The worst part about Etruscan is that one of the emperors was obsessed with it and made a comprehensive dictionary of it. However all copies have been lost.
i will speak for languages that are completely extinct (languages that can be revived), phoenician(i am very surprised that no one wrote about it in the more than 600 comments), akkadian, some south arabian peninsula, some native american languages and maybe some anatolian languages(by hellenized anatolians) should be revived. because the direct genetic heirs of those who spoke these languages at the time are still alive and their numbers are millions.
Awn canna fergæt abót the Oronothan lied, yîther. Sóm fók mounna emmins aken tha hit bistawns, yiet hier hit is, æn I am wreiting ie't nowly. Mivfer, mawr acaws sóm fók had feryotten abót it, dæsna mien tha awn canna bruik thess hawsheinent lied fer te amprull aw kin têndels æn sêchen ie the warld. Whîlka fammely is hit fapært? Mell, sógerly hit is Jêrmanish, bit hit is awk Înkgelsêfty, æn hit was spoken frea æ houp nênt frie fók wha bad ie Noarthummerlawn ie the threttienth yierhunnert. Bit hit órliffit tills th'dei, meanly ga-spoken frea æ degly houp wizzærts æn heigh drîghten yeas diernêfty strêftfólchel nênt fók ie thon kintræbawt. Hit is sógerly æ ferawden lied, bit hit is nón FERYOTTEN lied.
I don't wanna sound biest but I think my writing system thaana (dhivehi) is pretty high up there އަހަރެން ދެކޭގޮތުގައި ތާނަ އަކުރަކީ ވަރަށް ރީތި އަދި މުއްސަނދި އަކުރުތަކެއް
Love that you listed "Independence days" as a major English export. Fun trivia fact: 10% of the world's population lives in countries that declared independence specifically from Elizabeth II, and she only missed India and Pakistan by a couple years.
IMO the closest macrofamily to be widely accepted in the near future would be Austro-Tai (rather than Dene-Yeniseian), actually. Like, the list of core cognates is pretty robust, and the regular correspondences are plenty, including even the tones of Kra-Dai languages with the final consonants of AN...
I like þorn, and unlike oþer people in þis comment section, I write "þorn" seriously, but shall we also bring back eð? As you can see by my comment, I have used þorn where eð was used in past English and modern Icelandic.
Thank you for the video! One mistake you made though about the Dutch use of grammatical gender. We did not actually drop all our genders. There used to be neuter, feminine and masculine but we dropped the feminine and replaced it with masculine. Feminine “Den” got replaced by “De” Meaning that “Het paard” has always been “Het paard”
Nyland is the Swedish name of Uusimaa and is pronounced [ˈnyːlɑnd] (in the Finland Swedish dialect), both meaning "New land". According to Wiktionary the surname actually comes from Norwegian, but still has the same the same meaning and doesn't list any other uses in Norwegian. edit: why tf does agma schwa have a Lapis body pillow?
I know Basque and I'm sorry to tell you that batua is probably not a good source as it was designed by a nationalist 100 so years ago called Sabino Arana. Yeah it's true he took things from here and there with little adaptation but in some cases i feel he butchered the languages that were before. I mean, all of our verb declinations, times and modes fit into one side of an A4 sheet of paper (except trinkos, which are like compacted due to heavy use). And nowadays it's mainly used as a means of indoctrination. Everything thanks to some terrorists that have stain the region forever IMO
Hello. This is the brother of the person who owns this youtube user account. Due to watching this translation, he laughed to death after learning the true translation. Youll be hearing from my lawyer
Another crazy linguistic theory on par with Nyland's is that the romance languages "evolved" from Latin. The amount of nonsense and pseudoscience you have to swallow to accept it is incredible.
Sure you being back Sumerian and before you know it half the world lives on a giant raft in the pacific in a cult and only a video game designer and an underage skater girl will be able to save us.
Kinda ironic to watch a linguistics related video in which the very Agma Schwa repeatedly manages to eviscerate the pronunciation of /kh/ - EVERYONE with a basic education knows the /kh/ is pronounced [x], NOT [k]! "Sakalin, Okotsk..." Would've expected ignorance of that level from a layperson but not a guy hosting a popular channel - kinda takes ALL the credibility away...
if we did bring it back it would be the second letter to be both a descender like gpqy and an ascender like tifbd, the only letter that is both is j as you can see " jogging"
