Syriac (Aramaic) vs. Ethiopic! Comparing two ancient Semitic languages with the Lord's Prayer

Syriac (Aramaic) and Ge'ez (Ethiopic) are two of the coolest ancient Semitic languages that you've probably never heard of. In this video, I compare the similarities and differences between these languages and how they relate to other Semitic languages like Hebrew, Arabic, or Akkadian.
I've always found Ge'ez to be very familiar to me as I consider it a type of African Aramaic. Fair warning though. I'm not as proficient in Ge'ez, what is also known as Ethiopic, as I am in other Semitic languages like Syriac (the Aramaic dialect from ancient Edessa). That means I may pronounce things like a Ferenji. If you've never heard of these languages before, I encourage you to delve deeper into them and those who still utilize them, whether through liturgical prayers or in their modern descendants (if we may call the modern languages descendants).
NOTE: I made a typo that emerges around the 26 minute mark. The commentary found between 26:50-27:06 was based on that typo.
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[@ProfessorMichaelWingert]

APOLOGIES! The comments from

[@bsahle]

Ethiopia is truly mysterious

[@belayadamu1473]

Owwww.... this blew my mind. I watched a youtube video a while back where people were comparing Amharic with Aramaic and I was very astonished by the similarities. But with Geez, it looks the similarity is on another level. I do the lords prayer in Geez and I'm very pleased to find out that it was translated almost word for word from how our lord Jesus thought us to pray.

[@bezaleul]

It is fascinating to see the profund similarities between this two language ❤

[@abdulinho1756]

Very educational video enjoyed it so much. Thank you from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦

[@danielvso]

Thank you very much for this video.

[@user-md9yv7jx2c]

I was stationed at Asmara, Eritrea in the 70s. Thirteen months of springtime they told us, because we were up around nine thousand feet elevation. It felt like Tibet to me then. The last time I saw this alphabet was on a Coca Cola bottle. I've wondered about the language since.

[@kidists2564]

As an Ethiopian I was told that before Geez it was Aramaic that was spoken in some cities in Ethiopia

[@teclezere5815]

I am a speaker of Tigrinya (native), Amharic, Geez, Tigre, etc., and I am surprised by the similarities between the compared languages...

[@richardhayward5814]

This is an interesting comparison and very informative. Just one small thing: in the first line of the prayer in Ethiopic the verb 'be sanctified' should have a geminate second radical, ie. the d should be transcribed double, just as in the Syriac. The Ethiopic speaker clearly pronounces it as a geminate - though of course that could be because his mother tongue is Amharic or some other modern Ethiopian Semitic language in which jussives of passive stems have a geminate second radical.

[@mujtabaal-bushari6733]

I'm amazed how you uploaded so many videos in such a short time. Please keep going.

[@fantahunish]

I am Ethiopian, I admire what you did in the video. Your understanding of Geez is amazing. The most interesting thing I have seen is the similarity in the two languages. I would say the are really originated from the same root languages and due to long geographic separation and influence of neighboring languages that these languages took different evolution to end up in two different languages. Though Ethiopic is from Africa and Arnaic from middle east it is no more than 60km to cross from Africa to middle east via babel-mendeb from Djibouti to Yemen. I appreciate your effort to show us the similarity.

[@WorldXl_]

im egyptian christian so im very familiar with the Lords prayer in arabic and im suprised to hear more similarities with ethiopic than syriac

[@God-db9vp]

Very interesting video. I'm speaker of GEEZ and TIGRINYA i can feel those two Semitic languages.

[@labellevigne4160]

Hearing the lord’s prayer both Geez and Aramaic as a Christian arabic speaker and how similar both are to the classical Arabic version of the prayer, made me think about how easy it must’ve been for ancient Arab muslims to learn the Semitic languages spoken by those in the neighboring lands they traded with and conquered in medieval Africa and the middle east like the kingdoms of Axum and Byzantine.

[@AnkomaDjed]

Thank you for this great video

[@Razi290]

Many thanks for your insightful video. Selam from ethiopia!

[@fitsumawit]

Amaric Ethiopia and Amaraic Syriac the similarity language my identity is Amara people from Ethiopia

[@GeezClasses]

Big Big Big Up for your interesting videos!!! keep your great works!!!!

[@fes592]

Very interesting! Thank you for your efforts to make this video . 🇪🇹