Why Does India Have So Many Writing Systems?

[@KhAnubis]

Also fun fact, this video was pretty much entirely inspired by this Sporcle quiz: www.sporcle.com/games/1447/writing_systems

[@bikr2381]

@@godturtle6274 they comment on the video early

[@liamh2255]

Epic topic, citizen!

[@rahulg2961]

Love the research that went into this. I speak 4 Indian language. Kannada, Telugu (my mother tongue), Tamil and Hindi. I just thought they all originated from Sanskrit because that's our ancient language like Latin but never wondered where Sanskrit came from.

[@maulanakarman8955]

Hi

[@mysterious7215]

নমস্কাৰ

[@Thesungod95]

you pronounce almost 95% names correctly, thanks for that.

[@haydenross8215]

I have no idea how he has such good pronunciation i struggle with pronunciation that isn’t English

[@zacevans1683]

@@haydenross8215 probably something he’s really passionate about, he already speaks about four languages so he probably just dedicates a lot of time to getting it right

[@Tanvir_Ahmed_Earth]

Ahhahaha

[@anahabibtiinbahariterra]

Thanks

[@Liggliluff]

@@haydenross8215 I guess he does the bare minimum by actually looking up pronunciations. Easily accessible on Wiktionary many times, in many languages. - A lot of people on KZbin are lazy and just tries to read it as if the words are in English, and any diacritics are treated as decorations instead of the actual modifiers they are.

[@zachklieman2141]

When comparing India to Europe, I think it’s worth mentioning that India’s population is almost twice that of Europe

[@flyingeagle3898]

It would be important if we are talking about modern geopolitics, but it is not actually that relevant to this video. Because although that is true today, it was not true in the past. During the period of the roman empire, for example, the population in Europe would have likely greatly exceeded that of India for long periods of time.

[@zachklieman2141]

@@flyingeagle3898 That’s a really good point. Thank you! (Yeah, Zach, all these scripts were just invented yesterday 🤦‍♂️, haha) From what I’ve seen, which, I could def be mistaken, I think it varies widely, too, depending on the estimate with some having India’s population as about the same or even a good chunk larger around 1 AD/CE (I don’t know which one to use if I’m being honest) (tho that’s a random time and would include modern day Pakistan and Bangladesh)

[@kapilsethia9284]

@@flyingeagle3898 India and china had large population early on. There is a video of world population every year. I link it if found.

[@kapilsethia9284]

@@flyingeagle3898 kzbin.info/www/bejne/hobannRphpWShac

[@parker4406]

@@flyingeagle3898 india and China held the top positions for millennia in terms of population (Solely attributed to geography climate and a peaceful culture) Europe on the other hand had a lot of in fighting solely due to dearth of resources cold climate and large number of regimes popping up India even held the number one position in terms of population for 100 years during the golden age (These are all estimations obviously for more information you can check out more videos on the same topic !)

[@mysterious7215]

I am an Indian from Assam and I speak Assamese ( the eastern most indo european language) And I belong to a Tibeto-Burman tribe ( Sonowal kachari) Very proud of my Heritage and my India

[@brokkrep]

Are there many similarities with languages like German, French or Italian?

[@anupamtiwari5587]

@@brokkrep There are quite a few but they are extremely subtle.

[@mysterious7215]

@@brokkrep I think very rare

[@alimaatod]

These information satisfise me

[@mysterious7215]

@@alimaatod my pleasure

[@rishikantalamding7283]

I'm from India's North eastern states, Manipur. We hv our own script, culture, language.... India is much more diverse then these explain.

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

He is in the Ashoka's timeline. Whereas Sanskrit and all the other India languages are much older. He is fooling us 😞 know the truth his video is based on assumptions and theory not on real facts.

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

He is just fooling us his video is fully based on theory and assumptions not in facts.😞

[@yashagrawal88]

Yes, Meitei script.

[@srikanthxxxxx]

Much more diverse than anyone could ever explain.

[@Kaustuv250MVA]

The meitei mayek script from Manipur evolved from Tibetan which is evolved from the gupta age Brahmi

[@artificialintelligence2653]

भारतीय भाषाएं Sanskrit - संस्कृत Bengali - বাংলা Gujarati - ગુજરાતી Kannada - ಕನ್ನಡ Hindi - हिंदी Konkani - कोंकणी Malayalam - മലയാളം Marathi - मराठी Nepali - नेपाली Odia - ଓଡିଆ Punjabi - ਪੰਜਾਬੀ Sindhi - سنڌي Tamil - தமிழ் Telugu - తెలుగు Urdu - اردو Assamese - অসমীয়া Santali - ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ Lisan Ud-Dawat - ‎لسان دعوۃ البهرة Meitei- ꯃꯤꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ Maithili - 𑒧𑒻𑒟𑒱𑒪𑒲 Kashmiri - كٲشُر Dogri - ڈوگَرِی Bodo - बड़ English - English Khasi - খসি Persian - فارسی Marwari - मारवाड़ी Lepcha - ᰛᰩᰵᰛᰧᰵᰶ Phake - (တႝ)ၸႃကေ Ahom - 𑜒𑜑𑜪𑜨 Bhojpuri - 𑂦𑂷𑂔𑂣𑂳𑂩𑂲 Saraiki - سرائیکی Kangri - 𑚊𑚭𑚫𑚌𑚪𑚯 Surjapuri- सुरजापुरी Magahi - 𑂧𑂏𑂯𑂲 Bagri - बागड़ी Surgujia- सरगुजिया Tulu - തുളു Dhundhari (Jaipuri) - ढूंढाड़ी Kumaoni - कुमाऊँनी Nimadi - निमाड़ी Garhwali - गढ़वळि Harauti - हाड़ौती Khortha - खोरठा Malvi - मालवी Konkani - कोंकणी Mewari - मेवाड़ी Chattisgarhi - छत्तीसगढ़ी Sadri - सादरी Bagheli - बघेली Awadhi - अवधी Kannauji - कन्नौजी Bundeli - बुन्देली Haryanvi - हरयाणवी Braj Bhasha - ब्रजभाषा Onge - ॳङे Sentilenese Khamti - (တဲး)ၵမ်းတီႈ Aiton - (တႝ)ဢႝတွꩫ် Kurukh - कुड़ुख़ Ahirani - अहिराणी Khari Boli - खड़ी बोली Sikkimese - འབྲས་ལྗོངས་སྐད་ Limbu - ᤕᤠᤰᤌᤢᤱ ᤐᤠᤴ Ladakhi- ལ་དྭགས་སྐད་

[@baburaothedog]

Damn so interesting

[@Aryan-gs6ky]

Nice.. but sanskrit wasn't written in Devanagari before. It had Brahmi lipi.

[@varun2904]

And there are n number of dialects 😂

[@artificialintelligence2653]

@@varun2904 Dialects also have their own identity.

[@artificialintelligence2653]

@@Aryan-gs6ky Yes I know. But it’s very hard to find somewhere. When I learnt Sanskrit, I learnt it in Devanagari.

[@paduka23]

Thank you India, greet from Indonesia 🇮🇩❤️🇮🇳 Because of you guys, we indonesian has abundant writing systems +- 15 writing systems derived from pallava script 1. Batak Script (North Sumatra) ᯚᯮᯒᯖ᯲ ᯅᯖᯄ᯦᯲ 2. Rejang Script (Bengkulu province) ꤼꥈꤽꤳ꥓ ꥆꥈꤾꥈ 3. Ogan script (Bengkulu & South sumatra) 4. Incung script (Jambi Province) 5. Lampung script (Lampung province) 6. Javanese script (Central Java, Yogyakarta, East Java) ꦄꦏ꧀ꦱꦫꦗꦮ 7. Sundanese script (West Java) ᮃᮊ᮪ᮞᮛ ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ 8. Balinese script (Bali province) ᬳᬓ᭄ᬲᬭᬩᬮᬶ 9. Mbojo script (West Nusa Tenggara) 10. Satera Jontal script (West Nusa Tenggara) 11. Lota Ende script (East Nusa Tenggara) 12. Lontara script (South Sulawesi) ᨕᨔᨑ ᨒᨚ ᨈᨑ 13. Jangang-jangang script (South Sulawesi) 14. Bilang-Bilang script (South Sulawesi) 15. Kawi script (Java island)

[@wojak5308]

Well, all credit goes to Buddhist monks

[@sumansrivastava8750]

Unfortunately, they are going extinct, aren't they? Just like Kaithi,Maithilakshar etc. script in India

[@anixes]

@@wojak5308 Hindus as well.

[@wojak5308]

@@anixes cow worshippers ?? I don't think so , they are still p00ping on street .

[@paduka23]

@@sumansrivastava8750 not really, a lot of them still preserve and practice with locals although they're not official, but these days, government gonna do some serious movement to preserve them, and some young generation still have feeling to bring all of them back to their golden era Just like preserving our local languages, i know we are in modern era, but if there still some movements, there still hope. Please support us, these are not just indonesian heritage, but world's heritage

[@bikr2381]

I mean, India has a language for nearly every state, so… And before anyone argues about this, a lot of a languages are distinct from all other languages (e.g Basque)

[@mysterious7215]

I am from Assam and a assamese speaker

[@tago3860]

@@mysterious7215 i am telugu

[@mysterious7215]

@@tago3860 ooo

[@holup977]

I speak Hindi, English fluently and of Gujrati, Sanskrit, Spanish with somewhat spotty fluency and French is understandable (being generous)

[@mysterious7215]

@@holup977 I can speak assamese hindi english and can understand Bengali little bit of oriya

[@NguyenNguyen-fq6ov]

0:44 to 0:47 I really love that Nepal part (Nepal flag trying to eat Bhutan flag). Glorious, and meme-worthy material

[@user-cv1jb9xv2p]

😆

[@kakalimukherjee3297]

Something close to that happened in 1971 in Sikkim, not between the governments though, but between the demographies

[@Abhinav_Sengupta]

LOL😂🤣😹

[@oksowhat]

in real its the opposite, bhutan exiles thousands of nepali hindus from bhutan lol

[@Dhruv-Kumar]

Bhutan is dragon. It will burn Nepal

[@HoH]

Answering questions I never knew I had. Great job on the video and use of sounds.

[@shivuprasad4333]

Hi man how are you doing:)

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

He is in the Ashoka's timeline. Whereas Sanskrit and all the other India languages are much older. He is fooling us 😞 know the truth his video is based on assumptions and theory not on real facts.

[@nikkifrozen3814]

Brahmi being derived from Aramaic is not a established fact but just a theory as many differences exist between two. More over 600bce brahmi script has been found.

[@soumyadipM6627]

True

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

He is in the Ashoka's timeline. Whereas Sanskrit and all the other India languages are much older. He is fooling us 😞 know the truth his video is based on assumptions and theory not on real facts.

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

At least some one mentioned the truth.

[@ishubetterthanyou1582]

@@Your_spanish_el_amigo All language families are theories in the end, but based on facts. Sanskrit is a language, not a script. Atleast know the difference between them. Sanskrit wasn't written down till 4-5th century bce.

[@tejas.k]

@@ishubetterthanyou1582 them what about the rig ved found dated 1200 BCE

[@ankurbhattacharya5184]

As an Indian, I am super excited about the video. Thanks KhAnubis!

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

He is in the Ashoka's timeline. Whereas Sanskrit and all the other India languages are much older. He is fooling us 😞 know the truth his video is based on assumptions and theory not on real facts.

[@anartaroy711]

This guy is a pseudo intellectual

[@armandeepsingh1843]

Punjabi has two scripts Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi Gurmukhi is used in indian part of punjab while Shahmukhi is used in Pakistani part of punjab Though both have similar pronunciations their writing style is different

[@servantofaeie1569]

Shahmukhi is literally just Arabic...

[@djekoelada9969]

@@servantofaeie1569 perso Arabic script

[@SoumyaChowdhury24081995]

Shahmuki is perso arabic script which is also used in Urdu, Pastho , sindhi, persian and others. But gurumukhi is unique to punjabi

[@djekoelada9969]

@@SoumyaChowdhury24081995 gurumukhi is native to Punjabi

[@soumyadipM6627]

Shahmukhi is just arabic script used by muslims gurumukhi is the original script of punajabi language

[@cdw9244]

Im a sinhalese from sri lanka and our language sinhala(සිංහල) is an indo-aryan language having an indo-dravidian script similar to kannada and telugu

[@rajavishnuvardhana6830]

@TABASSUM KHAN hogu mane kade.

[@singharpan9859]

Sinhala has a lot of words similar to north Indian languages.

[@cdw9244]

@@singharpan9859 yes sinhala is derrived from pali and sanskrit

[@vishwajithpuranik]

Sinhala have some shades of kadamba script

[@cdw9244]

@Prajwal Devanga sinhala writing system is originated from a southern indian script and for me ,and many other sinhalese people,telugu script and kannada script seems to be the CLOSEST one as they use many letters so similar to sinhalese (ස,ක,ර,බ,වි,ජ,ග,ෆ,යා etc...) which can't be seen in other scripts according to my perspective

[@agen5573]

Fun fact: Both Marathi and Maithili which both use the Devanagari script today, used have their own scripts known as the Modi script and Maithili/Tirhuta script, and the modi script was in use as recently as 1917!

[@vicnad92]

Sadly, the beautiful modi script which gave life to the Marathi language is not used anymore. There are talks of revival, but mostly limited to academic institutions, and the general marathi public arent too motivated for a script revival.

[@bhanupratap1063]

@@vicnad92 Marathi was originally written in Devanagari, Modi came in between and gone.

[@vicnad92]

@@bhanupratap1063 I don't think so. It was written in Modi. The british could not print in Modi and used devanagari instead. Modi script was used by commoners and traders. Devanagari was used by elite brahmins.

[@lekevire]

@@vicnad92 It'll sound funny when Modi himself tries to revive the Modi script 😂😂

[@Nagvanshieus]

​@@vicnad92modi lipi was used by Dhyaneshwar maharaj who was a brahmin himself, most Varkari saints used modi lipi too, Ambedkar who was a Mahar used to write in devnagri lipi back when modi lipi was still used.

[@aliimran2485]

My mother is from Kerala and my father is from tamil nadu we shifted to Hyderabad, Telangana later to vizag, Andhra I can write and read Telugu,Tamil and Sanskrit without any mistakes

[@user-pakshibhithi10]

You seem to be a Muslim. Can you read and write Urdu?

[@aliimran2485]

@@user-pakshibhithi10 Nope 🙅

[@user-pakshibhithi10]

@@aliimran2485 Oh, I understand, you aren't a Hyderabadi or North Indian muslim and that's why you don't speak Urdu. You people sticked to your mother tongue even after becoming Muslims. అంతే కదా?

[@aliimran2485]

@@user-pakshibhithi10 May be But thr thing is that i don't know urdu Anthe

[@user-pakshibhithi10]

@@aliimran2485 అదే కారణం, వేరే ఏం కారణం కాదు.

[@phs125]

On south indian side, He totally brushed over explanation the origins of Kannada and telugu scripts. And obviously, there are a lot more scripts in india than he described. Example, the tigalari script. Which my ancestors used to write sanskrit texts. And before that, a common script for Tulu language. Nowadays, the Tulu people are trying to revive the script, using it in banners hoardings and even temple entrance signs. It's a descendant of Grantha script. So, malayalam is a sister script to it. And look very similar.

[@theodiscusgaming3909]

@Varoon hot take, but if they want to make use of their language more sustainable, they should use a Latin-based script instead of reviving their script, because Latin-based scripts are much simpler to use on computers than Indic abugidas, and more importantly, they are inherently much simpler. You don't need to learn all the different dependent forms and ligatures, and if done right, there will be only one sound per grapheme.

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

He is in the Ashoka's timeline. Whereas Sanskrit and all the other India languages are much older. He is fooling us 😞 know the truth his video is based on assumptions and theory not on real fact.

[@theodiscusgaming3909]

@Varoon actually Latin or any alphabetical script that does not have ligatures is inherently simpler to implement on a computer. Again French is just Latin with a few extra letters like é and having extra letters is not a problem. Japanese, while having a lot of characters, has no ligatures and hence very easy to *render* but hard to actually *type* for which you need an IME. Basically any script without ligatures is okay, and unfortunately abugidas have ligatures by definition. Letter case causes 0 problems, they just added lowercase and capital letters as separate characters. Devanagari/indic scripts *can* be simplified, the problem is they possess an inherent complexity that can't be simplified because they are abugidas and hence have to combine consonants with vowels at the very least. Having all the phonemes represented the same no matter where they are (an alphabetical system) is just the simplest way to do things. Saying that adopting an alphabet will wipe out your heritage is an exaggeration at the least. If anything, it will preserve your heritage better as the language becomes easier to teach, read and write. Any language written in a well-designed Latin-based script becomes trivially easy to read. Languages like Turkish switched to Latin because it was just simpler than their previous system and hence boosted literacy rates. For minority/endangered languages simplicity is very important as it will make learning easier which will encourage more people to learn/adopt the language.

[@theodiscusgaming3909]

@Varoon Chinese and Japanese (because of Chinese borrowings) have too many homophones; words that sound the same but have different meanings. Because of this, Chinese uses logographs and Japanese uses... whatever they came up with. I never said I want to replace every script by Latin, that's just a miscommunication. My suggestion was aimed specifically at minority/obscure/endangered languages. And it doesn't need to be Latin, it just needs to be a simple alphabetical system. But then there's already Latin so why not just use it? Again, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, etc. are just fine. They have huge numbers of native speakers which will only increase in the future, along with cultural/media dominance in their respective regions. It's the languages that don't enjoy those privileges that I'm talking about. I think it's simply unfair to make *everyone* learn a complicated (an understatement, especially when it comes to Ottoman Turkish) script just because they wouldn't be able to read a few inscriptions otherwise. Anyone who is specifically interested in the old script and wants to read old inscriptions can simply learn the old script and nothing would stop them, especially these days when such things could be learnt on the Internet for free. 'Shiva' is fine, unless you want it to be Devanagari-accurate in which case you could just use 'śiva' or whatever the IAST usage is, or even make up your own spelling convention. Anything is fine as long as everyone agrees on it. Again, it's not impossible to get the Indic stuff working on computers, nor is it impossible to teach it to people. But if you're in this situation where your old script isn't really being used, I think it's definitely worth it to make the switch because it will make learning and usage definitely easier.

[@nzx.]

@@theodiscusgaming3909 One is simpler relative to something else. One growing learning the thing don't feel, 'oh, that is so much more easier we should so that.'

[@Thesungod95]

south east asia is also called greater indosphere due to cultural influence.

[@mfaizsyahmi]

Got the Cholas to thank for that.

[@jojosekhose2008]

@@mfaizsyahmi Apart from the Cholas, there were other maritime Indian kingdoms(like Pallavas) who also spread the Indian culture to the East...

[@Samuel-wm1xr]

former indosphere. mostly arabised or hispanised later on

[@Thesungod95]

@@Samuel-wm1xr no, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar are still Buddhist.

[@byron-ih2ge]

@@Samuel-wm1xr indonesia is still very much a part of the indosphere.all south east asia is still under indosphere except phillipines( who got hispanised) , brunei and malysia ( who got arabised talking with respect to native malays) and vietnam( where the sinic north vietnam ended up swallowing up the indic champa kingdom located in south vietnam)

[@divyanshushete5772]

Before 19th century marathi too had its own script known as "mo(l)dhi" which was given up to make language more easy to print as it had very curved strokes which made it difficult for block printing.

[@nitinthakur6569]

Interesting. Someone needs to preserve this style or else it will be lost in history.

[@nihaljog475]

Modi is just one type of Devanagari script

[@kaustubh_ramteke_07]

​@@nihaljog475different script than devanagari

[@dubeyvs6159]

Nope ....modi is just a variant of gujarati saurashtri script ..

[@simhakalimipalli3701]

In the Keezhadi excavations, researchers have found brahmi script alongside markings that look very similar to indus valley scripts. Most likely brahmi is a mix of aramaic and indus valley-like scripts

[@jojosekhose2008]

Considering Tamil kingdoms have trade relations with the Near East and were related to the Harappans, it is safe to say Brahmi script is perhaps a mixture of both Aramaic and Harappan script...

[@mscreationworks5787]

@@jojosekhose2008 Adichanallur Excavation site inscriptions predates Askoka inscription

[@jojosekhose2008]

@@mscreationworks5787 Read my comment once again if you didn't understand what I mean...

[@mscreationworks5787]

@@jojosekhose2008 That's what I say to you

[@ripsanskrit3609]

Cause original brahmi is build by tamils 🙌

[@zappzpp]

As a Indian Tamil speaker, this is much interesting to watch! ❤️ Thanks for making this! 🙏 நன்றி!

[@JayasuryaaGR]

This video is totally wrong. Dravidian scripts are completely different from Brahmi as they were developed from Tamizhi (referred to as Tamil Brahmi by some non Tamil jealousy so called researchers). And Tamizhi is older to north Indian writing scripts. Please research yourself.

[@studyhard-tl4bx]

@@JayasuryaaGR No, you are wrong. Tamizh was written in Brahmi Script (Adichanallur and Keezhadi inscriptions are written in Tamizh Brahmi script only). But our present script is not derived from Brahmi Script rather it is derived from Pallava-Grantha Script.

[@studyhard-tl4bx]

@@JayasuryaaGR Yo ye yaa? Yeenn?? nu kekarenn.. Archaeologists ku yen jealousy irukum? Mula vacchirkiya ya mayiru landu yosikriya? Konjom sensible aa pesu..

[@zappzpp]

7:43 I think he tries to explain this (his half baked research)

[@Science_Atrium]

You use the most interesting writing system for me.

[@pankhayanpyar]

FYI, you used wrong Burmese fonts while rendering. It would be မြန်မာဘာသာ and not the other way around.

[@galacticempire32]

True

[@servantofaeie1569]

He rendered Kannada and Khmer wrong too.

[@pankhayanpyar]

@@servantofaeie1569 abugida problems :"

[@RizalBudiLeksono]

Some abugidas have complicated rendering as hell 😭😭😭

[@anarkyster]

I can't help but spot the irony of the fact that the person who spotted that mistake has an upside-down profile photo!🤣

[@pranavjoshi1471]

0:44 I loved this Nepal part

[@nevreiha]

1:28 china does have simplified and traditional, though this variation came from the revolution. If you look at older Vietnamese Chữ Nôm, Korean Hanja which used to be more prevalent, or even kanji in modern japanese - you see that the script was more prevalent and had variations.

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

He is in the Ashoka's timeline. Whereas Sanskrit and all the other India languages are much older. He is fooling us 😞 know the truth his video is based on assumptions and theory not on real facts.

[@yashagrawal88]

There are many other scripts too, some old, like Tangut, Zhuang, some newly developed for the languages spoken in Yunnan, Sichuan, etc.. Han scripts also have many variations.

[@MultiSciGeek]

China also has Tibetan, Mongol (Cyrillic), Uighur etc... Idk why he dismissed these.

[@ElCidLee]

@@MultiSciGeek Because those are not traditional Chinese area, they were conquered by Manchu and Chinese recent centuries.

[@damienthonk1506]

@@Your_spanish_el_amigo stop spamming this comment everywhere.

[@Maverick_Panda]

Most of us Indians grow up trilingual (full proficiency - speaking, reading, writing).. and have the intrinsic ability to understand many more..

[@PurooRoy]

Sadly that fact isn't true. Only 18% Indians know English of which half are bad in it. It's ironic we are asked to study and work in English while countries with more English speakers like Germany and Russia use their native languages in everything.

[@shivampatnaik2000]

Indians are monolingual to a very large extent. Trilinguals form a rather small part of India's population (around 10-15%?). Bilinguals outnumber trilinguals in India although bilinguals themselves probably number less than monolinguals in India.

[@rajavishnuvardhana6830]

You have written kannada ( ಕನ್ನಡ )as kananada(ಕನನಡ) in the video 😃

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

He is in the Ashoka's timeline. Whereas Sanskrit and all the other India languages are much older. He is fooling us 😞 know the truth his video is based on assumptions and theory not on real facts.

[@vishwajithpuranik]

You forgot about the kadamba script which was indegineously developed from brahmi and is used for present Kannada and telugu scripts

[@Amoghavarsha.]

Kadamba script is developed to write kannada later in Chalukyas time Telugu adopted Kannada script.

[@holup977]

Man Socrates stuff about writing aged like milk, If it wasn't for writing Socrates probably would be saved the embarrassment, It's kinda like I heard about making an apocalypse prediction "If you are right no one will be there to congratulate you, If you are wrong you will be hearing about it all your life"

[@FindingtruthintravellingSoham]

It's still debatable whether it(origin of Brahmi) was indegenous development but according to recent research and discoveries indegenous origins holds more ground. No one denies that there were no interaction as Kharoathi script developed in Northwestern Indian Subcontinent was actually a hybrid of Indic and Aramaic scripts.....but Brahmi developed indegenously.

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

He is in the Ashoka's timeline. Whereas Sanskrit and all the other India languages are much older. He is fooling us 😞 know the truth his video is based on assumptions and theory not on real fact.

[@المنتزهاتي11]

From Aramaic

[@abc_cba]

As a native Marathi speaker, you should someday post a video on our language. We have some really unusual pronunciations and alphabets for our language which descends from Prakrit subfamily of Sanskrit based languages but we share a lot of Dravidian features and that of some Persian words into our lexicons. For example, each consonant here(ट ठ ड ढ) is pronounced distinctly in Marathi, whereas, Hindi speakers might mix up Sh(श) and S(स) as in Desh/ Des or Ganesh/Ganes or Shankar/Sankar so, on Consonant ळ is absent from Hindi diction, but is assumed to have entered into our Marathi diction from Dravidian languages, Malayalam having four sounds to that.(though, it does exist in Sanskrit but rarely used). Consonant ज्ञ in Marathi would be pronounced as "gyn" but in Hindi would be "gya". We also have a distinct "ज" which can be substituted for the Z sounds as well as J sounds, Marathi speakers know the distinction on where to use it. Z alphabet completely absent from Indian languages. I think it made into our diction from Aramaic Alphabets since Brahmi script was based on it and Persians spoke a dialect of Aramaic too. So, Zaheer would be pronounced with a "Z" and not with a "J" which most Indians don't have a distinct consonant for, lately a "ज़" has come into existence. Similarly, with the Consonant "फ" which can be used both for "Fa" (as in far) sounds and "phaa" (as in purple) sounds. Most Marathi speakers can speak the consonant "क्ष" easily, whereas, a lot of non-Marathi speakers would use a "chh/छ" for it(not necessarily) , as in Kshatriya(You'd find many Hindi speakers say Chatriya), Kshetraphal(Chetraphal), so, on. One more fact, is we have close to 42 dialects in Marathi and trust me, each dialect can qualify for a different sub-language(if this even makes sense). Most people from say, Vidarbha region wont understand Marathwada speakers of Marathi and so on .. Most of our words are so Sanskrit in base that literature of Marathi can classify as the closest to Sanskrit of all Indian languages but won't be understood by the usual crowd. irrespective of that, We are Indians and im proud of each and every language that exists in my country's realm. We are all equal and beautiful in our own ways. The motive of this post is not to showcase a superiority over other languages but just to point out a few distinctions. Thanks for your awesome video, LIKE ALWAYS !!!

[@phs125]

Cultural exchange is how india lived before the foreign invasions. Kannada has lots and lots of sanskrit words, even though it's a Dravidian language. I can almost understand sanskrit without actually studying it, because there's so many words I already know. Meanwhile our southern neighbours, being corrupted by the divide and conquer ideology, Claim for a seperate Dravidian country...

[@parker4406]

Can confirm One parent is from the middle of marathwada and the other is from vidarbha I grew up on puneri marathi There's always miscommunications when we speak 😅 (The accent is a far different story)

[@0arjun077]

@@phs125 we Malayalis also use so many Sanskrit words.

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

He is in the Ashoka's timeline. Whereas Sanskrit and all the other India languages are much older. He is fooling us 😞 know the truth his video is based on assumptions and theory not on real fact.

[@yashagrawal88]

@Ketan Kulkarni Not Konkani?

[@sskbunny4371]

In India, students need to learn 3 languages along with their scripts(except in the hindi speaking states) in the schools.

[@sskbunny4371]

@@lovekanaujia345 i even had sanskrit in my 11th and 12th but i didn't learned a lot and i just studied it to get pass the exam 😅

[@sskbunny4371]

@༼ཆ༽ nope,i am from south India,Andhra Pradesh we should need to learn Hindi here.

[@sskbunny4371]

@༼ཆ༽ i don't know about other states, but in my state Hindi is a compulsory language, but most of the people study Hindi just to pass the exams that's why most of them don't speak Hindi

[@Jeaucques]

6:44 You forgot that the Siddham script split into Odia script also.😭

[@jairajgowdajairajgowda238]

Sumerian words that are still in use in Kannada Sumerians (5500 BCE - 1800 BCE) & Akkadians (2400 BCE ) called the people of Indus/Harrapan (3300 BCE - 1300 BCE) as Meluhha, MeluKhkha or MeluhhaKi. The word MeluKhkha literally means people of high lands and is just as same as KarNata Mele = Higher = Kar Akha/Ki = Country = Nata Malla in Kannada also means Great. Many Kannada kings had title with Malla like: JagadekaMalla, TribhuvanaMalla (Vikramaditya), Trailokyamalla/Ahavamalla (Someshwara) KarNata Kingdom who ruled Nepal, Bihar, UP called themselves as MallaVamshi (Great Clan) of KarNata. Even today in Karnataka names like MallAmma, MallAnna, Mallesha are very common. Many historians, Linguists, Philologists now claim that the Root of Dravidian/Kannada language is connected with Sumero-Dravidian languages. One of the most remarkable things about Kannada is, Sumerian words are not only found in earlier Kannada (haLeGannada, NaduGannada) but are still in use even in today's Kannada (HosaGannada). Sumerians/Akkadians both record trades with Indus/Harrappan people with items names having names of Kannada origin or connected with Kannada. Like, Agar[a/u] : Fragrance Wood Oil - SandleWood eLLu : Sesame - eLLu Bison/Buffalos Horns - KA is still famous for KadEmme (Wild Buffallo/Bisons) Some Sumerian words that are still in use in Kannada Ri - Respectable / elderly person (Ree - to elders, verbs suffixed with ree [Verb+Ree] - for elderly person: Madri [Please do], keLri [Please listen]) Bi-ra - Mix (Kannada - Bera as in Berasu) Su - do (Madisu, keLisu, torisu) Karu - Black - Kari Nir - Water - Nir Ag - To become (Aagu - become) Ur - Village ( Ur/Uru in Kananda) Sig - Sun Burnt tiles (Sigadi - Fireplace, from Seke - Heat from sun, similar to Shaki/Saki - Sultry due to sun) Bir - Break (Biruku - Break) Sumerian Counting One - Ur/Uru - Or/Ondu Two - Ir - Iru/Eradu Three - Mu - Mu/Muru Four - Na - Nalk[u] Five - A/ia - ay/Ayd[u] Six - as - Aar[u] Ten - Ha - Hatthu With connection of Kannada with Sumerian, Akkadian, Indus civilization there is no doubt that Kannada is one of the longest living languages. Needless to say advent of Sanskrit/Prakrit have done tremendous erosion of culture & history to Kannada in past. Credits: Research by A. Sathasivam M.A., Ph.D. on Dravidian and Sumerian Languages. Other Credits twitter.com/anilkmr_m/stat… jungledragon.com/specie/35218/s… twitter.com/anilkmr_m/stat… @nanminiradio @karnatabala @CMofKarnataka @VinaySodad @sndptw @imanjuvs @Naagashree @Amara_Bengaluru @blhars @nimmakarthick @PLEKarnataka @sanrnsam7 @_adikadhunaga_ @rajanna_rupesh @BelagaviKA @AlurDivya @Kannadastar123 @sudhguruspeaks @gnan007 @umesh_anush @malnadkoos @Rameshgowda_c @KanthaRocky @nesarabettaliya @ajavgal @KNayakas @Chandra_hb77 @AdarshaUm @ShyamSPrasad @teekappa24 @Kannada_Culture @BelagaviKA @NammaKalyana @LakshmeeshaCS #Kannada #KKKPower #KannadaIndus #KannadaSumerian #AntiquityOfKannada

[@omkargouraje6243]

Thanks. I littly understand Kannada.

[@speedypichu6833]

I personally loved the jokes in this video

[@rhythmmandal3377]

you know what's funny about the assamese script, even though it's romanized with 's' and also in assamese script written with an 's' equivalent it is actually pronunced like the 'x' or velar or uvular fricative.

[@ArghyadeepPal]

Eg-Panixiya (পানীসিয়া)

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

He is in the Ashoka's timeline. Whereas Sanskrit and all the other India languages are much older. He is fooling us 😞 know the truth his video is based on assumptions and theory not on real facts.

[@mimis.5139]

@@ArghyadeepPal that word has no existence in assamese but made for the song of Kaysee, you can check the description of the song

[@tobirates916]

“Brutal honesty filter”= bad idea 🤦‍♀️

[@sargeanthrs]

Me: a lovely soothing KhAnubis video before I go to sleep. 7:38: scares the life out of me 😂

[@MattTheViper]

hi! also u should discuss about Indonesia's local dialects. It's interesting!

[@fardiorin9133]

It depends on how you define dialects. To my knowledge, these "dialects" are almost individual languages under big language family. However, if you mention Javanese dialects, yes, it's very interesting. I'm a native Indonesian.

[@MattTheViper]

@@fardiorin9133 Oh, im also a native. Half Chinese/Javanese. Anyways, i just wanted to discuss about the local dialects here we have. Like Sundanese, Batak, Javanese, etc. I know there's a lot of variation in Indonesia itself, and maybe that's a fun topic to discuss and/or explain about.

[@AbdullahQecibegCH]

Yea, that's interesting

[@rupalitales5444]

@@fardiorin9133 Javanese have little bit Indian in their DNA

[@rudrajeet814]

@@rupalitales5444 Indonesia means Indo( you know whom it refers to) Nesia- island Shri vijayan empire ruled their in the times of chola Which was a subsidary alliance of chola Its basically indic people and indic culture

[@rateeightx]

2:06 Correct Me If I'm Wrong, But Isn't It Somewhat Debated Whether Brahmi Is Descended From Phoenician, With Some Suspecting It Evolved On Its Own?

[@caniget600subscriberswitho5]

Its all Egyptian at the roots

[@FindingtruthintravellingSoham]

It's still debatable but according to recent research and discoveries indegenous origins holds more ground. No one denies that there were no interaction as Kharoathi script developed in Northwestern Indian Subcontinent was actually a hybrid of Indic and Aramaic scripts.....but Brahmi developed indegenously.

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

He is in the Ashoka's timeline. Whereas Sanskrit and all the other India languages are much older. He is fooling us 😞 know the truth his video is based on assumptions and theory not on real fact.

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

@@FindingtruthintravellingSoham just Europeans theory bro. You can clearly see he is in Ashoka's time line but Sanskrit and other India languages are much older the oldest tamil inscripted rock was found to be 5000 years old. He is just giving false information.

[@yashagrawal88]

@@Your_spanish_el_amigo The video is about the evolution of scripts, not languages.

[@Pari-i2u]

In NE India there is 2 officially recognised scripts which is Meitei you forgot to mention its used by 2m people

[@rohanroynameless]

Brahmi from Phoenician script theory isn't universally accepted theory... Why are you treating it as Fact?

[@المنتزهاتي11]

It has become universally accepted

[@DhruvRathod-ut3xj]

ACCORDING to linguistics survey in India : Indians have a 780+ more Language are mother tongue language. There are 122 language 10000 more people spoken, which has 1.21Billion peoples said it . Scheduled languages is 22 1. HINDI 2. GUJARATI 3. MARATHI 4. TAMIL 5. TELUGU 6. KANNADA 7. MALAYALAM 8. BENGALI 9. ORIYA 10. URDU 11. KONKANI 12. BODO 13. DOGRI 14. KASHMIRI 15. PUNJABI 16. MAITHILI 17. SINDHI 18. SANTALI 19. ASSAMESE 20. NEPALI 21. KANNADA 22. SANSKRIT THIS 22 OFFICIAL SCHEDULE LANGUAGE MOST SPOKEN PEOPLE POPULATION 🇮🇳 ❤ And only to OFFICIAL LANGUAGES 1. HINDI 2. ENGLISH INDIA HAVE A NO RECENTLY NATIONAL LANGUAGE 🇮🇳❤😊

[@nilnull5457]

So basically Sanskrit, a many millennia (>5000-8000 years) old language came from a language a few millennia later, interesting.

[@johnsherfey3675]

I'm assuming out of India?

[@prajithp2916]

No I think Sanskrit was already spoken before... maybe the writing system started a lot later. India predominantly had an oral tradition of imparting knowledge... only later on these was written down

[@fatpotato3512]

@@prajithp2916 you can say that for any language like tamil, and there are languages in Africa without a writing system, which could be much older than sanskrit Or tamil.

[@damienthonk1506]

He very obviously mentioned that Sanskrit just picked up a new writing system later. Clearly you weren't paying attention.

[@sivaganesh1822]

Pallava dynasty mostly used Sanskrit,Tamil and Prakit......Pallava's attention to Southeast Asia like Malaysia,Indonesia,Singapore and Brunei are evident......thats why Tamil and Sanskrit has similars with Malay and Indon languages

[@phs125]

The way your font engine is configured, It has butchered the name of my language, Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ)(although I typed it here, if you don't have indic font engine, your device also potentially butchered it.) In the video, it looks like Ka-na-na-da rather than Ka_nna-da

[@KumarNikhils]

Historian do not agree to that brahmi script was derived from Phoenician. There are a competitive view that it was developed independently or even from IVC. There is dark age of 1000 years in indian history between fall of IVC and rise of brahmi . What you mentioned is euro centric view that every thing originated in middle East. Either in Sumer or Phoenicia. We know you belong to Europe but promoting eurocentric view of India is quite limiting and biased . Don't u think.

[@lekevire]

The Brahmi script did derive from Aramaic (which derived from Phoenician). The IVC script died out in the dark ages of 1000 years, and even if the script being related to Aramaic is debated, you can even take one glance at the IVC script and the Brahmi script and tell that they are different, as the IVC script is a pictographic script, meaning that every symbol means 1 word, while the Brahmi script is an abugida. The Aramaic script was visibly also similar to the Brahmi script, as you can identify characters that look extremely similar. Also, the Aramaic language (along with its script) spread eastward in the Persian Empire, which borders the Indus, which resulted in the Aramaic influence on India, leading to the formation of the Brahmi script. I'm not sure which historian disagrees with the Brahmi script deriving from Phoenician thing, because I thought historians discovered it in the first place.

[@akhripasta2670]

​​​@lekevire It didn't die out IValley has pashupati seal( one of the Trinity of Hinduism), the civilisation never died, it kept evolving .

[@amritrandhawa3509]

Punjabi uses 3 writing systems; Gurmukhi (India), Shahmukhi (Pakistan), and Landa. Landa was also used to write Hindustani, Sindhi, Saraiki, Balochi, Kashmiri, Pashto, and various Punjabi dialects like Pahari-Pothwari.

[@Science_Atrium]

Where is Landa used?

[@தமிழன்-ர8ழ]

Three types of Scripts were used to write the Tamil language, 2000 years ago they use ' Tamili scripts' and 2AD to 14AD they use Vatteluttu script ( because of writing purpose in palm leaf ), now they use modern Tamil (தமிழ்) .

[@Bhaktiimarrg]

We call vattezhuth in kerala

[@fatpotato3512]

@@Bhaktiimarrg yea it's the same here(tamil nadu) You mean zhagaram by zh right?

[@whoops0]

You have to update yourself. There used to be a belief that Tamil-brahmi evolved from Brahmi. Tamil-brahmi was named "Tamil-Brahmi", only because it was discovered later. But once after the Keezhadi excavation, they found that Tamil-brahmi is found to be at least 500 years old compared to Brahmi. Moreover, Tamil-brahmi is no longer called Tamil-brahmi. It is called THAMILI. This term was attested in Saamavenga sudham(a jain text) and Lalithavitharam(budhist text), both belonging to the 1-2nd century.

[@soultr549]

8:25 I think this map is kinda Inaccurate

[@satnav9699]

correction 1:10 Punjabi actually has two scripts, Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi

[@Tejas_]

Shahmukhi came hundreds of years later not the original punjabi script

[@servantofaeie1569]

thats literally just the Arabic script which WAS mensioned

[@ripsanskrit3609]

Ok

[@পরাক্রমীবাঙ্গালী]

Arabic script has already been mentioned, dude.

[@bhinbhinkaka6514]

@@Tejas_ Shahmukhi is older than Gurumukhi.

[@anurupsil8216]

In fact, every state in India has a different language. And each language has its own section. Even sometimes the sectiona are so different that you can’t relate to each other but they belong to the same language and state.

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

He is in the Ashoka's timeline. Whereas Sanskrit and all the other India languages are much older. He is fooling us 😞 know the truth his video is based on assumptions and theory not on real facts.

[@yashagrawal88]

It is about cultural ethnic regions, not political states.

[@haydenross8215]

I love this channel because the diversity in what you talk about it keeps learning interesting

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

He is in the Ashoka's timeline. Whereas Sanskrit and all the other India languages are much older. He is fooling us 😞 know the truth his video is based on assumptions and theory not on real facts.

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

Sometimes his videos are based in theory and assumptions not on facts. Cross check before believing.

[@Dumpy332]

🇮🇳 जनगणमन-अधिनायक जय हे ভারতভাগ্যবিধাতা! ਪੰਜਾਬ سنڌ‎ ગુજરાત मराठा திராவிட ଉତ୍କଳ বঙ্গ विंध्य हिमाचल यमुना गङ्गा ఉచ్ఛలజలధితరంగ তব শুভ নামে জাগে, তব শুভ আশিষ মাগে, গাহে তব জয়গাথা। ಜನಗಣಮಂಗಳದಾಯಕ জয় हे بھارت ഭാഗ്യവിധാതാ! जय हे, जय हे, जय हे, जय जय जय जय हे।।

[@bijoydasudiya]

The national anthem is in Bengali.

[@pranav210591]

As someone who can speak only 3 Indian languages but can read 6 Indic scripts, I can attest to the fact that the characters are quite closely related. Some pairs of scripts are closer to each other than latin-greek or latin-cyrillic.

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

He is in the Ashoka's timeline. Whereas Sanskrit and all the other India languages are much older. He is fooling us 😞 know the truth his video is based on assumptions and theory not on real fact.

[@pranav210591]

@@Your_spanish_el_amigo I don't want to go into that line of thought. Frankly, I've heard so many theories that it's difficult to separate fact from fiction, especially when it's topic with deep political implications in India. I'm more concerned with the present state. Western people generally have a poor understanding of Indian culture. If someone is helping educate western audiences about the diversity of Indian culture, I'm okay with it.

[@MarcusMoMain]

1:30 China does have other writing scripts, like Tibetian (mentioned), Yi, Tai Nuea...

[@Alice-7777]

Tibet is not china

[@MarcusMoMain]

@@Alice-7777 -_- Tibet is an autonomous region of China. For whatever reasons, you can just fact-check before commenting.

[@Alice-7777]

@@MarcusMoMain tibetians don't consider themselves chinese Free tibet 💪

[@MarcusMoMain]

@@Alice-7777 🤦‍♂️Ok then

[@servantofaeie1569]

​@@Alice-7777It is, but it shouldn't be.

[@scramjet7466]

One reason, unlike europe, middle east and America, India appreciates diversity and doesn't commit ethnic cleansing.

[@jorgepalacio6910]

Is that why they mass migrate to middle east and north America escaping genocide?

[@prathameshdatar3006]

For the most part. And its important to keep it that way (if you know what I mean... *wink*)

[@Poopick]

All the fonts in the video where messed up

[@sumansrivastava8750]

Well , India might have a lot of scripts but Devnagari has been forced on languages like Awadhi, Bhojpuri and Maithili(Kaithi, Maithilakshar etc. are native scripts) These languages and their scripts are going extinct really fast and they are being replaced by Hindi and Devnagari

[@sodinc]

It is natural nowadays

[@rohan14040]

because awadhi,bhojpuri are considered dialects by central government

[@sumansrivastava8750]

@@rohan14040 But linguistically, they are considered separate languages The languages are endangered and might go extinct in a few generations...

[@rohan14040]

@@sumansrivastava8750 Yes, i know they are considered seperate language . but in real world, languages are more of political identity rather than linguistic identity, like how muslims of india created distinct identity from hindus by saying they speak urdu which is basically same as hindi in spoken form. In fact bhojpuri ,awadhi speakers either consider themselves as hindi speakers or their identity is quite weak. if they had strong identity bhojpuri or awadhi would already been added in scheduled languages

[@rohan14040]

@@sumansrivastava8750 Now,it is too late. hindi has already damaged this languages to core. awadhi and bhojpuri are now only limited to rural areas. but in a globalised world, this was inevitable

[@geo1themove]

1:30 China doesn't solely have the Chinese writing system. It has the Mongolian, Manchu and Tibetan scripts, as well. Additionally, Uyghur and other languages in the country are written in the Perso-Arabic script. There are also languages such as Nuosu that have their own scripts. While it is true that the Chinese writing system is the most dominant of them all, it is not true that this writing system is the sole writing system in China.

[@abhijitparida5093]

Love from ODISHA PROUD of my language ODIA ( ଓଡ଼ିଆ ) Jay jagannath ❤ 🙏 ♥ ଜୟ ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ 🙏 ❤ 🙏

[@ଅନ୍ୱେଷପତି]

#ଓଡ଼ିଆ

[@singharpan9859]

The "O" alphabet is similar to Punjabi ਓ (O) alphabet. I mean a little similar.. cursively written punjabi "ਓ" can be very similar to the odiya version.

[@ଅନ୍ୱେଷପତି]

@@singharpan9859 Yes the curve length is slightly different ଓ - Odia O ਓ - Gurmukhi O ও - Eastern Nagari O Om is ଓ‍ଁ btw

[@ArghyadeepPal]

ଜୟ ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ ଭାଇ | ମୁଁ ବଙ୍ଗାଳି କିନ୍ତୁ ଓଡିଶାରେ ରୁହେ |

[@ArghyadeepPal]

@@ଅନ୍ୱେଷପତି ଭାଇ ତୁମେ ଏଇଠି ବି

[@IOHiopa]

Indonesia also has many scripts, as it's the second country with most languages.

[@Kannadiga25]

That is not "ಕನ್ ನಡ" it is "KANNADA"(ಕನ್ನಡ). My mother tongue

[@vasanthakumar526]

ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ. ನಾನು ತಮಿಳು. ನಾನು ಕನ್ನಡ ಕಲಿಯುತ್ತಿದ್ದೆನೆ. I want to be fluent in Kannada. Kannada is very sweet language and very easy.

[@madeshgowda1301]

0:26 That's not how you write Kannada ok it written as "ಕನ್ನಡ"

[@islandsunset]

It's worth mentioning that Indus valley script also had a part in India Brahmi script development. The exact relationship of Brahmi and Phoenician isn't well established.

[@fgtrhwu2]

So all language scripts are descendants of the Phoenician. Are you stating this as a possibility or as a fact? Since you also mentioned that the sources conflicted with each other

[@jojosekhose2008]

He meant that the Latin script, along with other Semitic scripts and Brahmi were derived or were atleast partially influenced by the Phoenician script. And yes, there are other scripts that originated independently like the Harappan script or the Chinese script..

[@nomanor7987]

@@jojosekhose2008 Harrapans don’t have their own script.

[@jojosekhose2008]

@@nomanor7987 The Harappans technically have a pictographic script which is still not deciphered.

[@fgtrhwu2]

@@jojosekhose2008 Yes I know this but was he stating it to be a theory or a fact?

[@clovebeans713]

@@nomanor7987 Check IVC script

[@Ironbanner12]

Indian states are literally divided on the basis of language.

[@jojosekhose2008]

Well it's partially true. Telangana and Andhra both speak Telugu but were divided on development basis. And there's proposed states on the basis of language like Dimasa, Bodoland or Barak State but were never implement. Apparently, it's politics rather than language which decide the fate of every state...

[@Shubham-cz6lp]

@@jojosekhose2008 same for Maharashtra & Goa Both state speak Marathi & Kokani but separate because different culture. Northern state speak Hindi but there are different states for Hindi speaking as well. So it not correct statement that Indian state division according to language basis.

[@theodiscusgaming3909]

@@jojosekhose2008 Telangana used to be part of Andhra Pradesh until 2014.

[@wannabeboddhisattva9383]

In rajasthan , himachal , uttarakhamd , uttar pradesh , madhya pradesh , chattisgarh , bihar everyone can speak or understand hindin Many states are created on beographical basis too

[@locacharliewong]

1:32 I'm sorry. Chinese did evolve several types of writing style during different dynasties. From the oracle "甲骨文"to "草書", "隸書" "楷書". Even now, we got Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. Even the simplified Chinese gone through several phrases. Please....

[@locacharliewong]

@@दीपकनागर-थ5छ I didn't say India only have one writing system. So, don't worry.

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

@@दीपकनागर-थ5छ He is in the Ashoka's timeline. Whereas Sanskrit and all the other India languages are much older. He is fooling us 😞 know the truth his video is based on assumptions and theory not on real facts.

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

I researched and I found his video is based on assumptions and theory about India not on real facts and sadly people are believing. What about china is his information correct?

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

@@दीपकनागर-थ5छ all his information about India. there is nothing such as Indo-European language, actually European languages are influenced by Indian languages not India languages by Europeans and he is in Ashoka's time line, he is also speaking about Indo-Aryan languages but there is nothing as indo Aryan thing Aryan means Nobel in Sanskrit as you can see his video is base on theoris about India and not in the real facts and findings, and about findings a tamil inscripted Rock was found to be 5000 years old.

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

@@दीपकनागर-थ5छ stop being dumb 😑 India languages are much older than any mentioned Europeans languages in his video all this inter mixing of languages are going on in Ashoka's timeline which is just 1500 -2100 years old and for your comment on Sanskrit is an Indo-European language I want to say that European languages are influenced by indian languages, but indian languages remains the same and also Sanskrit grammar is all together different and exclusive than any language in the world you you cannot just insert different words from other languages many changes requires for this, I do study Sanskrit that's how I know it.

[@I_am_your_alok]

I speak from Orissa Our language Oriya Our language is not born from any Indian language Our language prakruta > magadhi prakruta > magadhi odia > odia Our Oriya language has nothing to do with the Indian language. Our script is also unique. Our script is born from the Kalinga script.

[@300oakwayparkway9]

I am a Lankan Tamil working in the USA. I can read and write in Tamil. My co-worker is from India (working with me in the USA), with the last name Shah. Now, her mother is from West Bengal and her father is from Gujarat. Ms.Shah was born in Karnataka and went to school and college there. She is married to a guy from a Telugu family. Now she can read and write in Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Telugu and in English. Amazing right! She said she learnt most of the languages from childhood days and she was able grasp them quickly. With so much love I have towards my Tamil language, I asked her if she can learn Tamil as well ❤

[@Maxzes_]

when i was looking thru my tv’s language i found the scripts of india lol

[@HarappanEnigma2024]

one crucial concern that it is very improbable that a dying ABJAD ARMANIC transformed suddenly to Highly complex ABUGIDA MAGADHI that too in heart of Ancient India called Magadh. Likely the MISSING LINK is HARAPPAN SCRIPT.

[@lekevire]

Aramaic wasn't dying. It only started dying at around 700 AD when the Arab Muslims invaded and forced them to speak Arabic. The missing link between how an abjad became an abugida is still under question, but it's probably that they reshaped the abjad and turned it into an abugida, like how the Greeks took an abjad and turned it into an alphabet for them to use as their own. The Brahmi script probably took a lot of influence from the Harappan script though.

[@king_halcyon]

The "Pun" in Punjabi is actually pronounced like the English word *pun* .

[@user-od6ue9zv9u]

For the Philippines one you forgot 4 more which is Kulitan, Hanunuó'o, Buhid and Tagbanwa. There's about 3 more which is Badlit, Basahan and Kurditan/Kuritan, these 3 are just fonts or derivations(?) of baybayin the difference is that the fonts or derivations (?) is a different language.

[@Thesungod95]

yayy! another video on india, your followers will go UP now.

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

He is in the Ashoka's timeline. Whereas Sanskrit and all the other India languages are much older. He is fooling us 😞 know the truth his video is based on assumptions and theory not on real fact.

[@stevelapointe180]

OK can I just say how fantastic this content is?! Maybe it’s just because I’m a geography/ancient history/language nerd but dayum good job man!

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

He is in the Ashoka's timeline. Whereas Sanskrit and all the other India languages are much older. He is fooling us 😞 know the truth his video is based on assumptions and theory not on real facts.

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

Some are just theoris don't belive them fully.

[@servantofaeie1569]

dont forget historical European scripts like ᚱᚢᚾᛟ Ⰳⰾⰰⰳⱁⰾⰹⱌⰰ ᚛ᚑᚌᚐᚋ᚜ 𐀀𐀁𐀂𐀃𐀄

[@JosePineda-cy6om]

1st is (mostly Germanic, but also used by some Turkic tribes) runes , 3rd is Celtic oghams... 2nd is... Glagolitic??? And yeah, once upon a time the Etruscans had their own variant of the Greek alphabet (from which comes the Latin one), the Iberians also had their own alphabetic writing - and finally the most important one: the Chipriots and Creteans had not one but 2 syllabaries that were even used for a time not just to write their (extinct, and undeciphered) Aegean (Pellasgic?) languages, but also proto-Greek

[@servantofaeie1569]

@@JosePineda-cy6om Turks did NOT use Germanic Runes. The Turkic script has some resemblance to Runes in the shape of the letters, but they are very far from being the same script or even grouping of scripts.

[@JosePineda-cy6om]

@@servantofaeie1569 oh, so they're a diff script that just has same angular features? I'd always thought runes had been born somewhere in north-eastern Europe and from there were adopted by both Germanic and Turkic tribes!

[@servantofaeie1569]

@@JosePineda-cy6om yea, they are as different as Roman and Japanese Kana.

[@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions]

They're all dead, so they don't count.

[@ଅନ୍ୱେଷପତି]

ମୁଁ ହେଲି ଓଡ଼ିଆ ମୁଁ ଲେଖେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ 😁

[@parker4406]

Just a correction: Marathi (historically had 2 scripts) The modi (pronounced mo-dee) and the devanagri script While the former was dominant before the 1600s the latter is widely used now There're some places which still practice this lipi (script) but its slowly becoming obselete

[@adityaranjanbiswal4044]

Modi lipi was a cursive variant of the Devanagari script which was developed in order to write official records. Devanagari was used to write inscriptions, literature etc while modi was used to write official records.after the indian independence both modi and balbodh (Devanagari) were taught in schools but during the 1960s the teaching of modi script was discontinued in schools. modi being a cursive script it was difficult to produce a standard typeset for it.As devanagari already had a standard typeset it was decided to continue teaching marathi in the balbodh variant of the devanagari script.

[@adityaranjanbiswal4044]

@Ketan Kulkarni but the people who don't know much about marathi think this language to be some dialect of Hindi because of there scripts are the same.So it is necessary to reintroduce modi inorder to give marathi a unique identity of its own.

[@JeetuKumarYadav-ow8jq]

@@adityaranjanbiswal4044 Devnagari is not equal to Hindi

[@vedantsonawane8104]

@@adityaranjanbiswal4044 Marathi Script has nothing to do with Hindi Script!! We actually use Sanskrit (Devanagiri) script with some extra alphabets like ळ L:a and different sounds of ज्ञ - Dnya (e.g. आज्ञा- Aadnya- permission ) , च - çh, ज - j'a, and ढ - d"ha.

[@adityaranjanbiswal4044]

@@vedantsonawane8104 actually sanskrit never had a script of its it was always written in the script specific to that region, in central and north india sanskrit was written in the devanagari script in eastern India sanskrit was written in eastern nagari(Assamese-bengali script ) In tamilnadu sanskrit was written in a variant of the tamil script known as the grantha script,In my home state odisha sanskrit is written in the odia script.so there is no such script called as the Sanskrit script. The script used to write sanskrit depends on the region where it is written.

[@notboredpanda]

I had thought that Khanubis was bald for some reason.

[@Perririri]

The word Cannabis comes from Khanubis

[@jirachi-wishmaker9242]

संस्कृतम् অসমীয়া हिन्दी اُردُو বাংলা ગુજરાતી ಕನ್ನಡ मराठी தமிழ் മലയാളം తెలుగు ਪੰਜਾਬੀ / پن٘جابی ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ꯃꯤꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ ଓଡ଼ିଆ मैथिली कोंकणी / ಕೊಂಕಣಿ سنڌي / ‎सिन्धी འབྲས་ལྗོངས་སྐད་ बर' राव كٲشُر / कॉशुर डोगरी / ڈوگَرِی नेपाली Kok Borok Ka Ktien Khasi Mizo ṭawng

[@garriumwhirwart5128]

What languages are those between Punjabi and Odia scripts?

[@jirachi-wishmaker9242]

@@garriumwhirwart5128 Santali | Manipuri Ol Chiki script | Meitei script

[@karangamingyt2142]

My native writing system died out because it's have many variations and change allfabet in every 50 km, So it replaced with "Nagari script"

[@Bhaktiimarrg]

Where are you from? Mention your region and mother tongue

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

He is in the Ashoka's timeline. Whereas Sanskrit and all the other India languages are much older. He is fooling us 😞 know the truth his video is based on assumptions and theory not on real facts

[@sirBrouwer]

after reading your Instagram post. I always assumed that your hat was just a easy way to separate your role as KhAnubis from he real William. but it could be that it also worked a bit to well in the real work. maybe in the same way some of the most introverted person in normal day can be the most extra verted clown on stage.

[@अण्वायुवरीवर्त]

Take my like, for showing correct Indian map. In school I was taught an analogy between shape of india and goddess BharatMata, and jammu Kashmir is her crown

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

He is in the Ashoka's timeline. Whereas Sanskrit and all the other India languages are much older. He is fooling us 😞 know the truth his video is based on assumptions and theory not on real facts.

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

Native English people likes to do so.😡

[@yashagrawal88]

@@Your_spanish_el_amigo You are commenting the same thing without even paying attention to what the comment is ! 😂

[@Your_spanish_el_amigo]

@@yashagrawal88 i was just concerned about what people starts to belive after the video that's why I commented.

[@MultiSciGeek]

I'm absolutely shocked he's not even considering the Urdu Nastaliq script (in the context of India)! Also where's Punjabi's Gurumukhi (and once again, Shahmuki)? All of these are as major, if not more, than Assamese, Gujarati, Malayalam... Then less significant ones are: Tibetan, Meitei, Multani etc. Perhaps a better title would have been: _A guide to Indic scripts_ or something. Otherwise it's like making a video titled: "Why does India have so many religions" and then only addressing Hinduism (while even ignoring other mainstream indigenous religions like Buddhism)... You are only addressing half of the _indigenous_ scripts (debatable) and ignoring the reality on the ground where some others are used a lot more.

[@mrperfect-mh4qm]

It is actually one writing system brahmi lipi which transformed into many, but all are very similar

[@OkusTenet]

Theories are being treated as Facts in this video lol... INDUS valley script isn't even deciphered yet.😂

[@rajavishnuvardhana6830]

Sinhala us derived from kadamba script from which kannada and telugu derived.

[@Amoghavarsha.]

Kannada script is developed to write kannada. Later Telugu and Sinhala scripts derived from it.

[@ChannaJayawardhana-h1o]

​@@Amoghavarsha. Sinhala is a direct decendent of brahmi the similarities are because of the influence not because of it derived from it.. modern sinhala script started to develop 6th century ad and forward.. whereas kannada started to get the modern script after 9th century ad to forward..

[@ChannaJayawardhana-h1o]

​@@Amoghavarsha.Sinhala and Kannada are two ancient languages, each with a rich history. Determining which one is older involves looking at their historical development and earliest written records. ### Sinhala: - **Origins:** Sinhala is an Indo-Aryan language that evolved from the Prakrit languages spoken in ancient India. - **Earliest Records:** The earliest inscriptions in Sinhala date back to the 3rd century BCE, during the reign of King Ashoka. These inscriptions are in the form of Brahmi script, which was used in the earliest Sinhala texts. ### Kannada: - **Origins:** Kannada is a Dravidian language, related to Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam. It has a history distinct from the Indo-Aryan language family. - **Earliest Records:** The oldest known Kannada inscriptions are from the 5th century CE, found in the Halmidi inscription. However, Kannada's oral tradition and linguistic history suggest that it was in use well before these inscriptions. ### Comparison: - **Written Records:** Based on the available written records, Sinhala has older inscriptions dating back to the 3rd century BCE, while Kannada's earliest inscriptions are from the 5th century CE. - **Linguistic Development:** Both languages have ancient roots, with Sinhala evolving from the Prakrit languages and Kannada from the Dravidian language family. Therefore, based on the evidence of written records, Sinhala appears to have earlier documented use compared to Kannada. However, both languages have rich and ancient oral traditions that predate their earliest inscriptions.

[@Amoghavarsha.]

@@ChannaJayawardhana-h1o Kannada script found from 350 ad. Developed during the rule of the Kadamba empire. We even have inscriptions written from that time. I don't know how you came up with the 9th century timeline .

[@ChannaJayawardhana-h1o]

@@Amoghavarsha. aren't you talking about its first written evidence..? Sinhala first written evidence dates back to 3bce.. Old sinhala 3bce-4ad(before 3bce) Proto sinhala 4ad-8ad Middle sinhala 8ad-9ad Modern sinhala 9ad-13 century

[@holup977]

Great videos lately, good job man

[@team_tsubasa6484]

uttarakhand (kumaoni and garhwali) himachal had takri script... still find old writting

[@LordLebu]

There is no proof that Aramaic script is the parent of Brahmi. There was already a written system based in Indus valley civilization.

[@MrAdik861]

Aye, but the Indus valley script was (most probably) not an alphabet 🙂

[@LordLebu]

@@MrAdik861 this is a 'god of the gaps' argument.

[@MrAdik861]

@@LordLebu Not exactly. I understand there are two schools of the origins of the Brahmi alphabet: the Aramaic origin and the Indus origin. The thing is: Aramaic is an alphabet, whereas the Indus script is undeciphered, but most probably it was a logographic script, or maybe even a syllabic script. Such scripts don't become alphabets just like that. Second, the Brahmi script appeared when Aramaic was already propagated in the Indus valley. But there is no surety if the Indus script has had a continuity after the collapse of the civilization. Then again, it's also possible that while the Brahmi script used modified Indus script characters, the alphabetic idea itself (reading characters as single sounds: consonants and vowels) came with the Aramaic alphabet. Such a thing happened to a few new alphabets in ancient times. But the Indus script needed to have survived for more than 1000 years after the collapse of the civilization, modified or not.

[@LordLebu]

@@MrAdik861 there was no invasion that caused the collapse of Indus valley civilization. So I am not sure why anyone would pickup a foreign script. The lack of evidence doesn't mean the invisible hand of god is at work, it means ignorance. Greek was imposed on North India, and due to the influx of people from Persia there is a chance Greek, Aramaic-derived-script was adopted by the ruling class. But this can only happen after the Makedon invasions.

[@MrAdik861]

@@LordLebu Let's clear up things: 1. Indus valley civilization collapsed, we agree on this. But after them the Indo-Aryans came into the Indus valley, and they established what we know as Indian civilization. As far as I know, back in the 2nd millennium BC they didn't have any script, or we don't know of it. Maybe they had. 2. You speak of the Alexandrian Empire. But before Alexander the Great there existed the Persian (Achaemenid) Empire. And believe it or not, the Persian Empire adopted Aramaic as its public script. So for around 200 years Aramaic was spread from Anatolia and Egypt to Indus valley as the lingua franca of Achaemenic Empire. After its collapse, the Aramaic abjad started to be adopted locally into Nabataean, Syriac and Pahlavi. And in the Indus valley river, it was adopted into Kharosthi. And the same was probably with the Brahmi script. Whether it was a natural evolution from Aramaic, or it had some influence from the maybe-yet-in-local-use Indus valley civilization script, or it was artificially suited by the ruling class of Maurya Empire - we cannot tell.

[@prometheus7387]

I can read and write in Tamil :)

[@gituparnasarma]

Sorry but first script was Brahmi and devnagri came very after it so please mention that also

[@whatno5090]

China doesn't just have one script. They've got the characters oh yes, but there's also Mongolian script (the one used in China is different from cyrillic!) and Manchu script, Nu Shu and most notably, Tibetan script

[@peace719]

Tibetan is a Brahmin script from india...not Chinese script and Tibetan isn't even linguistically related to Putonghua

[@whatno5090]

@@peace719 I meant to say China! Not Chinese! My bad.

[@Thejas_Gatty]

Love from India ❤️

[@yadaKiKhula]

But the sad thing is that most Indians (from cities) use Latin script to write even Indian languages. This needs to stop. People don’t even realise what damage this is doing to the script. The lesser the script is used the more chances are for its extinction.

[@BaldwinJ]

ഭാരതസംസ്കാരത്തിൻ്റെ ഭാഗമാകാൻ സാധിച്ചതിൽ ഞാൻ വളരേയധികം അഭിമാനിക്കുന്നു.. ✨

[@fatpotato3512]

This new translate feature is really useful lol

[@madmouse4400]

@@fatpotato3512 yes man , I can confirm that.

[@fatpotato3512]

@@madmouse4400 and now it's gone, it's kinda buggy

[@animeflex5297]

🇵🇰🇮🇳🇧🇩🇳🇵🇱🇰🇲🇻 = SOUTH ASIAN Ethnic Traditional Cultural Languages » Urdu / Punjabi / Sindhi / Kashmiri / Gujarati / Hindi / Bengali / Oriya / Assamese / Marathi / Sinhalese / Maldivian / Nepali / Konkani / Dogri / Sanskrit / Bhojpuri / Rajasthani / Maithili / Brahui / Telugu / Tamil / Malayalam / Kannada / Balti / Meitei / Bodo / Santali (INDO-ARYAN / DRAVID / TIBET-BURMAN / AUSTRO-ASIATIC)

[@hewhomustnotbenamed6564]

There's also the Meitei Mayek script of Manipur and the Kokborok script of Tripura

[@Anshulhe]

Recent excavations brought to light Tamil brahmi script dating from 6th century bce and also lot of IVC script words are similar to Brahmi so histroy is not simple as you just put it😄

[@darknessincarnate138]

I heard that Indus civilization might have used Dravidian scripts

[@Anshulhe]

@@darknessincarnate138 yes even dravidian language used to be spoken in IVC and ivc script shows clear influences on later brahmi script interesting isn't it 🙂

[@darknessincarnate138]

@@Anshulhe I thought IVC would be more Sanskrit based, come to think of it today's Dravidian based languages could be some of the oldest spoken languages still in use

[@Anshulhe]

@@darknessincarnate138 true and big civilisations like IVC have more than one language so not just dravidian maybe there are few sanskrit based languages who knows. Only time can tell but nonetheless IVC dna is present in all Indians so something to celebrate as part of such a great civilization🤩

[@clovebeans713]

@@darknessincarnate138 Sanskrit is Indo-European language, by the time aryan nomad tribes came to India ivc was gone, the knowledge of cities were lost, it would take 500-700 years for cities to arise again in late vedic age but still wouldn't be as advanced as ivc cities with city planning and drainage system.

[@rohanbansal2324]

One thing here, though India was not united consistently over a long long period under one rule that was defined by geographical lines, the uniting factor for us was not geographical but based on language and culture (Hinduism and all other thoughts that sprung out of it). So I think idea of nationhood is just that; an idea. It takes a different form depending on the culture in question.