Yemenite vs Samaritan vs Modern Hebrew (Can they understand each other?)

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 Samaritans:
• Samaritan | Documentar...
Check out Shahar's performance on The X Factor Israel (there are many more videos):
• שחר עדוי - Hello | 💙🤍💙...
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Samaritan Hebrew is used by the Samaritans to read the Ancient Hebrew language of the Samaritan Pentateuch. Its phonology is similar to that of Samaritan Arabic. It is primarily spoken in Israel and in Nablus and Holon in the Palestinian territories. Samaritans are the descendants of northern Israelite tribes who were not deported by the Neo-Assyrian Empire after the destruction of the Kingdom of Israel.
Modern Hebrew and Yemenite Hebrew are the same language, but the way of pronunciation is significantly different. Yemenite Jews are those Jews who once lived in Yemen, as well as their descendants. Yemen once had over half a million Jews, but by the 1950s, the overwhelming majority of them had left the country, and today there are possibly no Jews left in Yemen. Yemenite Jews have a unique religious tradition that distinguishes them from other Jewish groups and are considered as the ones who have preserved the Hebrew language the best. Modern Hebrew lacks a lot of consonants that exist in Yemenite Hebrew which also has grammatical features from classical Hebrew. At times it can sound much closer to Arabic. In this video Shahar (Yemenite Hebrew speaker), Abood (Samaritan Hebrew speaker), and Yakir (Modern Hebrew speaker) will listen to each other with a bunch of sentences to see where the differences occur, and what they can understand.
Hebrew is a Northwest Semitic language and the only living Canaanite language left in the world. Ancient Hebrew went extinct as a spoken language many centuries ago. However, it survived as a liturgical language for Judaism thanks to Jewish liturgy, rabbinic literature, intra-Jewish commerce, and other texts. For this reason, Hebrew is now considered the only truly successful example of a revived dead language. In the 19th century, it was revived as a spoken and literary language.

[@BahadorAlast]

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

[@franzaepinus2498]

The fact that Samaritans still exist is a miracle itself

[@Mo-zh2sc]

‏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

[@joedee1863]

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.

[@joedee1863]

@Shalom Shalom - please explain what the word 'wali' means in Arabic.

[@joedee1863]

@Shalom Shalom - yeah, I notice you mentioned that but Hebrew has a different word for 'big'.

[@nitzan3782]

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.

[@sysrek]

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 ❤

[@AnastasiaDY]

maybe i'm ovethinking it, but yemenite hebrew has a very clear aramaic influence!!!

[@ericc9321]

@@AnastasiaDY 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.

[@AnastasiaDY]

thank you so much for that, because it was so similar to aramaic i was in shock.@@ericc9321

[@user-bm8fw4ep2j]

Modern hebrew not kosher🤪

[@hagopsarkarian]

❤️💙🤍 😊 greetings from Armenia 🇦🇲

[@Bowl_O_Udon]

Wow! I can’t believe we are getting a glance of Samaritan Hebrew! Thank you for showing us this Bahador!

[@zackmano]

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 🙏🏼💙🙌🏼

[@BigJFindAWay]

I'm sure Egyptian pronunciation music and tradition are very fine and well worth preserving too.

[@zackmano]

@@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 🙏🏼💙🙌🏼

[@BigJFindAWay]

@@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?

[@zackmano]

@@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.

[@zackmano]

@@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. 🙏🏼💙🙌🏼

[@shautora]

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]

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]

Btw I'm an Asian

[@astonishing157]

@@pondokternak656wut ?!???💀

[@DSweashox]

​@@pondokternak656wow, is that even real ?

[@theoblincko18]

Yep, they are from the same language family

[@DanieOz]

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]

Iraq is the last place that a ✡️ would need to flee from

[@BigBoss877]

Tell the world of this story

[@hamzamalik2533]

So your grandfather thought that it is better to steal Palestinians land than living in own

[@BigBoss877]

@@hamzamalik2533 you really lack the ability to comprehend history.

[@deusvult58]

I am Israeli and a Modern Hebrew speaker. This was absolutely fascinating. Thanks guys!

[@2thecartoonsimp1]

שלום

[@Happyfor96]

🐀

[@CloroxBleach0]

@@2thecartoonsimp1 היוש

[@2thecartoonsimp1]

@@CloroxBleach0 ma core gever

[@user-bv7hn1lu9t]

Your nickname is not that I expect to see from an Israeli :))

[@avidavidzada4721]

Amazing! I have not heard Samaritan being spoken before. This is really nice to see. Thank you for organizing!

[@yehoshuabenavraham9706]

Shalom Shalom I believe his name is עובדיה (‘Ôvǎdhyâ) in Hebrew. It’s the name of one of the 12 later prophets.

[@preussenuberalles1682]

I think Alan Horvath has some vídeos with Arameic.

[@user-lq7qj8ue1x]

@@yehoshuabenavraham9706 the Ovadia is the „hebrew“ version of the Arabic Obada/عبادة

[@ARBERESH]

I think this was a historical video actually!

[@ARBERESH]

@shalomshalom8715 actually OVADYAH

[@gurgenartsimovich8893]

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.

[@1czechit1]

141????? wow!

[@DonnieKreyden]

The wonders of inbreeding

[@Ehav4Ever]

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.

[@M4th3u54ndr4d3]

Yes, reading the same sentences, it would be excellent.

[@BigJFindAWay]

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?

[@Ehav4Ever]

@@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. 😃

[@Gaslightinprogress]

"Jewish Aramaic and Samaritan Aramaic"!? It sounds like the Samaritan and Jewish are different, are they different?

[@Ehav4Ever]

@@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.

[@AboodCohen]

Thank you for having me! Was very interesting :)

[@BahadorAlast]

It was an absolute pleasure. Thank you for being a part of it!

[@jacob_and_william]

Thank you for sharing your culture Abood! Is there a publication of all these beautiful Samaritan piyyutim?

[@AboodCohen]

@@jacob_and_william not so much, you can find some translations of our prayers somewhere though not sure where I saw it.

[@Tamir-Barkahan]

​@@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

[@deusvult58]

זה תמיד תענוג לשמוע עברית בלהג שומרוני! תודה רבה עבוד!

[@minaal-lami2855]

Samaritan most certainly sounds like an Arabic dialect and Yemenite feels so familiar I find. Very interesting overall. Greetings from Iraq 🇮🇶

[@EzioAuditoreDaFirenze99]

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.

[@jacob_and_william]

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!

[@tzvi7989]

also seems like samaritan hebrew has gone through a similar pronunciation evolution that french did from gaulish latin too

[@Rolando_Cueva]

Makes sense because the Samaritans didn't have a diaspora, so their language evolved.

[@tzvi7989]

@@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

[@tzvi7989]

@@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

[@GOODdeels]

@@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.

[@explanationforeverything]

I am currently learning Arabic, and I understand about 30% of Samaritan Hebrew. Very interesting!

[@Abigail-ss7pt]

Samaritan!! Unbelievable! This is amazing! Lots of love and respect from Ethiopia 🇪🇹

[@messianic_scam]

like you know Samaritan ! wow you afro are something else wannabe entitled

[@theresefournier3269]

Shalom, from Canada! ❤️

[@Lagolop]

There is no "samaritan"; he is speaking a form of Hebrew.

[@syhuhjk]

@@Lagolop Samaritan is a one who follow Samaritanism

[@Lagolop]

@@syhuhjk The Samaritans are basically Jews ... they follow Judaism. Bye.

[@MrEVAQ]

holy crap, I'm Israeli and I've seen Abood all over KZbin, this is so interesting

[@mujemoabraham6522]

@Shalom Shalom Great = Kabir = Kabir Small = Sa3ir = Saghir

[@mujemoabraham6522]

@Shalom Shalom What does the word LEVI mean in Hebrew ?

[@mujemoabraham6522]

@Shalom Shalom Same as Arabic لواء ( LIWA'A ) means join him

[@1czechit1]

Levi is a tribe, from Levi tribe you have the cohanim, priests. Hence Abood Cohen is like Ovadia Cohen. @@mujemoabraham6522

[@queertearss]

I am a native Modern Hebrew speaker, so this is super interesting. I actually haven't had the chance to hear Samaratin nor Yemenite Hebrew, which is such a shame. It's interesting how similar yet different they are :)

[@charlesherzl9381]

YES, so true

[@nichasakul9173]

You are a thief, go back to Poland .

[@galgrunfeld9954]

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.

[@BahadorAlast]

That's wonderful. Could you contact me on Instagram or Facebook. Thank you.

[@galgrunfeld9954]

@@BahadorAlast sure, I'll talk to her and contact you if she's interested.

[@Al_mutlaq]

Do you speak Arabic as a native language or Hebrew?

[@galgrunfeld9954]

@@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.

[@galgrunfeld9954]

@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.

[@alvaroabdalla4588]

Very interesting! I was always curious to hear Samaritan and Yemenite Hebrew. I really liked the presentation. Regards from Brazil!

[@dactylntrochee]

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.

[@freyatilly]

Your series of comparisons is brilliant. Stunningly beautiful and educational. Hebrew is an incredible language.

[@user-zh7yr1up8g]

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-zh7yr1up8g]

@Shalom Shalom indeed

[@angelgomez4632]

SORRY BUT YOU HAVE IN YOUR PROFILE WHAT FOR LANGUAGUE😮😮😮?

[@user-zh7yr1up8g]

@@angelgomez4632 Assyrian

[@angelgomez4632]

@@user-zh7yr1up8g WOW! AND ASSYRIAN WHO CAN FIND IN GOOGLE?

[@angialexy]

Yes it does sound like Assyrian

[@deanrandall3]

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.

[@screamtoasigh9984]

They have been importing east european women as converts.

[@screamtoasigh9984]

and most of them were forcibly converted to Islam from ARAB invaders. Hence the need for more population mix.

[@tzvi7989]

Well as far as theyre concerned there never was an exile and their temple still stands

[@Al_mutlaq]

There is a big difference between the Israelites and the Canaanites

[@pczone7641]

@@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.

[@Ehav4Ever]

I had been thinking for the longest you should do this one and here you did it. Great job Bahador.

[@laraeuge]

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

[@GermanSoftcoreUwU]

You live in palestine 😁

[@TheReal_GMan]

@@GermanSoftcoreUwUIsrael*

[@GermanSoftcoreUwU]

@@TheReal_GMan Well it was called palestine only a few years ago, what changed?

[@TheReal_GMan]

@@GermanSoftcoreUwU The name lol

[@GermanSoftcoreUwU]

@@TheReal_GMan Well explain Why it changed?

[@SmegEdmoOn]

You could literally use this to write comparative linguistics research papers. You're doing amazing work Bahador and friends!

[@madghis2863]

The fact that Bahador includes languages with less than a thousand speaker is amazing ! ❤️

[@robertofranciscomonsalvesp8080]

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.

[@SionTJobbins]

Oh waw, you do it again Bahandor! I don't speak any Semitic language, but so cool that you've included Samaritan Hebrew.

[@T.S.1020]

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.🙏

[@Ash_tommo]

What an amazing video Thanks a lot Bahador, greetings from Yemen 🇾🇪

[@M4th3u54ndr4d3]

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...

[@arimoff]

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]

Bukharian speak in Persian "Tojik" If do not mistake.

[@barlevi1]

Mind Blown… that was such an interesting exchange… well done producing it :)

[@mubashirhakeem9466]

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_Murrah]

ܒܪܬ ܫܡܪܝܐ ܥܠ ܘܢܦܩ ܥܠܝܢ ܒܢܐܒܠܘܣ ܘܡܠܬܐ ܠܫܢܐ ܥܪܒܝܐ نطق السامري قريب جدا من العربية و السريانية.

[@mujemoabraham6522]

@@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-Barkahan]

​@@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

[@mujemoabraham6522]

@@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-Barkahan]

​@@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

[@lugovsa]

Great! Thanks to Bahador and to all the guys. כל הכבוד!

[@homosapien.a6364]

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_mutlaq]

كفشتك يا ولد اليهودية

[@asdocneter]

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.

[@mysteryhales3341]

I feel people don’t know enough about Samaritan culture. More please!😀

[@jessicawinter9531]

This was awesome!!! Thank you!!!!

[@Nooticus]

Absolutely incredible video, Samaritan language is so incredible rare!

[@user-fi9ub6ry1g]

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.

[@KnowledgeOfThePast]

Probably because it’s hard to believe that they preserved so much of their culture/heritage in Europe

[@morehn]

@@KnowledgeOfThePast 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.

[@airpaintpellet]

@@KnowledgeOfThePast 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.

[@tzvi7989]

@@morehn not all ashkenazim do though

[@tzvi7989]

@@airpaintpellet also there were 2 ashkenazi migration events out of israel, not 1

[@bettyk8105]

This is absolutely fascinating! Thank you!

[@arielimanatal4469]

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

[@user-tq8xh5sr1k]

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.

[@mithridatesi9981]

We have to be friends because of the Cyrus the great

[@Hermesborugerdian]

Amen! Love from a fellow Persian in Israel

[@arimoff]

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.

[@laraeuge]

Love to Tajikistan and Iran from Israel

[@arexta153]

I just read up on Samaritans. They're so few left!! Please preserve your culture and language.

[@shainazion4073]

They finally agreed to bring brides into the families from Ukraine,

[@Aaron-ug2rz]

This is really impressive and one of a kind video. Good job all of you 👍

[@lynnettehoniker5217]

This was SUPER interesting and informative!!! Thanks so much!

[@johanbjorkstrom4957]

This is just remarkable! I had only heard of Samaritans before but to watch this is just something else!

[@freddyubaquiduenas3348]

Hebrew dialects, interesting. Thanks Bahador for sharing knowledge

[@ellielarsen3673]

Great video, I definitely enjoyed it. Thank you, well done.

[@davidh4374]

this is awesome! Thank you and your colleagues for your work.

[@vididivi1471]

thank you so much for this interesting video!!

[@aditadit6214]

I love this channel 💕 from Bangladesh 🇧🇩

[@shoshannafachima1306]

This is fascinating thank you for sharing

[@DoreenBellDotan]

We loved listening to this. Thank you so much. We do hope you'll do more projects together. רב תודות

[@TheNivKo]

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

[@kanekowalski4715]

Love you, Abood. Proud of you, you're amazing. I'll get out to Israel and see you soon.

[@AboodCohen]

Love you too bro , see you soon :)

[@benyaminmiller5504]

One of the best videos on youtube

[@Noam_Maori]

Fascinating. Thank you very much for this.

[@DanielSRosehill]

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!

[@tzvi7989]

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

[@knowhere60]

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.

[@tzvi7989]

@@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

[@tzvi7989]

@@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

[@DanielSRosehill]

@@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.

[@Glossologia]

Really awesome! Would have loved to hear those melodies and compare!

[@mysteryhales3341]

I thought the same. Shiraz haYam, just a few lines

[@Madmen604]

What a great project. God bless you guys. Be safe.

[@jaycorwin1625]

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.

[@dharmatal]

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.

[@mujemoabraham6522]

Should be the same as they are sister languages

[@DavedSitt]

What a fantastic video! It would be really cool if you add the Chasidic pronunciation to this video as well.

[@meteor09]

This was awesome to be able to hear!

[@hassanalast6670]

Interesting communication it looks they are able to understanding each other.

[@8dinKer]

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]

@@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.

[@karamfd]

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.

[@ehsansar9726]

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]

@@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.

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@JohnDoe10350 ないす نَيس

[@Rose_Hayim]

Iam from Morocco and I enjoy this a lot 😍😍😍😍

[@boazgubany3403]

Thank you for this video, super interesting!

[@rivkyb7840]

I can't wait to watch this

[@infinite5795]

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.

[@kvsantappu8135]

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.

[@WF2U]

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.

[@BahadorAlast]

Yes. I've done two separate videos with Yiddish: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKbKhp17oJ2XjLs kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3mapWukn9yfjdE

[@Lagolop]

Example of Yiddish (hano hobn) enjoy ... kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4jFiHxtarB6fpI kzbin.info/www/bejne/kGLGc3tnj610mcU

[@ophelian4646]

Yiddish is actually an official language in Sweden.

[@Lagolop]

@@ophelian4646 Yep, that is true. I have Swedish relatives. Yiddish folk songs are the best. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaGqhoeupMx9mLs

[@hdayan1945]

CONGRATS, thanks for sharing. I'm sephardic jew from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

[@echofoxtrot2.051]

Fascinating. Thank you all!

[@gibiscus]

Whoa; I can't believe you're actually doing Samaritan Hebrew, super rare!

[@victorb976]

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 !!!!

[@shimonbrandsdorfer9427]

So interesting. Thanks so much

[@mysteryhales3341]

Really, really great video. Fascinating.

[@hamzehshashaa2659]

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!

[@muhammadbilaal7361]

Me too! I know no Hebrew, but I speak Arabic and I could understand a good part of what they were saying!

[@JonathanR1970]

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.

[@peteraltman7056]

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

[@JonathanR1970]

@@peteraltman7056 The two sounds represnted in old Hebrew by ג and גּ were (غ) gh and g respectively, but not j

[@zandvlietsamuel]

מדהים תודה רבה!!thanks a lot waiting for more video from you 3

[@usmanchaudhry5708]

So informative, thank you for sharing , Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰

[@user-nx6ny8pw2u]

So amazing. If I heard Samaritan and Yemenite somewhere without any better, I'd think they're speaking a unique dialect of Arabic.

[@explanationforeverything]

Not Yemenite, but definitely Samaritan. I am currently learning Arabic (not fluent) but I definitely understood Samaritan Hebrew more.

[@Al_mutlaq]

اخت العربية

[@Al_mutlaq]

@@explanationforeverything الله يوفقك

[@nikita2001100]

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!

[@AnastasiaDY]

it's funny because as an arabic speaker, it sounded nothing like arabic to me.

[@HavatseletHasharon7]

Fascinating!! Very interesting!

[@thecoloroctet1365]

My new favorite video on KZbin

[@Emcee_Squared]

Samaritan/Hebrew are the only surviving branch of the Canaanite language. They are ancient cousins.

[@ClassicGal]

I was gonna say that middle guy definitely sounds more Arabic. Studying Arabic, but a teacher at a Jewish school. My kids are always teaching me Hebrew or about Judaism. Too sweet!

[@or4038]

How old your childrens and why they know hebrew and learn about judaism ?

[@msella1050]

Loved it👍🏼

[@Yamikaiba123]

The Yemenite pronunciation is SO CLOSE to mine, after I tried modifying how I speak by referring to phonology articles on reconstructed Hebrew. I love hearing it!

[@hatemabu-assad6959]

This was so cool!! And I love how Samaritan sounds so Arabic. Even his name Abood is Abdullah in Arabic.

[@il967]

hebrew originally sounded like arabic anyways. both are semitic languages

[@hatemabu-assad6959]

@@il967 true

[@jacob_and_william]

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.

[@BurakvsPegasus]

Arabic is influeced by arabic and aramaic

[@Leyla_Bat_Murrah]

@@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.

[@yosefgreen3130]

Yemenite pronunciation is very similar to some Ashkenazy pronunciation in many ways it would’ve been interesting to see some more pronunciation compared together

[@antjeheinrich3552]

That's what I thought. Yiddish pronunciation of Hebrew words sounds very similar to some of his pronunciations.

[@mysteryhales3341]

Definitely the vowels! And the softening of tav…to ‘th’ (s in Ashkenazi pronunciation)

[@tzvi7989]

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

[@yosefgreen3130]

@@tzvi7989 there is not one pronunciation there are different Gramatik notes for different pronunciations and it goes back to Moses

[@yosefgreen3130]

@@tzvi7989 however the differences are because of the distance between the communities therefore slight differences

[@assyrianbetnahrian9574]

I love it ....I'm assyrian and i can understand some of the words from all ..thank you

[@jaredknows7090]

@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.

[@angialexy]

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 ,…………

[@simsim6419]

It is more related to Palestinian Arabic than Aramaic

[@Tamir-Barkahan]

@@simsim6419 Cope

[@barnosho1611]

@@Tamir-Barkahan LOL Shlomo a3lokh, ono Hudoyo no

[@Tamir-Barkahan]

@@barnosho1611 ܫܠܡܐ ܥܠܘܟ ܐܚܘܢܐ

[@Sabatonis]

@@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

[@renyhud]

it is amazing that yemenite jews has some Aramaic words on it, like the words with a (tho) sound.

[@andersthorson5628]

Wonderful subject and video.