The Indo-European language family: controversies and new discoveries

The Indo-European language family - the most well-researched and the first family to be proven. Surely everything is already discovered about it, and there are no controversies or unknowns... right? Well, I'm here to challenge your views (and my own, to be honest) that everything is set in stone regarding the Indo-European language family. Going through the latest research in the field, I personally changed many of my own beliefs on the matter. So even if you think you know everything there is to know about the Indo-Europeans, I'd still ask you to check this video out. You too may discover something new.

Links to papers if you want to explore more:
Emergence and intensification of dairying in the Caucasus and Eurasian steppes

#indoeuropean #linguistics #languagetree

[sovennfiy]

speaking of indo-iranian languages being closest to balto-slavic languages, I was quite surprised learning Sanskrit and finding out how many words in this language are similar, or even identic to modern russian words. also some latin words are pretty similar, both in declension or conjugation and its pronunciation.

[gwynbleidd_doethbleidd]

With respect to the point that Indo-Anatolians didn't have Steppe-related ancestry, it turns out that they actually had. A recent study from April this year called "the Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans" by the Indo-European expert Lazaridis et al. found Indo-Anatolian samples with Steppe-related ancestry. At this point, it has pretty much been proved that the Yamnaya/Stredny Stog were Proto-Indo-European speakers.

[ekesandras]

Mongolians have a whole culture around milk and dairy products, even making alcoholic beverages out of horse milk, yet most of them are lactose-intolerant.

This means that lactose-tolerance is not a vital ingredient for a dairy based culture, since most processed dairy products like cheese, yoghurt, butter etc. don't contain lactose anymore.

[RiccardoPearlman]

There is SO MUCH CONTENT to these essays. I feel like I need to take this video in a couple passes. Amazing work, Jul.

[maggie_very]

This is super fascinating, and I really enjoyed the co-host making an appearance!

[prapanthebachelorette]

You’re doing a much needed work for the field. I wish you the best. You go girl 🎉

[mellowsunset]

Love your enthusiasm for linguistics - it’s infectious!

[bretrohde]

Excellent! The “retention” of laryngeals in Anatolian further indicates the Anatolian hypothesis. I too daydream about Proto-Human. Best of luck with your ultimate tree!

[GG-wfcb]

Ancient Roman writers used to believe that Latin was an Aeolian Greek dialect. This ancient theory was called Aeolianism.

[ComeRee]

Diolch o rannu JuLingo! Cariad a gefnogi fawr o Gymru! <3
Thank you for sharing JuLingo! Much love and support from Cymru [Wales]! <3

[majidbineshgar]

One should be aware that linguistic and genetic identities do not necessarily coincide, and common people tend to misunderstand that important fact, not all Indo-european speakers are genetically Aryan, not every Turkic Speaker is genetically Turkic

[leoschultheiss]

Julie, I watch all of your videos. Keep up the good work! And thank you all the way from Bärn, Schweiz!

[magellanicspaceclouds]

This has always been my favorite branch of linguistics by far. Thank you for making this video and I hope to see more like this.

[JonahSMoonRiver]

Your passion for language has inspired me to keep this hobby up, and keep learning. Thank you for all you do!

[danielnarbett]

Thank you so much for the vid! I've long loved I-E research but hadn't kept up with recent work :)

[TheECSH]

Your cat is so pretty. I'd love to see her more in future videos whenever possible!

[ijansk]

Our species is about 250.000 years old, so you would have to go much far back in time to see what languages our earliest ancestors spoke.

[RJMincey]

A truly brilliant video. You take a potentially dry subject and make it interesting and compelling. Thank you!

[morgan]

Loved this video. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that my high school Latin came in handy as I tried to learn Dari in Afghanistan.

[webmatrix]

Great video, Julie, Please keep making these. Cant wait to see your language Tree! ❤