Excellent, I definitely will be reviewing this many more times. Cultural and enjoyable, thanks!

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...

I understand the Netherlands

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.

Oh I love this video!

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

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

Grappig dar het Belgen zijn die dit doen

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

I am learning German and I could understand some things

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

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

In the past, dutch was more similiar to german

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

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”

Fascinating. Kudos!

Easier to understand than spoken limburgs

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.

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

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

Charlemagne was a dutchman

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!

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

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

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.

Hmmm so mag geskian

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

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

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

Good. Thanko!

Heel goed en interessant. Thanko!

Excellent

bro it didnt even change

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

Broer, dit klinkt als volendams 😂🤣🤣

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

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

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,

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

I understand old Dutch 😁

Die kut belg ook met zn laatste opmerking

This sounds so like Afrikaans

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.

Old Dutch sounds like English