There's also "warry" from Middle English "wari". Tolkien used the Old English form of this word to create "warg". The G naturally softened, though, so "warg" is not a realistic modernisation.
They're making up unnecessary new words. Anglish is too artificial. Why invent the word "forkind" when modern english already has *forefather* and forebear?
As a native English speaker, listening to this guy describe the USA in Anglish sounds like a Hobbit reading a tale about the faraway Elvish kingdoms to his grandchildren. It makes everything sound like a Tolkien-esque fantasy novel and I love it.
Listening to Anglish as an English speaker feels like listening to a language you know very well but not fluently. (in case any monolinguals are wondering what that feels like)
For me it was like my brain was slowly processing it all but I did basically understand what was being told it just took a moment with me filling in what little that didn't make sense at first
I mean I didn't have a problem understanding any of this. Alot of these words exist and to an extent are already used in English. And if your familiar with our germanic sister touches you can recognize many of those that aren't.
Anglish: Showplayer German: Schauspieler I think Anglish would be that much closer to German as Italian is to Spanish if all the Latinate differences were removed
Many of these words are just pulled from other Germanic languages and do not follow the original words used or lack original words. Sometimes words are overwrite preexisting pure native words for no reason. I think you could make a more Modern Anglish that is easier to learn and isn't copying other Germanic langs.
@@skyworm8006 languages have their own developing patterns, if a word was lost, it is lost and can be rarely revived to express new meanings..so inporting or immitating modern Germanic vocabulary would be better.
@@skyworm8006 @skyworm How is it borrowing from other Germanic languages? It is almost exclusively using words of Old English origin. Like Wye is from the Old English rather than Krieg, Mootband is also from Old English rather than the German Partei, and kernelmight for nuclear-powered rather than atomgetrieben.
@@skyworm8006 Showplayer is used because we don't have a word in Old English for actor but that would make sense using the Old English derived vocabulary of modern day English. Either that or just player.
@@hoathanatos6179 : In context of war, there are some in current german rarely used words. Streit once meant war ( Streitroß- warhorse, Streitkolben- mace, Streitaxt- battle axe) or Walstatt- battlefield. Also war sounds rather similar to german words with Wehr. Streitwagen- war chariot/ stridvagn - scandinavian for tank.
English: The Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics (USSR) Russian: Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (CCCP) Anglish: *The Band of Workermootly Kithish Folksrike (BWKF)*
Which is pretty much what it is. The English dictionary is made up of words from many other languages,most of which have only a limited or specialist use,ie science,law. A typical English speaker has a vocabulary between 5.000- 7.000 words ,most of which are Germanic. If asked an Icelander will know the meaning of every word in an Icelandic dictionary, A typical English speaker would be lucky to reach a 20% understanding if given the same challenge.
As a native English speaker, this is basically like being fluent in a 2nd language. You understand and can speak it perfectly but a few words here and there trip you up.
I seriously wish that some of these Anglish words would enter common use into English. People always argue that it's a natural process for languages to borrow words and that it doesn't defile but rather enriches them. Fine! But why is having and crafting words for things from native roots no less enriching?
Sadly, this is the Mootanglish, which does not brook(brūcan, OE, "use") many already sethed(sēþan, OE, "attested") words that spring from old and inborn(native) middle english. They {conflate} anglish with ofold(plain) english and withbraid(wiþbreġdan, OE, "limit") themselves by only brooking what few inborn words still live in new(modern) english and end up making hard to understand {compounds} for {simple concepts}
It’s more common to make up words today than in the past, in the past if someone wanted to coin a word for something new they would borrow a Greek or Latin word so that their word sounder “intelligent” and “polished”
@@awlkdural5396 it depends of the context and era,even though Germany is closer to France and Italy, english and polish borrow more words from Latin than German because of the Polish renaissance and french influence on english
@@simonlow0210 Yes, definitely. When I learnt English at school, I was shocked that such simple words were not in use. It seemed overcomplicated to me, like saying "the day after today" instead of "tomorrow" 😄
It's because English used to be like german and dutch, but then it developed to a mix of germanic and latin tounges. Making it a bit harder for germanic people but a bit easier for latin people. This makes it more broadly convenient for western europeans and the western hemisphere to learn.
English was never German OR Dutch. They have a common ancestor. The branching is as follows: West Germanic > Ingvaeonic > Anglo-frisian > English Ingvaeonic that refers to the northwest coast of Europe. Roughly west-Denmark to north-Netherlands. Ingvaeonic had split off centuries before High German was ever established. Making both Dutch and English older Germanic languages than German itself. The closest language by far is Frisian, an Anglophone - once accustomed to the Dialect- should more or less be able to work out what's said. Scots even more so.
Angles, Frisians, Jutes and Saxons were loosely connected tribes with a mutually intelligible language. Old English still looks and sounds remarkably like modern Dutch
Old English Months of the year Anglish Months of the year January = Æfterra Gēola Aft(er)Yule February = Sol-mōnaþ mud month (the month of cakes) March = Hrēþ-mōnaþ Hreth Month (month of the goddess Hreth) April = Ēostremōnaþ Easter Month (you already know) May = Þrimilce-mōnaþ Threelings month (month of the three milklings) June = Ærra Līþa ForeSummer - (leap month) Þrilīþa MidSummer July = Æftera Līþa Aft(er)Summer August = Weod-mōnaþ Weed Month (yeah i know lol) September = Hālig-mōnaþ HolyMonth October = Winterfylleth WinterFull November = Blōt-mōnaþ Blood Month December = Ærra Gēola Fore Yule
One commenter believed “America” to be a name that is Italian and thus Latinate in origin. This was my response to that person: ======== “America” was indeed derived from the Italian Amerigo Vespucci. However, the name Amerigo is a translation of the Germanic name “Emmerich.” Emmerich was descended from the name Amalric, meaning ruler of the Amali people, the Amals being a Germanic people. So, interesting plot twist, “America” is ultimately a Germanic name, not Latin.
Sana nga tayo din ay lumusong sa “language purism”, kahit sa mga katagalugan lamang... Napapangitan kasi ako sa mga tunog-Kastilang salita kagaya ng bulsa, kutsara, perspektibo, at ang mga katulad nito. Wala talaga akong pakialam kung magmuka tayong makata sa pananalita; isa naman ito sa mga madadaming wika ng ating pulo kaya huwag ikahiya. Iyung lamang hehe...
I like Anglish because it's truly pure and easy-understanding for learners.Some Latin and Romance vocabularies are beautiful but English also needs more words from own origin for daily talk,I think.
Germanic-origin words are no more native to Britain than Latin/French-origin words. Old English (Anglo-Saxon) was an invasive language in Britain originating in what is now Denmark, Germany and Netherlands. It displaced the Celtic languages which were previously used in England. It is simply an older external influence than the French influence that has shaped English since 1066.
@@magusl9628 well that’s what he means, I think it’s cool to have English as Germanic as possible, makes it sound more authentic. That way we can also understand the Germans & Dutch better. 😉
Theology just sounds 15th-century scribe bureaucratic while Godlore sounds like an elder recounting stories of ancient heroes long passed for the children to hear around the tribe's bonfire
As a German, I could make sense of so many words used in Anglish that are not used in English (anymore). But it kinda sounds like Anglish is more of an attempt to move English closer to German than just making it more Germanic because the vocabulary seems to resemble German much more than it does Dutch or Danish.
This reminds me of deep Tagalog words where Spanish and English loan words are simply substituted with Tagalog words that are combined together to make a new word entirely. I wish to see some words in that language and in this one to become in vogue someday.
Having learned German as a second language, it's both fascinating and unsurprising how many "Anglish" words are direct cognates with words in German and/or Dutch, or even North Germanic languages. Great Stuff!
As a native Russian speaker I firmly approve this language reform. Because in my relationship with English I was always and constantly surprised with artificiality of modern English. To understand really what is said in modern English one have to master French, Latin and Ancient Greek at Oxford-master level. Especially bewildering I found its inherent emotional insincerity resulting from the necessity to recur to these alien languages when one have to express one’s most sincere feelings. In this point I always felt pity to English-speakers. Consider classical English poetry: it’s really moving and heart-soothing only if one is fluent in French!
I like this idea. It could actually make english easier. With this along with a spelling reform the difficulty of learning the language could drop significantly.
Random Gaming spelling reform of English is near impossible because the various dialects are too different now to produce a unified reformed spelling, unless someone decided to only reform one dialect and rebrand as a separate language, for example reform Australian English and call it just Australian.
@@paradoxmo not true, American English has already done a bit of it. Slap it in text books and it will be standardized in a Generation, not like we all say things the same anyway
Why do you guys think Anglish would be easier? I don't think. Ok, maybe for people who already speak a germanic language, but in general, latin influence makes speaking English easier for people from the rest of the world. Do you agree?
Anglish is so damn wonderful. I don’t have to memorize jack shit because I’m a native English speaker; all I have to do is see the Germanic equivalent once and I remember it. Rainshade, folkwealth, sheen, oncouthing! Lovely!
The best thing with a pure language is that it becomes a lot easier to understand. My own native tongue - swedish - is a language that also has a lot of borrowed words from french, latin and greek, however, swedish is still possible to speak with almost only germanic root words and uses a lot less borrowed words as english does. The good thing about this is that when I hear swedish words I have never heard before, I can easily figure out what the words are supposed to mean because of how the language is structured and designed. And since communication is so important, I believe that a pure language is something to strive for! Any arguments, against or for my opinion are welcome! ^^
The same (approx.) goes for my native language German. Nowadays for example, our language is flooded by anglicisms. I don't always like that fact, but on the other hand, what I like even less are government-led language purification attempts like in contemporary France. There have been language purification movements in Germany in the (iirc) 19th century to eradicate all non-Germanic words. But they ended up just being ridiculous. Nowadays, kids are taught some examples in school, in order to show them how "childish", fundamentalist and overexaggerated such movements can become. Best examples I remember are "Gesichtserker" (face bay window) instead of Nase (nose) and "Tagleuchter" (day lighter) instead of Fenster (window)...
Sure, it makes it easier to understand compound words that are native to your language. However, if you want to learn a different language, it is a blessing to have these universal words. Especially very complicated topics like science or trade often use mostly identical words throughout all of Europe. Can you imagine how hard can be to explain which chemical element you are talking about if everyone calls it differently (something that is the case to some degree)? Who is going to learn all of these names a second and third time without mixing things up?
@@AndersGehtsdochauch My English sensibilities are making me read "Tagleuchter" something like "Tag-Feuerzeug", seeing as how "lighter" in English is "der Feuerzeug" auf Deutsch. Is "Fenster" not of Germanic origin? A friend of mine likes to point out how silly it is for German to borrow many words from English when German has its own perfectly good ones. My favorite is "Fernsprecher" instead of "das Telefon". On a related note, I would be curious to know if there is a more German word for baby than "das Baby" - since that only inflects to "die Babys" it screams "loanword". But that begs the question for me as a German learner: what would a baby have been called before this word was imported? Kindchen? Kindlein? Kindleinchen?Neugebornt?
As a french speaker, learning english was easy since tons of english words come from french. I'm currently trying to learn German and it's much harder 😂
This feels like pure Tagalog and Filipino. Tagalog be sounding poetic and old-fashioned while Filipino is standardize version of Tagalog and mix of various languages.
Asymmetrically. If someone were hypothetically, brought up speaking Anglish, they would struggle a bit to understand English, but a learned English speaker easily understands virtually everything said in Anglish.
If you want to so badly then start speaking like this. It’s not like learning a new language. All you’ll have to do is change some of your vocabulary and you’re good to go.
@@12tanuha21 nah, different word for that. It came from the same root, but heal is to make something healthy, while hail is to wish another is healthy (greetings)
German, Dutch or Swedish native speakers: "100% intelligible and incredibly easy to learn for us!" English native speakers: "Who has changed half our words into this Old Norse-like oddity?..." Italian, Spanish or French native speakers: "English was so comfortable because half its vocabulary came from Romance Languages, now we cannot fake it like before..."
I've also always wondered what English would've looked like if it had kept archaic grammar to the same extent as German or Icelandic, all those cases which were lost early on
I learnt French before English, and now thanks for this video I know how much French and Latin derived vocabulary in Modern English I did not need to relearn
Yes, folk is a word of Old English origin (with a bit of reinforcement from Old Norse), while people is from Old/Norman French. A word imposed by invaders. Folk should be used. OE also had 'theed' and 'Leed' (leode in Old English spelling).
I’m surprised they use the word “ye” as the singular pronoun. I always thought it was plural, like the Spanish vosotros. I figured the singular would be just regular “you,” or the archaic “thou.”
Nah, the way the "thou/thee - ye/you" system worked in Middle English was more or less as follows: Thou - used in informal contexts, i.e. when speaking to family and friends, or to someone that was beneath you in status, like a servant (think of "tú" and its variants in other Romance languages, "du" in German or "jij" in Dutch) Thee - oblique (object) form of the aforementioned, like "ti/te" in Spanish, "te/toi" in French, or "dich/dir" in German. "Ye" had two distinct functions (same as the French vous): 1) ye - used to address a group of people in informal contexts, like "vosotros" in EU Spanish, "Ihr" in German, "jullie" in Dutch. 2) Ye - used in formal contexts when either addressing a single person (like Spanish "usted", German "Sie", Dutch "U") or a group of people (like Spanish "ustedes"). "You" - oblique/object form of "ye" (according to context, like Spanish "os/les", German "euch/Ihnen"). Thou art - tú eres - du bist - jij bent Ye are - vosotros sois, usted es, ustedes son - ihr seid, Sie sind - jullie zijn, U bent I give thee - te doy - ich gebe dir - ik geef je/jou I give you - os doy, le doy, les doy - ich gebe euch/Ihnen, ik geef jullie/U
They use a few archaic words even where the modern word is also of Anglo-Saxon derivation, such as "wone" instead of "live" or "dwell". Saying "ye" instead of "you" is another example.
This is the besetness of the lovely English tongue that shall be kept alive by myself and hopefully others. We shouldn’t have to seek the letship of any wordbook in putters to speak cleansed English but only begin to do so like today and now. English bestands forwhy the forekind of todays speakers bestowed it upon them. The bestanding of English is thanks to them, thus speaking it flawlessly and with clean English wordstock is the best way to go about it.
This is basically what German did in the mid 19th century due to the prevalence of the Romantic movement and the effort to get rid of Latinisms in German, but it was only partial. Believe it or not, German used to have a lot more Latin loanwords which were replaced with native compounds.
I like it's plain speaking nature and how the Anglish replacement words fully represent the concept and feel less abstract than their foreign equivalent.
I'm learning French and when I see using so many French words instead of using any English or non-French loanwords I think if English would had more Germanic words than Romance ones then that'd be great. So I'm absolutely for Anglish but I want it as a separate language, I don't want to mix the two 'cause I also love the modern English. 😄😄 Am I the only one who think like this ??
It's a hypothetical form of English if it were developped without Latin nor Norman French influence. I noticed someone had commented it's a form of Middle English - an opinion I disagree with, because Middle English itself took a lot of influences from Latin and Norman French.
I always wondered what English would be like without all or most of the Latin loan words, great video! Would love to see more on English I.e. Old English or Middle English (numbers, greetings etc) or really any Germanic languages as I find them fascinating!
English should be like this 😭 it's so hard for me that my native language is not related to any Latin language at all, every time when I want to improve my level I have to memorize all those new synonym, many of them don't even exist in my native language 😭
English at it's finest. Purest. Must be taught at primary school to get into knowledge. Cause' the only one can speak like A rural countryside British.
Fore some reason, godlore sounds a lot cooler than theology. Anglish sounds like it could be used for a fantasy novel. Even basic concepts in English like literature sound really cool in Anglish like bookcraft.
This is so cool! How nice if this is the real English spoken! I love the idea of going back to its own roots. This way, learning Dutch, German or even Icelandic would be much easier with more cognates! But on the downside, learning Romance languages such as French would become slightly more difficult. Well, we can't ask for everything, it's either this or that, but I really like this version of English, even though I'm not English. Lol 🤣
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Very well done. I noted that you used the word ‘war’ , that vocable is from old North French ‘werre’, the Anglish word is ‘gewin’.
Nah. Ge- never survived into Modern English like that, it always got reduced after the G softened. So maybe "awin" or something. I prefer "wye" from Middle English wī and Old English wīg.
'From Middle English werre, from Late Old English werre, wyrre (“armed conflict”) from Old Northern French werre (compare Old French guerre, whence modern French guerre), from Frankish *werra (“riot, disturbance, quarrel”) from Proto-Germanic *werrō (“mixture, mix-up, confusion, turmoil”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”). Akin to Old High German werra (“confusion, strife, quarrel”) (German verwirren (“to confuse”)), Old Saxon werran (“to confuse, perplex”), Dutch war (“confusion, disarray”), West Frisian war (“defense, self-defense, struggle", also "confusion”), Old English wyrsa, wiersa (“worse”), Old Norse verri (“worse”) (originally "confounded, mixed up"). There may be a connection with worse, wurst.' It's Germanic and probably little different to continuation of the native word that it is ambiguous which one it actually is.
"Sickerhood" is like "Sicherheit" in German.. both of them also mean "Security" thus, Oned Folksland Sickerhood Moot means "United Nations Security Council" in Normal English
I think Germany would be "Dutchland" which is close to Germany's endonym "Deutschland", and the Word "Germans" would be called "Dutch". And I think the people from The Netherlands would be called "Netherlanders" or "Netherlandish".
Until the eighteenth century Germans were called 'Dutch', the term 'Fleming' was a more general synonym for Netherlanders . The term 'Dutch' as a reference to Germans continued even longer in the US, where the 'Lost Dutchman Mine' described a gold working discovered by a German immigrant, Jakob Weitz in the 1880s.
Honestly I think we should change "Dutch" to "Netherlandish/Netherlander" regardless, based on how many people I've seen get confused between Dutch/Deutsch/Danish.
Although I don't understand 100%, I honestly prefer Anglish and idea of pure English language. People should use their own words and stand up against language imperialism. Every foreign word that can be changed by original word should be changed (as long as it doesn't sound weird)
@@shawnbenson7696 this is "Moot" Anglish, the first popular kind on the internet(i think). Meaning it's not as high quality or refined as its afterbears.
So beautiful language. It's no far different from form of English modern (now). My language too have a pure. That is beka melayu (pure malay). The same with English its analogy.
Note: The word Monster is Latin in origin. The Anglish for counterpart are fiend; dreadnaught; bogey; wight.
Can you bring back Hamlet, Canterbury Tales, and Beowulf?
There's also "warry" from Middle English "wari". Tolkien used the Old English form of this word to create "warg". The G naturally softened, though, so "warg" is not a realistic modernisation.
Fiend is used for enemy
@@Hurlebatte why do you hate tolkeins >:(
@@michaelbell3952 Yes, but in older literature, it's also used for a ferocious beast or anything of the like.
That feeling when you can count perfectly in Anglish.
Ah shit, woosh is coming
r/woooooosh
Luna Moon no?
Mr worldwide
I can say every number in Anglish.
Imagine having an anglish speaker tell you "there's a big wild cat outside!"
Then when you go out to see it,it's a lion
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@@montimuros2837 uP
r/whooosh
@@muderer_executioner woooosh?
THey should've added that it is a MANNED big wild cat!
Literature
Anglish: Bookcraft
Ancestor
Anglish: Forekind
I can see that Langfocus reference, i like it
Anglish:foreskin more like it.
The Anglish words make more sense to me.
They're making up unnecessary new words. Anglish is too artificial. Why invent the word "forkind" when modern english already has *forefather* and forebear?
does it use unfrenchified pronouns?
Ick, þu, He/Hie, We, Ge, They?
As a native English speaker, listening to this guy describe the USA in Anglish sounds like a Hobbit reading a tale about the faraway Elvish kingdoms to his grandchildren. It makes everything sound like a Tolkien-esque fantasy novel and I love it.
Listening to Anglish as an English speaker feels like listening to a language you know very well but not fluently. (in case any monolinguals are wondering what that feels like)
since some words do come from (actually are inherited by) english (mainly british) dialects
For me it was like my brain was slowly processing it all but I did basically understand what was being told it just took a moment with me filling in what little that didn't make sense at first
@EyeZackZin "Fiftyfive" is "fiveandfifty" because "fiftyfive" is French grammar. French influenced the grammar of English aswell.
I mean I didn't have a problem understanding any of this. Alot of these words exist and to an extent are already used in English. And if your familiar with our germanic sister touches you can recognize many of those that aren't.
Just like spanish people listening to portuguese people.
ordinary people: theology
creative people: G O D L O R E
godlore > theology
Deorlore> zoology
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yeah forthat deer once meant "animals" meanly
yeah because deer used to mean animals in general
@Evil Santa fedoratip.jpg
@Toonimation debate
@@weonanegesiscipelibba2973A cognate with German "Tier".
Anglish: Showplayer
German: Schauspieler
I think Anglish would be that much closer to German as Italian is to Spanish if all the Latinate differences were removed
Many of these words are just pulled from other Germanic languages and do not follow the original words used or lack original words. Sometimes words are overwrite preexisting pure native words for no reason. I think you could make a more Modern Anglish that is easier to learn and isn't copying other Germanic langs.
@@skyworm8006 languages have their own developing patterns, if a word was lost, it is lost and can be rarely revived to express new meanings..so inporting or immitating modern Germanic vocabulary would be better.
@@skyworm8006 @skyworm How is it borrowing from other Germanic languages? It is almost exclusively using words of Old English origin. Like Wye is from the Old English rather than Krieg, Mootband is also from Old English rather than the German Partei, and kernelmight for nuclear-powered rather than atomgetrieben.
@@skyworm8006 Showplayer is used because we don't have a word in Old English for actor but that would make sense using the Old English derived vocabulary of modern day English. Either that or just player.
@@hoathanatos6179 : In context of war, there are some in current german rarely used words. Streit once meant war ( Streitroß- warhorse, Streitkolben- mace, Streitaxt- battle axe) or Walstatt- battlefield. Also war sounds rather similar to german words with Wehr. Streitwagen- war chariot/ stridvagn - scandinavian for tank.
I’m going to scare my English teacher and speak like this all the time.
😂😂😂
Maybe you would say house-cat.
English teacher here, you're only going to make us blush.
Good job
@çığöşü native english speakers refer to their language arts class as english.
English: The Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics (USSR)
Russian: Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (CCCP)
Anglish: *The Band of Workermootly Kithish Folksrike (BWKF)*
As a non native English speaker, this feels like when i just learned basic english
Which is pretty much what it is. The English dictionary is made up of words from many other languages,most of which have only a limited or specialist use,ie science,law. A typical English speaker has a vocabulary between 5.000- 7.000 words ,most of which are Germanic. If asked an Icelander will know the meaning of every word in an Icelandic dictionary, A typical English speaker would be lucky to reach a 20% understanding if given the same challenge.
Sounds like american english
As a native English speaker, this is basically like being fluent in a 2nd language. You understand and can speak it perfectly but a few words here and there trip you up.
No mate, it is the same language but all the Latin/Romantic words have been removed.
This sounds both formal and informal "Rainshade" sounds like something both a fantasy author and a child would describe an umbrella
I assume it's based on German "Regenschirm", lit. "rain-screen".
I seriously wish that some of these Anglish words would enter common use into English. People always argue that it's a natural process for languages to borrow words and that it doesn't defile but rather enriches them. Fine! But why is having and crafting words for things from native roots no less enriching?
Sadly, this is the Mootanglish, which does not brook(brūcan, OE, "use") many already sethed(sēþan, OE, "attested") words that spring from old and inborn(native) middle english. They {conflate} anglish with ofold(plain) english and withbraid(wiþbreġdan, OE, "limit") themselves by only brooking what few inborn words still live in new(modern) english and end up making hard to understand {compounds} for {simple concepts}
It’s more common to make up words today than in the past, in the past if someone wanted to coin a word for something new they would borrow a Greek or Latin word so that their word sounder “intelligent” and “polished”
@@awlkdural5396 it depends of the context and era,even though Germany is closer to France and Italy, english and polish borrow more words from Latin than German because of the Polish renaissance and french influence on english
Then use some yourself
@@simonlow0210 Yes, definitely. When I learnt English at school, I was shocked that such simple words were not in use. It seemed overcomplicated to me, like saying "the day after today" instead of "tomorrow" 😄
The Oned Rikes of America sounds like a metal band name :D
And they have a Mootband.
🎸🔥🤘🏼
In Polish "United States" are "Stany Zjednoczone" so literary "Oned" (jeden = one)
🤣👍❤️
Strangely, I can understand all of this without any difficulty. It sounds somewhat closer to Dutch or German.
It's because English used to be like german and dutch, but then it developed to a mix of germanic and latin tounges. Making it a bit harder for germanic people but a bit easier for latin people. This makes it more broadly convenient for western europeans and the western hemisphere to learn.
Hardship*
English was never German OR Dutch.
They have a common ancestor.
The branching is as follows:
West Germanic > Ingvaeonic > Anglo-frisian > English
Ingvaeonic that refers to the northwest coast of Europe. Roughly west-Denmark to north-Netherlands.
Ingvaeonic had split off centuries before High German was ever established. Making both Dutch and English older Germanic languages than German itself.
The closest language by far is Frisian, an Anglophone - once accustomed to the Dialect- should more or less be able to work out what's said. Scots even more so.
Angles, Frisians, Jutes and Saxons were loosely connected tribes with a mutually intelligible language. Old English still looks and sounds remarkably like modern Dutch
@@asparagussyndrome9430 Same goes to Frisian. A mix between German and Dutch.
Old English Months of the year Anglish Months of the year
January = Æfterra Gēola Aft(er)Yule
February = Sol-mōnaþ mud month (the month of cakes)
March = Hrēþ-mōnaþ Hreth Month (month of the goddess Hreth)
April = Ēostremōnaþ Easter Month (you already know)
May = Þrimilce-mōnaþ Threelings month (month of the three milklings)
June = Ærra Līþa ForeSummer
- (leap month) Þrilīþa MidSummer
July = Æftera Līþa Aft(er)Summer
August = Weod-mōnaþ Weed Month (yeah i know lol)
September = Hālig-mōnaþ HolyMonth
October = Winterfylleth WinterFull
November = Blōt-mōnaþ Blood Month
December = Ærra Gēola Fore Yule
It would be ten times cooler if we used these. Sigh.
As a speaker of English and German, its like if English decided to go back to its more practical root meanings lmao
One commenter believed “America” to be a name that is Italian and thus Latinate in origin. This was my response to that person:
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“America” was indeed derived from the Italian Amerigo Vespucci. However, the name Amerigo is a translation of the Germanic name “Emmerich.” Emmerich was descended from the name Amalric, meaning ruler of the Amali people, the Amals being a Germanic people.
So, interesting plot twist, “America” is ultimately a Germanic name, not Latin.
It's like South Koreans hearing North Korean language.
Not really. North Korean dialect has got a lot of words of Russian origin.
H Ahn and what exactly are those words? North Korean language didn’t updated for a long time, that’s all.
technically it's the reverse. South Korea wiped out most Japanese loan words as a nationalist move, North Korea didn't.
@@seijasukuna3978 Source: Likes the south
@Indian Stars or the Greece of Asia
As a Filipino, almost nothing changed at all, except the vocabulary is badass.
You only have to browse through local dialect guides in England to recognise these forms.
Sana nga tayo din ay lumusong sa “language purism”, kahit sa mga katagalugan lamang...
Napapangitan kasi ako sa mga tunog-Kastilang salita kagaya ng bulsa, kutsara, perspektibo, at ang mga katulad nito. Wala talaga akong pakialam kung magmuka tayong makata sa pananalita; isa naman ito sa mga madadaming wika ng ating pulo kaya huwag ikahiya. Iyung lamang hehe...
@@santino1196 sagwa, pag nag german style compund words tayo, masyadong maraming syllables ang mga Tagalog words, salong ulam, salong butas pangibaba, kitang panig, ikot hangin, sulatang dinurog na kahoy, pambayad, tusok ulam, hating bahay, salong suso, pinipsip gatas, kinatatayuan ng bahay...
@@santino1196 mas gusto ko yun ang astig nga pakinggan kung ganun tau magsalita eh
@@santino1196 languages change overtime. In the future magiging overwhelmingly different ang bisaya sa tagalog na halos wla na silang cognates.
As a Latin speaker, this just sounds normal English to me
Now, þat's interesting!
@@Loreman72 loool
Omg im so jealoussssssssssss, i did latin for thee years and i can only understand the very basics, grammar and syntax
Latin speaker daily? cool
you must be work at Vatican or Catholic church
they added Anglish to Minecraft, it's pretty cool
As well as Gothic.
I like Anglish because it's truly pure and easy-understanding for learners.Some Latin and Romance vocabularies are beautiful but English also needs more words from own origin for daily talk,I think.
'Own origin'... you mean 'germanic origin'. Anglish is even more germanic than English.
Germanic-origin words are no more native to Britain than Latin/French-origin words. Old English (Anglo-Saxon) was an invasive language in Britain originating in what is now Denmark, Germany and Netherlands. It displaced the Celtic languages which were previously used in England. It is simply an older external influence than the French influence that has shaped English since 1066.
@@magusl9628 well that’s what he means, I think it’s cool to have English as Germanic as possible, makes it sound more authentic. That way we can also understand the Germans & Dutch better. 😉
@@OntarioTrafficMan them by my guest purify those languages too.
@@OntarioTrafficMan that would would be right if english picked the "germanic" loanwords layer not had it natively. English IS a germanic language
Theology = Godlore
honestly Godlore sounds so sick lmao
what do you study?
oh you know just GODLORE
nah.
What is your craft? Godlore.
Theology just sounds 15th-century scribe bureaucratic while Godlore sounds like an elder recounting stories of ancient heroes long passed for the children to hear around the tribe's bonfire
@@wanitooo Which perfectly encapsulates the meaning :)
@@gamerx3354 :tipsfedoraintensifies:
Sound like a glory hole
As a German, I could make sense of so many words used in Anglish that are not used in English (anymore). But it kinda sounds like Anglish is more of an attempt to move English closer to German than just making it more Germanic because the vocabulary seems to resemble German much more than it does Dutch or Danish.
Wow.... I am a native Saxon from Westphalia northwest Germany... that's our common language..... 🏴🇩🇪🤗💋
This reminds me of deep Tagalog words where Spanish and English loan words are simply substituted with Tagalog words that are combined together to make a new word entirely. I wish to see some words in that language and in this one to become in vogue someday.
Ah. Pure Tagalog exist buddy.
@EyeZackZin dont forget Sanskrit
@@reijinvyskra1759 Yes? Have you anything else to add?
@@laobok Daragdagan saan? Sa pananalita ko sa Tagalog o sa isang Dalisay na pagpapahiwatig?
The old word for upuan (silya in spanish loanword of chair) is salumpwet XD.... Salo (Catch), pwet (butt)..
I love "rainshade". I wish we would adapt it into actual English.
It's really easy to understand the meaning
Having learned German as a second language, it's both fascinating and unsurprising how many "Anglish" words are direct cognates with words in German and/or Dutch, or even North Germanic languages. Great Stuff!
some examples:
1. Witship (Anglish) and Wissenschaft (German) --> Science
2. Sickerhood (Anglish) and Sicherheit (German) --> Security
If King Harold had won...
Alas, my fine fellow, if only!
I yearn for this alternate timeline.
@@etorawa9367 FINE IS LATIN. STOP
@@Twigs1836 SO IS ALTERNATIVE
If only it were so good fellow, if only*
Umbrella
Anglish : Rainshade
Satellite
Anglish : Ironmoon
XD)))):
or Godfloat
Sunshade too
😆😆😆
In german its Regenschirm which is also a compound word from the same words
The moon is a satellite, so maybe falsestar or something? Never mind I'll see myself out😂
Normal: American.
Badass: Americkish.
Normal - Malaysian
Pro - Malaisish.
@@---jj6xl So you like small things...
“I want a cat” could be a little dangerous in Anglish.
Cat is ok though, old old borrowing in proto-Germanic
The Anglish word "cat" can be used to mean tiger, lion, or any animal part of the cat family.
Should probably specify it with "House cat"
I love this! It's like the English language merged with the pragmatism of the German language!
Or rather, it's like English's pragmatism were never lost.
It’s more like Dutch
As a native Russian speaker I firmly approve this language reform. Because in my relationship with English I was always and constantly surprised with artificiality of modern English. To understand really what is said in modern English one have to master French, Latin and Ancient Greek at Oxford-master level. Especially bewildering I found its inherent emotional insincerity resulting from the necessity to recur to these alien languages when one have to express one’s most sincere feelings. In this point I always felt pity to English-speakers. Consider classical English poetry: it’s really moving and heart-soothing only if one is fluent in French!
I like this idea. It could actually make english easier. With this along with a spelling reform the difficulty of learning the language could drop significantly.
Random Gaming spelling reform of English is near impossible because the various dialects are too different now to produce a unified reformed spelling, unless someone decided to only reform one dialect and rebrand as a separate language, for example reform Australian English and call it just Australian.
@@paradoxmo not true, American English has already done a bit of it. Slap it in text books and it will be standardized in a Generation, not like we all say things the same anyway
Well, English now is already quite easy.
@@grillygrilly That is subjective
Why do you guys think Anglish would be easier? I don't think. Ok, maybe for people who already speak a germanic language, but in general, latin influence makes speaking English easier for people from the rest of the world. Do you agree?
Anglish is so damn wonderful. I don’t have to memorize jack shit because I’m a native English speaker; all I have to do is see the Germanic equivalent once and I remember it. Rainshade, folkwealth, sheen, oncouthing! Lovely!
The best thing with a pure language is that it becomes a lot easier to understand.
My own native tongue - swedish - is a language that also has a lot of borrowed words from french, latin and greek, however, swedish is still possible to speak with almost only germanic root words and uses a lot less borrowed words as english does. The good thing about this is that when I hear swedish words I have never heard before, I can easily figure out what the words are supposed to mean because of how the language is structured and designed.
And since communication is so important, I believe that a pure language is something to strive for!
Any arguments, against or for my opinion are welcome! ^^
The same (approx.) goes for my native language German.
Nowadays for example, our language is flooded by anglicisms. I don't always like that fact, but on the other hand, what I like even less are government-led language purification attempts like in contemporary France.
There have been language purification movements in Germany in the (iirc) 19th century to eradicate all non-Germanic words.
But they ended up just being ridiculous.
Nowadays, kids are taught some examples in school, in order to show them how "childish", fundamentalist and overexaggerated such movements can become.
Best examples I remember are "Gesichtserker" (face bay window) instead of Nase (nose) and "Tagleuchter" (day lighter) instead of Fenster (window)...
Sure, it makes it easier to understand compound words that are native to your language. However, if you want to learn a different language, it is a blessing to have these universal words. Especially very complicated topics like science or trade often use mostly identical words throughout all of Europe. Can you imagine how hard can be to explain which chemical element you are talking about if everyone calls it differently (something that is the case to some degree)? Who is going to learn all of these names a second and third time without mixing things up?
@@AndersGehtsdochauch My English sensibilities are making me read "Tagleuchter" something like "Tag-Feuerzeug", seeing as how "lighter" in English is "der Feuerzeug" auf Deutsch. Is "Fenster" not of Germanic origin?
A friend of mine likes to point out how silly it is for German to borrow many words from English when German has its own perfectly good ones. My favorite is "Fernsprecher" instead of "das Telefon".
On a related note, I would be curious to know if there is a more German word for baby than "das Baby" - since that only inflects to "die Babys" it screams "loanword". But that begs the question for me as a German learner: what would a baby have been called before this word was imported? Kindchen? Kindlein? Kindleinchen?Neugebornt?
As a french speaker, learning english was easy since tons of english words come from french. I'm currently trying to learn German and it's much harder 😂
In all honesty. I am a native English speaker from the US and I can understand 90% of this Anglish. It’s quite simple.
Anglish: "foreskin"
Snobby English: "predermis"
Snobby English is basically Latin.
@@user-pr1dh2bw6k or French
As an English person it feels good to know I have never heard of predermis in my life
Surely it's "prepuce"? Predermis is impulchritudinous.
@@spraffman Noncromulent
This feels like pure Tagalog and Filipino. Tagalog be sounding poetic and old-fashioned while Filipino is standardize version of Tagalog and mix of various languages.
Broke: Republican Party
Woke: Allthingers Mootband
Lmfaoo
Drumpf of the Allthingers mootband.
@@weeradge5771 Sounds like a Ska band's name
'Socialism' is 'fellowdoom' and dictatorship of the proletariat; is 'manbinding by the thralls, bindrike of the churls, worldreevedom of the knaves'
@@TomorrowWeLive I wish I'm illiterate to Anglish
It looks like Icelandic literally translated to English.
Icelandic is the most well preserved Germanic language, it's hardly changed from Old Norse. It's a true living beauty.
I love making native English equivalents of Latin/French/Greek loanwords. I love Germanic languages. ❤️
Very cool! Sounds even better than actual English
Highly mutually intelligible with English 🙊
Asymmetrically. If someone were hypothetically, brought up speaking Anglish, they would struggle a bit to understand English, but a learned English speaker easily understands virtually everything said in Anglish.
@@senorsiro3748 Yup, it would only take a little bit of an analysis of the new compound Anglish words to understand them.
@@senorsiro3748 how ?
They sound exact same of english, I like it!
If you want to so badly then start speaking like this. It’s not like learning a new language. All you’ll have to do is change some of your vocabulary and you’re good to go.
@@awlkdural5396 okay
Yes. Ground Law (what we now call the Constitution). In German, “constitution” translates to “Grundgesetz” (literally “ground law”).
title: pure anglish language
pure anglish language: *HAIL*
In into german-anglish confusion (if is offensive i will delete it)
Shouldn‘t it be HEAL ?
@@12tanuha21 nah, different word for that. It came from the same root, but heal is to make something healthy, while hail is to wish another is healthy (greetings)
German, Dutch or Swedish native speakers: "100% intelligible and incredibly easy to learn for us!"
English native speakers: "Who has changed half our words into this Old Norse-like oddity?..."
Italian, Spanish or French native speakers: "English was so comfortable because half its vocabulary came from Romance Languages, now we cannot fake it like before..."
I don't know about that, latin speakers often get tripped up by the the calqued romance vocabulary because the phonology is off.
Langfocus made an Anglish vid once it was cool!
I've also always wondered what English would've looked like if it had kept archaic grammar to the same extent as German or Icelandic, all those cases which were lost early on
Quite like Old English, I suppose.
I learnt French before English, and now thanks for this video I know how much French and Latin derived vocabulary in Modern English I did not need to relearn
That was great, I’ve always been very curious with Anglish (purely Germanic English). I’m hoping you’ll do the Sindarin language next.
It's so interesting listening to you speaking about as near to English as possible.
Imagine being online and someone says “i am well versed in god lore”
I notice that I seem to speak pure English
A lot of times a say the word "folk" instead of "people"
People say "folks" a lot down south what are you on about
Yes, folk is a word of Old English origin (with a bit of reinforcement from Old Norse), while people is from Old/Norman French. A word imposed by invaders. Folk should be used. OE also had 'theed' and 'Leed' (leode in Old English spelling).
@@MiyaMam948 folks is really unpleasant.
@@orkotron007 Poble (welsh)
Many of these terms can still be heard in regional English speech.
I love "Groundlaw" so much more than "Constitution".
4:37 - "Changing" is not an Anglish word. It is the Frankish one. The Anglish _fellow_ (equivalent) would be "Switching", "Shifting" or "Makeovering".
I’m surprised they use the word “ye” as the singular pronoun. I always thought it was plural, like the Spanish vosotros. I figured the singular would be just regular “you,” or the archaic “thou.”
Nah, the way the "thou/thee - ye/you" system worked in Middle English was more or less as follows:
Thou - used in informal contexts, i.e. when speaking to family and friends, or to someone that was beneath you in status, like a servant (think of "tú" and its variants in other Romance languages, "du" in German or "jij" in Dutch)
Thee - oblique (object) form of the aforementioned, like "ti/te" in Spanish, "te/toi" in French, or "dich/dir" in German.
"Ye" had two distinct functions (same as the French vous):
1) ye - used to address a group of people in informal contexts, like "vosotros" in EU Spanish, "Ihr" in German, "jullie" in Dutch.
2) Ye - used in formal contexts when either addressing a single person (like Spanish "usted", German "Sie", Dutch "U") or a group of people (like Spanish "ustedes").
"You" - oblique/object form of "ye" (according to context, like Spanish "os/les", German "euch/Ihnen").
Thou art - tú eres - du bist - jij bent
Ye are - vosotros sois, usted es, ustedes son - ihr seid, Sie sind - jullie zijn, U bent
I give thee - te doy - ich gebe dir - ik geef je/jou
I give you - os doy, le doy, les doy - ich gebe euch/Ihnen, ik geef jullie/U
Thou is still used in Northumbria.
@@michaelbell3952 epic!
They use a few archaic words even where the modern word is also of Anglo-Saxon derivation, such as "wone" instead of "live" or "dwell". Saying "ye" instead of "you" is another example.
@@thomas5054 So clearly explained.
“Rainshield” makes more sense, but that’s just me, I guess.
This is the besetness of the lovely English tongue that shall be kept alive by myself and hopefully others. We shouldn’t have to seek the letship of any wordbook in putters to speak cleansed English but only begin to do so like today and now. English bestands forwhy the forekind of todays speakers bestowed it upon them. The bestanding of English is thanks to them, thus speaking it flawlessly and with clean English wordstock is the best way to go about it.
And ye children just've listened to the History of the Parallel Universe xD
Anglish is the attempt to revise the outcome of the battle of Hastings.
Screw William the conqueror for alienating one of our germanic brother peoples!
Purify the english language! :)
German native speaker. Slowed down slightly I understand almost everything.
You know English
@@Heretogasunu Of course, it's the combination.
I am a native English speaker and I understood mostly everything but one new word popped up, Folkdoms.
This is basically what German did in the mid 19th century due to the prevalence of the Romantic movement and the effort to get rid of Latinisms in German, but it was only partial. Believe it or not, German used to have a lot more Latin loanwords which were replaced with native compounds.
This is such a beautiful variety of English!
This feels like pure English
I like it's plain speaking nature and how the Anglish replacement words fully represent the concept and feel less abstract than their foreign equivalent.
This actually sounds Germanic if you tune out while listening. I want to learn to talk like this and see if anyone picks up on it
I'm learning French and when I see using so many French words instead of using any English or non-French loanwords I think if English would had more Germanic words than Romance ones then that'd be great. So I'm absolutely for Anglish but I want it as a separate language, I don't want to mix the two 'cause I also love the modern English. 😄😄 Am I the only one who think like this ??
As a Spanish/ French speaker, English with Latin words is perfect for me hehe
It's a hypothetical form of English if it were developped without Latin nor Norman French influence. I noticed someone had commented it's a form of Middle English - an opinion I disagree with, because Middle English itself took a lot of influences from Latin and Norman French.
And Middle English also absorbed a couple of thousand Scandinavian words.
I always wondered what English would be like without all or most of the Latin loan words, great video! Would love to see more on English I.e. Old English or Middle English (numbers, greetings etc) or really any Germanic languages as I find them fascinating!
I like how the word for “Soviet” is “Kithish”
English should be like this 😭 it's so hard for me that my native language is not related to any Latin language at all, every time when I want to improve my level I have to memorize all those new synonym, many of them don't even exist in my native language 😭
English at it's finest. Purest. Must be taught at primary school to get into knowledge. Cause' the only one can speak like A rural countryside British.
As an English spear I understood 90% of it!
Fore some reason, godlore sounds a lot cooler than theology. Anglish sounds like it could be used for a fantasy novel. Even basic concepts in English like literature sound really cool in Anglish like bookcraft.
The Wren sounds like how my great great grandfather would read it.
certain = *couthly*
doubt = *twee* [nn/vb]
glory = *wolder*
hour = *stound*
mature = *fullripe* [adj]
nation = *theedship*
venture = *neethe* [vb]
This is so cool! How nice if this is the real English spoken! I love the idea of going back to its own roots. This way, learning Dutch, German or even Icelandic would be much easier with more cognates! But on the downside, learning Romance languages such as French would become slightly more difficult. Well, we can't ask for everything, it's either this or that, but I really like this version of English, even though I'm not English. Lol 🤣
Very well done. I noted that you used the word ‘war’ , that vocable is from old North French ‘werre’, the Anglish word is ‘gewin’.
Nah, it's 'wye' from wíg
I was unsure about that one too. In my half of the vid, I alternated between "Wye" and "War."
Nah. Ge- never survived into Modern English like that, it always got reduced after the G softened. So maybe "awin" or something. I prefer "wye" from Middle English wī and Old English wīg.
'From Middle English werre, from Late Old English werre, wyrre (“armed conflict”) from Old Northern French werre (compare Old French guerre, whence modern French guerre), from Frankish *werra (“riot, disturbance, quarrel”) from Proto-Germanic *werrō (“mixture, mix-up, confusion, turmoil”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”).
Akin to Old High German werra (“confusion, strife, quarrel”) (German verwirren (“to confuse”)), Old Saxon werran (“to confuse, perplex”), Dutch war (“confusion, disarray”), West Frisian war (“defense, self-defense, struggle", also "confusion”), Old English wyrsa, wiersa (“worse”), Old Norse verri (“worse”) (originally "confounded, mixed up"). There may be a connection with worse, wurst.'
It's Germanic and probably little different to continuation of the native word that it is ambiguous which one it actually is.
war comes from french "werre" but this word also comes from a germanic language, like the spanish and italian "guerra" all from a germanic origin
"Sickerhood" is like "Sicherheit" in German.. both of them also mean "Security"
thus, Oned Folksland Sickerhood Moot means "United Nations Security Council" in Normal English
English, but slightly better
Russland is my country
I think Germany would be "Dutchland" which is close to Germany's endonym "Deutschland", and the Word "Germans" would be called "Dutch".
And I think the people from The Netherlands would be called "Netherlanders" or "Netherlandish".
Until the eighteenth century Germans were called 'Dutch', the term 'Fleming' was a more general synonym for Netherlanders .
The term 'Dutch' as a reference to Germans continued even longer in the US, where the 'Lost Dutchman Mine' described a gold working discovered by a German immigrant, Jakob Weitz in the 1880s.
Honestly I think we should change "Dutch" to "Netherlandish/Netherlander" regardless, based on how many people I've seen get confused between Dutch/Deutsch/Danish.
Although I don't understand 100%, I honestly prefer Anglish and idea of pure English language. People should use their own words and stand up against language imperialism. Every foreign word that can be changed by original word should be changed (as long as it doesn't sound weird)
say whatever you want but
rainshade > umbrella
This feels like I am listening to English from a parallel universe
Why use Rikes for States? Why not use Steads/Stadts? as the US is a republic/Folkthing and therefore not of Kingdoms/Rikes.
The Oned Rikes of America 🤣
Vereenigde rijken 😁
Forente riker
Why not lands or shires instead of rikes? March or Mark. Instead of kingdom with a king, a republic could be folkdom or folkwealth.
@@shawnbenson7696 this is "Moot" Anglish, the first popular kind on the internet(i think). Meaning it's not as high quality or refined as its afterbears.
Los Estados Unidos de América.
Being a foreigner learning English , Anglish's grammar extremely close to my organization first in brain.
of course you did that video form The Anglish Moot wikia? their wordbook is great!
It's a perfect blend of germanic with british celtic flavor without additional latin and greek influences
What part is Celtic?
Virgin english : Theology
Chad Anglish : *G O D L O R E*
So beautiful language. It's no far different from form of English modern (now).
My language too have a pure. That is beka melayu (pure malay). The same with English its analogy.
Yes, malaysian and indonesian should speak with beka melayu to avoid confusion
Purong Tagalog would be nice to hear too.
@@reijinvyskra1759 not just Tagalog, but I hear ya
The Oned Rikes sounds really cool
Reich = German
Rike = Norwegian/Swedish
Rige = Danish
Rijk = Dutch
I've been waiting for this since I've first discovered you almost 3 years ago.