Hello! Šalāmum 'Alaykumu!
Welcome to my channel about Ancient Semitic languages.
I've been studying Linguistics and Semitics from 2009 till 2014 and in those years I've started this channel. I'm currently back in academia since 2021 to get a PhD in Linguistics.
My old videos from 2013-2016 are currently set on private and I'm planning to do a video series of about 24 videos, dealing with Semitic languages and Egyptian, but more organized, with a more consistent style and most importantly including all of the things I've learned in the meantime.
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The proto Semitic look alt like Modern Standard Arabic lol
So informative thank you so much. So sorry you did not make more videos. Are you a professor in Semitic languages?
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Aloha ani Shainia toda raba for this easy way to learn. Enjoyed this tremendously. Mahaloe nui loa Aloha
Hello is there any way of contacting you to obtain the slides used in the video? (Willing to pay) thank you so much for your work, I am not a student of linguistics but a hobbyist and your videos have been an amazing resource
Are there any schools or universities in the world that teach Proto Semitic by itself ? Thank you God bless you for uploading these videos .
I want know,the Chanel can answer me?
Modern Hebrew is not Semitic language. Modern Hebrew is Slavic/Germanic language.
That's Paul Wexler's hypothesis. It's hardly accepted by anyone other than himself.
I believe that Harsusi is actually Arabic not western south Arabian. Alharasees actually speak a dialect of Arabic.
Arabic is considered a sacred language since it is the language of the Holy Quran. But How is Aramiac is a sacred language while there is no Holy Book in Aramiac?
It’s crazy how this all links back together 😂. The word for king in Ge’Ez is “Nagush” and the word for king in Ethiopian is Negus
Ugarit or E.jarit : means in the south semitic language the slave Woman or small girl (My daughter) in Arabic Gaarya (جارية) Some Other Roots:. Egrot = frankincense Tree gur= well also farm
The Akkadian language Arabic language.. .kzread.info/dash/bejne/qYauyKl9lruYp7Q.htmlsi=ZpFbDuu1mPHbl84o 💯💯💯💯💯 kzread.info/dash/bejne/maFrsc2egaWdqaQ.htmlsi=AxdMjNrrY0anhL1B
How could I write name with Ugaritic ?
How do you write your name in your language?
@@AncientSemitic سنا
In Ugaritic: 𐎒𐎐
@@AncientSemitic شكراً كثير❤️ لماذا لم يكتب حرف الألف؟
@@user-sy9gj2ny4i In Ugaritic there was no letter like Arabic الف. For example for "peace" you write 𐎌𐎍𐎎 but you say "shalaamu".
First, i want to thank you for explaining the history and the old phonology of my mother language. Your explanation was nearly perfect, so well done. Second, I just wanted to mention that in some NENA (north-eastern neo-aramaic) dialacts the (š) sound is still used instead of (th) sound and some of the dialacts like my dialact (which is baz dialact) we use (y) or (h) sounds. For example... in syriac betha or beta means house. some people in tyari region call it besha, in baz dialact we call it bayya. in syriac, thillan or tillan means (we came)... the tyari people say shillan and we say hillan. There are other dialacts that use (s) sound instead of (š) sound. So betha becomes besa.
Mia Khalifa lol. You really went there.
The Arabic is the language of gods the Hebrew is the language of monkeys lol😅
Interesting video! Your Hebrew pronunciation was a little off, though.
In what regard was my pronunciation off?
I propose to rename the word Semitic to “Shemitic”. Not named after the mythological character “Shem”, but rather to be named after the land of “Shem” which is the name of the levant, or the land spanning from the eastern coast of the Mediterranean sea to Mesopotamia. This name is still in use until today in Arabic languages as “بلاد الشام" Bilaad Esh-Shaam, or the land of the Shaam, which is another pronunciation of Shem. It is after the name of this land that the mythological character “Shem” was created to function as a paternal figure for the peoples of this land, rather than the other way around.
To many syrians, palestineans, jordanians and lebanese who call their land the land of Shaam, the name “Shaam” has nothing to do with biblical or islamic prophets or mythical figures. It is purely the name of a geographical area.
To call them “Shemitic” languages it makes clear that these are languages that originated in the land of Shem, regardless of mythology. Yes not all shemitic languages are spoken solely in Shem, but this is most probably where they originated. More likely than the Arabian or Ethiopian Urheimat hypotheses for many reasons.
This is fantastic. I'm speaking south Arabic Sam tic (Shari) And I'm ready for any information for your research you doing good Joo keep those languages alive 🙏 Thanks alot
A great presentation and lecture. 🎉🎉
I'm speaking Arabic but we have Sam tic local language in south Oman which is having Soo smaller words Hebrew and Aramaic I like your video thanks 🙏
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I learned a lot how similar the languages are especially the old languages? Why are they similar?
Languages are evolving. This evolution leads to differences. So it's like languages are drifting apart over time. This means the further you go back in time, the more similar they are. But there are also cases where languages become more similar due to contact and mutual exchange. That's for example why Amharic has some similarities to Cushitic languages like Agaw. Both have been in contact for a long time and the lexicon and grammatical structure have influenced each other.
@@AncientSemitic I have see comparative similarities of vocabularies of Tigrigna and Amharic languages with the other Semetic languages. However, when you were comparing Geez with the other Semetic languages, the similarities increased by almost about 50%. Thanks for the information.
As TIGRIGNA and AMHARIC speaker, I was quite surprised to discover how Geez, Arabic, and Hebrew are so similar. We have to revive Geez, it is a beautiful language. GOOD PRESENTATION AND INFORMATION!
Geez is not similar to Amharic
Really appreciate your work sir. By the way, how can I access materials of Christian middle Arabic in the Coptic alphabet?
You can check "A Handbook of Early Middle Arabic" by Joshua Blau. There are text samples in there.
📝 Expert here.. You are wrong I have to correct you... I'm expert in Arabic. ss .. ت and ك is both Plosive and fricative. Put a sukoon there.. And thirs part is not ambiguous. But it's between them. Like ع .. ع is to pronounce in open mouth but the vocal card will suppress the sound . If you stop it will be ء not ع .. and if you fully open it will be ا . So you are very wrong.. Listen to Qari sheikh أيمن السويد ... Listen to his lessons. Pronunciation is not to learn by reading books but studying with scholars
What kind of fricatives are ت and ك? Can you give me the IPA symbol?
@@AncientSemitic Check this video at 4:30 👇 kzread.info/dash/bejne/d3yM2ZJtdsbJh5M.htmlsi=mdE8lbah8e8uBCQC
@@AncientSemitic I think he's mixing up aspiration with them being fricative. both sounds are aspirated in traditional Arabic pronunciation, and maybe he's picking that up? Either way, they aren't affricates--let alone fricatives, but are instead plosives--as you already know.
is the Himyarite language a semitic language? Are there any texts written in Himyarite left? Or people just know the language from the descriptions of Arabic records.
It seems like Himyarite is just the Arabic term for something that was still spoken in Yemen in the Middle Ages that was not perceived as Arabic. Probably remnants of Sabaic or other Old South Arabian languages. But none of the attested Old South Arabian languages is labeled as Himyarite by Semitists.
@@AncientSemitic thanks for the reply sir. I just read the wiki of Himyarite language which says there are himyarite elements left in three texts .What are they? Are they just unclear words in a familiar old south Arabian language text or in a text written in a completely unfamiliar language.
Semantic is a Farsi word زن مالک (zan-maallek) which means OWNERSHIP of WOMEN. It is the Ideology of yahoodi (یار جویی means male friend seeker or prostitution) Arabs and Jew Arabs. This ideology has given the right to men selling their wife as sex slave for food or exchange them for water and land use. In other words this was the law made by pimps (sex and child traffickers) to get wealth by selling their women and children. Zion is "زن یاب zan-yaab" means "women finder", they are the ones that deceive the women to sell themselves and their children to traffickers and pimps.
Imagine how many languages that no longer exist that show linking transformations.
Great job, well done. 3 Questions 1: As you ended with a Flood story is it possible that the original dates from many thousands of prior to the Sumerian or Hebrew (Younger Dryas )? 2: Is it possible that Samson and Delilah is actually Shamashun wa (Di)Layla or The Sun and Night/Darkness? 3: That everyone in the region could understand everyone else until some unknown event caused the language to start diverging?
The oldest scriptures in old arabic were found in turquoise mines of sinai, they are esteemed of 8000 years old
Do you have a source?
@@HardCore_Islamist ancient Egyptian - Arabic contacts in lexicon clue to arabic Urheimat by A. Yu. Militarev
@@HardCore_Islamist kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZJ1_zsGvZKu0p7Q.htmlsi=a2DQKnN3I81uBD95
it is not correct at all!! In Arabic language, there is not ( ancient, classical or medium, modern ) This may exist in English, but not in Arabic. Arabic dialects are not evidence of the development or “ modern ” of the Arabic language. Rather, these obscene dialects are considered a distortion of the Arabic language! Realizing that these obscene, vulgar dialects are only used by uneducated, illiterate people or those who like to cause harm to others!
From some shallow research, I have understood that in Eastern Syriac, ܦ is pronounced as an ‘f’ sound at the beginning of a word or in other positions such as if it is preceded by a vowel and followed by a vowel or a voiced consonant. ܦ is pronounced as a ‘w’ sound when it appears in between two vowels. I don't know if this is correct though...
hijaze. wi du arabs think 'e' is a kasrah. how stupid.
We see how semitic languages are connected. Tank you. Brilliant work.
how do you know what vowel to insert into Ugaritic words?
The vocalization is based on the Manual of Ugaritic by Pierre Bordreuil and Dennis Pardee. They mostly use comparison to other NW Semitic languages to reconstruct the vowels.
@@AncientSemitic Thanks so much for your time: does Huehnergard's intro to Ugaritic summarize/teach the vocalization?
If Semitic peoples could rename their language family or even make a new ethnonym...what would it be?
They would fight over that forever. 😄
Hi from a mizrahi jew ✌
Hope you're alright and your thesis is progressing fine!
Can you bring back your old ge’ez videos that would be a pleasure
Check the playlist of old videos on my channel.
what The form of (tion) in Canaanite language
As a Arabic speaker I was amazed that your Proto-Semitic reconstruction almost sounded like Arabic to the point I was able to understand over half of what was written before you translated it. Why do you think Arabic is in particular so conservative compared to the rest despite the relatively late appearance of Arabic in written history?
I would very carefully assume that Arabic was relatively isolated for a long time. Other Semitic languages were at the periphery of the Semitic language zone and in contact with other languages. Akkadian was influenced by Sumerian, Ethio-Semitic was influenced by Cushitic, Canaanite and Aramaic were maybe in contact with other languages from Anatolia and the greater Mediterranean area. It could be that. But language change is not always induced by contact. Sometimes it's hard to tell why one language changes drastically while a closely related language changes at a slower rate.
@AncientSemitic do you think that this is an indication that the Ancient North Arabian languages could be a lot older than what is currently assumed, or are at least directly descended from an older undiscovered language within North/Central Arabia considering it preserves features from such an early era? Of course this is assuming the reconstruction is close enough, like you said there could be features that are just lost with no explanation that don't appear in North Arabian or Arabic, or verb forms like kilāb may have been present
Is there a reason why the emphatic sibilant in both Canaanite and Ugaritic is not considered to have been pronounced something like ʃˀ or even some other kind of affricate?
I think it's mostly reconstructed like that because the emphatic sibilant is attested as alveolar in most Semitic languages, not as post-alveolar. That doesn't mean it couldn't have been [ʃˤ] or something like that. It's just more convenient to model it after the sound that is attested in almost all living Semitic languages. The only case of an emphatic post-alveolar sibilant that I can think of is found in Soqotri (and maybe sone of the other Modern South Arabian languages). But that's the result of palatalization of *q if I remember correctly.
1:48:54 isn't the term "Jacobite" considered derogatory?
I plan for this to be the first language written in cuneiform that I learn, right after Hebrew! This channel is awesome. I really miss your old videos that are no longer on here. They were excellently done and practically the only quality content of its kind on KZread. Is there a reason why they got deleted?
You can still find my old videos in a playlist that you can find on my profile.
@@AncientSemitic Wirklich? Wunderbar! Danke sehr!
Very similar to the Latin neuter nominative plural in how it declines the word for king.
Where exactly is the evidence that Akkadian had an uvular /ʁ/ rather than an alveolar trill or tap? Has that been deducted by how that consonant was transliterated in other languages in, say, inscriptional bilingual or trilingual texts? Great video, by the way.