb]

schaut euch von erhard landmann das buch... weltbilderschütterung an... darin geht es darum dass das althochdeutsche die ursprache aller sprachen ist!

erhard landmann "weltbilderschütterung"

viel spaß

[sinnedinho]

@tapabrataful Worse even, the Dutch word for 'name' is 'naam'...

[snowdog03]

@ProfASAr I thought Hittite was the older Indo-European language.

[Kytopaify]

@damientumor P 2 Habe you read The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World ? There you will see modern archealogical arguments regarding the evidence for tha Indo-European languages spread with the spread of the tame and wagons often drawn by oxeses. In a semi nomadic culture that spread by going with a wagon here and there some trade contacts spreading there language become a cultural factor might have been some conflict as well.

[Kytopaify]

@damientumor @damientumor Ehh no , no lionguist and most archaeologists discridit Anatolia as the urheimat. But rather the the stepp of Eurasia. And your wrong most of the reconstryctedd vocabulary is more semi nomadic pastoralism with words for wheels, horses, and taming horses, and enviroment that describes a cold envrioment where it could snow and natural fauna and flora that more speaks for the stepps.Tamed horses and wheels and wagons did not exist in early agricuturall anatolia

[swissnor]

In Ireland there was two Germanic languages spoken until about 100 years ago called Yola and Fingalian. Yola and Fingalian are very similar to each other. They where both West Germanic languages.