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The Semitic languages (77 languages) are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, the Horn of Africa, and latterly North Africa, Malta, West Africa, and in large immigrant and expatriate communities in North America, Europe, and Australasia. The terminology was first used in the 1780s by members of the Göttingen school of history, who derived the name from Shem, one of the three sons of Noah in the Book of Genesis.
Most scripts used to write Semitic languages are abjads - a type of alphabetic script that omits some or all of the vowels, which is feasible for these languages because the consonants are the primary carriers of meaning in the Semitic languages. These include the Ugaritic, Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, and ancient South Arabian alphabets. The Geʽez script, used for writing the Semitic languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea, is technically an abugida - a modified abjad in which vowels are notated using diacritic marks added to the consonants at all times, in contrast with other Semitic languages which indicate diacritics based on need or for introductory purposes. Maltese is the only Semitic language written in the Latin script and the only Semitic language to be an official language of the European Union.
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Greetings from Malta! 🇲🇹
Maltese is cool because it has many words from Sicilian and Italian, the semitic + latin combo is interesting
@rochedib395
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Maltese is clearly a North African language inspired by Maghreb dialects because of several Islamic dynasties domination and geographic proximity, Latin , or Italic influence is minor compared to the Arabic foundation , structure and vocabulary of Maltese, I have even noticed that Maltese use in some cases formal or scholastic classical words of Arabic language of which the use was abandoned in Arabic dialects. To sum up , I am Algerian and I do understand fully Maltese from the similarity with our dialect in north east Algeria.
@bustanut5876
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@@rochedib395 so Maltese language is a Phoenician language with arabic influence? thats interesting.
@esti-od1mz
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@@rochedib395 the maltese language was brought to Malta by the so called "Siculo arabics", not from Northern Africa, during the kingdom of Frederick the second, who expelled the remaining muslims from Sicily: even the genetic composition of the maltese show that they are closer to the sicilians. Also, 60% of maltese vocabulary comes from Sicilian. The base is of course semitic. Check it out
@lardgedarkrooster6371
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@@bustanut5876 no, definitely not Phoenician. It is a daughter language of Arabic, much like how Afrikaans is a daughter of Dutch. Still relatively understandable but definitely distinct
@omp199
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@@bustanut5876 Their comment doesn't even mention Phoenician.
I speak both amharic and arabic
Standard Arabic Maltese CTRL Neo-Aramaic Phoenician Modern Hebrew Akkadian Old Sabaic Ge’ez Amharic Ugaritic
Just one minor correction: I’ve noticed in a couple videos that for your introduction in Hebrew, you say “איך אתה“ Eich Atah. While this is technically correct, this is rarely used as an actual greeting in Modern Hebrew. In Modern Hebrew, the three most common greetings for “how are you?” are: “מה שלומך” /maː ʃlomχaː/ - lit. “What is your peace?” “מה נשמע” /maː niʃmaː/ - lit. “What do we hear?” “מה קורה” /maː koʁeː/ - lit. “What is happening?” But great job with the pronunciations! These videos are so cool to watch!
You should mention the usage of Semitic languages as a religious sacred language across the world
As a native Hebrew speaker, the first time I read a text in Phoenician (from the 5th century BC), it amazed me how similar it is to Biblical Hebrew. I could understand most of it. I'm no expert, but it looks like they were dialects of the same language. And also, I think that Maltese is really cool. I just love how it sounds with this weird combination of Arabic and Italian. Thanks for your amazing video! ❤
As an Arabic and Hebrew speaker, seeing these other variations of semitic language like Maltese and Syriac makes me want to learn them so badly:) Thanks for this amazing video ❤️
@rohayeha
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What about this? kzread.info/dash/bejne/aJql0ciqXbTAiJs.html
@venomvenom9926
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@@BlueOcean696 siryac is aramaic brother iranic cirus empires all they are semitic even north africa middle east and asia and europe japhet
I’m a fluent Hebrew speaker, and it is so amazing to see that there are still to this day, people who speak Phoenician.👍🏽
hello andy, thanx.. مرحبا آندي وشكرا
I love the additional information you add in the beginning, really interesting!
It's cool how related Hebrew & Phonician are; likewise, Arabic & Maltese are related also.
It's quite fascinating to see how Italian language adopted linguistic casts from both the major Semitic languages. I think they are very significant and interesting to learn
@aristotleasparaguspodcast1129
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It did? I'm learning Italian and I don't know of such a development
@igorjee
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What do you mean? The Phoenician alphabet via Greece?
@francescobenedetti8266
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Ma cosaaaa?
@francescoquirino1503
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@@aristotleasparaguspodcast1129 as you'll probably notice, Italian grammar is quite complex, due to several contacts with foreign people in history. But arabic casts are often related to burocratic or culinary glossaries, though it could've been much more inspirating to deepen
@francescoquirino1503
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@@igorjee not exactly. The Italian language has been enriched since the Middle Ages by Arabic culture, throughout medicine, chemistry and cuisine and grammar as well. But adaptations are sometimes hard to relate to Semitic roots. We also owe a lot to Phoenician and Ancient Greek, though
the amharic speaker have its own way of speaking it
Can you make about Austronesian video please? ✨❤🙏🏻
Studjajt xi Malti, u ovvjament ma jiddispjaċini għal xejn, dan l-ilsien inħobb ħafna. Insellem lill-Maltin kollha! ✨
@smiedranokatirova5987
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iena min el għiraq u fihimt koll ili int kitibtu, ma narfx malti iena bess nafekeru kif intom titkellmu bi da il komentar dan il kitaba
@esti-od1mz
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Cool to see some sicilian etymologies in your text. Greeting from Sicily
Nice video. My favorite among these languages is Arabic. Hope one day I will be able to speak Arabic fluently.
@sulanano4090
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I can help right ?
@khotibulumam6759
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Yea... Absolutely Amen,,,,Arabic language was Heaven's language ... Dude?!❤️🙏☕
Informative as always.
As a native Hebrew speak I understood the Phoenician language this time almost like it was a dialect of Hebrew 😳
@amexalntr451
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Everyone don’t care
@ultimatedark5969
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@@amexalntr451 nobody asked you, go to sleep kid
@WinstonBleubon
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@@amexalntr451 I do
@luigianchondo7241
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@@amexalntr451 only Abduls like you that does not care
@thedemongodvlogs7671
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Because Biblical/Paleo Hebrew and Phonecians were both dialects or accents of the same language (Canaanite)
Stunning, as always!
Well made, Andy. I love your voice. ❤️
My name is Bartek which is a diminutive of Bartłomiej (Bartholomew) which is a Polonised version of Aramaic name Bartholomai which mean 'son of a warrior'
I love these videos!
you have a very good channel! I learned a lot of new things :)
@ilovelanguages0124
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Thank you, dear 💖💖💖
Hebrew and Phoenician are so similar!
Akkadian is such a cool sounding language.
Wonderful video
Semitic power ✊
@rohayeha
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Yes what about this kzread.info/dash/bejne/aJql0ciqXbTAiJs.html
It would be great to make a video in the future with one of the modern south Arabian languages such as mehri or soqotri. This language family is beautiful 👌🏻
@Aresydatch
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They need speakers
Arabic is so beautiful language
The old sabaic language, the Aramaic language, the Phoenician language, the Syriac language, and the Akkadian language, all the peoples of those languages mixed with each other, resulting in the Arabic language, which is the latest Semitic language. This information many people do not know.
@wabliohitika4521
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كذبت ملى لحيك ان كلها لغات عربية والأسماء هذي هي فروع ولهجات من اللغة العربية الأم او مثل ما يسمونها اليوم اللغة السامية.
@A-AlZaidani707
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@@wabliohitika4521 يا عديم التربية والعلم هل تنكر أن شعوب عرب الشمال وشعوب عرب الجنوب تداخلوا؟ العربية عند عرب الجنوب أعجمية عند عرب الشمال والعكس صحيح فأنت عندما تقول للغة الآرمية عربية فأنت بهيمة وتضحك على نفسك فالمسمى العلمي للغات العربية القديمة هو السامية أما المسمى المجازي فهو العربية
@user-xg9yg8kg7i
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@@wabliohitika4521 Abdul-Allah metro - bah-bah.
@_hunter_hunter1048
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Arabic was forced on the Levantines after the 7th century islamic-arabian invasion ... The christians of the Levant like Assyrians , Chaldeans , Maronites and Surian still speak various dialects of Aramaic... Ya jahleennnnn , if you listen to both Aramaic/syriac and Arabic you will see that there is a huge difference between them , only a very few words sound similar but the majority of words are very different
@ultimatedark5969
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The jews as well !!!! The Hebrew language came before the arabic, Hebrew is the father language of arabic
YHWH BLESS THE JEWS GOD BLESS THE CHRISTIANS ALLAH BLESS THE MUSLIMS
@cassielala21
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God bless😇😇😇
Can you do afro-asiatic?
@rohayeha
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What about this? kzread.info/dash/bejne/aJql0ciqXbTAiJs.html
Dang was hoping for a sample text as I am studying Aramaic
@donut9719
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Hi! I was wondering if you could share what resources/in what ways are you studying Aramaic? Would love to know. Thanks
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS, IM AN HEBREW SPEAKER (NATIVE). IM WRITING THIS COMMENT BEFORE I WATCH THE VIDEO, ILL EDIT IT WHEN IM DONE ! THAT WAS A GREAT VIDEOO !!! I LOVED SEEING THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE NORTHERN SEMITIC LANGUAGES, YOU DONT SEE IT A LOT BECAUSE MOST ARE EXTINCT OR SEMI EXTINCT. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO
what is the first and the third language you spoke here? they sound Arabic. I know they're not, but I understood them as an Arabic speaker
I don't know how you pronounced the proto-numbers but you did
Guys among all of these which language still used in our time other than Arabic and Hebrew?
Nice
It seems the words for 6 and 7 are similar to Indo-European languages
@yousuf6382
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Indo-European = Afro-Asiatic Semitic = Romance, Slavic, Turkic, Germanic
@venomvenom9926
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@@yousuf6382 iranic aramaic parthians scityians semitics
@venomvenom9926
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@@yousuf6382 parthians empires on map was beyond desrt of arabia on yemen
@PimsleurTurkishLessons
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@@yousuf6382 Turkish is not indo-europen. Turkish is not Semitic. Romance Slavic German are indo Europen languages. Indo Europen languages are fusional. İ mean word can fully change for slightly different meaning. Example "go" turns into "went". Syntax is mostly "subject verb object. Turkish is agglutinative. Example "want" turns into "wanted" . Root word keeps its shape only suffix is added. Even if you can change syntax acording to emphasised word. İts normal syntax is (subject) object verb. (Because verb shows the subject no need to write the pronoun).
Hebrew and phoenician are basically the same
@RCSVirginia
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Matheus d'Andrigues I bet that during the time of the Phoenician and Israeli kingdoms, the two groups could understand each other's tongues to a large extent.
Greetings from Lebanon, the old phoenician country❤️ i speak arabic, syriac and a bit of phoenician! In lebanese dialect, we have a huge phoenician vocabulary (about 46%)
@rohayeha
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kzread.info/dash/bejne/aJql0ciqXbTAiJs.html
@deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee4026
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Hi I am Arab too? Or you are not Arab? Idk but can you give me example of Phoenician words in ur dialect?
@WinstonBleubon
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That’s cool
@nabatean180
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46%? 🤣🤣🤣 If that is true nobody speaks Arabic would be able to understand lebanese dialect.
Please make a single video about proto semitic
Great
Andy any hope for proto semitic?
I wish you included Tigrinya instead of Amharic, Amharic is very very diluted with various Cushitic influences, while Tigrinya retained its Semitic language and one of the closest to Ge'ez.
@rohayeha
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you wish, actually Amharic is the proto Semitic language and alphabet kzread.info/dash/bejne/fpV7w5aFgpjVmbQ.html
@yakmi1116
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Indeed. Ge'ez is so close to Sabaean and Arabic.
Great Semitic cousins ethnic❤(Arab-Hebrew-Malta-Amhari)❤children of the great Shem❤
Hebrew is such beautiful language like Arabian. Thanks for the video!:)
Asalamualaikum all.
@darshanpatel.1782
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وعلیکم السلام!
@khotibulumam6759
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Orang Indonesia...Ta Mas?
pheonisian an Hebrew are very similar
@NemoFilHimry
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Phoenician and Hebrew are both canaanite languages, which back then were basically dialects of the same language. Modern Hebrew speakers can read phoenician texts with ease (except the different writing).
Syriac speaker here ❤️
@Marsel-ov6yg3im5c
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Are you Assyrian, Chaldean or Syriac?
@sammo7017
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@@Marsel-ov6yg3im5c ܣܘܪܝܝܐ ܒܠܚܘܕ݂ Just call me Suryoyo 🥰
@clonecommanderrex8542
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@@Marsel-ov6yg3im5c Don't Assryian speak mostly Aramaic?
@or200N
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@@clonecommanderrex8542 yess we do, around 1 million Assyrians are fluent in Assyrian Aramaic or ‘Sūreth’
Small nitpick Phoenician was written right to left just like Arabic and Hebrew but in the example provided it's written left to write
@marcusrivera1510
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Probably a glitch with the font
You forgot tigrinya and tigre!
I am an Arabic speaker
Nice try on the Amharic one but you shouldn't use 'endet nesh'/how are you(for female). Instead, you should use 'endet nachu'(for multiple people)
language but awesome
According to a recent study the Semitic alphabets sub grouping should be: Egyptian Hierogly Cunieform Siniatic Sumerian Paleo Hebrew Akkadian Geez Aramaic Amharic Hebrew Arabic
@pallasproserpina4118
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the hebrew and aramaic scripts descended from proto-sinaitic (and eventually from hieroglyphs), not cuneiform. ugaritic cuneiform and eblaite cuneiform do descend directly from sumero-akkadian cuneiform
@hagalhagal9989
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The Arabic and Aramaic scripts though seem to be pretty similar (2.34). kzread.info/dash/bejne/qWt3qJKKdLaroLA.html
@rohayeha
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@@pallasproserpina4118 but it is the Paleo Hebrew which is related to Siniatic not moder Hebrew. Modern Hebrew is a square shaped alphabet just like the cunie forms
arabic sound so original ❤️ so similar to Old Sabaic pronounciations
0:00 wait is that Ethiopian empire flag?
Aramaic was originally written with the same letters as Hebrew. The modern Hebrew script is the script that came from Aramaic. What you put here is not really Aramaic, and even the numbers don't sound like that in Aramaic
Tigrinya was part of it as well together with Ge‘ez and amharic. It sounds even more semitic.
0:10 tajjeb! u int?
Oh
3:49
2:06
Arabic is by far the most beautiful Also Amharic is extremely different from the others
0:42 *West Semitic* *a.* _Arab_ *i.* Languages: • Old - (South,) • Modern - (South,) *ii* Dialects: • Arabic
Please make a similar video for Iranian languages
I’m Arabic speakers
نحن العرق الاعضم والاكثر تأثيرا على العالم بلا شك ✡️☪️✝️☝️
@Marsel-ov6yg3im5c
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السامية ليس عرق انما مجموعة من اللغات التي تنتمي الى جذع و اصل واحد. و الدين ينتمون لسام هم اليهود و غيرهم من الاقوام ، ليس العرب
@samirdizco2759
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@@Marsel-ov6yg3im5c اسماعيل عاش مع العرب الاقحاح و تزوج منهم و انجب امة حكمت العالم لمئات السنين
@lucky-hw5ys
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كل البشر سواسية اترك العنصرية .
@awssafaa8101
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كلامه صحيح لكن طريقه سرده ما موفقه فعلا من جنوب العراق بدأت القصه والجميل الان اولاد العم في كل مكان
@googleuser4203
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لم تكن لدينا مثل هذه العنصرية. عنصرية حجم الجمجمة او عنصرية عائلة اللغة. العنصرية فكرة أجنبية لنا. اترك هذه المواضيع المسرطنة عقليا!
Pleas bairisch and fränkisch dialekt
Arabic and Ugarit have much in common
Wow arab and old sabaic are the closest to proto semitic
@bella-yn6oy
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i know rightttt
Arabia is good
There should be an Eritrean flag too - they speak tigrinya as wel
Do Greece languages!
@awssafaa8101
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@Ευαγγελος Αγγελος Yes cousins
All are originates from North east Africa
Where the old Arabic language?
How you ignore tigrinya language which is native of around 10 m people in tow countries
They all sound similar like as Arabic.
@samirdizco2759
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No, Arabic is beautiful and undistorted
@or200N
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Not really, they differ greatly from Arabic if you listen to samples from each language.
@Goyim-phobic
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@@or200N arabic is the closest to proto Semitic, its truly a preserved language
@Lay-Man
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More like Arabic sound like them.
please let the language of the medes come❤❤
I wish you included Tigre/Tigrait and Tigrinya instead of Amharic as they're way closer to the other Semitic languages comparatively.
Sumerian are Kurds Lol
I am so surprised at the similarities between Ge'ez and Arabic, yet even more surprised at the lack of similarities between Amharic and Ge'ez! It didn't even sound Semitic at all. Cushitic influence I guess.
You should have added Tigrigna which is closer to Geez and sudArsbic then Amharic
How about Arab language, not include?
Hebrew 🇹🇷🇦🇿❤🇮🇱
@scarymonster5541
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Arabic
@lolo-om9rs
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🇲🇦🇵🇸❤️ 🇦🇲
@banjonotkaz00ie64
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typical colonizers supporting eachother
@Emiriko987
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@@m-o6862 Karabağ savaşında Filistin Ermenistan'ın tarafını tutuyordu bundan dolayı orada olmasın. Haa bir düşün istersen.
@jssjjssjsshhs4012
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@Plopi Ninety Six love Israel Arab is Vırus From Turkish girl
Jews are an artificial race.. the bible tells us that abraham came from canaan, jacob married a midianite, moses also a midianite, then they left egypt with alot of mixed non-egyptian slaves to israel. In my opinion the jews are a really special people bcz they are kinda the selection of what GOD found worthy to call "Yisrael". All semites can be found in israel, also egyptian and berber people. Its really amazing that GOD chose a mixture of people, this shows that he loves all people alike no matter what race, if they are willing to become his own. Seek GOD everyone, Im german and I found HIM finally
@awssafaa8101
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Scientistshave found the origin of the Semitic nation in Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq DNA dont lie god bless you
@KnowledgeOfThePast
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Jews aren’t an artificial race. We’ve existed for thousands of years, our genetic backgrounds aren’t much different from each other and we aren’t a “mixture” of different races.
I love these languages and I would like to speak like them. Unfortunately, I know Middle Easterns would be disgusted at me just because I am left-handed, Christian, feminist, pro-tattoo, and also loving the same sex
@lardgedarkrooster6371
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I mean, you can still learn these languages. If you're worried about being accepted into these countries in general, I know Israel tends to be pretty liberal and open about those things, so you'd probably be welcomed there. Malta is a European country and most people are Christian there, so they might not have a problem either. The others you might have to be careful but I think you'd be fine as long as you respect their cultures and rules
@iuglyplant909
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There are alot of Christians in middle east, But they are very religious Christians 😅
@RCSVirginia
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Lingva Viro Oh, come now, be adventurous and live dangerously!
@NemoFilHimry
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Your best option for open mindedness in the middle east is Israel. Tel Aviv is like a year round gay party, and there are a lot of atheists in all cities.
@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl
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Actually no we have absolutely no problem with people who are left handed....... My cousin is left handed. And also we have no problem with Christians. 10 percent of people here in Egypt are Christians
Akkadian is a language of Mesopotamia and Babylonian and Assyrian are it's dialects. Akkadian is a Indo-Iranian language. Akkadian was in Mesopotamia so they had trade with India, Japan and other countries in the east. Semitic consist of Arabic, Hebrew, North African languages and others in the middle east and they had no trade with Mesopotamia and didn't know each other. Middle East is actually in the west not the each because it's more european kind like in the Balkans than in India or China.
@adriannandi5225
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Egyptian is semitic language.
@googleuser4203
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Akkadian is a Semitic language. What in the world are you talking about?
@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl
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@@adriannandi5225 Egyptian is merely afro Asiatic. The same group as Semitic. And no akkadian is Semitic
nigeri
Hebrew sounds like a European Germanic language. Not from this region
Amharic is not a Semitic language. It's totally different from the rest (as you can see from this Video).
Where is the Palestinian flag?
@dominikzelenak7423
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Why?lmao
@TurkishYoung07
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They speak Arabic
nein semitism
amharic doesnt look like semetic
The Arabs are the oldest nation on the planet, and most of the Semitic peoples left the Arabian Peninsula after the demolition of the Marib Dam. Umm Hebrew is basically a Babylonian language because Abraham was a resident of Babylon The Babylonians and the Mesopotamian civilization are the foundations of the Semites
@Aloksharma-oe1gm
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buahahhaha
@Before7years
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نعم انت محق
Honestly Arabic is the best language in the entire world
Ge ez is Eritrean and tigrayan not Ethiopian tigray are different to Ethiopia we are more Semitic than Cushitic
modern hebrew is not semitic - it's an indo european language construct