Amharic - A Semitic language of Ethiopia

[@Langfocus]

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[@theai1584]

Langfocus yes pleaseeeee

[@Langfocus]

I've done similar intros before.

[@stephenscrub2114]

I clicked the bell for your notifications, but this video did not get notified for me. Luckily I was on KZbin and it was suggested, but I am sad I was not notified. As always, it was an excellent video, Paul.

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Stephen Scrub same for me.

[@georgehornsby2075]

Hey, do you have any more plans to do advice on language learning/ techniques etc? I'm sure plenty of your subscribers would be very interested in it. I should say I enjoy these as well, especially the historical relationships between different languages.

[@ΛαγγιώτηΑφροδίτη]

Such a beautiful language and alphabet! Greetings from Greece

[@fantastic1231]

Thank you so much our orthodox Greece family!!! I always wanted to visit our sisterly orthodox and ancient country of Greece!!!! Hopefully, sooner or later I will do so!!! United and ancient orthodox Ethiopia and Greece forever!!!

[@1melkt]

Yasou phile! Greetings from Ethiopia!

[@aos5929]

Greeks introduced Christianity to Ethiopia

[@ShrekOwO]

Γεια σου

[@aos5929]

TheCrazyKid1381 it’s man the bible was translated from Greek to Ge’ez a dead Ethiopian language or Abassinan

[@skeptic781]

My great Grandfather worked for the Ethiopian emperor to help improve his airforce after ww2 so we have a bunch of old Ethiopian things like a tiger fur and a spear among other things. My grandfather also lived there till he was a teenager.

[@amaharazion9686]

Wow that is so cool

[@brookk4009]

Amazing where are you from

[@skeptic781]

@@brookk4009 I'm half Swedish half Northern Irish but that side of the family is Swedish

[@brookk4009]

What dude I didn't expect swedish bro that's amazing I want to know more about your grandfather I feel like your grandpa was a cool guy ...have yi ever visited Ethiopia?

[@ennui9745]

@@skeptic781 oh God, was your great-grandfather Viking Tamm by any chance?

[@yuliakiseleva1900]

Ha! So interesting to see how Amharic is explained in English. I used to study it as a first foreign language at uni (more than ten years ago!), being a Russian myself. The grammar always fascinated me - but you get used to it and don't think too hard about it once it all 'settles' in your head.

[@diabl2master]

You say that as though being Russian makes it more likely you'd learn Amarhic as a 2nd language...?

[@yuliakiseleva1900]

@@diabl2master Hm... No, I didn't mean that. I just happened to study at a university which specialises in teaching lots of languages, including Asian and African ones. But it is still rare to study Amharic. There are maybe only two places where you can do it.

[@MulunaLewi]

​@@diabl2masterlong history of cooperation going back to the battle of Adwa

[@sarabekela9419]

❤you Russians

[@MrPSyman3]

I'd never heard of Amharic before. It sounds particularly wonderful, kinda like kayaking through a peaceful river that has rocks here and there

[@WintaAssefa]

yep. and hey. I'm an Ethiopian who just listed down the Ge'ez numbers and their Arabic numeral counterparts in a sand -drawn video. You're invited to check it out and subscribe, if you like. Love from Ethiopia, -w 💛

[@lamrof]

lol

[@ይሞታልይሞታልይሞታል]

በድርጊትዎ ምክንያት ቤተሰቦችዎ ደም ያፈሳሉ። ለድርጊቶችዎ ዘላለማዊ ሥቃይ ይሰማቸዋል ፡፡ እንባዎች ወደ ደም ይለወጣሉ ፣ እናም የሚሰማቸው ህመም ሊቋቋሙት የማይችሉት ይሆናሉ ፡፡ በቅርቡ ለብቻዎ ትሆናላችሁ ይሞታልይሞታልይሞታልይሞታልይሞታልይሞ

[@AMR_k400]

Yeah they lost some arabic aound bu they kept the akkadian ejectives

[@houseexchange8702]

Really? You remind me of a genius who is a great mathematician - he perceives every figure as an entity with dimensions, colours and temperatures.

[@aramsam4023]

I'm orthodox from Jordan respect Amharic

[@fekar3559]

I am orthodox from Ethiopia

[@fantastic1231]

Oh wonderful! I never knew there were orthodox Christians in Jordan, thank God!!! Greetings all from wonderful and proud ancient orthodox Ethiopia!!!!

[@ومنالهبلماقتل]

fantastic1231 i am a orthodox Christian from jordan 🇯🇴 . In jordan 10% of the total population are Christians

[@leulekalzeleke7490]

@@ومنالهبلماقتل? 10 only

[@brighth6427]

I like to visit

[@rzeka]

Every time you upload I'm just so happy about it

[@amikecoru]

That's me too :)

[@grzegorzgrzesiak7498]

So am I

[@albidemeter1361]

Me too :)

[@AnI-dz5fp]

whos picture you have on your profile?

[@AnI-dz5fp]

no its pirosmani i think

[@mohannedkhalid6689]

I'm Sudanese and I live in Ethiopia and I can tell you Amharic and Sudanese Arabic dialect have a lot of similarities. I think mainly because the Sudanese dialect was affected by cushitic languages too and there's a lot of cultural exchange going on

[@jaif7327]

cushitic??? you mean south semitic....

[@menelikjegna]

Sudanese Arabic is actually considered closest to Old Arabic from all dialects because it uses the Quran as its educational base. It doesn't surprise me if the Sudanese dialect of Arabic is more similar to Amharic than other dialects as Ethiopic languages are considered to be much older than the modern variants of Arabic (and Hebrew).

[@josy5913]

@mohannedkhalid6689 يزول فيشينو أنا من إثيوبية و كيف حالك؟

[@seid3366]

​@@jaif7327cushitic languages are spoken in Ethiopia and Sudans, so influence from this language branch of afro-asiatic could easily influence Afro semitic languages

[@infamouspineapple2175]

Sudanese nuts

[@AM-hk6ou]

Amharic is such a beautiful language and I love learning that language.

[@lohikaarme8064]

Where do you learn it

[@JESSEHARKONEN]

@@lohikaarme8064 Moi! Opiskeleks viel Amharaa?

[@shukriiii]

You are Amharic that’s why

[@eyuin5716]

This is the quality content that I subscribed for.

[@DarkAetherStudio]

ኢየሱስ ይህን ተናገረ.

[@nicolekortstam]

I agree

[@goldsimmer9717]

omg your name confuses me. eyuj aesny?

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[@vitorlopes463]

Simply amazing!!! I've been waiting so long for this video because I love Ethiopia and its culture and now I'm really interested in learning amharic.

[@danisol814]

XYU 3x7 tsebel yasfelgewal.. Ye sere lemat. Hayloch.... Llz

[@danisol814]

xyu enjoy bro..let em know whats up

[@lg6036]

I learned so much about Amharic & I’m a native speaker. This is really well done

[@hans6542]

I love this channel, this is the first time I listen/read something related to Amharic,, by the way, it sounds amazing.

[@HelloWorld1947]

As an Ethiopian, i will have to say this is the best video on Amharic i have seen so far. Usually, people are lazy and just use Wikipedia as a source and embarrass themselves withe the garbage they spew. And, Amharic is not very similar to the other Semitic languages. Trust me on this, i listen to a lot of Arabic and Hebrew songs and can't understand a word they are saying. And i speak, write, read Amharic fluently! To answer your question, Amharic is my 2nd language. I spoke another Ethiopian language before Amharic. In Ethiopia outside of the capitol, you can teach your students in their native tongue but after the 8th grade, classes must be in Amharic and English. Every Ethiopian i know speaks Amharic, and i know many Ethiopians. Unless they were born in the diaspora of course. Thanks for the video! :) P.S. Amharic alphabet actually has a lot in common with Armenia Script than the Semitic ones. And that's because of the close Christian ties between Ethiopia and Armenia.

[@berhanwar]

Aksum አክሱም ፣ ንግሥት What's the other Ethiopian language you spoke? Tigrinya or Oromo? I assume Tigrinya based on your username.

[@barbosadasilva2875]

That's interesting! I knew Ethiopia and Armenia were the oldest Christian civilizations on Earth, but I never tried to compare their alphabets. Both of them seem so unique. Would you say their grammar is similar as well?

[@HelloWorld1947]

Atse Shade, No, it wasn't Tigrigna. I just love the Axum empire one of the 4 greatest ancient empires. And i will not say what my language was, as i find the tribal division among Africans very uncivilized and barbaric way of thinking. It does nothing but hold the continent back.

[@HelloWorld1947]

Barbosa da Silva, I doubt the grammar is similar just some the alphabets. I have Armenians friends but none of the speak their language so i can't make a concrete statement on the grammar.

[@danisol814]

Aksum አክሱም ፣ ንግሥት Yemechesh!! www.sacred-texts.com/afr/dbn/dbn05.htm

[@XKobraXKid]

I live outside DC, here exists the largest Ethiopian community outside of Africa. in some towns and parts of DC you can often hear Amharic spoken and you will often see it on shop signs in certain areas.

[@connormurphy683]

Maryland or Virginia?

[@MulunaLewi]

Mostly Silver Spring Maryland now

[@MalcolmProduction]

ማንኛውንም ቋንቋ ስናወራ ቅላፄውም የማይከብደን እነዚህን ተጨማሪ ቃላቶች በማወቃችን ነው ሏ ሟ ሯ ሷ ሿ ቧ ቷ ቿ ጯ ዧ ዷ ቋ ኟ ዃ ጓ ኋ ፗ እስቲ አማርኛ ማንበብ የምትችሉ ይህንን ቃላት በፍጥነት አንብቡት ከዛም አለም ላይ የሚነገሩትን ቋንቋዎች ቅላፄ እዚህ ላይ እንደማታጡ እርግጠኛ ነኝ When we speak any language, the word is easy enough to read these additional words ሏ ሟ ሯ ሷ ሿ ቧ ቷ ቿ ጯ ዧ ዷ ቋ ኟ ዃ ጓ ኋ ፗ Please read these words quickly enough to read, then I am sure that you will not fall into the languages ​​spoken in the world

[@lamrof]

ለየት ያለ ምልከታ ነው።

[@Yige1998]

የትነበርሽ ንጉሴ Yetnbersh Negusa Are you Yetneberish exactly? Anyway you are or not she is special and legend lady

[@እዩነኝየናቴአፍቃሪእናቴለ]

የትነበርሽ ንጉሴ Yetnbersh Negusa በናትሽ ግሩብካለሽተባበሪኝ

[@የጎንደርቀበጥነኝ]

የትነበርሽ ንጉሴ Yetnbersh Negusa yes you are so corrcte

[@habtamuendelbu9563]

ኟ እና ሿ…ቻይና እና ጃፓን ዧ….ፈረንሳይኛ፣ ኸ እና ዃ …….ደች

[@saalooaa]

As an Arab I really like the Amharic language even though I don't understand it but it sound good that's why Ethiopian music one of my favorite 💚

[@deesee3622]

Love Ethiopian music too!

[@tigistabebe7111]

❤❤❤

[@glipgloop2121]

Listen to other Ethiopian Music too! Not just Amharic, we have 80+ other languages.

[@saimraja2119]

@@glipgloop2121 are they semitic?

[@glipgloop2121]

@@saimraja2119 Nope, we have other Semitic languages, but we also have Cushitic, Omotic, and Nilotic languages.

[@Devinci297]

I love Ethiopia. From Sénégal

[@fantastic1231]

Thank you so much our wonderful friend from lovely Senegal for your love of ancient and Godly proud Ethiopia!!!! Greetings all!!

[@fdyfdy1392]

We love you too.

[@bloomsday8532]

Thank u we also love senegal

[@YnM.2185]

I love Senegal from Algeria

[@WintaAssefa]

Hey Devinci. I'm an Ethiopian who just listed down the Ge'ez numbers and their Arabic numeral counterparts in a sand -drawn video. You're invited to check it out and subscribe, if you like. Love from Ethiopia, -w 💛

[@XavierbTM1221]

It would be awesome to have a language learning course with the kind of detailed explanations you give in the minute 7:07 Those dissections of a sentence part by part explaining the meaning and function of each part/word is incredibly amazing And also the way you explain how the tenses are formed and how the language is related to other languages is incredibly understandable I would be willing to pay actual money for a full course of any language with that explanation method Cheers from México and keep the great work sir

[@ericbilly]

i recently moved from dc area (which has a massive habesha population) to the southwest, and used to casually learn amharic from my many ethiopian coworkers. this made me very homesick, and miss ethiopian people. but also happy and strangely proud? great video, as always. batam toru naw

[@WintaAssefa]

Hey there, dear. I'm an Ethiopian who just listed down the Ge'ez numbers and their Arabic numeral counterparts in a sand -drawn video. You're invited to check it out and subscribe, if you like. Love from Ethiopia, -w 💛

[@lbu9542]

God bless you friend.

[@bilal.l]

I've been in Ethiopia. Such a beautiful country.

[@saimraja2119]

Why

[@sarabekela9419]

❤

[@pragmatistyouth1774]

Paul I don't think people appreciate how much time it must have taken you to produce this quality vlogs which I find very informative / educational and for that I really admire you. Coz you invested so much time to do research in order to make your video's. Your pronunciations of Amharic words are amazing too. You certainly deserve a huge recognition not just for this particular vlog but for all the different ones you have made so far. Keep it up bro!

[@aasemal-lmki8286]

I'm an Arabic speaker, and when I hear someone speaking Amharic from a distance; i can't distinguish if she/he is speaking a dialect of Arabic because it sounds so similar to Arabic from a distance. but when I come close I understand nothing. I think, this's because Amharic language has all those sounds that I used to think or considered them unique to Arabic, (seems they aren't). This situation keeps happening so frequently that when I hear an Ethiopian women who works with us & she speaks Arabic as well; so, I keep mixing every time I hear her talking on the phone from a distance, i thought she speaks with her family somehow in Arabic.

[@take2spoonsofoiland989]

aasem al-lmki I think you're thinking about another language. Amharic does not have the sounds of Arabic.

[@aasemal-lmki8286]

Siciid Warsame Thanks for the info Maybe it's another language in Ethiopia

[@take2spoonsofoiland989]

aasem al-lmki Tigrinya(Semitic), Somali(Cushitic), Afar(Cushitic)- are the languages with those sounds in Ethiopia in my humble opinion.

[@unesco2433]

true some pronunciations do sound close. i myself live in egypt and a lot of people have said the same exact thing. how when spoken from a distance it sounds like a different dialect of arabic but really it's a different language.

[@derekmahari8184]

aasem al-lmki well, amharic and tigrinya come from ge'ez, a language who in return comes from Arabic and Hebrew, so here's your similarities

[@MohdHilal]

the grammar is easy to learn for an Arabic speaker, I am not surprised because whenever I read arabic history books there is always mention of Abyssinia. its like if Arabs and Ethiopians shared their own tiny world with so much trade, migration, invasion and all kinds of interactions. long live our brotherhood!

[@Esfarda]

Ethiopia was known as Habeshah during the islamic conquests, arabic influenced amharic alot

[@MohdHilal]

@@Esfarda I believe Abyssinians are one of several ethnic groups that make modern Ethiopia, and I think its true that Arabic influenced Amharic but similarities between these two languages shouldn’t be surprising since they come from the same origin

[@sulaiman-nz6jv]

My native language is Arabic and I see Amharic is very hard language to learn

[@greyhood2564]

Amen, brother!

[@cia8176]

And somalia is the middle man

[@محمدالشهري-ف6ز6ب]

It's may be the fourth time that I watch this episode.. And I still repeating it all the time to enjoy learing about Amharic and sematic languages... I really like to learn languages..

[@zak.886]

محمد الشهري lol wow four times

[@kaleabsolo4983]

if u like i can help u learn

[@WintaAssefa]

that's good, Muhammed. By the way, I'm an Ethiopian who just listed down the Ge'ez numbers and their Arabic numeral counterparts in a sand -drawn video. You're invited to check it out, learn from it and subscribe, if you like. Love from Ethiopia, -w 💛

[@WintaAssefa]

@yes maby hey there, dear. Have an abundantly blessed life

[@U_nforgiven4886]

muhammed habibe i`m ethiopian and don,t now how to read and write but now how to speak and did not now that the alphabet (66 or more) was made from the Ge`ez alphabet and why we need 2,3,4, and 5 like i use to before now since I moved to sweden when i was 9 now don´t now

[@bobburborjigin9938]

Amharic sounds lovely.

[@פתיתיםמבלבליםגםלך]

Yes I know Manny Ethiopians that spek this lenguse and this is so butiful

[@rotemta7]

I was born in Ethiopia and immigrated to Israel. The young generation here doesn't speak Amharic but some are. I speak Amharic with my parents, grand parents, aunts and uncles but with my Ethiopian friends we speak Hebrew.

[@lawtraf8008]

aren't you ashamed

[@rotemta7]

@@lawtraf8008 why?

[@mets3214]

Shalom Rotem! It’s nice that you can still speak it, probably because it was your first language. Do any of your family that were born in Israel speak it fluently or just understand from home? I’m Kavkazi and was born in the US, I can’t speak Juhuri at all but understand about half of it. Most Kavkazi born here in the new generation don’t speak it and would rather learn Hebrew as a second language. Since the revival of Hebrew, Jews are speaking their diaspora languages less and less. I think only Yiddish will eventually last in significant numbers because of Hasidim.

[@wtc5198]

I hope you will teach Amharic to your children

[@starleaf-luna]

@@lawtraf8008 no man needs not shame man needs not fear

[@FalkeNarwal]

Your videos are always so interesting! Thank you for letting me discover this new language :-) Keep up the great work

[@vincem3748]

Each week I order injera and on the plastic bag it comes in, it says "Selam Injera". It eventually dawned on me that "selam" in Amharic has the same meaning as "salaam" in Arabic or "shalom" in Hebrew! I love how one can draw connections between languages of the same family :)

[@Axacqk]

S-L-M may well be the earliest attested greeting word that is still used in living languages. It was even an Akkadian loanword in Sumerian!

[@oliverknagg5109]

Salam and similar words seems to be hello in every a lot of Asian languages as far as India

[@infinite5795]

​@@oliverknagg5109only Urdu in India lol, its mostly Namaskara or Namaste variants in India.

[@Hanniel_zoro]

im an Eritrean and i speak Tigrinya and its basically the same as Amharic, like its so similar that I'm learning to speak Amharic and I've almost mastered it and can communication with a native Amharic in full without hesitation. also ive noticed that for "lets go" for use (eri & ethi) is the same but its also the same for Arabic "Yala" ---> "lets go" yala is arabic for lets go and its also the same for eri and ethi

[@tigabugobeze4230]

Yea, Tigrigna and Amharic are sister languages, Geez being their mother.Amharic my first tongue and am perfect in listening Tigrigna !! ከመይ'ሒ ክብርቲን ፅበቕቲን ጓል ኤሪ ??

[@duduboy]

and the Tigrinya language is also similar to Hebrew?

[@Hanniel_zoro]

@@duduboy yes there all Semitic languages

[@Faith-oz9gn]

@@tigabugobeze4230 tigre language ( eritrea ) and tigrinia ( eritrea and Tigray) come from Geez but amharinia comes from tigrinia … just for the record

[@menelikjegna]

@@Faith-oz9gn fake news.

[@djafmess4008]

The Amharic "älla" is almost the same in pronunciation as the Berber (Kabyle) "illa" which means "there is" in both languages. Besides this, the two languages share many features as I noticed.

[@the_fam]

even they have same music with amazghi people if idonot miss spel and similar string instruments and i heard that they have east african base

[@AMR_k400]

Amharic also has Egyptian words like set and iw

[@AMR_k400]

@@the_fam yeah and same face tattoos

[@AMR_k400]

The most similarities are with morrocoan berbers

[@charlieandersen4815]

Djaf mess.. That is because they are all of them afro-asiatic languages, a big Family of idioms

[@reemniguse818]

i am Ethiopian and i believe you have done your research and i love this

[@lptinvestor1781]

I'm an African American man residing in the Washington, DC Area currently being tutored in Amharic by an Ethiopian gentleman who lives in California. Both my tutor and several apps I've downloaded on my I-Phone are teaching me how to speak the Amharic language really well. I sincerely enjoyed your video. You're brilliantly smart and I can tell you probably speak at least 7 or 8 different languages minimum. You're very good at what you do and thank you for sharing your knowledge with the World. The great thing about it is that when you speak multiple languages, the chances of you ever developing Alzheimer's in nearly nonexistent so in your lifetime, that's ONE disease you'll never have to worry about......God bless.

[@Niqwa-cd3fi]

Clock it

[@momhn4283]

Arabic speaker here... 14:12 The Arabic "qutila" ("he was killed") is the PASSIVE form of "qatala" ("he killed"). Nevertheless, great video as always, Paul.

[@villa7230]

Omar Adel stupid as hell your comment

[@souhaibz]

Yes, that is right. Qutila is the passive form!!!

[@joojooazad4095]

Милен Байков I didn't get it I'm sorry!

[@dionisiojunioroliveira3110]

Hi, I'm a Portuguese native speaker and I found interesting that we have a word, "cutelo", what means chopper or dagger, that is similar to that Semitic one, and the cognate for that in Spanish is "cuchillo", which is even more similar. I think this is maybe due Iberian peninsula being under Arabic domination for centuries before Christians rulers reconquer the region.

[@ronaldciresa640]

Dionisio Junior Oliveira The spanish word «Cuchilla» is a direct descendant of Cuquila.

[@assefakelkay3959]

one very important thing about amharic is once you know the letters and the sound of word you should not worry about SPElling.... it is well designed to avoid spelling error... every body who knows the word but did not see how it is spell can write with no spelling error... very nice of it...

[@rokivulovic7598]

that's the whole point of letters

[@erinnamovicz2392]

It really makes English spelling look unnecessarily complicated--I'm from the DC area with a very large Habesha population and many Amharic speakers I know who are learning English have trouble with our strange spellings.

[@rokivulovic7598]

@@erinnamovicz2392 english is just wrong.

[@matthewbitter532]

assefa kelkay that’s not true. Long vowels and consonants aren’t indicated in writing. And that shorten ï sound so so confusing. Sometimes it’s an I and sometimes is reduced and not really pronounced

[@MushVPeets]

Nearly every language has writing quirks as spoken language tends to evolve faster than written, but yes. English is... let's say *special* in the worst way possible. Our abuses of the Latin alphabet are millionfold. A modern spelling reform would be greatly appreciated :\

[@selamineshemariyam1846]

ሰው እንደዚህ ተንትኖ ያውቀዋል እኛ ግን።ምን ያክል እናውቀው ይሆን ከየት ወዴት እንደመጣ ብዙዎች እምናውቅ አይመስለኝም ቋንቋችን ስለሆነ።ብቻ እንናገራለን። ተመስገን ብቻ እንኳንም ኢትዮጵያዊ ሆንኩኝ. Ethiopian ♥♥♥♥

[@Eyob_Belay]

😂ዘረዘረው አኮ።

[@selamineshemariyam1846]

@@Eyob_Belay እሱም አማሪኛ ይችላል ለፍጥነት መሰለኝ በእንግሊዝኛ ያወራው ብቻ ከስር መሰረቱ ማወቅ ጥሩ ነው በተለይ ግእዝ ማወቅ አለብን ለኦርቶዶክስ ተዋህዶ ብቻ አይደለም የኢትዮጵያ ቋንቋ ነው ግእዝ

[@Eyob_Belay]

@@selamineshemariyam1846 እውነት ነው! ቋንቋ መግባብያ ነው፤ግዕዝ ብቻውን ግን እውቀትም ጭምር ነው። ሀይማኖት ጋር ሳናገናኝ እንደ ጥንት እናት ቋንቋ ልናውቀው ይገባል። በ ትምህርት ፍኖተ ካርታ ላይ ተጨምሮ ቢሰጥ ባይ ነኝ። እኛ እድሉን አጥተን እንጂ ፈልገን አይደለም ያላወቅነው! very sad 😔😔

[@selamineshemariyam1846]

@@Eyob_Belay ወደፊት ይሰጣል ብየ ተስፋ አለኝ ግዜውን ጠብቆ

[@Eyob_Belay]

@@selamineshemariyam1846 እንጠብቃለን በተስፋ እንግዲ። እቺን ግዜ ያሳልፈን መደመርያ 😂

[@oliveranderson7264]

Yes, more African languages !

[@WintaAssefa]

Hey Oliver. I'm an Ethiopian who just listed down the Ge'ez numbers and their Arabic numeral counterparts in a sand -drawn video. You're invited to check it out and subscribe, if you like. Love from Ethiopia, -w 💛

[@hentehoo27]

A video about Sami languages would be interesting to see here!

[@1lyac]

Hente Hoo yes

[@albidemeter1361]

My language is belongs to the uralic language family. I am hungarian

[@Foxxx-01]

ooo yasss

[@rikkiegieler5638]

Dreoilín ÓCoigligh correct

[@albidemeter1361]

Dreoilín ÓCoigligh Yes, it is not an Indo-european language, it's a totally different langauge family and I think the Uralic languages are unique :)

[@MouridEnglish]

This is really awesome .. Thx for sharing .. Cheers from Morocco!!!

[@hasafienda]

There's a lot Ethiopian immigrants in the Boston area. Being that I've chosen to dedicate myself to the study of Semitic languages, maybe it is a blessing. Maybe I'm just drunk.

[@cicero1178]

veryserioz Can't blame him to be honest

[@nedrick412]

Nathan Nguyen no such things as immigrants...just people.

[@jainanan911]

Nathan Nguyen it is both :)

[@JohnSmith-bk9vb]

Nathan The whole of America is a nation of Migrants. Even your own family!

[@shiluliu7780]

Nathan Nguyen Or maybe you can teach them Vietnamese

[@dinachayarubin5600]

Amharic is one of the languages I want to know.

[@davied999]

Oh it is not difficult that much. The difficult thing is the alphabet (we called it Fidel)and some letters sound. Rather than not much difficult.

[@esaw7067]

As a native Tigrinya (from Eritrea) speaker, I can somewhat understand certain words in Amharic but I feel like Amharic has more cushitic words whereas Tigrinya has more arabic influence to it.

[@heruy8274]

The Arabic influences are EPLF impositions. Tegrena also has many Italian loanwords. Eritreans are to careless and indifferent to the bastardization of their language.

[@esaw7067]

@@heruy8274 Koreans have many English loan words, English itself has more than 30% loan words from Germanic and Latin. Tigrinya has loan words due to Italian colonial influence. You're acting like we chose to that ourselves.

[@heruy8274]

@@esaw7067 So why dont we reform our language and purify it from Italian influences? Having been forcibly influenced by Italy in the past does not excuse our contemporary settling for the status quo.

[@tkhagos]

In fact Tigrinya has more semitic roots than Amharic since christianity came through Eritrea and Tigray. Tigrinya is also one of the closest languages to the ancient Aramaic language that was spoken during christ.

[@9856359]

@@heruy8274 What's the point of being so rude?

[@miko12334]

Dude, I have been watching your quality videos for a while now and I am glad you did a video on Amharic. As a native speaker of Amharic who lives in the US I speak Amharic with my friends and in our communities but interchange it with English on the fly. Older people in our communities usually speak only Amharic with little usage of English amongst themselves. And the very young ones and the ones that came here as kids, as in any other immigrant community speak little to no Amharic usually.

[@이상헌-b4o]

The weeknd's language

[@tsedtesfaye1126]

李相憲 yes his Ethiopian language Amharic or አማርኛ 👍👍

[@hananjm5023]

李相憲 yes

[@MonkeyDLuffy-py9un]

world &music he is habesha

[@LoganLS0]

Canadian?

[@zakxp3129]

Logan Strom where he was botn

[@BlessedInLuck]

It is such a beautiful language which allows you to express yourself with undoubtable clarity .. proud of myself for maintaing my amharic in a western country.

[@MonDieuMaCauseMonEpee]

YES YES YE YAS YES YEEEEEEESSSSSS!!!!!!!! YOU ARE NOW MY ALL TIME FAVORITE KZbin CHANNEL !!!!

[@Langfocus]

Haha, thank you Rob!

[@MonDieuMaCauseMonEpee]

Langfocus No, Thank You, I've been hoping for you to make this video for so long. My mother is Haitian and my father is Ethiopian. I was so happy when you made the Haitian Creole video and now I'm simply exuberant. I've always wanted to learn to be able to speak with my father's side of my family.

[@RoScFan]

Langfocus you should have included words at the end of cushitic or ethiosemitic origin. That would have been cool. See how the language originally sounds like.

[@edjr7718]

I'd love if the Amharic course was available in duolingo, I would definitely learn it!

[@_brok3n862]

Ed Jr I feel you mate

[@_brok3n862]

Yona26 there isn't

[@linguafiqari]

Have you seen my Amharic/Ethiopia posts?

[@_brok3n862]

ghajn where are those posts?

[@edjr7718]

ghajn No, in duolingo?

[@508Manika]

This video is world class. Super informative. Concise and clear. And the narrator has a very clear and neutral English pronunciation. I was looking at the Ge'ez script and Amharic language. If I only had this video for an overview.. it would be enough. Thank you!!!

[@Langfocus]

Thank you for the kind words!

[@rohayeha]

I am so glad you did a video about amharic!!!!. I am a native speaker of amharic. I found out that Jesus might have spoken biblical Aramaic and since then I have been wondering about similarity of the words Aramaic and Amharic, is it a coincidence????!!!! when Jesus was performing miracle by saving the daughter of Lazarus he said "thal'ita cumi" and the girl stood up from her death bed. The word "tha'ita cumi" has the same meaning in amharic "ita" means my sister while "cumi" means stand up, which means "my sister stand up" also during crucifixion of Jesus he said "Eloi, Eloi lama sabacthani" here "lama" means why which is similar as the amharic word "lemin". During the crossing of Jesus and his disciples on a stormy sea and the saving of the disciples they were saying "Maran'atha" to each other "maran" means "save us" while "atha" means "you" in total it mean "he saved us" to each other(the disciples saying to each other). Here are some Amharic words similar with Hebrew/Aramaic: English. Hebrew Amharic. Angle Malik. Melak. Holy. Kadish/Quds. Qidus Right. Haq. Haq Father. Abu. Abat Peace. Shalom. Selam Head. Rosh. Ras Prophet. Nabi. Neby Blessed. Baruk. Biruk Soul. Nephesh. Nefis Righteous. Tsadik. Tsadik Sky/heaven Shamay. Semay Sanctuary. Miqdash. Mekdes Lord/holy day Ba'al. Ba'al Proverb. Mishaley. Misale Heart. Leb. Leb Ancient. Kadum. Kidim(before) Birthday. Hu'ledet. Ledet New. Hadush. Addis Recover. Me'hira. Mihret Hour. Sha'a. Seat Ten. Eser. Aser I. Ani. Ene Do you think there is a connection between Aramaic and Amharic I really belive some time back then there must have been a connection between them. Also before Ge'ez became to be written with vowel it was a consonant only letter so if you take the first letters of each of alphabet and compare it with biblical aramaic alphabet there are some similarities.

[@rohayeha]

There is also similarity in the name of Geez and Gezer (Gezer inscription which is the first hebrew text found)!!

[@EthioGQ]

I love what you wrote, especially about Jesus. Very fascinating. If you want to know more about Geeze I recommend you to talk to Prof. Getachew Haile.

[@eliastheb4332]

Eskedar Zeleke : my lovely sis : that is brilliant observation. Don't regret to do more on that, find out more facts. It's very important to the society. Thanks to you.

[@rebeccah6701]

Yeah Jesus' first language was Amharic

[@seekingtruth4573]

Eskedar Zeleke Wow I have to look this up. Thanks!

[@Ethionet-id7iv]

I just wanted to say thank you for your kindness introduced we Ethiopian we have reach culture and history Amharic is my first language. #stay tuned.

[@seshmesh158]

Hi! I just wanna say thank you for making this video! I'm half Ethiopian and since I don't live in Ethiopia I've forgotten the language. I'm trying to learn it now that I'm older so I can be closer to my culture. Tho it's super hard to find any information about the structure of Amharic and when I ask my mom how the grammar works it's hard for her to explain it just like that, which I totally understand. I find this video extremely helpful with my studies of Amharic. Especially with the structure of sentences. Thank you for making this video! It means a lot to me :)!

[@Langfocus]

You’re welcome! I’m glad you found it useful!

[@alexanderschwarzer9656]

There are actually some useful grammar books for amharic available. One old and supposedly very good one is written b Robert Leslau, but it may be too expensive and overly academic to teach yourself. Try out colloquial Amharic by David Appleyard, it is really good and contains all info necessary for self study. I am sure after a while of self study you can start to talk with your mum in Amharic and take it on a conversational level from there. Best wishes with your self study from another half habesha who already struggled this way to learn his language (in my case Tigrinya :)) Cheers!

[@Diva_Bella]

Amharic and tigrigna is spoken by Ethiopians also Eritreans share same language of Ethiopians which is tigrigna and the language is very similar. Amharic and tigrigna is very similar it's like Italian and Spanish can understand it also they use same alphabet call Fidel

[@EletroRafaVideo]

Hi Paul!! I am a fan of the Langfocus channel. One month ago I was reading a book about the reign of Haile Selassie. The book is: The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat; wrote by the Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński. Reading the book I was curious about the Amharic language. And when I was in Italy, in 2005, I remember at the train from Rome to Firenze, I was in front of two womans talking. I was trying to understand what was that language. That time I was a student of Arabic language and that language sounds near the Arabic to me. I think that women could be from Yemen or Somalia. So, I asked the women in Italian, what was that language. They said: Sei amarico! (It's Amharic!) I was very happy to listen that language, and I said to these women is very rare listen Amharic where i live (Brazil).

[@Channel_of_ermi]

ኢትዮጲያና ግዕዝ ለዘለዓለም ይኑሩ!

[@leahasfaw341]

Ow!

[@Rangerrick65]

When in collage I had a friend who wrote his notes in Amharic. To me it looked like little boxes with legs. Thanks for an interesting video.

[@eliad6543]

Imagine drawing little funny faces in them and passingthe note back xD

[@selamnewtube5230]

hahaha, I always wondered what it would look like to non-speaker haha it sounds like Arabic n looks like box with legs is funny feedback, ur name would be written as ሪቻርድ ሮው

[@senaysew8231]

😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@SaveTheFuture94]

Great video Paul, but a word of advice: most Ethiopians and Eritreans will take offence to the rather flattering description given to the derg government at 4:44 - "Increased development, urbanization, and increases in the number of public schools and adult literacy programs" - when in fact it set the country back 100 years. This is a sensitive issue as the brutal and evil derg regime publicly declared 'red terror' on its citizens in 1977, a campaign to purge all 'counter-revolutionaries'; in other words they were free to embark on a mass murder rampage against anyone. As a result, they killed thousands upon thousands of innocent young people in one of the biggest genocides in Africa. This is not development.

[@idrisd2306]

Development is material and technological, nothing more. It's not necessarily moral. Case in point, Nazis did lots of technological development. That doesn't mean they advanced morally, if there is even much as thing as "moral advancement". The same is said about Stalin's Russia even when more Russians died during Stalin's rule (outside of the war) then during the rule of some particular Tsars.

[@fanab8151]

I second that.

[@Lobo-Lobo]

Most Ethiopians like Dergue so you know... Only the separatists hate him because of the long war! He was a true communist... Never bought villas, never helped his family with money or titles and such... Never stole money when he resigned! FACT!

[@keeganmoonshine7183]

Derg may be garbage communists but its facts to say they did more development than the declining and inefficient monarchy which was not interested in helping the poor as much as the commies were. Obviously democracy is better now and im glad derg is gone.

[@battoday953]

@@keeganmoonshine7183 the derg was million times better than the murderous monarchy.

[@kanewilliams3613]

Have watched this more than 4 times in the past 2 months. Travelling Africa and learning Amharic for immersion. In Ethiopia now been here for a week. You are amazing Paul thank you so much I really mean it

[@sydnirobinson3125]

I love the way that Amharic sounds. I live in an area that has one of the largest (if not the largest) populations of Ethiopians outside of Ethiopia so it is one of those languages I grew up hearing all around me, and I am used to seeing the script (many of the pamphlets for public transportation and school forms are in Amharic, along with Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean).

[@Amparito847]

You live in the DMV right? because it's the same for me

[@FireRupee]

How about a video on some of the Native American languages, like Michif? Or French outside of Europe, like Acadian French and Missouri French? It would be awesome to see minority/endangered languages get some spotlight.

[@slyninja4444]

He did do a video on Quechua

[@billwalderman3943]

There are many Amharic speakers here in the Washington DC area.

[@LarzGustafsson]

Hello from Sweden. I'm Swedish but my wife is Ethiopian. I have been there twice.

[@rebeccah6701]

Liban less than 50%. The majority of Ethiopians are orthodox Christian

[@zenaberhanu4969]

WOW! Thank you I'm from Ethiopia Amharic speaker!!!

[@bolebole5793]

+Langfocus I have to take issue with your claim that Ge'ez is imported. If that was the case, there would be similar scripts and languages that lasted to this day. From an Ethiopian perspective this is a product of Western scholars doubting the capability of Africans. Clearly, Ethiopia has seen better days than its recent position in the world, but Ethiopia's culture is unique to the world. Too often Ethiopians are viewed as being hybrids of Africa and the Middle East. One trip to Ethiopia settles all debates. Trust me. Nevertheless, this is a very nice video. Great job. I know you are not the original source of the Ge'ez language origin story.

[@sareeyemanusqaame8723]

Rebecca H stop lying the majority of Ethiopians are Muslims maybe you mean majority of Amhara.

[@sareeyemanusqaame8723]

Larz Gustafsson as you know Ethiopian isn’t really one nation but many different nations combined into one do you know what nation does your wife come from? I’m sure you do but what nation.

[@derteeliebhaber1046]

Can you please do the Berber Languages ?

[@ApachePieman]

Wrong. Berber languages are the original native languages of North Africa before Arabic conquests during times of the Caliphate.

[@oliverhees4076]

Yeah. Tifinagh is an awesome script.

[@ApachePieman]

looks like the Turk guys comment i replied to got deleted

[@ooo0mrx0ooo]

Mounaim Ghouali صدق انك قليل حياء ، حتى لو كنت تختلف مع احد ارتق بنفسك ومع اخوانك في الدين والوطن.

[@aghilesargradj1863]

Nader Jindaoui you mean the Kabyle language?

[@mansourdiagne8174]

I’m from Senegal, my native language is Wolof but I speak Arabic, English, French and Japanese. I noticed that in Amharic the définit article comes after the noun and that is the same in my language Wolof. In Wolof we have multiple définit and indefinite article depending on the phonetic of the noun, but they all come after the noun. Thank you!

[@lamrof]

Amharic does have definite article usage as you stated but has no indefinite article as in Spanish or English. I am almost sure but others can correct me. for indefinite articles we use adjectives instead.

[@timbuktu777]

Damn I wanna be like you!

[@pberny]

Thats impressive

[@ennui9745]

When I was an exchange student in Japan, I had a Senegalese dormmate who is Wolof, like you. He spoke Wolof, French, English, and Japanese.

[@xiaoenxu1875]

Would love to see a video on Polynesian languages! (Maori, Hawaiian, Samoan, Tongan etc.)

[@chengyanslc]

Wow this is an amazing video. I especially love the grammar breakdowns.

[@HTBasically]

I was just checking some youtube videos to see what nonethiopians think about Amharic. Little that I knew that I would be taught my language from others. I haven't done enough research to know about the history of Amharic, but the way you explained how the language works is better than many who call themselves Amharic experts. I also liked your unbiased view of the origin of Amharic, comparisons with other Semitic languages. For anyone who has an interest in learning Amharic, I think this is a very good place to start. You will see that Amharic is a fun language especially when you start interacting with the lovely Ethiopian people who are rich in culture. I myself like to learn about other languages, and I found a good source. finally, I would like to extend my gratitude to all of those who participate in the making of this great video. Keep up the good work.

[@salmahelal6546]

Hey Paul! I'm a native Arabic speaker from Egypt, and I had an Ethiopian travel-buddy whom I spent 2 months with in China. And yes, whenever she talked in Amharic with her family on the phone I could recognize some words and guess the meaning right. Especially numbers, animal and plant names.

[@KhalidAGomaa]

Hello Paul, nice video as usual. I'm Egyptian, I can confirm that there is a similarity between the 3 words you mentioned for (he killed) in the 3 languages. The Arabic word 'qatala' is pronounced as 'gatal' in many Arabic dialects

[@AMR_k400]

He word sit (women)is set in amharic and iwa is aw , and there are other words like kubaya,gemel,fotta(towel),.....

[@aaaabbbb1078]

በትክክል ነው አማርኛ ቋንቋ ማለት በጣም ወሳኝ ቋንቋ ነው ። እኔ አረብ ኖሬአለሁ አንዲት ሶሪያ ሴት የማነበውን መፅሀፍ አይታ በጣም ተደነቀች ከሂብሩ ጋር በጣም ይቀራረባል ነው ያለችው ሌላው ደግሞ የሚገርመው በጣም ብዙ ቃላት ከአለብኛ ጋር የመሳሰላል ። ለምሳሌ አማርኛ ቤት አረብኛ በይት አማርኛ አይን አረብኛ እዬን ይህንን ለምሳሌ ጠቀስኩት እንጂ በጣም ብዙ ቃላቶች የስያሜ አጠራራቸው ይማሰላል። ሌላው ደግሞ አረብ ሀገር ላይ ለ10 አመት የተቀመጠ የሌላ ቋንቋ ተናጋሪ ተቀምጦ እኛ ሀበቮች በአጭር ጌዜ አቀላጥፈን አረብኛ አክሰንትን በትክክል አንናገራለን ። አረቦች እራሳቸው ይገርማቸዋል በጣም። እና ባጠቃላይ አማርኛ እና ግእዝ የአለም የመጀመሪያ የሰው ልጅ የመግባቢያ ቋንቋ ነው። ለዚህም ነው አሁን በጀርመን ፤ በአሜሬካ፤ በካናዳ፤ በእንግሊዝ ዬንቨርስቲ ውስጥ እንደ አንድ የትምህርት ዘርፍ መሰጠት የተጀመረው ።ስለዚህ በአሁን ዘመን በኢትዬጰያ በአማርኛ ቋንቋ ላይ እየደረሰ ያለው ጥላቻና ተፅእና ወደፊት ዋጋ ያስከፍለናል። በማይረባ ፓለቲካ የተነሳ አማርኛን በመጥላት ብቻ ኢትዬጰያዊነታችንን እንዳንነጠቅ ።መጠንቀቅ አለብን እላለሁኝ። ይህንን የመሰለ ጠቃሚ አና በእውቀት ላይ የተመረኮዘ መረጃ በማስተላለፍ ህዝቡን ማስተማር ይቻላል እናመሰግናለን በጣም።

[@samuelsamuel8071]

I love ethiopia for everithing♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹

[@QLTD]

Watching it again, I never get enough of your videos, btw 14:18 in Arabic the root is *qatala* (قَتَلَ) not *qutila.* 6:45 *alä* (he said) very similar to the Arabic *qala* (he said). 11:22 *makina* in Arabic means *machine!* awesome video Paul, thanks again

[@Iamwierdopapi]

Makina in amharic languge comes from italy .

[@florencioigual]

How come it took me so long to bump into this video?! It's exactly the kind of introduction I was looking for about this mysterious language

[@Langfocus]

Thanks! I’m glad you found it! 🙂

[@florencioigual]

@Langfocus thanks for the message. I'm an expat in Saudi Arabia where I've done a lot of desert exploration. I have been amazed to discover all these ancient inscriptions on the desert rocks, including some in the South Arabian script from which originates the Amharic letters

[@BF-bb5us]

@@florencioigual Do you have evidence the letters originate from SA? I am aware they are just as old as each other

[@florencioigual]

@BF-bb5us I advise you to read the works of Professor Christian Julien Robin who led dozens of expeditions in Yemen and Saudi Arabia and who studied the ancient South Arabian script for 50+ years

[@BF-bb5us]

@@florencioigual There is absolutely no evidence that Ge'ez is directly derived from the script in south Arabia. Even by their own admission, that nothing in SA predates that in the horn.

[@letsgetit9939]

I like that you put original picture of Ethiopia as it is city, villages, mountains and amazing places 🤎

[@lamrof]

Compared to other Semitic languages, Arabic, Hebrew, Tigringa etc. Amharic sounds really smooth and sexy.

[@lamrof]

@the virtuous man of course. sexy is wild. Trump has Covid.

[@lamrof]

@the virtuous man I have genitals, Trumpy has Covid.

[@AMR_k400]

Yeah they removed harsh sounds like kh even tho its still there in the alphabet and old rural amharas still use them

[@MottiShneor]

As a Jewish Israeli, speaking Hebrew as my first language, I have Amhari speaking neighbors! I don't know if when you prepared this video you were aware of the group of Ethiopians that kept a very ancient branch of Judaism in Ethiopia until they immigrated to Israel in the mid 80s to merge with the main branch of Judaism. They called themselves "ביתא ישראל" - The house/family of Israel there, and they maintained ancient books of the "Torah" scriptures with all the rituals and customs of their own very-far-away branch of Judaism. By their tradition, they are descendants of Queen of Sheba and King Solomon of Jerusalem. They were admitted "real jews" after long inspection and research, and it was decided to grant them the right to join the main jewish people in Israel. So we have Amharic language speakers in our neighbourhood!!!

[@us3rG]

Solomon sent lots of dudes and they're descendants of them

[@joefromravenna]

I actually do like Ethiopian food. I found it pretty tasty.

[@WintaAssefa]

yassss. and hey I'm an Ethiopian who just listed down the Ge'ez numbers and their Arabic numeral counterparts in a sand -drawn video. You're invited to check it out and subscribe, if you like. Love from Ethiopia, -w 💛

[@WintaAssefa]

@reemJE I know a couple of Reems. What a lovely name

[@ΜαρίαΠ-ζ7δ]

Love and greetings from America! What a fascinating history and language!

[@JenXOfficialEDM]

This language has the coolest alphabet. :) I have added your video to my "languages" playlist. Thank you for all the cool language videos.

[@Langfocus]

It's my pleasure. Thanks for watching them!

[@t369]

You very much understood our language , thanks

[@hornmkg.2800]

The quality of Amharic is; its alphabets represent all sounds in the world. For example sounds like ሸ፣ ቀ፣ ኘ፣ ዠ፣ ጠ፣ ጨ፣ ጰ፣ ፀ፣...are universal sounds. but in English no letter which represent them. So an English language speaker can not articulate them properly. In contrary, some sounds like letter "V" in english; has its own letter "ቨ" in Amharic. Therefore one who learns Ethiopian alphabet, can articulate any language in the world properly.

[@abigiyatewodros9558]

Am Ethiopian and 10q for promote our country and culture big respect🙌

[@hailuamare8969]

It is well structured and logical. I believe I have been wrong about replacing amharic with English as working language. We need to keep amharic as a working language in Ethiopia.

[@1lyac]

I'm a native speaker of arabic Actually i noticed that amharic and arabic are very similar than i thought they are especially in conjugation But they aren't so much in vocabulary I think that trigniya has much more common vocabulary than amharic

[@fruitsarelife148]

Ilyas Hammouda yes tigrinya also sounds more similar to arabic, its more harsh and amharic sounds more smooth.

[@1lyac]

ERITREA 1 yes i think that

[@tegstulakew2268]

True Tigringa and Arabic have similar tone also

[@pragmatistyouth1774]

Ilyas Hammouda Tigri and Tigrinya languages are much more related to arabic both in conjugation and vocabulary compared to Amharic.

[@vshnn5545]

Amharic is actually very different from Arabic.. lol it’s tigrinya that is more Semitic. Amharic has more of a cushic vocabulary that Semitic

[@abrahamfikadu7]

I am native amharic speaker form Ethiopia: Adama (Nazreth) Located in Oromia region 100 km southeast of the Addis Ababa. Amharic spoken widely in the local community.

[@ahmedyosry6770]

Paul : a huge thank you for every single video you upload, you are such an inspiration 👏💙 .. Yours Languages Addict

[@hulugerishfikre9053]

Oh my, i am native, but i have to say, wow Amharic in a whole new way, thank you man!

[@deborahsolomonteferra]

The direct translations to English were hilarious. And thank you for making a video about Amharic it is the first one I have found.

[@yairalkon4944]

Hello from Israel! Great video my friend! As always, your content is very interesting and amazingly well researched. My mother tongue is Hebrew and I study the Palestinian dialect of Arabic. As to similarities between Arabic and Hebrew, to what you showed about Amharic, I was struck by a similarity in few of the verb cojugations. The past conjugation - "Säbbäru" - they broke (Amharic) Looks peculiarly similar to - "Shavru" - they broke (Hebrew) And also - "Säbbärn" - we broke (Amharic) Might be related to - "Shavarnu" - we broke (Hebrew) This could be a coincidence, and frankly the other conjugations don't seem similar to Hebrew in my opinion, but these two conjugations also seem quite similar to the Palestinian Arabic's past tense's respective conjugations. The root s.b.r. doesn't exist in arabic to my knowledge, but if it had existed, the conjugations would look like "Sabaru" (they broke) & "Sabarna" (we broke), which is very similar! I would love to hear other people's thoughts on this. Thank you for the great content, And greetings for Israel!

[@daaaan71]

Hi Paul, I love how you go deep in your video’s. It would be very interesting to see à vidéo about Tigrinya/Tigre and geez as well. Keep up you good work and many Thanks for all your vidéos 👍

[@adanemekonnen5645]

I love my country Ethiopia. I am a proud Amharic speaker. Thank you for the excellent narration.

[@kidsfun7024]

Ethiopia has 83 different languages with up to 200 different dialects spoken. The largest ethnic and linguistic groups are the Oromos, Amharas and Tigrayans. Ge'ez is the ancient language, and was introduced as an official written language during the first Aksumite kingdom when the Sabeans sought refuge in Aksum.

[@sareeyemanusqaame8723]

My Kids Fun why did you not add Somalis the major ethnic groups of Ethiopia they have bigger number than Tigrians but you included Tigrians but left Somalis out. What’s the matter?

[@zak.886]

Gaala Eri Cusman somalis don't want to be part of ethiopia

[@AM-hk6ou]

I love learning Amharic and the history of Ethiopia.🇪🇹♥♥♥☺😊:-)

[@Ohiology]

I look forward to seeing a video on the Amazigh languages.

[@kcalev11]

Native Hebrew speaker, I've studied a bit of Amharic before, and later on - more Tigrinya. When I've learnt some Amharic at first - I couldn't see most of the related vocabulary - but after learning (some) Tigrinya - the connexion became much more obvious - I would say Tigrinya/Tigre/Ge'ez - are like a stepping-stone between Hebrew and Amharic. Since Tigrinya has preserved most of the sounds (or at least at a similar level to Hebrew), So for example - Hebrew "All" - "Kol" - turns to Tigrinya Kulu, Amharic Hulu - so "Hulu" at first was not obvious, but later became obvious, later it's a visible rule - initial "Kaf" turns to "H" in Amharic. The same with dropping all the "Ḥet" and "3ayin" sounds. Later - taking some semitic-linguistics course - I found another important stepping stone - the Modern-South-Arabian languages (which you've left out of the graph, it's a very important subgroup, especially in relation to ethio-semitic) - languages such as Soqotri, Mehri and Jibbali (Shaḥri) languages. Specifically - these languages have cues related to Amharic not coming as a direct descendants from Ge'ez (hence the different South-vs-North EthioSemitic as your graph shows) - these have to do with reflexes of proto-semitic /ɬ/ *ś , and reflexes of "Ḍād" (PS ṣ́ ) - compare "Thirsty" - Tigrinya "ጽሙእ" (ṣmuʔ) Hebrew צמא (ṣameʔ) Arabic ظَامِئ‏‎ (ẓāmiʾ) Amhairc "ጠማው" (tʼämaw) - ẓ / ḍ - often goes to ejective-t in Amharic (but ṣ - never goes to ṭ ) - this is true even in some places that the merger into /ṣ/ already happened in written Ge'ez. Another interesting example in the number Three - "ሦስት/ሶስት" sost - as you can see - the traditional transliteration is with "ሦ" - and for a good reason - the missing "l" (as in Tigrinya/Hebrew/Arabic) - the merger of the 'sl cluster into ' ś ' - this also happens in Jibbali and some other Modern-South-Arabian

[@nmariam123]

kcalev11 thnx

[@DnBComplex]

wow

[@utakatasama9155]

hi, I'm interested in how many dialects does Hebrew have? and why many vowels sound Germanic rather than Semitic ? is that because of European and Slavic jew people?? because Amharic and Tigrinya and Tigre sounds Semitic to me< Hebrew may have the vocabulary but the tongue is more like Germanic in the way that they can't pronounce "R" for example I hope you don't take it as an insult , I'm just interested in and want to know ..

[@MikJFr]

Utakata Samoa: The reason Israeli Hebrew has Germanic and/or other European sounds is that when nationalists revived Hebrew as a spoken language some 120-150 years ago, it had not been heard for many centuries (but copiously written), thus the sounds they gave it in speech reflected their European background.

[@tellingthetruth2949]

Is it possible that the Tigrinya tribe maybe are one of the lost tribes of Israel? The language Tigrinya and Hebrew are very similar? The Tigrinya speakers even have Levantine DNA, I believe they have up to 50% DNA from the Levant, and the rest is African. Can this be possible? I think even two of the tribes of Israel were a mix of Egyptian and Hebrew, because Joseph married a Egyptian woman and he got two Sons (Ephraim and Mannasa) and I believe the Egyptians in that time were Nubians, meaning Black! So two of the 12 tribes were half middle eastern and Half African......do You see it now?:)

[@hal0dude7]

This is pretty cool, as an Arabic speaker I love learning about other Semitic languages, as I feel that for a language group, it has many extinct languages or ones spoken by very small minorities. An interesting similarity was the word for 'car' which was 'makina', in Arabic that word actually means 'machine'. I don't believe a car was ever referred to as a 'makina' in Arabic (in fact today, we commonly use makina to refer to a car's engine), so it'd be fascinating if the word is not a loanword but in fact developed independently to mean car in Amharic. Also when you gave the example for the word 'to kill', your pronunciation of the Arabic word was slightly off, it should be (qa ta la), which would mean more like: "He killed." The way you said it (qu ti la) would instead mean: "He was killed." In reality if you want to say: 'to kill' you can't really say it using just the root word, you'd have to say: "Li yaq tal", which would literally mean: "For him to kill."

[@richardaerts2735]

In Italian people say "machina" to say car. It sounds like "maakina".

[@MonteroKirilenko]

Hey Paul, I'm blown away by your in-depth knowledge of a wide variety of unrelated languages from around the planet. I wonder how many languages you can speak comfortably. How many languages can you hold a meaningful conversation in?

[@imlix-reviews]

my deepest gratitude goes to you for you have taken the time to understand my language. I loved your explanation on the grammar and sentence structuring difference and also similarities with its neighbouring languages. I just want to inform you one thing that the history of Amharic is not as how you described it to be. it is a direct descendent of the Ge'ez language which has been in the Ethiopian kingdom before the birth of Christ. there are many stone writings found in Aksum area which have both the Ge'ez and Sabean writing styles. finally keep it up, your Video has an amazing depth of details!

[@WintaAssefa]

Hey there. I'm an Ethiopian who just listed down the Ge'ez numbers and their Arabic numeral counterparts in a sand -drawn video. You're invited to check it out and subscribe, if you like. Love from Ethiopia, -w 💛

[@khust2993]

Amharic sounds pleasant to my ears the most among Semitic languages.

[@lamrof]

The language of love as it is called in Ethiopia. It does sound smooth and pleasant to the ear. Semitic languages usually sound angry.

[@sareeyemanusqaame8723]

Ser Petiks biased much?

[@WintaAssefa]

Hey Ayos. I'm an Ethiopian who just listed down the Ge'ez numbers and their Arabic numeral counterparts in a sand -drawn video. You're invited to check it out and subscribe, if you like. Love from Ethiopia, -w 💛

[@bsahle]

Great work. I am teaching my kids all 3 (I am a native Amharic speaker) and your video is helpful.