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Ttulo: La H sirve para mucho más de lo que piensas...
Descripcin: Why does the H exist in Spanish if it is useless?
I believe that writing could be defined
as the graphic representation of a language.
Concepts can be represented, such as logograms;
syllables, like Japanese hiragana or katakana;
or sounds, like the Latin alphabet
(well, more specifically, phonemes).
That is to say, that A represents the phoneme /a/,
b represents the phoneme /b/...
some alphabets are more adjusted than others to the spoken language,
this is what we already discussed in another video,
which was defined as the phonetic alphabet or etymological alphabet.
The phonetic is closer to how we speak,
and the etymological, less.
Well, if we keep looking at all the letters of the alphabet,
we suddenly come to one that, boom,
doesn't seem to represent anything:
our dear H.
But what if I tell you that it can represent much more than you think?
Well, I would be lying to you, because it does not represent anything at all.
Well, at least in the standard,
in some regional varieties yes,
like, for example, in Andalusia, which is aspired.
So why does the h exist?
Where does it come from? Has she always been mute?
Hello, good afternoon.
It seems that our Latin alphabet comes, pay attention,
from Egyptian hieroglyphics
(it is one theory among many,
but it is the one that convinces me the most).
[Dorothea] Does the H come from here then?
It seems that if.
It is possible that its evolution from that writing is this.
That is, it starts in Egyptian, in hieroglyphic writing
(because ancient Egyptian had three scripts:
hieroglyphic, demotic and hieratic,
if you want a video about this, comment).
From there it passed to the writing that was on Sinai,
which has been called Proto-Sinaitic;
from there it passed to Phoenician,
which remember that it was the alphabet that has had the most influence
on other writing systems
(well, more than alphabet, abjad
because it only represents consonants).
Then, it passed to Greek, where it represented (and still does)
the letter eta,
which was a long e in the classical period and is now an i like ours.
And pay attention now.
We all know that the Romans took their writing from the Greeks, right?
Well no! It was from the Etruscans,
but the Etruscans did take it from the Greeks.
And in Etruscan writing we simply have
to remove the top and bottom stick
and we have our H.
[Dorothea] Wait, wait.
[Dorothea] This has not been clear to me because really since the Phoenician
[Dorothea] we only have to do that to have our H…
That is true, but the Romans did not take it from the Phoenicians,
they took it from the Etruscans,
so that the sticks must be removed from the Etruscan letter and not from the Phoenician,
smartass.
[Dorothea] But how did it sound?
The sound represented by almost all those letters
could be an aspiration or a velar,
that is, something more or less like our j,
pronounced "stronger" or "weaker".
[Dorothea] But in Greek it was a long e, how did it go from there to an aspiration?
In archaic Greek this letter was pronounced as /h/,
but the Greek gradually lost its aspiration.
There were dialects in which that aspiration was lost before,
so in those dialects that letter began to be used
to represent a long e.
And already in classical Greek it can be said that its use was “standardized”.
In some Greek islands it was used interchangeably for the two sounds,
in some places a new symbol was even invented for that aspiration
and, although it has not survived,
it did remain in classical and medieval Greek.
If you have studied some Greek in high school,
the “spirits” will sound familiar to you
(and no, they are not these, they are these.
In other words, a mark in the initial vowel of a word that begins with a vowel,
and this mark tells you if the word has aspiration or not.
In short, that at first it represented an aspiration,
and in the dialects in which it was first lost
it became a long e and thus it spread.
[Dorothea] And in Latin? Was the ho pronounced and was it mute?
For the Romans, this letter also had a sound,
it was an aspiration, as we have today, for example,
in English or in some areas of Andalusia in Spanish.
But the aspiration was one more sound from archaic Latin,
in classical times it was already somewhat out of use.
It seems that only those who wanted to be very refined used it,
we even have writings in which it can be seen how
those who pronounced it like that were criticized for being very pedantic.
We are talking about the 1st century BC. C, more or less.
[Dorothea] And why did they keep writing it later, if they no longer pronounced it?
[Dorotea] And why is the use of the h in Italian and in Spanish so different?
[Dorothea] I mean, in Italian there is practically no h… Why?
Let's see, you're getting a lot ahead of us
and we still haven't seen, not even where all the H's
that we have in Spanish come from because no, not all of them come from Latin...
Do you remember that I have a C2 in Italian, right?
Well, when I was starting out,
I remember that my eyes burned when I read words like onesta or eroe
without a h
and I realized that in Italian they almost don't use the H,
almost, uh, not always, that sometimes they do.
But I didn't understand the criteria, really.
All this has an explanation that I am going to tell you about in this video, obviously,
but the truth is that you will like it much more if you know Italian
(and well, if you know French or any other Romance language… Fff…).
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Let's see, I would like it to be a romance
because that way you will see how the H works in that language,
but there are many more...
I have used it as a complement to learn Italian
and it has helped me to see how many words are written
that in Italian they sound the same as in Spanish,
but they are written without h,
like onesta and eroe...
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And now we return to what you told me:
We are in the first century BC. C.
The H was hardly pronounced in Latin anymore,
so why did they keep writing it?
Well, because we already know that people don't like
to have their lifelong little things touched, right?
She gets very short tempered
so they left her where she was.
But the same thing happens with ours,
or with the u that we have in “what” or in “war”
and nothing happens.
But let's go to the end of the Roman Empire.
Here the H was no longer pronounced.
Just as Latin was differentiating in the different regions,
the H, too.
Let's go to one of those regions: the Iberian Peninsula.
Here, in addition to other languages,
we have the one that interests us the most on this channel:
Spanish.
At first the H was not pronounced either.
In fact, we have many examples of words that in Latin did have h
and in Spanish they did not always have it.
[Dorothea] And one of those examples is?
Well, for example, “ouo”, which meant 'there was'.
Because why write it, right?
But that doesn't mean it was removed.
The more educated people continued to put it where it had been in Latin,
but it began to be used in a new place.
Here we have the first use that arose in Spanish for h.
In the Middle Ages there was no difference between vyu,
they were two ways of writing the same letter,
like now when we write the A on the computer
and the A written by hand normally.
However, that spelling could be pronounced in two different ways
depending on how it appeared in the word:
the pronunciations were the one that sounded like an approximant b
and the one that sounded like a vowel u.
[Dorothea] How is the approximant b?
Ok, it is not the one we pronounce when we say BOAT or WINE,
but it is the one we pronounce when we put an item in front of it:
the boat, the wine.
But do not think that it was very difficult to know when one was going and when the other was going.
For example, if we see this, obviously, we will say "one";
if we see this, we will say "your";
and if we see this, we will say “alba”.
Easy, right? Hmm...
Well, it seems there was a situation in which it wasn't so:
words that began with the diphthong ue-.
So that people would not get confused and say /webo/ instead of /bebo/,
they put an h at the beginning
and, for this reason, in current Spanish we have many initial hs
that other Romance languages ​​do not have.
But, well, we are in the middle of the Middle Ages
and we already have two different hs in Spanish,
well, at least, of different origin:
the one that already existed in Latin
and the one that was introduced to differentiate the pronunciation of the spelling u/v.
And yes, now we are going to talk about the one you are all looking forward to:
the one that comes from the famous Latin initial f-.
There are many words that began in Latin with f-.
The pronunciation of that f, became in medieval Castilian,
first an aspiration,
and then it ended up being lost
(but not in all areas, as we have said before,
in Andalusia, for example, that aspiration continues to be maintained,
among other places ,
that I speak of Andalusia because it catches me closer...).
And most likely it began to aspire
earlier than has traditionally been thought.
[Dorothea] Why?
Well, because the most logical thing is that it began to aspire
before the f was changed to an h.
[Dorothea] Why?
Well, because changes in writing
are more resistant than in oral language, that's it.
People who wrote an f- began to realize
that what he was saying was not an f-,
so they changed it to an h.
It can be said that it probably existed in the 14th century,
in the 15th century it expanded
and in the 16th it must have started to be lost and it has already been lost in some areas.
[Dorothea] And what about the H of the CH?
[Dorothea] where does that come from? Because I think not from Latin...
[Dorothea] It's another exclusive use of Spanish, isn't it?
Well, it's not exclusive, now I'll tell you.
Let's recap.
In current Spanish we have 4 different origins of the h:
the original from Latin,
the one that differentiated initial diphthongs,
the one from the digraph ch
and the one that comes from an initial f-.
For this reason, whenever you see a ha at the beginning of a word, don't
think that there was an f-,
because you could be wrong.
For example:
HOSTE &gt; host.
The etymological, as it was in Latin, is in Spanish.
OVU &gt; egg.
The one with the diphthong, so as not to confuse the pronunciation of that U.
FABULARE &gt; speak.
The one that comes from an initial F.
[Dorothea] And what about the other romance languages?
[Dorotea] In Italian, for example, almost all of them have disappeared, but not all of them…
Well, let's go step by step.
Some people think that Spanish is the Romance language
that loses that initial f- and that is not the case.
To begin with, Spanish does not always lose it:
strong, front, easy, flower...
and the loss is a phenomenon known in almost all other languages,
although it is true that in Spanish this characteristic is very widespread.
But, be careful, because there is another language in which it is even more so:
But, be careful, because there is another language in which it is even more so:
Occitan.
This language developed in the south of France
and was called Provençal.
[Dorothea] But I've read things about Provençal and I'm not that old…
What could you have read, ghost?
Let's see, currently, the term "Provençal" is used
to refer to the variety of Occitan that is spoken in the Provence region.
[Dorotea] Well, you were saying that this language had lost more F than Spanish.
Exact.
One of the varieties of Occitan (another) is Gascon,
which is spoken in the most southwestern part of France,
which geographically borders the Cantabrian Sea.
Which by the way is official in Spain, in the Aran Valley,
the loss of f- is even greater.
But many of you have heard that the Spanish f changed to an h
due to the influence of Basque?
Well, that is precisely because Spanish and Gascon are
geographically in contact with Euskera
and are the ones that have lost the most f-initials.
[Dorothea] So?
Let's see, there are several problems to defend this theory.
First, Euskera or Basque was spoken
in a much wider area than it is now,
so why didn't it affect Aragonese but it did affect Castilian and Gascon?
Precisely in Navarra, where Navarro-Aragonese arose
(currently only Aragonese because it is only spoken in Aragon),
it was one of the places where there were more Basque speakers
and the initial Latin f was maintained.
Also, why are f-initials lost in other areas
that had no contact with Basque?
[Dorotea] Let's see, but it's also true that the same phenomenon
[Dorotea] can appear in several places for different reasons, right?
Yes, that's true.
But it's just that, in addition, why
couldn't Basque speakers pronounce the initial f- of 'farina' but could pronounce the initial f- of strong?
It is also said that the Basque language that coexisted with Latin
did not know the sound /f/,
and that is true, at least in part,
because some investigations have hinted
that this sound would exist,
at least in some specific areas that would have some peculiar varieties
or as an allophone
(an allophone is a particular way of pronouncing a phoneme
depending on the region
or situation in the spoken chain).
Basque speakers were, lived and were
a significant number in the conformation of the county of Castilla.
[Dorothea] Why?
Well, because Castilla was a land repopulated with people from different places.
The people from Alava, that is, people from a region of what is now the Basque Country,
were important in this repopulation,
but that does not mean that they had to leave a phonetic imprint.
On the other hand, in southern Italy there are several areas
where this same phenomenon is observed.
And well, not only in Italy, but also in Romanian or even in French!
DE+FORIS&gt;dehors (out)
Notice that precisely in this case French has lost that f
and in Spanish it remains.
By the way, also in Spanish some f has been lost
that is not at the beginning of a word.
The word "dehesa"
(that is, a piece of land, usually surrounded by trees,
which is usually used for cattle)
comes from... chan chan chan... DEFENSE.
[Dorothea] And what about the CH?
Ok, let's do a quick review of other languages,
diasystems, dialect groups or whatever you want to call it:
In Galician-Portuguese they keep the h from Latin,
but, in addition, they use them for other things that Spanish is unaware of
and, well, for others in which it coincides.
But both areas have the spelling ch,
in Galician it represents the same sound as in Spanish
and in Portuguese it is used to represent the sound sh.
In addition, in Portuguese they use it to represent those palatal sounds
that did not exist in Latin
and that are two very recognizable spellings of this language:
nh, which is our ñ
and lh, which is our ll (without yeísmo),
that is, that of 'rain'. '.
In Galician, in addition to ch,
they have nh, which is like the n of the suffix -ing in English,
that is, velar, which is pronounced back in the oral cavity
(I think it's like in Spanish,
that some people can say ' with him' or 'with him'.
Do any of you pronounce it that way or is it just me?).
In Portuguese we have “chuva”, in Galician “choiva”;
in Galician unha, in Portuguese unha ('nail').
In Catalan they keep the h from Latin,
but curiously they do not use it in digraphs.
[Dorotea] Can you give an example of how they put the CH?
[Dorotea] In other words, a word that has CH in Spanish, what is it like in Catalan?
Well, for example, the word 'coche',
which in Spanish does have the digraph ch, but in Catalan it is with tx.
In French they use it with the digraph ch,
which sounds like the Portuguese one.
The French language has a particularity,
and that is that it has two types of h
and, although both are silent, they affect pronunciation differently.
From French we have a very famous thing
(although I really don't know why, because it happens in all languages)
the liason,
that is to say, that a sound at the end of a word
changes if the next word begins with a vowel.
It happens especially with the plural,
for example, the word "friend/s", is pronounced exactly the same in French,
Ami/amis,
but if we put an adjective after it begins with a vowel, no longer:
Ami extraordinary.
And in the plural it would be amis extraordinaires,
there the final s is pronounced.
And what does this have to do with h?
Well, French has an h that prevents liason
and another that doesn't.
Because?
Well, because an h was formerly aspirated,
and has left a trace in the current pronunciation.
And why did this h- aspirate exist?
Due to loans,
especially Germanic loans,
but there are also those of Greek origin and other languages.
In French we can also see digraphs with th, ph...
and why is this?
Because it was the way the Romans had
of writing words of Greek origin,
words that had sounds that the Romans did not have,
the ph was a kind of f
and the the was like our za ce ci zo zu.
And the Romans also used ch
to represent the Greek sound which was like our ha ha hee.
But what about Italian and Romanian?
Because things change here...
These two languages ​​have things in common:
in both of them this is pronounced the same, ge and gi,
so to write our gue gui, they put an h.
[Dorothea] And why do they write an h and we write an u?
Well, I'm sorry to tell you something that will disappoint you.
Just because.
The spelling is like this.
A group of gentlemen meet
(because generally they have been and continue to be, what the hell,
gentlemen)
and make decisions based on phonetics, etymology
or how they feel that day depending on their zodiac sign...
Anyway, what happens the same with the ce: ca, co cu, great,
but this is pronounced “che, chi”.
To pronounce que, qui, they put an h.
The h in Romanian, in fact, is pronounced,
it is like an aspiration, like in English or like the j in most of Andalusia.
In addition, the two languages ​​have lost the etymology of Latin.
We can see it with the words HOMINE or HARMONIA.
[Dorotea] Hey, but why then in Italian does the verb avere have h?
Well, that is the only exception:
it preserves the Latin h- in four forms of the verb avere.
And in Romanian, this verb never takes h.
[Dorotea] But you still haven't explained why we have ch in Spanish, right?
[Dorotea] Where it comes from, how it arises...
Let's see, it's just that, since this lyric doesn't sound,
it's very practical to use it in combination with others.
Think, also, that it is not new,
because it was also used in Latin texts.
There was a combination of letters that were not used
and they had sounds that did not exist in Latin
and they had to represent.
Well, hunger and the desire to eat come together.
The perfect equation.
But, well, according to Lapesa,
its origin is French and it was introduced to the peninsula in the 11th century.
And come now to sleep or watch another video.
This one here is great, you'll see ;)
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