History of the Germanic Languages 

Don’t cry because it’s over Smile because it happened RIP Crimean Goth

When i see kids dressed up as 'goth' these days i like to confuse them by asking; "Visigoth or Ostrogoth?"

I am amazed crimean gothic held out for as long as it did separated from the rest of the family. Too bad this unique language vanished.

Had a older neighbor from England. He was a professor of Germanic languages. He could speak and write Old English. My gosh what a beautiful language!

I love how you showed languages diverging by using gradually changing colors. It shows that languages don't just start being separate languages at a certain point, but gradually become different from each other as time passes. I also love how you put a world map in the corner to show the global spread of English and Dutch, and the emergence of Afrikaans. I would love to see more videos like this on other language families, possibly some non-European ones like the Dravidian, or Uralic languages. Or maybe showing several language families at once in one map.

If anyone is confused about the versions of German: Upper German + Central German = High German Low German is actually closer to Low Franconian/Dutch and Frisian Standard German = Artificial dialect, 80% Central German, 20% Upper German Low German speakers basically had to learn it as a foreign language, replacing the native tongue, while Upper German is usually more compatible. That's why the South kept far more dialects.

You forgot the MOST IMPORTANT language: The Cimbrian, spoken by over 700 PEOPLE in northern Italy 😂

When German language disappears form Russia and Poland after World War 2 and appears in Siberia Me: *oh wait-*

Langobard or Lombard language is believed to be the initiator of the High German consonant shift starting around 600CE and has been probably a Old High German dialect. It's fascinating that Lombard is still perceivable in modern High German. Examples of this important development in the German language are p-->pf, st-->scht, ð/t-->d, k-->ch and so on. Apple -->Apfel, stone-->S(ch)tein, this-->dies, make-->machen

Amazing that the sentence I am typing right now is a descendent of this language tree.

R.I.P. East Germanic languages, you will be dearly missed by your North and West Germanic cousins🙏

Germans east of the Oder-Niesse line, c.a. 1945: _I don't feel so good_

I am from Omsk, this city is located in Siberia, Russia. We used to have a large German minority (as in the Altai Territory), but today you can hardly find a person who could talk to you in German. Many left, those who remained tripled their language and are indistinguishable from Russians. Therefore, I believe that the German minority is too brightly marked on the map, in fact it no longer exists. PS Born and lived in Omsk until I was 18, I met only ONE person who spoke German well

6:23 F for Crimean Gothic

its amazing how norse speakers just disappeared from greenland after all that time

I find it interesting that for each of the 3 west-germanic language groups one language managed to stay relevant (North-Sea = English, Rhein-Weser = Dutch, Elbe = German) to this day.

Old English was definitely spoken in Devon by 1066. Cornwall was mostly English speaking by 1550. Southwest Wales (sometimes called 'Little England Beyond Wales') has been English speaking since around the 12th/13th centuries. There was also the Yola tongue that descended from Middle English in Ireland and lasted until the 18th century. English and Scots were both prominent in Antrim in Northern Ireland by 1700 as a result of the Plantations- the settling on Scots and Englishmen there.

In the eastern part of The Netherlands dialects of Low Saxon are spoken. The map doesn't show that

You're missing German in Brazil, it's our second most spoken native language.

How about the Slavic Languages next?

Great job. But I note a few minor inaccuracies. Until the 19th century, a small Slavic language existed in the center of northern Germany, it's Polabian (or Vendian), i.e. this small area was not homogeneously German-speaking from the 8th century to the 19th. On the contrary, as far as I know, most of East Prussia (its central and western parts) were homogeneously German-speaking from the late medieval, the area of ​​the Prussian language gradually declined and by the 17-18th century remained only in small areas west of Königsberg. There was a fairly clear division of East Prussia into the Low German and High German parts. Pomerania was also homogenously German-speaking from the late Middle Ages to 1945. Slavic speech (primarily Kashubian language) was preserved only in some eastern regions. Like most of Silesia and Sudetenland.

1:56 The Norse were very conservative in their speech, despite the inevitability of change. As a result, Proto-Norse was spoken in a manner similar to Old North Germanic for a far longer period than the other dialects were spoken in their own respective manners before diverging further into separate languages. The Proto-Norse period extends at maximum from 100 AD to about 700 AD, although in practicality it's more likely narrowed down to between 300 AD - 600 AD. Proto-Norse undergoes a language collapse right around the Year 600 where, for whatever reason, it loses a considerable amount of it's futhark and is forced to represent the same sounds with far fewer runes, and sound changes accompany this change to accommodate the shift. The moment the sound changes came, and their words went from being represented with 24 runes to 16 runes, is the moment you go from speaking Proto-Norse to proper Old Norse completely by around the Year 650.

Coming from Northern Germany, I'm a bit sad how much Low German lost its significance

Some details were overlooked but otherwise good job. This takes a lot of research.

Thanks for he atmospheric music that makes one cry over languages disappearing

***Thank you very much for the really good job!*** It's amazing to observe, how the languange group can show the history of the kindred nations! I would recommed it to the schools :-) About the Crimean Gothic: hadn't it dissappeared already to the end of XVIII century?

1:55 - 6:22 R.I.P Crimean Gothics

Good research!

I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

Good video as always 👍

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if Goths had imposed Gothic in Spain and Italy.

us the alsatian almost lost our languages, not like the basques or bretons who keep their culture cause it's unique, they are the majority of their group, finding soemone who speak alsatian isin't as rare as finding soemone sorbian but it's getting as rare as it

I really, really enjoy your language videos

Excellent video, learned a lot!

Cool!!! Thanks for the awesome video

I'm just amazed, this is EXACTLY what I was looking for! I'm just... I don't have words, someone made EXACTLY the video I was thinking should exist, thank you very much, I love you!

Yo you just earned a sub, great videos

Kind of sad to see the disappearance of East Germanic, I’d really like to see that evolve.

I love your videos so much

Sadly you can see in the south-west border: Alsatian (Alemanic, Upper german) and Lorraine Franconian (Central german) vanishing after WWII, when Alsace-Moselle returned to France....Nowadays, only 10% children still speak those languages..

The date of division between the languages from Common Germanic is likely not as early as presented here. North Germanic/Proto-Norse probably didn't branch of for a couple hundred years after the dates presented here. Germanic languages were most likely not that diverse that early on and would've been indistinguishable until around 100 A.D. to 200 A.D.

6:34 F for Eastern Germans

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Nice work again. I guess slavic languages are next. I have one request, after finishing with all families left, can you do a video showing all languages families on the same map of europe (latin, greek, germanic, slavic, etc). I know it might be tough and take your time, but it would be nice.

It’s sad that languages such as Low Saxon is dying out, also, I thought gutnish was just a dialect of Swedish, can someone give me some sources to more gutnish info?

To bad Gothic went extinct.. And Frisian looks declining.

Cooles Video, und auch sehr interessant 👍

Very much enjoyed this video

Never knew there were three variations of german spoken in Germany. Great video!

Excellent video!!!

Amazing Video 👍

Great job!

Great video. Please make history of Dravidian languages too. Thank you!

Hi, I'd like to point out that Frisian was actually spoken along the western northsea coast of the low countries (and a substantial amount inward) up until around the 7th century, but in regions like holland, specifically the North. It's speculated to have been spoken there around the 13th century. Someone tell me if I'm wrong, I'm not a linguist.

My home Frisia got smaller and smaller but we're still here!

Gothic is being resurrected, I urge people to come forth and help revive Gothic into the modern era!

Frisian speaker here!

Love the video, however it really bothered me how wrong the former norwegian areas of sweden are represented (like jemtland, båhuslen etc.) these areas definately spoke Norwegian back in the day and arguably still do

Great job! Which is the name of first song or melody that appears in the video? I like it).

Very well done!

Mixing modern language designations with old ones creates to many misconceptions.The germanic languages of nothern France were old Friso-saxon along the coasts and Low Franconian (Salian Frankish). Flemish was an old low Franconian with a greater Friso Saxon substrate the most coastal and westward you go (The now extinct French flemish, west flemish, and Zeeuws). Also the map does not take into account the historical marine transgressions into Flanders and the situation in Zealand before the polderisation.

Old norse is waaay too early in this video. It is called proto-norse before it became old norse.

Thanks. 😊

Thank you for the colour charts differenting West and East Germany. I was having difficulty figuring it out.

You forgot to put English as a secondary/tertiary language in the Philippines. During the first half of the 20th century, it slowly replaced Spanish as the language of education there.

Great video. Would have been cool to see Yiddish, supposing there's enough data to map it.

Germanic tribes after destroying Roman empire: so now I will pretend that I'm you

You are entirely missing Yiddish, which has been around for nearly 10 centuries and brought Germanic language farthest east into even Russia (therefore spoken by millions throughout history).

Estonia came under Danish rule (Hertugdømmet Estland) in 1219, the Estonian capital Tallinn was established literally by the Danes. Danish language was definitely widely spoken since that time till at least 1346 when the Teutonic order took over. Ösel island, or Saaremaa was under Danish rule even more. Then in 16-17 centuries the Danes came back to Estonia big time again! Why it's not marked as the area of Danish and Swedish speech?

You could also have called "Middle Low German " "Middle Saxon" instead. I prefer that name because the speakers of the language called their language "sassesch" which translates to Saxon in English. No one at that time called it Low German. The situation is a bit more complex, though. The people in the southern parts of the Holy Roman Empire called the lamguage nederlendisch which is pretty much the term that is used in German today for Dutch (niederländisch). The Dutch on the other side called the Saxons ôsterlinge (Easterlings) and the language ôstersch (Easterish).

you are getting better and better keep going can you pls do after slavic turkic pls? @Costas Melas

Realized now that this great video is missing Yiddish, which used to be one of the larger west germanic languages. Yiddish would also be a nice option for one of these standalone "spread of the ... language" videos of yours.

*_PLEASE DO THE HISTORY OF THE AUSTRONESIAN LANGUAGES_* THAT'S MY REQUEST THANK YOU

R.I.P east germanic languages

Great video mate but why Norne and Faeroese aren't mentionned?

It's likely that the northern subgroup of the Aunjetitz culture spoke an early form of protogermanic idiome. The people of the Jastorf culture, the Lausitz culture and the early Przeworsk culture are also likely to have spoken proto germanic idioms. On the assumption that the first sound shift in the west of the Germanic language area did not occur until the 1st century BC Has taken place, but could also proof that Cimbri and Teutons spoken a late form of Proto-Germanic/protoceltic. And the Cimbri wars proof that some germanic tribes and celtic tribes fought and settled together in major units since 130 v.u.z (Kimbern, teutons, Ambronen, Helvetier, Boier) so they had to understand each other.

I really like the song of the beginning of the video, someone knows where to find it?

The universal declaration is some extinct germanic languages: Allai manniz sindi frija andi galīkai ana werthammai andi rehtamaz gaburanaz. hijōz sindi midi anadini andi gamundī bigebanaz andi skulana antheras in thammai gastai thas brōthērlīkanō haidu bimōtijana. (proto-germanic) Allái manna freihals jah sameleikō in waírthidái jah raíhteis waúrthans. Frathai jah mithwissei gibnans jah libandau swē brothrjus. (Gothic) Ealle menn sindon āre and rihtes efen geboren, and frēo. Him sindon giefethe gerād and ingehygd, and hī sculon dōn tō ōthrum on brōthorskipes fēore. (Anglo-Saxon/Old English)

I would love for the video to be slower but it was very original, exesional

Great video. You only got Frisian and Saxon a bit wrong. You only left West Frisian but didn't include East and North Frisian. Frisian is still spoken along the coast from northern Netherlands, all the way up to southwestern Denmark. Saxon is also spoken in southernmost Denmark and around a third of the Netherlands.

It is still up for debate whether pre viking age jutland and the Jutes spoke north or west germanic, although I think they probably most likely spoke proto norse, since they were probably connected to the geats.

World's most spoken germanic language: Modern English.

Can you explain what color you placed over the southern half of Chile/Andean Patagonia and how I'd learn more about it?

May I ask you how do you create animated historic maps? Thanks!

Oooh, what's the opening music?

Okay this is really damn cool

Very nice video

It feels like I’m playing Sim City watching this

Where are Suebian, Vandalic, Gepidic, Burgundian, Lombardic, Jutish languages, Saxon language in England(Essex, Sussex, Wessex), Norse language in Southern Italy and modern Faroese language?

For it to spread as much as it did when it did is so incredible. To spread that much when the odds are so very much not in your favor is incredible. It's something the Celtic and Slavic languages didn't have to deal with.

In the North of the Netherlands on the German border they spoke low Saxon, not Frisian. They only speak Frisian in the Friesland province, near the Danish border, on Helgoland and in and around a German town called Friesoythe

I can cry because my language (low german) is going to dead

Very accurate video. But you should add the Zarubintsi arch.culture of Bastarnes (3 cent.BC - 2 cent. AD) in Northern Ukraine and Southern Belarus - most eastern "La-Tenized" arch.culture. It is proved that Zarubintsi population came from Guben group of Jastorf culture (Bastarnes), but also had late invasions of north Jastorf population from modern Notrh Denmark (Skirs and Kimbres). There must be also Wielbark culture of Goths on the right bank of the Vestula in Poland. Of course, some scientists considered Bastarnes to be Celts, but the pottery, cremation custums, houses and fibulae are 73% similar to Guben group of Jastorf culture (that group of tribes had a great Celtic or Celto-Illyrian (late La Tene) influence, but preserved Germanic ancestry and language, maybe with strong Celtic admixture, especially after Balkan campaigns of Bastarnes in 190-160 BC during Macedonian wars). Very interesting, that fibulae of Celto-Illyrian La Tene type (with triangle) are found only in western Balkans and in Ukraine and Belarus. Those fibulae in Ukraine are "visit card of Bastarnes", all of them are dated not earlier than 190 BC and prove the words of Tacitus about the raids of Bastarnes to the Balkans. One more interesting fact is that all first well known and defined 4 Slavic arch.cultures of 4 - 7 century AD (Kolochin, Prague-Korchak, Penkivka and Sukowo-Dziedice) descent from Kiev arch.culture which was mix of remains of Zarubintsi culture population and Baltic tribes. There are no Slavic cultures before. That fact proves the scientific works of Reinecke and some other German scientists that Slavs separated from the only Baltic group much more later due to late Zarubintsi population. That also explains why Slavic language is rather similar in all countries (short time of its appearence) and why the Slavic languages are very similar to Baltic satem languages but also have kentum Germanic (especially north Jastorf), Celtic and some other unknown to modern science (maybe Illyrian) influences. BTW, on the map of Slavic languages Costas 100% showed the territory of appearence of Slavs in bassins of the Pripet and the Dnieper rivers - the territory of late Zarubintsi (or Kiev) arch.culture.

please do about the history of the Turkic language! Thank you!

Fun fact, in england before william's conquest of normandy the dialect of that old english was called anglo-saxon.

Do indo iranian languages

Scania was not partially Swedish and partially Danish. It was fully Danish. The Danes are even thought to have come from there. Texts written by literal Scanians about battles between Denmark and Sweden are still there on monuments. Written in Danish. The region endured centuries of assimilation into Swedish culture, where 25% of the population was slaughtered in the late 1600's and early 1700's. It's a great video, but as a Scandinavian I obviously noticed that error lol.

The animation has an error as the Swedish east coast up to south Ångermanland was populated with farmers from south during late Neolitic and early Bronze Age. T

well, just a tip i guess you forgot, other Franconian languages other than Dutch still existing, they are just not used at high work, and they usually appear as "middle german" because its more similar to standard, btw, Pennsylvania Dutch and Hunsrükisch are Franconian Dialects

6:11 Sweden - (brutally colonises saamis to industralise) Music: 🎵🎵🎵