History of the alphabet, the writing systems of Europe

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  • @tonysoldan
    @tonysoldan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1428

    Greek, Cyrillic and Latin. I use them all. Greek-Russian here! Love to every writing system in general.

    • @арефнар
      @арефнар 5 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Русская кровь
      Русская слава
      Родина нас всегда вспомнит❤🇷🇺

    • @bringbackthedislikecount6767
      @bringbackthedislikecount6767 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Chinese characters would drive you crazy

    • @Dian_Borisov_SW
      @Dian_Borisov_SW 5 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Лонг лив дъ глори оф Кирилик!

    • @alexandartheserb7861
      @alexandartheserb7861 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Its not Cyrilic but Azbuka. Az (I) buki (noice). Latin is Abeceda. Oldest world letters are Vinca letters 4-5000bce

    • @Dian_Borisov_SW
      @Dian_Borisov_SW 5 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      @@alexandartheserb7861
      Azbuka just means alphabet duuuude

  • @arthur__lt
    @arthur__lt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1915

    This Greek decrease was kinda sad to see..

    • @billaros1338
      @billaros1338 5 ปีที่แล้ว +451

      True , but still Greek is the only one of these ancient languages , which is not dead.

    • @xenotypos
      @xenotypos 5 ปีที่แล้ว +315

      Latin is based on the Greek alphabet, the same with the Cyrillic alphabet. Those colors are potentially worthless if you don't know what they mean. Fondamentally, if you consider the latin, french and turkish alphabets to be "the same", then you can more or less consider that the greek and the latin alphabet are the same too, more or less.
      So in the end, the blue, red and yellow colors are all the products of the greek alphabet, that's not a legacy to be sad about.

    • @svetoslavkoev7678
      @svetoslavkoev7678 5 ปีที่แล้ว +151

      @@xenotypos And the Greeks got their writing system from the Carthaginian or Phoencians as the Romans called them. The only "original" alphabet probably belongs to the civilizations of Mesopotamia.

    • @xenotypos
      @xenotypos 5 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      @@svetoslavkoev7678 True only if you say "writing system" instead of alphabet. Alphabet is the true meaning of the term is restrictive and the first one was actually the greek one, even it was indeed heavily influenced by the Phoenician abjad. An abjad is actually I concede, almost an alphabet. But I disagree regarding what preceded the Phoenicians, since they really innovated and many signs were actually inspired by daily life. It might have some minor similarities with other older writing systems but it's different when a writing system is literally BASED OF another, like it was for Phoenician - > Greek (with innovations) then Greek - > Latin and Greek - > Cyrillic. It was more than just "influences", so imho it's not comparable with older influences such as logograms in Mesopotamia.

    • @Alexander-oq3gc
      @Alexander-oq3gc 5 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Both Latin and Cyrillic Alphabett is like children of the Greek alphabet.
      And yes it is sad.

  • @bbenjoe
    @bbenjoe 5 ปีที่แล้ว +886

    Next possible change is Kazakhstan. They've decided to switch to the latin alphabet by the mid 2020's.

    • @guntiskarklins19
      @guntiskarklins19 4 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      Kazakhstan and other mid Asia nations was made analphabetic several times. From Arabic to Latin, then Cyrillic and now Latin again.

    • @SUKARUKA
      @SUKARUKA 4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      Benjámin Kurilla it’s not gonna work, because most of population of Kazakhstan uses Russian language as a second natural. It’s like change alphabet in Ukraine or Belorussia. People will imagine sthg like surzhyk and will continue speak as they wish.

    • @bbenjoe
      @bbenjoe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      @@SUKARUKA No doubt this move also serves as a means to distance the country from Russia. In the past century the alphabet in Kazahstan was changed multiple times, so this is not uncommon.
      Still, nearly a fifth of the population is still Russian. I guess time will tell how things will unfold.

    • @AgahErdem
      @AgahErdem 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      as a turkish i hope they will change their alphabet

    • @SUKARUKA
      @SUKARUKA 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Cosmos lol, where is a Turkey, and where is Kazakhstan, or you still live in Mongol Empire?

  • @ValorVisionaries
    @ValorVisionaries 4 ปีที่แล้ว +664

    So sad to see Greek fading away like that, but im also proud cause it still remains as one of the oldest consistent languages in the world, plus Latin and Cyrillic have a huge Greek influence

    • @pwnmeisterage
      @pwnmeisterage 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      It becomes a matter of arbitrary definitions and categories after a while, linguists and historians cannot avoid bias and cannot ever reach full consensus.
      You could argue that purely Greek writing systems are already long-obsolete, diluted, and faded (outside of endless scholarly analysis). Or you could argue that Ancient Greek writing systems have persisted by inspiring, evolving into, and being adapted within all the scripts which supplanted them.

    • @lgiorgos1
      @lgiorgos1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@pwnmeisterage It is pretty much the same with the ancient writing system. Except for then, they would write everything in capital and without spaces.

    • @mirandapillsbury7885
      @mirandapillsbury7885 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Arabic too is highly influenced by Greek : )

    • @محمديونس-7
      @محمديونس-7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Arabic is the oldest

    • @stavrosskoulas783
      @stavrosskoulas783 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mirandapillsbury7885 really??

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 2 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club, the community of speakers of that language. Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. Change your language, and you change your thoughts. Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom

  • @yyyhh7249
    @yyyhh7249 4 ปีที่แล้ว +720

    Notice how Greece kept the same alphabet for 3000+ years such an honour to be able to speak Greek

    • @VSP4591
      @VSP4591 4 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      Armenians and Georgians did the same.

    • @hira6481
      @hira6481 4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      @@VSP4591 exactly, all 3 of these scripts, greek armenian and georgian, are all so beautiful and have such a long and interesting history

    • @dionelshani1083
      @dionelshani1083 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Except, that it is a totally different language from ancient greece

    • @tomxatz8361
      @tomxatz8361 4 ปีที่แล้ว +125

      @@dionelshani1083 To correct you, modern Greek is a more simplified version of ancient Greek, so it is not a completely different language

    • @pedrosabino8751
      @pedrosabino8751 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Τομάρ νο χω ραπά

  • @Tehnodinaroid
    @Tehnodinaroid 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1508

    What writing system do you want to use?
    The Balkans: yes

    • @azhder
      @azhder 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Yes / Да / Ναι en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkan_sprachbund

    • @fih2329
      @fih2329 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      Accept from greece. 3000 years the same language😂

    • @petritzeka
      @petritzeka 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@fih2329 And accept from Illyria (Albanians) , more than 2000 years the same language :)

    • @fih2329
      @fih2329 4 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      @@petritzeka I actually just goggled it. Google says that albanian language exists for just 800 years (from 1210). I googled Greek too and it says it exists for 3500 years

    • @petritzeka
      @petritzeka 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Iasonas Tsallos The illyrian culture was destroyed, thats why u cant see albanian language on google before 1210, but we all know it is through the words of areas in illyria at the time, such as Dardania and the king Bardylis, which means white star in albanian -> “Bardh Yl”

  • @danielsilvestre7881
    @danielsilvestre7881 4 ปีที่แล้ว +267

    Alphabets:
    🇬🇷 Ελληνικό αλφάβητο
    🇦🇲 Հայոց գրեր
    🇬🇪 ქართული დამწერლობა
    🇪🇬 ϯⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ
    🇮🇹 Abecedarium Latinum
    🇧🇬 Кирилица
    Abjad:
    🇸🇦 كتابة عربية
    🇮🇱 אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי‎

    • @jamalalassaad6827
      @jamalalassaad6827 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      And Syriac?

    • @tylerpatti9038
      @tylerpatti9038 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@jamalalassaad6827 it is an abjad like Hebrew and Arabic

    • @hristokolev6016
      @hristokolev6016 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@fqmq4975 In Bulgarian it is spelled with only one Л

    • @_kitaes_
      @_kitaes_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fqmq4975 на болгарском

    • @Omouja
      @Omouja 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What alphabet is that 4?

  • @Paguo
    @Paguo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +477

    Latin, Arabic and Cyrillic. Three giants and Greek in the middle, resilient as ever. Very sad decline though

    • @JL18LAZOR
      @JL18LAZOR 4 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      well we still use greek letters in modern math classes !

    • @captaingreek
      @captaingreek 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      @@JL18LAZOR Yes just in Math. All sciences are built in Greek language. Good morning.

    • @ionbrad6753
      @ionbrad6753 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      ... there was a time during which Greek was the giant, compared to Latin - and Cyrillic was not even dreamt of :)

    • @captaingreek
      @captaingreek 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      @@ionbrad6753 Not to mention that Latin and Cyrillic were based on the Greek alphabet.

    • @ionbrad6753
      @ionbrad6753 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@captaingreek Right. And the Greek based on Phoenician.

  • @rymdalkis
    @rymdalkis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +415

    Man as a Swede I think it's a shame we abandoned the Runic alphabet. We still learn it in school but since our language has evolved into suiting the Latin alphabet many of our sounds now lack accurate Runic letters, and so most people quickly forget them. A fun fact though is that some areas in Sweden continued using a niche version of the Runic alphabet up until the beginning of the 20th century. There are people who still have old postcards and letters that their great-grandparents sent to each other written with Runic letters.

    • @Dian_Borisov_SW
      @Dian_Borisov_SW 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      That's incredible! And really a shame that a part of your culture is being neglected like that.
      We, bulgarians, are proud to have invented the cyrillic alohabet, as you can see that it pops up on the map basically where modern day Bulgaria is. Many russians and macedonians would claim otherwise

    • @invidusspectator3920
      @invidusspectator3920 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@Dian_Borisov_SW Didn't the pupils of Saint Cyril and Methodius invent the Cyrillic alphabet ?

    • @Dian_Borisov_SW
      @Dian_Borisov_SW 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@invidusspectator3920
      They invented the glagolitic alphabet by order of the bulgarian tsar, one of their deciples, Kliment Ohridski invented the cyrillic alphabet in Bulgaria.

    • @Vitorruy1
      @Vitorruy1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      thats super cool!

    • @DanielMorenoTV
      @DanielMorenoTV 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@Dian_Borisov_SW i thought a greek had invented your alphabet

  • @alexanderpalm6407
    @alexanderpalm6407 4 ปีที่แล้ว +438

    I'm glad Georgians has stuck to their script, as it is incredibly beautiful.

    • @gigabashar9513
      @gigabashar9513 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      მადლობა ძმა

    • @therandomizer9943
      @therandomizer9943 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Same with Armenians

    • @therandomizer9943
      @therandomizer9943 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      And the only language that has been resurrected is Hebrew in modern day Israel

    • @zurazurabi1273
      @zurazurabi1273 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      ქართული დამწერლობის საზღვრები ....აშკარად შემცირებული აქვთ....შუა საუკუნეებში გაცილებით მეტი იყო......{მათ დღევანდელი აქვთ აღებული}...

    • @ქართველიშვილი-წ6ჯ
      @ქართველიშვილი-წ6ჯ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @Josip It wouldn't be problem, if you were native reader to this alphabet (I mean if this was your first alphabet), you would read it easy in less than one second

  • @XiaomiX6
    @XiaomiX6 4 ปีที่แล้ว +220

    I'm from Georgia and we have 3 alphabet. Modern alphabet look like this - საქართველოს გაუმარჯოს 🇬🇪❤️

    • @MMadesen
      @MMadesen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      It looks pretty cool and unique. Keep strong, Georgians and Armenians.

    • @VSP4591
      @VSP4591 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@MMadesen Armenians have a different script.

    • @MMadesen
      @MMadesen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@VSP4591 I know, but its pretty similar, and theirs is unique too and so they should keep being strong too.

    • @alexandretavberidze5027
      @alexandretavberidze5027 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@MMadesen it's similar because Armenian alphabet was created based on different scripts and one of them is Georgian. This video mistakenly says that Goergian alphabet was created after the Armenian one, and Armenians are claiming that same person created both Armenian and Georgian alphabets, but simply that's not the case and Armenian claim was proven wrong multiple times. Earliest Goergian script which is "Asomtavruli" probably was created few centuries earlier than the Armenian, although there is much controversy as some people claim it to be created during pagan times, some claim it to be christian. The Earliest script in Caucasus was found in Graklian Gora excavation site in Georgia. It was created in 11th century BC and has semitic letters and some letters have graphical changes which lead experts to conclude that this script was created to write in Georgian. The same way German langauge uses latin script but adds some letters to fit its language.

    • @mxeci2413
      @mxeci2413 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@thelastsamurai2472 mesrop wtf Not created mesrop Georgian script Create iberia king Pharnavaz

  • @iontion4060
    @iontion4060 5 ปีที่แล้ว +516

    But It is remarkable that the Greek language is at least 3,000 years old..

    • @tony_doom
      @tony_doom 5 ปีที่แล้ว +129

      @Jovan Naumovski of course it was a bit different, languages are living organisms and can change in 3000 years. Doesn't mean it's not the same language

    • @paolovittoriodigilio7913
      @paolovittoriodigilio7913 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@tony_doom I mean, saying that it's a bit border line. It is almost like saying that Italian is the same language as Latin. Which is clearly not.

    • @tony_doom
      @tony_doom 5 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      @@paolovittoriodigilio7913 Italian is a continuation of Vulgar Latin so of course it is Latin but given that romance languages don't include just Italian, specific names were given to different offspring. In Greek this is not the case as there is no other language in the Hellenic family (apart from some dialects). It was Greek then and it is Greek now, of course with some influences from others. The core is the same

    • @siegfriedia9986
      @siegfriedia9986 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      the greeks copied the alphabet from the semite phoenician, who were related to Arabs and israelites

    • @tony_doom
      @tony_doom 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      @@siegfriedia9986 yes the base for the greek alphabet was the phoenician one. And?

  • @carolus5409
    @carolus5409 5 ปีที่แล้ว +491

    I stayed in shock with Turkey, what a change

    • @an5192
      @an5192 5 ปีที่แล้ว +341

      A T A T U R K

    • @hassanbassim4007
      @hassanbassim4007 5 ปีที่แล้ว +113

      Carolus today Turks can’t read any Ottoman letters or documents , while me an Arab can read and understand all of them as if they were written yesterday lol . Ataturk destroyed all of turkey’s history .

    • @AbcDefg-br6ql
      @AbcDefg-br6ql 5 ปีที่แล้ว +274

      @@hassanbassim4007 Turkey shouldn't have used Arabic alphabet to begin with. They ruled Arabs, not vice versa.

    • @hassanbassim4007
      @hassanbassim4007 5 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      Abc Defg Arabs ruled them by their strong culture and civilization . They didn’t have any choice , they wouldn’t even be in Anatolia if it wasn’t for the Abbasid caliphs .

    • @barssoyer5404
      @barssoyer5404 5 ปีที่แล้ว +178

      Hassan Bassim how do you understandnit? It was written in Arabic alphabet yes but Language was Turkish so you couldnt understand shit :)

  • @jorbennoten9536
    @jorbennoten9536 5 ปีที่แล้ว +558

    Me: should be studying math when its already 8 pm
    Also me: history of writing systems i need to see this
    Also me in the future: why did i fail my math test

    • @xaph5575
      @xaph5575 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yep me right now, at 1AM

    • @imperatormaximus8952
      @imperatormaximus8952 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      At least you'll ace your history exam 🙂

    • @SolitudeCS
      @SolitudeCS 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      No kidding, calc 3 final exam in 6 days here..

    • @renjir0734
      @renjir0734 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      how can it be the same to me ?, and maybe for others too

    • @siratshi455
      @siratshi455 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oh god same. Tomorrow is a final semester test and I watch that video. Pathetic

  • @JohnnyMads
    @JohnnyMads 5 ปีที่แล้ว +848

    Rome is still alive

    • @Melnek1
      @Melnek1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +139

      The irony is that it is thanks to the work of the Church and the same Christians that the Romans loved to throw to the lions in the Colosseum.

    • @TheAltarios91
      @TheAltarios91 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Melnek *Perpetua and felicitas intensifies*

    • @theunitsquad3144
      @theunitsquad3144 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Jhonny Mads still immortal huh Rome
      In a way
      You know i was hoping you wouldn’t come back
      Great Empires never die

    • @sto_karfi842
      @sto_karfi842 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Rome it's not alive, the political system of Rome is dead.The greeks kept it till 1204, after that they started adopting the despotic form of feudalism, upon this Napoleon and modern theories like capitalism, communism came to bring something new to replace this system.The westerners had a view of their title like, they own everything under their title, Lords armies lands people, that cancerous view was absent to the Greeks and Romans.In west there was a ruling tradition from the barbarian germanic tribes,in the east the LAW was above the ruler, the politicians of the Senate and the parties of the hippodrome had the influence to secure this right...Rome is gone, died in 1204.

    • @theunitsquad3144
      @theunitsquad3144 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Sto_Karfi! I think he meant that the way Latin was spread it looked like the Roman Empire. Also the Byzantium empire the last Roman nation fell in 1475 around that time at least. The Romans and their way of life died with it but their language and architecture lived on. When the Germanic tribes sacked Rome they did a good job at preserving almost everything

  • @lionzion619
    @lionzion619 5 ปีที่แล้ว +415

    As a hungarian, I'm surprised you didn't forgot about old hungarian writing :D It was slowly abandoned by most hungarians during the middle ages, and later it was rediscovered in some old medieval churches in Székelyföld (Eastern transylvania, roughly in the middle of modern day Romania) and then on some old artifacts. By impression it looks like rune writing, but only coincidentally, the similar signs mean different letters.

    • @CostasMelas
      @CostasMelas  5 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      Thank you. It was the most difficult part because it was the script for which I found the least information.

    • @lionzion619
      @lionzion619 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@CostasMelas I can imagine, it's origin and history is heavily debated by hungarian historians themselves, so there is barely any reliable translated source

    • @themobstar58
      @themobstar58 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@CostasMelas same for old iberian, great job. although i always had the impression it's older, i guess you checked your sources

    • @fanstargateiloveuniverse
      @fanstargateiloveuniverse 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Please make a video about asia's writing systems, too. It would be also very interesting to see turks, scytia, china, indus valley, and more others. Please!! :) very good video:D

    • @overabusedsalmon1238
      @overabusedsalmon1238 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I've always wanted to ask this to an hungarian : Are you guys related with european huns in some sort of way ?

  • @shapur2406
    @shapur2406 5 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    RIP Pahlavi, I learnt it. it's so sad seeing it being destroyed by Arab invasion as an Iranian.

    • @hassanbassim4007
      @hassanbassim4007 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Petros Movsesyan cry

    • @SuperAltamish23
      @SuperAltamish23 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      It was the Arab invasion that lead to the Iranian culture being exported to far away lands that never would have happened otherwise. So technically, the Arab invasion helped Iranian culture to become more dominant. Learn history. Indian subcontinent, Central Asia, Gulf, Caucasus, and Anatolia all adopted Iranian culture after Arab invasion. Keep crying

    • @SuperAltamish23
      @SuperAltamish23 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@shapur2406 iran had no cultural influence on the South Asia. It was the turkic people who formed the Delhi sultanate who first brought Iranian culture to the region, and then subsequent dynasties and rulers did the same. Anatolia was Greek in culture. The Turks also brought Persian culture to Anatolia and the Balkans. That's something that even Iran never did considering it neighbors Anatolia. Central Asia only adopted Iranian culture after they converted to Islam, they became patrons or the Iranian culture. There is no proof that the nomadic people looked up to Persian culture before the Arab conquest. Keep crying

    • @KI-hx5id
      @KI-hx5id 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Petros Movsesyan cry

    • @aeenramirez
      @aeenramirez 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Iranian language and culture never change never. even now we speak Persian not Arab language its disaster movie
      and lie about history.Arabs only roll Iranian heartland for "130" years, and then Iranian hated them and rise again like phoenix.
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasanian_Empire 224-651 AD
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahirid_dynasty 821-873 AD
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffarid_dynasty 861-1003 AD
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samanid_Empire 819-999 AD
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavids 977-1186 AD
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buyid_dynasty 934-1062 AD
      and till today.......
      Please Just little read BOOK..................

  • @elgranlugus7267
    @elgranlugus7267 4 ปีที่แล้ว +160

    Latin: ABCDEF dominates
    Ireland: ---//---///----

    • @servantofaeie1569
      @servantofaeie1569 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      you just said ggʷ

    • @EazyIsi
      @EazyIsi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It’s Phoenician alphabet, they invented it, greeks got it from phenicians and rome got it from Greece.

    • @servantofaeie1569
      @servantofaeie1569 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@EazyIsi no, Rome got if from the Etruscans who got it from Greece.

    • @EazyIsi
      @EazyIsi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Servant of AEIE and Greece got it from phoenicians *.

    • @Tabuleiro.
      @Tabuleiro. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Laughs in Irish Ogham

  • @flameoguy
    @flameoguy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    I like how you can see what cultures are dominant by what writing systems spread the farthest. Its interesting how little of Europe used Latin writing during the early Middle Ages despite it now being the dominant method of writing.

    • @Pidalin
      @Pidalin 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Ibbo not just Germany, entire Holy Roman Empire

    • @Pidalin
      @Pidalin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It shows more like where civilisation already started and education spreaded, it's logical that there is no latin in Poland or Finland or something in year 100, they didn't have civilisation yet, but they switched to latin immediately when western civilisation spreaded there. BTW, we had Glagolic only for few years here in Czechia, it was artificaly created and characters were to complicated and hard to writte, it had no chance to win over latin.

  • @bandiscam5899
    @bandiscam5899 5 ปีที่แล้ว +157

    Me: **starts watching the video**
    Also me: *Why the years are going on reverse?*

    • @brahimislmeoun1395
      @brahimislmeoun1395 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      You aren't alone there. When I just started watching, I was like WTF is this??

    • @bandiscam5899
      @bandiscam5899 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@brahimislmeoun1395 lol

    • @petercihelka2429
      @petercihelka2429 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Because it starts before the so-called common era, or BCE! Then it goes to zero! Then it counts up to today! Used to be BC AND AD WE WERE ONCE USING. Then someone or some group got insulted, outraged or their feelings were hurt! Thank PC or Perverse Complexity for adding to our miscommunication woes!

    • @aa-zz6328
      @aa-zz6328 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Just fucking use BC and AD!

    • @gaminggod1495
      @gaminggod1495 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @lh g I use BC and AD because I'm Catholic but it's ok if I see someone use BCE and CE

  • @rodrib9136
    @rodrib9136 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    2:03
    *Sea People*: Allow to introduce ourselves
    "Lineal B has left the chat"

  • @Tirocoa
    @Tirocoa 5 ปีที่แล้ว +844

    9:51
    "Wait, why did Armenian suddenly-
    oh
    *_O H_* "

    • @equilibrium6544
      @equilibrium6544 5 ปีที่แล้ว +130

      Because Turk or Atatürk Idea Took Over Anatolia
      And This Idea Was Anatolia Only Belongs To Turks It Was Against Ottoman Ideas because ottoman ideas were trust to other ethnics that live in that land,dont opress politics while turk ideas were opposite of that
      When Turks Ideas Spread Genocides Happen 1.5M armenians got slaughtered 750k assyrians got slaughtered and 950k greeks got slaugtered even this day turkey doesnt accept these genocides and they say that they did the genocide on us which is impossible because of ottoman rule over anatolia if they do that they`ll get slaughtered even in news people that live in anatolia seen as turks all of them which is ignoring your ideas,culture and ethnic place where you are from it is simply even if your ancestors are greek or assyrian or armenian you`ll be treated as turk and also education system is ultra turkish nationalism propoganda
      there isnt a religion lessons for christians because turkey is form of mhp and akp which both ultra nationalist parties and muslim religion is must because it is easier to control muslims because erdogan used this tactic like muslim religion in his advantange and fettülah support him but after he was seen as terrorist in turkey after erdogan got into power infilation happened and here we are
      in future dolar will be 10 turkish liras because priting more money doesnt make you rich and erdogan`s income is 81k turkish liras which is 19 times of income a teacher also he gets 1million 25k from bank
      my idea is that turkey wont last long
      and it wont be like africa but greece
      greece is lucky because it doesnt have high population
      in turkey 84m population or that amount
      and you know venezuela
      soo yeah my idea is that

    • @equilibrium6544
      @equilibrium6544 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Turkic Ideas Will Still Be Alive
      But Many People Will Be Seeing Their Own People Like Terrorist
      becuase of erdogan idea of chp is terrorist
      which will cause civil unrest or civilwar

    • @bahadir7677
      @bahadir7677 5 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      ​@@equilibrium6544 Building castles in the sky huh. Too bad you are not well informed on any topic you wrote about.

    • @equilibrium6544
      @equilibrium6544 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@bahadir7677
      i already answered this question

    • @ggoddkkiller1342
      @ggoddkkiller1342 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      @@equilibrium6544 Atatürk wasn't involved any of those incidents as he was a simple colonel serving in Gallipoli while Ottoman forcefully migrated Armenians to Syria and Lebanon in 1915, in fact there are more than 7 million Armenians living in Syria, Lebanon, Europe and US today who claim they are ''survivors of Armenian genocide'' while according to your numbers all of Ottoman Armenians were slaughtered due there were only 1.5 million Armenians in 1914!! Your nonsense about numbers again continues with Greeks due there were 2.1 million Ottoman Greeks in 1914 that 1.5 million of them were sent to Greece according to the treaty of Lausanne that Greece also sent 500 thousand Muslims in return so we could only slaughter 600k Greeks but somehow we managed to slaughter 950k that i guess 350k Turks also got slaughtered accidentally🤣🤣
      If we return to the real world here is an academic writing published by seven western universities which talks about how armenians and greeks targeted Turkish civilians and killed hundreds of thousands people that you ''justice defenders'' never ever talk about!! Why is that?? Perhaps because you admit greeks and armenians targeted Turkish civilians nobody would believe your crocodile tears afterwards??? :))
      www.academia.edu/35312332/Revisiting_the_Fire_of_Izmir

  • @wachtwoorden2
    @wachtwoorden2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    Latin in 750: I don't feel so good
    Latin since 1850: UNLIMITED POWAAAAAA

    • @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714
      @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Well .... no one writes latin anymore. They write in systems derived form latin for example latting has no "w" so yes the english are not writing as latins would.
      My own people have ŗšģķļžčņ these would be unreadable to a latin even if he can recognise their base in rsgklzcn.
      In fact today people dont write clasical lating like the latins themsleves did. This is because a latin knows its impēria even if he writes imperia modern people dont know this so to read they need impēria.

    • @oguzhantekden2
      @oguzhantekden2 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      On my main channel, I edit videos with subtitles in 3 different languages for the old music of different nations. You are also invited. :)
      th-cam.com/video/JanNdqAKcys/w-d-xo.html

    • @plumebrisee6206
      @plumebrisee6206 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 The letter W came from the German .
      For example ,in Spanish ,the letter W doesn't exist ,but in French ,it exist .

    • @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714
      @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@plumebrisee6206 Latviski w doesnt exist either, we do have a very similar sound do to phonetic consinent swap but we write v as that is the sound without the phonetic consinent swap. Example are dievs that do to vs being in the same sylible become ws so diews, and nav that do to av being in the same sylible become aw so naw. (where the phonetic consinant swap doesnt happen, like dieva and nava we say dieva and nava.)

    • @danieldebelen1995
      @danieldebelen1995 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@plumebrisee6206 What?? it does exist in Spanish, mate 🤣

  • @sheldonj.plankton163
    @sheldonj.plankton163 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    7:00 Latin: Hey Germans, wanna check out my alphabet?
    7:13 Germans: Stay the hell away from me! *flee eastward*
    7:25 It's no use, my script is superior

    • @NovayaK
      @NovayaK 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      the beginning of the end of the runic alphabet

    • @aniinnrchoque1861
      @aniinnrchoque1861 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@croatianwarmaster7872 it'd be kinda weird - some abandoned letters and a general reform sure. But runic? It is a neat script ngl but not sure it's worth the hassle.

    • @valentinmitterbauer4196
      @valentinmitterbauer4196 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@croatianwarmaster7872 Some germanic languages can't even write in runes since it doesn't feature some now existing sounds and other letters are obsolete, like þ is only usable in english and icelandic, but not in dutch, german, danish, nynorsk, bokmal, swedish, flemish, frisian, bavarian...

    • @renatocampos3114
      @renatocampos3114 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@croatianwarmaster7872 the shot would backfire, the Latin writing is easier to apprehend if the Germanic countries were switched to the runic alphabet, Spanish would be the dominant language in the West.
      the Germans managed to conquer the Roman Empire, but the Latin culture is superior and surpassed the German culture, swallow that Germanic the LATIN ALPHABET IS SUPERIOR

    • @mrtrollnator123
      @mrtrollnator123 ปีที่แล้ว

      Charlemagne's conquests of germania

  • @lucaschiantodipepe2015
    @lucaschiantodipepe2015 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    The Latin alphabet was a variant of the Greek alphabet used in the colony of Kyme/Cuma, town located in Southern italy. Later adopted by Romans.

    • @ap6480
      @ap6480 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Weren't the etruscans the ones who, among many things, influenced the latin alphabet?

    • @Testimony_Of_JTF
      @Testimony_Of_JTF 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Konstantin Trehagyrevopoulos And the greek alphabet derived from the phoenecian alphabet

    • @parabelluminvicta8380
      @parabelluminvicta8380 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Konstantin Trehagyrevopoulos even if so thats not the case with the romans stop spreading bullshit

    • @snowman9452
      @snowman9452 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Testimony_Of_JTF nope, it was influenced, but not derived from phoenecian one.

  • @SaxandRelax
    @SaxandRelax 4 ปีที่แล้ว +117

    Old italic: *exists*
    Latin: No.

    • @adamal-mardoud4290
      @adamal-mardoud4290 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Why are you gay?

    • @maximumcringelevel8617
      @maximumcringelevel8617 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@adamal-mardoud4290
      Good quastion.

    • @jimmyj6209
      @jimmyj6209 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@adamal-mardoud4290 y ah ewe gae

    • @SaxandRelax
      @SaxandRelax 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@adamal-mardoud4290 Once a drag queen sneezed on my and the doctors couldn’t do anything to fix it

    • @adamal-mardoud4290
      @adamal-mardoud4290 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@SaxandRelax So you really are gay!

  • @გივიგოგოლაძე
    @გივიგოგოლაძე 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Georgian alphabet is from BC. 4-3th century. You can read this from history. In 5th century we whrote the first georgian book-"Torture of Shushanik"

  • @gontzallekzeit2050
    @gontzallekzeit2050 5 ปีที่แล้ว +111

    La verdad que estos trabajos son tremendamente interesantes. Enhorabuena.

    • @oguzhantekden2
      @oguzhantekden2 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      On my main channel, I edit videos with subtitles in 3 different languages for the old music of different nations. You are also invited. :)
      th-cam.com/video/JanNdqAKcys/w-d-xo.html

    • @oguzhantekden2
      @oguzhantekden2 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Federico castro learn English firstly. Besides, I got many followers. So, "nO oNe cArE" is a stupid saying XD

  • @ruzannamanukyan4375
    @ruzannamanukyan4375 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Armenian alphabet just for armenians, one nation , one country , one church, one language. Perfect.

    • @georgianpatriot9287
      @georgianpatriot9287 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Gotta respect our brother Armenians♡

    • @ruzannamanukyan4375
      @ruzannamanukyan4375 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@georgianpatriot9287 vivat civilization

    • @skaor8036
      @skaor8036 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's not good if you want your language to be taught the same way to foreigners. Not many people would learn a whole alphabet, that uses only one language, used by a couple of million people.

  • @Keyhan-c8c
    @Keyhan-c8c 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Long live younaistan and its ancient alphabets 💙😊
    From Iranistan 🙋

  • @isaac_aren
    @isaac_aren 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    I'm very impressed to see that Ogham was included. It was in use in Western Britain for a time as well. Perhaps Gaelic Type could have been included as well as that was in use for writing Old Irish and modern Irish well into the 20th century. It's similar to the Latin alphabet but different enough to be included. My grandmother's schoolwork is written in Gaelic Type

    • @ajrwilde14
      @ajrwilde14 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      it's still a variant of the latin script

  • @maximilienmavian4333
    @maximilienmavian4333 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    It’s so sad to see the Armenian script get decimated. Right after 1915, the Armenian genocide did a number didn’t it...

  • @CaptainElMapper
    @CaptainElMapper 5 ปีที่แล้ว +350

    Τα ελληνικά είναι η μόνη γλώσσα που έχει απομείνει από 3000 χρόνια πριν!

    • @xhsi717
      @xhsi717 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@theodorospetridis4142 Σωστός

    • @eribloo6055
      @eribloo6055 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Δεν λέγετε γλώσσα αυτό που λες ρε πυροτουβλο Αλλά Γραφή

    • @petyrbaelish2000
      @petyrbaelish2000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      @@eribloo6055 και γιατί πρέπει να τον αποκαλέσεις πυρότουβλο για να του πεις; μη θίγεσαι τόσο εύκολα, όποιος έχει η μύγα μυγιάζεται

    • @avruvimtu2204
      @avruvimtu2204 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Yeah but Indo-Europeans Europeans didn't have a writing language until 1200 BC~. Minoans weren't Greeks, if you say they were, you are definitely 100% wrong.
      Myceaneans Greeks had two borrowed writing systems one from Minoans and one from Phoenicians.

    • @CoffeeSuccubus
      @CoffeeSuccubus 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@avruvimtu2204 Greek nationalism is a toxin

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Me when the Phoenicians popped up:
    *Now, the Phoenicians can get down to business!*
    "Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going." - Rita Mae Brown

    • @kripat2414
      @kripat2414 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Alphabet and it 's structure is a Greek invention. Phoenicians had only the same sort of letters.

    • @tomerschubert2095
      @tomerschubert2095 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kripat2414 that's not true, Phoenician is a direct descendant of Proto-sinatic. If you want to get technical there is no difference between pheonician and Paleo-Hebrew, they were dialects of Canaanite if not the same language. The entire latin family tree really starts with Proto-sinatic and the Canaanite languages. (Phoenician and Paleo-Hebrew)

    • @kripat2414
      @kripat2414 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tomerschubert2095 yes , but Ancient Thracians had many symbols, too. You know , now we use paper, and we not use ancient methods with clay or sand. And suddenly Orpheus who lived in 1400-1300 BC made an epic poem "Argonautica" literally perfect. We can connect why these ancient symbols are from Thrace to Canaan and Phoenicians. The answer is the Phrygians . In 5000BC they transport from northern Greece to far east and again and again. And we have the Phoenician alphabet instead of the cuneiform and others in the Syriac area. Some things we could be not know them , and there is Herodotus who tell us that Kadmos took the symbols from Phoenicians, and some other greek scholars made it better. Kadmos born in 1540BC and he was Phoenician-Egyptian son of Phoenician King. But how we have an epic perfect poem after some years later? and after some years "Cyprian Epics" and Homer 's epic poems? They will made the structure before many years with linear scripts. That you have it 's not only the alphabet , it s the structure built many years before 1500BC.

  • @alisherkairatbek3019
    @alisherkairatbek3019 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    In medieval, turkic peoples used runic alphabet

    • @ZaKRo-bx7lp
      @ZaKRo-bx7lp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Not really most were illiterate and by the time they reached Anatolia they had already embraced the Quran, it's writings and its teachings.

    • @morkantv9271
      @morkantv9271 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@ZaKRo-bx7lp You can't explain historic events or facts by labeling nations as rapists, satanists, illiterate assholes etc. That's rude :) period.
      Turkic tribes also used runic alphabet before Turks systematically forced to accept Islam before such events like Curcan and Talkan genocides of the 6th century. Even now Turks are not being counted as a "proper" muslim society by the arab world, since the outcome does not serve the purpose :) yay!

    • @OmegamonUI
      @OmegamonUI 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @alisher in turkey you can the today a rune. go in hagia sofia. in one stone write a wikinger a rune

    • @ZaKRo-bx7lp
      @ZaKRo-bx7lp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@morkantv9271 So being a Turk in the 11th century and following the arabic Quran makes you a rapist? Woah dude. English is definitely not your first language.

    • @morkantv9271
      @morkantv9271 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@ZaKRo-bx7lp There's not a single non-arab nation in this word that accepts islam by their own will. Turks went under Talkan and Calcun Genocides during the 7th century by the arab armies commanded by Kutayba Bin Muslim. All types of religions are a tool of social engineering. And I see no connection between these stuff and my personal features. :)

  • @z000ey
    @z000ey 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The Cyrillic used in Bosnia up to late 19th century was the Western Cyrillic aka Bosnian Cyrillic aka bosančica aka bukvica. It had some 66% same letters as standard Cyrillic while 33% completely different written letters.
    Nowdays it is not used anymore, got replaced by the standard Cyrillic and Latin

    • @jout738
      @jout738 ปีที่แล้ว

      Damn why did you guys give up on that alphabet. Thats even more sad, than what happened to the greek alphabet, that is still dominant in Greece.

  • @ΣτράτοςΤσουκάρης
    @ΣτράτοςΤσουκάρης 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Syriac script: a beautiful writing system resisting to extinction for many, many centuries!

    • @oguzhantekden2
      @oguzhantekden2 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      On my main channel, I edit videos with subtitles in 3 different languages for the old music of different nations. You are also invited. :)
      th-cam.com/video/JanNdqAKcys/w-d-xo.html

  • @Tar.o
    @Tar.o 5 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    Runes stopped being used in Norway in the 1300's but okay.......

    • @serdnae
      @serdnae 5 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Ostehøvelen I think the map tells us when a system became used by the majority of the population or when a system was made official at the order of a leader. So of course the other systems don’t just disappear but they do become a minority.

    • @anthemsofeurope2408
      @anthemsofeurope2408 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Runes were never used in eastern germany so...

    • @athulfgeirsson
      @athulfgeirsson 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Runes were used in Dalecarlia, Sweden until the 20th century

    • @jaapuitroepteke2750
      @jaapuitroepteke2750 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Anglia Alba It all depends on the documentation of back then. Because runes were found doesn’t mean it was commonly used by a culture that lived there. It’s why the runic shows up so late. There weren’t really any good recordings of it until the romans got close and started written stuff down.

    • @zeon_zaku
      @zeon_zaku 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Elfdalian used runes till the 1900s.

  • @Zdenek1023
    @Zdenek1023 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Don't ask what happened to the Greek and Armenian scripts in the 1910s and 1920s

  • @Γιωργηςς
    @Γιωργηςς 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Me looking at greece:oh come on just change your language
    Greece: nope👁👄👁

    • @TheHunterOfYharnam
      @TheHunterOfYharnam 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      why would we?

    • @Γιωργηςς
      @Γιωργηςς 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheHunterOfYharnam ελα μου ντε😂😂😂

    • @maci1245
      @maci1245 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      They changed their language, but not the writing system

    • @Γιωργηςς
      @Γιωργηςς 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@maci1245 yes our language has changed but if you give me an ancient greek text i will be able to understand almost the 60-70% of it this is because the words are exact the same.Our grammar has changed a lot but not the words

    • @iliass2313
      @iliass2313 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheHunterOfYharnam I respect Byzantine nationalist but not Greek nationalists.

  • @NNNGun
    @NNNGun 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Ελληνικά(greek)
    Latine(latin)
    (Arabic)
    عربى
    Հայերեն(Armenian)
    ქართული(Georgian)
    кириллица(cyrillic)

    • @alhashemi.
      @alhashemi. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      عربي*

    • @cellfreezer0
      @cellfreezer0 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ⵜⵉⴼⵉⵏⴰⵖ (tifinagh)

    • @leventerylmaz5901
      @leventerylmaz5901 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜:𐱃𐰀𐰢𐰍𐰀𐰞𐰺𐰃 (Turkic)

  • @ash_11117
    @ash_11117 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Hmmm I wonder why Greek and Armenian conveniently disappeared from Turkey in the 1920’s 🤔

  • @You-zo3in
    @You-zo3in ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Minor correction: ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic was never spoken by the common people they never used the script it was only for the elites

  • @CleberSantos-io9bk
    @CleberSantos-io9bk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Cyrillic alphabet: Orthodoxs (except Cyprus and Greece)
    Latin alphabet: West and Turkey
    Georgian alphabet: only Georgia
    Armenian alphabet: only Armenia
    Greek alphabet: Greece and Cyprus

    • @cagatayberkay5681
      @cagatayberkay5681 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Northern Cyprus speaks Turkish so their system is Latin’s one.

    • @raulepure9840
      @raulepure9840 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Cyrillic alphabet: Orthodoxs (except Cyprus, Greece and Romania)

    • @angrybirdo
      @angrybirdo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Cagatay berkay The Republic of Cyprus has two official languages: Greek and Turkish. Turkish Cypriots are citizens of the Republic of Cyprus. There is no Northern Cyprus. The northern part of the island is occupied by Turkey and it’s not recognized by any country on the planet.

    • @thesoundinyourhead1782
      @thesoundinyourhead1782 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ibrahimtuna375 you said it yourself it's recognized only by Turkey. Hah.

  • @kirgan1000
    @kirgan1000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    During the Swedish empire, province like Ingemanland (there St Petersburg is now) did use the Latin alphabet.

  • @M4th3u54ndr4d3
    @M4th3u54ndr4d3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Hebrew:
    Dead
    Alive
    Dead again
    Alive again
    Dead one more time
    Alive again
    Wow

  • @samuelpazin9566
    @samuelpazin9566 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Nice video! Whats suprising, and isnt shown on the map, is that glagolitic survived in croatia for a long while. Both of the "Top 2" Glagolitic Missals in Croatia come from 14th - start of 15th century, Missal of Duke Novak and Hrvoje's Missal. Also theres been some discoveries in the 1900s which pointed towards use of (so called croat - Angular ) glagolitic even in Slavonia - border with Hungary. In 1248. Pope Innocent the 4th sent a message to a local bishop in Senj in which he "permits" the bishop to spread the word of god from the local glagolitic books

  • @rubenlarochelle1881
    @rubenlarochelle1881 5 ปีที่แล้ว +128

    2:03 Wtf, did they forget how to write?

    • @RPM1776
      @RPM1776 5 ปีที่แล้ว +134

      Ruben Mauro no all records were lost because of the bronze age collapse

    • @hassanbassim4007
      @hassanbassim4007 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Ruben Mauro they became illiterate for 300 years until the Phoenicians introduction of Alphabetical system and writing .

    • @martinkunev
      @martinkunev 5 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      When civilization collapses and everybody is struggling to not die from hunger, diseases, etc., children are not that interested in learning to read and write. Several generations later, nobody who can read or write is left.

    • @sil79f97
      @sil79f97 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Also only the ruling class knew how to write (better still the administrators of the ruling class), when this class is completely supplanted by a new ruling class, knowledge can easily be forgotten.

    • @mistouko
      @mistouko 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Facebook

  • @abdullahkhatib1464
    @abdullahkhatib1464 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    It is sad to see the decline in eastern and southern Mediterranean cultures after it was so relatively advanced :(

  • @irreligiousman3395
    @irreligiousman3395 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    World renowned Ethiopian political scientist, author of many books and researcher of the legacy of the Ethiopian emperors, professor Tecola Hagos:
    "I was shocked to learn that the Armenians stole our alphabet
    I was simply amazed that the Armenians so skillfully, shamelessly, cynically and obscenely distorted historical facts. I was just shocked when I first picked up a book written in Armenian. At first I thought it was in Ethiopian, since the letters were from our ancient alphabet. In perplexity, I leafed through this book in a language I did not understand, and before my eyes ancient copies of one of the most ancient alphabets in the world - Ethiopian - came to life. It was a copy of the letters that our ancestors wrote thousands of years ago. I, almost screaming in surprise, showed these letters to my friend, a historian from Addis Ababa University. He smiled and said to me: "Didn't you know? When we stopped writing in our own letters, the Armenians presented them to the whole world as the Armenian alphabet. I devoted several of my lectures to this topic at the university. World science knows that this is the Ethiopian alphabet. , but the Armenians are promoting it to the whole world as their own "

    • @alexandergalitevstudentfvh8696
      @alexandergalitevstudentfvh8696 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Armenians did not steal anything. The Armenian script is an alphabet, and the Amharic script is a syllabary, two VERY different scripts. His accounts are purely pseudoscience, i doubt he even knows how to read Armenian.

    • @paulochon7692
      @paulochon7692 ปีที่แล้ว

      What are you talking about 🤦 stop spreading complotism

  • @khediveabbashilmiiiofegypt9475
    @khediveabbashilmiiiofegypt9475 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Egypt was like your 105 year old great grandpa that always wear the same shirt at every family gathering.

  • @overabusedsalmon1238
    @overabusedsalmon1238 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Europe after AD : Write that down ! Write that down

  • @rfresa
    @rfresa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Interesting to see how gradual the changes were at first, and then later you have huge areas suddenly flipping from one alphabet to another.

  • @armenianmapper3168
    @armenianmapper3168 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'm glad , that Armenian language survived the genocide ...

  • @L1M.L4M
    @L1M.L4M 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It's interesting to know that Greek used to dominate.
    From the Aegean Sea to Iberia, and Crimea to Egypt.

  • @dimitrisps1997
    @dimitrisps1997 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    4:23 it's like the rise of United Hellenic Empire after 300 BC. That would be like if Alexander didn't die so early 🇬🇷🏛️🇬🇷

    • @Devillunar
      @Devillunar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      If the soldiers of Alexander didn't wanted to return home in India one can imagine how far Alexander would conquer. The greatest military leader ever lived would probably go to China and beyond if his soldiers let him.

    • @dimitrisps1997
      @dimitrisps1997 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Devillunar probably all M. East North Africa Persia and India would have Greek for official language. Maybe all Planets History would be really different. Maybe some religions would never exists... Or Roma would never be an Empire. Who knows

    • @mabbblea7107
      @mabbblea7107 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@dimitrisps1997 It wouldn't change a lot, I mean, after his death everything went to hell. Just look nowadays, nobody has Greek as official language outside Greece...

    • @mabbblea7107
      @mabbblea7107 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@dimitrisps1997 & Alexander the Great has never conquered Italy, so Rome would exist

    • @Daniel-jm7ts
      @Daniel-jm7ts 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mabbblea7107 he had plans to invade italy but he died before he could. Also greek is though not only in greece, but also in Cyprus and some other European countries but not that intensely

  • @samuelmc0123
    @samuelmc0123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    Awesome video! Very sad at 9:51 seeing that light blue and dark blue both fade from Anatolia, never forget the Armenian, Greek and Assyrian genocides ♰🇦🇲☦🇬🇷♱🇸🇾

    • @HIYAKUT
      @HIYAKUT 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And the Turkish genocide in Balkans, really sad.

    • @Kaan_is_myname97
      @Kaan_is_myname97 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      İt was not a genocide they got deported this video is incomplete they got deported to syria.

    • @ggoddkkiller1342
      @ggoddkkiller1342 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      9:30, 9:33 and 9:45
      Wait, why did Crimean Tatars and Dagestanis suddenly-
      Oh right, nobody considers it as a genocide even if millions of Muslims got killed and forced to migrate...

    • @vasco2387
      @vasco2387 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@HIYAKUT so you're denying a genocide just because of your fascist leader's propaganda, uh? Open your damn eyes

  • @FAMA-18
    @FAMA-18 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Still till this day the most two powerful civilizations of antiquity the world as ever known conquer the world with their writing script, Latin and the Greek Cyrillic .
    The Latin with 70% in the world and the Greek Cyrillic with 50 languages in the world, amazing.
    ROME and ATHENS..

    • @f.9344
      @f.9344 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      except the Numbers..

    • @FAMA-18
      @FAMA-18 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Be specific ...

    • @user-ge4uk9ui8y
      @user-ge4uk9ui8y 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@FAMA-18 he meant arabic numbers, no one uses roman or greek numbers anymore

    • @frankies7468
      @frankies7468 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Rome is a Greek word :)

    • @FAMA-18
      @FAMA-18 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Frankie S
      Roma is not a Greek word , it’s a Latin word , from the word for the Tiber River, "rumon”.

  • @Misel982001
    @Misel982001 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Πανδυσκολο βίντεο, δεν έχω λόγια

    • @MrMoOomoOo91
      @MrMoOomoOo91 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      لا اعلم ماذا تتحدث عنه يا اخي لكن يبدو ان الفكرة قد وصلت.

  • @gtsiridis2012
    @gtsiridis2012 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Between 1400 bc and 700 bc, during the dark ages of Greek history, there are no scripts of Greek language. It is possible that it occurred because of the materials on which letters were written. It could be leather or paper. Nevertheless, a violent Doric invasion could cause a great impact as well. Before this era Greek language is found on ceramics written in linear type. After the dark ages greek language is written in foenician letters. It is the Greeks themselves who call their alphabet "foenician", because they took the foenician letters and transformed them to the greek alphabet.

    • @PlanetIscandar
      @PlanetIscandar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *Γιώργος Τσιρίδης* Allow me to disagree. I am Greek and not only *i don't call* my alphabet "foenician", but, on the contrary, i am convinced that something here sucks...

    • @parabelluminvicta8380
      @parabelluminvicta8380 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@PlanetIscandar yeah and its you. hes right to be honest.

    • @PlanetIscandar
      @PlanetIscandar 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@parabelluminvicta8380 *"Όσα δε φτάνει η αλεπού, τα κάνει κρεμαστάρια"* In Greek, this idiom means that, when someone can't achieve something, he tries to make it seem less important than it really is, so that they're not considered incapable or worthless. Take, for example, someone who's trying hard to learn a language, but eventually doesn't make it and says "Whatever, this language is useless anyway". That's exactly the kind of behavior illustrated by this idiom. It's also called "Emotional Plague" in Psychiatry.

    • @PlanetIscandar
      @PlanetIscandar 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Albanian Byzantine Militant Yes, you are right: Greek wisdom has spread in many other "cultures" over the recent centuries, especially when they started learning to read. As for the Phoenician "script", only an uneducated fool would even give the smallest possibility to that ridiculous theory, that came out of an empty box that is made by pure vacuum.

    • @PlanetIscandar
      @PlanetIscandar 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Albanian Byzantine Militant I'm sorry for ruining your imaginary world of perverted history, but this idiom comes directly from Greek wisdom (the fable "The Fox and the Grapes"). As for the "believable" and "plausible" theory, i would like to remind you that it is still no more than a theory, just like the theory of the "Hollow Earth", which is also very popular among "believers", but not among real scientist.

  • @JHViana
    @JHViana 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    The longevity of Egyptian hieroglyphic language and writing is frightening

    • @Thomas-u8q
      @Thomas-u8q 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @ϥⲣⲁⲟⲛ Although the writing system has no relation to Egyptian hieroglyphs, as you probably know, it's based on Greek.

    • @Thomas-u8q
      @Thomas-u8q 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kemet8819 It has it's origins in the Phoenician alphabet, actually.

    • @AliHassanSalafi
      @AliHassanSalafi 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Weasel And the Latin Destroyes The Runic Alphabet and all Europe alphabet

  • @MaxSluiman
    @MaxSluiman 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I don't know wich is better, the interesting content or the great music....

  • @IliyanStoychev
    @IliyanStoychev 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Cyrillic - my favourite!
    Thank you Preslav Literary School for this present you gave us!
    We shall cherish it eternally!

    • @Pidalin
      @Pidalin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      you should switch to latin like all civilised people 😀

    • @IliyanStoychev
      @IliyanStoychev 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Pidalin 🤣

    • @fanaticofmetal
      @fanaticofmetal 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Pidalin шут уп, сйриллик ис допэ

    • @denigna7341
      @denigna7341 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And why should we? Especially we as Bulgarians, because the Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the First Bulgarian empire exactly for our language. I would never give up my alphabet written by saints for anything you or anyone else would describe as “civilized”. I couldn’t think of anything more civilized and worth to be proud of. And if your comment was only some kind of joke, excuse me for my lack of sense of humor when it comes to my cultural inheritance.☺️

  • @ilfratello1
    @ilfratello1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    The early Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 9th century AD at the Preslav Literary School by Saint Clement of Ohrid and Saint Naum and replaced the earlier Glagolitic script developed by the Byzantine theologians Cyril and Methodius.The exact ethnic origins of the brothers are unknown, there is controversy as to whether Cyril and Methodius were of Bulgarian Slavic or Byzantine Greek origin, or both. But it is more believed that their father was Byzantine and their mother Bulgarian. The Preslav Literary School, during the reign of the Bulgarian Emperor Simeon the Great , was the most important literary and cultural centre of the Bulgarian Empire and of all Slavs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabets

    • @tadopoulostadopoylos5864
      @tadopoulostadopoylos5864 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      you are...Methodious!...Well not boulgarian...КАК ДОСТОЖИЕВСКИЙ..ГРЕЧЕСКИЙ

    • @Pidalin
      @Pidalin 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cyril and Methodius brought glagolic to Czech lands and Moravia in 9th century, but it survived only for few years here, latin is just better and simplier alphabet and ofcourse, catholic church was dominant so we switched to latin.

  • @georgianpatriot9287
    @georgianpatriot9287 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Our alphabet was created in around 300-400 B.C🇬🇪

  • @younesoutailleur9150
    @younesoutailleur9150 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    The top 3, who has stayed since they existe : Greek, Latin, Tifinagh.
    If you didn't notice, Tifinagh has made it first expend after 2001 in Morocco. And hebrew is the one that made a came back after been lost.

    • @HiVoltag3R
      @HiVoltag3R 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Modern Hebrew alphabet actually comes from Aramaic alphabet, not ancient Hebrew alphabet. And what you're saying is arbitrary, since every single script that is used today can be traced back to Egyptian hieroglyphs or Chinese.

    • @patrickohooliganpl
      @patrickohooliganpl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@HiVoltag3R Nearly all of them but not every one. Armenian, Glagolitic, Georgian, Korean, Cherokee, Deseret and few other scripts were simply made up inventions.

    • @HiVoltag3R
      @HiVoltag3R 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@patrickohooliganpl All of these were based on previous scripts, they weren't made up on the spot.

    • @OmegamonUI
      @OmegamonUI 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@HiVoltag3R you forgot the first writingsystem the "Keilschrift" used in Mesopamien

    • @HiVoltag3R
      @HiVoltag3R 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@OmegamonUI Cuneiform was abandoned and has no descendants today.

  • @Notgnirracen
    @Notgnirracen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I'd say the Runic script should have been visible a bit longer, seeing as most of the rune-stones were carved during the Middle Ages. Fascinating video though!

  • @unoki99
    @unoki99 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm Swedish. Me and my foster family's mom used to send letters to each other in runic script when I was 9 while I lived at my mom's place.
    The foster family was very traditionally "asa folk" (aka they lived in their own Viking bubble, like, wearing home-sown dresses and clothing from back then, drinking from goat horns, doors decorated with cow skulls above them and so on, yup that was my daily life which really wasn't weird, we still had computer and tv and so on, we just had integrated culture of modern and old times in a very functioning way).
    We would go out in the woods since we lived in the country side during spring to do the "vårvrål" (spring screams) where we would just sit on a blanket in the middle of the woods and scream at the top of our lungs to welcome spring after a cold winter.
    Then just eat some picnic stuff while listening to the birds singing in the tree tops as you could see the sun shine through the narrow openings between the ever green trees.
    I think my childhood might have been a little bit different from that of most Swedes nngkcudysyjfjx
    But it shaped me into really respecting nature and value life as it comes.
    I really wish Sweden would have integrated modern culture ALONG with traditional Swedish culture instead of getting rid of everything as if they can't go hands in hands.
    Look at Japan for instance. Modern and Ancient have been so well integrated there you can still see what is Japanese.
    In Sweden people will point at a red wodden house and be like "yeah this is Swedish culture".
    When I have foreign friends visiting I will instead teach them to always greet Vick rocks at the side of the road when passing by to pay respect and stay away from danger as big rocks are giants having entered their long slumber. along that I also like to bring in the history of the 2 biggest lakes in Sweden and our 2 biggest islands, how those 2 islands came to be due to a fight between two giants that ripped up land and threw at each other, where the land that was ripped up now are the 2 big lakes hahahha
    (Perhaps not true history, but it's a cultural aspect and way of looking at nature as alive in itself)

    • @ajrwilde14
      @ajrwilde14 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      fascinating!

  • @viracocha6093
    @viracocha6093 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    >Aramaic, Hieroglyphics, etc.
    >Alphabet
    Good video still

    • @ziad8947
      @ziad8947 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Aramaic used an Alphabet, Hieroglyphs did not.

  • @rommelhyper3545
    @rommelhyper3545 5 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    So every thing started in Syria Iraq & Egypt.

    • @elienajem5631
      @elienajem5631 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      And Lebanon

    • @sohisoho5999
      @sohisoho5999 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Uhm no... Europe is not everything. It is one of several continents. Please stop acting like europe is the only place existing. And also there was no place like iraq back then. everything the old middle eastern high cultures achieved has nothing to do with todays muslim arab nations

    • @muhammetwareh6789
      @muhammetwareh6789 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Elie Najem modern day Lebanon was part of Syria throughout the entire history before 1916, so Lebanon is technically included when Syria is mentioned.

    • @amusedobserver6134
      @amusedobserver6134 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      That doesn't really make any sense.

    • @Mercure250
      @Mercure250 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @exorientelux Source?

  • @clasdavid5450
    @clasdavid5450 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I think runes were used in some parts of Sweden until like 100-200 years ago

    • @samishaniyy
      @samishaniyy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Nadelwald Königsberg , stop bullshiting

    • @servantofaeie1569
      @servantofaeie1569 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Nadelwald Königsberg you do realize there is no such thing as "Slavic runes" and the Germanic runes descend from Etruscan which descends from Greek?

    • @patrickohooliganpl
      @patrickohooliganpl 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@servantofaeie1569 There is no thing as "Slavic runes" proper, but Slavs used (infrequently) adapted Germanic runes, or rarely Old Hungarian and Old Turkic scripts. Due to iconoclasm made by Christian missionaries, there is obviously hardly evidence for that but anecdotic, written in Medieval chronicles. In fact literacy (esp. other than Greco-Latin) in the Dark Ages of Europe was rare and limited to the small priestly castes who happened to die along with the respective ethnic religions if they ceased to exist.
      And there is also a theory (by minority of historians) that the Glagolitic writing system could be older than Cyril and Methodius who simple adapted it as a means to record a Slavic translation of the Biblical scriptures, maybe even older than Slavs themselves finally were shaped as a nationality due to a Venetic-Sarmatic merger. Acording to this hypothesis the Glagolitic alphabet has origins in the Old Venetic writing system modified by Cyril and Methodius in order to write in contemporary Slavic. And in turn, the possible origins of the Old Venetic writing are ascribed according to this hypothesis to the Vinca (a.k.a the Old European) script.

    • @servantofaeie1569
      @servantofaeie1569 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@patrickohooliganpl so what you are saying is that Slavic languages were occasionally written with Germanic, Hungarian, and Turkic Runes? Show me some examples.

    • @patrickohooliganpl
      @patrickohooliganpl 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@servantofaeie1569 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Christian_Slavic_writing#Evidence_from_early_historiography
      Indeed the evidence is scant. But that doesn't mean that the Slavic writing was nonexistent. Oh, according to one of those sources Slavs occasionally used also Greek letters to record their language _ad_ _hoc,_ but they had no fixed orthography before the Glagolitic and Cyrillic writing system.

  • @prasinoskosmos88
    @prasinoskosmos88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It was so sad to see the Runes / Runic alphabet disappeared. Iceland and the other nordic countries should use it again.

    • @leonie364.
      @leonie364. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes, I want Germany to use it too :(

    • @mrtrollnator123
      @mrtrollnator123 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And even england

  • @dudefrombelgium
    @dudefrombelgium 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    i can see how connected hebrew, latin, greek and cyrillic are.

    • @shingosshojiopoulos6608
      @shingosshojiopoulos6608 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @MarshmallowThere is no inferior alphabet

    • @spy753ab
      @spy753ab 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Marshmallow Την πέταξες την χαζομάρα δεν κρατηθηκες!!

  • @fanstargateiloveuniverse
    @fanstargateiloveuniverse 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Please make a video about asia's writing systems, too. It would be also very interesting to see turks, scytia, china, indus valley, and more others. Please!! :) very good video:D

    • @badpiggies988
      @badpiggies988 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      "Which alphabets would you like to use?"
      India: Yes

  • @santiagomerchan9605
    @santiagomerchan9605 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Did you see the sudden shift in turkey ? It was arabic but then puff! Latin

    • @ChillyBenpa
      @ChillyBenpa 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Ataturk's reforms you can read about it

    • @santiagomerchan9605
      @santiagomerchan9605 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ChillyBenpa yeah I know it has to do with the death of the Ottoman Empire and the reborn of a new and modern Turkey after WW1

    • @teodorghinea425
      @teodorghinea425 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Same with the shift of Romania and Moldova from kyrilic to latin

    • @chillaxo9863
      @chillaxo9863 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      You could also see the Armenian Genocide aswell

    • @seyhuncelik9584
      @seyhuncelik9584 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@chillaxo9863 there are no Armenian Genocide. There are no proof. If there was Genocide President Erdogan said "Our archives are open, open your archives if you have, open your archives Armenia if you have. And let's create a team who investigates this Genocide. I am inviting Armenian historians, European ones, American ones to investigate it. Politicians can't decide about Genocides, laws say that" but no one responded. Because there are no Armenian Genocide. If there are why they didn't respond this offer? Why scientists and historians are not investigating anything about this and only politicians speaks about it?

  • @Alsayid
    @Alsayid ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I would love to have seen what Runic might have evolved into if the Germanic people had held onto it instead of swapping it for Latin as soon as they became Christian. Who knows, really, I know that there was a modified form that survived in a few pockets until a hundred years ago, but this was heavily latinized due to the rest of Scandinavia using the Latin script.

  • @danielholowaty2648
    @danielholowaty2648 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Old Hungarian writing (Rovasírás) is still used to this day in modern Hungary for traditional writing or Town names. It even has its own block of code

    • @Pidalin
      @Pidalin 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Can anyone really read these runes today?

  • @lialida
    @lialida 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Tărtăria tablets discovered in 1961 at a Neolithic site in Romania. 5300-5500
    B.C.

  • @zachantes1161
    @zachantes1161 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Was I the only one confused seeing the date at the beginning of the video? I realized after a couple seconds it meant BCE, but it threw me for a loop none the less.

  • @orfeas8
    @orfeas8 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I wish Runic alphabet would evolve and still being in use today.

    • @johanneswestman935
      @johanneswestman935 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      It doesn't lend itself to be written on paper - which is why it disappeared. It was made for etching things into stone.

    • @jonizulo
      @jonizulo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'd have liked if Cuneiform would still exist.

    • @OmegamonUI
      @OmegamonUI 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      you can use it. install on your writing Program the futhark font

    • @MMadesen
      @MMadesen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@johanneswestman935 While it is meant for carving in stone, you can easily write it too. At least its not a complete mess, like chinese or arabic, for which you must have an art exam. And these are in wide use to this day.

    • @PrenonNon0
      @PrenonNon0 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The runes were used until the 19th century in Dalarna!

  • @maxis2k
    @maxis2k 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Armenian: "Stayin' alive, Stayin' alive!"

  • @beastruskastrus5715
    @beastruskastrus5715 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This language map can teach one so much about history, like movement, displacement, etc., it's amazing. I myself am mainly Armenian, with some Greek Cypriot and Levantine ancestry. It's really sad to see Armenian disappearing, after ages of preservation; very remarkable.

  • @sirnilsolav6646
    @sirnilsolav6646 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Runic lasted into the late 14th century and it also changed over the years, but I understand you can have every nuance in a video like this

  • @shockhs7371
    @shockhs7371 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Slavics: Romenia is one of ours cyrillics writers, you can't take then like.
    Rome: Shut up, we got here first.

    • @juniorcrusher2245
      @juniorcrusher2245 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not all slavs use cyrillic.

    • @adeliomoro2069
      @adeliomoro2069 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@juniorcrusher2245 true, the Polish never used it for example

  • @taethegreat7577
    @taethegreat7577 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Epic video! Keep up the great work

  • @stevelamprou
    @stevelamprou 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Great video. Fails to say that the Latin Alphabet is a form of (or comes from) a Greek alphabet itself (Cumaean Euboean).

  • @yanl3914
    @yanl3914 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    03:39
    the tifnagh writing systeme is still used in Algeria ...
    to write the amazigh language

    • @adamante4092
      @adamante4092 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ⵉⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵏ

  • @oldencreek6587
    @oldencreek6587 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Amazing how sudden and quick cyrillic appeared and just pushed north.

    • @erejnion
      @erejnion 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Lots of Bulgarian scholars had to flee from the invading Roman Empire, that's why.

    • @PikaPluff
      @PikaPluff 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@erejnion is it? buIgars invaded the thracian territories of the roman empire. the byzantine empire (the roman empire you are referring to) coIIapsed in part due to this.

    • @ucchau173
      @ucchau173 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      By trade and slav understand each others that why it fast😂

  • @AD-yq8rl
    @AD-yq8rl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Woah look at Turkey ! That’s really amazing to see those lands used lot’s of alphabets throughout the history.This is a fortune !

    • @overabusedsalmon1238
      @overabusedsalmon1238 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Our first alphabet was the gokturk alphabet which isn't showed in this video because it was all the way in central asia

    • @AD-yq8rl
      @AD-yq8rl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      League of Anime Uçak Actually it was showed.If you had watched carefully, you would have seen “Old Turkic” in the video.

    • @overabusedsalmon1238
      @overabusedsalmon1238 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AD-yq8rl oh im dumb xd

    • @BADOLODON
      @BADOLODON 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Anatolia is the proper name actually. Turkey has been Anatolia since 12th century. Anatolia was always here.

    • @cagatayberkay5681
      @cagatayberkay5681 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      If I’m not wrong, before Turks there was a Latin leader of Byzantium.

  • @brahimislmeoun1395
    @brahimislmeoun1395 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I am one of the few people who are still using Tifinnagh. Hope it's not its time to extinct.

  • @gutsjoestar7450
    @gutsjoestar7450 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I think we live in a wonderful world. We can se this video as well as billion of other video and this is such a wonderful thing

  • @eoagr1780
    @eoagr1780 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'm impressed with how long cuneiform alphabet lasted

    • @مالكالقطيف
      @مالكالقطيف 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah, at the end it was the first writting system 😉😉, so it makes sense to keep existance for long time

  • @Nome_utente_generico
    @Nome_utente_generico 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This is year I discovered Georgian alfabet (and Georgian people): very intelligent and nice, at least the ones I have known!

  • @matyaspiller3942
    @matyaspiller3942 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Old Hungarian was used before the arrival of the tribes to the Carpathian basin, but in 1000, the new king Christianised the kingdom, so he got rid of the old alphabet too.

  • @Rose-zl6ox
    @Rose-zl6ox 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It’s pretty remarkable how long cuneiform stuck around tbh

  • @axelmarin1041
    @axelmarin1041 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    thats some of the best background music ive experienced

  • @orpheasnestos7444
    @orpheasnestos7444 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I enjoy your videos but this one has a serious mistake. Greek never stopped being used in Asia Minor, particularly in Ionia and Pontus until the end of the genocide in 1922-23. In Pontus, Greeks were the majority as well. Another thing is that you forgot Greeks of northern Macedonia like Monastiri (Bitola), Prilepion(Prilep) , Stromnitsa (Strumica) etc. I imagine it’s hard to portray such details on the map so maybe colored dots would do the trick for you.

    • @thekraken1173
      @thekraken1173 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Its not a genocide, Its Population exchange between Greece and Turkey with the Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations which was signed in Switzerland between Greece and Turkey.

    • @orpheasnestos7444
      @orpheasnestos7444 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@thekraken1173 The “population exchange “ followed the genocide and actually led up it. I didn’t look it up somewhere as my own family and people were part of all this . So, it’d be best if you don’t attempt to tell me who I am..

    • @thekraken1173
      @thekraken1173 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@orpheasnestos7444 It was an event done by both governments. It was a population exchange. Don’t try to distort the events. You are not the only one whose family lost their homes and left with nothing. So don’t attempt to distort it.

    • @orpheasnestos7444
      @orpheasnestos7444 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@thekraken1173 I have no reason to want to be the offspring of people who were 12 years old and were the sole survivors of unspeakable acts against civilians!! Why would I want that? All my great grandparents, all 8 of them had lost ALL their parents and grandparents and arrived in Greece as orphan refugees. Half of them came with a brother or a sister. The rest were the sole survivors! What you’re referring to did happen but I’m not talking about that! I’m talking about the systematic extermination of CIVILIANS which went on until the “population exchange” . What I told you about my family is true for about 80% of all Pontic Greeks! No family arrived here whole ! I’d gladly give you dates and facts as I’ve researched this quite extensively. I know that the genocide against Greeks, Armenians and Assyrians is a huge taboo in Turkish society and it’s absolutely concealed but we live in the age of information so whoever cares can now have access to the information. My great grandfather walked in the mountains for 8 months long with a group of children who escaped being put to death. No adult lived to be with them. They walked from Samsunda (Samsun) to Merzifunda (Merzifon) and hid in a cave at the end called “Tazlu”. They heard that the American Red Cross had set up a camp for orphans and they d be saved. About 150.000 orphan children ended up there and were saved. If you know basic math you can figure out how many families were exterminated in Western Pontus ALONE! And since you need to know, they’re parents and grandparents were burned alive in churches and houses to escape being raped and tortured to death. Not long ago a mass grave was discovered just outside Samsun during excavations for some building work. I’ll gladly educate you some more if you want. The least I can do is honour their memory by telling the truth. They EXISTED and that is what happened to them.

    • @orpheasnestos7444
      @orpheasnestos7444 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thekraken1173 Believe me, if I had a choice I’d choose not to come from a family and a peoples who carry such terrible legacy but I’m very proud to be Pontic Greek aside that.

  • @mpgnz73
    @mpgnz73 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This shows a minimal presence of Runic in England and fading away by 600, whilst Latin was dominant. This is not the case as once the Romans left Britain at the end of the 4th century, Latin did also. Anglo-Saxon's had their own Runic system and this was the dominant writing script until conversion to Christianity in the 7th century - when Latin made a comeback. However Anglo-Saxon runes were still used until 10th century.

  • @seamusoblainn
    @seamusoblainn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Tifinagh holding on for two and half millennia is very impressive ☀

    • @adamante4092
      @adamante4092 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, the alphabet of Amazigh people !
      ⵉⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵏ