You are the last of the Nordic Cowboys! I hope your recovery from Covid is speedy and complete! Take care, my friend.

Been studying Old Irish and Modern Gaelic by David Stifter a Ph.D. professor at the University of Vienna and Chairman of the _Austrian Society for Celtic Studies_ and Jonathan Evans text and _An Introduction to Old English_ and I have some books on Welsh, Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Hittite and Gothic. Right now I've decided to stick with Irish and focus my attention to Old French by E. Einhorn and William W. Kibler. Really want to learn Old French in addition to learning Old Irish and Modern Irish. Definitely want to add the first text you showed to my Library though.

I have a book "A Grammar of Modern Indo-European" by Quiles & Lopez-Mencheros. This is more an amateur work (by "amateur" I mean "enthusiast") than something by strict academic standards, and I thought I'd mentioned it because it's cheap and even freely downloadable from the internet. The book attempts to reconstruct an Indo-European language and grammar based on I'd say a somewhat European centric take on PIE. The authors surely take quite a few liberties in doing so, but I've found the authors' project interesting still. Much should probably be taken with a grain of salt, but it gives some insights into Indo-European languages. What they present is likely not a language that was actually spoken, but something that would be fairly well understood by PIE speakers, perhaps. Kind of what Ivar Aasen did with Norwegian but with Indo-European instead.

@Adam-jr4lx

3 ай бұрын

thx

@Merikat07

Ай бұрын

In the most recent edition the author states that it’s Eurocentric by design. They were attempting to make a post Hittite split, post laryngeal drop language from what I remember. The author envisions it as a neutral European Union language which is a pretty idea but I think most diplomats won’t have any interest in it.

That's incredibly helpful for students studying linguistics, thank you! Very much appreciated.

These books sound awesome but like all academic books they are very pricey. Its hard for me to justify a $45-60 book for a hobby. This is why those 2 hour long videos you do with Dr. Yates are so important, it is getting this knowledge out there for free.

@geoffgjof

3 ай бұрын

You only have to pay for a book once...

@geoffgjof

3 ай бұрын

Wait til you see how much the really pricey academic books are lmao

@bright218

3 ай бұрын

@@geoffgjofYup, we get that they're expensive. A real shame. That's why Dr. Jackson Crawford's video's are so useful

Thanks for another great video. Get some rest, keep hydrated, and do what you can without overdoing.

Thanks for making these vids. As an American of South Asian (Indian) descent, I find the subject of PIE subject matter fascinating. The Indian body politik would have one believe that Sanskrit and “Indian culture/Sanatana Dharma” came from India. Your videos are part of a knowledge-base which needs to be elucidated and expounded upon, and brought to more common knowledge, much like Egyptian culture and civilization has.

Thank you for the recommendations. I actually went out and ordered those first two books, and I look forward to reading them.

Thanks for the good recommendations, i hope you feel better soon

There's a small typo in the link, it should be LRC, not IRC. Thanks for the info and recommendations!

Thanks!

@cuitaro

2 ай бұрын

You seem to be an Indian studying linguistics. I seek to do the same. Can you please tell me where you studied/are studying from?

I'd love a PIE zoom class with you and Dr Yates

(other disastrous career decisions are available)

Ideally, a new edition of Fortson will be coming soon. One website claims 2018, the other claimed 2021 as publication dates. I emailed him once asking about it, but no response

Hope you feel better! Have you studied Elfdalian at all? It seems to be a very conservative dialect of Swedish and could help give us more information about where we came from.

@UnshavenStatue

3 ай бұрын

good odds he's already quite familiar with elfdalian

@geoffgjof

3 ай бұрын

@@UnshavenStatue Then let's see a video on it!

@weonanegesiscipelibba2973

3 ай бұрын

Also it's a separate language from the West Norse group together with Norwegian(not Bokmål), Icelandic, and Faroese. It being a "Swedish dialect" is propaganda from the Swedish Government. Swedish is part of the East Norse group with Danish, and arguably Norwegian Bokmål.

Can you do this video but for proto germanic? I would love to study it but dont know where to start

As a non-linguist interested in the subject, I find Sihler’s book to be very useful, but hopefully someday he’ll get around to adding references/a bibliography lol

How accurate do they expect proto indo european language to be? Is there an estimate like a percentage of how accurate the experts think it may be?

Woooooo!

At first I thought you said Rock ‘n roll Iverson.

You seem awfully short-breathed. Get well soon!

@lj2435

3 ай бұрын

Well he did say he’s recovering from Covid.

@Ariapeithes_

3 ай бұрын

Something definitely is going around this winter and spring and it's a lot of respiratory related illnesses.

@highgrounder5238

3 ай бұрын

Colorado is pretty mountainous. Thin air up there

I have Iversen's Norrøn Grammatikk. Seventh edition, unfortunately. Still a very useful book

In a way I am almost disappointed that Lithuanian has last the neuter gender when it is generally viewed as the european language with the hardest/oldest/irregular grammar.

That utexas link doesn't work.

Gothic Languge? Did they proofread the cover?

@captainp.2721

3 ай бұрын

Yes, it's an extinct Germanic language spoken by the Goths.

@pierreabbat6157

3 ай бұрын

@@captainp.2721 But it's not a languge, it's a language.

@captainp.2721

3 ай бұрын

@@pierreabbat6157have you never made a typo?

@pierreabbat6157

3 ай бұрын

@@captainp.2721 Of course I've made typos, but the typo is on the cover of the book!

Go home and rest.

We need to step on literature of the subject. It's a kind of illegal subject in Europe. I am willing to go to India and do research on my own money.

@sagaronyoutube

3 ай бұрын

What do you mean?

@Ariapeithes_

3 ай бұрын

What do you mean it's illegal? That's so weird.

@williamjackson5942

3 ай бұрын

@@Ariapeithes_ Probably not even close to true!

@YourCreepyUncle.

3 ай бұрын

Put the bong down, son.