What Ancient Egyptian Sounded Like - and how we know

[@skybingus]

It’s fascinating how long humans have been in existence and how little we have recorded and understood about ourselves

[@gummy5862]

I mean, ancient humans tried their best to record their existence with what they had and definitely tried to understand themselves, even if a lot of those understandings were wrong.

[@Bateluer]

I'd say we recorded a lot . . . just that 3000 years is a really long time. Humans are very forgetful creatures and usually forget what happened mere decades ago, to say nothing about centuries and millennia past. Ancient peoples at least carved things into stone, so they last. Modern day optical and digital cloud storage won't have the same longevity or resilience.

[@GokuBlack._]

We actually recorded a lot but around 90 something percent of it is lost.

[@G9Classified9]

Well nobody in this comment section is racist, lol.

[@K1LL4Cam]

And also how short in the grand scheme!

[@ori_U100]

Linguistics is an amazing science. Doesn't get enough respect.

[@KlavierMenn]

And also is quite fun. And amazing since, While I only truly speak 2 languages (Portuguese and English) I can understand many other languages. Such is the beauty of the Last Flower of Lacio, I guess.

[@princesinha1680]

As an aspiring linguist, with a B.A. in linguistics, I wholeheartedly concur. It's an incredible, fascinating science that very few know anything about. And yet it studies the most fundamental trait that defines us as humans. As such, it pervades and undergirds every other science and discipline.

[@alinafernandapicayo]

Thank you! As a linguist i appreciate this!

[@williamsutton6773]

I am currently thinking about getting a degree in linguistics because I love learning language. I’m not currently bilingual but I’m learning Spanish, Korean, and ASL, with the hopes of becoming a translator. If anyone has good tips to learn languages that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

[@normansantonio1230]

By what method did you determine its current level of respect as well as its level of deserved respect? IFLS

[@Anubis-do3lg]

As an Egyptian, I am very proud of the civilization of my great ancestors, and I thank everyone who is interested in the history of my ancestors

[@sankofaafari4374]

You’ve been lied too. Ancient Egypt was an indigenous African black civilization. The language comes from southern regions of Africa down the Nile.

[@osamasrag9281]

lol why every one keep saying that ancient egyptian are african black i mean just look at the colour of the statues for godsake ! we have mixed races from other roma, arab … but it is in our DNA and it is true !

[@sankofaafari4374]

@@osamasrag9281 There’s plenty of evidence that they are black but it doesn’t get mainstream attention like some nonsense late period Greco Roman and Middle Eastern Eurasian DNA does. There are plenty of statues that are clearly African people. They are either not shown publicly or destroyed or features changed to look white. Go read Robert Bauval’s book Black Genesis. It has all the proof Ancient Egypt was built by Indigenous Africans.

[@Anubis-do3lg]

@@sankofaafari4374 Wow, we have the investigator here,, in a period of the ancient civilization of Egypt, he was under the occupation of Sudan, so there are black pharaohs and there are pyramids in Sudan as well,,, By the way, the Egyptian is a single non-mixed race because in history he did not marry a foreigner or even eat with him on one plate

[@sankofaafari4374]

A lot of the African tribes today even where the ancient Egyptian style broad collar. Literally the same design. Coincidence? I highly doubt it. Look up South African, Zulu, Kenyan, west African, Afar tribes to see that all wear the exactly same clothing style of the broad collar.

[@GoushtinklaVanGoh]

As an American of Mexican descent, I had the privilege of working in Egypt for almost 6 years, 2004-2009. I picked up the Egyptian-Arabic dialogue fairly easily. I love this dialect. It is different than Saudi or UAE dialect and I was called out for it when I was in those places. They knew ride away that I was speaking in the Egyptian dialect. Some would call me the Egyptian even though I am Mexican American. I miss Egypt, the people, the culture, and the food. Egypt was magical to me and my family.

[@ami443]

COPTIC language is the closest language to ancient egyptian !!

[@treebeard1112]

[@generalkunta396]

Beautiful country as well as Saudi. People have no idea, they truly don’t.

[@wilhelmbittrich88]

@@generalkunta396I have never been to Egypt or Saudi. How do you describe its beauty? I never thought of those two countries as being beautiful ones. I just think deserts.

[@amalakram8755]

​@@wilhelmbittrich88an Egyptian who lived a while in saudi, both countries have rich culture and history and different dialects. There are deserts ofcourse but even deserts have their beauty and there are also cities with buildings and all. Saudi especially has sky scrapers too, and egypt has perhaps the longest history in the world

[@ramseysealy8102]

I just loved this so much. As an Ancient-Egyptophile from since I was a little boy (and I'm 72 now), this was fascinating and wondrous work. I now know how the ancient Egyptians pronounced the name of their country. For many years growing up, I had thought of studying archeology to become a worker in the ancient realms of Egypt. I even have a cartouche of Ramases the Third tattooed on my right shoulder. One of my regrets is that I have never had the funds to travel to Egypt. To be able to gaze at the pyramids at Giza is one of my bucket list items. I hope I can make it before that old bucket gets kicked! Again, thanks for this video.

[@akunformalitas]

Wow! I imagine your life must have been like that of Indiana Jones!

[@MJBpeace]

I hope you have visited Berlin Altes Museum! It holds so much Egyptian heritage, I was blown away! Even the walls of the museum are decorated i n an acurate way, as if you were walking inside an egyiptian building back in their time. My sister, who had visited Egyipt before said, that you can see more in museums, since everything was collected and brought to foreign countrie's museums...

[@dislikeroftheinternet5499]

Okay we get it your love for Egypt is better than getting your freak on with other people

[@stephaniehowell1109]

Hope you can one day see the pyramids....til then, there's Google Earth. Lol.

[@plsdontfindthisacc]

@@bjjandstuff7280 seriously! Let’s get a gofundme going for this guy :)

[@jorislemoine1488]

You manage to convey in 10 minutes what most 6-hour documentary series can't quite get across. Fantastic job!

[@KJL111012]

Could you please do Old Khmer.

[@nonstop7255]

@São João do mundo the fake egyptians today are just arabic speakers, they aren't actual descendants of real egyptians and they're also not arabs either

[@zarinaromanets7290]

His videos are a gateway drug for future young scholars :D

[@qorilla]

Commercial productions don't want to "overwhelm" the viewers and they want to chunk up everything in small slices with commercial brakes and repeating the same thing from different respected authorities' mouths etc. They want to drag it out to last longer to fit the format. You can't exactly show a 10 minute documentary so dense in content on TV. Kind of like the difference between huge bloated enterprise software designed by a committee vs a lean open-source tool made by one guy.

[@pedropenacardenas8875]

I like the six-hour documentaries. I like watching the hours of Egyptian content they offer. Especially when the egyptologist are laying all that shit down based on how they understand stuff.

[@stephenashworth2480]

It really amazes me that it is possible to decipher these ancient languages. Especially when you consider the fluid nature of language. Wonderful stuff.

[@akioarnold6746]

They didn’t decipher it lol these are lies

[@liviwaslost]

@@akioarnold6746 why

[@mightyrabbit8600]

@@akioarnold6746 I agree 💯

[@waynie8710]

How would they know if it's correct? It's just an assumption

[@liviwaslost]

@@waynie8710 it’s the best they could do

[@Zomitini]

Very interesting content! By the way I'm a Copt from Alexandria, Egypt and we are still using Coptic language in all our prayers in the Coptic Orthodox Churches in Egypt and abroad!

[@thothkemet-lv8wq]

Coptic is a blend of ancient Egyptian and Greek. It's not pure Egyptian What's funny is that Greek came out from Phonecian and Phonecian is derived from Egyptian

[@Zomitini]

@@thothkemet-lv8wq yeah agree Coptic (Language) is a blend of Greek and ancient Egyptian languages.. But Coptic (Race) is pure Egyptian as the word itself means Egyptian.... And for sure Human Civilizations were merging and building on top of each other all the time specially those two big ones.. Cheers!

[@DWithDiagonalStroke]

The greek language itself dosent come from Phoenician, for it isn't Semitic. You're probably confusing the language with its alphabet. ​@@thothkemet-lv8wq

[@Alex-zi1nb]

Nobody in Alexandria is pure Egyptian lol. The Greeks diluted that blood down

[@kanalisationerstellen]

PLEASE make a youtube channel to teach foreigners about coptic

[@alecbrown66]

There is a tiny group of people in egypt, who still use ancient coptic (every day egyptian) in religious prayers and curses. There was a team that recorded and taped it as a historical and linguistic project before the largely elderly villagers died, back in the late 1980's to mid 1990's.

[@remonragy7709]

As a matter of fact, Coptic is still used widely in all the Coptic Orthodox Church prayers all around Egypt. However, dozens of people only can speak the coptic language fluently among the 10 - 15 millions christians in Egypt! Finally, the Arabic language had been affected with the coptic language as well. Many slang words here are originated from coptic, however, we use it on daily basis without knowing its coptic origin!

[@kerlousabdelmalak5199]

@@remonragy7709 And it's not just Coptic Orthodox churches in Egypt, all around the US and Canada as well. Coptic is still a very used language in churches and our liturgies here in the US.

[@daliamohammedali5906]

@@remonragy7709 like what my friend, I am Egyptian and I want to know

[@BlakeJp9]

amazing

[@st4r444]

I'm glad to hear how beautiful my black ancestors sound in this vid. Beautiful advance civilization we made

[@marlawright5711]

My husband is aver proud egyptian and I truly enjoy listening to him talk about it. I especially love watching him talk about it. Egypt is one of the oldest countries in the whole world. Though they don't teach hieroglyphs any more He ca't believe that I know so much about a country I have never visited. I have always found ancient egypt very fascinating. I want to learn Egyptian Arabic but it is such a difficult language to learn.

[@akunformalitas]

I also found cultural similarity in which even in modern Arabic words are still written consonants only.

[@aeringothyk5445]

@@whoisthegreatest6255 Exactly. Thinking that the modern demographic that dominates Egypt is what ancient Egyptians were it’s like thinking that the average white American is what Native Americans were

[@juska4235]

@@aeringothyk5445 Except that Egypt just went through a ton of changes because you know, it's thousands of years, time changes, instead of just huge wars against nativ, so it wasn't that bad, still the closest you can get technically

[@juska4235]

@@KristiTalk what is an Israelites DNA if they're not from anywhere? lol, that's just propaganda have you forgotten that they came from all over the world and the country wasn't a thing before 1947? The jews traveled then from USA, Europe, Middle east etc , as they were promised by the English minister a country to be made for them in Palestine, clearly these are very different DNAs depending from where they traveled. So unless you mean they did research on some Jews from a *very* specific rare lineage, they'd just be testing an American like the honest israeli occupant Jacob for all they know lol.

[@juska4235]

@@KristiTalk It just didn't add up to call Israelites who came from everywhere and only exist in 1947 and beyond as unchanged, so yea these websites definitely aren't trustworthy or followed a very specific but rare pure lineage which can happen in any race if they tried to find it

[@apocryph0n]

Man, it’s so cool to see how much ancient Egypt has changed so many people’s lives. I got that big gold book about Egyptology with the big gemstones on it and I was hooked (like the brain during mummification)

[@jjaacckkmm]

Did you have Wizardology, Dragonology, etc. too?

[@Laylam14]

@@jjaacckkmm I had those book too!

[@lauryljensen]

Ok but the brain hook joke🧠😂

[@ashleighclark6866]

Oh my god I had the same one! My parents still have it & if I remember it correctly I wrote my first set of hieroglyphs on the inside cover 😄

[@darkaero]

@Durval Clinton Egyptians aren't, and weren't black....Depending on the time period even the Pharaoh's were Greek descendents such as Cleopatra.

[@emaguire512]

Man, people like you out there making videos like this gives me some faith in humanity. It’s easy to ‘miss the delta for the reeds’ in these complicated language histories, but this was perfect.

[@martinokhalil4900]

Am a copt and I speak coptic fluently with my family ❤️🇪🇬 thanks for mentioning us

[@MutohMech]

I'm not a Copt but I'm a student of (Sahidic) Coptic. Beautiful language you guys got there! Keep the efforts at making it more popular 😄

[@Loki-pz1uk]

That’s amazing!

[@nickpalaestra1948]

P-Christos aftooun! Alethos aftooun!

[@fatemahhatem9873]

I wish the egyptian gov would bring the coptic lang back to life. I know it still lives in Egyptian arabic, but we need to safe it before it's gone.

[@datboi6005]

Based pharaonist

[@phoenix009009]

I am an Egyptian and I loved your video. Just the fact that you said the words “Abouna Youhanna” shows an outstanding level of knowledge about our culture and history. Hats off my friend. Really, really great job!

[@legendovbago4716]

Ur an Arab not Egyptian

[@Killergirl7]

@@legendovbago4716 this sentence doesn't make any sense lol

[@yusofahmed4169]

@@Killergirl7 he is true Arabs conquered Egypt ancient copt people all dead only minority coptic Christian communities survied

[@Beyonder1987]

@@legendovbago4716 Are Italians Romans? No. Do they Speak Latin?No. Do they have traces of Roman DNA? Yes. Do modern Egyptians speak a Variant of Arabic that is not intelligible to Arabia? Yes. Do modern Egyptian have traces of ancient Egyptian DNA? Yes Only true Arabs are in Arabia. Everybody else in Middle east adopted it after there conversion to Islam. This is why Arabic has too much non intelligible variant spoken in different Arab countries.

[@crabbylion7971]

@@legendovbago4716 🎯

[@CaitlynJneeCocke]

Darn. I was hoping to hear him read full sentences so we can hear how they spoke.

[@mahiruuuhiragii800]

watch the egyptian parade which transported 22 king and queen a week ago in the video you’ll find a song for Isis the ancient egyptian queen you’ll hear how they talked

[@tims4654]

You can hear Coptic if you go to a Coptic Orthodox Church.

[@tims4654]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4KWpo2DoZmnbMk

[@PamelaO]

Me too

[@shawkat44]

A song in the ancient Egyptian language: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqvKgKlsfZd8hbs

[@lisachatham8690]

I am so very interested in Egyptology, I wanted to be an archaeologist, but my parents said that I would never make any money doing it. So I did what they thought I should and became a nurse. I really didn't want to be one, not because I don't like helping others or helping them heal but because it just took a toll on me and my empathy.

[@dopaminedi]

Do what you love, become a archeologist. Money doesn't matter and if you're gonna die in 100 years. Then die doing what you love

[@seasonsstarsstudios]

It’s not that you won’t make money as an archaeologist; it’s the stress level to income ratio, or “is the salary worth the stress?” Your parents, while flawed, had a point. I don’t agree with them, however; just because your parents had a point doesn’t mean they were right. Only you can decide what’s right for you. I’m all for chasing your dreams; after all, you have one life to live, and it should be yours. Don’t let your parents decide your fate. A career can change, and so can your life. You can be a nurse any other time. Be what you want to be. If I listened to my family I wouldn’t have had my dream job working from home. I never would’ve published my first novel and working on my second one, either. I’d be a chef - or worse, a nurse, which for me is a fate worse than death. I also would’ve been drowning in student loans just like my mom, and that’s the last thing I want. Sometimes parents want you to be happy; sometimes they want you to have money. My parents were neither, and I didn’t listen - and I couldn’t be happier. Grab your life before it’s too late.

[@xoxo_mwah]

I HAVE THE EXACT SAME ISSUE, how 'bout you say we ditch our parents, run away together and study it then become popular archeologists who LOVE their jobs

[@hayleemitchell9570]

If it's taking a toll on your empathy, it's gonna take a toll on you and your patients. I mean it kindly, but you can't pour from an empty cup, if it's draining you of some of the most important features of the job, maybe its a sign to find a different one. You deserve a job that fills your cup, rather than drains it

[@caseymcpoet]

You can still study Archeology & I betcha you could find work on field trips as an EMT of sorts, now that you have the skills of a Qualified Medic. I also bet if you look into it you could find some work in the exact field of Archeology you like the best.

[@lynalydia315]

Me: Scrolling around KZbin : Hey wanna know what Acient Egypt sounded like? Me: why not

[@amiiredhead2676]

Dat so me

[@westwilson1083]

Haha saying exactly what you did before the video is so funny and quirky, no one cares man

[@FoundElement]

Lol basically...

[@depletable]

You took the time to write that shit?

[@Quest4it]

Same here.🤗

[@NativLang]

Nearly two months of focusing on Egyptian, and this animation is what the inside of my head looks like since last we met. Your turn to float down this phonological river!

[@ramez2775]

Well done!

[@lettersandnumbersuc]

“Coptic” Egyptian language... Spoke in phonics... Coptic; Cop = Sounds like (Ah).. Like Abba... The begging.. Ahh.. Like the first letter of the English Language... So “Coptic” is The first spoken sound and letter (Ah) + (tic) “tic” is the sound of timing.. So the word seems to say (Sound) + (timing) of language.... Coptic; Sound of the start of the first spoken letter of a language and the timing in which they are said (Ah) + (Tic)....

[@lettersandnumbersuc]

Can you see how the English language is coded in phonics?? It’s backwards and opposite by design to distort...

[@TNTjayden9353]

Good job 👍👍

[@davidhanna9003]

@NativLang. I don't know if you will see this, but I just wanted to say that as a Copt, I appreciate that you mentioned the role that Egyptians played in the decipherment of hieroglyphs. I feel that most people today make it out to be an entirely European achievement, and many are even unaware of the existence of Coptic and the fact that Ancient Egyptian has a modern descendant that is still in use; a limited use sadly. Hearing you mention it really made my day.

[@rickkinki4624]

Everything about ancient Egypt is so fascinating, even their language!

[@satisfyingitems3118]

Plz subscribe ❤️

[@mohamedeslah]

@@moorishsociety7339 shut up

[@fancytwice7230]

@@moorishsociety7339 Egyptian aren't black

[@meritorioustechnate9455]

@@fancytwice7230 Ancient Egyptians were black, but mixed up quite often. I wanna say by the 25th dynasty or earlier, their features changed. Hence Cleopatra being a product of incest and interracial relations.

[@fancytwice7230]

@@meritorioustechnate9455 Ancient Egyptians weren't a mix of any other color/race they're just pure Egyptians. For example, Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun both lived during the 18th Dynasty, and they had the original "Egyptian" look. I'd say that only modern Egyptians are mixed.

[@MJ-og8tm]

I love Egypt 🇪🇬 from Italy 🇮🇹 we are directly in front of each other in the Mediterranean and this is a wonderful thing🇪🇬🇮🇹❤

[@ranro7371]

He's wrong. Champollion learned Arabic, not coptic. Coptic had been a dead language since the middle ages. Grammar wise, Arabic is closer to AE than Coptic due to the very heavyn reek influence on the latter

[@jeremias-serus]

@@ranro7371 “Source: I made it up.”

[@Ayah-daif]

From Egypt, I gonna to learn Italian language!

[@mrbaab5932]

So, give back all those items you guys stole from them.

[@jeremias-serus]

@@mrbaab5932 It wasn't stealing back then. It was rightful repossession by force. Formal stealing as something that should be held accountable is only for things that happen nowadays. The Muslims "stole" North Africa and Egypt and Greece and Israel from Christian control. Should they give it back because they stole it? No, because we don't care about things that were stolen in history. Items, human genes, languages, cultures, ideas, lands, arts, etc. are all the same.

[@E3ECO]

When I clicked on this video, I was kind of expecting someone to talk in ancient Egyptian....

[@fearless8460]

That exists!! I don't know how accurate it is but it sounded pretty much like this. It's in a video called "how ancient language sounded like" or something, along with some other ancient languages like ancient Greek or mesopotamian or how vikings would have sound

[@Cam_531]

Ngl same lol

[@franke.niegas9114]

Ikr.

[@Kepimpin]

Same

[@salottin]

Glad I read this at the beginning of the video

[@samuels3843]

An ancient egyptian is watching this and shaking his head at the mispronounciation

[@nataliecaba3045]

@پیر الکساندر خان it’s highly likely that it’s mispronounced

[@flutterwind7686]

Well, we tried our best. That egyptian has to give props where effort is due.

[@samuels3843]

@@flutterwind7686 its a joke mate. Good job!

[@tims4654]

I am Coptic. He is actually quite accurate.

[@davidhelsem8794]

It would probably be understandable, but sound like an extreme accent. Like a non-native English speaker speaking in English.

[@StephiSensei26]

This is how language, any language, should be taught to children, to inspire them and get them off to a good start to appreciate their own language and that of others. When we realize that we have more connecting us, than separating us, the world will be a happier place. Thank you.

[@1CT1]

Romans 10:9 “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” King James Version (KJV) John 3:16 King James Version 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Galatians 3:26 King James Version 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. Titus 3:5-7 King James Version 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Revelation 21:4 King James Version 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. .............................................................

[@Unfortunate.and.childish]

Yes!

[@rimasappington6217]

@@Unfortunate.and.childish the scribes of KJB change the original words

[@Unfortunate.and.childish]

@@rimasappington6217 oh

[@kennethverona25]

Thats true

[@kxzy.837]

to everyone who doesn't know, 10-20% of egypt today are coptic, all coptic orthodox churches still use coptic in prayers, im glad that videos like these help to raise awareness of different cultures and languages. I'm proud of my heritage and i hope that we could recover what was lost

[@eddmania]

15% are Christian, the language itself is extinct and only used in some hymns. As for the genes, Coptic North African gene is BY FAR the dominant in the super majority of Egyptians. Egyptians are genetically Northeastern African nation.

[@lailametwaly2040]

Yes ❤

[@STPickrell]

4000 years from now: Archaeologists are still struggling with reconstructing English from the mysterious logographs called "emoji."

[@cfrandre8319]

have you seen the book “Motel of the Mysteries”?

[@BKPrice]

"How do you pronounce this one that looks like poop?"

[@CLOWE-po2tx]

Hahahaha! 😁😄😂

[@idvarhurd7804]

@@cfrandre8319 it's "shieeeeet"

[@theemosthonestpodcast913]

Facts while trying to decipher Thor comics as fact or fiction......😂😂

[@billybyrns2557]

Just imagine in 13,000 years, scholars struggling to figure out how we got the verb "yeet" from "to throw" in English. Hell on earth!

[@MrsAlexisAgnew2019]

IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, THAT WILL BE SO MUCH FOR A FUTURE LINGUIST 😍😍 Shoot, I’m a present-day linguist, and that sounds fun to me! And thank you for that particular suggestion. It’s actually an excellent example of the fluidity of language. How? Consider this: In meme-land, “Yeet!” is the sound one makes when throwing another person in the air à la pitching in baseball. As its use grew outside of meme-land, “yeet” morphed into humorous shorthand for “to throw”. Functioning as an onomatopoeia in this way, it cemented its secondary use as a transitive verb.

[@capnbilll2913]

I had never heard the word yeet before, yet knew what it meant the first time I saw it.

[@rosewraith_]

I am CACKLING thank you for this thought

[@teacon7]

a) that's 11,000 kinds of evil. hilarious. b) that said, it seems unlikely that the term will be around long enough to warrant notice at that point.

[@christopherjohnson2234]

And why is the antonym of yeet “yoink”

[@samc8570]

I'm a Copticist/Egyptologist and I have to say this video is incredible! Especially for not forgetting the Mediaeval Arabic scholars which people tend to ignore.

[@mikicerise6250]

@NightShade theWolf Arabic is just the colonial language.

[@AR-bf7tm]

@@mikicerise6250 before Arabic due to the Byzantine occupation of Egypt most egyptian spoke greek which is why the coptic alphabet is still in greek. A 'native' egyptian language hasn't been spoken in Egypt in over 2500 years

[@armzngunz]

@@AR-bf7tm I really doubt most egyptians spoke greek as their first language. Egypt and the levant never hellenised or romanised like the celts, iberians and illyrians

[@AR-bf7tm]

@@armzngunz the Egyptian Language written in the Demotic script which was the predecessor to Modern Coptic and offshoot from the Late Egyptian Language was renounced over classical Greek in all official places except in Egyptian Religious Temples and even there soon Egyptian Hieroglyphs and the demotic script was completely replaced by the Greek alphabet during the Ptolemic dynasty. While there wasn't a formal hellenisation process, the Greek and Roman influences essentially replaced Egyptian culture with their own and Historians in the antiquity such as Josephus described Egyptians as being evenly split amongst greek and coptic speakers highlighting a dilluting of egyptian culture. Which although is sad it's what happens to every other single culture. Just like how Iran doesn't speak Avestan, India doesn't speak Sanskrit or the Harrapan Civilisation's language and Britain doesn't speak a celtic language.

[@faofthefaers7695]

@pr 99 Greek was the official language of Egypt at a point in time.

[@sigmablues6050]

In my 2 trips to Egypt, I visited so many places... so many museums, temples and other historical places. It was amazing to see history, and hear people speaking coptic to show us how they spoke. It made my inner, egypt obsessed, kid happy as hell. ❤

[@sigmablues6050]

@@dutchman8129 The Swiss Inn in Hurghada was absolutely worth the money. All three meals, free drinks and other stuff for the all-inclusive people

[@sigmablues6050]

@@dutchman8129 I also stayed in much smaller hotels, which were all nice, kept clean. They are so cute and helpful when you try to say something in Egyptian ❤️

[@artificialintelligence143]

It's a shame what ISIS destroyed in Afghanistan and Iraq, countless precious artifacts.

[@calicoesblue4703]

The picture is wrong, plz stop spreading Propaganda, The Ancient Egyptians according to DNA studies done by a company called DNA tribes & other companies doing Genetic Studies on the Hair & Skin of Ancient Egyptians, show that they were Black Africans before the invasions & displacements took place.

[@keithmoorechannel]

This randomly showed up on my recommended list. It was way more interesting than I thought it would be.

[@rufusqristofer]

Same!

[@PhxVanguard]

Ditto. I was watching a video on military reactions and this popped up. Very interesting linguistic history.

[@Roberto-mh1tb]

Amazing. Same here

[@harborwolf22]

Me too

[@Roberto-mh1tb]

@@harborwolf22 as a linguiat I am fascinated by this recommendation. First time something decent popped up. Über interesting and humbling to know how this language evolved through the millennia. Enjoy it as I did

[@averageuman3681]

In the far future: "Though archeologists have for the most part deciphered the ancient english language, they are still struggling to find exactly how the word 'GIF' was pronounced"

[@oo5379]

Bcz of the internet it would be easy for them to know

[@averageuman3681]

@@oo5379 I know, it was just a joke

[@O_Ciel_Phant0mhive]

@@oo5379 we never know if that will still be accessible by then haha take care of the planet kids.

[@nikkovellios]

The G in GIF is pronounced like the G in hieroglyph.

[@averageuman3681]

@@nikkovellios Debatable. Some say it's that, but others say it's pronounced "JIF", as in the J in Jeff

[@ChessedGamon]

You mean to tell me Ramses II didn't speak modern Arabic like Civ 5 told me? I feel cheated.

[@KristijanKL]

but age of empires was close? nice

[@fandyus4125]

I think they considered making him speak coptic but almost nobody actually speaks that so they gave up.

[@viktorberzinsky4781]

I think part of it has to do with the fact that finding readily available translation services for ancient Egyptian or coptic is near impossible unless you are Coptic or are involved in certain academic circles.

[@mohamedelhaddade6371]

am arabe and find it funny ..but am not complaining

[@thomasrinschler6783]

@@viktorberzinsky4781 Actually, Cleopatra speaks Middle Egyptian in Civ 6. While not perfect - she would have learned the Demotic phase of the language (as she was the first and only of the Ptolemies to have learned the native language) - it's better than Ramses speaking Arabic.

[@rachaelb.]

When we lose a language or culture, we lose a part of ourselves and history. Nothing can replace it nor repair it. It can never be restored to its exact copy. This is why it is important to keep traditions alive through story or dance. Just not through war or hate. -Rachael B. lol

[@Drawwithauto]

Cool!

[@AntoineBandele]

This channel is a jewel.

[@asiblingproduction]

Hey itscha boi

[@craigcollings5568]

It is. But you know what? I'd be just as happy with no animation and twice the story.

[@YukariAkiyama]

@@craigcollings5568 20 seconds ago

[@emporer15]

Agreed!

[@spermutation2557]

yours also. I love your avatar content

[@theinternpianist1439]

-Walk like an Egyptian- *Talk like an Egyptian*

[@chilliam00]

Yare yare daze...

[@tuahsakato17]

OH MY GODD!!

[@rbsmith3365]

Nofri/No4pi........... Hello! In Coptic

[@kristingallo2158]

@@rbsmith3365 hello I did an ancestry dna test and I'm also part coptic egyptian.

[@rbsmith3365]

@@kristingallo2158 Hello, Really? Have you tried learned to speak Coptic language? I only know little Spanish, French, and America sign language. Bob.

[@ryanchristopherrizo4178]

Me after YT recommended me this video: 𓂀 𓂏 𓂀

[@TwistedHoneycomb]

LMAOOOOO

[@Nugcon]

nice

[@antarcfroze]

Ah, understandable have a nice day

[@nina-rz2fj]

manifestating this comment will get way more likes

[@crazypumpkin738]

You deserve a cookie

[@mercuryz_6605]

Im Egyptian and i get so happy when people are interested in the culture and not faking it like some people nowadays good job!

[@michaelpadilla4037]

Who ??

[@mercuryz_6605]

@@michaelpadilla4037 the people who support afro centrism are black washing Egyptians saying they were black

[@yassyabdi8593]

Our? The modern day Egyptians are Arabs while the ancient Egyptians were black from the horn of Africa

[@mercuryz_6605]

@@yassyabdi8593 yes OUR and we weren't black neither now nor in the old days go cry about it. Where are your sources the Netflix film cleopatra??

[@jacob777jacob]

@@mercuryz_6605 Proof is on the wall.

[@PaperClipFlip]

The first emoji-based language.

[@d1want34]

Yes 😂😂😂😂

[@toriannajenkins2106]

In another thousand years we'll be the next lol

[@WeirdAlSuperFan]

Emoji (絵文字) just means pictogram/picture word, so yeah, literally

[@Blue_Azure101]

😀

[@eakbeagle7039]

The mesopotamians were with the invention of the pictograph

[@SteelWolf13]

05:20 starts to get to the point

[@scurry.6898]

thx

[@tinaloye2014]

Thank you

[@vannythaliaamanda2271]

Thx

[@callumralston1094]

Thx

[@afrotanziczinzile6124]

You’re the real mvp 👊🏽. Thanks

[@eymannassole6162]

I can't even imagine, what the library of Alexandria, held in it?!

[@tims4654]

Yeah. Too bad it was destroyed.

[@nobody1747]

If I had a time machine I'd go there and try to take stuff back to present times. Imagine if thats already happened and time travellers were the real reason it burned down

[@crhu319]

Math so advanced that the atom bomb would have been invented for Charlemagne. Do you see the problem here?

[@Abk367]

Wasn't a part of it stored in Constantinople ?

[@rareavisfugit]

This has always made me so sad about that!

[@johnglover4453]

OmG! Had not realised just how complex and multi layered the journeys of linguists are! Wow! Absolutely fascinating!!

[@ace1776]

It’s a known fact all ancient peoples spoke with an English accent. Just watch any movie!

[@9grand]

From England!

[@r0undymcr0undyst0n]

The same applies to most fictional royal families (watch the Hallmark movies and you will see what I mean)

[@annmitchell4663]

Most movies made for the English speaking market are spoken in English..they are then usually dubbed for whatever country they are shown in..I have watched many foreign made movies with subtitles.

[@ccricers]

Also people in galaxies far far away

[@sweetjojoba]

@@annmitchell4663 They were joking.

[@prestonransome5362]

God bless linguists. Superhuman patience and fascination with detail.

[@luckyman9903]

You’re very welcome.

[@abby4179]

@@luckyman9903 oh?

[@artistjoh]

Wonderful, but I would love to hear a few sentences spoken to really get a feeling for what it would be like to hear people in the street in ancient Egyptian times.

[@app2530]

Ya I was disappointed that we didnt actually get to hear what ancient Egyptian sounds like.

[@grossnegligence022]

@@app2530 yeah, how on earth did they not manage to find an ancient egyptian to talk on mic is beyond me

[@eliseintheattic9697]

@@grossnegligence022 Theres a video on Etruscan where they speak it so we can hear it. Not sure how they did that but I was expecting to hear it, not hear about it.

[@artistjoh]

@@grossnegligence022 They don’t need to get an ancient Egyptian to speak the language. The whole point of the video was that we have a very good idea about what the words sounded like and the narrator spoke many words in the ancient way. What was missing was stringing the words together to make a complete sentence.

[@HilaryB.]

If anyone is interested, there's a brilliant video of a re-construction of an 'ancient Egyptian love song' on here by Peter pringle, it's excellent!

[@kristifairchild9946]

There was an English woman that lived in Egypt who could speak ancient Egyptian perfectly (as much as we know). Her name was Om SETI but her English name was Dorothy Edie. She believed she was the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian. It’s a fascinating story, several books have been written about her. Just look up Om SETI. 😃👍

[@caseymcpoet]

But, frankly, Kristi, who was going to know if she was or wasn't? Ive heard many a 'psychic' speaking in tongues, space language & absolutely pure gibberish, & some with a kind of clarity, but who knows? Irish lore says Gaelic was crafted by Ogma, the god of Eloquence, after the Tower of Babel was destroyed from all the best of the ancient languages, making Gaelic the best of the best, lol.

[@markusc9417]

Yes I Remember reading about her story, fascinating!

[@dereksuth8906]

​@@caseymcpoetWhy would Irish lore have a Judaic story as part of it?

[@caseymcpoet]

@@dereksuth8906 More like a Biblical narrative than a Judaic one. When the scribes started writing down the Lore and ancient oral histories in the monasteries, they gave many things a biblical & Christian slant. The ancient writing system the Druids used was called Ogham, pronounce Om today & in ancient times probably pronounced the "gha" in ancient Irish. Ogma is found on the continent where the Celts were too, as in Gaul, Iberia, etc. The Druids were the educated class of early Europe, natural scientist & philosophers like the Magi & Brahmins, Pythagoras studied with them & they were familiar with the Egyptians.

[@evanmurray5920]

Could you do Old Norse next. Would love to hear what it sounded like

[@dukeofleinster4524]

I thought he already did

[@emilyvalentine4565]

A professor by the name of Jackson Crawford already has an extensive library of videos on this topic, I feel personally like he may have a bit of an accent when speaking it but it’s pretty minor

[@sonofclay]

Probably sounds a bit like Dutch after eating shrooms.

[@awm9290]

Can’t you just go to Iceland?

[@kyomademon453]

Literally rural Icelandic

[@Paul-ou1rx]

They were all like: "Picture of king." "Picture of raft" "Picture of bird. "Picture of cat head"

[@larapalma3744]

@AnonymeisKot brilliant

[@beastshawnee]

Boom! or 💥

[@natashawhite712]

I think it is emoji but just in egypt time

[@nebufabu]

@Darkphoton More like in puzzle, ranging from "what word is spelled MJW and is about cats? Yes, it's "meow" and yes, that's actual word for a cat as well as the sound they make." to pretty far out there ("JST+eggs=Isis" Why eggs? We can guess, but don't really know,) It is similar to how very early Chinese characters worked, but then they evolved in completely different directions.

[@BogusmanTheSwagman]

It's like speaking wingdings

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

Well you mentioned Cuneiform so now you're legally obligated to do "What Sumerian Sounded Like - and how we know!"

[@johnwheeler8882]

kzbin.info/door/BQo27DbqeB-xG17-kekrdQ They also have Sumerian lessons.

[@annpenso7299]

@@johnwheeler8882 Danke

[@clockworkkirlia7475]

...Featuring Irving Finkel?

[@jadalidakroub288]

😂😂😂

[@1964_AMU]

@atheodora lastname Sumerian is close to old Hungarian, which is not an Indo-European langage. Now I have to compare Tamil with Hungarian, I will not die stupid...

[@crubelliermargaux7798]

I'm learning egyptian for one of my courses, and I want to say that it's really not that difficult. I'm sure that if you really want to learn it you can !

[@theaberrantdon]

It would be nice to hear some extended dialogue in this ancient language. All I have ever heard has been individual words. I would love to hear the flow of conversational and formal ancient Egyptian language.

[@dwavyy300]

Go back in time lol

[@callidawkins85]

Probably going to have to learn as much as you can yourself

[@a5rmar]

Sounds like talking backward i think

[@NicoleCzarnecki]

@Italo-Celtic , this is not to mention that Coptic is experiencing a revival.

[@zzBaBzz]

The pronounciation of Egyptian is lost. We have no idea how they spoke. Not even a single word.

[@dumbgenious1960]

As a Copt myself, I am so proud of my heritage, and I hope we can revive some of our huge culture that was lost

[@mariammontaser7843]

@Nothempti i feel you , but we kinda still have a lovely culture , don't you think?

[@unpredictablemove]

@Nothempti not just Islamic, mainly arabs and their invasive 'culture'

[@ehabmagdy242]

@Nothempti bro, what!!

[@Fatima.114]

Luckily it is not up to you!

[@AbdullahAmar]

@Nothempti That's what i'm saying. Egyptian language was still spoken after Arabian invasion for more than 500 years. Thats a lot !! And yet radicals get angry from anyone say so ! But we can revive it again look what Zionists did with Hebrew!

[@TheSlammurai]

"How do we know what they sounded like?" "We found a recording on an Ancient Egyptian cellphone."

[@Jordan-pp5bo]

It was a Nokia

[@Pebbles_Nema]

Blackberry 🤣

[@frankieboombotz3403]

As I said and agree with you. TOTAL BULL SHIT.

[@abdelrahman6319]

Me watching the video: they take our minds very lightly!!! Me checking likes and comments believing in such mumbo jumbo: Maybe humanity in danger!!

[@TheSingingMystic87]

@@frankieboombotz3403 You not understanding linguistics doesn’t make this total bullshit

[@Lingostuff]

Nativlang is without a doubt the best linguistic channel, great video!

[@theresafriedrich2025]

Hey there Nativ, greetings from Germany! I don´t even know, if you will ever read this, but i wanna tell you a story: Back, when I was a student, really young, like 11 years old, the Lord of the rings films came into cinemas, and I got addicted! A few years later i choose latin as my second language to learn. And I got also addicted! I loved it! I soaked up every bit of lore we translated! Things got even greater, when I found more LotR people around school. We founded an elvish learning group for ourselves. And this was the first time, i really got into history of langauges and pronounciation! When my school ended, it all drifted apart... But then, YEARS later youtube points me right towards your youtube channel, making me feel like I have come home! Thank you very much!

[@satisfyingitems3118]

Plz subscribe ❤️

[@antoniojaimez3603]

@@satisfyingitems3118 shut up, Theresa just gave a speech and all you have to say is that? please, a bit more respect

[@davidhelsem8794]

Wonderful story. 🥰

[@PeterMilanovski]

If you are interested in ancient language, there's a scientific paper called Tracing The Script And The Language Of The Ancient Macedonians PDF which is available for free download, this paper is about the decipher of the middle text of the Rosetta Stone which is believed to be Egyptian Demotic but this is incorrect... It's 190Bc and the ancient Slavic Macedonians are using vowels and consonants. Pretty advanced for their time, the same Sanskrit text has also been found in Kokino Macedonia carved into stone and dated to around 6000Bc by French linguistic experts! Pretty amazing stuff! Great story by the way ☺️

[@musskeeterbump]

To hear their actual voices would be cool , we need a time machine .

[@bobabandit]

Sooo. I got news for you. Scientists were able to reconstruct vocal from preserved vocal cords of Egyptian priest. www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51223828

[@TheCthtoNicfLy]

CERN.

[@GeneralLocooo]

@@bobabandit lmfao I saw that before. All he said was”uaHhhhhhhh”

[@waeleldanbouky6920]

modern Egyptians retain half the language to this day in their daily dialect

[@dibujodecroquis1684]

Wael El Danbouky Really?

[@tojge]

So, a Frenchman, an Englishman and a stone walk into a bar... :)

[@torspedia]

What I was thinking too, lol.

[@davidhanna9003]

don't forget the Coptic priest!

[@thomasjenkins5727]

So an Englishman a Frenchman, and a Coptic Priest walk into a stone.

[@davidhanna9003]

@@thomasjenkins5727 perfect! lol

[@jakubpociecha8819]

@@thomasjenkins5727 HAAAAX!

[@frlfda]

While I have no understanding you of what you were teaching us, I very much appreciate what you have created. I look forward to going through this several more times. Thank you

[@leftyrighty5045]

Imagine making a typo on the Rosetta Stone. "Ah damn. No backspace. How do I delete this snake ? I meant to write a cane."

[@harlekinmorow5081]

😂😂😂😂💕✨

[@ThobekaMhlongo6270]

Your imagination is on steroids!

[@leftyrighty5045]

@@ThobekaMhlongo6270 Thanks ! I'll be here all week. 😷 I try. Must be the musician in me. 🎸

[@Jeffro5564]

Never happen because back then everything was taken with patience not today society where everybody want it now and they lose control if Facebook goes down and act like babies

[@ricardopena7875]

*Grabs a new rock* - Fuck..lets start over..

[@elodiepollock7326]

my gosh, I was watching this during dinner and completely forgot about my food, it was sooo interesting! I had a (long) phase during my childhood through young adulthood where I would read and watch everything about Ancient Egypt that i could get my hands on, and one thing I was always puzzled by was/is exactly this, how do we know what Ancient Egyptian actually sounded like. Thank you so much for this, it answered my question as well as it probably could, my inner child me is rejoicing ^^ Edit: I immediately watched the video again because this is just so cool to me still. Also, now I really could appreciate the writing of the video, truly well done!!

[@BubbleArcadia]

I read a similar book as a kid also one, one with a big red fake jewel on the center of the book. "Egyptology" and I just figured that it sounded like subtitles were on the bottom of the screen with a glitchy sound accompanying them.

[@itsjazzyhair]

When I was younger I had a phase where ancient Egypt was so interesting to me too lol

[@KurosakiLuvar01]

Michael Jackson is why I had my phase lolll

[@Terika-]

On a sidenote : what happened to your food ?

[@elodiepollock7326]

@@Terika- well, it got cold seeing I completely forgot about it ^^ but I ate during the second watch hehe

[@liza6067]

As someone who speaks urdu and farsi, this entire video was so fascinating, and I was consistently pausing and looking up words and historical information on my own culture and language. So many of the ancient Egyptian words are similar to urdu, farsi, and arabic. I couldn't help but smile at how conjoined everything is.

[@shaimaabadawi5797]

@@NoName-eq9md No? Islam has nothing to do with this. it is the people that changed the language dude.

[@Wanderer5260]

@@NoName-eq9md average islamophobic be like

[@Wanderer5260]

@@shaimaabadawi5797 that guy is definitely a islamophobic

[@player17wastaken]

@@NoName-eq9md Persian and Urdu would still exist without Islam, do you not know how language works? Also what did the concept of Islam existing ever do to you?

[@Jiub_SN]

@@player17wastaken not in the same manner, just as English was middle by French and Spanish, Italian, and French were muddled from Latin by their conquerors. it's not an islamophobic thing, though I'm not saying he isn't

[@TheSmileyTek]

12 million views? Wow. Very interesting. Love learning about ancient civilizations. Ancient Egypt is so intriguing.

[@calicoesblue4703]

The picture is wrong, plz stop spreading Propaganda, The Ancient Egyptians according to DNA studies done by a company called DNA tribes & other companies doing Genetic Studies on the Hair & Skin of Ancient Egyptians, show that they were Black Africans before the invasions & displacements took place.

[@Lupastic]

6:38 *"ne-seeh BLYAT"* there, proof that russian swear words evolve into anything, no matter how ancient it is

[@katleinzimmerman8783]

действительно ;)

[@CaptainObvious0000]

this would roughly translate into "bring it here, bitch!". NISI BLYAT!

[@papachrist200]

I was watching him sound out words and suddenly realized many of the Coptic letters were the same as Cyrillic letters and became more excited than I probably should have been

[@sponge1234ify]

@@Lupastic I'm gonna be that guy, but there's genuinely people who unironically said what you said for any two unrelated language, so my Poe-tic scale are broken here; No, you need hundreds if not thousands of correspondent (similar-ish) pair of words like that to even entertain the idea of shared ancestry, and that's before looking at grammar, sound changes, and all those complicated historical linguistic stuff. CHANGELOG: Edited phrasing to be less accusatory than it ended up been.

[@sachinbharti9634]

Russian similar to sanskrit language too

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

You really walked like an Egyptian with this one I was obsessed with Ancient Egypt when I was a kid. I loved collecting the Playmobil sets and learning about mummies. This made my inner kid happy

[@lias5188]

Oh my god playmobil I’m an adult and still will check out them once in awhile.

[@LMNtaLXicon]

Cool!

[@ztac_dex]

9 y/o me watched a Discovery channel about mummification and I thought the guy volunteered to be mummified alive by removing his organs and getting covered in chalk and it scarred me

[@johsiantorres8495]

Your here to 😭

[@peterconway6584]

I don't know what you're talking about, so I'm left feeling my childhood was sadly deprived of something.

[@weakystar]

5:11,you're welcome

[@robodonut8879]

Thx mate

[@master_of_blinchiki]

Thx mate

[@the_andre]

Thx mate

[@snakecreates1244]

Thx mate

[@ohmeika994]

Thx mate

[@MEME-oz6xf]

I am very proud to be Egyptian 🇪🇬💗

[@devanman7920]

Man Egypt have such an incredible history.

[@Genius766]

More like “had”

[@lovebite4486]

@@Genius766 What's wrong with it now?

[@EVILAKUMA]

Yeah...read up story on Maurice Bucaille, scientist/doctor who researched and discovered something interesting about the pharaoh from the Quran

[@colorfulaura105]

@Jon Valler ooh so ancient Egyptians were European?

[@nateclipps]

@@colorfulaura105 umm no & yes, Egypt was a very diverse place. There lots of drawings of dark skin folk, light skin folk, white folk etc etc in old Egyptian writing.

[@caroletalaway5132]

I live in Egypt and many ancient Egyptian words are still used as well as ancient customs that have been adopted into modern religious and celebratory activities.

[@AceRuiner1979]

What customs are these??? I'm obsessed with Egypt

[@Changeindjibouti]

@Tian 333 lol 😂

[@caroletalaway5132]

@Tian 333 the Spring festival of Sham El Nessim was the forunner of Easter & Passover. Hard boiled eggs, greens & smoked fish translated to the colored eggs for Easter & boiled egg for Passover. The waving of palm fronds led to Palm Sunday & Sukkot. Herbal remedies are abundant & go back centuries. Fenergeek tea is given to women in labor and just after birth. Natural anti-inflammatory & pelvic pain reducer. Margoram tea for reducing fever. Of course the ancient jewelry designs are still popular today. Wine, beer & marshmallows all started here. Bat aao = bread (baguette) bat is wheat; aao is water. Fesikh (fesseek) dried herring eaten at the spring festival.

[@monkiram]

I'm Coptic. A lot of the words we use now come from Coptic which came from ancient Egyptian. Here are some examples - Table is "trapeza" in Coptic and we refer to it as "tarabeza" in Egypt now - "Outah" is the Coptic word for fruit and how we refer to tomatoes now - "Parkouki" is plum in Coptic which we now refer to as "barkouk" - "Geeb" means "to take" in Coptic which we still use - "Niffi" meaning to blow is still used - "Koi" meaning elbow is still used And a whole bunch more. Plus all of the liturgical words and the majority of Christian Egyptians' names are of Coptic or Greek origin

[@caroletalaway5132]

@@monkiram thank you for this. My husband pronounces Koi as Koa.

[@Mmjd212]

There’s a very small population of Africans who speak Coptic today. You can hear Coptic spoken in Coptic Christian churches

[@terrietackett8964]

I’ll have to look into this. I want to hear the language.....🤔

[@savage_aly8752]

yes true, i don't really understand it but sometimes it can make some sense

[@mastersili]

wow

[@monkiram]

Hello fellow Monika, I assume you're Coptic too haha

[@bettyturtledove5222]

I know a Chinese Coptic Christian -

[@Bob123Max]

In high school we were taught that when the Rosetta Stone was discovered - then hieroglyphs could be translated according to the Greek text! Anyway, thank you for explaining how the translation came about - truly a remarkable detective story.

[@pab702]

2,000 years from now: We’re still trying to figure out what the “O” in “LOL” stood for 🧐

[@chasstiles7611]

Im still trying to figure out who lol is

[@EmpEcropEco]

@@chasstiles7611 or why is lol

[@lovingmayberry2000]

Lots Of Love??? (lol)

[@therealhelmholtz]

It stands for OUT.

[@therealhelmholtz]

Lol stands for Laugh out loud.

[@pinkyjohns5198]

Saw the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum. Had always thought it was probably the size of a book. It is HUGE!

[@satisfyingitems3118]

Plz subscribe 😢

[@fzoowick]

Reading a few sentences in the language would have been nice.

[@evamazer3409]

Just what I was thinking. Please do!

[@PREPFORIT]

wha wha wha

[@supposedly1-2]

you mean they don't , that's why i'm hear i wanted to hear it spoken! well im getting out of here not wasting my time!

[@lyrimetacurl0]

Nekhnokhnamokhnekh

[@KenaiBush]

Thank you for this video, as an aspiring Egyptologist this video will be one of the foundations for what I hope will be my work and mark on humanity.

[@W1LD_4C3s]

Something I’ve noticed about evolving languages and learning their beginnings; is how lifestyle really plays a big role on how they decided to pronounce or not pronounce something. The Egyptian language for example, you can tell how hot it was based on how the language sounded, the amount of breath placed on the inclination(s). Furthermore you can see how something simple such as heat could shape an early dialect and tongue. Hmm has anyone else found this?

[@mahroz1997]

Wow, that is so interesting, no wonder Arabic has many from the throat and breath pronunciations because Arab countries suffer through lots of heat. Also why English is very less like that since in England it is fairly cold.

[@josielie6701]

That is interesting. I have never paid attention to climates affecting speech.

[@Nyxtia]

This is just folk linguistics. You can find similarities in languages with similar climates, but you can just as easily find linguistic similarities among languages originating in completely different circumstances. Finnish, like Arabic, has a lot of aspirated, or "breathy" sounds and is from a cold (old Finno-Ugric) climate. Germanic and Romance languages originated right next to each other and sound very different. Ditto for many native American language groups. Japanese and Greenlandic sound much more similar than French and German do, for example. Speaking of Japanese, it's a pitch language, just like... Norwegian and Swedish. As opposed to its nearby neighbour China, where Mandarin is a tonal language, just like... Many sub-Saharan African languages like Yoruba, Igbo and Zulu. It's cool to think how lifestyle and climate could determine linguistic features, but the evidence suggests otherwise, for now at least.

[@janetwestwood9194]

🤔😃👍❣🇬🇧

[@cindygonzalez486]

People from the south of USA Talk slow because it’s so hottt

[@khediveabbashilmiiiofegypt9475]

Hello, first of all, thank you for makimg this video, and second of all, I'm Egyptian and I can assure you that the ancient Egyptian is still partially spoken around Egypt not just Coptic. If you want to know how ancient Egyptian sounded like throughout its existence, just look for Egyptian villages, towns & cities in Egypt today. Large portion of them do exist since the ancient times, but you'd need to write their names in google translate since there are some letters that doesn't exist in English. If you're reading this comment rn so here's a good list of these cities to search: 1. Damanhur (City of Horus), Damietta (Demyat), Rosetta (Rashit), HiW (a village meaning the "empty"), Esna, Aswan (Syene), Asyut (Syout), Minya (Men'at Khufu literally "Khufu's hospital"), and finally Napoleon's famous battle Shubrakhit is the modern edition of the ancient village of Shopro Akhet meaning "Field of Horizon".

[@khediveabbashilmiiiofegypt9475]

@Вхламинго The reason why Egyptians are unique is that no matter how long do they get ruled by non Egyptians, they do of course get a little bit of that culture and language but traditions and original language is preserved. Coptic for example is the result of Egyptians refusing to speak Greek, so they made Coptic to be Egyptian Demotic in Greek alphabet so that Greeks could understand it. Egyptian Arabic is the result of Egyptians converting to Islam but still refusing to speak Classical Arabic formally, instead they spoke it according to what they felt it's comfortable for their non semitic tongue.

[@anirbanchatterjee1422]

This is really interesting. I must ask, have elements of ancient pre Hellenistic and pre Islamic religion also persisted to this day? Can you please tell me about a few?

[@doubtful_seer]

@@anirbanchatterjee1422 I’m very interested in that as well.

[@mephistopheles5327]

@@khediveabbashilmiiiofegypt9475 dont bullshit us, i visited egypt, it is 1000% arabized, infact you dont see any i mean any remnant of ancient culture. The language close to ancient Egyptian is the randille language or the Somali.

[@steveneardley7541]

@Вхламинго The Greeks settled in the North of the country. Furthermore, as the ruling class, they often didn't even learn to speak Egyptian. They were essentially conquerors. The Romans were worse still. Romans used Greeks to teach their children, but generally never learned Greek, and never developed a body of Roman instructors. The Romans basically saw Egypt as a cash-cow, with a smoothly functioning system of taxation to exploit the peasant farmers. Egypt was mainly a peasant culture and the Greeks and Romans didn't have much interest or effect on that level of society. That is why authentically Egyptian culture could survive all these political changes.

[@RichardNDoper]

Last time I was this early the Greeks were still using syllabary.

[@dragonmanover9000]

First, you use Linear A, then Linear B? Make up your mind, Ancient Greece!

[@szilveszterforgo8776]

@@dragonmanover9000 Which one is deciphered? I forgot....

[@dragonmanover9000]

@@szilveszterforgo8776 I think Linear B. Don't cite me on that.

[@AvrahamYairStern]

Last time I was this early, the Greeks were still writing in boustrophedon

[@samishaniyy]

Were they really Greeks?

[@Salim-mikram]

This is absolutely fascinating. Flabbergasted

[@AyubuKK]

They legit spoke in enchantment table. Not even trying to joke.

[@rusty1370]

They are minecrafters

[@lalalandKing]

Lol I thought it was funny

[@sidereum-05]

D𝙹 ||𝙹⚍ ᓭ!¡ᒷᔑꖌ ℸ ̣ ⍑ᒷ ꖎᔑリ⊣⚍ᔑ⊣ᒷ 𝙹⎓ ᒲ╎リᒷᓵ∷ᔑ⎓ℸ ̣ ?

[@randallcarissa]

fun fact: Enchantment table is actually the galactic alphabet.

[@James-vm2cl]

Mind Craft

[@1959Berre]

Where I live we speak a language that has many different dialects. Just travel 10 miles in either direction and you may hear the same words spoken with totally different sounds. It must be a hell of a job trying to find the origins and the differences of a language that has been spoken for thousands of years over such vaste area.

[@girlblogger444]

What language is that?

[@1959Berre]

@@girlblogger444 Flemish (a bunch of Dutch dialects)

[@aag2139]

Where I live its much the same, you can realy tell where people are from because things are pronounced absurdly different village to village, to the point where professors in the city used my accent as an extreme example of west-coastal sounds. Must be a nightmare to have to study each place surrounding egypt to try and figure out what sounds were what

[@kyletulau5658]

In Australia it's similar, we can roughly tell what state or territory someone is from by the way they speak

[@Lilybonit4]

Similarly in Mexico, we have different accents and pronunciations depending on the geographical and cultural region, so it's easy to identify where someone is from by the way they speak.

[@angryabuelita1082]

My friend Learning German: WHY CANT YOU JUST BE NORMAL!!! Me learning middle egyptian: * screaming *

[@calli4810]

To be fair, reviving a dead language is really cool though

[@satisfyingitems3118]

Plz subscribe ❤️

[@tims4654]

I know Coptic. It kinda is tbh, but I actually use it in Church as I'm Coptic Orthodox.

[@ginnyjollykidd]

German is actually quite an efficient language with pronunciation of letters consistent almost 100% of the time.

[@davidgoldstein1526]

I am fluent in german. Sometimes, things make more sense in german.

[@eyesofthefox]

The cool thing about pictures for your writing system, is that everyone is able to look at the images and understand the concept even if they can't speak or write it.

[@zombiemom6701]

This was all I could talk about as a kid. I was obsessed. I got a book out of the library when I was 8 “The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt “ and it changed my life. Egypt was my first love.

[@eagleeye2300]

Have you read "The Winged Pharoah" by Joan Grant? (Ariel Press, California ). One of my favorite books on the planet.

[@sophiabright8371]

Mine as well! I went so far as to give linguistics a shot my first year of college. It broke me, sadly. In high school I'd studied French, Spanish & Latin. I was fully fluent in French. College was too much for me and I faltered. But I kept up with my own writing and am beginning to get my work ready to publish, at age 65! Language has been my solace and my joy. I love this video!

[@glennkrieger]

And your study of language has led you to Zombiemom. Nice.

[@CountessOfOle]

This reminds me of Stargate, when Daniel Jackson realizes that the natives of the planet they've gone to are speaking something very akin to ancient Egyptian. Even though he's well-learned in the language, it takes him seeing it written in hieroglyphs to recognize it, because, whether it was due to the alien culture sustaining linguistic drift during its millennia of separation from Earth or whether it was due to incorrect or incomplete knowledge of what ancient Egyptian sounded among Earth's linguistic scholars... or both... Jackson's expectations of the language's vowel sounds were very different from the ones he was hearing. Once he was able to mentally adjust to the new vowel sounds, he was able to understand and communicate with the alien culture almost fluently. I didn't realize how firmly based in the reality of Egyptological conundrums that was until watching this video. I know... dorky connection to make here, but Stargate will always have a soft spot in my heart. Seeing and loving it as a kid is a big part of why I became interested in linguistics in the first place.

[@0.-.0.-.0]

I just watched Stargate the other day. I remembered it being SO awesome when I was a kid. Sometimes it's good to just let things stay in the past, you know? Painted by nostalgia. I have to say though, I honestly was not disappointed. There were a lot o things that didn't hold up in the movie, but the base story is amazing. I really think it could be something big if it was to be updated.

[@tonykari5124]

Very nicely said

[@HERETOHELPPEOPLE121]

Haha I remember that episode if I remember correctly it was a 2 part episode. 😀

[@NinjaFlibble]

@@HERETOHELPPEOPLE121 talking about the original movie, actually. The only non-Earth languages I remember being present* in SG1 were Goa'uld, Asgard, and Alteran (which I understand from a story point of view. Don't want to take 20 minutes out of every episode to deal with a language barrier) *by "present", I mean we heard them spoken.

[@wickedwildhog5894]

Oh I love stargate! Nice to see that more dorks are out there.

[@muhammadfawzi1145]

I'm an Egyptian, and you said the word Masri so well it surprised me

[@muhammadfawzi1145]

@پیر الکساندر خان For non-arabs it can be difficult since they aren't used to the pronunication

[@Trustnoho]

I’m confused are you egyptian or arab?

[@muhammadfawzi1145]

@@Trustnoho Egyptians are Arab... that's like asking someone "are you Chinese or Asian?" They can both be true lol

[@badgalirri]

Im from Europe but im always stunned when I hear native English speakers pronounce foreign languages well. Like the way he also said champollion mhmhmhmhmhm music to my ears

[@VelkanAngels]

@@badgalirri - Exactly. I've only heard a non-Dane pronounce a Danish word correctly once in my entire life, so I reacted to it, as if it was the most mind-blowing thing I'd ever experienced, lol.

[@fratercontenduntocculta8161]

IMO, I think the the discovery and translation of the Rosetta Stone is the greatest linguistic achievement in Human History. My favorite part of Ancient Egypt is how prolific their Scribes were, literally covering whole structures from floor to ceiling.

[@gordonlawrence1448]

So Egyptian had a vowel shift? There is something to study here: for some reason most languages have a vowel shift. The question in my mind is why?

[@trafo60]

All languages undergo sound change. The reason for this is that sounds are never pronounced identically at all times. Speakers will pronounce a sound a little differently in certain contexts; their children might pick up this slightly different pronunciation, resulting in a gradual sound change. Vowels are particularly prone to change because they are on a spectrum. There is not one way to pronounce /a/. Instead, it is pronounced somewhat differently each time - a little more to the back, a little more to the top, etc. But usally all these pronunciations will center around a prototype - for instance, low, central /a/. Now it can easily happen that this prototype shifts. Say, speakers pronounce the vowel a little further backward more often than not, so the new prototype will be /ɑ/. It is not hard to see how such a process would lead to the gradual change from /a/ to /o/.

[@KororaPenguin]

In Agatha Christie's historical mystery Death Comes as the End, the names are given as: Imhotep, the Ka-Priest. Ashayet, his late wife. Yahmose, Sobek, and Ipy; his sons. Renisenb, his daughter. Esa, his widowed mother. Satipy, Yahmose's wife. Kait, Sobek's wife. Khay, Renisenb's late husband. Hori, Imhotep's scribe. Kameni, another scribe. Teti, daughter to Renisenb. Ankh, one of Sobek and Kait's children IIRC. Henet, a mean-spirited retainer in the household. Nofret, a beautiful but bitter concubine Imhotep takes in, who brings out the worst in everyone (this being Agatha Christie, the question is in whom did she [Nofret] unwittingly bring out a murderous desire). The story takes place around 2000 BC. How many of the names' actual pronunciations can be securely reconstructed?

[@gordonlawrence1448]

@@trafo60 I know that but the specific point is that there is a shift at a specific point in time and it happens fairly rapidly then more or less stops.EG the English vowel shift which happened over 300 years.

[@RobertMancer]

@@gordonlawrence1448 Sound shifts are something that are constantly on-going and are more prominent in vowels than consonants. Think of sound shifts as speciation events in evolution. Where we stop amd say "okay, this is DEFINITELY a new animal" can be a little arbitrary. The more you zoom out, the easier the pattern is to see, but there isn't is a hard line where X generation is one species, Y generation is a new species. This is going to be further complicated by the fact that the new species is going to coexist with other members of it's ancestral lineage for quite some time. Language does the same thing. Vowel shifts are more common than consonant because sounds made with an open airway tend to be more fudgeable than other sounds. Vowel shifts are also a general pattern, not a singular event. Not all dialects of a language are spoken identically, just think of how many broad categories of accents we have for English and how many identifiable sub categories besides. The shifts themselves can be caused by any combination of events. Different dialects forming from isolation before becoming predominant. A pidgin, technology, or some other means adding loan words from another language. In modern times, English has been greatly affected by broadcast technology where we got Received Pronunciation utilized by the BBC to become the "standard" British accent or the "accentless" English we get from American TV. In a nutshell, vowel changes are constant. Time periods involving a vowel shift are broader and more gradual than normally implied and are more of a statistical shift than a singular event.

[@gordonlawrence1448]

@@RobertMancer Not like this they are not. And here is some evidence: sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/vowels.html if it was continuous and ongoing as you say then there would not be a specific name for it in that period of time would there? Try getting a linguistics degree and then you will know a bit of what you are talking about.

[@thedemonslayer51]

My man sounds like he's trying to teach me how to summon an abstract horror.

[@john_1995]

Are you from the UK ahah

[@thedemonslayer51]

@@john_1995 Not a bit, though maybe my speech has taken on some traits because I mimicked them a bunch as a kid.

[@john_1995]

@@thedemonslayer51 ok yeah only reason I asked because we say may man alot ahah so for example I could say my man done a whole video for ten minutes ahah

[@spidaxtreme]

He's trying to summon his egyptian god card.

[@realdeal8303]

@@john_1995 we say that in America

[@CerbTheOne]

I'm kind of a sucker for ancient Egyptian culture and I'm honestly excited for this video lmao

[@cirenrose]

Ditto..

[@hidingbox9074]

Agree

[@Jamie-yp7qz]

Same here. It’s really fascinating

[@MonAhgasInsomniAroELF]

We all are. We just hide it more as adults than when we were in middle school lol

[@matthewbreytenbach4483]

If you haven't yet, you should check out 'The Way of Egyptian Wisdom' very interesting stuff.

[@RaffaelloLorenzusSayde]

The double comma like colon must mean to say a word echoeingly similar to opera. For example: Those ancient Egyptian priests who possibly prayed in a poetic rhythm.

[@Rxxx-jn6gi]

ohhhh that's actually interesting

[@kevinwahl5610]

Can you do a video about the diversity of the modern Aramaic speakers (Assyrians, Chaldeans, Jews, Mandaeans, and Syriacs)?

[@kevinwahl5610]

@ Maronites are Aramaic speakers too!

[@AvrahamYairStern]

Someone in my college speaks Aramaic, when I found they could, I was truly amazed, given how endangered the language is!

[@kevinwahl5610]

@@AvrahamYairStern less than a million still speak it amongst the Syriac rite church affiliated people but due to no longer having a state that fosters their education it’s become harder.

[@AvrahamYairStern]

@@kevinwahl5610 yes, there are efforts to preserve and expand the language I believe, I was amazed to meet a natove speaker so far away from the Middle East

[@philipusassyriae8653]

As an Assyrian, I second this

[@TNAngelena]

I’ve always been fascinated by Egypt. I wanted to be an archeologist when I was a little girl. Even though I am now at 51-year-old retail associate, I still find these things very fascinating. You do a wonderful job of explaining it all.

[@Applest2oApples]

Life, eh

[@dwntoobsnss2]

It's never too late! ;) good luck

[@savage_aly8752]

visit my country and do what you like

[@veggiesarefruits]

I majored in Linguistics, so naturally, this is extremely fascinating to me. The formula for deciphering how an ancient language sounds is pretty straightforward, so long as you know the history of all the various cultures that interacted with the target group, over a long enough period of time. It takes quite a long time to draw these connections, but I think it's so worth it. We too often believe that cultural memes, languages, and traditions belong only to us, but this just isn't true. Human beings have always borrowed from one another, and at some point, these elements become just as much a part of our culture as any. This is why the concept of 'cultural appropriation' as something belonging to one group only, then stolen, is a fallacy. We are products of our environment, which is constantly changing; so much so that even the language we speak is derived from countless relationships, over generations. It's a beautiful reminder of our shared humanity, and our nature as highly social beings.

[@hubertlast9777]

"Highly social beings"

[@SpielxMitxMir]

Love this.

[@crashez35]

Dude cultural appropriation is an issue though. Im not saying anything belongs to a specific group because what you said about sharing of culture and all that is true. The problem is when an oppressed group has a specific style of something such as hairstyle, they get discriminated and punished for expressing it, all while the group of opressors can take it and not face the same consequences and even be praised. Its like a "nerd" being bullied for having glasses, then a cool kid wears fake glasses and is called cool. There is a difference between appreciation and appropriation so yeah. You seem pretty smart so i hope you'll get something from this.

[@ineedhoez]

Google what appropriation means and then circle back. It is ok to borrow, but to take and fail to pay respect to the originator, erases the original culture.

[@jozigirl7114]

@@crashez35 if that is the case, please return your Adidas apparel to the German people, stop using tarred roads, and as for cars - you guessed it 😉. Only someone with a massive chip on their shoulder would think that having braids/dreads is "cultural appropriation". As for "oppressed groups" please turn your eyes to the Africa-Middle East slave trade which has been going on long before Europeans set foot in Africa, and continues centuries after the British taxpayer paid for the freedom of all slaves (apart from those owned by the East India Company) in the USA and Caribbean. Nowhere in Western society is anyone "oppressed" 🙄

[@Floraa152]

This was so interesting! So glad I found this channel. I can’t wait to binge your videos 😊

[@willowsliquideyeliner7537]

Even though I didn’t quite understand I really enjoyed listening to this man pronounce everything. It scratched my brain perfectly

[@notwithoutpizza4702]

same. sometimes just letting the words and information wash over you is a treat within itself

[@rrachnarajput]

Like 👍

[@jeonginator_]

Half of me kinda understands it and half of me doesn't understand it.

[@RayMak]

This is such a good video.... An important piece of history

[@hebamalik_]

This is unbelievable. I watch meme videos, I see your comment. I watch animal videos, I see your comment. I watch ancient history videos, I see your comment. Like how are you everywhere?! We should just be best friends at this point, considering how similar our interests are.

[@orcaedgemedia]

Not really.... They can't even pronounce "Ramses" correctly. The name is pronounced phonetically "Ra meh su" . Which means "Born of Rah" or "Ra Bore Him". This is literally one of the most pitiful attempts at reading Ancient Egyptian I've ever seen.

[@SituationNormalAint]

@@hebamalik_ im kinda annoyed

[@westwilson1083]

Bro how about your practice piano instead of commenting on every single KZbin video, like I see you everywhere

[@morningwood6389]

@@hebamalik_ I just watch a documentary about the battle in mosul, and he's there too lmao.

[@paulalea7465]

Oh my God, finally a video on Ancient Egyptian! I've been teaching myself how to read hieroglyphs since I was a little kid. The phonology sure is an interesting headache provider.

[@kathrynehiersche1817]

you should check out Vintage Egyptologist. It's a new youtube channel

[@paulalea7465]

@@kathrynehiersche1817 thanks for the tip!

[@larapalma3744]

@@kathrynehiersche1817 thanks

[@3bydacreekside]

You sound just like me, language fascination from an early age

[@ahemenidov1900]

Coptic writing is most close to Cyrillic. Letters style and Ш is present. As far as I remember they have a word ГРОШ, which looks the same like "small money unit" in Slavic, and in Ukrainian ГРОШI = "money"

[@beetzNgroovz]

Грош rather mean coin. Money = паре.

[@nataliaberdadyn475]

Алфавіт -- копія української, прапор -- копія українськиї кольорів -- залишилось накопити всю інформацію про COPTIC.

[@MyHam-os4bq]

I wonder what life would be like now if cameras and voice recorders had been invented in ancient times. Such a tiny fraction of our history has been recorded in such a way, and even that never tells 100% of the story.

[@msmaj4895]

We would know exactly who the villians are today...we can always know that those who "lost" the wars of old will ALWAYS be painted as the villians and those who won; own the banks and money systems.

[@j.a.fligor97]

Not if they also had fake news.

[@skussy69]

There is a documentary about that, it's called Stargate. Check it out it's pretty good

[@misfitkid3926]

Things like that wouldn’t last 10 years buried under dirt and sand. Think about that for a second.

[@malkwz3262]

@@msmaj4895 wealthy families own banks and money systems lmao nothing new

[@paultsilits8758]

I should have known 11 minutes is a bit too long to simply hear what ancient egyptian language sounded like

[@miriamllamas224]

I've watch both The Mummy movies. I'm satisfied.

[@paultsilits8758]

@@miriamllamas224 lol how is this relevant?

[@miriamllamas224]

@@paultsilits8758 🤣🤣You know? The mummy was speaking old Egyptian? 🤣 And then when the girls were fighting? I guess that's how it sounded 😂🥰🤗

[@aspitube2515]

Cause the video isn't just about it

[@lepidotos]

you clearly missed the >"and how we know"

[@TheNeonParadox]

Historical Linguistics: The science of finding 10 new problems with every solution to a previous problem. Then again, that's pretty much all scientific disciplines, and that's what makes them interesting.

[@ori_U100]

Gets the brain going right?

[@urviarora12]

I wish we could also figure out a way to decipher the ancient Harappan writings and the writings at Sanchi Stupa in India.