I'm learning Dutch and I understood the older Dutch better than I understand modern Dutch 😂😂

I'm just impressed that Netherlands had factory-produced jars of honey back in 500AD. Truly an advanced nation!

Afrikaans: Ek het hier Donderdag vyf soet appels gekoop. Díe was verrot. Dit kan gebeur. In plaas daarvan sal jy 'n klein potjie van vars heuning kry. Goed. Dankie.

Nederlands in 2100: ewa fakka met jouw die appels waren rot eh niffauw. Verkoper: Ewa ben je serieus met mij a neef! Ik geef je deze potje honing wel om te tjappen Koper: aii is goed man tallah.

As a native English speaker who has studied some old English, but never Dutch, I found it much easier to understand the older Dutch tongues.

Considering my language(Afrikaans) is basically 17th-century Dutch, it's equally difficult to understand modern and old Dutch. Very interesting show!

Pretty cool that a TV series has a such a concise and linguistically sound explanation of historical linguistics and sound change. You'd never see something like this in the States. There's no bullshit, just solid linguistics presented accurately in a way the layman can understand. Really cool.

I love seeing how similar languages become the further back we go, there is some clips of proto-norse language (roughly 200-500 ad) from scandinavia, which looks similar to some of the reconstructed speech here,

Thank you for sharing this! :D

I found the older Dutch easier to understand 🤔 One of the most interesting videos I've ever seen, seriously 👍🏾 Unrelated: the host is really handsome, especially in the "past" videos for some reason 😊

4:01 I just noticed, 'nog steeds hebben' is translated as; 'still happen.' But that should be; 'We still have.'

It's funny how the more you go back in time with this, the more it closely resembles to English. At least Old English.

Zer interessant, hartelijk dank, ik vind persoonlijk het NL van het jaar 1000 geweldig

The Dutch from 1500 sounds a little bit like the Flemish you hear in Belgium nowdays to me for some reason.

Heel goed en interessant. Thanko!

Fascinating. Kudos!

Lol anno 1000 dutch makes more sense to me as a german. Sounds so much cleaner than modern dutch. Donnerstag kaufte ich hier fünf pfund suesse äpfel. no idea why dutch went from kopoda (kaufte) to kochte (cooking lol) So mags geschehen (it might happen so) An derer statt sollet ihr haben (einen) pot mit frischen honig. (insteat of that you shall have (a) pot of fresh honey) And no it does not sound like french at all. it sounds like strange German mixed with latin word endings. Ok and the anno500 dutch is basically completely understandable for since for me hearing the anno1000 version before prepared me for it. Its harder sure but not harder than going from my language to the anno1000 version.

zoet (as in with o-umlaut) sounds exactly like Limburgish now.

Oh I love this video!

It's amazing how much more, and how much more quickly English changed through the years.

Sekere woorde klink soos wat ons dit uitspreek in Afrikaans.

There are written texts in old low franconian (old Dutch),just there aren’t as much as old English or old high German,one example is the wachtendok psalms

The year 500 is probably the hardest to predict. At that time Rome just fell and the differences between Germanic dialects was vague. It is refreshing to hear that the "Dutch" language of that time was tonal in the sense of having true vowel lengths.

Excellent

Very interesting

It doesn’t look like I am the first to notice that the older Dutch is easier to understand the modern version to an English speaker. Interesting.

Good. Thanko!

Amazing

Leuk om een Nederlander degelijk AN te horen praten.

Fascinerend!

As an English speaker I could understand 1500's Dutch better than modern Dutch, the 1000 one though I had no idea.

No offence, but I kind of like older Dutch more than the modern standardized version

I didn't know that they had jars with printed labels 1000 years ago. ;) Also interesting how much more Romance-like did Dutch sound back then.

Heel boeiend! Groeten uit Nederland... :-)

I've noticed a major difference in pronunciation between the Dutch that I hear in my everyday life in the US and that which I hear in my Dutch studies. That is the "ui" sound. The Dutch-Americans pronounce it like a long "i", as in "like" or "mine", with a little bit of "oi" in there. (Some examples are the names Kuiper, Huisenga, Uitenbogaard, Buikema.) In fact, you can actually tell when someone else has the strong Dutch ancestry because they pronounce those name correctly. But when I hear it in my Dutch listening exercises, it leans more toward "ow" than "i". I'm wondering if the difference is due to (a) a regional accent from our ancestors when they came to the US, (b) a change in Dutch pronunciation in the US, or (c) a change in Dutch pronunciation in the Netherlands.

Very good video!

Op welke manier is achterhaald hoe de taal vroeger klonk? Dat is toch een stuk moeilijker over te dragen dan de schrijfwijze.

As a Swede, I understand the year 1000 version very well while the 500 and the 1500 versions start to get tricky, for different reasons. For me, the order of understandability is 1000, 500, 1500, 2000...

Old dutch/old frankish is very conected with old limburguish. Proto-Germanic Nordic it was a powerful lang that united nation and tribes, your influence remains today. Afrikaans an example guards too many sounds and memories, structures of protogermanic nordic lang too like your sisters langs too.

Fun to see how "ik kocht" (I bought) used to be "ik kaupoodèè". I'm a flemish immigrant in Finland and here the finnish word for shop is "Kauppa" Just like the double 't' and double 'i' in puttakiina, kauppa has a pause at the p's. All Finnish double vowels are stretched like that. Fun to see how that feature also used to be part of dutch, even if kauppa is just a loanword from germanic and the finnish language has otherwise not that many similarities.

weet iemand uit watter dokumentêr dit kom? Ek is mal oor tale en dokumentêre rolprente oor hoe dit oor tyd verander het.

Older was easier to understand for me than today. ^ . ^

The older the Dutch the easier it was for me to understand at this rate they may as well reconstruct old Frankish or old Low Franconian from this.

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Actually You in English and Jij in Dutch is weird among Germanic languages,in the past even old Dutch and old English had “thu” or “thi” as “you”,but in old german and old Norse languages (wich was also “thu”) it later changed into “Du”

I write this comment in English for the sake of standard youtube language; I am Belgian. I am not a linguist but I think the starting point for this study is wrong. It started of studying written language. Written language was used by scholars ( who would look down on "regular" people ) and not by the "normal" population of an area. For starters, I dont think any 2 villages spoke in the same manner; there was no common language. I believe that a study of dialects, local speech, needs to be done. After all, the way our different local languages have grown is a natural proces. I remember, as a kid, we had to read some mideaval text. Reading it in Dutch needed translations; however, reading it in my dialect permitted me to understand the text much more naturally, like a mother tongue is understood; without reflection. I think, if you take a text written in say, Limburg in 1200, another text written in Ghent in 1200, another written in Rijsel in 1200, another written in Amsterdam in 1200 and another one in Bruges written in 1200 (so different places with distinct dialects; listen to it read in the local dialect, then maybe try to read a text from Amsterdam read by someone from Ghent and keep mixing the texts with the reading in another dialect, maybe a common denominator could come forward to have a soundbite from the mideaval Flemish. Also, a while back - can't remember where or when - I heard a theory that traveling by foot for traders ( or with a packhorse, but not on horseback) in the midleages gave no language problems from scandinavia to largely into france. Allthough there were differences in the language (someone from Scandinavia could not understand someone from Northern France) the speed of travel permitted the traveller to adapt to local speech and be able to comunicate all along the way. I do (off course) not know if this is true, but it seems very plausible to me. This would mean that only 2 languages would be needed from Scandinavia all the way to Italy. That would off course also explain how unschooled people would be able to go on a pelgrimage and still be understood all along the way. Anyway, just my thoughts written down immediately after seeing this video, so maybe not well put and a bit random. Kind regards Alain

Dat 1500 nederlands klinkt wel lekker.

Het zal van regio tot regio toch giswerk blijven denk ik. En dan Proto-Germaans. Ook daar zullen verschillende dialecten en talen in bestaan hebben, lijkt me zo.

was het in 500 al kaupoodee met een K en niet sjaupoodee?

Broer, dit klinkt als volendams 😂🤣🤣

That jar of honey would be worth a lot more than a basket of apples back then. Still probably is now

This is very interesting. I can understand many of the Germanic languages.

I understand old Dutch 😁

I understand the Netherlands

Very interesting.

I am learning German and I could understand some things

bro it didnt even change

Zeute klingt als zuid Limburg / Maastrichts Valkenburgs ( aan de Geul)

Very interesting, thanks. Although to an outsider, an English speaker, it all just sounds like Dutch :-) How I wonder would it sound to a Friesian? Technically Friesian is supposed to be closer to English, they form an Anglo-friesian sub-group of Germanic, but in practice it seems to have stayed close to Dutch.

Dankuvel!

De v'lôrene zőn. En kääd’l had twî jongers; de êne blêv täus; de andere xöng vôrt f’n häus f’r en stât. Hāi wāz nît tevrêde täus en dârkîs tû râkni ārm. Hāi doǵti ôm dāt täus en z’n vâders pläk. Tû zāide: äk zāl na häus xâne. Māin vâder hät plänti.

Interesting, why does the Dutch written record not go back as far as English or German? Was the influence of French and Latin too strong for the literate to write in their own vernacular?

Hoe kan het zijn dat de taal veranderd vraag ik mij dan af

Correctie, oud Engels. Het moderne Engels bestaat uit meer dan 70% buitenlandse leenwoorden van voornamelijk Latijnse origine. Daardoor kan Engels, ofwel modern Engels, niet claimen een oudere taal nog te spreken dan zelfs het moderne Nederlands. Even voor de context.

Easier to understand than spoken limburgs

My god, the 1500s Dutch sounds so much clearer, similar to David Crystal's reconstructed early modern English, Modern Hollandic Dutch accents sound different from the spelling in many ways and almost muble their words, similar to English at times.

Who knows if all of Europe will speak Dutch in 200 years... really guy.

Ik moet hier even bij zeggen dat dit trouwens nep is De dingen die gezegd worden over volle klinkers en dubbele medeklinkers zijn correct maar de zinnen en woorden komen niet eens in de buurt

Zoals het er nu uitziet wordt het een soort Engels. Wanneer wij tenminste niet via de EU onder Duitse heerschappij terechtkomen, want dan blijft het Nederlands wat langer bestaan om tenslotte een dialect met sterke Duitse invloeden, of helemaal Duits, te worden.

Nederlands wordt deels marokaans door waar ze nu nog mee bezig zijn.

Probably similar to the dialects of Dutch spoken in America that went extinct in the 20th century.

1:37 GVD zeg dit is nou eens een lekkere Belg. Heet ding.

Im not so sure about that. Deutschland was written Duitschland with UITSCH in 1900 or so. Not its Duitsland with UITS. That definitely had an impact on the pronounciation. And especially the G was different. I highly doubt that modern dutch speakers would be able to speak with people from 1500 let alone 1200. Germans for example can pretty much read dutch but listening to them speak is a catastrophe with the G being a CH(r) almost. Because it changed so much (german G is like latin dutch is not anymore). You might understand them more than they understand you like you understand germans more since their language is clearer than dutch with their sharp S sounds and their unchanged G etc. Dont forget just because you can read the text like germans can read dutch you have no clue how people spoke. The scientists also dont they just assume it. You can somewhat get it from old poetry and looking for rhymes etc but thats it. (just comapare that to veni vidi vici. Is it vichi or viki? Still a debate about that.)

The fact that I'm Dutch and didn't understood a thing..

This sounds so like Afrikaans

6:49 "Vermoedelijk gaan alle nederlanders naar belgie verhuizen"

so the question is where"G" & "CH" came from?

ait, das helemaal gucci man

Leuk! Maar zo onpasend afgesloten met een vloek... jammer.

Charlemagne was a dutchman

Why did it say that Finnish is a germanic language wtf

Grappig dar het Belgen zijn die dit doen

Sounds So Similar to..... ummmm.... Ik weet het niet.... English

Nederlands anno 2100: ewa broere die appelen zijn niet fresh WOLLAH je beloofde voor fresh appelen agmar

Denk dat over 50 jaar we Arabisch of Turks praten..

Hmmm so mag geskian

dat belgische accent. lol

In principe is het niet eens heel onrealistisch dat Nederland ooit weggeveegd zal worden door een natuurramp vanwege de ligging.

Deutch

Goddomme ma

Old Dutch sounds like English

Ben bang dat meeste Nederlanders in het ongelukkig geval dat het Koninkrijk met water zou onderlopen niet massaal naar België zullen uitwijken, maar eerder naar zowel Duitsland en Denemarken zullen migreren.

Ek is afrikaans en ek verstaan hedi

This is SOO FUCKING INTERESTING. This is my first year of dutch tho. 😕

In the past, dutch was more similiar to german

tja klinkt net fries

Het accent is helemaal niet correct. 100 jaar geleden was er nog een ander accent, dit is veels te modern

Finnish is not Germanic, so it shouldn't be colored.

German language is totally different pronunciation of English , so I think when Germans came to Europe they've had got English in this way , English must be original one . Turks got the pronunciation of Latin alphabet from Germans , when I write down what I heard in English in the way I heard them it becomes German language :)))