In this video we compare Yemenite and Samaritan Hebrew to modern Hebrew, and see where the differences occur in the pronunciation and how well they can understand each other. Check out Abood's documentary to learn more about the Samaritans: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZiuep-di9GbmK8 Check out Shahar's performance on The X Factor Israel (there are many more videos): kzbin.info/www/bejne/haKcaniQZ5ySd8k If you would like to participate in a video on our channel please contact me on Instagram: instagram.com/BahadorAlast
@franzaepinus24982 жыл бұрын
The fact that Samaritans still exist is a miracle itself
@Mo-zh2sc2 жыл бұрын
في الحقيقة أكثر من يفرح بالعيد وبانتهاء رمضان هم الأقليات غير المسلمة في البلدان الإسلامية أو غير المسلم داخل الأسرة المسلمة، لأنهم يجبرون طيلة شهر على مجاراة الأغلبية والخضوع لها على الأقل ظاهريا. ولذلك أقول لهم كل سنة وأنتم طيبون أيضا
@joedee18632 жыл бұрын
In Arabic the 'big book' is kitaboon kabiroon. Big house = bayatoon kabiroon. Kabir is a word found in many languages right across the middle East.
@joedee18632 жыл бұрын
@Shalom Shalom - please explain what the word 'wali' means in Arabic.
@joedee18632 жыл бұрын
@Shalom Shalom - yeah, I notice you mentioned that but Hebrew has a different word for 'big'.
@Bowl_O_Udon2 жыл бұрын
Wow! I can’t believe we are getting a glance of Samaritan Hebrew! Thank you for showing us this Bahador!
@thefraug382740 минут бұрын
There are really only 800 Samaritans? They did special DNA tests of the people of the MidEast and compared to the DNA of the remains they found of the people during the time of Moses and found that the Samaritan DNA was almost the same. Iraq. I think next were Syrians and then Palestinians. The videos are on YT but I can't remember the channel or titles :( In America we are all such a melting pot of so many cultures that integrate over time except for the very religious but still over generations they melt in. It's interesting to see places around the world so close to each other with different languages and even little differences in cultures and how the religious or historical texts are interpreted
@nitzan37822 жыл бұрын
As a modern Hebrew speaker who hasn't heard Yemenites using their dialect(only modern Hebrew with a slight Yemenite accent), I understood the Yemenite's sentences immediately, it was more like a dialect, while Samaritan sounded like another language, until he explained the pronounciation of ח. After that, the second sentence was easily decipherable but still not as familiar as the Yemenite version. Shows how much role accents play in perceived linguistic distance.
@NorbertNahumEvreuklovic3 ай бұрын
Samaritan was hard akhi😂 he clearly spoke Arabic
@avidavidzada47212 жыл бұрын
Amazing! I have not heard Samaritan being spoken before. This is really nice to see. Thank you for organizing!
@yehoshuabenavraham97062 жыл бұрын
Shalom Shalom I believe his name is עובדיה (‘Ôvǎdhyâ) in Hebrew. It’s the name of one of the 12 later prophets.
@preussenuberalles16822 жыл бұрын
I think Alan Horvath has some vídeos with Arameic.
@ערביפחור2 жыл бұрын
@@yehoshuabenavraham9706 the Ovadia is the „hebrew“ version of the Arabic Obada/عبادة
10 ай бұрын
I think this was a historical video actually!
10 ай бұрын
@shalomshalom8715 actually OVADYAH
@sysrek Жыл бұрын
As a Assyrian aramaic speaker, I had to stop the video and think of what the words were being said and with time I understood, the modern Hebrew not so much but the other two I did. Much love from Bet Nahrain ❤
@AnastasiaMariaJ Жыл бұрын
maybe i'm ovethinking it, but yemenite hebrew has a very clear aramaic influence!!!
@ericc932111 ай бұрын
@@AnastasiaMariaJ Aramaic is a very closely related language to old hebrew, being both northwest semitic languages. Yemenite hebrew is one of the only branches of hebrew to not go extinct and has remained closer to biblical hebrew. So it stayed closely related to Aramaic while modern hebrew has diverged and mutated.
@AnastasiaMariaJ11 ай бұрын
thank you so much for that, because it was so similar to aramaic i was in shock.@@ericc9321
@user-bm8fw4ep2j10 ай бұрын
Modern hebrew not kosher🤪
@hagopsarkarian9 ай бұрын
❤️💙🤍 😊 greetings from Armenia 🇦🇲
@zackmano2 жыл бұрын
I literally could not get the smile off my face the whole video! 🥰🙌🏼 I could listen to hours of this conversation. I'm an Egyptian Jew, fluent in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic. I also have a real love for Yemenite Jewish pronunciation, music, and religious tradition. I have some knowledge of Samaritan pronunciation and culture, but this video has inspired me to look further and learn more. Thank you to everyone for sharing this incredible conversation! May there be many more like it 🙏🏼💙🙌🏼
@BigJFindAWay2 жыл бұрын
I'm sure Egyptian pronunciation music and tradition are very fine and well worth preserving too.
@zackmano2 жыл бұрын
@@BigJFindAWay Don't worry, we are proudly preserving our Egyptian heritage 🙏🏼🙌🏼 Half the people in my synagogue are Egyptians. If it wasn't for Abdel Nasser, we'd still be there. But we are still proud of the long history of the Egyptian Jewish community that spanned back millenia and we carry on those traditions 🙏🏼💙🙌🏼
@BigJFindAWay2 жыл бұрын
@@zackmano I am really happy to hear this. I know that there are some Egyptian batei knessiot in New York and Deal New Jersey. I hope there are also others. Hope the Egyptian traditions being passed down to the kids. How do the Egyptian Jews pronounce their Hebrew liturgically? Is it more like the Syrians or the Moroccans?
@zackmano2 жыл бұрын
@@BigJFindAWay Our pronunciation is more similar to Syrians than Moroccans, but it's in the same ballpark. My father's generation was influenced by Israeli pronunciations, but I personally pronounce Hebrew more like my grandfather and older generations that had a very accurate and ancient pronunciation that is documented in ancient Jewish literature (Ibn Ezra, etc.) and I take pride in praying and learning that way and teaching it to my children and other Jews who have not studied these things. Not very long ago, Jews all over the Middle East sounded much more like Yemenites, with a very detailed pronunciation system. Modern Israeli Hebrew has unfortunately influenced so many pronunciations but it seems many in this generation are going back to their roots and I do my part to encourage that and teach others.
@zackmano2 жыл бұрын
@@BigJFindAWay And yes, there are Egyptian synagogues all over the US and many countries. In my area of South Florida alone there are thousands of Egyptian Jews and the Sepharadi synagogues are full of Egyptians, our melodies, and our customs. 🙏🏼💙🙌🏼
@minaal-lami28552 жыл бұрын
Samaritan most certainly sounds like an Arabic dialect and Yemenite feels so familiar I find. Very interesting overall. Greetings from Iraq 🇮🇶
@Ehav4Ever2 жыл бұрын
You should do one of various Jewish communities reading the same sentences, for example,from different parts of the Torah with the melodies that are native to each one between Yemenite, Sephardi, Mizrahi, Ashkenazi, and Samaritan. I did this with someone once and it was interesting. I would love to be involved in that one. Maybe even a comparison between Jewish Aramaic and Samaritan Aramaic.
@M4th3u54ndr4d32 жыл бұрын
Yes, reading the same sentences, it would be excellent.
@BigJFindAWay2 жыл бұрын
How about having the following: 1) Yekke 2) Litvishe (old family Lubavitchers do this one best) 3) Polische-Hungarian (as many Hasidic groups do) 4) Italki/Romaniote 5) Spanish-Portuguese 6) Ladinero Sephardi 7) Maghrebi 8) Syrian 9) Samaritan 10) Georgian 11) Persian/Bukharian 12) Kurdish 13) Kavkazi 14) Sanaani Yemenite 15) Northern Yemenite 16) Adeni Yemenite 17) Iraqi Yeah I know it's a lot and probably will never happen but I can dream can't I?
@Ehav4Ever2 жыл бұрын
@@BigJFindAWay - Yeah, if that were to happen that would me greatest video every made in history. Especially if you get all 17 on the same call. 😃
@Gaslightinprogress2 жыл бұрын
"Jewish Aramaic and Samaritan Aramaic"!? It sounds like the Samaritan and Jewish are different, are they different?
@Ehav4Ever2 жыл бұрын
@@Gaslightinprogress - I have only seen bits and peices of the Aramaic that Samaritans once used and I know it is different in terms of pronunciation. I am not sure how Samaritans even use it today.
@deusvult582 жыл бұрын
I am Israeli and a Modern Hebrew speaker. This was absolutely fascinating. Thanks guys!
@Nottherealbegula42 жыл бұрын
שלום
@Happyfor962 жыл бұрын
🐀
@CloroxBleach02 жыл бұрын
@@Nottherealbegula4 היוש
@Nottherealbegula42 жыл бұрын
@@CloroxBleach0 ma core gever
@ОльгаНиссенбаум-д2х2 жыл бұрын
Your nickname is not that I expect to see from an Israeli :))
@explanationforeverything2 жыл бұрын
I am currently learning Arabic, and I understand about 30% of Samaritan Hebrew. Very interesting!
@freyatilly2 жыл бұрын
Your series of comparisons is brilliant. Stunningly beautiful and educational. Hebrew is an incredible language.
@DanieOz2 жыл бұрын
My grandfather grew up in Baghdad before fleeing to Israel and when he speaks Hebrew he has such a strong accent it sometimes doesn’t even sound like Hebrew but I love it. He also use to speak Arabic to me and my siblings as well as Hebrew so I think that’s why I could understand the Samaritan Hebrew better than I thought.
@NikoBellaKhouf2 Жыл бұрын
Iraq is the last place that a ✡️ would need to flee from
@BigBoss877 Жыл бұрын
Tell the world of this story
@hamzamalik253310 ай бұрын
So your grandfather thought that it is better to steal Palestinians land than living in own
@BigBoss87710 ай бұрын
@@hamzamalik2533 you really lack the ability to comprehend history.
@GhekaNoss8 ай бұрын
@@hamzamalik2533 Go make out with your rock
@shautora Жыл бұрын
It also makes sense that the more conservative varieties of Hebrew would sound closer to Arabic not just because they’ve been in close contact all that time, but also because the two languages are closely related 😊
@pondokternak656 Жыл бұрын
Arabic Aramaic and Hebrew are one family semitic language. They are one family of Abraham too. Just different in family lineage. If the Jews kill Arabs, they kill their own family
@pondokternak656 Жыл бұрын
Btw I'm an Asian
@astonishing157 Жыл бұрын
@@pondokternak656wut ?!???💀
@DSweashox Жыл бұрын
@@pondokternak656wow, is that even real ?
@theoblincko18 Жыл бұрын
Yep, they are from the same language family
@gurgenartsimovich88932 жыл бұрын
In 1919, there were only 141 Samaritans left. Today they number more than 800, with half living in Holon and the other half on Mount Gerizim.
@1czechit19 ай бұрын
141????? wow!
@Omnatten99 ай бұрын
The wonders of inbreeding
@mubashirhakeem94662 жыл бұрын
This was damn educational, I literally had to pay all the attention to understand and compare it to Arabic and Kashmiri….damn good as always.
@Leyla_Bat_Murrah2 жыл бұрын
ܒܪܬ ܫܡܪܝܐ ܥܠ ܘܢܦܩ ܥܠܝܢ ܒܢܐܒܠܘܣ ܘܡܠܬܐ ܠܫܢܐ ܥܪܒܝܐ نطق السامري قريب جدا من العربية و السريانية.
@mujemoabraham65222 жыл бұрын
@@Leyla_Bat_Murrah كل اللغات الشرقية او كما يطلق عليها السامية من اصل و منبع واحد فمن الطبيعي تكون متشابه في النطق لكن المشكلة في اللغة العبرية الحديثة حيث تم تغيير نطق بعض الاحرف حتى تناسب لسان الاوروبيين ولهذا السبب تم تغريبها من حيث الاصوات و النطق و اختفاء عدد من الاحرف الاصيلة مثل الحاء و الصاد و القاف و الراء و العين و الطاء تخيل اوروبي يتكلم اللغة العربية او السريانية على الطريقة الاوروبية و هكذا حال اللغة العبرية الحديثة
@Tamir-Barkahan2 жыл бұрын
@@mujemoabraham6522 الألف والهاء والحاء والخاء والعين والغين غير موجودة بالعبرية السامرية إطلاقا, سأعرض أمثلة متنوعة: كلمة בחור باحور (شاب) - تُنطق بُـوْر بالعبرية السامرية وباخُـوْر بالعبرية الحديثة كلمة נער ناعار (صبي) - نَـار بالسامرية ونَـأَر بالعبرية الحديثة كلمة אנחנו أناحنو (نحن) - آنَـانُـوْ بالسامرية وأَنَـاخْـنُـوْ بالحديثة كلمة לחם ليحيم (خبز) - لِـيْم بالسامرية ولِـيْـخِـيْـم بالحديثة كلمة הר هار (جبل) - آر بالسامرية وهَـار بالحديثة فحسب منطقك العروبي المتخلف العبرية السامرية أقرب من اللغات الأوروبية من العبرية الحديثة بكثير وعلى كل حال هذه الدعاية العروبية فاشلة وتمنع الجميع من فهم تاريخ اللغات السامية مش بس العبرية. العربية ليست منبع اللغات السامية وليست اللغة السامية الأم, تلك الحقيقة لازم تفهمها وتقبلها
@mujemoabraham65222 жыл бұрын
@@Tamir-Barkahan انت انسان مسكين و فقير في الفهم لانك تخلط بين عدم وجود احرف معينه في اللغة العبرية السامرية و تغيير نطق بعض الاحرف السامية الاصيلة في العبرية الحديثة ......... كيف تريدني ان اتناقش معك و من اي منطلق ؟
@Tamir-Barkahan2 жыл бұрын
@@mujemoabraham6522زعمت بأن عدم وجود أصوات معينة يثبت أوروبية العبرية الحديثة ولكن حسب هذا المنطق العبرية السامرية والآرامية الشرقية والمزيد من اللغات السامية كذلك أكثر "أوروبية" من ناحية النطق فالحقائق الأبسط تناقض وجهة نظرك التي معتمدة كاملا على نطق الأصوت بالعربية
@MrEVAQ2 жыл бұрын
holy crap, I'm Israeli and I've seen Abood all over KZbin, this is so interesting
@mujemoabraham65222 жыл бұрын
@Shalom Shalom Great = Kabir = Kabir Small = Sa3ir = Saghir
@mujemoabraham65222 жыл бұрын
@Shalom Shalom What does the word LEVI mean in Hebrew ?
@mujemoabraham65222 жыл бұрын
@Shalom Shalom Same as Arabic لواء ( LIWA'A ) means join him
@1czechit19 ай бұрын
Levi is a tribe, from Levi tribe you have the cohanim, priests. Hence Abood Cohen is like Ovadia Cohen. @@mujemoabraham6522
@jacob_and_william2 жыл бұрын
Samaritan Hebrew and Jewish Hebrew split ~600BCE. Yemenite Hebrew and Sephardic/Ashkenazic Hebrew (the inspirations of Modern Hebrew) split ~800CE. So you can see why Modern and Yemenite Hebrew are very easy for one another to understand but Samaritan Hebrew is much more difficult. That being said, all three are very similar on-paper!
@tzvi79892 жыл бұрын
also seems like samaritan hebrew has gone through a similar pronunciation evolution that french did from gaulish latin too
@Rolando_Cueva2 жыл бұрын
Makes sense because the Samaritans didn't have a diaspora, so their language evolved.
@tzvi79892 жыл бұрын
@@Rolando_Cueva idk you can say the same thing about both Jewish hebrew and Samaritan Hebrew and the diaspora really is a non-sequitur. Samaritans also had a diaspora in places like Greece for a while but they gradually got assimilated and or killed after falling out with the locals
@tzvi79892 жыл бұрын
@@Duriem2990 the Himyarite kingdom was in modern day Yemen. Not Arabia as a whole. At that point there was still quite a difference between north Arabian and south Arabian languages
@GOODdeels2 жыл бұрын
@@tzvi7989 South Arabia wasn't Arab nor Arabic speaking. North Arabia had plenty of languages as well such as Lihyanitic, Dumatic and Thamudic C, B and D who make up the majority of inscriptions and graffiti in the area, surpassing Arabic by a vast margin. Arabic inscriptions are mostly concentrated in the Harrah region, stretching from Sinai, Negev, Palestine, Jordan, Southern Syria and up to Mount Lebanon.
@SionTJobbins2 жыл бұрын
Oh waw, you do it again Bahandor! I don't speak any Semitic language, but so cool that you've included Samaritan Hebrew.
@laraeuge2 жыл бұрын
I live in Israel and speak modern Hebrew. I've never heard Samaritan language before. It is fascinating. Thank you Bahador for sharing this amazing conversation
@GermanSoftcoreUwU2 жыл бұрын
You live in palestine 😁
@TheReal_GMan Жыл бұрын
@@GermanSoftcoreUwUIsrael*
@GermanSoftcoreUwU Жыл бұрын
@@TheReal_GMan Well it was called palestine only a few years ago, what changed?
@TheReal_GMan Жыл бұрын
@@GermanSoftcoreUwU The name lol
@GermanSoftcoreUwU Жыл бұрын
@@TheReal_GMan Well explain Why it changed?
@hdayan1945 Жыл бұрын
CONGRATS, thanks for sharing. I'm sephardic jew from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
@alvaroabdalla4588 Жыл бұрын
Very interesting! I was always curious to hear Samaritan and Yemenite Hebrew. I really liked the presentation. Regards from Brazil!
@AboodCohen2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for having me! Was very interesting :)
@BahadorAlast2 жыл бұрын
It was an absolute pleasure. Thank you for being a part of it!
@jacob_and_william2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing your culture Abood! Is there a publication of all these beautiful Samaritan piyyutim?
@AboodCohen2 жыл бұрын
@@jacob_and_william not so much, you can find some translations of our prayers somewhere though not sure where I saw it.
@Tamir-Barkahan2 жыл бұрын
@@AboodCohen היי, אתה מכיר את אלון מחולון? אני חבר טוב שלו. בכל מקרה, אני רוצה לדעת משהו, האם אפשר לקנות ספר תורה מודפס בכתב השומרוני? חיפשתי ברשת ולא מצאתי כלום
@deusvult582 жыл бұрын
זה תמיד תענוג לשמוע עברית בלהג שומרוני! תודה רבה עבוד!
@user-zh7yr1up8g2 жыл бұрын
Oh my God! This is really incredible! I don't know if you realize the value of what you've put together here and how beneficial it is! And I have to say Samaritan sounds so close to Assyrian Aramaic.
@user-zh7yr1up8g2 жыл бұрын
@Shalom Shalom indeed
@user-zh7yr1up8g2 жыл бұрын
@Angel Gomez Assyrian
@angialexy2 жыл бұрын
Yes it does sound like Assyrian
@jacob_and_william2 жыл бұрын
I think both had a lot of the same sound changes. And Samaritan Hebrew seems to have a lot more words from Aramaic since for example in Jewish Aramaic (which all religious Jews learn) Kelil is crown (keter in Hebrew) and 'azal means to go (halakh in Hebrew)
This is great. I only came across you this year, doing the same game with Turkic languages. I even commented that I hoped you'd do it with other language families -- and now you've delivered. I think the world still has enough dialects to keep you busy for the rest of your life. (Certainly the rest of MY life, since I'm already 70!) These studies are terrific -- and the viewer can't be passive. They force us to engage our ears, eyes, and knowledge. They make us scroll back and repeat, and guess, and really participate -- in languages I know absolutely nothing about. It's amazing that it works, but it sure does. So thanks again.
@Abigail-ss7pt2 жыл бұрын
Samaritan!! Unbelievable! This is amazing! Lots of love and respect from Ethiopia 🇪🇹
@messianic_scam2 жыл бұрын
like you know Samaritan ! wow you afro are something else wannabe entitled
@theresefournier32692 жыл бұрын
Shalom, from Canada! ❤️
@Lagolop2 жыл бұрын
There is no "samaritan"; he is speaking a form of Hebrew.
@syhuhjk2 жыл бұрын
@@Lagolop Samaritan is a one who follow Samaritanism
@Lagolop2 жыл бұрын
@@syhuhjk The Samaritans are basically Jews ... they follow Judaism. Bye.
@robertofranciscomonsalvesp80802 жыл бұрын
Absolutely amazing, Bahador. Thank you so much for this educational video. I have been watching documentaries on the shomronim and Abood Cohen was on two of them. Toda raba and shalom.
@Ehav4Ever2 жыл бұрын
I had been thinking for the longest you should do this one and here you did it. Great job Bahador.
@galgrunfeld99542 жыл бұрын
Hey, Bahador! My mother is a Yemenite Jew and has a degree in Hebrew with a minor in Hebrew Bible studies (the book), and she used to be a Hebrew teacher for years (high school, not academic - which is surprisingly in-depth for high school studies of an academic field). If you're interested to do another video on the topic, I think she'd be a great addition. She also studied Arabic, so she could give quite a deep and wide perspective. She's not a linguist, but I'm sure that she'd be able to add quite a bit to the matter.
@BahadorAlast2 жыл бұрын
That's wonderful. Could you contact me on Instagram or Facebook. Thank you.
@galgrunfeld99542 жыл бұрын
@@BahadorAlast sure, I'll talk to her and contact you if she's interested.
@Al_mutlaq2 жыл бұрын
Do you speak Arabic as a native language or Hebrew?
@galgrunfeld99542 жыл бұрын
@@Al_mutlaq Hebrew. And technically I'm naturally bilingual as I have been speaking English from a very young age, and as my main language of communication, too. I'm an ethnic Jew hence the Hebrew. My mother is ethnically a Yemenite Jew. I do speak some Modern Standard Arabic I learned in school and my mom knows some Yemenite Arabic from home, and knows some Modern Standard Arabic she leaned in university. Actually now that I think about it, maybe my aunt, her sister, an Arabic teacher, might also be interested. Also, Bahdor, in case you're reading this, my mom is interested, but a bit hesitant due to her level of comfort in English. I'll contact you to so you could help me convince her, hehe.
@galgrunfeld99542 жыл бұрын
@القناة الإسلامية Islamic Channel I'm not religious but am agnostic. Respect to all people who want to live in peace and respect one another.
@T.S.1020 Жыл бұрын
Bahador, the best thing about your channnel is that you bring together the people of different backgrounds, regions, religions, and of course different languages, but inspite of all our differences, we are all the same under this skin. One for peace and humanity.🙏
@SmegEdmoOn2 жыл бұрын
You could literally use this to write comparative linguistics research papers. You're doing amazing work Bahador and friends!
@deanrandall32 жыл бұрын
Amazing how Samaritans are such a small community that have been able to retain their direct lineage to the ancient Canaanite/Israelite populations of Judea.
@screamtoasigh99842 жыл бұрын
They have been importing east european women as converts.
@screamtoasigh99842 жыл бұрын
and most of them were forcibly converted to Islam from ARAB invaders. Hence the need for more population mix.
@tzvi79892 жыл бұрын
Well as far as theyre concerned there never was an exile and their temple still stands
@Al_mutlaq2 жыл бұрын
There is a big difference between the Israelites and the Canaanites
@pczone76412 жыл бұрын
@@Al_mutlaq not really only in Jewish books! in reality Hebrew itself is just a Canaanite dialect , the Israelites were just monotheistic Canaanites in fact genetical speaking the closest modern population to the Canaanites are the Samaritans followed by other Levantine both arabs and druze followed by other Mizrahi jews.
@Nooticus2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely incredible video, Samaritan language is so incredible rare!
@mysteryhales33412 жыл бұрын
I feel people don’t know enough about Samaritan culture. More please!😀
@M4th3u54ndr4d32 жыл бұрын
Suggestion: make they say the same phrases, so we can see the differences in pronounciation. I would love to see other jewish dialects, like the Mountain Jews pronounce, bukharan, Iranian Jewish pronounce, ashkenazi pronounce...
@arimoff2 жыл бұрын
Im a mountain jew we speak farsi mixed with some hebrew at home and I can't understand persian or bukharian jews but they understand my farsi.
@abdv9908 Жыл бұрын
Bukharian speak in Persian "Tojik" If do not mistake.
@Ash_tommo2 жыл бұрын
What an amazing video Thanks a lot Bahador, greetings from Yemen 🇾🇪
@barlevi12 жыл бұрын
Mind Blown… that was such an interesting exchange… well done producing it :)
@FairyCRatАй бұрын
Love Abdallah. Always raising awareness about the tiny but fascinating Samaritan community.
@madghis28632 жыл бұрын
The fact that Bahador includes languages with less than a thousand speaker is amazing ! ❤️
@iKarambaYT2 жыл бұрын
I'm currently learning Mandaic and the Samaritan accent is very similar. Mandaic is also a Semitic language and I would love to participate on this channel someday once I improve my skills.
@ehsansar97262 жыл бұрын
As far as I know Mandaei population is just few thousands and they live in south west Iran and south Iraq. I have seen documentary about them but I did not know educational material exists regarding their language
@JohnDoe10350 Жыл бұрын
@@ehsansar9726 They're a small population, but not a few thousand. More like 100,000. Not comparable to the tiny Samaritan population. It's just that most have left their ancestral land in southern Iraq and Khuzestan Iran for Arbil in Iraqi Kurdistan or to Sweden and Australia. Here in Sweden I've come across more Iraqi Mandeans than Iraqi Sunni Arabs. They are not rare at all, especially in southern Sweden. However none of the ones I've come across speak Mandaic. They speak Iraqi Arabic.
@ADeeSHUPA11 ай бұрын
@@JohnDoe10350 ないす نَيس
@arexta1532 жыл бұрын
I just read up on Samaritans. They're so few left!! Please preserve your culture and language.
@shainazion40732 жыл бұрын
They finally agreed to bring brides into the families from Ukraine,
@genautelevishn599920 сағат бұрын
human traffic
@asdocneter2 жыл бұрын
I've learnt so much! This is actually the first time I've come across a Samaritan (and he does appear to be good :-) ) and I'm definitely going to check out the documentary in the links. I believe like many of you - it was much easier to understand when I had the sentence in front of my eyes. When I tried to understand without looking at the screen - even the Yemenite was tricky.
@lugovsa2 жыл бұрын
Great! Thanks to Bahador and to all the guys. כל הכבוד!
@hassanalast66702 жыл бұрын
Interesting communication it looks they are able to understanding each other.
@8dinKer2 жыл бұрын
They all live in Israel (depends on your political stand, Mt. Grizimis in the west bank), so all speak modern Hebrew. I'm not sure all Samaritan speak Hebrew but as a tour guide he probably does.
@zeeveijonezevijaione9289 Жыл бұрын
@@8dinKer I've seen Abood speak Hebrew. Samaritan Hebrew is extremely difficult to understand for just about any Jew, apart from those with an excellent command of it, who are used to hearing it regularly. It almost sounds like another language altogether.
@freddyubaquiduenas33482 жыл бұрын
Hebrew dialects, interesting. Thanks Bahador for sharing knowledge
@TheNivKo2 жыл бұрын
Super cool. As a Hebrew speaker I can kinda understand Shahar's dialect, but can't understand the Abood at all... However it sounds beautiful
@aditadit62142 жыл бұрын
I love this channel 💕 from Bangladesh 🇧🇩
@DanielSRosehill2 жыл бұрын
I'm so ecstatic so see this video come out! I've had an interest in Biblical (Paleo) Hebrew for a long time and Samaritan Hebrew has always struck me as probably the closest living "dialect" that resembles what we could reasonably expect Hebrew to have sounded like in the time of the Bible. I really enjoyed watching the docu with Abood and am beyond psyched to see that there's a young Samaritan out there who's tech-savvy and willing to share his people's unique traditions with the world. Mabrook and thank you!
@tzvi79892 жыл бұрын
ngl its possible that there was more than 1 dialect in the land of israel (judea and samaria) during the first and second temple periods and it's likely that the older version of both is probably somewhere between the yemenite and samaritan dialects anyway. the dropping of the chet indictates that that mightve been a sound lost by the samaritans over the years as it's still written by them
@knowhere602 жыл бұрын
The Sanaritan Hebrew appears to have picked up many attributes of Arabic, which makes sense. Yenenite Hebrew, to me, feels closer to Biblical Hebrew, as far as pronunciation of the soft Gimel, the guttural Ayin and Het, and the pronunciation of the Vav as ""W". While retaining the pronunciation of the tiger letters.
@tzvi79892 жыл бұрын
@@knowhere60 I agree tho I'd say more Lebanese Arabic with the consonant choices. But the dropping of the Chet is reminiscent of the way that french has evolved to drop their h's
@tzvi79892 жыл бұрын
@@knowhere60 agree with what you said about the Yemenite Hebrew however pronouncing a gimmel with a dagesh in it as a j is closer to the Arabic of that region than Hebrew. The fact that a Jim in Egyptian Arabic is pronounced as a g like in other Hebrew dialects is quite telling for example
@DanielSRosehill2 жыл бұрын
@@knowhere60 As far as I know the same argument can be made about Teimani Hebrew given that it was preserved in the midst of an Arabic speaking majority. For instance, I've heard that the ' jimmel' arose from Arabic but the equivalent of the ghayin phonome is original. But... I'm not sure anybody knows these things for sure.
@johanbjorkstrom49572 жыл бұрын
This is just remarkable! I had only heard of Samaritans before but to watch this is just something else!
@hamzehshashaa26592 жыл бұрын
Wow i can understand, just from reading before they say what it means, just from my standard arabic and jordanian arabic knowledge! Thats very interresting!
@muhammadbilaal73612 жыл бұрын
Me too! I know no Hebrew, but I speak Arabic and I could understand a good part of what they were saying!
@kanekowalski47152 жыл бұрын
Love you, Abood. Proud of you, you're amazing. I'll get out to Israel and see you soon.
@AboodCohen2 жыл бұрын
Love you too bro , see you soon :)
@DavedSitt2 жыл бұрын
What a fantastic video! It would be really cool if you add the Chasidic pronunciation to this video as well.
@לואיסרוסאס-ספיר2 жыл бұрын
People tend to say Ashkenazi Hebrew is fake or is far from the original, but it actually shares many things with Yemenite Hebrew, like sav/tav and kammatz as o.
@PrimeConnoisseur2 жыл бұрын
Probably because it’s hard to believe that they preserved so much of their culture/heritage in Europe
@morehn2 жыл бұрын
@@PrimeConnoisseur also because Ashkenazim look so different from people's perception of what Jews "must have" looked like 1,000+ years ago. And, they didn't look like their non Jewish neighbors, which makes people uncomfortable.
@airpaintpellet2 жыл бұрын
@@PrimeConnoisseur if you look at ashkenazi jews from a genetic perspective, they remained extremely endogamous, making them more genetically related a sephardic jew from morroco than an ethnic pole or german. All ashkenazi jews are descended from just a few hundred jews living along the rhineland river in germany and france 1000 years ago which due to extreme persecution, drove many into the polish-lithuanain commonwealth (which where they were welcomed by the ruler and protected under law) they're pretty much italkim (italian) jews, since they moved up from Italy. Ashkenazi jews on average retain 50-60% levantine(judean) dna and on PCA graphs, plot near sicilians, greek islanders, and sephardic jews (due to those populations heavy levantine genetic influence). So if a population can remain that endogamous, I assume they can retain some original pronunciations. Also, I have theorized based on my deep research that proto-ashkenazi jews originally spoke aramaic and arrived as traders in northern Italy (from syria). They then encountered middle-high German speakers when they settled in the Rhineland, and thus yiddish was born. There is aramaic and romance language influence in yiddish.
@tzvi79892 жыл бұрын
@@morehn not all ashkenazim do though
@tzvi79892 жыл бұрын
@@airpaintpellet also there were 2 ashkenazi migration events out of israel, not 1
@hatemabu-assad69592 жыл бұрын
This was so cool!! And I love how Samaritan sounds so Arabic. Even his name Abood is Abdullah in Arabic.
@il9672 жыл бұрын
hebrew originally sounded like arabic anyways. both are semitic languages
@hatemabu-assad69592 жыл бұрын
@@il967 true
@jacob_and_william2 жыл бұрын
Samaritan sounds like Arabic because it was heavily influenced by Arabic for over a thousand years. Yemenite Hebrew also has some (but much less) Arabic influence.
@Pegasuswurdeverkauftanalle2 жыл бұрын
Arabic is influeced by arabic and aramaic
@Leyla_Bat_Murrah2 жыл бұрын
@@jacob_and_william So true I speak Arabic, Hebrew and Aramaic and the Samaritan sounds alot like Arabic and Aramaic than it is to Hebrew.
@Glossologia2 жыл бұрын
Really awesome! Would have loved to hear those melodies and compare!
@mysteryhales33412 жыл бұрын
I thought the same. Shiraz haYam, just a few lines
@homosapien.a63642 жыл бұрын
I have been learning modern Hebrew for two years now and I've never heard of the Samaritan Hebrew! Thank you Bahador for intoducing this beautiful version of Hebrew 😙❤️
@Al_mutlaq2 жыл бұрын
كفشتك يا ولد اليهودية
@dharmatal2 жыл бұрын
thanks for this video. it was very interesting. i understood most of the Yemenite Hebrew.. and hardly the Samaritan.. and yes it does sound like Arabic. in fact, "in your hand" in both Hebrew and Arabic sounds quite the same.
@mujemoabraham65222 жыл бұрын
Should be the same as they are sister languages
@Madmen60411 ай бұрын
What a great project. God bless you guys. Be safe.
@angialexy2 жыл бұрын
Wow I’m always fascinated by different regional dialects of Hebrew, Assyrian, Persian.The Samaritan Hebrew sounds like more Assyrian,Aramaic to me! Klella is also crown or flower crown in Assyrian.Shabtta,Saturday and alphabet : alab,beet, Gamall, dallad ,…………
@simsim64192 жыл бұрын
It is more related to Palestinian Arabic than Aramaic
@Tamir-Barkahan2 жыл бұрын
@@simsim6419 Cope
@barnosho16112 жыл бұрын
@@Tamir-Barkahan LOL Shlomo a3lokh, ono Hudoyo no
@Tamir-Barkahan2 жыл бұрын
@@barnosho1611 ܫܠܡܐ ܥܠܘܟ ܐܚܘܢܐ
@Sabatonis2 жыл бұрын
@@simsim6419 it has been arabized due to Arabic colonization, so the influence is clear. However, any Hebrew speaker would be able to understand the written text. I
@infinite57952 жыл бұрын
It was beautiful to see the comparison of 3 historically influential languages of the Middle-east, Bahador Jan. I just failed to make anything out because I'm unaware of Semitic languages as a Hindu person, but the Samaritan dialect sounded very Arabic in feel/accent, it was somewhat similar to Southern varieties of Arabic of Oman and KSA, I felt like it because I was posted there and it was lovely. India also has native Jews, who came as refugees mostly and the Hindu Kingdoms, being secular since anon, built Synagogues for their worship, just as they did with Zorastrians and Shias. Most Northern Indians can make out Arabic words, due to centuries of Islamic rule, which has islamised their culture to a great deal, although religiously they are Hindus only. Hindi consists of many Arabic and Parsi words itself, Urdu tonnes more in comparison.
@UV_B_19702 жыл бұрын
I love this video - I'm a third generation native speaker of modern Hebrew and found it fascinating. Interesting to see how both Samaritan and Yemenite Hebrew were influenced by the surrounding Arabic - Yemenite Hebrew pronounces ג like ج. I would suggest a video comparing Iraqi, Yemenite and Ashkenazi (not modern) Hebrew.
@peteraltman70562 жыл бұрын
The j sound for ג is not from Arabic, it remains from בגד כפת as it was before גד and ת lost one of their sounds in עברית מודרנית
@UV_B_19702 жыл бұрын
@@peteraltman7056 The two sounds represnted in old Hebrew by ג and גּ were (غ) gh and g respectively, but not j
@Ro_haeim11 ай бұрын
Iam from Morocco and I enjoy this a lot 😍😍😍😍
@EzioAuditoreDaFirenze99 Жыл бұрын
In 1950 there were 400,000 Yemenite Jews in Yemen. In 2016 there was 2000 Yemenite Jews remaining in Yemen. Today there is one. His name is Levi Salem Musa Marhabi, and he is currently imprisoned and has been tortured by Houthi forces. The rest of his community was killed, tortured and forced out.
@jaredknows70902 жыл бұрын
@Bahador, would you be interested in setting up an episode comparing Jewish Neo-Aramaic with some of your Assyrian contacts? I don't have any direct connections, but I do know of Dr. Yaacov Maoz who is very passionate about Jewish Aramaic and makes appearances with on several channels across KZbin. Maybe he'd be interested. It would be a cool episode.
@kvsantappu81352 жыл бұрын
I think Yiddish language is also a language spoken by the Jewish people. I'm from India and I absolutely love Jews and Judaism. Shalom and Namaste.
@WF2U2 жыл бұрын
Yiddish is mostly a medieval German dialect, mixed with Hebrew words, as well as with some vocabulary from the local languages in Eastern Europe, mostly Slavic. You can recognize the area a Yiddish speaker comes from, by the word usage and accent. German was a common trade and craftsmen's language of communication, especially around the German states, and the Baltics, while Latin was the international language of diplomacy, the Church and science. Religious Jews in the Northern European diaspora considered Hebrew a sacred language, used only for religious studies and prayer, and not to be used in every day secular life - that's why they used the language(s) of the host countries. In a nutshell, Yiddish (originating from the German word for "Jewish"). Yiddish is a branch of the Germanic languages. There is also a Jewish language based on 14-15th century Spanish, called Ladino, that contains Hebrew words. It was the dialect of Jews in Spain. When the Jewish population was exiled from Spain at the end of the 15th century, they found new homes in the Ottoman Empire, they kept the Ladino language, traditions and culture to this day. There are more examples wit several other languages that Jews adopted from the countries they lived in, mixed Hebrew in them to express Jewish religious and other subjects, so they turned into unique Jewish dialects of the host languages.
@BahadorAlast2 жыл бұрын
Yes. I've done two separate videos with Yiddish: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKbKhp17oJ2XjLs kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3mapWukn9yfjdE
@Lagolop2 жыл бұрын
Example of Yiddish (hano hobn) enjoy ... kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4jFiHxtarB6fpI kzbin.info/www/bejne/kGLGc3tnj610mcU
@ophelian46462 жыл бұрын
Yiddish is actually an official language in Sweden.
@Lagolop2 жыл бұрын
@@ophelian4646 Yep, that is true. I have Swedish relatives. Yiddish folk songs are the best. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaGqhoeupMx9mLs
@Agent1BOOM13 сағат бұрын
These are very Educational! Thankyou Bahador for wonderful videos!❤🎉🎉
@brandymalka2 жыл бұрын
it is amazing that yemenite jews has some Aramaic words on it, like the words with a (tho) sound.
@assyrianbetnahrian9574 Жыл бұрын
I love it ....I'm assyrian and i can understand some of the words from all ..thank you
@nikita20011002 жыл бұрын
I must say that as a modern Hebrew speaker who is irreligious, I had a lot of trouble understanding Yemenite Hebrew but especially Samaritan. Samaritan really sounded to me a lot more like Arabic. It was a very interesting video!
@AnastasiaMariaJ Жыл бұрын
it's funny because as an arabic speaker, it sounded nothing like arabic to me.
@arielimanatal4469 Жыл бұрын
Great video. 👍 thanks so much for making it. Having learned Modern Hebrew and a bit of Arabic (Palestinian Jerusalem dialect), it is amazing to hear how ancient Hebrew exists today within both Yemenite and Samaritan communities. I always wanted to listen to these languages spoken and today I have! Thank you Bahador and to you guys too
@Emcee_Squared2 жыл бұрын
Samaritan/Hebrew are the only surviving branch of the Canaanite language. They are ancient cousins.
@astroo1991Ай бұрын
Samaritan is not a separate language. It's just biblical Hebrew with alternative pronunciation
@lynnettehoniker5217 Жыл бұрын
This was SUPER interesting and informative!!! Thanks so much!
@آقا-ظ2ي2 жыл бұрын
So amazing. If I heard Samaritan and Yemenite somewhere without any better, I'd think they're speaking a unique dialect of Arabic.
@explanationforeverything2 жыл бұрын
Not Yemenite, but definitely Samaritan. I am currently learning Arabic (not fluent) but I definitely understood Samaritan Hebrew more.
@Al_mutlaq2 жыл бұрын
اخت العربية
@Al_mutlaq2 жыл бұрын
@@explanationforeverything الله يوفقك
@zandvlietsamuel2 жыл бұрын
מדהים תודה רבה!!thanks a lot waiting for more video from you 3
@collectivelove22752 жыл бұрын
Abdallah Cohen is a very interesting combo of name and surname. I'd be confused and yet very intrigued if I heard that not know what I've just learned here.
@jacob_and_william2 жыл бұрын
Obadiah Cohen is a very normal Hebrew name. Abdallah is the Arabic version and it seems that Abood is the Samaritan Hebrew version.
@jaredknows70902 жыл бұрын
@@jacob_and_william I think 'Abood' is a type of endearing form of the name Abdullah in Arabic. I also don't think Jews with Arabic names were that uncommon throughout the hundreds of years where Jews and Arabs coexisted, from Andalus to Iraq.
@usmanchaudhry57082 жыл бұрын
So informative, thank you for sharing , Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰
@Образованиесила2 жыл бұрын
I dream that the times will return when we Iranian peoples and Jews were the closest friends and always supported each other in difficult historical moments. Love to Iran and Israel from Tajikistan.
@mithridatesi99812 жыл бұрын
We have to be friends because of the Cyrus the great
@Hermesborugerdian2 жыл бұрын
Amen! Love from a fellow Persian in Israel
@arimoff2 жыл бұрын
In entire Jewish history, the only non jewish messiah to ever be recognized by Jews is the king Cyrus. Aside from the current Iranian Amalekite leadership, there is no reason for Jews and Persians not be friends. Im a Jew from Caucasus, are language at home is russian and farsi (an old dialect of farsi mixed with hebrew, chu haberi, Hudo kumek...) but I'm sure persian would understand if they hear us speak.
@laraeuge2 жыл бұрын
Love to Tajikistan and Iran from Israel
@shoshannafachima1306 Жыл бұрын
This is fascinating thank you for sharing
@noamto2 жыл бұрын
It should be noted that Shahar is using the San'ani Hebrew pronunciation, there is also a Shar'abi variant which is quite different (and somewhat closer to other Hebrew variants). And Samaritan Hebrew isn't "Ancient Hebrew", it's the same Hebrew, only the alphabet is (EDIT: much closer to) the ancient alphabet.
@MrEVAQ2 жыл бұрын
The alphabet isn't the ancient alphabet, but it is "genetically" closer to the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet. Regarding to Samaritan Hebrew itself, it has lost some consonants but it does actually pronounce some consonants closer to what it what have been pronounced like in biblical times. Basically like all Hebrew dialects, it has preserved some of the original pronunciations but it also has its own innovations.
@noamto2 жыл бұрын
@@MrEVAQ yes, that's true about the alphabet, I didn't describe it properly, I'll correct it. Thank you! I wouldn't even be calling these 'dialects', as everything other than phonology and phonetics is more or less identical.
@jacob_and_william2 жыл бұрын
Samaritan Hebrew is neither the same Hebrew nor Ancient Hebrew, it just evolved in its own way. But the first part of your comment is absolutely correct.
@noamto2 жыл бұрын
@@jacob_and_william no, it is the exact same language as Biblical Hebrew. More than 95% of the text is completely identical, and there are no differences in Grammar or vocabulary.
@jacob_and_william2 жыл бұрын
@@noamto you're right but since you mentioned pronunciations I thought we were talking about that. Samaritan Hebrew pronunciation diverged a long long time ago while Yemenite Hebrew is based on Babylonian pronunciation and all other Hebrews are based off of Eretz Yisraeli (Tiberian) pronunciation
@benyaminmiller55042 жыл бұрын
One of the best videos on youtube
@victorb9762 жыл бұрын
Interesting the pharyngeal fricative ([ʕ] is still preserved in yemenite hebrew. When I hear it now I can tell hebrew it is a semitic language. Great video !!!!
@hagopsarkarian9 ай бұрын
ویدیو بسیار زیبا داداش. آفرين 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻😊
@gibiscus2 жыл бұрын
Whoa; I can't believe you're actually doing Samaritan Hebrew, super rare!
@DoreenBellDotan2 жыл бұрын
We loved listening to this. Thank you so much. We do hope you'll do more projects together. רב תודות
@DANIAL1012 жыл бұрын
How it's very close to Arabic but it needs a lot of focusing and be known of arabic words well for example : qom qa qada abydak : get on and the cup with your hand قم و القدح بيدك..... Qom:get on:قم .... qada:cup:قدح.....abydak:by your hand:بيدك .....
@Personal877 Жыл бұрын
4:15 Doesn't it mean raise the glass with your hand? Arabic speaker here. Reminds of another poetry from Andalosia
@vididivi14712 жыл бұрын
thank you so much for this interesting video!!
@jaycorwin16252 жыл бұрын
Your videos are always interesting, Bahador. I don't always have time to catch them when they first come out, but I always enjoy them.
@yewe45482 жыл бұрын
It's amazing how the yeminite sounds similar to the ashkenazi pronunciation too
@bettyk81052 жыл бұрын
This is absolutely fascinating! Thank you!
@grandpatzer2 жыл бұрын
Very interesting! Would have been cool to have a Hassidic guest as well as they have a unique pronunciation of Hebrew
@yehoshuabenavraham97062 жыл бұрын
Ashkenazim, like Yemenites, use טעם עליון (a special cantillation, “Upper Cantillation”) for the Song at the Sea.
@לואיסרוסאס-ספיר2 жыл бұрын
Ashkenazim also difference between tav and sav and also pronounce kammatz as o
@lamariposa59192 жыл бұрын
That is so interesting. I wish I could speak Hebrew. I have some Sephardic background in me so at least I understand ladino /Spanish. Peace and great channel.
@yosefgreen31302 жыл бұрын
Yemenite pronunciation is very similar to some Ashkenazy pronunciation in many ways it would’ve been interesting to see some more pronunciation compared together
@antjeheinrich35522 жыл бұрын
That's what I thought. Yiddish pronunciation of Hebrew words sounds very similar to some of his pronunciations.
@mysteryhales33412 жыл бұрын
Definitely the vowels! And the softening of tav…to ‘th’ (s in Ashkenazi pronunciation)
@tzvi79892 жыл бұрын
tbf i reckon it was the influence of settling in french occupied lands which changed the ashkenazi pronunciation of a tav to a s instead of a th
@yosefgreen31302 жыл бұрын
@@tzvi7989 there is not one pronunciation there are different Gramatik notes for different pronunciations and it goes back to Moses
@yosefgreen31302 жыл бұрын
@@tzvi7989 however the differences are because of the distance between the communities therefore slight differences
@GraciaBelievesthatJesusSaves4 ай бұрын
🖐️♥️🤗.I realy like these videos about the languages i still have not had the time to watch more of them .Bahador Last continue with this beautifull work it reveals also how much we have in common .🖐️💪♥️.God Bless you all God Loves you all and Jesus Saves .📖🙏♥️
@shayanhussain2478 Жыл бұрын
I am learning basic Hebrew on Duolingo lately due to my fascination with how closely it resemble Arabic
@FedericoIrisOsmoTinelli2 жыл бұрын
Ogni volta che vedo un video sul canale di Bahador Alast, mi commuovo... si vede spesso che poco alla volta le anime cominciano a sorridere...
@jacob_and_william2 жыл бұрын
And with absolutely no disrespect to Abood I have to say that calling Samaritan Hebrew "Ancient Hebrew" is problematic as no linguist would tell you that a language spoken today is the same as from 3000 years ago!
@joedee18632 жыл бұрын
Especially when you consider that Modern Hebrew is a concoction that was invented in the 19th century patched together from a comparison of other middle Eastern languages.
@Tamir-Barkahan2 жыл бұрын
@@joedee1863 All that tells us is that you don't know anything about Modern Hebrew.
@yaelthesnail2 жыл бұрын
It's their religious belief. But even he admits that Samaritan Hebrew has likely been influenced by Arabic.
@screamtoasigh99842 жыл бұрын
@@yaelthesnail As has Tamini Hebrew.
@Tamir-Barkahan2 жыл бұрын
@@yaelthesnail Technically-speaking, Sam Hebrew is less influenced by Arabic than Teimani Hebrew.
@andersthorson5628 Жыл бұрын
Wonderful subject and video.
@beerinech43992 жыл бұрын
This is really interesting as half yemenite jew that talk modern hebrew
@שלוםישראלעמנואל7 ай бұрын
BAHADOR ALAST PLEASE CREATE MORE CONTENT ABOUT MODERN HEBREW AND SAMARITAN HEBREW PLEASE. AND I WANT TO KNOW SIMILARITIES HEBREW AND FARSI ALSO !! I'M FROM INDONESIA I LOVE YOUR CONTENT LIKE THIS !!!