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The Evolution of Persian in 22 Words
Persian is the official language of several countries of Western Asia and descends from the 6,000 year-old Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language. This video traces this descent, showing off some of the major stages of the language's past and explaining how each stage became the next.
Check out more the other 22 Words videos here: ua-cam.com/play/PLHeVJSqi2ro8_q9DrjkFhbBCDhLbEq4Pe.html
Note: Some of the Middle and (especially) Old Persian terms are not attested. I've written them in their respective scripts as they would have appeared. Hopefully there are no mistakes there! :)
Excellent paper: brill.com/view/journals/ieul/9/1/article-p85_4.xml#d120985975e9212
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The Madí Language
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8 Reasons to Learn a Language
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КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @Sajad-d1q
    @Sajad-d1q 20 хвилин тому

    Interesting. The word meaning serene apparently disappeared.

    • @LexisLang
      @LexisLang 17 хвилин тому

      Glad you think so! :)

  • @hamid.r.salehi
    @hamid.r.salehi 26 хвилин тому

    00:29, Awestisch, Parthisch, Neu-Persisch, nicht Kurdisch 👎👎👎

    • @LexisLang
      @LexisLang 17 хвилин тому

      Was? Meinst du, dass Kurdisch keine Iranische Sprache ist? So ist es doch bestimmt.

    • @hamid.r.salehi
      @hamid.r.salehi 12 хвилин тому

      @LexisLang Komisch ist keine eigenständige Sprache, sondern nur ein Dialekt

    • @hamid.r.salehi
      @hamid.r.salehi 10 хвилин тому

      @LexisLang Die Entwicklung der iransichen Sprache wird wie folgt eungeordnet: Awestisch, Parthisch bzw. Pahlawi und Neu-Persisch.

  • @Leeknowsfirstwife
    @Leeknowsfirstwife 3 години тому

    As a Persian your pronunciation is PERFECT

  • @Leeknowsfirstwife
    @Leeknowsfirstwife 3 години тому

    Love this ❤

    • @LexisLang
      @LexisLang 3 години тому

      Glad you enjoyed! :)

  • @MohsenGanj
    @MohsenGanj 3 години тому

    11:45 There is something about Xor (sun). It's XorŠid in modern Persian in Iran. What is this Šid postfix? We have it in names like JamŠid or FarŠid. Where is it come from? And what's it's meaning?

  • @minos3041
    @minos3041 3 години тому

    حالا پاچه خاری اجنبی رو نکن خوبه پرسش رو پرسد گفت در اخرین ورژن

  • @AriaAzizi-qu8my
    @AriaAzizi-qu8my 3 години тому

    Perfectly and professionally put together. I enjoyed my stay

  • @zurnacreative8919
    @zurnacreative8919 5 годин тому

    Amazing video. I am fluent in English, Armenian and Persian so this was very insightful and informative. There are many common words between Armenian and old and middle Persian.

  • @fanzy1338
    @fanzy1338 11 годин тому

    As a native Persian speaker, I appreciate your hard work and research. You did an excellent job in both transliteration and pronunciation. Most Iranians don’t really know anything about Middle Persian let alone Old Persian and it’s not taught in schools.

  • @TaghiIzadpanah
    @TaghiIzadpanah 13 годин тому

    Very interesting indeed ❤

    • @LexisLang
      @LexisLang 11 годин тому

      Glad you think so! :)

    • @TaghiIzadpanah
      @TaghiIzadpanah 2 години тому

      @LexisLang Thank you for the effort! 👍🏼

  • @soroushshisheboran1462
    @soroushshisheboran1462 14 годин тому

    As a persian I understood about only 10% of proto-indo-iranian 30% of proto-iranian 70% of old persian 90% of middle persian And 100 % of modern one😂 Thanks for the video you are amazing

    • @LexisLang
      @LexisLang 14 годин тому

      Thank you for watching! Very interesting to hear what you think about the ancestor languages! :D

  • @davidk2017
    @davidk2017 14 годин тому

    4:58 I know these two words have different meanings, but the words Hdantas (tooth) and dentist in English are very similar in phonetics

    • @LexisLang
      @LexisLang 13 годин тому

      Same root! A dentist is someone who looks after teeth. The Latin for "tooth" was "dens", from PIE *h3dents. :)

  • @davidk2017
    @davidk2017 14 годин тому

    I could understand Proto-Iranian, but if there weren't equivalents in English, it would have been a bit harder for me to understand. This video was very interesting and useful for me

    • @LexisLang
      @LexisLang 13 годин тому

      Makes me happy to hear that! :)

  • @ArmanAbedi-rc1we
    @ArmanAbedi-rc1we 14 годин тому

    Wow! It was amazing, incredibly informative, and excellent. As a Persian, I didn't know many of these things until now. Thank you so much!

    • @LexisLang
      @LexisLang 11 годин тому

      I'm glad you found it interesting! Thank you for watching! :D

  • @sekhavat79
    @sekhavat79 14 годин тому

    sun = خورشید = khorshid

  • @Msmworldofelements
    @Msmworldofelements 16 годин тому

    Middle persian is for 1600+ years ago and we Iranians can still understand it mostly That's what i call language presentations Also "Div" doesn't literally mean demon, it's more associated with man like beasts. Sth more like what Orcs are in west

  • @BarryAllenFrfr
    @BarryAllenFrfr 17 годин тому

    I love when someone makes an video about iran

    • @LexisLang
      @LexisLang 17 годин тому

      Hope you enjoyed! :)

    • @BarryAllenFrfr
      @BarryAllenFrfr 15 годин тому

      @LexisLang thanks ❤️❤️❤️

  • @shahroozleon9098
    @shahroozleon9098 17 годин тому

    You're very skilled in pronouncing every word and sound, 11:36 in the last section of vid I for one sec thought a native Iranian is speaking. You know in our language is very easy to spot non natives even those who has trained for years.

    • @LexisLang
      @LexisLang 17 годин тому

      Thank you! I'm sure I wouldn't be that good were I to speak whole sentences, but I'm glad I managed the individual words alright! :)

    • @shahroozleon9098
      @shahroozleon9098 15 годин тому

      @LexisLang well it was way over managed, you nailed it. History of Iran is very underrated and interesting too specially until the late antiquity. it is usually ignored or underappreciated in the world compared to history of Greece or Rome or even China and the it's impact on both west and east; Although the culture was not much different of Romans for example, compared to today at least.

  • @woowie9969
    @woowie9969 18 годин тому

    Bro good stuff Really enjoyed your content made me learn about my language Also your modern persian pronunciation is on point Keep it up

    • @LexisLang
      @LexisLang 18 годин тому

      Thank you! Happy to hear that! :D

  • @mammadzz
    @mammadzz День тому

    Good job brother, really liked your video as a language researcher 👍👍

    • @LexisLang
      @LexisLang 17 годин тому

      Thank you! Glad you enjoyed! :D

  • @Farnood10
    @Farnood10 День тому

    Actually in modern Persian we don’t say خور we say خورشید

  • @superphoenix5469
    @superphoenix5469 День тому

    Is the خ letter really that hard for others? He only had problems saying that letter.

    • @LexisLang
      @LexisLang День тому

      Ooh, what was wrong with it? Should I have gone uvular instead of velar or something? :/

    • @superphoenix5469
      @superphoenix5469 День тому

      @LexisLang i dont know how to explain it. Im iranian so it comes out natural and i dont know how to explain. When we say it its almost like we are trying to get something out of our throat.😂. My upper part of throat vibrates a lot when i pronounce that letter.

  • @Adel-pn2up
    @Adel-pn2up День тому

    Wow, you have a very deep knowlage of lingustics!

  • @maryb6074
    @maryb6074 День тому

    Iranian could easily understand Middle Persian😊

  • @faramarzkarimi9845
    @faramarzkarimi9845 День тому

    so informative

    • @LexisLang
      @LexisLang 17 годин тому

      Glad you liked it! :)

  • @nabinuri3730
    @nabinuri3730 День тому

    Using Iran flag next to persian language is unfair and shows how ignorant you are. because 3 countries Iran tajikistan and Afghanistan use this language as official language yet many other people around the world also speak it.

  • @mbb4030
    @mbb4030 День тому

    ✌️🇩🇪

  • @E_LolsBiggestFan093
    @E_LolsBiggestFan093 День тому

    Hāps, Hasti

  • @shafaatoo9328
    @shafaatoo9328 День тому

    Is your expertise within mostly Indo European languages or would you make videos on semitic languages too?

    • @LexisLang
      @LexisLang День тому

      I certainly could do, but probably not in this video format, unfortunately! :)

  • @majidramazani436
    @majidramazani436 День тому

    Sie haben persische Wörter sehr schön und fließend ausgesprochen.🌹

    • @LexisLang
      @LexisLang Годину тому

      Danke schön! Das bedeutet mir viel! :D

  • @mariomarkazi1257
    @mariomarkazi1257 День тому

    يک گرگ. دو گرگ. دوگ dog 🐕

  • @rc1982
    @rc1982 День тому

    About the correction: actually, the case is both an allophone AND an allomorph.

  • @trelosyiaellinika
    @trelosyiaellinika День тому

    Gorg >>. The city of Gorgan >>. The country of Georgia...

  • @clickityclackity7096
    @clickityclackity7096 День тому

    *Farsi 😉

  • @amirhoseinzeinali
    @amirhoseinzeinali День тому

    Thanks for your hardwork and elaboration.❤ But one thing, in modern farsi we say خورشید, and خور is a short word for that but mostly used in literature. Also we have the word آفتاب for the sun. Thanks.

    • @sinnerprophet7391
      @sinnerprophet7391 11 годин тому

      Aftab (آفتاب) means sunshine not sun.

    • @amirhoseinzeinali
      @amirhoseinzeinali 8 годин тому

      @sinnerprophet7391 Oh, thanks for your opinion, but as an Iranian I'm sure we use this word for sun, but thanks for making me look it up, it's root goes back to avestan also which AF part meaning the sun and TAB coming from Tabesh, meaning projection of light. Also I found out we aren't using it as sun only nowadays. How do you explain this: چو از لشگر آگه شد افراسیاب بَرو تیره شد تابش آفتاب Ferdowsi

    • @sinnerprophet7391
      @sinnerprophet7391 33 хвилини тому

      @amirhoseinzeinali I'm Iranian too maybe in your dialect it's also used like this too, in the ferdowsi peom it means sunshine as well I don't see a problem,

  • @shahabkhodadoust7152
    @shahabkhodadoust7152 День тому

    Real good job. Thanks for your efforts.❤

  • @shahroozleon9098
    @shahroozleon9098 День тому

    Super amazed by this ❤from Iran

    • @LexisLang
      @LexisLang День тому

      Thank you! Glad you like it! :)

  • @بیلسایقاراقویونلو

    Make turkish evolution video pleasee

  • @mohsenkarkheiran2541
    @mohsenkarkheiran2541 День тому

    I think reducing Persian to "standard Farsi" is not correct. I frequently see this mistake by non-Iranians who are not completely familiar with Iran. Those parts of the amp that are not highlighted also speak some sort of Iranic languages which are close to farsi, and they often closer Avestan and old Persian

    • @LexisLang
      @LexisLang День тому

      I didn't make the map. It may well be a map of just Farsi. It's to show the general area where Persian is spoken. The video is not about the distribution of the Iranian languages, so I just used what I could find to get my point across. :)

    • @mohsenkarkheiran2541
      @mohsenkarkheiran2541 День тому

      @LexisLang Your work is absolutely valuable! Just wanted to mention if you show this map to non-Iranians they might mistakenly think the languages in other parts of Iran is really different. But the reality is that they are very close, and what you said in the video also applies for almost all of the local languages/dialects in Iran...

  • @HitovsMoustache
    @HitovsMoustache День тому

    I would also enjoy seeing videos like this in the opposite orientation, following the evolution on a single word at a time.

  • @desolat3264
    @desolat3264 День тому

    This basically Kurdish as well ngl

  • @moon_knight793
    @moon_knight793 День тому

    That was really awesome

    • @LexisLang
      @LexisLang День тому

      Thank you! Glad you enjoyed! :)

  • @mamad7375
    @mamad7375 День тому

    As an Iranian THank you for talking about the history of language in my country hope your channel grows more.

  • @drrouzbeh
    @drrouzbeh День тому

    I want to watch a movie shot in Old Persian… it’d be so cool to hear what it sounded like in sentence form (extra credit if people are dressed up in period costumes)

  • @Techno_media
    @Techno_media День тому

    As an Iranian this was very interesting to know about my language😅 Thanks for your useful video❤

  • @behzadparsa
    @behzadparsa День тому

    💚🤍❤️

  • @sepisoad
    @sepisoad День тому

    good job

  • @naim-ksa
    @naim-ksa День тому

    Amazing, thank you

    • @LexisLang
      @LexisLang День тому

      Thank you for watching! :)

  • @nimatari4783
    @nimatari4783 День тому

    as an Iranian i deeply appreciate your efforts to make this video and i wish you best <3

  • @xoigel8106
    @xoigel8106 День тому

    Amazing work! As a Persian speaker, thank you! Love it

    • @LexisLang
      @LexisLang День тому

      Thank you for watching! I'm glad you enjoyed! :)