Evolution of the Indo-European Languages - Ancient Civilizations DOCUMENTARY

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It is important to realise that although less than a third of the English vocabulary is Germanic, it forms the majority of words actually used in daily speech and is the bedrock of its grammar.

As an Italian I’m proud to be part of such a large family. Cheers and love to all my Indo-European Brothers and Sisters!

I really want to see Sanskrit and its spread across southeast asia and asia. Also would love to know more about the interaction between latin and sanskrit

When I was in school, it was explained to me that basic English had the same roots as German. When the French speaking Normans invaded England in 1066, they imported French words that were used by the nobility. For example: The chair comes from the old French word "une chaire" (today we say une chaise). On the other hand in German a chair is eine Stuhl, which has the same root as stool. The example of Beef which comes from the French Bœuf is striking. For the farmers who only raise them it is ox (as in German die Ochse (pronounce like ox)). For the nobility who ate it is beef(Boeuf) !!

Wow guys!!!! My mother-in-law who’s 72 yo and doesn’t speak English loved watching your videos but I had to constantly pause it and explain it to her. Not anymore! Thanks a million guys!!!!

I'm a historical linguist of Indo-European and I love that you're covering this! I do see a good number of oversimplifications and mistakes, though, so if you're going to continue with historical linguistics as a topic, I highly recommend consulting with an Indo-Europeanist scholar to guide the discussion and smooth any oversights.

This was really interesting. More language specific presentations please!

Full videos on Sanskrit, Baltic-Slavic and Germanic languages would be interesting. More videos like this in general would be appreciated. The evolution of language is really interesting!

Definitely, Basque deserves a video. The only pre-indoeuropean language that still survives in Europe, with no other known relative languages and with an unknown origin, and since late 20th century fighting for recovery against Spanish and French assimilation

As a Historical Linguist who deals with the Romance languages, I can't stop thanking Kings and Generals for such an outstanding video. You have even mentioned my country, Brazil, which has indeed developed its own variety of Portuguese. We're all eager to watch the next video on the remaining branches of indo-european languages.

Great video, I'd love to see more detailed videos on this subject. I was a bit confused about which period was being discussed at each time. It would be great to have the year counter constantly up.

Great video! I'm from the Netherlands and saw that you didn't include the Frisian language. Even though it's spoken by the population of a small province, it has a strong following of speakers. It's the same for the Galician-, Bask- and Catalan language in Spain. Would be great to see a video about the same kind of “smaller” languages.

I was hoping you guys would cover the evolutions of the Slavic and Indo-Iranian families in this video. As it is, the title of this video oversells the topic somewhat. As a person of Indian descent, I'd be particularly interested in learning about the divergence between the Indic and Iranic languages.

The Kings and General team could not do wrong delving deeper into any of the languages and origins. Fantastic content!

Amazing video guys! Truly one of The Best introductory explanations of this awesome topic. What thorough research and pleasing graphics!

Absolute support for a historical linguistics video on Indo-Iranian languages

Something I've always found fascinating with how languages have evolved over time is that certain words change meaning so that one word's translation is rather different, but then is very close to another, related word. The thing that struck me in the video was that all the words for "honey" at 4:40 doesn't sound like honey at all, but is very similar to "mead" which is made from fermented honey. An example that I've seen used for comedic effect is the swedish word for "worm". In most germanic languages (and a few others) the word is very similar; german - "Wurm", danish - "orm, icelandic - "ormur", frisian - "wjirm", romanian - "vierme", jiddish - "vorem" etc. And then you have swedish, where instead the "worm"-like word "orm" means "snake", something similar in many respects when compared to a worm, but then the translation of "worm" is "mask", and I have no clue how that particular lingustic detail came about. (The translation of "mask", as in something that you use to cover your face, is "mask" in swedish as well)

Finally a good comprehensive and map assisted video on all the branches of Indo-European... Great work guys...

Great Video!! And great that you added several languages. Please add more and keep up the amazing work!