Very cool! The consonants of English are a lot more conservative than the vowels, and also quite a bit more than, say, German consonants, when compared to Proto-Germanic.

@atbing2425

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man, high Germanic consonant shift goes brrrr

Thank you. Very interesting

very unique video 😍😍

@atbing2425

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Do you have the history of spanish language. Your videos are awesome. 👍👍👍

@atbing2425

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, kzread.info/dash/bejne/rHppwcuxmNC3qNY.html

Uhm a question, how did you know when the voiceless stops (p,t,k) started being aspirated in English? Because since most other Germanic languages have such a feature (Dutch being an exception), with some even losing their voiced stops because of it, it would suggest to me that this is an inherited feature, but idk.

@atbing2425

3 жыл бұрын

I like to think it wasn't inherited, this is an interesting topic though, Yiddish also isn't aspirated, Finnish swedish isn't, it makes more sense that aspiration can develop instead of being lost. Because of grimms law, I think p t k (they were recently b d g) weren't aspirated in proto Germanic, the Scandinavian languages could develop it as a single areal change in Scandinavia. the fact that Yiddish and Finnish swedish for example aren't aspirated, suggests it's relatively recent, with ptk aspirated and later bdg devoice (Icelandic and faroese) are the most innovative ones with danish on its way, the difference between p and b for example has more and more to do with aspiration rather than voicing, like might have happened in Grimms law. The I mutation is an example of a sound change happening indepently in almost all Germanic languages, why couldn't aspiration develop by itself as well? Next I guessed it happened around the same time in many languages, perhaps 500 years ago around the early modern English period, same with German having Yiddish splitting off, then develop aspiration. Just like German and English went through similar vowel changes around the same time.

@atbing2425

3 жыл бұрын

Also Scottish English aren't aspirated so it is probably relatively recent (perhaps around Shakespeare time)

@Tintin-jg9qt

3 жыл бұрын

@@atbing2425 interesting. Thanks for the reply!