Everyone talks about how Aramaic vanished and lost its place to Arabic, but never mention how Aramaic did that to Akkadian language.

@TheObserversTV

3 жыл бұрын

Aramaic was the language of Assyria, established by the Assyrian Imperial system, it served as a unifying factor, basically telling the inhabitants of the western part of the Assyrian empire that they are "Itti Nishe Mat Assuraye" (Declared peoples of the Assyrian nation), which is why Aramaic being the only north western Semitic language that has a substantial amount of Akkadian words, pronouns, and syllables in it. Similarly that can also some-what be said about the Hurrians, the only difference is that there was no traces left of the Hurrians after they were absorbed into Assyria starting around 1270 BC and were counted as "citizens of Assyria", so instead of needing to unify some form of Hurro-Assyrian dichotomy, Imperial Assyria was able wipe out their inheritance without transforming any customs.

@ciceroalexandar6184

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheObserversTV Akkadian and Aramaic are two different languages, and their speakers as well. Akkadian was the main language in the Akkadian empire and the lingua franca in the region. The Arameans were Nomadic pastoralists, have cites from west of the Levant till north of mesppotemia, constantly moving and launched a series of war on the Akkadian empire until Akkadian emperors start launching wars on these nomads, til the Akkadian empire controlled all the Levant and Egypt. The Akkadians used to make a mass displacement on the falling cities, most of the displaced people were Arameans, and the famous people are the Jews, and integrate them in other places, like in the east(Mesopotamia). Anyway, there are factors that played rules, but from that where their language start becoming popular, even by their civilised Akkadian aristocrat.

@TheObserversTV

3 жыл бұрын

@Boiled Egg with 100,000 Subscribers The language of judgement day would technically be in Aramaic, considering Islamic Issa will judge all, and the language of Issa was Aramaic, not Arabic.

@TheObserversTV

3 жыл бұрын

@Algerian English Lessons True, the cradle of Arabic would be the Nabateans/Qedarites.

@ciceroalexandar6184

3 жыл бұрын

@Boiled Egg with 100,000 Subscribers @TheObserversTV Are you both ok?. How the hell you know the language of judgment day will be in Arabic or Aramaic? And what all the nonspeakers of these languages do then?. Take extensive language courses?

From an Ethiopian to all my semetic speaking family here... selam le'enante yihun (peace be with you all)

@kassalasamsung4860

3 жыл бұрын

All are Same people Semitic people actually Not everyone speak Semitic language it's Semitic Because Semitic mean race For Example Ethiopia and Eritrea Have more genetic from Eurasia DNA than North Africa that mean Ethiopia and Eritrea more arab than North Africa Second Semitic language use in Ethiopia and Eritrea from yemen

@AA-el4pq

3 жыл бұрын

@@kassalasamsung4860 Bullsh!t those people aren't related to Arabs at all. They related with surrounding ethnic groups. They all have highest concentration of E1b1b1 ( E-M215 ) marker which have nutting to do with Arabians.

@Arabian010

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you bro, Also Salam To the Ethiopian people and all speakers of Semitic languages!

@AA-el4pq

3 жыл бұрын

@SAQER SAQER What if its the other way around. May be Semitic people are Africans with E1b1b1 marker but the J's are Turkic Anatolians who assimilated to these groups. Haplogroup E1b1b is the highest concentration in HOA not J. Haplogroup J is rarely spotted in some highlander they may have some Armenoid genes. But that's it. Majority of them fall under E1b1b1 including the south Arabians.

@yakov95000

3 жыл бұрын

Shalom gam Alekha Akhi(Peace upon you too brother)

Its very nice that you included the mandaic, normally people forget about us, because its a small minority in Iraq.

@abeerfandy4665

2 жыл бұрын

curious about your language!

@ConstanzaRigazio

2 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@kevinlligraphy5844

2 жыл бұрын

Mandaic is a very cool language!

@ilyasmahmod7403

Жыл бұрын

Never heard of it where do you live

@quinnfischer9624

Жыл бұрын

@@ilyasmahmod7403 they are from south-east iraq and some parts of persia but because isis and iranian government kill mandeans most mandeans moved to australia there are only a few hundred left in mesopotamia

First three quarters of video: "let's just stay in Arabia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Ethiopia" Last quarter of video: "IT'S ARAB TIME"

@guccieclipse

3 жыл бұрын

Boiled Egg with 100,000 Subscribers Why have you put that response on a bunch of comments

@kostaspapas5894

3 жыл бұрын

@Boiled Egg with 100,000 Subscribers and why you use a greek word for the word prophet?

@gottod6895

3 жыл бұрын

because of Islam Egyptians ad Amazighs and most middle eastern population were Arabized, I speak a dialect of Arabic but its grammar is very similar to Berber than Arabic but obviously the majority of vocabulary is Arabic Vocabulary

@gottod6895

3 жыл бұрын

@@yougoglencoco377 I don't know how Persia or Iran escaped Arabization

@homosapien.a6364

3 жыл бұрын

And now arabs are fighting each other religions stuff 🥺💔

Finally a video about languages,good job

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@user-zz8ll5ry7r

3 жыл бұрын

You can check some of his recent videos on languages, too.

@adrienpolo2255

3 жыл бұрын

@@CostasMelas in somali we don't speak arabic we speak somalia

@someinteresting

3 жыл бұрын

This is a joke, right? He has so many language ones.

@marceltelang7825

3 жыл бұрын

@@adrienpolo2255 you mean in Somalia you speak Somali?

1922: Hebrew: hello back, guys! I've been away for a while, what did I m... Guys? Hello? Arabic, where is everyone? Arabic: uhh... Hebrew: Arabic, what the hell did you do? Arabic: nothin...

@amrshatlaa9617

3 жыл бұрын

Hebrew: Arabic, what the hell did you do? Arabic: i bitch slapped those guys who fought you cousin . Hebrew: which ones do you mean Romans , Egyptians or Babylonians ? Arabic: YES .

@amrshatlaa9617

3 жыл бұрын

@@mhmadbedrddeen3414 yeah i missed that part .

@oceanman9559

3 жыл бұрын

@Boiled Egg with 100,000 Subscribers there will be no judgment day, but keep dreaming

@nemesis3154

3 жыл бұрын

@@mhmadbedrddeen3414 Damn.. that really hurts.. the betrayal

@homosapien.a6364

3 жыл бұрын

And the Hebrew today are more than a simitic language it's like an europen language 🙂😂

I'm impressed the way Arabic language spread.

@BrutusAlbion

3 жыл бұрын

warfare, conquest, colonization and slavery.

@sungminlee249

3 жыл бұрын

Because of that terrorist religion

@user-xr2jt7ss4o

3 жыл бұрын

@@BrutusAlbion Just because it's the language of the world!

@BrutusAlbion

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-xr2jt7ss4o nah the wicked english already got their stamp on that one. You got to be the worst of the worst to spread your language far and wide. Islam is kinda only a 2nd tier bad guy in that regard compared to british imperialism :D

@julianfejzo4829

3 жыл бұрын

Much like Latin and English speread, not that impressive

Selam My Brothers From Ethiopia Amharic Speaker 🖤

@mhm8113

3 жыл бұрын

Salam from morocco

@ddlaura5506

3 жыл бұрын

@@mhm8113 🤗🤗 oww moroco 😎 we love u guys i think there is blody relationship b/n u and us 🙌🏼

@pinklasagna8328

3 жыл бұрын

I played as ethiopia in EU4 and culture convert most of horn of africa to amharic just few ours ago as i am writing this comment

@ddlaura5506

3 жыл бұрын

@TheCrazyKid1381 ????

@THEBEST-qv8jk

3 жыл бұрын

Salam from Arabic speaker

Please do the history of the Sino Tibetan Languages next

@captainch6182

3 жыл бұрын

There are too many languages, he would have to do a video for each branch.

@celtofcanaanesurix2245

3 жыл бұрын

Would probably be easier for him to just do Chinese first

@celtofcanaanesurix2245

3 жыл бұрын

Wanessa Schmidt I think he’d have to do it in parts like with indo european, first here is semitic, next could be Berber then Egyptian

@captainch6182

3 жыл бұрын

Celt of Canaan Esurix I agree, each branch of Afro-Asiatic deserves its own video because they are as wonderfully diverse as Indo-European is

@daisybrain9423

3 жыл бұрын

That would be a really complicated one.

Some words like Salam - shalom Allah - Eloha Alaikum - aleichem These are very similar in Hebrew and arabic

@Lost7one

Жыл бұрын

also very similar in all dialects of Aramaic, the one I speak, Shlomo, Alloho, Aleicho, the eastern dialect in Iraq and Iran would be Shlama, Allaha and Loch

@Allinda.

Жыл бұрын

In Arabic it's Allah and elah

@rebbybam230

9 ай бұрын

Selam leki , in geez Ethiopia

@muhammadsajeli1163

8 ай бұрын

Well 2 sons of Abraham hold the key of their connection. One became the ancestor of Israels and one became the ancestor of Arabs. Both came from the same Great(x99) Grandfather.

I wish that one day, all Jews and all Arabs can live together in peace and harmony. Shalom Aleychem/Salam Aleykum from a non-Arab. :)

thanks so much! i've been waiting for this one!

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome :)

There are still people today in Arabia who talk Arabic and other Semitic languages, especially in Yemen, southern Saudi Arabia, and Syria. *Edit: and Oman To some extent they are still present, but need more attention and care from us to keep it better preserved. Because languages are something very very precious, that must be preserved.

@Mo-im5pk

3 жыл бұрын

You forgot Oman

@beedykh2235

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mo-im5pk Oh right!! Thanks for mentioning it.

@Mo-im5pk

3 жыл бұрын

@@beedykh2235 You are welcome :D

@sarimcmorrow5590

3 жыл бұрын

i'm from southern of saudi arabia i didn't mention any other languages there except arabic there is alot of accent but all arabic

@beedykh2235

3 жыл бұрын

@@sarimcmorrow5590 وانا سعودي. في ناس بفيفا وجيزان ونجران يتكلموا حِمْيَرِي وبعض اللغات السامية لكن يتكلموها ببيوتهم مع عوائلهم او يعرفوها بس ماهي لغتهم الأساسية. طبعاً كلهم يتكلموا عربي بطلاقة. There are. You just didn't know about it because it's not common.

Love these linguistic vids you're making Costas! Lovely stuff

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Good video! You could put the sources in description in the next videos to make the videos more reliable?

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

aramaic: look at me i'm the middle east's lingua franca! arabic: i'm gonna stop you right there

@muhannadbursheh6109

2 жыл бұрын

Aramaic is still alive, with all the obstacles and the persecution since the 7th century. Its still here!

@mahdimehdi445

2 жыл бұрын

@@muhannadbursheh6109 the arabs didn't persecute the aramaics lmao ,those were the turks

@muhannadbursheh6109

2 жыл бұрын

@@mahdimehdi445 invading someone else’s land, changing their language, and gradually their religion, and suppressing their identity is a major form of persecution. Also, having people to pay Jizya to be able to be allowed to live in their own homeland is another form of persecution.

@iihamed711

2 жыл бұрын

@@muhannadbursheh6109 I think you have a very different understanding of persecution

@Melia_67

2 жыл бұрын

@@muhannadbursheh6109 You pay Jizya for your own protection plus Non-Muslims never paid the mandatory Zakah every Eid like how Muslims were expected to pay it.

Thanks for this video go on with the great work Kostas👏👏

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

I really love your content! Keep up the work^_^

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Never knew it was so complicated. Very interesting. Many thanks.

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome :)

You mad lad you did it, the moment we’ve all been waiting for!

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

It was time to complete this important language family

Thank you ! Great presentation and great music!!

@CostasMelas

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much

Fantastic thanks for the hard work!

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome :)

Without any possible questioning, this is a great job very well thought and accomplished without a single spoken word!!! ( And the biggest irony is the fact that this work is ''speaking'' of languages!! )

@CostasMelas

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Epic!!! Great job!

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much

The videos are literally perfect

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@ibrahimhercules9466

3 жыл бұрын

the term Semites is taken from the Bible for closely related languages

@user-el4qe5od2x

3 жыл бұрын

@@ibrahimhercules9466 Nice, but who asked

@fasoooli2751

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-el4qe5od2x don't be rude

@catalannationalist9847

3 жыл бұрын

@@CostasMelas Thank you for your work!

I really love that you included my language :) Maltese

@LEL-is8xq

3 жыл бұрын

@Lalibela Dogo It does, however, we don't understand each other 99%.

@LEL-is8xq

3 жыл бұрын

@Lalibela Dogo It the only Semitic yes... in Europe not just EU

@LEL-is8xq

3 жыл бұрын

@Depressed Knower Helloo!! Where exactly Italy? I love Italy!

@LEL-is8xq

3 жыл бұрын

@Depressed Knower That's beautiful! I'm from the City of Valletta

@ManhaJSalafee

3 жыл бұрын

Maltese is a Arabic dialect

thanks, i was waiting for this video

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome :)

Fantastic work as always

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

Many of the Southern Semitic languages are still alive like Mehri, Soqotri, Harsusi, Shehri Etc tho with minute speakers

@igoryounes3745

3 жыл бұрын

Also Bathari and Hobyot though sadly moribunds.

@igoryounes3745

3 жыл бұрын

@Freðrick Ólafursson. Absolutely not, they are two distinct languages not even mutually intelligible.

@jayjayjay835

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ida-xe8pg apparently God did not bliss that nor he will 😂😂

@lorancegaming7316

3 жыл бұрын

and aramic also

@Ida-xe8pg

3 жыл бұрын

@@lorancegaming7316 Aramaic isnt a Southern Semitic language

I think this mapping would be more informative if the language index on the right was (re)ordered in a way which prioritizes relative age or prominence. Perhaps those languages which (as best we can determine) had the most native speakers should shuffle towards the top of the list each given year? Or are they already ordered in this fashion?

@kingmisssile9730

Жыл бұрын

It looks like it’s ranked from north to south

@pwnmeisterage

Жыл бұрын

@@kingmisssile9730 Not consistently. Sometimes it's mixed, sometimes it's the exact opposite.

شكرا على الفيديو الجميل 🌷

Really love your work man. What other language families you have planned? Also, since Semitic is a branch of Afro-Asiatic, will you do a video on the other Afro-Asiatic languages?

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I would like to make the laguages of East Asia in the future

@captainch6182

3 жыл бұрын

Costas Melas if you do sino-Tibetan, I would just show the branches instead of the individual languages because there are too many, there is more than Indo-European in fact. Or you can just do Sinitic or Chinese and its dialects.

@arta.xshaca

Жыл бұрын

@@captainch6182 he did it as YOU WISHED.

I love these language videos!

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

Can u make a video about the history of Sino-Tibetan Languages, or just about Sinitic languages? Thank you.

Now the whole Indo European langauge family that would be very pleasing

@captainch6182

3 жыл бұрын

Twano the mummy if he does that it should be the branches and not the individual languages because it would be pretty hard to fit that many in the video

@tanegram

3 жыл бұрын

@@Berfo1 decline?

@user-sl6lj9gy5y

3 жыл бұрын

@Boiled Egg with 100,000 Subscribers wft?? Now i am dedicate much that islam is a false.. Our language is Sanskrit. We will die for Sanskrit..

@doomdrake123

3 жыл бұрын

@@Berfo1 What decline. Literally half the globe speak an Indo-european language as first or second language...

@preoximerias7366

3 жыл бұрын

Berfo Indo-European languages may have declined in Central Asia and Anatolia but it expanded across the Americas, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. It’s quite literally the largest language family on the planet with the most speakers.

Greetings from Eritrea which is also part of the Semitic family of languages. Proud of my heritage!!

@Evansdrad8515

3 жыл бұрын

Which language does Eritrea speak again?

@pcgamingonyt5798

3 жыл бұрын

@@Evansdrad8515 Persia/ Iran is not Semitic We are Indo European

@Zeyede_Seyum

3 жыл бұрын

@@Evansdrad8515 *Tigrigna* and *Tigre*

@Evansdrad8515

3 жыл бұрын

@@Zeyede_Seyum ok

@glghsfsstf0510

2 жыл бұрын

@@Zeyede_Seyum I think he made a big mistake in the Video because Amharinya language originated from Geez so it actually can not be as old as he showed in the Video.

🕎 For anybody wondering: Aramaic (Judeo-Aramaic dialect) was so influential that it is still is very present in Judaism, it is present in Hebrew with many loan words such as in our holy texts and prayers and is still studied by Jews in Israel and across the diaspora until today. Additionally, the Paleo-Hebrew script evolved parallel to Aramaic's to create the script that is famous to Hebrew today (א ב ג).

@Roxasguy13

Жыл бұрын

What percentage estimate would you say that Hebrew and Aramaic are related?

@noamrotstain3182

Жыл бұрын

@@Roxasguy13 Lexicon-wise. They are very similar, I can understand nearly every word in Aramaic-85%, reading-wise is nearly identical-89%. Dialect and pronunciation differs greatly, for example I struggle to understand modern Aramaic spoken by some in Syria today. But Judeo-Aramaic sounds and flows like Hebrew which makes it nearly fully understandable-92%

@kiddykitsune8158

Жыл бұрын

As someone who read and practiced Torah in Aramaic and Tiberian... I kinda feel like ancient Hebrew is much more Greek than a lot would like to admit. In my opinion to the point perhaps it would be considered an Indo-European language branch but idk.

@user-zl7cq9db3c

Жыл бұрын

Do you mean the fake Jews "European Jews who think they are Israeli Arabs" 😂😂👍🏼

@noamrotstain3182

Жыл бұрын

@@user-zl7cq9db3c you lack basic knowledge about the Jewish people. Let me ask you a few questions: 1. Where are the Jews originally from if their genetics are related to the middle east-even for Ashkenazi Jews who have over 60% middle eastern DNA. 2. How did the Jews get to Europe, Morocco, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Tajikistan etc? 3. Who is indigenous to Israel? The Arabs who only first arrived to the land a few hundred years ago, or the Jews, who speak a Canaanite language, have a religion based on the land, traditions similiar to ancient Canaanites and dress and traditions that are highly associated with the land?

I like this video. This is the kind of videos that show that despite our disagreements and fights between each another, we might actually be more similar than we think we are.

@aksmex2576

2 жыл бұрын

Idk man. All I saw was no hebrew for a 2000 years and then it pops up in Palestine after ww2, sucks to see colonization by people of another. Though I agree totally agree with the peace non warmongering stuff.

@AryaOghuz

Жыл бұрын

@@aksmex2576 Hebrew has been spoken in the Levant since it’s evolution, what are you talking about. Someone’s always gotta hate on Israel and Jews don’t they

@dudua3755

11 ай бұрын

@@AryaOghuz That is true. What IS crazy is that it went from being the minority language in that region of the levant until 1918 when it BOOM suddenly became the majority in the span of 4 years. Crazy huh.

@AryaOghuz

11 ай бұрын

@@dudua3755 I mean, you are talking about a comparatively small area. It’s a sliver of land compared to the widespread use of Arabic across the Middle East and North Africa. Also, study the map. It took much of the 20th century to become the size it is today. English, French and Russian all had much much greater expansions within 100 years on numerous parts of the globe. I fail to see any issue or “discrepancy”. Oh and Latin also, albeit quite a bit slower

Absolutely amazing video.🇪🇹🖒

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Nice vid, as always ;)

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

You did a great job!

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Can you do other afro-asiatic languages like cushitic, chadic, etc.?

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

I'll try to make them in the future

@eustress7428

3 жыл бұрын

@@CostasMelas TYSM, and always thanks for your high quality videos

@farahhersi9380

3 жыл бұрын

Hamitic = Cushitic , Ancient Egyptian , Amazigh , Chadic

@farahhersi9380

3 жыл бұрын

@@Brildanne is omotic Afroasiatic I thought it was Nilotic

@enrico7474

3 жыл бұрын

@@Brildanne omotic is its own separate group i think

Sad to see aramaic language disappearing

@user-zz8ll5ry7r

3 жыл бұрын

It still holds on, though, if you consider that many other languages and varieties have disappeared. As you can see in the video, there's a "stronghold" of it in the "Nineveh Triangle" and in Maaloulah in Syria.

@theredstonesword9293

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-zz8ll5ry7r also, dialects like Lebanese and Syrian have a vocabulary that is about 40% Syro-Aramaic.

@AD-yq8rl

3 жыл бұрын

Arab invasions changed everyhting

@sepep6288

3 жыл бұрын

@@AD-yq8rl Arabic itself is a mixture of Aramiac (the language of Abraham) and Himyaric (the native Arabian language).

@ibrahimhercules9466

3 жыл бұрын

The first inscription in Arabic is on in Jordan 1000 BC

Love this series! Watched all of them! Can you do Inuit languages next?

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I will try it but much later

Very cool. Good job!

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

This is a beautiful video! Good job! I love all of the language shifts that happened in Mesopotamia/Iraq. Sumerian (language isolate) -> Akkadian (East Semitic) -> Aramaic (Northwest Semitic) -> Arabic (Central Semitic). Lastly, there is Maltese, the only Semitic language in Europe (and the European Union).

@Skikdii

2 жыл бұрын

Arabic is coming from south then migrated to north

@AnthonyBoile

Жыл бұрын

Malta is geographically North African but considered sociopolitically European.

@Skikdii

Жыл бұрын

@@AnthonyBoile Africa is also political continent only

@AnthonyBoile

Жыл бұрын

@@Skikdii not really

@Skikdii

Жыл бұрын

@@AnthonyBoile Yes it is human made continent North africans have nothing to do with subsaharan africans exactly like middle easterners have nothing to do with south asian who have nothing to do with east asian

Thanks so much for a new video!!!!!

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome :)

@rajiahassan2063

3 жыл бұрын

@@CostasMelas i would REALLY be happy if you also did the Dravidian languages, theres not much videos on KZread about those.

Α video about which I was waiting for a long time. Great civilisations till the Steppe people invaded eastern mediterranean and middle east.

@mrhaci7747

3 жыл бұрын

Are you Talking about Turkey?

@jaif7327

3 жыл бұрын

Egehan Giral the mongol turkic ppl

@user-bm5kj8qo3t

3 жыл бұрын

Νο, I am talking about the eastern turkic tribes. Turkey belongs to the western or Oguz together with Ajerbaijan and Turkmenistan

@user-bm5kj8qo3t

3 жыл бұрын

@John 3 our food is almost 100% middle eastern and central asian. Don't forget that we gave the gift of democracy to the world and all owe to respect us. I don't think my nation is better than any other in the world. We should respect each other and live in peace.

@mrhaci7747

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-bm5kj8qo3t oh ok nice

Your South Semitic split into South and Ethiopic seems really early. So does your split of N. Central in to NW and Central. What sources did you use for those estimates?

@osamahussien696

3 жыл бұрын

it is not early ethopic is ancient language

@michaelcardy89

3 жыл бұрын

@@osamahussien696 Yes, but is proto-Ethiopic 4700 years old as the video suggests? I would like to read something on that topic.

@ephemeraljaunt

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelcardy89 yes

@ephemeraljaunt

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelcardy89proto-amharic and ge’ez are extremely old languages

@enrico7474

Жыл бұрын

Ethiopic languages date back to 2000 bc we know that because a cushitic group called agaw who migrated from eritrea into Ethiopia around the same time have farming related and other words of semitic origin (some of those words arent even found in ethiosemitic languages) therefore its suggested that either semitic speakers had some subtle influence in the region mostly trade realted or they pushed the agaws into Ethiopia (which makes more sense because how did agaws receive farming related words if semitic farmers didnt settle in that region and introduce it to them. Note: u shouldn't confuse later (1000bc) sabaean migration as the creation date of Ethiopic , sabaic and ethiopic aren't even closely related semitic languages.

ge'ez never went away! but that horn of africa part caught my attention. thank you.

@nadeern

2 жыл бұрын

It's no longer the lingua franca of Eritrea and Ethiopia. It's only read and recited by priest.

@PhilosophyofArtandScience

2 жыл бұрын

@@nadeern yes, but not only priests. priests, deacons, and lay people who study qine (ge'ez grammar and poetry).

@amde_meskel

Жыл бұрын

@@nadeern geez won't probably die out as long as the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox churches are around

very good and informative video! keep it up!

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Very interesting and gives a very concise picture I have learnt so much

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Speaking of Semitic language what about the ancestor of Semitic itself the Afro-asiatic language.

@LeeTheGoat

3 жыл бұрын

@Boiled Egg with 100,000 Subscribers dont you have anything better to do

@forestmanzpedia

3 жыл бұрын

@Boiled Egg with 100,000 Subscribers Yeah sure whatever

@solidcreature5950

3 жыл бұрын

Semites name is taken from Shem, son of Prophet Noah if i'm not mistaken. So that's a clue.

@vicheaith6919

3 жыл бұрын

@@solidcreature5950 according to what I heard from others yes.

@doomdrake123

3 жыл бұрын

@Boiled Egg with 100,000 Subscribers The language of judgment day will be mathematics, arabic can not describe a nuclear apocalypse.

Love to all my Semitic people

Eritrea is pretty cool because a lot of older Eritreans know three -four Semitic languages : Tigrinya, Tigre, Arabic, Amharic like our president

Until I was more or less 15 years old I thinked that Aramaic is not a real language, but a word created ad hoc for design an incomprensible language or simply to say that someone was not understood, but then I discovered that exist really.

@user-cl7pm7zm3x

3 жыл бұрын

Assirians speak on this laungage nowadays

@celtofcanaanesurix2245

3 жыл бұрын

Where do you come from where Aramaic is used in such an expression?

@galgar5660

3 жыл бұрын

@@celtofcanaanesurix2245 probably he's from Italy, when we see an incomprehensible language or something that you don't understand we can say "per me è aramaico" (it's aramaic to me) or, more commonly, "per me è arabo" (it's arabic to me)

@carmi7042

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I'm from Italy Sì, sono italiano

@yanl3914

3 жыл бұрын

spoken in some regions in syria

6:35 It's inconceivable that language can spread so quickly

Quite interesting this seems to suggest that amharic is older than tigrinya and a direct descendant of ge'ez. Seems logical since tigrinya is really close to ge'ez due to it's late split while amharic has integrated with cuschetic languages absorbing alot of words and some grammar. Approximately 30% of the vords in amharic are of cuschetic origin. Nice video which sources did you use?

@teddyissak2720

3 жыл бұрын

Nah absolute not !!! Are you telling me >> Tigre and Tigrigna appear out of no where in couple of Hundreds of years, despite having a documented evidence dating to 12th A.D. And Tigrigna is not close to ge'ez. It would take at-least additional thousands of years for Tigre and Tigrigna to evolve from ge'ez. Languages don't just appear out of thin air, They need time , movement/ migration, interaction and gradual process to change. The maker of this Video is totally ignorant about the distribution of Semitic language in Ethiopia.

@jonathanx4540

3 жыл бұрын

@@teddyissak2720 Amharic is believed to have become the official lingua franca in the 9th according to a study done by Boston university and there is some theories suggesting that it was spoken earlier by the aksumites. Suggesting that it rose as ge'ez speaking aksumites interacted with agaw speaking aksumites. This shouldn't be discredited since amharic has a lot of agaw words. I believe that Tigrinya devoloped somewhere between 10-13th century as the power from aksum moved to bete-amhara and thus isolating ge'ez speakers in the north. If you were to read or listen to English spoken during the 16th or 15th century you wouldn't understand a sentence, languages changes fast, especially if the speakers haven't implanted a strong writing tradition in that language which is not the case instead ge'ez was preferred mainly for biblical purposes.

@teddyissak2720

3 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanx4540 Nah.........No proof what so ever.....Until you brought in tangible archaeological evidence for this claim, nobody will take your " Theoretical " approach seriously. The earliest surviving Amharic record was written during Amda Tsion era 13th A.D. " Zena mewalil " . Prior to that, there is No trace of Amharic language in any Ethiopic records , no one knows >> how Amharic developed, where it was spoken , who brought this language......etc

@jonathanx4540

3 жыл бұрын

@@teddyissak2720 and no the earliest written material for amhara is from 12 century not 13. For Tigrinya it's 12th century

@teddyissak2720

3 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanx4540 When ever it is, this Video is pretty much inaccurate.

One of the greatest language families in the world

@johnsmith-ir1ne

2 жыл бұрын

It's not a language family. It's a sub language family. Belongs to the Afro Asiatic language family

@pas1994ok

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnsmith-ir1ne ok, thanks, now I think that this channel needs to do a video about the Afro-Asiatic languages

@user-ow5ly5kg8d

2 жыл бұрын

The most greatest language family in the world

@visionplant

2 жыл бұрын

Also the most well-studied

@Abilliph

2 жыл бұрын

@@pas1994ok we know very little about the evolution of the Afro-Asiatic languages. By some estimates they started diverging over 15,000 years ago... to give you an idea of how old it is, it happened during the last ice age, before agriculture, when mammoths still roamed the land... So anything we know is no more than an educated guess.

"Serbian Croatian Bosnian are different languages" Said the slavs

@homosapien.a6364

3 жыл бұрын

Haha 😂

@Ida-xe8pg

3 жыл бұрын

Croatian and Boznian are just Serbian without Bre

@Ida-xe8pg

3 жыл бұрын

Srbo-Hrvacki or Srbvacki happy now?

@sepep6288

3 жыл бұрын

I've learned Portuguese and Spanish and I've discovered that each nation in Europe insists that its language is different from the other European languages even if the only difference is pronunciation (like in the case of Portuguese and Spanish)

@Ida-xe8pg

3 жыл бұрын

Belgium, Andorra, Vatican, San Marino, Cyprus, Moldova, Switzerland, Austria (ok kinda), Liechtenstein

I don't think it's fair that you've classified region-based Canaanite dialects as separate languages but not different Arabic varieties. That's like saying Portuguese and Romanian are the same language just because they're both Romance. What is and isn't a distinct language is independent of nationhood.

Love and respect for Semitic languages speakers from Berber speaker

@fadwaelfettahi4245

3 жыл бұрын

Me too i'm amazighia❤️. But anyway i looooove arabic

@Mo-im5pk

3 жыл бұрын

@@fadwaelfettahi4245 I'm Arabian from Oman and I love Moroccan and Algerian people ❤❤❤

@user-ov7mb3qm8p

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you or as our brothers amazigh say tanmirt we should respect each other

@theking7908

3 жыл бұрын

@@fadwaelfettahi4245 How nice to see some nice comments from Amazigh. I've kinda grown to hate you from all Berberists on Twitter.

@-3696

3 жыл бұрын

كأن عندنا نفس الصورة؟

Good,work!

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

It's amazing how Aramaic still exists

@memomashash1287

2 жыл бұрын

It’s not existing anymore ….

@memomashash1287

2 жыл бұрын

…

@memomashash1287

2 жыл бұрын

Today no one even know this language

@memomashash1287

2 жыл бұрын

Except the Hebrew is a bit close to it and the old Phoenicians

@SciStone

2 жыл бұрын

I'm a native Aramaic speaker, we still exist, but mostly moved into the diaspora due to persecution and search for better life and freedom

Hi there. I'm curious about the Ethiopic-Ge'ez lineage though. I thought Ethiopic was just the foreign name for Ge'ez, so I was surprised to see Ethiopic being treated here as the ancestor to Ge'ez. I know that there is research that challenges Amharic and other southern Ethiopian Semitic languages being descended from Ge'ez as was previously thought and that it is hypothesized that they are rather descended from a sister language to Ge'ez. But I didn't know this proto-language was given more shape (dividing into a northern and southern branch, and being called Ethiopic). My little research gave me the impression that this pre- or proto-Ge'ez language was rather hypothetical at this stage and not much is known about it. And I believe it was called Ethio-Semitic, which I think you confused with Ethiopic. Perhaps you could shed some light or point to sources if it's not much trouble, I'd appreciate it..

@Maoilios12

2 жыл бұрын

Ethiopic and Ethio-Semitic are both names for the sub-family containing Ge'ez, Tigrinya and Amharic. The names of sub-families are less standardized than names like "Semitic" and "Afro-Asiatic." Another example I can think of is how some linguists group Hebrew and Aramaic under "Northwest Semitic" which this video didn't show. In the end, reconstructing these internal relationships is messy, so the names become messy too.

@no4H283

Жыл бұрын

Geez is more closer to Tigrinya and Tigre and the Ancient Eritrean Language was therefore called North Ethiopic as you can see at the top Eritrea is Dark blue matching with geez but as time changes names and stuff change which make it diffucult to understand

@BF-bb5us

Жыл бұрын

Ethiopic was later developed into Ge'ez

@yonas2828

Жыл бұрын

@@Maoilios12 when you talk about the semetic languages of Ethiopia don't forget to include gurage and harari.

@rediettadesse2828

Жыл бұрын

ETHIOPIA IS NOT A FORIEGN LANGUAGE , don't let white people brainwash you , The word ethiopia is name referring to a Kingdom it's been around thousands of years , it was a great Kingdom even empire at some points , It is found written on many ancient inscription in middle east and in ethiopian itself , The Greeks wrote LITTLE about ethiopia , saying they know it's a kingdom and ppl there are dark or hv burnt face, and just about what they heard about the kingdom , They did not name the empire , they did not even have direct influence over ethiopians , it's ancient times at that time whites didn't have superiority over other races , it's all bullshit , they didn't even have superiority in the Kate 18th century to Ethiopia let alone at it's prime time , just because they wrote about it doesn't mean they invented or named the empire , I don't think they even know the exact location of it , And yah both tigray and amhara languages came from geez , obviously , it's lies of you hear eitherwise to create division between the people

Beside Arabic, I still speak one of these old languages. It’s called Jibbali (Shahri).

@beendeez9880

2 жыл бұрын

Keep speaking it bro!

@qasimsaid219

2 жыл бұрын

@@beendeez9880 😊

@hmmm3210

2 жыл бұрын

Nice

@Before7years

Жыл бұрын

هل لها علاقة بقبيلة الشهري ؟؟

@qasimsaid219

Жыл бұрын

@@Before7years لا هي اسمها اللغة الجبالية وفي ناس يسموها اللغة الشحرية نسبة إلى الشحر يعني الجبل في محافظة ظفار بجنوب سلطنة عمان 🇴🇲

What about the spread of Hebrew in Eastern Europe, as well as other areas? Or is this done by nation and not by population

@cabg1266

2 жыл бұрын

When the Jews came to Eastern Europe the Hebrew language was no longer a spoken language, during this period Hebrew was used only for religious and literary purposes and this is why it was considered a 'dead language' (until its revitalizationin the late 19th century).

Wow northern central semetic (the ancestor of arabic) was so wide spread even before arabic existed

@zombieat

Жыл бұрын

only in the uninhabited/sparsely inhabited regions of arabia.

@wickedavatar4746

Жыл бұрын

@@zombieat why did you reply to me after 2 years also Arabia was more populated than you might think

I am so proud that I am one of the every few Neo-Aramaic speakers in the world, especially here in the West.

@il967

3 жыл бұрын

I'm lebanese, and I wish we preserved the aramaic language. Hopefully I'll learn it someday.

@tufiagmansuor7471

2 жыл бұрын

نتمني الحفاظ على اللغه الاراميه و الاشوريه، حرام تختفي

@Abilliph

2 жыл бұрын

@@il967 why Aramaic and not Phoenicians?? Then the Levant could speak it's languages again, both Hebrew and Phoenician.

@il967

2 жыл бұрын

@@Abilliph because phoencian is long dead. We don't have many records of it, and we spoke aramaic 700 years ago

@il967

2 жыл бұрын

@@Abilliph if we had more info about phoencian, then yes

In Syria we still have many words and vague constructions that are aramaic, canaanic or phoenician.

@shahennemer8593

2 жыл бұрын

The same thing we have in Palestine.

I fucking loved this video 😱❤️! Thanks

Great video👍

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Great Video! I didn't know that Tigre and Tigrinya language were successor language of Ge'ez.

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@rasalulaabanega1050

3 жыл бұрын

Yup 👍🏽 Tigrinya is definitely the successor to GE’EZ, Tigre also is closely related but it’s more influenced by Arabic..........

@redseayouth2897

3 жыл бұрын

soregix in fact unlike Amharic, Tigrinya language retained a lot of original Ge'ez words but also has some Arabic words in it. Therefore one could argue Tigrinya being much older than Amharic because it has retained the use of Ge'ez word in large numbers compared to Amharic.

@ephemeraljaunt

2 жыл бұрын

@@redseayouth2897 amharic is older but amharic was modified to accommodate the cushitic and omotoic people while Tigrinya stayed pure semetic

@smallthingsbigideas2754

Жыл бұрын

Its incorrect

The spooky ominous music is fitting.

Question, is Amharic a sister language of the ancient Ge'ez language? Tigrinya & Tigre are the descendants of the Ge'ez language?

@ephemeraljaunt

2 жыл бұрын

proto-amharic is but amharic that is spoken now is a descendant alongside tigrinya and tigre

@redsea334

2 жыл бұрын

Amharic is a 12th A.D communication master piece invented around outskirts of Shewa. This is well documented and known fact. It's neither a Sister nor related to Ge'ez. But we have complex people ( even some influencials in the Acadamia) who needs to make sh!ts up because they have no History.

@redsea334

2 жыл бұрын

@@ephemeraljaunt No such things as proto-Amharic. Its not a Natural language. It's an imposed language which the local agaws forced to speak around 1270 A.D

@ephemeraljaunt

2 жыл бұрын

@@redsea334 your right and wrong firstly yes amharic was modified by suseynos who was culuturally galla and modified amharic so other gallas and other cushitic people could people thus dropping semitic sounds. secondly proto amharic was a pure semitic language an ancestor of amharic it was spoken by nobles and military generals during axum. as for having no history amharas have a long history dating back to sabean times remember that eritreans have no freedom and no rights as eritrea is an italian creation and run by arabs and islamists and tegaru people were taken as sl+ves from yemen.

Can any expert in Semitic languages please explain how you can tell when North West Semitic evolved into Proto-Canaanite and then into Canaanite and then into Biblical Hebrew? Especially given the fact that apart from the Hebrew Old Testament there is not much linguistic evidence of a "pre-OT-Bible-Torah" Hebrew ancestor language. Or is there? If so, how do we know?

Awesome video! I agree with the theory that places the Semitic and Afro-Asiatic Urheimat in the Levant. I think it makes sense considering the spread of farming from the Levant and there are multiple stories from across Africa that say that their original homeland was the Levant.

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@umashi4437

3 жыл бұрын

I agree too, great video.

@captainch6182

3 жыл бұрын

Costas Melas what map do you use for these videos?

@amanuelseyoum7851

3 жыл бұрын

While I do agree with the Semetic part, I put the Afroasiatic urheimat at Sudan

@radishpineapple74

2 жыл бұрын

This video is not about Afro-Asiatic.

Could you please indicate the reference for your work. How you assumed that Semitic originated exclusively in the Levant and north Arabia? Why Mesopotamia was excluded until 2000 BC? The fact that Sumerians were not Semitic does not mean they were alone there. The Akkadians and other Semites shared the land with them in the same time frame and there is nothing to prove that Sumerians did not migrate them selves from somewhere else. Why you assumed Ethiopic originated from Yemeni South Semitic and not the other way round?

@MohammadAli-iz9ld

3 жыл бұрын

There might some mistakes in the video but he wasn't wrong about Mesopotamia, it sumerian until sargon the great united the city-states under his command and made the land officially semitic, yes there semites much older than the video indicated, they were prolly in the north (modern day mosul)

@michaelrenper796

3 жыл бұрын

Because historic records and archaeology show us that migrations happened ALL the time. There wasn't one mythical big migration period and than people stuck where they were. Sumeric texts show Semitic migrations into the region AFTER 3000BC. We can also tell linguistically. Early Sumerian has no Semitic influence. Later Sumerian has Semitic influence. Akkadian has Sumerian loan words from day one (when we have written records). There were other peoples in Mesopotamia speaking other obscure languages (which we have no record of) before Semites migrated there in numbers. PS: Don't read history books written with an Arab nationalistic agenda (or any nationalistic agenda). When a books starts with "Our ancestors have lived in this land since ancient times." you can throw it into the trash bin immediately. This is nonsense.

@mahmoudbenchehida9315

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelrenper796 This has nothing to do with any nationalist agendas as you claim. It is the fact that the semitic peoples are widespread in the fertile crescent and Arabian peninsula. There are also other people speaking non-semitic afroasiatic languages scattered in North Africa. This leads me to think that the semite people did not originate in a single place as per the animation. The animation is based on evidences found in written texts in this area where writing was first invented. But the animation neglects the fact that semitic and hamitic people existed way before the invention of writing. I also pointed out the fact that it is true that the Sumerians were not semitic, but the akkadians in the south, babylonians in the center and assyrians in the north of Mesopotamia were all semites. Would it be possible for these people to be natives to mesopotamia? Is there actual proof that they migrated from somewhere else?

@michaelrenper796

3 жыл бұрын

@@mahmoudbenchehida9315 Maybe I was a bit harsh in assuming that nationalistic agendas drive assumptions. The word "people" or more precisely "ethnicity" becomes very fuzzy the longer we go back in history as people mix, ethnicities can disappear (absorbed into others) or be created out of thin air (a funny example are the Hungarians). Also, speaking a language does not mean having a certain ancestry. About "not coming all from the same small area". There are multiple common misunderstanding about history in this statement: 1) People who speak the same language have the same ancestry. ----- No - Languages can spread much faster than populations. People migrate and mix. An "elite language" can take over a place with very little migration. 2) Relative population density was the same in the past as today and everybody contribute equally to today gene pool ---- No - Small differences in population growth make huge impacts over time AND one makes grave errors by assuming populations were distributed the same way as they were today. Fun fact, at one point int time Greek speakers made up 4-5% of the worlds population (5 Mio of ~100-125Mio). Today they are about 0.15% of the worlds population. 3) Migrating populations pushed other populations away --- No - They always mix, although statistically it can be true in the long term (see argument 2). E.g. assuming Ben Chehida is your real name you are likely from Tunesia. Which means you are (probably) 98% NOT Arabic, and 95% NOT semitic in ancestry despite that fact that you speak Arabic. The Phoenicians who came in ~800 BCE left little genetic impact and the Arabs even less. Tunesians are genetically "a good Mediterreanian mix with more similarity to other populations around the Mediterenian than with their immediate neighbors" (forgot where I read that. I visited Tunis once on a business trip and googled research papers). back to topic. What Are "Semitic peoples"? The only sensible definition is people who are attested to have spoken Semitic languages 5000 years back. We can delineate the area much clearer than in other cases because the neighbors were cultures with written language, who occasionally picked up loan words or mention personal names of their neighbors. Personal names are the best indicator we have. The Sumerians give us names of neighboring kings and tribesmen from 3000 BCE in Mesopotamia and those are mostly NOT Semitic. THEN the write about people migrating in (in the 3rd millenia BC) and the names they give for those migrants are increasingly Semitic. THEN the names of kings of cities are suddenly also Semitic. And THEN we see written Akkadian. Every piece of evidence we have says: "Semites were immigrants into Mesopotamia of initially low social status which became the dominant local group speaking the elite dialect of Akkadian from ~2500 BCE. Even than the Akkadian speakers were genetically a mix between immigrant Semitic speaker and older local population.

@haitham1553

3 жыл бұрын

@@mahmoudbenchehida9315 the main thing that prevented the spread of the Semitic language in the land of sumerians wasn't just a matter of distance, but rather the fact that lower Mesopotamia was constantly raided and invaded by nomadic tribes from the east(modern day iran and Turkmenistan ) which influenced it writing, some Turkik words that were find in the sumerian language are still used till this very day.

Top 5 most spoken semitic languages: 5: Neo-Aramaic: 1 million native speakers ~0.2% 4: Modern hebrew: 9 million native speakers ~2.1% 3: Tigrinya: 10 million native speakers ~2.4% 2: Amharic: 32 million native speakers ~7.7% 1: Arabic: 362 million native speakers ~87.6%

@Zeyede_Seyum

11 ай бұрын

Amharic have 80 million speakers am.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8A%A0%E1%88%9B%E1%88%AD%E1%8A%9B

@emptyhad2571

6 ай бұрын

@@Zeyede_Seyumthey don’t because it’s a pretty much a dead language by now if you were talking about, then I really doubt it because the world population wasn’t even that high then

@Makbel.

6 ай бұрын

Amharic isn't a dead language, are you talking about Aramaic??@@emptyhad2571

Do you planning to combine all languages videos in one?

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

I would like make them but they would very complicated and confused.

@feanorra8785

3 жыл бұрын

@@CostasMelas yes that can be problem, but try only Europe, if you do something like that I will happy to help you, especially about South Slavs. Your video abot slavs languages is good but have some mistakes, but it is still good video 😀

@christiansciberras7107

3 жыл бұрын

How about if he focuses on continent at a time instead of the world, it would be less complicated and can go into more detail language wise.

Those who are angry at the spread of the Arabic language are not angry that they speak a language that is not their own and write in Latin in the comments, although they come from different parts of the world 🤔

@rainbowstalin594

3 жыл бұрын

I see the point you're trying to make but it's not at all comparable. I and people in the comments who's native language isn't English know the language of our own will and speak our native languages on top of that we weren't forced to learn a new language whilst forgetting our own so the point you're trying to make is frankly hollow.

@hurqus9061

3 жыл бұрын

Rainbow Stalin Today we are forced to learn English without it. We will not get a job even though it is not our mother tongue. It does not matter how well you know your native language. You will not get a job unless you attend IELTS. This led to the degradation and restriction of languages. This also happened with the natives in Latin America and Africa where we lost thousands of languages ​​versus English and Spanish, but no one seems angry about it.

@user-cl7pm7zm3x

3 жыл бұрын

Qu Mu thats also called a globalisation and progress as most of people

@elieelias4928

3 жыл бұрын

That's because of the religion of peace. 😂

@hurqus9061

3 жыл бұрын

Elie Elias Cringe

Very well thought out video. I would like to make a small correction for the order of languages in East Africa, first we had Ge'ez, then Tigre, Tigrinya then Amharic. If you are going to name Amharic you need to put the primary languages of Tigre and Tigrinya for context ✌🏾

@CostasMelas

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@genetkassa3813

8 ай бұрын

No both Tigre Tigrinya and Amharic both developed at the same time

@sentesfazghi556

8 ай бұрын

@@genetkassa3813 No they did not. When spoke Tigre is the closest to Ge'ez and so on. Please don't distort history, my comment isn't there for argument or discussion. Using linguistics calculator, unfortunately Tigre is not available but using Tigrinya to Ge'ez it's 18.9 compared to Amharic at 39.9. The close to 0 the closer the languages to each other. Despite what's head been distorted, fact is fact!

@genetkassa3813

8 ай бұрын

​@@sentesfazghi556 look I never said that Tigre or Tigrinya wasn't closer to geez than Amharic, that is just a fact but that's linguistic evidence of Amharic being spoken before Tigre or Tigrinya because the true axumites went to the south and fused with the agew people living there and created the Amharic language. The Tigre and Tigrinya people stayed and had less contact with cushitic people's, hence why it took longer to develop.

@genetkassa3813

8 ай бұрын

​@@sentesfazghi556 you know you just proved my because since geez and Tigrinya are in the highly related languages box and Amharic and geez is in the related languages box, that means Tigrinya and geez was still The same language from about 2,000 years ago whilst Amharic diverged from geez around 3,000 to 4,000 years ago.

What was the original language of the Shiluhiya in SE Arabia? What was it related to?

Great video!

@CostasMelas

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

You should do a poll on what the next video should be on. You can keep 5 video topics, two of them being Language families, 1 war, and 2 random topics. Please do more videos related to Africa, there's a lack of them. Here are a few language families you haven't done yet: 1. Dravidian 2. Amazigh 3. Niger 4. Congo 5. Khoisan

@preoximerias7366

3 жыл бұрын

The Dravidian language family has nothing to do with Africa.

@pcgamingonyt5798

3 жыл бұрын

@@preoximerias7366 he thought Dravidians are brown so they might be brown /black 😂 Lol how stupid he is .

@preoximerias7366

3 жыл бұрын

Gaming Zone With God I hate woke Westerners when they think that the world is literally just White and not-White. Like, not every person who isn’t European is the same and putting them under some stupid umbrella like not-White or POC erases unique culture and ethnic identity. Someone from Southern India isn’t culturally or ethnically connected to someone from West Africa 😒

@ameliarodriguez7667

3 жыл бұрын

Guys when the HECK did i say Dravidian was African? I just said I want a video on this oof

@preoximerias7366

3 жыл бұрын

Amelia Rodríguez You said “do more videos related to Africa” then listed a bunch of African language families that a video could be made with..and an Indian language family. Not our fault for assuming you thought an Indian language family was African.

Wow, I didn't know that the Phoenician/Punic language lasted until the 5th century AD/CE, before finally dying out around 450 AD/CE. I thought that the Phoenician language began to disappear after Carthage was conquered by Rome at the end of the Punic Wars.

@michaelrenper796

3 жыл бұрын

It DID begin to disappear, but as a rule of thumb complete linguistic assimilation of a region took 400+ years in the days before Internet.

i thought aramaic was older than it is in this video but apparently i was wrong , anyways great video keep up the good work 🤗

@CostasMelas

11 ай бұрын

Thank you

Very good funky music especially the first half of the video

Finally a quality Video on the semetic world, I have a video about the Afro-Asiatic Languages, presenting them with their respective music/songs :D

Is Arabic really a lingua franca going down into central Africa?? That's amazing! As time goes on, I become more and more interested in Arabic. But I want to learn French and Portuguese next before I go into Arabic. And I still haven't finished Spanish yet! I'm almost there!!!

@stantorren4400

3 жыл бұрын

No. Russian’s more popular

@callmeswivelhips8229

3 жыл бұрын

@@stantorren4400 Do you know by how much?? Could wikipedia tell me about the lingua francas of Africa?? I thought the main lingua franca below the Sahara was something besides both Arabic AND Russian??

@sirlancelet9167

Жыл бұрын

@@callmeswivelhips8229 I think he's high on drugs because Russian is only spoken in the former USSR..

@TheKingofTheUniverse.

Жыл бұрын

my advice, Spanish -> French -> Arabic. You should not take Portugese because you have already learn Spanish and not many people know about Portugese.

@maurhes4423

Жыл бұрын

There are some territories in Chad Where they speak Arabic

I’m actually surprised very accurate ! Good job 👍

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Very cool!

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

@andrefarfan4372

3 жыл бұрын

@@CostasMelas yes. #Rosalina

Arabic, a very great language in world history Latin…Europe Standard Arabic…Islamic world Sanskrit…South & Southeast Asia Classical Chinese…East Asia English, French…The whole world

@TheKingofTheUniverse.

Жыл бұрын

well not Southeast Asia is sanskrit. Indonesia for example, we get much Dutch, English, and Arabic influence in our language. Based on historical? Yes, there is Sanskrit but after Ducth colonialism and Spread of Islam by trading and convert from the king to the common people, sanskrit is not have much impact to the evolution of Indonesian language. English? Yeah about that because in modern world many english word come and adopt into Indonesian language.

@jazairihilali6252

Жыл бұрын

French ... Africa (not the whole world)

Why did Hebrew suddenly disappear in the 500s AD?

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

The Hebrew was no longer used as vernacular language. The Jews adopted gradually the local languages from which the resulted the modern no Semitic languages of the Jews (Yiddish, Ladino etc).

Great video. Question: Are Berber languages not Semitic? Also, it would be nice to see the greater Afro-Asiatic family develop.

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I would love to make it in the future

@bcs332

3 жыл бұрын

They are not semitic but they are close to semitic languages.

@reiamy2823

3 жыл бұрын

Berber is an afro-asiatic language.

@TheUnique69able

2 жыл бұрын

@Kabyle3arabii thank you for speaking the truth

@ASMM1981EGY

2 жыл бұрын

@Kabyle3arabii 🤣😂😂😄😂🤣😂 yes yes and even the French created a totally new African language from A to Z which is spoken by millions of people which is the Amazigh language which is part of the Hamitic languages

I think the video missed the arabic-safatic language in bashan ( the black desert in Syria and Jordan), and missed the arabic- nabatean in southern Jordan and negev, and ARABa valley

can you please mkae a video about the evolution of arabic dialects?

@Skikdii

2 жыл бұрын

dialects are not languages

@zrabia7666

2 жыл бұрын

@@Skikdii i know, it's still interesting tho

Arabic language has many dialects that can be incomprehensible for each other. It was worth to show. Arabic language was official in Sultanate of Zanzibar, is official in the Comoros.

@CostasMelas

3 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately it is out of the map. I would have to put a second map in a corner, as I did in previous videos

@celtofcanaanesurix2245

3 жыл бұрын

Александр Исайкин Just because the language is official does not technically mean that it was spoken widely

@sepep6288

3 жыл бұрын

@@celtofcanaanesurix2245 true for Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Tanzania, Comoros and Chad. However all the other 19 countries that recognize Arabic as official language are widely speaking Arabic.

@rimacalid6557

3 жыл бұрын

@@celtofcanaanesurix2245 akkadian style Love your profile name, it's striking how Celtic and Semetic languages are close to each other

@truth9042

3 жыл бұрын

Smart Anonimous Darija is like Scottish English vs other forms of Arabic which is American English it's different accents that's all but someone from America will have difficulty understanding a Scottish person from Scotland but both speak English; Arabic is the same

Is there a specific app or editor that i can use it to make live maps like these?

I was waiting for tigre to come up. Im sure tigre came before Tigrinya. From what i can understand tigre is closer to geez and has less colloquial inputs.