Finally, I made this video! Which was your favorite? Tell me what you want to see next time!

Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz

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@Kebab Mega I really hope so

Quandavious Dingleberry Bingleton

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@Che Languages it sure is

Che Languages

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@Quandavious Dingleberry Bingleton same

Che Languages

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@Quandavious Dingleberry Bingleton Soqotri is really cool

Quandavious Dingleberry Bingleton

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But ultimately Maltese is my favorite

Most interesting. Long ago I worked with a guy who had been in the Peace Coops in Tunisia (he had to learn Arabic). He was dating a girl from Italy at the time (she taught him Italian). He told me that when they went to Malta on vacation, between Arabic and Italian, he could mostly understand Maltese.

Che Languages

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@gazoontight I will do!

gazoontight

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@Che Languages Love your videos. Keep them coming.

Che Languages

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That definitely makes sense, especially considering Maltese's closest living relative is the Tunisian variety of Maghrebi. Thank you for your comment!

If there is enough data available, a separate video about the remaining minority languages (Mehri, Shehri etc) in mainland Yemen and Oman could be interesting, including how much they are influenced by Arabic.

Quandavious Dingleberry Bingleton

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They influenced Arabic? Like the whole language or just dialects in those regions?

Che Languages

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I'll talk about them more in part 2

Fun Fact: There are 2 speculated descendants of Old South Arabian still spoken in Saudi Arabia: Faifi and Razihi.

Quandavious Dingleberry Bingleton

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@Aly Aly I'll look it up, hopefully Che will include them next time too

Aly Aly

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@Quandavious Dingleberry Bingleton Wikipedia has plenty of information on both Razihi and Faifi.

Quandavious Dingleberry Bingleton

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That's awesome, I'd love to hear more about them

Che Languages

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@Aly Aly I came across that too, I'll see what I can find!

Aly Aly

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@Che Languages May I recommend Hobyót? It is critically endangered. Luckily, a South Arabian man who is a native speaker of both Shehri and Hobyót is currently saving these languages with his team.

Semitic will always be my favourite language family. Very interesting video!! Also, do you know of any recordings of the Maltrian dialect?

Che Languages

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Semitic will always be my favorite too!

Che Languages

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There are recordings, I didn't want to go into detail of it though, I thought it was worth mentioning though

4 in Harari is "harat", it's still related to Hebrew "arba" but has an aspiration as the first sound that the Hebrew doesn't have and the b has been elided, compare with 4 in other Ethiopic languages which is often "arbat" and the connection becomes clear.

Che Languages

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Yeah I came across that in my research, I didn't realize it was still related, I can see it when comparing with Amharic now! But Arbin and Arba'im were too close not to mention. Thank you for your comment!

Good video, I think Harari is my favourite one in this video! Keep it up

Che Languages

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I'm glad you enjoyed the video!

Maltese is so cool! Plus, I just learned about two additional languages I knew nothing about.

Che Languages

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@Artur M. ah that's OK

Artur M.

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@Che Languages I don't know. 😅

Che Languages

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What is your favorite Semitic language would you say?

Che Languages

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Well I'm glad to hear you learnt something new! I hope you enjoyed the video

Thanks for covering Maltese, my mum's native language - Maltese dialects aren't always that clear-cut, but Gozitan is definitely easy to identify even for non-speakers like me, as are 'village' registers like Żejtuni (which my mum's best friend spoke). Just a small thing - I was wondering why I'd never heard of the word 'Maltrian' before (no online references either) - but it does look like some people use the word 'Maltralian' to describe the way Maltese people speak the language in Australia.

Che Languages

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@Robert Lindsey ah, thank you for the anecdote! It's interesting to hear about your situation, how you use certain things at home. I hope someday you'll reclaim the language fully!

Robert Lindsey

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@Che Languages I was discouraged from learning languages as a kid (misdiagnosed speech issue), so mum was understandably reluctant to teach me, despite my enthusiasm. As an adult I’ve tried - I’m now multilingual, but have made less progress with Maltese up to now. My wife and I are both half Maltese, so we do throw around a few key phrases, especially when dealing with her mum or nanna (who unusually for a Maltese person speaks very little English). Dialect differences (as far as I know) are mainly lexical, though there’s also phonological differences too between Gozitan, some villages (like Zejtun) and more urban registers. I don’t know enough about the syntax, I'm afraid. Coming home one day and telling mum that I ate ‘stuffut’ (a stew) with her Zejtuni friend, rather than more standard ‘stuffat’, became a running joke for years!

Che Languages

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That's awesome, if it's your mother's mother tongue, do you speak it too? I know you said you're a non-speaker, but like, do you use phrases and stuff at home? If not, learn it! It's such a cool language. I'd like to see more what the differences between the dialects are, I don't usually delve into dialectal differences here though...

I never heard of Harari before this video, cool

Quandavious Dingleberry Bingleton

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Me neither

Che Languages

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I'm glad you learned something new!

Harari, such amazing language with so little speakers

Che Languages

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Hopefully it will grow

Amazing video!! Never heard of Harari before. Semites strong together!

Plopi Ninety Six

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@Che Languages Hebrews, Arabs, Phoneicians, Aramaeans, Mandeans, Akkadians, etc... :DD

Che Languages

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@Plopi Ninety Six Hebrews, Ethiopians and Phoenicians LOL

Plopi Ninety Six

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@Che Languages I did, in part 2 I'd like to see Phoneician. I love how Phoenician sounds and it would be blessing if the Lebanese would try to revive it :D

Plopi Ninety Six

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@Che Languages חחח נכון

Plopi Ninety Six

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@Che Languages 🇮🇱🇪🇹🇱🇧👌

Could you do a video about the Quechua languages?

Che Languages

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At some point, yeah

I liked maltese the moast with its heavy romance influence, further maybe a video of aramaic, sirunian, and syriac and galdean would be nice in the next one, (im not sure whith the naming of the mentioned languiges) , greetings

Che Languages

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But yes, more Forgotten Semitic Languages videos are coming!

Che Languages

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Syriac is an Aramaic language, that's the thing, Aramaic is not one language, but a group of languages. I want to make a whole separate video on it instead

9:52 There are ~400,000 Maltese in Malta. 200,000 in Australia.

Che Languages

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Yeah, it's crazy!

Certain dialects at least of Hebrew certainly had the Welsh ll for the letter sin. The evidence is Kasdim became Chaldaioi in Greek (sin becoming lambda) and bosem became balsam in Latin (sin becoming LS combination).

Che Languages

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@Mathematech ooo now that's an interesting claim I've never heard of, but I suppose there could be some truth in that. I always wondered why the named Odysseus and Ulysses seemed oddly different yet so similar, it never really meant to much to me though as I accepted that the Romans like renaming everyone (except Apollo, he seemed to be just perfect for the Romans). You have me very interested now, so I'm going to go and do some more research into it, I would love to hear someone like PolyMathy do a video on it

Mathematech

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@Che Languages it would have been very early in the language and only in certain dialects, as we can see the dialect that the alphabet was standardized on did not distinguish sin and shin. But I don't think that it or similar sounds were particularly rare in ancient times. I would argue that parts of the Greek world had a lateral affricate and as evidence I submit the name Odysseus which is found with variant spelling Olysseus (which gives Latin Ulysses).

Che Languages

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@Mathematech That's true, I often forget that Khi was an unaspirated K not a Kh like in Hebrew. Similarly, Phi was an aspirated P not an F, and Theta and aspirated T not a Th like in Modern Greek or English. These preservations can still be found in the Coptic script (at least in Old-Bohairic pronunciation, which is one of the two accepted liturgical pronunciations).

Che Languages

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@Mathematech Most fascinating, I will look into it further. I still think it's just far-fetched for Hebrew to have had such a unique sound, especially considering all the borrowings into Greek where they understood that the same letter Sin makes an S sound. Maybe it was a specific dialect, as we know they existed (see the origin of the word Shibboleth in English)

Mathematech

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@Che Languages If you compare cognate words in Hebrew and Soqotri and other South Arabian languages, the Hebrew sin corresponds to lateral fricatives in these, so it's not simply based on European borrowings like balsam.

I've been waiting for this video for so long, dzięki Cze!

Che Languages

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@Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz great!

Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz

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@Che Languages I definitely did!

Che Languages

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No problem Grzegorz, I hope you enjoyed it!

Oh wow, first viewer. Never this early Nice video btw, I had no idea 2/3 these languages existed until now!

Che Languages

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I hope you enjoy the video!

I don’t get notifications that you’ve posted, so when you recommended this video, I looked at your video list - I’ve missed so many! I’m rectifying that now 😊

Che Languages

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Well I hope you enjoy catching up! Turn notifications on so you don't miss it next week

Maltese is one of my favorites, Soqotri too now

Che Languages

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@Quandavious Dingleberry Bingleton awesome!

Quandavious Dingleberry Bingleton

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@Che Languages I did!

Che Languages

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That's awesome! I'm glad you enjoyed the video

Peter Griffin loves these videos !

Che Languages

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That's great Peter Griffin!

will you ever do a video on forgotten dead Semitic languages like those once spoken in the lands of Mesopotamia and Phoenicia. Before Rome, Persia (Iran) And the Arabs conquered them.

Cillian Ennis

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@Che Languages oh I guess its just its neighbours that were Afro-asiatic. Easy to mix up when it comes to isolates as they are well very lonely like Basque. No family and no protection in France. poor Basque.

Che Languages

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@Cillian Ennis No it's not, it was an isolate, still a mystery to this day.....

Cillian Ennis

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@Che Languages is Sumerian Still Afro-asiatic right. Like Semitic languages.

Che Languages

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@Cillian Ennis though remember that Cuneiform was not originally a Semitic script, the Sumerians (not Semitic) used it before

Che Languages

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@Cillian Ennis Cuneiform is awesome, a fully phonetic variant of it should be revived today I say!

Harari is my favorite!

Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz

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@Che Languages tak

Che Languages

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Awesome!

I think you may have covered Aramaic in this yet if not then you can speak of the Aramaic language.

Che Languages

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@Elle Müller so like the entire history of Aramaic? That's a possibility

Elle Müller

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@Che Languages you are absolutely right. It would be well done to go from old precursor to Imperial Aramaic, Imperial Aramaic, then the later derivations so the language tree remains clear.

Che Languages

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@Seth Frisbie I want to make a video on it yes. There are tons of Aramaic languages that are not mutually intelligible still around today

Seth Frisbie

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@Che Languages that I did not know. Maybe you can cover it.

Che Languages

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That's a whole other video unto itself as Aramaic is not one language

NO WAY! FINALLY!!!!

זאב בן-צבי כוכבי

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@Che Languages thank you

Che Languages

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I hope you enjoy the video!

Best language family

Che Languages

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@Quandavious Dingleberry Bingleton 😎

Quandavious Dingleberry Bingleton

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@Che Languages Based

Che Languages

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I would agree 100%

What about the Amazigh (Berber) languages, they're like the cousins to the Semitics. THEY'RE AFRO ASIATIC LANGUAGES, FOR GOODNESS SAKE!

Che Languages

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I already responded to your other comment, I'm going to make a video on them dw!

Based Soqotri

Che Languages

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Based Semitic languages

Another Semitic language that often goes forgotten by those interested in the Afro-Asiatic family is Mandaean.

Che Languages

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Certainly! It might end up in my next video....

I've heard of Rif in Morrocco...whats that

Aly Aly

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@Revin Hatol Extinct for 400 years

Aly Aly

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@Che Languages Yep, it’s an Amazigh language called Tarifit or Riffian. It’s part of the Zenati Berber languages. Forgotten Amazigh languages?

Che Languages

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I know that Al-Rif is a region in the North of Morocco. If you're talking about a language, then I'm not sure, it could be an Amazigh language though

It's אחד עשרה not עשרה אחד

Che Languages

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Ah yes that's true, got confused

Metal.

Che Languages

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Metal.

Oooo semitic!

Che Languages

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@AG totally not LOL

AG

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@Che Languages totaly not biased amirite?

Che Languages

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The best language family

Che Languages

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Oooo indeed

Phoenician is also a forgotten language

Che Languages

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@Alaa Ahmad unfortunately I am banned from visiting Lebanon, despite how much I love the country, it's culture, history and cuisine. Maybe someday in the future I can. Either way, I'm not disputing Lebanese's link with Aramaic and Phoenician, but it's not accepted that the modern language is descended from either, rather it's descended from Arabic with a heavy amount of influence from Aramaic and Phoenician

Alaa Ahmad

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@Che Languages You will believe what i said when you will live around my people and hear our own words which not arabic at all and we have our own accent Away from the language, we celebrate many occasions and feasts that trace their origins to the syriacs and phoenicians

Che Languages

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@Alaa Ahmad that is not entirely true and is more or less a legend, Lebanese didn't arise as an Aramaic creole. However, a lot of Aramaic vocabulary did enter Lebanese so it's not all a lie

I Saw What The dog has done

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@Peter Gray Carthage is the daughter of Tyr

Alaa Ahmad

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In the syrian coast There is people like (my people) they mixed the arabic with phoenician+west syriac languages and our language name become (spoken language)

تعلم معنا 4 لغات مجاناً !! قناة (لغات 4 يو) متخصصة في تعليم أربع لغات من الصفر وحتى الاحتراف: اللغة التركية، واللغة الفارسية، واللغة الكردية، واللغة العربية.

Che Languages

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من فضلك لا تروج في تعليقاتي ، شكرا لك. ترجمت مع جوجل ترجمة

Metal and gay

Che Languages

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Real

Hi I’m first

Che Languages

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@Aly Aly LOL

Aly Aly

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No you’re not

Che Languages

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Shalom First, I'm Yair!

the map is wrong for including north western somalia in the zone

Che Languages

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@Cicero alexandar Somaliland.....

Cicero alexandar

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@Che Languages habibi, it is northern Somalia.

Che Languages

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Somaliland? No it doesn't, there is no language listed in that area, it is merely just the curve of the line to surround the South Semitic languages

I speak several antisemitic languages.

Che Languages

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Bruh, I hope you're joking