Such a beautiful language and alphabet! Greetings from Greece

@fantastic1231

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much our orthodox Greece family!!! I always wanted to visit our sisterly orthodox and ancient country of Greece!!!! Hopefully, sooner or later I will do so!!! United and ancient orthodox Ethiopia and Greece forever!!!

@1melkt

4 жыл бұрын

Yasou phile! Greetings from Ethiopia!

@aos5929

4 жыл бұрын

Greeks introduced Christianity to Ethiopia

@shrekuwu259

4 жыл бұрын

Γεια σου

@aos5929

4 жыл бұрын

TheCrazyKid1381 it’s man the bible was translated from Greek to Ge’ez a dead Ethiopian language or Abassinan

I'm orthodox from Jordan respect Amharic

@fekar3559

4 жыл бұрын

I am orthodox from Ethiopia

@fantastic1231

4 жыл бұрын

Oh wonderful! I never knew there were orthodox Christians in Jordan, thank God!!! Greetings all from wonderful and proud ancient orthodox Ethiopia!!!!

@user-wd7eg6cc2i

4 жыл бұрын

fantastic1231 i am a orthodox Christian from jordan 🇯🇴 . In jordan 10% of the total population are Christians

@leulekalzeleke7490

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-wd7eg6cc2i? 10 only

@brighth6427

4 жыл бұрын

I like to visit

I'd never heard of Amharic before. It sounds particularly wonderful, kinda like kayaking through a peaceful river that has rocks here and there

@WintaAssefa

3 жыл бұрын

yep. and hey. I'm an Ethiopian who just listed down the Ge'ez numbers and their Arabic numeral counterparts in a sand -drawn video. You're invited to check it out and subscribe, if you like. Love from Ethiopia, -w 💛

@lamrof

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@user-ps9ry2mf8y

3 жыл бұрын

በድርጊትዎ ምክንያት ቤተሰቦችዎ ደም ያፈሳሉ። ለድርጊቶችዎ ዘላለማዊ ሥቃይ ይሰማቸዋል ፡፡ እንባዎች ወደ ደም ይለወጣሉ ፣ እናም የሚሰማቸው ህመም ሊቋቋሙት የማይችሉት ይሆናሉ ፡፡ በቅርቡ ለብቻዎ ትሆናላችሁ ይሞታልይሞታልይሞታልይሞታልይሞታልይሞ

@enrico7474

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah they lost some arabic aound bu they kept the akkadian ejectives

@houseexchange8702

2 жыл бұрын

Really? You remind me of a genius who is a great mathematician - he perceives every figure as an entity with dimensions, colours and temperatures.

I love Ethiopia. From Sénégal

@fantastic1231

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much our wonderful friend from lovely Senegal for your love of ancient and Godly proud Ethiopia!!!! Greetings all!!

@fdyfdy1392

4 жыл бұрын

We love you too.

@bloomsday8532

4 жыл бұрын

Thank u we also love senegal

@YM.2185

4 жыл бұрын

I love Senegal from Algeria

@WintaAssefa

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Devinci. I'm an Ethiopian who just listed down the Ge'ez numbers and their Arabic numeral counterparts in a sand -drawn video. You're invited to check it out and subscribe, if you like. Love from Ethiopia, -w 💛

Hi guys! I hope you like the video! Please share this one if you can. The views are coming in very slowly, which means that KZread is not notifying most subscribers or showing this video in their subscription feeds.

@theai1584

6 жыл бұрын

Langfocus yes pleaseeeee

@Langfocus

6 жыл бұрын

I've done similar intros before.

@stephenscrub2114

6 жыл бұрын

I clicked the bell for your notifications, but this video did not get notified for me. Luckily I was on KZread and it was suggested, but I am sad I was not notified. As always, it was an excellent video, Paul.

@franco2359

6 жыл бұрын

Stephen Scrub same for me.

@georgehornsby2075

6 жыл бұрын

Hey, do you have any more plans to do advice on language learning/ techniques etc? I'm sure plenty of your subscribers would be very interested in it. I should say I enjoy these as well, especially the historical relationships between different languages.

As an Ethiopian, i will have to say this is the best video on Amharic i have seen so far. Usually, people are lazy and just use Wikipedia as a source and embarrass themselves withe the garbage they spew. And, Amharic is not very similar to the other Semitic languages. Trust me on this, i listen to a lot of Arabic and Hebrew songs and can't understand a word they are saying. And i speak, write, read Amharic fluently! To answer your question, Amharic is my 2nd language. I spoke another Ethiopian language before Amharic. In Ethiopia outside of the capitol, you can teach your students in their native tongue but after the 8th grade, classes must be in Amharic and English. Every Ethiopian i know speaks Amharic, and i know many Ethiopians. Unless they were born in the diaspora of course. Thanks for the video! :) P.S. Amharic alphabet actually has a lot in common with Armenia Script than the Semitic ones. And that's because of the close Christian ties between Ethiopia and Armenia.

@berhanwar

6 жыл бұрын

Aksum አክሱም ፣ ንግሥት What's the other Ethiopian language you spoke? Tigrinya or Oromo? I assume Tigrinya based on your username.

@barbosadasilva2875

6 жыл бұрын

That's interesting! I knew Ethiopia and Armenia were the oldest Christian civilizations on Earth, but I never tried to compare their alphabets. Both of them seem so unique. Would you say their grammar is similar as well?

@HelloWorld1947

6 жыл бұрын

Atse Shade, No, it wasn't Tigrigna. I just love the Axum empire one of the 4 greatest ancient empires. And i will not say what my language was, as i find the tribal division among Africans very uncivilized and barbaric way of thinking. It does nothing but hold the continent back.

@HelloWorld1947

6 жыл бұрын

Barbosa da Silva, I doubt the grammar is similar just some the alphabets. I have Armenians friends but none of the speak their language so i can't make a concrete statement on the grammar.

@danisol814

6 жыл бұрын

Aksum አክሱም ፣ ንግሥት Yemechesh!! www.sacred-texts.com/afr/dbn/dbn05.htm

My great Grandfather worked for the Ethiopian emperor to help improve his airforce after ww2 so we have a bunch of old Ethiopian things like a tiger fur and a spear among other things. My grandfather also lived there till he was a teenager.

@amaharazion9686

2 жыл бұрын

Wow that is so cool

@brookk4009

2 жыл бұрын

Amazing where are you from

@skeptic781

2 жыл бұрын

@@brookk4009 I'm half Swedish half Northern Irish but that side of the family is Swedish

@brookk4009

2 жыл бұрын

What dude I didn't expect swedish bro that's amazing I want to know more about your grandfather I feel like your grandpa was a cool guy ...have yi ever visited Ethiopia?

@ennui9745

Жыл бұрын

@@skeptic781 oh God, was your great-grandfather Viking Tamm by any chance?

Amharic is such a beautiful language and I love learning that language.

@lohikaarme8064

3 жыл бұрын

Where do you learn it

@JESSEHARKONEN

Жыл бұрын

@@lohikaarme8064 Moi! Opiskeleks viel Amharaa?

@shukriiii

3 ай бұрын

You are Amharic that’s why

Ha! So interesting to see how Amharic is explained in English. I used to study it as a first foreign language at uni (more than ten years ago!), being a Russian myself. The grammar always fascinated me - but you get used to it and don't think too hard about it once it all 'settles' in your head.

@diabl2master

2 жыл бұрын

You say that as though being Russian makes it more likely you'd learn Amarhic as a 2nd language...?

@yuliakiseleva1900

2 жыл бұрын

@@diabl2master Hm... No, I didn't mean that. I just happened to study at a university which specialises in teaching lots of languages, including Asian and African ones. But it is still rare to study Amharic. There are maybe only two places where you can do it.

@mulumessle9266

2 ай бұрын

​@@diabl2masterlong history of cooperation going back to the battle of Adwa

As an Arab I really like the Amharic language even though I don't understand it but it sound good that's why Ethiopian music one of my favorite 💚

@deesee3622

Жыл бұрын

Love Ethiopian music too!

@tigistabebe7111

Жыл бұрын

❤❤❤

@glipgloop2121

Жыл бұрын

Listen to other Ethiopian Music too! Not just Amharic, we have 80+ other languages.

@saimraja2119

11 ай бұрын

@@glipgloop2121 are they semitic?

@glipgloop2121

11 ай бұрын

@@saimraja2119 Nope, we have other Semitic languages, but we also have Cushitic, Omotic, and Nilotic languages.

I've been in Ethiopia. Such a beautiful country.

@saimraja2119

11 ай бұрын

Why

I live outside DC, here exists the largest Ethiopian community outside of Africa. in some towns and parts of DC you can often hear Amharic spoken and you will often see it on shop signs in certain areas.

@connormurphy683

3 ай бұрын

Maryland or Virginia?

@mulumessle9266

2 ай бұрын

Mostly Silver Spring Maryland now

This is the quality content that I subscribed for.

@KhnumSunOfEnki

6 жыл бұрын

ኢየሱስ ይህን ተናገረ.

@nicolekortstam

6 жыл бұрын

I agree

@goldsimmer9717

5 жыл бұрын

omg your name confuses me. eyuj aesny?

@einat1622

5 жыл бұрын

You should consider to join Petrion if you can spare at least dollar a month. It's a great way to support the contant you like (I'm thankful for that paltforms, there's too much gunk on TV).

I'm Sudanese and I live in Ethiopia and I can tell you Amharic and Sudanese Arabic dialect have a lot of similarities. I think mainly because the Sudanese dialect was affected by cushitic languages too and there's a lot of cultural exchange going on

@jaif7327

Жыл бұрын

cushitic??? you mean south semitic....

@menelikjegna

Жыл бұрын

Sudanese Arabic is actually considered closest to Old Arabic from all dialects because it uses the Quran as its educational base. It doesn't surprise me if the Sudanese dialect of Arabic is more similar to Amharic than other dialects as Ethiopic languages are considered to be much older than the modern variants of Arabic (and Hebrew).

@josy5913

9 ай бұрын

@mohannedkhalid6689 يزول فيشينو أنا من إثيوبية و كيف حالك؟

@JustinYiseverywhere

9 ай бұрын

⁠ zoodanese land of the blacks was colonized by the Arabs and now y’all Arab wannabes that’s like saying French speaking nations are French since French colonized them bruh u guys are black Africans 😂😂🤣😂🤣

@seid3366

5 ай бұрын

​@@jaif7327cushitic languages are spoken in Ethiopia and Sudans, so influence from this language branch of afro-asiatic could easily influence Afro semitic languages

I'm an African American man residing in the Washington, DC Area currently being tutored in Amharic by an Ethiopian gentleman who lives in California. Both my tutor and several apps I've downloaded on my I-Phone are teaching me how to speak the Amharic language really well. I sincerely enjoyed your video. You're brilliantly smart and I can tell you probably speak at least 7 or 8 different languages minimum. You're very good at what you do and thank you for sharing your knowledge with the World. The great thing about it is that when you speak multiple languages, the chances of you ever developing Alzheimer's in nearly nonexistent so in your lifetime, that's ONE disease you'll never have to worry about......God bless.

@Niqwa-cd3fi

3 ай бұрын

Clock it

Amharic sounds lovely.

@user-el9rs1kd5d

4 жыл бұрын

Yes I know Manny Ethiopians that spek this lenguse and this is so butiful

Every time you upload I'm just so happy about it

@VaceslavIvanov

6 жыл бұрын

That's me too :)

@grzegorzgrzesiak7498

6 жыл бұрын

So am I

@albidemeter1361

6 жыл бұрын

Me too :)

@AnI-dz5fp

6 жыл бұрын

whos picture you have on your profile?

@AnI-dz5fp

6 жыл бұрын

no its pirosmani i think

i recently moved from dc area (which has a massive habesha population) to the southwest, and used to casually learn amharic from my many ethiopian coworkers. this made me very homesick, and miss ethiopian people. but also happy and strangely proud? great video, as always. batam toru naw

@WintaAssefa

3 жыл бұрын

Hey there, dear. I'm an Ethiopian who just listed down the Ge'ez numbers and their Arabic numeral counterparts in a sand -drawn video. You're invited to check it out and subscribe, if you like. Love from Ethiopia, -w 💛

@lbu9542

3 жыл бұрын

God bless you friend.

I learned so much about Amharic & I’m a native speaker. This is really well done

It's may be the fourth time that I watch this episode.. And I still repeating it all the time to enjoy learing about Amharic and sematic languages... I really like to learn languages..

@zak.886

5 жыл бұрын

محمد الشهري lol wow four times

@kaleabsolo4983

4 жыл бұрын

if u like i can help u learn

@WintaAssefa

3 жыл бұрын

that's good, Muhammed. By the way, I'm an Ethiopian who just listed down the Ge'ez numbers and their Arabic numeral counterparts in a sand -drawn video. You're invited to check it out, learn from it and subscribe, if you like. Love from Ethiopia, -w 💛

@WintaAssefa

3 жыл бұрын

@yes maby hey there, dear. Have an abundantly blessed life

@U_nforgiven4886

2 жыл бұрын

muhammed habibe i`m ethiopian and don,t now how to read and write but now how to speak and did not now that the alphabet (66 or more) was made from the Ge`ez alphabet and why we need 2,3,4, and 5 like i use to before now since I moved to sweden when i was 9 now don´t now

ማንኛውንም ቋንቋ ስናወራ ቅላፄውም የማይከብደን እነዚህን ተጨማሪ ቃላቶች በማወቃችን ነው ሏ ሟ ሯ ሷ ሿ ቧ ቷ ቿ ጯ ዧ ዷ ቋ ኟ ዃ ጓ ኋ ፗ እስቲ አማርኛ ማንበብ የምትችሉ ይህንን ቃላት በፍጥነት አንብቡት ከዛም አለም ላይ የሚነገሩትን ቋንቋዎች ቅላፄ እዚህ ላይ እንደማታጡ እርግጠኛ ነኝ When we speak any language, the word is easy enough to read these additional words ሏ ሟ ሯ ሷ ሿ ቧ ቷ ቿ ጯ ዧ ዷ ቋ ኟ ዃ ጓ ኋ ፗ Please read these words quickly enough to read, then I am sure that you will not fall into the languages ​​spoken in the world

@lamrof

6 жыл бұрын

ለየት ያለ ምልከታ ነው።

@Yige1998

6 жыл бұрын

የትነበርሽ ንጉሴ Yetnbersh Negusa Are you Yetneberish exactly? Anyway you are or not she is special and legend lady

@user-hj9oe9cj2t

5 жыл бұрын

የትነበርሽ ንጉሴ Yetnbersh Negusa በናትሽ ግሩብካለሽተባበሪኝ

@user-hl2jh9uk2d

5 жыл бұрын

የትነበርሽ ንጉሴ Yetnbersh Negusa yes you are so corrcte

@habtamuendelbu9563

5 жыл бұрын

ኟ እና ሿ…ቻይና እና ጃፓን ዧ….ፈረንሳይኛ፣ ኸ እና ዃ …….ደች

I was born in Ethiopia and immigrated to Israel. The young generation here doesn't speak Amharic but some are. I speak Amharic with my parents, grand parents, aunts and uncles but with my Ethiopian friends we speak Hebrew.

@lawtraf8008

2 жыл бұрын

aren't you ashamed

@rotemta7

2 жыл бұрын

@@lawtraf8008 why?

@mets3214

2 жыл бұрын

Shalom Rotem! It’s nice that you can still speak it, probably because it was your first language. Do any of your family that were born in Israel speak it fluently or just understand from home? I’m Kavkazi and was born in the US, I can’t speak Juhuri at all but understand about half of it. Most Kavkazi born here in the new generation don’t speak it and would rather learn Hebrew as a second language. Since the revival of Hebrew, Jews are speaking their diaspora languages less and less. I think only Yiddish will eventually last in significant numbers because of Hasidim.

@wtc5198

2 жыл бұрын

I hope you will teach Amharic to your children

@crystalmoon1

2 жыл бұрын

@@lawtraf8008 no man needs not shame man needs not fear

Each week I order injera and on the plastic bag it comes in, it says "Selam Injera". It eventually dawned on me that "selam" in Amharic has the same meaning as "salaam" in Arabic or "shalom" in Hebrew! I love how one can draw connections between languages of the same family :)

@Axacqk

3 жыл бұрын

S-L-M may well be the earliest attested greeting word that is still used in living languages. It was even an Akkadian loanword in Sumerian!

@oliverknagg5109

Жыл бұрын

Salam and similar words seems to be hello in every a lot of Asian languages as far as India

@infinite5795

6 ай бұрын

​@@oliverknagg5109only Urdu in India lol, its mostly Namaskara or Namaste variants in India.

the grammar is easy to learn for an Arabic speaker, I am not surprised because whenever I read arabic history books there is always mention of Abyssinia. its like if Arabs and Ethiopians shared their own tiny world with so much trade, migration, invasion and all kinds of interactions. long live our brotherhood!

@Azazel0987

2 жыл бұрын

Ethiopia was known as Habeshah during the islamic conquests, arabic influenced amharic alot

@MohdHilal

2 жыл бұрын

@@Azazel0987 I believe Abyssinians are one of several ethnic groups that make modern Ethiopia, and I think its true that Arabic influenced Amharic but similarities between these two languages shouldn’t be surprising since they come from the same origin

@sulaiman-nz6jv

2 жыл бұрын

My native language is Arabic and I see Amharic is very hard language to learn

@greyhood2564

2 жыл бұрын

Amen, brother!

@cia8176

2 жыл бұрын

And somalia is the middle man

A video about Sami languages would be interesting to see here!

@1lyac

6 жыл бұрын

Hente Hoo yes

@albidemeter1361

6 жыл бұрын

My language is belongs to the uralic language family. I am hungarian

@Foxxx-01

6 жыл бұрын

ooo yasss

@rikkiegieler5638

6 жыл бұрын

Dreoilín ÓCoigligh correct

@albidemeter1361

6 жыл бұрын

Dreoilín ÓCoigligh Yes, it is not an Indo-european language, it's a totally different langauge family and I think the Uralic languages are unique :)

I love this channel, this is the first time I listen/read something related to Amharic,, by the way, it sounds amazing.

Paul I don't think people appreciate how much time it must have taken you to produce this quality vlogs which I find very informative / educational and for that I really admire you. Coz you invested so much time to do research in order to make your video's. Your pronunciations of Amharic words are amazing too. You certainly deserve a huge recognition not just for this particular vlog but for all the different ones you have made so far. Keep it up bro!

The Amharic "älla" is almost the same in pronunciation as the Berber (Kabyle) "illa" which means "there is" in both languages. Besides this, the two languages share many features as I noticed.

@the_fam

3 жыл бұрын

even they have same music with amazghi people if idonot miss spel and similar string instruments and i heard that they have east african base

@enrico7474

3 жыл бұрын

Amharic also has Egyptian words like set and iw

@enrico7474

3 жыл бұрын

@@the_fam yeah and same face tattoos

@enrico7474

3 жыл бұрын

The most similarities are with morrocoan berbers

@charlieandersen4815

2 жыл бұрын

Djaf mess.. That is because they are all of them afro-asiatic languages, a big Family of idioms

1. I was born and lived a total of 12 years in Ethiopia. I've lived my whole life in Addis Ababa (the capital city) and anyone who lives there speaks Amharic or at least understands it. Everyone that I personal know that is from the city speaks fluent amharic even if it isn't their first language. as you have mentioned in your video there are another 81 or more native languages so it's honestly impressive most have managed to fluently speak it. 2. Amharic is my 1st language 3. I am currently in the states where i am doing my studies in a university. There is a fantastic habesha club that does a great job at connecting Ethiopians and Eritreans. I speak to my habesha friends in Amharic and some tigrenya but when around our foreign friends we talk in english just for the obvious fact that it's rude. I actually didn't speak tigrenya when I was in Ethiopia but my amazing Eri friends have taught me well. Now i am able to understand fully but struggle a bit with speaking. I will get better one of these days, I really love the language. Even when i find random Ethiopians in the streets or a mall, we communicate in our language. language is an identity, we must never forget! so far i am really impressed with your knowledge in my language. You dug in so deep and just made it so much understandable for foreigners. guy does his research well! Because Amharic and Arabic are Semitic languages, it is very easy for us to learn Arabic and hebrew. I lived in Egypt for 6 years and I knew how to fluently speak arabic in 2 years. Because we have a great amount of words in common, it was a piece of cake for me! Do keep up the great research! I recommend your videos to everyone. loved it

@selamkahsay2489

4 жыл бұрын

Pls pls I need Help from you I want to speak or understand English fluently. you are just perfect 👌👌👌 I am doing a course in the college and I am kind of straggling with my assignment. Thank you 🙏

@WintaAssefa

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Francesca. I'm an Ethiopian who just listed down the Ge'ez numbers and their Arabic numeral counterparts in a sand -drawn video. You're invited to check it out and subscribe, if you like. Love from Ethiopia, -w 💛

@davied999

2 жыл бұрын

ፅሁፍክን ወድጄዋለው Wish u the best yagere lij 👍🇪🇹

@davied999

2 жыл бұрын

@@selamkahsay2489 my problem too I can read and write English(ofcourse some grammar mistakes happened) my big problem is i couldn't speak quickly.

@unesco2433

Жыл бұрын

@@selamkahsay2489 i am a liitle two years late with my reponse but i do reccomoned you just practice. Practice makes perfect!

I'm an Arabic speaker, and when I hear someone speaking Amharic from a distance; i can't distinguish if she/he is speaking a dialect of Arabic because it sounds so similar to Arabic from a distance. but when I come close I understand nothing. I think, this's because Amharic language has all those sounds that I used to think or considered them unique to Arabic, (seems they aren't). This situation keeps happening so frequently that when I hear an Ethiopian women who works with us & she speaks Arabic as well; so, I keep mixing every time I hear her talking on the phone from a distance, i thought she speaks with her family somehow in Arabic.

@take2spoonsofoiland989

6 жыл бұрын

aasem al-lmki I think you're thinking about another language. Amharic does not have the sounds of Arabic.

@aasemal-lmki8286

6 жыл бұрын

Siciid Warsame Thanks for the info Maybe it's another language in Ethiopia

@take2spoonsofoiland989

6 жыл бұрын

aasem al-lmki Tigrinya(Semitic), Somali(Cushitic), Afar(Cushitic)- are the languages with those sounds in Ethiopia in my humble opinion.

@unesco2433

6 жыл бұрын

true some pronunciations do sound close. i myself live in egypt and a lot of people have said the same exact thing. how when spoken from a distance it sounds like a different dialect of arabic but really it's a different language.

@derekmahari8184

6 жыл бұрын

aasem al-lmki well, amharic and tigrinya come from ge'ez, a language who in return comes from Arabic and Hebrew, so here's your similarities

Amharic is one of the languages I want to know.

@davied999

2 жыл бұрын

Oh it is not difficult that much. The difficult thing is the alphabet (we called it Fidel)and some letters sound. Rather than not much difficult.

ሰው እንደዚህ ተንትኖ ያውቀዋል እኛ ግን።ምን ያክል እናውቀው ይሆን ከየት ወዴት እንደመጣ ብዙዎች እምናውቅ አይመስለኝም ቋንቋችን ስለሆነ።ብቻ እንናገራለን። ተመስገን ብቻ እንኳንም ኢትዮጵያዊ ሆንኩኝ. Ethiopian ♥♥♥♥

@Eyob_Belay

4 жыл бұрын

😂ዘረዘረው አኮ።

@selamineshemariyam1846

4 жыл бұрын

@@Eyob_Belay እሱም አማሪኛ ይችላል ለፍጥነት መሰለኝ በእንግሊዝኛ ያወራው ብቻ ከስር መሰረቱ ማወቅ ጥሩ ነው በተለይ ግእዝ ማወቅ አለብን ለኦርቶዶክስ ተዋህዶ ብቻ አይደለም የኢትዮጵያ ቋንቋ ነው ግእዝ

@Eyob_Belay

4 жыл бұрын

@@selamineshemariyam1846 እውነት ነው! ቋንቋ መግባብያ ነው፤ግዕዝ ብቻውን ግን እውቀትም ጭምር ነው። ሀይማኖት ጋር ሳናገናኝ እንደ ጥንት እናት ቋንቋ ልናውቀው ይገባል። በ ትምህርት ፍኖተ ካርታ ላይ ተጨምሮ ቢሰጥ ባይ ነኝ። እኛ እድሉን አጥተን እንጂ ፈልገን አይደለም ያላወቅነው! very sad 😔😔

@selamineshemariyam1846

4 жыл бұрын

@@Eyob_Belay ወደፊት ይሰጣል ብየ ተስፋ አለኝ ግዜውን ጠብቆ

@Eyob_Belay

4 жыл бұрын

@@selamineshemariyam1846 እንጠብቃለን በተስፋ እንግዲ። እቺን ግዜ ያሳልፈን መደመርያ 😂

I'd love if the Amharic course was available in duolingo, I would definitely learn it!

@_brok3n862

6 жыл бұрын

Ed Jr I feel you mate

@_brok3n862

6 жыл бұрын

Yona26 there isn't

@IndianaJones664

6 жыл бұрын

Have you seen my Amharic/Ethiopia posts?

@_brok3n862

6 жыл бұрын

ghajn where are those posts?

@edjr7718

6 жыл бұрын

ghajn No, in duolingo?

Simply amazing!!! I've been waiting so long for this video because I love Ethiopia and its culture and now I'm really interested in learning amharic.

@danisol814

6 жыл бұрын

XYU 3x7 tsebel yasfelgewal.. Ye sere lemat. Hayloch.... Llz

@danisol814

6 жыл бұрын

xyu enjoy bro..let em know whats up

im an Eritrean and i speak Tigrinya and its basically the same as Amharic, like its so similar that I'm learning to speak Amharic and I've almost mastered it and can communication with a native Amharic in full without hesitation. also ive noticed that for "lets go" for use (eri & ethi) is the same but its also the same for Arabic "Yala" ---> "lets go" yala is arabic for lets go and its also the same for eri and ethi

@tigabugobeze4230

Жыл бұрын

Yea, Tigrigna and Amharic are sister languages, Geez being their mother.Amharic my first tongue and am perfect in listening Tigrigna !! ከመይ'ሒ ክብርቲን ፅበቕቲን ጓል ኤሪ ??

@duduboy

Жыл бұрын

and the Tigrinya language is also similar to Hebrew?

@Hanniel_zoro

Жыл бұрын

@@duduboy yes there all Semitic languages

@Faith-oz9gn

Жыл бұрын

@@tigabugobeze4230 tigre language ( eritrea ) and tigrinia ( eritrea and Tigray) come from Geez but amharinia comes from tigrinia … just for the record

@menelikjegna

8 ай бұрын

@@Faith-oz9gn fake news.

This is really awesome .. Thx for sharing .. Cheers from Morocco!!!

Hello from Sweden. I'm Swedish but my wife is Ethiopian. I have been there twice.

@rebeccah6701

6 жыл бұрын

Liban less than 50%. The majority of Ethiopians are orthodox Christian

@zenaberhanu4969

6 жыл бұрын

WOW! Thank you I'm from Ethiopia Amharic speaker!!!

@bolebole5793

6 жыл бұрын

+Langfocus I have to take issue with your claim that Ge'ez is imported. If that was the case, there would be similar scripts and languages that lasted to this day. From an Ethiopian perspective this is a product of Western scholars doubting the capability of Africans. Clearly, Ethiopia has seen better days than its recent position in the world, but Ethiopia's culture is unique to the world. Too often Ethiopians are viewed as being hybrids of Africa and the Middle East. One trip to Ethiopia settles all debates. Trust me. Nevertheless, this is a very nice video. Great job. I know you are not the original source of the Ge'ez language origin story.

@sareeyemanusqaame8723

5 жыл бұрын

Rebecca H stop lying the majority of Ethiopians are Muslims maybe you mean majority of Amhara.

@sareeyemanusqaame8723

5 жыл бұрын

Larz Gustafsson as you know Ethiopian isn’t really one nation but many different nations combined into one do you know what nation does your wife come from? I’m sure you do but what nation.

Yes, more African languages !

@WintaAssefa

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Oliver. I'm an Ethiopian who just listed down the Ge'ez numbers and their Arabic numeral counterparts in a sand -drawn video. You're invited to check it out and subscribe, if you like. Love from Ethiopia, -w 💛

Wow this is an amazing video. I especially love the grammar breakdowns.

As a native Tigrinya (from Eritrea) speaker, I can somewhat understand certain words in Amharic but I feel like Amharic has more cushitic words whereas Tigrinya has more arabic influence to it.

@heruy8274

Жыл бұрын

The Arabic influences are EPLF impositions. Tegrena also has many Italian loanwords. Eritreans are to careless and indifferent to the bastardization of their language.

@esaw7067

Жыл бұрын

@@heruy8274 Koreans have many English loan words, English itself has more than 30% loan words from Germanic and Latin. Tigrinya has loan words due to Italian colonial influence. You're acting like we chose to that ourselves.

@heruy8274

Жыл бұрын

@@esaw7067 So why dont we reform our language and purify it from Italian influences? Having been forcibly influenced by Italy in the past does not excuse our contemporary settling for the status quo.

@tkhagos

8 ай бұрын

In fact Tigrinya has more semitic roots than Amharic since christianity came through Eritrea and Tigray. Tigrinya is also one of the closest languages to the ancient Aramaic language that was spoken during christ.

@9856359

8 ай бұрын

@@heruy8274 What's the point of being so rude?

I am so glad you did a video about amharic!!!!. I am a native speaker of amharic. I found out that Jesus might have spoken biblical Aramaic and since then I have been wondering about similarity of the words Aramaic and Amharic, is it a coincidence????!!!! when Jesus was performing miracle by saving the daughter of Lazarus he said "thal'ita cumi" and the girl stood up from her death bed. The word "tha'ita cumi" has the same meaning in amharic "ita" means my sister while "cumi" means stand up, which means "my sister stand up" also during crucifixion of Jesus he said "Eloi, Eloi lama sabacthani" here "lama" means why which is similar as the amharic word "lemin". During the crossing of Jesus and his disciples on a stormy sea and the saving of the disciples they were saying "Maran'atha" to each other "maran" means "save us" while "atha" means "you" in total it mean "he saved us" to each other(the disciples saying to each other). Here are some Amharic words similar with Hebrew/Aramaic: English. Hebrew Amharic. Angle Malik. Melak. Holy. Kadish/Quds. Qidus Right. Haq. Haq Father. Abu. Abat Peace. Shalom. Selam Head. Rosh. Ras Prophet. Nabi. Neby Blessed. Baruk. Biruk Soul. Nephesh. Nefis Righteous. Tsadik. Tsadik Sky/heaven Shamay. Semay Sanctuary. Miqdash. Mekdes Lord/holy day Ba'al. Ba'al Proverb. Mishaley. Misale Heart. Leb. Leb Ancient. Kadum. Kidim(before) Birthday. Hu'ledet. Ledet New. Hadush. Addis Recover. Me'hira. Mihret Hour. Sha'a. Seat Ten. Eser. Aser I. Ani. Ene Do you think there is a connection between Aramaic and Amharic I really belive some time back then there must have been a connection between them. Also before Ge'ez became to be written with vowel it was a consonant only letter so if you take the first letters of each of alphabet and compare it with biblical aramaic alphabet there are some similarities.

@rohayeha

6 жыл бұрын

There is also similarity in the name of Geez and Gezer (Gezer inscription which is the first hebrew text found)!!

@EthioGQ

6 жыл бұрын

I love what you wrote, especially about Jesus. Very fascinating. If you want to know more about Geeze I recommend you to talk to Prof. Getachew Haile.

@eliastheb4332

6 жыл бұрын

Eskedar Zeleke : my lovely sis : that is brilliant observation. Don't regret to do more on that, find out more facts. It's very important to the society. Thanks to you.

@rebeccah6701

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah Jesus' first language was Amharic

@seekingtruth4573

6 жыл бұрын

Eskedar Zeleke Wow I have to look this up. Thanks!

one very important thing about amharic is once you know the letters and the sound of word you should not worry about SPElling.... it is well designed to avoid spelling error... every body who knows the word but did not see how it is spell can write with no spelling error... very nice of it...

@rokivulovic7598

4 жыл бұрын

that's the whole point of letters

@erinnamovicz2392

4 жыл бұрын

It really makes English spelling look unnecessarily complicated--I'm from the DC area with a very large Habesha population and many Amharic speakers I know who are learning English have trouble with our strange spellings.

@rokivulovic7598

4 жыл бұрын

@@erinnamovicz2392 english is just wrong.

@matthewbitter532

4 жыл бұрын

assefa kelkay that’s not true. Long vowels and consonants aren’t indicated in writing. And that shorten ï sound so so confusing. Sometimes it’s an I and sometimes is reduced and not really pronounced

@MushVPeets

4 жыл бұрын

Nearly every language has writing quirks as spoken language tends to evolve faster than written, but yes. English is... let's say *special* in the worst way possible. Our abuses of the Latin alphabet are millionfold. A modern spelling reform would be greatly appreciated :\

This is an amazing channel! I can't wait to watch the rest of your videos. Thank you!

ኢትዮጲያና ግዕዝ ለዘለዓለም ይኑሩ!

@leahasfaw341

Жыл бұрын

Ow!

There's a lot Ethiopian immigrants in the Boston area. Being that I've chosen to dedicate myself to the study of Semitic languages, maybe it is a blessing. Maybe I'm just drunk.

@cicero1178

6 жыл бұрын

veryserioz Can't blame him to be honest

@nedrick412

6 жыл бұрын

Nathan Nguyen no such things as immigrants...just people.

@jainanan911

6 жыл бұрын

Nathan Nguyen it is both :)

@JohnSmith-bk9vb

5 жыл бұрын

Nathan The whole of America is a nation of Migrants. Even your own family!

@shiluliu7780

5 жыл бұрын

Nathan Nguyen Or maybe you can teach them Vietnamese

Arabic speaker here... 14:12 The Arabic "qutila" ("he was killed") is the PASSIVE form of "qatala" ("he killed"). Nevertheless, great video as always, Paul.

@villa7230

6 жыл бұрын

Omar Adel stupid as hell your comment

@souhaibz

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, that is right. Qutila is the passive form!!!

@joojooazad4095

6 жыл бұрын

Милен Байков I didn't get it I'm sorry!

@dionisiojunioroliveira3110

6 жыл бұрын

Hi, I'm a Portuguese native speaker and I found interesting that we have a word, "cutelo", what means chopper or dagger, that is similar to that Semitic one, and the cognate for that in Spanish is "cuchillo", which is even more similar. I think this is maybe due Iberian peninsula being under Arabic domination for centuries before Christians rulers reconquer the region.

@ronaldciresa640

6 жыл бұрын

Dionisio Junior Oliveira The spanish word «Cuchilla» is a direct descendant of Cuquila.

I love ethiopia for everithing♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹

I was just checking some youtube videos to see what nonethiopians think about Amharic. Little that I knew that I would be taught my language from others. I haven't done enough research to know about the history of Amharic, but the way you explained how the language works is better than many who call themselves Amharic experts. I also liked your unbiased view of the origin of Amharic, comparisons with other Semitic languages. For anyone who has an interest in learning Amharic, I think this is a very good place to start. You will see that Amharic is a fun language especially when you start interacting with the lovely Ethiopian people who are rich in culture. I myself like to learn about other languages, and I found a good source. finally, I would like to extend my gratitude to all of those who participate in the making of this great video. Keep up the good work.

i am Ethiopian and i believe you have done your research and i love this

It would be awesome to have a language learning course with the kind of detailed explanations you give in the minute 7:07 Those dissections of a sentence part by part explaining the meaning and function of each part/word is incredibly amazing And also the way you explain how the tenses are formed and how the language is related to other languages is incredibly understandable I would be willing to pay actual money for a full course of any language with that explanation method Cheers from México and keep the great work sir

There are many Amharic speakers here in the Washington DC area.

This video is world class. Super informative. Concise and clear. And the narrator has a very clear and neutral English pronunciation. I was looking at the Ge'ez script and Amharic language. If I only had this video for an overview.. it would be enough. Thank you!!!

@Langfocus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind words!

When in collage I had a friend who wrote his notes in Amharic. To me it looked like little boxes with legs. Thanks for an interesting video.

@eliad6543

5 жыл бұрын

Imagine drawing little funny faces in them and passingthe note back xD

@selamnewtube5230

4 жыл бұрын

hahaha, I always wondered what it would look like to non-speaker haha it sounds like Arabic n looks like box with legs is funny feedback, ur name would be written as ሪቻርድ ሮው

@senaysew8231

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

How about a video on some of the Native American languages, like Michif? Or French outside of Europe, like Acadian French and Missouri French? It would be awesome to see minority/endangered languages get some spotlight.

@slyninja4444

5 жыл бұрын

He did do a video on Quechua

Hi Paul, I love how you go deep in your video’s. It would be very interesting to see à vidéo about Tigrinya/Tigre and geez as well. Keep up you good work and many Thanks for all your vidéos 👍

I’m from Senegal, my native language is Wolof but I speak Arabic, English, French and Japanese. I noticed that in Amharic the définit article comes after the noun and that is the same in my language Wolof. In Wolof we have multiple définit and indefinite article depending on the phonetic of the noun, but they all come after the noun. Thank you!

@lamrof

4 жыл бұрын

Amharic does have definite article usage as you stated but has no indefinite article as in Spanish or English. I am almost sure but others can correct me. for indefinite articles we use adjectives instead.

@timbuktu777

3 жыл бұрын

Damn I wanna be like you!

@pberny

Жыл бұрын

Thats impressive

@ennui9745

Жыл бұрын

When I was an exchange student in Japan, I had a Senegalese dormmate who is Wolof, like you. He spoke Wolof, French, English, and Japanese.

Would love to see a video on Polynesian languages! (Maori, Hawaiian, Samoan, Tongan etc.)

Dude, I have been watching your quality videos for a while now and I am glad you did a video on Amharic. As a native speaker of Amharic who lives in the US I speak Amharic with my friends and in our communities but interchange it with English on the fly. Older people in our communities usually speak only Amharic with little usage of English amongst themselves. And the very young ones and the ones that came here as kids, as in any other immigrant community speak little to no Amharic usually.

Hi! I just wanna say thank you for making this video! I'm half Ethiopian and since I don't live in Ethiopia I've forgotten the language. I'm trying to learn it now that I'm older so I can be closer to my culture. Tho it's super hard to find any information about the structure of Amharic and when I ask my mom how the grammar works it's hard for her to explain it just like that, which I totally understand. I find this video extremely helpful with my studies of Amharic. Especially with the structure of sentences. Thank you for making this video! It means a lot to me :)!

@Langfocus

6 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome! I’m glad you found it useful!

@alexanderschwarzer9656

5 жыл бұрын

There are actually some useful grammar books for amharic available. One old and supposedly very good one is written b Robert Leslau, but it may be too expensive and overly academic to teach yourself. Try out colloquial Amharic by David Appleyard, it is really good and contains all info necessary for self study. I am sure after a while of self study you can start to talk with your mum in Amharic and take it on a conversational level from there. Best wishes with your self study from another half habesha who already struggled this way to learn his language (in my case Tigrinya :)) Cheers!

Have watched this more than 4 times in the past 2 months. Travelling Africa and learning Amharic for immersion. In Ethiopia now been here for a week. You are amazing Paul thank you so much I really mean it

Your videos are always so interesting! Thank you for letting me discover this new language :-) Keep up the great work

Can you please do the Berber Languages ?

@ApachePieman

6 жыл бұрын

Wrong. Berber languages are the original native languages of North Africa before Arabic conquests during times of the Caliphate.

@oliverhees4076

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Tifinagh is an awesome script.

@ApachePieman

6 жыл бұрын

looks like the Turk guys comment i replied to got deleted

@ooo0mrx0ooo

6 жыл бұрын

Mounaim Ghouali صدق انك قليل حياء ، حتى لو كنت تختلف مع احد ارتق بنفسك ومع اخوانك في الدين والوطن.

@aghilesargradj1863

6 жыл бұрын

Nader Jindaoui you mean the Kabyle language?

Your videos are always so interesting! thanks so much

It is such a beautiful language which allows you to express yourself with undoubtable clarity .. proud of myself for maintaing my amharic in a western country.

YES YES YE YAS YES YEEEEEEESSSSSS!!!!!!!! YOU ARE NOW MY ALL TIME FAVORITE KZread CHANNEL !!!!

@Langfocus

6 жыл бұрын

Haha, thank you Rob!

@MonDieuMaCauseMonEpee

6 жыл бұрын

Langfocus No, Thank You, I've been hoping for you to make this video for so long. My mother is Haitian and my father is Ethiopian. I was so happy when you made the Haitian Creole video and now I'm simply exuberant. I've always wanted to learn to be able to speak with my father's side of my family.

@RoScFan

6 жыл бұрын

Langfocus you should have included words at the end of cushitic or ethiosemitic origin. That would have been cool. See how the language originally sounds like.

Hi Paul!! I am a fan of the Langfocus channel. One month ago I was reading a book about the reign of Haile Selassie. The book is: The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat; wrote by the Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński. Reading the book I was curious about the Amharic language. And when I was in Italy, in 2005, I remember at the train from Rome to Firenze, I was in front of two womans talking. I was trying to understand what was that language. That time I was a student of Arabic language and that language sounds near the Arabic to me. I think that women could be from Yemen or Somalia. So, I asked the women in Italian, what was that language. They said: Sei amarico! (It's Amharic!) I was very happy to listen that language, and I said to these women is very rare listen Amharic where i live (Brazil).

A very well studied and well briefed video about Amharic language. Thank you bro !

Oh Paul. You are just too brilliant! Keep it up!

I really liked this video. I am a language enthusiast and I enjoy learning languages and learning about them. Sadly there is no way I'll ever get to study all the languages that I'd like to study so videos like this give me a little taste of a language without having to spend loads of time reading about it. I really appreciate the ones about lesser known or studied languages like Amharic. I also really, really appreciate the sample sentences and the grammar breakdown!

I just wanted to say thank you for your kindness introduced we Ethiopian we have reach culture and history Amharic is my first language. #stay tuned.

congratulations for your videos. I always thought that there is a huge need for such researchers and such a channel. thanks again.

Thank you very much for such an informative and well-researched piece, a really engaging and professional presentation. Keep up the good work Dear Éric

I like that you put original picture of Ethiopia as it is city, villages, mountains and amazing places 🤎

Christ, I discover new things every time I watch your channel.... Greetings from Spain!!

Great work. I am teaching my kids all 3 (I am a native Amharic speaker) and your video is helpful.

This is very informative and educative video. Be blessed.

The weeknd's language

@tsedtesfaye1126

6 жыл бұрын

李相憲 yes his Ethiopian language Amharic or አማርኛ 👍👍

@hananjm5023

6 жыл бұрын

李相憲 yes

@MonkeyDLuffy-py9un

5 жыл бұрын

world &music he is habesha

@LoganLS0

5 жыл бұрын

Canadian?

@zakxp3129

5 жыл бұрын

Logan Strom where he was botn

Thanks so much for this wonderful video dear Paul. It's a little strange to see a video of one's native language. But the expertise and meticulousness with which you broke it down is astonishing!! I'm a native speaker of Amharic and I learned quite a bit from this video. The main thing I learned is that it is very complex. Now I know why I find it difficult to explain to others why there are so many similar sounding words that have completely different meanings. It is interesting how we can 'absorb' complex language patterns at a young age but find it difficult when we get older. Anyways, to answer your questions; Q1- when I lived in Ethiopia, it was spoken by almost everyone (except foreigners and out-of-towners). Q2 I now live in the UK and most people who grew up in Ethiopia speak in Amharic because (I think) the mannerisms, sense of humour, religious customs, etc are so different that you miss the language and would want to speak it as often as you can. Q3 I speak another Semitic language which is very similar to Amharic, but the attitudes and customs are so different that to those who don't understand either language, they sound very distinct. Thanks again for this wonderful video. You are a talented Genius!!

The direct translations to English were hilarious. And thank you for making a video about Amharic it is the first one I have found.

Love your channel man...... very clear and concise.

I love your channel :'''') It's so amazing Keep up the good work :)

Amharic sounds pleasant to my ears the most among Semitic languages.

@lamrof

6 жыл бұрын

The language of love as it is called in Ethiopia. It does sound smooth and pleasant to the ear. Semitic languages usually sound angry.

@sareeyemanusqaame8723

5 жыл бұрын

Ser Petiks biased much?

@WintaAssefa

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Ayos. I'm an Ethiopian who just listed down the Ge'ez numbers and their Arabic numeral counterparts in a sand -drawn video. You're invited to check it out and subscribe, if you like. Love from Ethiopia, -w 💛

I love my country Ethiopia. I am a proud Amharic speaker. Thank you for the excellent narration.

Compared to other Semitic languages, Arabic, Hebrew, Tigringa etc. Amharic sounds really smooth and sexy.

@lamrof

3 жыл бұрын

@the virtuous man of course. sexy is wild. Trump has Covid.

@lamrof

3 жыл бұрын

@the virtuous man I have genitals, Trumpy has Covid.

@enrico7474

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah they removed harsh sounds like kh even tho its still there in the alphabet and old rural amharas still use them

I love learning Amharic and the history of Ethiopia.🇪🇹♥♥♥☺😊:-)

Paul : a huge thank you for every single video you upload, you are such an inspiration 👏💙 .. Yours Languages Addict

Very well explained! Well done!👍🏻

Thank you very much for making this simple yet easily understandable video. I'm visiting Ethiopia and this video definitely increased my confidence to learn few lines before I go.

@Langfocus

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! That’s great to hear.

@linxcouriers1804

4 жыл бұрын

@@Langfocus paul! do ah caribbean patois please! 🇹🇹🇯🇲🇭🇹🇨🇼🇱🇨🇬🇾🇬🇩🇻🇨🇩🇲🇰🇳🇦🇬🇧🇧🇧🇸🇧🇿🇻🇮🇲🇸🇸🇽🇻🇬

You very much understood our language , thanks

The Ga'ez script is gorgeous 😍

Thanks for sharing this valuable information for the world 🌍!

Thanks so much bro for teaching me my original language as history teacher!

I love the way that Amharic sounds. I live in an area that has one of the largest (if not the largest) populations of Ethiopians outside of Ethiopia so it is one of those languages I grew up hearing all around me, and I am used to seeing the script (many of the pamphlets for public transportation and school forms are in Amharic, along with Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean).

@Amparito847

8 ай бұрын

You live in the DMV right? because it's the same for me

Thank you very much and a very pleasant presentation

I am so grateful for this video.

I love your videos, you truly inspire me to learn more about languages. Muchas gracias por este gran contenido!

Hello Paul, nice video as usual. I'm Egyptian, I can confirm that there is a similarity between the 3 words you mentioned for (he killed) in the 3 languages. The Arabic word 'qatala' is pronounced as 'gatal' in many Arabic dialects

@enrico7474

3 жыл бұрын

He word sit (women)is set in amharic and iwa is aw , and there are other words like kubaya,gemel,fotta(towel),.....

after seeing Amharic and Japanese, I'm sticking to learning Norwegian!

@ZhangtheGreat

6 жыл бұрын

Du kan också lär dig svenska.

@mikecorpus1267

6 жыл бұрын

Or Danish, but I don't like talking with a potato in my mouth. ;)

@nicolas94h

6 жыл бұрын

mike corpus av dansk er bedre da!

@ABEL13ize

6 жыл бұрын

mike corpus jag lovar dig stick med svenska. Jag kan prata Amharic tigrigna english och svenska men för en person som kan prata Engleska svenska är lättare

@unesco2433

6 жыл бұрын

wow that was uncalled for!

So much hard work. Keep it up!