History of the alphabet, the writing systems of Europe

[@tonysoldan]

Greek, Cyrillic and Latin. I use them all. Greek-Russian here! Love to every writing system in general.

[@арефнар]

Русская кровь Русская слава Родина нас всегда вспомнит❤🇷🇺

[@bringbackthedislikecount6767]

Chinese characters would drive you crazy

[@Dian_Borisov_SW]

Лонг лив дъ глори оф Кирилик!

[@alexandartheserb7861]

Its not Cyrilic but Azbuka. Az (I) buki (noice). Latin is Abeceda. Oldest world letters are Vinca letters 4-5000bce

[@Dian_Borisov_SW]

@@alexandartheserb7861 Azbuka just means alphabet duuuude

[@arthur__lt]

This Greek decrease was kinda sad to see..

[@billaros1338]

True , but still Greek is the only one of these ancient languages , which is not dead.

[@xenotypos]

Latin is based on the Greek alphabet, the same with the Cyrillic alphabet. Those colors are potentially worthless if you don't know what they mean. Fondamentally, if you consider the latin, french and turkish alphabets to be "the same", then you can more or less consider that the greek and the latin alphabet are the same too, more or less. So in the end, the blue, red and yellow colors are all the products of the greek alphabet, that's not a legacy to be sad about.

[@svetoslavkoev7678]

@@xenotypos And the Greeks got their writing system from the Carthaginian or Phoencians as the Romans called them. The only "original" alphabet probably belongs to the civilizations of Mesopotamia.

[@xenotypos]

@@svetoslavkoev7678 True only if you say "writing system" instead of alphabet. Alphabet is the true meaning of the term is restrictive and the first one was actually the greek one, even it was indeed heavily influenced by the Phoenician abjad. An abjad is actually I concede, almost an alphabet. But I disagree regarding what preceded the Phoenicians, since they really innovated and many signs were actually inspired by daily life. It might have some minor similarities with other older writing systems but it's different when a writing system is literally BASED OF another, like it was for Phoenician - > Greek (with innovations) then Greek - > Latin and Greek - > Cyrillic. It was more than just "influences", so imho it's not comparable with older influences such as logograms in Mesopotamia.

[@Alexander-oq3gc]

Both Latin and Cyrillic Alphabett is like children of the Greek alphabet. And yes it is sad.

[@ValorVisionaries]

So sad to see Greek fading away like that, but im also proud cause it still remains as one of the oldest consistent languages in the world, plus Latin and Cyrillic have a huge Greek influence

[@pwnmeisterage]

It becomes a matter of arbitrary definitions and categories after a while, linguists and historians cannot avoid bias and cannot ever reach full consensus. You could argue that purely Greek writing systems are already long-obsolete, diluted, and faded (outside of endless scholarly analysis). Or you could argue that Ancient Greek writing systems have persisted by inspiring, evolving into, and being adapted within all the scripts which supplanted them.

[@lgiorgos1]

@@pwnmeisterage It is pretty much the same with the ancient writing system. Except for then, they would write everything in capital and without spaces.

[@mirandapillsbury7885]

Arabic too is highly influenced by Greek : )

[@محمديونس-7]

Arabic is the oldest

[@stavrosskoulas783]

@@mirandapillsbury7885 really??

[@bbenjoe]

Next possible change is Kazakhstan. They've decided to switch to the latin alphabet by the mid 2020's.

[@guntiskarklins19]

Kazakhstan and other mid Asia nations was made analphabetic several times. From Arabic to Latin, then Cyrillic and now Latin again.

[@SUKARUKA]

Benjámin Kurilla it’s not gonna work, because most of population of Kazakhstan uses Russian language as a second natural. It’s like change alphabet in Ukraine or Belorussia. People will imagine sthg like surzhyk and will continue speak as they wish.

[@bbenjoe]

@@SUKARUKA No doubt this move also serves as a means to distance the country from Russia. In the past century the alphabet in Kazahstan was changed multiple times, so this is not uncommon. Still, nearly a fifth of the population is still Russian. I guess time will tell how things will unfold.

[@AgahErdem]

as a turkish i hope they will change their alphabet

[@SUKARUKA]

Cosmos lol, where is a Turkey, and where is Kazakhstan, or you still live in Mongol Empire?

[@Tehnodinaroid]

What writing system do you want to use? The Balkans: yes

[@azhder]

Yes / Да / Ναι en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkan_sprachbund

[@fih2329]

Accept from greece. 3000 years the same language😂

[@petritzeka]

@@fih2329 And accept from Illyria (Albanians) , more than 2000 years the same language :)

[@fih2329]

@@petritzeka I actually just goggled it. Google says that albanian language exists for just 800 years (from 1210). I googled Greek too and it says it exists for 3500 years

[@petritzeka]

Iasonas Tsallos The illyrian culture was destroyed, thats why u cant see albanian language on google before 1210, but we all know it is through the words of areas in illyria at the time, such as Dardania and the king Bardylis, which means white star in albanian -> “Bardh Yl”

[@yyyhh7249]

Notice how Greece kept the same alphabet for 3000+ years such an honour to be able to speak Greek

[@VSP4591]

Armenians and Georgians did the same.

[@hira6481]

@@VSP4591 exactly, all 3 of these scripts, greek armenian and georgian, are all so beautiful and have such a long and interesting history

[@dionelshani1083]

Except, that it is a totally different language from ancient greece

[@tomxatz8361]

@@dionelshani1083 To correct you, modern Greek is a more simplified version of ancient Greek, so it is not a completely different language

[@pedrosabino8751]

Τομάρ νο χω ραπά

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club, the community of speakers of that language. Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. Change your language, and you change your thoughts. Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom

[@stephmod7434]

Kim Jong-un- 2022

[@yeetthephone2341]

thank you kim

[@darylmichaelbacol3932]

thanks for that knowledge supreme leader

[@Swaggaccino]

You know what? You're alright, supreme leader.

[@sneakycactus8815]

based kim?

[@Tirocoa]

9:51 "Wait, why did Armenian suddenly- oh *_O H_* "

[@equilibrium6544]

Because Turk or Atatürk Idea Took Over Anatolia And This Idea Was Anatolia Only Belongs To Turks It Was Against Ottoman Ideas because ottoman ideas were trust to other ethnics that live in that land,dont opress politics while turk ideas were opposite of that When Turks Ideas Spread Genocides Happen 1.5M armenians got slaughtered 750k assyrians got slaughtered and 950k greeks got slaugtered even this day turkey doesnt accept these genocides and they say that they did the genocide on us which is impossible because of ottoman rule over anatolia if they do that they`ll get slaughtered even in news people that live in anatolia seen as turks all of them which is ignoring your ideas,culture and ethnic place where you are from it is simply even if your ancestors are greek or assyrian or armenian you`ll be treated as turk and also education system is ultra turkish nationalism propoganda there isnt a religion lessons for christians because turkey is form of mhp and akp which both ultra nationalist parties and muslim religion is must because it is easier to control muslims because erdogan used this tactic like muslim religion in his advantange and fettülah support him but after he was seen as terrorist in turkey after erdogan got into power infilation happened and here we are in future dolar will be 10 turkish liras because priting more money doesnt make you rich and erdogan`s income is 81k turkish liras which is 19 times of income a teacher also he gets 1million 25k from bank my idea is that turkey wont last long and it wont be like africa but greece greece is lucky because it doesnt have high population in turkey 84m population or that amount and you know venezuela soo yeah my idea is that

[@equilibrium6544]

Turkic Ideas Will Still Be Alive But Many People Will Be Seeing Their Own People Like Terrorist becuase of erdogan idea of chp is terrorist which will cause civil unrest or civilwar

[@bahadir7677]

​@@equilibrium6544 Building castles in the sky huh. Too bad you are not well informed on any topic you wrote about.

[@equilibrium6544]

@@bahadir7677 i already answered this question

[@ggoddkkiller1342]

@@equilibrium6544 Atatürk wasn't involved any of those incidents as he was a simple colonel serving in Gallipoli while Ottoman forcefully migrated Armenians to Syria and Lebanon in 1915, in fact there are more than 7 million Armenians living in Syria, Lebanon, Europe and US today who claim they are ''survivors of Armenian genocide'' while according to your numbers all of Ottoman Armenians were slaughtered due there were only 1.5 million Armenians in 1914!! Your nonsense about numbers again continues with Greeks due there were 2.1 million Ottoman Greeks in 1914 that 1.5 million of them were sent to Greece according to the treaty of Lausanne that Greece also sent 500 thousand Muslims in return so we could only slaughter 600k Greeks but somehow we managed to slaughter 950k that i guess 350k Turks also got slaughtered accidentally🤣🤣 If we return to the real world here is an academic writing published by seven western universities which talks about how armenians and greeks targeted Turkish civilians and killed hundreds of thousands people that you ''justice defenders'' never ever talk about!! Why is that?? Perhaps because you admit greeks and armenians targeted Turkish civilians nobody would believe your crocodile tears afterwards??? :)) www.academia.edu/35312332/Revisiting_the_Fire_of_Izmir

[@Paguo]

Latin, Arabic and Cyrillic. Three giants and Greek in the middle, resilient as ever. Very sad decline though

[@JL18LAZOR]

well we still use greek letters in modern math classes !

[@captaingreek]

@@JL18LAZOR Yes just in Math. All sciences are built in Greek language. Good morning.

[@ionbrad6753]

... there was a time during which Greek was the giant, compared to Latin - and Cyrillic was not even dreamt of :)

[@captaingreek]

@@ionbrad6753 Not to mention that Latin and Cyrillic were based on the Greek alphabet.

[@ionbrad6753]

@@captaingreek Right. And the Greek based on Phoenician.

[@rymdalkis]

Man as a Swede I think it's a shame we abandoned the Runic alphabet. We still learn it in school but since our language has evolved into suiting the Latin alphabet many of our sounds now lack accurate Runic letters, and so most people quickly forget them. A fun fact though is that some areas in Sweden continued using a niche version of the Runic alphabet up until the beginning of the 20th century. There are people who still have old postcards and letters that their great-grandparents sent to each other written with Runic letters.

[@Dian_Borisov_SW]

That's incredible! And really a shame that a part of your culture is being neglected like that. We, bulgarians, are proud to have invented the cyrillic alohabet, as you can see that it pops up on the map basically where modern day Bulgaria is. Many russians and macedonians would claim otherwise

[@invidusspectator3920]

@@Dian_Borisov_SW Didn't the pupils of Saint Cyril and Methodius invent the Cyrillic alphabet ?

[@Dian_Borisov_SW]

@@invidusspectator3920 They invented the glagolitic alphabet by order of the bulgarian tsar, one of their deciples, Kliment Ohridski invented the cyrillic alphabet in Bulgaria.

[@Vitorruy1]

thats super cool!

[@DanielMorenoTV]

@@Dian_Borisov_SW i thought a greek had invented your alphabet

[@XiaomiX6]

I'm from Georgia and we have 3 alphabet. Modern alphabet look like this - საქართველოს გაუმარჯოს 🇬🇪❤️

[@MMadesen]

It looks pretty cool and unique. Keep strong, Georgians and Armenians.

[@VSP4591]

@@MMadesen Armenians have a different script.

[@MMadesen]

@@VSP4591 I know, but its pretty similar, and theirs is unique too and so they should keep being strong too.

[@alexandretavberidze5027]

@@MMadesen it's similar because Armenian alphabet was created based on different scripts and one of them is Georgian. This video mistakenly says that Goergian alphabet was created after the Armenian one, and Armenians are claiming that same person created both Armenian and Georgian alphabets, but simply that's not the case and Armenian claim was proven wrong multiple times. Earliest Goergian script which is "Asomtavruli" probably was created few centuries earlier than the Armenian, although there is much controversy as some people claim it to be created during pagan times, some claim it to be christian. The Earliest script in Caucasus was found in Graklian Gora excavation site in Georgia. It was created in 11th century BC and has semitic letters and some letters have graphical changes which lead experts to conclude that this script was created to write in Georgian. The same way German langauge uses latin script but adds some letters to fit its language.

[@mxeci2413]

@@thelastsamurai2472 mesrop wtf Not created mesrop Georgian script Create iberia king Pharnavaz

[@danielsilvestre7881]

Alphabets: 🇬🇷 Ελληνικό αλφάβητο 🇦🇲 Հայոց գրեր 🇬🇪 ქართული დამწერლობა 🇪🇬 ϯⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ 🇮🇹 Abecedarium Latinum 🇧🇬 Кирилица Abjad: 🇸🇦 كتابة عربية 🇮🇱 אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי‎

[@jamalalassaad6827]

And Syriac?

[@tylerpatti9038]

@@jamalalassaad6827 it is an abjad like Hebrew and Arabic

[@hristokolev6016]

@@fqmq4975 In Bulgarian it is spelled with only one Л

[@_kitaes_]

@@fqmq4975 на болгарском

[@Omouja]

What alphabet is that 4?

[@alexanderpalm6407]

I'm glad Georgians has stuck to their script, as it is incredibly beautiful.

[@gigabashar9513]

მადლობა ძმა

[@therandomizer9943]

Same with Armenians

[@therandomizer9943]

And the only language that has been resurrected is Hebrew in modern day Israel

[@zurazurabi1273]

ქართული დამწერლობის საზღვრები ....აშკარად შემცირებული აქვთ....შუა საუკუნეებში გაცილებით მეტი იყო......{მათ დღევანდელი აქვთ აღებული}...

[@ქართველიშვილი-წ6ჯ]

@Josip It wouldn't be problem, if you were native reader to this alphabet (I mean if this was your first alphabet), you would read it easy in less than one second

[@elgranlugus7267]

Latin: ABCDEF dominates Ireland: ---//---///----

[@servantofaeie1569]

you just said ggʷ

[@EazyIsi]

It’s Phoenician alphabet, they invented it, greeks got it from phenicians and rome got it from Greece.

[@servantofaeie1569]

@@EazyIsi no, Rome got if from the Etruscans who got it from Greece.

[@EazyIsi]

Servant of AEIE and Greece got it from phoenicians *.

[@Tabuleiro.]

Laughs in Irish Ogham

[@jorbennoten9536]

Me: should be studying math when its already 8 pm Also me: history of writing systems i need to see this Also me in the future: why did i fail my math test

[@xaph5575]

Yep me right now, at 1AM

[@imperatormaximus8952]

At least you'll ace your history exam 🙂

[@SolitudeCS]

No kidding, calc 3 final exam in 6 days here..

[@renjir0734]

how can it be the same to me ?, and maybe for others too

[@siratshi455]

Oh god same. Tomorrow is a final semester test and I watch that video. Pathetic

[@JohnnyMads]

Rome is still alive

[@Melnek1]

The irony is that it is thanks to the work of the Church and the same Christians that the Romans loved to throw to the lions in the Colosseum.

[@TheAltarios91]

Melnek *Perpetua and felicitas intensifies*

[@theunitsquad3144]

Jhonny Mads still immortal huh Rome In a way You know i was hoping you wouldn’t come back Great Empires never die

[@sto_karfi842]

Rome it's not alive, the political system of Rome is dead.The greeks kept it till 1204, after that they started adopting the despotic form of feudalism, upon this Napoleon and modern theories like capitalism, communism came to bring something new to replace this system.The westerners had a view of their title like, they own everything under their title, Lords armies lands people, that cancerous view was absent to the Greeks and Romans.In west there was a ruling tradition from the barbarian germanic tribes,in the east the LAW was above the ruler, the politicians of the Senate and the parties of the hippodrome had the influence to secure this right...Rome is gone, died in 1204.

[@theunitsquad3144]

Sto_Karfi! I think he meant that the way Latin was spread it looked like the Roman Empire. Also the Byzantium empire the last Roman nation fell in 1475 around that time at least. The Romans and their way of life died with it but their language and architecture lived on. When the Germanic tribes sacked Rome they did a good job at preserving almost everything

[@iontion4060]

But It is remarkable that the Greek language is at least 3,000 years old..

[@tony_doom]

@Jovan Naumovski of course it was a bit different, languages are living organisms and can change in 3000 years. Doesn't mean it's not the same language

[@paolovittoriodigilio7913]

@@tony_doom I mean, saying that it's a bit border line. It is almost like saying that Italian is the same language as Latin. Which is clearly not.

[@tony_doom]

@@paolovittoriodigilio7913 Italian is a continuation of Vulgar Latin so of course it is Latin but given that romance languages don't include just Italian, specific names were given to different offspring. In Greek this is not the case as there is no other language in the Hellenic family (apart from some dialects). It was Greek then and it is Greek now, of course with some influences from others. The core is the same

[@siegfriedia9986]

the greeks copied the alphabet from the semite phoenician, who were related to Arabs and israelites

[@tony_doom]

@@siegfriedia9986 yes the base for the greek alphabet was the phoenician one. And?

[@carolus5409]

I stayed in shock with Turkey, what a change

[@an5192]

A T A T U R K

[@hassanbassim4007]

Carolus today Turks can’t read any Ottoman letters or documents , while me an Arab can read and understand all of them as if they were written yesterday lol . Ataturk destroyed all of turkey’s history .

[@AbcDefg-br6ql]

@@hassanbassim4007 Turkey shouldn't have used Arabic alphabet to begin with. They ruled Arabs, not vice versa.

[@hassanbassim4007]

Abc Defg Arabs ruled them by their strong culture and civilization . They didn’t have any choice , they wouldn’t even be in Anatolia if it wasn’t for the Abbasid caliphs .

[@barssoyer5404]

Hassan Bassim how do you understandnit? It was written in Arabic alphabet yes but Language was Turkish so you couldnt understand shit :)

[@lionzion619]

As a hungarian, I'm surprised you didn't forgot about old hungarian writing :D It was slowly abandoned by most hungarians during the middle ages, and later it was rediscovered in some old medieval churches in Székelyföld (Eastern transylvania, roughly in the middle of modern day Romania) and then on some old artifacts. By impression it looks like rune writing, but only coincidentally, the similar signs mean different letters.

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you. It was the most difficult part because it was the script for which I found the least information.

[@lionzion619]

@@CostasMelas I can imagine, it's origin and history is heavily debated by hungarian historians themselves, so there is barely any reliable translated source

[@themobstar58]

@@CostasMelas same for old iberian, great job. although i always had the impression it's older, i guess you checked your sources

[@fanstargateiloveuniverse]

Please make a video about asia's writing systems, too. It would be also very interesting to see turks, scytia, china, indus valley, and more others. Please!! :) very good video:D

[@overabusedsalmon1238]

I've always wanted to ask this to an hungarian : Are you guys related with european huns in some sort of way ?

[@flameoguy]

I like how you can see what cultures are dominant by what writing systems spread the farthest. Its interesting how little of Europe used Latin writing during the early Middle Ages despite it now being the dominant method of writing.

[@Pidalin]

@Ibbo not just Germany, entire Holy Roman Empire

[@Pidalin]

It shows more like where civilisation already started and education spreaded, it's logical that there is no latin in Poland or Finland or something in year 100, they didn't have civilisation yet, but they switched to latin immediately when western civilisation spreaded there. BTW, we had Glagolic only for few years here in Czechia, it was artificaly created and characters were to complicated and hard to writte, it had no chance to win over latin.

[@wachtwoorden2]

Latin in 750: I don't feel so good Latin since 1850: UNLIMITED POWAAAAAA

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

Well .... no one writes latin anymore. They write in systems derived form latin for example latting has no "w" so yes the english are not writing as latins would. My own people have ŗšģķļžčņ these would be unreadable to a latin even if he can recognise their base in rsgklzcn. In fact today people dont write clasical lating like the latins themsleves did. This is because a latin knows its impēria even if he writes imperia modern people dont know this so to read they need impēria.

[@oguzhantekden2]

On my main channel, I edit videos with subtitles in 3 different languages for the old music of different nations. You are also invited. :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJLRf5endrCWr9U

[@plumebrisee6206]

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 The letter W came from the German . For example ,in Spanish ,the letter W doesn't exist ,but in French ,it exist .

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

@@plumebrisee6206 Latviski w doesnt exist either, we do have a very similar sound do to phonetic consinent swap but we write v as that is the sound without the phonetic consinent swap. Example are dievs that do to vs being in the same sylible become ws so diews, and nav that do to av being in the same sylible become aw so naw. (where the phonetic consinant swap doesnt happen, like dieva and nava we say dieva and nava.)

[@danieldebelen1995]

@@plumebrisee6206 What?? it does exist in Spanish, mate 🤣

[@bandiscam5899]

Me: **starts watching the video** Also me: *Why the years are going on reverse?*

[@brahimislmeoun1395]

You aren't alone there. When I just started watching, I was like WTF is this??

[@bandiscam5899]

@@brahimislmeoun1395 lol

[@petercihelka2429]

Because it starts before the so-called common era, or BCE! Then it goes to zero! Then it counts up to today! Used to be BC AND AD WE WERE ONCE USING. Then someone or some group got insulted, outraged or their feelings were hurt! Thank PC or Perverse Complexity for adding to our miscommunication woes!

[@aa-zz6328]

Just fucking use BC and AD!

[@gaminggod1495]

@lh g I use BC and AD because I'm Catholic but it's ok if I see someone use BCE and CE

[@shapur2406]

RIP Pahlavi, I learnt it. it's so sad seeing it being destroyed by Arab invasion as an Iranian.

[@hassanbassim4007]

Petros Movsesyan cry

[@SuperAltamish23]

It was the Arab invasion that lead to the Iranian culture being exported to far away lands that never would have happened otherwise. So technically, the Arab invasion helped Iranian culture to become more dominant. Learn history. Indian subcontinent, Central Asia, Gulf, Caucasus, and Anatolia all adopted Iranian culture after Arab invasion. Keep crying

[@SuperAltamish23]

@@shapur2406 iran had no cultural influence on the South Asia. It was the turkic people who formed the Delhi sultanate who first brought Iranian culture to the region, and then subsequent dynasties and rulers did the same. Anatolia was Greek in culture. The Turks also brought Persian culture to Anatolia and the Balkans. That's something that even Iran never did considering it neighbors Anatolia. Central Asia only adopted Iranian culture after they converted to Islam, they became patrons or the Iranian culture. There is no proof that the nomadic people looked up to Persian culture before the Arab conquest. Keep crying

[@KI-hx5id]

Petros Movsesyan cry

[@aeenramirez]

Iranian language and culture never change never. even now we speak Persian not Arab language its disaster movie and lie about history.Arabs only roll Iranian heartland for "130" years, and then Iranian hated them and rise again like phoenix. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasanian_Empire 224-651 AD en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahirid_dynasty 821-873 AD en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffarid_dynasty 861-1003 AD en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samanid_Empire 819-999 AD en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavids 977-1186 AD en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buyid_dynasty 934-1062 AD and till today....... Please Just little read BOOK..................

[@rodrib9136]

2:03 *Sea People*: Allow to introduce ourselves "Lineal B has left the chat"

[@maximilienmavian4333]

It’s so sad to see the Armenian script get decimated. Right after 1915, the Armenian genocide did a number didn’t it...

[@lucaschiantodipepe2015]

The Latin alphabet was a variant of the Greek alphabet used in the colony of Kyme/Cuma, town located in Southern italy. Later adopted by Romans.

[@ap6480]

Weren't the etruscans the ones who, among many things, influenced the latin alphabet?

[@Testimony_Of_JTF]

@Konstantin Trehagyrevopoulos And the greek alphabet derived from the phoenecian alphabet

[@parabelluminvicta8380]

@Konstantin Trehagyrevopoulos even if so thats not the case with the romans stop spreading bullshit

[@snowman9452]

@@Testimony_Of_JTF nope, it was influenced, but not derived from phoenecian one.

[@sheldonj.plankton163]

7:00 Latin: Hey Germans, wanna check out my alphabet? 7:13 Germans: Stay the hell away from me! *flee eastward* 7:25 It's no use, my script is superior

[@NovayaK]

the beginning of the end of the runic alphabet

[@aniinnrchoque1861]

@@croatianwarmaster7872 it'd be kinda weird - some abandoned letters and a general reform sure. But runic? It is a neat script ngl but not sure it's worth the hassle.

[@valentinmitterbauer4196]

@@croatianwarmaster7872 Some germanic languages can't even write in runes since it doesn't feature some now existing sounds and other letters are obsolete, like þ is only usable in english and icelandic, but not in dutch, german, danish, nynorsk, bokmal, swedish, flemish, frisian, bavarian...

[@renatocampos3114]

@@croatianwarmaster7872 the shot would backfire, the Latin writing is easier to apprehend if the Germanic countries were switched to the runic alphabet, Spanish would be the dominant language in the West. the Germans managed to conquer the Roman Empire, but the Latin culture is superior and surpassed the German culture, swallow that Germanic the LATIN ALPHABET IS SUPERIOR

[@mrtrollnator123]

Charlemagne's conquests of germania

[@SaxandRelax]

Old italic: *exists* Latin: No.

[@adamal-mardoud4290]

Why are you gay?

[@maximumcringelevel8617]

@@adamal-mardoud4290 Good quastion.

[@jimmyj6209]

@@adamal-mardoud4290 y ah ewe gae

[@SaxandRelax]

@@adamal-mardoud4290 Once a drag queen sneezed on my and the doctors couldn’t do anything to fix it

[@adamal-mardoud4290]

@@SaxandRelax So you really are gay!

[@გივიგოგოლაძე]

Georgian alphabet is from BC. 4-3th century. You can read this from history. In 5th century we whrote the first georgian book-"Torture of Shushanik"

[@Lordofdeatg]

Shushanik is Armenian name btw

[@lashabardanashvili3370]

@@Lordofdeatg Yeah, so what?

[@CaptainElMapper]

Τα ελληνικά είναι η μόνη γλώσσα που έχει απομείνει από 3000 χρόνια πριν!

[@xhsi717]

@@theodorospetridis4142 Σωστός

[@eribloo6055]

Δεν λέγετε γλώσσα αυτό που λες ρε πυροτουβλο Αλλά Γραφή

[@petyrbaelish2000]

@@eribloo6055 και γιατί πρέπει να τον αποκαλέσεις πυρότουβλο για να του πεις; μη θίγεσαι τόσο εύκολα, όποιος έχει η μύγα μυγιάζεται

[@avruvimtu2204]

Yeah but Indo-Europeans Europeans didn't have a writing language until 1200 BC~. Minoans weren't Greeks, if you say they were, you are definitely 100% wrong. Myceaneans Greeks had two borrowed writing systems one from Minoans and one from Phoenicians.

[@CoffeeSuccubus]

@@avruvimtu2204 Greek nationalism is a toxin

[@ash_11117]

Hmmm I wonder why Greek and Armenian conveniently disappeared from Turkey in the 1920’s 🤔

[@yigitcanozturk8475]

Ataturk.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Me when the Phoenicians popped up: *Now, the Phoenicians can get down to business!* "Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going." - Rita Mae Brown

[@kripat2414]

The Alphabet and it 's structure is a Greek invention. Phoenicians had only the same sort of letters.

[@tomerschubert2095]

@@kripat2414 that's not true, Phoenician is a direct descendant of Proto-sinatic. If you want to get technical there is no difference between pheonician and Paleo-Hebrew, they were dialects of Canaanite if not the same language. The entire latin family tree really starts with Proto-sinatic and the Canaanite languages. (Phoenician and Paleo-Hebrew)

[@kripat2414]

@@tomerschubert2095 yes , but Ancient Thracians had many symbols, too. You know , now we use paper, and we not use ancient methods with clay or sand. And suddenly Orpheus who lived in 1400-1300 BC made an epic poem "Argonautica" literally perfect. We can connect why these ancient symbols are from Thrace to Canaan and Phoenicians. The answer is the Phrygians . In 5000BC they transport from northern Greece to far east and again and again. And we have the Phoenician alphabet instead of the cuneiform and others in the Syriac area. Some things we could be not know them , and there is Herodotus who tell us that Kadmos took the symbols from Phoenicians, and some other greek scholars made it better. Kadmos born in 1540BC and he was Phoenician-Egyptian son of Phoenician King. But how we have an epic perfect poem after some years later? and after some years "Cyprian Epics" and Homer 's epic poems? They will made the structure before many years with linear scripts. That you have it 's not only the alphabet , it s the structure built many years before 1500BC.

[@Keyhan-c8c]

Long live younaistan and its ancient alphabets 💙😊 From Iranistan 🙋

[@ruzannamanukyan4375]

Armenian alphabet just for armenians, one nation , one country , one church, one language. Perfect.

[@georgianpatriot9287]

Gotta respect our brother Armenians♡

[@ruzannamanukyan4375]

@@georgianpatriot9287 vivat civilization

[@skaor8036]

It's not good if you want your language to be taught the same way to foreigners. Not many people would learn a whole alphabet, that uses only one language, used by a couple of million people.

[@Γιωργηςς]

Me looking at greece:oh come on just change your language Greece: nope👁👄👁

[@TheHunterOfYharnam]

why would we?

[@Γιωργηςς]

@@TheHunterOfYharnam ελα μου ντε😂😂😂

[@maci1245]

They changed their language, but not the writing system

[@Γιωργηςς]

@@maci1245 yes our language has changed but if you give me an ancient greek text i will be able to understand almost the 60-70% of it this is because the words are exact the same.Our grammar has changed a lot but not the words

[@iliass2313]

@@TheHunterOfYharnam I respect Byzantine nationalist but not Greek nationalists.

[@CleberSantos-io9bk]

Cyrillic alphabet: Orthodoxs (except Cyprus and Greece) Latin alphabet: West and Turkey Georgian alphabet: only Georgia Armenian alphabet: only Armenia Greek alphabet: Greece and Cyprus

[@cagatayberkay5681]

Northern Cyprus speaks Turkish so their system is Latin’s one.

[@raulepure9840]

Cyrillic alphabet: Orthodoxs (except Cyprus, Greece and Romania)

[@angrybirdo]

Cagatay berkay The Republic of Cyprus has two official languages: Greek and Turkish. Turkish Cypriots are citizens of the Republic of Cyprus. There is no Northern Cyprus. The northern part of the island is occupied by Turkey and it’s not recognized by any country on the planet.

[@thesoundinyourhead1782]

@@ibrahimtuna375 you said it yourself it's recognized only by Turkey. Hah.

[@M4th3u54ndr4d3]

Hebrew: Dead Alive Dead again Alive again Dead one more time Alive again Wow

[@luisvelarde930]

@ibrahim bozkurt no

[@samuelmc0123]

Awesome video! Very sad at 9:51 seeing that light blue and dark blue both fade from Anatolia, never forget the Armenian, Greek and Assyrian genocides ♰🇦🇲☦🇬🇷♱🇸🇾

[@HIYAKUT]

And the Turkish genocide in Balkans, really sad.

[@Kaan_is_myname97]

İt was not a genocide they got deported this video is incomplete they got deported to syria.

[@ggoddkkiller1342]

9:30, 9:33 and 9:45 Wait, why did Crimean Tatars and Dagestanis suddenly- Oh right, nobody considers it as a genocide even if millions of Muslims got killed and forced to migrate...

[@vasco2387]

@@HIYAKUT so you're denying a genocide just because of your fascist leader's propaganda, uh? Open your damn eyes

[@isaac_aren]

I'm very impressed to see that Ogham was included. It was in use in Western Britain for a time as well. Perhaps Gaelic Type could have been included as well as that was in use for writing Old Irish and modern Irish well into the 20th century. It's similar to the Latin alphabet but different enough to be included. My grandmother's schoolwork is written in Gaelic Type

[@ajrwilde14]

it's still a variant of the latin script

[@gontzallekzeit2050]

La verdad que estos trabajos son tremendamente interesantes. Enhorabuena.

[@oguzhantekden2]

On my main channel, I edit videos with subtitles in 3 different languages for the old music of different nations. You are also invited. :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJLRf5endrCWr9U

[@oguzhantekden2]

@Federico castro learn English firstly. Besides, I got many followers. So, "nO oNe cArE" is a stupid saying XD

[@Tar.o]

Runes stopped being used in Norway in the 1300's but okay.......

[@serdnae]

Ostehøvelen I think the map tells us when a system became used by the majority of the population or when a system was made official at the order of a leader. So of course the other systems don’t just disappear but they do become a minority.

[@anthemsofeurope2408]

Runes were never used in eastern germany so...

[@athulfgeirsson]

Runes were used in Dalecarlia, Sweden until the 20th century

[@jaapuitroepteke2750]

Anglia Alba It all depends on the documentation of back then. Because runes were found doesn’t mean it was commonly used by a culture that lived there. It’s why the runic shows up so late. There weren’t really any good recordings of it until the romans got close and started written stuff down.

[@zeon_zaku]

Elfdalian used runes till the 1900s.

[@Zdenek1023]

Don't ask what happened to the Greek and Armenian scripts in the 1910s and 1920s

[@alisherkairatbek3019]

In medieval, turkic peoples used runic alphabet

[@ZaKRo-bx7lp]

Not really most were illiterate and by the time they reached Anatolia they had already embraced the Quran, it's writings and its teachings.

[@morkantv9271]

@@ZaKRo-bx7lp You can't explain historic events or facts by labeling nations as rapists, satanists, illiterate assholes etc. That's rude :) period. Turkic tribes also used runic alphabet before Turks systematically forced to accept Islam before such events like Curcan and Talkan genocides of the 6th century. Even now Turks are not being counted as a "proper" muslim society by the arab world, since the outcome does not serve the purpose :) yay!

[@OmegamonUI]

@alisher in turkey you can the today a rune. go in hagia sofia. in one stone write a wikinger a rune

[@ZaKRo-bx7lp]

@@morkantv9271 So being a Turk in the 11th century and following the arabic Quran makes you a rapist? Woah dude. English is definitely not your first language.

[@morkantv9271]

@@ZaKRo-bx7lp There's not a single non-arab nation in this word that accepts islam by their own will. Turks went under Talkan and Calcun Genocides during the 7th century by the arab armies commanded by Kutayba Bin Muslim. All types of religions are a tool of social engineering. And I see no connection between these stuff and my personal features. :)

[@ΣτράτοςΤσουκάρης]

Syriac script: a beautiful writing system resisting to extinction for many, many centuries!

[@oguzhantekden2]

On my main channel, I edit videos with subtitles in 3 different languages for the old music of different nations. You are also invited. :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJLRf5endrCWr9U

[@z000ey]

The Cyrillic used in Bosnia up to late 19th century was the Western Cyrillic aka Bosnian Cyrillic aka bosančica aka bukvica. It had some 66% same letters as standard Cyrillic while 33% completely different written letters. Nowdays it is not used anymore, got replaced by the standard Cyrillic and Latin

[@jout738]

Damn why did you guys give up on that alphabet. Thats even more sad, than what happened to the greek alphabet, that is still dominant in Greece.

[@samuelpazin9566]

Nice video! Whats suprising, and isnt shown on the map, is that glagolitic survived in croatia for a long while. Both of the "Top 2" Glagolitic Missals in Croatia come from 14th - start of 15th century, Missal of Duke Novak and Hrvoje's Missal. Also theres been some discoveries in the 1900s which pointed towards use of (so called croat - Angular ) glagolitic even in Slavonia - border with Hungary. In 1248. Pope Innocent the 4th sent a message to a local bishop in Senj in which he "permits" the bishop to spread the word of god from the local glagolitic books

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@L1M.L4M]

It's interesting to know that Greek used to dominate. From the Aegean Sea to Iberia, and Crimea to Egypt.

[@NNNGun]

Ελληνικά(greek) Latine(latin) (Arabic) عربى Հայերեն(Armenian) ქართული(Georgian) кириллица(cyrillic)

[@alhashemi.]

عربي*

[@cellfreezer0]

ⵜⵉⴼⵉⵏⴰⵖ (tifinagh)

[@leventerylmaz5901]

𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜:𐱃𐰀𐰢𐰍𐰀𐰞𐰺𐰃 (Turkic)

[@You-zo3in]

Minor correction: ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic was never spoken by the common people they never used the script it was only for the elites

[@georgianpatriot9287]

Our alphabet was created in around 300-400 B.C🇬🇪

[@dimitrisps1997]

4:23 it's like the rise of United Hellenic Empire after 300 BC. That would be like if Alexander didn't die so early 🇬🇷🏛️🇬🇷

[@Devillunar]

If the soldiers of Alexander didn't wanted to return home in India one can imagine how far Alexander would conquer. The greatest military leader ever lived would probably go to China and beyond if his soldiers let him.

[@dimitrisps1997]

@@Devillunar probably all M. East North Africa Persia and India would have Greek for official language. Maybe all Planets History would be really different. Maybe some religions would never exists... Or Roma would never be an Empire. Who knows

[@mabbblea7107]

​@@dimitrisps1997 It wouldn't change a lot, I mean, after his death everything went to hell. Just look nowadays, nobody has Greek as official language outside Greece...

[@mabbblea7107]

@@dimitrisps1997 & Alexander the Great has never conquered Italy, so Rome would exist

[@Daniel-jm7ts]

@@mabbblea7107 he had plans to invade italy but he died before he could. Also greek is though not only in greece, but also in Cyprus and some other European countries but not that intensely

[@ilfratello1]

The early Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 9th century AD at the Preslav Literary School by Saint Clement of Ohrid and Saint Naum and replaced the earlier Glagolitic script developed by the Byzantine theologians Cyril and Methodius.The exact ethnic origins of the brothers are unknown, there is controversy as to whether Cyril and Methodius were of Bulgarian Slavic or Byzantine Greek origin, or both. But it is more believed that their father was Byzantine and their mother Bulgarian. The Preslav Literary School, during the reign of the Bulgarian Emperor Simeon the Great , was the most important literary and cultural centre of the Bulgarian Empire and of all Slavs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabets

[@tadopoulostadopoylos5864]

you are...Methodious!...Well not boulgarian...КАК ДОСТОЖИЕВСКИЙ..ГРЕЧЕСКИЙ

[@Pidalin]

Cyril and Methodius brought glagolic to Czech lands and Moravia in 9th century, but it survived only for few years here, latin is just better and simplier alphabet and ofcourse, catholic church was dominant so we switched to latin.

[@Alsayid]

I would love to have seen what Runic might have evolved into if the Germanic people had held onto it instead of swapping it for Latin as soon as they became Christian. Who knows, really, I know that there was a modified form that survived in a few pockets until a hundred years ago, but this was heavily latinized due to the rest of Scandinavia using the Latin script.

[@overabusedsalmon1238]

Europe after AD : Write that down ! Write that down

[@Misel982001]

Πανδυσκολο βίντεο, δεν έχω λόγια

[@MrMoOomoOo91]

لا اعلم ماذا تتحدث عنه يا اخي لكن يبدو ان الفكرة قد وصلت.

[@abdullahkhatib1464]

It is sad to see the decline in eastern and southern Mediterranean cultures after it was so relatively advanced :(

[@kirgan1000]

During the Swedish empire, province like Ingemanland (there St Petersburg is now) did use the Latin alphabet.

[@khediveabbashilmiiiofegypt9475]

Egypt was like your 105 year old great grandpa that always wear the same shirt at every family gathering.

[@rubenlarochelle1881]

2:03 Wtf, did they forget how to write?

[@RPM1776]

Ruben Mauro no all records were lost because of the bronze age collapse

[@hassanbassim4007]

Ruben Mauro they became illiterate for 300 years until the Phoenicians introduction of Alphabetical system and writing .

[@martinkunev]

When civilization collapses and everybody is struggling to not die from hunger, diseases, etc., children are not that interested in learning to read and write. Several generations later, nobody who can read or write is left.

[@sil79f97]

Also only the ruling class knew how to write (better still the administrators of the ruling class), when this class is completely supplanted by a new ruling class, knowledge can easily be forgotten.

[@mistouko]

Facebook

[@shockhs7371]

Slavics: Romenia is one of ours cyrillics writers, you can't take then like. Rome: Shut up, we got here first.

[@juniorcrusher2245]

Not all slavs use cyrillic.

[@adeliomoro2069]

@@juniorcrusher2245 true, the Polish never used it for example

[@maxis2k]

Armenian: "Stayin' alive, Stayin' alive!"

[@davidigityan9033]

Այո

[@nyoooom]

its so ugly

[@sleven1160]

"Turkey would like to know your location"

[@CommanderSp00ky]

@@nyoooom okay lol

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

@naka Written latin is best carved latin is second best.

[@snowman9452]

So, which Greek alphabet is your favorite? The Chalcidean Greek (aka latin), the slavonic Greek (aka cyrillic) or the standard Greek?

[@trent6319]

Runic Greek is my favorite

[@alexandergalitevstudentfvh8696]

squiggly greek (byzantine cursive)

[@fanaticofmetal]

Byzantine Greek Alphabet was honestly the coolest one

[@TheBobVova]

I would like Hellenic Phoenician (aka greek)

[@Notgnirracen]

I'd say the Runic script should have been visible a bit longer, seeing as most of the rune-stones were carved during the Middle Ages. Fascinating video though!

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

I say the video is true starting from 1400 O.E.

[@Nome_utente_generico]

This is year I discovered Georgian alfabet (and Georgian people): very intelligent and nice, at least the ones I have known!

[@Trapligo]

Greek alphabet is the father of Latin and Kyrilic

[@stanbatakarata6081]

Nop Glagolic.Cyrilic is 100% Bulgarian doktrin for Bularian Empire

[@santiagomerchan9605]

Did you see the sudden shift in turkey ? It was arabic but then puff! Latin

[@ChillyBenpa]

Ataturk's reforms you can read about it

[@santiagomerchan9605]

@@ChillyBenpa yeah I know it has to do with the death of the Ottoman Empire and the reborn of a new and modern Turkey after WW1

[@teodorghinea425]

Same with the shift of Romania and Moldova from kyrilic to latin

[@chillaxo9863]

You could also see the Armenian Genocide aswell

[@seyhuncelik9584]

@@chillaxo9863 there are no Armenian Genocide. There are no proof. If there was Genocide President Erdogan said "Our archives are open, open your archives if you have, open your archives Armenia if you have. And let's create a team who investigates this Genocide. I am inviting Armenian historians, European ones, American ones to investigate it. Politicians can't decide about Genocides, laws say that" but no one responded. Because there are no Armenian Genocide. If there are why they didn't respond this offer? Why scientists and historians are not investigating anything about this and only politicians speaks about it?

[@FAMA-18]

Still till this day the most two powerful civilizations of antiquity the world as ever known conquer the world with their writing script, Latin and the Greek Cyrillic . The Latin with 70% in the world and the Greek Cyrillic with 50 languages in the world, amazing. ROME and ATHENS..

[@f.9344]

except the Numbers..

[@FAMA-18]

Be specific ...

[@user-ge4uk9ui8y]

@@FAMA-18 he meant arabic numbers, no one uses roman or greek numbers anymore

[@frankies7468]

Rome is a Greek word :)

[@FAMA-18]

Frankie S Roma is not a Greek word , it’s a Latin word , from the word for the Tiber River, "rumon”.

[@IliyanStoychev]

Cyrillic - my favourite! Thank you Preslav Literary School for this present you gave us! We shall cherish it eternally!

[@Pidalin]

you should switch to latin like all civilised people 😀

[@IliyanStoychev]

@@Pidalin 🤣

[@fanaticofmetal]

@@Pidalin шут уп, сйриллик ис допэ

[@denigna7341]

And why should we? Especially we as Bulgarians, because the Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the First Bulgarian empire exactly for our language. I would never give up my alphabet written by saints for anything you or anyone else would describe as “civilized”. I couldn’t think of anything more civilized and worth to be proud of. And if your comment was only some kind of joke, excuse me for my lack of sense of humor when it comes to my cultural inheritance.☺️

[@prasinoskosmos88]

It was so sad to see the Runes / Runic alphabet disappeared. Iceland and the other nordic countries should use it again.

[@leonie364.]

Yes, I want Germany to use it too :(

[@mrtrollnator123]

And even england

[@JHViana]

The longevity of Egyptian hieroglyphic language and writing is frightening

[@Thomas-u8q]

@ϥⲣⲁⲟⲛ Although the writing system has no relation to Egyptian hieroglyphs, as you probably know, it's based on Greek.

[@Thomas-u8q]

@@kemet8819 It has it's origins in the Phoenician alphabet, actually.

[@AliHassanSalafi]

@Weasel And the Latin Destroyes The Runic Alphabet and all Europe alphabet

[@oldencreek6587]

Amazing how sudden and quick cyrillic appeared and just pushed north.

[@erejnion]

Lots of Bulgarian scholars had to flee from the invading Roman Empire, that's why.

[@PikaPluff]

@@erejnion is it? buIgars invaded the thracian territories of the roman empire. the byzantine empire (the roman empire you are referring to) coIIapsed in part due to this.

[@ucchau173]

By trade and slav understand each others that why it fast😂

[@armenianmapper3168]

I'm glad , that Armenian language survived the genocide ...

[@MaxSluiman]

I don't know wich is better, the interesting content or the great music....

[@ucchau173]

8:38 why arabia in central asian??golden horse is mongol and then turkic it not arabia,they don’t usw that writing system😂😂

[@erikb2358]

Glagolitic script survived in Croatia until 19th century.

[@fanstargateiloveuniverse]

Please make a video about asia's writing systems, too. It would be also very interesting to see turks, scytia, china, indus valley, and more others. Please!! :) very good video:D

[@badpiggies988]

"Which alphabets would you like to use?" India: Yes

[@2wugs]

I can read the latin script, Кирилица, and το ελλινικό αλφάβητο I can't speak greek, or any slavic language that uses cyrillic. I tried greek but stopped when my duolingo progress got reset. I am now attempting russian.

[@unoki99]

I'm Swedish. Me and my foster family's mom used to send letters to each other in runic script when I was 9 while I lived at my mom's place. The foster family was very traditionally "asa folk" (aka they lived in their own Viking bubble, like, wearing home-sown dresses and clothing from back then, drinking from goat horns, doors decorated with cow skulls above them and so on, yup that was my daily life which really wasn't weird, we still had computer and tv and so on, we just had integrated culture of modern and old times in a very functioning way). We would go out in the woods since we lived in the country side during spring to do the "vårvrål" (spring screams) where we would just sit on a blanket in the middle of the woods and scream at the top of our lungs to welcome spring after a cold winter. Then just eat some picnic stuff while listening to the birds singing in the tree tops as you could see the sun shine through the narrow openings between the ever green trees. I think my childhood might have been a little bit different from that of most Swedes nngkcudysyjfjx But it shaped me into really respecting nature and value life as it comes. I really wish Sweden would have integrated modern culture ALONG with traditional Swedish culture instead of getting rid of everything as if they can't go hands in hands. Look at Japan for instance. Modern and Ancient have been so well integrated there you can still see what is Japanese. In Sweden people will point at a red wodden house and be like "yeah this is Swedish culture". When I have foreign friends visiting I will instead teach them to always greet Vick rocks at the side of the road when passing by to pay respect and stay away from danger as big rocks are giants having entered their long slumber. along that I also like to bring in the history of the 2 biggest lakes in Sweden and our 2 biggest islands, how those 2 islands came to be due to a fight between two giants that ripped up land and threw at each other, where the land that was ripped up now are the 2 big lakes hahahha (Perhaps not true history, but it's a cultural aspect and way of looking at nature as alive in itself)

[@ajrwilde14]

fascinating!

[@viracocha6093]

>Aramaic, Hieroglyphics, etc. >Alphabet Good video still

[@ziad8947]

Aramaic used an Alphabet, Hieroglyphs did not.

[@lialida]

Tărtăria tablets discovered in 1961 at a Neolithic site in Romania. 5300-5500 B.C.

[@Abotekap]

What I find remarkable is the variation of the comment section.

[@dudefrombelgium]

i can see how connected hebrew, latin, greek and cyrillic are.

[@shingosshojiopoulos6608]

@MarshmallowThere is no inferior alphabet

[@spy753ab]

@Marshmallow Την πέταξες την χαζομάρα δεν κρατηθηκες!!

[@rommelhyper3545]

So every thing started in Syria Iraq & Egypt.

[@elienajem5631]

And Lebanon

[@sohisoho5999]

Uhm no... Europe is not everything. It is one of several continents. Please stop acting like europe is the only place existing. And also there was no place like iraq back then. everything the old middle eastern high cultures achieved has nothing to do with todays muslim arab nations

[@muhammetwareh6789]

Elie Najem modern day Lebanon was part of Syria throughout the entire history before 1916, so Lebanon is technically included when Syria is mentioned.

[@amusedobserver6134]

That doesn't really make any sense.

[@Mercure250]

@exorientelux Source?

[@rfresa]

Interesting to see how gradual the changes were at first, and then later you have huge areas suddenly flipping from one alphabet to another.

[@stevelamprou]

Great video. Fails to say that the Latin Alphabet is a form of (or comes from) a Greek alphabet itself (Cumaean Euboean).

[@gtsiridis2012]

Between 1400 bc and 700 bc, during the dark ages of Greek history, there are no scripts of Greek language. It is possible that it occurred because of the materials on which letters were written. It could be leather or paper. Nevertheless, a violent Doric invasion could cause a great impact as well. Before this era Greek language is found on ceramics written in linear type. After the dark ages greek language is written in foenician letters. It is the Greeks themselves who call their alphabet "foenician", because they took the foenician letters and transformed them to the greek alphabet.

[@PlanetIscandar]

*Γιώργος Τσιρίδης* Allow me to disagree. I am Greek and not only *i don't call* my alphabet "foenician", but, on the contrary, i am convinced that something here sucks...

[@parabelluminvicta8380]

@@PlanetIscandar yeah and its you. hes right to be honest.

[@PlanetIscandar]

@@parabelluminvicta8380 *"Όσα δε φτάνει η αλεπού, τα κάνει κρεμαστάρια"* In Greek, this idiom means that, when someone can't achieve something, he tries to make it seem less important than it really is, so that they're not considered incapable or worthless. Take, for example, someone who's trying hard to learn a language, but eventually doesn't make it and says "Whatever, this language is useless anyway". That's exactly the kind of behavior illustrated by this idiom. It's also called "Emotional Plague" in Psychiatry.

[@PlanetIscandar]

@Albanian Byzantine Militant Yes, you are right: Greek wisdom has spread in many other "cultures" over the recent centuries, especially when they started learning to read. As for the Phoenician "script", only an uneducated fool would even give the smallest possibility to that ridiculous theory, that came out of an empty box that is made by pure vacuum.

[@PlanetIscandar]

@Albanian Byzantine Militant I'm sorry for ruining your imaginary world of perverted history, but this idiom comes directly from Greek wisdom (the fable "The Fox and the Grapes"). As for the "believable" and "plausible" theory, i would like to remind you that it is still no more than a theory, just like the theory of the "Hollow Earth", which is also very popular among "believers", but not among real scientist.

[@Rose-zl6ox]

It’s pretty remarkable how long cuneiform stuck around tbh

[@gadaadyn8190]

Needs to be updated in a few years. In 2025, Kazakhstan will switch to the Latin Alphabet

[@eoagr1780]

I'm impressed with how long cuneiform alphabet lasted

[@مالكالقطيف]

Yeah, at the end it was the first writting system 😉😉, so it makes sense to keep existance for long time

[@sco7642]

Runic Alphabet was used in England during the 400s, 500s and later too

[@danielholowaty2648]

Old Hungarian writing (Rovasírás) is still used to this day in modern Hungary for traditional writing or Town names. It even has its own block of code

[@Pidalin]

Can anyone really read these runes today?

[@gutsjoestar7450]

I think we live in a wonderful world. We can se this video as well as billion of other video and this is such a wonderful thing

[@georgios_5342]

That's so cool!

[@tanker1425]

I am glad that after all these years of history, i can speak a language that beautiful,Greek :)

[@clasdavid5450]

I think runes were used in some parts of Sweden until like 100-200 years ago

[@samishaniyy]

Nadelwald Königsberg , stop bullshiting

[@servantofaeie1569]

@Nadelwald Königsberg you do realize there is no such thing as "Slavic runes" and the Germanic runes descend from Etruscan which descends from Greek?

[@patrickohooliganpl]

@@servantofaeie1569 There is no thing as "Slavic runes" proper, but Slavs used (infrequently) adapted Germanic runes, or rarely Old Hungarian and Old Turkic scripts. Due to iconoclasm made by Christian missionaries, there is obviously hardly evidence for that but anecdotic, written in Medieval chronicles. In fact literacy (esp. other than Greco-Latin) in the Dark Ages of Europe was rare and limited to the small priestly castes who happened to die along with the respective ethnic religions if they ceased to exist. And there is also a theory (by minority of historians) that the Glagolitic writing system could be older than Cyril and Methodius who simple adapted it as a means to record a Slavic translation of the Biblical scriptures, maybe even older than Slavs themselves finally were shaped as a nationality due to a Venetic-Sarmatic merger. Acording to this hypothesis the Glagolitic alphabet has origins in the Old Venetic writing system modified by Cyril and Methodius in order to write in contemporary Slavic. And in turn, the possible origins of the Old Venetic writing are ascribed according to this hypothesis to the Vinca (a.k.a the Old European) script.

[@servantofaeie1569]

@@patrickohooliganpl so what you are saying is that Slavic languages were occasionally written with Germanic, Hungarian, and Turkic Runes? Show me some examples.

[@patrickohooliganpl]

@@servantofaeie1569 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Christian_Slavic_writing#Evidence_from_early_historiography Indeed the evidence is scant. But that doesn't mean that the Slavic writing was nonexistent. Oh, according to one of those sources Slavs occasionally used also Greek letters to record their language _ad_ _hoc,_ but they had no fixed orthography before the Glagolitic and Cyrillic writing system.

[@younesoutailleur9150]

The top 3, who has stayed since they existe : Greek, Latin, Tifinagh. If you didn't notice, Tifinagh has made it first expend after 2001 in Morocco. And hebrew is the one that made a came back after been lost.

[@HiVoltag3R]

Modern Hebrew alphabet actually comes from Aramaic alphabet, not ancient Hebrew alphabet. And what you're saying is arbitrary, since every single script that is used today can be traced back to Egyptian hieroglyphs or Chinese.

[@patrickohooliganpl]

@@HiVoltag3R Nearly all of them but not every one. Armenian, Glagolitic, Georgian, Korean, Cherokee, Deseret and few other scripts were simply made up inventions.

[@HiVoltag3R]

@@patrickohooliganpl All of these were based on previous scripts, they weren't made up on the spot.

[@OmegamonUI]

@@HiVoltag3R you forgot the first writingsystem the "Keilschrift" used in Mesopamien

[@HiVoltag3R]

@@OmegamonUI Cuneiform was abandoned and has no descendants today.

[@orpheasnestos7444]

I enjoy your videos but this one has a serious mistake. Greek never stopped being used in Asia Minor, particularly in Ionia and Pontus until the end of the genocide in 1922-23. In Pontus, Greeks were the majority as well. Another thing is that you forgot Greeks of northern Macedonia like Monastiri (Bitola), Prilepion(Prilep) , Stromnitsa (Strumica) etc. I imagine it’s hard to portray such details on the map so maybe colored dots would do the trick for you.

[@thekraken1173]

Its not a genocide, Its Population exchange between Greece and Turkey with the Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations which was signed in Switzerland between Greece and Turkey.

[@orpheasnestos7444]

@@thekraken1173 The “population exchange “ followed the genocide and actually led up it. I didn’t look it up somewhere as my own family and people were part of all this . So, it’d be best if you don’t attempt to tell me who I am..

[@thekraken1173]

@@orpheasnestos7444 It was an event done by both governments. It was a population exchange. Don’t try to distort the events. You are not the only one whose family lost their homes and left with nothing. So don’t attempt to distort it.

[@orpheasnestos7444]

@@thekraken1173 I have no reason to want to be the offspring of people who were 12 years old and were the sole survivors of unspeakable acts against civilians!! Why would I want that? All my great grandparents, all 8 of them had lost ALL their parents and grandparents and arrived in Greece as orphan refugees. Half of them came with a brother or a sister. The rest were the sole survivors! What you’re referring to did happen but I’m not talking about that! I’m talking about the systematic extermination of CIVILIANS which went on until the “population exchange” . What I told you about my family is true for about 80% of all Pontic Greeks! No family arrived here whole ! I’d gladly give you dates and facts as I’ve researched this quite extensively. I know that the genocide against Greeks, Armenians and Assyrians is a huge taboo in Turkish society and it’s absolutely concealed but we live in the age of information so whoever cares can now have access to the information. My great grandfather walked in the mountains for 8 months long with a group of children who escaped being put to death. No adult lived to be with them. They walked from Samsunda (Samsun) to Merzifunda (Merzifon) and hid in a cave at the end called “Tazlu”. They heard that the American Red Cross had set up a camp for orphans and they d be saved. About 150.000 orphan children ended up there and were saved. If you know basic math you can figure out how many families were exterminated in Western Pontus ALONE! And since you need to know, they’re parents and grandparents were burned alive in churches and houses to escape being raped and tortured to death. Not long ago a mass grave was discovered just outside Samsun during excavations for some building work. I’ll gladly educate you some more if you want. The least I can do is honour their memory by telling the truth. They EXISTED and that is what happened to them.

[@orpheasnestos7444]

@@thekraken1173 Believe me, if I had a choice I’d choose not to come from a family and a peoples who carry such terrible legacy but I’m very proud to be Pontic Greek aside that.

[@yanl3914]

03:39 the tifnagh writing systeme is still used in Algeria ... to write the amazigh language

[@adamante4092]

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[@Filip708]

Interesting fact: Cyrillic was invented by a Greek Byzantine monk Saint Cyril in his efforts to literate the Slavic tribes living on the borders of the Eastern Roman Empire around the city of Thessaloniki.

[@yordangrigorov6]

No Saint Cyril has invented the Glagolitic script, later his students simplified it and transformed it in Greek-like Cirillic script for the needs of the Bulgarian empire, just because all Bulgarian nobels had byzantine education, and wanted script, similar to the Greek

[@Filip708]

yordan grigorov Bulgars were a Oghur-Turkic tribe not slavic language spoken. The Slavic tribes living on the borders of Thessaloniki was the Skopians and Serbs. Bulgars inhabitted borders of Thrace.

[@yordangrigorov6]

@@Filip708 It doesn't matter what was the genome of the first bulgarian tribes, Cirillic script is created in Bulgaria for the Bulgarian people. Other slavic people adopt it from us, because the Bible was first translated from the three holly languages Latin, Hebrew and Greek to Bulgarian. And our "non-slavic" language is the most closer to all other slavic languages, compared to the Greek for example :)

[@PeoplecallmeLucifer]

Just a correction, The glagolitic script was OFFICIALLY forbidden by the church around the end of 11century UNLESS there were no priests who knew latinic script around, But it survived almost to the 20th century in some areas (mostly a a liturgist writing system but still)

[@orfeas8]

I wish Runic alphabet would evolve and still being in use today.

[@johanneswestman935]

It doesn't lend itself to be written on paper - which is why it disappeared. It was made for etching things into stone.

[@jonizulo]

I'd have liked if Cuneiform would still exist.

[@OmegamonUI]

you can use it. install on your writing Program the futhark font

[@MMadesen]

@@johanneswestman935 While it is meant for carving in stone, you can easily write it too. At least its not a complete mess, like chinese or arabic, for which you must have an art exam. And these are in wide use to this day.

[@PrenonNon0]

The runes were used until the 19th century in Dalarna!