History of Semitic Languages Every Year

[AkAoDZ]

Darija is a bunch of dialects of Arabic

[lilaspire]

I thought Darija is a Arabic dialect in the Maghreb not a language

[largedarkrooster]

There are many inconsistencies. For example, why keep Hebrew, Edomite, Moabite, Phoenician, Punic etc. as Canaanite and Maltese, Levantine, Masri, Sudani, etc. as Arabic, but separate Moroccan, Libyan, Tunisian, etc as different from Arabic (marked as Darija)? Maltese is actually generally accepted as a different language from Arabic and is more closely related to the Western dialect continuum than to the Eastern dialects

[almami]

As a North African i can only say that This map is terrible we in Mauritania speak Hassaniya which is much closer to peninsular Arabic than to Moroccan or Algerian and i really don’t understand why Mauritania and the rest of the Maghreb are just labeled “Darija” which just means dialect whille the rest of the Arab world is labeled “Arabic” is if we speak a different language like Aramaic.. this map is just bad

[abdellahkharicha]

The maps shown for the Middle Ages are highly misleading. In the 1000s, Arabic was widely spoken in Spain, from Zaragoza to Algeciras, not just in the south. However, there were no Arabic speakers in what is now Morocco and Algeria during that period. In fact, at the court of Abd al-Rahman III, the Idrisid envoy from Fez required a translator to convert Berber into Arabic so that Hispano-Muslims could understand him. Referring to Darija during this time is inaccurate, as Arabic only began to spread across North Africa gradually after the Banu Hilal invasions in the 12th and 13th centuries. In Tunisia, Arabic was spoken in specific towns like Kairouan, while in Egypt, most of the population still spoke Coptic, with Arabic use largely confined to places like Alexandria, Fustat, and possibly some desert areas. The map needs a thorough revision to reflect these realities.

[Oak_II]

Nobody:
* East & West semitic being actually North & South *

[PaworWeiss]

Why do you not differenicate between Phenocian and Ancient hebrew? Putting them at the same category of "cannanite" is factually wrong.

[davesmith]

Seems funny that the Hebrew language magically appeared out of thin air in 1948. Yet I read a book that was translated from Hebrew, written in that language between 2500 and 3000 years ago. And much of that storyline happens in the area now known as Israel, and was called Israel back then.

[gazetoek]

Malta speaks Maltese now (semitic language), not Arabic

[Hannibal]

Punic was spoken until the arrival of the Arabs in North Africa.

[beyoursman]

Le marocain / the Moroccan language : DARIJA
Le Maroc dispose de deux langues officielles, qui sont l'amazigh et l'arabe, mais le français est aussi parlé et compris par la quasi-totalité des marocains. Désormais, l'anglais tend à surpasser le français.
L'espagnol est répandu dans les régions du Nord et du Sud du Maroc.
La langue amazighe, dont l'alphabet est le Tifinagh, est le patrimoine commun de tous les Marocains.
L’arabe classique ou littéraire est utilisé dans le milieu administratif. La langue utilisée oralement par les marocains est la Darija (le marocain). C’est d’un mélange de l’amazigh, l'arabe, le français et l’espagnol.

Morocco has two official languages, which are Arabic and Amazigh, but French is also spoken and understood by almost all Moroccans. Now, English tends to surpass French. Spanish is widespread in the northern and southern regions of Morocco.
The Amazigh language, whose alphabet is Tifinagh, is the common heritage of all Moroccans.
Classical or literary Arabic is used in the administrative environment. The language used orally by Moroccans is Darija (the Moroccan language). It is a mixture of Amazigh, Arabic, French and Spanish.

[youkathegyptian]

In Egypt we speak Masri (Egyptian) not normal Arabic, it's very different from normal Arabic
It's a mix of coptic, Arabic, English, Turkish and French words
And its grammar is more close to coptic than normal Arabic

[moussamerabet]

Darija is the dialect of the Bedouin Arab tribes (Banu Hilal) and the influence of some Andalusian dialects (interspersed with many French, Turkish, Spanish and Berber words)
More than a one hundred million people speak Darija .

[IMROfficiel]

Please 🙏🏾🥺❤, can you do the same thing about cushitic languages 😊🇸🇴🇩🇯🇪🇹🇰🇪

[الهِلالي-ذن]

You need to be accurate, darija literally means common Arabic speech. It's not a language on its own!!! ⛔ ⚠️

[romero]

Hebrew is Canaanite....the sole survivor of the Canaanite languages

[ThePanEthiopian]

5:39 did you just casually made the south semitic distribution map in thr state of Amhara? That state is linguistically diverse with several cushitic languages occupying large areas.

You can add silte and harari languages

[awesomebearaudiobooks]

East Semitic being to the west of the West Semitic 👍
North Semitic being to the south of the East Semitic 👍

[socialminds]

Amorite and Aramaic are the same language

[Kurdedunaysiri]

there are a lot to say but I just wanna say that Modern Aramaic languages are mostly spoken by ethnic Assyrians and they call their language Suret, Siret, Sureth... which mean Assyrian language. They are different modern languages. This is like calling Romanian, Latin.