PHOENICIAN LANGUAGE, PEOPLE, & CULTURE
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Yom na’im likilkhom! ‘Anikhi Andy. Wu shelmim ‘attim?
Good day everyone! My name is Andy. How are you?
Let's talk about the Phoenician language.
Phoenician was the language of Phoenicia from around 1200 BC during the late Bronze Age until the 2nd century AD, and it was also spoken in Phoenician colonies, most notably Carthage, where it evolved into Punic. Punic, along with its descendant Neo-Punic, persisted in North Africa until the 7th century AD. As a Canaanite language from the Northwest Semitic branch of Proto-Semitic, Phoenician's closest relative is Biblical Hebrew. The parent Canaanite language was prevalent in the 2nd millennium BC across what is now Israel, Palestine, western Jordan, Lebanon, and northwestern Syria. Proto-Semitic and its derivatives belong to the Afro-Asiatic language family found in the Middle East, North Africa, and Ethiopia.
Phoenician had two primary dialects: the Biblian dialect of Gubal (modern-day Byblos, Lebanon) and the Tyro-Sidonian dialect of southern Lebanon, as well as the later Punic and Neo-Punic dialects. Some Phoenician elements persist in modern Lebanese and North African Arabic dialects, and certain words have been adopted by other languages, including Latin. The Phoenician alphabet, notable for its 22 consonants and absence of vowels, was likely the first widely-used alphabetic script.
Phoenicia was an ancient Semitic maritime civilization based along the coastal strip of the Levant, primarily in what is now Lebanon. Renowned for their trade, seafaring, and navigation skills, the Phoenicians dominated commerce throughout classical antiquity, creating a vast maritime trade network that lasted over a millennium. This network enabled cultural exchanges between major civilizations such as Greece, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. The Phoenicians founded colonies and trading posts across the Mediterranean, with Carthage in northwest Africa becoming a significant civilization by the 7th century BC. Phoenician wealth was largely derived from their prized Tyrian purple fabrics, dyed using a substance from the Murex marine snail, which was once abundant in the eastern Mediterranean but was driven to local extinction due to overexploitation.
References:
1- Les inscriptions Phéniciennes et leur style, Fady Stéphan, publications de l’Université Libanaise, Beyrouth, Liban 1985.
2- A Phoenician-Punic Grammar, Charles R. Krahmalkov, Brill, 2001.
3- Textbook of Syrian Semitic Inscriptions, Volume III, Phoenician Inscriptions. J. Gibson. Oxford University Press, 2002.
4- Phoenician-Punic Dictionary, Charles R. Krahhmalkov, Peeters, Orientalia Lovaniensia, Studia Phoenicia XV, Leuven 2000
5-A Comparative Semitic Lexicon of the Phoenician and Punic Languages. Richard S. Tomback. Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation series number 32. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1978 republished 2019.
6-A Grammar of Phoenician and Punic, Stanislav Segert. Verlag C.H. Beck Munchen, 1976.
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Hey Andy , can I ask , how do you even manage to post so fast 😭 , lol I REALLY love your language videos
Awesome, thanks for another great language video Andy! 😎👍
Echoing other Hebrew speakers, I understood ~80% listening and ~90-95% reading.
Awesome, I envy you for being able to comprehend such an important part of history, and for knowing Hebrew. Shalom friend
Fun fact "ish" in Phoenician refers to two different words, "man" ("ish" in Hebrew) and the relative clause marker ("asher" or "she-" in Hebrew). This means that the Phoenician phrase for "this man is my father", "ha'ish zeh hu ab ish li", is actually closer to the Modern Hebrew way of expressing this phrase, "ha'ish ha'zeh hu abba sheli", compared to the Biblical Hebrew "ha'ish ha'zeh avi (hu)"
Kan (כן) I noticed that as well, especially ‘sheli’
I'm a native Hebrew speaker. I also speak Arabic and I'm familiar with biblical era Aramaic (the modern Aramaic dialects are influenced by Arabic). I could understand over 80 percent of the Phoenician just from listening. Reading it, I understood over 90 percent. The reconstructed spoken Phoenician sounds to me somewhat like traditional Yemenite Hebrew pronunciation.
It’s crazy to think that speakers of Semitic languages can still very easily understand languages that separated millennia ago from their owns. And Phoenician is not even the direct precedessor of modern Hebrew. It’s more like its “aunt”. No speaker of an Indo-European language could comprehend a language so old without prior studying it 😦
Oh wow that’s really interesting, yeah Phoenician looks (and sounds too) pretty close to Hebrew
@@minimodecimomeridio4534 Well, Hebrew was basically revived from the dead relatively recently, it's basically THE ancient Hebrew language but with far easier phonology afaik. Standard Arabic is also mostly based on the Quranic Arabic, so at least 14 hundred years old.
@@anonymousbloke1Modern Hebrew is still close to the original biblical Hebrew of over 2000 years ago. It was always used in prayers, books, papers and books discussing religious matters, but from the 19th century it was updated to include modern terminology and to cover matters pertinent to modern life. Similarly, classical Latin wouldn't cover modern life and environment, that's why classical Latin was also updated with vocabulary that covers modern life, since it's still used by Latin scholars, the Vatican and hundreds of thousands of Classical Latin speakers world wide who do it for the love of the language and for hobby. Naturally, some of the pronounciation and grammar changed in Hebrew, but take for example late Middle English and Modern English - a modern Hebrew speaker understands much more of Biblical Hebrew, than an average modern English speaker can understand Shakespeare for example.
and, in fact, none of the Indo-Europeans claims to understand the Phoenician language without studying, because it belongs to another family of languages! Your languages are related to the language of the Phoenicians, so you understand them. What do Indo-Europeans have to do with it?
Waiting for the "I speak Hebrew and I understand this" in the comments
Envy much??
@@TheDavidRJ Yes, but it wasn't an attempt to insult anyone tho
Ikr @@jorgitoislamico4224
Yup, I think Andy even deleted one of the comments that said exactly that because the replies got too spicy 😂
@@goulven05 I still see it tho 😂
now compare Phoenician and Hebrew for a next video
Crazy to think this is what my ansestors spoke. It's ashame Phoenician history has been forgotten and ignored by many.
Nearly the whole world writes with descendants of the Phoenician writing system.
As a Jewish guy learning Hebrew, I was surprised as to how much I understood of Phoenician. They seem like two dialects of the same language.
The Phoenician language, like Hebrew, belongs to the subgroup of Canaanite languages within the Semitic group of languages. It also includes Moabite, Edomite, Palmyrene and other languages.
you say youre jew, but you dont know hebrew. just be honest, youre probably 99% european.
Both languages + Aramaic are both North Semitic Languages.
That's because they were. Hebrew and Phonecian (as well as Moabite, Ammonite and Edomite) were dialects of the overall Hebrew language. All of them use the same script and are almost entirely mutually intelligible.
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 bro what did he do to you
If possible, I'd like to see some videos on Caananite, Aramaic and other semitic languages!
That must be a later stage Phoenician, possibly from around 300 BCE. The k was always plosive in earlier stages of Phoenician/Canaanite, while the fricative k (kh) only starts to appear around the 4th century BCE in all of the North-West Semitic languages, possibly as a sprachbund effect.
Wow! Absolutely similar to Hebrew. I think that any person in the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah would easily understand a Canaanite.
I understood almost everything!
It's a beautiful language. I never anticipated that it would sound similar to Hebrew. This isn't the first time this channel has posted about the Phoenician language. Previously, she attempted speaking Phoenician herself, and it was quite different from now. I couldn't find the old video, so she might have deleted it. This time, there's much improvement indeed.
im a hebrew speaker and I feel like I can almost understand most of it!
Free Palestine ✨
it's amazing how similar it is to Hebrew😯
Hebrew is the similar to the caanainia language.
@@Elias-tl2jzThat's because they were. Hebrew and Phonecian (as well as Moabite, Ammonite and Edomite) were dialects of the overall Hebrew language. All of them use the same script and are almost entirely mutually intelligible.
They are both variants of the same ancient language.
But only ancient he.Ьгеω and Yemeηוte he.Ьгеω , not the modern one
@@fouedfoued5692 and iraqi hebrew
I can see that Phoenician is the sister language of Hebrew more than Aramaic or Arabic
Jews came to Palestine from Egypt so the Hebrew born there inspired by the language of the native peoples.
@@Elias-tl2jz interesting thanks for sharing that, I've heard some historians and linguists saying Hebrew is a vulgar accent of Aramaic spoken by jews, which later became a language
@@Elias-tl2jz
Jews came from Egypt to Canaan and made it Judea.
Palestine didn't exist yet.
Also Hebrew is the first language in the world.
Jews spoke Hebrew in Egypt. Yes, the language affected other languages and was affected by other languages. But Hebrew came before them all.
@@Elias-tl2jz Canaan*
اللغة العبرية والفينيقية هي لغة واحدة وهي الكنعانية ..العبرية والفينيقية مجرد لهجات للغة واحدة
Hah! I was just wondering yesterday if you guys had any videos on Phoenician and was surprised that you didn't, then this pop up on my feed the next day! Great stuff! Happy to see you guys tackle this often overlooked language/culture, and hope you do some of the other languages of the ancient Near East in due time!
I like the new format you’ve been using lately for your videos. Keep up the good work! Many thanks
An Iraqi Mesopotamian Arabic speaker here with some knowledge of Iraqi Assyrian Neo-Aramaic and Chaldean, and a tiny bit of Iraqi Hebrew that I taught myself, I can say I understood easily 75% of this with and without reading it’s pretty interesting how conservative many Semetic languages are
Great deep dive.
They founded cities even in the atlantic coast of Morocco: Essaouira was a phoenician colony named Arambys
Not true!
They founded cities in Portugal my guy
Lol portugal @@phgs_smnt
Phoenician sounds very similar to Hebrew which makes sense as they were related to the Caananites which were located in modern-day Judea (ie Palestine & Israel) and probably shared some similar linguistics.
They were Caananites.
The Phoenicians (Carthaginians) retained the Caananite ethnonym as late as the 600s AD.
@@Innomenatus BASED
@@YaBoiBaxter2024 To be fair, the Caananite identity likely survives to this very day in the form of a group of Indian Christians known as the Southists, or the Knanaya (Canaanite). They descend from groups of Levantine Christians who migrated in the first millennia.
@@Innomenatus Awesome info.
@@Innomenatus
Dude .. modern Palestinians and Lebanese have Canaanite ancestors !
You talk like Canaanite magically disappeared. They just adapted to new rulers ! Hebrews, Romans, Arabs and others
Hoc est lingua arci inimici. Conveniāmus in Zamae cum illō linguā vulgarē. - Publius Cornelius Scipio
Basically a different accent of hebrew. It is important to remember that this is a reconstruction, we are not entirely sure how they pronounce some letters. For example: mayim (water), we do not know for sure if they spoke meim, meyem, mem, mim... We know that they had less diphtongs than hebrew.
in fact, modern hebrew is also reconstructed.
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 not really. Hebrew within a generation or two underwent accelerated changes that most other languages went through in hundreds of years, or millenia. Hebrew never fell out of use, except it didn't change much since the 2nd century because it was used mostly for religious purposes, like prayers, Jewish philosophy, religious laws, discussions, papers and books about Jewish religious life in general. There was also the belief among ultra orthodox Jewish groups that Hebrew shouldn't be used for secular conversations because it's a sacred language, and it should be used only for religious purposes. In the 19th century the need to update the language to fit the needs of modern life and environment became obvious, especially among the less religious.
Excuse you? Calling Phoenician as "just" a Hebrew accent is a humiliation
@@Bellarej350 Excuse you, not me. Where did I say "phoenician is """just""" a hebrew accent? Can you tell me? I am saying that it is basically a hebrew accent. They were considered the same language. Hebrew could also be considered a dialect of phoenician and vice versa.
And hummiliation? What? Nobody speaks phoenician anymore, nobody would be offended by this - except you of course.
@@rizkyadiyanto7922
That's really not true.
You can literally search this up... There are barely but a few words that have been constructed like
"Ice cream" for example...
Modern Hebrew is Biblical Hebrew...
סוף סוף הם עשו צידונית. חיכיתי לזה.
Dear Andy,
Great video,
A minor bug is that the Phoenecian shown has all its words flipped.
So,
siht ekil nettirw si gnihtyerve.
Also the narator clearly speaks modern Hebrew, as he pronounces the "𐤑" as 'Ts'
Tsade was a glottalised affricate, both in Hebrew and in Phoenician. The video is full of errors though, but this isn't one of those.
As a Hebrew speaker it’s exiting! If I slow it down to 75% speed I could understand 90-95%
I'm waiting for Punic dialect comparison
Next do punic
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be Israel
@@FrejthKing never in a million years it won't 😂 ودز معاهم
@@revenger8744as much as I don’t want it to be, it sadly might be a reality 🥲😭😖
Do you realize that you both are brothers, separated just by history?
@@joagalo
If Slavic brothers like Russia & Ukraine fight each other; Why not the Semitic peoples? It's not unheard of.
Can't believe there are no comments talking about this, the script in the video is backwards! The order of the words is correct (right to left), but the order of the letters is wrong!
Like Hebrew, our sister language Phoenician is having the same problem 2000 years later 😂
That's ALL semitic languages, or at least most semitic languages. Arabs too. I'm European and I had a chance to study Arabic in school, but I didn't because of the right to left way of writing, (and the fact that the language is very difficult) I just can't I'm sorry. You must be left handed to do that. My palms sweats a lot, I wouldn't be able to write a word without my sweaty palm erasing it. Was everybody left handed in the Middle East at some point? I just can't comprehend how writing from right to the left can be comfortable unless you're left handed.
I'm Syrian from the coast, my city has a long Canaanite and Phoenician history, in fact most of our villages and cities bear Aramaic and Phoenician names and we still have festivals dating back to those cultures ❤️💙
Greetings from your neighbors in Lebanon my friend
Warmest Greetings from Iran. Long live the memory of PHOENICIAN! They really had a great Civilization. All the people of western Asia are proud of them.
Interestingly the word for number 6 is like Persian!
Greetings to Iran from Lebanon
The guys who made alphabets cool! People say this sounds like Hebrew. Given Hebrew got "fossilized" in its biblical form around 500, the two languages are effectively separated from their common ancestor by about one thousand years. No surprise them they're intelligible!
As a Hebrew speaker, I understand 80% of it
I miss pre arab languages :(
Bring back Aramaic, Coptic, Akkadian, Sumerian and Phoenician
Don’t worry there’s always a Garbage that the West does not want The West will throw its rubbish at us This garbage will try to revive dead languages to try to prove that they have an origin
@@user-wr5ko3fu2xif it was not Arabic today it would be Aramaic latin greek and persian spoken in that region Arabic language united all
@@user-wr5ko3fu2xakkadian sumarian and phoenician are out of picture bro
These are all Semitic languages. They are the same as Arabic.
The first language with alphabet ❤️
It is actually an abjad due to it's lack of vowels
@@wilgotspetsstromback3916 Indeed.
This language is EXTREMELY underrated! This basically was the basis for the modern-day Latin alphabet I use today. They're also the ones who helped found Carthage who would almost topple Rome, which would have changed our modern-day world FOREVER! Salute to the heirs of Phoenicia who inhabit Lebanon! May you revive your ancient language and culture (if possible).
🇱🇧🫡🫂
Very well said 👏👏
@@goulven05 🫂🫂
Canaanite might be a more appropriate name for the language, since it is virtually the same as Hebrew. Meanwhile, Phoenician is an exonym from the Greeks.
As much as this language is a close relative of Hebrew, thre are many words I can understand as a Maltese!
It is the ancestor of the Maltese language. People mistakenly think that the semitic words in Maltese come from Arabic but they come from Phoenician, a language which was spoken in Malta for thousands of years.
@@BillyBlack-wn4bk that's a myth, Maltese is known to be a descendent of siculo arabic and follows many grammatical and lexical construction of maghrebi arabic. As a speaker of both hebrew and maghrebi arabic I can confidently say Maltese is far closer to tunisian arabic than to punic
@@omaraalabou4953 Siculo-Arabic is a made up language to justify an Arab origin for Maltese, there's zero evidence that it actually existed. Maltese is and will always be a direct descendent of Punic no matter how hard you Arab propagandists say otherwise. 🙂
@@omaraalabou4953 There's some similarity with Tunisian Arabic because Malta was under Arab rule. But Maltese started as Phoenician and it's totally different from Arabic. There's no doubt about that.
@@BillyBlack-wn4bk
Here we have a westerner explaining semitic language to Semite people! 🤦🏻
Dude... I'm north African with knowledge about Maltese, Arabic and Hebrew.
Maltese is directly linked to Arabic, 80% of syntax and root words came from Arabic.
Claiming that Maltese is derived from Phoenician is as ahistorical as claiming modern Spanish came from Celtic language because celts were in the peninsula 🤦🏻
The Maltese guy understood Phoenician words because it's semitic and we Arabs also understand some Phoenician words.
In fact, there are many historians who suggest the origins of Phoenicia in modern day Oman (Arabia) due to it's linguistic closeness with ancient thamudic Arabic
Hi
Could you please make a video about "old azeri" language 🙏🏻
I wanna learn Hebrew but I have no idea where to start and what are some good resources
please, do a comparision betwen phoenician and classical arabic
As a Levantine learning Aramaic , the connection between the languages is very clear, one can tell how some words lived on in different languages only slightly modified until our era …
Please video about Proto-Northwest Semitic language: the ancestor of Hebrew and Phoenician.
As an Israeli I understand most of it
Wow it is close to Hebrew, its like Italian and Romanian or something like that
האמת גם בסרטון הזה וגם בתגובה הזאת מופיעה שפה כנענית
Sounds like a mix of Arabic and Hebrew. This language is related to Hebrew but the pronunciation is closer to Arabic i think because Arabic is the most conservative semitic language.
It is not a mix of arabic and hebrew, it is almost entirely hebrew. They were considered the same language in biblical times
@@M4th3u54ndr4d3 I didn't say it's a mix I said it sounded like a mix because of the reasons I gave. Read again.
Some Mizrahi Jews still pronounce some of the older sounds.
@@Rushrush13 I know what you said, I am just giving an explanation for anyone seeing the comments here. Calm down and take you anxiety pills.
@@M4th3u54ndr4d3 nah you clearly misunderstood my comment.
may i know phoenician long time ago have relations between southeast asia? like trade or else??
I love Punic script. It's so rough and unrefined, like the scribblings of a bored kid in school lol
It is a beautiful written language, but it has an attitude as well.
The first alphabet originated in the Sinai Peninsula from Egyptian hieroglyphs
By the way since 3:17 you wrote the pheonician words from left to right but the sentence you still wrote from right to left.
So 'anikhi should be 𐤀𐤍𐤊 but you wrote it in reverse 𐤊𐤍𐤀.
Before 3:17 it seems ok.
It sounds more Hebrew than Arabic.
Would definitely like to see some possible videos on the Tyrhennian languages, besides Etruscan which you've already done, such as Rhaetian, Lemnian, Common Tyrhennian etc...
They're the only Paleo-European languages (besides Vasconic and Paleo-Hispanic in Iberia) that we have any concrete knowledge of.
Wish phoenician is the official language of lebanon instead of lebanese arabic
Based on i hear although i dont speak any semitic languages based on writing and hearing the language its really similar to hebrew i think if the phoenicians is alive today hebrew and phoenicians can understand each other very well
Similar to Spanish to Portuguese relations
You made a mistake when you were rendering the words ... the sentence reads from right to left, which is correct, but the words read from left to right which is wrong
I am from Sardegna which was invaded by them in ancient times ❤
I love canaanite languages!
Lebanese and I was surprised how much of this I understood! I know we’re descended from Phoenicians but I didn’t expect it so many of the words to be similar to Lebanese arabic.
انت فينيئي لك شو بتخزي العين ههههههههههههههههه
I hope that the lebanese christians will revive this language!
It's listening to this video and To appear that the ancient Phoenicians come out of their tombs in Cadiz and come to the surface and frighten the current people of Cadiz.
100% Hebrew so cool !!!!
Now I want to hear the Arabs saying the Jews/Hebrews are not the ancestors of the land 😂😂😂
Is (eyet) equivalent to (of) and (ish) equivalent to (for) in Canaanite?!
My ancestors 🇱🇧
Im an Arabic speaker and understood about 70% when just listening, yom na3im ilkhom lol
i am Arabic Hebrew and Aramaic speaker. And now I realize i know Phoenician too 😆
Please compare phoenician and arabic❤
The ancestor of Maltese. You can still see the similarities despite the age difference!
Maltese is derived from Siculo-Arabic.
@@Innomenatus That's a myth. There's zero evidence that such a language ever existed.
L-Ilsien Malti mnissel mill-Għarbi li kien mitkellem fi Sqallija mis-seklu 9-il quddiem. M' hemm ebda evidenza li l-Malti imnissel jew fih kliem Feniċju. Għalkemm jidher li jixbħu fid-dehra, it-tixbihat huma hemm biss għax il-Malti, kif ukoll l-Għarbi, Lhudi u Feniċju jinsabu fl-istess familja lingwistika u b'hekk għandhom grammatika tixtiebah ħafna. Il-ħsieb li il-Malti imnissel mill-Feniċju ilu li ntwera li mhux il-każ mis-seklu li għadda u kienet imbuttata minn għaqdiet politiċi nazzjonalistiċi, u mhux minn akkademja serja. Qed ngħidlek dan bħala Malti li jgħożż ilsienu.
@@danpol011 Filfatt bil-kontra. L-ideja li l-Malti gej mill-Gharbi giet imbuttata fit-tmeninijiet ghax dak iz-zmien il-gvern laburista ried jibni relazzjoni soda ma pajjizi Gharab, speicifikament mal-Libya. Il-Malti beda bhala puniku li gie influenzat mill-Latin u l-gharbi aktar tard. Pero l-bazi hija fenicja/punika. Ghandna lingwa bhall-din u boloh bhalek jikklassifikawa bhala tip ta' djalett Gharbi. X'injoranza ta poplu!
@@magnuscorbin5040 ħadd fil-qasam lingwistiku ma jaqbel miegħek... Il-Partit Laburista m' għandu xejn x' jaqsam. Kull akkademiku lingwistiku, Malti u barrani, jaqbel li l-Malti imnissel mill-Għarbi Sqalli.
M' għandex għalfejn taqa' baxx u tajjar lili u kull min studja l-Malti. Il-verità hi li l-Malti huwa fil-familja tal-Għarbi tal-Maghreb. Jekk il-verità tkexkxek, dik problema tiegħek.
Hebrew’s closest relative
Hebrew's closest relatives are Ammonite, Moabite and Edomite. Phoenicio-Punic is actually the second closest one.
No it sounds like arabic rather than hebrew.
@@Ahzarail
Impossible.
Arabic came way later...
@@Ahzarail it does not. It sounds like the Hebrew pronunciation of Yemeni Jews, which is close to the Hebrew from the First Temple period. They were very conservative with keeping the language almost unchanged with the times.
@@WF2U I just realized it sounds more like hebrew than arabic nvm
Hebrew was actually Canaanite.
מזל נעים לכלכם🤣
Punic next
It is vey close to Hebrew
3:15 you wrote in sentences in pheonician from right to left but each word is spelled from the end to the beginning
uoy delleps ti ekil taht ni hsilgne
Next proto Austroasian language 🙏
Woow it has many words similar to arabic
S,p4151,and the world alfabet from finikian
So sad Phoenician died out. Literally most languages of the Canaan were replaced by Arabic. So sad.
Not only that, sadly most of the people of Lebanon and Syria identify themselves as Arab and forget they are Phoenician or Assyrian
Hebrew and Aramaic (modern Aramaic is also called Syriac) were not replaced by Arabic.
@@WF2U Hebrew was revived, while Aramaic is struggling to survive. Compared to how large Aramaic was during Jesus's lifetime, it is a very bad situation.
@@Bellarej350 as a Syrian from Northwest Syria. I no longer identify myself as arab, bcz this is ridiculous, Syrians are descendants of different ancient semitic civilization, like Canaanites , Phoenicians, Amorites, Assyrians etc... However when islam started to spread the arabs conquered Lots of lands... And the people of these lands adopted arabic as their language... We should retrieve our identity.....
@@zivan6179 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣I thought you were proud of being an Arab and said that the Maltese were jealous of you!! HILARIOUS!!! What a loser!
it is like Hebrew
Can you please do Maori or Tahitian, please?!!!! and nice video!!!!
next language is tabasaran please
I started learning hebrew today.
בהצלחה.
I tried to learn hebrew. And it’s very difficult.
The problem is, Duolingo has a really awful Hebrew course...
And yeah... Hebrew is a really hard language...
@@achilles7607 what would be the challenging part? Pronunciation? Grammar? Sources?
@@WedsleyFelix
Is all of the above an option?😭
Lol I guess if you find a good teacher or a good learning app, then you'll be fine...
looks like hebrew
and by the way good video
As a native speaker of hebrew this is lowkey AN EXPERIENCE.
😂 native
@@revenger8744 yeah, ever since I know myself.
עם ישראל חי בויה 🇮🇱🇮🇱❤️
@@user-hp3tb1lx5u 😂 european who claims he's a native of the middle east what a joke
@@revenger8744 lmaooo I dont have a single drop of european blood in me bud nice try
@@revenger8744all of this land belongs to mother nature. #WeMustReturnToTheNileRiver🇪🇬
Please do "DUTCH LANGUAGE, PEOPLE, AND CULTURE"
Would be interesting. Ik kom uit Indonesia and our language is basically austronesian with some dutch vocab
@@alexanderhansen3232
So, all the Arabic & Farsi words are non-existent?
@@walangchahangyelingden8252 I never said it did but the language influences were minimal cause they were traders not imperialists
@@alexanderhansen3232
Minta maaf aku teman. 😅
@@alexanderhansen3232
I think I misunderstood you a little; My dad used to work in Brunei so I have some idea about y'all people's culture & language a little. I respect all Malay people, they are very ahead in some aspects compared to the rest of Asia, I think.
Wow, it's very similar to Arabic, especially when you read it .. I think if someone is acquainted to Lebanese dialect he can pronounce it in way it sound more like Arabic ...
i cant belive it im israeli hebrew speker and i understund onther languge without studing it haha its almost the same
The language of ancient Lebanese, very closely related to Hebrew.
So impossible is for both Lebanese and Israelis be proud of this shared heritage and ancestry?
An ancient language.
FINALLY THE ORIGINAL SYRIAN LANGUAGE
בתור יהודי שדובר עברית אני מבין רוב ממשה מדובר.
Is this similar to Arabic or Hebrew, if it is, then how similar it is to Arabic or Hebrew?
VERY close to Hebrew although still similar to Arabic since it’s a semitic language, but it is definitely more closer to Hebrew since both are Canaanite languages of the northwest Semitic branch, while Arabic is central semitic
Phonology is closer to Arabic but grammar is closer to modern Hebrew. It would be nearly identical to ancient Hebrew.
It's closer to Aramaic than to Arabic, it's like half way between Hebrew and Aramaic, with biblical Aramaic also closer to Hebrew.
It is definitely closer to hebrew. If you just pronounce ayin, chet, tet, qof like mizrahi hebrew, then you have biblical pronounciation
Sorry to tell you that but the prononciation is completely wrong and mispronounced by the speaker to me is more likely a Hebrew person who is trying to speak phenician in Hebrew rather than in it's original speaking and spelling correctly the words.
Knowing Arabic language fosha you will understand it properly and when trying to learn Arabic dialects like libanese and Syrian it will be more easier to comprehend it.
The Hebrew nowadays is modern languages that doesn't relate to this at all is it more khazri and yeddish Slavic language to me.
The Hebrew from 10th century to 21st is different.
Language of the mighty Carthage ❤️❤️❤️❤️🇹🇳🇹🇳🇹🇳🇹🇳
This language is old right Andy
Hard to believe an extinct language like this had a huge impact on modern day scripts
Phoenician is Israeli language similar to Hebrew because it descended from Iraq 🇮🇶
Imagine you are some Greek guy chilling on the beach, and then a ship arrives, and people land off it, and they speak language like this. And they make strange marks as they speak, and you be like: "hmm, that's interesting, what if I learn how to make papyrus talk?"
Or they just capture you and take you into slavery to sell you on some farland coast, showing you the brutal side of Antiquity.
Yep it's a Semitic Language alright 😃
Sounds like a primitive hebrew ❤
Sounds like a Lebanese speaking Hebrew
I mean… You’re not *wrong* per se, but also not right