Similarities Between Tigrinya and Arabic

In today’s episode, the language challenge will be between Luwam, a Tigrinya speaker from Eritrea, and Khalid, an Arabic speaker from Iraq.
Tigrinya and Arabic are both Semitic languages which share a lot of similarities in their vocabulary. Tigrinya is spoken primarily in Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Meanwhile, Arabic is a Central Semitic language and the official language of Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, SADR, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania (Zanzibar), Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Arabic is also the liturgical language of Islam.
If you live in Toronto or the surrounding areas, speak a language that has not been featured on our channel and would like to participate in a future video, and/or if you have any suggestions or feedback, please contact us on Instagram:
Shahrzad (@shahrzad.pe): / shahrzad.pe
Bahador (@BahadorAlast): / bahadoralast

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you for all your suggestions, especially those who requested this video! If you have any suggestions, questions or feedback, and/or If you live in Toronto, speak a language that we have not featured on our channel and would like to participate in a future video please contact Shahrzad or myself on Instagram Shahrzad (@shahrzad.pe): instagram.com/shahrzad.pe Bahador (@BahadorAlast): instagram.com/BahadorAlast For all those who continue to bring this up, Luwam did not grow up in Saudi Arabia. She was born there, and her family left Saudi Arabia when she was 3 years old and never learned Arabic. It's also very common for expats in Saudi Arabia to live there for decades and not speak any Arabic. I used to work in Saudi and had colleagues who had lived there for over 10-15 years and couldn't speak any Arabic, let alone someone who left at the age of 3.

[@hellophoenix]

I’m a big fan of your channel. I think Khalid is a good guest because he is knowledgeable in both the classical or standard Arabic ( Fusha ) and the different dialects. Most people researched standard Arabic with other languages but it’s rare to see anything done with the different Arabic dialects and their relationship with other languages

[@Andrij_Kozak]

Can you make similarities between Ingush and Chechen languages ?

[@hellophoenix]

For example , the Gulf dialects borrowed from Persian and the Egyptian from the Turkish language

[@Jim99Channel]

Mandel منديل is a single tissue or handkerchief but Manadel مناديل is plural

[@AnthroSurvey]

@Bahador Alast Where is Khalid from in Iraq?: He isn't Kurdish, right? If he isn't, what is his geograpical and tribal origin? Iraqi Arab speakers have an interesting variation. Some are Arabized "Babylonians" whereas others have recent/actual bedouin ancestry.

[@try2justbe]

This was the most interesting episode. The words in tigrinia just sounds like Egyptian Arabic. So cool

[@marori1037]

It is very similar. There’s another Eritrean language called Tigre that’s spoken in Eritrea and Sudan that’s even more similar to Egyptian Arabic than Tigrinya.

[@erismara9099]

Wait what, the Arab language defferce from country to country?

[@erismara9099]

@ሐበሻ wow, that is crazy, never knew that

[@Hussein_Al_Enezi-w4p]

@@erismara9099 yep i am from Iraq and would not understand 70% of morocan arabic 😂

[@cupcake3215]

@@erismara9099 yh it’s different dialects in different country

[@vshnn5545]

Thank you for including Eritrea into your series 🇪🇷❤️ really enjoy watching your videos! Also I feel like what makes this so enjoyable is that tigrinya didn’t borrow these words like how we borrowed some Italian words, but that they actually came from the same root & kind of changed over time, I find that to be fascinating!

[@alayt12]

I am Ethiopian and I speak Tigrigna. Love the representation from my Eritrean sister

[@sssssss6361]

No you speak agamigna.

[@bini9214]

sssssss6361 right. The world knows ethiopia not Eritrea. Ethiopia 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹

[@saratomas3902]

@@bini9214 so what? Even if the world doesn't know us but we are proud of our people and resoureces.now stfu

[@proudethio8919]

@sssssss6361 & bini9214 you are all behaving so childish! grow up will you! We habesha people can only co-exist in peace if we all have respect for one another!

[@bini9214]

Abiy Ahmed he most likely in ethiopia looking for a job

[@user-zh7yr1up8g]

Very cool. I'd not heard anyone speaking Tigrinya before and I found it really interesting. If you speak Aramaic you can figure a lot of it out. Btw both guests seem very intelligent and polite. Thanks for bringing the cultures together. I really like that about you Bahador that you connect so well in such a nice and friendly way with every culture and nationality. Respect!!

[@hagattv6933]

نص شعب أرتيريا يتحدث اللغه العربيه بطلاق وقليل منها يتحدثون الإنجليز أرتيريا فيها 9 للغه انا أرتيريا وأفتخر تحياتي من أرتيريا 🇪🇷🇪🇷

[@yusiasyousief3659]

I like eritea 🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷 eritea make me

[@إبراهيمالهوساوي-ه7ز]

بدور عروس من إريتريا

[@rahwa.y5805]

يخلتف من المنطقة للمنطقة طبعا

[@hagattv6933]

@@إبراهيمالهوساوي-ه7ز انت من وين علشان نعطيك عروسه من بلادي الحبيبه

[@hagattv6933]

@@hananabdulmagid6382 شنو قبل نعرفو هوا من وين تعطيو عروسة وتبارك ليهو ليه

[@ilovemomilovemom7684]

im from Ethiopia but i love Eritrean sisters and brothers & you look so pretty one love🇪🇹❣🇪🇷❣🇪🇬👌👌👍🌹💞

[@yosiyosef6508]

i Love mom i Love mom 😂

[@patiencevirtue3932]

Ethiopia and Eritrea are sisters. Even from ancient times.

[@mine33083]

Love you back

[@melahiwet9752]

Ufffff! Go to hell.

[@Sol-vl8xq]

ፎዕ

[@МиланДимитровски]

In Bosnia (and some other balkan countries and regions) we also can say babo for father (similar with abo in Tigrinya).

[@SuperElyte]

Finally my language, Tigrinya! 🇪🇷 Thank you so much :D

[@handdownmandown4567]

@Mas Gonderawi 😂🤣👍

[@anditke9930]

Mas Gonderawi this is not a language from gonder

[@SuperElyte]

@@anditke9930 I know, they speak amharic in gonder

[@anditke9930]

Name yes that's y I don't like it when he said this is not how we say peace

[@abbysinai4641]

Since they did Ethiopia they have to do Eritrean too. Lol leave us alone .... 👎👎👎

[@mussiesultan3434]

The beautiful Semitic languages! Arabic,, Hebrew,, Tigrigna ❤️❤️❤️

[@davidcooper177]

And TIGRE (not the same as TIGRIGNA) is another semitic language spoken in Eritrea!

[@WendeAmare]

Geez is the father of All this language and brother of amharic language.​@@davidcooper177

[@linzmusic7]

I’m Egyptian and I was baffled when I understood someone speaking in Tigrinya. I realized it’s a different language but I understood majority of what they were Saying which led me to this video 😂

[@roderickd.thornfoundationa5702]

Ancient Egyptian was a Semitic language .

[@roderickd.thornfoundationa5702]

Ancient Egyptian was a Semitic language .

[@xin215]

The inflections and everything sounds very similar, it sounds almost like an Arabic dialect

[@nasberhe]

@L Nur you are unfortunately incorrect, we speak a semetic language correct, but we are Cushitic people genetically. Agaws with minimal sabean admixture/ sphere of influence = Habesha (not including any other admixture previously in Agaws such as Omotic)

[@Tu51ndBl4d3]

@@milla411 You're conflating modern Eritrea and modern Egypt with times bygone in which both have nothing to do with the modern Arabic and Eritrean connection. That comes from a shared "semetic" origin. So Arabic and Eritrean/Ethiopian languages will sound similar, due to connections such as the colonization of the Arabian peninsula for centuries by Axumites. "Ethiopians/Eritreans" are also part of the ancient proto Arabian. Modern Egyptians aren't related to the ancient world.

[@MZRUSCKUTA]

Kemey hadirkum my people 👨‍👨‍👦 from Somalia 🇸🇴

[@proudethio8919]

lol where did you learn Tigrinya? :D

[@MZRUSCKUTA]

@@proudethio8919... Bro I lived with Eritrean pple...

[@proudethio8919]

oh ok. The same here, I lived with Tigrinya speaking people and that is how I have come to learn their language. It is cool to know new languages and cultures. It creates better understanding of one another. keep it up bro.

[@Eritreaforever737]

Great job. I am impressed ✌️🇪🇷

[@samsonmehari7013]

Tigrigna and Arabic have the same origin of Semitic language!

[@anerson2243]

Do you think those people whose speak that languages originate from the same place? Anyone can answer this question 🙏

[@samsonmehari7013]

@@anerson2243 Absolutely yes because language is also can help to identify the origin of some groups, of coursework there is migration of people from place to place and adopt some other languages and that is why it needs additional archeological studies, for example there people in Yemen who speaks Tigrigna likewise in Eritrea and same to Arabic language may have slightly different dialects! If I answer your question, the answer is yes!:)

[@capone70]

Awesome video. I'm Italian but also speak Amharic, so I understood most of the Tigrinya words too. And once again, you SCORED by getting such a beautiful, intelligent and elegant habesha woman to do your video. Much love to Luwam from Italy.

[@selamselam5095]

We are not habesha we are Eritrean

[@davidcooper177]

​@@selamselam5095Habesha refers to the Afro-semetic people, language, culture, and religion. The people who are Habesha are Tigreans of Ethiopia, Tigreans of Eritrea, Amhara of Ethiopia, and TIGRE of Eritrea.

[@selamselam5095]

@@davidcooper177 can u tell me what is the meaning of ( habeasha) we Eritrean not habeash period.

[@davidcooper177]

@@selamselam5095 I am ERITREAN! But, TIGRAY, Eritrea, Gonder, Gojam, and Shewa use to be one country and one people who spoke the Geze language about 2000 years ago. In all of these regions, the original Bible is written in Geze language. Their DNA test is the same. Therefore, Habesha was a term used to describe these people. The Tigreans and TIGRE ethnic groups of Eritrea are Habesha, and our citizenship is ERITREAN. The Amhara and TIGREAN of Ethiopia are Habesha ethnic groups, but their citizenship is Ethiopian.

[@rosekt2023]

You live in Ethiopia (or Erithrea)?

[@arvantsaraihan5777]

both the Eritrean girl and the Iraqi guy are so gorgeous omg

[@jdd5886]

Gay🤣

[@kahlilsykies9139]

So do I. Why are you making a big deal out of it?

[@eldesconocido5734]

Yeah, indeed. Both are good looking

[@Imperator04]

Sus

[@house684]

@k.s that's one handsome man though. I'm not gay, but if my life depended on it...

[@wedemboys3024]

East african women are very beautiful.

[@Nashmi-JO]

the beautifull one are old semetic groups 😜😜

[@አምሪያነኝካለሁበት]

yes lm ethiopan wamat

[@Yas-ei3st]

@essa alamre we are Cushitic/Semitic which is different from the rest of typical sub saharan africa but there are people who bare similar features like us in west since the africa is the most genetically place on earth

[@sibusisondhlovu6693]

All women are beautiful!

[@princesswannabe1]

essa alamre false

[@natnaeltsigab1275]

Tigrinya speaker from Tigray here. I knew Arabic and Tigrinya had similarities but I didn't know it was to this extent. It makes me want to learn Arabic and my ancestor's language the Ge'ez, the father of Tigrayna, Tigre, and Amharic.

[@Xyzc0mm9n]

Hi im Amharic do u know where its Possible to learn tigray language

[@faresstifanos3374]

Bro if you knew classical Arabic, you will be more shocked. Sometimes I too get confused with similarity with Tigrinya

[@safuwanfauzi5014]

Tigray origin in Yemen, Eritrea and Ethophia are semitic colonies, that why Eritren used Geez an Old South arabian writing script come from Yemen. Tigray more closer to Mehri and Soqotri a modern south arabian language, and also close to Arabic too. Arabic script today base on Nabateans script, from North Arabia today Northern Saudi, Jordan and Negev Israel

[@BF-bb5us]

@@safuwanfauzi5014 that is false no evidence of a colonisation in the horn that outdated theory was left behind long ago

[@visionessence]

@@safuwanfauzi5014are you serious. Laughbale

[@Dana24968]

This channel is a gem, I never get tired of watching these videos. Thank you so much Bahador

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you! Really means a lot to hear that :)

[@gamingwithmorwan2048]

I speak arabic, tigrinya and many local languages. I learned two more languages after living in USA for 3 yrs. My goal is ten languages !!! Wish to me best luck.

[@nazretmoges8914]

Good for you. You probably got them now it's been three years. N I can actually speak tigrigna I am Eritrean 🇪🇷 N I am currently starting learing Arabic. Peace ✌️

[@greyhood2564]

Good luck to you! If you have not done it yet, may I suggest Duolingo. It is a great, one of the best for language learning. They say that it gets easier after the third language, so I have hope for you.

[@shayberhane]

I have been waiting for this!! 🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷

[@arhikutemati2988]

What do you wait for ?

[@b.d7058]

Arhiku Temati this video

[@somalidhalad3483]

Eritrean Women are so beautiful

[@professorgenius713]

great. it's a video about fascinating similarities and differences between two languages, but the only thing you have to say about it is "woah dude, check out the hottie!" good job on making women feel equal and accepted in intellectual discussions.

[@eakintunde84]

@@professorgenius713 There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the beauty of women. It doesn't diminish their intellectual capacity.

[@capone70]

@@professorgenius713 LOL...so, apparently you've never met a somali before?

[@professorgenius713]

@@capone70 lived in Somalia for 12 years, but I don't understand the point of your question.

[@professorgenius713]

@@eakintunde84 but it's all this person took from the video. pretty weak.

[@Nashmi-JO]

for me as an Arab tigrinya sounds for me like Aramaic

[@suryoyo1155]

im aramean and i say there is some similarities as kalbi,sini gamlo(camel) not like arabic jamal etc in aramean some dialects put ( i) and other put (o)

[@hopehope7234]

Can you seapk Aremaic langauge new?

[@Nashmi-JO]

@Nina Se yes it is .for me at least 😃

[@concernederitrean6062]

Nashmi maN You are not wrong, the Aramaic language has borrows stuff from the Ge’ez language which is the father of Tigrigna and Amharic.

[@honorscore629]

@Billy Boss yeah ma bro u are right. From Germany hawey

[@جندي_سعودي1990]

Big love from saudi arabia to Eritrea ❤❤❤❤

[@eritube4874]

جندي سعودي same love to our brother Saudi Arabia ❤️❤️❤️ From Eritrea🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷 🇪🇷❤️🇸🇦

[@mamabu5812]

حبايبنا والله وجيرانا يا هلا فيكم

[@letmeloveyouletmeloveyou4169]

We love you to thank you

[@exalteduchiha1563]

@@eritube4874 You love your oppressor dont you. We don't wanna claim you go be a damn arab if you want

[@eritube4874]

ExaltedUchiha we want be love each other Arab our brother forever if you hate Arab you are not Habesha and you are not from Horn of Africa because we Horn of Africa we don't have problem with Arab Only our problem with West countries

[@flinstone96]

salam to my ertirian brothers from an arab we love u

[@SattamAlmalki]

I think most Eritreans are half Arabs

[@flinstone96]

@@SattamAlmalki yes they are mixed with the arabs they are afroarab this why they have lighter skin then the african

[@BinaryTechnique]

Ertireans have a great orthodox history

[@deerdaar3627]

@Satam I would say Eritreans specially Tigre and Tigrinya have the same roots as Arabs,meaning they are semites. I would not necesary call them Arabs. It is like calling Jews for arabs which they aren't.. Peace!

[@BBGL02]

Sattam Almalki maybe you mean like many years ago eritreans (Tigrinya, tigre...) came from the arab and went to eritrea that‘s why they‘re light skinned and have white features

[@solomonkassahun9577]

I am from Ethiopia and the most interesting thing in the video is when the words start to differ in arabic and tigrinya they are similar with amharic

[@utb5066]

I love my country Eritrea 🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@Rapcontentofficial]

ፊሊ ተስፋ ጽባሕ I love my dad's country too 😄🇪🇷🇪🇷

[@fazrazfarzam4688]

Really enjoyed this one! East African women have a very unique beauty and charm, it's like they make their surroundings calm.

[@Abigail-ss7pt]

Thanks love!

[@khaledabdullah282]

I agree!

[@hashslingingslasher4214]

Thank you!

[@drippinsauceskrr9429]

@@hashslingingslasher4214 drop your ig konjo

[@rahdivine509]

Fazraz Farzam Thank you for the amazing compliment

[@Elicohenn]

Finally!! You have listened to my request! I won't fail you with the recommendation brother.

[@abdurahman49]

Another week means another cool video from Bahador. Please continue doing these similarities vids. Also, props to the Iraqi brother for knowing his stuff.

[@doncorleone3082]

Well done guys. Loved both guests. I don't believe they were in any previous videos. Hope to see them again soon.

[@minaal-lami2855]

Khalid is really smart and Luwam also. This was great. Greetings from Iraq ❤

[@umar4655]

@@The00adam00 What?

[@loveyourself4142]

Great video by the way I speak Arabic and Tigrinya ❤️💕🇪🇷 🇮🇶

[@samspear8772]

Really enjoyed this one because I learned about a new language that I had not heard of before! Great job!

[@brxan3096]

Again, as a native Swahili speaker from Kenya, I see lots of similarities with these 2 languages & mine. Khamsun from Arabic would be Hamsini in Swahili meaning the same thing(50). Qobi'e from Tigrinya sounds similar to Kofia in Swahili which also means hat. Bahri in Swahili is Bahari (also means sea). It's so interesting watching these videos with different languages that are similar to Swahili & I wasn't even aware of it. Also, can we just appreciate how beautiful women here in East Africa are 😍

[@Ooooiops]

Bryan Weru Swahili is an Arabic word which means coasts 🏝 🙂

[@brxan3096]

@@Ooooiops haha, never even knew that. Thanks for enlightening me.

[@muslimsoldier5670]

Kofia means hat in arabic too

[@handdownmandown4567]

Swahili has a lot of arabic loanwords

[@Nashmi-JO]

@@handdownmandown4567 swahili is an arabic dialect such as maltese

[@leulkm]

to the show creator genius, it is fascinating and amaze how much tigrina & Arabic are similar, you may as well call them distant cousin. great show/podcast!!

[@zaidhanna5104]

I loved that video so much. I speak Arabic and I didn’t know that we have similarities with Tigrinya. By the way you’re daughter is so cute. Thanks, that video was an awesome and amazing one. I learned a lot today.😃😁

[@BahadorAlast]

❤️❤️❤️

[@merhaba9174]

That was so cool to watch, it's interesting how similar both languages sound.

[@OK-ur2wy]

Thanks very much Bahador jan, so entertaining and educating. Luwam is such a gorgeous personality and Khalid is polite and calm. The star sits in the middle usually :)

[@khaledabdullah282]

I must admit this is incredibly cool because this is the first time I am hearing someone speaking Tigrinya. Really enjoy your videos so much. Thank you Bahador for the time you put into researching and preparing the material for these videos! You should resign from your job and make youtube your full time job!!!

[@tareq960]

Im addicted to your videos, good job we are waiting for more!

[@b.p4840]

This is actually really interesting, u should do tigrigna and assyrian aramaic, I watched the aramaic and amharic video and knew all the words it was mind blowing but again I speak both tigrigna and amharic so that helped.

[@yemanebula3546]

I love you so much my country Eritrea thanks a lot for watching bro at next day i hope another video so keep it up 🍳🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷

[@درعنجدورمحالحجازالسعودية]

I love eritrean from Hijaz thanks Bahador

[@ምንባርንዘለካምፍቃር-ደ9ቀ]

Also we love you

[@gergeyisak4598]

me to bro

[@mamabu5812]

And also we love saudies brother.. وعلى راسنا جيراننا والله يألف بينا جميعا ويحفظنا 🇪🇷🇸🇦

[@درعنجدورمحالحجازالسعودية]

@@mamabu5812 تسلمي اختنا الغالي آمين

[@abuyazidabdal-malik258]

But only half of iretarea is Muslim, mayb eyou are not knowing this fact.

[@maayanhaza6178]

Nicely done!! Here in Israel I worked with a group of people when I volunteered in a human rights committee and that was the first time I learned about Tigrinya language, the people I met were so lovely and I saw how Tigrinya and Hebrew and Arabic shared so much in common. Great! Enjoyed it a lot.

[@mujemoabraham6522]

Maayan Haza Unfortunately, the Modern Hebrew sound more European and particularly German than Semitic due to the influence of Ashkenazim, for example, many letters Germanic or Westernized details as follow : 1- The letter ח Hhet converted to German CH ( KH ) 2- The letter ט Ttet converted to normal T 3- The letter ע A"yen converted to sound like A 4- The letter צ Ssadi converted to German Z ( TS ) 5- The letter ק Qof converted to sound like K 6- The letter ר Resh converted to German R ( GH ) 7- The letter ו Waw converted to German W ( V )

[@khaledabdullah282]

@@mujemoabraham6522 Well, based on what she said in a previous video, she is a Mizrahi Jew from Iran with no Ashkenazi connection at all.

[@mujemoabraham6522]

@@khaledabdullah282 What Maayan Haza said was correct but my comment was about changing the sound of some Hebrew or Semitic letters to suit European tongues as they are unable to utter them correctly like Hhet, Ttet, A'yen, Ssadi, Qof, Resh and Waw ( Germanized them ).

[@sssssss6361]

@@mujemoabraham6522 I think the father of modern Hebrew is a Russian Jew.

[@qelhi7922]

תודה

[@EthemD]

شكرا! This was fun to watch, also learning about the Arabic accents. :)

[@antigenmusic2102]

Amazing videos. Love how you are bringing people together on common grounds helping them connect better. You always present with respect and neutrality. Salam !

[@BahadorAlast]

❤️

[@alexandertesfaalem2074]

Nice one greetings from jeddah ✌🏽🇪🇷🇸🇦

[@amalmohamednoor7261]

That was fun I liked your guests I’m Eritrean and I speak both languages

[@faresstifanos3374]

Tigrinya has similarity with Arabic, Ancient Hebrew, Aramaic,Ge'ez(of course) and ancient Akkadian, Sumerian. It is one of the ancient Semetic languages.

[@sreejithmanu]

One of the most lovely, interesting, educational channels .. always come back to the channel to learn and also relax.. the atmosphere of mutual respect and love is amazing..

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you!!

[@mortens.7490]

Can you do German & Dutch someday? Greets from 🇩🇪

[@RicardoCanedoMX]

Morten S. Frisian and German would be great too.

[@hsuhorn]

Morten S. Yes I’ve been saying that forever

[@mortens.7490]

@@asilylmaz2833 Schon ziemlich ähnlich, wäre trotzdem interessant.

[@مرتدمغربيمنبلجيكا]

Dutch and Norwegian , if he can find a Norwegian speaker

[@baran7642]

Yes greats from the netherlands

[@Nico.Robin7]

Interesting. In Somali we too say the word 'Abo' for father. I didn't think there would be similarities between Somali and Tigrinya.

[@light6935]

Somali loan word

[@Abigail-ss7pt]

Great job guys!!! And I have to say Khalid is very knowledgeable! Impressive!

[@TheNintendoBuff]

Can you guys do Somali? Much love from Australia.

[@SantomPh]

Somali and......?

[@ahmedelkhwaga2751]

they speak Arabic too

[@ajoajoajoaj]

@@SantomPh And Ethiopian Cushitc language like Oromo perhaps?

[@AminaAli-uq9yo]

@@ahmedelkhwaga2751 No we don't speak Arabic.

[@handdownmandown4567]

he asked somalis/cushitic speakers to volunteer in the past i think they should dm him on Instagram

[@melest5645]

Its funny everytime i speak tigrinya in public people think im speaking arabic

[@hizamhasa9189]

SALAAM AND LOVE FROM SOMALIE EAST AFRICA

[@wendellfugate4088]

Many thanks and I always find these videos of yours truly interesting. Another excellent piece of work, sir.

[@גלצופר]

Love to my Semitic brothers and sisters

[@ffaa-ey5ww]

peace and love to you too 💙

[@umar4655]

Love and respects my fellow Semite!

[@last5898]

@SsS 1 speaking a semitic language doesnt make you semitic lol

[@abduregraphicsdesign6990]

I'm confused with amhara amd tigre some time they call themselves we are not semetic we are kushitik 😂😂😂brrrrrrr confused peoeple

[@גלצופר]

@@abduregraphicsdesign6990 who cares. I love you anyway. Humanity is family

[@freebusta123]

The Semitic languages when you look at it from single word definitions. We can all understand each other with our modern day languages, dialects and accents. Ge’ez, Classic Arabic, Classic Hebrew all stems from one single proto-Semitic language. I would love to see an Orthodox Eritrean Priest with an expertise in Ge’ez, an Arabic Shekh Clergy with an expertise in Arabic , and a Jewish Rabbi with an expertise in the Classic form of Hebrew. Conduct this exercise. That would be so interesting if you could organize something like that because we are all Semitic. My dad would tell me in the Classic form of these three languages. People could communicate with each other relatively easily. Particularly merchants back 2000-2500 years ago. I would love to help organize that.

[@hannae339]

I'm not sure I would agree, as an Arabic speaking Orthodox Eritrean who hears Geez being spoken at church regularly I do not hear the similarities. In fact to me Tigrina, in its modern form, sounds much closer.

[@AMR_k400]

@@hannae339 barely any one speaks real ge'ez many habesha languages lost too many sounds all habesha languages have to unite their consonants to speak ge'ez

[@sleeexs]

All languages stem from hebrew

[@NateMKS]

Didnt even see the Video Im so happy its finally here.Great job guys.Respect!!!ER ER ER

[@liberalegypt]

wow there a lot semitrailers between Tigrinya Eritrea and Egyptian Arabic >> my greetings from Egypt

[@beyeseparateswe3425]

@john lulBeja, Kunama are FROM egypt orginally.

[@b.d7058]

BeYeSeparateSWE no they are not they are sunsaharan from Southern Africa, they are pure black Africans.

[@Amarhayat28]

@@b.d7058 Beja are from egypt, sudan and eritrea but Kunama are pure black african

[@marori1037]

Even in Ancient Egypt, Egyptians and Eritreans had contact

[@baibac6065]

@@marori1037 I mean Semitic (and other Afro-Asiatic speaking people) migrated to Africa, but the ancestors of people who went to the horn of Africa mixed with the locals. That's why they have dark skin and hooked noses. Egyptians and Berbers (not Berberized West Africans) however, migrated to empty areas so they had not mix with Africans until recently (small recent African admixture).

[@reko9077]

نحن نتحدث العربيه بي طلاق وألف ألف ألف تحيه لي أهل العراق كانت تمنحنا منح دراسيه مجانا وتحيه كبير لي أهل الجزائر الجزائر هيا أول دول عربيه تعترف بي بحرية ارتريا لو تحب العرب أسمع أغنيه .(. ارتريا يا جارت البحر.).

[@leilas.b4192]

صحح معلوماتك اليمن هي اول دولة عربية اعترفت بحرية اريتريا يوم 23 مايو 1993 و ثاني دولة بعد اثيوبيا اما الجزائر فهي الدولة العربية الثانية عشر و الدولة الواحد و الخمسون بعد فرنسا التي اعترفت بحرية اريتريا و كان ذلك يوم 25 مارس 1994.. تحياتي

[@abrahamalikhanian4269]

Khalid is a very smart guy with a lot of interesting info, he reminds of your previous guest, Kimon the Greek guy. Khalid is like the younger Iraqi version of Kimon!

[@andreasforsberg570]

I like Khalid too!

[@umar4655]

Yes, only difference is Kimon talked a lot more and sometimes it was too much, Khalid is a lot more polite and doesn't try to take over.

[@ciceroneandrzejzdjeciaiopi851]

Bahadar Alast, he does a brilliant and so obvious thing - he communicates people with themself, showing them how much they have in common. he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize and I hereby nominate him for this prize

[@Andrij_Kozak]

Can you make similarities between Ingush and Chechen languages ?

[@Salman_Saho]

I speak a bit of Tigrinya but my mum speaks it fluently. I do speak fluent Arabic though and I can tell you these two languages are almost twin-like 😊

[@MadaxMania]

Hey Bahador, can you make a video between Tigrinya and Hebrew?

[@honorscore629]

That Eritrean girl is gorg 👍🏽❤🤔

[@cdlstudentkeru9429]

Being an Eritrean, I knew there’s some similarities, but to my amusement, it is far more than I thought.so close!

[@eliran9231]

i believe the Arabic spoken in Yemen is properly the closest of the Arabic dialects to Tigrinya and Amharic as well, both languages are part of the south Arabic Semitic languages which is originally from Yemen.

[@ajoajoajoaj]

South Arabian languages like Mehri and Soqotri on one hand, and Yemeni Arabic on the other are two different things. Though yes South Arabian languages are closer to Ethiosemitic than they are to either Arabic and curiously, the languages of South Arabia recorded in Antiquity.

[@irdsqrgitro]

@@ajoajoajoaj Ancient Sabaean, both verbal and written is closer to Arabic as much as Aramaic. Ancient Sabaeans taught Ethiopians the and influenced them. That's why unsurprisingly, Ethiopian have much borrowed from Arabic. While Dialects & languages such Mehri and Soqorti are all driven from the main tongue, Sabaean/Himyaric which is basically is another dialect of Arabic for those ancient Arabs whom tongue changed migrating to Yemen as to the Levant (which produced Aramaic). Just because Arabic wasn't written back then doesn't mean it's newer as different ancient dialects such Himyaric, Aramaic isn't a complete distinctive language yet more of tweaked-modified, which is basically a dialect. That's why nowadays Arabic speakers can understand more than 50% at least of a variety of Semitic texts written in Arabic alphabet knowing that the time gap is at least 3000 years, compared to nowdays English people can hardly understand "Old English" that was commonly used around 1100-1400 A.D

[@Mr.Friday_]

@lobsterbale Legesse I believe you mean ‘ch’ not ‘J’.

[@ማኛከመገናኛ]

@Mas Gonderawi whats with the temper are you even ethiopian their is no such thing as gonderawi btw it is gondere

[@fruitsarelife148]

Semitic Languages originated in kush and spread. Native Yemenis were similar people . Native Israelis as well. Most people in Yemen now are persians who took over after they fought axum to help himyar. But there are still some natives and habesha

[@Theatf10]

Great video! I really enjoyed this one, I hope Luwam and Khalid will return for future videos. I also find it interesting how Tigrinya has the guttural sounds (Ayn, Ha, Qaf) while Amharic doesn't, I curious to know why that's the case :)

[@yennies8947]

Astute observations

[@saratsehaye695]

Because Amharic has more cushetic influence

[@HolaBruv]

Amharic came late and has more cushitic influence even Geographically you would see tigrinya speakers more closer to Semitic people than Amharic speakers Eritrea is closer to Arabian peninsula than Ethiopia

[@addis11100]

this is amazing both languages have a lot of similar words. The Arabic speaker has good language ability.

[@krispyykremee9594]

omg the similarity is crazyyyy wow.. great video

[@Roro-ce3ot]

I get so excited whenever it’s an Arabic video 😁

[@muslimsoldier5670]

In the last sentence, the girl guessed the word "Alsamaa" as "to listen" which is pretty close to the arabic word "السماع" which means hearing. it's only one letter different than "السماء" which what the arab guy meant as "sky"

[@minaal-lami2855]

Where do you serve as a soldier? Can you tell us about you achievements and credentials?

[@MT-ri5wu]

MuslimSoldier yeah bro she guess because to listen in tigrinya is samma hhh

[@VanGogh2022]

Another wonderful show. I really enjoyed it.

[@jmudikun]

Excellent! Another very interesting video. Thanks

[@yemanegere347]

That is interesting, thanks guys,I hope next time you also compare tigrina with Hebrew and amharic

[@sayedalihashim1568]

awesome> thanks for the video. I enjoyed watching it. all the best to you guys.

[@keyeemanna636]

It's nice that SOMEONE has heard of Tigrinia. I'm tired of people say..Eritrea.. where's that? Or, you speak WHAT language? 😲 This was refreshing.

[@TravellLove]

Can we know more about Khaled? Like his KZbin channel or Instagram?

[@BahadorAlast]

Khalid reads the comments here, so once he gets the chance, he'll respond to you.

[@TheFrehiwet]

That is interesting video, I was always think there is a lot of similarities between tigrinya and Arabic, thank you guys for sharing this video❤🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷

[@apasserby6827]

Great! I discovered a new language Awesome channel also Mendil mean tissue in albanian too but that only on of few words that belong to tissue

[@husamhamed5255]

حلقة جميلة جداً شكراً لكم جميعاً

[@Am-rl9xp]

Wow I was shocked a lot of similarity well done good video

[@singhanmolpreet5935]

Hey mr Alast, I love your videos! I have a request. Could you please do Punjabi vs Persian next? I am aware there is a lot of punjabis living in canada and there are a lot of common words too. Plus I'd love to see you do my native language. Thank you!

[@lingux_yt]

what a nice group (and the lady is very cute). the Semitic African languages have a cool writing system, so different!

[@saratomas3902]

Oh yay, I was waiting for this. ❤💓🔥💘💞😍💖

[@Only4Laugh999]

ብጣዕሚ ጽቡቅ ቀጹሉዎ ገለ ሰባት ቡዙሕ ክማሃሩሉ ይኩኡሉ ዮም ይኣምን የ ካብ'ዚ ሕጂ ዝገበርኩማ ጥራይ ከማን ቡዙሕ ተላማሚዶም ኣለው:: Very good keep doing it because some people they would be learning a lot I believe from the video they learn some so I like to say thank you 😊 to all and keep doing it in your mind think something they well learn from what you saying (pasting). Much love Yemane :)

[@wallycall]

Please continue inviting Khalid to future videos. Really cool guy!

[@ERITREAMEDIA]

*Tigrinya(Geez) is the orgin of Semetic language. Thanks for sharing. Can you take similarity between Tigrinya and Hebrew and Aramaic ?*

[@ERITREAMEDIA]

@Shewan Amhara Geez mean Tigrinya , Tigrinya mean Geez . And also i'm Geez ( Agazian) But i don't understand what are you saying , what's mean Gurage ?

[@ERITREAMEDIA]

@Shewan Amhara weak up man .you need to Speak the truth. Beja, agew,nubian ect they are kushetic and they have kushetic language .Amhara was kushetic but finaliy they try to stolen our history, culture and language. Ex- 40% words of geez amhara people they can't speak( ሓ, ቐ, ዐ, ዓ....) so you can use but you need to speak who is the owner of Geez(tigrinya) civilation...

[@rabababamrabababam5500]

@@ERITREAMEDIA bravo ጋል ኤርትራ ኣስምዕዮ ንዚ ኩሉ የኛ ።

[@ERITREAMEDIA]

@@rabababamrabababam5500 በዚኦም እንዳ የኛ የኛ ኮ ተዋሪድና ። ቋንቋና የኛ ታሪኽና የኛ ባሕርና የኛ ክብሉ ሕማም ዝኾኑ ጎረቤት ረኺብና፡ ቦንቃሲቶም ትምጻእ ።

[@AMR_k400]

@@ERITREAMEDIA bruh amhara (in rural areas around northern amhara region)have retained all the sounds u stated

[@ΣτράτοςΤσουκάρης]

0:53 the word for "tissue" in Greek is "μαντήλι" [mandíli] deriving from the latin "mantilium or mantelium".

[@KhalidYousif87]

How very interesting! Thanks! :)

[@ΣτράτοςΤσουκάρης]

@@KhalidYousif87 you're welcome

[@malolelei3937]

I think also in Turkish they say mendil.but i don't know where they got it from.

[@house684]

Arabic has tons of Greek loanwords. Even our word for marriage comed from Greek: zawj.

[@BF-bb5us]

@@house684 A lot of Greek words have semitic origin like their alphabet

[@mamabu5812]

There's similar words .. I am Eritrean and i like it.. هو في تشابه كبير.. طبعا انا الاستاذه من ورا الشاشه 😂.. حلوه مقاطعك حتى الدول الثانية ❤️.. and i speak tigrinya and arabic

[@omarinho962]

thanks for the video 👌🏽 i was waiting for it ...

[@ekmalsukarno2302]

Please make a video on similarities between Polish and Hungarian. Your subscribers would definitely love it.

[@BahadorAlast]

I'd love to and plan on it for sure!

[@ICanSpeakArabic]

thx for sharing i love arabic ❤

[@danieltabin6470]

Please say the relation of the words. It would be nice to know if they are cognate / borrowings and how long since they diverged.

[@BahadorAlast]

They are mainly cognates shared among Semitic languages.

[@danieltabin6470]

@@BahadorAlast Thank you for replying! I am actually into Linguistics and specifically the Semitic Languages, so I knew most of these, but I don't know it for a lot of the other languages you post and would love seeing it when you display the word on screen.

[@habasharabiansara3540]

Yassss finally!! When you speak both languages it's fun ahahaha.

[@slawrenceram5149]

Excellent video Bahador. It is always fun to guess along as the video progresses. Semitic languages are so interesting!

[@wendellfugate4088]

Wondering if perhaps doing a video with Native Americans and central Asians of varying language speakers would be interesting and worthwhile? Semantically and phonlogical similarities may become apparent.

[@BahadorAlast]

I would love to! I actually work with many First Nations (indigenous people in Canada) and some of them speak their native tongue really well. The only issue is I film the videos in Toronto, and the site I travel to for work is in the Northwest territories. If I can figure out a way to feature them in a video that would be great.

[@malolelei3937]

@@BahadorAlast I would pay to see that video😍😍