ELAToronto

ELAToronto

This channel features videos by Endangered Language Alliance Toronto (ELAT).

Toronto is one of the most linguistically diverse cities in the world. At a time when the world's languages are being lost at an astonishing rate, we are in a unique position to undertake language documentation with speakers of endangered, threatened and understudied languages right here in our city. For more information on our mission, please visit our website at the link below.

Counting to ten in Bukusu

Counting to ten in Bukusu

Harari conversation

Harari conversation

Bukhori wedding song

Bukhori wedding song

SAVING OUR TONGUES Trailer

SAVING OUR TONGUES Trailer

Harari (Mohammed and Yusuf)

Harari (Mohammed and Yusuf)

Piedmontese

Piedmontese

Bukhori

Bukhori

Scots Gaelic

Scots Gaelic

Cellese

Cellese

Cosentino

Cosentino

Agrigentino Sicilian

Agrigentino Sicilian

Sri Lanka Malay (Zouriya)

Sri Lanka Malay (Zouriya)

Urhobo

Urhobo

Harari (Enas)

Harari (Enas)

Santonofrese

Santonofrese

Cellese

Cellese

Harari (Alawia)

Harari (Alawia)

Nakanamanga / Nguna

Nakanamanga / Nguna

South Efate / Erakor

South Efate / Erakor

Ge'ez: Life of a Dead Language

Ge'ez: Life of a Dead Language

Ge'ez conversation

Ge'ez conversation

Harari (Abdusamed)

Harari (Abdusamed)

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  • @kratitiwari9908
    @kratitiwari99084 күн бұрын

    ሀሁሂሃሄሆለሉሊላሌሎሏሠሡሢሣሤሧረሩሪራሬሮፘሯሰሱሲሳሴሶሷቀቁቂቃቄቆቈቊቋቌቍበቡቡቢባቤሶሷቨቩቪቫቬቮቯተቱቲታቴቶቷቸቹቺቻቼቾቿኀኁኂኃኄኆኈኊኋኋኌኍነኑኒናኔኖኗአኡኢኣኤኦኧከኩኪካኬኮኰኲኳኴኵኸኹኺኺቭቮቯተቱቱቲታቴቶዘዙዚዛዜዜዞዟዠዡዢዣዤዦየዩዪያያዬዮፐፑፑፒፓፔፖ

  • @NowInIwoN
    @NowInIwoN19 күн бұрын

    Blessings. Love the video but would change the title from calling it "dead" outright Igziabeher

  • @bilenhindi
    @bilenhindi20 күн бұрын

    Please give some Ge'ez lesson on your channel. It's my dream to have a conversation in Ge'ez like that. And I feel how it is so important to learn, teach, make it conversational so that the language is preserved! 💚💛❤

  • @moneyaintathing817
    @moneyaintathing81725 күн бұрын

    Nice but more study needs to be done as Geez obviously lost its original pronunciation. I speak Tigrigna, Tigre, Amharic, and Arabic. Geez is closer to arabic and Tigre. And of course many tigrigna and Amharic words that are not arabic. But when people speak Geez, it sounds Amharic. Geez should sound arabic and not like Amharic and that is the biggest problem.

  • @dezmac528
    @dezmac528Ай бұрын

    Its odd how people claim that Geez is a dead language. When 10 million plus known people still speak it. If thats the criteria for a dead language then we need to add more "dead" languages to that list.

  • @zigzag4273
    @zigzag42738 күн бұрын

    By 'dead' they kinda mean that it's not a language that's used in day to day conversation.

  • @samyee6488
    @samyee64882 ай бұрын

    Bapapeeee otakkkk😂

  • @MasterAnyLanguage
    @MasterAnyLanguage2 ай бұрын

    Thank you

  • @GeezClasses
    @GeezClasses2 ай бұрын

    ግዕዝ, the First Language!!

  • @shantyp85
    @shantyp853 ай бұрын

    So have you guys faced any racism in Sri Lanka? Being called as PENDATANG?

  • @user-jt3dw6vv4x
    @user-jt3dw6vv4xАй бұрын

    I haven't heard of anything like that happening.

  • @abrahamojegalitarianism6850
    @abrahamojegalitarianism68503 ай бұрын

    ❤❤❤❤ thanks

  • @gerardchristian4763
    @gerardchristian47633 ай бұрын

    Geez in Ethiopia plays a role similar to what of sanscrit in India :it is part of a common heritage both spiritual and literary.

  • @joharajora5668
    @joharajora56683 ай бұрын

    Di mana Sri Lanka tempat kamu? Saya nk pi boleh ke

  • @EliElijah-gh1ft
    @EliElijah-gh1ft4 ай бұрын

    Glory to God 🙏🏻☦️☦️☦️

  • @lawrencehawkins7198
    @lawrencehawkins71985 ай бұрын

    My queston? Was the Ethiopian Eunuch, in the Court of Queen Candace, speaking G'ez, and how close to Ge'ez to Aramaic and Bible Hebrew?

  • @brianphillips1864
    @brianphillips18645 ай бұрын

    "Is it dead?" "We praise God in it" "Yes SIR!". May the All Holy Trinity keep both these fine Orthodox churchmen and may they serve devotedly for many years.

  • @Pil0s
    @Pil0s6 ай бұрын

    How can I contact this man?

  • @arsemagirma4535
    @arsemagirma45356 ай бұрын

    if you don't have anything good to say, don't say it. half the people in these comments are saying it's fake, but i know very well that they barely know geez in the first place. can't you guys compliment the video (or if you don't believe their saying geez then ignore the video, your choice) and leave? they tried their best, and i know im going to start having a lot of backlash and arguments replying to me, so for the haters that are jealous who want to start beef, i literally don't care what you have to say. I'll be sure to answer you back to be nice, but i don't care. whatever you say wont make me start being upset or whatev you want my reaction to be, because geez is an amazing language and we all know your jealous you can't speak it lol (im jk abt the jelous part, maybe) thanks, God bless!

  • @brighttomorrowlearningtube5052
    @brighttomorrowlearningtube50527 ай бұрын

    ❤❤❤

  • @Do2mifasol-nh3lq
    @Do2mifasol-nh3lq7 ай бұрын

    Saat srilanka di jajah belanda, mereka tak di sebut orang malay. Karena masih gunakan bahasa daerah masing masing, khusus nya dari jawa madura makasar maluku. Saat di jajah british maka disebut malay, karena mereka di janjikan untuk dapat pulang ke tanah leluhur jika mereka bersekutu dengan british melawan belanda di srilangka. Kenyataan nya janji itu tidak di tunaikan. Doktrin british Ini tidak terjadi di new caledonia, thailand, suriname, dutch. Tidak ada yang merasa menjadi orang malay di negara negara itu 😂

  • @biohelloeri2671
    @biohelloeri26718 ай бұрын

    People calling this language ethiopian is so dumb- 90% of eritrea speak eitherr tigre or tigringa - which both are the most closest language to geez.

  • @us3rG
    @us3rGАй бұрын

    Eritrea just means Ethiopians by the red sea. forget the names, Ethiopian and Eritrea Tewahedo needs each other more than ever. Tewahdo church needs to take back the red sea again.

  • @Crossing-Blades
    @Crossing-Blades8 ай бұрын

    I wanna learn Geez after I finish learning Japanese. Is there a way an American can learn Geez?

  • @MrsMac3099
    @MrsMac30998 ай бұрын

    Thank you, my one set of greats were from Cosenza. Montalto Uffugo, San sisto dei valdesi, San Fili etc ...

  • @ohali5668
    @ohali56688 ай бұрын

    If geez language is spoken in public will be more stronger than just in church, why is it restricted to the church, if its a people language it should be spoken in public between different religion people and in urban cities too

  • @vavasd1069
    @vavasd10698 ай бұрын

    How can I connect with a native speaker to teach me?

  • @fabrizio1261
    @fabrizio12619 ай бұрын

    Complimenti per le spiegazioni accurate e la testimonianza. Io ho vissuto per due anni a Cosenza nei primi anni 2000....l'accento Cosentino è inconfondibile e lo ricordo molto piü marcato di quello parlato nel video.

  • @sastradana9222
    @sastradana922210 ай бұрын

    Memang hampir sama persis dengan logat melayu Indonesia timur.. "kthrang" dari asal kata "kita orang", "thra/trang" dari "tidak" "melarath" dari "melarat" dsb. Bahkan intonasi bicara, kosakata, dan cara merangkai kalimat-nya pun sama persis dengan melayu timur. banyak komenan orang melayu-barat (sumatra, semenanjung+borneo utara) menganggap kosakata yg tidak dia pahami di video ini sebagai kata serapan dari bahasa Jawa atau India (biar kelihatan kalo melayu Sri Lanka ini aslinya melayu-barat cuman banyak kata2 serapan), padahal sebagai orang Jawa, saya tidak menemukan satu kata pun yg dari bahasa jawa asli. Yang saya lihat malah kental logat melayu timur yg dulu oleh belanda digunakan sebagai bahasa perdagangan / bahasa penyambung.

  • @brianabram9968
    @brianabram99688 ай бұрын

    Mirip bahasa ternate .. Yang banyak pake trada.. 😂

  • @degabreta
    @degabreta10 ай бұрын

    Geez is not a forgotten language. But its used only in liturgy of tewahedo church, similar to Latin in the Catholic Church.

  • @Emama-hy6cc
    @Emama-hy6cc10 ай бұрын

    Geez is the first language.

  • @us3rG
    @us3rG8 ай бұрын

    We need to revive it like hebrew

  • @sabrisamsofficial
    @sabrisamsofficial10 ай бұрын

    Jangan cakap kuat² sembang pasal Malay@Melayu@Malaysia. Nanti puak konoha ketar ketir tak senang duduk. Puak² tu pantang & anti bila dengar nama Melayu lagi² bila dengar nama Malaysia.

  • @alifaiman544
    @alifaiman54411 ай бұрын

    Angkatan Udara Bukang ? Oghang Ganu ?.....😮😮😮

  • @kilanspeaks
    @kilanspeaks11 ай бұрын

    I know I’m late to the party but yes, I agree with what other Indonesians have said here that the way they speak sounds more like the dialects spoken in Eastern Indonesia (a region whose native languages are not even related to Malay i.e. not Austronesian), not what we perceive as the “proper” Malay from eastern Sumatra or western Borneo. Very interesting!

  • @user-jt3dw6vv4x
    @user-jt3dw6vv4xАй бұрын

    Many Sri Lankan Malays are of Ambonese or other eastern Indonesian descent. Bahasa Melayu Sri Lanka developed from contact between Javanese, Ambonese, Balinese as well as the Sinhalese and Tamils.

  • @Mehrabb
    @Mehrabb11 ай бұрын

    Jesus wasn’t white neither black nor asian, he was middle eastern

  • @us3rG
    @us3rG9 ай бұрын

    He was jew teaching judiaism Christianity is basically hebrew all knowing God and greek all creator come together. Geez should be taught to everybody who considers themselves hsbesha. ሀ ግዕዝ

  • @ohali5668
    @ohali566811 ай бұрын

    Harari is Southern Ethiosemitic language, along with gurage silte argobba and zay languages And they are in same family with central ethiosemitic (Amharic) And northern ethiosemitc (Tigre) And hebrew and yemenite arabic Assyrian and Aramaic

  • @reem18hayat95
    @reem18hayat95 Жыл бұрын

    ኦሆ ቃል ሰናይ ውእቱ ኣባውነ ንህነስ ተፈሳህነ ጥቀ ቃልህወት ያስምእልነ ፀጋ በድበ ፀጋ ይኩን ላእለኩሙ ኣቦውነ ❤❤ እቱ ግእዝ ግን ናብ ትግርኛ ተትርገምልና ፅብቅ ነይሩ እቱ ግእዝ ናብ እንግልሽ ግን ብዝሕ ኣሎ ካባይ ጀምሩ እንግልሽ ዘየልብብ ስለዚ ፍቃድ ኣምላክ ይኩን ከምኡ ክትገብርልና ኣቦታተይ

  • @tonycoz2309
    @tonycoz2309 Жыл бұрын

    I miei genitori sono di Melissa. Sono in Australia. Parliamo ancora il dialetto melissese che suona simile al cosentino

  • @superduperstapler
    @superduperstapler Жыл бұрын

    I really love this video. It's insightful and interesting to hear the different perspectives of whether this ancient language is really dead. Beautiful ♥

  • @therryhenry7584
    @therryhenry7584 Жыл бұрын

    Bruh I’m Eritrean and I understand geez more than Amharic this is just like tigrinya with different words it’s logical when you think tigrinya and Tigre are direct decent of geez with 85% and Amharic is 50-55% I’m proud to hear the language my forefathers from over 2000 years spoke 🇪🇷

  • @us3rG
    @us3rG9 ай бұрын

    without geez we habesha stand divided and lost

  • @gabriellawrence6598
    @gabriellawrence6598 Жыл бұрын

    Wow, sounds extremely Germanic to my ears, like a blend of Swedish and Yiddish, except for her R's, of course.

  • @samuelzekarias4022
    @samuelzekarias4022 Жыл бұрын

    The language seems like tigrigna is there any books or….

  • @donolsen7634
    @donolsen7634 Жыл бұрын

    She is so easy to understand but she is speaking more Italian than dialect. She has beautiful speech!

  • @TheMostSteelDooshbagEver0451
    @TheMostSteelDooshbagEver0451 Жыл бұрын

    Should the Ge’ez language be revived and become the official language of Ethiopia? Just like Hebrew which was revived in the 19th century and became the official language of Israel. What are your thoughts?

  • @keshi5541
    @keshi5541 Жыл бұрын

    Why Ethiopia if anything it has closer ties to Eritrea than Ethiopia's languages. Eritrea's Tigre and Tigrinya language is much closer to Ge'ez (As a tirgrinya speaker I can understand alot of what they are saying) than Ethiopia's amharic. But it would be cool if it was manditory to be taught in both countries. Kind of how japanese kids have to learn both Kanji and Hiragana. I hope it can be revived.

  • @us3rG
    @us3rG9 ай бұрын

    Yes it should be revived, without geez habesha is lost and divided, we don't even understand our own history, that should not be the case for the next generation

  • @lasentx9857
    @lasentx98573 ай бұрын

    @@keshi5541i am amhara and can understand full phrases, plus there is more tigrinya speakers in ethiopia

  • @user-qy6xi2ut2d
    @user-qy6xi2ut2d Жыл бұрын

    i think one reason ge'ez is not used outside the church is because of 2 things. 1. ሞክሼ ፊደላት and 2. same sounding words with different meanings. 1. basically ሞክሼ ፊደላት are letters that "sound the same" - ህ/ሕ/ኅ ጽ/ፅ ስ/ሥ ጵ/ፕ 2. then there is the same sounding words - መሐረ (have mercy)/መሀረ (taught) and way more... the problem with these two things is that words can sound exactly the same but have different meanings based on the way it's spelled which makes ge'ez unsuitable for speaking. but this wasnt always the case because the ሞክሼ ፊደላት used to have different pronunciations. unfortunately, these pronunciations have been forgotten.

  • @us3rG
    @us3rG9 ай бұрын

    Our way of sounding words with different meaning is also our way. We considered the voice and manner it was articulated to into consideration, hebrew and arabic are similar and we began with similar written letters or alphabets written right to left like hebre and arabic, we didn't have vowels too Then vowels show up and abugida (do not know if invented independently or if sanskrite has influence) The we have current fidel

  • @stephanieadams9702
    @stephanieadams9702 Жыл бұрын

    Stop fabricating. no such language called Geez. Christianity and Islam was introduced to region from across the Redsea.

  • @manny7662
    @manny7662 Жыл бұрын

    well good for your wrong. 1. You realize that the alphabet system that Eritrea and Ethiopia are currently using today with 3 languages Amharic Tigrinya and the closest Tigre comes from the Ge'ez language? 2. It's commonly known that Christianity was introduced into the region by Frumentius and his brother.

  • @stephanieadams9702
    @stephanieadams9702 Жыл бұрын

    @@manny7662 what is Geez language? Where is spoken at not in Ethiopia or Eritria ?

  • @meyaw8018
    @meyaw8018 Жыл бұрын

    Sounds a bit like Kurdish

  • @martinkullberg6718
    @martinkullberg6718 Жыл бұрын

    I think ge'ez is a beautifull language!

  • @kalusmaster78
    @kalusmaster78 Жыл бұрын

    Now actually there are many school that teaches Ge'ez such as Ge'ez Academy in Addis.

  • @mauraadeliaflorescalero
    @mauraadeliaflorescalero Жыл бұрын

    en español

  • @anac4950
    @anac4950 Жыл бұрын

    Omg this is so easy to understand for Persian speaking

  • @alochoa7057
    @alochoa7057 Жыл бұрын

    Most of the malay are.not pure malay in siri lanka they have a mixture of suri lanka the.malay probably went there 3000. Years ago malay that why the other lady look filipina or Indonesia the malay people austronesian sailed to Madagascar 3000 years ago most of them are mixed with african know but the first people to arrive in Madagascar were the malay austronesian thank you salamat salamat means thank you in filipino our filipino.malay muslimsmin the southern.islands language is similar to malay language our filipino sea gypsies badjao who live in the ocean blue waters in Indonesia and.malaysia sabah are actually filipinos goat in filipino kangbeng eye is mata man lalaki child anak we have over 100 austronesian languages in the Philippines the numbers are similiar to all austronesian family most austronesian malay setteld on islands like Philippines and indonesia and malaysia they were the greatest sea fearing island people who sailed from fomosa island to the Philippines then to micronesia then to melenesian then to polynesia also to Indonesia then the sailed to.madagascar amazing the austronesian bloodline is very unique and spread.out to.many islands in the pacific ocean

  • @user-jt3dw6vv4x
    @user-jt3dw6vv4xАй бұрын

    Sri Lankan Malays are actually of Indonesian descent, mostly Javanese or east Indonesian (e.g. Ambonese) but also Balinese, Madurese and Buginese. A lot of them are mixed with Sri Lankan Moors or Sinhalese. The reason why they're called Malays is because when the British colonised Sri Lanka, they came across Sri Lankans who could speak Batavian Malay, which late developed into Sri Lankan Malay, so the British incorrectly termed them all "Malays" unaware that they were actually of diverse Indonesian origins. In the native languages of Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan people of Javanese descent are still called "Javaan" or "Java Minissu".

  • @anac4950
    @anac4950 Жыл бұрын

    Keep bukhori alive ❤