Super challenging Proto-Indo-European concepts explained: S in parentheses and Hs with numbers

How do you talk so fast? I'm a native English speaker and I struggled to keep up... and I thought New Yorkers talked fast lol. NYC has a slow country twang compared to you 😛

Good God, were you under time pressure when recording this video? Once I set the playback speed to 0.75 it was actually watchable and understandable LOL

It's a proto language. Its totally made up.

Its a good topic but a badly made video that goes much too fast to understand what's being said

bro nerds out so fast i got a headache. but could understand what i needed anyway!

I enjoyed the video, just wish I understood it a little better. I'm writing a fantasy story and decided to use PIE as my proto-language which would make my conlang part of the PIE family (this is explained in story). I find conlangs interesting, however, I kinda suck at making them. I'm not sure if I really need a full conlang even since the language would primarily just be used for the magic system, but if I want ancient texts or something, having a proper conlang for that would be useful.

what did you do to Bedřich

Fascinatingbutcouldyougoalittleslower(thoughIsupposeyouwereundertimeconstraints)?

Please check, how to pronunce Bedřich :)

Doesn't corto derive from the accusative 'curtum' like most romance nouns/adjectives?

"Hittite XXX sound"

I am not sure the word “å” in Scandinavian comes from *ahwo. We must consider that Scandiavian are in daily contact with several Uralic languages, including modern Finnish and Sámi languages. The word Å is found in toponyms in the contact zone. An -å typically corresponds to an Uralic -jå. Luleå in Swedish is Luleju in Sámi. Torneå in Swedish is Tornio in Finnish. Here we mush realise that the Uralic names come from the Uralic word for river, e.g. exemplified with Northern Sámi johka. We can assume that Swedish has gone through this sound changes jåk -> jå -> å, starting from an Uralic loan. Similarly a word like water instead og aqua is easily explained from an Uralic loan. Proto-Uralic *wæte corresponds to English wet and Germanic wate[r/n].

Can you please speak slower?

I don't really know a lot about languages, but couldn't h2 be something like ukrainian sound between h and g?

If you cannot find the mobile S in western languages, maybe find it in slavic languages, where the S at the beginning talks about finity or infinity of the word. Skrót and krót(ki) .Skrót - something was shortened, so "skirt" for example. Krót, krótki, króciec - it is simple short by itself, it was not shortened. S/Z previx means the word is finite. Robić (to do), zrobić (get things done); tykać - (tick) and stykać (tick one to another, well, stick?). This is general rule in slavic languages, esp. Polish.

Giuseppe Catapano: "Atlantida which disappeared 12,000 years ago, was the land of the Illyrians/ Pelasgians (ancestors of Albanians), who escaped the flood of Atlantis and began new civilizations on all continents, especially in Europe, Africa and small Asia ". THOTH spoke Albanian! Thot means "to say" in Albanian Language.

A study recently published in Science Magazine 2023 proves the antiquity of the Albanian language, which is much earlier than the Greek and Armenian languages > 8000 years old.

Sanskrit, old Greek, and Latin languages are already dead. The Albanian Language is still alive. Albanian is the indo-european language. It decipher the other languages.

Interesting. I've just discovered this channel.

Why do speak so fast? Makes it hard to follow you.

Yikes. I had no idea "AN" arose because the "a" sucked an "n" off words!

And yet, in Dutch we say "kort", not, as expected, "schort", because we borrowed it through West Germanic from Latin

I like PIE. 🥧 😋

Great

Water did survive in English, in the word "eddy".

You only compare germanic and romance languages. It is quite ignorant to speak about PIE without Slavic languages or Sanskritt for example. It is completely unreliable.

Please speak slower and clearly

Proto-Indo-European language and culture is a myth...
It uses far too many vague sound and concept similarities.
Too many exceptions are made when linguistic theories fail with certain words.
Also there is exactly zero archeological support.
Religious comparisons between India and Hellenic/Norse beliefs is so vague and broad to the point of meaninglessness.
Proto-Indo-Europeanism is akin to the equally dumb idea of Proto-human-language.
PIE theory ignores the Bouba/kiki effect and how differing genetics of populations might cause them to create different languages.
PIE theory proposes a monolithic origin to explain language similarities as if it is the only possibility.
In reality the findings could also be explained by multiple separate cultures with vastly different languages gradually sharing more with each other due to cross-pollination from migrations/invasions.
It is obvious that pure theoretical linguistics separated from archeology and Genetics can lead to completely bogus theories of human history.
Similarly, pure mathematics separated from physical experimentation fails to explain how the world operates.
Ultimately PIE theory is more of a pseudo-scientific attempt at creating an aesthetically pleasing classification system for human culture. Rather concerningly the legitimacy of PIE theory mainly rests on the fact that it's widely taught.
People always omit the fact that it's a theory.
They instead present it as if it's a well established physical phenomenon like Evolution.
Many principles in Comparative linguistics are valuable for gleaning insights into geographically and linguistically related written languages a thousand years ago or less.
For example comparing American with British English or Mainland French with African French.
However distant relationships like Ancient Greek and Old Latin quickly become very murky and speculative with creative explanations and interpretations that need to be treated with great caution.
A wider problem is how Historians, anthropologists, linguists and archeologists are generally speaking extremely uncreative people who cannot possibly imagine a human being ever coming up with an original thought.
So they naturally try to link up all technology/art/words/religion origins to other cultures or ancestors.
This might be the case much of the time but it definitely isn't the case even 60% of the time.
So over all PIE theory is a sign of intellectual cancer metastasis within academia that like string theory needs to have its government funding severely reduced so that it's forced to prove itself by merit alone.

very interesting. thank you ❤

Very interesting, but way too fast. Please slow down, speak instead of reading with a slurry pronounced speed!

I changed this to half speed playback to slow him down and almost died laughing.

Okay. Do it over but then at least TWO TIMES AS SLOW! This rattling speed fire talking? I just can't keep up!

Great content but omg why are you talking so fast?

great, thank you

finally some good fucking linguistics content that isn't repeating the usual stuff but actually goes beyond.
i'll be binging through all your vids tonight probably

Now I understand why the Russians say 'suka' for 'b;tch' (and 'sukin syn' for 'son of a b;tch').Well, uh... I guess so.
(Added) I think it"s the first time somebody bothers to explains me what h1, h2 and h3 could mean. Thanks!

Trying to explain something difficult but do it at a speed that I cannot even read all that is written in the slides... Sorry you lost me.

This could have been interesting if it wasn't being presented at double speed.

You speak really fast man!

Thank you so much this has solved the one massive hurdle in PIE linguistics I never got despite my extensive formal schooling and self-teaching in Linguistics.

👏SLOW👏DOWN👏

Is German "kurz" a loanword from Latin then?

I wish I understood any of this.

The flow of information is so slow I almost fell asleep

This is a stretch (hypothetic follows) : Phtr -- metathesis -- Prth -- eclipse of rhotic -- Pth ** drum roll ** Ancient Egyptian "Ptah"??

Cognates? Derivatives?? Any connection between these "cultures" across linguistic evolution?

Makes for good Sci-Fi, even if it's wrong.

Off of in English is ON