The Sound of Ancient Languages (PART 2) You Haven't Seen Anything Like This Before! 

The "Old Chinese" guy was just phoning it in lol

I'm from Sri Lanka where the majority speak Sinhalese, and it was a pleasant surprise to realise that I understood most of the Sanskrit.

As a Hindi Speaker, hearing Sanskrit was a muse to my ear and the fach that I understood almost all of the Sanskrit made me happy. 😁😁😁

1:02 As a Bengali speaker I could understand most of the Sanskrit sayings. It's probably something like "Shivakumar came at the age of 20 and started his career at an office as a typewriter. At this work he got no promotion. His wife used to make fun of his incapability. Even his neighbours looked down upon him. After all the reprehensions..."

As a Thai native speaker, I recognized some of the words in Sanskrit. I think most of the words I recognized come from our buddhist chants.

Sinhalese speaker here and its genuinely really nice to see how understandable Sanskrit was for me. The link between Pali and Sanskrit is obvious and the history behind Sinhala is genuinely intriguing considering how its an Indo European language in a sea of Dravidic languages in the region.

Nobody is talking about this, but I was REALLY surprised by the amount of rhotic and rolling r’s in old Chinese! Sounds barely recognizable to Mandarin. Interestingly, Old English vs. modern English has gone through a similar loss of rolling r’s, except in certain accents and dialects like in Scotland and northern England. Edit: Western and rural England, not necessarily northern.

Hearing Old Chinese > Middle Chinese > Mandarin/Cantonese is a trip. I don't understand any of the modern variants, but do know Vietnamese and remember learning that 70% of the vocab comes from Middle Chinese, and hearing them makes it make sense. Makes me wonder what modern languages will progress into after another 500 years or so.

as a german, the gothic language was interesting. i imagine this is how non german speakers feel if they hear someone speaking german, but as of today, i was never able to experience this. it is really interesting because it is like my brain registers it as german, but it almost feels like someone is mumbling really bad or there is too much noise around you so you can't really make out what someone is saying to you. a really wild experience.

The "Aramaic" was actually Biblical Hebrew. Makes me wonder how much of the other languages were accurate!

Sanskrit has given birth to many of the languages currently spoken in different countries but unfortunately it is no more spoken in its original country: India. We are taught in our primary school but we never use it in our daily life after wards. I could understand a few part of it.

Happy to hear Samskrutha(Sanskrit) 🕉️

It was strange that I was able to understand the Sanskrit properly, as I studied it in my 8th standard. An old language spoken thousands of year ago

0:00 Proto Indo European 0:30 Sabaic 1:00 Sanskrit 1:30 Aramaic 2:00 Sumerian 2:30 Old Chinese 3:00 Ge`ez 3:30 Gothic language

2:15 Ea Nasir, where's my copper?!

Wonderful rendition! I’m Arab. I was able to understand Sabaic (السبئية); He was mentioning the names of some idols and declaration of king named: Shurahbi Elu-Ya'faru (شرحب الُيعفر), and the regions that were under his kingship, such as: Hadramawt (حضرموت), Saba' (سبأ), Yemen (يمن), and other Arabs such as Tihama (تِهامة), Banu Abi Karib (بنو أبي كرب). Ge’ez was also similar. I think that it spoke about different regions joined in alliance & brotherhood, such as: Aksumite Kingdom, Hadramawt (حضرموت), Saba' (سبأ), Abyssinia (الحبشة). Aramaic sounds familiar, I only understood few words about a king (Melekh) and his dream (Halumu). It’s fascinating for many speakers of the descendants of these Ancient Languages to be together here, and discuss it in “English”.

As an Indian Malayalam language speaker (Proto-Dravidian language family), I find Sanskrit really familiar even if I don't know the word meanings. They are still used in many Hindu prayers and there are even Sanskrit language courses. Mostly, thanks to movies and series that shows Hindu hymns being said in them.

I took a year of Sanskrit in college and just loved it.

Wow! Sanskrit sounds so sweet and melodic.... almost like a hymn or a chant.

Man, the Proto-indo European sounded like all European languages together...Latin, German, English, Slavic, etc. All of them. Damn that's trippy.

In Kerala , the south indian state there's an institute named SEERI estd in 1985 to promote Syriac Studies, a dialect of Aramaic. Foreign students even from turkey , stay there and learn syriac.

If you ever do a part 3, I'd like to suggest medieval Spanish as one of the languages to be showcased :)

I’ve always wanted to hear what ancient Sumerian sounded like. I’m actually writing a fictional science fiction series and I use a lot of ancient Sumerian words. I was wondering what it sounded like. Thank you so much

2:00 my humor is so broken I laughed at the sumerian part

thank you! i always wanted to hear Sanskrit and Aramaic

As an Ethiopian, I found that Ge’ez was pretty recognizable, I was even able to translate some of it. I will say however, the way everything was pronounced sounded like an arabic person was reciting them

This is a fascinating effort! I hope you do a part 3 and include ancient Hebrew as well!

‏‪1:35‬‏ As an Israeli Jewish person who is familiar to Aramaic from the Thalmud, this "Aramaic" is actually Hebrew, certainly not Aramaic.

Actually, it's not Aramaic at all, but rather Hebrew, in which the first Biblical verses of the second chapter of the Book of Daniel - were originally written - and recited in the video. As a native Hebrew speaker like you, I could easily understand every word in the text, as an Ancient Hebrew text. Further, I can also read and understand Biblical Aramaic, but the text recited in the video is by no means Aramaic, but rather pure Ancient Hebrew.

As an Odia, I got all the vocab of the Sanskrit excerpt and can trace some grammar, by my knowledge of the Odia language. This is fascinating for me, because I hadn't opted for Sanskrit as a subject in my school days and went for Hindi instead. This makes me more interested to learn the original language of my religious scriptures, seems like half of the work is done. Apart from that, I got some words from Sabaic and Gaaz, I think so. Some words are similar to Hindi words, which got adulterated into Hindi during Sultanate rule from Arabic. I can only say, we all are quite connected in one way or the other.

I love this series of videos! Still waiting for Middle Persian and Ancient Persian to be added to the list.

On the Old Chinese the AI stopped AI'ing...😅

1:30 this is not Aramaic, this is biblical Hebrew... I understood almost everything perfectly

Please do include Proto-Malayo-Polynesian in your part 3, I wanna hear how different it is with the modern Filipino language, and Bahasa Indo/Malay.

It's wonderful to hear that languages of the past. The people that I have studied in the school in History, how they had spoke their languages, it's very fantastic.

Thank you so much. It's so cool to be able to hear those languages 😊

If someone told me the Gothic language at 3:30 was Swiss German, I would've believed them

Love these videos. Just wanted to say that I also like the touch you did during the "Sanskrit" section, where you highlighted and changed the text color based on the background. That little detail did not go unnoticed. 👌

What a fantastic compilation. Thank you!

Bringing history back to life with this suff. ❤

I speak Arabic fluently and felt like I understood some of the Sabaic (maybe 10%?), but it is definitely different. I also understood some of the Ge'ez.

It is very crazy to hear ancient languages. Is hard to imagine these languages date back centuries, or even millenniums ago. I am from Barcelona, Spain, and I am Catalan, I understand words in Gothic.

Everything related with modern Arabic language is so beautiful. I love it.

Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus... sends shivers to my spine

Thank you It's amazing to connect with ancient people and their language this way. Use to read in history books and only imagine. So amazing to hear dead languages like Sumerian, Goth.

The Aramaic was an excerpt from the book of Daniel I believe, about Nebuchadnezar dreaming and asking his magicians what they meant. I am Jewish and we still study and pray (partyly) in Aramaic. I understood 90% of it though the accent was certainly different.

I love these videos, and absolutely want to see more!

I think the " speakers " that are created are amazing! Thanks for your hard work!

2:44 while Chinese is spoken fast, Old Chinese is very slow

0:01 Bruh why is keanu reeves reading me a confusing ass bedtime story.

It is amazing. You did such a great job!

Wonderful Channel! Thanks for the Videos!

In some reason for me as russian, sanscrit sound like normal speech like i used to but words is not understandable

Bronze age meme 2:00

Expected to hear Aramaic, was not disappointed in the slightest! I absolutely loved hearing it.

Even as someone who doesn't speak Chinese, the Old Chinese sounded strikingly different from modern!

Being a Goth in the 80's, I was surprised to learn that I knew how to speak the Gothic Language.

It'd be better if we had English subtitles for each speech..

This was fascinating - particularly the PIE section at the beginning, which sounded very much like Welsh at times. The Chinese one was, let's say, surprising! I have to wonder how accurate it is but I defer to people who know more. The rolled Rs were also an interesting feature as I've not noticed that in any modern Chinese languages.

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WONDERFUL IDEA....would dream to also hear ancient byzantine, othman, carthaginiensis, cantabric, persian, parthian, georgian, armenian, Frankish, vandal, giudaic, mongols, sioux, navajo, in PART3 but also klingon, romulan, elfic, dwarf, nazgul, sauron etc in PART4 ❤

As I said with the other video with Old English and Old Norse, you can tell the relationship Gothic has to German, but it sounds vastly different to other Germanic languages. You can hear the similar roots in all three, but they each have a different tonal quality and pronunciation that make them foreign to each other

The CGI is really unsettling. It would also be good to have translations of what those people are saying, as well as the original written text, if available.

I love the explanations on this one!!

Old tamil needed ❤

I love these videos. It’s extremely fascinating to think of all the lost languages and just history in general over the course of humankind. Just imagine all the information we would know if it wasn’t for the Burning of The Library of Alexandria.

Keep doing these ❤

Sumerian and old Chinese are the oddest. Love this channel, excellent content!

Really happy to hear Sanskrit

Afro-Asiatic • Aramaic 1:31 • Ge'ez 3:00 • Sabaic 0:31 Indo-European • Gothic 3:30 • Proto-Indo-European 0:00 • Sanskrit 1:01 Sino-Tibetan • Old Chinese 2:31 Sumerian • Sumerian 2:01

These are fkin amazing yo,good job!

2:01 Ea-Nasir spitting facts, I see

I speak Hebrew and I understood most of the Aramaic language

I know you got so many request. But can you do an Australian Aboriginal language? (For example the Tasmanian/lutruwita one) It would be just great, this native folk is so overseen in this world.

Thank you! Beautiful language's ❤👍

Amazing. So similar in many ways

amazing. I can understant some of the place names. like yemen, ,habasha (in the old arabic thing) crazy how you can understand language of old. you can also do language over time. or how language of a place changes.

It's really amazing these vids. It's like going back in time ,with headphones, on ❤

Thank you, come again!

I will program this into my time travel machine translator to make my trips much easier now.

Team Aramaic ❤ I understood Aramaic (biblical Hebrew) really well and I'm a native Hebrew speaker

Sanskrit is the oldest one and I learn for 3 yrs in my 8to 10th grade. It's fun and easy to understand if you are indian. Cuz most of the language form by sanskrit language.

Amazing video! I would like to hear the sound of Old-Spanish spoken at the time of Alfonso X "the wise", and Old-Portuguese of course.😊. Thank you! Congratulations!

Excellent!

I am really fascinated to hear those ancient extinct languages! I wonder if you could elaborate on how those sounds were determined? Is there some ancient document that cross references pronunciations between a known ancient language and an extinct one?❓

Thank you for including Ge'ez from Ethiopia!! I think it's an excerpt from the "Kibre Negest" Meaning honor of kings. Good job!!

Interesting, thank you.

Bro it would be great to include the old Persian as well, it's one of the oldest ones and I'm interested to see how it sounds like

Couldn't understand anything in proto indo European but Sanskrit made a lot of sense

This old chinese on 2:30 sounds like Thai

phenomenal

I need ancient spanish to be here in future videos, this was really good!

I would like to clarify more about "Sabaic" It is a very ancient Semitic language. the name of the Sabaean language came from a man named "Saba" who lived in "Yemen" and was mentioned in the Quran and in the Sunnah. the people of Saba have spread throughout the Arabian Peninsula and East Africa. they now constitute half of the Arab race and are known as the Arabs of the South as well as "Qahtan" and the other half are from several Semitic tribes known as the Arabs of the North such as "Adnan", the Nabateans, the Phoenicians, and others. the southern Semites mixed with the northern Semites in the Arabian Peninsula and because of that the Arabic language appeared, so we can say that the Sabaean language is the origin of the Arabic language and many more languages than those mentioned in this video like Arabic, Amharic, Taghriti, Himyarite, Mahri, Khawlani etc. for information the northern Semitic languages are close to Arabic but the Southern Semitic languages are very very close to Arabic. and all the Semitic peoples came from Yemen.

That is not Aramaic, it is Hebrew pronounced by a Yemenite. I clearly identify every word.

2:01 Straight up facts from my boy Ea-Nasir!

Thank you 🙏 😊✔️

Proto-Indo-European feels like a native English speaker trying to speak Spanish

It's amazing to see how sanskrit has been preserved even after thousands of years!

Idk about others but i do understand our oldest language and im kinda proud that we still use our oldest language ....it really connect us to our ancestors

can you make a video on how these videos are made and the research that went into it?? thanks!