How to turn Proto-Indo-European into Chinese

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  • @humanteneleven
    @humanteneleven 14 днів тому +48

    you madman this is incredible

    • @Aliphwhy
      @Aliphwhy 13 днів тому +3

      The guy has came 🎉

    • @amacsizbirkisi
      @amacsizbirkisi 10 годин тому

      @@Aliphwhy the guy did WHAT

  • @soratonin
    @soratonin 16 днів тому +118

    Years ago, I was Indo-European

  • @taihao.multimedia
    @taihao.multimedia 15 днів тому +47

    Well, one of my conlang projects be like: "We were Sino-Tibetans but now we're Romans"
    a Sino-Tibetan conlang that sounds a lot like Latin

    • @de-zo6ex
      @de-zo6ex 15 днів тому +1

      that seems like a cool idea, how is it going?

    • @埊
      @埊 14 днів тому +1

      ཟི་ཡོུ།

    • @NetarAlt
      @NetarAlt 13 днів тому +1

      "Latin" would be cool!

    • @xwtek3505
      @xwtek3505 12 днів тому +6

      Missed chance for making it like Greek. Y'know since you can place your conlang in Afghanistan (Balti is close by) and Afghanistan has a pretty large Greek influence.

  • @I_Love_Learning
    @I_Love_Learning 16 днів тому +65

    I will use the title of this video to prove proto-world.

  • @gargamel3478
    @gargamel3478 16 днів тому +54

    It's really tremendous to see a fellow Pole speaking actually proper English. Pozdrawia Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz, dumny wojak z Chrząszczyrzewoszyc znajdujących się w powiecie Łękołodzkim.

    • @enricobianchi4499
      @enricobianchi4499 16 днів тому

      *Chrząszczyszewoszyc

    • @unitariansavage8513
      @unitariansavage8513 16 днів тому +8

      Is he really prawdziwym polakiem? I missed that bit of lore but he absolutely looks Polish.

    • @micheal5117
      @micheal5117 15 днів тому

      dumny WHAT now?

    • @AfterMath-e9e
      @AfterMath-e9e 14 днів тому

      @@micheal5117 it's pronounced "vo-yock"

    • @埊
      @埊 14 днів тому +1

      Kshekorz Przendzischikievitsch*

  • @Mustache_Sam
    @Mustache_Sam 13 днів тому +6

    I was confused by the title so I click the video. Now, after watching the video, I am more confused than before.

  • @emilyvalentine4565
    @emilyvalentine4565 16 днів тому +23

    8:40 fwiw my understanding is that the Baxter-Sagart Old Chinese reconstruction is generally considered more likely (in terms of ending up at Middle Chinese as per sources like the Qieyun, anyway) of the two, in part because there are more recent revisions to it and apparently B-S made use of some newer methods whereas Zhengzhang's were more traditional.

    • @AfterMath-e9e
      @AfterMath-e9e 14 днів тому +1

      well, Baxter-Sagart, has a name like B-S, it's gotta make up for it by being likely

  • @zzineohp
    @zzineohp  16 днів тому +103

    💖💖💖ZZINEOHP IS THE MOST HUMBLE AND HEARTWARMING PERSON TO EVER EXIST💖💖💖

    • @cutiecat413
      @cutiecat413 16 днів тому +7

      1st reply in comment history

    • @secondpicture
      @secondpicture 16 днів тому +7

      @@cutiecat413 True, in fact, it is the 1st reply in the ENTIRE history. I hope you are proud of yourself

    • @Drathis
      @Drathis 16 днів тому +6

      This comment was clearly made by a bot smh

    • @I_Love_Learning
      @I_Love_Learning 16 днів тому +6

      @DrathisZzineohp is a bot!?!?!???!??!!

    • @Drathis
      @Drathis 16 днів тому +6

      ​@@I_Love_Learningof course, the generic compliment to the youtuber, the frequent use of emojis, that's a comment bot if I've ever seen one

  • @PrismaticCatastrophism
    @PrismaticCatastrophism 16 днів тому +20

    ეს რა ტიპის აუტიზმია?

  • @greeses5482
    @greeses5482 16 днів тому +17

    this video was so delicious, I wish it were a steak so I could devour it

  • @JohnSmith-of2gu
    @JohnSmith-of2gu 15 днів тому +8

    Huh, so did Tonesian develop tones while Chinese was still in the toneless Old Chinese phase? Heheh. I wish you went into the orthography a bit more- specifically, how is the Chinese logography adapted to write the big Indo-European pile of declension endings that aren't a thing in the analytical Chinese language? Just finding a phonetic approximation?

  • @Hdoejabfjfoe
    @Hdoejabfjfoe 16 днів тому +8

    There's a good linguistics video on yt that this oft cited high low class distinction between French and English is linguistics baloney

  • @maxhaddock6227
    @maxhaddock6227 15 днів тому +1

    I had wanted to do something like this for years, very well done, very cool

  • @pas-giaw6055
    @pas-giaw6055 16 днів тому +9

    All hail great Siniąf'a conlangs

    • @zzineohp
      @zzineohp  16 днів тому +6

      @@pas-giaw6055 did you really use an apostrophe and then put my name in genitive

    • @pas-giaw6055
      @pas-giaw6055 6 днів тому +1

      @@zzineohp yes

  • @thethirdjegs
    @thethirdjegs 15 днів тому +3

    I dreamed of making a sinicized proto-indoeuropean language too. Not introduce chinese-ness but evolve it that it resembles a sinitic language.

  • @lavender_verandah
    @lavender_verandah 15 днів тому +3

    Technically, "Chinese" means Sinitic languages so an Indo-European language can never be Chinese. It can only be in the Sinosphere including Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese, which are languages that are not Sinotibetan but under heavy Chinese influences

  • @thehexagon_yt
    @thehexagon_yt 6 днів тому

    6:03
    wood and tree - древесина (material) и дерево (plant)
    arm and hand - рука и кисть
    foot and leg - ступня и нога

  • @fenghualiu2653
    @fenghualiu2653 15 днів тому +3

    that sentence definitely sounded more Lhasa Tibetan than Mandarin to me 😂

  • @kori228
    @kori228 16 днів тому +13

    1:01, the baʔ becoming Falling isn't wrong, but there's are intermediary steps. The actual tonogenesis is
    -∅︀ > 'Level' (Ping) > Mandarin voiceless = Level, voiced = Rising
    -ʔ > "Rising" (Shang) > Mandarin voiceless = Dipping, voiced obstruent > Qu > Mandarin Falling
    -s > -h > "Departing" (Qu). > Mandarin Falling
    Other varieties have a voicing tone split across all three, we can just say Mandarin only split the Level tone.
    Then there's a later merger where voiced obstruent "Rising" syllables become "Departing" in most varieties.
    1:22 voiced obstruents in the Middle Chinese Level tone (so Mandarin tone 2) do get aspirated. So 平 is something like bi(æ)ŋ > /pʰiŋ˩˥/. Voiced obstruents in the 'Rising' and 'Departing' tone don't get aspirated. So 病 biæŋH > /piŋ˥˩/

  • @clarkwoods4035
    @clarkwoods4035 16 днів тому +24

    Try doing indo-european into the most phonetically massive language ever

    • @arthurgabriel2625
      @arthurgabriel2625 16 днів тому +13

      What happens when an indo-european language enters the Caucasus basically

    • @asphodelica
      @asphodelica 16 днів тому +3

      You know what else is massive?

    • @mollof7893
      @mollof7893 16 днів тому

      My mom! ​@@asphodelica

    • @megabytes6434
      @megabytes6434 15 днів тому

      Low taper fade, It's crazy how massive that meme still is​@@asphodelica

    • @celtofcanaanesurix2245
      @celtofcanaanesurix2245 15 днів тому +1

      @@arthurgabriel2625 Ossetian?

  • @arcie.lastname
    @arcie.lastname 16 днів тому +37

    3:44 ermm actually chase is also of French origin, you should've used 'hunt' as the example instead, I will now proceed to dislike every single video and comment you have ever made 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

    • @MRCSANY
      @MRCSANY 16 днів тому

      lmaoooo

    • @andrewosano7486
      @andrewosano7486 16 днів тому

      I literally came here to say that lol

    • @あぜると
      @あぜると 15 днів тому +7

      and "truth" comes from of old english, the french loan word equivalent would be "verity" from "vérité".

  • @wujciowariatuncio5702
    @wujciowariatuncio5702 14 днів тому +1

    jak późno, jak późno? dopiero czwarta, nad ranem...

  • @someroboticpizza
    @someroboticpizza 15 днів тому +1

    A language with the strucrure of finnish, sounds of chinese and indo european origins.. neat.

  • @kerbal255
    @kerbal255 15 днів тому +1

    If a language of similar history exists we would probably have a way better understanding of old chinese

  • @alexanderKetiladze
    @alexanderKetiladze 16 днів тому +2

    i love this series

  • @kobe4274
    @kobe4274 16 днів тому +13

    The mewing cutaway sent me 😂

  • @zhangwhack
    @zhangwhack 14 днів тому +2

    old chinese isn't tonal, innit?

  • @idguy4rainbowpheonix
    @idguy4rainbowpheonix 16 днів тому +6

    Cutaway gags aren't funny anymore. I already know what the inside if an object looks like

    • @MaxwellCatAlphonk
      @MaxwellCatAlphonk 15 днів тому +1

      What the inside If the object looks like: Good! Make it look more like!
      Else: Make it look like to begin with

  • @2tbk
    @2tbk 15 днів тому +2

    Entertaining

  • @sphengosine
    @sphengosine 16 днів тому +2

    damn stole my idea from 4 years ago (but did it with tocharian instead)

  • @zhasilo
    @zhasilo 16 днів тому +3

    If you remove consonant clusters and introduce competition among different consonants, the result will resemble Chinese more closely. Old Chinese like many of its Tibeto-Burman siblings, allowed the existence of consonant clusters, some even arising from morphological processes. However, Chinese lost these clusters over time, leaving behind a collection of characters that appear to have identical pronunciations but actually different, for example:
    各 (reconstruction: klaːɡ ("different, separate, independent"))
    客 keˋ ("guest, outsider" 宀 represents a building)
    格 geˊ ("grid, framework, standard" 木 represents a tree)
    絡 luoˋ ("net-like, cotton or hemp fibers, interconnected" 糸 represents fibers)
    路 luˋ ("road" 足 represents feet)
    Another example:
    監 (reconstruction: kraːm)
    檻 kanˇ
    鑑 jianˋ
    艦 jianˋ (Note: This character is pronounced as "lam" in Hokkien and Cantonese, where southern Sino languages retains a different consonant)
    藍 lanˊ
    I'm not sure whether ancient people retained certain consonants randomly or with intention (or both) (perhaps linguists have studied this?), but I think applying this rule in constructed languages could be fascinating. For instance, one could select different consonants based on the word's part of speech 😀

  • @LeontijVerchnevezkij
    @LeontijVerchnevezkij 13 днів тому

    No, words ending in "i" in russian can be declined through as plurals

  • @thecoolkittensarecool
    @thecoolkittensarecool 15 днів тому

    Actually, you don't need to use loan words for new things they find after migrating! Often, languages will repurpose old words in that situation

  • @baibhabmazumdar007
    @baibhabmazumdar007 12 днів тому

    Indo Europeans of Asia 🇮🇳🇮🇷🇵🇰🇦🇫🇧🇩🇳🇵🇱🇰🇲🇻🇦🇲🇹🇯🇷🇺

  • @crèpebrûlée-l1d
    @crèpebrûlée-l1d 9 днів тому

    In future videos, can you use a voice changer for the first syllable of every video?

  • @amsa3245
    @amsa3245 14 днів тому

    Tian is one word for day in Chinese (Дан [DAHN], аnd similar in Serbian.....)

    • @zhangwhack
      @zhangwhack День тому

      Old Chinese for it is Ten. prehistoric sinitics probably had even more connections with the OG turks than we know, their sky is Tengri

  • @埊
    @埊 14 днів тому

    Taitele ou dis vidyrn gewritten in protoindoeuropean:
    hou tu tong putong yindu ou yuyan v zhongwen

  • @siyacer
    @siyacer 16 днів тому +1

    I am Chinese

  • @anonymoususer_324
    @anonymoususer_324 14 днів тому +1

    Anti spiral

  • @mrgoldengraham027
    @mrgoldengraham027 16 днів тому +2

    Man, I need to go to bed, and I am choosing the last shadow puppets over you when brushing my teeth. 😢😢🎉

  • @Benbeenbee
    @Benbeenbee 13 днів тому

    3:08

  • @brenntagchem
    @brenntagchem 14 днів тому +1

    we wuz kangz n sheetz

  • @Hdoejabfjfoe
    @Hdoejabfjfoe 16 днів тому

    ua-cam.com/video/dL2vtwdEFaY/v-deo.htmlsi=Yo92E9qhE7zVzQv_
    I had a look around and this is the one I was referring to

  • @blackholesun4942
    @blackholesun4942 14 днів тому

    strange

  • @lepmuhangpa
    @lepmuhangpa 11 днів тому

    ?

  • @drnorse3243
    @drnorse3243 16 днів тому

    Peak…

  • @cutiecat413
    @cutiecat413 16 днів тому

    Second