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

@AvrahamYairStern

Жыл бұрын

Soqotri is so underrated!

@AvrahamYairStern

Жыл бұрын

But I like Maltese too

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@AvrahamYairStern as I mention in the video, Maltese is my favorite Semitic language beside Hebrew

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@AvrahamYairStern and I agree, Soqotri needs more attention

@AvrahamYairStern

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages it certainly does

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

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

That's awesome, I didn't actually know about that! I read during my research that Old South Arabian had gone extinct so that's potentially good news

@alyaly2355

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages Speakers of these languages call their languages dialects of Arabic.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@alyaly2355 clearly they wouldn't be though if it's Old South Arabian

@alyaly2355

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages Yeah they aren’t. I saw some videos of people speaking Razihi and Faifi and I couldn’t understand anything except a couple of words like Ijlis which means sit.

@alyaly2355

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages Here is an example of Razihi kzread.info/dash/bejne/nGabypd-dpi1fqw.html This language is very very influenced by Arabic. Some Yemenis may understand it a bit and may be able to get the gist of what they’re saying. We don’t even understand Yemenis half of the time because their dialects are so influenced by South Arabian languages.

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.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

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

@gazoontight

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages Love your videos. Keep them coming.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@gazoontight I will do!

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

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's crazy!

@Q2W345

9 ай бұрын

For god sake. 😮

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.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

I'll talk about them more in part 2

@QuandaleDingleGoofyAhh123

Жыл бұрын

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

@Alqoaity

3 ай бұрын

Shehri is in Oman not Yemen

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

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

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

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Semitic will always be my favorite too!

I never heard of Harari before this video, cool

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you learned something new!

@QuandaleDingleGoofyAhh123

Жыл бұрын

Me neither

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.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

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!

@EchoLog

11 ай бұрын

Do we have any speakable proto-afro-asiatic reconstructions or preservations? Some of these lesser known semitic languages are ringing bells in Hausa that I know arent loan words from Arabic.

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

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed 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 😊

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

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

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

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

No problem Grzegorz, I hope you enjoyed it!

@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewicz991

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages I definitely did!

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewicz991 great!

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

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

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

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

What is your favorite Semitic language would you say?

@Artur_M.

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages I don't know. 😅

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@Artur_M. ah that's OK

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

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

I hope you enjoy the video!

Enjoyed watching this video thanks grazzi ħafna ❤🇲🇹

@CheLanguages

4 ай бұрын

I'm very glad you enjoyed it, grazzi to you too

Maltese is one of my favorites, Soqotri too now

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

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

@QuandaleDingleGoofyAhh123

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages I did!

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@QuandaleDingleGoofyAhh123 awesome!

Hi, I'm an Amharic speaker. The Harari text is quite unintelligible, but there are a few words that look familiar (correct me if I'm wrong). One is መትሌ'መድ ('matlemad') which I think means 'teach'. I inferred it as it sounds similar to the Amharic ልመድ, which means 'get used to', 'familiarize', etc. ወልዳችዚናው ('Waldachzinaw') looks like an inflection of a corresponding word of the Amharic ወለደ is ('gave birth') and I think it means 'children'. There is ሰቢ ('sabai') and it sounds like 'people', and I think combined with either the previous or next word it is supposed to be 'students'. What surprised me though is the word for 'Ethiopic' ('Hararbe'). I don't know how it evolved far from the original word, but it's fascinating. The numbers are quite similar, but I think that's the case for most Semitic languages.

@CheLanguages

3 ай бұрын

Fascinating, I've never actually met an Amharic speaker. Matlemad looks very similar to Hebrew Melamed, similar root of course as they're both Semitic languages.

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.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

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...

@robertlindsey3596

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages 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!

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@robertlindsey3596 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!

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).

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Hmm interesting but I'm still not quite convinced. /ɬ/ doesn't really sound too much like L, despite it's similar look on the IPA, I would have thought to the Greeks it would seem more like an aspirated S or something. Also why does K become Kh in the Greek version? Have you got anymore examples to prove this?

@M.athematech

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages Ancient Greek chi was simply an aspirated unvoiced velar plosive like the c in "cool" in the majority of English dialects and was often used for Hebrew kaf.

@M.athematech

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages 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.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@M.athematech 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)

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@M.athematech 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).

Could you do a video about the Quechua languages?

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

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

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

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

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

But yes, more Forgotten Semitic Languages videos are coming!

Based Soqotri

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Based Semitic languages

Very good

@CheLanguages

11 ай бұрын

Thank you!

NO WAY! FINALLY!!!!

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

I hope you enjoy the video!

@AvrahamYairStern

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages thank you

Harari, such amazing language with so little speakers

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Hopefully it will grow

Harari is my favorite!

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewicz991

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages tak

Also I disciverd Wolene or Wolane language o Abbysinian (Ethio semitic language)

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Yes, of course

I love that /ɬ/ gets called "the Welsh 'L'" or "the Navajo 'L'" by the linguists I follow.

@CheLanguages

11 ай бұрын

I didn't know Navajo had it? Nahuatl (Aztec) famously has it too, but in conjunction with /t/, represented by the tl digraph you see everywhere in Nahuatl

Oooo semitic!

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Oooo indeed

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

The best language family

@Rabid_Nationalist

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages totaly not biased amirite?

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@Rabid_Nationalist totally not LOL

For a split second I thought you were trying to insult the Harari endonym

@CheLanguages

2 ай бұрын

No no, I'm not one of those people. I just talk about languages. Harari is also the surname of a very good professor at the Hebrew University of Yerushalayim, but there's no link I can find between them.

thats interesting

@CheLanguages

11 ай бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it!

Any reason bnedmin and bredrin are similar? Or is it just a coincidence?

@CheLanguages

11 ай бұрын

What is bredrin?

@CheLanguages

11 ай бұрын

By the way, it's related to the Hebrew Bnei Adam

Harari is spoken in Ethiopia. We call them Aderie Harari.

@CheLanguages

6 ай бұрын

Cool. Which language do you speak?

Best language family

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

I would agree 100%

@QuandaleDingleGoofyAhh123

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages Based

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@QuandaleDingleGoofyAhh123 😎

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

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

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

@sethfrisbie3957

Жыл бұрын

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

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@sethfrisbie3957 I want to make a video on it yes. There are tons of Aramaic languages that are not mutually intelligible still around today

@ellemueller

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages 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.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

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

Peter Griffin loves these videos !

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

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.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Certainly yes, I want to cover living ones first, but I can't wait to talk about those no longer with us

@cillianennis9921

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages yea I Like the writing system of them like the Cuneiform used for all their writing. its different to what survived but being on clay allowed it to survive all the harshness of time unlike paper which rots faster.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@cillianennis9921 Cuneiform is awesome, a fully phonetic variant of it should be revived today I say!

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@cillianennis9921 though remember that Cuneiform was not originally a Semitic script, the Sumerians (not Semitic) used it before

@cillianennis9921

Жыл бұрын

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

And a lot of the old Mesopotamian languages like Akkadian were Semitic. Sumerian was not however as a language isolate to our best knowledge.

@CheLanguages

11 ай бұрын

I go into more detail in my Semitic Languages Overview video

It's אחד עשרה not עשרה אחד

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Ah yes that's true, got confused

Maltese people around the world: LIBAAAAAAAAAA!

@CheLanguages

11 ай бұрын

What does that mean? Is it related to Hebrew Lev (Heart)?

@tedhubertcrusio372

11 ай бұрын

@@CheLanguages it's a cuss word hehehe I just heard that from a Maltese woman dissing a conservative politician... As a Filipino I can relate to Maltese culture and politics.

@stephencachia5561

2 ай бұрын

It's a rude word 😢 used to offend people

Metal.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Metal.

Phoenician is also a forgotten language

@AvrahamYairStern

Жыл бұрын

I think he's talking about living ones

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@AvrahamYairStern exactly

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Yes, but it has no speakers. I'll talk about dead ones another time

@petergray7576

Жыл бұрын

Proper name for Phoenician language is Punic. It was spoken in the Phoenician heartland and it was the language of Carthage and it's colonies across the Western Mediterranean basin. Edit: Geography correction.

@AvrahamYairStern

Жыл бұрын

@@petergray7576 Phoenician heartland was not Libya, Phoenicia was Lebanon. You're jot getting confused by the two Tripolis are you?

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

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

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

Metal and gay

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Real

7:00 unintelligible

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

Me or the text?

@Zeyede_Seifegiyorgis

9 ай бұрын

⁠@@CheLanguagesThe text is completely unintelligible. It’s easier to understand Tigrigna than Harari.

@CheLanguages

9 ай бұрын

@@Zeyede_Seifegiyorgis Ah interesting!

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

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

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

@ciceroalexandar6184

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages habibi, it is northern Somalia.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@ciceroalexandar6184 Somaliland.....

Hi I’m first

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Shalom First, I'm Yair!

@alyaly2355

Жыл бұрын

No you’re not

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@alyaly2355 LOL

I speak several antisemitic languages.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Bruh, I hope you're joking

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

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

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