The passage from Targum Onkelos is mostly Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (mixed with Jewish Palestinian Aramaic).
@celinesleiman600110 күн бұрын
As you know about the Semitic languages, would you please answer my question. Do Semitic languages have letters V and P?
@AncientSemitic9 күн бұрын
That depends on the alphabet used by each language. The Maltese Alphabet has V and P for example.
@celinesleiman600110 күн бұрын
17:26 how it is successfully revived if modern hebrew is like a Frankenstein creature, it is an invention in fact or fabrication, the zioNAZī did put Semitic languages with yiddish which is germanic in a blinder and voilà. They claimed it was revived. No. It is not. Beside is it Palestine. For your information, Phoenicians are Canaanites and Canaanites are Arabs, so they spoke Arabic.
@AncientSemitic9 күн бұрын
Thanks for your unscholarly rambling.
@y.l74558 күн бұрын
You know what is interesting? A person born in Israel who knows only Modern Hebrew could easily understand Biblical Hebrew and Phoenician. Arabs can't.
@igorjee10 күн бұрын
For my ears yours is a precise and enjoyable pronunciation. Have been waiting for something like this. Two questions: In the Semitic languages today 'Sade' is a guttural 's' sound produced farther back in the mouth, but you pronounce it as 'tsade', is there evidence for it? Your 'k' and 't' sound aspirated, 'kh', 'ph', what is the rationale behind it? It reminds me of Germanic phonetics to it, e.g. in the way 'd' and 't' are pronounced. I was very pleased to hear a good pronuncation of chet and ayin missed by modern Hebrew speakers and anglophone bible experts alike. Thanks!
@AncientSemitic9 күн бұрын
Guttural s is a very broad term. There are different pronunciation for the letter "sad(e)" in current Semitic languages. Compare the pharyngealized pronunciation in Arabic to the glottalized pronunciation in Tigrinya. There is evidence that the glottalized pronunciation was very common in older Semitic languages such as Akkadian.
@Sn_SS9517 күн бұрын
can i get a ugaritic language certificate online?
@jibriel491819 күн бұрын
You made a mistake in 2:06:27 أحد تلك is read "Ahadi tilka" without tanween
@josiahmedin221621 күн бұрын
Final -us survives in Old French nominative singular -s, the nominative singular of leu 'wolf' is leus
@modustrollens783324 күн бұрын
39:00 treatment of resh
@henoktecleab797628 күн бұрын
Hi there, first of all I want to appreciate you for your effort. my question is based on your explanation I don’t know why you included Amharic as semitic? it is not. second I don’t understand why you use ethiopic word. Thanks
@AncientSemitic24 күн бұрын
I included Amharic as Semitic because it's by all means a Semitic language.
Very insightful video, finally a good introduction to this vast language family. The case of Afro-Asiatic numbers makes me wonder. It is possible that some Afro-Asiatic branches have assimilated numbers from other, now extinct languages that existed before them and hence such a strange variety? After all it's possible even for an entire language family to replace its native number system with a foreign one (like for example it was the case with majority of Kra-Dai languages). Maybe, for example, Beja numbers came from an otherwise unattested substratum language spoken by a population that has been linguistically assimilated by proto-Beja/Medya? Just a guess.
@AncientSemitic24 күн бұрын
Yes, that's a possibility. Prehistoric language contact with a significant time depth might explain some of the huge differences between the different AA branches.
@yaseensharawi8034Ай бұрын
The proto Semitic look alt like Modern Standard Arabic lol
@gruffalodin6472 ай бұрын
So informative thank you so much. So sorry you did not make more videos. Are you a professor in Semitic languages?
@Yallah-20232 ай бұрын
My favorite channel fr
@ArchangelMichaelHolySpirit2 ай бұрын
🕊️ AlleluYah 🕊️
@hannimalgray49782 ай бұрын
Aloha ani Shainia toda raba for this easy way to learn. Enjoyed this tremendously. Mahaloe nui loa Aloha
@username-kr6ue3 ай бұрын
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
@michaeldaconceicao10413 ай бұрын
Are there any schools or universities in the world that teach Proto Semitic by itself ? Thank you God bless you for uploading these videos .
@felintodia20654 ай бұрын
I want know,the Chanel can answer me?
@vickyedits11014 ай бұрын
Modern Hebrew is not Semitic language. Modern Hebrew is Slavic/Germanic language.
@AncientSemitic4 ай бұрын
That's Paul Wexler's hypothesis. It's hardly accepted by anyone other than himself.
@user-mhmd-ibrhm4 ай бұрын
I believe that Harsusi is actually Arabic not western south Arabian. Alharasees actually speak a dialect of Arabic.
@user-mhmd-ibrhm4 ай бұрын
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?
@barrymoore447014 күн бұрын
Syriac, a variant of Aramaic, is a liturgical language in several Eastern churches, and several theological texts have been composed in Syriac, not to mention Syriac translations of the Bible.
@xin2154 ай бұрын
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
@QAZX0014 ай бұрын
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
@AlSHARIF515154 ай бұрын
The Akkadian language Arabic language.. .kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYPdl3p6m71lrbMsi=ZpFbDuu1mPHbl84o 💯💯💯💯💯 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZ6agJ6bhqdqr6Msi=AxdMjNrrY0anhL1B
@user-sy9gj2ny4i4 ай бұрын
How could I write name with Ugaritic ?
@AncientSemitic4 ай бұрын
How do you write your name in your language?
@user-sy9gj2ny4i4 ай бұрын
@@AncientSemitic سنا
@AncientSemitic4 ай бұрын
In Ugaritic: 𐎒𐎐
@user-sy9gj2ny4i4 ай бұрын
@@AncientSemitic شكراً كثير❤️ لماذا لم يكتب حرف الألف؟
@AncientSemitic4 ай бұрын
@@user-sy9gj2ny4i In Ugaritic there was no letter like Arabic الف. For example for "peace" you write 𐎌𐎍𐎎 but you say "shalaamu".
@emmanuelalbazi85604 ай бұрын
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.
@Thindorama4 ай бұрын
Mia Khalifa lol. You really went there.
@yaseensharawi80344 ай бұрын
The Arabic is the language of gods the Hebrew is the language of monkeys lol😅
@LanceAbrams4 ай бұрын
Interesting video! Your Hebrew pronunciation was a little off, though.
@AncientSemitic4 ай бұрын
In what regard was my pronunciation off?
@amr-______-20404 ай бұрын
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.
@amr-______-20404 ай бұрын
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.
@amr-______-20404 ай бұрын
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.
@QAZX0014 ай бұрын
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
@davidcooper1774 ай бұрын
A great presentation and lecture. 🎉🎉
@QAZX0014 ай бұрын
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 🙏
@user-fn5uc9kq5d4 ай бұрын
Aramaic ❤❤❤
@davidcooper1774 ай бұрын
I learned a lot how similar the languages are especially the old languages? Why are they similar?
@AncientSemitic4 ай бұрын
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.
@davidcooper1774 ай бұрын
@@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.
@davidcooper1774 ай бұрын
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!
@no4H2834 ай бұрын
Geez is not similar to Amharic
@user-xs4rz6vp6w5 ай бұрын
Really appreciate your work sir. By the way, how can I access materials of Christian middle Arabic in the Coptic alphabet?
@AncientSemitic5 ай бұрын
You can check "A Handbook of Early Middle Arabic" by Joshua Blau. There are text samples in there.
@xS146roar5 ай бұрын
📝 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
@AncientSemitic5 ай бұрын
What kind of fricatives are ت and ك? Can you give me the IPA symbol?
@xS146roar5 ай бұрын
@@AncientSemitic Check this video at 4:30 👇 kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3m7qGNqe8iWjZIsi=mdE8lbah8e8uBCQC
@Albukhshi5 ай бұрын
@@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.
@user-xs4rz6vp6w5 ай бұрын
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.
@AncientSemitic5 ай бұрын
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.
@user-xs4rz6vp6w5 ай бұрын
@@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.
@ShonMardani5 ай бұрын
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.
@oldreddragon15795 ай бұрын
Imagine how many languages that no longer exist that show linking transformations.
@oldreddragon15795 ай бұрын
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?
@ilhemminora23656 ай бұрын
The oldest scriptures in old arabic were found in turquoise mines of sinai, they are esteemed of 8000 years old
@Goyim-phobic5 ай бұрын
Do you have a source?
@ilhemminora23655 ай бұрын
@@Goyim-phobic ancient Egyptian - Arabic contacts in lexicon clue to arabic Urheimat by A. Yu. Militarev
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!
@danielbastien99696 ай бұрын
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...
@adam_meek6 ай бұрын
hijaze. wi du arabs think 'e' is a kasrah. how stupid.
@jeanbadasbadas23536 ай бұрын
We see how semitic languages are connected. Tank you. Brilliant work.
@jeremycline95426 ай бұрын
how do you know what vowel to insert into Ugaritic words?
@AncientSemitic6 ай бұрын
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.
@jeremycline95426 ай бұрын
@@AncientSemitic Thanks so much for your time: does Huehnergard's intro to Ugaritic summarize/teach the vocalization?