What Medieval Spanish Sounded Like
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Today we analyze the types of speech that existed in the Roman territory and how these dialects were gradually becoming Romance languages, including the beautiful Spanish language.
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Even having studied the history of the Spanish language for my degree in Spanish, this video filled in a lot of holes...primarily what was happening in the other dialects. Thank you very much. Please continue.
Read your Menéndez Pidal again.
Where did you study?
The other dialects became in languages. In Spain today is spoken obviously spanish, but in certain regions is spoken, apart of spanish, Galician, Leonese, Catalan, Aranese, Valencian and Basque (who is the unique prerroman language, Basque doesn't come from Latin).
Cheers
I agree 100%. I too had history of Spanish, and there were point elucidated here that were totally new to me. I really appreciated his presentation.
Sometimes i just sit there and suddenly start to get scared and nervous. People learn about my history, language, but they do not respect it and work each day to divide our people's and ruin the birth of the language. Why do people want to learn this language, what contribution will you make to it besides working for things that help fragment it?
I am a linguist (French and Latin) and this is an amazing history, I learned so much about Castillian. Great job, Mano!
I'm a Latin scholar who also can read Spanish and some Italian, and I've always been intrigued by the evolution of the romance languages. Your video was absolutely fascinating. I would love to see more!
Perhaps the romance languages descend from proto-romance, which is not the same as vulgar latin.
Perusing the Spanish language section of a (Houston) neighborhood grocery store, I found a paperback edition of the poem of El Cid. The original and in Modern Spanish.
I was impressed to see such an ancient work in a casual setting. So I bought it.
I can read a bit of Spanish but was amazed that the old text was mostly readable, too.
There is no English literature from that age of interest to any moderns but scholars. Monkish chronicles, mostly in Latin. Tales of Arthur had begun to be told -- in French. Chaucer was still in the future.
Spanish comes from sturdy Latin roots.
There’s English literature from even earlier than that period, like Beowulf, which is still read (in modern English). The Anglo saxons had a rich literary tradition.
@@gregorde But then the Normans arrived and Old English was neglected.
Chaucer showed what Middle English could do. How often do you see bilingual editions of Canterbury Tales on the newsstand?
Es verdad. En Argentina leemos el Cid en la escuela primaria en Castellano antiguo y el moderno. Saludos.
@@kmaher1424 Old English wasn’t neglected, it just changed. It was superseded by Middle English, not because old English stopped but because it became Middle English slowly.
Older Spanish was mostly formed by the time of the printing press and spelling standardization. English, however, was still in its upheaval for another two centuries after the printing press and spellings were slowly being standardized during this period. During the middle part of this upheaval was the Great Vowel Shift. This made English hard to learn ON PURPOSE.
I’m descended from Basques but was born and raised in the US with Colombian “colonist” parents. I know so little about Spain’s development - and this language evolution analysis isn’t in any history textbooks I ever had! So yes Manuel, please continue! I am amazed how much of the medieval Spanish I understood. Much more than I understand medieval English.
It's 100% in history books and in high school education. Just maybe not US history books. Regards from the Basque Country
Basques have their own culture and language and weren't even conquered by the Roman's
@@Quitumbe954 Basques language is a mde up 40 years old creation, but they did have authentic languages that did not come from Latin prior the abomination they created barely a few dacades ago. They have their own culture, jsut like aeverybody else in Spain, but their culture is inherently part of Spanish culture, and for milenia, prior late 19th cnetury historical and racist nonsense, they were the epytom of beign a Spaniard. THey were considered the most Spanairds of all Spaniards. Also, Basques received qutie their share of Roman influence, they didn't need to be conquered because they were Rome's biggest allys in Spain, they heped the Romans conquere the tribes who actually opposed Roman rule for centuries.
@@goodaimshield1115 Wow, this is one of the most misinformed takes on basque culture and history that I've ever heard/read.
@@Quitumbe954 no fueron conquistados por los romanos por que se rebajaron ante los romanos, las cosas como son, y obviamente, fueron romanizados
Im Filipino and it is amusingly fascinating how the Spanish unintentionally imparted the Roman/Latin heritage upon the Filipinos through the Spanish language. 🇵🇭🇪🇸
Viva Las Filipinas...!! 😊
Filipinos are not Spanish language speakers
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@@elsomnoliento The modern language it's self has influence from the Spanish language
This is probably the most understandable explanation I've seen on the difference between Classical Latin and Vulgar Latin. I don't know why other videos try to make it so complicated, this explanation was concise and not over-simplified
Estupendo video, que acerca la cultura hispana al mundo anglosajón..
Muy buena iniciativa el utilizar el inglés!
Enhorabuena por tu trabajo una vez más!👍👏💪
💝🇪🇦💝
That was wonderful. 4 years of Latin, now living in Spain, in the Catalan-area. It's great to see the evolution of language! Please keep making videos.
Diras Aragon?
I like how your videos are concise, on-topic, and intriguing. You're a great host and you're making great content. Thank you taking the time to translate your videos to English so that people like me can learn Roman history and linguistics from a Spanish perspective!
It's hilarious that I understand Med. Castilian but still struggle with Shakespearean English 😂 It's incredible how languages form and adapt.
I made basically the same comment!!
Are you talking about the original pre-Great Vowel Shift pronunciation or the modern posh pronunciation, that we hear today (which is also the reason, Shakespeare doesnn't rhyme anymore)?
Manuel Bravo, te felicito por la gran calidad de tus videos y tu genial contribución a la difusión de lo hispánico a través de la historia desde su origen romano. ¡¡¡MUCHAS GRACIAS !!!
Bravo Manuel i miei complimenti per la gran qualita' dei tuoi video e del tuo geniale contributo alla diffusione dell'ispanico( lo spagnolo ) attraverso la storia e la sua origine Romana.....Tante grazie. This is why we are all latin brothers ...i don't know spanish i didn't try to find the translation on web i do everything by myself at the first read. We are all Roma's sons and daughters Ciao Lola ti saluto e ti auguro il meglio :).
Thanks for the video,very good!
My mother tongue is Catalan,although I am bilingual.I do like all about languages and history!
Greetings from Barcelona 🙂
¡Un saludo, Conchi!
Thank you - I am studying both Latin and Spanish now, and those tables of how the phonemes changed were very helpful!
Please , more on English! These English videos of yours are among the best I've found on the internet. You have a great gift for explaining meaningfully the way Latin evolved into Romance languages. (How about French, Portuguese and Romanian?)
And the explanation of the Pantheon is better than anything I have encountered in a book or in a film or video. Why? Because you meld the richness and historic accuracy of a text with the visual, dynamic richness and completeness that is possible cinematically. In demonstrating subtleties and interrelationships, you have found the best way.
You should be doing this sort of thing professionally, and be paid good money for doing so. There ought to be a market for such well made documentaries in education and public television. You are better at your craft than what I have seen elsewhere.
Please continue making these films, and make them longer, on other subjects, and for other outlets beyond CZcams.
I can only congratulate you on your success, and wish you many more successes in the future.
Thank you, Bill, I very much appreciate your comment!
Yes, please keep translating! Love world history, and your videos give an awesome perspective I've never found anywhere else!
Good to have this resource! Thanks, Manuel!
Fascinating, Manuel. I learned a lot. Thank you for translating this video into English. I really appreciate it. You do excellent work. Thanks, again.
I loved this video!! I minored in Spanish, and studied Latin in high school, and this video was fascinating to me. So many Spanish words that previously seemed unrelated to Latin, make perfect sense to me, now that I understand the sound swapping and the evolution of the languages. It makes perfect sense actually, I have since learned about common sound / letter swapping in speech therapy sessions with my son. Thank you, please keep making more english videos! Also, as an interior designer and sculptor, I really appreciate your excellent historical architecture videos!
Junior year of my undergrad I took a class on the history of Spain to the year 1492 and my final assignment was an essay on any topic related to ancient/medieval Spain and being the historical linguistics nerd that I am I chose the evolution of Vulgar Latin as spoken in Roman Hispania to modern Spanish, and it is my absolute favorite essay that I have ever written.
I plan to do the same too lol
Muchísimas gracias por tu tiempo y dedicación a enseñar el origen nuestra bella lengua castellana.
Gracias, Manuel. Looking forward to watching more of your videos!
It's mental the work you've put n this video over geography, linguistics, historical context ... as a Romanian it amazing to connect the dots over why Romanian sounds like it dose today and why I can easily understand and read all other Romance languages. Keep up the good work !
Dalmatian is the missing link between Daco-Romanian and Sardinian, Sicilian, Occitan or Catalan.
Muchísimas gracias por tu excelente video. Enseño hace más de medio siglo y me encantó. Saludos desde Patagonia, Argentina.
This is a really well paced explanation, and equally in depth. Great video!
I really appreciate your work. Thank you for this channel!
Very high quality videos. Thanks!
I love your videos for their content but also to practice my Spanish listening and hearing comprehension!
Thoroughly enjoyed your video about the Latin language, and evolution of medieval Spanish! PLEASE CONTINUE YOUR EXCELLENT WORK!!
Thank you and I subscribed ✨ I'm learning Latin American Spanish, so I especially enjoyed this presentation 👌🏼Your English is excellent. Please continue providing us with content 🙏
Thanks, Kev!
There's no sustantial difference between spanish american and spanish european, it's the same language with some regional accent and use of a bunch of particular words.
@@alfredodistefanolaulhe2212 It's a pretty overused joke but I can't help it....
Chileans don't speak Spanish, they speak Chilean
@@ja4309 Ok, I get it, but I know how chilean speaks and they speak exactly like we spaniards do. Other than regional accent and pronunciation.
@@alfredodistefanolaulhe2212 Like they're so good at just bunching up words together that it makes you think they're speaking another language. Of all Spanish speakers, Chileans give me a longer time to process 😂
Great. I've learned quite a bit, being myself a Spanish language speaker. Plus, I love the background music you choose. Mil gracias.
Bravo Manuel!!!. Very interesting vídeo and full of knowledge about Spain history. Thank you very much.
I love videos like this because I love to hear how a language evolved! I think it's fascinating! I was watching one about French and how it changed over time. It's amazing how much a living language not only changes idioms but the way it sounds over centuries! Gracias!
Seré el único que después de ver tu canal ahora dice gratias tibi valde??
Nice Manuel. I learned much in this short but concise video. Bien hecho.
Super interesting, thank you! I really learned a lot about Spanish sounds and conjugations
Muy buen video, me enseño un poco mas de la historia de este bello idioma como es el español,
good job and keep it up my friend!
Aprecio mucho tu contenido. Ofreces una perspectiva refrescante y concisa.
Great video of the very interesting history of Spanish! Thank you!
Wow, most informative video! Please keep translating them, gracias!
Thank you for your videos. I really appreciate the English language ones. I studied Spanish when I was at school in England decades ago and this brought back many memories of reading Spanish literature out loud and practising pronunciation.
great video your channel caught my interest really fast, looking forward to learning more from you.
Love your videos. Very educational, and easy to understand. Thank you.
This was a very well-explained and well done video. I've always been fascinated by how Vulgar Latin evolved into the Romance languages and by the fact a lot of these langes were mutually intelligible through 1000. After watching this video it's much clearer why Castilian is such an outlier to the other languages.
I also think it's interesting how Manuel's accent in English has a hint of Spanish, but sounds a lot like a northern US accent, like from Minnesota. Of course, impressively clear and understandable, unlike my sorry attempts to speak Spanish. Just interesting
I think Manuel sounds american because he is mexican
I am so glad I found this channel.
This video is informative and interesting. It makes important points very clear. I highly recommend it. Excellent work.
Thank you, Robert!
Acabo de encontrar tu canal por este video, que bueno!
Excellent video. Well done. I learned a lot. Thank you!
¡Fascinating! Really love your videos. Entertaining *and* educational! I feel like I just took a compressed college course! Gracias!❤
Great video man, conscice yet very informative. And thanks for taking the time to translate these to English bro
Very informative! Languages and how they have evolved fascinates me. I live in Texas and the colloquialisms we use in Spanish are much different than other Spanish speakers even in Mexico just a hundred miles away. And the first time I heard Castilian, I was REALLY surprised at how different it was than the Spanish I was raised with. I love stuff like that!
Isnt diffrent at all any spanish speakers can undertand each other easily unless they start talking with a lot of slang 😂😂
Great stuff. Thanks. Glad you do these in English as this allows for a huge audience. People from all over the world can enjoy these.
Estoy aprendiendo español, entonces para saber la historia de español y porque las palabras que estan en ingles que viene de latin son tan diferentes es muy facinante. Me parece que cuando las palabras de latin entró a ingles, las palabras no habían cambiado mucho. Cuando yo leo latin encuentro que hay muchas palabras identicas, pero cuando yo leo español, a menudo no reconozco nada.
El ingles es una lengua germánica, con ciertas bases del latín, mientras que el español tiene una mezcla de latín con toques de los dialectos ibéricos y la lengua mora. Si ves el alemán e inglés verás similitudes asi como ves las similitudes entre las lenguas romances (frances, español, italiano, rumano).
This video was sooo interesting to me. I learned sooo much about how Spanish changed and was shared that I did not know.
I love yours videos. THANKS!!
Muchas Gracias Amigo!😷💪🏼🌞
Thanks for simple clear info.
thank you for this concise history of the evolution of the Spanish language. It inspires me to read and research more on this development of the roots of my first language.
Spectacular, muchas gracias
Very cool video. There is not a lot of quality content on youtube anymore so it is refreshing to come across a channel like this. I find myself watching back episodes with my breakfast and find it a good way to start the day by learning something. English is my first language but do not mind personally whether its in English or Spanish. To reach others though on an educational standpoint it is probably a good idea to translate to English. Just my thoughts though.
I can't stop watching these!
Spanish is my second language. I’ve been listening to a podcast about the history of English but also wanted to know more about the history of Spanish. Thank you for this. The dripping of the “f” and “p” was very interesting to me. English and German turned the “p”’s into “f” in a lot of words
Ex padre and father
You'd be interested in looking into Proto-Indo-European.
p -> f is a key feature of Germanic. It's actually but one component of a major sound change in Germanic called Grimm's Law, although Grimm was not the first one to notice this, but essentially, if a Indo-European word starts in p, it will start in an f in Germanic.
great video! interesting to see the evolution of the romance langauges from Latin!
Gran trabajo!
This is a very informative video
Great video. Yes, please continue making English language versions. Thank you! 👍❤️🔥
very nice video, very well explained, and easy to understand, now im interested in learning more lol
Very interesting and i like your translated video's
Good video. Very interesting and informative.
Just wanted to say your English is really good ! I’m trying to learn Spanish and it’s always nice seeing someone do well in a language they’re not native to. Respect :)
Great job buddy - very informative. Short, sweet and easy to understand. Definitely keep it in English and Castellano (works both ways)
I enjoyed this a lot. Very interesting. I learned Spanish in school here in California, yet I could understand a lot of what you read. While I don't know French or Italian, when I see those languages written down, I can pick out a lot of the words. During the time I was at University years ago, a Brazilian sports team came into the store where I worked. They didn't speak much English, and I was the only one working who spoke Spanish. I could understand more than half of what they said in Portuguese, but they understood my "book-learning" Spanish very well. Another time, while on vacation in Germany, I was excited to meet a lady from Madrid. We had a very good talk, as neither of us understood more that a little bit of German. :)
Very interesting and informative thanks,
Thanks Manuel. Please keep going with the videos in English. You have a wonderful channel!
Oh, I loved your interesting explanation of this history of Castilian Spanish. Please continúe sir!
Absolutely loved this!$
such a great channel
Excelente video, adelante!!
Great video. Greek was the lingua franca in the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. Eventually, Greek became the official language of the Byzantine Empire.
They should have merged, but Latin should have ruled the merger. Eventually replacing Greek altogether and keeping it closer to Proto-Indo-European (the main goal for any European lingua franca).
Great video 👍🏻
thanks for English version
Your researching skill is impressive
Latin and its child languages fascinate me more than anything else in linguistics. I'm a native English speaker (New Yorker, which obviously has its own very noticeable attributes) but to my ear, classical latin is clean, crisp and beautiful. I can read and understand it pretty well given my own learning as well as how many English words are direct descendants from Latin vocabulary. When you play someone speaking Italian quickly, however, it all sounds mushy and imprecise in comparison and thus more difficult for me to understand. Spanish is somehow slightly easier, but does not escape this same fate at least to my admittedly inexperienced ear. I took years of French in school, but absent that the language is a total shitshow when compared to its mother tongue.
Great video!
Dude, your videos are awesome!
Thanks!
Excellent, please continue to translate. Thank you.
Muy bueno! Me encanto!
Suenas muy cómodo en tu inglés excelente. El español no es mi primer idioma y así es posible que estoy totalmente equivocado, pero basándome solamente en tu acento, supongo que eres mexicano. ¿Es cierto? Really great video!
No habla español en el video, habla español antiguo, que es diferente. Cuando pronuncia los nombres españoles, lo hace con pronunciación castellana (la z en Antonio de NebriZa, típicamente española peninsular). Así que el acento no llegamos a escucharlo, pero pronuncia como lo hacemos aquí, en España.
@@jlmagoya ¡Gracias por la explicación! Muy interesante
@Stephen Smith I take you meant his accent when speaking English and not the one when speaking Spanish as the other person assumed. I went and checked the Spanish version of this video and he does indeed have a "neutral" or at least what seems to me as Mexican Spansih.
@@letiquia thanks. I actually was referring to his accent in Spanish, but it was from watching one of his other videos in castellano. Thanks for confirming what I suspected. Are you a native Spanish speaker, or just really good at accents? Thanks again
@@SuperManning11 Oh, did not realized you had already seen some of his other videos and just contextualized based on this one.
I am Mexican, and he sounds natural to the accent I grew up with, but I could be wrong and he could be from Colombia which is usually the one people say has the most neutral Spanish.
Great video
Very informative video indeed! I always wondered Why France , Spain, Italy and Portugal don’t speak Latin and when their local languages evolve! This video thoroughly answered my question.
Thank you
Beautiful. Thanks for focusing on spanish
Good video - I’ve been learning a little Spanish and interesting to learn more about this wonderful language. Also interesting to hear the medieval Spanish / Castilian spoken - i have travelled through Latin America a bit and have noticed some people speaking with something like this sort of accent - perhaps a legacy of medieval Spanish brought over at the time of conquest
Your videos are super good!
Thanks!
This is an extraordinary video. I recently read The Origins of the Species and the video shows language as an evolving organism. A human is not a static organism; on the contrary it is a assemblage of atoms with many new members joining in and other leaving out, exactly like populations behave. It is a beautiful video. We evolve, languages also evolve.
Estuvo muy bueno del video.
Hombre! Pero una dicción y entonación en inglés nitidisima 👍👍👍👍 ya quisiera yo!
These are some of the most intelligent, eloquent cultural docu-videos on youtube.
I certainly enjoy a lot your videos in english, they are my favorite.
Great video.
Good work bro
Please keep translating, thank you!!