Watch the previous video (containing Ubykh, Old English, Proto-Germanic, and more): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxQCf6eaToI The second video in the series. I decided to focus on Indo-European languages for this one. Featuring (in chronological order): Old Church Slavonic, Old Irish, Gothic, Classical Latin, Ancient (Attic) Greek, Avestan, and the (hypothetical, but very probable) common ancestor of all these ancient languages, Proto-Indo-European. Info on the languages: Old Church Slavonic (or Slověnĭskŭ Językŭ, its endonym) was the first Slavic literary language, used from the ninth to eleventh century before splitting into the Church Slavonic languages. It is the oldest attested Slavic languages. Old Irish (or Goídelc), used from the fifth to ninth centuries, was an early celtic language. It had particularly complex grammar and phonological systems, and is the ancestor of Modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx. Gothic, an early East Germanic language, was used from the fourth to eighth centuries. It is the best attested East Germanic language and is important to the reconstruction of Proto-Germanic and PIE. Classical Latin was the standard language of the Roman Empire from 75 B.C. to the 3rd century A.D., as opposed to Vulgar Latin, the "speech of the masses." Vulgar Latin was the ancestor of the Romance languages. Attic Greek is a dialect of Ancient Greek used from 750 B.C. to the 3rd century B.C., when it was replaced by Koine (Common) Greek. Avestan was an Iranian language spoken from the late Bronze Age to the early Iron Age, and is the earliest attested Indo-Iranian language. It is closely related to Vedic Sanskrit, the earliest attested Indo-Iranian language. Proto-Indo-European is the unattested, yet highly supported common ancestor of all Indo-European languages, including Hellenic (including Greek), Italic (including Latin and the Romance languages), Germanic, Celtic, Slavic, and the Indo-Iranian languages. There are about 439 Indo-European languages, with almost three billion native speakers, by far the most of any widely recognized language family. The most accepted hypothesis places it spoken in the Pontic steppe, about six thousand years ago, although estimates vary greatly. Texts used: Old Church Slavonic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Church_Slavonic#Example_text Old Irish: http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/sengoidelc/donncha/labhairt.html Gothic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_language#Examples Classical Latin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Prayer#Greek_and_Latin_versions Attic Greek: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Prayer#Greek_and_Latin_versions Avestan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avestan_language#Sample_text Proto-Indo-European: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_king_and_the_god (2013 version) Stuff used: Recorded on an iPhone 4s, audio edited in Logic Pro 9, pictures made in Gimp, video made in iMovie. ****DISCLAIMER**** As all these languages are extinct and only attested through text, pronunciations are approximate. It is unlikely that any language in the video sounded exactly as I said it, but I am also likely not far from how they actually sounded (except for maybe PIE). Thanks for watching, and keep your eyes open for another of these videos! Tell me what you think in the comments and suggest languages I should do!

• published: 28 Sep 2014
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