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A sacred language, holy language, or liturgical language is any language that is cultivated and used primarily in church service or for other religious reasons by people who speak another, primary language in their daily lives. A sacred language is often the language which was spoken and written in the society in which a religion's sacred texts were first set down; these texts thereafter become fixed and holy, remaining frozen and immune to later linguistic developments.
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[@FM_1819]

Learning Middle Egyptian, listening to Coptic, and understanding words that are still being used after +3,500 years is really awesome.

[@vif3182]

Well, for all we know, the most of them could be a lot older than that... what we say has changed, but it is whether the meaning of what is said has changed, or not. That is far more important.

[@Basil_o_brouzos]

I envy you

[@duckmeat4674]

@@Basil_o_brouzos you dont need to envy him, yoy have just as much access

[@muhammadjalal2335]

Yo

[@AndreaColombo-fx1wh]

Middle egyptian pog

[@dumupad3-da241]

Cool. Just one correction - Mandarin isn't really a liturgical language. The liturgical language of Confucianism is Classical Chinese, which doesn't have a generally accepted pronunciation - it can be read with a Mandarin pronunciation, as it is here, but also with a Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese or dialectal Chinese pronunciation. There's a reconstructed pronunciation, too, but it is not used liturgically (and there are still a lot of disagreements and different versions of what it must have been like).

[@wendshawn9435]

Yea, Mandarin didn't even exit yet during Confucius time. Nobody regard mandarin to be liturgical. In fact mandarin is much more distant from classical Chinese compared to other dialects, as the area of Beijing was on the borders far from the core during that time

[@tzvi7989]

Confucianism isn't a religion either but a philosophy

[@sakesaurus1706]

that's what it's like not to have an alphabet system for a few 10,000 years

[@raphgalban2007]

Is mandarin the neutral option?

[@readjordan2257]

Theres a lot of research that shows what and how they spoke... saying korean or Vietnamese doesn't really make much sense, especially not Vietnamese since the flow of Languages is reverse. Viet is 33% mandarin and another 33% cantonese with the rest being a whole lot of traditional and other things. Not only that, but one of my professors is a descendant of Confucius and is one of the fewwwww people allowed to show familial love (like hugs) on his statues. She knows how "grandpa" spoke because her family has been preserving this information since.

[@raihanfarrelofficial]

Latin, Greek, Old Church Slavonic, Syriac, Coptic & Ge'ez = Lord's Prayer (Christianity) Hebrew = Jewish Morning Prayer (Judaism) Arabic = Al-Fatihah (Muslim) Avestan = Khorda Avesta & Ashem Vohu (Zoroastrian) Sankrit = Surya Suktam (Hindu) Tamil = Tirumurai (Shaiva) Pali = Sigalajataka (Theravada Buddhism) Tibetan = The Verses Of The Eight Noble Auspicous Ones (Tibetan Buddhism) Mandarin = Analects Of Confucius (Confucian) Japanese = Amatsu Norito (Shinto)

[@rbcso9144]

Shaivism is a sect of hinduism however.

[@zitloeng8713]

actually u can use most chinese varieties to read Analects Of Confucius out loud

[@PAINNN666]

Sanskrit*

[@deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee4026]

@Adrian Morales except the Muslim one it’s not a song

[@IcefPr.]

Geez

[@deacudaniel1635]

The Lord's Prayer in my native language Romanian is almost exactly a mix of the Latin and the Church Slavonic versions.

[@felixmiles4909]

Very interesting. I'm native speaker of 2 Slavic languages and i know some Latin as well. Write down Romanian version here please.

[@Anonymous-376]

@@felixmiles4909 Tatăl nostru care eşti în ceruri, sfinţească-se numele Tău, vie împărăţia Ta, facă-se voia ta, precum în cer aşa şi pe pământ. Pâinea noastră cea de toate zilele, dă-ne-o nouă astăzi şi ne iartă nouă greşelile noastre precum şi noi iertăm greşiţilor noştri şi nu ne duce pe noi în ispită ci ne izbăveşte de cel rău. Amin

[@ashdjin8530]

I think I got over 90% of the latin version and only understood ( or infered, as the words were only partially similar ) exactly 4 words of the slavic one, and they are words used only in liturgical language: izbaveste, duh, slava and amin.

[@Italian-Royalist]

Becouse Romanian for a western European sounds fully slavic.

[@karapetrov-ic]

That’s because orthodox churches in Romania were using Church Slavonic as a liturgical language until the late 1800s. Later they changed it to modern Romanian, but many Slavic words remained.

[@AsylumDaemon]

Afro-Asiatic 1- Arabic (Islam) 2- Coptic (Christianity) 3- Ge'ez (Christianity) 4- Hebrew (Judaism) 5- Syriac (Christianity) Dravidian: 1- Tamil (Hinduism) Indo-European: 1- Avestan (Zoroastrianism) 2- Greek (Christianity) 3- Latin (Christianity) 4- Pali (Buddhism) 5- Sanskrit (Hinduism) 6- Slavonic (Christianity) Japonic: 1- Japanese (Shintoism) Sino-Tibetan: 1- Mandarin Chinese (Confucianism) 2- Tibetan (Buddhism)

[@amulya_asmi]

Bro the whole Mahayana Buddhism is in Sanskrit Language. It's the language of Buddhism as well

[@GomerMcintyre]

Arabic Islam 🤣🤣 stay calm buddy in 600 AD.

[@LincolnDWard]

Thanks for compiling this! Thinking of it in terms of language families definitely makes the relationships easier to understand.

[@lll2282]

Pali comes from Sanskrit

[@perry6660]

@@GomerMcintyre What the fuck is your problem? ☠️

[@santi2683]

The little characters you use to represent languages are always so cute

[@NIDELLANEUM]

I like how the languages appeared in an order that seemingly reflected the Silk Road. Starting from Europe, then reaching Egypt and Ethiopia, then moving to the Middle East as you reach India, and, after making it to China, you arrive in Japan.

[@goodday2760]

Or maybe - now hear me out - just maybe - consider the following: Maybe I'm crazy but maybe, just maybe it's in order of west to east.

[@NIDELLANEUM]

@@goodday2760 maybe but maybe you maybe used maybe too many times maybe

[@NIDELLANEUM]

@@goodday2760 maybe

[@dawnwatching6382]

@@goodday2760 I like his version better, honestly.

[@didoym8028]

​@@goodday2760 Ok no y😮

[@homosapien.a6364]

I’m a native Arabic speaker and I understood Ge’ez almost 70%! It’s amazing

[@yakmi1116]

That's right Ge'ez is very close to Arabic. As there are theories that it evolved from South Arabian Sabaean language. صحيح اللغة الجعزية جدأ قريبة من اللغة العربية. أنا استطعت فهم أغلبها. وإذا كنت مهتم هنالك مقطع آخر للغة الجعزية وقد ذكرت في تعليقاته الكثير من الكلمات والأفعال المطابقة للغة العربية.

[@ThePanEthiopian]

Most Ethio semitic languages are similar to arabic selam, ayin, bahr, yabs.....etc

[@lisamayes8409]

Natively, I speak American English, and I've always been surprised at how many French and Spanish words sound like English words

[@kamrankhan-lj1ng]

Amazing, yes. Even Hebrew and Syriac languages are very different from Arabic!!!

[@attaueiehehdhsjwksodndhh4980]

@@kamrankhan-lj1ngno not really they are really close to Arabic

[@Raheem_1412-]

I am a Muslim from Berber ethnicity I speak Arabic fluently as second language. I recognized a few words in Hebrew and Syriac cause they are close to Arabic

[@jacob_and_william]

The English translation for the Hebrew isn't an exact translation either so you recognised the words without the translation which is impressive!

[@drini9087]

Syriac is influenced by Arabic but not directly close, due to Syriac being a language dialect of Aramaic.

[@lupus5338]

There's a theory that Arabic came from Aramaic.

[@BlueOcean696]

@@drini9087 Classical Syriac-Aramaic was definitely not influenced by Arabic! You probably meant the modern Neo-Aramaic dialects.

[@Raheem_1412-]

@@jacob_and_william Arabic and Hebrew aren't mutually intelligible but you can guess some words cause we have a lot of common semitic three letters roots.

[@ronshlomi582]

As a Hebrew native speaker, I understood: 10% Ge’ez 20% Arabic 60% Aramaic/Syriac.

[@chuckles5689]

The Syriac Lord's Prayer is absolutely beautiful

[@thecpt6265]

its supposed to be Jesus's actual language, well, Aramaic specifically.

[@cyberbird2014]

yeah.

[@SanjayFGeorge]

It's the original version of the prayer

[@user-hf8zv7qw4l]

Yes. Its very beautiful. Aramaic is the language of the Messiah meaning the Syriac Lord's prayer is closer to Jewish Galilean Aramaic dialect of the the Lord Jesus. 💖✝️🕎

[@Piranesi-gc8gn]

The Slavonic and kine Greek prayers could have been chanted here in their respective traditions too.

[@grigorijjefimovicrasputin7616]

The Church Slavonic is not only used in Orthodox churches, but in Byzantine catholic chuches in countries like Ukraine and Slovakia....as well

[@dahltonray5231]

I’ve said it before, but the amount of work you put into these videos is remarkable. Salute to you, Andy 🙏

[@ilovelanguages0124]

Thank you! 💖💖💖

[@mouseevolutionmouseevoluti7019]

@@ilovelanguages0124 Make work is Nenets Language is Uralic Samoyedic Language from Nenets People

[@janslavik5284]

My native language is Czech and I was pretty surprised that I understood like 95 % of the Church Slavonic, even though I am not religious

[@robertnichta2116]

Yes, the pronunciation was really Czech like.

[@modmaker7617]

More interesting because Church Slavonic is used for traditionally Eastern Orthodox Slavic countries (Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, & Belarus) and not for traditionally Roman Catholic Slavic countries (Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, Slovenia & Croatia). Even though Czechia is mostly atheist these days. (Bosnia and Herzegovina is split between 3 groups; Catholic Croats, Orthodox Serbs & Muslim Bosniaks.)

[@anneonymous4884]

My understanding is that Church Slavonic is conservative enough that it sounds quite a bit like all the Slavic languages. It's not proto-Slavic, but quite close.

[@Alexander-sr7qm]

Ahoj

[@paveldolgopolov7420]

Yeah, the reading man's native language is most probably Czech. It was interesting to hear as a Russian native

[@khaterehkm3273]

Thanks for the great job and also including Avestan! love from Iran 🌻💫

[@raphaelledesma9393]

I like how the Lord’s Prayer is the prayer used for the Christian liturgical languages. Indeed, it’s one of the most common texts that can be used for comparing languages as it is typically one of the first prayers translated when Christian missionaries evangelize an area.

[@NewLightning1]

It's the most common one

[@raphaelledesma9393]

@@NewLightning1 I've seen the Universal Declaration of Human Rights also used but I think the Lord's Prayer is still more extensive since it's shorter and missionaries generally translate that to more languages.

[@BlueOcean696]

Syriac-Maronites also have Aramaic aka Syriac as their liturgical language. Lebanese Arabic dialect was heavily influenced by Syriac-Aramaic since it was once widely spoken in northern Lebanon a very long time ago. Syriac-Maronite Arameans of Israel are trying to revive Syriac-Aramaic as a spoken language again. There is a strong Aramean political movement.

[@victorb976]

Are syriac and aramaic the same language??? Or maybe they are dialects of one language?

[@merothehero6359]

The style of Syriac spoken in this video resembles more closely the dialects found in modern day Syria

[@BlueOcean696]

@@victorb976 Syriac and Aramaic are the same. Formerly it was actually called "Syrian" in English, but to avoid further confusion with the modern Arab-Muslim state Syria, the indigenous Syrian Christian communities of the Middle-East changed it into "Syriac". Both terms (Aramaic; Syriac) are interchangeable and refer to the exact same language similar to the case of "Castellano" (Castilian) aka "Español" (Spanish). When the Arameans converted to Christianity, they adopted the Greek term "Surioi" into their Aramaic language to distinguish themselves from the pagan Arameans thus Aram became "Syria" and the Arameans became "Syrians" and vice-versa. However, since the majority of Neo-Aramaic native speakers prefer to call their dialects "Syriac", linguists clearly distinguish them by rather calling them, e. g. "Turoyo Neo-Aramaic", "Chaldean Neo-Aramaic", "Western Neo-Aramaic" etc., while the term "Syriac" is mostly reserved for the liturgical Aramaic dialect shown in the video, which produced the most Aramaic literature and is the best documented dialect hence "Classical Syriac".

[@nabatean180]

@@BlueOcean696 That is not true. Aramaic was spoken by most of thr middle east including arabs. And syriac is not the same as Aramaic Syrian used to be an eastern dialect of Aramaic but now it is a langauge by it's oun derived from Aramaic. And lebanese is not realy influenced by Syriac more influenced from Ancient Aramaic. Iraqi dialect might be the closest to syriac specially the northern one. EDIT: some spelling mistakes

[@goodday2760]

@@BlueOcean696 Actually, the word Syriac has been used in Western languages for centuries, for the language alone, but the people of either the language or the churches using the language were called Syrian, and now it's all been messed up by confusion. Two confusions. The first is in language. People thinking words like Syriac, Arabic, and Turkic can refer to people, but traditionally they have a more limited meaning especially relating to their languages. The second is cultural. The idea that Syrian should not be said because there is the Syrian Arab Republic is highly questionable, it only goes to show how modern people see politics as the central aspect of society. If the Syrian Orthodox church does not like that I don't say Syriac Orthodox church, we can always go back to Jacobite.

[@aadiahhadis3396]

6:23 Mashallah what a beautiful voice of the reciter🥲

[@littleboy5992]

Who is the reciter? He has clear and soothing voice.

[@agniswar3]

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu 🙏🙏 Truly appreciate your work 🙏 May God Bless you 🙏

[@phgs_smnt]

This syriac chanting is beatiful

[@arennagulyan5864]

What about Classical-Armenian? 🇦🇲

[@CBullion005]

You have a point, the language of the first officially christian kingdom and a very beautiful language and script.

[@jcxkzhgco3050]

Love how the languages have their unique style of chanting

[@grdsvta]

I had to study Church Slavonic for 3yrs in high school. Exactly Otče naš was the last thing we wrote down. Memories...

[@lll2282]

Sanskrit, Pali, Tamil 🇮🇳 language of Indian civilization

[@user-kr1ep8rg5c]

Three most Ancient languages of the Indian subcontinent

[@Pojeetdoval]

Only tamil

[@ExpertMindCAclasses]

​@@user-kr1ep8rg5c What about Kannada?

[@tianming4964]

Beautiful! The character designs are also really cute, I love their outfits!

[@fahmiizzuddinhalim5273]

In my POV, Hebrew is an interesting case. Each Jewish diasporic group has different Hebrew diacritics, vowel and consonant pronunciations due to host countries’ mother tongue such as Germanic, Arabic and Spanish. Maybe you can make a distinction between Yemenite, Mizrahi, Sephardic, Romainote, Italkim and Ashkenazic liturgic. :) Great video btw.

[@rainbenkennaz6173]

Thats just mot true, the pronunciation of hebrew was mostly the same across most diasporic groups, except for yemenite and some ashkenazi communities

[@rainbenkennaz6173]

Also this isnt as much about the liturgy but about the language

[@rainbenkennaz6173]

Also he would be lucky to find good recordings of romaniote and italki nusach

[@elisharason7819]

​@@rainbenkennaz6173theres much more variance than that. Theres tiberian. Different mizraHi pronounciations. Sefardic pronunciation. Then italian/roman pronunciations. Bukharan. And even in ashkenazi litvish and hassidic communities there are slight differences in pronunciations. So i dont know why you said its standard across all edoth.

[@elisharason7819]

​@@rainbenkennaz6173if we nitpick theres even samaritan pronunciation which is also hebrew but thats a whole other can of worms.

[@notme6753]

The Lord's Prayer in Tagalog is also very nice... It was sung in the the Vatican a few years ago

[@AsylumDaemon]

Listening to these religious prayers made me feel so peaceful for some reason lmao

[@oraetlabora1922]

For some reason? That is the purpose. God is related to the peace of the soul.

[@thusspokedominicus]

@@oraetlabora1922 Amen. Pax Vobiscum.

[@AsylumDaemon]

@@oraetlabora1922 Well I don’t believe god exists. I just liked the musical tones of the prayers. no offense.

[@goulven05]

Same

[@Momo-po5tn]

Because the bible can bring you peace. Satifies a spiritual need

[@michaelcollins8442]

This is an awesome and blessed video! This actually hits pretty close to home for me since in addition to many other languages that I want to learn, I want to learn either Latin, Greek, and/or Hebrew because I am a Catholic and the inscriptions of INRI on the Cross of Jesus was written in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Great video!

[@JoseCom11]

I'm not religious but most of the audio extracts gave me chills.

[@yanalbertoagudelo9687]

For the Christian ones I think you missed Classical Armenian (Grabar) for the Armenian Church. Maybe Classic Syriac for the Assyrian church too but it might be very close to the Syriac shown in this vid. Cool to hear all these languages.

[@yanalbertoagudelo9687]

@@BlueOcean696 Didn't know that, thank you for the clarification.

[@WeIsDaTyrantz]

What I like about the arabic segment was the singer hitting those quarter-tones.

[@Raheem_1412-]

It's recitation called Tajweed a way to recite Holy Quran.

[@curemilkythecurebeanouwu9527]

​@@Raheem_1412- well the recitation was really impressive. I'm Christian btw

[@ummfaizal]

the melody is maqam Kurd (originally from Kurdistan). it can recited with different maqam (melody) also. Probably 40 maqams and its become richer of maqam in Middle-Eastern music because not all of maqam are suitable for Quranic recitation

[@ummfaizal]

@@Raheem_1412- nope, this one is more fast paced recitation, it's Tarteel not Tajweed

[@siroj1001]

small correction: it's not a song. it's the first chapter of the Qur'an (the holy text of muslim) itself. and thought it sound like singing, it's actually just one way (a beautiful one indeed) to recite/read the text

[@Triantafyllos_Strantzalis]

Before I go to sleep, I say the "Our Father" prayer in the Koine Greek. There's only an exception for the period of 40 days after Easter, when we say a prayer known as "Χριστός ανέστη''( Christ has resurrected). At 8:15 at morning, before school starts, we say an another prayer, the ''Βασιλεύ Ουράνιε''( Oh you Heavenly King). I also know two other ones, the ''Σώσον Κύριε τον λαό Σου''( Save Lord you people, which refers to Byzantium) and the Akathist Hymn.

[@Simon_SM]

During religious class (exists in Serbia as an option) teacher played the old church slavonic version once, it sounded so beautiful especially how they sing it in churches as here it was just reading All of these sound beautiful

[@TeutonicEmperor1198]

It's awesome that as a Greek I can read most of the Coptic prayer even thow I don't understand 99% of what it says!

[@kirolosadel4499]

Cause we write in greek script I hope one day our churchs would unite

[@siddharthabanerjee6155]

Similar case here, as someone who can read Devanāgiri I can easily read the Sanskrit prayer but don't understand most of it, even though I studied Sanskrit in school for 3 years 😆

[@svetchannel2998]

If you Greek why you TeutonicEmperor? You must be Basilios

[@LincolnDWard]

Coptic is essentially the successor to ancient Egyptian, but using Greek script instead of hieroglyphs

[@supermavro6072]

Yes you are right. Greek and Coptic are similar language and similar people.

[@limbobilbo8743]

Latin: 0:53 Greek: 1:39 Slavonic: 2:04 Syriac: 2:40 Coptic: 4:13 Ge’ez: 5:09 Hebrew: 5:37 Arabic: 6:24 Avestan: 7:21 Sanskrit: 7:54 Tamil: 8:51 Pali: 9:21 Tibetan: 9:56 Mandarin: 10:14 Japanese: 10:45

[@sidimuslim9353]

I like all of your videos but this one is the best. Religion and languages = 👍Thanks Andy, you do a great job.

[@leequ4649]

i love this channel so much, thank you for sharing your passion for language learning!!!

[@pritamroy8872]

7:54 - Sanskrit = Surya Sooktam .

[@siddharthabanerjee6155]

Wow this is an amazing collection you have here, thank you!

[@reigenlucilfer6154]

the syriac written and the chanted one is quite different ): but regardless, good job andy. you always bring a really interesting and educational video, thank you so much!

[@cyberbird2014]

oh, that's why I got lost then

[@carpfish8733]

Koine Greek is beatiful.👍 Do you think there should be a separate video?

[@user-hf8zv7qw4l]

Koine Greek is the original language of all books of New Testament. 💖

[@elvyn8709]

6:24 - Even this kind of Arabic Transliteration (ALA-LC romanization from US) is wide known in worldwide, but Pedoman Transliterasi (Indonesian: Guideliness of Transliteration) since 1987 from Indonesia look more simple, phonetic and easy to read than ALA-LC romanization one.

[@korubi-ippe]

According to Indonesians.

[@kaon9101]

According to Indonesians (x2)

[@tantejunko]

according to indonesians. (3) Menurut orang Indonesia, ya begitu. Orang luar bahasanya beda cui, penulisannya ga sama, kek Inggris, misal "queue" dibaca Q doang, bukan ku-eu-e Kalo soal bahasa arab, misalnya di internasional Inggris biasa sebutnya "Eid Al-Fitr", dan beda dengan kita yg ucapnya "Idul Fitri"

[@sillycado]

AS ANOTHER indonesian,i found this is right and now according to us (3x)💂

[@IcefPr.]

According to Indonesians (3x) yea I admit that Indonesian transliteration seems easier (I think bcz of familiarity) but as someone who can speak in Indonesian too, I can read ALA-LC with ease too

[@timebank1949]

Wonderful and beautiful video as always!! Thank you for approaching this topic inside the linguistic world!! :-)))

[@kommandantjorizo285]

As a Church Enthusiast, this is Based God Bless thee.

[@alisyedhasany6594]

The Syriac prayer was so beautiful my eyes began to water.

[@MadhanBhavani]

8:52 I'm a Tamil native and yet I don't recognize a single word 😂, it feels as foreign as any other language. Is it because this is Old Tamil/Sangam age Tamil?

[@AI-hx3fx]

So comforting to hear the Pater Noster. We still hear it and pray it in the Old Rite.

[@nikhilalbert3084]

Very well done!!

[@dumupad3-da241]

One missing sacred language is the Mandaic language, of the Mandaean religion (it's somewhat close to Syriac). Also the Ardhamagadhi or Jain Prakrit of the Jains (similar to Pali). Then there's Sikhism and Baha'ism, which use several different modern languages.

[@goodday2760]

@@BlueOcean696 That's not the main reason. The main reason is that Mandeanism and the Syriac-speaking church both rose at the same time, as Mandeans view John the Baptist as practically the founder of Mandeanism. The two religious languages/dialects thus were formed by the same generations, in the same period of Aramaic's development.

[@dumupad3-da241]

@@BlueOcean696 There is no objective difference between language and dialect.

[@zakuro8532]

It's missing KJV-English

[@aranyaofficial7082]

The liturgical language that I love the most is Sanskrit, the language of my own religion, Hinduism. After Sanskrit, My second most favourite is Arabic, the language of Islam, the second most prominent religion of our country, then comes Latin, the language of Christianity, the third most prominent religion. Tibetan is also awesome..... the language of the Himalayan Buddhists.... Cheers, Aranya From India, the land of spices....!!! :D

[@superkaukasus7990]

Well done! Lots of love from Azerbaijan. I can partly understand Church Slavonic. It sounds like it's mixture of all other slavic languages&dialects

[@a_shi]

Церковнославянский основан на болгарском. Он в свою очередь сильно повлиял на русский. Поэтому да, похож на многие)

[@user-qj9ye1uv8g]

Makes sense since it was kind of the bridge between Proto-Slavic and Common Slavic, being the first Slavic literary language and was made and used for the Christianization of the Slavs. It's supposed to be based off the dialects that were spoken around Thessalonica (modern day west/central Macedonia in Greece), as well as more-or-less the rest of the historical Greater Macedonia area and west Bulgaria.

[@dimitri2040]

Its goal was to unite all the slavic peoples with one common language.

[@ngensyutwanzing2738]

Thank you for this awesome video!!

[@AryanXvaday]

Thank you for putting Avestan in your video, love from Iran🇮🇷❤️

[@thsxi]

If you speak any Slavic language you can understand at least 90% of Church Slavonic

[@MightOfChrist]

Yes, because it's the base for all slavic languages. Also known as old Bulgarian.

[@benismann]

the stress is so far off for russian speakers tho

[@vladyslavpidlisnyi]

@@MightOfChrist it's not the base for all slavic languages

[@Olymus]

@@benismann How is it far off? It litterally sounds like russian, except for ѣ sounding like и and not е

[@georgetanner9381]

Yeah, the Lord's prayer in Old Church Slavonic does sound very similar to Croatian, but we say "Kruh" instead of "Hljeb" or how the Serbs say "хлеб"...

[@skanthavelu]

Sanskrit and Tamil, the two eyes of Hinduism!! 🚩🙏🏻🚩

[@pritamroy8872]

Definitely!!!

[@lll2282]

Paliii too Indian language

[@vasanthakumar526]

नमो नमः and வணக்கம் from TN, India.

[@RDesai-up6eh]

@@joel12388 well you are right my sis.. hinduism is kinda amalgamition of all ancient indic faiths including vedism,prakriti puja,shaiv,sakta,ajvikism,carvak(nastikvad),vaishnavism,sankyavad etc..hinduism has its roots from indus valley civilizations too

[@kishandubey7882]

​@@joel12388No, it is a religion......but, not in a Abrahamic sense ! All Dharmic Religions are like that......

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

Sanskrit ❤ Tamil ❤ Pali संस्कृतम् ❤ தமிழ் ❤ Pali 🇱🇰🙏🇱🇰

[@pritamroy8872]

Are you from Sinhala?

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

@@pritamroy8872 Yes, I am a Sinhalese.

[@Alexander-sr7qm]

@@user-ew7qq6ym8q can I ask something, how is the economic situations in Sri Lanka, I'm curious

[@pritamroy8872]

@@user-ew7qq6ym8q Glad to know this. I'm from Bengal province, India. Historically Bengal and Sinhala are connected. I head that the composar of Sinhala National Anthem was a student of Viswa Bharti Vishwavidalaya.

[@pro-telugu1593]

@@user-ew7qq6ym8q Bro ur Script looks like Pallava script.

[@ahmedabassi]

"Ameen" is common in christianity and islam

[@shayne-1880]

And Judaism!

[@superboy3633]

What does ameen means ?

[@ahmedabassi]

it's a ancient semitic word that means "o god, answer my prayer"@@superboy3633

[@user-lv1il4wl9k]

The Syriac one almost had me cry

[@user-hf8zv7qw4l]

Yes. The Aramaic Lord's prayer. Its closer to the real Lord's prayer since the Lord Jesus native language is Aramaic.

[@donalddude7568]

Avestan and Vedic Sanskrit are very similar languages.

[@lll2282]

They even sound similar

[@arnavranka4510]

Because our culture is very similar

[@hiiiiir]

To know the story behind it read the battle of ten kings and the Parsu tribe lost and expelled from the Indian subcontinent. Parsu become Persians

[@who167]

There are lots of Syriac words which are understandable to me as a Hebrew speaker.

[@jasonrudoff9579]

Fun fact, Some of the prayers in the jewish religion are in Aramaic(syriac) but we have always thought they are in Hebrew.

[@jacksonamaral329]

Great. I've learned to read some of them.

[@diyaralyawir4753]

Thanks for the videos i love your videos

[@SunveOG]

Why Is Syriac Beautiful Though I Am Muslim?

[@xjmmjbnqfstjdijoj2044]

As someone who has been studying Japanese for more than 7 years I understood absolutely nothing XD

[@rom-a345]

no worries. i’m Japanese however I couldn’t understood it.

[@ohkeydan6357]

@@rom-a345 what kinda Japanese him use?

[@sillycado]

If you mean the last one,well it could be old japanese which not every japanese knows it i guess Sorry if this wrong

[@argyrendehringterimksaccu174]

Kanbun kundoku if foreign reading gotta convert it first but if it's native then kunyomi like before syncretism happened check linfamy Buddhism meet Shinto in Japan at the era of soga iirc

[@sabinehornungfan7371]

You should really do more of these!!!

[@sriprabhavdulla419]

Avestan sounds just like sanskrit, so I decided to do a bit of searching, and lo and behold, they're actually very closely related and they share a lot of vocabulary. Their number systems are nearly identical, if you account for the consonant shifts of sanskrit "s" to avestan/persian "h".

[@rajputa_na]

We were connected civilisation in past .

[@Kurious__]

Interestingly, most dialects of ancient Greek (at least Attic) do the s > h thing too: *sékwomai > hépomai *supér > hypér etc

[@AllanLimosin]

Isn't Armenian a liturgical language?

[@anneonymous4884]

According to Wikipedia and omniglot, yes.

[@hieratics]

Both Armenian and Georgian

[@Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo]

Every language that is used in the Divine Liturgy of the Holy Orthodox Church is a liturgical language. That means, english, dutch, frisian, german, french, spanish and pretty much any european language.

[@samuelhammons2528]

I was really surprised just how close the Ge’ez and Aramaic Lords Prayers were. I pray the Lords Prayer in Aramaic and just from listening to the Ge’ez version I was able to follow along. I knew that both of them are Semitic but I didn’t think that they would be that close.

[@leulmuluneh8372]

You'd be surprised just how similar semitic languages in general are.

[@zenqx8816]

I’m from Eritrea the country’s people who’s ancestors spoke this ge ez language and I see many similarities to aramaic

[@sabinehornungfan7371]

I'm glad you did liturgical languages because..... because it's really important to have faith in God!!

[@gabrieltomasevic2085]

Yoruba is the lithurgical language of Candomblé in Brazil.

[@bouchrakh5614]

I am also of berber ethnicity and i can speak most of the lord's prayer in coptic!

[@loicrodriguez2532]

Interesting to hear. Where are you from?

[@jizhachok]

Because you are all from Afro-Asiatic family.

[@mahmoudnaeem7552]

Interesting that I can kinda understand/recognize hebrew, syriac while almost fully understanding ge'ez as arabic speaker.

[@mosalman595]

The Syriac and Ge'es are both very similar in pronunciation to Arabic, especially The Ge'es, I understood most of the script. Malkutho (Syriac) / ملكوت - Malakut (Arabic) Abune zebesmayati (Ge'es) / أبونا الذي في السماوات - Abuna Al Lathy fi As smawati (Arabic)...

[@judithweiss6727]

malchut in Hebrew is kingdom, melech is king.

[@joseg.solano1891]

Ge'ez*

[@hovobardakchyan6630]

Em... you forgot Grabar(old Armenian). It's also one of them

[@coolbrotherf127]

At my school we studied classical Latin for 7 years, but it's so close to Ecclesiastical Latin in the written form that I can pretty much read most of the Latin text used by the Catholic Church as long as I brush up on my vocabulary.

[@superboy3633]

Beautiful

[@abubaseet]

I was surprised how close the Ge'ez Our Father is to the Arabic one! The first line was almost word for word the same with a little variation.

[@ingodwetrust4729]

Wonderful video, but I wish you would have went over the Old English of the Anglican Use of the mass in the Catholic Church!

[@MrFreakHeavy]

I find it interesting how almost all Christian Prayers have a variation of "Amen" at the end. Greek didn't have it, it seems, but maybe there's a variation that does? As for the rest it does make a little sense, given how even when people pray in their native language they use it as well. Regardless, it's still is interesting how that word spread so far, even in Ge'ez.

[@user-iu4se2ps7d]

The way the priest recites the Syriac prayer almost reminds me of the Quran

[@Alexander-sr7qm]

Yes!

[@DoraEmon-xf8br]

Not for the most part.

[@lupus5338]

There's a theory that Arabic came from Aramaic, don't know if it's true though.

[@user-hf8zv7qw4l]

Syriac christianity is hundreds of years older than Islam and Quran.

[@reigenlucilfer6154]

but its the other way around. we've been chanting and recites it that way hundred years before you do.

[@CBullion005]

I really loved the video, but my question is: why saṃskṛtam and nihongi do not have an apropiate romanization, while the another language of its area does it have? You have used ISO 15919 for tamiḻ and hànyu pīnyīn for zhongguó but neither IAST nor same ISO 15919 for saṃskṛtam and Hepburn for nihongi.

[@saber2743]

I am an Arab and I understood many words in Syriac. Geez and Coptic . In terms of sounds , Syriac is closer to Arabic (And even arabic and Coptic) Of course, there are different ways of reading the Qur'an and supplications(in arabic)

[@ronshlomi582]

I’m a Hebrew speaker and Syriac was really easy to understand. Arabic is a bit harder for me, though.

[@interestingyoutubechannel1]

I'm a native Hebrew speaker and I could understand words the Ethiopian recited in Ge'ez!

[@judithweiss6727]

someone upthread said that Ge'ez and Aramaic were close and Hebrew and Aramaic are close.

[@alangervasis]

Ge'ez and Syriac are Semetic Languages.

[@ThePanEthiopian]

@@judithweiss6727 yup

[@zenqx8816]

Ge ez is not from Ethiopia it’s from the north Ethiopian ppl and most Eritreans

[@ThePanEthiopian]

@@zenqx8816 habeshas

[@robertkukuczka6946]

I as a Pole loved Geez and Arabic language's sound.

[@candy07_17]

Sanskrit Tamil Pali 💖💖

[@georgitekhov8721]

Greetings From Georgia 🇬🇪 For me Church Slavonic was, absolutely clear What about classic Georgian? it would be Intresting ❤🇬🇪

[@GomerMcintyre]

I see, She didn't explain about both of Hakhyos 🇦🇲 and Qarlos 🇬🇪 language. May she not get enough information.

[@omarqasirov8754]

Andy you're so cool for putting this together.

[@GUNUFofficial]

Oh Geez, didn't know I was saying the name of a language.

[@asharabdulkarim5174]

I am currently learning Al-fuSha so I can read the Qur'an.

[@knockoutnorko7500]

Utterly fascinatin'.

[@maksymiliank5135]

Old Church Slavonic was surprisingly easy to understand for me. I'm a Polish speaker

[@sunduncan1151]

1. Pali chantings are available in the nations practising Theravada Buddhism but pronounced in local accents, e.g. Sri Lankan, Mon, Burmese, Thai, Khmer. Indian or Nepali accents are the most accurate. 2. “Hybrid Sanskrit” is used in Mahayana Buddhism. This is different from Sanskrit used in Hinduism. Many Sanskrit sutras are transliterated into Chinese character hence chanted in various Chinese accents, e.g. Mandarin, Cantonese, Teochew. Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese buddhists brought these Chinese sutras and read in local accents. 3. Chinese texts used in Confucianism and Taoism are Classical Chinese, not modern Chinese but read in modern accents, e.g. Mandarin, Cantonese. 4. Japanese used in Shinto prayer is called “Norito” derived from Middle Japanese free from Chinese loanwords but traditionally written in Manyogana (Kanji used in Old Japanese, origin of Kana). 5. Let me add more liturgic languages if you like: - Punjabi used in Sikhism - Ardhamagadhi Prakrit, a medieval Indian language used in Jainism - Old Norse, historically used in Norse Paganism, written in Runic - Various Polynesian languages, e.g. Maori, Hawaiian, used in Polynesian folk rituals - Tai Ahom and Assamese used in Tai folk rituals in Assam, India - Classical Tibetan, used in Vajrayana Buddhism and historically used in Bön religion

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

You are wrong! Sri Lankan Sinhala people's Pali accent is the correct one. Only Sinhala people can pronounce Pali correctly. All the other accents have many pronunciation errors. India has many Indo-Aryan languages. Nepal has many languages and Nepali language is an Indo-Aryan language. Sinhala is an Indo-Aryan language. Pali is also an Indo-Aryan language. Hence, Indo-Aryan languages speaking Indian and Nepali people's Pali accents are somewhat accurate because they speak Indo-Aryan languages like Pali. However, Have you heard about Schwa Deletion in Indo-Aryan languages? All Indo-Aryan languages have Schwa deletion except archaic Indo-Aryan languages like Sanskrit, Sinhala and Pali. Therefore, Indo-Aryan languages speaking Indian and Nepali people's both Sanskrit and Pali accents also have some pronunciation errors. Therefore, Sri Lankan Sinhala people's Pali accent is the correct one.

[@sunduncan1151]

@@user-ew7qq6ym8q I didn’t mean modern Indo-Aryan phonology. Even Sinhala doesn’t have aspirate consonants kh gh ch jh th dh ph bh, unlike Hindi, Nepali, etc. Both Pali and Sanskrit don’t have schwa /ə/ but short /a/ or /ɐ/.

[@user-ew7qq6ym8q]

@@sunduncan1151 The Sanskrit, Pali and Sinhala word "दाम" ( Dāma ) is pronounced "Dām" in Hindi, Nepali, etc. The Schwa at the end of the word is erased in Hindi, Nepali, etc. The Schwa is not deleted only in Sanskrit, Sinhala and Pali which are archaic Indo-Aryan languages. In Hindi, "अ" ( a ) is usually pronounced /ə/. Therefore, Hindi speakers use [ə] in Sanskrit and Pali. They cannot pronounce Sanskrit and Pali words correctly. Not only Sanskrit and Pali, but also Sinhala does not have /ə/. Schwa Deletion occurs in all the other Indo-Aryan languages except Sanskrit, Sinhala and Pali. That is why, Hindi and Nepali people's Pali accents are not accurate. I have mentioned that in the above reply.

[@gayvideos3808]

I think Norito is the language of the national anthem and Hirohito's surrender broadcast

[@FilipSrbin]

As a Serb, I can almost understand all of the Old Church Slavonic. I guess that is because it originated from the old South Slavic language, and Serbian also descended from the South Slavic language

[@-Lycan-]

Church Slavonic descends from the Slavic spoken on Macedonian soil.

[@marij28997]

Was looking forward to hear Gurmuki

[@interneda98]

Old Church Slavonic is essentially Old Bulgarian. The Cyrillic was created the first Bulgarian empire and it’s purpose was to Christianise the Slavs in the Byzantine empire through translating the Bible into a Slavic language (Old Bulgarian). It then started spreading to the rest of Eastern Europe with countries accepting Christianity along with the Cyrillic it was written in. That’s also around the same time that the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches split - hence why most orthodox countries use the Cyrillic and most catholic countries use the Latin alphabet.

[@simargl614]

Old church slavonic is now mix of Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian because of Ottoman occupation. During fall of Second Bulgarian empire Serbian emperor merged and put many Serbian and Greek words in old church Slavonic. During Ottomans occupation Russians did that. Today it is mix of that three languages, if you don't believe me ask any orthodox priest. Second cyrillic was made by Greeks not by Bulgarians, location was Bulgarian empire but it was made by Greeks based on Greek alphabet and Slavic words from Balkan and Eastern Europe.

[@interneda98]

@@simargl614 I’m not talking about Old Church Slavonic “now”, I’m talking about the original 9th century one, which was based on Old Bulgarian and which was used to translate the Bible to. Secondly, you seem to be confusing the Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets. The Glagolitic was created, indeed, by Cyril and Methodius in the 9th century and was heavily based on Greek. The Cyrillic, was created in the Preslav Literary School by Bulgarian disciples of Cyril and Methodius and was based on the Glagolitic, which it replaced. They named it “Cyrillic” in honour of Cyril - hence the popular confusion that Cyril and Methodius created the Cyrillic, when in fact it was the Glagolitic that they created.

[@FestiFesti31]

@@interneda98 you are right

[@Maria_Nizhny_Novgorod]

@@interneda98 Да многие не знают, что кирилицу создали ученики Кирилла и Мефодия, а не они сами.

[@user-ud1oi4mb7k]

Hi Andy. If you ever want to show people the Grabar language (classical Armenian) or modern Eastern Armenian, as a native Armenian speaker I'll be glad to help you with the recordings.

[@ilovelanguages0124]

Yes, thank you! I've been looking for a volunteer. Please send me an email [e-mail]

[@julbombning4204]

Cool video!

[@sisjnwjwk7832]

4 of them being Semitic languages 💪💪💪 love to my Semitic brothers

[@andrejbielousov4931]

10:15 Is this version of Mandarin reformed or traditional?