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7:50Grimm's Law
421K views
Grimm's Law: the systematic consonant shift that separated Germanic from other Indo-European languages.
3:26"Football" | Etymosemanticology
112K views
A 3-minute video from Xidnaf's catalogue; the title names its topic.
4:59"Nerd" | Etymosemanticology
122K views
A 5-minute video from Xidnaf's catalogue; the title names its topic.
5:36"Socialism" vs "Communism" | Etymosemanticology
568K views
A 6-minute video from Xidnaf's catalogue; the title names its topic.
9:46A History of English Letters
387K views
How the letters of the English alphabet got their shapes and sounds, from Phoenician to Latin.
6:48
4:58How Nazis Stole the Word "Aryan"
850K views
A 5-minute video from Xidnaf's catalogue; the title names its topic.
9:49How to Speak Proto-Indo-European (corrections in the description)
438K views
A 10-minute video from Xidnaf's catalogue; the title names its topic.
9:29Is English a Tonal Language?
572K views
A 9-minute video from Xidnaf's catalogue; the title names its topic.
3:53Linguistic History of ASL
44.8K views
A 4-minute video from Xidnaf's catalogue; the title names its topic.
3:30Pronunciation of "Xidnaf" [possible seizure trigger at the end?]
155K views
A 4-minute video from Xidnaf's catalogue; the title names its topic.
8:07Proto-Indo-European Culture
592K views
What linguistic reconstruction tells us about Proto-Indo-European speakers' culture.
3:24Roman Romance | Etymosemanticology
92.5K views
A 3-minute video from Xidnaf's catalogue; the title names its topic.
4:32The Difference Between “Kings” and “Emperors” | Etymosemanticology
501K views
A 5-minute video from Xidnaf's catalogue; the title names its topic.
8:33The IPA and the IPA That Created It
266K views
A 9-minute video from Xidnaf's catalogue; the title names its topic.
8:33The Linguistics of AAVE
1.59M views
The grammar and phonology of African American Vernacular English as a rule-governed dialect.
8:58Types of Writing Systems (correction in the description)
476K views
The main types of writing systems: alphabets, abjads, abugidas, syllabaries and logographies.
8:21Untranslatability and Japanese Pragmatics
575K views
A 8-minute video from Xidnaf's catalogue; the title names its topic.
6:21What Even Is a Language?
350K views
A 6-minute video from Xidnaf's catalogue; the title names its topic.
7:17What Even Is a Syllable? (correction in the description)
128K views
A 7-minute video from Xidnaf's catalogue; the title names its topic.
7:45
9:49Why People Make Their Own Languages
760K views
A 10-minute video from Xidnaf's catalogue; the title names its topic.
13:45i read* every† party platform since 1840
29.8K views
A 14-minute video from Xidnaf's catalogue; the title names its topic.