A.Z. Foreman
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Saadi's Ghazal to the Camel-Driver, read in Medieval Persian Pronunciation
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In which I read Saadi's famous ghazal to the camel-driver in a hypothetical reconstruction of "classical" literary Persian pronunciation ca. 1250 or so. The Persian text on screen is presented in romanization and in Perso-Arabic script adapted (partly with letters taken from Urdu) to represent medieval pronunciation. And yes, those are pharyngeal realizations of ح and ع. (Saadi in particular pr...
Shakespeare's Sonnet 65 read in Early Modern English pronunciation
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I’ve set myself the task of recording all of Shakespeare’s sonnets in reconstructions of what various types of London English sounded like in the late Elizabethan/early Jacobean period. I’m recording them at a rate of about one every week. Most are subscriber-only on my Patreon account. Go ahead and make a pledge there to access them: patreon.com/azforeman I am making just a select few, like th...
"Daughter's Song" by Zulfiya Atoi read in Tajik and in my English translation
Просмотров 4156 месяцев назад
I just loved this poem so much when I first read it years ago. So I translated it, because of course I did. I've included a transcription into Perso-Arabic characters.
"Lament for his People" by Abid b. Al-Abras read in Arabic and English
Просмотров 9376 месяцев назад
In which I read yet another a Jāhilī poem in Arabic and then in English. This time it is a poem attributed to ʿAbīd b. al-Abraṣ. Fortunately for the modern reader of Early Arabic (or, at least, fortunately for me) ʿAbīd's language is often as moving as it is difficult, the more so thanks to his most frequent subject: the disaster that befell his tribe, the Banū Asad. The nature of the disaster ...
Shahnama in English Translation: The Tale of Gayomart and the Black Demon
Просмотров 5307 месяцев назад
Yet another English-language track that I just decided to throw in. If you want to hear the original text in a reconstruction of late Samanid-era Persian pronunciation, head on over here: ruclips.net/video/CDsS8Rcvxek/видео.html If you like this video and want to help me make more things like it, go ahead and check out my patreon: patreon.com/azforeman
Théophile de Viau's Lament for Clairac read in early Modern French and my English translation
Просмотров 4657 месяцев назад
Théophile de Viau is my favorite French poet. Here's my reading of a poem by him in a reconstruction of one form of Early Modern French pronunciation, followed by my English translation. The poem is his sonnet "Sacrez murs du soleil" in which he laments the destruction of his hometown of Clairac. Here's the story: Clairac was a bastion of Protestantism in the late 16th and early 17th centuries....
Preface of the Shahnameh, read in English translation
Просмотров 3377 месяцев назад
This is a reading of my English translation of (most of) the preface to the Shahnama (excluding the panegyrics and several likely interpolations). I wanted to confirm to myself that rhymed couplets can actually work out loud in Modern English. (Also, I've had English audio tracks for a bunch of stuff ready to go for a while in case RUclips ever rolls out multiple tracks to all users). Also this...
Shakespeare's Sonnet 77 in Early Modern English pronunciation
Просмотров 3667 месяцев назад
I’ve set myself the task of recording all of Shakespeare’s sonnets in reconstructions of what various types of London English sounded like in the late Elizabethan/early Jacobean period. I’m recording them at a rate of about one every week. Most are subscriber-only on my Patreon account. Go ahead and make a pledge there to access them: patreon.com/azforeman I am making just a select few, like th...
Ulysses and the Siren, by Samuel Daniel, read in (2 different) Early Modern English pronunciation(s)
Просмотров 3688 месяцев назад
For this poem by Samuel Daniel, published in 1609, I used two different Early Modern accents that can be reconstructed for the period. Ulysses speaks a conservative dialect of the Elizabethan university type (with no Foot-Strut split, a DEW-DUE contrast, a POINT-JOY contrast, a low MATE vowel etc.) whereas the Siren speaks a much more innovative lect. If you like this video and want to help me ...
The Song of Moses: Deuteronomy 31:24-32:43 in post-exilic and pre-exilic Hebrew pronunciation
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This is a phonological reconstruction of Deuteronomy 31:25-32:43 (or, in traditional Jewish terms, the seventh aliyah of Vayelech and the first six aliyot of Parashat Ha'azinu) where I rewind the relative chronology of sound-changes and try to use some rough guides as to absolute dating in order to offer very theoretical snapshots of what the phonology of the Biblical text MIGHT have been like ...
Six Degrees of the Shma: Deuteronomy 6:4-6 in Six Historical Pronunciations of Biblical Hebrew
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This has been sitting on my queue for a long, LONG time. Thanks to Ben Kantor's recent book on the relationships between the early reading traditions, I was able to lay to rest some of my uncertainties, though not all. I dithered and vacillated about how much of the Shma to do and in what format. Anyway, at this point I think I'd better just post it once and for all, or I'll be tinkering with i...
Mercutio's "Queen Mab" Speech from Romeo & Juliet read in Early Modern Pronunciation
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This is a passage from Romeo and Juliet in the so-called "original pronunciation" i.e. a reconstruction of how London English (or rather a couple varieties thereof) was pronounced in the early 1600s, from your friendly neighborhood historical linguist and poetry nerd. For this one I gave Mercutio a somewhat more innovative accent than Romeo, with raising and monophthongization of the WAIT vowel...
Shakespeare's Sonnets 27 and 28 in Early Modern English pronunciation
Просмотров 5429 месяцев назад
I’ve set myself the task of recording all of Shakespeare’s sonnets in reconstructions of what various types of London English sounded like in the late Elizabethan/early Jacobean period. I’m recording them at a rate of about one every week. Most are subscriber-only on my Patreon account. Go ahead and make a pledge there to access them: patreon.com/azforeman I am making just a select few, like th...
Shakespeare's Sonnet 6 in Early Modern Pronunciation
Просмотров 3339 месяцев назад
I have for reasons not entirely intelligible to my own self, set myself the task of recording all of Shakespeare’s sonnets in reconstructions of what various types of London English sounded like in the late Elizabethan/early Jacobean period. I'm recording them at a rate of (well, more or less) one every week. Most of them are subscriber-only on my Patreon account. Go ahead and make a pledge the...
"Deor" from the Exeter Book read in 9th century Old Mercian
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"Deor" from the Exeter Book read in 9th century Old Mercian
"Evensong"/ערבית by Haim Nahman Bialik, read in Ashkenazic Hebrew and in English translation
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"Evensong"/ערבית by Haim Nahman Bialik, read in Ashkenazic Hebrew and in English translation
Shakespeare's Sonnet 8 read in Early Modern English pronunciation
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Shakespeare's Sonnet 8 read in Early Modern English pronunciation
Beowulf 2231-2270 read in Early Mercian: Lament of the Last Survivor
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Beowulf 2231-2270 read in Early Mercian: Lament of the Last Survivor
Beowulf 1-227 ("Dawn of Things Ferocious") read in Early Mercian
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Beowulf 1-227 ("Dawn of Things Ferocious") read in Early Mercian
Sonnet 54 from Astrophel & Stella, by Sir Philip Sidney, read in Late Elizabethan Pronunciation
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Sonnet 54 from Astrophel & Stella, by Sir Philip Sidney, read in Late Elizabethan Pronunciation
Shakespeare's Sonnet 15 read in Early Modern English pronunciation
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Shakespeare's Sonnet 15 read in Early Modern English pronunciation
Sonnets 1 & 2 from Astrophel & Stella, by Sir Philip Sidney, read in Late Elizabethan Pronunciation
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Sonnets 1 & 2 from Astrophel & Stella, by Sir Philip Sidney, read in Late Elizabethan Pronunciation
Psalm 120 read in a reconstruction of Tiberian Hebrew Pronunciation from the Aleppo Codex
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Psalm 120 read in a reconstruction of Tiberian Hebrew Pronunciation from the Aleppo Codex
Psalm 117 read in Reconstructed Tiberian Hebrew with and without cantillation
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Psalm 117 read in Reconstructed Tiberian Hebrew with and without cantillation
Shakespeare's Sonnets 71-74 read in Early Modern English pronunciation
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Shakespeare's Sonnets 71-74 read in Early Modern English pronunciation
Reading of 2 Samuel 1 read in reconstructed Tiberian Hebrew pronunciation
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Reading of 2 Samuel 1 read in reconstructed Tiberian Hebrew pronunciation
"Slip" by Nawal Nafaa, read in Arabic and in English
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"Slip" by Nawal Nafaa, read in Arabic and in English
Lady Macbeth's "The Raven Himself is Hoarse" speech read in Early Modern Pronunciation
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Lady Macbeth's "The Raven Himself is Hoarse" speech read in Early Modern Pronunciation
"The Fall" by Adunis, read in Arabic and in English ادونيس: قصيدة السقوط
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"The Fall" by Adunis, read in Arabic and in English ادونيس: قصيدة السقوط

Комментарии

  • @PaulineSunny
    @PaulineSunny День назад

    I don't know if someone has the answer but I would like to know how they used to write the sound [p] in Andalusian Arabic, did they used پ like in persan..? Thanks in advance 🙌

  • @Nomation10
    @Nomation10 2 дня назад

    Ich like the thing that thou canst tracen English so fer back that thou canst not even registeren the words no more and thou canst not even pronouncen them.

  • @user-in1yw9ty5t
    @user-in1yw9ty5t 5 дней назад

    Old English sounds truly Germanic.

  • @davidhandel5894
    @davidhandel5894 5 дней назад

    i so needed this. thanks and do share on, pls

  • @Desocrates
    @Desocrates 8 дней назад

    I know this video is a bit old but I'm hoping someone will reply at some point. Does anyone have any suggestions for learning dactylic hexameter? Would you advise learning Latin or Ancient Greek first? I have studied small bits of Latin in the past but my main goal is basically write my own stories in dactylic hexameter, similar to Homer and The Iliad.

  • @dj_dexterdark_x942
    @dj_dexterdark_x942 9 дней назад

    0:46 it's getting understandable 😅😊

  • @ФаризаКуанова-ж6й
    @ФаризаКуанова-ж6й 11 дней назад

    📚 «Erlkönig», Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1782) Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind? Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind. Er hat den Knaben wohl in dem Arm, Er faßt ihn sicher, er hält ihn warm. Mein Sohn, was birgst du so bang dein Gesicht? Siehst Vater, du den Erlkönig nicht! Den Erlenkönig mit Kron' und Schweif? Mein Sohn, es ist ein Nebelstreif. Du liebes Kind, komm geh' mit mir! Gar schöne Spiele, spiel ich mit dir, Manch bunte Blumen sind an dem Strand, Meine Mutter hat manch gülden Gewand. Mein Vater, mein Vater, und hörest du nicht, Was Erlenkönig mir leise verspricht? Sei ruhig, bleibe ruhig, mein Kind, In dürren Blättern säuselt der Wind. Willst feiner Knabe du mit mir geh'n? Meine Töchter sollen dich warten schön, Meine Töchter führen den nächtlichen Reihn Und wiegen und tanzen und singen dich ein. Mein Vater, mein Vater, und siehst du nicht dort Erlkönigs Töchter am düsteren Ort? Mein Sohn, mein Sohn, ich seh'es genau: Es scheinen die alten Weiden so grau. Ich lieb dich, mich reizt deine schöne Gestalt, Und bist du nicht willig, so brauch ich Gewalt! Mein Vater, mein Vater, jetzt faßt er mich an, Erlkönig hat mir ein Leids getan. Dem Vater grauset's, er reitet geschwind, Er hält in den Armen das ächzende Kind, Erreicht den Hof mit Mühe und Not, In seinen Armen das Kind war tot.

  • @AndreaMastacht-lj4in
    @AndreaMastacht-lj4in 14 дней назад

    I wonder if it is possible to revive this language

  • @fkjms73
    @fkjms73 16 дней назад

    It’s sounds like a mixture between Irish & Scottish, with a small amount of North English.

  • @ieditlogos419
    @ieditlogos419 19 дней назад

    From the screen to the ring, to the pen to the king Where's my crown? That's my bling, always drama when I ring - KSI, "Thick Of It" (2024)

  • @MSalt69
    @MSalt69 19 дней назад

    So basically everybody spoke like they were from the West Country? Really?

  • @turnage_michael
    @turnage_michael 19 дней назад

    How close is Ugaritic to Hebrew?

  • @atikrahaman2877
    @atikrahaman2877 20 дней назад

    "The rizzler of ohio doesnt have as aura as the true sigmas and betas,the one who caps and yaps all the time with skibidi got no mewing streak and will be forced to edge over his language by the mogsters of livy dunne" (Average gen z writer-2024)

  • @dustinyoungren758
    @dustinyoungren758 21 день назад

    Have you ever went to an eye doctor and you're trying to read the very bottom line and it all just looks very fuzzy and out of shape? That's what it sounds like in old English. More as you go up on the numbers like an eye exam, easier you can read the sheet and better you can hear the English.

  • @zeyadghanim8271
    @zeyadghanim8271 21 день назад

    Did they all pronounce the ج like g (like modern day egyptian ج ) or was this a certain dialect?

  • @atcmoran7097
    @atcmoran7097 22 дня назад

    are you scottish ?

  • @FoxWolfWorld
    @FoxWolfWorld 25 дней назад

    “Never before has any voice uttered the words of that tongue here in Imladris”

  • @kazinaher7808
    @kazinaher7808 26 дней назад

    Si Scary lmao🤣🤣🤣

  • @winrare7182
    @winrare7182 27 дней назад

    not diffrent from arabic ..just the reader dont prononce well voyels

  • @meme-e-lama
    @meme-e-lama 27 дней назад

    Eww , this sounds so uncivilised 🤢🤮

  • @alibrahym
    @alibrahym 28 дней назад

    Third verse you made a small error, it says "idh nada" and you said "idh nadi"

  • @JESUSWONTHEWAR
    @JESUSWONTHEWAR 28 дней назад

    Sounds Scandinavian

  • @MarkMiller-i8q
    @MarkMiller-i8q Месяц назад

    Not good samples because these were poets who wrote this. It would be better to have heard every day English spoken.

  • @jirisirucek5069
    @jirisirucek5069 Месяц назад

    Wow, I would like to learn this language. Any recomendations for textbooks?

  • @anthonyminimum
    @anthonyminimum Месяц назад

    Franklin would’ve talked slower than this, in fact 0.75x speed is the accurate speed of how men like Franklin would’ve spoke

  • @Vat71895
    @Vat71895 Месяц назад

    The first few sounds like trying to eavesdrop on a distant conversation

  • @KuddlesbergTheFirst
    @KuddlesbergTheFirst Месяц назад

    1500 and later understandable

  • @xennialnick
    @xennialnick Месяц назад

    I was always told that English is the love child of Danish (the vikings) and French (the Normans). 🇩🇰🇫🇷

  • @raisedbybears1991
    @raisedbybears1991 Месяц назад

    I know this is late but can you point me to where you found the original Ugaritic script? In the augaritic alphabet? I can find phonetic translations but I can never find the text written in its original characters

  • @DiegoSouto-fy9su
    @DiegoSouto-fy9su Месяц назад

    20-21st centuries Valley Girl: "OHMIGODgIRRRRLFRIEEENDTHISISSOoooAWWEEEESOOOME!"

  • @Driven2Beers
    @Driven2Beers Месяц назад

    Just think... if I could go back and visit my earliest recorded ancestor (Robert Gott, born in North Yorkshire in 1499) I wouldn't know what the hell he was saying. To be honest, if I flew across the "pond" and ended up there, I still wouldn't know what the hell anyone there was saying without a translator. I'm just some schlub from Maryland. Go O's!

  • @nathanrobat7310
    @nathanrobat7310 Месяц назад

    Probably best latin currently on youtube🎉. No English accent or classical version

  • @ProtossWannabe1984
    @ProtossWannabe1984 Месяц назад

    I dunno, man. I think Ben Franklin would’ve spoken a little like Ben Affleck did in Good Will Hunting and Edgar Alan Poe more like how we imagine Robert E Lee sounded

  • @PerusakAlam
    @PerusakAlam Месяц назад

    Sounds familiar for me, muslim that can't speak arabic

    • @revenger8744
      @revenger8744 Месяц назад

      It's an old pre islamic pagan prayer how are familiar with such a thing i don't believe we still worship a false goddess called allat today

  • @michaelcorrado3452
    @michaelcorrado3452 2 месяца назад

    Nice! Thank you.

  • @sirturtleII
    @sirturtleII 2 месяца назад

    Hearing Old English, I can really hear its relation with the Elvish languages of Tolkien. He was a philologist after all.

  • @HCRAYERT.
    @HCRAYERT. 2 месяца назад

    Lucian Greek pronunciation?

  • @AlbertRackzz420-uq2qq
    @AlbertRackzz420-uq2qq 2 месяца назад

    What's interesting is that in modern standard Arabic and in many dialects the word "عليهم" is pronounced " 'alayhim " but in the Lebanese levant dialect we say " 'alayhun " or " 'alayhum' " I'm not really sure as to what this indicates but maybe it means we are speaking a version of Arabic with more classical pronunciations, but I cannot decipher why us. We also do the sukun at the end of the words like "Wayak" instead of the standard recitation version of it which is "wayaka" And we do stuff like imala for example "Baab" turns into "Beb"

    • @krkekeennrnmr
      @krkekeennrnmr Месяц назад

      arent arab origanly from the levant they are semetic ppl afterall

  • @AlBeGo81
    @AlBeGo81 2 месяца назад

    I hope I remember to post this on Xmas.

  • @npcetsdx7310
    @npcetsdx7310 2 месяца назад

    this is hebrew or araimaic certainly this ain't arabic

  • @Up2date7.
    @Up2date7. 2 месяца назад

    HEBREWWW 🦅🦅🦅🦅

  • @alibrahym
    @alibrahym 2 месяца назад

    its weird to see that the ع looks like the Syriac Aramaic ain ܥ I think that the ج is pronounced like the nowadays jym, sounds like he mixed some dialectual pronounciations. also another thing, why does the daal, look like kaf? through prophet Muhammads recitation, we can clearly say that he is reciting it in a different poetic form, maybe the poetic form of the others. The one you can hear nowadays is the one which is being recited is from the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم

  • @damodelkitman7481
    @damodelkitman7481 2 месяца назад

    Can you imagine the enemy rolls up on you , with that old english , that sounds pretty badass!

  • @GorillaWithAPhone
    @GorillaWithAPhone 2 месяца назад

    P??!

  • @prsancho
    @prsancho 2 месяца назад

    Parece um gaúcho.

  • @aaaaaaaaaiguess
    @aaaaaaaaaiguess 2 месяца назад

    It's the same

  • @gottod6895
    @gottod6895 2 месяца назад

    it seems the only major noticeable difference in pronunciation is the substitution of the /p/ or /ph/ phoneme by /f/.

  • @domwings4329
    @domwings4329 2 месяца назад

    Girl from California 2024: and I was like, oh my God, like really

  • @Mattdasecondog
    @Mattdasecondog 2 месяца назад

    1:45 and when I meet Thomas Jefferson imma compel him to include women in the sequel work!

  • @pakaso777
    @pakaso777 2 месяца назад

    ماشاءلله، هذه اللغة رائعة لكني أخاف من الأناشيد العربية الوثنية التي تزعجني 😢