I’m a native Polish speaker and it’s amazing how little Slavic languages today have changed from Proto Slavic. I can easily understand 85% to 90% of this language without having any prior exposure.

@sanchesseli

10 ай бұрын

Slavs got separared the last among European nations + very few natural borders like mountains

@HeroManNick132

10 ай бұрын

But still you can't say you can understand Modern Slavic languages, besides your neighbour ones. But when it comes to especially Bulgarian and Macedonian it will be pretty much a super challenge to understand mainly because of the grammar.

@dariusbozorg1085

10 ай бұрын

The slavic languages didn’t change but slavs became enemy

@user-pk9qo1gd6r

10 ай бұрын

That's simple because the guy who pronounced this is probably Polish and made lots of sounds alongisde not pronouncing ь and ъ as the actual vowels that they were.

@dizzydaisy909

10 ай бұрын

I only know English and Spanish but quite a bit was understandable, maybe 30%.

As a native Polish speaker and non-native Russian speaker I understood almosy everything. It is amazing how Slavic languages are still so similar to Proto-Slavic language

@jaros9656

10 ай бұрын

Dokładnie, moim ojczystym językiem jest polski, a rosyjskim władam płynnie, bardzo wiele z tego rozumiem. Myślałem że języki słowiańskie będą bardziej się różnić od proto_Slavic.

@when_the_winged_hussars_arrive

10 ай бұрын

@@jaros9656 Też tak myślałem, ale widać Andy nas zaskoczył

@unixux

10 ай бұрын

At some point language designers were like "it's already utterly incomprehensible to anyone who didn't grow up in slavic enviroment. we should really quit before they catch on"

@S.D.Primus

9 ай бұрын

@@jaros9656Да я тебя и на польском много понимаю.

@LancesArmorStriking

5 ай бұрын

It is also important to note that only Polish has retained the a and ę sounds in Proto-Slavic, and I'm pretty sure the person pronouncing is Polish. The way he says 'to' sounds very Polish to me

As a Spaniard who speaks Basque I nearly understood about 0% of this exotic and native European language. Amazing 😍

@Raptorozaur

10 ай бұрын

💀

@jaykohootech

10 ай бұрын

Skill issue

@ratisbonawau

9 ай бұрын

😭😭😭

@smileyface3956

8 ай бұрын

Kaixo ni Kroaziako naiz bainan ni ere badakit euskara

@BughunterX

8 ай бұрын

As a polish-czech guy i understood 70 % ....

To me,an native Serbian speaker,this sounds like a drunken Pole that is trying to speak Serbian

@lil_weasel219

9 ай бұрын

@@Maria_Nizhny_Novgoroddefo doesntsound like russian

@user-eo7my1no9z

7 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@korana6308

5 ай бұрын

That's the same for any inter Slavic language understanding. As a Russian I understand any other Slavic language without having to learn any of them, however they all sound like they have a very thick accent, that you have to adjust to in order to decipher it. After you understand how the accent of each language works then you will just treat it as your own language ( in my case Russian) but with a very thick accent. Kind of like American English and Irish English.

@stanislav295

4 ай бұрын

😂🤝🏼🇷🇸

@baaaj3200

2 ай бұрын

wzajemnie :-]

As a Czech with some knowledge of East and South Slavic vocabulary I can understand everything, its amazing how ancient our languages are with only very slight changes

@marians7364

Ай бұрын

To nie sú slová pôvodného slovanského jazyka. Prosím uvedomte si, že to video je výmysel súčasnosti. Je to iba mix slov zo súčasných slovanských jazykov, ale ani vedci nevedia ako ľudia hovorili v minulosti.

@wiqu10

5 күн бұрын

These are most likely. Polish: Ręka, but Rączka Slovenian: Roka Rest: Ruka​ So they guess it was Rąka because Poles still have it in different form and slovenians unnasalized ą@@marians7364

As a Bulgarian I can confirm that Slavic languages are the most melodious in the whole world.

Russian As a native speaker, I can say that most Slavic languages have remained extremely conservative, as for me, like Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Russian and others, which, however, pleases. And from the video, I understood about 85-90% of the words.

@user-kv7lk4uh3b

4 ай бұрын

Me too, such an easy language that was to listen and understand! Not much has changed over those centuries, just the pronunciation evolved a little bit. That's just my subjective opinion

@KnijMagz

2 ай бұрын

As a Native English speak from America. I understood or recognized a lot of the words starting at 1:57 I'm actively learning Russian self-taught. It's crazy how many words have remained relatively similar after so many years.

@wiqu10

2 ай бұрын

Wdym? Only Poland kept letters such as ę and ą

@watchmakerful

7 күн бұрын

Bulgarian? With its weird Romance-like grammar?

As a Russian speaker I understood almost every word.

@jasonalex7640

10 ай бұрын

cyka blyat

@user-me9nx4vc4f

10 ай бұрын

Shhh, don't tell this to ukrainians or their world is going to blow up 🤫

@paweczyryca1643

10 ай бұрын

All this words are almost the same in Polish today

@martinpavlicek2299

8 ай бұрын

Same as Czech. Old Church Slavonic is even a little bit easier.

@Miodrag.Vukomanovic

4 ай бұрын

Same here as a Serb speaker.

As a Bulgarian, it's fascinating how I can understand ~90% of Proto-Slavic. It's amazing how the different Slavic languages have developed, yet kept different unique parts of Proto-Slavic, Polish with nasals, Serbian with prosody, Bulgarian with verbal morphology.

As a native Belarusian speaker, I understood almost everything. It's wonderful how such an old language sounds so familiar.

@HeroManNick132

10 ай бұрын

Slavic languages developed the least compared to Latin, Romance, Celtic languages from their ancestor. No wonder why Interslavic is also easy for you to understand, even if you haven't studied it. However Slavic languages had different influences from history, makes them more challenging to understand.

@ctiradperunovic

5 ай бұрын

@@HeroManNick132 Yes, for me, native Czech speaker, this Late-Proto-Slavic is way more understandable, then for example current Russian, Ukrainian or Bulgarian and I guess it is the same for all Slavs. Root of each word is basically in such a clean form, without any outside influences, so it is more understandable for all of us.

@CVery45

2 ай бұрын

Где ты на своем диалекте то говоришь и применяешь его?😂😂😂

We could travel back in time three thousand years and still be able to talk to people, you guys!

@Gorilatar

7 ай бұрын

You wouldn't, 3000 years ago proto slavic would be much more similiar to baltic languages.

@wiqu10

Ай бұрын

3000 years ago it was balto slavic and this language had little to nothing to do with slavic languages

As someone who understands Sanskrit, I can understand some of it.

@jostnamane3951

9 ай бұрын

Makes sense

@bartspongebob9879

9 ай бұрын

Can you point similarities that you noticed? Iam really curious

@indianboy59

9 ай бұрын

@@bartspongebob9879 Proto-Slavic -> Sanskrit dъva -> dvi trьje -> tri četyre -> catur pętь -> pañca šestь -> ṣaṭ sedmь -> sapta osmь -> aṣṭa desętь -> dasa Words: bratrъ -> bhraata dъťi -> duhitṛ mati -> mātṛ sestra -> svasā vьdova -> vidhávā когда?-> kada?

@TooGumbica

9 ай бұрын

​​@@bartspongebob9879All of them are both in Indo-European tree. It like that's why you have alot of similar words in all like "three" - "tri" - "drei" - "trzy" - "tres" -"tin".... Or "two" - "dva" - "zvei" - "do" etc. Keep in mind that all of them are said similarly with small small changes because of time and ppl tendency to make new stuff

@TooGumbica

9 ай бұрын

​@@bartspongebob9879Most fun connection for me is English "Druid" (person conected with nature) and Slavic "Drěvo" (tree) and "Drěvny" (ancient)

In Proto-Slavic, the nasal vowels were really nasal, and not just a /-n-/ or /-ŋ/ sound, as in this video. Also, it is highly likely that there was actually a length distinction between *a, *ě, *i, *u, *y (long vowels) and *e, *o, *ь ,*ъ (short vowels). The so-called "ultra-short" *ь and *ъ might in fact have been /ɪ/ and /ʊ/, as in English "thick" and "look", as exemplified by a name in a Novgorodian birch bark letter, Мъстъка (Mъstъka), which comes from a Finnic *Musta ("black")

@insect6003

9 ай бұрын

thats what i thought, there is no way i could understand it that well

@weepingscorpion8739

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, all those unpronounced yers... Interesting video and all but I felt the pronunciations lacked something over all.

@namier9212

3 ай бұрын

I was thinking of mentioning that. I'm not academic in any sense of the word, but his pronunciation is either having the influence of his native language (sounds like Polish) or a reconstruction of an specific late common Slavic dialect. The ъ and ь not being pronounced, but only palatalizing the previous consonant; as well as the height of his yats seemed incorrect.

@elimalinsky7069

22 күн бұрын

The V was also pronounced more like a W and there was also pitch accent.

A beautiful sounding languge.

@dalubwikaan161

10 ай бұрын

hello, I like your profile picture about the Occidental language

Nice! Now we need Proto-Baltic, Proto-BaltoSlavic, Proto-IndoAryan and Proto-Iranic

As a Polish person this is the Slavic language I can understand the most. No joke.

@HeroManNick132

10 ай бұрын

Even more than Interslavic?

@Taketheredpill891

10 ай бұрын

@@HeroManNick132 Maybe equally like interslavic

@alexandermarkov300

8 ай бұрын

Because it's Proto-Slavic with Polish phonetics.

@joshualieberman1059

6 ай бұрын

As a Russian I would have understood Belorusian a little bit better than that.

@PUARockstar

4 ай бұрын

​@@joshualieberman1059are you sure about that? Because the closest to Belarusian is Ukrainian with 86% shared lexicon, they are mutually understandable. And russians (I mean your common russian, not linguistic nerd with exposure, those will understand most of it ofc) are notoriously bad with Ukrainian

imagine Proto-Slavic numbers are written in old Cyrillic script ① Ѥдинъ ② Дъва ③ Трьѥ ④ Четꙑре ⑤ Пѧть ⑥ Шесть ⑦ Седмь ⑧ Осмь ⑨ Девѧть ⑩ Десѧть

@djordjestojanovic9616

10 ай бұрын

Serbian / srpski jezik : 1- jedan/један 2- dva/два 3- tri/три 4- četri/четри 5- pet/пет 6- šest/шест 7- sedam/седам 8- osam/осам 9- devet/девет 10- deset/дест

@HeroManNick132

10 ай бұрын

@@djordjestojanovic9616 Хаха, откога Вук Караджич е решил ''J'' да бъде буква от кирилицата? 🤣

@TakeyoTouda

10 ай бұрын

@@djordjestojanovic9616 it's almost similar to Croatian, of course both languages are Yugoslavic languages

@HeroManNick132

10 ай бұрын

@@TakeyoTouda Serbian, Croatian are the same language. It's like calling American English and British English 2 different languages. If Americans say ''soccer'' and Brits - ''footbal'' it's the same deal here. Serbs say ''фудбал/fudbal'' while Croats say ''nogomet'' like same difference. And the grammar also slightly differ between British and American English. And if Americans write ''color'' and Brits ''colour'' the same difference can be seen. Like Serbs say ''где/gde'' while Croats say ''gdje'' (Same things but of course politics and religion had to come in separation.) I get it that Serbs use both Cyrillic and Latin alphabet, while Croats only Latin (due to religious differences) just like Indians and Pakistani people, who speak Hindi and Urdu.

@TakeyoTouda

10 ай бұрын

@@HeroManNick132 i know Croatia & Serbia were part of the same country reason why both languages have same vocabularies, phonemes, spelling. Croatian & Serbian Latin spelling are not different. Such as 🇭🇷Hrvatski〜🇷🇸Хрватски, 🇭🇷Srpski〜🇷🇸Српски. Difference between Hrvatski & Српски(Srpski) is the same as compare Urdu & Hindi, Norwegian & Danish.

I am Polish and I understand 96% and I will honestly say that if I had to talk to a "Pre-Slavic", I would get along faster than with today's Russian

@citylidamj8898

10 ай бұрын

Polish people are the real Aryan!!!

@czarnypiotrus6975

10 ай бұрын

@@citylidamj8898 where does this statement come from? if you want to look for the descendants of ancient Aryans, you will find them in Iran, northern India, Kashmir, Awghanistan, Tajikistan. The Aryans were an Indo-Iranian people, and Poles are an Indo-European people

@ibrohimh9976

10 ай бұрын

​@@citylidamj8898Aryans are Tajiks and Pashtuns, etc.

@ibrohimh9976

10 ай бұрын

​@@citylidamj8898Aryans are only descendants of the Andronovo culture

@thediaxd3747

10 ай бұрын

True Aryans are light brown mate@@citylidamj8898

Love these in-depth videos💞.

So some variation of this language could exist even in VI-VIII centuries at our era. Amazing how young we slavic people are. I would like to hear a Proto-Balto-Slavic language! Thanks, Andy!

This version of the speech seems a bit too soft, the original probably sounded more harsh according to linguists (f.e. six should be pronounced as "šestь" rather than "šesťь". There is also no emphasis on the end of the syllable, where the "ь" symbol is located. I'm also very surprised that the text already contains the sound "ř", which is specific only for Czech and residually for Sorbian and Polish. Do you know any source that mentions the sound "ř" already in the Proto-Slavic language? But still it's absolutely amazing to hear something that is close to the language of our ancestors.

@ivaylostoyanov2515

10 ай бұрын

Yep, the speaker is wholly unprepared for the video and speaks with a very heavy Polish accent. The yers are supposed to be pronounced fully, the yat (ê) is supposed to be æ, not je, the rz in more is simply absurd as well.

@HeroManNick132

10 ай бұрын

@@ivaylostoyanov2515 ''rz'' е трябвало да бъде ''рь'' (меко р).

@vivianeden9529

20 күн бұрын

ř is meant to be a representation of r in palatalized contexts, not necessarily the sound specific to czech. im not sure why this speaker is pronouncing it like polish rz, but im not a fan of the way he pronounces things like their modern counterparts (ě as /je/ instead of /e:/, for example, or just not pronouncing the hard and soft signs as short vowels at all, or v as fricative /v/ instead of semivowel /w/) rather than how they are reconstructed.

Thank you!

Very interesting why the “može” instead of the “more” ? Is there an expert on this topic? it seemed to me that the softening of this consonant into similar positions took place already in later times exclusively within the range of the Polish and Czech languages 🙂🤔

not mozhe (sea) but more (morie) - Polonism

@wiqu10

5 күн бұрын

Bro, its clearly moře 3:18

Wow! As a Slovenian speaker I get everything.

@lil_weasel219

9 ай бұрын

only if you read it. Otherwise you defo wpuldnt have

will you please do about Proto-Semitic

You should compare Proto-Slavic to Interslavic, I saw native speakers of several slavic languages saying they can understand almost all of both.

@wiqu10

8 күн бұрын

Interslavic is modern Proto Slavic in my opinion Btw proto slavic is more similar to Polish Interslavic: Glava, Sųt Proto slavic: Golwa, Sątь/Sątj Polish: Głowa, Są

And I understand everything 😍I LOVE being Slavic

Fascinating. Very interesting it has the nasal vowels. As polish speaker I can understand quite a lot. Greetings 🖖

Nice video!! Will you do a video about Proto Greek?Proto Albanian? And Proto Armenian? These languages are amazing

@barbar5822

5 ай бұрын

Proto-Hellenic* not Greek

@atrydetalisgard4467

4 ай бұрын

​@@barbar5822 Proto-Hellenic is also called Proto-Greek

Love Proto-Slavic from Iraq Mesopotamia 🇮🇶🇮🇶🇮🇶

@ibrohimh9976

10 ай бұрын

Iraq is part of the Arabian region

@clubb2724

10 ай бұрын

shout out to all Proto Slavs out there

@MahmurdSahara

10 ай бұрын

@@ibrohimh9976 yes but iraq is also mesopotamia 🇮🇶🇮🇶🇮🇶 our arab ancestors conquered our mesopotamian ancestors lol

@ibrohimh9976

10 ай бұрын

​@@MahmurdSaharaThe term Mesopotamia is of Hellenic origin

@ibrohimh9976

10 ай бұрын

​@@MahmurdSaharaIraq and Saudi Arabia and Jordan and others are in the same region

The speaker is Polish

Hi andy, can i request? can you compare between Ancient Javanese (Old Javanese) and Modern Javanese? or maybe compare between proto-Austronesia with Old Javanese?

For me as a native Polish speaker it sounds more familiar and understandable compare to Interslavic

@alexandermarkov300

8 ай бұрын

Because it's Proto-Slavic with Polish phonetics.

will you please do about the extinct and living Arabian languages

@TakeyoTouda

10 ай бұрын

¿do U mean Semitic languages?

For a native Russian speaker, almost every word from this list is perfectly understandable! However, there are some exceptions. Jedinъ - this form (now "jedinyj") has a different meaning: "united, collected together", not "one". Azъ - this form has entirely disappeared in Russian (but exists in South Slavic languages). Sь, sa, se (this) has a direct descendant "sej", but this word is extremely archaic except in fixed phrases. Jako (how) does not exist in Russian (but exists e. g. in Ukrainian as "jak"). There is an archaic form "aki", used in a few fixed phrases. Oko (eye) became obsolete in Russian (but its derivatives still exist). However, in other Slavic languages it is still used nowadays. Õžь (snake), nowadays "už", is a name for a particular snake species, not for a snake in general ("zmeja"). Ovot'e, now "ovošči", in Russian means "vegetables", not "fruit". For "fruit" we say "frukty", borrowed from Europe. "Plod" is a more general word. Čьrvenъ (later "červonyj" or "červonnyj") is archaic in Russian, but still present in Ukrainian and Polish. However, its derivative "červonec" was popular during the Soviet era as a name for a 10-rouble banknote (it had a bright red color). Usta - in Russian means "lips" (and is obsolete as well, but its derived adjective "ustnyj" exists). Godъ, lěto (now "god", "leto") - both words still exist, but have different meanings. "God" ALWAYS means "year". "Leto" in singular means "summer", but in plural (usually only in genitive) means "years". Měsęcъ (now "mesiac") means "month", but in poetic speech can also mean "moon", especially "crescent moon". In colloquial speech, this word means exclusively a C-shaped moonphase, not the full moon. Jako (if) does not exist in Russian, we use "jesli". Bo (because) existed in Russian as "ibo", but is no longer used. Ukrainian, however, preserved it. I, a (and): "i" now means "and", "a" means "but".

@alblgz

5 ай бұрын

well, "chervonets" got his name from golden coin issued by early Soviet government which valued around 10 banknote rubles.

@Overnaut99

7 күн бұрын

"One" in english also can mean "united" depending on the context

The reader of Proto-slavic seems to be Polish. He read ř as [ʒ] and not as [r̥]. Also he read nasal vowels like in Polish with [ŋ] after a nazal vowel.

@user-go1jy3wn3x

5 ай бұрын

Ну может в праславянском произносилось именно так

@AndreyPokidov

5 ай бұрын

@@user-go1jy3wn3x Нет, потому что согласный носовой [ŋ] должен был оставить следы и в других славянских языках.

@alblgz

5 ай бұрын

@@AndreyPokidov ну, носовых гласных вообще ни в одном славянском языке не осталось, кроме польского.

@AndreyPokidov

5 ай бұрын

@@alblgz Дело не в том, что осталось или не осталось носовых гласных, дело в том, что если бы после носовой гласной был бы носовой согласный [ŋ], то в таком количестве слявянских языков и диалектов этот согласный должен был найти какое-то отражение не только в польском.

The Proto Slavic language sounds like a holy language

Fascinating stuff. As a native Czech I understand about 90 % of it. I had to laugh sometimes at the speaker's funny accent, but everything he said was very well understandable to me.

Amazing! As a Bulgarian I understood 90% without any training.

Bulgarian here and yes, I also understood almost everything. Some of the words for the body parts are EXACTLY the same as in Bulgarian today! 🤯

will you make a video about proto-Arabic?

Slavic languages are quite conservative and quite preserved. Compared to Romance, Germanic or Chinese languages and dialects are far more unintelligible than modern Slavic languages from each other.

@berserkr4782

10 ай бұрын

It's propably because Slavs stayed in their ancestral homeland for much longer, while germanics started to migrate much earlier

@janboreczek3045

9 ай бұрын

It's mostly because Slavs stayed confined to the Polesian swampy shithole for over 1000 years since the language and the culture broke from proto-balto-slavic one. They stayed there somewhat isolated, their culture and language developing on their own, and going totally under the radar for over a goddamn millenium, not appearing in any historical records, being the total backwater of the european continent. Then, approximately in the sixth century they had spread from their homeland to huge areas of Europe, only later becoming civilized by Nordic people (Kievan Rus) and some random merchands (Samon's state, he was a Frankish merchant that formed the first Slavic state, which dissolved as soon as he died because the Slavs, being a hopelessly tribal society, couldn't form the states of their own by that time). So, the Slavic languages didn't really have that much time to differentiate from each other, as even ~ as late as the 10th century AD the language is still believed to have been one language with local dialects. They did however evolve significantly in that time. Polish language (my native language) has had some weird-ass phonetic shifts (so much so that I was making jokes from those weird changes with Ukrainians and Belarussians). And Bulgarian and Macedonian languages have mosty lost the case system (which is normally VERY complex in Slavic languages, they are heavili inflected languages), and also developing something akin to the definite article (which is totally nonexistent in other Slavic languages), but preserving the aorist, unlike other Slavic languages. So yeah, give some 500 more years, and the Slavic languages will become as different from each other as, for example, Germanic languages are now. They are still somewhat similar only because they used to be one language fairly recently. And, as a Slav myself, I can say that this undeniable similarity and familiarity between Slavic languages, but with some marked differences, is an unending source of running jokes in modern Slavic societies. There's this meme with three Spidermans and a caption "Poles, Czechs and Slovaks finding each other's languages funny", which is a great illustration of that effect.

As a Russian, I understand probably 75% to 80%.

@korana6308

5 ай бұрын

а что ты именно не понял? я понял всё.

Thank you...

Я понял каждое слово.) Удивительно!

@anoninko

9 ай бұрын

ну ладно уж, не каждое

@eduardskandi8144

9 ай бұрын

Ну если вы москвич, который элементарно не владеет культурой русской языка, то вам непонятно будет. А человеку с сибирских краев знакомым с речью его предков чалдонов-старожилов - всё будет внятно. А кто не может понять элементарный русский язык на котором говорили наши предки, тот вырусь какая-то, если элементарные архаизмы своей речи не внимает. @@anoninko

I was waiting this video a long time. As russian-speaking I can say that language of my ancestors is well understood but some pronounciations of words are archaic

@Polyglot441

10 ай бұрын

Согласен, но носовые гласные портят слух

@alexwhey1724

5 ай бұрын

Хотя басню "овца и кони " я не разобрал

nice video :)))

Please compare Proto-Slavic and Proto-Baltic PLEASEEEEEEE!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

As Serbian speaker I understand 99 %

As someone from Jugoslavija, Bosnia, I understand every word and every word is the same only some letters are changed….

@ivanhus3852

9 ай бұрын

Hi I’m from austrian empire, Croatia

As someone who knows a lot from the East Slavic branch, I definitely understand a lot

It's very cool and interesting! It's show for us how we are close and don't need conflicts!

@TheOlgaSasha

10 ай бұрын

Vladolf Putler doesn't agree with you on conflicts between Slavs...

@jizhachok

10 ай бұрын

@@TheOlgaSasha Нажаль я на своєму досвіді дізнався що він не підтримує таку позицію.

@TheOlgaSasha

10 ай бұрын

@@jizhachok Я теж...

10 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@TheOlgaSashaChina-led East and US-led West don't agree*

@Badookum

10 ай бұрын

@ Both of you are correct, Putin's a bad guy but the war is ideologically driven by the west.

As a Serbian speaker- I understood about 80% Some words like the word for hair I can explain away by vlas/vlasi. which is a super archaic.

@chepushila1

7 ай бұрын

How do you say it modern Serbian? I thought this was universal to all Slavic languages.

@zdravkojovanovic3513

7 ай бұрын

@@chepushila1 Kosa

@gambalombo

7 ай бұрын

Kaže se jošuvek "vlas kose"

@zdravkojovanovic3513

7 ай бұрын

@@gambalombo U tom kontekstu da- generalno arhaičan izraz

@zdravkojovanovic3513

6 ай бұрын

@@gambalombo da. ali ko jos kaze ‘vlasi’ umesto kosa?

Ишьчо! 👍

@rzhanina

10 ай бұрын

Работа! 👍

I'm a Hindi Speaker from India who also speaks Bengali with a little knowledge of Sanskrit and Farsi (Iranian) too. I understood 70% of the words used in the video. It's crazy because the Slavic Languages, the Iranian Languages and the Indo- Aryan Languages share a common ancestor which is the Proto- Indo- European. Some Examples : the Numbers, pretty much the same as Sanskrit, Farsi, Hindi and Bengali. •Daughter - Duhitr( Sanskrit), Dukhtar ( Farsi) •Brother - Bhrata (Sanskrit), Biradr ( Farsi) •When - Kada (Sanskrit) •Man - Manushya ( Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali) •Woman - Janana (Hindi, Urdu) •Eye - Akshi (Sanskrit), Aankh ( Hindi, Urdu) •Nose - Naasa ( Sanskrit -related to nose), Naak (Hindi, Bengali, Urdu) •Teeth - Dant ( Sanskit), daant (Hindi, Urdu, Bengali) •Hair - Baal (Hindi, Urdu) •Bird - Pakshi ( Sanskrit, Hindi), Paakhi (Bengali) •Tree - Darakht (Urdu, Farsi) •Yellow - Halud (Bengali, originated from Zard in Farsi) •Name - Naam ( Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali) •Day - Din ( Hindi, Urdu, Bengali) Night - Raat ( ") •Fire - Agni ( Hindi, Sanskrit, Bengali) •Sky - Nabh ( Hindi, Sanskrit), Nobho ( Bengali) •New - Nav ( Hindi, Sanskrit)

@janboreczek3045

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, that's fascinating! It's undeniably partly due to all of those languages evolving from the Proto-Indo-European language, but also due to the influences from Iranic languages (like Sarmatian and Scithian). The Slavic homeland was fairly close to the steppe area, and so there must've been a contact between the groups, peaceful or not

As an Iranian I think this is what a drunk Portuguese who's trying to speak Russian sounds like 😅

As a Slovakian i understand 90-99% these words, is fascinating how how little slavic languages today have changed

Im fluent in Polish, Ukrainian, and Russian plus I understand other 3-5 slavic languages, I would put this reconstruction geographically somewhere between Volhynia (North West of Ukraine), Poland and Belarus with some Balkan overtones. Thank you!

I'm Russian. And I had a strange feeling when listening to the text. I understood all the words but noticed that kvet and gvezda didn't have palatalization yet. Here in russian its zdes' and tut, we have both like god and leto (year) It looks like a mixture of Polish and South Slavic languages. Especially the word sea (moře) sounds like Polish

@orangetv3tgl144

10 ай бұрын

Касаемо палатализации, кстати, подобное можно проследить также в Древненовгородском диалекте.

@SB-fw3yr

10 ай бұрын

​​@@orangetv3tgl144Интересно, что в западномлавянских языках слово цветок до сих пор звучит как квет, квят. А в лехитских языках звезда начинается с буквы "г" гвязда в польском, без палатализации

@TheTytan007

10 ай бұрын

I'm a bit surprised that reconstructed sea is a western slavic sounding "moře" and not something like "morje"

@user-vt3ig2bk4j

10 ай бұрын

The guy read 80 % of words wrong. The ř in moře in Proto Slavic is not pronounced as in Czech or Polish, but as a palatilized r, even softer than rj. He is obviously not familiar with Proto Slavic way of writing and phonetics. He also did not read ь as a short i and ъ as a short u, at the end of words he often simply left them out.

@user-vt3ig2bk4j

10 ай бұрын

​@@TheTytan007ř in Proto- Slavic represents a different sound then in Czech or Polish!! This dude just read it wrong.

Thank god we removed the weird nasal sounds, they sound absolutely ridiculous 😂 (sorry polish😅)

@HeroManNick132

10 ай бұрын

Polish is not the only one that has them. Kashubian too, which also has Y and schwa sound which doesn't exist in Polish (well Polish has Y but no schwa sound, which many Slavic languages lack of this sound.)

@user-lb4lm9zq6d

10 ай бұрын

​@@HeroManNick132one of Slovenian dialects has nasal vowels too

@HeroManNick132

10 ай бұрын

@@user-lb4lm9zq6d Well, even Bulgarian at Northern Greece dialects. I'm talking about Standard languages not dialects.

@anonymousofwonderland4850

10 ай бұрын

As a native Polish speaker, I love our nasal vowels, but I respect your opinion :")

@void4330

10 ай бұрын

@@anonymousofwonderland4850 I love Poland and Polish culture! Slavic brothers ✊

Need a comparison between proto-Slavic, Old Church Slavonic, and Interslavic.

Would be cool to compare proto-Slavic with Old Church Slavonic and Interslavic. And please do proto-Turkic (just as Slavic languages, Turkic languages are also similarly conservative) 😃

We need same PSL song on Eurovision

Почти всё понятно для русского человека, особенно если вслушиваться.

@kirill5645xd

5 ай бұрын

так это ненастоящий праслав, тут редуцированных (ъ, ь) нету, хотя на видео отображены

Proto slavic is so similar to sanskrit which is an indo aryan language. They have a common ancestor as both have came from Proto Indo European

Интересное дело. Овца, якая без шерсти есть, коней видит: один тащит тяжкий воз, один везет груз великий, один человека борзо носил.

I interested to make a language, but I don't know where can I start

10 ай бұрын

There are types of constructed languages: International auxiliary languages - Esperanto, Lidepla, lnterlingua Zonal auxiliary languages - Interslavic, Neolatino Philosophical languages - Toki Pona, Ro, aUI You can choose any type of constructed language and you can even set your own rules on grammar, pronunciation, alphabet, grammatical features. You can have words originating from other languages and then maybe mix or change them a bit. I may not be a professional linguist but hope that helps.

@wantydma212

10 ай бұрын

@ thank you! This help me a little

Ap (áp-) is the Vedic Sanskrit term for "water", also in Persian and Sumerian ! can someone explain why ?

@ravenn8600

5 ай бұрын

All of these language are related.

Very interesting where Slavic came from.

nice, how about dacian language?

@unbeatable_all

9 ай бұрын

It's barely attested except some names for plants

Wow , how similar it sounds to modern slavic languages , l can understand the words pretty well .

As a Russian and Ukrainian speaker, I understood over 90%. I’m interested in the phenomena of the letter “H” and how it mostly replaced the letter “G” for Ukrainian, Czech and Slovakian. Especially so, because the letter “G” was original and prominent. Conversely, similar can be said for Russian and the extra addition of the letter “G” and partial substitution of the letter “H”.

@HeroManNick132

10 ай бұрын

Belarusian, Rusyn and Southern Russian dialects have this thing as G turns into fricative H sound. Polish also has it but nowadays H/CH became the same sound because people can't distinguish both sounds. And South Slavic languages lack of this sound + Y like Czech and Slovak, which they've kept the letter but lost the sound of it.

@unbeatable_all

9 ай бұрын

I speak Polish and in my dialect some words starting with k change to ch (h). Który = Chtóry Kto = Chto

@HeroManNick132

9 ай бұрын

@@unbeatable_all So ''chto'' is basically exactly like the Ukrainian, Belarusian ''хто'' But unlike Ukrainian, Belarusian, Rusyn, Czech and Slovak, Polish pronounces ''h'' and ''ch'' as ''х'' (like the South Slavic languages). H in these languages is a fricative H that is written like ''г'' like for example the Belarusian ''гарбата'' (harbata), which in Polish would be like herbata - ''хербата'' (since there is no difference between h and ch).

@janboreczek3045

9 ай бұрын

There's my hypothesis, but it's only that, I'm not a professional linguist with the expertise in Slavic languages, a little disclaimer. In my unprofessional guess. From my observations, the /g/ sound fricativised to /ɣ/ in many Slavic languages (East Slavic, Czech, and possibly in some other Slavic languages as well). In Czech and Ukrainian languages, /ɣ/ later turned into the voiced glottal fricative. And here begins the part I'm most uncertain about, so keep that with a grain of salt (I would love to ask a proper expert in the area this question). In older forms of Russian, the /ɣ/ and /x/ sounds turned to /g/. The /ɣ/ soung came back to /g/, and /x/ maybe because of some hypercorrection, maybe because of some Old Church Slavonic influences. Maybe there was a period when /x/ ang /ɣ/ have merged, I just don't know. This is only my not so educated guess, if someone knows better then please, correct me if whatever I'm saying is BS. I would be glad to get some knowledge from someone who's actually qualified in this area of expertise

As a native English speaker learning Russian I am fascinated that I even understood 1 or 2 words

Kako Medžuslovjan (očevidno govorju na medžuslovjanskom, poljskom, bělorusskom i russkom) vse jest velmi razumlivo. Како Меджусловјан (очевидно говорју на меджусловјанском, пољском, бєлорусском и русском) все јест велми разумливо. Thank you for this video, Andy! Autorze, zrobiłeś świetną robotę, doceniamy to 👏

@HeroManNick132

10 ай бұрын

South Slavic languages: 🇧🇬: Като междуславянин (очевидно говоря на междуславянски, полски, беларуски и руски) все е много разумливо. Kato mežduslavjanin (očevidno govorja na mežduslavjanski, polski, belaruski i ruski) vse e mnogo razumlivo. 🇲🇰: Како Меѓусловен (очевидно говорам на меѓусловенски, полски, белоруски и руски) сѐ е многу разбирливо. Kako Meǵusloven (očevidno govoram na meǵuslovenski, polski, beloruski i ruski) sѐ e mnogu razbirlivo. 🇷🇸: Као Међусловен (очигледно говорим на међусловенски, пољски, белоруски и руски) све jе веома разумљиво. Kao Međusloven (očigledno govorim na međuslovenski, poljski, beloruski i ruski) sve je veoma razumljivo. 🇭🇷: Kao Međuslaven (očigledno govorim na međuslavenski, poljski, bjeloruski i ruski) sve je veoma razumljivo. Као Међуславен (очигледно говорим на међуславенски, пољски, бjелоруски и руски) све jе веома разумљиво. 🇧🇦: Kao Međusloven (očigledno govorim na međuslovenski, poljski, bjeloruski i ruski) sve je veoma razumljivo. Као Међусловен (очигледно говорим на међусловенски, пољски, бjелоруски и руски) све jе веома разумљиво. 🇸🇮: Kot Medslovan (očitno govorim na medslovanski, poljski, beloruski in ruski) je vse zelo razumljivo. Кот Медслован (очитно говорим на медсловански, пољски, белоруски ин руски) jе все зело разумљиво. (I added Cyrillic to some Non-Cyrillic just to balance them) so which one is most understandable? :D

10 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@HeroManNick132ok, if I had to choose one, surprisingly for me Bulgarian is the most understandable south Slavic language 😂😅

@HeroManNick132

10 ай бұрын

@ I'm actually surprised that you said Bulgarian, when it was hardest to understand :D

10 ай бұрын

@@HeroManNick132maybe because I've read Bulgarian words that you wrote are almost 100% the same as Interslavic 🥲

@187Rajah

5 ай бұрын

@ Actually these words present on video 92% - 95% sounds almost as modern Russian

As a Polish speaker, I love that the word for "everyday" sounds like the modern Polish (and apparently also Czech) word for "boring".🤭

Common words are like same or really similar to Czech, my native language. When it comes to sentences, it's rather harder to understand, though.

As a Bulgarian speaker I understood everything

As a Polish person i can understand more than i was thinking i will. A lot of words are the same as in Polish

@IesusChristusVivit

2 ай бұрын

It literally sounds like a combination of Polish and Croatian

I would have thought that it was Russian with an accent...it’s just SOOOO similar wow

Слава роду🇷🇸 I understand so many things. Proud of my slavic ancestors!

even more phonetically similar to portugese than modern east slavic. Very interesting

I speak fluently polish and serbian, understand every word :)

@HeroManNick132

10 ай бұрын

So you can speak basically Serbo-Croatian.

Linguistic question: Does the Slavic "On (Онъ)" have the same etymology as the French "On". Is it a coincidence both pronouns indicate third person (for French the meaning is far more wider, but still)?

@ClifffSVK

9 ай бұрын

No (no pun intended)

The "luna" loanword is interesting. So early?

@ClifffSVK

9 ай бұрын

According to Wiktionary it's not a loanword

@nadirhikmetkuleli7335

7 ай бұрын

Slavic Luna is not a loanword from Latin, it is rather a common word with Latin.

Proto-Arabic please

Why is there a burg sys flag in the beginning 😭

Very similar to Croatian, numbers, words, stories. Oče naš, koji jesi na nebesima, sveti se ime Tvoje, dođi kraljevstvo Tvoje, budi volja Tvoja, kako na nebu, tako i na zemlji. Kruh naš svagdanji daj nam danas, i otpusti nam duge naše, kako i mi otpuštamo dužnicima našim, i ne uvedi nas u napast, nego izbavi nas od Zla. Jer tvoje je kraljevstvo i slava i moć u vjekove. Amen.

As a Polish guy i understand practically every word :P

As a native kashmiri speaker i was able to understand a good amount of words 😅

The fact that some words are unchanged compared to my langauge (Polish)

As someone who speaks polish, and his seems so weird.. familiar at and unfamiliar at all at the same time. Like it sounds like w combination of Slavic languages all with themselves

As a russian speaker, thus is basically the same except some pronounciation changes. You could understand it fully if talked.

It's 100% understandable for modern Russian speaker

I'm not sure the yers would have already been dropped before the differentiation into Slavic daughter languages, and I'm pretty sure the "v" sound would have still been an approximant /w/ or /ʋ/ in Proto-Slavic, seeing as many modern Slavic languages still retain that sound (the ones that come to mind being Slovenian and Ukrainian)

Im Polish, and I understood like 50-60%

@kekeke8988

9 ай бұрын

An Italian would've understood 0% of Proto-Italic.

The narrator pronunciation is like it's late middle ages, with fallen extra-shorts ь and ъ, and palatalised ř as ž.

wow. i am slovak, i could not only understand almost everything, but words are 90% exactly same as in current slovak, only very minor differences.

As Belarusian speaker I identify this Proto-slavic languiage to be modern Polish z Mazoŭja.

"ě" was not pronounced /je/ but /æ/