Similarities Between Yemenite Hebrew and Arabic (Syrian dialect)

Hebrew and Arabic are both Semitic languages with a lot of similarities. However, when it comes to Hebrew, certain forms of pronunciation are actually closer to Arabic. Modern Hebrew and Yemenite Hebrew are the same language, but the way of pronunciation is significantly different. In this video, we'll be focusing on Yemenite Hebrew in comparison to Arabic. Yemenite Jews are those Jews who once lived in Yemen, as well as their descendants. Yemen once had over half a million Jews, but by the 1950s, the overwhelming majority of them had left the country, and today there are possibly no Jews left in Yemen. Yemenite Jews have a unique religious tradition that distinguishes them from other Jewish groups and are considered as the ones who have preserved the Hebrew language the best. Modern Hebrew lacks a lot of consonants that exist in Yemenite Hebrew which also has grammatical features from classical Hebrew. At times it can sound much closer to Arabic. In this video Shahar (Hebrew speaker) and Nasr (Arabic speaker) challenge each other with a bunch of sentences that contain similar Semitic roots.
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Hebrew is a Northwest Semitic language and the only living Canaanite language left in the world. Ancient Hebrew went extinct as a spoken language many centuries ago. However, it survived as a liturgical language for Judaism thanks to Jewish liturgy, rabbinic literature, intra-Jewish commerce, and other texts. For this reason, Hebrew is now considered the only truly successful example of a revived dead language. In the 19th century, it was revived as a spoken and literary language.
Meanwhile, Arabic is a Central Semitic language and the official language of Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Malta (Maltese Arabic), 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. Arabic has influenced some European languages, such as Spanish and to a lesser extent Portuguese, Valencian, Catalan, Sicilian, Greek and Bulgarian. Arabic has also great influenced Persian, Turkish, Spanish, Maltese, Urdu, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Bosnian, Kazakh, Bengali, Hindi, Malay, Maldivian, Indonesian, Pashto, Punjabi, Tagalog, Sindhi and Hausa and some languages in parts of Africa. In addition, Arabic has borrowed words from other languages including Greek and Persian.

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[@NasAlive1]

THIS WAS FUN! Thank you for organizing this Bahador 😁 🙌🏻

[@Ida-xe8pg]

I would suggest Chuvash and Turkish i hope you can find a Chuvash speaker (Chuvash is the most distinct Turkic language) Slavic Macedonian and Lithuanian/Polish Icelandic and Danish (that will be hard tho) Amharic and Arabic/Hebrew

[@doctor1117]

you are not Arabic you are Syrian , the orginal Arabic is Saudi and Gulf countries

[@saeefa]

Sanskrit and Thai next please :)

[@Ida-xe8pg]

@@saeefa He made a Hindi/Indonesian one

[@ItayBadichi]

I’m a Jew live in Israel. My family were lived in Yemen for a two thousand years. Since I was a 7 years old I learned the Yemenite Hebrew and aramaic which I read in the Tora and other holly Jewish books. In the last year I started to learn Arabic and I see how similar the all languages are! It’s very amazing and I hope one day to really peace in the Middle East and to Arab and Jews know each other!

[@ItayBadichi]

@KS A hello ! Actually Itay is very Hebrew name, one of the Warriors of King David from the Bible. But my last name ‘Badichi’ is a very Ancient Yemenite- Hebrew name. In Arabic it will be heard ‘Badihi’

[@ItayBadichi]

@KS A badihi in Hebrew is based on ‘bdiha’ means in the modern Hebrew ‘a joke’ but in the ancient Hebrew and also in Aramaic it’s mean happiness

[@AdilKhan-lj3ci]

Muslim are younger brother of judeo-Christian world.Islam,the religion of all mankind

[@soul553]

If you truly respect yemen and arabs you should move out of this zionist occupation and reject it. But what can i say bunch of traitors

[@gedamnagran1656]

All the jews are aramaites. There is no any one that can claim as a jews. Basically yemen, almost saudi Arabia up to Oman were part the axumite kingdom and the people living there were sabean( agazian or tigrigna) the aramaites came to this area as refugee and learned the local language sabean(tigrinja). This aramaites with the help of some of the local tribes who adopted their religion revolted against our kingdom. They did a lot of atrocities on our people (sabean or tahgarian). This aramaites were the creator of islam. Islam it self were based on our old blieve system mahammed were learned from his care taker after his mother died. All the Words used in koran are totaly tigrinja. Starting from tselot, mesjid, subahn allah, Allah wakber, Allah all this were taken from our language. Because of islam our language is all over the world. That is why there are so much Word similarity between aramaites, hebrew, tigrinja and Arabic. Arabic more than 85% is tigrinja.

[@Ida-xe8pg]

This guy is a real legend at uniting people,

[@ra8682ra]

Uniting?... They're both Arabs

[@mistergross5469]

inalienable rights how they both Arabs the right one is a Jew that exiled from judea to Yemen but he is from judea not Arabia

[@haimonpgh]

inalienable rights Jews aren’t Arabs. Two different groups of people.

[@Ida-xe8pg]

Once i heard an American saying that Afghans and Pakistanis are Arabs, I thought that it couldnt get any worse but u proved me wrong, Look first of all Jews ≠ Israelites ≠ Israelis, Jews are the people who practise Judaism, there are jews living in far eastern siberia close to North Korea, in South India and in Ethiopia, if u didnt understand any of that basically not all jews are related to each other some are converts from other ethnicities, secondly Israelites they are the real ones the descendants of Abraham part of the same ethnicity and never converted thirdly are the israelis it is a nationality term not necessarily an ethnic term because of aliyah and a person who born in Israel is an Israeli + the migrants And well the Israelis and Arabs are both Semitic which means they are consanguint while Afghans and Pakistanis are Indo-European but culturally because of contact over the last Millennia yea

[@caseyjason-ws3fr]

@@degenerationz9284 so what about Jews from Ethiopia are they black?what about jews from China are they ethnically chinese?

[@andrinerasmus4851]

Yemenites should use their accent in daily business as well to preserve it and make hebrew come back to its semitic root

[@johnnysilverhand7292]

Similarities between Python and C++ Do please

[@johnnysilverhand7292]

@Syed Haider lol

[@user-lu6bl9lm6w]

lol

[@srgn8689]

LOL

[@erikgelfat367]

Java and c# would be interesting too

[@UnitedNationsSecretariat]

Python and visual basic

[@umarsohail6454]

Only bhador can make muslim/jew pakistani/indian turk/greek and albanain/serbain seet together without fight 👍🇵🇰🤝🇮🇷

[@umar4655]

It's very nice to see

[@ankhi3585]

As long as politics and religion are kept out of the conversation most people get along.

[@crispindejesusmelendezrive6433]

I agree ♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@benjaminbennybraiden7597]

@@ankhi3585 politics perhaps divide more than religion I think

[@ankhi3585]

@@benjaminbennybraiden7597 They both create a bit of an "us and them" mentality. It's also pretty hard to have a conversation about religion without politics seeping in at some point.

[@hadi_177re]

I'm Syrian and I'm amazed how close syrian arabic and hebrew to one another. I think If I try to listen carefully to a person who speaks hebrew I can understand the core of each sentence. This is amazing ❤❤

[@lunardozamzam6001]

@@shauci237 you’re discrimination person yes both language close to each other so that approved Israel 🇮🇱 history in holy land not different part of the world

[@sangteapachuau4031]

Don't you know the Arab andHebrews are brother same ancestral father Abraham

[@eduardoschiavon5652]

This is just a guess, but maybe one of the reasons why it's so understandable is that there was a big influence of Aramaic in the Levantine dialects of Arabic, and Aramaic is a sister language to Hebrew since they are both from the North Western Semitic branch.

[@AcipPicaaa]

​@@lunardozamzam6001Hebrew is not necessarily Israhell👎While Jews are living together with the Arabs in Palestine.Israhell never existed lol

[@hadhad129]

Yess same. I'm Syrian too and shocked as well. Also my name is also Hadi ❤😂

[@noamrotstain3182]

Yemenite Hebrew is fully understandable to modern Hebrew, small differences in pronunciation.

[@noamrotstain3182]

@Shalom Shalom son of Yemen is: Ben teiman

[@BrainySnacks]

@Shalom Shalom Benjamin means son of the right-hand

[@BrainySnacks]

@Shalom Shalom Yes, as in both come from a similar origin, but Benjamin does not refer to the land on the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula. The tribe of Benjamin had land in the center of the Land of Israel, making it South of the Northern Kingdom. The book of Genesis describes the name being a pun on "ben oni" (son of my pain) because his mother died in childbirth. None of these ideas have anything to do with the land of Yemen.

[@BrainySnacks]

@Fadumo Geele ok?

[@rachlovesthebeatles]

Yemenite Hebrew also has a lot of similarities to Ashkenazi Hebrew. Anywhere that Yementies make a “th” Ashkenazim make a “s” (mithpalelim vs. mispalelim). For the kamatz vowel Yemenites and Ashkenazim both make an “awh” sound rather than the modern Hebrew “ah”. And other similarities. The more original form was preserved by both groups.

[@optimystic5839]

Your channel is on fire 🔥 I study Semitic Languages such as Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic. The fact that you are showing comparisons between Yemenite Hebrew and Arabic is amazing🙏

[@curiousmind_]

@Shalom Shalom Woooo

[@evandxvies]

ܫܠܵܡܵܐ ܥܲܠܘܿܟܼ

[@curiousmind_]

@Shalom Shalom noo

[@curiousmind_]

@Shalom Shalom Nope

[@SfCfA2R4L0E0T]

@Shalom Shalom Not at all. ימין (Yamin) means strength. When they named בנימין it says that his mother named him בן אוני that means son of strength in old Aramaic (Her mother language as she came from Haran) and His Father simply named him the same in Hebrew בן ימין.

[@chloetaylor3243]

It is not easy to prepare and handle these kind of video. Really appreciate to make educational and sometimes funny entertainment for any ages. 👏👏

[@letsTAKObout_it]

Such a cool video, Bahador. It’s so important to preserve region-specific ways of speaking and dialects. Great job to both participants! I loved hearing Yemenite Hebrew. Its an important reminder of language diversity and a living heritage of Jewish history. I’m also going to start following Nas :)

[@salmonela8604]

this is so cool! i'm an israeli jewish with mizrahi ancestry, my grandparents spoke with a dialect but in my generation it already doesn't exist and it's so sad. i'm so happy there are people like shahar around who preserve it!

[@nelsonmonzuela8700]

Hi, I'm glad that you can understand Hebrew, meaning you can understand the Tora in its original languages. Is there a way for you to teach me Hebrew? I am earnestly yearning to read the Tora in Hebrew directly because many translations of the Bible today have some inconsistencies due to the lack of knowledge of Biblical languages. In exchange, I can teach you Tagalog, my native language. I hope you can teach me in your vacant time. I am hoping for your affirmative reply. Thanks.

[@joedee1863]

@@nelsonmonzuela8700 - try Hebrew Interlinear on Bible Hub. It is accurate and easy to follow.

[@user-hp3tb1lx5u]

@@nelsonmonzuela8700 If it's still relevant - as a hebrew native and a linguist student I would be happy to teach you hebrew! If you have an Instagram, send me your name and we'll talk.

[@nelsonmonzuela8700]

I just signed up for IG last week that's why I'm still new with the platform. But, yes , if I could learn Hebrew from you then it's ok

[@FireBug666]

התבלבת בין ניב למבטא (Accent) Dialect זה ניב. לסבא וסבתא שלך היה מבטא. הם לא דיברו בניב שונה של עברית. (אלה אם כן היו מתימן ודיברו בניב תימני, שזה הניב היחיד של עברית שקיים, וגם בו משתמשים רק בתפילה) כל השאר מדברים אותה עברית במבטא שונה + חלק מדברים בח' ו ע' , תלוי בארץ מוצא.

[@levaltshuler1315]

Shahar is very smart. I really enjoyed this and learned a lot!

[@slawrenceram5149]

It's really awesome that you guys are doing Yemenite Hebrew. Excellent video as always

[@nuritzvulony3227]

I loved watching this video. As a Yemenite Jew from Toronto, it was really incredible to see a Torontonian doing this video.

[@mujemoabraham6522]

Have you done a Y-DNA test ?

[@omer.omer4444]

He lives in toranto but he is iranian

[@GUYCH2004]

למה לא באה לישראל?

[@nelsonmonzuela8700]

Hi, I'm glad that you can understand Yemenite Hebrew, meaning you can understand the Tora in its original languages. Is there a way for you to teach me Hebrew? I am earnestly yearning to read the Tora in Hebrew directly because many translations of the Bible today have some inconsistencies due to the lack of knowledge of Biblical languages. In exchange, I can teach you Tagalog, my native language or English, my second language. I hope you can teach me in your vacant time. I am hoping for your affirmative reply. Thanks.

[@tarekandnourhan7432]

Do you speak yemenite Hebrew?

[@user-pv5hu4gr2s]

That's probably one of the most coolest things i saw on the internet ! Well done, very interesting.

[@arielnitzav2181]

שחר יא תותח! זה היה כ"כ מעניין והזדמנות ממש נדירה לשמוע את הניב התימני, לא ידעתי שחבר'ה צעירים עוד מדברים בניב הזה

[@FatManLaughing]

לגמרי! מרגש ממש!

[@halnelson5936]

בטח תימנים דתיים שומרים

[@user-pv5hu4gr2s]

נדיר!

[@user-ri9zf6nm8p]

כל תימני שמתחיל מילדות ללמוד אצל המורי פרשת השבוע ותרגום אונקלוס עבור פרשות התורה וכן קריאת ההפטרה עם תרגום יונתן והליכה לבית הכנסת והשתתפות בתפילות ובקריאות יידע את מה ששחר יודע, מתחילים ללמוד מגיל 5-6 זה עדיין נפוץ בשכונות ובקהילות התימניות אבל לצערי זה עולם הולך ונעלם וזה חבל מאוד, משהו שאבותינו שימרו במשך מאות אם לא אלפי שנים.

[@RasulAlMawt]

ואללה יפה מאוד שהוא מדבר את זה שוטף!!! כל הכבוד לו!!!?

[@markmager1339]

I'm a Hebrew speaker and I understood every single word of what Shahar said!! Its incredible that I could understand the yemenite dialect.

[@aiowejdfkjkdnki4889]

hey I am Adam, I am from Iraq I am learning Hebrew right now, az can u "give me a hand" please? 💛💙 😊 i f u want to please contact me at @h_mo_5 insta

[@aiowejdfkjkdnki4889]

@Shalom Shalom no way, I thought it means right handed, bcuz its ben "yamin"

[@aiowejdfkjkdnki4889]

@Planet07 yeah its ture indeed, but the thing is that u r arab, he is not; so he wont be able to understand the differences like the quf as glottal sound

[@aiowejdfkjkdnki4889]

@Shalom Shalom wow man, we should become friends

[@aiowejdfkjkdnki4889]

do u got something to contact?

[@cccsssish]

How lovely is the Syrian dialect. I never realised how soft it sounded. It may be my favourite Arabic accent.

[@habibamamdouh8953]

This video was actually perfect definitely one of my favorite ❤

[@ntokofam2246]

They is amazing.

[@lilalu8470]

Cool!!! Im also Yemenite jew and I enjoyed this video so much! Peace&Love❣️

[@moshem4968]

Shabot sholem Liat 😜

[@nazar1979iraq]

I liked this, this helps remove a lot of the hate we grow up with towards each other. Good job!!

[@OK-ur2wy]

At last, man, was waiting for a new video >> فوق العاده است ، محشرى، اقا كجا بودي نگران بوديم Thanks to your guests, Nasir, Shahar, and yourself Bahador, amazing video and so informative. Btw, did anyone grin like I did when Nasir broke his tooth lol? Cheers!

[@th9827]

Actually "shirshar" for necklace is close to "Silsal" in Arabic which also means necklace and in more specific way it means catenary or Chain and considering that they change the S into Sh so it's the same! But in standard Arabic we usually say Qilada قلادة for necklace . Ps: it would be easier for the yemeni jew if the Arab guy used Standard Arabic instead of syrian dialect.

[@faROCK03]

Syrians also use Silsal. We use it interchangeably with Toh(the word used in the video). Although the way we say it, or at least my family says it is sinsal (n not l sound in the middle)

[@th9827]

@@faROCK03 In standard Arabic Touq طوق means Collar that is worn on the head and in Iraqi dialect it is used in the same way so it is interesting that you use it to refer to necklace😀 And you say "Sinsal" like Moroccans do. In Iraqi dialect we say *Glada* or *Qilada* for Necklace and *Silsila* is the Chain like Gold Chain and other Jewellery Chains .

[@ryuko4478]

@@th9827 not all Syrians say sinsāl, silsāl is not uncommon

[@th9827]

@@ryuko4478 yeah ofcourse! No one can generalize it .

[@nashmi-8609]

It made me. Angry when the guy spoke in his dialect Using standard arabic is the right

[@ElifNurMuhammad]

Thats amazing , I love to see people getting along regardless of religion , etc. 😊

[@samirakarakus2637]

Very good video Bahador thank you 👏👏

[@MichaelDavid7]

Thank you so much for doing this video.

[@maayanhaza6178]

This was so cool! Thank you for doing this :)

[@L4urentC0hen]

the way nas knew the hebrew slang

[@NasAlive1]

I tried 😂

[@worldpapermoney]

As a native Yiddish speaker, I'd love to compare it with other germantic languages and see how much the other speaker will understand.

[@arielnitzav2181]

That's a great idea

[@sammyhassan1478]

Same. I'm also a German speaker and can understand quite a lot of Yiddish. Would be interesting to see.

[@sara_s_]

@La bocca della verità how? Isn't Yiddish a Hebrew language?

[@haimgotlieb7610]

I am a native Yiddish speaker and I can understand basic German

[@AloysiusdeWit-xk8oz]

I do not believe that German speakers can Jiddisch. From the Galician Jiddisch they might recognize words and some phrases. Not the actual conversation. From Pale, tchum ha moshav, Jiddisch virtually nothing. Among each-other the 2 dialects have no problem. These experiences i have from Kibbutz Yad Mordechai. I am Dutch and have the ability to speak German well and understand all.

[@konohaninitachisi]

It’s really interesting to see after thousands of years Yemenite Hebrew still remains like in the past. Maybe Judeo-Spanish and Spanish would be interesting also.

[@empress2423]

The Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal (and are receiving back their citizenship), they preserved their special dialect" Ladino, which is a mix of Spanish and Hebrew

[@mistergross5469]

There is no thing like judeo Spanish I think you refer for Jews the exiled from judea to Spain

[@empress2423]

@@mistergross5469 They were exited, and lived in Spain and portugal for 1500 yrs. More than other people who immigrated to that area by then, and were part of Spain

[@mistergross5469]

Empress 24 But they didn’t came from Spain they are not Spanish people

[@empress2423]

@@mistergross5469 Many ppl in spain in the 1 st century - 1500 century did not "come" from Spain but frm places around. And that became Spain. Besides the Mors who invaded south of Spain by the sword. Today BTW, Spain is so invaded by migrants from Africa, Muslims from North Africa in special.... plus, Spain has among the lower birth rates in Europe: under 2. What do u think, will happen in Spain?

[@zackmano]

This video is just fantastic. I love everything about it and being fluent in Arabic and Yemenite Hebrew makes me especially appreciate how beautiful this is. 🙏🏼💙✌🏼

[@adel57100]

Mabrook 3aleik, Mazal tov!

[@zackmano]

@@adel57100 شكرا 🙏🏼

[@Gideon01]

שחר, כל הכבוד לך! צפיתי בלא מעט סרטונים מהסוג הזה ובדרך כלל לדוברי העברית שראיתי אין רגישות לשפות ולא מצליחים להבין את המילים בערבית. אני אמנם אשכנזי ולא מבטא ח' ו-ע' בדיבור, אבל מבדיל מצויין ומייד רואה את הקשר בין מילים עבריות לערביות. היה תענוג לשמוע את העברית התימנית שבפיך. ואגב, גם האנגלית שלך טובה מאד בשביל ישראלי!

[@shhiknopfler3912]

True. I was more wondering about his English...

[@darkguyitsme]

Do Sana'ani Arabic and Sana'ani Hebrew

[@TheJenniferKK]

Yes please!

[@pugo7925]

I think it would be very difficult to find tzan'ani Hebrew speakers to participate

[@MO-rm4lq]

That would be more fair, the syrian dailect is really different from yemnite

[@innercitadel3279]

@@MO-rm4lq different but not really different

[@MO-rm4lq]

@@innercitadel3279 the way of pronunciation is really diffrent espicialy the g and ahh for the letter ق Plus the speed of talking is way faster in sanaani and the words get kindoff compressed so it makes alot of difference espicialy for a guy whos not a native arabic talker

[@joedee1863]

This is so stimulating ! I need this every day.

[@susibleu]

Love your channel and I have learned so much. Thank you for creating a space of respect to learn from one another.

[@Eneus1]

Just subscribed. Great channel and idea, that can make people closer. So glad to see an arab, a persian and a jewish guy speaking about their own languages and cultures. Peace, guys. I wish there were more channels like this instead of those, that spread hatred.

[@FedericoIrisOsmoTinelli]

how much I love this project!

[@sirnightcube4701]

This video was beyond phenomenal!! Extremely interesting to watch

[@frauleinanni1528]

I'm happy about the pandemic as it gives me time to discover channels like yours. Big up to the three of you. I love languages and even though I barely know Arabic letters and next-to-nothing about Hebrew this video is quite entertaining and informative to me. I wish KZbin had directed me to your channel before.

[@XHelloimjoeyX]

I've been waiting for a video like this, shout out to the Teimanim! My ancestors were Sephardi from Turkey and Mizrahi from SE Turkey/Iraq, would love to hear those dialects compared with the languages around them sometime on here. Todah rabah Bahador.

[@yurichtube1162]

SE Turkey/Iraq? You mean Kurdistan.

[@inglishhomeandgarden8386]

It would be amazing if speakers of modern Hebrew would go back to their linguistic roots, and start pronouncing all the original sounds - it's beautiful.

[@Abilliph]

It was so long ago that we simply don't know how Hebrew originally sounded. You can say English should return to it's original pronunciation of a 1000 years ago, with it's original r trill sounds, but languages change, and Hebrew, like other languages, is beautiful because of the changes it acquired, not because of how fossilized it remained.

[@deleteduser2044]

I agree with Abilliph, and it is also normal for languages to change over time. Modern Arabic dialects don't all sound the same, and many are not mutually intelligible. Not only that, but all versions/pronunciations are Hebrew. They are variants that developed in different contexts, and one is not more authentic than another.

[@jerryjames1131]

They can’t because of their European tongues

[@mizrahiwithattitude2733]

@@jerryjames1131 most israelis are from arab countries tho

[@adel57100]

Well, the explanation is pretty easy, most of the Jewish communities were using Hebrew solely as a religious language, and because they were living all around the world, the pronounciation of Hebrew evolved accordingly to the everyday language spoken locally. When people started to move to Israel, many of them were Ashkenazim (Eastern Europe Hebrews), and due to their everyday language not having those more gutural semitic phonems MSH evolved in a way that would not preserve these. I hope that more people will learn how to pronounce 3ayn or 7et, as it makes it so much easier for other semitic languages speakers to figure out the meaning of a hebrew word, and eventually create a bridge between two long-lost half brothers. Shalom, salam.

[@aiowejdfkjkdnki4889]

Really Loved and Appreciate your work 💛💙 well done keep it up 👍

[@thesecondnick]

Just found out that you added this one, great stuff. Would you compare the Yemenite Hebrew and the Aramic too?

[@martinsdavid1238]

Very interesting conversation. I speak the Assyrian /Aramaic dialect of central Baghdad/Iraq and Urmia of Iran, and I also speak the Arabic language of the Iraqi dialect and the English language. Also, I can understand the Assyrian dialect of northern Iraq. Like to be invited to your show. When the young Yamani was speaking some of the Aramaic dialects, I understood most of his words.

[@Hiro-eb4zx]

Mr. Bahador, I've been a fan of your channel and thanks for putting up all the videos together. As a Middle Eastern enthusiast, this video was truly fascinating, especially with the language that's truly rare to hear. By the way, I visited Iran a few years ago, and I must say the people there generally were some of the friendliest and politest of all.

[@user-qc2qm1st1k]

where are you from?

[@aliner1546]

Wow this is so cool thank you for the video 👍👍

[@jaycorwin1625]

Very cool. I wouldn't have thought that these guys would have been able to understand as much of full sentences but probably because they have an interest in languages it has made it more interesting and closer. Thanks for another great video, Bahador. Your channel is one of the best.

[@izzaldeenalkurdi8806]

Actually arabic Nd Hebrew r from the same family tree language.. Nd it’s so easy 4 arabs to learn it Nd be able to understand it ...

[@izzaldeenalkurdi8806]

Shalom Shalom Benjamin is (son of right).. not son of Yemen.. son of right which means the one who used his right hand .. Nd the blessing guy ...

[@02abishekprasad91]

Languages which I adore a lot❤️- A video I waited for long time 🙏 Especially Yemenite Hebrew is the kinda Hebrew I wanna learn more with its ancient features Both portrayed their language so beautiful Nas👍 and Shahar👍 All the best Great job Bahador ❤️💯

[@jawdatelnimer9322]

and originally your history was from there ...after no founding in your current land of your claim heritage ...found out that is exist at yamani territory ..as you claim

[@youssramokarram9096]

𐩩𐩱𐩭𐩹𐩥 𐩽 𐩱𐩧𐩳 𐩽 𐩣𐩦 𐩽 𐩱𐩧𐩳𐩫𐩣 𐩽 𐩥𐩫𐩣𐩱𐩬 𐩽 𐩨𐩩𐩱𐩭𐩹𐩥 𐩽 𐩡𐩶𐩩𐩬𐩱 😏

[@hishamahmed21]

This is sooo inspiring and beautiful 👌🏻😍❤️

[@muhareb2665]

You know sadam Hussein

[@vsDrunkenYoda]

I Really Enjoyed this Video👍. Never been here before and I only speak English but Cool😎Video & Vibes💯👏👍.

[@boazgubany3403]

Thank you for this chanel and specially for this chapter!

[@hellophoenix]

The Syrian guy did an excellent job , but I agree with many of the comments that if he pronounced the words in Modern Standard Arabic , the Jewish guy would’ve been able to understand them. In general , I was really surprised how close Yemnite Hebrew to Arabic and the he pronounced ق was exactly like how people in Saudi pronounce it

[@NasAlive1]

It was supposed to be Syrian Arabic vs. Yemenite Hebrew. I think a quick a fix in the title will remove the confusion.

[@curiousmind_]

@@NasAlive1 Ohh

[@billmeh3187]

@@NasAlive1 his Syrian was not that great. Seems he was born and raised in Canada. He didn't even say that he's from Syria.

[@abdullabintalib4118]

Do you mean that we spell our ق as "g" sound?

[@empress2423]

In fact, Modern Hebrew speakers can easily understand any kind of Arabic sentence, while explained to them, because Hebrew&Arabic, are sister languages, derived fm Aramaic. In addition, while creating the modern Hebrew, it was natural to take Arabic words (and make the needed adaptations). Thus, many of the words in Modern Hebrew are fm Arabic origin. In general, is easier to learn sister languages, such as Italian and Spanish. But the Arabic has such a difficult scripture! , each letter in the Arabic Alphabet separated, are similar to the modern Hebrew hand writing letters, but then, in Arabic, the letters have a different form! when attached to each other! (in Hebrew, no attaching letters) and all the letters in the Arabic Alphabet have a different form while at the suffix of a the word (in Hebrew only 5 letters have suffix different forms), and a different form at the beginning... WOW. It seem to me, that the Arabs wanted to be able to read all the Alphabets around. Something like saying, e.g. letter D for isolate letters, let's use the Latin Alphabet: d in the middle, let's use the Cyrillic Alphabet: Д at the suffix, let's use the Greek Alphabet: δ Δ Creating a complicated Alphabet, then, attached the letters, so no one else will understand...:/ But, e.g Ta'yn, fig = Te'ena in Hebrew. Same root T-A'YN-N

[@dalethyahusha8370]

Here’s to show we are all related. Seeds of Abraham.

[@dalethyahusha8370]

@hussami khaldoun of course it does according to the promise YAHUAH made to Abraham, “ You will be the father of ALL NATIONS” . I’m not speaking of “skin color” Abraham had to wives Sarah and Hagar from Egypt and Sarah from the Chaldeans “ Ancient Iraq”. Two different races. Then we have Moshe who married an Ethiopian woman. I can speak for myself with 💯 accuracy that though I’m “Mexican” from the New world, I took 3 DNA tests from different sources, one lab was from Israel and guess what? I’m completely mixed like crazy! Here’s my numbers: 7 West Middle East, East Central Africa 2%, West Africa 2%, North East Asia 1%, Siberia 3%, Iberian 17%, Basque 15%, Ashkenazi Jew 1%, South Central Asia 4%, South East East Europe Bulgaria, Turkey 14% British Isles 16% Shalom to you my brother.

[@ifyourespondyourmad.2409]

@@dalethyahusha8370 so you are mexican and don't have a single bit of native american? You are only Mexican by nationality. Not by blood. Why is everybody suddenly Mexican now days.

[@ifyourespondyourmad.2409]

@hussami khaldoun so if language has nothing to do with race, than why are languages like Persian and Hindi considered "indo european", and people actually say that iranians and north indians are more related to Europeans genetically because of this? But suddenly when it comes to Jews and Arabs it doesn't apply? Skin color has nothing to do with weather two groups of people are related genetically. So all this "white race" "brown race" "black race" is a made up thing.

[@dalethyahusha8370]

@@ifyourespondyourmad.2409 I’m actually indigenous Americas-Mexica so yes

[@ifyourespondyourmad.2409]

@@dalethyahusha8370 okay cool. Cause many Mexicans forget to give our native ancestors their credit. They only want to claim their foreign ancestry.

[@therealzilch]

Charming and fascinating. Just what we need. Subscribed. cheers from cool Vienna, Austria, Scott

[@user-ul9wv1xv4i]

פשוט אלוףף! רציתי שתעשה סרטון כזה ואשכרה עשית אחד, הבחור שהבאת ממש יודע את החומר בעברית מקראית ממש אהבתי!

[@roeypolin5174]

@Gabriel גם אני שמתי לב

[@user-ro4kd6xq6t]

@Gabriel מעניין... שם המשתמש שלך באנגלית ואתה כותב בעברית. 🧐

[@freyatilly]

Such a brilliant session. Yemeni is so fascinating with its variation on the accents and use of condiments. Really turning the pronunciation of Hebrew into an almost different language. So amazing how the Syrian Arabic have similarities to Yemeni Hebrew. I learned a lot here

[@Lina_al_j]

this was great! one of my favorite videos so far! would be great to compare the yemenite Hebrew to Yemeni arabic tho. "ق" in some regions is also pronounced as "g" in Yemeni arabic.

[@bdtroutman]

Very interesting! I learned a lot. Thank you! תודה شكرا

[@ahlemmebarki7275]

That's great video thank you !

[@warrior5215]

This is gold, I respect the Yemenite Jews

[@matankniaz-diamond5493]

@Shalom Shalom no it means the son of my right hand

[@theperfectionist]

@Shalom Shalom Wrong, 'Yemen' is different from 'yamin'. The word 'Yemen' comes from the Sabaic 'ymnt' which means 'south'. The word 'Benjamin' comes from 'ben yamin' which means 'son of (my) right'.

[@idontspeakminecraft1475]

Me Moroccan Jew read this comment 👁👃🏼👁

[@idontspeakminecraft1475]

@@warrior5215 then we don’t need your respect there is no different between us

[@asema.1484]

@Shalom Shalom wow maon is ma3en in arabic it’s an old arabian kingdom

[@TheNivKo]

Hi Bahador, I'm from Israel, and I love this channel! wishing only the best for you and your family :)

[@TheNivKo]

Btw it's kinda weird hearing the Yemenite dialect! Don't think I'd be able to understand without captions :)

[@aiowejdfkjkdnki4889]

actually I am (Iraqi) Arabic speaker, and I could speak hebrew (modern) and I see the same thing exactly, it was difficult at first to understand his dialect, but then I started to understand, for example (chagiti ba'ertss) i took few minutes to thought it could be (ani khag ba'erts)

[@aiowejdfkjkdnki4889]

@Shalom Shalom what, how !!!!!!!!!!!

[@aiowejdfkjkdnki4889]

@Shalom Shalom i thoght halal is "kosher" in hebrew, and isnt eid "chag", and what about masjid!!!!????!!!!

[@nashmi-8609]

@Shalom Shalom They are not hebrew words They are semetic words And it exsist in our languages

[@eytannavon3018]

Great .....well executed with very good intentions, I enjoy all your videos

[@Cocologs]

Man, this is such a great video! Both of them were fantastic! I wonder how close the Yemenite Arabic dialect is to Yemenite Hebrew.

[@user-hh2is9kg9j]

I am a Yemenite Arabic speaker. And I will explain to you. Yemenite Jews speak Yemenite Arabic in day to day but they pray in Yemenite Hebrew. So in their day to day speech they are no different from any Yemeni (except the region they are from) but the "religious Yemenite Hebrew" is more understandable to me than the Syrian guy who was in the video, but still, it is a different language there are things that I didn't understand and things that are very "deformed" to my point of view

[@Cocologs]

Shalom Shalom learnt something new today.

[@Cocologs]

الأسود العنسي @ that’s interesting. Yes, shahar did mention that it’s a language used for prayer.

[@user-vc5vs3rn3i]

@@user-hh2is9kg9j there are a bunch of second and third generation Yemenite Israeli singers who sing in the Yemenite Arabic they learned from their parents/grandparents at home, like Yemen Blues and A-WA. I wonder how their accents sound to you. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fl7OZGqBl9OirJI

[@user-hh2is9kg9j]

@@user-vc5vs3rn3i I am a big fan of Israeli-Yemenite singers and they are different in terms of how much I understand and how "accurate " their accent are. However I understand all of them to some extent. Yemen Blues has some traces of " foreign accent" and in terms of their song styles, they mix it with a little bit of Levanite and Egyptian Arabic. A-WA are more authentic but still have little foreign accent. Ofra Haza also has foreign accent. I would say the most authentic Yemeni-Israeli singer and you can't really tell if he is a Yemeni from Yemen or from Israel is Zion Golan Just want to add that when I say "foreign accent" I don't mean that it takes anything from how much you enjoy it, it is just that when I hear the pronnouncation I can tell they are not Yemenis who grow up in Yemen

[@kenjerry]

Great idea for a video! In addition to the s/sh difference in Hebrew/Arabic (salam/shalom) there are other frequent switches between consonants, like the z/dh sound, in the example they talked about with the necklace "of gold" - dahab in arabic, zahav in Hebrew.

[@kenjerry]

By the way, some of these types of letter switches are also common between Hebrew and Aramaic. As noted in the video, Aramaic is a language used in Yemenite Jewish liturgy (the Torah reading is "translated" from Hebrew to Aramaic), and Aramaic is very commonly used in Jewish religious texts, e.g. a large part of the Talmud is written in Aramaic.

[@mohammadbadeges9963]

The distinctions between Yemenite dialects of Hebrew (Sanaani vs Sharaabi) as Shahar was good enough to point out actually directly reflects the dialectic variation in Yemenite Arabic, Sanaa tending to pronounce the ق as g while the majority of Yemen pronounces the ج as g. For anyone interested in hearing how similar Yemenite Hebrew sounds to not only Arabic, but Aramaic, I’d recommend listening to any song by Shoshana Damari, or Ofra Haza’s popular collection of Yemenite Songs.

[@bassamtrefi5479]

By the way سفر sifer with the meaning book does exist in arabic but it is not used in everyday life, it is used one time in Quran أسفار and also used when talking about Torah سفر التكوين etc.

[@haimonpgh]

Thanks for sharing!

[@zubairmohammadyusuf942]

Are you Muslim?

[@bassamtrefi5479]

@@zubairmohammadyusuf942 Yes, a Kind of.

[@izzaldeenalkurdi8806]

It’s using in the arabic bible too .. but I don’t think that it’s using in Quran

[@1Dslove4ever]

I’m Bengali and we call some prayer books that you read before the quran sifarah!

[@aaronglobal609]

Wow that's great וואו זה היה יפה מאוד

[@idittaibi1757]

I love it so much! My family's origin is Yemen (now live in Israel) and that video is so awsome! i want to learn the yemenese language but dunno how...

[@soul553]

Shame on you

[@idittaibi1757]

@@soul553 what?

[@user-iu6oj2fy4w]

This is great!! More hebrew-arabic pls

[@BahadorAlast]

Thanks. We have done another: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZDaiauJa6ZsipY

[@NarnianLady]

Wow interesting!! I could get a few things from both speakers :)) The subtitles help a lot... ;)

[@olivierg3255]

Very interesting. Great contents 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@rabbaniandarazizan8249]

Omg it’s lovely to see Nasr in here ✨

[@NasAlive1]

Thanks! haha 😁

[@captainabez7086]

Masha Allah great job guys

[@cccsssish]

The fact that this video exists makes me hsppy. Thank you for this

[@harelmoshe100]

You have a very important channel. Keep it up. 👍🏻 thanks.

[@hamoudi_d]

It's facinating how Hebrew and Arabic are very often using the same roots, but it's very hard to unterstand hebrew. But it's possible so a certain extent, as you see!

[@user-lk4ol3wq7p]

Bahador jan, you should make a video on Maltese vs standard Arabic. I once saw a Maltese and a Moroccan talking..The Moroccan guy said he could understand everyrhing easily, while the Maltese guy had difficulty understanding

[@user-hh2is9kg9j]

That is interesting indeed

[@user-lk4ol3wq7p]

@Planet07 So it's really a different language. I always thought Maltese was a mughrabi dialect written in Latin script .Like in my country we speak Persian and write it with Cyrillic letters , it is called Tajik language for political reasons , but in fact it is Persian . When our heads of state meet there is no interpreter .

[@user-lk4ol3wq7p]

@Planet07 God willing I'd love to visit both Morocco and Malta. One of my ancestors immigrated to Bukhara from تطوان around 1700 🙂

[@user-lk4ol3wq7p]

@Planet07 Maybe some Amazigh too 🙂 That ancestor of mine was one of those Spanish refugees.

[@salwamohamed3351]

I am Morrocan when I heard Maltese I get like 45% of the meaning the structure of sentences is similar to Moroccan and Tunisian dialect on the same time Maltese has many loanwords from Arabic but most of the vocabulary is devided from Italien. We north Africans we know French that is make it easy for us the get the meaning of some words from Italian roots but it is still difficult to understand. It is really tricky.

[@nataliesulaiman7119]

Amazing love this channel

[@thegreatbaruc8741]

I was 20 mins late to work because of this video. It was well worth it. I have Yemenite Jewish friends and never really heard their dialect like this. Very cool video !

[@supermemememe605]

its becuase we don't use it for everyday talking it is hard for some to speak it without having it written *with vowelization* or whatever its called (the dots under and above a letter

[@TheRanaro]

@Bahador Alast: This was fantastic. I'm Israeli and I love watching your videos. By the way, Shachar didn't mention that the vowel sounds for the Yemenite dialect of Hebrew are almost identical to the Ashkenazi vowels.

[@TheRanaro]

@Shalom Shalom actually, it means 'son of the right'..Rachel came up with the name for her youngest son just before she died.

[@HHeart-zq9lt]

We should come together like these wonderful guys... Thank you Bahador for this video..

[@mustafaercumen3187]

This is amazing

[@GuyA]

This is an amazing video ! i liked the combination, i was studying syrian arabic at school and for me it is closer to hebrew that the yamanite hebrew. also since i live among many arab speakers, many arabic words are used in day to day language. cool video !

[@crispindejesusmelendezrive6433]

Woow bro! I loved it too much!😍😍 I speak hebrew but this way is too close to arabic😍

[@BastiaanvandeWerk]

This is pure gold. For so many reasons.

[@MADGAG6]

Fascinating video as usual

[@civileng6076]

Great episode👍

[@osheebhai]

What Shahar said about the use of Q v. G in the two Yemeni variants of Hebrew, this applies in Arabic also. In fact, in Saudi Arabia, the more common variant in spoken Arabic (people's Arabic) is the G variant which Shahar's tradition uses. The Q sound is only used in official Arabic or when referring to the Quran which does not become the Guran. Qul = Gul (Say) Qael-li = Gael-li (He said to me) Qaffel = Gaffel (Close)

[@halevytomer]

שחר יא מלךךךךךך כיף לראות צעירים משמרים את המסורת ככה!

[@yahyatwili658]

מסורת ???? לזה אתם קוראים מסורת ???? בושה וחרפה !!!!!! ככה הוא מייצג את התימנים בשפת השיכנוז כן ??? כן ויתערבו בין השיכנוז וילמדו מעשיהם והנה התוצאה !!!!!!!

[@nazarmiloshkin9175]

Ayyyy NasAlive, so happy to see you here! You're so awesome :D

[@bassamtrefi5479]

Thanks nice video 👍👍

[@JeffSyam]

This is a "LEVEL UP"! Bravo brother Bahador!

[@HotVoodooWitch]

What I love about this is that each guy is happy when the other guy understands. There's hope for humanity.

[@taleofbenjamin]

Amazing video! תודה רבה \ شكراً جزيلاً

[@marythr2617]

Loved it!

[@bettyk8105]

Quite a beautiful thing to watch. You guys are contributing to Middle East peace! 😄

[@valhalla-tupiniquim]

The best way to unite people. Thank you Bahador Alast.

[@striker613]

This is beautiful to see:)

[@royns]

That's was fascinating!