Proto-Indo-European: An Overview
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📽️ Welcome to our beginner-friendly journey into the world of Proto-Indo-European! 🗣️
In this video, we delve into the ancient linguistic ancestor that gave birth to a vast array of modern languages. Whether you're a language enthusiast, a history buff, or simply curious about the origins of human communication, this video is for you!
🔍 What's Inside:
👉 Introduction to Proto-Indo-European: Unravel the mystery of the world's oldest reconstructed language.
📚 Basic Vocabulary: Learn EIGHT Proto-Indo-European words and their meanings. Gain an insight to proto-Indo-European culture via language!
🗣️ Example Sentences: Hear and see Proto-Indo-European in action with a sample sentence plus some samples of Hittite, Proto-Balto-Slavic and Proto-Celtic.
🌐 Language Evolution: Discover how this ancient language branched into the languages we know today.
🤓 Beginner-Friendly: No prior knowledge required!
📜 Dive into the linguistic treasure trove of Proto-Indo-European and gain a deeper understanding of its impact on our linguistic heritage.
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Ach, something went wrong with the rendering of me talking about book recommendations at the end. Probably messed some settings up - was tinkering around with too many new things. My apologies. You'll have to just put up with my low resolution face and overly bright backgorund
Fascinating video!
Thank you for the video. Great to see that other people are also interested in ancient languages and PIE!
And thank you for the kind words!
So true! Channels like this are precious jewels of knowledge themselves!❤🎉
Congratulations!! Your presentation is great. I love the recommendation of books. Big hug from Brazil
Thank you bro, I appreciate the support!
Ancient Linguistics is so underrated - it’s such a fascinating look into how ancient people lived, spoke, and thought
Keep the videos coming brother! 🍻
Thanks for a very good film and the simplicity of explaining.
Glad you liked it!
Love your content man.
Much appreciated bro, the kind words keep me motivated!
Great vid mate!
Cheers! Positive words are always motivating 💪
Really great video
Cheers and thank you for the kind words!
Such a wonderful video about proto-Indo-European makes this channel even more precious, thank you so much❤ I always give the due thumbs-up and share!🎉❤🎉❤
Thank you so so much for your kind words! I might do a second version of this video because my editing skills have gotten a little better. PIE is a fascinating subject!
@@LearnHittite Aw, thank YOU for such a kind feedback!😍😍Yes, Indo-European studies in general have always fascinated me too!
Bro can you do a video about fascinating cognates across major Indo European languages.
Please include extinct languages like Anatolian, Tocharian, Thracian etc.
And also what about Wusun People? Do you know about their linguistic & cultural traits?
Thankz
I immediately recognised the Polish book at the beginning of the video. I got it as a present from a fellow student. It is quite outdated though. I really appreciate your book recommendations.
Yeah I keep it on my desk for nostalgia purposes. Is there a more up to date version of something similar in Polish language though? Recently I just recommend people to buy the Oxford introduction if they need something general on PIE.
@@LearnHittite Not that I know of. Since I have studied comparative linguistics for over forty years I am not looking for such books, let alone in Polish. Nowadays I am more interested in solving the laryngeal problem. I don't have the answers but in my view unpronounceable reconstructions and laryngeals in almost every word cannot reflect a spoken language even though the reconstructors stress that the phonological representations of the laryngeals are unknown.
@@Pepijn_a.k.a._Akikaze that's one of the issues with any modern Polish book. The western world pretty much accepted laryngeals as a fact but Polish researchers barely even mention them in their publications - because of over-reliance on them to explain too much of the stuff so far unexplained and the impossibility of phonetic realisation. Maybe there is some good stuff to read out there, but people tend to study P.I.E. in English anyway.
On the books, give me old-fashioned rules. Not learning the rules, in the modern manner, replicates modern English-language semiliteracy (at best - most of us have no clue how to speak, much less how to write English) in the study of ancient languages. Yes, a text needs to be engaging, but rules and facts are a blessing and provide a foundation when one attempts to learn languages.
“Phology” ;) - typo in the chapter name.
I had a big typo in my recent Amazigh video that is haunting me. However, I believe the chapter names are auto-generated so I can't be blamed for that one!
Never expected that linguistic terms like “dude” and “dudette” would be thrown around… ;) ❤️
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dudos? dudas?
is the "wi" from tocharian an invented plural ending like the "-i" is in other indo european languages? such as dw + o -> w + i? also great video, learning about this is always very interesting even if i have already learned about some of it and the way you present it is much more engaging than reading an article.
Tocharian A had two forms declined for gender 'wu' and 'we' so I presume a similar paradigm exisited in Tocharian B. Meaning that it was likely PIE 'dwoh3' plus extension for gender markers followed by dropping 'd'. Thats the idea presented in the Oxford intro to PIE by Mallory and Adams anyway.
And thanks for your positive feedback! I was thinking of putting together a video on either proto-celtic or Tocharian - which would you like to see?
@@LearnHittite I would definitely like to see a video on Tocharian. Thanks for the explanation!
@@reeb3687 👍
For reference, Tocharian A was apparently called _ārśi_ while Tocharian B was called _kuśiññe;_ the _actual_ Tocharian language may have been an Iranian language which was used by the Kushan Empire and only recently (as recently as last October) was finally identified as being encoded in the so-called Unknown Script from that area (Bactria and Ferghana).
You're 100% right on the endonyms, these terms (at least kuśiññe) are used in texts from their neighbours too so they seem legit. I had no idea about the other discovery though, but it seems exciting!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-unknown-script-is-finally-deciphered/
Any written monuments or signs of it?
I'm sure that I read that it is speculated that the earliest form of PIE would have had only two genders, namely animate and inanimate. Inanimate would become the neuter gender whilst the animate would have split into masculine and feminine. In other words masculine and feminine genders were innovations. This would seem logical to me. However I'm happy to be corrected if wrong.
Yes you are right, I made a video about it here czcams.com/video/m6zBEPCR5hM/video.htmlsi=igEU20aN1Ul7MTQ5
But how come the Czech language still have the distinction between animate and inanimate nouns only in the masculine gender? They also have feminine and neuter, but they don't have this split. @@LearnHittite
They do have this distinction yes, in fact most slavic languages do, and I believe at least in the case of Russian, the animacy/inanimacy distinction isn't limited to the masculine. In 'The Slavonic Languages' by Comrie and Corbett, 2002, they state that the distinction developed in proto-slavic from -o and -i-o, they call the different forms 'sub-genders'. One of the authors (Corbett, 1988, Gender in Slavonic...) did a deeper investigation, it's worth checking out that article if you're interested (it's free to access on jstor). I'm not sure if there are any other theories amongst other Slavic linguists though.
Thank you, I will check it out! @@LearnHittite
Could atta be a loan from Turkic instead? Aren't most lallworter "baba mama"? Babies say gugu gaga, if you've ever been around a baby. A word like atta is something a somewhat older child would use. And that would imply that it's not a nursery word but a term of endearment, perhaps a synonym, or a diminutive. A loan word wouldn't be unheard of. In the last millennium Mandarin speakers used Turkish loan words for mom and dad (die niang). Only more recently did the lallwort from another Chinese lect reenter Mandarin: baba mama. These are very old and Mandarin has very familiar sounding reflexes of them: fu mu.
yeah yeah I luv the two headed eagle
Πατηρ ληνος μητρι διδωσι.
"Wool" switched gender to a neuter s-stem, which since late Classical time drops the s in other forms and merges vowels. This is not the word for wool in NT Greek (the Greek I'm familiar with); that is εριον, and there's a different word ληνος (acc. ληνον), which means "winepress".
in sanskrit id say
Pitā mātáray ūṛṇam dadāti
proto indo aryan - pHtā́ maHtaray Hwŕ̥Hnām dádaHti.
20:31 orange on brown is illegible
I'll be re-making this video soon, my production skills have got a bit better!
English I am
Albanian jam
Here's my PIE reconstruction of the word dude.
*Hdtodos = 'to swell', 'to shine', 'to acquire', 'man', 'male thing',
I love it.
No. English has old words before Roman and French invasions even today. Dude is one of them because you have a pair in exact meaning in Serbian language, (Prizrensko-Timochki dialect) and its "duda", but, it is femininum. Second meaning is a "tit". Since tit (d->t) is called also "doika", it is obviousli from word "dati", wich means to give. Aha. Now, it is so simple - DV is always in meaning "where somethng is more", like number 2, dada (sister, nurse), dva (two), ti, vi (you, sing. then plural), i guess, in some way dada and dati (to give) belong there, ((who can be sure, this science is full of "it"), etc. You just cant ignore language with 11000000 word forms, and number is small only because investigation was stoped by politicians around 1960. I guess, it is forein demand, because, hey, we all know who are they who want to controll science. Hdtodos? Are you human or AI? How can you prononce word of 7 signs, and word of 7 letters? 7 sounds just cant be parent to word of 3 dud. Im not sure hwo was that smart guy who heard "e" at the end and wrote it down.
@@user-fl2ok7ms6u Information overlaod son! My PIE version of dude was just a joke. But if its an old word then cool.
@@qetoun PIE is a joke per se.
I'm sure I read somewhere that Proto Indo-European had only two genders, namely animate and inanimate and that masculine and feminine forms were a later innovation. I'm happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.
Early PIE had animate and inanimate genders. Luraghi and Matasovic are two linguists who have their own theories regarding what happened next. I'm more on the side of Luraghi but I'm open to being corrected. I made a video about PIE gender here czcams.com/video/m6zBEPCR5hM/video.htmlsi=igEU20aN1Ul7MTQ5
@@LearnHittite Many thanks.
Where is Albanian language?
I’m still skeptical about language reconstruction and pronunciation.
How do we even know that proto-indo-european was spoken at the Ukrainian steppes? There are no written records, so, who decided that that’s where it was spoken?
By combining linguistic, archaeological and genetic data we can come up with some theories. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Horse,_the_Wheel,_and_Language
Others of course disagree and put the homeland somewhere south of the caucuses.
Did I get this right? We know about the sounds of the Hittite language? We dont even know if the Romans were c or k speakers: circus or kirkus, Caesar ( from that russ. Tsar) or Kaesar ( from that germ. Kaiser)? Nobody knows exactly how ancient Greek was spoken. But Hittite? I think thats either a misunderstanding or fake news, sorry.
Sorry, what point of the video are you referring to? I've spoken in other videos (the one on Anatolian and Tocharian) about the debates amongst linguists regarding the phonology of Hittite.
We actually have a _very_ good idea of what Latin sounded like, and we know that the "Caesar" was pronounced with a /k/, not an /s/. This is because we have plenty of evidence from its descendents, plenty of evidence from inscriptions, writings, and most importantly of all, graffiti. While nothing can, of course, be nailed down 100%, we're very, very close to that. If it were physically possible, you could travel back in time two millennia and be able to speak Latin with only a slight accent from everything we know about it.
Roman scholars have written that the C was always pronounced like K. So kirkus and kentum
5:30 where does albanian fit?
PIE didn`t exist .
Care to explain?
The cake is a lie!
if it didn’t exist you have to invent it
@@rocktapperrobin9372 that`s what they did.
@@tombra7 I mean, you can say that a language *exactly* like what is written in any PIE grammar *probably* did not exist. But the fact that there is a language which developed into all the modern IE languages the way Latin evolved into the modern Romance languages is undeniable.