Are Languages Getting Simpler?

46 thoughts on “Are Languages Getting Simpler?”

1. 4:57
   You made a couple mistakes in that Latin sentence. First, 'dabat' is imperfect tense, not perfect. Also, the accusative form of 'lex' is 'legem', not legume (legume is not even a word in Latin). Just wondering, have you studied Latin before and those mistakes were just careless errors, or is this your first time trying to translate Latin?

2. I know a little Latin.
   I know a little Greek.
   I used to know a little Vietnamese but she moved back to Cambodia…..

3. can confirm with chinese.

4. In Slovenian we have 18 different forms. 6 on how its used in the sentence and for each of them we gave singular, dual and plural. Latin has only 12

5. Great video!

6. I have 7 types of werbs lucky you

7. coughs h u n g a r y a n

8. buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo on a ship shipping ship shipping shipping ships

9. Lol Latin is so complicated I’m taking it now so harder compared to ennglish

10. eNgLiSh

11. The question is, does it just change for no reason, or are people adapting the language to better fit the time and culture?

12. Very Interesting topic. That's why people who speak English couldn't pronounce Indian words(means all the language present in India). Because many of the long lost sounds are still stays with All the Indian language that's why Indian people face trouble while writing Hindi(for example) using English alphabets. We use "Ch" for two Hindi Alphabets. Reader guess it by his/her own Intellect. English people must do somwthing about this. That's also the reason why Indian accents sound fun.y because we have been taught to read words as it is. Not any "silent word". Or pronouncing "Power" as "Phower", "Fast" as "Faist", "behind" as "bahind" etc.

13. Im not into linguistics but these videos are interesting. I sorta think that when things get less complex it doesnt mean that they generaly are losing words its not as if less words makes it easyer to underdtand. It could mean either. Like how a symbol for a male or female bathroom would look completely foriegn and cryptic to a caveman while we would consider it simplified and something that anyone could understand easily.

14. "It just changes"

15. All I learnt from this video is ancient dravidian speakers were time travelers.

16. love it

17. I thought the outro was O’ my by iz*one instrumental lmao

18. Omg, I thing the word yeet is the only word in English that has “yi”. In Russian it’s used more often

19. Scots still make the X sound like in loch so I can’t agree with the fact that no English speakers use that sound anymore lol it’s used frequently here.

20. I don't agree with you. I've learned English and ancient Greek, I guess what, English is million times easier. And if you thought how modern european languages "evolved" you would see that they were enforced to be spoken by people for whom they were not first languages. So that changes are obviously simplifications.

21. In Spanish, the subjunctive imperfect has two forms: -ra form (ara/-iera) and -se form (-ase/-iese). The former is widely used in place of the latter, which has almost completely fallen out of common use in Latin America at least. While it is still used in literary Spanish, it is rarely used in spoken. And the future subjunctive is almost never used either; I have gone through 21 years of life without ever hearing it even once.

22. Still languages of India have as many as 8 cases from Sanskrit you should make a video on Sanskrit

23. You didn't show the Latin verb chart. That would've made your point about how complicated verbs used to be a lot better

24. yesn't

25. I call it now! In the next 10 years we'll say "I'ven't" instead of "I have not"

26. Come backk we miss you. ?

27. cool-

28. From what I've heard from linguists the whole fusional/agglutinative/isolating thing is viewed more as a sliding scale, where fusional vs. agglutinative represents the number of functions morphemes typically take (e.g. noun endings in latin encode case, number and gender at the same time, whereas in a agglutinative language those might each have their own morphemes), and synthetic vs. isolating represent how many morphemes a word typically has

29. A certain amount of information needs a certain amount of bits to communicate.

30. P a r d o n
    Ima – I am going to ("No stop! Ima do it instead")
    or
    Ima – I am a ("What? No. Ima white person.")

31. So cool:)

32. Ha with us Australian we pronounce dew a jew

33. 1:53 Ad dad daadda dad dad ad a dad daad? (Is that really that much of a big deal?)

34. Why waste time use lot word when few word do trick?

35. Why is this channel dying ?

36. My favorite example of new words in English is whomst. I like it because it’s a simple way to ask “who is that?”

37. You laugh, but popular mountain routes where I am are getting steps, gravelled paths, and drainage channels to manage human and natural erosion…

38. I kinda have a speech impediment which is partially due to the fact I lived near Boston when I was really little and I picked up the accent VERY hard but basically I drop the R sound unless it starts a word it occurs on the syllabus you emphasis. Otherwise R is mostly as “ar, er, ir, or” and I’ll pronounce the altered vowel which basically means “park the car in Harvard yard” is pretty accurate to how I sound

    Also there’s “where are” which is something I actually say a lot translating into “whe-ah” which if you tried to type it in the vein of “Ima” (I love typing ima but not saying it) would be something akin to how some languages use an apostrophe to Frankenstein 2 consonant sounds that don’t normally go together. The only example I can immediately recall is how the fiction nation of Wakanda use them for names such as T’Chaka and T’Challa except replace the apostrophe with an R

    “Whera- we going” would sound like whe-uh” and is how my mind combines “where” and “are” as it drops the Rs and due to that combination slightly slurs them

    I also pronounce “sugar” as “sugah” again “ah” being phonetically sounded in between “ah” and “uh”

39. Ad omnibus dubitandum.

40. Little fan-fact. In Poland we still have all the things you said about latin. Different plurals, forms dependent on usage or even gender. For exammple:
    Word "house" in Polish: Dom
    M. Dom, Domy
    D. Domu, Domów
    C. Domowi, Domom
    B. Dom, Domy
    N. Domem, Domami
    Msc. Domu, Domach
    W. Domie, Domy

41. Well personally I think english is still quite easy to speak than any other language (I'm French)

42. nah we are just getting smarter

43. umm… mistake…. at about 4:25 you sad that no other Latin-based language still has that grammatical structure, of voices and tenses. there is still one: Romanian. it has 'genuri si cazuri' which are exactly that.

    I don't want to be rude, I just wanted to point that out. :)))

44. 2:25 what do you mean? romanian still has some

45. So, language is getting way more complex. Consider technical communication. The world didn't have modern building techniques, modern math, computers, motors, chemistry, or modern science back when old English was spoken. Beyond that, as more people join the English-speaking community, we are stabilizing and slowing the rate of change in English. In today’s English, we can communicate ideas that are vastly more complex. Consider this example from video game programming:

    "My video game uses an entity component system, and it organizes the heap in a special way. We started with a collection of entities, each containing a collection of components. But we transformed that into a collection of arrays where each array holds a particular type of component. Then we identify each entity by an unsigned integer. This integer represents the index where each component associated with an entity lives. So, all the components associated with entity 29 are at array index 29. In this way, we can more easily optimize our data structures to take advantage of the CPU's cache."

    To fully understand that paragraph, you need a deep understanding of programming and computers. It touches on many complex ideas. In fact, software engineering is the art and science of managing complexity. The field is huge, and no one should assume that all software engineers would fully understand that paragraph. This is because the paragraph touches on specialized ideas that are only known to video game programmers.

    As we grow English to meet the needs of modern technology, we are expanding the meaning of words. We are pushing the abstractness of our prepositions. We are making new words. And we are making sentences that would not make sense to a person living just 100 years ago. Consider a sentence we all understand like:

    “I found an SJW on YouTube last night. I texted you a link.”

    That sentence would be meaningless to a human living just 100 years ago and it would take us many pages of context to fully communicate it’s meaning. In fact, a human 100 years ago might think we are living in a sci-fi universe if the person could understand it at all.

46. unless its pidgin, pidgin is trash

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