Religion's Impact on the Development of Script - 2015 UCLA Lecture

[@m-saunders]

Very informative, thank you.

[@ProfessorMichaelWingert]

Thanks for watching!

[@lfutsum4267]

I discovered and subscribed to this channel this week. I have been binging on all content. I would like to ask a question around the different names for Egypt in the Semitic languages, specifically what the origin of the Ge’ez language reference to Egypt/Misr as “GibTSI”? Capitalizing the last three letters for lack of accent marker…

[@SirBolsón]

Same here!

[@1sanitat1]

Purely speculating here, but that looks like a loan from greek

[@lfutsum4267]

@@1sanitat1unlikely! The professor said while comparing the Lord’s Prayer in “Ethiopics” and Aramaic that the word “Ezgio” - Lord, God- may be African, and I am suspecting that the name of Egypt in Ge’ez may also be an African origin. FYI I speak an African Semitic language fluently. I know we got the letter P from the Greeks as well. In the Ethiopics language you will see very few words that have the letter P: ‘Ethiopia’ is one of them (Ethiopics is used to elevate ancient Greek and erase the African contribution) - the ‘TS’ sound as you can also see on my alias is an African sound, that we did not borrow from the Greeks or Arabs.

[@kamranemin5356]

Please do readings of the epic of gilgamesh in akkadian (while telling about cognates and such)

[@ፍትገፍትግ-ዐ5ጰ]

Pr. You know akkadian and Tigriyna and also aramik er more Word er smilar than geez.

[@katathoombs]

Ooohh, this'll take a while.