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It is quite nice. :)

That sounds like it should be right. I think I read somewhere that it wasn't, but it may just be that I got some dates off. I guess it could be argued that it isn't really *Proto*-Romance if it isn't ancestral to them all, but dialect chains, idk. :)

Thank you! I definitely butcher a lot of them, but my attitude is always to try regardless. I hope you enjoyed! :)

Thanks for that correction! The phylogeny of Romance languages confuses me a little, particularly in Italy, where so many languages are lumped in as "dialects" of Italian, even though the groupings differ. Thanks for watching though! :)

@@LexisLang yeah, I agree: it can be pretty confusing, especially considering Friulian, and particularly Sardinian, are their own thing. Great video btw!

Thank you! I'm so happy to hear you enjoyed! :D

Well, Wikipedia has some decent lists of sound changes, which I used as a starting point. I also used the Index Diachronica and tried evolving myself to fill in the blanks. For the Italian video, I think I also read some papers, but I don't think I did for this early video. The symbols are called "sound change notation". I'm going to do a video on it at some point, but essentially, they show how sounds change over time. Again, the Italian video is a bit more in depth - it lists my conventions, but in brief: () = optional [] = linguistic feature {} = set/"any of" _ = "in this position" C = consonant V = vowel N = nasal : = long ! = not Ø = zero/nothing # = word boundary / = condition ... = "not immediately before/after" Hope that helps! :)

@@LexisLang Thank you! This really helps, I was asking because I wanted to make a video talking about an etymological root that would turn into the word ''Minecraft'' or ''Roblox'' in *English* as a joke because it obviously comes from mine+craft.

Do you think so? I'd say my voice is a tad lower and less inflectional, but I can maybe hear a slight similarity. :/

Any dialects you want to see in particular? :)

@@LexisLang Neapolitan, Sicilian, Tuscan, Venetian, Genoese, Romanesco, Sardinian, Piedmontese, Apulian, Emilian, Romagnolo and Lombardo.

@@LexisLang And Corscican if possible.

Ooh, thanks for the input! I didn't come across Faroese-Norn in my research, but I'll certainly keep an eye out in future. I believe I mentioned the 1300s rather than the 1400s because that's when the first signs of decline began to show, but it certainly went down very quickly when the islands were transferred. Being British, I am interested in all the languages of the UK and British Isles, so it certainly is a shame that so much of the language has been lost. I should definitely learn more about it. :)

@@LexisLang Well, Faroese-Norn is my own hypothesis but the more I read about it the more confident I feel that Faroese and Norn were certainly very close, certainly closer to each other than either is to say Icelandic. And well, we have documents written in Shetland from the very early 1400 and it is virtually indistinguishable from Faroese, you should look up Húsavíkarbrøvini, a series of letters written in the Faroes and Shetland. I also recently read a paper on the pronunciation of <hj> in Faroese and Norn and it was quite the interesting read. Should be easily googleable. Of course, we will never know for certain since Norn has died out but yeah, very interesting language.

I wish, lol. I'll get there one day! ;D

I mean that could be a whole video of its own! Long story short, we compare the words of modern languages to help figure out what the original may have looked like. In terms of the pronunciation in this video specifically, I'm using my knowledge of this and of modern and ancient languages and the work of experts in the field to create an approximation here. Hope that's an okay explanation. :D

Yes, most Nihali are bilingual in Korku, but many also speak Hindi and Marathi. :)

@@LexisLang yea I noticed in ur vid. Are u Indian?

I'm not, no. I'm from the UK. :)

Glad you enjoyed and thank you for the feedback! /e/ is a very hard vowel for me and I know I don't always hit it. Length is also hard for me for some reason, even though my own dialect of English has it. My native long vowels are *very* long though. Hopefully you'll see some sort of improvement in future videos! Thank you for watching!

Sorry?

@@LexisLang its a joke lol

I'm just speaking normally. Also not sure what's 'fake' about the title. Thank you for leaving a comment, though! :)

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed!

Oh wow, are you a speaker?! If so, I hope I've done your language justice! This video's a bit old, but I'd love to do another on this language at some point, it's genuinely one of my favourites! I tried to translate what you wrote, but I'll admit I'm struggling. You seem to be using a different orthography to me and my resources are limited. The last bit says "our language" and I think the middle bit's maybe something like "the great work you put..." and possibly something about "giving a place for our language"? Sorry if that's all wrong, though, I'd love to be filled in on what it actually says! Thanks for watching (and hopefully enjoying) the video! :D

Yeah this is my language. I really enjoyed watching your presentation and appreciate the amount effort you put on this presentation. For us, it is yet abit challenging to use the right alphabet or dialect in writing. The translation goes like: " I would like thank you for the great work you put into this presentation, to help understand more about the alphabets used in our language". I'd love to assist, if you want to do more presentations/learn more about this language.

Well, I put the one in this short together myself. So you think it's a good enough rendition? :)

@@LexisLang It's awesome! Keep up the great work!

@@reignman2103 Thanks! :D

Neither, I completely messed it up! Pretty sure I checked several times when I made this and I still got it wrong. Very few people have noticed, though, so well done for spotting it! :Ь

Oh, so that's what it was. I was just thinking it was some random colours to liven the video up haha.

@@Frau_Brotchen I mean, it certainly helps with that too! :D

I have, yes. Why do you ask? Do you have interesting facts to share or do you want a video? :D

@@LexisLang Just wondering if you could make a video about it, either the family itself overall or one of the languages like Hmong for example. It is a major language family in East and Southeast Asia, but it is much smaller in comparison to other much-known language families. I don't see it being mentioned much at all, but I would like to see more about it. I like your style of presenting information, so I hope you can make one in the future.

Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed! I'm not currently intending to do a part two of this video (although I may well do in future!). If you want something similar, my "10 Languages for 2024" video was intended as the "sequel" to this one and this was based on my "26 Languages" video series, the latest of which does actually include Wymysorys as a language. I'd certainly be interested in looking at the other languages you mentioned in a video at some point too! I do intend to do another video for EDL this year, although it may well be a different format and topic to keep things fresh, but this could return in future! Thank you so much for watching this one, though! :D

@@LexisLang Tankewol! Ill check it out!

(Frysk? Ik leavje dat!) Gijn probleem! Glad to be of help and that you're enjoying my work! :)

I was reading about that recently. As I understand it though, the Hebrew shva doesn't always represent schwa, does it? Just due to the vowel complexities of semitic languages. It is interesting to read about where these linguistics things come from though! :D

Yes, the s > z > Ø shift in Latin is very interesting! :D

Of course it is! I copy-pasted most of the words to be sure not to make any mistakes, but a couple I just varied having an -n. Should have remembered that makes a difference! Thanks for pointing that out! :D

It was a typo! ;)

Well, I guess except in base 17, but then literally every other number is really random. :)

@@LexisLang yeah but literally every other number has something for it. If it's an even number it doesn't feel THAT random, and literally every odd number makes me think of another number, either a multiplication or something else, EXCEPT 17. There is no number more random than 17 and that is final

I only learned last summer after years of trying, so I still relish it whenever I get chance! It's one of the sounds I use to test my mic! =D

Yeah... I tried for ages but I just can't for the life of me produce them. :/

That's right. :)

As I explained in my response to your comment on the 2024 Langs video, they *are* families in their own right. A language family is a group of related languages descended from a common ancestor. It doesn't matter if there's another ancestor beyond that - they're still a family. We just use "branch" to refer to one group of languages as splitting off from another. If one day we find an ancestor to PIE, Indo-European doesn't just stop being a family, it's just not the full picture. Hope I've explained that okay! :D

@@LexisLang still, it kinda sounds weird to me . Maybe I overstated with altaic, I couldn't find anything good to compare it

Yeah, I get it. It's probably that you learned it that way. It's always difficult when the way you learned contrasts with the standard way of doing things. I was mostly self-taught in linguistics until uni and it's still hard for a couple of things where I have my own way of doing stuff but the academic standard is different. :)

@@LexisLang im self-learned totally, I'm just a fourteen years old who has not much to do with free time and has decided that will become obsessed with languages linguistics and conlanging for the next milion years

@@cupcakkeisaslayqueen It's a very good thing to develop an interest in! I hope your learning goes well for you! If ever there's anything I can do to help, please do let me know, but I hope you enjoy what I put out until then! :D

Yep! Lambda for Lexis! Really keeping up that linguistic theme! ;D

it can also be Cyrillic

@@Usernamein2 the lambda in Cyrillic is more “stylized”

@@theofficeroliviersamson4498 There's a version of the Cyrillic L that's similar to Lambda and even tho I don't speak a language that is written in that I'm more used to that

@@Usernamein2 I guess.

I'm glad you've enjoyed that! But I just wanted to run through this myself, so here's what I got. So, these words don't look very PIE, so I wrote them out in a more PIE style, trying to keep their sound as close as possible. I had: - Méynkraptos - Ǵometridas (I compounded this one for extra fun!) Now advancing them (hopefully wellish): PGmc: - Mį̄hraftaz - Kanðritaz (*e elided from *kameðritaz) PWGmc: - Mį̄h(a)raft (per words like PGmc *fį̄hlō) - Kandret OHG: - Mīharaft - Kantrez Gm: - Meiheraft - Kantrez (I feel like this would become Kantretz or Kantretze) I also ran "méynkraptos" through the Italian SCs, which gave "mincratto", I think. The really interesting one is Welsh, which I'm thinking will be the next video of this format I do. "Méynkraptos" evolved through to Welsh I believe would give "mwyraeth". :D

@@LexisLang Wow, first, the way you turned it in to a proto-indo-european-y word was awesome and artistic. But the way you evolved it so well, and the result sounded so well in German Welsh and definitely Italian is just... WOW, thanks for showing me the real way it would work (: Love your videos!!

@@theofficeroliviersamson4498 Thank you! I suspect my conlanging experience helps me run through these kinds of things and know where and how to make the necessary adjustments. I'm glad you like what I make and I always like seeing familiar names with inquisitive minds in the comments. It's good to know people are actually engaging with what I do, more than just watching it. Please do keep doing that and I'll always be happy to reply to what I can, but if ever you want to chat about stuff a little more generally, my email's on my about page. No pressure of course, but you seem particularly curious and I'm always happy to help where I can! :D

That's my native Englishiness coming over. I can do unaspirated stops, as you've seen, but it's a conscious effort and I don't always nail it. Anyway, I'm so so glad you enjoyed the video! I will do one at some point on sound change notation, but I'm glad the examples were of help! :D

(Disculpame, no hablo mucho español :/ ) The three languages are quite similar. There were a few Spanish speakers in my Italian class at uni and they understood a decent amount automatically. It's perhaps heightened here because these words are all basic vocabulary items, so have stayed fairly static in their daughters. Perhaps you'd struggle more in context with all the grammatical wigglies. :)

@@LexisLang Sí, es más complicada la gramática del latín En cambio la gramática del italiano es muy similar. Dentro de las lenguas similares están también el portugues, catalán, incluso el occitano...El francés se entiende sólo un poco si está escrito, y el rumano se hace muy difícil entenderlo a pesar de la gran cantidad de léxico similar. Salut. 🙂

Yeah, I was going to include that, but the answer wasn't particularly clear, so I left it. These imitative things are quite hard to track. ;)

@@LexisLang indeed. you see this kind of thing a lot in Germanic langs

Ah, took me a little while to get this. I had to get my calculator out! :D

Thank you! I have a few languages I'd like to do with this, including English, so hopefully I'll do that at some point. Glad you enjoyed the video though! :D

@@LexisLang i like how other branches that come from I do European are strongly based on PIE but Germanic is just like; kwetwor? More like fedwor.

That's really just the effect of Grimm's Law though. Other than that, it's not at all dissimilar from Welsh "pedwar". Big sound changes can easily distort how similar the languages actually are and Grimm's is certainly that! ;D

@@LexisLang yeah grimms law... (:

@@LexisLang when will you make the videos for English or French?

Oh, good spot! Not even sure how that happened; it should have been copy-pasted throughout. Thanks for noticing though! :)

Also is there a video like this for French?

Thank you so much! I'm glad to hear you like what I'm doing! At the minute, I only have this format for Italian and German, but I do like it, so I want to do more in future and French is definitely up there. :D

@@LexisLang maybe if you do the Celtic branch you could do Gaulish? Or Scottish Gaelic? Idk... I read this book called Asterix et Obelix, and they're gaulish and I think it's cool (:

I'd do a modern one for these videos, but I'd love to look at something with Gaulish one day. Of the Celtic languages, I'd probably mainly do Welsh first, as that's what I speak some of. :)

@@LexisLang Cool! I would like to see the relations in between English or French and Welsh!

Pardon?

@@LexisLang nothing :).. just. a 13 year old boy in me giggles when seeing the Wolof number words... awesome vid though (french is weird ammirite)

Ah. Thank you for watching! Glad you enjoyed! French, definitely weird. It's very interesting and nice seeing why it's like that, but definitely seems weird at first. :)

It took quite a while to get what I wanted from it. Wikipedia is probably still better for idea gen. There might be a way to do it though. I do use image gens to get ideas for scripts, so maybe that's how AI can help. :)

Glad to see someone interested in Hawaiian! It's such a cool language! Also, Indo-Iranian is indeed a branch of IE, but it can also be referred to as a family on its own. Family just means a group of related languages. You can have families within families within families. Just another term for the same thing. ;D

It is handy. I'm not certain of how punctuation works in some other languages. Standards vary between languages. Is Italian much like English in that regard? :)

@@LexisLang Some newspaper or publisher might go for quotation marks à la French (i.e., « », instead of " "), as a stylistic choise, but punctuation guides are pretty much the same as in British English. Now that I think about it, an overview-video about punctuation marks in different languages wouldn't be a bad idea. Modern Greek is pretty wild for punctuation (e.g., I know for sure this symbol " ; " is used for " ? "). This topic might be worthy a video 🤔

​@@askadia Interesting! I took Italian for a year at uni, but not really at a high enough level to think about it. German has different conventions, though, which caught me out in my early days of learning it. A video is a good idea! I'll add it to my list! :D

Branza? Not familiar with that word. What does it mean?

Thanks for pointing that out. I did actually intend to pronounce it, but inadvertently omitted it. Complete mess up on my end - I really should have checked everything, but was just thrown by the MHG. Thanks for taking the time to comment, though! :)

Well, hopefully I can help teach you something! Conlanging can get quite complex quickly, so it's important to work at your own pace. A lot of concepts aren't hard per se, but can assume knowledge and concepts are often closely linked, so it's hard to teach them one at a time. I do hope this series will be useful in that way. Thanks for your appreciation and support! :D