Ancient NABATEAN Arabic: The Language of Petra Revealed!

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The Nabatean language was a form of early Arabic, influenced heavily by Aramaic, which was the administrative and literary language of the region during the Nabatean kingdom’s peak. Nabatean Arabic was written in a script derived from Aramaic, which eventually evolved into the Arabic script used today. The language exhibits both North Arabian and Aramaic linguistic features, marking a transition between the old Arabian dialects and what would become Classical Arabic. This hybridization reflects the Nabataeans’ role as traders and intermediaries, linking the Arabian Peninsula with the Mediterranean world. They were early adopters of Arabic, and their inscriptions, which blend Aramaic script with Arabic vocabulary, are among the earliest written records of the Arabic language. Over time, as the Nabatean kingdom fell under Roman and later Islamic rule, Nabatean Arabic gradually transitioned into the Classical Arabic form.
The Nabataeans were a Semitic people who emerged as a powerful kingdom between the 4th century BCE and the 1st century CE. Their origins are thought to be nomadic, but they settled and established a highly sophisticated society, with Petra as their capital. The Nabataeans became wealthy and influential due to their control of key trade routes, particularly the Incense Route, which connected Arabia with the Mediterranean world. They were known for their business acumen, trading in spices, incense, precious metals, and luxury goods, making them a dominant commercial force. Despite their prominence, the Nabataeans maintained a certain mystery, with limited written records about their early history, though their inscriptions later reveal them as early adopters of the Arabic language. Their society was also characterized by a blend of local Arabian traditions and external influences, as they interacted with neighboring peoples, such as the Romans, Greeks, and Egyptians.
The Nabatean culture was a fusion of indigenous Arabian elements and external influences, particularly from the Greco-Roman and Egyptian worlds. They are most famous for their incredible rock-cut architecture, exemplified by the city of Petra, where entire buildings, temples, and tombs were carved into the rose-colored cliffs. Their religious practices were diverse, centered around the worship of Dhu-Shara, the god of the mountains, and included other deities such as Allat and Manat. The Nabataeans also adopted aspects of Greek and Roman art, architecture, and even deities, creating a unique cultural mix. One of their most impressive achievements was their sophisticated water management systems, which included dams, cisterns, and aqueducts, allowing them to thrive in the harsh desert environment. Their culture’s cosmopolitan nature, combined with their skillful adaptation to their environment, enabled the Nabataeans to build a thriving, lasting civilization that continued to influence the region even after their absorption into the Roman Empire.
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[@ashraftarabishi2319]

I speak Arabic with Syrian dialect and the text is so easy to understand like 80 to 90%

[@Montdr_Hussain]

As an Arab, I understood it but in the same time I didn't, that's so weird and I liked it!

[@Nashmi-JO]

You feel that its normal arabic but cant understand everything but you can feel what he is talking about 😂

[@ThedeadaccountAL]

In fact Arabic of the Quran is a combination of different arab dialects of arab groups like the nabateans and Sabaeans and smaller tribes within those groups.

[@ThedeadaccountAL]

In fact Arabic of the Quran is a combination of different arab dialects of arab groups like the nabateans and Sabaeans and smaller tribes within those groups.

[@MrAllmightyCornholioz]

So you don’t understand it despite how familiar it sounds?

[@Montdr_Hussain]

@@MrAllmightyCornholioz kinda, like I can understand what he's trying to say but not by 100% percent and not for all of the sentences.

[@SirBolsón]

Would definitely LOVE to see more Arab languages like those of the now almost extinct "South Arabian" languages like the Sabaeans, Hadramitic speakers and Mehri! Edit: I now realise that, South Arabian ≠ Modern Arabian

[@zvya3da]

And also the language of Socotra Island.

[@Itube100]

South Arabian languages are not the same branch of Modern Arabic, Arabic is Central Semitic (from Proto-West Semitic) while South Arabian is south semitic, it is just geographical name not a linguistic branch, South Arabians were not Arabs it is just geographical name they share with Arabs because both of them lived on the same peninsula

[@rawaiea3841]

Still as an arab i find many similarities between both​@@Itube100

[@rawaiea3841]

Still as an arab i find many similarities between both​@@Itube100

[@ihab2002ahmad]

You can find youtube videos of people from socotra speaking modern south arabic. This is a video of soqotri poesy kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2a0p6ejpMqbfNUsi=vtBEMyNjNVfjdulb

[@greendro6410]

Sounds like a mix between Arabic and Aramaic.

[@A0pplePapple]

Sounds like Hebrew as well. Infact, some of the words here are spoken like in Hebrew today.

[@oussamatalha1903]

@@A0pplePapple have nothing to do with hebrew lol

[@A0pplePapple]

@@oussamatalha1903 I'm a native Hebrew speaker.

[@kindperson1015]

​@A0pplePapple wasn't modern Hebrew built upon msa Arabic? correct me if I'm wrong pls!!

[@Nashmi-JO]

Thats right​@@kindperson1015

[@oussamatalha1903]

I am an Arab and I can say that I understood 95% of this text and that if I went back to that era I would have communicated with them easily.. and this is the closest language I have heard to Arabic

[@sammo7017]

Actually many of these words aren't even from Arabic, they are Aramaic, I think we can understand them since Aramaic also influenced our dialects, plus it's a sister language to Arabic so that's why I think we can understand it

[@zebbezi5909]

as an arab i understood nothing stop with the cap

[@oussamatalha1903]

@@zebbezi5909 bcz ur not arab simply

[@ThedeadaccountAL]

​@@oussamatalha1903weather its close to Arabic or not isn't based on your understanding, it's based on the text itself!

[@revenger8744]

I'm algerian and i can understand some loanwords but not everything

[@Hashemaljarah1]

As a Jordanian Arab, I understand 60% to 70%, I am proud of our history.

[@BrandonLack]

This is not your history Nabateans were mostly in Saudi Arabia and South Jordan Only South Jordanian Bedouins and Saudi Arabians have the right to be proud of their achievements.

[@oussamatalha1903]

@@BrandonLack thats arab history

[@BrandonLack]

@@oussamatalha1903 What does Arab mean ? Are Somalis, Iraqis,, Algerians and Lebanese Arabs or not ?

[@oussamatalha1903]

@@BrandonLack Arabs are in all the Arab world

[@Aresydatch]

​Not all Arabs are descendents of Nabateans or Ancient North Arabs or Old South Arabs like Qahtanates, This is something for South Jordan and North Saudi Arabia @@oussamatalha1903

[@ABHISHEKTMATTHEWS]

Yo it sounds so good ❤❤❤ love Nabatean Arabic ❤❤❤❤❤

[@ABHISHEKTMATTHEWS]

No

[@Honest_Question]

Very interesting. As a Levantine Arab, I can clearly see that it has a lot of influence on the Levantine dialects of Arabic, because there are some words in our dialects that aren't in classical Arabic, but I noticed them in Nabatean (like Juwwa, or ka=kua)

[@Starrypaws64]

True, this may be why some arabs in the comments have struggled to bigger extent with understanding nabatean arabic than others

[@gemstone3453]

“Ka” is used in Iraq and Kuwait

[@gemstone3453]

I would add “barita” also

[@Honest_Question]

@@gemstone3453 Yes, barrita=barra

[@nayzak9791]

Juwwa is arabic word wdym???

[@Raptorozaur]

Nabataeans are my favorite ancient semitic people

[@ZedQ-r3f]

They are also Palestinians, the dialect kept these words of nabateans

[@Intifada1981]

Semitic is my favorite Semitic people...I love being Semitic

[@mokasm5840]

Because they don't exist as a political party today, if they did you'd be calling them terrorists

[@هشامالروقي-ط4ص]

Nabateans the ancient Arabic people

[@chairmanrosethewisegentleman]

Proofs that arabic has been parts of Levantine Culture more than century before advent of the Last Prophet of Islam.

[@BrandonLack]

Nabateans are part of the Arabian peninsula not Levant.

[@revenger8744]

​@@BrandonLack they lived in the levant as well

[@BrandonLack]

@@revenger8744 Negev desert isn’t in the Levant.

[@revenger8744]

@@BrandonLack never said it was

[@light9205]

​@@BrandonLackJordan is

[@pcgamerwolf515]

in some gulf dialects still use (Ka) with (Hu) in sometimes like (Ka Hu) كا هو meaning here is or this is,, you find like this in song of Miami band (Elhemdellah Weshfnakom) الحمدلله وشفناكم in minute 4:16 ,, enjoy it

[@Baa975]

I just wrote the Lord's prayer in this It's great!

[@bossbot3874]

Nice!!, perfect pronunciation!! The Arabic pronouncer sound soo sexy🌚 Very proud of you

[@Normal_user_coniven]

Nabatian spoke 2 languages: Aramic and Arabic, and wrote both of them in 1 alphabet. So, people got confused when they gathered Nabatian alphabets weither it is Arabic or Aramic or both. As a native Arabic speaker, I understood it without looking to the English translation.

[@ThedeadaccountAL]

Syriac and other Aramaic dialects invented by the Arabs were the result of the influence of local dialects on the Aramaic language, which had been the official political language of the kingdoms of the region since the days of the Assyrians.

[@ahmadal_shanqeety802]

I think that's impossible How can you understand it all?

[@Starrypaws64]

​@@ahmadal_shanqeety802it's not that difficult, there's only some letters that you have to replace or reorder mentally in your mind, like replacing "sh" with "s", then u will realize how similar it is to more modern forms of arabic

[@FarahOtaku]

As a Morrocan arab, i love this

[@mohamedelhaddade6371]

we are amasikh 😂😂 nah am just kidding

[@jackal25301]

Arabized Moroccan*

[@Noor-xl2ow]

@@jackal25301 not your business to tell people what to identify as , you are an outsider , stay out of this.

[@mvmed12]

​@@jackal25301 Do you realize that there was many Arab tribes that migrated to Morocco?? I descend from Banu Hilal. We Moroccans are proud of both amazigh and Arab heritage

[@Syria_Free_Palestine_will_too]

@@mohamedelhaddade6371 We are Amazighs and Arabs. 👍

[@israfaeldari5532]

Wow I can almost understand it. It's like hearing Arabic. Fascinating.

[@slightlyopinionated8107]

I'm from Oman and when the words were spoken individually I understood 95% but when the sample text was read I only understood about 50% of the first one and about 60% of the second text. I am also familiar with Yemeni and Levantine dialects so that did help with some words/phrases

[@Noor-xl2ow]

as a Syrian same , I understood 90%+ of the words on their own , but I can't understand the whole text , maybe if I take my time and analyze stuff , I would be able ,but for hearing the texts feels like just random Arabic words being mixed together without context

[@slightlyopinionated8107]

@@Noor-xl2ow are you from a city or a smaller town? because my syrian friends from small towns always have words they say but dont know the origin of and i am thinking there is a big chance those words came from those languages. it bothers me a lot that we each have our special words but theres no good dictionaries of ancient arabic languages that we may find their origin lol

[@lowbudgetgamer7242]

such an amazing videos keep up the good work

[@dekisugi.hidetoshi]

I'm first andy😊!!!

[@ya2a16]

This is amazing, please do more and more videos on this topic ❤👏🏻

[@Noaajkl-26]

From Saudi Arabia i understood 70% of it

[@naturbursche5540]

Videos continue to improve. Very interesting.

[@AlKamil-w8r]

As a kashmiri I understood 50℅

[@Davlavi]

Great deep dive.

[@Alaedious]

Fascinant !

[@sortof3337]

Dude your voice is so beautiful. ☺☺☺

[@adamthaeer217]

As a native Arabic speaker in 2024 I can understand 90% But still the context I don’t know if I get it right cuz that 3000 years ago 😂

[@raedardiy2661]

How could you understand 90% without being sure about the context??

[@ahmadloai2378]

You will be surprised that we in Jordan still use some of these words until now

[@AereForst]

Interesting that the word for “inside”(“juwwa”) is retained in colloquial Arabic but not classical which uses the word “dākhil” instead

[@taimurmirza7619]

Dākhil was taken from Arabic and included in Urdu. In urdu dakhil is used specifically for Entering

[@labellevigne4160]

I can how this variation of arabic influences the levantine dialects that descend from it as compared to other southern dialects of arabic.

[@Lefrench-o8l]

Me as a native arab, I understood 92% Of this ❤

[@vitaminoff]

Maybe she is Jewish after all, because this language is more similar to Hebrew than to Arabic.

[@Terranius]

​@@vitaminoffIt was heavily influenced by Aramaic, so...yeah

[@scarymonster5541]

Eventho the nabateans were arabs in origin but during that time the arabic language wasn't lingua franca So they decided to use aramaic

[@Lefrench-o8l]

@scarymonster5541 So? Arabic, Aramaic And Hebrew Are Semitic languages, I went to see the similarities between the languages and the results by my experience is:- Arabic are close 70% to Hebrew Arabic Are close 73% to Aramaic Aramaic are 90% Close to Hebrew

[@scarymonster5541]

@@Lefrench-o8l i know that it just many people seems to never acknowledge that arabs has not been inhabited sinai and levant before islam

[@-------------------DD]

Thank you for this video

[@TheTruth-ko9ov]

Wow It sounds like mix of Saudi, Levant and slight of Tunisian or Libyan

[@בןישראל12]

I’m Israelites and it’s sound like a combination of Arabic aramic and Hebrew. Amazing as he say in the end, shalom le3olmey 3olamim

[@hakimayari641]

" israelite"..in fact I just realized one thing: If we remove the Slavo-Polish words from your language, in fact Hebrew is nothing other than an old obsolete Arabic language

[@בןישראל12]

@@hakimayari641 oh you really think that? So you say the Torah is written with slavo polish words? I suggest you learn a little before you make statements with such confidence, I can help you with that if you want. And yes I’m Israelite, descendant of Jacob/Israel.

[@Aresydatch]

​@@בןישראל12They mean the Pseudo Israelites who came from Europe because they made a Frankensteined Revival of Hebrew and it sounds of a glottal earsore Real Israelites are long gone as a singular tribe but their descendents are primarily in Palestine (I am NOT going to argue over this because I do not accept any Isreali narrative becomes why?)

[@harleyking88]

​@@בןישראל12 man, there's no evidence of that man(Jacob) and actually you can't prove you're directly descendant of the canaanite tribes of the North. You're probably judahite or Edomite. 🙄

[@coolranch-ez4tu]

Do Sai’di Arabic next please!

[@alhmdulilah1]

You can submit samples in their email! You should see their community posts also

[@jkt48.oline_m]

I am so grateful to have such educational content like this on KZbin, but please put the source of your research to prove to the audiences that this video is a fact. Like how do you know this is Nabataean Arabic, how do you know this is Proto Austronesian, etc.

[@almami1599]

This language is for people who say Arabs were foreign to the levant before the Islamic period

[@zivan6179]

Arabs are still foreign to the Levant, we do not share the same genetic make up at all, we are levantines, you are arabs, end of the story. Just bcz some arab tribes lived in the levant before the islamic period, does not make them indigenous. Push your propaganda somewhere else bro.

[@the-leso-jd172]

@@zivan6179 ok israeli bot

[@servantofGod-xyz]

No body is indigenous brother, people migrate and conquere. The levantine record isn't clean either, ​they conquered and had colonies in many parts of borth africa. Even the sea people who ended the bronze era were levantine... @@zivan6179

[@almami1599]

@@zivan6179 no it is not, Arabs have been in the levant as long as Semites have been in the levant, Qedarites, Nabateans, Ghassanids and the Bedouins of Syria. Arabs ruled Gaza in the 3rd century BC and the romans named Southern Levant Arabia Petraea in the first century AD andthe first Syrian to be a Roman emperor in the third century was named Philip the Arab

[@servantofGod-xyz]

​​@@zivan6179No body is indigenous brother, people migrate and conquer. The levantine record isn't clean either, ​they conquered and had colonies in many parts of North africa. Even the sea people who ended the bronze era were levantine. @zivan6179

[@marwaqoura7804]

Good God ,I am an Arab (Egyptian) and understood this almost perfectly like 95% of it !!! BTW the word bein بين which still means between in Arabic in any dialect is originally ancient Egyptian it was presented by the symbol of a raven and it also means 'to separate' in an evil way , still used in the Egyptian dialect when we call someone غراب البين ' the raven of in between ' it means an evil person who comes with separation between two loving people .It is also in a song in the film ' The Return of the Prodigal Son ' ' حبيبي سكر مر طعم الهوى فرق ما بينا البين ، ما عدناش سوا ..'

[@GreaterAfghanistanMovement]

Egyptoans is not arab

[@NovikNikolovic]

I'm wondering if the Ghassanids, one of the last pre-Islamic Arab kingdoms, were related to the Nabataeans (even if Nabataeans stopped being a civilization a few centuries prior to the Ghassanids).

[@Nashmi-JO]

The answer is No Nabateans were ishmalietes who were living in north arabia and south levant with there qedarite cousins. Ghassanids are from yemeni origins from Azd tribe(very big and famous old arab tribe)

[@Nashmi-JO]

@@evom ايش هي الخرافات؟

[@GreaterAfghanistanMovement]

They were related but not from the same branch

[@shirinakter9415]

Thanks god you back in your old style andy

[@mikailzorlu1733]

Make a video about the Çukurova Levantine Arabic dialect on your youtube channel. That is the Dialect of my family in Hatay Türkiye.

[@ilovelanguages0124]

Do you speak it? :)

[@mohamedsalah-eo2bk]

I am an arab and i can understand most what being said . Wooow really to be able to understand a language from more than 2000 years 😅

[@user-rf2cg4cx5i]

Can you do Old South Arabian (Sabaic)?

[@mahino420]

this language seems like a mix of arabic and aramic before they split, crazy to know we were all one and now people speaking herbrew are fighting arabic speakers

[@Baa975]

That's pretty much what it is

[@zjzr08]

Lingusitics think Northwest Semitic (includes Aramaic and Hebrew) and Arabic split so in a way Arabic didn't exactly evolve while Aramaic didn't exist yet before splitting between Caananite and Aramaic languages.

[@dr.ahmedelamin5276]

It is like listening to arabic recording backwards 😂😂

[@Starrypaws64]

Its really like arabic but with letter reordering and replacing س with ش

[@dr.ahmedelamin5276]

@@Starrypaws64 جايز بردو ، بس انا مش عارف افهم كلمة من اللى بيتقال ، بتفكرنى باهل المغرب لما يتكلموا امازيغى

[@Starrypaws64]

@@dr.ahmedelamin5276 أنا بقدر افهم كلمات عحالهم بشكل جيد، بس الفقرة الطويلة تتطلب التركيز وانا مش متفيجة 😭 انا لبنانيه وسورية و عحسب شو يقولون في التعليقات، العربية النبطية أقرب للهجات بلاد الشام، فأعتقد أن هذا اله علاقة بفهمها

[@joyre1679]

Because the pronunciation is a bit off. It's overly emphasised in a way. We still use most of these words in Jordan, they're pronounced faster and the vowels are a bit different

[@mbadz9794]

Wow my town in Lebanon is called Nabatiye, that’s so interesting!

[@Huhn-Bruh]

You can see the similarities in the script with Habesha scripts from Ge'ez

[@rarelife1]

The Nabataean script is from the Aramaic script while Ge'ez script is from the old South Arabian scripts. Ultimately both have origins in the Sinai letters derived from Egyptian hieroglyphics.

[@Huhn-Bruh]

@@rarelife1 Oh ok. Cool

[@bababoi9294]

Ge’ez is derived from the Sabaen south Arabian script, the Sabaens colonized the coast of the horn of africa and created the kingdom of da’mt that later became axum, I can understand the bible in the ge’ez language

[@SonOfAdam314]

@@Huhn-Bruh the ge’ez script came from Sanad script سند what is himyar or Saba script

[@keshi5541]

@@bababoi9294 No they didn't. Also D'mt predates Sabaean migration. Dm't was built by Cushites aka Agaw people unless you are talking about Yeha which was influenced alot by Sabaeans. Remember there was already cushites living all across the entire horn of Africa before Sabaean ever even stepped foot in that region of Africa.

[@flowerofash4439]

the drawing: 😊👋 the text: "the curse of the Gods will befall anyone who..."

[@6zz]

Hegra in Al Ula was also their city 🇸🇦

[@CuriousPersonUSA]

Good work! It would have been nice to include the equivalent text in modern Arabic and Aramaic instead of hebrew which was not even mentioned.

[@SirBolsón]

I'd definitely like to see that this language is revived! The Nabataean script is so unique amongst semitic to see this tongue alive in the modern-day word would be amazing!

[@SonOfAdam314]

@@SirBolsón the Quranic Arabic is the most amazing Arabic from all these old Arabic. Bcs it came direct from God

[@SirBolsón]

@@SonOfAdam314 And what evidence do you have for Allah's existence?

[@jafroni6479]

@@SirBolsón look in the mirror buddy

[@SirBolsón]

@@jafroni6479 I have and no, I see nothing.

[@State_of_palestine_2025]

Arabic scripts are very elegant, when seeing

[@المرتدالفخور]

What’s the flag? Where did you get it from?

[@Biology_lady]

As a tunisian arab I understand it

[@Wondering98]

I think it has an impact on the dialects of the Levant today.

[@sammo7017]

Many of these words are actually from Aramaic that's why it appears to be similar to many words in moder Levantine Arabic, it's because Aramaic influenced these dialects so much

[@deadbeat5165]

@@sammo7017 no most these words are arabic .. aramaic influence in levant is little to nothing

[@ThedeadaccountAL]

​@@sammo7017Syriac and other Aramaic dialects invented by the Arabs were the result of the influence of local dialects on the Aramaic language, which had been the official political language of the kingdoms of the region since the days of the Assyrians.

[@NourNourNour487]

I can't believe what I heard - it's a Nabataean language. The Nabataean people were Arabs, and they spoke a different Arabic dialect, just like every region in the Arabian Peninsula has its own dialect. However, they used Aramaic letters as a writing system before it evolved into the Arabic alphabet.

[@wkmtsteven3857]

I wonder what the word “dhu” mean. A lot of kings in south Arabian kingdom have it in there name( like Dhu Nuwas)

[@Kurdishboy2698]

@@wkmtsteven3857 owner! Dhu al qarnain : owner of two horns

[@marwahussein666]

Dhu Nawas was jew

[@MrEVAQ]

Master, owner, one who has

[@almami1599]

@@marwahussein666his father converted to Judaism, they were not ethnically Jewish

[@marwahussein666]

@@almami1599 He was.

[@anomite121]

its very similar to my families southern syrian dialect, who wouldve guess so many words would come from these random people

[@yonj3269]

This is classical Arabic but it was known as Nabataean.

[@pakaso777]

Classical Arabic is writen in Arabic script, or as known as Quranic Arabic. So there is many differences between Nabataean and Classical Arabic.

[@user-rf2cg4cx5i]

This is NOT Classical Arabic lmao

[@ThedeadaccountAL]

​@@pakaso777classical Arabic is most definitely a combination of differences arab Peninsular dialects and languages which can be seen and clearly mentioned in the hadith too.

[@pakaso777]

@@ThedeadaccountAL thx for the information brother 🙏🏻

[@Gen.berseker25]

Fun fact: They are considered to be the first peoples in the Middle East to convert to Christianity alongside the Assyrians and Armenians!

[@GeoCrusader]

Hahahah whenever posting a language from the Middle East you’re sure the comments will be fun😂

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

"god chooaen people"

[@NetarAlt]

Yes

[@Genesis12verse2]

@@rizkyadiyanto7922 Its true, the Eternal Nation of God 💪🕎☘

[@bababoi9294]

@@Genesis12verse2nah

[@Genesis12verse2]

@@bababoi9294 Your opinion versus God's saying

[@zidanidane]

i love this video

[@nickyshaw-pentek9391]

Am I the only one seeing vague similarities between 1-7 in indo-european and afro-asiatic languages?

[@hopeundertheblacksun]

No? There's literally no similarity except for maybe 1

[@bababoi9294]

Arabs or Semites carry the j1 gene that originated from the Caucasuses, the same place were indo Europeans originally came from later they migrated to the steppes of eastern Ukraine

[@GreaterAfghanistanMovement]

Umm no

[@bababoi9294]

@@GreaterAfghanistanMovement nah there is

[@GreaterAfghanistanMovement]

@@bababoi9294 Like what?

[@siyabongamviko8872]

Lets hear!

[@muzz444]

It has some phrases similar to modern day Palestinian and Jordanian Arabic

[@ultimatedark5969]

It’s similar to Hebrew

[@wahidal-shar5534]

The Palestinian has nothing to that

[@jacob_and_william]

Like what? Genuinely I don't hear the similarities at all

[@harleyking88]

​​@@wahidal-shar5534actually,they have. Nabateans arrived in Palestine around the 6th century BCE. 🙄

[@sam00ra]

it does.

[@dhikr_ad-deen]

Hello, if you remember from my previous post, I speak the Harari language which is a semetic language. Could I help you in the production of a video about the language and it's people?

[@ilovelanguages0124]

Thank you!!! Please help me with it! Here are the things we need from you: Text and Audio for the following: (1 audio per category mp3 format) 1. The native name of the language/ dialect, 2. Numbers 1 to 10, 3. Greetings & Phrases, 4. Vocabulary, 5. Any story / Sample text, 6. Images for: Flag & Emblem, Traditional Costumes, Art/ Patterns. 7. Info about the language, people, & culture (w/ images) 8. Suggestion for Background music :D Stay happy, Andy Email: [e-mail]

[@QUS]

4:33 🗣️🗣️🗣️: دن قبره دعيدو بر كهيلو بر الكسي بنفسه ويلدهو واحرهو لمن ديه يتفق يده كتب ثقف من يدعي دو قيم له ولمن دينته ويقطر به عيدو بحيوهي بريحني سان شنة تسع الحرطط ملك نبطو رحم عمه

[@عمر-ط1ظ7ذ]

تسلم

[@QUS]

@@عمر-ط1ظ7ذ 🌹

[@AmraneFatih-yl8kn]

كعربي جزائري فهمت .100\85 )) اصولي من قبيلة هلال بن عامر القيسية

[@Ms.Abdulkader]

We steel use some words but it's not official words

[@wbhtrb3008]

when you hear someone says derived from aramaic, no doubt that he is an ignorant

[@zjzr08]

It's possible it did have influence from Aramaic (as Nabateans are making trades with Judeans, Phoenicians, Arameans and maybe Assyrians) so loanwoards from them isn't too unlikely IMO.

[@MrAllmightyCornholioz]

ALLAH BLESS THE SPEAKERS

[@nayzak9791]

Pretty much same as some slang in Jordan I was surprised they call wolf zabo, its slightly the name of the hyena in this arabic

[@jacob_and_william]

Numbers and vocab: Why do scholars even think this is a dialect of Arabic? This is straight Aramaic Sample text: ...Nevermind. Seems to be Arabic with a very heavy amount of Aramaic influence through vocabulary

[@zjzr08]

To be fair numbers between a major language family can be very similar...you see that as far as comparing Hindi and English (2, 3, 7, 8 and 9 are arguably very similar).

[@Mansourradmehr]

There was some Persian words such as zamn for time, zarri for small, ben for between and amm for with. Maybe they were influenced by Persians at some point in time.

[@koopakoop]

all of those words you mentioned are arabic loanwords in persian

[@Mansourradmehr]

@@koopakoop they are not loan words, they are Persian words which influenced Arabic, there’s a lot of Persian words in Arabic.

[@koopakoop]

@@Mansourradmehr then I stand corrected

[@mvmed12]

​@@Mansourradmehr No it's not ! Give me one Persian dictionary that mentions "Zamn" prior to Arab influence ! Luckily we have root words in Arabic and ز-م-ن is an Arabic root

[@montinyek6554]

All of those words are Arabic in origin

[@galrosenwasser496]

As a Hebrew speaker I was able to understand a lot

[@SonOfAdam314]

@@galrosenwasser496 bcs most Hebrew words came from Arabic words in Al Andalusia

[@zjzr08]

​@SonOfAdam314 Modern Hebrew gets its vocabulary from Biblical Hebrew which is mostly old Hebrew mixed with Aramaic, with also some Greek loanwords. It's true Ladino speakers may have adapted some Arabic words from Andalusia, but they aren't easily known by Jews in Western Europe diaspora and maybe even in the Arab world.

[@DarkReapersGrim1]

I'm Arab but born and raised in the US, so I am not fluent. I didn't even know there was such a thing as Nabatean Arabic.

[@Syria_Free_Palestine_will_too]

Just curiosity, which Arab country your origins are?

[@zjzr08]

Look up the history of the Nabateans and it's pretty fascinating, a notable pre-Islamic Arab tribe, north of which was the Hasmonean Kingdom and then the Judean province of Rome, then later on Nabatea got conquered by Rome and became Arabia Petraea (probably due to Petra).

[@Catalunya_Countryball]

Nice 👍

[@JavonWise]

Didn’t the prophet say that the purest form of Arabic was spoken in sana where he was wet nursed and learned to speak

[@yuyuyuyuyuy484]

Lots of pseudo-history and schizo babble in the comments.

[@Starrypaws64]

At this point, it's expected when a semitic language video is posted

[@IHATEMOCHA]

I read somewhere that arabic script descends from syriac alphabet, not nabatean. This is minority of thought among scholars. Syriac script looks way more similiar to arabic honestly than nabatean

[@720babylon]

@LoveAndPeace2004 something worth noting here,, the Nabataean script is actually older than the Syriac script. Nabataean evolved from Aramaic around the 2nd century BCE, while Syriac came later, around the 1st century CE, also from Aramaic. Arabic script, which evolved from Nabataean, has a different lineage from Syriac, even though both come from Aramaic. The visual similarities between Syriac and Arabic are interesting, but the historical evidence leans towards Nabataean being the main source of the Arabic script. And if you’re leaning towards the minority view that Arabic script comes from Syriac, you might as well considering that Syriac may have been influenced by the older Nabataean script

[@ThedeadaccountAL]

Syriac translations were made by Arab Christians before the prophetic mission and the greatest contributors to them were the Arab Ghassanids and the Arab Nestorian Christians. Even these translations, the majority or many of those who made them were people of Arab origin. Rather, the Syriac dialect in itself is an Arab invention that first appeared in the Arab Kingdom of Edessa during the 1st century BC. The Arab influences in its vocabulary and terminology are clear and undoubted.

[@ThedeadaccountAL]

Syriac translations were made by Arab Christians before the prophetic mission and the greatest contributors to them were the Arab Ghassanids and the Arab Nestorian Christians. Even these translations, the majority or many of those who made them were people of Arab origin. Rather, the Syriac dialect in itself is an Arab invention that first appeared in the Arab Kingdom of Edessa during the 1st century BC. The Arab influences in its vocabulary and terminology are clear and undoubted.

[@zjzr08]

​@@720babylonIt's funny that the Phoenician (IMO Caananite as a whole) script is used by Samaritans, Aramaic script is used by Jews, Syriac script is used by Assyrians and Arabic script is used by Arabs; I agree these scripts probably were developed pretty independently.

[@zjzr08]

I wonder if the Nabateans spoke Koine Greek as the region was Hellenised for a time...are there Greek loanwoards in the Nabatean vocabulary I wonder.

[@BrandonLack]

Nabateans 🇸🇦

[@ThedeadaccountAL]

No they were not. There's still no accurate theory to where they originated from

[@BrandonLack]

@@ThedeadaccountAL All of their cities are in Saudi Arabia and South Jordan. Their names and Gods are Arabic. Their DNA is 70 % Natufian like Saudis and Bedouins.

[@slightlyopinionated8107]

@@BrandonLack here is what chatgpt says: The Nabataeans were a nomadic Bedouin Arab tribe that may have originated in Yemen, located in the southwest of the Arabian Peninsula. The Nabataeans' origins are uncertain, but the most widely accepted theory is that they moved from Yemen and southern Arabia to northwestern Arabia and Jordan between the 6th and 4th centuries B.C.

[@BrandonLack]

@@slightlyopinionated8107 Originating in Yemen is a joke. Stop linking everything to Yemen.

[@slightlyopinionated8107]

@@BrandonLack anthropologists are the ones doing that so if it upsets you get an anthropology degree and dispute their claims while providing your evidence. without a degree youre just stating things you want to be true for whatever brandon-esque ideology you have westoid

[@KingsleyAmuzu]

Is this similar to Arabic or like to Hebrew or Aramaic, or neither of them, also, is this dialect similar to or different from Arabic, etc?

[@GreaterAfghanistanMovement]

Its literally ancient Arabic

[@rarelife1]

Sounds more like Aramaic like an Arabized version.

[@Intifada1981]

it's good to be Semitic

[@alperkaanbilir1776]

For the record, the oldest Arabic inscriptions known are in Palestine.

[@BrandonLack]

Nah it’s in Dumat al-Jandal Saudi Arabia

[@alperkaanbilir1776]

@@BrandonLack well, yes; I was thinking of Nabatean monumental inscriptions in the Negev. There are even older examples of Arabic writing, but mostly small fragments.

[@Fouad-B-1981]

I guess people of Jordan, Palestine, Syria and Lebanon can easily understand that. I'm from Morocco and i can say i understund 60% of it.

[@shuy4029]

انا سعوديه و فهمت و سوريا و فلسطين و لبنان مالهم علاقه فيهم اصلهم ما بين شمال السعوديه و جنوب الاردن فقط

[@azlyri]

If an Arabic speaker was trying to speak Aramaic

[@muhammed_kofahi4744]

Nabateans 🇯🇴🇯🇴🇯🇴🇯🇴🇯🇴🇯🇴

[@אליפרידמן-ג6ב]

It sounds more like Aramaic than Arabic

[@alloammar8482]

Oh a jew here . Of course you would not love to admit that Arabs were in sinai and jerusalem before jesus

[@arabos4239]

@@alloammar8482the arabs were in the sinai centuries before Jesus… The Qedarites ruled it before the Nabateans. And a Nabatean Arab was a ruler of the jewish people (Herod) before the birth of Jesus.

[@servantofGod-xyz]

Nabeatean has letters like ظ غ ض ص which are only found in Arabic..

[@oussamatalha1903]

JEW SAID IT NO WONDER

[@אליפרידמן-ג6ב]

@@alloammar8482 I was referring to how the language sounds, not to the history of the peoples of the Levant. I am not part of this discussion at all. Asking who said instead of what was said is the wrong question.

[@abdallahaliali2926]

I don't know why do you don't admit that the Arabic is the mother language of which called semitic languages

[@izzYozdan]

🇯🇴🇯🇴 Jordanian history only

[@dreamar3216]

The same language of South ern Syria

[@Kurdishboy2698]

What a beautiful language! It exactly sounds aramaic and arabic mixed! What a pity islam destroyed all these beautiful civilizations.

[@galmay_]

huuuhh? wtf are you even saying??

[@tornadoman1054]

This is why you shouldn't skip your medication

[@Kurdishboy2698]

@@tornadoman1054 tell that to umulmuminin ayesha

[@NotAn_NPC]

Islam united the tribes and made them a height of civilization, language, science and made that civilization relevant in the first place.

[@Huhn-Bruh]

​@@NotAn_NPC The South of Arabia was already an advanced society. All Islam did was copy Persian, Greco-Roman and Egyptian knowledge.

[@LaRoche_]

3:37 Everyone

[@ZeFodao-qv5gy]

the Arabs and the Arabic language is older than the Hebrews and Aramaic and all the Semitic languages ​​the first Arab prophet is Hud on him peace and the people of Aad just after Nuh or Noah and he is the first prophet that the world knows what language he spoke do not invent the origins of the Arabic language because it is the other Semitic languages ​​which come from Arabic

[@apmoy70]

That's your personal conviction and religious belief. Arabic is obviously NOT the oldest Semitic language, Akkadian is

[@samirdizco2759]

@apmoy70 Arabic is the purest Semitic language and this is evidence of its antiquity

[@ZeFodao-qv5gy]

@@apmoy70 Arab not akkadiaans or greek its Arab the oldest its oldest than akkadia

[@apmoy70]

​@@samirdizco2759What does "purest" mean, and since when that's a criterion for a language's antiquity?

[@apmoy70]

​@@ZeFodao-qv5gyAkkadian is the oldest attested Semitic language. That's a scientific conclusion and not a religious belief

[@uuuuuuuu-ko8cr]

North African dialects, with the exception of the Egyptian dialect, are all stranger than this

[@PhilipLaSnail]

As an Hebrew speaker I understood 99% of it

[@light9205]

As Arabic speaker i understood all of it

[@cupotkaable]

No way. Maybe like 60-80% of individual words with help of translation. But not the text. Although I'm not a native speaker, but still i doubt it.

[@Anu_TheSinger]

iam arabian and some how i can understand that

[@ahmedyaasiin3957]

Nabat in Somali language is السلام perhaps that people was Somali or Tigrey. when I listening their sounds is look like Araf and Tigrey Sounds.