I’m from South Carolina and my buddy from New York understands 50% of what I say to him. We’re making progress

3 billion humans are speaking the same words but cannot understand each other...how profound is that!

I was brought up in England and was always amazed at the change in accent between cities and towns only short distances apart almost if you had immigrated!

Persian: khoob English: good Persian: behtar English: better Persian: drost, raast English: right, Just Persian: dokhtar English: daughter Old Persian: Baq English: Big Persian: Ga'aw English: Cow Persian: Cart (means knife) English: Cut (what a knife is used for) Persian: Dar English: Door Persian: mard English: man Persian: setare English: star And many more including the usual father, mother, numbers etc..

the origins and evolution of language into the hundreds if not thousands of languages we have now fascinates me

2:14 oh skit, didn’t know that

I love English so much. You can just feel the texture of so many different languages in it. In its vocabulary, its phonetics, its styles...

Romance and French loanwords used in this one video: Single: from Old French "sengle" (no modern equivalent) Language: from Old French "language" (modern langage). Dialect: from Middle French "dialecte" (modern "dialecte") from Ancient Greek. Dozen: from Old French "dozaine" (modern "douzaine). Country: from Old French "contré" (modern "contrée"). Around: from Anglo-Norman "röunt" (modern "rond"). Common: from Anglo-Norman "comun" (modern "commun") Relate: from Latin "relātus" (no modern French equivalent other than derivatives such as "relation". Strange: from Old French "estrange" (modern étrange). Evolve: from Latin "ēvolvō" (Modern French "évoluer"). Generation: from Anglo-Norman "generacioun" (modern "génération). Major: from Latin "maior" (Modern French "majeur"). Change: from Old French "changier" (modern "changer") from Celtic. Trace: from Old French "trasser" (modern "tracer". Present: from Old French "present" (modern "présent"). Ancient: from Old French "ancien" (modern French "ancien"). Modern: from Middle French "moderne" (modern "moderne"). Similar: from Modern French "similaire". Derive: from Old French "deriver" (modern "dériver"). Originally: from Old French "origine" (modern "origine"). Part: from Old French "part" (modern "part"). Invasion: from Middle French "invasion" (modern "invasion"). Conquer: from Old French "cunquere" (modern "conquérir"). Rule: from Old French "riuler" (modern French "régler" however it's a demominalisation of "règle" which is straight borrowed from Latin). Class: from Middle French "classe" (modern "classe"). Add: from Latin "addō" (no modern French equivalent though there is a partial cognate in Spanish "añadir" and Galician "engadir"). Massive: from Middle French "massif" (modern "massif") from Greek. Amount: from Old French "amonter" (modern French hasn't got a verbal equivalent but does have "amont"). Vocabulary: from Modern French "vocabulaire". Previously: from Latin "praevius" (no Modern French equivalent but there is Italian and Spanish "previo", Portuguese "prévio" and Catalan "previ"). Probably: from Old French "probable" (modern "probable"). Very: from Old French "verai" (modern "vrai"). Familiar: from Latin "familiāris" (modern French "familier"). Recognise and derivatives like Recognisable: from Old French "reconoistre" (modern French "reconnaître" and "reconnaissable".) Cause as in because: from Old French "cause" (modern "cause"). Family: from Latin "familia" (modern French "famille"). Isle: from Old French "ille" (modern "île"). Century: from Old French "centurie" (obsolete modern French "centurie"). Comparative: from Middle French "comparatif" (modern "comparatif"). Linguistics: from German "Linguistik", from Latin "linguisticus" (modern French "linguistique"). Focus: from Latin "focus" (modern French "focus" is from the English word but there's also the inherited "feu" alongside it as well the related "focaliser"). Grammatical: from Middle French "grammatical" (modern "grammatical") from Ancient Greek. Structure: from Middle French "structure" (modern "structure"). Pattern: from Old French "patron" (modern "patron"). Sound: from Anglo-Norman "soun" (Modern French "son"). Certain: from Old French "certain" (Modern "certain"). Core: from Old French "cuer" (modern "cœur"). Example: from Old French "essample" (modern French "exemple"). Systematically: from Modern French "systématique" from Ancient Greek. Counterpart: from Old French "contrepartie" (modern "contrepartie"). Develop: from Modern French "développer" from Germanic. Direct: from Latin "dīrectus" (Modern French "directe" and inherited "droit". Just: from Old French "juste" (modern "juste". Various: from Middle French "varieux" (no modern equivalent though related words like "varié", "varier" and "variation" do exist.) Descend : from Old French "descendre" (modern "descendre") Ancestor: from Old French "ancestre" (modern French "ancêtre"). Historical: from Latin "historicus" (modern French "historique") from Ancient Greek. Reconstruct: from Latin "re- + constructus" (modern French "reconstruire".) Compare : from old French "comparer" (modern "comparer".) Possible: from old French "possible" (modern "possible"). Consistency: from Middle French "consistance" (modern French "consistance"). Use: from Old French "user" (modern French "user"). Process: from Old French "procés" (modern "procès). Include: from Latin "inclūdere" (modern French "inclure"). Large: from Old French "large"(modern "large"). Require: from old French "requere" (modern "requérir"). "Correspondence": from Middle French "correspondance" (modern French "correspondance"). Different: from Old French "diferent" (modern différent"). Branch: from Old French "branche" (modern "branche"). Distant: from old French "distant" (modern "distant"). Displace: from Old French "desplacer" (modern "déplacer"). Unfortunately: root is from Latin "fortunatus" (no Modern French counterpart but related words like "fortune" do exist.) Allow: from Anglo-French "alouer" (modern "allouer"). Mystery: from Anglo-Norman "misterie" (modern French "mystère"). Remain: from Old French "remanoir" (no modern French equivalents). Nature: from old French "nature" (modern French "nature"). Prior: from Latin "prior" (modern French "prieur"). Fact: from Latin "factum" (Modern French "fait".) Million: from Middle French "million" (modern French "million"). People: from Anglo-Norman "people" (modern French "peuple").

I am a native Slovak speaker and also have been lucky in my life to learn German and English and speak both at a fairly good level. To me, both languages are so similar in many aspects (and both so different to Slavic languages) and when listening to Norwegian, I basically hear a mix of German and English.

Well, when two languages love each other very much...

2:05 wow, is that the reason why German's word for apple is 'Apfel'?

God: ok England, who do you want your language to be influenced by? England: yes

"In this country we speak American!" It cracks me up every time they say it.

There is a German dialect spoken mainly in the north of Germany called "Plattdeutsch" or "Plattdüütsch" that really sounds like English. For example: English: "Now it's too late" Normal German ("Deutsch" or "Hochdeutsch"): "Jetzt ist es zu spät" Plattdeutsch: "Nu is to laat" I've always wondered and why but now it makes a lot more sense. Edit: Yes, I do realize that Plattdeutsch is closer to Dutch than to English, I live pretty close to the Dutch border and when we're in the Netherlands we can get around just fine with our Plattdeutsch, even if we don't actually speak Dutch. We might not understand everything, but it's really similar. (In fact, we recently went to the zoo here in Germany, but there's a lot of Dutch visitors there as well because it's so close to the border. We came across a little 4 year old Dutch boy who had lost sight of his parents and could actually figure out his and his parents' names by speaking Plattdeutsch with him so we knew who we had to look for. Luckily his parents were also frantically looking for him and we found them within a few minutes.)

From the perspective of a language learner, English just looks like a mix of French and German with a bit of sophisticated Greek terms and with "mutually exclusive" pronunciation and spelling :P

I didn't know that English has so many origins. I knew it has a lot of Latin (especially French) and German backgrounds but not as many as listed in the video. Good to know.

Wait- does that mean "shirt" and "skirt" are essentially the same word?!

Really liked the animation.

OMG!!! The voice cover is just mesmerising ✨🖤

Irrespective of its roots, the beautiful language called English, indeed plays a vital role in the modern world communication and is undoubtedly one of the most expressive languages used till date.

German is a big brother of English! I can speak them both. (I’m from Russia 🇷🇺) Examples: I can help you - Ich kann dir helfen. She is my friend - Sie ist mein freund. You must be here - Du musst hier sein. Good morning - Guten morgen. Hello - Hallo. This is blue - Das ist blau. Go and wash your hands - Geh und wasch deine hande. Water flows under the bridge - Wasser fliess unter der brucke. I have made it - Ich habe es gemacht. Bring me the book - Bring mir das buch. We drink tea in the morning - Wir trinken tee am morgen. My finger is broken - Mein finger ist gebrochen. I hate the wind. - Ich hasse der wind. Can you fly? - Kannst du fliegen? The grass is green - Das gras ist grun.

It’s very informative video. I learned that many languages ​​are interconnected and create a certain chain. I think the more languages ​​you know, the wider you see the world around you.

A very comprehensive explanation. Concise at the same time.

Brilliantly and effectively narrated and illustrated 👏👏👏

I wish this video had been geared toward teaching about the origins of the English language. Instead it seems to have been geared toward sharing tidbits.

This was so enlightening ! I did look into the roots of English language about 3 years ago but wasnt able to understand it this clearly untill now ! you are amazing ted-ed

Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

Thank you for making this accessible to us. I loved them.

That last statement made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Sko in Swedish = shoe in English this just popped into my head when he said k became sh

I was brought up in Philippines and was always amazed at the change in accent between cities and towns only short distances apart almost if you had immigrated

i am currently learning greek and i found so many words with greek origion. such including, passion, hipopotomas, metropolitin, bible, kinetic and many more. i feel like greek influence was not talked enough about in this video

Thank you for posting! This is a great video, and I really appreciate the link to the lesson plan!

I'm just happy you said Western Asia instead of the Middle East.

Years ago I read some pages of a book written in medieval English, I was surprised that without my knowledge of Dutch it would not have been possible to understand the text. : )

Thank you brilliantly and effectively narrated and illustrated

thank you SO MUCH for this channel i can FEEL myself getting smarter

I read Beowulf in 8th grade! It was amazing to me! Always interested in foreign languages since I was four, I ended up taking almost 1 year of Latin then a little French. After that 1 year of Spanish then two years of German. Twelve years later I moved to Germany (military). It was so easy for me to speak and read. I also speak a lot of SpA

Animation in this is WONDERFUL. 👏👏👏😎

I love the evolution of language... it is highly fascinating

It has been my dream to be able to speak and understand every language in the world! I love learning how language evolved to form the languages spoken today

Shout out to the animation team! Brilliant work as always.

Thank you so much for this video..

It feels new to know about this because I speak Korean🇰🇷. Korean was invented by a king in the 15th century, so the alphabets are very distinct from English, and also from Japanese or Chinese. The grammars are also very different. I always feel that Kind Sejong was such a incredible king when I see things like this, explaining the origins of English and the connection between various languages or so. Just think about it; inventing a language!!

English has absorbed a lot from other languages, but this hasn't changed its basic Germanic structure. Where German uses compound words, and double and triple, English developed from French vocabulary another way of expression. In 1066, French culture was imported to the merry isle as was my name, Geoffrey, a name most Americans can't even pronounce.

Amazing art, music, and story! I loved this.

This is such a cool video. I love etymology and language history…

Oh my god its amazing 😻🙌 I understand so much 👏❤ I'm so interested to learn this in my department 😍🙌❤❤

This will be great as I try to show how and why words are related to my French and German students! Thank you!

The Frisian language is not even mentioned once. And it might be one of the most important ones.

Excellent presentation! 👍👍

Очень наглядно демонстрирует в виде мультфильма. И комментарии в основном по делу и содержательные. А это редкость, значит, ролик выдающийся.

*me sitting in my room eating noodles just thinking about life* "Man I wonder how they made engish"

Interestingly, Hungarian, Finnish, and Euscara (Basque) are the only languages in Europe without Indo-European roots.

I would really love and appreciate if TED-Ed would make a similar video about the Albanian language.

Even if it is obvious, but, yeah, it is exciting, how these two languages are really connected between themselves. When I tried to learn German about 5 years ago, I realized, how many similar words there are in these languages. During that period I was so confused and mixed two languages in one.

No wonder why I sometimes feel like German sounds like English.

I love Ted so mush :))) thanks to these lessons, I can develop my self for the better :))))

From Airwolf to Bewolf from Bewolf to Airwolf has been my from the completing of my 5th semester of college where I received my first A on the semester in one of my psychology classes. Terrill TC!

English now : hello my friend how are you today " future English prediction: hewo ma bruh how yoaht toda

i'm gonna study languages in college and this not only gave me chills, but got teary eyed...

It sucks that we have lost 80% of human history ..

This video has covered the whole of my 1st Yr of my UG in Literature in jzt 5 mins🙊🙊

I am from Brazil and I am learnig this wonderful language!

I shall= jag ska. Shoot= skott. Shoe= sko. (English to swedish). Hadnt thought about this. Though its pretty cool when you actually notice those little things that makes them unique.

It is so awesome how languages are created, how they merge with each other and evolve

I'm English and from Newcastle where we are called Geordies, the Geordie dialect is the only dialect remaining that is the closest to the old Anglo Saxon dialect that was spoken a thousand years ago.

This vedio was sooo helpful for me. Thanks a lot. ❤️❤️

In Junior year if high school, I became my English teacher's favorite student because I could tell him why 1066 is important haha. I love history.

The word "Alcohol" came from *ARABIC* Alcohol=الكحول Pronounced *alkuhul*

Wow. Great info. Great graphics. I want the book.

this is my first video, and it was so good, the video sketch is nice, amazing voice and not to forget it is my first video that made me subscribe

Remake an expanded version of this video! Too interesting for 5 minutes.

you forgot to menthion greek in the narration but you do have it in the thrubnail. some english proff has said that english is 60% latin and greek. examples: all words with -logy -graphy in are greek, words with "photo" in (means light in greek) like photograph, photosynthesis, photogenic, photolysis. word phone, come from the greek word φωνη which means voice, even the word "problem" is greek, consists of preposition προ and word βλήμα which comes from verb βαλλω which u can find in thosand words in greek language, some other verbs that contain it are: (καταβαλω,περιβαλω, επιβαλω, υπερβαλω, μεταβαλλω, υποβαλω, συμβαλω, διαβαλω)

It would be interesting to see how language evolves now that people are not as isolated from one another as they were in past centuries.

wow that is so true well if she writes a book about it it would be amazing !

i wish one day i could see a video explaining the sanskrit language and its derivatives

Why do so many people emphasize linguistic "purity"? In my opinion, the diversity of English is a strength, not a weakness.

2:18 Sweden: skirt English: oh! you mean shirt

Patrick Smith , hats off to you !!!!

This is an incredible video and very factually accurate, but I want to add that one of these languages shifts is called "Grimm's Law." Named after it's discoverer Jacob Grimm, more popularly known as one of the two Grimm Brothers (yes, THOSE Grimm brothers) that gave us stories such as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and The Snow Queen (aka Frozen.)* *They did not create these stories, but rather they wrote down a collection of tales from all across Europe that were passed down by word of mouth for thousands of years, and their book is the only reason why we still have them today.

pour quelqu'un comme moi parlant le français en tant que langue native, on voit vraiment énormément de mots français ou d'origines française dans l'anglais quand on commence à un peu l'apprendre, on dit toujours que 1/3 de l'anglais vient du français, je me disais qu'il y avait de l'exagération mais en fait pas du tout

Who was the first one translated in many of those language...? I wonder how all-time

Amazing !

The "sk" did not shift into "sh". It shifted into "sc" which made the sound that "sh" makes today. Hence, sceold for shield and scypa for ships.

Ted Ed: This video is about English and the origin of it Me: This video is about history and the origin of it

Beautiful video.

Very good video thank you

im just wondering how languages change over time like creating something new requires a new word but how one word for one specific things changes but the object stays the same

who else is watching this for class?

This was a an Amazing video

This video leaves the impression that Swedish was a major influence on English. In fact, it was the Danes who predominately introduced Danelaw and many of the words used today.

I like how in the thumbnail English was a part of making English This makes sense

Short and interesting. Thanks for the video. Notice that quite a number of English words with the /oʊ/ diphthong have an equivalent in German with the /aɪ/ diphthong? English: home - German: Heim English: stone - German: Stein English: ghost - German: Geist English: holy - German: heilig English: token - German: Zeichen English: spoke (noun, the things that hold wheels together) - German: Speiche English: go - norhtern German / Plattdeutsch: geit Going one step further, many have a common ancestor with a long /a:/, such as "daham" (German: daheim = English: at home), which still can be heard in southern German and Austrian dialects today. #Bonus fact: I was wondering why the English word "horse" is "Pferd" in German. My research revealed that "horse" is a hyper correction of "hross" which corresponds with the archaic German word for "Pferd" = Ross.

That is the best sentence ending I’ve heard

A person who keeps their desire to a minimum and reaches maximum rationality is a sage. A sage always thinks about how they can benefit and help others.

I doubt it is Hindi, I think the origin is rooted in Sanskrit? Hindi too has evolved from Sanskrit. Just checking this

russian and english: wolf-волк(volk) night-ночь(noch) son-сын(syn) daughter-дочь(doch) dream-дрёма(dryoma) water-вода(voda) milk-молоко(moloko) gold-золото(zoloto) (g>z) track-дорога(doroga) tree-дерево(derevo) nose-нос(nos) day-день(den') cold-холод(holod) new-нов(nov) deal-дело (delo) angle-угол (ugol) (an>u) Cheak-щека (scheka) Eyebrow-бровь (brov') (to) Be-бы(ть) (by(t')) (to) Sit-сид(еть) (sid(et')) etc

This helped a lot in school thx, even after 6 years woe

There is a book called Madrigal's Magic Keys to Spanish which is all based on English and Spanish words that are similar based on that 1066 Norman conquest of England.