More Extinct Languages We Should Bring Back

In this video I will discuss some Indo-European languages that we should revive.

[captainahab]

I think we should first and foremost revive Gothic. Not only because their alphabet is pretty neat, but mainly for the purpose of more effective gatekee... communication in the goth subculture.

[nova-nigermapping]

Hey! Polabian speaker here. our language is very germanized! (around 15%) but there is the "Polabian Revivalization Movement". Our flag resembles the english one but the upper left and lower right corner is blue (like the sorbian blue.) Slüva Polåbsťă!

[TNOfan]

In France, we're bringing back the regional languages. Whole university departments are dedicated to these (including in the overseas for Tahitian), and bilingual schools have opened (noticeably in Brittany)

[paveldolgopolov]

You should have also mentioned the two Sorbian languages while speaking about Polabian. They're still alive, although not particularly well. They're fascinating, I'm somewhat of a Sorbian language enthusiast myself despite living in Russia

[alamhossain]

So basically Jersey Dutch is American version of afrikaans

[Yalen.The.Untaggable]

Hey let's revive Manchu!
There are a couple colleges in Northeastern China that used to give free classes but they stopped since like 2005, and there's a website that works as some sort of Manchu newspaper but other than that there isn't anything so widespread, and as one of the official languages of the last dynasty of China, it's worth it

[Louisianish]

Thanks for the shoutout to my heritage language, Louisiana French! My grandparents were part of the last generation in Louisiana to have been raised as monolingual Francophone (my parents’ generation grew up bilingual). I learned the language from my grandparents and my dad, and I’m attempting to raise my 2 year old son speaking it. I’m beginning to see the fruits of my labor, but I won’t lie, it’s extremely difficult to raise a child in a language when it isn’t your first, and you’re surrounded by English.

[ConnorQuimby]

rest in peace lithuanian. for ever in our hearts

[celtofcanaanesurix]

GAULISH HELL YEAH!!! Lets not forget Gaulish had an independent Optative form of verbs (expressing the meaning of wishing the verb were true, or wishing it would happen), plus the really freaken simple bi- prefix + root + Subj. suffix future form.

[buddyltd]

Making Gaulish come back would be extra funny because so much of Romantic French art relies upon the idea of an unbroken history between the Gauls and the modern French nation. If you were to bring back Gaulish, they would be unable to oppose the existence of said language without seemingly invalidating their historical mythology. Maximum trollage!

[duskendawne]

What about the Hittite language? It was an indo-european language spoken by the people of the Hittite Empire, which ruled eastern Anatolia during the bronze age

[h-Qalziel]

I think it would also be nice to revive Pictish as it was the oldest known language spoken in Scotland and was eradicated by the surrounding countries; Ireland gave Scotland Scottish Gaelic, England gave Scotland English and Scots, and Norway gave Scotland Norn, but Scotland had Pictish! Also who wouldn't want another celtic language!

[SnowAngel]

rest in peace dacian i will never forget you

[CheLanguages]

What a coincidence. I've just come back from Andalucía (Cordoba) and I have studied a lot about Andalusian Spanish. I've also read quite a lot about Mozarabic, which heavily influenced Andalusian Spanish too. I have considered doing a video on it soon, there is even a movement in Andalucía to classify the dialect as its own language, 'Andaluh'.

[noahschwartz]

I saw your note about no hope for European Jewish languages to be revived and you'll be glad to know that the two major European Jewish languages, Yiddish and Ladino, are both experiencing a revival liturgically and culturally! In many western Sephardic synagogues Ladino courses are being offered and Yiddish is having a revival largely within the American Ashkenazi Jewish community as well as to a lesser extent in Israel. However the various Judeo-Arabic and Judeo-Aramaic languages/creoles formerly spoken by eastern Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews are still dying as far as I know.

[pan]

give the Bulgarians an ancient Greek language they don't own and then proceed to call them Macedonians disregarding history. A really smart solution

[DeVolksrepubliek]

YES, please we must revive Jersey Dutch! As a Dutch person living in New York, this is my dream.

[jonpaulyc-eng]

Polynesian from NZ here; I always wanted to bring back Moriori, so I was very happy to see the NZ govt is creating efforts to do just that!!

[celty]

So France doesn’t support non-standard French. 😕 One day when I was reading about Louisiana French, I saw that the French government gives funds to French language schools there but only for the standard dialect, not the local one. I think that’s messed up.

[Liethen]

Interesting thing to note is that there were areas of New York and North Carolina with significant numbers of Scottish Gaelic speakers. Most were loyalists and moved to Canada after the war. Would have been interesting if they had remained in the US as a significant local language. Almost happened in North Carolina, since it was still spoken there during the Civil War era. Canadian Gaelic is interesting in that it comes from a dialect of Scottish Gaelic that has since died out in Scotland. Sadly I don't think the Scotts language made it to America. Would have been interesting if Hillbillies spoke an Appalachian Scotts language.