9:06 oh that's really trippy to read

@hangukhiphop

3 жыл бұрын

in a way it does make more sense though...

@D_6660

3 жыл бұрын

Your here ?!!!

@D_6660

3 жыл бұрын

This has to be a You tube Conspiracy 🤔

@elieelias4928

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, i wouldn't know but i just noticed it's very normal for me because I'm a native Arabic speaker that write from right to left.

@Teknikah

2 жыл бұрын

I personally find reading backwards/upside down/at other angles almost, if not just as easy as reading left to right. So it sort of felt continuously natural to keep reading it as it turned backwards then back to forwards, as if nothing changed. Fun fact: I'm left handed and when I first started writing as a young child I wrote my sentences in reverse for some reason, holding it up to a mirror it would look normal. I wonder if any other lefties did that or if I was just weird

So when the Europeans were getting waist-deep into Egypt and saw the hieroglyphs, they thought it was a mysterious magical incantations that died with the ancient Egyptian priests. Little did they know they were looking at the great-great-ancestors to the alphabets they were using. Imagine if we never found the Rosetta Stone, our outlook on ancient Egypt would be just as mythical as it was to the late Romans, paralleling the fate of the Mycenaeans with their Linear B, and probably not discover the real truth with regards to the origin of the alphabet.

@mfaizsyahmi

3 жыл бұрын

P.S. The three scripts on the Rosetta Stone, Hieroglyphs, Demotic, and Greek, turned out to be descendants of each other.

@D_6660

3 жыл бұрын

That's why I really wish we can find something similar for Indus scripts

@dann_mrtins

3 жыл бұрын

@SahelianDog 92 He is not talking about the language.

@onlythewise1

3 жыл бұрын

Egypt was started by Europeans after the asteroid hit and caused a ice age in Europe, they found a pyramid in Europe older than Egypt's was 12 thousand years ago it hit .

@allenwilson3329

3 жыл бұрын

Nope. Try again.

Yod, Giml, Het, Bet, Ain, Sin, Res are all still used (with the same meaning) in Arabic!! 😲

@user-gr9fq9gt9w

3 жыл бұрын

All the Phoenician letters are used now in Modern Hebrew. Paleo-Hebrew and Phoenician scripts are basically almost identical. Phoenician and Hebrew directly separated from the same language - Proto Canaanite, Arabic however is from completely different Semitic branch - the West Semitic. kzread.info/dash/bejne/eWmBy6iLh5S1c9I.html

@fahadalsaggar8376

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-gr9fq9gt9w Bravo Mr 👏🏽! I’m not a language expert I’m just saying I recognised the words above and they have almost exactly the same pronunciation and meaning in my language, never said it was the same script or language 👍🏽 But sure, I guess I’ve been speaking Phoenician (or Paleo-Hebrew!) all my life thinking it’s Arabic 😊

@Nasser_b

3 жыл бұрын

This is because both languages ​​belong to Semitic languages, like Akkadian and Aramaic

@josuevalencia3071

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-gr9fq9gt9w I was going to say that, but my only knowledge in Hebrew are five months in Duolingo.

@ferretyluv

3 жыл бұрын

Same in Hebrew.

Honestly that writing with alternating directions was brilliant! We should bring it back and you will no longer miss a line when reading!

@someboi4903

3 жыл бұрын

It saves time when reading and writing too.

@theplutonimus

3 жыл бұрын

Btw he spelled 'Khanubis' as 'Khanubasi' in Devanagari. Didn't want to be a party pooper(if I was I'm sorry). Just wanted to say that

@gentlebabarian

3 жыл бұрын

I do agree! ! kcab Emoc a evah Ti ekam dluohs eW

@someboi4903

3 жыл бұрын

@Lúzia A Morta Why ?

@heem8814

3 жыл бұрын

you'd also waste more paper

Who would've known that A is actually just the oversimplified cow logo, lmao 🤣

@elieelias4928

2 жыл бұрын

😂 And the c for camel.

@WaterVolt1917

Жыл бұрын

@@ParamjitSingh-gz3de It’s literally in the thumbnail

@nehcooahnait7827

10 ай бұрын

牛

Proto-Sinaitic Script: "Dude, did your video just breeze past me in under 10 seconds!?" Paleo-Hebrew: "Bro, at least you got a mention."

@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions

3 жыл бұрын

😆

@comandanteej

3 жыл бұрын

have you seen the title? :) paleo-hebrew is another version of the canaanite script, not a direct ancestor of latin. and proto-sinaitic is interesting but a whole different story.

@ThereAreNoBlackPpl

3 жыл бұрын

Facts, that's like a big chunk

@winstondias2363

3 жыл бұрын

Lund

@thedemongodvlogs7671

2 жыл бұрын

Paleo Hebrew is the same script as phoenician because the spoke the same language

It's SOO interesting to see how writing systems evolved with migration, like how Cyrillic evolved from Greek Scripts.

@Saluspergratiam

2 жыл бұрын

Cyrillic didn't evolve from Greek scripts, Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius created the alphabet, basing it on Greek letters to create an alphabet for the slavs.

@lewissnow8031

2 жыл бұрын

​@@Saluspergratiam That's not true. Cyril and Methodius invented the Glagolitic alphabet, which looks quite different from the Cyrillic alphabet. Later, the Glagolitic alphabet was mostly replaced by the Greek alphabet, with Glagolitic letters being adopted for the Slavic sounds not present in Greek. And from there on the Cyrillic alphabet slowly started diverging from Greek. The only place where the original Glagolitic alphabet survived was Croatia, where it was used until the 19th century. (After which it was replaced by Latin)

@poorindiansanddogsarenotal1276

11 ай бұрын

The Greeks copied from the Pharoahs they didn't invented

13:06 There is a Skillshare ad in captions.

@KhAnubis

3 жыл бұрын

Crap, thanks! That obviously wasn't supposed to be there

@Locutus

3 жыл бұрын

@@KhAnubis What happened? Did you have a Skillshare ad lined up?

Fun Fact: The German word 'Kaiser' came from Caesar, since it was pronounced KAY-ZER

@user-ip5yc7bg2k

2 жыл бұрын

You remove the r in the end

@omega2469

2 жыл бұрын

It is still pronounced that way in Arabic as well, Kay-Sar,,,

@omega2469

2 жыл бұрын

@Rani Hinnawi yes Rani it could be all depends on how people pronounce the K and the Q,,, but bottom line it’s still being pronounced that way.

@3dmaster205

2 жыл бұрын

So does the Viking/Russian Tsar

@kevintrang3007

2 жыл бұрын

Also Germans: Zäh-zar

My ancient greek teacher told us that the lower case was actually invented because it required less space. And since ancient greek people used to write at ashlars , clay , wood and (less commonly)papyrus , so this property of smaller letters really did help. I dont know whether thats 100% accurate but well i thought it would be good to share

@bblunder

7 ай бұрын

Your ancient greek teacher? Sure buddy

Side Note about abugidas: Abugida characters are syllabic characters with a base vowel. Diacritics are then used to modify that base vowel. Usuually that base vowel is the most common vowel in the language, and instead of writing that vowel over and over again, it's just easier to have it as a part of the consonant. Take Devanagari प, by itself it makes the sound [pǝ] (pa). When a vowel diacritic is added, say ī, we get पी. For something to be an abugida, it must have that base vowel in the characters.

I like the longer form! The shorter ones brought cool subjects up, but this really helped better explore a topic! Great video!

Found the video really interesting. Most of the "original" characters kept the same name in Hebrew, and a lot of the words they mean are the same, too (Kof meaning the needle eye, for example, or Resh being similar to the Hebrew word for "Head", Rosh). I will add that Hebrew also has an alternative writing system, similar to lower and upper case letters in the Latin alphabet: "Dfus" (דפוס), literally meaning "print", which is used for books, documents and the internet, among other things, and "Ctav" (כתב), literally meaning writing, used only for writing

12:46 That is a great chart. I just saw the full thing (with the others writing systems). Such an interesting one that condenses so much information. Most of the world writes in a few writing systems. (Latin, cyrilic, Arabic, Hindu, Chinese, Mongolian, Japanese). While the first 3 that covers 80% of the world in area, came from the same alphabet, phoenician. It also shows how languages/writing systems are a sign of domination. Roman dominated Western Europe, and that domination was later brought to Southern Africa, the Americas and Oceania. The Arab was influenced by the Muslim Expansion. Indian was not centralized for thousands of years, so they have a lot of different writing systems. China and Japan was unified and divided several times, so that helps to unify the writing system. Of course, not every influence is a violent one. Many were friendly and commercial relations, but, nonetheless, we can see the pattern. No surprise that a major sign of dominion is when a tribe is prohibited to use its own language. As it has happenes many times in History.

@chacteo

Жыл бұрын

superidol

Absolutely fantastic job! This was very educational and eye opening and interesting. Thank you for this video!

amazing informative video! thanks so much and keep up the great work

Thank you very much for making this video 😁 Sharing it on FB!

Is it just me or does "KhAnubises of the 31st century" sound like a good band name?

@infotruther

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like an egytian pagan anubis.

@chacteo

Жыл бұрын

OF THE 31ST CENTURY FUCK YEA

"Iulius Caisar" Now the German word Kaiser and the Russian equivalent Czar make so much more sense.

Honestly I like this video! The fact you spend more time in it made it better. Stay with this

Great video my man, very interesting topic

This is so cool. I'm currently learning French but I'm doing my ABC's (so to speak) in Greek and Arabic on the side, and this video made so many fascinating connections between all of them. Thank you!

@georgios_5342

3 жыл бұрын

If you want to, I could help you practice Greek a bit!

@jeromydoerksen2603

3 жыл бұрын

@@georgios_5342 Hey, thanks for the offer! Unfortunately, my life's become quite a bit busier recently, so I wouldn't have the time. When I get back into though, I'll send you a message. Cheers!

I’m really enjoying these longer vids!

Been binging a lot of your videos lately, great info, and quite interesting, nice job KhAnubis!

very informative 13 minutes! this video deserves many million views imo.

I really enjoy this video that I watched it several times. It contains interesting information. Thank you.

Great video Khaanubsi

And now the emojis and stickers get us back to the hieroglyphs era

@P3C0L4

3 жыл бұрын

👆

@sogghartha

3 жыл бұрын

☝🏻=🥜🌰

@instantinople3796

3 жыл бұрын

😚☺😛😚😉🤩😙😊🕌🕌🕌🕌⛪⛪⛪⛪⛪💒💒💒🏰🏰🏰🏰🤩🥰😊🙃🤑😊🍒🏖🏛🧭🙃🥰😇🤪🤩😋😙😅😘😙🍓🍑🥒🍓🍑🌶🥦🧅🥥🧅🍆🏘🏘🏗🏤🏭🏥🏟🏡🏚🏩🏘🏡🏟🏟🏟🏟🏟👚🛍🧦🥻🧥👝🧦🩲🧥🩳🩲👘🧥🧦👗🇦🇱🇦🇷🇦🇺🇦🇶🥃🍺🍶🥛🍵🍹🍺🍹🍶🧉

@guenthersteiner9252

3 жыл бұрын

⬇️📶↩ (its evolving backwards)

@bbekah

2 жыл бұрын

💯 👍😃

This is fascinating thanks!

Most of the Pheonician words are still used today in Arabic 😆💜

@DF-pr9iy

2 жыл бұрын

They just use the same word due to be in the same language family. I speak Aramaic and Arabic and they are also very close. It’s like comparing Italian to Spanish.

It blows my mind, that Julius Caesar practically sounded German.

@Fabii2000

2 жыл бұрын

The German word for emperor is Kaiser which was heavily inspired by the word Caesar because of the Holy Roman Empire.

@diakritika

2 жыл бұрын

Kikero und Kaesar, die gingen ins Konkil, / Kaesar im Kylinderhut und Kikero in kivil :)

@AdarshHari708

2 жыл бұрын

@@Fabii2000 same with Caesar and Tzar (Russian Version of King)

@Fabii2000

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdarshHari708 oh yea. Both countries/regions thought they were the successor of the Roman Empire :D

@AdarshHari708

2 жыл бұрын

@@Fabii2000 yeah the HRE and Moscow as the "third Rome"

This was really interesting, thank you

Congrats on 100K!

Egyptian: *is hard because it has over 700 symbols* Chinese people: 达到我们的水平

@ryeryeryerye

3 жыл бұрын

Lol, y’all don’t know our pain. Also, ancient egyptian looks cool, would prefer to use it

@jefferygoldmann2643

3 жыл бұрын

@@ryeryeryerye I'm learning chinese so Im kinda beginning to grasp it & ancient egyptian does have a very unique asthetic to it.

@ryeryeryerye

3 жыл бұрын

@@jefferygoldmann2643 true

@Robbie-pc1dl

3 жыл бұрын

if english had 200 letters English beginners: *O GOD HELP ME.. ITS PAIN!*

@ADeeSHUPA

3 жыл бұрын

@@ryeryeryerye 랸 アンそン

This was all so interesting!

Can you do a video about the Vinca script and other proto-writing systems?

12:43 Great video! Just 1 little error on the Map is that 🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau on the West Coast of Africa isn't shaded Green but it should be as it's sole official language is 🇵🇹Portuguese (which is written in the Latin alphabet).

Hi! Big fan. Can you also talk about the history of punctuation marks? Just a random thought. Thanks!

The Latins and the Etruscans, our ancestors, played a major role in shaping the Latin alphabet, the most ubiquitous and widely accepted writing system that there is today. The Ancient Greek alphabet was of course the source of inspiration for it. I'm very passionate about this kind of stuff and I also like Cyrillic, which characters mostly originate from these two systems with the addition of a few unique ones. When it comes to handwriting, Italics is some of my favorite styles. Thanks for including the Pantheon, it always comes to mind when I think of the Latin alphabet, because of the incision on its fronton. Very informative and nicely done video! P.S. Little fun fact, the word "alphabet" comes from the union of the first two characters of the Greek alphabet: α + β.

@panagiotis7946

Жыл бұрын

Phoenician is a writing system. It does NOT count as an ALPHABET in the classical scientific sense of the term since it has an incomplete structure. it does not separate letter-Phonem but SYLLABLES, besides the fact that the vowels or the consonants X, Ψ, Φ were not included at all the Phoenician A, how do you explain since the Phoenicians did not have vowels and finally has a different phonetic property than the Greek A All scientific terms related to writing, e.g. grammar, syntax, tone, phonem syllables are in Greek. if the alphabet had been found in Syria, it would have spread as a more practical writing to Egyptians, Syrians, Arameans, Mesopotamians, but this did not happen to those who continued to write until the Hellenistic-Roman times with cuneiform writing. the ancient Greeks had many alphabets Latin is essentially the alphabet of Kymi-Evia

Congrats on 100k subs also happy Thanksgiving to everyone 😁

Great video

(1:00) Well "a letter" makes no sound. It's just the consequence of having a spelling and pronunciation. There are also languages that tries to match the spelling perfectly so there's only one sound per letter. Slavic for example that only pronounce C as /ts/ and G as /g/.

No one: Iraq: E

@footballanimation792

3 жыл бұрын

0:27

@bruhz_089

3 жыл бұрын

Eraq

Very good video - you know your stuff.

Finally. Took weeks from the poll you did

I just found this channel while studying hindi and i need to say: I am in love! Congratulitons and a hug from Brazil ^-^

I wish you spoke a little bit about the evolution from proto-sinaitic to phoenician. There is about 1000 years of history between the two which you skipped over.

@RockandrollNegro

2 жыл бұрын

Proto-Sinaitic was the singularly most important linguistic development in human history, forming the basis of almost every modern written alphabet in use today, yet it got all of two seconds of mention. Which I guess makes sense, as this guy seems to be an egyptiaweeb phoenicistan and probably hasn't heard of Canaan. "Canaanites? The guys that make tin cans? Sorry, all I know is Egypt, cos that's where my videogames take place."

@x999uuu1

2 жыл бұрын

@@RockandrollNegro seems a little harsh to assume that thh

@Emcee_Squared

Жыл бұрын

@@ParamjitSingh-gz3de wtf are you going on about?

The two "T" letters, Tau and Theta were SWITCHED in the transition from Semitic to Greek. Thav, which had a soft "TH" sound was converted into Tau. Tet, which had a hard "T" sound was converted into Theta. Also, Cadmus comes from the Semitic "Kedem" meaning "East" or "From the East" because the mythical Cadmus [and the real person(s) who was(were) the basis for the myth] came from the East, relative to Greece, Phoenicia. In the myth, Cadmus was the son of Agenor king of Phoenicia.

12:52 and despite that, Greek is still around, right next to the Latin giant 🙂

thanks phoenicias for making writing bearable

Now I wonder if samek - pillar are the origins of my last name 😱 Such an interesting video!

Italy's most lasting gift to the world.

@tysonplett3328

3 жыл бұрын

You forgot about pizza

@felicvik9456

3 жыл бұрын

The only truly Italian pizza is the Margherita

@ilFrancotti

3 жыл бұрын

@@felicvik9456 Margherita is the name of the pizza. Margarita is a cocktail.

@felicvik9456

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry, Im Luthuanian and in Lithuanian both r margarita

@ilFrancotti

3 жыл бұрын

@Lúzia A Morta Greece has nothing to do with that, don't try to steal other countries' history please. And yes it is from Italy as Rome is located there. Languages that descended from Latin are called Neo Latin, Romance or Italic ones.

Khanubis would be खानुबिस actually at 2:52

Up next how the ampersand came to mean "and" & how it became the only logogram in english?

@zjzr08

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, @ is also a used logogram at the moment, and # is turning to a modern one with "hashtag", and % is also a logogram (unless you count it as part of numbers).

@trevorjames7490

3 жыл бұрын

The ampersand symbol (&) is basically the simplification of "et" which means 'and' in Latin

@laurensahanna5826

3 жыл бұрын

If you wanna get technical, wouldn't emojis count as modern logographs?

@fisher1634

3 жыл бұрын

@@laurensahanna5826 nope, they would count more as ideograms or pictograms

Nice video

Loved the end.

8:09 fun fact 日in chinese means "day" or "sun" (And ofc many other meanings when combined with other characters) It is pronounced rì in mandarin and jat9 in cantonese Another character that looks similar:曰 It means "say" in ancient chinese Eg Tom says=Tom曰

Good presentation

fwiw usefulcharts also has a youtube channel, pretty cool!

Very interesting jumps from one language into another, and why we have the Q letter even if it's seemingly pretty rare in the English language (i.e. q being very common in Semetic languages).

@allanrichardson1468

3 жыл бұрын

If they made Scrabble for Latin the Q and X would be 3 points and K would be 10! There would be more Q and X tiles and fewer K also. Does anyone know if they make Scrabble games for Hebrew or Arabic? Or broadcast Wheel of Fortune in Israel or Arabic speaking nations? How would you buy a vowel?

@EnigmaticLucas

2 жыл бұрын

@@allanrichardson1468 Take this with a grain of salt because I don't actually understand Arabic, but I found an episode of the Egyptian version of _Wheel of Fortune_ online and it appears that they treat matres lectionis (consonant letters that can also represent long vowels) as vowel letters that have to be bought

Arguably the most recent invention to writing scripts with the advent of the internet is the addition of logographs (emojis) for body language, emotional indicators or just otherwise as a shorthand in text. Punctuation is also getting a bigger role in tonal indication as well. Otherwise i think the latin script could evolve due to preferences for different fonts changing over time. Plus I'd like to see letters for less common sounds to return like thorn for th/dd.

@Punyulada

2 жыл бұрын

I never considered the idea of punctuation in written language to be a tone/emotional indicator, but it makes a lot of sense for people like me who have both been exposed to life before and after the internet gained wide-spread adoption; someone punctuating their sentences when they don't normally do so can seem quite jarring in the moment. I thought it was just me overthinking things.

Great video! Would also like to add that the Egyptians adopted the Greek alphabet during the Hellenic period, changed how most of the letters were pronounced, in addition to slight changes in how they're written, added 7 letters from the Egyptian Demotic script, and by that creating the Coptic Alphabet :D

@MoiraineSedai

2 жыл бұрын

@Абдульзефир Dude look it up I'm Egyptian we studied this in school. We started using the Coptic alphabet during Ptolemaic rule, and it consists of greek letters and 7 demotic ones. I am literally studying Coptic rn. Demotic is a script derived from Heiratic which was derived from Hieroglyphic. The rosetta stone was literally written during the rule of Ptolemy V so idk why you're mentioning it as evidence if your claim, it literally disproves it.

Here from Mr. Beat. I'm sorry, someone had to say it. Glad he sent me here too

Hahahaha. Good video. I haven't finished watching it yet but I like when you show that young man (might be you) with the Egyptian hat 😆

How does this channel not have more subscribers? Khanubis has really bad luck tbh

Do Cyrillic next!

Is this the third or fourth video I've found about the alphabet? Yep. Am I going to watch it anyway? You betcha.

I just love how he mixes comedy into his videos

A lot of scientists, linguists, archaeologists, historians etc. are considering that 8,500 years ago, Romania was the heart of the old European civilization. The new archaeological discoveries from Tartaria, (Romania), showed up written plates older than the Sumerian ones. More and more researches and studies converged to the conclusion that the Europeans are originated in a single place, the lower Danube basin. Down there, at Schela and Cladova in Romania have been discovered proves of the first European agricultural activities which appear to be even older than 10,000 years. Out of 60 scientifically works which are covering this domain, 30 of them localize the primitive origins of the man-kind in Europe, where 24 of them are localizing this origin in the actual Romania, (Carpathian- Danubian area); 10 are indicating western Siberia, 5 Jutland and/or actual Germany room, 4 for Russia, 4 for some Asian territories, 1 for actual France area and all these recognisied despite against the huge pride of those nations. Jean Carpantier, Guido Manselli, Marco Merlini, Gordon Childe, Marija Gimbutas, Yannick Rialland, M. Riehmschneider, Louis de la Valle Poussin, Olaf Hoekman, John Mandis, William Schiller, Raymond Dart, Lucian Cuesdean, Sbierea, A. Deac, George Denis, Mattie M.E., N. Densuseanu, B.P. Hajdeu, P Bosch, W. Kocka, Vladimir Gheorghiev, H. Henchen, B.V. Gornung, V Melinger, E. Michelet, A. Mozinski, W. Porzig, A. Sahmanov, Hugo Schmidt, W. Tomaschek, F.N. Tretiacov are among the huge number of specialists which consider Romania the place of otehr Europeans origines and Romanian the oldest language in Europe, older even than Sanskrit. According to the researchers and scientists, the Latin comes from the old Romanian (or Thracian) and not vice versa. The so called "slave" words are in fact pure Romanian words. The so called vulgar Latin is in fact old Romanian, or Thracian language, according to the same sources... The arguments sustaining the theories from above are very numerous and I don't want to go into them so deeply as long as the forum is and has to remain one languages dedicated, to. In the limits of the language, please allow me to present a list of just a few (out of thousands of words), which are very similar/ even identical in Romanian and Sanskrit: Romanian numerals : unu, doi, trei, patru, cinci, sase, sapte...100=suta Sanskrit numerals: unu, dvi, tri, ciatru, penci, sas, saptan...100 = satan then Romanian Sanskrit acasa acasha (at home) acu acu (now) lup lup ( wolf) a iubi (considered slave) iub (love) frate vrate (brother) camera camera (room) limba lamba (tongue) nepot napat (neffew) mandru mandra (proud) lupta lupta (fight) pandur pandur (infanterist) nevasta navasti (wife) prieten prietema (friend) pranz prans (lunch time) Ruman Ramana (Romanian) saptamana saptnahan (week) struguri strughuri (grapes) vale vale (valley) vadana vadana (widow) a zambi dzambaiami (to smile) umbra dumbra (shadow) om om (man-kind) dusman dusman (enemy) a invata invati (to study) a crapa crapaiami (to break something) naiba naiba (evil) apa apa (water) and not AQUA like in Latin. It looks like aqua came from apa and not the other way around... and so on for more than thousand situations... According to M. Gimbutas, the confusion Roman (Romanian as in original language) = Roman (ancient Rom citizen), is generated by the fact that Romans and Romanians have been the same nation, the same people. The Dacians/Thracians and Romans have been twins. The illiterate peasants called Romanians, Ruman and not Roman. Why do they call so? Because RU-MANI, RA-MANI, RO-MANI, API, APULI, DACI and MAN-DA , VAL-AH are all synonyms expressing the person from the river banc or from the river valley. APII could be found under the form of mez-APPI in the ancient Italy, under he same name as the APPULI Dacians. APU-GLIA, (or Glia Romanilor in Romanian - Romanian land) can be found with this meaning only in Romanian (Glia= land) In the Southern side of Italian "booth" exists the first neolitical site of Italy and it is called MOL-feta. The name itself has Romanian names, according to Guido A. Manselli: MOL-tzam (popular Thank you), MUL-tumire (satisfaction), na-MOL (mud); MOL-dova (province and river in Romania, Za-MOL-xis, Dacian divinity. Manselli said that this archaeological sit is 7,000 years old and has a balcanic feature. I came up with this topic just to hear decent opinions and not banalities like those of a few days ago when while surfing for a language forum, I read all kind of suburban interventions. This topic is for people whith brain only. kzread.info/dash/bejne/e5x4r7mmd7KooqQ.html

@juanausensi499

Жыл бұрын

Extreme nationalists from Europe can't digest to having to trace their culture to Africa or Asia. This is not the first attempt, and it will not be the last.

I love that in my language (Czech) every letter always sounds the same every time and everything sounds EXACTLY like it is written.

@michaelam9738

3 жыл бұрын

And Slovakia looked at that, said "too easy" and added wierd lines above anything they could 🥴

@manolomartinez5033

2 жыл бұрын

Just like any decent language should.

@bean420man

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty much the same with German too. Now, if only German could reform the use of genders for words and decide on one word for "the", instead of the six words that they use now.

@ankokunokayoubi

Жыл бұрын

A damn lot of languages are just like that.

Greetings from Mesopotamia Iraq 🇮🇶 the birth place of writing and civilisation

Miniscule used to mean the small letters and the printers would put them in a case under the capital letters, hence the term lower case. Capital letters were called upper case since they were on the top case, and also called magiscule.

Imagine how the alphabet would change in the future?

@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions

3 жыл бұрын

Some are thinking lowercase will be its future given how some artist like… is it Billie Ilish? Anyways, she has been naming her songs in only lowercase, a trend observed in some of the people her age as well, I'm pretty sure she didn't start it, but she's probably reenforcing it among her fans.

@fisher1634

3 жыл бұрын

@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions WE SHOULD PRESERVE THE USE OF UPPERCASE LETTERS I AM NOT SCREAMING I SWEAR

@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions

3 жыл бұрын

@@fisher1634 I don't think they're going away, but they might be lessening in usage in some people. They're a good tool for various reasons, including visual expression of anger.

@mirceapintelie361

3 жыл бұрын

Yes..the future is emoji😏lol

@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions

3 жыл бұрын

@@mirceapintelie361 Not really, they are going to aid in adding emotion to writing, similar to how many languages use: ÀČËĪŃÕÛ, but aren't taking over, I'm so sure that this won't happen for more than likely the next two centuries! But even so, they aren't used identically even across the same language! There's still a lot of guesswork and because they have a different style depending on font provider some versions are noticable differences across different devices that one's message could change meaning if two different fonts don't draw them identically. Check out the emojipedia.org to see emoji across different platforms.

Such a long time to get the alphabet and now we're back to the begining with the emoji😄

Only writing left to right with lowercase letters: Meaning many in Ancient Greece wrote in alternating directions, in much the same manner as an ox plows a field. This would also explain how some of the letters got flipped over time, since the letters were also mirrored along with the sentences. Where did those periods (full stops) go?

Is there a similar explanation for numerical characters we use today?

@KhAnubis

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly that doesn't sound like a bad idea

Lets say you got a great recepie for making bread. You want everybody to try your bread or your recepie. Water, yeast, flour, some spices of your choise. Mix the ingreadients and leave the dough for a while. After a while make the dough into one or several breadshapes. Leave the breadshaped dough or shapes for annother while again. After a while put the doughshape or shapes into the oven. In the oven let the bread be in there untill the golden brown collour appears. Once the bread is golden brown it's done and ready to be eaten. By passing on your breadrecepie by mouth, after several mouths the recepie might have distorted so much it's a diffrent bread. By writing down your great breadrecepie everybody got access to the exactly the same recepie. By that reason alone it's good to write. :)

What is the academic disciplines that studies evolution of writing systems?

That certainly explains the alternating left-to-right and right-to-left brought up in UsefulCharts's rendition. Like, imagine how painful it would be to write like that today.

Ye olde English expansion pack is a bit thorny ;)

@yajtubeteevee1677

3 жыл бұрын

ye is the

@likebot.

3 жыл бұрын

@@yajtubeteevee1677 The 'y' replaced the 'ð' in England because the printing press was German, so yeah, ðat's absolutely correct. And "thorny" would be spelled "Þorny" ("Þ" is called thorn).

Wish this video was uploaded a year ago, when I was making my own language. Still interesting!

@infotruther

2 жыл бұрын

Your own language?

I like how you put a mask on your pfp

@KhAnubis

3 жыл бұрын

Just to remind everyone that this isn't over yet

0:28 i love it

Great vid as always Small thing: you use modern Greek pronunciation for explanations in the video, but Anciënt Greek was radically different in its phonology (generally). For example, you said the letter chi has the pronunciation /x/, and in some situations /ç/, but this is only true of modern Greek; the original pronunciation was /kʰ/

Wow you seem to be very knowledgeable ina languages and writing systems... Did you study this in college or something?

THE ANCIENT EGYPT WRITING IS SO SIMILAR TO OUR OWN WRITING

😂 as a left-hander, I would say writing from right to left is more comfortable than the opposite

@levilivesinwisconsin

3 жыл бұрын

me too

@user-vo6ec7hk4u

3 жыл бұрын

Try learning arabic 😊😊. We still write from right to left and there is about 600 Million arabic speakers around the World 😊

@mrbisshie

2 жыл бұрын

I always assumed we wrote from left to right, because right handed people got annoyed at their ink being smeared, when writing right to left. lol

@mikedaniel1771

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrbisshie Yeah, after ink got invented. With stone carving, you don't worry about smears

@awellculturedmanofanime1246

7 ай бұрын

@@user-vo6ec7hk4u if exaggeration was a person you would be it lmfao arabic is barely spoken by 360 million people and thats in 2023 lmao

0:09 Love him or hate him, he spittin facts

@atlantickoala2139

3 жыл бұрын

You really are everywhere

@hmoobmeeka

3 жыл бұрын

Its avery the cuban american

@atlantickoala2139

3 жыл бұрын

Bro we should start an Avery cult, who''s with me?

@instantinople3796

3 жыл бұрын

You again

I really wish that we would bring back the letter thorn.

@joshmoritty

3 жыл бұрын

Be þe change you want to see in þe world.

@andrew7955

3 жыл бұрын

And eth/edh

Someone saw the pbs documentary :) Love NOVA too!

The alifbata ancient language of Philippines in south east asia ... Is also derived from middle east & phonecian even if they had no direct contact,

Just a small tip , the proto Sinatic script evolved in Egypt too ; in the Sinai peninsula

Cool and pretty precise video,,, I can read the Phonician and the Hebrew Alphabet easely but I wouldn't understand all of the Hebrew meaning of the words, but some of them are very close to Phoenician with some pronounciation difference,,, Shams in Phoenician is Shemesh in Hebrew for example...

Small comment regarding the hebrew alphabet; There are definitely letters for vowels; א ה ו י, but the sounds they make can all be expressed with special marks as well (dots and lines above, below and next to letters. When reading is taught to children it is taught with the extra markings (called ‘nikud’). As people become more proficient in the language they are gradually dropped. Adults don’t use them. Also, there are additional markings which aren’t used in modern hebrew, but are in the Biblical version in witch the bible (the Old Testament) is written. The biblical version of the markings adorns the letters in all bibles in synagogues (printed on cowhide), and actually provide both instructions on how to ‘sing’ the words, and some information regarding the content (the biblical version of these markings predate modern commas apostrophes and such)

You talked about logograms and pictograms, but what about Bananagrams?

Oddly, because of things like Emoji, we are heading back towards the older system types. Though we are getting a blend.

The loss of Þ in English kinda sucks, it would be useful today, it makes the “th” sound so thou would be spelt Þou. England didn’t have printing presses n the countries that did didn’t have that letter, so they subbed it with Y which is why we say you instead of thou. But imagine a world where the, there, them, that, through were spelled with Þ, so Þe, Þere, Þem, Þat (there was a short hand from of that which was spelled with Þ but a dash on top, it’s a bit like how and can be &). Anyways I don’t see a future where Þ comes back, especially since it looks a bit like P, but things could be quicker with it, so for now I’ll just write my hand written notes wiþ it.

@TheMrMe1

3 жыл бұрын

Þ is still used in Icelandic. Be þe change you want to be. Write your notes wiþ þ. Let's start a global movement to bring back þe þ.

@Thehackerguy2000

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheMrMe1 in English the letter is called thorn.

@TheMrMe1

3 жыл бұрын

@@Thehackerguy2000 Þorn in Icelandic

@scythal

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMrMe1 That looks like... something else.

@TheMrMe1

2 жыл бұрын

@@scythal *B O N K* go to horni jail

Having studied Ancient Greek and Biblical Hebrew, when I saw these similarities, I was like WOW!! how cool is that? Now they don't parallel exactly, but seeing one influenced the other is quite interesting. How I am sure if I studied more Semitic languages and others in the genealogy of Greek, I would see parallels. Very cool. (I skip a few letters here and there indicated by ....) Greek: Alpha beta gamma delta ....zeta eta theta iota kappa lamda mu nu ....... ....rho sigma tau Hebrew: Aleph bet gimmel dalet ...zion het tet ...yod kaph lamed mem nun ...... ..resh sheen tav

a lot of the words past 5:30 are still used in modern egyptian arabic

isiXhosa for window is "ifestile" which comes from Afrikaans "venster" which comes from Dutch "venster" which comes from Latin "fenestra".