Amharic - A Semitic language of Ethiopia
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- This video is about Amharic - a Semitic language related to Arabic, Hebrew, and others. It's one of the major languages of Ethiopia!
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I've done similar intros before.
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Stephen Scrub same for me.
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Such a beautiful language and alphabet! Greetings from Greece
Thank you so much our orthodox Greece family!!! I always wanted to visit our sisterly orthodox and ancient country of Greece!!!! Hopefully, sooner or later I will do so!!! United and ancient orthodox Ethiopia and Greece forever!!!
Yasou phile! Greetings from Ethiopia!
Greeks introduced Christianity to Ethiopia
Γεια σου
TheCrazyKid1381 it’s man the bible was translated from Greek to Ge’ez a dead Ethiopian language or Abassinan
I'm orthodox from Jordan respect Amharic
I am orthodox from Ethiopia
Oh wonderful! I never knew there were orthodox Christians in Jordan, thank God!!! Greetings all from wonderful and proud ancient orthodox Ethiopia!!!!
fantastic1231 i am a orthodox Christian from jordan 🇯🇴 . In jordan 10% of the total population are Christians
@@user-wd7eg6cc2i?
10 only
I like to visit
I'd never heard of Amharic before. It sounds particularly wonderful, kinda like kayaking through a peaceful river that has rocks here and there
yep. and hey. I'm an Ethiopian who just listed down the Ge'ez numbers and their Arabic numeral counterparts in a sand -drawn video. You're invited to check it out and subscribe, if you like. Love from Ethiopia, -w 💛
lol
በድርጊትዎ ምክንያት ቤተሰቦችዎ ደም ያፈሳሉ። ለድርጊቶችዎ ዘላለማዊ ሥቃይ ይሰማቸዋል ፡፡ እንባዎች ወደ ደም ይለወጣሉ ፣ እናም የሚሰማቸው ህመም ሊቋቋሙት የማይችሉት ይሆናሉ ፡፡ በቅርቡ ለብቻዎ ትሆናላችሁ
ይሞታልይሞታልይሞታልይሞታልይሞታልይሞ
Yeah they lost some arabic aound bu they kept the akkadian ejectives
Really? You remind me of a genius who is a great mathematician - he perceives every figure as an entity with dimensions, colours and temperatures.
ማንኛውንም ቋንቋ ስናወራ ቅላፄውም የማይከብደን እነዚህን ተጨማሪ ቃላቶች በማወቃችን ነው
ሏ ሟ ሯ ሷ ሿ ቧ ቷ ቿ ጯ ዧ ዷ ቋ ኟ ዃ ጓ ኋ ፗ
እስቲ አማርኛ ማንበብ የምትችሉ ይህንን ቃላት በፍጥነት አንብቡት ከዛም አለም ላይ የሚነገሩትን ቋንቋዎች ቅላፄ እዚህ ላይ እንደማታጡ እርግጠኛ ነኝ
When we speak any language, the word is easy enough to read these additional words
ሏ ሟ ሯ ሷ ሿ ቧ ቷ ቿ ጯ ዧ ዷ ቋ ኟ ዃ ጓ ኋ ፗ
Please read these words quickly enough to read, then I am sure that you will not fall into the languages spoken in the world
ለየት ያለ ምልከታ ነው።
የትነበርሽ ንጉሴ Yetnbersh Negusa
Are you Yetneberish exactly?
Anyway you are or not she is special and legend lady
የትነበርሽ ንጉሴ Yetnbersh Negusa በናትሽ ግሩብካለሽተባበሪኝ
የትነበርሽ ንጉሴ Yetnbersh Negusa yes you are so corrcte
ኟ እና ሿ…ቻይና እና ጃፓን ዧ….ፈረንሳይኛ፣ ኸ እና ዃ …….ደች
I love Ethiopia. From Sénégal
Thank you so much our wonderful friend from lovely Senegal for your love of ancient and Godly proud Ethiopia!!!! Greetings all!!
We love you too.
Thank u we also love senegal
I love Senegal from Algeria
Hey Devinci. I'm an Ethiopian who just listed down the Ge'ez numbers and their Arabic numeral counterparts in a sand -drawn video. You're invited to check it out and subscribe, if you like. Love from Ethiopia, -w 💛
Ha! So interesting to see how Amharic is explained in English. I used to study it as a first foreign language at uni (more than ten years ago!), being a Russian myself. The grammar always fascinated me - but you get used to it and don't think too hard about it once it all 'settles' in your head.
You say that as though being Russian makes it more likely you'd learn Amarhic as a 2nd language...?
@@diabl2master Hm... No, I didn't mean that. I just happened to study at a university which specialises in teaching lots of languages, including Asian and African ones. But it is still rare to study Amharic. There are maybe only two places where you can do it.
@@diabl2masterlong history of cooperation going back to the battle of Adwa
I've been in Ethiopia. Such a beautiful country.
Why
My great Grandfather worked for the Ethiopian emperor to help improve his airforce after ww2 so we have a bunch of old Ethiopian things like a tiger fur and a spear among other things. My grandfather also lived there till he was a teenager.
Wow that is so cool
Amazing where are you from
@@brookk4009 I'm half Swedish half Northern Irish but that side of the family is Swedish
What dude I didn't expect swedish bro that's amazing I want to know more about your grandfather I feel like your grandpa was a cool guy ...have yi ever visited Ethiopia?
@@skeptic781 oh God, was your great-grandfather Viking Tamm by any chance?
I'm an African American man residing in the Washington, DC Area currently being tutored in Amharic by an Ethiopian gentleman who lives in California. Both my tutor and several apps I've downloaded on my I-Phone are teaching me how to speak the Amharic language really well. I sincerely enjoyed your video. You're brilliantly smart and I can tell you probably speak at least 7 or 8 different languages minimum. You're very good at what you do and thank you for sharing your knowledge with the World. The great thing about it is that when you speak multiple languages, the chances of you ever developing Alzheimer's in nearly nonexistent so in your lifetime, that's ONE disease you'll never have to worry about......God bless.
Clock it
Amharic is such a beautiful language and I love learning that language.
Where do you learn it
@@lohikaarme8064 Moi! Opiskeleks viel Amharaa?
You are Amharic that’s why
As an Arab I really like the Amharic language even though I don't understand it but it sound good that's why Ethiopian music one of my favorite 💚
Love Ethiopian music too!
❤❤❤
Listen to other Ethiopian Music too! Not just Amharic, we have 80+ other languages.
@@glipgloop2121 are they semitic?
@@saimraja2119 Nope, we have other Semitic languages, but we also have Cushitic, Omotic, and Nilotic languages.
I live outside DC, here exists the largest Ethiopian community outside of Africa. in some towns and parts of DC you can often hear Amharic spoken and you will often see it on shop signs in certain areas.
Maryland or Virginia?
Mostly Silver Spring Maryland now
ሰው እንደዚህ ተንትኖ ያውቀዋል እኛ ግን።ምን ያክል እናውቀው ይሆን ከየት ወዴት እንደመጣ ብዙዎች እምናውቅ አይመስለኝም ቋንቋችን ስለሆነ።ብቻ እንናገራለን። ተመስገን ብቻ እንኳንም ኢትዮጵያዊ ሆንኩኝ. Ethiopian ♥♥♥♥
😂ዘረዘረው አኮ።
@@Eyob_Belay እሱም አማሪኛ ይችላል ለፍጥነት መሰለኝ በእንግሊዝኛ ያወራው ብቻ ከስር መሰረቱ ማወቅ ጥሩ ነው በተለይ ግእዝ ማወቅ አለብን ለኦርቶዶክስ ተዋህዶ ብቻ አይደለም የኢትዮጵያ ቋንቋ ነው ግእዝ
@@selamineshemariyam1846 እውነት ነው! ቋንቋ መግባብያ ነው፤ግዕዝ ብቻውን ግን እውቀትም ጭምር ነው። ሀይማኖት ጋር ሳናገናኝ እንደ ጥንት እናት ቋንቋ ልናውቀው ይገባል። በ ትምህርት ፍኖተ ካርታ ላይ ተጨምሮ ቢሰጥ ባይ ነኝ። እኛ እድሉን አጥተን እንጂ ፈልገን አይደለም ያላወቅነው! very sad 😔😔
@@Eyob_Belay ወደፊት ይሰጣል ብየ ተስፋ አለኝ ግዜውን ጠብቆ
@@selamineshemariyam1846 እንጠብቃለን በተስፋ እንግዲ። እቺን ግዜ ያሳልፈን መደመርያ 😂
I learned so much about Amharic & I’m a native speaker. This is really well done
Amharic sounds lovely.
Yes I know Manny Ethiopians that spek this lenguse and this is so butiful
Every time you upload I'm just so happy about it
That's me too :)
So am I
Me too :)
whos picture you have on your profile?
no its pirosmani i think
I'm Sudanese and I live in Ethiopia and I can tell you Amharic and Sudanese Arabic dialect have a lot of similarities. I think mainly because the Sudanese dialect was affected by cushitic languages too and there's a lot of cultural exchange going on
cushitic??? you mean south semitic....
Sudanese Arabic is actually considered closest to Old Arabic from all dialects because it uses the Quran as its educational base. It doesn't surprise me if the Sudanese dialect of Arabic is more similar to Amharic than other dialects as Ethiopic languages are considered to be much older than the modern variants of Arabic (and Hebrew).
@mohannedkhalid6689 يزول فيشينو
أنا من إثيوبية و كيف حالك؟
zoodanese land of the blacks was colonized by the Arabs and now y’all Arab wannabes that’s like saying French speaking nations are French since French colonized them bruh u guys are black Africans 😂😂🤣😂🤣
@@jaif7327cushitic languages are spoken in Ethiopia and Sudans, so influence from this language branch of afro-asiatic could easily influence Afro semitic languages
Amharic is one of the languages I want to know.
Oh it is not difficult that much.
The difficult thing is the alphabet (we called it Fidel)and some letters sound. Rather than not much difficult.
It's may be the fourth time that I watch this episode..
And I still repeating it all the time to enjoy learing about Amharic and sematic languages...
I really like to learn languages..
محمد الشهري lol wow four times
if u like i can help u learn
that's good, Muhammed. By the way, I'm an Ethiopian who just listed down the Ge'ez numbers and their Arabic numeral counterparts in a sand -drawn video. You're invited to check it out, learn from it and subscribe, if you like. Love from Ethiopia, -w 💛
@yes maby hey there, dear. Have an abundantly blessed life
muhammed habibe i`m ethiopian and don,t now how to read and write but now how to speak and did not now that the alphabet (66 or more) was made from the Ge`ez alphabet and why we need 2,3,4, and 5 like i use to before now since I moved to sweden when i was 9 now don´t now
This is the quality content that I subscribed for.
ኢየሱስ ይህን ተናገረ.
I agree
omg your name confuses me. eyuj aesny?
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As an Ethiopian, i will have to say this is the best video on Amharic i have seen so far. Usually, people are lazy and just use Wikipedia as a source and embarrass themselves withe the garbage they spew. And, Amharic is not very similar to the other Semitic languages. Trust me on this, i listen to a lot of Arabic and Hebrew songs and can't understand a word they are saying. And i speak, write, read Amharic fluently!
To answer your question, Amharic is my 2nd language. I spoke another Ethiopian language before Amharic. In Ethiopia outside of the capitol, you can teach your students in their native tongue but after the 8th grade, classes must be in Amharic and English. Every Ethiopian i know speaks Amharic, and i know many Ethiopians. Unless they were born in the diaspora of course. Thanks for the video! :)
P.S. Amharic alphabet actually has a lot in common with Armenia Script than the Semitic ones. And that's because of the close Christian ties between Ethiopia and Armenia.
Aksum አክሱም ፣ ንግሥት What's the other Ethiopian language you spoke? Tigrinya or Oromo? I assume Tigrinya based on your username.
That's interesting! I knew Ethiopia and Armenia were the oldest Christian civilizations on Earth, but I never tried to compare their alphabets. Both of them seem so unique. Would you say their grammar is similar as well?
Atse Shade, No, it wasn't Tigrigna. I just love the Axum empire one of the 4 greatest ancient empires. And i will not say what my language was, as i find the tribal division among Africans very uncivilized and barbaric way of thinking. It does nothing but hold the continent back.
Barbosa da Silva, I doubt the grammar is similar just some the alphabets. I have Armenians friends but none of the speak their language so i can't make a concrete statement on the grammar.
Aksum አክሱም ፣ ንግሥት
Yemechesh!!
www.sacred-texts.com/afr/dbn/dbn05.htm
the grammar is easy to learn for an Arabic speaker, I am not surprised because whenever I read arabic history books there is always mention of Abyssinia. its like if Arabs and Ethiopians shared their own tiny world with so much trade, migration, invasion and all kinds of interactions. long live our brotherhood!
Ethiopia was known as Habeshah during the islamic conquests, arabic influenced amharic alot
@@Livynkz I believe Abyssinians are one of several ethnic groups that make modern Ethiopia, and I think its true that Arabic influenced Amharic but similarities between these two languages shouldn’t be surprising since they come from the same origin
My native language is Arabic and I see Amharic is very hard language to learn
Amen, brother!
And somalia is the middle man
I was born in Ethiopia and immigrated to Israel. The young generation here doesn't speak Amharic but some are. I speak Amharic with my parents, grand parents, aunts and uncles but with my Ethiopian friends we speak Hebrew.
aren't you ashamed
@@lawtraf8008 why?
Shalom Rotem! It’s nice that you can still speak it, probably because it was your first language. Do any of your family that were born in Israel speak it fluently or just understand from home?
I’m Kavkazi and was born in the US, I can’t speak Juhuri at all but understand about half of it. Most Kavkazi born here in the new generation don’t speak it and would rather learn Hebrew as a second language.
Since the revival of Hebrew, Jews are speaking their diaspora languages less and less. I think only Yiddish will eventually last in significant numbers because of Hasidim.
I hope you will teach Amharic to your children
@@lawtraf8008 no
man needs not shame
man needs not fear
I love this channel, this is the first time I listen/read something related to Amharic,, by the way, it sounds amazing.
i recently moved from dc area (which has a massive habesha population) to the southwest, and used to casually learn amharic from my many ethiopian coworkers. this made me very homesick, and miss ethiopian people. but also happy and strangely proud? great video, as always. batam toru naw
Hey there, dear. I'm an Ethiopian who just listed down the Ge'ez numbers and their Arabic numeral counterparts in a sand -drawn video. You're invited to check it out and subscribe, if you like. Love from Ethiopia, -w 💛
God bless you friend.
Each week I order injera and on the plastic bag it comes in, it says "Selam Injera". It eventually dawned on me that "selam" in Amharic has the same meaning as "salaam" in Arabic or "shalom" in Hebrew! I love how one can draw connections between languages of the same family :)
S-L-M may well be the earliest attested greeting word that is still used in living languages. It was even an Akkadian loanword in Sumerian!
Salam and similar words seems to be hello in every a lot of Asian languages as far as India
@@oliverknagg5109only Urdu in India lol, its mostly Namaskara or Namaste variants in India.
This is really awesome .. Thx for sharing .. Cheers from Morocco!!!
Simply amazing!!!
I've been waiting so long for this video because I love Ethiopia and its culture and now I'm really interested in learning amharic.
XYU 3x7 tsebel yasfelgewal.. Ye sere lemat. Hayloch.... Llz
xyu enjoy bro..let em know whats up
i am Ethiopian and i believe you have done your research and i love this
I love ethiopia for everithing♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹
Wow this is an amazing video. I especially love the grammar breakdowns.
I'm an Arabic speaker, and when I hear someone speaking Amharic from a distance; i can't distinguish if she/he is speaking a dialect of Arabic because it sounds so similar to Arabic from a distance. but when I come close I understand nothing. I think, this's because Amharic language has all those sounds that I used to think or considered them unique to Arabic, (seems they aren't).
This situation keeps happening so frequently that when I hear an Ethiopian women who works with us & she speaks Arabic as well; so, I keep mixing every time I hear her talking on the phone from a distance, i thought she speaks with her family somehow in Arabic.
aasem al-lmki I think you're thinking about another language. Amharic does not have the sounds of Arabic.
Siciid Warsame
Thanks for the info
Maybe it's another language in Ethiopia
aasem al-lmki Tigrinya(Semitic), Somali(Cushitic), Afar(Cushitic)- are the languages with those sounds in Ethiopia in my humble opinion.
true some pronunciations do sound close. i myself live in egypt and a lot of people have said the same exact thing. how when spoken from a distance it sounds like a different dialect of arabic but really it's a different language.
aasem al-lmki well, amharic and tigrinya come from ge'ez, a language who in return comes from Arabic and Hebrew, so here's your similarities
Yes, more African languages !
Hey Oliver. I'm an Ethiopian who just listed down the Ge'ez numbers and their Arabic numeral counterparts in a sand -drawn video. You're invited to check it out and subscribe, if you like. Love from Ethiopia, -w 💛
im an Eritrean and i speak Tigrinya and its basically the same as Amharic, like its so similar that I'm learning to speak Amharic and I've almost mastered it and can communication with a native Amharic in full without hesitation. also ive noticed that for "lets go" for use (eri & ethi) is the same but its also the same for Arabic "Yala" ---> "lets go" yala is arabic for lets go and its also the same for eri and ethi
Yea, Tigrigna and Amharic are sister languages, Geez being their mother.Amharic my first tongue and am perfect in listening Tigrigna !! ከመይ'ሒ ክብርቲን ፅበቕቲን ጓል ኤሪ ??
and the Tigrinya language is also similar to Hebrew?
@@duduboy yes there all Semitic languages
@@tigabugobeze4230 tigre language ( eritrea ) and tigrinia ( eritrea and Tigray) come from Geez but amharinia comes from tigrinia … just for the record
@@Faith-oz9gn fake news.
ኢትዮጲያና ግዕዝ ለዘለዓለም ይኑሩ!
Ow!
It would be awesome to have a language learning course with the kind of detailed explanations you give in the minute 7:07
Those dissections of a sentence part by part explaining the meaning and function of each part/word is incredibly amazing
And also the way you explain how the tenses are formed and how the language is related to other languages is incredibly understandable
I would be willing to pay actual money for a full course of any language with that explanation method
Cheers from México
and keep the great work sir
When in collage I had a friend who wrote his notes in Amharic. To me it looked like little boxes with legs. Thanks for an interesting video.
Imagine drawing little funny faces in them and passingthe note back xD
hahaha, I always wondered what it would look like to non-speaker haha it sounds like Arabic n looks like box with legs is funny feedback, ur name would be written as ሪቻርድ ሮው
😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Paul I don't think people appreciate how much time it must have taken you to produce this quality vlogs which I find very informative / educational and for that I really admire you. Coz you invested so much time to do research in order to make your video's. Your pronunciations of Amharic words are amazing too. You certainly deserve a huge recognition not just for this particular vlog but for all the different ones you have made so far. Keep it up bro!
The Ga'ez script is gorgeous 😍
The weeknd's language
李相憲 yes his Ethiopian
language Amharic or አማርኛ 👍👍
李相憲 yes
world &music he is habesha
Canadian?
Logan Strom where he was botn
A video about Sami languages would be interesting to see here!
Hente Hoo yes
My language is belongs to the uralic language family. I am hungarian
ooo yasss
Dreoilín ÓCoigligh correct
Dreoilín ÓCoigligh Yes, it is not an Indo-european language, it's a totally different langauge family and I think the Uralic languages are unique :)
This is an amazing channel! I can't wait to watch the rest of your videos. Thank you!
There are many Amharic speakers here in the Washington DC area.
Hello from Sweden. I'm Swedish but my wife is Ethiopian. I have been there twice.
Liban less than 50%. The majority of Ethiopians are orthodox Christian
WOW! Thank you I'm from Ethiopia Amharic speaker!!!
+Langfocus I have to take issue with your claim that Ge'ez is imported. If that was the case, there would be similar scripts and languages that lasted to this day. From an Ethiopian perspective this is a product of Western scholars doubting the capability of Africans. Clearly, Ethiopia has seen better days than its recent position in the world, but Ethiopia's culture is unique to the world. Too often Ethiopians are viewed as being hybrids of Africa and the Middle East. One trip to Ethiopia settles all debates. Trust me. Nevertheless, this is a very nice video. Great job. I know you are not the original source of the Ge'ez language origin story.
Rebecca H stop lying the majority of Ethiopians are Muslims maybe you mean majority of Amhara.
Larz Gustafsson as you know Ethiopian isn’t really one nation but many different nations combined into one do you know what nation does your wife come from? I’m sure you do but what nation.
one very important thing about amharic is once you know the letters and the sound of word you should not worry about SPElling.... it is well designed to avoid spelling error... every body who knows the word but did not see how it is spell can write with no spelling error... very nice of it...
that's the whole point of letters
It really makes English spelling look unnecessarily complicated--I'm from the DC area with a very large Habesha population and many Amharic speakers I know who are learning English have trouble with our strange spellings.
@@erinnamovicz2392 english is just wrong.
assefa kelkay that’s not true. Long vowels and consonants aren’t indicated in writing. And that shorten ï sound so so confusing. Sometimes it’s an I and sometimes is reduced and not really pronounced
Nearly every language has writing quirks as spoken language tends to evolve faster than written, but yes. English is... let's say *special* in the worst way possible. Our abuses of the Latin alphabet are millionfold. A modern spelling reform would be greatly appreciated :\
Your videos are always so interesting! thanks so much
It is such a beautiful language which allows you to express yourself with undoubtable clarity .. proud of myself for maintaing my amharic in a western country.
I'd love if the Amharic course was available in duolingo, I would definitely learn it!
Ed Jr I feel you mate
Yona26 there isn't
Have you seen my Amharic/Ethiopia posts?
ghajn where are those posts?
ghajn No, in duolingo?
1. I was born and lived a total of 12 years in Ethiopia. I've lived my whole life in Addis Ababa (the capital city) and anyone who lives there speaks Amharic or at least understands it. Everyone that I personal know that is from the city speaks fluent amharic even if it isn't their first language. as you have mentioned in your video there are another 81 or more native languages so it's honestly impressive most have managed to fluently speak it.
2. Amharic is my 1st language
3. I am currently in the states where i am doing my studies in a university. There is a fantastic habesha club that does a great job at connecting Ethiopians and Eritreans. I speak to my habesha friends in Amharic and some tigrenya but when around our foreign friends we talk in english just for the obvious fact that it's rude. I actually didn't speak tigrenya when I was in Ethiopia but my amazing Eri friends have taught me well. Now i am able to understand fully but struggle a bit with speaking. I will get better one of these days, I really love the language. Even when i find random Ethiopians in the streets or a mall, we communicate in our language. language is an identity, we must never forget!
so far i am really impressed with your knowledge in my language. You dug in so deep and just made it so much understandable for foreigners. guy does his research well! Because Amharic and Arabic are Semitic languages, it is very easy for us to learn Arabic and hebrew. I lived in Egypt for 6 years and I knew how to fluently speak arabic in 2 years. Because we have a great amount of words in common, it was a piece of cake for me!
Do keep up the great research! I recommend your videos to everyone. loved it
Pls pls I need Help from you I want to speak or understand English fluently. you are just perfect 👌👌👌 I am doing a course in the college and I am kind of straggling with my assignment. Thank you 🙏
Hey Francesca. I'm an Ethiopian who just listed down the Ge'ez numbers and their Arabic numeral counterparts in a sand -drawn video. You're invited to check it out and subscribe, if you like. Love from Ethiopia, -w 💛
ፅሁፍክን ወድጄዋለው
Wish u the best yagere lij 👍🇪🇹
@@selamkahsay2489 my problem too
I can read and write English(ofcourse some grammar mistakes happened) my big problem is i couldn't speak quickly.
@@selamkahsay2489 i am a liitle two years late with my reponse but i do reccomoned you just practice. Practice makes perfect!
The Amharic "älla" is almost the same in pronunciation as the Berber (Kabyle) "illa" which means "there is" in both languages.
Besides this, the two languages share many features as I noticed.
even they have same music with amazghi people if idonot miss spel and similar string instruments and i heard that they have east african base
Amharic also has Egyptian words like set and iw
@@the_fam yeah and same face tattoos
The most similarities are with morrocoan berbers
Djaf mess.. That is because they are all of them afro-asiatic languages, a big Family of idioms
I cant jeep a straight face every time you say ge'ez
I just wanted to say thank you for your kindness introduced we Ethiopian we have reach culture and history Amharic is my first language. #stay tuned.
YES YES YE YAS YES YEEEEEEESSSSSS!!!!!!!! YOU ARE NOW MY ALL TIME FAVORITE TH-cam CHANNEL !!!!
Haha, thank you Rob!
Langfocus No, Thank You, I've been hoping for you to make this video for so long. My mother is Haitian and my father is Ethiopian. I was so happy when you made the Haitian Creole video and now I'm simply exuberant. I've always wanted to learn to be able to speak with my father's side of my family.
Langfocus you should have included words at the end of cushitic or ethiosemitic origin. That would have been cool. See how the language originally sounds like.
Have watched this more than 4 times in the past 2 months. Travelling Africa and learning Amharic for immersion. In Ethiopia now been here for a week. You are amazing Paul thank you so much I really mean it
I was just checking some youtube videos to see what nonethiopians think about Amharic. Little that I knew that I would be taught my language from others. I haven't done enough research to know about the history of Amharic, but the way you explained how the language works is better than many who call themselves Amharic experts. I also liked your unbiased view of the origin of Amharic, comparisons with other Semitic languages. For anyone who has an interest in learning Amharic, I think this is a very good place to start. You will see that Amharic is a fun language especially when you start interacting with the lovely Ethiopian people who are rich in culture. I myself like to learn about other languages, and I found a good source. finally, I would like to extend my gratitude to all of those who participate in the making of this great video. Keep up the good work.
Your videos are always so interesting! Thank you for letting me discover this new language :-)
Keep up the great work
Dude, I have been watching your quality videos for a while now and I am glad you did a video on Amharic. As a native speaker of Amharic who lives in the US I speak Amharic with my friends and in our communities but interchange it with English on the fly. Older people in our communities usually speak only Amharic with little usage of English amongst themselves. And the very young ones and the ones that came here as kids, as in any other immigrant community speak little to no Amharic usually.
congratulations for your videos. I always thought that there is a huge need for such researchers and such a channel. thanks again.
A very well studied and well briefed video about Amharic language. Thank you bro !
There's a lot Ethiopian immigrants in the Boston area. Being that I've chosen to dedicate myself to the study of Semitic languages, maybe it is a blessing. Maybe I'm just drunk.
veryserioz Can't blame him to be honest
Nathan Nguyen no such things as immigrants...just people.
Nathan Nguyen it is both :)
Nathan The whole of America is a nation of Migrants. Even your own family!
Nathan Nguyen Or maybe you can teach them Vietnamese
You very much understood our language , thanks
This video is world class. Super informative. Concise and clear. And the narrator has a very clear and neutral English pronunciation. I was looking at the Ge'ez script and Amharic language. If I only had this video for an overview.. it would be enough. Thank you!!!
Thank you for the kind words!
you are good steady languages so tankyou እኔ አማረኛ ተናጋሪ ነኝ አረበኛም እችላለሁ የመጀመሪያ ቋንቋየ አማረኛ ነው እና አንተ እንዳልከው ብዙ ቃላቶች አሉ ከአረበኛ ጋር የሚመሳስሉ
አማርኛ በጣም እወዳለሁ። በጣም የተለየ ቋንቋ ነው፣ እንደኔ ለሆነ የእንግሊዝኛ ተናጋሪ ብዙ የሰዋሰዉ ነገሮች ሊከብዱ ይችላሉ። ጽህፈቱንም በጣም እወዳለሁ።
ትግርኛ እና ትግረ በተለይ ከ ዓረበኛ ወይ ከ ሂብሩ በጣም ይመሳሰላል። ቃላቶች ኣደማመጥ ጭምር።
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@@ddlaura5506 ከእብራይስጥ ጋር ነው የሚመሳሰለው።
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አማርኛ ምርጥ ቋንቋዬ
በጣምጂ።አማረኛኮ።ethiopia.ኢተርናሹላል።ቋቋነው።የተቀረው።ቋቋ።ከዃላ።የመጣነው
hawa መችም እንጊልዘኛ ስለማይገባሽ ነው እንጂ አማርኛ ነው በቅርብ የመጣው በ15ኛዉ ክፍለ-ዘመን
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Arabic speaker here...
14:12 The Arabic "qutila" ("he was killed") is the PASSIVE form of "qatala" ("he killed").
Nevertheless, great video as always, Paul.
Omar Adel stupid as hell your comment
Yes, that is right. Qutila is the passive form!!!
Милен Байков
I didn't get it I'm sorry!
Hi, I'm a Portuguese native speaker and I found interesting that we have a word, "cutelo", what means chopper or dagger, that is similar to that Semitic one, and the cognate for that in Spanish is "cuchillo", which is even more similar. I think this is maybe due Iberian peninsula being under Arabic domination for centuries before Christians rulers reconquer the region.
Dionisio Junior Oliveira The spanish word «Cuchilla» is a direct descendant of Cuquila.
Hi Paul,
I love how you go deep in your video’s. It would be very interesting to see à vidéo about Tigrinya/Tigre and geez as well. Keep up you good work and many Thanks for all your vidéos 👍
I love learning Amharic and the history of Ethiopia.🇪🇹♥♥♥☺😊:-)
Thank you very much and a very pleasant presentation
I love your channel :'''')
It's so amazing
Keep up the good work :)
I am so grateful for this video.
This is very informative and educative video. Be blessed.
I am so glad you did a video about amharic!!!!. I am a native speaker of amharic. I found out that Jesus might have spoken biblical Aramaic and since then I have been wondering about similarity of the words Aramaic and Amharic, is it a coincidence????!!!!
when Jesus was performing miracle by saving the daughter of Lazarus he said "thal'ita cumi" and the girl stood up from her death bed. The word "tha'ita cumi" has the same meaning in amharic "ita" means my sister while "cumi" means stand up, which means "my sister stand up" also during crucifixion of Jesus he said "Eloi, Eloi lama sabacthani" here "lama" means why which is similar as the amharic word "lemin".
During the crossing of Jesus and his disciples on a stormy sea and the saving of the disciples they were saying "Maran'atha" to each other "maran" means "save us" while "atha" means "you" in total it mean "he saved us" to each other(the disciples saying to each other).
Here are some Amharic words similar with Hebrew/Aramaic:
English. Hebrew Amharic.
Angle Malik. Melak.
Holy. Kadish/Quds. Qidus
Right. Haq. Haq
Father. Abu. Abat
Peace. Shalom. Selam
Head. Rosh. Ras
Prophet. Nabi. Neby
Blessed. Baruk. Biruk
Soul. Nephesh. Nefis
Righteous. Tsadik. Tsadik
Sky/heaven Shamay. Semay
Sanctuary. Miqdash. Mekdes
Lord/holy day Ba'al. Ba'al
Proverb. Mishaley. Misale
Heart. Leb. Leb
Ancient. Kadum. Kidim(before)
Birthday. Hu'ledet. Ledet
New. Hadush. Addis
Recover. Me'hira. Mihret
Hour. Sha'a. Seat
Ten. Eser. Aser
I. Ani. Ene
Do you think there is a connection between Aramaic and Amharic I really belive some time back then there must have been a connection between them. Also before Ge'ez became to be written with vowel it was a consonant only letter so if you take the first letters of each of alphabet and compare it with biblical aramaic alphabet there are some similarities.
There is also similarity in the name of Geez and Gezer (Gezer inscription which is the first hebrew text found)!!
I love what you wrote, especially about Jesus. Very fascinating. If you want to know more about Geeze I recommend you to talk to Prof. Getachew Haile.
Eskedar Zeleke : my lovely sis : that is brilliant observation. Don't regret to do more on that, find out more facts. It's very important to the society. Thanks to you.
Yeah Jesus' first language was Amharic
Eskedar Zeleke Wow I have to look this up. Thanks!
Hi Paul!! I am a fan of the Langfocus channel.
One month ago I was reading a book about the reign of Haile Selassie. The book is: The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat; wrote by the Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński. Reading the book I was curious about the Amharic language.
And when I was in Italy, in 2005, I remember at the train from Rome to Firenze, I was in front of two womans talking. I was trying to understand what was that language. That time I was a student of Arabic language and that language sounds near the Arabic to me. I think that women could be from Yemen or Somalia.
So, I asked the women in Italian, what was that language. They said: Sei amarico! (It's Amharic!)
I was very happy to listen that language, and I said to these women is very rare listen Amharic where i live (Brazil).
Thanks so much bro for teaching me my original language as history teacher!
As a native Tigrinya (from Eritrea) speaker, I can somewhat understand certain words in Amharic but I feel like Amharic has more cushitic words whereas Tigrinya has more arabic influence to it.
The Arabic influences are EPLF impositions. Tegrena also has many Italian loanwords. Eritreans are to careless and indifferent to the bastardization of their language.
@@heruy8274 Koreans have many English loan words, English itself has more than 30% loan words from Germanic and Latin. Tigrinya has loan words due to Italian colonial influence. You're acting like we chose to that ourselves.
@@esaw7067 So why dont we reform our language and purify it from Italian influences? Having been forcibly influenced by Italy in the past does not excuse our contemporary settling for the status quo.
In fact Tigrinya has more semitic roots than Amharic since christianity came through Eritrea and Tigray. Tigrinya is also one of the closest languages to the ancient Aramaic language that was spoken during christ.
@@heruy8274 What's the point of being so rude?
I really liked this video. I am a language enthusiast and I enjoy learning languages and learning about them. Sadly there is no way I'll ever get to study all the languages that I'd like to study so videos like this give me a little taste of a language without having to spend loads of time reading about it. I really appreciate the ones about lesser known or studied languages like Amharic. I also really, really appreciate the sample sentences and the grammar breakdown!
I love the way that Amharic sounds. I live in an area that has one of the largest (if not the largest) populations of Ethiopians outside of Ethiopia so it is one of those languages I grew up hearing all around me, and I am used to seeing the script (many of the pamphlets for public transportation and school forms are in Amharic, along with Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean).
You live in the DMV right? because it's the same for me
Oh Paul. You are just too brilliant! Keep it up!
Hi! I just wanna say thank you for making this video! I'm half Ethiopian and since I don't live in Ethiopia I've forgotten the language. I'm trying to learn it now that I'm older so I can be closer to my culture. Tho it's super hard to find any information about the structure of Amharic and when I ask my mom how the grammar works it's hard for her to explain it just like that, which I totally understand.
I find this video extremely helpful with my studies of Amharic. Especially with the structure of sentences. Thank you for making this video! It means a lot to me :)!
You’re welcome! I’m glad you found it useful!
There are actually some useful grammar books for amharic available. One old and supposedly very good one is written b Robert Leslau, but it may be too expensive and overly academic to teach yourself. Try out colloquial Amharic by David Appleyard, it is really good and contains all info necessary for self study. I am sure after a while of self study you can start to talk with your mum in Amharic and take it on a conversational level from there. Best wishes with your self study from another half habesha who already struggled this way to learn his language (in my case Tigrinya :)) Cheers!
I like that you put original picture of Ethiopia as it is city, villages, mountains and amazing places 🤎
Can you please do the Berber Languages ?
Wrong. Berber languages are the original native languages of North Africa before Arabic conquests during times of the Caliphate.
Yeah. Tifinagh is an awesome script.
looks like the Turk guys comment i replied to got deleted
Mounaim Ghouali
صدق انك قليل حياء ، حتى لو كنت تختلف مع احد ارتق بنفسك ومع اخوانك في الدين والوطن.
Nader Jindaoui you mean the Kabyle language?
Excellent video, was soooooo intresting, thank you
Very well explained! Well done!👍🏻
How about a video on some of the Native American languages, like Michif? Or French outside of Europe, like Acadian French and Missouri French?
It would be awesome to see minority/endangered languages get some spotlight.
He did do a video on Quechua
Paul : a huge thank you for every single video you upload, you are such an inspiration 👏💙 ..
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Love your channel man...... very clear and concise.
Thank you very much for such an informative and well-researched piece, a really engaging and professional presentation. Keep up the good work Dear Éric
Christ, I discover new things every time I watch your channel....
Greetings from Spain!!
Hey Paul! I'm a native Arabic speaker from Egypt, and I had an Ethiopian travel-buddy whom I spent 2 months with in China. And yes, whenever she talked in Amharic with her family on the phone I could recognize some words and guess the meaning right. Especially numbers, animal and plant names.
That was good thank you for teaching us it was good for my kids too!
Wow. This was great. Thank you.
The Amharic speaker in the examples should make ASMR videos!
I swear i was just thinking this 😂 ASMR in Amharic that would be a first and a treat
I actually do like Ethiopian food. I found it pretty tasty.
yassss. and hey I'm an Ethiopian who just listed down the Ge'ez numbers and their Arabic numeral counterparts in a sand -drawn video. You're invited to check it out and subscribe, if you like. Love from Ethiopia, -w 💛
Winta Assefa greeting from an Arab girl hope you guys are in goods place and beautiful we are brother back in the time 🌹
@@Reemalarawi I know a couple of Reems. What a lovely name
The direct translations to English were hilarious. And thank you for making a video about Amharic it is the first one I have found.
Great work. I am teaching my kids all 3 (I am a native Amharic speaker) and your video is helpful.
Amharic and tigrigna is spoken by Ethiopians also Eritreans share same language of Ethiopians which is tigrigna and the language is very similar. Amharic and tigrigna is very similar it's like Italian and Spanish can understand it also they use same alphabet call Fidel
Well done man even though I speak Amharic I dont think I learned like you though me so am impressed!!!
Wow fascinating and complicated. Congratulations!