How The World's First Written Languages Spread
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- The introduction of writing systems changed the world. It allowed humans to physically express thoughts and language, as well as record events for future generations to study. Although different writing systems developed independently in different areas of the world, many are tied together by common roots.
John Haywood of Princeton University chronicles the spread of writing systems in "The New Atlas of World History: Global Events at a Glance."
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Writing was independently invented as few as four times (Middle East, China, Mesoamerica, Easter Island), and as many as six (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley, China, Mesoamerica, Easter Island), but the majority of the world's present writing systems (Latin alphabet, Cyrillic, Perso-Arabic, all Indian and Southeast Asian writing systems, Amharic, Greek, Georgian, Armenian, Mongol, Manchu, Cherokee, Inuit, etc) were derived from the Mesopotamian invention or inspired by its descendants. The only living writing systems that are independently derived are Chinese and its living offshoots in Korea and Japan.
South korea was independently created though not invented but also not derived from Chinese script
Beautiful concept, but why not show Hebrew and Arabic? Are they too unimportant?
+OhevTorathMoshe
yes
+OhevTorathMoshe I think they evolved from one of them listed in the video. Just like how every state in india may have a different language they all descended from Brahmic.
OhevTorathMoshe
Hebrew and Arabic evolved from the Aramaic language which is listed in the video.
Joella Z, I am not doubting you, but it would be of considerable help if you could you please provide me with a peer-reviewed academic source on that; really any serious academic source, if you could. Thanks!
OhevTorathMoshe
I'm not bothered to do that. Here's wiki instead: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic_language
I speak Aramaic. My mother visited Israel and the Jews would often stop to ask my mother what language she was speaking because it sounded like Hebrew.
Armenian?
Hebrew?
Greek and Latin were invented in 0-500 AD?? What are you guys smoking??
aregjan how about arabian??english???Malay??Jawi??? (malay)
This is about the Firsts writing systems.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart English? English is a germanic (barbar) language
Modern Hebrew writing comes from the Aramaic, Arabic writing comes from Nabataen.
These are not langauges these are writing systems
1:10 Chinese characters: 辛卯贞今日亦
it means
辛卯: the 28th day (of this year)
贞: divination said
今日: today
亦: also...
Beautifully done! There is a lot of information to digest... but it is presented very clearly and smoothly. Great job.
Beautiful, love these kind of animated vids!
Wolfgang they aren't truly true you know that right? Or too naive
I am from iraq
what about arabic
hebrew
and others
+الفارس المغوار ”فرسٌ مغوار“ بَطَلٌ مِغْوَارٌ الفيديو يتكلم على انواع الكتابات وليس اللغات مثل الكتابة المسمارية والهيروغليفية والابجدية الفينقية
+من أعز العربية ”فلا تستعمل کلمات اجنبية“ أعزه الله And even Sanskrit maybe
Watching these videos seems like humanity first started getting smart in the middle east
Then everything changed when the Mohamed Nation attacked.
+Decorum Platinum actually they stop when the Alexander conquer the middle east . Until they kick east roman empire from ME . And they start the gain . Then they conquer by Colonial power divide the land . And soon they will unite and pay back .
+Ovet Cola Can you reexplain what you said, your sentence is very choppy and I don't understand it.
hes blaming all the Middle Easts problems on Europeans
David H
Never heard of Islamic golden age? Moron.
What about the viking runes
They come from Greek
+Not Dom Ok coolcool
actually it`s old italic which comes from the greek alphabet which comes from Phoenician
It's not completely sure though that the whole Futhark (''Viking runes'') comes from greek, but at least some of the runes probably come from greek, which then found it's way to Scandinavia through the romans.
Happy Torpedo actually I think of an essay test. there are some students studied and answered the question while the others just copied and paraphrase their answers.
what about the armenian alphabet?
The Latin alphabet was invented in Armenia
@@xerxes8191 no it wasn't
there was early runes in Scandinavia before the end of the video:)
well, Sumerian cuneiform seems to be the origin of most of nowadays Middle-Eastern (Sematic) and Indo-European languages
The first language was in Iraq (Sumer) ☺✌
Bilal Al-Aqidi So sad they were conquered by arab Muslims
Winter Wolf LOL in what way is this racist ? Is it racist if I say "too sad that indigenous american civilizations got invaded by European people" ?
乙卂ㄒ丂ㄩҜ丨几ㄖ they were conquered by the Persians, and arabs and Sumer are both semetics ... enough bigotry ?
الخليفة يزيد بني أمية Umayyad
Boohoo "biggoted"
So spanish and italians are the same "group" then it's right to them to conquer each others ?
I just think it was way better in the time.
Iraq did not exist
what about Tamil and Sanskrit which are very old languages
The Proto-Canaanite script descended from Egyptian Heiroglyphics not Sumerian Cuneiform.
I know right? and what happened to Phoenician, that one is crucial
"Phoenicians" is just what the Greeks called the Canaanites.
What about the tablets found in Tartaria Romania, age estimated 5500 BC, this is where you should start.
No, estimated guesses are not science…ergo hoc, cannot go back to a “hunch” or one’s superstitious myth that such languages began before 4000 BC when , God , de facto, made Adam the first human…
make a map about the influences and spread of english specifically up to the modern day. that would be cool
this video sucks there is so much missing things for example turkic armenian georgian arabic and others
Turkic come from latin >greek>Aramaic and arabic come from Nabataen >Aramaic
Pretty much all writing system Nowadays come from aramaic except East Asia Chinese and Extra .......
Turkic comes from latin? It was not a true statement. It is true that it comes from the aramic, like all the others, but not from latin. There were writing systems like looking similar to the turkic earlier too.
Turkic comes from Aramic, the same with the Hungarian alphabet. Steppean folks could write and read.
hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rov%C3%A1s%C3%ADr%C3%A1s_(egy%C3%A9rtelm%C5%B1s%C3%ADt%C5%91_lap)
Unfortunately I couldn't find any links in English, but these links show which Turkic and Hungarian alphabets come from Aramian and Phoenetian. The steppe could write!
the title says first. what do you mean by turkic? the Old Turkic alphabet? because that came from the Aramaic writing.
Turkic comes from Aramaic
Arabic came from nabataen others came from aramaic.
I’m a the only one they got hyped when Greek came up... because it’s basically us lol
arabic ?????
the arabic alphabet was made in 400 AD
+DarVikingus The arabic abjad hawaz was formed in the 300's AD but the alphabet existed way before
Arabic was based of spoken Aramaic and the hijazi alphabet was based of Syrian origin(or so I was informed)
YOUSSEF HAJ HAMOUDA the Nabatean pictographs were the forefather of the Arabic language. Essentially Nabatean eventually developed into Classical Arabic.
Modern arabic developped from late nabatean
When did Ogham come into play?
may i ask how to make a video like this?
very interesting video thanks
What is language writing is symbol of something in different laguages
useless video where is TAMIL தமிழ் 300BC language
Blue Oyster Yes Sanskrit & Tamil are the oldest languages
its not a language...they are writtings
Reeshabh Jain YT tamil & Sanskrit writing script are also old
tamil is a brahmic script
Shut up lol that's brahmic
Where is Kawi Script?
where is the Phoenician .the first to invent the alphabet .
The Phoenician is named here with its conventional name i.e. Proto-Canaanite alphabet. If you watch video again you can notice when you see alphabets originated by it such as Greek one and its descendants (Etruscan, Latin)
Vanessa Lorelei Chavez then why not call it Phoenician
That would be my first option, truly. But they chose to put it less "recognizable" or more conventional. Dunno why!
foxer mior the cuneiform the oldest language that’s still spoken has a alphabet
Matthew Rizkhla no the oldest language that it's still spoken are the Chinese and Greek
Where is Sanskrit
it evolved from brahmic
+Babur sanskrit did not evolve from any language .... it is worlds oldest language ...
+Vishwakarma Manoj Krishna Chari i agree
Today Sanskrit is written in Devanagari mostly but also many other Brahmic scripts now and throughout history. Sanskrit is a language, not a writing system - which is what this is about.
Brahmic is a family of scripts, abugida writing systems, that all evolved from the Brahmi script. There are hundreds of the from Tibetan to Balinese.
The blue group came from Egyptian Heliographics. You also Missed the Demotic and Heretic type for Heliographics.
where is tifinagh ?
how about Cyrillic writing?
Funny that all those civilizations placed writing at the same time as Ancient Afrikan Egypt have no papyrus found, they had no paper, meaning whoever took the writing there came from Ancient Egypt
the greek writing has changed the world
BuahGaming 1245 Thanks to the Phoenicians
Nope
theres much more languages in africa ^^ like amazighs ect that existed for more 5000 bc
Armoored HD Egyptian and Ancient libyan language are cousins, Berber people use the Tinifagh alphabet which IS pretty darn old ofc
Armoored HD thought amazighs was replaced by arabic.
"Written languages"
@@Smoos54 No ^^ Ofc not
@@manthanray4920 damn , you revived a pretty old comment
You skipped the Tartaria Tablets.. older than the Sumerian.
Where's the Igbo nsibidi writing system?
Interesting, by the way, the song resemble an alien conspiracy supported by the government
wow a language war is happening in the comments because of this video😂😂😂
Does +BI Science reply to their Fans?
i have some question though. ;/
Iraqis have the oldest made language / pictograph and the oldest still written language the cuneiform written by Assyrians in north iraq
Iraq did not exist
@@jobwesleycoxjr5103 It was not Iraq back when Cuneiform was written, but the Sumerian culture, but he did get the region correct.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 That would be like giving credit to US for the creation of Cahokia... Right region but not exactly the same people
@@jobwesleycoxjr5103 True, but at least Matthew got the region correct. I'll give him partial credit.
What About aramait-ancient Hebrew
What about Tifinagh? The Oldest language in the world before Greek and stuff? 3000BC
it isnt the first but it were present before the greek letters
it isnt the first but it were present before the greek letters
MusicVEVO ancient egyptian pre dates this language 3400bc.
Elam-Iran
Brahmic refers to Tamil Brahmic. Oldest inscription found in India.
Disliked this video. Here we’re africans writing systems:
1. Ancient Kemite Hieroglyphs (3200 BCE to 400 CE): This is one of the oldest known writing systems in Africa, consisting of a complex set of pictorial symbols.
2. Meroitic Script (300 BCE to 400 CE): Used in the Kingdom of Kush (present-day Sudan), this script evolved from Egyptian hieroglyphs but eventually developed into its own distinct system.
3. Ge'ez Script (2nd millennium BCE to present): Originating in the region of modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea, the Ge'ez script is still used today in liturgical texts of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.
4. Tifinagh (3rd century BCE to present): This script was historically used by various Berber-speaking populations across North Africa, particularly in regions such as the Atlas Mountains. It is still used by the Tuareg people.
5. Nsibidi (present in Nigeria from at least the 16th century): Nsibidi is a system of symbols used by various ethnic groups in southeastern Nigeria, particularly the Ekpe secret society of the Cross River region.
6. Adinkra Symbols (18th century to present): While not a traditional writing system in the strictest sense, Adinkra symbols are a set of ideographic symbols used by the Akan people of Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire to convey philosophical and cultural concepts..
aren't latin letters the ones we use today? The old engravings I've seen don't differ so much from our modern letters.
And where were the Nordic runes?
Tamil The language with highly rich literature books written before some thousand of years before...
Interesting no Hebrew mentioned. Kinda skipped over that.
What's the name of the background music?
you missed alot of major ones
arabic
hebrew
korean
japanese
cyrillic
村正3世 this is ancient . Some of those u listed is quite new . Japan and Korea using Chinese Character during ancient era.. That's why u have Kanji and Hanja.. Katakana and Hangul developed very late in history
omae honki？
It said oldest not biggest lol
Greek alphabet was invented in Mesopotamia
Why does not Göktürk's alphabet?
Phoenician is not exactly an alphabet since it does not contain phonients (a, e, i, o, u, y) and contains only symphons (b, c, d, f, g, etc) which makes it a syllable characters system (eg: America would be written as "MPK" in Phoenician). Alphabet is the combination of phonients and symphons (a, b, c, d, e, etc) and the first ones to utilize it were the Greeks who invented and added characters for the phonients and mixed it with the Phoenician symphons characters creating the first Alphabet (Alpha in Greek is for "α" and beta is for "β", the first two letters of their language, hence alpha+bet-->alphabet). Latin is the second one, and Cyrillic is the third and last one of the three main European alphabets that influenced the rest of the European tribes' languages, however since Cyrillic is much younger than Greek and Latin, only Slavs and people from former USSR countries use it.
What about the Vinča script found in present day Serbia that dates back to the Neolithic era?
The Vinca script was a script, not an alphabet. The script has been dated back to 4000BCE, Not neolithic era
Can anyone please tell me the name of the background music?
Albanian is the mother of all languages, close to the symbols! It is older than 5000 years.
References: "The mesianic role of the Albanian Language" by Petro Zheji, "Thoth spoke Albanian" by Giuseppe Catapano, "The Enigma" by Robert d'Angely.
what is the name of the music?? I must know at once!
Do one for languages!!
what about ugarit where First alfa bet gam was created
Before anyone ever again calls out people from middle east primitive, please see this video.
+Marko Beg today mostly arabs live in iraq, not sumerians
deathtoislam1000
And they are the ancestors of Sumerians.
Marko Beg
no... they are not, there was no concept of arab identity at the time
deathtoislam1000
Not specifically by name.....even tought the first mention of Arabs is in 9BC.
Also you have to bear in mind that language changed during couple millenia, so it can start with one word and end up with something completely different. So chasing the word is totally absurd.
Do you think that Sumerian just ceased to exist all of sudden like dinosaurs ?!?!
No...
You must look at folklore !
The people today that live in the region that are descendants of Sumerians not only genetically but also culturally.
+Marko Beg after the arab invasion, no, not anymore
I think Egyptian needs to come 1st! Please see my video series Eden in Egypt to see why.
Colors on the map should have matched the colors on the bars.
what about the berber language over 2000 years ago
WHERE IS SANSKRIT
Excellent topic
Where is one of the oldest Georgian language?
this reminds me of pleague.inc
Iraq first country and oldest country
Hussein alaa XD Thats far from true
Mellow
That is 100 percent true. That region is so old thousands of years old.. and Iraq comes from Uruk... so yes Iraq is the oldest country on this earth
Did it Accor to people that It might be a little easier to write in letters instead in these weird shapes
do you know what music it is ?
from iraq (:
Where is Wingdings?
Where is Gokturk ?
Where is the berber north african langue ♓ 2500 BC
الامازيغية او الليبية قبل 2500 عام ميلادي ♓
yahia CH there is none, what you write is a Phoenician mixed with some Latin.
Replaced by arabic.
Tamazight is new
probably should have put khipu(woven script of the Andean cultures) in there
I wonder where numbers came from. And punctuation.
And what about tifinagh, alphabet of touareg berber find in Tassili Algéria
GREEK AT 500BC? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AND U CALL UR CHANNEL "SCIENCE"?
Cool video, it was extremely busy though. A lot on the screen at one time. I understand it but damn.
And that was the abbreviated version. To include most of the basic early languages in the world the graphic would be 100 times as big!!
Really best video.
Very well defined but still itbwas hard for me to understand
sanskrit & tamil language is very old
What about Phoenician?
Excellent!
What about Baybayin?
what about the old turkic alphabet
What about proto-Elamite pictographic before they started to use cuneiform?
This is a 2:35 video. There is a whole of stuff left out.
what a bout Libycoberber
i suspect we'll find even earlier writing systems under the persian gulf.
Where is cyirillic? And protoslav
Bramhmic was the language of Ancient India. Ashoka used this language to spread Buddhism in Asia.
Tamil is missing why?
Where's the Oldest Language Tamil???
very good
my incredible pakistan is the place where so many ancient civilizations and languages evolved proud to be pakistani
daniyal k So sad arab Muslims invaded it, and transformed it into a shithole
What about elvish?
no mention of Cyrillic.
how can they tell which one was the first 1000s of yrs ago when there was no time.
Archaeology and it is an educated guess.
The oldest one is Phoenician which was invented in Persia before 6000 years ago
0:52 IRAN Alphabet