@arumnatzorkhang: The sound of ancient languages. #linguistics #language #babylon #latin #english

😢 :

I can kind of make out the old English😭

periodoftime2222 :

I don't think people appreciate the effort of linguists enough.

𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙚 🌺 :

bro you'd be such a great narrator for novels

BT | FARE_EZ :

I still don't know how we human forms weird sounds that eventually evolve into languages

Leo🇮🇹 :

you can hear the Latin in middle English

Julia :

How do we know how these ancient languages sounded like? (Genuine question)

Midas :

You made quite a bit of mistakes when reading Latin, particularly not pronouncing the geminated consonants, not getting the stress right which can probably be explained by another mistake which is a lack of notation of long vowels (the penultimate stress rules relies in part on knowing that there is a long vowel), but even in words where this doesn't apply you didn't put the stress on the correct syllable, such as in "Oceanum" where the stress would fall on the E, not the O like you did, and you stressed the final syllable in "potuit" when that never happens except in rare exceptions (like some words that end in C which are clippings of older words that retain that stress) and instead should go on the first syllable. Long vowels in Latin also serve to disambiguate some parts of the grammar and minimal pairs, such as populus (people) vs pōpulus (poplar tree), malum vs mālum (evil vs apple/fruit), liber vs līber (book vs free) among others. Sometimes you also don't pronounce certain phonemes, I noticed this in "institui" where you didn't pronounce the second T and in "comparari" where you didn't pronounce the first A. Classical Latin also had a few other pronunciation quirks like the S sound is a bit more retracted than in English, it's like Castillan Spanish, and final M is a bit nasalized.

ejwjowkdnslalskma :

the old English part kinda sounds like swedish

Redwyne Enjoyer :

old English just sounds like English with a heavy welsh accent

sally ꩜ :

your voice is so perfect for this it’s lovely

Kian Josh Landayan :

middle English sounds like Jamaican English

gviiice 🇮🇪 :

The first Middle English 1380, IYKYK

A profile :

Sounds Irish

DannyBowllet :

Me after listening to Latin

WeaponMaster :

bro might be speaking straight up bs, but aint wiser than him to judge😭😭😭

✧⋆˚⋆୧˚ILOVETSUNDEREGIRLS˚୨⋆˚⋆✧ :

if you make this man travel to 3000 BC he might just live there ✌😭

zishuredi :

This is so fucking cool

Dongo-Dungu :

Bro chanting a curse to my screen

mank :

yes, but latin "c" pronuntiation is wrong so .. how do you know the sound of a so ancient language like Akkadian?

Mackenzie Williamson :

the old English was easy to understand but I like the way Akkadian sounded.

Maria Grazia Pignata :

i think (at least us italians pronounce it differently) in latin exercitum isn't "exerchitum" and ligeri isn't "ligheri" maybe I'm wrong but in school we said it like this

TheNukaDude :

Grumpy Rant :

can you do Karelian/ Finnish ? 🇫🇮

Tayverne :

Now I'm kinda intrigued how akkadian has, maybe, very similar vocabulary to Arabic... Aside that, A good video like usual :)