Southern Ukrainian people often has blonde hair and Germanic looks. Goths were not disappeared, they were assimilated.

? History isnt over...

There were also lots of German immigrants here in Sothern Ukraine in XVIII-XIX cc. My ancestors were German immigrants, too. That's why it is so amusing to me to hear by car radio: "Das Neue Bayern Rundfunk vom Kherson spracht!" when driving from Nikopol to Kherson.

@@igorvoloshin3406 >Southern Ukrainian people often has blonde hair and Germanic looks Lmao

And Germans lost to the Slavs... Again!

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Thanks for the idea

If they are witty enough they may come back with “Crimean”

Where gotic

Would love to learn Gothic / Crimean Gothic one day! The only problem is, the language is extinct and learning resources for it are limited as there's hardly anyone who speaks it just as well as their own language or at least to a basic level after digging through sources of linguistics to be able to transfer their knowledge onto books that provide a somewhat clear picture of how this astonishing East Germanic language looked like.

Even more amazing since the last Gothic nation was conquered by the Ottomans in 1475

@Böðvarr Bjarki Crimean Goths were able to keep their culture and language for a long time because they have organised own national state - Theodoro Principality. They became vassals of the Ottoman Empire with the rights for internal autonomy. Then in 1775 Crimean peninsula was conquered by the Russian Empire, they were forcefully assimilated and their famous ancient bishopal library disappeared. Obviously because there were historic documents contradicting the official Russian history.

@Böðvarr Bjarki The Goths had three States- the Ostrogoths, Visigoths , and Crimean Goths. They had a hierarchy, laws, taxes, and an army. This means the state. As a Russian , I'm also very sorry that the Goths have not survived to this day .

@@igorvoloshin3406 The official language of Theodoro was Greek. The language the rulers spoke was Greek as well. There never was a "Crimean Gothic nation"

Most stupid too

How so?

A lot of the “old languages” are beautiful. We just never use them. So they have a certain charm to them

Reminds me of Runescape.

Old English was a very close relative to Scandinavian languages, long before the French connection!!

I agree but I wish that he would give viewers his sources. There are three very different types of sources which he is blending in these language maps. Not telling viewers about that makes it seem like this is more definitive knowledge on a precise timeline at points. In history where we only have very rough estimates. Those rough estimates end up presented on equal footing with modern history where specific dates are far more well-documented.

Tommaso Manissero out of here with that Italian stuff

Also forgot Elfdalian in Sweden.

limburgic/lumburgish thats been spoken in parts of belgium, netherlands and germany 1,3 million speakers till today.

Also Wymysorys in Poland is the separate Germanic language - 20 native speakers registered.

@@danielfragoso7283 it is true you are giving a wrong image, political correctness???

A bunch more interesting facts: Yes, there are still some speakers of pure Low German left, but it's dying out rapidly Frisian is also endangered The development of the High German dialects was most likely kickstarted by the Lombard invasion of Italy, whose language most likely started some very important sound shifts south to north. Lombardic itself was therefore basically a southern extension of the Upper German dialectal area. Unlike the Bajuvarii and Alemanni they were however a small minority in a sea of Vulgar Latin/Old Italian speakers and apart from some tiny pockets their language mostly died out. For the longest time, Berlin was almost an enclave (technically more a "peninsula") of Central German in a sea of Low German. That stopped being noticable when the latter started to be replaced on the countryside as well Due to rapid economic development and a population boom of northern areas like the Ruhr area and the political importance of places like Hannover in the 19th century, the "northern" (northwestern) way of pronouncing Standard German became dominant during the 20th century, even though said regions didn't even speak it originally! Therefore, bigger cities in the south like Munich are novadays enclaves of Standard German with a northern sound to it in a sea of traditonal Upper German dialects. The formerly German speaking regions to the East just extended the traditional language areas as it was settled west to east - the Sudetenland spoke both Upper and Central, Silesia spoke Central and Pommerania Low German, East Prussia both of the latter National borders do not follow dialectal borders at all - Luxemburg, Switzerland and Austria speak basically the same dialects as the neightbouring German regions. In other words, those borders were not drawn based on (sub) ethnicity but political developments The very diverse "Highest Alemannic" dialects of Switzerland (not to be confused with Swiss Standard German) are usually regarded to be the least intelligible for people from other regions.

@@Alias_Anybody Only west frisian seems to have a solid position, it is even a official second language here in the netherlands.

@@Alias_Anybody Hola podrías traducir eso a Español Hello, could you translate that to Spanish?

@@messier8888 Use Google-Translate in your browser?

@@Alias_Anybody A L O T O F T E X T

descendant is from Latin. Language is from Latin. is is from Latin. :-)

@@barbatvs8959 You're right about everything except "is", "is" is Germanic. "Sentence" isn't though.

@@atleast400demogorgons3 "Is" is a cognate of "es" in Spanish from Latin "EST." German "ist" is from Latin, or else they share a root in an Indo-European or Aryan ancestor.

@@barbatvs8959 They're cognates because they are both indo-european langauges, not because "is" comes from Latin (which it doesn't). Edit: Here's "is" in proto-Germanic: www.verbix.com/webverbix/go.php?&D1=98&T1=*wesan%C4%85

@@atleast400demogorgons3 I considered that.

*laughs in gulag*

*laughs in gulag*

Laughs in gulag

Laughs in gulag

Laughs in gulag

Stein isn’t an example of that shift; furthermore, the shift of /θ/ to /d/ didn’t just affect High German but also Dutch and Saxon/Low German at least. I’m not sure about Frisian, but English and Icelandic I think are the only major Germanic languages to still preserve that sound.

They didn't adapt to the changing climate (little ice age started about then) iirc. There aren't any real written records of that period in Greenland, sadly, so it's all interpretations of archaeological evidence and the few written mentions of contact with them that exist.

@@GustavSvard Ice ages are an atheist myth, unfalsifiable ergo unscientific.

@Fro Ing They say that big rock scratches on earth walls prove that glaciers passed by long ago, but a great flood could have brought big rocks across those walls. They say an ice bridge connected America with Asia but there is no need for the ice age to explain Native Americans coming from Siberia, as they could have come by boats.

@@barbatvs8959 That earth has undergone major temperature shifts is largely borne out by evidence. Please do not assert that this is somehow "atheist" as you are placing limits on what God is capable of.

@@Zorro9129 It's atheistic in that it contradicts the Bible, so I guess it is anti-Christ to be exact. The Bible doesn't allow for some ice age. Neither is there proof.

There is a light green stripe in the north-east, but i had to note a more intense presence

@@CostasMelas It's quite a big part of the Netherlands, although less spoken in certain areas nowadays. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Low_German#/media/File:Koart_Leegsaksisch.png

@@CostasMelas Its dying out there ... Dutch is taking over

About a third. Nysassiske Skryvwyse is an effort to standardize and revitalize the language.

Ingwia Fraujaz what is this abomination? :O we’d need a standardised writing system for all dialects low German, but oddballs like Westfalian (my grandma’s native language, barely understandable by people from Kiel or Emden) and Netherlands nedersaksisch make it difficult...

Truly, i have met a german girl from there, Brazil has many German speaking villages

Italian or english is your second most spoken language not German

@@YujiroHanmaaaa NATIVELY spoken, German is the 2nd one. But English is indeed the 2nd one overall.

That's not actual german that's a seperate language like dutch and afrikaans

Ja, wir sprechen hier in Brasilien Deutsch! Prost!

Similar to Minute 2:50 in the east. Expulsion of Germans by Slaves. Two times in history . But in 1945 it was more then an genocide then in the 6. century, but in 6. century it was probably not always peaceful.

This is so wrong.. I have no words... I'm curious why so called germans cant read old, runic script found in Germany today.. cause Przemyslav or Lech are Germanic names.. oh wait, I can read them!!!🙄👌

@@pawelnowak9440 be quiet

in the era of roman empire，much of Poland today was controlled by germanic tribes，slavic people are invaders

@@williamhu2630 so I guess that 6000 y/o remains found and tested in Poland few years ago that show r1a1a y-DNA was just a flick of imagination of the researchers just as more than 2000y/o remains found in kurgan in eastern Poland and many finds in today's Gernany showing R1a gene in ancient 1000s y/o remains and runic tablets found sealing slavic marriage with Swastica at the top. Hm....

@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki They were too militant and not flexible enough to survive in the new lands, to the flexibility of the Gypsies and Jews they were far away.

@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki They were aristocrats, but in the minority and therefore assimilated into less warlike peoples, as is the example of the later Germans in Normandy and Russia.

@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki You know we conquered half of Europe, too? The French were even ruled by Germanic People (see Charlemagne) and have adopted Frankish words. We colonized Iceland, Greenland, Australia, New Zealand and most of North America. Most of Africa uses English to communicate and did you ever hear about Afrikaans? We have more (overseas) territory than you slavs, so forget it. Most of today technology comes from Germans, Americans and Englishmen. And cuz ur a butthurt Pole...PRUSSIA

@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki I'm sorry, what? What i'm speaking right now is English. Am i from an English speaking country? No. Just because we speak a language fluently or speak it as a mother tongue doesn't mean anything. A person can be spoken and teached to in 2 languages, which the person would probably learn both of them. Plus, the British Empire at a time invaded almost 90% of the world. Slavs, i don't think they would even come close to 20%.

@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki Yeah, "you slavs were friendly to people" haha acting like the Kosovo war and the intense beef that still happens in the Balkans never existed, huh? I'd rather be Non-Balkan then Slavic. Plus, hmm, how many countries speak a language related to Germanic? I'll leave it to you to find the answer, but you'll probably say 4 or 5 bc you all live in a terrible vision where Slavs are the best. They're not!

It's not really a coincidence, the classification is largely based on English, Dutch and German.

@@atbing2425 As far as i know the classification roughly corresponds to the 3 groups of western germans the romans identified. The Irminones, Ingvaeones and Istvaeones. So each of those groups survived to this day in one major european language.

@@SaudiHaramco yes but the division is on what counts as what is a bit arbitrary. Plus, German is just as north sea Germanic (low German) as Weser Rhine Germanic (central German) as Elbe Germanic (upper German). Though I guess standard German counts as Elbe.

Looked at another way: Anglo-Saxons, Franks, all the other continental tribes who weren't Goths, Vandals, or Gepids.

You missed Frisian.

Says an eastern european

@@yasinsagin456 An Eastern European of Polish blood 😉🇵🇱

@@mikoajbojarczuk9395 dokladnie. Są dowody że słowianie żyją dłużej od germanów. Nie wiem jakim prawem w branderburgii przed naszą erą jest język germański. Tamte tereny od dawna zamieszkiwali słowianie a Niemcy poprostu zabrali te ziemię dopiero jakoś w 700 czy 800 roku w naszej erze.

@@berserkr6499 Jeśli potrafisz napisać, proszę o źródło danych o Słowianach w Brandenburgii w czasach późnego Rzymu ) Możesz nawet pobierać źródła w języku polskim (ale lepiej w języku angielskim)))

@@berserkr6499 jakas komunistyczna bzdura. Słowianie moze i zyli dluzej, ale bardziej daleko na wschód. To, że słowianie przez jakiś czad byli aż nawet w zachodniej brandenburgii nic nie znaczy.

I'll try to make it for the next time

@AlexGaming Well, nowadays there are just two. Not in the past. Exactly because of this, we want one.

​@Andrea Bianconero Estonian isn't Baltic, it's a Finnic language. You're right about the other two.

Great video Costas! I'd love to see a Slavic video, you can use my video for help: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o8lmp5lnmdu8p4U.html

Your maps are based of FALSE or misinterpreted EVIDENCE. There were NO so called ""germanic" languages on territory of Poland and former GDR /East Germany/ until year 1230 AD. NONE whatsoever, zero.

Жаль что так(( я живу на юге, у нас тут немецкий даже не учат в школах. Ну такое у меня мнение. Я с иняза , у нас на факультет с немецким практически не поступают уже , учат уже в унике с нуля

KZfaq:'die Zuversicht' mit "Die grösste Verschwörung der Geschichte. /// Vielleicht interessiert es sie ja. 👋🇩🇪

Thanks for your comment. My grandmother’s family came from Siberia and spoke German. Later they relocated to Königsberg. She met my grandfather in Frisia. So my mother tongue became Frisian.

@@siebrendeboer6540 interesting story! Thanks for sharing

South west Wales?? I think you mean one half of one county in south west Wales. No more.

What is about Devonian (419.2 - 358.9 Ma years ago)?

@Amirul Asyraf I would learn it. Its very similar to german.

In westfriesland in Netherlands they still speak it as far as I know, but in Ostfriesland it's distinct since long time, so in Germany it is only still spoken in Nordfriesland and Saterland, and even there it nearly disappeared

Didn't see any mentioning of Flemish.,.

Rip east germanic

@Mershikov fries is ok gen taal zenne. Da's ok een dialect. West Vloms kunde ni vergelijken me keeskops Zenne ze, ma ja, belachelijke kiekes gelak ast gij hedde overal zekers.,.

Thank you

Low German is mutually intelligible with dutch

It’s the location. It’s not as defensible as the regions where high german was.

It’s because Austria was the one to standardise German force typewriters showed up, and their written form was the one sold on papers across the German speaking world for a time iirc. The path typewriters sent languages down is interesting, it made many more standardised and carved more definitive lines on what was which sister language for the survivors. It’s why Dutch finally became so undoubtedly more than just a German dialect, previously it’s regional variance made a line between the German and Dutch dialects unfindable until they were all brought closer to either option, Vienna or Amsterdam speech.

Thank you for the additional information

East Prussia was primarily Prussian Lithuanian... No idea what you're talking about. There's a reason why it was historically known as Lithuania Minor. It was not homogenously German in the slightest. Low Prussian German and Lithuanian were both commonly used

@@compatriot852 I wrote quite clearly that I am talking about the most of it, and I mean primarily the western and central parts of East Prussia. That's exactly what I wrote in my comment. Lithuanian coexisted with German only in the eastern part, where it replaced the related Old Prussian language.

@@CostasMelas There is also problem with the time when Germanic tribes appeared in Pomerania. It was in 2. century BC not in 6 century BC as you marked. Initially, it was jus area next to Oder river. Some major spreading of East Germanic people started in 1. century AD. You have also marked not correctly eastern border of range of Germanic languages in 6.-8. century AD. The border between Germanic and Slavic tribes was on Elbe river (Lubeka was Slavic) and extended south to Salzburg. The later period is also slightly off.

Blame the huns

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i8uKpslq2MC0e4E.html east germanic never existed. Slavs always live here!

@@pwixell7113 gothic survived in crimea until the 18th century, probably around the time russia conquered crimea

@@odrin2211Look up the "Silingi" tribe, you'll see that Germanic tribes far predated you

It may be because of the small population, and how connected all the settlements were

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Lol

mainly the goths

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Cool video, and very interesting! I understood what you said!

@@mrtrollnator123 Das hast du super gemacht!

@@Schnurception thank you so much!

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I live in Germany and didn't know that either. Also interesting to see that low German developed from the same language as Frisian and English, unlike standard German.

If you go a century back, Germany likely had many tenths of thousands of municipalities. In case of traditional dialects of Dutch or German, every village, town, hamlet and sometimes even street used to have its own characteristics in dialect. Someone who spoke a local dialect would have recognized that you were from a place a kilometre east of your home based on a couple of sentences. Considering municipalities weren't reserved for every hamlet or village, you can understand that there may have been even more variations of German (in the hundred thousand?). Standardisation killed that off.

As for Low German, when I hear someone speak a pure dialect of Low German, it doesn't even sound German to me anymore (from a Dutch perspective). A little more than a century ago, there was even still a movement that wanted to separate northern Germany from the rest of Germany and unite it with the Netherlands, parts of Belgium and the northern part of France. The so-called "All Dutch Movement".

@@r.v.b.4153 Northern German I like Dutch?

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Thank you. I would like to do this after finishing with the various language families in Europe

@@CostasMelas I know that you already made a video of the Indo-European languages ​​but that if you do another one but that unlike the languages ​​are not grouped in their groups if not that they see as in the video

@@CostasMelas I have never seen a video of the Indo-European languages ​​complete with the 140 languages ​​that make up I know that that is complete madness and that there are not even enough colors for that

@@CostasMelas Sorry if English is very Google translator, I don't know English and I'm using Google translator :v

If Huns did not invade, Goths stayed in their natve land (Oium) somewhere in modern Ukraine and east Romania).

Latin and the Catholic church had too much power over them, neither arabic succeeded in Spain, goths and arabs only had influence in spanish lexic but not in grammar.

100%. It was spoken by 10 million throughout Europe (mostly Eastern Europe) before World War II, but today most of its speakers (numbering a couple of hundreds of thousands) live in the US, Israel, Canada and Australia.

Yiddish is not a Germanic language, it is creole of Iranian/Turkic and Ukrainian

@@ajrwilde14 look up Yiddish and see how similar it is to german. It's almost like german but written in the Hebrew script

Nope your correct. It was also spoken in Britain.

@@noahtylerpritchett2682 *YOU'RE** correct. C'mon bud.

@@sjsound506 never been good at words that are spelt in multiple contexts but pronounced the same

@@sjsound506lmao

@Emir Mohamed Al-Bergha Yeah I know, everyone knows that. It's just like the status of English in India or in parts of Africa. But unlike those areas, it was the Americans who introduced it to the Philippines not the British.

when philipphinos quote something, they say the quote in filipino and then what it means in english

But how english can be considered as germanic language when it is composed of a lot of old french ?

The core of English is Germanic, but yes it does have a lot of French words added. So cow is a Germanic word, but beef comes from French, for example.

SuperMagnetizer yep Like Mutton. Sheep Pork ox Et beaucoup d’autres 30% of words are French origin

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And Germans lost to the Slavs... Again!

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Flemish Belgium: "am I a joke to you?"

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@@SmokeyBCN isnt Belgium more french ?

@@Niedersach3e North is flemish (dutch dialect) south is walloon (french). Modern belgium is a meme, they have separate political systems, newspapers, media etc. A hostage situation between the rich north and poor south.

Yes ww1 and ww2

@Joe Dim Low German is only spoken by older people who mostly live in the country. Only standard German is spoken in the cities. The children learned standard German at school, they learned Low German from their parents and grandparents, but the fewer parents there are that can, the faster a language is lost. I think in 100 years this language will be dead, just as many South German dialects are increasingly being replaced by Standard German (Written German Language). In my childhood (60 years ago) hardly a worker from a north German shipyard or a artisan spoke standard German. They all spoke Low German with each other, although they could also speak standard German. Today you have to look for people who can still speak Low German. It is sad because this language was also a parent of the English language.

@Joe Dim They try a little in schools, but it doesn't work if you don't communicate in this language. After school, the children speak to each other again in standard German.

@@hanselvogis7301 They do this in the local radio (NDR 1), but that's a short 5 minute story once or twice a day and a radio play once a week in the evening. That's not enough for children to learn. There are also programs in the school, but Low German is largely limited to volunteer working groups. It's all artificial and most of the time, even the teachers can't speak it properly anymore. If children don't hear and speak it every day, the language is no longer alive and it will die. In contrast to today, I was born in 1949 and learned this language from my parents and grandparents who spoke it at home. Later, in the 1960s, I learned a craft occupation. I was forced to speak the language because all of my colleagues did. If we were together, there was hardly any standard German spoken.

Готские слова остались в словаре других языков. Даже в русском языке есть готские слова. Например русское "хлеб".

Look in the description: incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100700

Allthough it's not fully a germanic language 😅

@@leaat99 Yeah, most of the English words were derived from French, a Romance language

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Hell yes

Алексей УУ it’s just Pakistan, iran, South Ossetia and Turkmenistan

@@efthymiosanagnostos7427 Or iran, kurdistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, both ossetias, and finally the balachistanis plus a lot more And not including Turkmenistan

I also

@@efthymiosanagnostos7427 Ancient Iranic Language spoke From Western China to Eastern Europe Amards Alans Parthians Persians Medians Scythians Sarmatians Sogdians Bactrians Massagetians Kushanians And etc... Most of Iranic Languages destroyed by arabs and turks

Icelandic also has Celtic influence due to the Vikings bringing Irish and Scottish people to Iceland.

@@AlexanderH1755 Only in the accent.

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 It's mostly just a few loanwords

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Yes

Good idea

​@Zeynep Ezgi Su Simsar no, Altai is large, homeland of many different tribes

@Zeynep Ezgi Su Simsar hardly, scientists deny that. Mari language, maybe-borrowed a lot.

@Zeynep Ezgi Su Simsar no idea, man, scientists work slowly. It's not even clear, where is the homeland of Slavs, Balkans or Belarus lol

Should've shown up in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth around 1400.

How true, Yiddish is a Germanic language too, we should not forget that.

@VNMX50 Yiddish is a Germanic language actually (Here is the family tree in which it belongs: Indo-european, Germanic, West Germanic, Elbe Germanic, High German, Yiddish) and while it does use the Hebrew alphabet, spoken Yiddish can be understood to some degree by Germans (depending on the dialect of Yiddish). I've even found a PDF-file about Yiddish from the Columbia University that has Yiddish as one of their Germanic Language Program studies. And all websites I've found that are about Yiddish mention it as a Germanic language.

@@DidrickNamtvedt Yes, although it's practically a dead language.

Yiddish is not a Germanic language, it is creole of Iranian/Turkic and Ukrainian

It seems to show that old norse would have diffused into Jutland peninsula only later on (it says about 500 a.d.), but was it really this way that it happened?

@@jyrkilehtinen9886 Yes, this is was happened. The video portayed it correct. The Danes immigrated from what is today south sweden to Jutland.

How did Goths not split early? They split the first from the rest of the Germanic languages, East Germanic and North-West Germanic are 2 branches.

Jag håller med, men just nu är svenska dominant där. Men förr var det inte alltid så

@@bertilhamren5338 Lidmål og Idre og Särna dialektene er uten tvil Norsk fortsatt I dag, Jemtlandsk, Herjedalsk og Båhuslensk er mer Svensk men har fortsatt sitt utspring fra Norsk ettersom disse områdene ble Svensk først på 16-1700 tallet

That request is as random as it is boring.

Is there enough data to create a detailed map?

@@JamesTaylor-on9nz a language stretching from Madagascar to Chile, Hawaii to New Zealand? Sounds wonderfully interesting to me

@@deathtoluke Madagascar, Chile and New Zealand are about the least interesting countries on the planet anthropologically speaking.

@@JamesTaylor-on9nz clearly you either have no knowledge of those countries or anthropology. Either way, I'll say good day here

Are you from there ?

You are only saying that cause you are a Dane !

@@guleet75 the vast majority of linguists and historians that have studied the subject agree with me, i literally only know about it because i have studied it for a project at university about cultural assimilation and language shifts.. Just Google scanian and snaphanerne. The modern consensus is that scanian was a dialect of Danish, forcefully made Swedish over centuries. Why in the world would the locals rise up to reunite with Denmark if they weren't danes.

You 're right. I had to note it with stripes

On the other hand, Groningen stayed part of the Frisian language realm longer than correct. At least around the city of Groningen, Nedersaksisch was already spoken in the Middle Ages as Groningen was a Hanseatic city.

Crusades*

@@karlandersson6 started as immigration, but ended as crusaded when Sweden conquered the inhabited areas of modern day Finland (mostly central and eastern parts)