Language Change and Historical Linguistics: Crash Course Linguistics #13
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Eircal
Some ccorrections:
1) Chauser did not use singular they! It appears in the manuscript tradition, but is the result of a copying error (that did, however, take place already during the Middle Ages. The oldest manuscript uses the masculine pronoun instead, which also fits the context better (since the masculine pronoun is used two other times for the same referent on the same section.
2) As someone else already pointed out, there is no Khoesan language family. I'm not an expert of the topic though, so I can't unfortunately say whether they are currently classsified as two or three different families.
3) Ainu is not an isolate, it is a family consisting of three languages: Hokkaido Ainu, Sakhalin Ainu and Kuril Ainu, of which Sakhalin and Kuril Ainu are already extinct. Neither is Korean an isolate: the Koreanic family consists of two languages, Korean and Jeju.
Technically also several other inaccuracies, but since this is a -lie to children- kind of video they don't matter as much.
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Some ccorrections:
1) Chauser did not use singular they! It appears in the manuscript tradition, but is the result of a copying error (that did, however, take place already during the Middle Ages. The oldest manuscript uses the masculine pronoun instead, which also fits the context better (since the masculine pronoun is used two other times for the same referent on the same section.
2) As someone else already pointed out, there is no Khoesan language family. I'm not an expert of the topic though, so I can't unfortunately say whether they are currently classsified as two or three different families.
3) Ainu is not an isolate, it is a family consisting of three languages: Hokkaido Ainu, Sakhalin Ainu and Kuril Ainu, of which Sakhalin and Kuril Ainu are already extinct. Neither is Korean an isolate: the Koreanic family consists of two languages, Korean and Jeju.
Technically also several other inaccuracies, but since this is a -lie to children- kind of video they don't matter as much.
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Leah
Interinteligability is absolutely fascinating, Yiddish, though predating the word creole, has a lot of similarities to language we describe as creoles and is mutually intelligible with German with one important difference. A Yiddish speaker will understand more German than a German speaker will understand Yiddish because many of the most important words come from Hebrew, Aramaic, or various Slavic languages. Yiddish and German are also mutually intelligible (for the most part) but not mutually readable as Yiddish is written with Hebrew characters. Because of this, during the Holocaust many Jews could understand German and could therefore overhear the Nazis talking time each other, and could understand orders. However, because of the significant Hebrew influence fewer Germans could understand their Yiddish speaking prisoners, which may in some cases have helped survival.
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Interinteligability is absolutely fascinating, Yiddish, though predating the word creole, has a lot of similarities to language we describe as creoles and is mutually intelligible with German with one important difference. A Yiddish speaker will understand more German than a German speaker will understand Yiddish because many of the most important words come from Hebrew, Aramaic, or various Slavic languages. Yiddish and German are also mutually intelligible (for the most part) but not mutually readable as Yiddish is written with Hebrew characters. Because of this, during the Holocaust many Jews could understand German and could therefore overhear the Nazis talking time each other, and could understand orders. However, because of the significant Hebrew influence fewer Germans could understand their Yiddish speaking prisoners, which may in some cases have helped survival.
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sn0250
I don't know why the only specific country you mentioned re Bantu languages with clicks was Zambia since there is, I think, only one Bantu language spoken there that has clicks (Mbukushu - and even that is mainly spoken in bordering countries. Most Bantu languages with clicks - especially the better known ones like Xhosa and Zulu - are spoken mainly in South Africa. Though there are also Bantu languages with clicks spoken in Lesotho, Eswatini, Botswana, Namibia, Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
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I don't know why the only specific country you mentioned re Bantu languages with clicks was Zambia since there is, I think, only one Bantu language spoken there that has clicks (Mbukushu - and even that is mainly spoken in bordering countries. Most Bantu languages with clicks - especially the better known ones like Xhosa and Zulu - are spoken mainly in South Africa. Though there are also Bantu languages with clicks spoken in Lesotho, Eswatini, Botswana, Namibia, Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
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LNC, Jr.
It ultimately doesn-t matter because language is about communication, so as long as one can communicate effectively nothing is truly -wrong-. but Multilingual - Monolingual does kind of break a loose rule that I-d rather it didn-t lol
It SHOULD be either
Multilingual - Unilingual
or
Polylingual - Monolingual
Less appealing options are
Solilingual or Sololingual (single, Latin, Haplolingual (single, Greek, or Plurilingual (many, Latin)
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It ultimately doesn-t matter because language is about communication, so as long as one can communicate effectively nothing is truly -wrong-. but Multilingual - Monolingual does kind of break a loose rule that I-d rather it didn-t lol
It SHOULD be either
Multilingual - Unilingual
or
Polylingual - Monolingual
Less appealing options are
Solilingual or Sololingual (single, Latin, Haplolingual (single, Greek, or Plurilingual (many, Latin)
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Quinn
Please do that whole other video please please! I am a French immersion teacher trying to explain the difference between English where they is a pre existing available option, but in french there is not neutral they equivalent and why that is and why it matters. A video discussing neutral pronouns and neo pronouns in different languages would be sooooooo helpful please!
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Please do that whole other video please please! I am a French immersion teacher trying to explain the difference between English where they is a pre existing available option, but in french there is not neutral they equivalent and why that is and why it matters. A video discussing neutral pronouns and neo pronouns in different languages would be sooooooo helpful please!
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Keith
The situation with Nigaraguan sign language is a bit more complicated. It took at least _two_ generations of signers, originator and learners, before it became a fully fledged language. Similar things happen with spoken pidgins when they're given the opportunity to become creoles, which are true languages birthed out of pidgins.
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The situation with Nigaraguan sign language is a bit more complicated. It took at least _two_ generations of signers, originator and learners, before it became a fully fledged language. Similar things happen with spoken pidgins when they're given the opportunity to become creoles, which are true languages birthed out of pidgins.
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MakeMeThinkAgain
I was hoping you were going to tell the story of how children created a new language in Hawaii curing it's colonial period. I think this also ties in with what you said before about how easy it is for younger kids to learn new languages. In this case they both learn and combine several languages into a new one.
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I was hoping you were going to tell the story of how children created a new language in Hawaii curing it's colonial period. I think this also ties in with what you said before about how easy it is for younger kids to learn new languages. In this case they both learn and combine several languages into a new one.
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Andr-s
There is no difference in the pronunciation of s, c, and z in all American Spanish-speaking countries, from North America (Mexico) to South America (Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay. This phenomenon also happens in European Spanish, but it happens in specific population of Spain.
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There is no difference in the pronunciation of s, c, and z in all American Spanish-speaking countries, from North America (Mexico) to South America (Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay. This phenomenon also happens in European Spanish, but it happens in specific population of Spain.
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Mark
I do know that Hebrew has the same letter, but different sounds. I was thinking that it was due to eventually realizing they could make sounds they hadn't practiced before, but they didn't want to drop the connection to their origins. Bet/Vet, Peh/Feh, Kaph/Khaph
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I do know that Hebrew has the same letter, but different sounds. I was thinking that it was due to eventually realizing they could make sounds they hadn't practiced before, but they didn't want to drop the connection to their origins. Bet/Vet, Peh/Feh, Kaph/Khaph
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JVJV
I thought that there was only one sign language and that it was universal. After the videos, I realize that they really are like spoken languages. If I were to start learning one, what sign language should I start with?
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I thought that there was only one sign language and that it was universal. After the videos, I realize that they really are like spoken languages. If I were to start learning one, what sign language should I start with?
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