Languages of the Jewish People

[@Ronbugy9]

You mentioned and described the jewish languages and diaspora of the jewish people to the west very acurately. However you didnt even mention the eastern diaspora which led to even more jewish languages. For example, my family are jews which come from the country Azerbaijan. They speak a very ancient jewish language called Juhuri. Juhuri is basically Farsi, Turkish, Tat, and Ancient Hebrew combined. There are also many other Jewish languages of this region such as Bukhari.

[@FireRupee]

+Ronbugy9 Sounds like it would make a great part 2.

[@Freedomozodiliberty]

I am from Bukhara and i would say that jewish bukhari it's not too different from just Bukharian Persian, they just got some specific accent

[@Kurtlane]

There are also Crimean Jews who spoke Judeo-Tatar.

[@Ronbugy9]

@vaguelyhuman they dont. they speak regular amharic.

[@Ronbugy9]

​@@Kurtlane interesting. I just looked it up. Its new to me. Ive never heard of Krymchak. Ive lived in Israel and in New York and never heard of it.

[@Auragenerator]

Modern Hebrew is much closer to Ancient Herbrew than to Yddish. Modern Hebrew speakers can read and understand Ancient Hebrew but not Yddish.

[@shamosshamos1825]

+Vadim .S. Ancient Hebrew is different than Modern Hebrew

[@Auragenerator]

shamos shamos nobody said it wasn't

[@SunniLeBoeuf]

+Burhan the Somali to some extent yes, but more than half of Israel's Jews originate from non-European countries (mostly arabic speaking countries like Morocco, Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia)

[@גבריאלפאלקאו]

Modern Hebrew pronounciation sounds quite the same as the plain old Sephardic Hebrew, with the exception of ĥet (now sounds like chaf), 'ayin (now sounds like alef), quf (now sounds like kaf) and șadi (this was the ashkenazi innovation, now sounds "ts"). By some, also silencing the he.

[@jubanumidia8460]

Yiddish is a germanic

[@PepsVideoArchive]

Jesus wasn't the only Jewish thing that resurrected apparently

[@PixelstarWASD]

ha

[@PixelstarWASD]

too bad I can't upvote comments on my phone (lmao wth is up with that anyway)

[@G9projects]

+Sushininja127 you belong to THE TOP

[@dard1515]

+Sushininja127 This took a bit longer

[@PepsVideoArchive]

true

[@georgebatata814]

As a native (modern) hebrew speaker, I can easily understand almost everything in the bible (written in "classical" hebrew)... But trying to understand Yiddish I use more of my English knowledge than than my Hebrew knowledge. I mean: ancient and modern Hebrew share a lot; Hebrew and Yiddish share basically the alphabet and religious stuff

[@נהוראיסבגי-נ7מ]

@ΤηεΒεστ ΟφΜε Pitty I can't put a comment in my favs man.. 😭

[@victor-hugedivitorilamas5802]

@@renon4491 free palpatine

[@mendyc158]

Actually people did used Yiddish and Ladino when they got back to Israel... But Eliezer Ben-Yehuda tried to revive Hebrew, even though many people didn´t want to (and refused to use Hebrew because it was seen as a religious language), many merchandisers that needed to speak between those two mainly groups (Sphardies and Ashkenazies) needed a way to communicate, so they started to use Hebrew... That´s when Eliezer Ben-Yehuda´s idea became very logical and thus, people started talking Hebrew but modernizing it (In fact, many religious people won´t talk you in Hebrew unless it is something from the religion because they say it´s a language only used for biblical stuffs; they use Yiddish, Ladino,Maghrebi, and so on ) Also, my dad for example knows nothing about German but he talked in Yiddish and people understood him in Germany, yes it would be like talking to a cavern man, but still, and of course, he did understood many sentences

[@screamtoasigh9984]

They also banned using Yiddish

[@amichair]

Modern Hebrew is more similar to Classical Hebrew than Italian(for example) is to Old Latin.

[@ElayBanyan]

+amichair it's because jews always used hebrew bibles while the languages of the Italian bible changed

[@Rolando_Cueva]

Old Latin?? Nobody understands that. That's different from Latin.

[@thesuomi8550]

Well duh, Hebrew is Hebrew but Italian isn't Latin

[@mansamusa1743]

amichair in fact Italian isn't even the closest language to old Latin,that would be Sardinian.

[@jonispatented]

TheSuomi he was addressing xidnaf’s point in the video.

[@snakey934Snakeybakey]

my grandfather spoke fluently the Mahaley Jewish Persian language that is over 3,000 years old.

[@SunniLeBoeuf]

+Beni Habibi huh. I thought Persian Jews spoke Judeo-Aramaic. Interesting.

[@nossasenhoradesaparecidapa1660]

+Tom Tyler It can have too many names according to people's perspective

[@jessebaker3099]

+Beni Habibi - A modern version of this, or the real thing from 30 centuries ago? I didn't think they even knew how those languages were pronounced for sure, or what usages and idioms would have sounded "correct" to contemporary ears, given only limited text samples are extant and these in formal styles probably different from everyday speech. Wish we could go back in a time machine and make sound recordings.

[@snakey934Snakeybakey]

Verner Hornung as a historian, I agree whole heartedly.

[@ed-hr9oq]

Beni Habibi He should've taught you so the language could stay alive

[@TehNewV]

I love how maturely you handled the conflict in this video, as well as how you made the children's Hebrew a slightly darker shade of blue around 8:14 into the video.

[@ozhagevermeleh7641]

i know i'm 7 years late but i'm pretty sure it's an optical illusion, i tried comparing the 2 shades and they were exactly the same

[@bruhmomenthdr7575]

THEY'RE LITERALLY THE EXACT SAME COLOR!

[@omegalink314]

I'm from Israel and I speak Hebrew since I was a baby, I can still open the Bible and read it and understand it even though it was written thousands of years ago, this is very exciting, and I really enjoyed seeing your video so : תודה ושלום (=Toda ve shlom) (it means "Thank you and Goodbye")

[@cat2556]

+NB box rotse shekel?

[@amirgolomb4226]

+REALhacksDAILY barur. mi lo?

[@baloung7622]

Oh, that's really nice. Did you receive some kind of education about Ancient Hebrew and/or the Bible?

[@omegalink314]

+Baptiste Loreau Yes, I learn the Bible 5 hours a week

[@cat2556]

+Baptiste Loreau In Israel Bible Studies are MANDATORY in almost all primarily Jewish schools. Nearly every jewish-Israeli citizen has therefore studied and has basic understanding of the hebrew bible. That's why I commented "Rotse Shekel" = "want a shekel", which is a common expression meaning "so what", since this is really not an accomplishment - In contrast to say an American reaching that level of understanding, which means he or she has gone out of their way to understand this often confusing language.

[@FlatScreenNinja]

Would you consider doing a video on Celtic languages and their influence on modern day English?

[@brucethedruid]

***** en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Scottish_Gaelic_origin www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/cananan/beurla/faclan.html

[@stoney7145]

FlatScreenNinja English would have a much higher influence on celtic languages than the other way around.Celtic languages have given way to english ,because the english are the dominant nation in the irish and british isles Whereas as england has not been dominated by celtic speaking peoples,but was dominated by french speaking normans which is why there is so many french words in english

[@tchorveiik]

+Bruce Wilson his point still stands, what little influence the brittonic and goidelic languages had on English was minimal and restricted to terms Germanic settlers never encountered before. Indian languages have had probably sixfold the impact on English despite interacting with them a 10th of the time the Celts have. perhaps a better video would be on why the Celts DIDN'T have such an impact (bringing in Anglo-Saxon apartheid theory, genocide theory, cultural dominance theory etc...)

[@phinaibe8434]

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[@BroadwayRonMexico]

@@tchorveiik Some dialects are *very* strongly influenced grammatically by the Celtic languages. Most West Country dialects have definite influence from the Cornish language, and many of the stronger southern US dialects are grammatically strongly influenced by Scotch-Irish and Irish immigrants (especially Appalachian and--interestingly--Ebonics/AAVE)

[@GameWorldRS]

As a native Hebrew speaker I'd say that there is only one inaccuracy in this video and it is that you said that aincent and modern Hebrew aren't similar. I'd say they are extremely similar. Hebrew from 5000 years ago is exponentially closer to modern Hebrew than English from 400 years ago is close to today's English. Yiddish is close to German, German speakers will be able to understand a good amount of Yiddish, while Hebrew speakers won't understand any Yiddish at all. We use some words from Yiddish but it is VERY limited. On the other hand, you could place a 10 year old Hebrew speaking child from today 5000 years ago and they would probably be able to get around just fine talking modern Hebrew :)

[@panzerbanz7296]

No they are not similar simply because Hebrew as a language went extinct amd modern Hebrew was created synthetically, as noboda actually had any idea how words and letters are actually pronaunced.

[@mayo6009]

But there was a different alphabet

[@eranreznic9583]

@@panzerbanz7296 Everyone does actually how it was pronounced. Linguists have extensive knowledge of the sounds of the ancient Hebrew because of reconstruction of other Canaanite languages, and mostly just looking into Yemeni Hebrew. I'd say a 10 year old kid can't communicate people 5000 years ago, but someone with a bit of knowledge in written Hebrew can with just a bit of thinking.

[@JaJDoo]

bruh 5000 years ago? the earliest you could claim anything resembling hebrew exists in 3000, and only becomes biblical style hebrew 2600-ish during the kingdoms period before the first exile apart from that, i agree

[@red__guy]

@@panzerbanz7296 it was extinct as a native language but not as a sacred language.

[@נהוראיסבגי-נ7מ]

Hi, native modern-Israeli dialected-Hebrew speaker here, Hebrew is MUCH closer to its ancient roots than it is to Yiddish. The similarities with Yiddish are basically some aspects of the grammar (only sentence structure and few more little things, the whole system is still very Hebrew/semitic - you could tell) and some phonological shifts. The roots, the way you make up words, the intonation in many cases, the stress dependence etc.. these are all start and end as Hebrew. Hope it's clear :)

[@patrickkirby6580]

U’re a disgusting colonialist, and your none country doesn’t have right to exist and anyone who support it deserve to riot in hell.

[@Foxstorm1604]

Palestinian filth Take your own life.

[@FireOfTheDrgon]

modern hebrew speaker can easily read the bible , and i say that as israeli .

[@screamtoasigh9984]

It would be as intelligible as English speakers reading Shakespeare no?

[@loolootheworm8089]

@@screamtoasigh9984 Hebrew is a lot older though

[@aloneitan3819]

@@screamtoasigh9984 The only big thing that is different is the vocabulary

[@noamstopler7776]

@the baron Modern hebrew lent a lot of bibilical expressions and proverbs though , a lot of those proverbs contain Aramaic words , so israelis know some Aramaic words too

[@juch3]

But I don't think modern hebrew speakers would be able to speak biblical hebrew

[@NoozeCat]

These videos soo deserve more viewers. I'm very confident that in not so distant future these videos are going to be quite popular, if you keep up making more of them.

[@Xidnaf]

Nooze Arts Thanks, I hope your prophecy is right!

[@thorodinson6649]

@@Xidnaf 😳

[@烏梨師斂]

It would be awesome if Coptic became a living language again too!!!

[@metalgear-]

檀 杏斗 - It's even more awesome that you speak English. Your language looks cool but impossible to read.

[@tardistardis8]

Metal Gear It's Chinese...

[@seekingtruth4573]

檀 杏斗 Why not the pre Coptic, Egyptian language?

[@metalgear-]

tardistardis8 - Im assuming all the Asian languages use the same characters just like the ABCs of English are the same for French, Spanish, Russian, German & so forth. Idk.

[@aturtledarkly5947]

Seeking Truth Coptic is the final stage of the Egyptian language before it was replaced by Arabic.

[@M4th3u54ndr4d3]

Modern hebrew is almost identical to biblical hebrew. Main differences: the order of the words has changed (VSO to SVO), and the phonology changed (Het, Thaw, Dhal, Ayin and other semitic sounds were lost since the times of the late second temple period - circa 100b.C), etc Arabic was also a big language used by many many jewish groups

[@Pingwn]

Actually some of the grammar is different too.

[@noyza2132]

well yeah but its still kinda hard to read

[@cellularautomaton.]

idk why you named chet tav dalet and ayin weirdly but yeah that's fairly accurate; ת merged with ט, and ח with כ, whereas hard and soft ד just merged together and א and ע were lost completely

[@tzvi7989]

Actually in some constructions in modern Hebrew - namely passive ones and ones expressing the verb 'to have' in the past and future tenses (which doesn't exist as an actual verb in Hebrew), VSO is still quite a common sentence structure

[@blupolo2389]

So it's confirmed Xidnaf is a Brony ?

[@U.Inferno]

No! Really?

[@Piefav2]

+Blu Hiubatto A long time ago :P

[@timonix2]

How can you "sound" like a brony? I guess he has enough language knowledge to choose any dialect and accent as he would like to speak with. But I did not even know that a brony dialect would even exist.

[@blupolo2389]

Tim Jadeglans it's not how he sounds he referenced itm

[@aerobolt256]

Some bronies sometimes speak in the Equestrian dialect

[@dwana49]

The color-coding of the various languages made it very clear and easy to follow. Thank you!! :-)

[@jelmar35]

Let's bring back Latin!

[@Mateo-oq7ui]

+CulusMagnus Deus vult.

[@MegaBallPowerBall]

It's still spoken. My college offers intro to Latin. It just that Latin isn't really useful anywhere, even the Vatican mostly uses Italian as a means of communicating.

[@Mateo-oq7ui]

***** Latin is still spoken but it's dead anyway. It has 0 native speakers, just like Hebrew before Israel came along. People speaks Latin for religious and academic reasons, but not much else.

[@jelmar35]

Mateo Pedro Gonzale de Azcuenaga and as hobbyists :)

[@ghenulo]

+CulusMagnus Isn't the main problem that no one knows how Latin was pronounced? That seems to be a problem with dead languages in general. I've looked a bit into Gothic. The problem their seems to be twofold; the other problem is that in addition to having to guess about pronunciations is that most of the vocabulary had to be reconstructed.

[@maogu1999]

There is no such things as "Moldovan", Moldavians speak Romanian. AND, it is not a slavic language, it is a Roman language, the Romanian spoken in Moldova is just heavily influenced by Russian, mostly in terms of accent.

[@jacobloft3898]

savioursmesmerized Roman language? Do you mean Romance language?

[@katethe5th555]

savioursmesmerized honey, believe me, even though Romanian is officially a romance language, it is the most slavic romance language. There are many words in romanian that are slavic in origin. And Moldavian is a real thing. They use romanian words in a Russian way. For example, they "watch" a movie, as opposed to Romanian, where they "see" a movie or use archaic Romanian words instead of modern ones, simply because they are translated from Russian.

[@jacobloft3898]

Kate the 5th Moldavian isn't separate from Romanian. It is considered a dialect of Romanian, but its only called Moldovan in the country of Moldova and even it gets called Moldovan outside of Moldova it is still considered just a dialect of Romanian. However you do make a point as Romanian is the most Slavic of the Romance languages.

[@QuarioQuario54321]

savioursmesmerized Being Netherlandish, I can say that it’s called Kayaffsi, Fart, or Xidnafian.

[@tzvi7989]

Romanian is the fusion of romance with Slavic...

[@OrlyYahalom]

This is a really cool video, but I must make a few remarks: - In all the times you say "Israel" it should be "Judea", (except when you talked about Modern Israel and Gaza for some reason). - Most of the Sephardi Jews were exiled to North Africa, rather to Europe as the video shows. - Jews did not *immigrate* from Germany to Eastern Europe and Russia. They were *deported* (except for very rich Jews who could pay for staying). - Modern Hebrew is by no way more similar to Yiddish than to Biblical Hebrew. Just No.

[@OrlyYahalom]

The kingdom of Judea (Yehuda) is named so in the Bible. Yehud Medinata was the name of the autonomous province during Shivat Zion.

[@OrlyYahalom]

Frankly, I don't know, but it doesn't matter. Judea is how it is called today.

[@MrEVAQ]

Poland was basically a safe haven in comparison to other European principalities, so although Jews were kicked out from other regions in Europe, they weren't *forced* to settle in Poland, so the word deported is not very fitting I believe.

[@OrlyYahalom]

I didn't see where Poland were specifically mentioned, but Jews were deported from Germany to Eastern Europe and Russia. It's a fact. It means that they were forced to leave their homes and settle in another area, which included Poland.

[@MrEVAQ]

They were deported from the various Central European principalities they were in, but they weren't deported into Eastern Europe *per se*, it simply was a preferable destination for Jews because of Poland's more tolerant policies towards them in comparison to other regions in Europe

[@trebacca9]

My friend, I have but one thing to say. Rock on. /)

[@Xidnaf]

+trebacca9 (\ :)

[@markkeilys]

+Xidnaf .i ambigu /) :D

[@Xidnaf]

Joe Mattock He probably spoke Aramaic natively. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_of_Jesus

[@Phoenixspacecraft]

Hebrew coming back to life is a really big linguistic "turn-down-for-what"

[@Rolando_Cueva]

Nah

[@pischpilot]

STFU Yiddish rules Zay mir gezint

[@Phoenixspacecraft]

יידיש אין דיין תחת

[@robertford9063]

I'm not jewish (: D) ... I speak English! (: D)

[@burnin8orable]

@@pischpilot I speak Hebrew and I'm not learning Yiddish. What would I use Yiddish for?

[@R4mb0L]

A video about basque? :)

[@AndrewHokanson]

Levent M. IM BASQUE WOOT, but i cant speak it, cuz its really hard lol

[@R4mb0L]

No biggie, you can learn it ! I'm a Crimean Tatar living in Romania, and i also plan to relearn my language some day :D. Anyway Basque is said to derive from Paleolithic times and i was really curious about Xidnaf's opinions on this controversial laguage.

[@AndrewHokanson]

Levent M. O thats so cool that you're tatar! Unfortunately for me lots of my lineage has difficult languages. I speak spanish, which is my moms first langauge, and obviously english aswell. But then there's Basque, and FINNISH which are both difficult, but Norwegian is easy. So that's why im working on Norwegian currently.

[@unixone7558]

+Levent M. It also has a lot of loanwords from Spanish after years of interaction.

[@AndrewHokanson]

Burhan the Somali essalamualaikum, yeah! That's another reason why im learning it haha

[@johndo5096]

There are more than 7 mill Hebrew speakers in Israel, and most Israeli Arabs speak it too. So it's about 8.5 million speakers. The land was called Judea, not Israel . Israel was the name of the northern kingdom who was vanished after the Assyrian occupation. Modern Hebrew is NOT similar to Yiddish at all. It is very close to Biblical Hebrew but the accent is a combination of old and new with a European taste.

[@violettaschmieder2096]

+John Do Wait what? Judea was only the part of Israel where Jerusalem is located, Israel also included other regions like Samaria or Galilea (dunno how Galilea is written sry)

[@DonMrLenny]

The ancient accent is sound like the yemenite accent

[@johndo5096]

+Violetta Schmieder Again, Judea and Israel were separated kingdoms. This is the best map I could find: www.bibleodyssey.org/en/tools/map-gallery/i/~/media/189EBA522A7044E8BF52780A34F45E14.ashx

[@johndo5096]

+DonMrLenny Not really. The Yemenite accent is very unique and is originated from Yemenite Arabic that is NOT similar to any Arab accent where Israel of today is located.

[@AndreRhineDavis]

+John Do He said the *syntax* of Modern Hebrew is similar to Yiddish, not the *lexicon*.

[@nplgwnm]

When you mentioned how Jewish people would switch to perfect Koine Greek when speaking to people of non-Jewish background, it reminds me of Singapore English and Singlish. Many from Singapore tend to speak their own unique tongue among themselves but are able to switch perfect American or British English when speaking to non-Singaporean. It would be cool to see if you make a video on that in the future! :)

[@ElayBanyan]

the thing with native hebrew speaking people is that we can understand old hebrew as well, we still read the bible(the jewish bible) who contains old hebrew and we have passover when the stories are in aramic being able to understand so many languages as small children is helping us learning how to write hebrew better (writing in hebrew is very hard with no knowlage of its past) making us one of the fastest readers and writers in the younger age היכולת הזו מאפשרת לי לתרגם בקלות יותר כל שפה שאני יודע ואלמד אי פעם יכולת שמאפשרת לי לכתוב פה דברים שהתרגום של גוגל ישרף בגללם כדאי ללמוד את השפות שיצרו את השפה העכשיווית שלכם כדי להבין דקדוק ואיות בצורה יותר טובה

[@tarnegolden]

As an Israeli Jew, I am very proud to say that you nailed it. Many few non-Jews manage to get their information and understanding so accurate...

[@ajhare2]

I think it'd be cool if Latin was revived to be wide-spread like Hebrew.

[@flyingspacebrainedidiot]

Yeah, reviving Latin would be cool.

[@LordComradeAnarchoCapitalus]

How about if Proto-Indo-European was revived

[@m.m.1301]

That's just italian

[@m.m.1301]

@@muhtesemsiyanur Latin is still alive and spoken by 60 million, it's just called Italian nowadays

[@crodsbye]

yeah it could work quite well as a lingua franca in europe, but it would need to be simplified and developed quite a bit to fit into the modern contect

[@paurepiccheeseman]

I hate to see languages disappearing, Aramaic, Occitan, Galician, basically all the Celtic languages, it just feels like an important part of a people is just snuffed out of existence due to bigotry or just wanting to be more convienient.

[@CologneCarter]

Might happen to the German language too, not during my lifetime though. My father never learned English at school. It was mandatory for me from 5th grade until graduation. It was mandatory for my children from 3rd grade until graduation. Now students start at first grade and go on all the way until graduation and there are voices it should be taught from the day the start kindergarten (which in some countries is called preschool). The are even kindergarten where English is first language now in larger cities already. I see the day coming when English will become first language and German will be taught as second language and even become optional at some point.

[@CalebMichaelsonVEVO]

That's true! Portuguese is my first language and we can understand galician with practically no effort at all :)

[@Athos1776]

I'm Assyrian and I speak Aramaic. There are still 3-4 million people world wide that speak Aramaic

[@paurepiccheeseman]

***** That's great to hear, I assumed there were much fewer speakers.

[@El8MAGNATE]

Galician is just Portuguese heavily influenced by Spanish m80. Even the current way of writing it forgets some native portuguese phonemes just to make it more similar to Spanish.

[@CeoLogJM]

I am one of those new Hebrew speakers I guess. Although Ancient Hebrew is quite different then modern Hebrew, I can atleast still read the Torah and the Bible and so on and understand it. So there's that.

[@0LoveSong0]

Linguistically speaking the Torah that everyone uses today is very different to what was penned down thousands of years ago, it had to adapt not only to Suit a more "European" tongue, but also had to adapt to suit political factions in Europe. Many stories were slightly changed in order to avoid conflict.

[@CeoLogJM]

***** The original pronounciation from what I hear is very different in the Torah today than modern Hebrew. Also, Isnt our current version of the Torah just a last rework of the Babylonian Torah?

[@0LoveSong0]

CeoLogJM Not really, the Torah was modified several times over the ages for various reasons, one of them would be to be politically relevant. The Torah we read today as Jews Christians and Muslims is very different to what what was written down in babylon. That being said, the New Testament has gone under far more revisions then the torah.

[@roben2791]

***** thanks for the clarifiaction !

[@roben2791]

I learned some ancient Hebrew, and I can also understand modern hebrew !

[@SchorchioEldar]

Great video, but there is one missing detail. The jewish people simply just disappear from the region of palestine and then came back after the second world war. It's right that a lot of them did, but there was a huge jewish community on that region even before that massive return, and that people was one of the reasons to the existence of the modern state of Israel.

[@knowhere60]

This is actually incorrect. Even after 135 there were centers of Judean study under the Roman occupation and into the Byzantine Empire. Synagogues from the Byzantine period and the early Arabic occupation are still being uncovered. As the country became more and more eroded and derelict under Muslim rule, especially during the Ottoman occupation, most inhabitants left. But even then, there were Jews in Jerusalem, Safad, Tiberius and in some rural communities. New Jewish repatriation to Israel began in the 18th and especially the late 19th century, picking up in the early 20th century, and more after WW1 and the creation of the various British and French Mandates in the Levant. Palestine, by the ea

[@merwan1018]

@@knowhere60 my man answering a 7yo comment

[@adamyoung5624]

You should cover the lesser-known semitic languages, like Amharic, Tigrinya and Maltese. (These may be well-known but as far as I see they aren't)

[@makkonen0]

Tigrinya and Amharic also languages Jewish people speak. Tigrinya and Ge'ez are closer to classic Hebrew. Ge'ez was used translate classical hebrew into modern as well.

[@julianvargo9997]

¡Favlo Ladino! I'm not Jewish but I find it interesting so I learned it.

[@voievod7541]

Hey Xid, I just discovered your channel today and am currently binge watching all of your videos. Thing is, I found a mistake at 05:44. In "the various slavic languages" ,Moldovian doesn't exist. People from Moldova speak romanian (and some russian) because Moldova used to be a region on Romania.

[@TrueBluesProductions]

+draghici alex The wikipedia article on "Moldovan language" tells of the history of disagreements about Moldovan as a language or not.

[@aturtledarkly5947]

And either way, it's a Romance language

[@jonispatented]

Voievod I believe he’s referring to the now extinct ancestor language of Romanian. The one that contributed the Slavic influence to the Vulgar Latin in the area.

[@somespeciesofpenguin]

@@jonispatented Nah. Moldovan is another name for Romanian, a romantic language. It is more Slavic than Romanian due to being isolated from Romania itself, but its still nore romantic than Slavic. So idk why he referenced it as a slavic language...either way though, at least its a language 😐

[@jonispatented]

Derek Wagher was afraid that was it, just trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. Oh well.

[@realmenchangediapers]

I just shared this on my personal facebook with this text: "You know what I love about this? It's made by a teenager who loves languages and learns his stuff in wikipedia and then creates animation videos about stuff he is interested in. And they get millions of views. This is totally what I could have been if I had been born in a different generation. This is just one of dozens of videos he has made over the past few years. I love how youtube is enabling young people to live out and use their talent and spreading knowledge of things they are passionate about." Rock on. You are starting out earlier in life than both minutephysics and than CGP Grey did. If they can, so can you.

[@Blobtheblobfish]

The Juhuros (literally meaning Mountain Jews) from the Caucasus region speak Juhuri, a derivative of the Persian language.

[@SunniLeBoeuf]

so do Persian Jews themselves, although, obviously, it's closer to actual Parsi.

[@yakov95000]

not exactly it has a lot of Semitic vocabulary from Aramaic and Hebrew

[@benjieleshansky2371]

You didn't even mention Eliezer Ben Yehuda in this video

[@עמריטפלא]

Benjie Leshansky Yeah, he was the main "resurrector" of the Hebrew language.

[@עמריטפלא]

TellThe Truth! It has very much in common with biblical hebrew. I wouldn't call it "an invention".

[@wee3ist]

TellThe Truth! it's like saying that Shakespeare made a new language and didn't evolved the English language

[@wee3ist]

TellThe Truth! it's like saying that Shakespeare made a new language and didn't evolved the English language

[@benjieleshansky2371]

***** Actually, a lot of the vocabulary is from old Hebrew, he only invented words for things like trains, cars and other things that didn't exist in old Hebrew. The grammar is very much the same as old Hebrew dialects, with a few simplifications.

[@ingwerschorle_]

I love that there are no political or antisemitic comments here

[@biggali]

Love a more permanent fact or object

[@bigbootros4362]

I noticed a handful so far

[@jackohara8969]

One thing, two dead languages have been revived, Cornish and Manx. Also the dialect of Auld Scots underwent a partial revival.

[@laybllefkowitz1731]

I have actually had a conversation with someone and we spoke in a mix both grammatically and with lone and even entire sentences of ancient Hebrew, modern Hebrew, Yiddish, and aramaic, this is sometimes called yeshivish

[@Βουλγαροκτόνος1014-χ7π]

Well, the Greek government tried to bring back elements of ancient Greek in Katharevousa, but it ultimately failed. Many older Greeks still know it, so I suppose this can count as a resurrected language in some sense.

[@bigshrekhorner]

Edit: before you read, sorry for the long-ass response, I got carried away. Also, I guess I just made a necropost, didn't see you wrote that three years ago. Katharevousa didn't really utterly fail and you'd be surprised with the impact it has left in Greek. First of all, Katharevousa wasn't the government's doing, but it was created by scholars, and specifically by Αδαμάντιος Κοραής. His main attempt wasn't to exactly revive ancient Greek, but to strengthen the national identity of the Greeks who were still under Ottoman rule. He did this by "borrowing" words from ancient Greek and replacing loans with them. The Demotiki we speak today, despite what many believe, isn't the pure form of the Demotic Greek people of the 19th century used to speak. Many grammar forms and words have been absorbed from the Katharevousa (εστιατόριο for example, didn't exist in pure Demotic, put it came from Katharevousa. Another example, many medical and financial terms, if not all of them, come from Katharevousa trying to use native words instead of directly borrowing). On the other side, the Demotiki one, there were attempts like regularising the grammar by die-hard Demoticists; for example, they wanted φως to become φώτο, and decline similarly to δώρο. Those didn't become a thing in modern Greek, as there are still plenty of irregular grammar patterns (honestly, there might be more irregular than regular forms, haha) Around the 80s-90s, the Greek government (that's where it was involved) decided to merge both Katharevousa and Demotic Greek into one, the Νεοελληνική Γλώσσα, which got rid of the extremities from both versions of the language. This is what we speak today. Not Katharevousa nor Demotic Greek, but it is clear both have left a huge impact on our language, in their own ways.

[@squidy7771]

8:39 no. modern Hebrew is basically ancient Hebrew but with more words.

[@igalbitan5096]

And with some grammar simplifications too. But yes, basically.

[@Imperator135]

Im jewish and i live in israel and it was really interesting to hear about the history of my languages tkank u so much!(שלום מישראל!)

[@suburiboy]

Just started watching these, today. Great job. I'mma just keep watching them. and YAY ponies!

[@learnurduwithsara1068]

Binging these videos and noticed that these videos are 8 years old. Surpised that I am seeing them just now.

[@bugpwr]

Yiddish has tons of hebrew in it. Most words by usage are germanic, but most words by number are hebrew. Basically, the key words with meaning are from hebrew. Also, other than pronunciation-wise, modern hebrew and ancient hebrew are really close. It is fairly easy to read and understand the bible for someone who never did that and only learned modern hebrew.

[@randallquad1045]

I’m pretty sure Jews from North Africa are Sephardic. Apart from that, this video was really informative and fun to watch! Thank you for spending so much time and doing so much research on it! I love your animations, too. I also know it’s a bit late to ask this, and I haven’t gone through your videos to see whether you have already, but is it possible that you could do a video on how Phoenician influenced other Semitic and Indo-European writing systems? I know there’s some connection and a lot of similarity among letters, but I am interested in the history of it.

[@TotoroForLife]

You're one of the KZbinrs who need more subs and viewers.

[@akjm9177]

I LOVE linguistics - I'm so glad I found this channel mate. Keep making awesome videos Xidnaf!!

[@omer8882]

This fact about Hebrew (that I somehow never thought about) makes me a proud native Hebrew speaker! Woohoo!

[@Lugiadpp]

Love your videos! You should do a video sometime on how English lost features like grammatical gender and case inflections. (Sorry if someone already suggested this.)

[@Znex2718]

8:25 Actually, I would've included some Celtic languages among there, for instance Manx and Cornish, both of which were dead languages for at least a few centuries. There are likely other languages like them, but those I know definitely have a growing community now. Of course neither of them have such a large community as Hebrew, but they have been revived somewhat successfully too.

[@totallyrealnotfakelifeadvi7547]

I really love that someone made this video

[@calicoixal]

I was actually dreading this video because maybe you would say something wrong or offensive, but this was really good. And you made me cry. When you mentioned the revival of Hebrew, I was brought to tears. Anyway, I saw that xkcd reference in there as well. OH, and there are a couple other languages that I thought should've been mentioned in passing, like the language of the Romaniotes (Greece), Yevanic. I also was surprised that in this series you didn't mention Beta Israel or just the Semitic languages in Ethiopia at all. Amharic, Ge'ez, etc. Thanks for the vids, and keep up the good work!

[@Xidnaf]

:D I was really worried I'd say something wrong or offensive too, especially after your last comment. That you liked it so much is just awesome! And yeah, in hindsight I probably should have briefly mentioned those languages. This video is my longest yet, though, and I was mostly thinking about how to cut stuff from it to make it shorter. Anyway, I'm really glad you liked it!

[@DavidHWatson]

Xidnaf Maybe you can do a Semitic Languages, part 2 (or 3?) wherein you talk about the other semitic languages, such as Arabic, Amharic, Ge'ez, etc.

[@calicoixal]

David Watson I completely agree. Especially for Amharic and Ge'ez. I see a lot of stuff about Arabic, but seeing it again wouldn't be a bad thing.

[@calicoixal]

1. Crying doesn't make someone weak. 2. I'm not afraid of being offended; I'm afraid of misinformation. 3. You're using name-calling and misinterpreting a comment that clearly states its purpose, and you're telling me to grow up. Your comment didn't add anything to the conversation. It just attacks the author.

[@calicoixal]

I said this in another comment you obviously didn't read. It's not that I was afraid of being offended; I was afraid of misinformation. If someone teaches others something incorrect, that misinformation will continue. Often, it gets too big. For example, how a lot of people believe that Cristopher Columbus proved that the Earth was round when others thought it was flat. It's wrong, but too many people believe it because of a book written hundreds of years ago. I can handle another point of view, but I can't handle lies (not that xidnaf would've done that on purpose).

[@dylanjones3497]

The tale of Eliezer Ben Yehuda would have been interesting to mention

[@LangThoughts]

Also, I'm Ashkenazi, but Bukharian is also a Jewish language. It's one I find fascinating, and it needs to be mentioned somewhere in the comments. It's Judeo-Persian that was spoken in Uzbekistan, though now mainly in Queens

[@theholypootischurch]

אני בוכרי מלאה וזאת הפעם הראשונה נראה לי ששמעתי את זה 👼⁦🇮🇱⁩👼😄

[@NewYorker613]

Yea, as a Jewish non-bukkharian queens resident myself I also find it quite interesting. I have heard that the language is very similar to Persian as they were ruled by Persians at one point, although the words are pronounced differently, with more of a Russian sounding accent.

[@Nooticus]

Excellent video a always! Fun and fast paced! Also its cool af you are a brony! :)

[@chaosPneumatic]

Hebrew is a wonderful model for Language Revitalization. I'm currently taking a class on the subject and it would be great if you also made a video about language endangerment and language death, and perhaps give your thoughts on the importance of preserving dying languages.

[@IdrissHadjNacer]

Great vid. Just FYI, North African Jews are Sepharadic Jews, they actually form the bulk of that community since Jews had been established in these countries long before Spain or Portugal and since most of those that were chased during the inquisition went to live with their Muslim brethren to North Africa (particularly Algeria) where both Jews and Muslims had strong family ties. Furthermore, the word Mizrahi actually means "Easterners" and it only refers to Middle Eastern Jews, not North African ones. This distinction between the oriental (Machreq) and occidental (Maghreb) parts of the Arab world is culturally quite important for all the different comunities of the Arab world, including the Jewish one. I hope you'll find this info useful. Thanks for the video.

[@LionKing-ew9rm]

Well, what about non-Arab Middle Eastern countries, Turkish, Persian, Kurdish, Georgian Jews?

[@arikohane2720]

North African Jews are a mix of Sephardim and Mizrahim (and even Ashkenazim in Egypt), they are not all Sephardic.

[@TheSliderBy]

Jews, am I right?

[@mikesilverknight]

*Seinfeld Theme plays*

[@dorkmax7073]

Mike Silverknight I shouldn't have, but that genuinely made me laugh.

[@ilyastein7527]

TheSliderBy I'm Jewish, and I actually laughed out loud at this.

[@burnin8orable]

@@dorkmax7073 I'm Jewish and I thought it was funny so laugh away ;)

[@BogusmanTheSwagman]

I am 69th like

[@ryla22]

You can *feel* the old youtube culture in these old videos of yours. It's awesome! And even more awsome that the quality still holds up in today's yt landscape

[@bill-clintongaming]

Hebrew wasnt the only time a dead language has been resurrected. Cornish went extinct in the 18th century and now it has almost six hundred speakers and is taught in some schools

[@Sorenzo]

I love that you inserted the same correction twice, you old Fench, you. ;)

[@Sorenzo]

+Emil Sørensen But even I took three more seconds to catch Serbain and Coratian.

[@eladhen2]

This is a very good representation, but being a nitpicker, I have to say that Jews *still lived in Israel* after the Bar Kochba revolt in some numbers, at least until the Muslims conquered Israel. The redacting of the Mishna, the first major work of Rabinic literature, was done by Rabbi Yehuda Hanasi and other Rabbis in Israel after the Bar Kochba revolt, for example.

[@linemonkey2635]

Wait... YOU were a Fancy Pants at BC2014? I remember that! I was the Line Control person in the powerchair, mostly up on the Mane Events floor! ^_^ Awesome that your vids popped up on my recommended list. I have tons of fun debating/discussing linguistic deviations!

[@BBarNavi]

The oversimplification in this video is emesdikke gevaldik.

[@nomansland5113]

My favorite freaking channel. I appreciate the way you approached the matter.

[@Petepeatpeet]

I loved the part about the idea of bringing back a dead language, Hebrew being an example. I know there are some lesser known movements in places like Mexico to bring back Mayan and Nahuatl (the language of the Aztecs.) Great video.

[@TheDemoskratos]

There needs to be a video about how more than a half of Earth's population is using writing systems which have roots in Ancient Egyptian. Also while we know a bit (thanks to you) about what happened to PIE on its way West, I would love to see what happened to PIE in the south.

[@carlavlund5841]

Xidnaf! May I give you an idea for a future video? My own language, danish, originates from old scandinavian/germanic languages. I thought it'd be cool if you covered some North European languages and their history (especially danish! xD). You should try pointing out some things that are unique for the individual languages! :)

[@kittybee124]

Excellent video, you really did your research! I love you videos - starting Fall 2015, I hope to be a linguistics major and it's so hard to find linguistics, language, or world culture centered channels.

[@hugogonzalez8690]

4:54 This is currently happening in many communities, especially the Hispanic community in Southern California. Most are in the process or have completely learned English, some even forgetting Spanish. However, the with vast amount of Spanish speakers in the region, a complete replacement of Spanish with English has not occurred. There are those who prefer English over Spanish and vice versa. Although it is common to find bilingual speakers fluent in either language, very few are completely fluent in both languages so they tend to use loan words when speaking amongst others of their linguistic community ergo Spanglish. I've always wondered if Spanglish could evolve to become a dialect or a proper language, like the Latinization of English with French. Do any of you experience something similar in your culture or region?

[@mayazen6092]

Loved the video. Very informative. The comments from the audience are also very beneficial. Learned a lot. Thank you!

[@elishevabarenbaum5319]

It's not true that Modern Hebrew is "really, really different from Biblical Hebrew". Despite the 3000 year old gap, It's somewhat different, but very comprehensible. In English, texts from over a mere 500 years ago are largely incomprehensible.

[@alexwilson7127]

8:40 Agree but felt you had to know about Dalmatian, it literally blew up (the last native speaker died in an explosion), but audio recordings were taken so people could speak it with a native accent. There are (If I remember correctly) 50-100k native and ‘native’ speakers now. Still agree, not the same level as Hebrew

[@mardiffv.8775]

Nice helmet. Is it a recycled coconut?

[@suwinkhamchaiwong8382]

Mardiff V. Yes

[@redvel5042]

Modren Hebrew, while having quite a big influence from Yiddish and European languages, still resembles Ancient Hebrew the most. As an Israeli, I have read some of the Tanach, and the words are pretty similar, although sometimes sound (and sometimes also written) similar while having a different meaning or perhaps more than one meaning.

[@NatureShy]

Wait, wait, wait.... You're a brony?! Awesome, dude! Interesting video too; I learned a lot.

[@RobertMilesAI]

Is that... a parody of 'The Last Saskatchewan Pirate'?

[@rickandrygel913]

You should do a video about the words in English that came from Hebrew. It's pretty impressive.

[@maapauu4282]

Just a quick side note, some other languages have been revived

[@maelys8851]

To me while resurrection of Hebrew is exciting conceptually it is also very sad. As with it the beautiful languages (and culture!) of diaspora comes even closer to fading away. I like Yiddish more than I do like Hebrew in particular. It's on my "learn until fluency" learning list. Along with Haitian creole and some other languages I find beautiful, interesting and exciting.

[@oogalook]

Your descriptive art and clear narration have earned the hell out of my subscription. Great show, sir.

[@nyoungerm]

Modern Hebrew isn't all that different from Ancient Hebrew - I think the biggest indicator of that is in the fact that written Ancient Hebrew and Aramaic are very nearly intelligible for someone who speaks Modern Hebrew vernacular but isn't familiar with any Hebrew Literature. Excluding changes in pronunciation which are about the same scale as the changes in Greek, the grammatical and lexical structure has been preserved amazingly well.

[@samizayed1126]

This reminds me of how, with the spread of Islam, Classical Arabic has remained almost untouched from the 600 AD's... like ask any Arab how different classical Arabic is from MSA and they will tell you "not that much, maybe easier"

[@TeodorG]

5:44: Did you mean Romanian? Because Moldovan is not a language, but Romanian - which Moldovan claims to be different from, but isn't - is. Moldovan is kind of a political term for a language commonly and officially refered to as "Romanian".

[@mattdinu9051]

I thought the same thing

[@stamatiossargantanis7909]

+Teodor Grama (Teo) Romanian is also a Romance language, so that reference to "Moldovan" is incorrect.

[@symbiosister]

the outro song. I recognized what it was the moment I heard it and my heart exploded.

[@orestestrivellas3153]

'Macedonian' isn't a language either. Its a dialect of Bulgarian. :)

[@sceerane8662]

perakole Why can’t they be Serbs if they speak Bulgarian?

[@KirbyComicsVids]

The thing about resurrecting extinct languages makes me think. Ressurected Old English and Old Norse? That would be awesome.

[@kylechalve]

Old Norse thrives nearly intact in Iceland, with only minor changes in sound, grammar and vocabulary. The difference between Old Norse and Icelandic is comparable to the difference between Elizabethan English (that is, Shakespeare's English) and Modern English.

[@likewaterflows47]

5:59 "Fench" 😂

[@ariemhetareads3996]

Your videos are awesome and I'm so happy you made this one. Just one thing which I think is actually pretty important that you should have added-while most of the Jews were living in Babylon two huge and very important commentaries were written, both in Aramaic, while anything written before hand was written in Hebrew. Also, part of the books of Daniel, Ezra and Nehemiah were also written in Aramaic.Besides that, you did a great job, and as far as I noticed didn't make any mistakes and believe me, I've learned a lot about this topic.

[@GoatFulloBoats]

Fun Fact: My grandmother, a descendant of the expelled Jews from Spain, speaks perfect Ladino. My mom even knows a few words.

[@cjatfenway]

+Xidnaf Good form on not politicizing the video. Really great job. :)

[@haydmen2543]

Let’s bring back pronto-Indo-European

[@Quasarbooster]

Your videos don't stop being excellent! I'm excited for more in the future.

[@orbracha25]

how in the heck did you make this video without saying a word about eliezer ben yehuda?

[@gwho]

this video is actually low key awesome. love it.

[@gilldrill]

Aramaic is not a "Jewish language". it's middle eastern.

[@Xidnaf]

+Sword Knight What I mean when I call something a "Jewish language" is just "a language that is important to Jewish history or culture, especially one historically used by Jews." I see no reason that can't overlap with middle eastern languages, particularly since the Jewish ethnicity originated in the middle east.

[@gilldrill]

Xidnaf Fair enough. Just made it sound like you were saying it's inherently Jewish.

[@blakehahn1375]

+Sword Knight You could also interpret that to mean that they are both Semitic languages (which doesn't have anything to do with Judaism inherently, though one might assume so since Jewish discrimination is called anti-semitism). Arabic is also part of the Semitic language family.

[@gilldrill]

Blake Hahn they are Semitic languages. I already know this.

[@screamtoasigh9984]

Blake Hahn it's called anti-Semitism because in the original books/pamphlets, Semitic and Jewish were used pretty interchangeably, plus anti-Jewish group called themselves: Antisemiten-Liga, League of Antisemites. One of the few times Wikipedia is actually factual & sans bias: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism . Google Ngram is useful, you can search word usage throughout books, I think, from today then back until 17th century.

[@horrorhabit8421]

Sanskrit is also getting revived as Hebrew was. There are about seven thousand native Sanskrit speakers in India now.