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- How did Egyptians pronounce the language behind the hieroglyphs?
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From Hatshepsut to Nefertiti to a Coptic Abuna, meet the many forms of the long-lived Egyptian language. Watch as they help us listen back to the original sounds of the hieroglyphs. Then, identify a family full of Egyptian's ancestors and relatives, refine those pronunciations and arrive at an outline of Egyptian pronunciation.
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When I clicked on this video, I was kind of expecting someone to talk in ancient Egyptian....
That exists!! I don't know how accurate it is but it sounded pretty much like this. It's in a video called "how ancient language sounded like" or something, along with some other ancient languages like ancient Greek or mesopotamian or how vikings would have sound
Ngl same lol
Ikr.
Same
Glad I read this at the beginning of the video
An ancient egyptian is watching this and shaking his head at the mispronounciation
@پیر الکساندر خان it’s highly likely that it’s mispronounced
Well, we tried our best. That egyptian has to give props where effort is due.
@@flutterwind7686 its a joke mate. Good job!
I am Coptic. He is actually quite accurate.
It would probably be understandable, but sound like an extreme accent. Like a non-native English speaker speaking in English.
As an American of Mexican descent, I had the privilege of working in Egypt for almost 6 years, 2004-2009. I picked up the Egyptian-Arabic dialogue fairly easily. I love this dialect. It is different than Saudi or UAE dialect and I was called out for it when I was in those places. They knew ride away that I was speaking in the Egyptian dialect. Some would call me the Egyptian even though I am Mexican American. I miss Egypt, the people, the culture, and the food. Egypt was magical to me and my family.
COPTIC language is the closest language to ancient egyptian !!
Beautiful country as well as Saudi. People have no idea, they truly don’t.
@@generalkunta396I have never been to Egypt or Saudi. How do you describe its beauty? I never thought of those two countries as being beautiful ones. I just think deserts.
@@wilhelmbittrich88an Egyptian who lived a while in saudi, both countries have rich culture and history and different dialects. There are deserts ofcourse but even deserts have their beauty and there are also cities with buildings and all. Saudi especially has sky scrapers too, and egypt has perhaps the longest history in the world
As someone who speaks urdu and farsi, this entire video was so fascinating, and I was consistently pausing and looking up words and historical information on my own culture and language. So many of the ancient Egyptian words are similar to urdu, farsi, and arabic. I couldn't help but smile at how conjoined everything is.
@@NoName-eq9md No? Islam has nothing to do with this.
it is the people that changed the language dude.
@@NoName-eq9md average islamophobic be like
@@shaimaabadawi5797 that guy is definitely a islamophobic
@@NoName-eq9md Persian and Urdu would still exist without Islam, do you not know how language works? Also what did the concept of Islam existing ever do to you?
@@player17wastaken not in the same manner, just as English was middle by French and Spanish, Italian, and French were muddled from Latin by their conquerors. it's not an islamophobic thing, though I'm not saying he isn't
Me: Scrolling around
TH-cam : Hey wanna know what Acient Egypt sounded like?
Me: why not
Dat so me
Haha saying exactly what you did before the video is so funny and quirky, no one cares man
Lol basically...
You took the time to write that shit?
Same here.🤗
It’s fascinating how long humans have been in existence and how little we have recorded and understood about ourselves
I mean, ancient humans tried their best to record their existence with what they had and definitely tried to understand themselves, even if a lot of those understandings were wrong.
I'd say we recorded a lot . . . just that 3000 years is a really long time. Humans are very forgetful creatures and usually forget what happened mere decades ago, to say nothing about centuries and millennia past. Ancient peoples at least carved things into stone, so they last. Modern day optical and digital cloud storage won't have the same longevity or resilience.
We actually recorded a lot but around 90 something percent of it is lost.
Well nobody in this comment section is racist, lol.
And also how short in the grand scheme!
Very interesting content! By the way I'm a Copt from Alexandria, Egypt and we are still using Coptic language in all our prayers in the Coptic Orthodox Churches in Egypt and abroad!
Coptic is a blend of ancient Egyptian and Greek. It's not pure Egyptian
What's funny is that Greek came out from Phonecian and Phonecian is derived from Egyptian
@@thothkemet-lv8wq yeah agree Coptic (Language) is a blend of Greek and ancient Egyptian languages..
But Coptic (Race) is pure Egyptian as the word itself means Egyptian....
And for sure Human Civilizations were merging and building on top of each other all the time specially those two big ones.. Cheers!
The greek language itself dosent come from Phoenician, for it isn't Semitic. You're probably confusing the language with its alphabet. @@thothkemet-lv8wq
Nobody in Alexandria is pure Egyptian lol. The Greeks diluted that blood down
PLEASE make a youtube channel to teach foreigners about coptic
I am so very interested in Egyptology, I wanted to be an archaeologist, but my parents said that I would never make any money doing it. So I did what they thought I should and became a nurse. I really didn't want to be one, not because I don't like helping others or helping them heal but because it just took a toll on me and my empathy.
Do what you love, become a archeologist. Money doesn't matter and if you're gonna die in 100 years. Then die doing what you love
It’s not that you won’t make money as an archaeologist; it’s the stress level to income ratio, or “is the salary worth the stress?” Your parents, while flawed, had a point. I don’t agree with them, however; just because your parents had a point doesn’t mean they were right. Only you can decide what’s right for you. I’m all for chasing your dreams; after all, you have one life to live, and it should be yours. Don’t let your parents decide your fate. A career can change, and so can your life. You can be a nurse any other time. Be what you want to be. If I listened to my family I wouldn’t have had my dream job working from home. I never would’ve published my first novel and working on my second one, either. I’d be a chef - or worse, a nurse, which for me is a fate worse than death. I also would’ve been drowning in student loans just like my mom, and that’s the last thing I want. Sometimes parents want you to be happy; sometimes they want you to have money. My parents were neither, and I didn’t listen - and I couldn’t be happier. Grab your life before it’s too late.
I HAVE THE EXACT SAME ISSUE, how 'bout you say we ditch our parents, run away together and study it then become popular archeologists who LOVE their jobs
If it's taking a toll on your empathy, it's gonna take a toll on you and your patients. I mean it kindly, but you can't pour from an empty cup, if it's draining you of some of the most important features of the job, maybe its a sign to find a different one. You deserve a job that fills your cup, rather than drains it
You can still study Archeology & I betcha you could find work on field trips as an EMT of sorts, now that you have the skills of a Qualified Medic. I also bet if you look into it you could find some work in the exact field of Archeology you like the best.
Just imagine in 13,000 years, scholars struggling to figure out how we got the verb "yeet" from "to throw" in English. Hell on earth!
IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, THAT WILL BE SO MUCH FOR A FUTURE LINGUIST 😍😍
Shoot, I’m a present-day linguist, and that sounds fun to me!
And thank you for that particular suggestion. It’s actually an excellent example of the fluidity of language. How? Consider this:
In meme-land, “Yeet!” is the sound one makes when throwing another person in the air à la pitching in baseball. As its use grew outside of meme-land, “yeet” morphed into humorous shorthand for “to throw”. Functioning as an onomatopoeia in this way, it cemented its secondary use as a transitive verb.
I had never heard the word yeet before, yet knew what it meant the first time I saw it.
I am CACKLING thank you for this thought
a) that's 11,000 kinds of evil. hilarious.
b) that said, it seems unlikely that the term will be around long enough to warrant notice at that point.
And why is the antonym of yeet “yoink”
Linguistics is an amazing science. Doesn't get enough respect.
And also is quite fun. And amazing since, While I only truly speak 2 languages (Portuguese and English) I can understand many other languages. Such is the beauty of the Last Flower of Lacio, I guess.
As an aspiring linguist, with a B.A. in linguistics, I wholeheartedly concur. It's an incredible, fascinating science that very few know anything about. And yet it studies the most fundamental trait that defines us as humans. As such, it pervades and undergirds every other science and discipline.
Thank you! As a linguist i appreciate this!
I am currently thinking about getting a degree in linguistics because I love learning language. I’m not currently bilingual but I’m learning Spanish, Korean, and ASL, with the hopes of becoming a translator. If anyone has good tips to learn languages that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
By what method did you determine its current level of respect as well as its level of deserved respect? IFLS
Man, people like you out there making videos like this gives me some faith in humanity. It’s easy to ‘miss the delta for the reeds’ in these complicated language histories, but this was perfect.
I love Egypt 🇪🇬 from Italy 🇮🇹 we are directly in front of each other in the Mediterranean and this is a wonderful thing🇪🇬🇮🇹❤
He's wrong. Champollion learned Arabic, not coptic. Coptic had been a dead language since the middle ages. Grammar wise, Arabic is closer to AE than Coptic due to the very heavyn reek influence on the latter
@@ranro7371 “Source: I made it up.”
From Egypt, I gonna to learn Italian language!
So, give back all those items you guys stole from them.
@@mrbaab5932 It wasn't stealing back then. It was rightful repossession by force. Formal stealing as something that should be held accountable is only for things that happen nowadays. The Muslims "stole" North Africa and Egypt and Greece and Israel from Christian control. Should they give it back because they stole it? No, because we don't care about things that were stolen in history. Items, human genes, languages, cultures, ideas, lands, arts, etc. are all the same.
4000 years from now: Archaeologists are still struggling with reconstructing English from the mysterious logographs called "emoji."
have you seen the book “Motel of the Mysteries”?
"How do you pronounce this one that looks like poop?"
Hahahaha! 😁😄😂
@@cfrandre8319 it's "shieeeeet"
Facts while trying to decipher Thor comics as fact or fiction......😂😂
Me after YT recommended me this video: 𓂀 𓂏 𓂀
LMAOOOOO
nice
Ah, understandable have a nice day
manifestating this comment will get way more likes
You deserve a cookie
In my 2 trips to Egypt, I visited so many places... so many museums, temples and other historical places. It was amazing to see history, and hear people speaking coptic to show us how they spoke. It made my inner, egypt obsessed, kid happy as hell. ❤
@@dutchman8129 The Swiss Inn in Hurghada was absolutely worth the money. All three meals, free drinks and other stuff for the all-inclusive people
@@dutchman8129 I also stayed in much smaller hotels, which were all nice, kept clean. They are so cute and helpful when you try to say something in Egyptian ❤️
It's a shame what ISIS destroyed in Afghanistan and Iraq, countless precious artifacts.
The picture is wrong, plz stop spreading Propaganda, The Ancient Egyptians according to DNA studies done by a company called DNA tribes & other companies doing Genetic Studies on the Hair & Skin of Ancient Egyptians, show that they were Black Africans before the invasions & displacements took place.
When we lose a language or culture, we lose a part of ourselves and history. Nothing can replace it nor repair it. It can never be restored to its exact copy. This is why it is important to keep traditions alive through story or dance. Just not through war or hate. -Rachael B. lol
The first emoji-based language.
Yes 😂😂😂😂
In another thousand years we'll be the next lol
Emoji (絵文字) just means pictogram/picture word, so yeah, literally
😀
The mesopotamians were with the invention of the pictograph
-Walk like an Egyptian-
*Talk like an Egyptian*
Yare yare daze...
OH MY GODD!!
Nofri/No4pi........... Hello! In Coptic
@@rbsmith3365 hello I did an ancestry dna test and I'm also part coptic egyptian.
@@kristingallo2158 Hello, Really? Have you tried learned to speak Coptic language? I only know little Spanish, French, and America sign language. Bob.
to everyone who doesn't know, 10-20% of egypt today are coptic, all coptic orthodox churches still use coptic in prayers, im glad that videos like these help to raise awareness of different cultures and languages. I'm proud of my heritage and i hope that we could recover what was lost
15% are Christian, the language itself is extinct and only used in some hymns. As for the genes, Coptic North African gene is BY FAR the dominant in the super majority of Egyptians. Egyptians are genetically Northeastern African nation.
Yes ❤
Amazing! i just subscribed! My family are translators...my brother just finished working on a team of linguists translating the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into Japanese! I sent this link to my brother and his son who is also a translator...fascinating stuff!
As an Egyptian, I am very proud of the civilization of my great ancestors, and I thank everyone who is interested in the history of my ancestors
You’ve been lied too. Ancient Egypt was an indigenous African black civilization. The language comes from southern regions of Africa down the Nile.
lol why every one keep saying that ancient egyptian are african black
i mean just look at the colour of the statues for godsake !
we have mixed races from other roma, arab …
but it is in our DNA and it is true !
@@osamasrag9281 There’s plenty of evidence that they are black but it doesn’t get mainstream attention like some nonsense late period Greco Roman and Middle Eastern Eurasian DNA does. There are plenty of statues that are clearly African people. They are either not shown publicly or destroyed or features changed to look white.
Go read Robert Bauval’s book Black Genesis. It has all the proof Ancient Egypt was built by Indigenous Africans.
@@sankofaafari4374 Wow, we have the investigator here,, in a period of the ancient civilization of Egypt, he was under the occupation of Sudan, so there are black pharaohs and there are pyramids in Sudan as well,,, By the way, the Egyptian is a single non-mixed race because in history he did not marry a foreigner or even eat with him on one plate
A lot of the African tribes today even where the ancient Egyptian style broad collar. Literally the same design. Coincidence? I highly doubt it. Look up South African, Zulu, Kenyan, west African, Afar tribes to see that all wear the exactly same clothing style of the broad collar.
It really amazes me that it is possible to decipher these ancient languages. Especially when you consider the fluid nature of language. Wonderful stuff.
They didn’t decipher it lol these are lies
@@akioarnold6746 why
@@akioarnold6746 I agree 💯
How would they know if it's correct? It's just an assumption
@@waynie8710 it’s the best they could do
Im Egyptian and i get so happy when people are interested in the culture and not faking it like some people nowadays good job!
Who ??
@@michaelpadilla4037 the people who support afro centrism are black washing Egyptians saying they were black
Our? The modern day Egyptians are Arabs while the ancient Egyptians were black from the horn of Africa
@@yassyabdi8593 yes OUR and we weren't black neither now nor in the old days go cry about it. Where are your sources the Netflix film cleopatra??
@@mercuryz_6605 Proof is on the wall.
OmG! Had not realised just how complex and multi layered the journeys of linguists are! Wow! Absolutely fascinating!!
In the far future: "Though archeologists have for the most part deciphered the ancient english language, they are still struggling to find exactly how the word 'GIF' was pronounced"
Bcz of the internet it would be easy for them to know
@@oo5379 I know, it was just a joke
@@oo5379 we never know if that will still be accessible by then haha take care of the planet kids.
The G in GIF is pronounced like the G in hieroglyph.
@@nikkovellios Debatable. Some say it's that, but others say it's pronounced "JIF", as in the J in Jeff
I just loved this so much. As an Ancient-Egyptophile from since I was a little boy (and I'm 72 now), this was fascinating and wondrous work. I now know how the ancient Egyptians pronounced the name of their country. For many years growing up, I had thought of studying archeology to become a worker in the ancient realms of Egypt. I even have a cartouche of Ramases the Third tattooed on my right shoulder. One of my regrets is that I have never had the funds to travel to Egypt. To be able to gaze at the pyramids at Giza is one of my bucket list items. I hope I can make it before that old bucket gets kicked!
Again, thanks for this video.
Wow! I imagine your life must have been like that of Indiana Jones!
I hope you have visited Berlin Altes Museum! It holds so much Egyptian heritage, I was blown away! Even the walls of the museum are decorated i n an acurate way, as if you were walking inside an egyiptian building back in their time.
My sister, who had visited Egyipt before said, that you can see more in museums, since everything was collected and brought to foreign countrie's museums...
Okay we get it your love for Egypt is better than getting your freak on with other people
Hope you can one day see the pyramids....til then, there's Google Earth. Lol.
@@bjjandstuff7280 seriously! Let’s get a gofundme going for this guy :)
There was an English woman that lived in Egypt who could speak ancient Egyptian perfectly (as much as we know). Her name was Om SETI but her English name was Dorothy Edie. She believed she was the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian. It’s a fascinating story, several books have been written about her. Just look up Om SETI. 😃👍
But, frankly, Kristi, who was going to know if she was or wasn't? Ive heard many a 'psychic' speaking in tongues, space language & absolutely pure gibberish, & some with a kind of clarity, but who knows? Irish lore says Gaelic was crafted by Ogma, the god of Eloquence, after the Tower of Babel was destroyed from all the best of the ancient languages, making Gaelic the best of the best, lol.
Yes I Remember reading about her story, fascinating!
@@caseymcpoetWhy would Irish lore have a Judaic story as part of it?
@@dereksuth8906 More like a Biblical narrative than a Judaic one. When the scribes started writing down the Lore and ancient oral histories in the monasteries, they gave many things a biblical & Christian slant. The ancient writing system the Druids used was called Ogham, pronounce Om today & in ancient times probably pronounced the "gha" in ancient Irish. Ogma is found on the continent where the Celts were too, as in Gaul, Iberia, etc.
The Druids were the educated class of early Europe, natural scientist & philosophers like the Magi & Brahmins, Pythagoras studied with them & they were familiar with the Egyptians.
This was so interesting! So glad I found this channel. I can’t wait to binge your videos 😊
You manage to convey in 10 minutes what most 6-hour documentary series can't quite get across. Fantastic job!
Could you please do Old Khmer.
@São João do mundo the fake egyptians today are just arabic speakers, they aren't actual descendants of real egyptians and they're also not arabs either
His videos are a gateway drug for future young scholars :D
Commercial productions don't want to "overwhelm" the viewers and they want to chunk up everything in small slices with commercial brakes and repeating the same thing from different respected authorities' mouths etc. They want to drag it out to last longer to fit the format. You can't exactly show a 10 minute documentary so dense in content on TV.
Kind of like the difference between huge bloated enterprise software designed by a committee vs a lean open-source tool made by one guy.
I like the six-hour documentaries. I like watching the hours of Egyptian content they offer. Especially when the egyptologist are laying all that shit down based on how they understand stuff.
You mean to tell me Ramses II didn't speak modern Arabic like Civ 5 told me? I feel cheated.
but age of empires was close? nice
I think they considered making him speak coptic but almost nobody actually speaks that so they gave up.
I think part of it has to do with the fact that finding readily available translation services for ancient Egyptian or coptic is near impossible unless you are Coptic or are involved in certain academic circles.
am arabe and find it funny ..but am not complaining
@@viktorberzinsky4781 Actually, Cleopatra speaks Middle Egyptian in Civ 6. While not perfect - she would have learned the Demotic phase of the language (as she was the first and only of the Ptolemies to have learned the native language) - it's better than Ramses speaking Arabic.
I'm learning egyptian for one of my courses, and I want to say that it's really not that difficult. I'm sure that if you really want to learn it you can !
Spoiler alert - after 11minutes of storytelling, no, no we won't know how Ancient Egyptian sounded like
Man, it’s so cool to see how much ancient Egypt has changed so many people’s lives. I got that big gold book about Egyptology with the big gemstones on it and I was hooked (like the brain during mummification)
Did you have Wizardology, Dragonology, etc. too?
@@jjaacckkmm I had those book too!
Ok but the brain hook joke🧠😂
Oh my god I had the same one! My parents still have it & if I remember it correctly I wrote my first set of hieroglyphs on the inside cover 😄
@Durval Clinton Egyptians aren't, and weren't black....Depending on the time period even the Pharaoh's were Greek descendents such as Cleopatra.
They were all like:
"Picture of king."
"Picture of raft"
"Picture of bird.
"Picture of cat head"
@AnonymeisKot brilliant
Boom! or 💥
I think it is emoji but just in egypt time
@Darkphoton More like in puzzle, ranging from "what word is spelled MJW and is about cats? Yes, it's "meow" and yes, that's actual word for a cat as well as the sound they make." to pretty far out there ("JST+eggs=Isis" Why eggs? We can guess, but don't really know,)
It is similar to how very early Chinese characters worked, but then they evolved in completely different directions.
It's like speaking wingdings
Language is a beautiful thing, I live in a small country, Malaysia in a state called Sarawak and people from the peninsular area have a tough time understanding my dialect. Makes me wonder what will happen in 1000 years when linguists try to decipher our dialect.
Thank you for this video. It popped up on my feed and I am glad I watched it.
"How do we know what they sounded like?"
"We found a recording on an Ancient Egyptian cellphone."
It was a Nokia
Blackberry 🤣
As I said and agree with you. TOTAL BULL SHIT.
Me watching the video: they take our minds very lightly!!!
Me checking likes and comments believing in such mumbo jumbo: Maybe humanity in danger!!
@@frankieboombotz3403 You not understanding linguistics doesn’t make this total bullshit
There is a tiny group of people in egypt, who still use ancient coptic (every day egyptian) in religious prayers and curses. There was a team that recorded and taped it as a historical and linguistic project before the largely elderly villagers died, back in the late 1980's to mid 1990's.
As a matter of fact, Coptic is still used widely in all the Coptic Orthodox Church prayers all around Egypt. However, dozens of people only can speak the coptic language fluently among the 10 - 15 millions christians in Egypt! Finally, the Arabic language had been affected with the coptic language as well. Many slang words here are originated from coptic, however, we use it on daily basis without knowing its coptic origin!
@@remonragy7709 And it's not just Coptic Orthodox churches in Egypt, all around the US and Canada as well. Coptic is still a very used language in churches and our liturgies here in the US.
@@remonragy7709 like what my friend, I am Egyptian and I want to know
amazing
I'm glad to hear how beautiful my black ancestors sound in this vid. Beautiful advance civilization we made
Absolutely lovely video. Thank you for your efforts and sharing them with us. ❤
I wish we could also figure out a way to decipher the ancient Harappan writings and the writings at Sanchi Stupa in India.
Darn. I was hoping to hear him read full sentences so we can hear how they spoke.
watch the egyptian parade which transported 22 king and queen a week ago in the video you’ll find a song for Isis the ancient egyptian queen you’ll hear how they talked
You can hear Coptic if you go to a Coptic Orthodox Church.
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Me too
A song in the ancient Egyptian language:
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Everything about ancient Egypt is so fascinating, even their language!
Plz subscribe ❤️
@@moorishsociety7339 shut up
@@moorishsociety7339 Egyptian aren't black
@@fancytwice7230 Ancient Egyptians were black, but mixed up quite often. I wanna say by the 25th dynasty or earlier, their features changed. Hence Cleopatra being a product of incest and interracial relations.
@@meritorioustechnate9455 Ancient Egyptians weren't a mix of any other color/race they're just pure Egyptians.
For example, Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun both lived during the 18th Dynasty, and they had the original "Egyptian" look.
I'd say that only modern Egyptians are mixed.
Very interesting information from NativLang.
As an "empirical" student of Egyptology and world Languages; lets take the Japanese "Kanlli" for example, and lets say a western linguistic person is trying to decipher what the Kanlli ideograms mean and sound like without any previous knowledge that Kanlli and that traditional Chinese are the same written characters but meaning and pronunciation are different among the two different Chinese and Japanese cultures.
Then lets consider that the western phonetics sounds of "R" and "L" are compunded and not very much used in Japanese phonetics. Then the subtle difference in sounds make a difference in meanning, for example the sound "oba-san" meaning aunt or auntie, and "oba-a-san" meaning grandmother.
Of course Japanese and Chinese are modern languages; and lots of information about them is known, but lets say there were no previous knowledge of these Japanese language particularities then trying to decipher what Japanese sounds like and characters meaning, would have to be a very interesting investigation; very similar to the information in this video.
Another example, in Spanish; the words used to convey the opposite of the meaning of the word: one word that means "a person with lots of hair" is used to describe a "bald" person etc.
On the other hand, about the meaning of the spoken words thru time; take American English for example,the common expresion "i have to get" or "im getting hitched" and many other for which the meaning is contextual and changing thru lets say "spoken language evolution".
Putting this in contrast all these aspects of language in this video; I find the study of linguistics just fascinating.
kanlli? you mean kanji
As a Copt myself, I am so proud of my heritage, and I hope we can revive some of our huge culture that was lost
It is difficult to keep up with Christianity in Egypt because of how the government supresses us, so glad there are many Coptic churches in England :D
Am a copt and I speak coptic fluently with my family ❤️🇪🇬 thanks for mentioning us
I'm not a Copt but I'm a student of (Sahidic) Coptic. Beautiful language you guys got there! Keep the efforts at making it more popular 😄
That’s amazing!
P-Christos aftooun! Alethos aftooun!
I wish the egyptian gov would bring the coptic lang back to life. I know it still lives in Egyptian arabic, but we need to safe it before it's gone.
Based pharaonist
A Frenchman, an Englishman, and a stone walk into a museum...
@JOSEPH STALIN But it can roll
@JOSEPH STALIN quit stalin
And the stone has the best personality!🤣
@JOSEPH STALIN I chuckled until I read this
@JOSEPH STALIN 2 men can easily walk a stone.
THANK YOU!! I have often wondered how we know how these elements were pronounced. I find it interesting that even today, Hebrew is also written without vowels either..
Great Chanel! Thanks for sharing your knowledge 🔥
So, a Frenchman, an Englishman and a stone walk into a bar... :)
What I was thinking too, lol.
don't forget the Coptic priest!
So an Englishman a Frenchman, and a Coptic Priest walk into a stone.
@@thomasjenkins5727 perfect! lol
@@thomasjenkins5727 HAAAAX!
Nearly two months of focusing on Egyptian, and this animation is what the inside of my head looks like since last we met. Your turn to float down this phonological river!
Well done!
“Coptic”
Egyptian language...
Spoke in phonics...
Coptic;
Cop = Sounds like (Ah)..
Like Abba... The begging.. Ahh..
Like the first letter of the English Language...
So “Coptic” is The first spoken sound and letter (Ah) + (tic)
“tic” is the sound of timing.. So the word seems to say (Sound) + (timing) of language....
Coptic; Sound of the start of the first spoken letter of a language and the timing in which they are said (Ah) + (Tic)....
Can you see how the English language is coded in phonics??
It’s backwards and opposite by design to distort...
Good job 👍👍
@NativLang. I don't know if you will see this, but I just wanted to say that as a Copt, I appreciate that you mentioned the role that Egyptians played in the decipherment of hieroglyphs. I feel that most people today make it out to be an entirely European achievement, and many are even unaware of the existence of Coptic and the fact that Ancient Egyptian has a modern descendant that is still in use; a limited use sadly. Hearing you mention it really made my day.
I wish they would incorporate research like this into modern egyptology, instead of teaching outdated (and wrong) pronunciations.
An archeologist found an ancient Egyptian answering machine with both outbound and inbound messages still intact. Apparently they had spam calls then too.
Well you mentioned Cuneiform so now you're legally obligated to do "What Sumerian Sounded Like - and how we know!"
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They also have Sumerian lessons.
@@johnwheeler8882 Danke
...Featuring Irving Finkel?
😂😂😂
@atheodora lastname Sumerian is close to old Hungarian, which is not an Indo-European langage. Now I have to compare Tamil with Hungarian, I will not die stupid...
My husband is aver proud egyptian and I truly enjoy listening to him talk about it. I especially love watching him talk about it. Egypt is one of the oldest countries in the whole world. Though they don't teach hieroglyphs any more He ca't believe that I know so much about a country I have never visited. I have always found ancient egypt very fascinating. I want to learn Egyptian Arabic but it is such a difficult language to learn.
I also found cultural similarity in which even in modern Arabic words are still written consonants only.
@@whoisthegreatest6255 Exactly. Thinking that the modern demographic that dominates Egypt is what ancient Egyptians were it’s like thinking that the average white American is what Native Americans were
@@aeringothyk5445 Except that Egypt just went through a ton of changes because you know, it's thousands of years, time changes, instead of just huge wars against nativ, so it wasn't that bad, still the closest you can get technically
@@KristiTalk what is an Israelites DNA if they're not from anywhere? lol, that's just propaganda have you forgotten that they came from all over the world and the country wasn't a thing before 1947? The jews traveled then from USA, Europe, Middle east etc , as they were promised by the English minister a country to be made for them in Palestine, clearly these are very different DNAs depending from where they traveled.
So unless you mean they did research on some Jews from a *very* specific rare lineage, they'd just be testing an American like the honest israeli occupant Jacob for all they know lol.
@@KristiTalk It just didn't add up to call Israelites who came from everywhere and only exist in 1947 and beyond as unchanged, so yea these websites definitely aren't trustworthy or followed a very specific but rare pure lineage which can happen in any race if they tried to find it
In high school we were taught that when the Rosetta Stone was discovered - then hieroglyphs could be translated according to the Greek text! Anyway, thank you for explaining how the translation came about - truly a remarkable detective story.
This was absolutely fascinating 👏 for a future video in this series, I would love learn about the viking language Norse. I've read somewhere that Icelandic was most similar but then I read elsewhere that Norwegian is closest
This!!
The picture is wrong, plz stop spreading Propaganda, The Ancient Egyptians according to DNA studies done by a company called DNA tribes & other companies doing Genetic Studies on the Hair & Skin of Ancient Egyptians, show that they were Black Africans before the invasions & displacements took place.
This is how language, any language, should be taught to children, to inspire them and get them off to a good start to appreciate their own language and that of others. When we realize that we have more connecting us, than separating us, the world will be a happier place. Thank you.
Romans 10:9
“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”
King James Version (KJV)
John 3:16 King James Version 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Galatians 3:26 King James Version 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Titus 3:5-7 King James Version 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Revelation 21:4 King James Version 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
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Yes!
@@Unfortunate.and.childish the scribes of KJB change the original words
@@rimasappington6217 oh
Thats true
This randomly showed up on my recommended list. It was way more interesting than I thought it would be.
Same!
Ditto. I was watching a video on military reactions and this popped up. Very interesting linguistic history.
Amazing. Same here
Me too
@@harborwolf22 as a linguiat I am fascinated by this recommendation. First time something decent popped up. Über interesting and humbling to know how this language evolved through the millennia. Enjoy it as I did
How did I forget about this channel. Re subscribed 👏 I love your voice btw
Fantastic enquiry and analysis ...... beyond me !!!! 👍👍👍
Imagine making a typo on the Rosetta Stone. "Ah damn. No backspace. How do I delete this snake ? I meant to write a cane."
😂😂😂😂💕✨
Your imagination is on steroids!
@@ThobekaMhlongo6270 Thanks !
I'll be here all week. 😷
I try. Must be the musician in me. 🎸
Never happen because back then everything was taken with patience not today society where everybody want it now and they lose control if Facebook goes down and act like babies
*Grabs a new rock* - Fuck..lets start over..
I am an Egyptian and I loved your video. Just the fact that you said the words “Abouna Youhanna” shows an outstanding level of knowledge about our culture and history. Hats off my friend. Really, really great job!
Ur an Arab not Egyptian
@@legendovbago4716 this sentence doesn't make any sense lol
@@Egyptiangirl2978 he is true Arabs conquered Egypt ancient copt people all dead only minority coptic Christian communities survied
@@legendovbago4716 Are Italians Romans? No. Do they Speak Latin?No. Do they have traces of Roman DNA? Yes. Do modern Egyptians speak a Variant of Arabic that is not intelligible to Arabia? Yes. Do modern Egyptian have traces of ancient Egyptian DNA? Yes Only true Arabs are in Arabia. Everybody else in Middle east adopted it after there conversion to Islam. This is why Arabic has too much non intelligible variant spoken in different Arab countries.
@@legendovbago4716 🎯
12 million views? Wow. Very interesting. Love learning about ancient civilizations. Ancient Egypt is so intriguing.
The picture is wrong, plz stop spreading Propaganda, The Ancient Egyptians according to DNA studies done by a company called DNA tribes & other companies doing Genetic Studies on the Hair & Skin of Ancient Egyptians, show that they were Black Africans before the invasions & displacements took place.
Thanks for such an informative and in depth video on Egyptian language. I’m from Southwest Louisiana and mini families. Spoke French originally and had to learn English to go to school. Often they didn’t annunciate either language very well, and it was difficult to understand them speaking English, because they didn’t annunciate well and their grammar was off. Having the advantage of going to 12 years of private Catholic school for overprivileged children and 23 semesters of college along with Jesuit priest as tutors (Jesuits are the most extensively educated of all priesthoods) I know how to speak and write grammatically correct English. It is irritating to hear it spoken incorrectly and in my head I mentally correct the person speaking so often I loose the information being presented. Kudos to you for such a great presentation my friend! 😎
I can't even imagine, what the library of Alexandria, held in it?!
Yeah. Too bad it was destroyed.
If I had a time machine I'd go there and try to take stuff back to present times. Imagine if thats already happened and time travellers were the real reason it burned down
Math so advanced that the atom bomb would have been invented for Charlemagne. Do you see the problem here?
Wasn't a part of it stored in Constantinople ?
This has always made me so sad about that!
05:20 starts to get to the point
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You’re the real mvp 👊🏽. Thanks
This was such an enriching video.. Thank you for sharing
While I have no understanding you of what you were teaching us, I very much appreciate what you have created. I look forward to going through this several more times. Thank you
To hear their actual voices would be cool , we need a time machine .
Sooo. I got news for you. Scientists were able to reconstruct vocal from preserved vocal cords of Egyptian priest. www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51223828
CERN.
@@bobabandit lmfao I saw that before. All he said was”uaHhhhhhhh”
modern Egyptians retain half the language to this day in their daily dialect
Wael El Danbouky Really?
This channel is a jewel.
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It is. But you know what? I'd be just as happy with no animation and twice the story.
@@craigcollings5568 20 seconds ago
Agreed!
yours also. I love your avatar content
This is so fascinating thank you for this video ❤
God bless linguists. Superhuman patience and fascination with detail.
You’re very welcome.
@@luckyman9903 oh?
Wonderful, but I would love to hear a few sentences spoken to really get a feeling for what it would be like to hear people in the street in ancient Egyptian times.
Ya I was disappointed that we didnt actually get to hear what ancient Egyptian sounds like.
@@app2530 yeah, how on earth did they not manage to find an ancient egyptian to talk on mic is beyond me
@@lenidragovich1471 Theres a video on Etruscan where they speak it so we can hear it. Not sure how they did that but I was expecting to hear it, not hear about it.
@@lenidragovich1471 They don’t need to get an ancient Egyptian to speak the language. The whole point of the video was that we have a very good idea about what the words sounded like and the narrator spoke many words in the ancient way. What was missing was stringing the words together to make a complete sentence.
If anyone is interested, there's a brilliant video of a re-construction of an 'ancient Egyptian love song' on here by Peter pringle, it's excellent!
Thank you for the back story, I didn't know it all. And bro, your french accent is absolutely perfect, I'd swear you are french when you say Champollion 👏👌I'm impressed it's very rare, I know only you and Jodie Foster for having this perfect diction. How many languages did you learn ?
Thank you excellent for the content of this lovely video. Continue to produce wonderful content.
I'm a Copticist/Egyptologist and I have to say this video is incredible! Especially for not forgetting the Mediaeval Arabic scholars which people tend to ignore.
@NightShade theWolf Arabic is just the colonial language.
@@mikicerise6250 before Arabic due to the Byzantine occupation of Egypt most egyptian spoke greek which is why the coptic alphabet is still in greek. A 'native' egyptian language hasn't been spoken in Egypt in over 2500 years
@@AR-bf7tm I really doubt most egyptians spoke greek as their first language. Egypt and the levant never hellenised or romanised like the celts, iberians and illyrians
@@armzngunz the Egyptian Language written in the Demotic script which was the predecessor to Modern Coptic and offshoot from the Late Egyptian Language was renounced over classical Greek in all official places except in Egyptian Religious Temples and even there soon Egyptian Hieroglyphs and the demotic script was completely replaced by the Greek alphabet during the Ptolemic dynasty. While there wasn't a formal hellenisation process, the Greek and Roman influences essentially replaced Egyptian culture with their own and Historians in the antiquity such as Josephus described Egyptians as being evenly split amongst greek and coptic speakers highlighting a dilluting of egyptian culture. Which although is sad it's what happens to every other single culture. Just like how Iran doesn't speak Avestan, India doesn't speak Sanskrit or the Harrapan Civilisation's language and Britain doesn't speak a celtic language.
@pr 99 Greek was the official language of Egypt at a point in time.
It’s a known fact all ancient peoples spoke with an English accent. Just watch any movie!
From England!
The same applies to most fictional royal families (watch the Hallmark movies and you will see what I mean)
Most movies made for the English speaking market are spoken in English..they are then usually dubbed for whatever country they are shown in..I have watched many foreign made movies with subtitles.
Also people in galaxies far far away
@@annmitchell4663 They were joking.
IMO, I think the the discovery and translation of the Rosetta Stone is the greatest linguistic achievement in Human History. My favorite part of Ancient Egypt is how prolific their Scribes were, literally covering whole structures from floor to ceiling.
I’m from Egypt 🇪🇬 i will be always proud of Egypt 🇪🇬 ❤
Watch out, black Americans will tell you you aren't A real egyptian.
@@willymassey8273White supremacists will also say the same thing
@@videonofan
Very true, though I tend to see way more Afrocentrists than White supremacists with that nonsense.
Man Egypt have such an incredible history.
More like “had”
@@Genius766 What's wrong with it now?
Yeah...read up story on Maurice Bucaille, scientist/doctor who researched and discovered something interesting about the pharaoh from the Quran
@Jon Valler ooh so ancient Egyptians were European?
@@colorfulaura105 umm no & yes, Egypt was a very diverse place. There lots of drawings of dark skin folk, light skin folk, white folk etc etc in old Egyptian writing.
2,000 years from now: We’re still trying to figure out what the “O” in “LOL” stood for 🧐
Im still trying to figure out who lol is
@@chasstiles7611 or why is lol
Lots Of Love???
(lol)
It stands for OUT.
Lol stands for Laugh out loud.
Coptic writing is most close to Cyrillic. Letters style and Ш is present. As far as I remember they have a word ГРОШ, which looks the same like "small money unit" in Slavic, and in Ukrainian ГРОШI = "money"
Грош rather mean coin. Money = паре.
Алфавіт -- копія української, прапор -- копія українськиї кольорів -- залишилось накопити всю інформацію про COPTIC.
Very cool, do Hebrew next it's as interesting in its journey and you did such a good job on this, clear, simple concise
My man sounds like he's trying to teach me how to summon an abstract horror.
Are you from the UK ahah
@@john_1995 Not a bit, though maybe my speech has taken on some traits because I mimicked them a bunch as a kid.
@@thedemonslayer51 ok yeah only reason I asked because we say may man alot ahah so for example I could say my man done a whole video for ten minutes ahah
He's trying to summon his egyptian god card.
@@john_1995 we say that in America
It would be nice to hear some extended dialogue in this ancient language. All I have ever heard has been individual words. I would love to hear the flow of conversational and formal ancient Egyptian language.
Go back in time lol
Probably going to have to learn as much as you can yourself
Sounds like talking backward i think
@Italo-Celtic , this is not to mention that Coptic is experiencing a revival.
The pronounciation of Egyptian is lost. We have no idea how they spoke. Not even a single word.
Great documentary! I have learned a lot in a small time! Thanks!😊😊
I love your voice, the microphone volume, your beautiful voice, your knowledge, the content, the video, etc. I loved this! Tell me more about yourself please! right here. Thank you :)
5:11,you're welcome
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My friend Learning German: WHY CANT YOU JUST BE NORMAL!!!
Me learning middle egyptian: * screaming *
To be fair, reviving a dead language is really cool though
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I know Coptic. It kinda is tbh, but I actually use it in Church as I'm Coptic Orthodox.
German is actually quite an efficient language with pronunciation of letters consistent almost 100% of the time.
I am fluent in german. Sometimes, things make more sense in german.
Almost 1,000,000 congrats🎉
Can you please do a video on ancient Sumerian? They had one of the first proper writing systems.
You really walked like an Egyptian with this one
I was obsessed with Ancient Egypt when I was a kid. I loved collecting the Playmobil sets and learning about mummies. This made my inner kid happy
Oh my god playmobil I’m an adult and still will check out them once in awhile.
Cool!
9 y/o me watched a Discovery channel about mummification and I thought the guy volunteered to be mummified alive by removing his organs and getting covered in chalk and it scarred me
Your here to 😭
I don't know what you're talking about, so I'm left feeling my childhood was sadly deprived of something.
Could you do Old Norse next. Would love to hear what it sounded like
I thought he already did
A professor by the name of Jackson Crawford already has an extensive library of videos on this topic, I feel personally like he may have a bit of an accent when speaking it but it’s pretty minor
Probably sounds a bit like Dutch after eating shrooms.
Can’t you just go to Iceland?
Literally rural Icelandic
I believe it should have a lot of vowel sounds, as it is a hot region. This is based on what we see in the languages of the world, where it is colder it seems that people speak with their mouth more closed or trembling, and in warmer regions, in a more open way, "panting". Take the sound of Portuguese from Portugal and Brazil, the difference in accents is quite impressive.
Which is why the Germanic languages have far more vowels than the Romance languages? Because it's hotter in northern Europe than around the Mediterranean
@@BurnBird1 where did you get that there are more vowels in Germanic languages?
@@BurnBird1 dude France is king in vowels
I love big Egypt from America 🇪🇬🇺🇸❤
my gosh, I was watching this during dinner and completely forgot about my food, it was sooo interesting! I had a (long) phase during my childhood through young adulthood where I would read and watch everything about Ancient Egypt that i could get my hands on, and one thing I was always puzzled by was/is exactly this, how do we know what Ancient Egyptian actually sounded like.
Thank you so much for this, it answered my question as well as it probably could, my inner child me is rejoicing ^^
Edit: I immediately watched the video again because this is just so cool to me still. Also, now I really could appreciate the writing of the video, truly well done!!
I read a similar book as a kid also one, one with a big red fake jewel on the center of the book. "Egyptology" and I just figured that it sounded like subtitles were on the bottom of the screen with a glitchy sound accompanying them.
When I was younger I had a phase where ancient Egypt was so interesting to me too lol
Michael Jackson is why I had my phase lolll
Sameee, I feel like everyone had an Ancient Egypt phase at some point 😂😂
I remember reading several books about Ancient Egypt from the library, and I would always ask my mom questions about mummies and stuff (my mom took an archeology class in college so she knew a little bit).
On a sidenote : what happened to your food ?
I live in Egypt and many ancient Egyptian words are still used as well as ancient customs that have been adopted into modern religious and celebratory activities.
What customs are these??? I'm obsessed with Egypt
@Tian 333 lol 😂
@Tian 333 the Spring festival of Sham El Nessim was the forunner of Easter & Passover. Hard boiled eggs, greens & smoked fish translated to the colored eggs for Easter & boiled egg for Passover. The waving of palm fronds led to Palm Sunday & Sukkot. Herbal remedies are abundant & go back centuries. Fenergeek tea is given to women in labor and just after birth. Natural anti-inflammatory & pelvic pain reducer. Margoram tea for reducing fever. Of course the ancient jewelry designs are still popular today. Wine, beer & marshmallows all started here. Bat aao = bread (baguette) bat is wheat; aao is water. Fesikh (fesseek) dried herring eaten at the spring festival.
I'm Coptic. A lot of the words we use now come from Coptic which came from ancient Egyptian. Here are some examples
- Table is "trapeza" in Coptic and we refer to it as "tarabeza" in Egypt now
- "Outah" is the Coptic word for fruit and how we refer to tomatoes now
- "Parkouki" is plum in Coptic which we now refer to as "barkouk"
- "Geeb" means "to take" in Coptic which we still use
- "Niffi" meaning to blow is still used
- "Koi" meaning elbow is still used
And a whole bunch more. Plus all of the liturgical words and the majority of Christian Egyptians' names are of Coptic or Greek origin
@@monkiram thank you for this. My husband pronounces Koi as Koa.
There was a guy from Khartoum in the Sudan on our engineering course at uni , we got talking about his homeland and he told me there are people out there that still speak the language.
As Somalia 🇸🇴 we are the real punt
I'm a bit late ;) , but this is a really great material. I have friends who study old Slavic languages, mainly Polish and Czech, how these languages sounded in the Middle Ages and later until the creation of these two modern languages. They both work at the University of Warsaw. It's an exciting job. The Middle Ages is my hobby, so I'm interested in how the English language changed after the conquest of William the Conqueror, or how the German language developed since Ostrogoths, Visigoths, and later since Charlemagne... in its eastern lands. Once again, thank you very much for this very interesting popular science material. Best Wishes from Poland. :) Kind regards - Stanley
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Saw the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum. Had always thought it was probably the size of a book. It is HUGE!
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