History of the Semitic Languages

History of the Semitic Languages, Semitic languages family, Proto-Semitic, East Semitic, West Semitic, North-West Semitic, Central Semitic, South Semitic, Ethiopic, Akkadian, Eblaite, Amorite, Canaanite, Aramaic, Hebrew, Phoenician, Arabic, Edomite, Ammonite, Moabite, Sabaic, Minaean, Ge'ez, Amharic, Mandaic, Neo-Aramaic, Mehri, Shehri, Socotri, Gurage, Harari, Maltese, Tigrinya, Tigre
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[@ciceroalexandar6184]

Everyone talks about how Aramaic vanished and lost its place to Arabic, but never mention how Aramaic did that to Akkadian language.

[@TheObserversTV]

Aramaic was the language of Assyria, established by the Assyrian Imperial system, it served as a unifying factor, basically telling the inhabitants of the western part of the Assyrian empire that they are "Itti Nishe Mat Assuraye" (Declared peoples of the Assyrian nation), which is why Aramaic being the only north western Semitic language that has a substantial amount of Akkadian words, pronouns, and syllables in it. Similarly that can also some-what be said about the Hurrians, the only difference is that there was no traces left of the Hurrians after they were absorbed into Assyria starting around 1270 BC and were counted as "citizens of Assyria", so instead of needing to unify some form of Hurro-Assyrian dichotomy, Imperial Assyria was able wipe out their inheritance without transforming any customs.

[@ciceroalexandar6184]

@@TheObserversTV Akkadian and Aramaic are two different languages, and their speakers as well. Akkadian was the main language in the Akkadian empire and the lingua franca in the region. The Arameans were Nomadic pastoralists, have cites from west of the Levant till north of mesppotemia, constantly moving and launched a series of war on the Akkadian empire until Akkadian emperors start launching wars on these nomads, til the Akkadian empire controlled all the Levant and Egypt. The Akkadians used to make a mass displacement on the falling cities, most of the displaced people were Arameans, and the famous people are the Jews, and integrate them in other places, like in the east(Mesopotamia). Anyway, there are factors that played rules, but from that where their language start becoming popular, even by their civilised Akkadian aristocrat.

[@TheObserversTV]

@Boiled Egg with 100,000 Subscribers The language of judgement day would technically be in Aramaic, considering Islamic Issa will judge all, and the language of Issa was Aramaic, not Arabic.

[@TheObserversTV]

@Algerian English Lessons True, the cradle of Arabic would be the Nabateans/Qedarites.

[@ciceroalexandar6184]

@Boiled Egg with 100,000 Subscribers @TheObserversTV Are you both ok?. How the hell you know the language of judgment day will be in Arabic or Aramaic? And what all the nonspeakers of these languages do then?. Take extensive language courses?

[@m.s.1779]

From an Ethiopian to all my semetic speaking family here... selam le'enante yihun (peace be with you all)

[@kassalasamsung4860]

All are Same people Semitic people actually Not everyone speak Semitic language it's Semitic Because Semitic mean race For Example Ethiopia and Eritrea Have more genetic from Eurasia DNA than North Africa that mean Ethiopia and Eritrea more arab than North Africa Second Semitic language use in Ethiopia and Eritrea from yemen

[@AA-el4pq]

@@kassalasamsung4860 Bullsh!t those people aren't related to Arabs at all. They related with surrounding ethnic groups. They all have highest concentration of E1b1b1 ( E-M215 ) marker which have nutting to do with Arabians.

[@Arabian010]

Thank you bro, Also Salam To the Ethiopian people and all speakers of Semitic languages!

[@AA-el4pq]

@SAQER SAQER What if its the other way around. May be Semitic people are Africans with E1b1b1 marker but the J's are Turkic Anatolians who assimilated to these groups. Haplogroup E1b1b is the highest concentration in HOA not J. Haplogroup J is rarely spotted in some highlander they may have some Armenoid genes. But that's it. Majority of them fall under E1b1b1 including the south Arabians.

[@yakov95000]

Shalom gam Alekha Akhi(Peace upon you too brother)

[@rampantmutt9119]

First three quarters of video: "let's just stay in Arabia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Ethiopia" Last quarter of video: "IT'S ARAB TIME"

[@guccieclipse]

Boiled Egg with 100,000 Subscribers Why have you put that response on a bunch of comments

[@kostaspapas5894]

@Boiled Egg with 100,000 Subscribers and why you use a greek word for the word prophet?

[@gottod6895]

because of Islam Egyptians ad Amazighs and most middle eastern population were Arabized, I speak a dialect of Arabic but its grammar is very similar to Berber than Arabic but obviously the majority of vocabulary is Arabic Vocabulary

[@gottod6895]

@@yougoglencoco377 I don't know how Persia or Iran escaped Arabization

[@homosapien.a6364]

And now arabs are fighting each other religions stuff 🥺💔

[@misterright9017]

Its very nice that you included the mandaic, normally people forget about us, because its a small minority in Iraq.

[@abeerfandy4665]

curious about your language!

[@ConstanzaRigazio]

Me too!

[@kevinlligraphy5844]

Mandaic is a very cool language!

[@ilyasmahmod7403]

Never heard of it where do you live

[@quinnfischer9624]

@@ilyasmahmod7403 they are from south-east iraq and some parts of persia but because isis and iranian government kill mandeans most mandeans moved to australia there are only a few hundred left in mesopotamia

[@malster1239]

Finally a video about languages,good job

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@user-zz8ll5ry7r]

You can check some of his recent videos on languages, too.

[@adrienpolo2255]

@@CostasMelas in somali we don't speak arabic we speak somalia

[@someinteresting]

This is a joke, right? He has so many language ones.

[@marceltelang7825]

@@adrienpolo2255 you mean in Somalia you speak Somali?

[@hoangkimviet8545]

I'm impressed the way Arabic language spread.

[@BrutusAlbion]

warfare, conquest, colonization and slavery.

[@sungminlee249]

Because of that terrorist religion

[@user-xr2jt7ss4o]

@@BrutusAlbion Just because it's the language of the world!

[@BrutusAlbion]

@@user-xr2jt7ss4o nah the wicked english already got their stamp on that one. You got to be the worst of the worst to spread your language far and wide. Islam is kinda only a 2nd tier bad guy in that regard compared to british imperialism :D

[@julianfejzo4829]

Much like Latin and English speread, not that impressive

[@ddlaura5506]

Selam My Brothers From Ethiopia Amharic Speaker 🖤

[@mhm8113]

Salam from morocco

[@ddlaura5506]

@@mhm8113 🤗🤗 oww moroco 😎 we love u guys i think there is blody relationship b/n u and us 🙌🏼

[@pinklasagna8328]

I played as ethiopia in EU4 and culture convert most of horn of africa to amharic just few ours ago as i am writing this comment

[@ddlaura5506]

@TheCrazyKid1381 ????

[@THEBEST-qv8jk]

Salam from Arabic speaker

[@glsd123]

thanks so much! i've been waiting for this one!

[@CostasMelas]

You're welcome :)

[@miiiiiiiiiiii]

Love these linguistic vids you're making Costas! Lovely stuff

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@vadimpm1290]

Never knew it was so complicated. Very interesting. Many thanks.

[@CostasMelas]

You're welcome :)

[@Thecognoscenti_1]

Please do the history of the Sino Tibetan Languages next

[@captainch6182]

There are too many languages, he would have to do a video for each branch.

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

Would probably be easier for him to just do Chinese first

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

Wanessa Schmidt I think he’d have to do it in parts like with indo european, first here is semitic, next could be Berber then Egyptian

[@captainch6182]

Celt of Canaan Esurix I agree, each branch of Afro-Asiatic deserves its own video because they are as wonderfully diverse as Indo-European is

[@daisybrain9423]

That would be a really complicated one.

[@davigurgel2040]

1922: Hebrew: hello back, guys! I've been away for a while, what did I m... Guys? Hello? Arabic, where is everyone? Arabic: uhh... Hebrew: Arabic, what the hell did you do? Arabic: nothin...

[@amrshatlaa9617]

Hebrew: Arabic, what the hell did you do? Arabic: i bitch slapped those guys who fought you cousin . Hebrew: which ones do you mean Romans , Egyptians or Babylonians ? Arabic: YES .

[@amrshatlaa9617]

@@mhmadbedrddeen3414 yeah i missed that part .

[@oceanman9559]

@Boiled Egg with 100,000 Subscribers there will be no judgment day, but keep dreaming

[@nemesis3154]

@@mhmadbedrddeen3414 Damn.. that really hurts.. the betrayal

[@homosapien.a6364]

And the Hebrew today are more than a simitic language it's like an europen language 🙂😂

[@iamseamonkey6688]

aramaic: look at me i'm the middle east's lingua franca! arabic: i'm gonna stop you right there

[@muhannadbursheh6109]

Aramaic is still alive, with all the obstacles and the persecution since the 7th century. Its still here!

[@mahdimehdi445]

@@muhannadbursheh6109 the arabs didn't persecute the aramaics lmao ,those were the turks

[@muhannadbursheh6109]

@@mahdimehdi445 invading someone else’s land, changing their language, and gradually their religion, and suppressing their identity is a major form of persecution. Also, having people to pay Jizya to be able to be allowed to live in their own homeland is another form of persecution.

[@iihamed711]

@@muhannadbursheh6109 I think you have a very different understanding of persecution

[@Melia_67]

@@muhannadbursheh6109 You pay Jizya for your own protection plus Non-Muslims never paid the mandatory Zakah every Eid like how Muslims were expected to pay it.

[@yurialbertoironico4907]

Good video! You could put the sources in description in the next videos to make the videos more reliable?

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@willowrowley7830]

Fantastic thanks for the hard work!

[@CostasMelas]

You're welcome :)

[@beedykh2235]

There are still people today in Arabia who talk Arabic and other Semitic languages, especially in Yemen, southern Saudi Arabia, and Syria. *Edit: and Oman To some extent they are still present, but need more attention and care from us to keep it better preserved. Because languages are something very very precious, that must be preserved.

[@Mo-im5pk]

You forgot Oman

[@beedykh2235]

@@Mo-im5pk Oh right!! Thanks for mentioning it.

[@Mo-im5pk]

@@beedykh2235 You are welcome :D

[@sarimcmorrow5590]

i'm from southern of saudi arabia i didn't mention any other languages there except arabic there is alot of accent but all arabic

[@beedykh2235]

@@sarimcmorrow5590 وانا سعودي. في ناس بفيفا وجيزان ونجران يتكلموا حِمْيَرِي وبعض اللغات السامية لكن يتكلموها ببيوتهم مع عوائلهم او يعرفوها بس ماهي لغتهم الأساسية. طبعاً كلهم يتكلموا عربي بطلاقة. There are. You just didn't know about it because it's not common.

[@dimitrifilonov9707]

Thank you ! Great presentation and great music!!

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you very much

[@iamseamonkey6688]

Fantastic work as always

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you :)

[@internetuser5543]

Thanks for this video go on with the great work Kostas👏👏

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@ezix3753]

Love to all my Semitic people

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

You mad lad you did it, the moment we’ve all been waiting for!

[@CostasMelas]

It was time to complete this important language family

[@alwssofy7748]

شكرا على الفيديو الجميل 🌷

[@_utahraptor]

Very cool. Good job!

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@especimenaburrido6617]

thanks, i was waiting for this video

[@CostasMelas]

You're welcome :)

[@atbing2425]

Epic!!! Great job!

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you very much

[@celestialweaver8460]

I really love your content! Keep up the work^_^

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@pintakin8253]

You did a great job!

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@ismailozer8547]

The videos are literally perfect

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@ibrahimhercules9466]

the term Semites is taken from the Bible for closely related languages

[@user-el4qe5od2x]

@@ibrahimhercules9466 Nice, but who asked

[@fasoooli2751]

@@user-el4qe5od2x don't be rude

[@catalannationalist9847]

@@CostasMelas Thank you for your work!

[@DanksterPaws]

Good,work!

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@tankiwolf]

Nice vid, as always ;)

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@LEL-is8xq]

I really love that you included my language :) Maltese

[@LEL-is8xq]

@Lalibela Dogo It does, however, we don't understand each other 99%.

[@LEL-is8xq]

@Lalibela Dogo It the only Semitic yes... in Europe not just EU

[@LEL-is8xq]

@Depressed Knower Helloo!! Where exactly Italy? I love Italy!

[@LEL-is8xq]

@Depressed Knower That's beautiful! I'm from the City of Valletta

[@ManhaJSalafee]

Maltese is a Arabic dialect

[@oreokarail]

Some words like Salam - shalom Allah - Eloha Alaikum - aleichem These are very similar in Hebrew and arabic

[@Lost7one]

also very similar in all dialects of Aramaic, the one I speak, Shlomo, Alloho, Aleicho, the eastern dialect in Iraq and Iran would be Shlama, Allaha and Loch

[@Allinda.]

In Arabic it's Allah and elah

[@rebbybam230]

Selam leki , in geez Ethiopia

[@muhammadsajeli1163]

Well 2 sons of Abraham hold the key of their connection. One became the ancestor of Israels and one became the ancestor of Arabs. Both came from the same Great(x99) Grandfather.

[@SidhantDhagare-gw3fj]

​@@muhammadsajeli1163 Nope it's fake only Christmas and Jews are related Islam is just cheap copy of abrahamic faith.

[@rosintruder6867]

Great video👍

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@pedrotome9119]

Without any possible questioning, this is a great job very well thought and accomplished without a single spoken word!!! ( And the biggest irony is the fact that this work is ''speaking'' of languages!! )

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@willowrowley7830]

Great video!

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@rajiahassan2063]

Thanks so much for a new video!!!!!

[@CostasMelas]

You're welcome :)

[@rajiahassan2063]

@@CostasMelas i would REALLY be happy if you also did the Dravidian languages, theres not much videos on KZbin about those.

[@pwnmeisterage]

I think this mapping would be more informative if the language index on the right was (re)ordered in a way which prioritizes relative age or prominence. Perhaps those languages which (as best we can determine) had the most native speakers should shuffle towards the top of the list each given year? Or are they already ordered in this fashion?

[@kingmisssile9730]

It looks like it’s ranked from north to south

[@pwnmeisterage]

@@kingmisssile9730 Not consistently. Sometimes it's mixed, sometimes it's the exact opposite.

[@Samir-dz3np]

Now the whole Indo European langauge family that would be very pleasing

[@captainch6182]

Twano the mummy if he does that it should be the branches and not the individual languages because it would be pretty hard to fit that many in the video

[@tanegram]

@@Berfo1 decline?

[@user-sl6lj9gy5y]

@Boiled Egg with 100,000 Subscribers wft?? Now i am dedicate much that islam is a false.. Our language is Sanskrit. We will die for Sanskrit..

[@doomdrake123]

@@Berfo1 What decline. Literally half the globe speak an Indo-european language as first or second language...

[@preoximerias7366]

Berfo Indo-European languages may have declined in Central Asia and Anatolia but it expanded across the Americas, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. It’s quite literally the largest language family on the planet with the most speakers.

[@mycarima3497]

very good and informative video! keep it up!

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@ThePanEthiopian]

Absolutely amazing video.🇪🇹🖒

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@eustress7428]

Can you do other afro-asiatic languages like cushitic, chadic, etc.?

[@CostasMelas]

I'll try to make them in the future

[@eustress7428]

@@CostasMelas TYSM, and always thanks for your high quality videos

[@farahhersi9380]

Hamitic = Cushitic , Ancient Egyptian , Amazigh , Chadic

[@farahhersi9380]

@@Brildanne is omotic Afroasiatic I thought it was Nilotic

[@enrico7474]

@@Brildanne omotic is its own separate group i think

[@moshow93]

The spooky ominous music is fitting.

[@user-dg5vx8li8f]

Great video

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@hermannpetersmirnov9389]

Can u make a video about the history of Sino-Tibetan Languages, or just about Sinitic languages? Thank you.

[@noamrotstain3182]

🕎 For anybody wondering: Aramaic (Judeo-Aramaic dialect) was so influential that it is still is very present in Judaism, it is present in Hebrew with many loan words such as in our holy texts and prayers and is still studied by Jews in Israel and across the diaspora until today. Additionally, the Paleo-Hebrew script evolved parallel to Aramaic's to create the script that is famous to Hebrew today (א ב ג).

[@Roxasguy13]

What percentage estimate would you say that Hebrew and Aramaic are related?

[@noamrotstain3182]

@@Roxasguy13 Lexicon-wise. They are very similar, I can understand nearly every word in Aramaic-85%, reading-wise is nearly identical-89%. Dialect and pronunciation differs greatly, for example I struggle to understand modern Aramaic spoken by some in Syria today. But Judeo-Aramaic sounds and flows like Hebrew which makes it nearly fully understandable-92%

[@kiddykitsune8158]

As someone who read and practiced Torah in Aramaic and Tiberian... I kinda feel like ancient Hebrew is much more Greek than a lot would like to admit. In my opinion to the point perhaps it would be considered an Indo-European language branch but idk.

[@user-zl7cq9db3c]

Do you mean the fake Jews "European Jews who think they are Israeli Arabs" 😂😂👍🏼

[@noamrotstain3182]

@@user-zl7cq9db3c you lack basic knowledge about the Jewish people. Let me ask you a few questions: 1. Where are the Jews originally from if their genetics are related to the middle east-even for Ashkenazi Jews who have over 60% middle eastern DNA. 2. How did the Jews get to Europe, Morocco, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Tajikistan etc? 3. Who is indigenous to Israel? The Arabs who only first arrived to the land a few hundred years ago, or the Jews, who speak a Canaanite language, have a religion based on the land, traditions similiar to ancient Canaanites and dress and traditions that are highly associated with the land?

[@rimacalid6557]

"Serbian Croatian Bosnian are different languages" Said the slavs

[@homosapien.a6364]

Haha 😂

[@Ida-xe8pg]

Croatian and Boznian are just Serbian without Bre

[@Ida-xe8pg]

Srbo-Hrvacki or Srbvacki happy now?

[@sepep6288]

I've learned Portuguese and Spanish and I've discovered that each nation in Europe insists that its language is different from the other European languages even if the only difference is pronunciation (like in the case of Portuguese and Spanish)

[@Ida-xe8pg]

Belgium, Andorra, Vatican, San Marino, Cyprus, Moldova, Switzerland, Austria (ok kinda), Liechtenstein

[@AbdulSoomro-kj5lt]

Very good funky music especially the first half of the video

[@Ida-xe8pg]

Many of the Southern Semitic languages are still alive like Mehri, Soqotri, Harsusi, Shehri Etc tho with minute speakers

[@igoryounes3745]

Also Bathari and Hobyot though sadly moribunds.

[@igoryounes3745]

@Freðrick Ólafursson. Absolutely not, they are two distinct languages not even mutually intelligible.

[@jayjayjay835]

@@Ida-xe8pg apparently God did not bliss that nor he will 😂😂

[@lorancegaming7316]

and aramic also

[@Ida-xe8pg]

@@lorancegaming7316 Aramaic isnt a Southern Semitic language

[@redseayouth2897]

Greetings from Eritrea which is also part of the Semitic family of languages. Proud of my heritage!!

[@pcgamingonyt5798]

@Noah Pritchett Persia/ Iran is not Semitic We are Indo European

[@Zeyede_Siyum]

@Noah Pritchett *Tigrigna* and *Tigre*

[@glghsfsstf0510]

@@Zeyede_Siyum I think he made a big mistake in the Video because Amharinya language originated from Geez so it actually can not be as old as he showed in the Video.

[@caleb7535]

@@glghsfsstf0510 Amharic did not originate from Ge'ez

[@nomercy770]

@@caleb7535 of corse it did you fool Go Check your History 😂

[@bvthebalkananarchistmapper5642]

Really love your work man. What other language families you have planned? Also, since Semitic is a branch of Afro-Asiatic, will you do a video on the other Afro-Asiatic languages?

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you. I would like to make the laguages of East Asia in the future

[@captainch6182]

Costas Melas if you do sino-Tibetan, I would just show the branches instead of the individual languages because there are too many, there is more than Indo-European in fact. Or you can just do Sinitic or Chinese and its dialects.

[@arta.xshaca]

@@captainch6182 he did it as YOU WISHED.

[@wahib30fakr]

6:35 It's inconceivable that language can spread so quickly

[@abloodorange5233]

Very interesting and gives a very concise picture I have learnt so much

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you

[@VologdaMapping]

I love these language videos!

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you :)

[@nathanurinovsky3819]

I like this video. This is the kind of videos that show that despite our disagreements and fights between each another, we might actually be more similar than we think we are.

[@aksmex2576]

Idk man. All I saw was no hebrew for a 2000 years and then it pops up in Palestine after ww2, sucks to see colonization by people of another. Though I agree totally agree with the peace non warmongering stuff.

[@AryaOghuz]

@@aksmex2576 Hebrew has been spoken in the Levant since it’s evolution, what are you talking about. Someone’s always gotta hate on Israel and Jews don’t they

[@dudua3755]

@@AryaOghuz That is true. What IS crazy is that it went from being the minority language in that region of the levant until 1918 when it BOOM suddenly became the majority in the span of 4 years. Crazy huh.

[@AryaOghuz]

@@dudua3755 I mean, you are talking about a comparatively small area. It’s a sliver of land compared to the widespread use of Arabic across the Middle East and North Africa. Also, study the map. It took much of the 20th century to become the size it is today. English, French and Russian all had much much greater expansions within 100 years on numerous parts of the globe. I fail to see any issue or “discrepancy”. Oh and Latin also, albeit quite a bit slower

[@TheDragonHistorian]

Very cool!

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you :)

[@andrefarfan4372]

@@CostasMelas yes. #Rosalina

[@carmi7042]

Until I was more or less 15 years old I thinked that Aramaic is not a real language, but a word created ad hoc for design an incomprensible language or simply to say that someone was not understood, but then I discovered that exist really.

[@user-cl7pm7zm3x]

Assirians speak on this laungage nowadays

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

Where do you come from where Aramaic is used in such an expression?

[@galgar5660]

@@celtofcanaanesurix2245 probably he's from Italy, when we see an incomprehensible language or something that you don't understand we can say "per me è aramaico" (it's aramaic to me) or, more commonly, "per me è arabo" (it's arabic to me)

[@carmi7042]

Yes, I'm from Italy Sì, sono italiano

[@yanl3914]

spoken in some regions in syria

[@pas1994ok]

One of the greatest language families in the world

[@johnsmith-ir1ne]

It's not a language family. It's a sub language family. Belongs to the Afro Asiatic language family

[@pas1994ok]

@@johnsmith-ir1ne ok, thanks, now I think that this channel needs to do a video about the Afro-Asiatic languages

[@user-ow5ly5kg8d]

The most greatest language family in the world

[@visionplant]

Also the most well-studied

[@Abilliph]

@@pas1994ok we know very little about the evolution of the Afro-Asiatic languages. By some estimates they started diverging over 15,000 years ago... to give you an idea of how old it is, it happened during the last ice age, before agriculture, when mammoths still roamed the land... So anything we know is no more than an educated guess.

[@asyndeton]

Love this series! Watched all of them! Can you do Inuit languages next?

[@CostasMelas]

Thank you. I will try it but much later

[@commanderjnm2008]

Can any expert in Semitic languages please explain how you can tell when North West Semitic evolved into Proto-Canaanite and then into Canaanite and then into Biblical Hebrew? Especially given the fact that apart from the Hebrew Old Testament there is not much linguistic evidence of a "pre-OT-Bible-Torah" Hebrew ancestor language. Or is there? If so, how do we know?

[@_darkblue1688]

It's amazing how Aramaic still exists

[@memomashash1287]

It’s not existing anymore ….

[@memomashash1287]

…

[@memomashash1287]

Today no one even know this language

[@memomashash1287]

Except the Hebrew is a bit close to it and the old Phoenicians

[@SciStone]

I'm a native Aramaic speaker, we still exist, but mostly moved into the diaspora due to persecution and search for better life and freedom

[@PhilosophyofArtandScience]

ge'ez never went away! but that horn of africa part caught my attention. thank you.

[@nadeern]

It's no longer the lingua franca of Eritrea and Ethiopia. It's only read and recited by priest.

[@PhilosophyofArtandScience]

@@nadeern yes, but not only priests. priests, deacons, and lay people who study qine (ge'ez grammar and poetry).

[@amde_meskel]

@@nadeern geez won't probably die out as long as the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox churches are around

[@ruel762]

​@@amde_meskelwhich basically means never!

[@joshygoldiem_j2799]

I don't think it's fair that you've classified region-based Canaanite dialects as separate languages but not different Arabic varieties. That's like saying Portuguese and Romanian are the same language just because they're both Romance. What is and isn't a distinct language is independent of nationhood.

[@x0habiib0x]

My Iraqi teachers spoke another language other than Arabic and they taught us words that sound like “pushup shayna” and “spy”. What do they mean and is that Assyrian?

[@ionidhunedoara1491]

What was the original language of the Shiluhiya in SE Arabia? What was it related to?

[@nuraa3021]

Eritrea is pretty cool because a lot of older Eritreans know three -four Semitic languages : Tigrinya, Tigre, Arabic, Amharic like our president

[@wickedavatar4746]

Wow northern central semetic (the ancestor of arabic) was so wide spread even before arabic existed

[@zombieat]

only in the uninhabited/sparsely inhabited regions of arabia.

[@wickedavatar4746]

@@zombieat why did you reply to me after 2 years also Arabia was more populated than you might think

[@michaelcardy89]

Your South Semitic split into South and Ethiopic seems really early. So does your split of N. Central in to NW and Central. What sources did you use for those estimates?

[@osamahussien696]

it is not early ethopic is ancient language

[@michaelcardy89]

@@osamahussien696 Yes, but is proto-Ethiopic 4700 years old as the video suggests? I would like to read something on that topic.

[@ephemeraljaunt]

@@michaelcardy89 yes

[@ephemeraljaunt]

@@michaelcardy89proto-amharic and ge’ez are extremely old languages

[@enrico7474]

Ethiopic languages date back to 2000 bc we know that because a cushitic group called agaw who migrated from eritrea into Ethiopia around the same time have farming related and other words of semitic origin (some of those words arent even found in ethiosemitic languages) therefore its suggested that either semitic speakers had some subtle influence in the region mostly trade realted or they pushed the agaws into Ethiopia (which makes more sense because how did agaws receive farming related words if semitic farmers didnt settle in that region and introduce it to them. Note: u shouldn't confuse later (1000bc) sabaean migration as the creation date of Ethiopic , sabaic and ethiopic aren't even closely related semitic languages.

[@Delta-V1]

In Syria we still have many words and vague constructions that are aramaic, canaanic or phoenician.

[@shahennemer8593]

The same thing we have in Palestine.

[@sungminlee249]

Sad to see aramaic language disappearing

[@user-zz8ll5ry7r]

It still holds on, though, if you consider that many other languages and varieties have disappeared. As you can see in the video, there's a "stronghold" of it in the "Nineveh Triangle" and in Maaloulah in Syria.

[@theredstonesword9293]

@@user-zz8ll5ry7r also, dialects like Lebanese and Syrian have a vocabulary that is about 40% Syro-Aramaic.

[@AD-yq8rl]

Arab invasions changed everyhting

[@sepep6288]

@@AD-yq8rl Arabic itself is a mixture of Aramiac (the language of Abraham) and Himyaric (the native Arabian language).

[@ibrahimhercules9466]

The first inscription in Arabic is on in Jordan 1000 BC

[@Raheem_1412-]

Love and respect for Semitic languages speakers from Berber speaker

[@fadwaelfettahi4245]

Me too i'm amazighia❤️. But anyway i looooove arabic

[@Mo-im5pk]

@@fadwaelfettahi4245 I'm Arabian from Oman and I love Moroccan and Algerian people ❤❤❤

[@user-ov7mb3qm8p]

Thank you or as our brothers amazigh say tanmirt we should respect each other

[@theking7908]

@@fadwaelfettahi4245 How nice to see some nice comments from Amazigh. I've kinda grown to hate you from all Berberists on Twitter.

[@-3696]

كأن عندنا نفس الصورة؟

[@hurqus9061]

Those who are angry at the spread of the Arabic language are not angry that they speak a language that is not their own and write in Latin in the comments, although they come from different parts of the world 🤔

[@rainbowstalin594]

I see the point you're trying to make but it's not at all comparable. I and people in the comments who's native language isn't English know the language of our own will and speak our native languages on top of that we weren't forced to learn a new language whilst forgetting our own so the point you're trying to make is frankly hollow.

[@hurqus9061]

Rainbow Stalin Today we are forced to learn English without it. We will not get a job even though it is not our mother tongue. It does not matter how well you know your native language. You will not get a job unless you attend IELTS. This led to the degradation and restriction of languages. This also happened with the natives in Latin America and Africa where we lost thousands of languages ​​versus English and Spanish, but no one seems angry about it.

[@user-cl7pm7zm3x]

Qu Mu thats also called a globalisation and progress as most of people

[@elieelias4928]

That's because of the religion of peace. 😂

[@hurqus9061]

Elie Elias Cringe

[@lilahnathanson-parry7899]

What about the spread of Hebrew in Eastern Europe, as well as other areas? Or is this done by nation and not by population

[@cabg1266]

When the Jews came to Eastern Europe the Hebrew language was no longer a spoken language, during this period Hebrew was used only for religious and literary purposes and this is why it was considered a 'dead language' (until its revitalizationin the late 19th century).

[@qasimsaid219]

Beside Arabic, I still speak one of these old languages. It’s called Jibbali (Shahri).

[@beendeez9880]

Keep speaking it bro!

[@qasimsaid219]

@@beendeez9880 😊

[@hmmm3210]

Nice

[@Before7years]

هل لها علاقة بقبيلة الشهري ؟؟

[@qasimsaid219]

@@Before7years لا هي اسمها اللغة الجبالية وفي ناس يسموها اللغة الشحرية نسبة إلى الشحر يعني الجبل في محافظة ظفار بجنوب سلطنة عمان 🇴🇲

[@user-dq5kd3iz1e]

اللغة العربية لغة عظيمة 💚

[@achatsappro6759]

طز

[@Arabian010]

@@achatsappro6759 فيك

[@Als090]

@@achatsappro6759 فيك

[@mobinmirshekari4884]

أكيد

[@hungariancountryball2928]

nice!

[@bilalbataineh8367]

I think the video missed the arabic-safatic language in bashan ( the black desert in Syria and Jordan), and missed the arabic- nabatean in southern Jordan and negev, and ARABa valley

[@commanderjnm2008]

I wish that one day, all Jews and all Arabs can live together in peace and harmony. Shalom Aleychem/Salam Aleykum from a non-Arab. :)

[@SidhantDhagare-gw3fj]

Jews and arabs can jews and muslims can't.

[@zitka123]

Walaikumassalam also from Non Arab

[@user-bm5kj8qo3t]

Α video about which I was waiting for a long time. Great civilisations till the Steppe people invaded eastern mediterranean and middle east.

[@mrhaci7747]

Are you Talking about Turkey?

[@jaif7327]

Egehan Giral the mongol turkic ppl

[@user-bm5kj8qo3t]

Νο, I am talking about the eastern turkic tribes. Turkey belongs to the western or Oguz together with Ajerbaijan and Turkmenistan

[@user-bm5kj8qo3t]

@John 3 our food is almost 100% middle eastern and central asian. Don't forget that we gave the gift of democracy to the world and all owe to respect us. I don't think my nation is better than any other in the world. We should respect each other and live in peace.

[@mrhaci7747]

@@user-bm5kj8qo3t oh ok nice

[@feanorra8785]

Do you planning to combine all languages videos in one?

[@CostasMelas]

I would like make them but they would very complicated and confused.

[@feanorra8785]

@@CostasMelas yes that can be problem, but try only Europe, if you do something like that I will happy to help you, especially about South Slavs. Your video abot slavs languages is good but have some mistakes, but it is still good video 😀

[@christiansciberras7107]

How about if he focuses on continent at a time instead of the world, it would be less complicated and can go into more detail language wise.

[@sravasaksitam]

Can you do a video on just the Arabic languages?

[@CostasMelas]

I might try that in the future

[@sravasaksitam]

@@CostasMelas Thank you

[@zrabia7666]

can you please mkae a video about the evolution of arabic dialects?

[@Skikdii]

dialects are not languages

[@zrabia7666]

@@Skikdii i know, it's still interesting tho

[@ArabianZiz1998]

Now i can understand why most languages have ​​some arabic origin words

[@volcanowb]

Mesmerizing

[@hfugjfjvccjgj]

Question, is Amharic a sister language of the ancient Ge'ez language? Tigrinya & Tigre are the descendants of the Ge'ez language?

[@ephemeraljaunt]

proto-amharic is but amharic that is spoken now is a descendant alongside tigrinya and tigre

[@redsea334]

Amharic is a 12th A.D communication master piece invented around outskirts of Shewa. This is well documented and known fact. It's neither a Sister nor related to Ge'ez. But we have complex people ( even some influencials in the Acadamia) who needs to make sh!ts up because they have no History.

[@redsea334]

@@ephemeraljaunt No such things as proto-Amharic. Its not a Natural language. It's an imposed language which the local agaws forced to speak around 1270 A.D

[@ephemeraljaunt]

@@redsea334 your right and wrong firstly yes amharic was modified by suseynos who was culuturally galla and modified amharic so other gallas and other cushitic people could people thus dropping semitic sounds. secondly proto amharic was a pure semitic language an ancestor of amharic it was spoken by nobles and military generals during axum. as for having no history amharas have a long history dating back to sabean times remember that eritreans have no freedom and no rights as eritrea is an italian creation and run by arabs and islamists and tegaru people were taken as sl+ves from yemen.

[@ryanwidjaja4252]

Wow, I didn't know that the Phoenician/Punic language lasted until the 5th century AD/CE, before finally dying out around 450 AD/CE. I thought that the Phoenician language began to disappear after Carthage was conquered by Rome at the end of the Punic Wars.

[@michaelrenper796]

It DID begin to disappear, but as a rule of thumb complete linguistic assimilation of a region took 400+ years in the days before Internet.

[@angramainyu335]

4:30 The emergence of Carthage

[@pinklasagna8328]

Everything changed when the roman nation attacked

[@malekaltayari3936]

@@pinklasagna8328 we will come back the sons of Carthage never surrender

[@mahdimehdi445]

@@malekaltayari3936 Scipio africanus and aemilianos :LOL

[@AGAU1022]

Any chance of doing the whole Afroasiatic family?

[@killa0147]

I was waiting for tigre to come up. Im sure tigre came before Tigrinya. From what i can understand tigre is closer to geez and has less colloquial inputs.

[@vicheaith6919]

Speaking of Semitic language what about the ancestor of Semitic itself the Afro-asiatic language.

[@LeeTheGoat]

@Boiled Egg with 100,000 Subscribers dont you have anything better to do

[@forestmanzpedia]

@Boiled Egg with 100,000 Subscribers Yeah sure whatever

[@solidcreature5950]

Semites name is taken from Shem, son of Prophet Noah if i'm not mistaken. So that's a clue.

[@vicheaith6919]

@@solidcreature5950 according to what I heard from others yes.

[@doomdrake123]

@Boiled Egg with 100,000 Subscribers The language of judgment day will be mathematics, arabic can not describe a nuclear apocalypse.

[@godzillaemr]

Finally a quality Video on the semetic world, I have a video about the Afro-Asiatic Languages, presenting them with their respective music/songs :D

[@vincentbj84]

Beau travail

[@CostasMelas]

Merci :)

[@weimingzhou7318]

Arabic, a very great language in world history Latin…Europe Standard Arabic…Islamic world Sanskrit…South & Southeast Asia Classical Chinese…East Asia English, French…The whole world

[@TheKingofTheUniverse.]

well not Southeast Asia is sanskrit. Indonesia for example, we get much Dutch, English, and Arabic influence in our language. Based on historical? Yes, there is Sanskrit but after Ducth colonialism and Spread of Islam by trading and convert from the king to the common people, sanskrit is not have much impact to the evolution of Indonesian language. English? Yeah about that because in modern world many english word come and adopt into Indonesian language.

[@jazairihilali6252]

French ... Africa (not the whole world)

[@jonathanx4540]

Quite interesting this seems to suggest that amharic is older than tigrinya and a direct descendant of ge'ez. Seems logical since tigrinya is really close to ge'ez due to it's late split while amharic has integrated with cuschetic languages absorbing alot of words and some grammar. Approximately 30% of the vords in amharic are of cuschetic origin. Nice video which sources did you use?

[@teddyissak2720]

Nah absolute not !!! Are you telling me >> Tigre and Tigrigna appear out of no where in couple of Hundreds of years, despite having a documented evidence dating to 12th A.D. And Tigrigna is not close to ge'ez. It would take at-least additional thousands of years for Tigre and Tigrigna to evolve from ge'ez. Languages don't just appear out of thin air, They need time , movement/ migration, interaction and gradual process to change. The maker of this Video is totally ignorant about the distribution of Semitic language in Ethiopia.

[@jonathanx4540]

@@teddyissak2720 Amharic is believed to have become the official lingua franca in the 9th according to a study done by Boston university and there is some theories suggesting that it was spoken earlier by the aksumites. Suggesting that it rose as ge'ez speaking aksumites interacted with agaw speaking aksumites. This shouldn't be discredited since amharic has a lot of agaw words. I believe that Tigrinya devoloped somewhere between 10-13th century as the power from aksum moved to bete-amhara and thus isolating ge'ez speakers in the north. If you were to read or listen to English spoken during the 16th or 15th century you wouldn't understand a sentence, languages changes fast, especially if the speakers haven't implanted a strong writing tradition in that language which is not the case instead ge'ez was preferred mainly for biblical purposes.

[@teddyissak2720]

@@jonathanx4540 Nah.........No proof what so ever.....Until you brought in tangible archaeological evidence for this claim, nobody will take your " Theoretical " approach seriously. The earliest surviving Amharic record was written during Amda Tsion era 13th A.D. " Zena mewalil " . Prior to that, there is No trace of Amharic language in any Ethiopic records , no one knows >> how Amharic developed, where it was spoken , who brought this language......etc

[@jonathanx4540]

@@teddyissak2720 and no the earliest written material for amhara is from 12 century not 13. For Tigrinya it's 12th century

[@teddyissak2720]

@@jonathanx4540 When ever it is, this Video is pretty much inaccurate.

[@nizarshawwa3704]

Why did Hebrew suddenly disappear in the 500s AD?

[@CostasMelas]

The Hebrew was no longer used as vernacular language. The Jews adopted gradually the local languages from which the resulted the modern no Semitic languages of the Jews (Yiddish, Ladino etc).

[@nazarenomartins1079]

Cadê as línguas do Egito antigo ou, elas não eram semiticas?

[@Jolene8]

What is your proof for this theory? It would be nice to read some of your source information.

[@baokhangmaile6194]

great

[@aguywhodreams]

I am so proud that I am one of the every few Neo-Aramaic speakers in the world, especially here in the West.

[@il967]

I'm lebanese, and I wish we preserved the aramaic language. Hopefully I'll learn it someday.

[@tufiagmansuor7471]

نتمني الحفاظ على اللغه الاراميه و الاشوريه، حرام تختفي

[@Abilliph]

@@il967 why Aramaic and not Phoenicians?? Then the Levant could speak it's languages again, both Hebrew and Phoenician.

[@il967]

@@Abilliph because phoencian is long dead. We don't have many records of it, and we spoke aramaic 700 years ago

[@il967]

@@Abilliph if we had more info about phoencian, then yes

[@tomaskjelsen7726]

Could u not consider making a video about origin and spread of the hebrew language as this is the only surviving semitic language today apart from arabic and maltese?

[@PUNCHLER]

Is there a specific app or editor that i can use it to make live maps like these?