History of the Semitic Languages

History of the Semitic Languages, Semitic languages family, Proto-Semitic, East Semitic, West Semitic, North-West Semitic, Central Semitic, South Semitic, Ethiopic, Akkadian, Eblaite, Amorite, Canaanite, Aramaic, Hebrew, Phoenician, Arabic, Edomite, Ammonite, Moabite, Sabaic, Minaean, Ge'ez, Amharic, Mandaic, Neo-Aramaic, Mehri, Shehri, Socotri, Gurage, Harari, Maltese, Tigrinya, Tigre

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Music:

Waking to Reality - Unicorn Heads
Lost Frontier - Kevin MacLeod

Lost Frontier by Kevin MacLeod

[ciceroalexandar]

Everyone talks about how Aramaic vanished and lost its place to Arabic, but never mention how Aramaic did that to Akkadian language.

[misterright]

Its very nice that you included the mandaic, normally people forget about us, because its a small minority in Iraq.

[m.s.]

From an Ethiopian to all my semetic speaking family here... selam le'enante yihun (peace be with you all)

[rampantmutt]

First three quarters of video: "let's just stay in Arabia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Ethiopia"
Last quarter of video: "IT'S ARAB TIME"

[malster]

Finally a video about languages, good job

[Thecognoscenti_]

Please do the history of the Sino Tibetan Languages next

[iamseamonkey]

aramaic: look at me i'm the middle east's lingua franca!
arabic: i'm gonna stop you right there

[vadimpm]

Never knew it was so complicated. Very interesting. Many thanks.

[davigurgel]

1922:
Hebrew: hello back, guys! I've been away for a while, what did I m... Guys? Hello? Arabic, where is everyone?
Arabic: uhh...
Hebrew: Arabic, what the hell did you do?
Arabic: nothin...

[LEL-isxq]

I really love that you included my language :) Maltese

[beedykh]

There are still people today in Arabia who talk Arabic and other Semitic languages, especially in Yemen, southern Saudi Arabia, and Syria.
*Edit: and Oman
To some extent they are still present, but need more attention and care from us to keep it better preserved.
Because languages are something very very precious, that must be preserved.

[yurialbertoironico]

Good video! You could put the sources in description in the next videos to make the videos more reliable?

[hoangkimviet]

I'm impressed the way Arabic language spread.

[miiiiiiiiiiii]

Love these linguistic vids you're making Costas! Lovely stuff

[aguywhodreams]

I am so proud that I am one of the every few Neo-Aramaic speakers in the world, especially here in the West.

[Ida-xepg]

Many of the Southern Semitic languages are still alive like Mehri, Soqotri, Harsusi, Shehri Etc tho with minute speakers

[redseayouth]

Greetings from Eritrea which is also part of the Semitic family of languages. Proud of my heritage!!

[noamrotstain]

🕎 For anybody wondering: Aramaic (Judeo-Aramaic dialect) was so influential that it is still is very present in Judaism, it is present in Hebrew with many loan words such as in our holy texts and prayers and is still studied by Jews in Israel and across the diaspora until today.

Additionally, the Paleo-Hebrew script evolved parallel to Aramaic's to create the script that is famous to Hebrew today (א ב ג).

[ddlaura]

Selam My Brothers From Ethiopia Amharic Speaker 🖤

[vicheaith]

Speaking of Semitic language what about the ancestor of Semitic itself the Afro-asiatic language.