Regarding the Gaulish inscription - there's a reasonable quality photo of the lead plaque on the website I linked. Over the next few days I might try and transcribe the inscription, very curious what is written!
For some reason, Hattic and Hurrian occupy the same space in my brain, the "The non-indo-european non-semitic bronze age languages that start with an h" space. I was confused until I looked up Hurrian a few minutes ago, and it was interesting. agglutanative languages seem to be rather common in the bronze age middle east (Sumerian, Hattic, Hurrian).
The Hurrian video is going to be an interesting one for sure. Currently, I'm going through Speiser's Introduction to Hurrian (1941) before looking at more recent input on the language - I'm curious what theories are out there trying to tie Hurro-Urartian to a wider language family.
I only recently found your channel and I am enjoying it very much. Currently I'm going through your Hittite lessons and I haven't finished yet so I don't know if this is something you already did in a later video but, do you think you could possibly do a video on Hittite phonology/pronunciation and stress/accent location?
Great suggestion and I will definitely consider it. The problem is that there is some debate regarding pronunciation in Hittite - for example the exact sonic value of some signs, the meaning of certain spelling conventions. Plus the fact that Hittite, like all languages would have had its own internal variance and we don't have any forms of 'colloquial' Hittite recorded at all - meaning any reconstruction of spoken Hittite would be limited in scope and highly controversial. That all being said, some qualities are known rather reliably so maybe I could focus on that.
An overview of the Luwian language and associated Luwian or Anatolian hieroglyphs would be much appreciated. Thank you for the wonderful content you provide.
Thank you for all the content over the past few months! I think that a bit more on Hittite is always a good thing, Hittite being an important language for Bronze-age ANE. The cuneiform can be a little intimidating, to be sure, but after crossing that barrier it being such a familiar-looking language is, to me, quite curious. Thracian is also a very famous language, and it's nice to see a video about it, but it, like its putative sibling Dacian, is kind of thin on the ground, as well. For a language which is perhaps more well-attested but similarly neglected in the world of ancient language studies, might I recommend Elamite? It was an important language in Achaemenid Persia, and trading partners of the Sumerians in the very very early Bronze Age. Some people relate them to the modern-day Dravidians, although a lot of that may be tangled up with modern-day ethnonationalism, which is unfortunate. Regardless, an interesting language from that wider region and time frame.
I hope you continue your Hittite lessons, perhaps intersperse them with other topics to build up your channel? I have been fascinated by Hittite since acquiring Theo van der Hout’s book. Also can’t wait to find out where the degraded hillfort is.
I discovered this channel because i wanted to learn some Hittite. I suggest you make that the main thrust of the channel and put the brief intros to other languages into a playlist. I also recommend complete immersion instruction where you use no english, only hittite and pictures. Start very basic, but also don't make it dry and academic. Don't discuss grammar, just introduce it gently through usage. Also, lots of insular celtic content already exists, but not much contenental.
I think your content is really interesting, although I'm just an interested amateur. I'd be interested in a video on the subject of how ancient languages speakers enunciated what we in modern English would express as the word 'and'. For example why Latin employed both 'et' and '-que' and how the various forms of 'and' in modern European languages derived from PIE.
Speak not necessarily but you can look here facebook.com/groups/1397363743910993/?ref=share Elements of Hittite by Theo Van den Hout is a great book to learn to read Hittite.
Regarding the Gaulish inscription - there's a reasonable quality photo of the lead plaque on the website I linked. Over the next few days I might try and transcribe the inscription, very curious what is written!
Sounds good. Looking forward for 2024. Keep it up.
Thank you! I'm looking forward to 2024 in terms of your content also. Your recent Yule story was 👍👌
For some reason, Hattic and Hurrian occupy the same space in my brain, the "The non-indo-european non-semitic bronze age languages that start with an h" space. I was confused until I looked up Hurrian a few minutes ago, and it was interesting. agglutanative languages seem to be rather common in the bronze age middle east (Sumerian, Hattic, Hurrian).
The Hurrian video is going to be an interesting one for sure. Currently, I'm going through Speiser's Introduction to Hurrian (1941) before looking at more recent input on the language - I'm curious what theories are out there trying to tie Hurro-Urartian to a wider language family.
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I only recently found your channel and I am enjoying it very much. Currently I'm going through your Hittite lessons and I haven't finished yet so I don't know if this is something you already did in a later video but, do you think you could possibly do a video on Hittite phonology/pronunciation and stress/accent location?
Great suggestion and I will definitely consider it. The problem is that there is some debate regarding pronunciation in Hittite - for example the exact sonic value of some signs, the meaning of certain spelling conventions. Plus the fact that Hittite, like all languages would have had its own internal variance and we don't have any forms of 'colloquial' Hittite recorded at all - meaning any reconstruction of spoken Hittite would be limited in scope and highly controversial. That all being said, some qualities are known rather reliably so maybe I could focus on that.
An overview of the Luwian language and associated Luwian or Anatolian hieroglyphs would be much appreciated. Thank you for the wonderful content you provide.
Oh nice suggestion, and one I can definitely do!
Second this
Thank you for all the content over the past few months! I think that a bit more on Hittite is always a good thing, Hittite being an important language for Bronze-age ANE. The cuneiform can be a little intimidating, to be sure, but after crossing that barrier it being such a familiar-looking language is, to me, quite curious.
Thracian is also a very famous language, and it's nice to see a video about it, but it, like its putative sibling Dacian, is kind of thin on the ground, as well. For a language which is perhaps more well-attested but similarly neglected in the world of ancient language studies, might I recommend Elamite? It was an important language in Achaemenid Persia, and trading partners of the Sumerians in the very very early Bronze Age. Some people relate them to the modern-day Dravidians, although a lot of that may be tangled up with modern-day ethnonationalism, which is unfortunate. Regardless, an interesting language from that wider region and time frame.
Thanks for your great feedback over the months also! Elamite is a great call, I'm going to add it to the list.
I hope you continue your Hittite lessons, perhaps intersperse them with other topics to build up your channel? I have been fascinated by Hittite since acquiring Theo van der Hout’s book. Also can’t wait to find out where the degraded hillfort is.
I definitely will do some more Hittite videos
I discovered this channel because i wanted to learn some Hittite. I suggest you make that the main thrust of the channel and put the brief intros to other languages into a playlist. I also recommend complete immersion instruction where you use no english, only hittite and pictures. Start very basic, but also don't make it dry and academic. Don't discuss grammar, just introduce it gently through usage.
Also, lots of insular celtic content already exists, but not much contenental.
I think your content is really interesting, although I'm just an interested amateur. I'd be interested in a video on the subject of how ancient languages speakers enunciated what we in modern English would express as the word 'and'. For example why Latin employed both 'et' and '-que' and how the various forms of 'and' in modern European languages derived from PIE.
Interesting suggestion and I think I can take a look at that yeah, thanks for your input!
Hi! Do you know if there are groups online where people are learning to speak Hittite? It would be so cool to revive the language
Speak not necessarily but you can look here facebook.com/groups/1397363743910993/?ref=share
Elements of Hittite by Theo Van den Hout is a great book to learn to read Hittite.
Thracian!
I wish we knew more about Thracian...
@@AndreaMastacht-lj4in Seriously.