Proof: The English Language Is From Germany, Not England!
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- Hundreds of languages compose the Indo-European family, so linguists divide them into closely related subfamilies. The Germanic branch is one of the ten or so Indo-European subfamilies. Germanic languages are English’s distant cousins, so to speak. The Germanic family itself has subgroups; English is in the West Germanic branch along with German, Dutch, Afrikaans, and a few others. What makes English like the other languages in its subfamily?
West Germanic languages all trace back to one parent language. No one knows its name or exactly how it sounded. Linguists theorize its characteristics from modern languages that descended from it. Just like children who inherit features from their parents, languages that share West Germanic parentage have family characteristics.
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you shoud see eald englisc min freond
It's not just the West Germanic Languages, even the North Germanic languages are related to English though they be more like cousins to English than a sibling.
Old English sounds and acts alot like modern day German but time went on and its cousin Old Norse has a huge impact on its grammar and words. French also came in but unlike our cousin words and vocab (we use Old Nose words everyday) we gained french words but that be more for the higher class dived.
Nor is it official in Australia and New Zealand
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English does indeed come from England.
The Anglo-Saxons during their initial invasion of England spoke a multitude of different Germanic languages at first, some of them mutually intelligible, others not so much.
By the time Old English emerged, it had morphed into something different from Old Saxon on the continent due to island insularity and the effects of Old Norse, and of course all of these different Germanic languages and dialects merging with each other.
So the origins of English are in Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark; but the language that came from those languages developed firmly in England
English: After a terrible accident, an ambulance arrived within six minutes to evacuate the victims to the hospital.
French: Après un terrible accident, une ambulance est arrivée en six minutes pour évacuer les victimes à l'hôpital.
German: Nach einem schrecklichen Unfall traf innerhalb von sechs Minuten ein Krankenwagen ein, um die Opfer ins Krankenhaus zu evakuieren. English = 41% French + 33% Germanic + 15% Latin + 5% old Norse + 1% Dutch + 5% Other :)
My freshman English teacher told me in high school that English is just basically overcomplicated German. I thought he was messing with me. Then, one day I was looking up information on the Roanoke colony and the Dare stones and the investigation into whether or not they are authentic and regardless, it hit me that the old English written on the stones looked to me more like German than the English we speak today.
Sure. But English is actually facilitated German, not overcomplicated. It lost a lot of the unnecessarry grammatical rules like cases and conjugations and shit.
@@cottagecheese2481 Wow! Didn't know we had that many mature participants in the discussion.
English: After a terrible accident, an ambulance arrived within six minutes to evacuate the victims to the hospital.
French: Après un terrible accident, une ambulance est arrivée en six minutes pour évacuer les victimes à l'hôpital.
German: Nach einem schrecklichen Unfall traf innerhalb von sechs Minuten ein Krankenwagen ein, um die Opfer ins Krankenhaus zu evakuieren. English = 41% French + 33% Germanic + 15% Latin + 5% old Norse + 1% Dutch + 5% Other :)
The English come from Northwest Germany, Frisland and Southern Denmark. The Celtic King Vortigern paid us to come over to sort out the troublesome Picts which we did. But then we decided to stay.
Your right In ways but wrong as well. Us English have been here before the saxons came we are celts. But celtic saxon and angles makes English I do know I'm English that's the truth.
@@christopherthewreckerthats2295 You are not a Celt. English are Germanics, they invaded from Frisia, Denmark, and France, and later from the rest of Scandinavia.
@@jurikurthambarskjelfir3533 They're not. Genetic research has shown that the English still are a mixture of celtic, some roman and/or germanic. And in their germanic genes not just Anglican, but also Norse, Danish, some Frisian, Jutic. But for the most they are germanized Celts.
Brits were there. English was created by centuries of combining different Germanic languages,Then Viking and French(Romanized Germans). It was developed in England. Old English was Germanic. Today's English is a creole of all those mentioned
the English language has its roots in Germany. But it goes even further to proto-Germanic, like all other Germanic languages, and proto-Germanic originated in Scandinavia. So English as well as German are from Scandinavia if you see it that way.
You are right!
what evidence do you have that proto-Germanic originated in Scandinavia?
@@Anon1gh3 That's quite common sense in linguistics. It was also in the maps they gave me at uni
@@SoWhat89 It's really not. Sanskrit (ancient), Greek (classical) and Latin (common) are the oldest indo-european languages we know and thanks to the work of William Jones, all can be traced back to proto-indo-european, which is a dead language. Beyond that, we have no conclusive evidence of what the language was. It might have originated in both ancient Scandinavia and ancient Frisia after the great flood or sinking of Atland (old land) and then became distinguished over time, but this is merely speculative. I personally believe this ancient flood event is what sunk doggerland and the Frisland island we see on old maps. These ideas are seldom known for obvious reasons. Ideas like the notion that we weren't so different in the ancient past, or that we held a non-Christian, monotheistic form of Paganism, for example, is greatly feared by those who control the narrative.
English: After a terrible accident, an ambulance arrived within six minutes to evacuate the victims to the hospital.
French: Après un terrible accident, une ambulance est arrivée en six minutes pour évacuer les victimes à l'hôpital.
German: Nach einem schrecklichen Unfall traf innerhalb von sechs Minuten ein Krankenwagen ein, um die Opfer ins Krankenhaus zu evakuieren. English = 41% French + 33% Germanic + 15% Latin + 5% old Norse + 1% Dutch + 5% Other :)
Wow, rookie mistake. Germanic definitely does not equate to German.
@UpYours: If reference to the contrary of what you are stating - wasn't provided in this lil' report, I would post a video correction in the description box, as would be necessary. However, I've lived in Germany off-N-on since June 1977, and I'm still here presently in 2019. So, with that said and along with all the research that I've accomplished during this time, believe me, when the word Germanic comes into conversation, it does mean of Germans and/or from Germany, AKA: Deutschland... They're simply that historical, insidious, influential and powerful. BTW, your account name is hilarious! It makes me think of a shady, malevolent enema company on the Las Vegas strip.
I'm not interested in your degenerate hobbies. Referring to a trivial username shows how tiny your ego apparently is.
You're clearly uninformed, calling all things Dutch German. English is closest to Old Frisian. Frisian DNA shows they have always been Dutch and the Salian Franks who started the Holy Roman Empire came from Dutch territory. Their language turned into Dutch and not German. English also followed the Frisian consonant shift. Saxon turned into Low German. Both Dutch and Frisian languages are older than German. I suggest you do some more research.
I was actually about to post a nuanced original comment until the point of you using the word "hamburger" as anecdotal evidence. Brea, bûter, en griene tsiis is goed Ingelsk en goed Frysk.
UpYours you hit the nail on the head
@Sebastiaan Meyer You are mistaken. Frisian isn't 3800 years old as Proto-Germanic came about 500BCE.
@@FrankfurtAlumniVideo Old Norse is a North Germanic tongue and that didn't come from Germany. Germanic doesn't always equate to being from Deutschland regardless of you living there, it doesn't make you an authority on what Germanic is or isn't.
germanic not german, but it is also mixed with norman french and others, to say it is from germany is nonsense as germany as a country did not even exist at the time.
doenst matter, old english was even closer to german than today. germanic people come from west germany
@@hyenalaughingmatter8103 Germanic actually developed in what is now southern Scandinavia and Northern Germany. Germanic doesn't always mean German ie from Deutscheland.
@@redwaldcuthberting7195 Not all of the German area. The central and southern area of Germany, which was dominated by franconian tribes, had no influence on the English language. Pure Germanic tribes were in the north only Angles, Saxons, Frisians and they spoke a common language that is now called Low German (Plattduetsch). The old Low German is the mother of the Old English language, but English later changed a lot due to influences from the French language, since the Normans occupied the island in 1066 and stayed there for 300 years. I can speak Low German and can understand 90 percent of the old English language. Old English and Old Low German is very similar.
Well, the first mistake you made is thinking Germanic is the same word for Germany.
Germanic is a group of tribes that lives in North Germany and France, Netherlands and Demark. ECT.... Germanic doesn't automatically mean Germany.
Also, English is Closer related to Frisian....Not Germany. Most sounds like Danish.....Not Germany. Has a lot of words from Norse....Not Germany.
You're basically right although Frisian was/is spoken in today's NL/Germany. You can't say it sounds like Danish. Frisian is very closely related to low German. It is a West Germanic language, that's where the crux lies. Danish isn't. Danish is a North Germanic language.
Danish has a lot of low German or Platt German words, due to the common market of the 14th century. The Hanseatic league. Many north German cities and Dutch cities along with some Scandinavian and Russian trade cities used Platt German to communicate. Up to one third of the Scandinavian languages words are from Platt German. Platt doesn't mean flat but it means that it is understandable to the countries around the north sea and the Baltic. Many of the everyday words can be understood by the Dutch, Danes, Swedes and Norwegians of the Platt German. Well mostly if written or spoken SLOWLY. Most of the time there may be small spelling and pronunciation differences today.
Frisians also live in Germany in lower saxony. Frisians are north sea germanic both dutch and german
Hair - Haar
Nose - nase
Mouth - mund
Feet - fuss
Finger - finger
Chin - kinn
Arm - arm
Breast - Brust
Muscle - Muskel
Blood - blut
Not only a pair of words, the whole language is close to German
Poultry- Poulet
Beef-Boef
Hospital-L'hopital
Ambulance-Ambulance
Language-langue
Infact around 45% of English words have a French origin.
Not even counting the shared words-
aisle, arcade, arch, vault, voussoir, belfry, arc-boutant, buttress, bay, lintel, estrade, facade, balustrade, terrace
Those are just the ones related to Architecture!!
Its a Germanic/Romance/Celtic/Gaelic/Frisian Hybrid Language. Our grammar and sentance structure is different to other European languages because of this.
@@paulcarroll6995 English is a Germanic language. Obviously, there are many many words of French origin. That doesn't make it a hybrid though.
@@gery8218 Yes I agree, English is a Germanic Language.
However Germanic does not Equal "from Germany" as is in the Video title.
In my reply to OP "the whole language is close to German" under the same criteria (simmilar word routes) then we are also just as close to French.
I think a true Hyrbid language is what English is.
We have incorporated so much romance/Italic into a Germanic root and we have also simplified our grammar, cases,tenses and straigh removed genders that i think a hybrid Language of romance/Germanic is a lot closer to the truth.
Such is the way of an Island invaded by Germanic and Italic people.
@@paulcarroll6995 yes you will find all these words also in dutch. And there is a huge romanic influence later in history.
@@paulcarroll6995 yes, but all this is also a general influence. So in german speeking countrys all that words exist too. Poulet is used in swiss German , beef I don't know, hospital = hospital,.ambulance =.Ambulanz, language is used in different forms: Linguistik.
So the french influence was always dominant especially in the upper class. In Contrary German was supposed to be the language of the mean people.
What a terrible video! Modern day English is a Germanic language of which about a third of its vocabulary is of Norman French origine. All Germanic languages have a proto Germanic ancestor that developed first in modern day Sleswig Holstein and continental Denmark, more then 3,000 years ago. Later Germanic spread across northern and northwestern Europe and split in to three groups. During the fourth century a.d. groups of tribes from Jutland, Saxony and Frisia, probably because of overpopulation and rising water levels, moved in multiple waves to Britain, a land they already knew. In Britain they settled in the eastern and southern parts of the island. Even to this day there are distinct genetic differences between south, east and the rest. There they mixed with the Celtic Brittons. Also lingistic there are differences to this day. Modern day English started life after the Norman invasion in the early tenth century and after a period where the northeast was ruled by Danes. Both Norse/Danish, but even more Norman French, had a large influence on English. Modern English vocabulary consists for about a third of words of French origin.
The words mentioned in the video, like Gesündheit, Kindergarten, don't prove any connection or heritage. English health and child care are just as Germanic.
The proto germanic tribes originated in scandinavia in sweden and norway.
It's not a 1/3rd. It's well over 60% Romance
German - English
Mein - Mine
Haus - House
Maus - Mouse
Für - For
In - In
Schwein - Swine
Und - And
Was - What
Wann- When
Strasse - Street
Gut - Good
Gott - God
Singen- Sing
Wasser - Water
Hier - here
Hand - Hand
Finger - Finger
......
Thousand more words that are similar or even same when pronounced
It's Straße not Strasse*
That's because English is a Germanic language, not a German language.
Poultry- Poulet
Beef-Boef
Hospital-L'hopital
Ambulance-Ambulance
Language-langue
Infact around 45% of English words have a French origin.
Not even counting the shared words-
aisle, arcade, arch, vault, voussoir, belfry, arc-boutant, buttress, bay, lintel, estrade, facade, balustrade, terrace
all French...
Myn
Huus
Muus
Vöär
In
Swyn
Un
Wat
Wän
Stråte
Good
God
Sing
Water
Hyr
Hand
Vinger
in Low Saxon.
English / Low Saxon / German
to guess, gissen, raten
deep, deep, tief
devil, düvel, Teufel
he, hee, er
we, wy, wir
seen, seen, gesehen
ship, skip (schip), Schiff
one, eyn, eins
once, eyns, einst
street, stråte, straße
sleep/slept, slaap/sleyp, schlafe/schlief
done, dån, getan
room, ruum, raum
set in, set in, setze ein
hold back, hold torüg, halte zurück
wake up, wåke up, wache auf
…
English - My name is
German - Mein Name ist/ich heiße
Sorry, but English is Closer to Danish, Frisian, French, Latin than German.
Germanic does NOT equal Germany!!!!
It's definitely not closer to Latin than to German. But yes, Germanic doesn't equal Germany. Many people dont realize that.
Germanic is a roman word and means Germany in rome they say Germaniae for germany and from the roman language the word germaniae
translated into english is germanic the old name of the northsea was germansea or german ocean The History of the germans is older then 3000 years
English came mostly from Low Saxon and Anglia and Frisian. During the Danelaw around 1000 AD the Danes came and much of the English grammar was simplified, so the Danes and English (by then) could communicate. After the 1066 invasion of the Normans, who spoke French by then, many Old French words entered the English language. Sometimes or often we have doublets of both English and French words both used. Even to this day! Though as well sometimes an old English word would no longer be used. Car from Latin carrus and wagon (waggon) Germanic can be used for a vehicle. The Upper Classes in medieval England often or mostly spoke French. Until the early 14th century when English of the farmer who tilled the ground took over. By then many Normans started to intermarry with the common Saxon who didn't dress or eat too well.
English: After a terrible accident, an ambulance arrived within six minutes to evacuate the victims to the hospital.
French: Après un terrible accident, une ambulance est arrivée en six minutes pour évacuer les victimes à l'hôpital.
German: Nach einem schrecklichen Unfall traf innerhalb von sechs Minuten ein Krankenwagen ein, um die Opfer ins Krankenhaus zu evakuieren. English = 41% French + 33% Germanic + 15% Latin + 5% old Norse + 1% Dutch + 5% Other :)
English ultimately originates from Schleswig-Holstein, between Germany and Denmark.
as do the folk
Indeed. The British Isles, Oceania and North America have been invaded.
@@notchinham316 yeah wer good like that kind of our pass time
The Arabs have taken over England, so it even out.
Ah, yes... Angulus current day Angeln.
On September 26, 1957 and October 2, 1959 in Washington, as part of the World Bank Annual Meetings, Mr. Xenophon Zolotas, a famous and highly educated Greek, delivered two speeches in English using (exclusively) Greek words.
Not ancient ..... but words used by the Greeks, as they are, from Antiquity until today, in their daily lives and not only!!!
Mr. Zolotas was a great Economist, who at the age of 24 became a University Professor, for a number of years Governor of the Bank of Greece and Prime Minister. who by many has now been accepted as one of the most important personalities of the last century).
The special element was that he used throughout his speech words that were of Greek origin and are used in English.
The audience watching the IMF meeting was speechless and Zolotas's speech became historic with him and his wife making headlines in the NYT and "Washington Post".
(Somebody must be fluent in English and Greek to be able to write two such speeches. I will quote you the first one.)
The speech was:
''Kyrie, I eulogize the archons of the Panethnic Numismatic Thesaurus and the Ecumenical Trapeza for the orthodoxy of their axioms, methods and policies, although there is an episode of cacophony of the Trapeza with Hellas.
With enthusiasm we dialogue and synagonize at the synods of our didymous Organizations in which polymorphous economic ideas and dogmas are analyzed and synthesized. Our critical problems such as the numismatic plethora generate some agony and melancholy.
This phenomenon is characteristic of our epoch. But, to my thesis, we have the dynamism to program therapeutic practices as a prophylaxis from chaos and catastrophe. In parallel, a panethnic unhypocritical economic synergy and harmonization in a democratic climate is basic. I apologize for my eccentric monologue. I emphasize my eucharistia to you Kyrie, to the eugenic and generous American Ethnos and to the organizers and protagonists of this Amphictyony and the gastronomic symposia. Η δεύτερη ομιλία στις 2 Οκτωβρίου 1959: Kyrie, It is Zeus’ anathema on our epoch for the dynamism of our economies and the heresy of our economic methods and policies that we should agonise between the Scylla of numismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia. It is not my idiosyncrasy to be ironic or sarcastic but my diagnosis would be that politicians are rather cryptoplethorists. Although they emphatically stigmatize numismatic plethora, energize it through their tactics and practices.
Our policies have to be based more on economic and less on political criteria.Our gnomon has to be a metron between political, strategic and philanthropic scopes. Political magic has always been antieconomic. In an epoch characterised by monopolies, oligopolies, menopsonies, monopolistic antagonism and polymorphous inelasticities, our policies have to be more orthological. But this should not be metamorphosed into plethorophobia which is endemic among academic economists. Numismatic symmetry should not antagonize economic acme. A greater harmonization between the practices of the economic and numismatic archons is basic.
Parallel to this, we have to synchronize and harmonize more and more our economic and numismatic policies panethnically.
These scopes are more practical now, when the prognostics of the political and economic barometer are halcyonic. The history of our didymous organisations in this sphere has been didactic and their gnostic practices will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethnical economics.
The genesis of the programmed organisations will dynamize these policies. I sympathise, therefore, with the aposties and the hierarchy of our organisations in their zeal to programme orthodox economic and numismatic policies, although I have some logomachy with them. I apologize for having tyrannized you with my hellenic phraseology. In my epilogue, I emphasize my eulogy to the philoxenous autochthons of this cosmopolitan metropolis and my encomium to you, Kyrie, and the stenographers.''
The English language is mispronounciations of german, french, Spanish, and Latin all in one.
Indeed…And I say, it's also a "mutt language." LOL! Meaning, a traceable cross or mixing of a registered culture or ethnicity of languages… Even African and Native American Indian.
Not true it's Germanic, not German. English has it's own subgroup in West Germanic called Anglic. There are barely any Spanish words in English.
@@redwaldcuthberting7195 Yeah no real spanish origin, but theres a lot of latin/romance influence on Modern English, Notably the French infulences that mean Spanish is not completely alien to an English speaker.
English: After a terrible accident, an ambulance arrived within six minutes to evacuate the victims to the hospital.
French: Après un terrible accident, une ambulance est arrivée en six minutes pour évacuer les victimes à l'hôpital.
German: Nach einem schrecklichen Unfall traf innerhalb von sechs Minuten ein Krankenwagen ein, um die Opfer ins Krankenhaus zu evakuieren. English = 41% French + 33% Germanic + 15% Latin + 5% old Norse + 1% Dutch + 5% Other :)
the english speech comes from the angles not the saxons . and you can speek english with no latin or french words
Anglish :)
@@ShadowPlay1919 indeed
@@Obnoxiousteadrinker umm shouldn't you be wabbajacking something? :P
English: After a terrible accident, an ambulance arrived within six minutes to evacuate the victims to the hospital.
French: Après un terrible accident, une ambulance est arrivée en six minutes pour évacuer les victimes à l'hôpital.
German: Nach einem schrecklichen Unfall traf innerhalb von sechs Minuten ein Krankenwagen ein, um die Opfer ins Krankenhaus zu evakuieren. English = 41% French + 33% Germanic + 15% Latin + 5% old Norse + 1% Dutch + 5% Other :)
Auto comes from greek. Auto is greek for "self". Automobile is like saying self moving. Great video though.
Yes, the ethnic English are connected to ethnic Germans through language, genes etc. 🏴🇩🇪
What was the point of this video? I thought it was common knowledge that English or The English didn't originate from the British Isles. Most of those German words are in common use in the US because of German migration not because of the Angles, Saxons and jutes from the 5th and 6th centuries.
no no no, the words brought by German migrants dont have anything to do with English being a Germanic language. Old English has so much that still exists in modern German and it was very close to Frisian or Low German at the time.
Sorry, I gotta add, I didnt watch the video :D Kindergarten etc. of course were brought by migrants.
English: After a terrible accident, an ambulance arrived within six minutes to evacuate the victims to the hospital.
French: Après un terrible accident, une ambulance est arrivée en six minutes pour évacuer les victimes à l'hôpital.
German: Nach einem schrecklichen Unfall traf innerhalb von sechs Minuten ein Krankenwagen ein, um die Opfer ins Krankenhaus zu evakuieren. English = 41% French + 33% Germanic + 15% Latin + 5% old Norse + 1% Dutch + 5% Other :)
Most people know English doesn’t come from the British Isles-England didn’t exist before the Saxons went to the British Isles-Also, you pointed to Denmark 🇩🇰 on the map when referring to the Netherlands 🇳🇱.
Do not forget the Angles who lived in what is now southern Jutland and northern Schleswig-Holstein. The Angles gave the newly settled country their name: England = Angeland.
@@folkestender2025 it's weird that they called it Angeland despite the Saxons being the majority but I guess "Saxony" was already taken :p
Yup, that's true English came from a high germanic language which has evolved being to a west germanic langauge, with Dutch and German.
Badlinguistics at its finest
English doesn't come from high German.
@@redwaldcuthberting7195 Low German.
English: After a terrible accident, an ambulance arrived within six minutes to evacuate the victims to the hospital.
French: Après un terrible accident, une ambulance est arrivée en six minutes pour évacuer les victimes à l'hôpital.
German: Nach einem schrecklichen Unfall traf innerhalb von sechs Minuten ein Krankenwagen ein, um die Opfer ins Krankenhaus zu evakuieren. English = 41% French + 33% Germanic + 15% Latin + 5% old Norse + 1% Dutch + 5% Other :)
The Germanic languages come from Scandinavia originally
er...this isn't really revolutionary! Any its Germanic which isn't the same as German.
Britain spoke some Celtic languages prior to and during (assumed) the Roman invasion (~300 yrs). The Celtic languages were replace by the Germanic languages (except Wales) by the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes starting around 500 AD. Presently there is debate (and some evidence) that the origin of the Germanic languages (Proto-German) came from Scandinavia (note Angles and Jutes were from present day Denmark). The invasion of the French (~ 250 yrs) changed Old English into Middle English which is unique and very different from other Germanic languages; 1) grammar, near loss of gender, 2) near loss of verb endings, 3) 30% French words added (by Middle-English). If the contribution of the Latin words (Roman ~29%), French words (~ 30%) and Greek 6% (via Latin) are added, there is an argument that English is more of a Romance language. Modern English is a confusing mix of both, however it is estimated that only 26% on present day words are of Germanic roots.
I mean, it is from Continental Europe, we know that, it’s no mystery. But there wasn’t a ‘Germany’ in the sense that we know it. Really from Denmark, but of course Denmark wasn’t really a place then in the way we know it.
Actually anglia is south of denmark and is modern Germany.
Anglia is the southeastern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig, which belonged to Denmark for a long time and now belongs to Germany together with the former Duchy of Holstein. But that's another story from later centuries. When the Angles settled on the British Isles along with the Saxons and Frisians, there was no Denmark, Germany or the Netherlands. Dynasties and empires like those in southern Europe did not emerge in northern Europe until centuries later. There was only one area where Germanic tribes lived. In the south it was the Saxons and in the north the Angles and Jutes, in the west the Frisians. Many always think that Vikings were a own peoples, that is wrong. To be a Viking was what is now called a seafarer. vikings were normal men of Anglia or other South Scandinavian areas, who went to sea and trade with other tribes, but sometimes they also took something that didn't belong to them (lol).
And Yanks think English is an "American" language.
@Vincent Liang the origin of english isn't Murikan
No American thinks the English language originated in America. Wtf are you smoking.
And btw american English dialects and words are more closer to English from the 1700s than modern English in England is. One example we say merry christmas and modern England people say happy Christmas. Merry was older but changed durimg victorian era because merriment was associatef with alcohol. Anyway English people use English in a weird way. Also i have a theory. You know how English people speak like Yoda? Hes a lucky man that one is...like that...i theorize it is because like in dutch amd German they might put the verbs in different locations of sentence and english switched it, but British people still use it casually. Just a theory
@@notchinham316 we know wth
@@ShadowPlay1919 lol like yoda? Humm your opinion. In England we speak English, a language that originates from England, yes old English is classed as a Germanic language which is closely related to Scots and frisian, over time the English language has developed from old English to middle English and then into what we now call modern English, Americans speak American English,( an adopted language,) humm yes we do say "merry Christmas" and also "happy Christmas."We speak English as it should be spoken, why! Because it is how the English is spoken in its native country of origin.
@@de-bo2515 im very familisr with the history of English and other Germanic languages.
But RP is a made up accent. And about Yoda please reread if you don't understand. I don't know the proper terminology but sometimes you put the subject and verb for "to be" at the end of a sentence. And just because a language is native to a region doesn't make the accents and dialect spoken there now more closer to the original than others. Italian is not more Latin than Spanish. Pensylvania Dutch (a form of German spoken by certain religious communities here in the US) is closer to older German than modern German in Germany.
I would argue that languages originally would have no national identity (a mainly 19th-century construct), meaning that it would be better to argue that what is now English originated from the lands in what is today the nation of Germany... Also, you might as well include Denmark and the Netherlands there since those regions were also inhabited by the Germanic groups which later migrated to Britain and ended up forming the English language.
English: After a terrible accident, an ambulance arrived within six minutes to evacuate the victims to the hospital.
French: Après un terrible accident, une ambulance est arrivée en six minutes pour évacuer les victimes à l'hôpital.
German: Nach einem schrecklichen Unfall traf innerhalb von sechs Minuten ein Krankenwagen ein, um die Opfer ins Krankenhaus zu evakuieren. English = 41% French + 33% Germanic + 15% Latin + 5% old Norse + 1% Dutch + 5% Other :)
Then I got to the part about how 'intertwined' German and English are. All the examples used are ither common words that we have adopted or words for food. They ar imported into Engish from German, in the same way German has imported many English words like handy, pullover, business, meeting etc etc etc.
Had you really wanted to show the actual closeness, based on real words used for centuries and not words coming into use in the last hundred years at most, you could hae gone for things like (Eng / Germ) Hand / Hand, House / Haus, Arm / Arm, Elbow / Ellbogen, Boat / Boot, Swim / Schwimmen, break / brechen etc etc and literally thousands and thousands of others.
Oh, thought you might also like to know, the word 'auto' is neither English nor German. It is a Greek prefix whch means 'self'. viz autotoxin (self poison), autonomy (self governing) and, oh yes, automobile (self moving)
yes, auto is just short for automobile
Saxons and not the same as Angles. They were separate people from different areas of what is now Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands ( there is region in Germany called Saxony ) and there is still a small peninsula in Germany called Anglia, same name as the old eastern Anglian kingdom. Later in history, the combined and eventually formed England, the name derived from 'Anglia' Essex, Wessex, Middlesex, Sussex were all Saxon areas ( East Ssxons, West Seaxons, Mid-Saxons and South Saxons ) It is only a modern reference to say " Anglo-Saxons" as a general collective term for Germanic people that lived there after the Roman era. They also were also likely not the only Germanic people there, though their language was probably similar and more like dialects. Since then, Germanic languages have just diverged a lot. Icelandic is the oldest unchanged, whilst Old English ( pure Germanic ) is too different for Icelanders to understand fully, it has similar vocab and lettering system. So even 100 years ago, there were some divergent forms of Germanic. Over time, they have diverged more. Swedish and Danish are the most influenced latterly by low German. English changed the most radically, due to the huge influence of Norman French from around 1000 years ago, due to Norman rule. Otherwise, even without the Latin French, English would still be a quite distinctive or unique Germanic language.
The normans were not french. They were germanic vikings who settle in france and invaded england.
@@andreaimbrogno7978 Not really, the upper elite maybe were, they intermarried with Normans, so you had the elite would be bi lingual. Besides, the pan of time at which point they were not / or were, 'Norman' and not 'Norse' is blurry - it can be only one or two generations, which is not long. We see that today with migration or mixed families.
There were the elite however, who some ( not all ) maybe had Norse ties, though to say "they were not Norman French" is sort of absurd and things are not that black and white
If you look at the names of some ( some!) towns in the UK or villages ( or peoples surnames ) it is easy to trace the 'Norman' and later French influence.
It is worth bearing in mind that the 'Vikings' ( a name we ascribe) also travel far and wide, to Italy, Balkans, Turkey - so after 100 years, I guess some genetic mixing is there.
Another thing to bear in mind, the Normans ( like the medieval Warlord dictators ) used large mercenary armies and / or people who were drawn from their sphere of influence, which was also across a lot of Europe ( also, there is strong evidence of connection to Rome and you could also argue, the Normans were like a Romans lite / mk2 )
One thing is certain, they bought Latin to the UK in a big way and also, the Guernsey and Jersey Islands, still have their own dialects of Norman French . . .that they try to maintain.
@@andreaimbrogno7978 wrong, france defeated vikings in 887 and the defeated viking soldiers offered to fight for france and convert to the christian faith. The king of france accepted and gave them a land called Normandy. Then, these few thousand Vikings mixed with the French population during 2 centuries! So when the Normans invaded England in 1066 they spoke French and were genetically speaking, more French than Viking
Auto is from Greek meaning self. Au is pronounced as "af". Something I learned in a Modern Greek class I took at a church. So automobile, auto - self and mobile - moving. Self moving. Greek (auto) Latin (mobile) = automobile. The Germans also borrowed from the Greeks and Latin, but not as much as English have from Old French (Latin based) and Latin and Greek itself. Much in law and science.
Published article by the British Council of Athens:
''How Many Greek Words Are Used in English?
List of 150.000!!! Influence of the Greek(Hellenic) language in today’s word, according to ''The OXFORD Companion to the English Language''!!!
The GUINNESS Book of Records ranks the Hellenic language as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types!!!
Hellenic roots are often used to coin new words for other languages, especially in the sciences and medicine. Mathematics, physics, astronomy, democracy, philosophy, athletics, theatre, rhetoric, baptism, and hundreds of other words are Hellenic(Greek), this is a FACT!!!
Greek words and word elements continue to be productive as a basis for coinages: anthropology, photography, telephony, isomer, biomechanics, cinematography, etc…
In a typical everyday 80,000-word English dictionary, about 5% of the words are directly borrowed from Greek; (for example, “phenomenon” is a Hellenic word and even obeys Hellenic grammar rules as the plural is “phenomena”), and another 25% are borrowed indirectly.
According to an estimate, more than 150,000 English words come from Greek words. These include technical and scientific terms as well as more common words!
So, about 150.000 words in modern English have direct or indirect origins in the ancient Greek language.
So, 30% of English words are…Greek!
Hellenic and Latin are the predominant sources of the international scientific vocabulary, however, the percentage of words borrowed from Greek rises much higher than Latin when considering highly scientific vocabulary (for example, “oxytetracycline” is a medical term that has three Hellenic roots). And finally, had you ever wondered how the world was going to be if the Greek language never existed?''
I mean, really?? This is something everyone in England already knows. The original inhabibtants of the islands now called Britain were the Celts. The Romans invaded first. then came the Saxons, then the Vikings and finally the Norman French.
Every one of those peoples has had an influence on the language spoken here.
The reason English is so close to Dutch, German and Frisian (pronounced 'Freezhen' by the way and not 'Freezian') is because they all share the same parent language (not German as neither German nor Germany existed at the time).
Another 'by the way', there is no such place as 'The Isles of Wight'. It is a single, very small island off the south coast of England. The Saxons actually settled the enite country with the exception of the western fringes (Wales and Cornwall), which is why these areas still retain and use their original Celtic languages.
The Vikings settled the north and the east of what is now England (England did not exist until 927AD) and that large part of the country was under Danish rule and was a separate country until right up until the 12th century. That also had a huge influence on the language and there are many elements of grammar and vocabulary more akin to old Norse than to Old German - this is when English and German began to diverge.
There is so much more to this story - but just wanted to point out this video makes some incorrect assumptions, talks about facts that didn't exist in the time they are used to substantiate the theory and some of it is, well frankly, wrong :)
The mistake is always to compare English words with today's standard German. Standard German is a very young language, just like Standard Dutch. If you want to compare English words with German or Dutch words, you need to use the Low German languages as a basis, which were spoken in Anglia, Saxony and Friesland and which are still partially spoken today. At that time, this area extended from what is now southern Jutland through northwest Germany to the northern Netherlands. This language is fundamentally different from the German, influenced by Franks, which was spoken in the south of today's Germany. The same goes for today's Standard Dutch, which was also heavily influenced strong by the Frankish dialects. It should also be remembered that at that time there was only one sixth of the current population density and that tribes often lived far apart, giving rise to different dialects. We always make the mistake of looking at the time from today's nation-state perspective. At this old time there were no states with borders, there were only settlement areas of tribes that only joined together to form kingdoms and Duchies much later.
The Celts weren’t even the first people here they invaded from Gallia
English: After a terrible accident, an ambulance arrived within six minutes to evacuate the victims to the morgue.
French: Après un terrible accident, une ambulance arriva en six minutes pour évacuer les victimes à la morgue.
German: Nach einem schrecklichen Unfall traf innerhalb von sechs Minuten ein Krankenwagen ein, um die Opfer ins Leichenschauhaus zu evakuieren. English = 41% French + 33% Germanic + 15% Latin + 5% old Norse + 1% Dutch + 5% Other :)
@@aleajactaest7242 Not quite sure what your point there is?
@@davidemmett8191 Old English is close to Low German but modern English is more like French than German. My figures come from an English linguist, search 41% of the English language is French.
PS None point, it's just a fact!
German is a cousin language of English, but according to the video, English originated from Germany and is from Germany. Since English originated from Germany and is from Germany, is German not only the cousin of the English language, but also the ancestrial language and family of English?
A big fat no! The English language is classed as a Germanic language (Germanic does not mean German)Germany did not even exist as we know it today when old English was spoken. Old English is more close to scots and old frissian.
Forget the German language. The uniform German standard language did not yet exist at that time. Only Low German and Frisian are the original mothers of the Old English language. There were also Scandinavian influences that came from the Vikings. The Franconian-German language from southern German areas had no influence on the old English language, as no tribes from these areas emigrated to Great Britain.
German:beef, French: veal a lot of borrowed words! But yeah mostly German....
Hey, Joe... Glad you came through... and no doubt, the English language does have many borrowed words... I mentioned that many words in English comes from Latin, Spanish, and French... But this vid just touched on that. It was supposed to be about the English language's origins - which is from Old English... and Old English traces back to the Germanic tribes, and particularly, the Frisians of modern day Frisia... to keep it short. A very interesting read nonetheless.
@@FrankfurtAlumniVideo Friesians, Angles, Saxons, Jutes and the island's Celtic indigenous people coined the Old English language. From the year 1066 the Normans were come and the language changed. Today the English language is 26% Germanic, 29% French/Romanic, 29 Latin and the rest is Celtic/Gaelic. But the melody of the English language has remained Germanic despite the Romanic and Latin influences. Please do not confuse Germanic with German. The Angles and Saxons lived only in the north of today's Germany and in the northeast of the Netherlands. They spoke in this time Old Low German or Frisian, which has very little to do with today's Standard German language. Old Low German was very close to the Old English language. Old Low German was more similar to the Old English language at that time than to the languages and dialects spoken in southern Germany.
Beef isn't German. Beef ie Boeuf comes from French. ;)
@@redwaldcuthberting7195 Yes, "Beef" comes from the French word "Boeuf", but "Meat" comes from old Low German, where it called "Mett". "Mett" is mainly used to describe minced meat. The English word "Flesh" also comes from the Low German word "Fleesch".
If you pronounce Germanm words in which "SCH" occurs, you as a Brit simply have to forget the "C" and pronounce it as "SH" as in the English language. Many English speaking people always try to speak the "C" and cripple their tongue... ;-)
@@redwaldcuthberting7195 fun fact, most of the names for meat have French origin, whilst the animals Germanic.
Note that English didn’t come from German, it came from the Germanic languages. There is a difference, like with Turkish/Turk and Turkic or Mongols and Mongolic.
I'm a English Germanic Anglo Saxon Celtic with viking roots love my ancestors culture I'm learning more about paganism and the people from the past and present
Numbers 1-5. {Proto Indo European}: oinos, dwoh, treyes, kwettwor, penkwe. --> {Pre Proto Germanic}: oinoz, twoi, threyez, pedwor, pempe. --> {Proto Germanic}: ainaz, twai, thriyiz, fidwor, fimf. --> {West Germanic}: ainz, twai, thriz, fiwor, finf. --> {Old English}: an, twa, thrie, feower, fif. --> {Middle English}: an, twa, thri, fower, five. --> {Modern English}: one, two three, four, five.
Wow! Awesome video man and great information I never knew about. Thanks for sharing brother. Loved this!!
Much appreciated! Thanks for stoppin' by...
@@FrankfurtAlumniVideo No problem buddy. You know us dependents gotta stick together lol. I wouldn't miss one of your videos for the world. They remind me of my teenage years in Stuttgart and my military days in Hanau. I miss that country so much. I should've never left there lol
My aunt lives in Hamburg
@pat goff: all do respects to your aunt and the rest of the Hamburgers... As for me, I'd rather be a Frankfurter!
I would rather be a Hanauer
You say Dramatic, instead of Germanic-Which is hilarious but also very odd
Not entirely correct as 1/5 of English words are French. English majorly developed from Fresian Dutch. Don't confuse American English with British English. That language has developed by itself. Yes Dutch is Germanic language but American English is a whole different dialect that isn't spoken in England. So you are wrong and right at the same time. Pretzels don't exist in England unless you go to Aldi.
American English is an Accent, England English and American English don't differ much.
@@sylamy7457 Not to much in the written form, but some English dialects are hard to understand from an American perspective. Wait a couple of hundred years. By then the English will speak a mixture of Arabic, Indian and English. Maybe with smattering of Jamaican creole mixed in.
English: After a terrible accident, an ambulance arrived within six minutes to evacuate the victims to the hospital.
French: Après un terrible accident, une ambulance est arrivée en six minutes pour évacuer les victimes à l'hôpital.
German: Nach einem schrecklichen Unfall traf innerhalb von sechs Minuten ein Krankenwagen ein, um die Opfer ins Krankenhaus zu evakuieren. English = 41% French + 33% Germanic + 15% Latin + 5% old Norse + 1% Dutch + 5% Other :)
Honey - honig - also - also - and - und - knee - knie - shoulder - schulter
english is very similar to german, anyway
English: After a terrible accident, an ambulance arrived within six minutes to evacuate the victims to the hospital.
French: Après un terrible accident, une ambulance est arrivée en six minutes pour évacuer les victimes à l'hôpital.
German: Nach einem schrecklichen Unfall traf innerhalb von sechs Minuten ein Krankenwagen ein, um die Opfer ins Krankenhaus zu evakuieren. English = 41% French + 33% Germanic + 15% Latin + 5% old Norse + 1% Dutch + 5% Other :)
@@aleajactaest7242 No one would actually say that in English though, it is a constructed sentence to try and prove a point. For a start if you are taking the victims to the morgue (American word), they must be already dead, and you can't evacuate dead bodies. In real English the sentence would be more like: An ambulance got there within six minutes after the bad crash to take the dead to the mortuary. Still some French-like words in there but only 2 out of 18 words, so nowhere near as many as in the constructed version that no one would actually say.
@@davidemmett8191 In your sentence there are 4 french words (ambulance six minutes mortuary) not 2.
And you proove my point, evidence:
French word MORT = DEAD in English
French words MORTuary MORTal MORTality imMORTal imMORTality...
And now have a look: Art culture science medecine dentist justice techniques construction aviation renaissance expert savant elite connoisseur architecture education entrepreneur etc are all french words.
@@aleajactaest7242 six is not French. It comes from a much older root and did not Transfer to English via French. Most languages have a similar word (sechs in German, zes in Dutch, seks in Norwegian, sex in Swedish, seix in Anglo Saxon English) As you can see, it came to modern English directly from Anglo Saxon which was spoken here before any Frenchies arrived. The word Minute is from a Latin root and is used in many other Germanic languages ( minuut in Dutch, minut in Swedish, minute in German) Don't try to prove a non existant point by examples that are so easily disproved. Do you happen to be French or maybe American?
@@davidemmett8191 You think I'm French or American, so you think I'm here to criticize the English? Wrong, for me, France, England, Greece and Italy are the 4 greatest nations in Western history, and by FAR.
I do respect England, your queen (admirable since WW2) and i love english humor (Benny Hill) and TV show (Top Gear) etc...
And guess what, i'm a stupid bloody idiot french!
Most French people look at England with the greatest respect, and also with suspicion because of history. And most English do the same with France!
You're right for six, but you write this word as in french, unlike other Germanic languages.
Minute is from a latin root, you're right, but once again you write it as in french (it's minuto in spanish italian portuguese). And other germanic languages also use this french word.
In other germanic languages (German Dutch Swedish etc) about 30% of the vocabulary is of French origin, and they do use the phonetic translation of the french minute word.
FUN FACT: Swedish Danish Dutch Norwegian etc use the french word parapluie while in English it's umbrella.
But umbrella is also french, it comes from ombrelle! Yet ombrelle is white color and was used by the french nobility to protect against the sun coz ombrelle means little shadow. But English still use this french word to protect against the rain.
And from France 🎉
Watched some videos about old English. That sounds way closer to modern german and dutch than modern english. Dont know how the words changed so completly
Time. Like look st the difference in massschissests and new york, texss and Georgia. Imagine over 500 years without internet and world broadcast tv only influenced by whst you hear locally. It would become a new language gradually
@@ShadowPlay1919
Yes and no. It would change over time, yes, but what happened to old english isnt a local thing. It was influenced from outside some hundred years ago. Up to 15th century there was only little change, but after it there happened many in "short" time.
@@Riondrial why are you arguing wtf there is no no.
@@ShadowPlay1919
So you didnt understand, i guess. What i wrote is: Your example is working for old english only to a certain degree.
Therefore no no
It was the German society that mostly whiped out Saxon culture and language. You can even see that by the ancestors of the Saxons being now assimilated to Germans or being called Plattdeutsche (Flat Germans) when they still speak the language (Low Saxon aka Low German), all that while the name Saxon(y) was transferred to people and a region which is not ancestral to the Saxons..
Maybe the leader or duke of Saxony moved through marriage and his descendants to Saxony today (Leipzig) , but the farmers and the Saxons at least the ones who didn't move across the north sea to Britain, stayed. Farmers tend to stay because they work the land. The leaders get married and inherit someone else's dukedom or fiefdom. Same with the Normans who invaded England in 1066. They said southwestern France still belonged to the Duke or by then King of England and in the 14th century fought the 100 years war to claim what he thought was his and all the people and animals. Back then a King owned all the land and was like a god.
English: After a terrible accident, an ambulance arrived within six minutes to evacuate the victims to the hospital.
French: Après un terrible accident, une ambulance est arrivée en six minutes pour évacuer les victimes à l'hôpital.
German: Nach einem schrecklichen Unfall traf innerhalb von sechs Minuten ein Krankenwagen ein, um die Opfer ins Krankenhaus zu evakuieren. English = 41% French + 33% Germanic + 15% Latin + 5% old Norse + 1% Dutch + 5% Other :)
Herrman became German.
Sorry, but it came from France.
Wrong. French influenced it a lot but it didn’t create it. French came from Oïl which came from Gallo-Romance which came from Western Romance which came from Romance which came from Latino-Faliscan which came from Italic which came from Indo-European. English came from Anglic which came from Anglo-Frisian which came from North Sea Germanic which came from West Germanic which came from Indo-European.
No😂
No from Frisian ❤😂
Are you saying dramatic instead of Germanic?
LOL! Really? SMH... Of Course I'm saying Germanic. 😂