Where did English come from? – Claire Bowern
Where did English come from? – Claire Bowern
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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…
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If I drive about an hour from Glasgow… to Perth… I can hardly understand anyone anymore ✋😆🏴
English is a dialect. The language is dead.
World first cultures Lepenski vir, Starcevo, Vinca- today Serbia.
World first industrial revolution ca. 6000 BC. Bronze metallurgy. (BBC History news March 2010)
Gordon Childe-The Danube in Prehistory, Jacque Pirenne-Agriculture at Danube
Farming start about 6000 BC. Vinca First Calendar start to count years at 5508 BC. (Now in 2024 we have year 7532) Farming wouldn’t be possible without knowledge of calendar. Both development started and developed together.
Harald Harman about first cyrillic writings in Vinca culture in 5500 BC so 2000 years before any writings anywhere else on the world.
Vinca Iron production 1400 BC.
In today English language there is more than 2000 same or similar Serbian words.
Names of the Balkan tribes: Pelasgians, Mycenaeans, Etruscan, Wendi, Illiyrians, Macedonians, Dardanians (Original Troy is here, not in Turkey, Homer wrote sea is freezing in the winter-Panonian sea), Moesians, Dacians, Thracians, Rasci, Celts, Scythians, Sarmatians, Arians, Sea People, Peleset, Philistines, Hittites, Bhrygians. Tribes spread in all directions all over Europe and Asia …….
Wild Greeks arived ~ 1000 BC from Egipt, Hungarian from Asia and Bulgars from Asia they found culture on the Balkans, writings and language and they mixed with domestic people. 18 Roman emperors were born in Serbia because of Etruscan connection.
After Trojan war many groups of people left Troy in all directions to middle Europe, northern Europe to Britain and Scandinavia, south to Anatolia.One group under Aeneas sat sail with 22 ships and about 3400 followers and reach Italy-Etruscans.
Proto serbian language is older than Sanskrit, Greek, Latin or all western Europian languages. Plato confirms in his work The Dialogues of Plato-Cratylus the Greeks used Pelasgian (Proto Serbian) to develop their own language.
I don't think we have in common with Korean, Chinese and Japanese languages 😂😂
I knew the animatoe was familiar
Like other languages used to have other common ancestor language, English has Proto-Germanic language. I have known it before but I knew right before that Swedish, German, and other European languages also have it for ancestor. So each region have affected each other and English have developed incessantly. Today I'm learning English by various studying contents but I'm curious about the history of English. And I found your video, you just scrape away on my itch. 10824
Hummm 🤔 Well, Well… 😮
Are you Sure… That the language, named "English"?
Is… "Really English"??? 😮
OF course… Not!!! 😢
Easy Boys, do not get excited!
Here, the explanation :
. – 29% of his words are French Words! 😮
. – 29% are Latín words! 😮
. – 26 % are Germanic words😮
. – 10 % are Greek words 😮
. – 4% are Spanish Words 😮
. – Only 2% of his words, borned in UK!!! 😮 And most of them, come from "Scottish, Irish & Cymraeg" So?…😮
How do you call English?
If… Not borned in England?
Another Myth! On the History!
How British People, could be so proud of English 😮 If that language "They did not Created"… Are more "Puré Languages" Scottish, Irish & Welsh" Because, they create
Their own Languages!!!
Simple as that!!! 😮😅😊😂
I always talk to myself in english, its hard not to , i think i'm addicted. i refuse to learn another language, because this one, is totally fine
The Lord !
Was English created to be a grand deception and control mechanism for the lazy and easily controllable?
… (0:54) … 'French' speaking Normans … ??? … did you say 'French' … ??? … French did not exist at that time … stop your obsession with 'French' … call a spade a spade … !!! … period … !!!
BBC report:
English language:
-It uses and depends on the Roman alphabet.
-60% of its vocabulary comes from Latin, compared to only 26% of Germanic vocabulary.
-Its grammar is not completely Germanic, it has parts of grammatical structure from Latin.
For this reason, philologists consider the English language a hybrid language. The information in this video is correct.
By the way, I'm English, greetings from London.
That might be the reason why English has the most speakers, it is an amalgamation or mix, a Frankenstein of sorts of different languages around the world.
To me English should be re-classified as romance mostly, or at least romance Germanic 50/50:
The plural with s,
The order of the words in a sentence ( subject verb agreement) whereas in Germanic languages the past participle is at the end of the sentence.
The letter c becomes s in front of e, i and y, example same with g and this is also Latin.
True the adverb is before the noun and this is German.
What a beautiful language anyway
Endoeuropean language is a branch of semitic language but no European wants to admit!
Beautiful video.
Maybe thats why we Scandinavians speak and understand German,friesian, gaelic and english relatively easy, we are a mix of germanic and anglosaxons
And that's why, although I'm a native Brazilian Portuguese speaker, I love English so much❤