APOLOGIES! The comments from 26:20-27:05 reflect a typo that I made in the slide. Rather than catching the typo as I read it, I proceeded with the commentary (I have since blurred out the image of the incorrect letter). The word nesyuno ܢܣܝܘܢܐ is spelled with a simkath ܣ, not a soda ܨ. The root nsy ܢܣܝ in Syriac and נסה in Hebrew both mean 'to test, to try.' The connection to mensut መንሱት in Ge'ez is via the root nsy. Please forgive the oversight and any confusion that may have caused.
@@Milz031 Yes, I teach several semitic languages: these days I'm teaching Biblical Aramaic, Syriac, Akkadian, and Hebrew. Ge'ez (Classical Ethiopic) is taught at our institution by another faculty member.
One thing you should have to consider is that the Geez bible is written in poetic form. I think poetic way of expressing and writing things was the norm back then.
The meaning of ፍቃድ or ፈቃድከ is actually closer to “will” than command as suggested in the video. In contemporary speech you can ask for ፍቃድ /permission. So the word is more aligned to choice/permission/will. Command is te’ezaz
You did really good job. I am an Ethiopian but don’t understand Geez because no one speaks except few people in Ethiopian Orthodox Church. The language is not in daily use anymore. It is dead . But today’s Amharic and Tigregna have a lot of similarities . As a result, I can understand some but not quite right.
I am an Assyrian, speaking Aramaic with the eastern accent. Very interesting video that the Ethiopic is so close to Aramaic. Thank you for preparing such videos.
Aramaic has evolved from Akkadian of Mesopotamia. Ge'ez/Ethiopic/ and Amharic cognate with Akkadian. They have same morphology, Phonology and Vocabulary. Especially Amharic and Akkadian have same SOV word order and Phoneme. Biblical Hebrew evolved from Aramaic and it then borrowed also its square Alphabet from Aramaic. All Semitic alphabets were derived from ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic writing system.
Let you Know it that Ge'ez/ Ethiopic and Amharaic cognate with Akkadian the most ancient and written Semitic language of Afro-Asiatic family. Aramaic evolved from Akadian. For your Information in some monastery in Ethiopia ( e.g Amhara Saint _ Tedibaba Mariam Monastery), You can find books written in old Aramaic language. Ethiopian Bible has 81 Books. Whereas, Hebrew and Aramaic have only few complete books. The Ethiopian Bible in Ge'ez earlyer than Latin and Greek has so many books such as the book of Enoch, Jublee, Barock, Ezira, Minase, Sosina, etc etc,. are only to be found in the very ancient Ethiopic Bible.
@@JameelaAli-k4p How stupidd and ignorant ur I can imagine.. Ge'ez or Ethiopic and Amharic cognate with Akkadian of ancient Mesopotamia. So called Arabic and Biblical Hebrew are not the oldest Semetic languaes in Near East.. Arabic the languaes of Nomades evolved after ther rise of Islam in the seventh century AD.
I am Ethiopian. Thank you very much, Professor. Ethiopia is a very ancient and religious country full of mysteries. Keep working in Ge'ez, and you will discover many secrets the world has yet to know. Thank you very much for your incredible work! 👏👍
@@ProfessorMichaelWingert Thanks for the reply. I am a native speaker of Arabic from the country of Sudan if you need any help with Arabic or the Sudanese dialect of Arabic I'm here to help. 😊
I am Ethiopian, I admire what you did in the video. Your understanding of Geez is amazing. The most interesting thing I have seen is the similarity in the two languages. I would say the are really originated from the same root languages and due to long geographic separation and influence of neighboring languages that these languages took different evolution to end up in two different languages. Though Ethiopic is from Africa and Arnaic from middle east it is no more than 60km to cross from Africa to middle east via babel-mendeb from Djibouti to Yemen. I appreciate your effort to show us the similarity.
The word Middle East was created in 1902 to draw a distinction from Africa (for varying reasons) but prior to 1902, Israel was shown to be in Northeast Africa. All of biblical Israel’s allies were in North East Africa as well. This is easily searchable history.
@@deesee3622no it doesn't Queen Saba was the one who extended Axum territory by capturing Yemen. She named them Yemen and she spoke ge'ez as her native tounge. Sabeans is a fake language
I am Ethiopian 🇪🇹 I really admire Prof. Michael for your curiosity and presentation of ancient hidden languages & knowledge 👏👏👏 It is amazing how our Amharic አማርኛ also ግእዝኛ Geezgna and ትግርኛ Tigrigna language are similr with Syrian 🇸🇾 Aramic.
Owwww.... this blew my mind. I watched a youtube video a while back where people were comparing Amharic with Aramaic and I was very astonished by the similarities. But with Geez, it looks the similarity is on another level. I do the lords prayer in Geez and I'm very pleased to find out that it was translated almost word for word from how our lord Jesus thought us to pray.
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yes thats true but I always thought south Arabian was completely independent of arabic and I also heard that arabic originated in the north near jordan and syrian desert so I assumed it would be more similar to aramaic but great video! @@ProfessorMichaelWingert
This is an interesting comparison and very informative. Just one small thing: in the first line of the prayer in Ethiopic the verb 'be sanctified' should have a geminate second radical, ie. the d should be transcribed double, just as in the Syriac. The Ethiopic speaker clearly pronounces it as a geminate - though of course that could be because his mother tongue is Amharic or some other modern Ethiopian Semitic language in which jussives of passive stems have a geminate second radical.
Totally wrong. All Ethiopian languages such as Ge*ez, Amharic, Tigre, Tigrina, Guraghe, etc, do not need at all to use gemination. Gemination is a consonant doublig in order to distinguish between the meaning of words. Gemination is only for languages such as Hebrew, Arabic, French, Latin, Greek, Russian, Berber, etc. which use the alphabet with Vowel letters. Ethiopian Writing system is syllographic.
@@LewiTomas What a big fool ur I can imajine. What do you rely mean " Long consonanta"? In lingustics terminology there are only long and short vowels, but not consonants. The doubling of consonnats that is gemination is only in some languages such as Latin, Greek, Italian, Arabic, etc. Ethiopiac writing system is syllogaraphic. and has 3 short and four long vowels.
Very interesting and educational presentation. The similarities of the two languages are very interesting. The first two lines are almost identical. Thank you for making this video.
Great analysis. Thanks for the enlightening comparison. I'm versatile in Ge'ez and interested in linguistic comparisons. I would love to have further conversations with you.
I am seeing this video for the third time. Very amazed to know the similarity of these old and almost extnicting languge.Being an Ethiopian my self, I always wonder to know where would be the originality of Ge'ez. We belive that Tegregna, Amharic,to some extent Guragegna are the desendant of Ge'ez. But to know the origin of Ge'ez is very dificalt to ordinary Ethiopians like me.I Thank you so much for making this video. Love from Ethiopia.❤❤❤
I am Tigrigna speaker.Amharic speaker and geez books reader.Arabic speaker . I am studying Hebrew . In my opinion nothing is closer to the Geez language than this Aramaic language Just only by looking only at your video. You opened another door to study more on my interesting and my lovely Geez language.
And if we said : nothing in more closed to aramaic than arabic ? Aramaic is closer to arabic than ge'ez, but for sure, the 3 of them are closed. Linguisticly, the arabic is the most refined semitic language, and well preserved till today, so I use it as basis for my etymologic researches.
@@ProfessorMichaelWingert 27:22 Im (from) Kulu (all) Iquy (Evil). Don't know how to pretend ge'ez is closest to aramaic. And adhinene seems to mean "to extract, pull out" rather than to save. Doing etymologic reseaches, I had identified the meaning of each semitic phone. Evil in ge'ez, iquy I need to know if the first letter "i" is a prefix to root QY: if the prefix "i" is privative, so iquy means weakness. The phone Q is about a position, and Q+Y means firm, to not move, to remain in the same position (the faith). And 24:30, no doubt Sibha is the arabic سبح which means not glory, but floating above, we say Subhan Allah in arabic, translated by Glory, but it's not what say the semit word. Glory is related to the etyma (archaic semitic root) JL, the act of spread, like in Evangelos, Injyl in arabic, or found in Galilea, or Gyl in hebrew (wave) or Golgotha, this place for the roman spectacle, to be seen by all.. And A'lam doesn't mean Futur or Ever, but "the world", and more accuratly, what a mind can grap of the realm. The futur in hebrew it's Olam ha-ba, the Ba means to engage in, to enter in, the World to come. The B is the archetyp of the Acces, in all languages. Religious had changed the meaning of the root and words, due to their belief and philosophy. By the way, I wrote a morphosemantical analysis on Yehoshua' and Yashua' : they don't mean "savior", nor they are the same word, but both are related to Time, Joshua' is the fullfillment of a promise root WShA' et Jesus is root ShWA' it's an infinitive, means the HOUR, terrible one in jewsih tradition, Judgment day. So I believe science, not rabbinism, nor christianism and how they twisted the meaning of God's words. And this is silly here : my comment disappear, so agian my answer to Ephrem bellow : you don't know what you are talking about. It's linguistic, I don't care of your christian obsession and vanity blinding your intelligence. Bravo ! Matthew text is not a religious book ? Really ridicuous your com. I had prove linguisticly how closed is the ethoipian to arabic, but your are enclosed in your blind faith, not language.
@@victoremman4639 by looking at your words 'well preserved' and 'most refined' this are words mostly prepared to debate about the books.we are mentioning language similarities and you are preaching some religious books.Such things are normal keep going bravo!!!
Great content. I speak Amharic (Amarigna), ok Tigrigna - but my parents speaks the language very well and understands Ge’ez. All shares the same character (alphabets) and sounds very similar . I am aware the Ethiopian Semitic similarities with other Semitic languages but never thought with Aramaic. It is very cool. There was also another Semitic language used to be spoken in the Axumait kingdom (Ethiopia and present day Eritrea) in BC’s called “Saba”or Sabahatic with the same alphabets. I read the language also used to be spoken in the Arabian peninsula area.
@@staydown4bo Historical truth reveals that the present-day inhabitants of Tigray were relocated from Yemen by the Amhara kingdom of Axum to serve as laborers. Following a southward migration prompted by drought, the Axumite kingdom of Amhara occupied regions like Wello Lalibela, Gondar, Gojam and Shewa then deriving the Amharic language from Ge'ez. Currently, the Amhara people comprise over 60 million individuals within Ethiopia but, the population of Tigre stands at approximately 6 million. The population variances which correlate with historical origins, distinctly reveal the true identities of the direct descendants of early Ge'ez speakers - namely, the Amhara people. While it is rare to find an Amhara speaker of Tigrinja, nearly every Tigre speaks Amharic, a testament to the linguistic landscape of the country - Amharic holds a dominant position in Ethiopia. Anyhow, in light of the recent conflict b/n the Oromo and the Tigre in November 2020, many Amhara individuals, including myself, have come to the realization that it is time to dissolve Ethiopia. A vision of establishing a separate homeland for the people of Amhara devoid of Ethiopia, Tigre and Oromo is gaining traction. Each ethnic group (Tigre as well as Oromo) governing its own people and territories independently, free from the others interference paves the only way for lasting peace in that country - so, such discussions regarding the ownership of Ge'ez and related topics would become irrelevant. The people of Amhara desire no involvement with Tigre and Oromo and we urge both groups to pursue their independence and establish separate nations of their own.
As someone who was interested in creating a conlang at one point, this is fascinating! Also, I once did a transcription of some of the Aramaic from Passion of The Christ, I based it on my very limited understanding of the Hebrew Grammar...
If you haven't already, you can view me geeking out on the topic of conlangs with U Penn professor Dr. Tim Hogue. th-cam.com/video/wq19RsTh6MA/w-d-xo.html
@@ProfessorMichaelWingert I saw that one, that's why I brought up conlangs. It's actually fun to learn about conlangs, especially the ones designed to be as close to a natural language as possible. You learn a lot about how languages change over time. As for my transcriptions of the movie Aramaic from Passion of The Christ, I doubt their accuracy. They don't even have time stamps, and they're writing with English orthography. It's only about ten lines or so anyway.
Thank you for the video Professor. One of my parish elders has an Eritrean wife and I bug her to hear the Tigrinya/her-folks-lingo version of the Prayer/ Pater Noster. This will help.
It is interesting to find out that there is someone out there who cares about such things. Based 1 or 2 words or you mentioned, I suggest you also look at not just Ge'ez, but Amharic and Tigriga, the two languages Ge'ez gave birth to as it's use in secular lifeended. Thank you.
Very interesting deep dive into the cross section of language and religion, you actually ignite my interest in Aramaic. Looking forward to learn more about it, anyone who knows and speaks the language, I need help please. መምህር እናመሰግናለን.
Lots of people (in the millions) speak the modern dialects. Liturgically, a visit to a Syriac Orthodox or Church of the East parish would get you connected to the classical language.
Our father in heavens. I am an Arabic speaker and I seem to have understood most if not all of the prayer in ghez effortlessly. Less so the Aramaic, but listening to Aramaic is so the accent of Syrians in rural areas and the mountains. Very interesting.
As an Eritrean native Tigrigna, i found this video incredibly enlightening. I've read here and there that our language and traditions are related to ancient south Arabic language that crossed over the Red Sea to our parts some 3000 years ago and this video is almost like a confirmation. I mean if you are native Tigre, Tigrigna or Amharic speaker you will notice lots words are interchangeable with Arabic and Hebrew words. Our history reaches back to ancient antiquities and sadly most of it lost to time except some ancient monoliths and ruins in our lands but things like this confirm our rather unique situation in the horn and why some of us 'feel' different to sub Saharan Africa even though we're part of it.
@@TheCasheba When it comes to writing, Hebrew is attested in the Iron Age with other Canaanite dialects. Arabic is attested more in the Common Era. But both languages are very old.
Thank you for this extremely informative video! As a Hebrew speaker I never knew that Ethiopic was also a semetic launguage that had so many similarities to Hebrew and Arabic! I would only like to add my own opinion on your comment at 11:45. your theory was that the Hebrew equivalent of "yahab" is נָתַן(natan), however when I saw the Syriac text I immediately recognized that it looked a lot like: הָבֵא לָנוּ לֶחֶם "Have Lanu Lehem" or in Enliish :give us bread(or as you pointed out give us whatever sustains us, but in modern hebrew it refers to bread). I guess that you connected the word יִתֵּן because in the hebrew version of the prayer the same line uses תֵּן. but other than that, this was an excellent video! you convinced me to look more into Ethiopic launguages. thanks for giving me something to do in the next weekends
Which "Hebrew" do speak? Only the dead language Biblical Hebrew wtitten in Aramaic script is real Semitic. Your mishmash European Zionist settler's fabricated Hebrew is not Semitic. It has noting to do with ancient Hebrew which evolved from Aramaic and then dead for more than 2000 years. In the development of Afro-Asiatic phylum and the Sub- family of Semitic languages, Arabic is the latest one which has come to prominence after the rise of Islam in the Arabian peninsula in the 7th century A.D.
Hearing the lord’s prayer both Geez and Aramaic as a Christian arabic speaker and how similar both are to the classical Arabic version of the prayer, made me think about how easy it must’ve been for ancient Arab muslims to learn the Semitic languages spoken by those in the neighboring lands they traded with and conquered in medieval Africa and the middle east like the kingdoms of Axum and Byzantine.
30:30 Thank you for a fascinating comparison. I would only add that the linguistic ancestry of Geez is not now understood to be from Sabaean but rather African. The work of Professor Ayele Bekerie is helpful on this point: “Ethiopic. An African writing system. It’s history and principles” in which he explains that the South Arabian factor has been placed in Ethiopian history by outside scholars using established assumptions. Those historical assumptions are now being strongly challenged.
I am a speaker of Tigrinya (native), Amharic, Geez, Tigre, etc., and I am surprised by the similarities between the compared languages... I also notice that the Aramaic word 'sunqanan' seems to correspond to a Tigrinya word 'senqi' or rather 'snqi' (meaning provisions). Thanks for this great comparison!
That's a fantastic observation. I'd like to learn Tigrinya someday. It was offered at UCLA when I was there but I did not have the opportunity to study it, unfortunately.
@@ProfessorMichaelWingertthe original Assyrian were dark skin people with straight hair they were shemetic afro Asians all the sons of Nok were dark the 4 th race not of Nok/ Noah were a fallen species that mated with the indigenous people u pale demons love to take away credit that don’t belong to y’all all the Afro asian languages started in Cush Africa and pale people not of the hue/ colored man species yall kidnapped and robbed and stole identity of Cushite black civilizations tribal groups: Atlantaneans, akkadians, Sumerian, Syrians/ Elamite Indian,Hebrew, Amharic…. the French louvre museum has the original paintings of who the original peoples look like so stop ✋ with your lies u cultural and identity thieves😡😡😡😡
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! This is an eye opener for me, as a Tewahedo practicing Ethiopian. So happy to know the source of our Lord’s Prayer wording. You are an excellent teacher!
As a native speaker of Amharic, I have the ability to comprehend certain Ge'ez expressions due to its historical significance as a theological language. Both Aramaic and Ethiopic (Ge'ez) contain rich information and exhibit parallels as they are both ancient languages.
Thank you for bringing this to light; I was so surprised by the similarities I found when the first time I heard the Aramaic language and have been very interested since then. Thank you once again! *Am an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian.
I am from Ethiopia. Geez language was also a national (official) language in Ethiopia some years back. Now it is spoken predominantly in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church. There are lots of Holy Scriptures written in Geez.
@PhilosophyofArtandScience, thank you for sharing this information. Surprisingly very interesting. I would like to share a couple of points. The meaning of ፈቃድከ (fiqadike) @ 9:55 is "Your willingness" or "Your permission" and not command as states in this video. Also, as a ትግርኛ (Tigrinya - which is deeply rooted in Geeze) speaker I can confirm ላህሚ (Lahmi) 15:15 is a cow.
He makes very very good correlation between words/terms and pronunciation as well as their meanings in Amharic, "Aramaic", "Hebrew", and "Arabic"... But there is one glaring question for those that listen to this and more like this...
I have heard about Semitic languages having some words in common. But how similar the words of the Lord's Prayer are in Aramaic and Ge'ez(Ethiopic) is so much more than what I expected. Thank you for putting this content out. It's very educational.
Geez does not mean Ethiopia. Ethiopia is not Geez word. It is Greek word means BURNED SKIN. The closest language to geez is Tigre (Eritrean language) then Tigrigna and then Amharic.
I was stationed at Asmara, Eritrea in the 70s. Thirteen months of springtime they told us, because we were up around nine thousand feet elevation. It felt like Tibet to me then. The last time I saw this alphabet was on a Coca Cola bottle. I've wondered about the language since.
@God-db9vp Not true. Nobody can speak Geez. If you are a member of the clergy, you are expected to say the mass in Geez and read liturgical texts written in Geez. That is all. There is nobody alive to teach you how to speak Geez. Even the most highly trained masters of "Tirgum" can not speak Geez at all.
@God-db9vp Liturgical language doesn't mean spoken language. Even Orthodox priests struggle to understand Geez, let alone speak it. Not even the great masters of "Tirgum" can speak it.
That's a good question. It is a language family, but it is a more tight-knit language family than something like Indo-European, of which Germanic is a sub-category. In many ways, Semitic languages share more parity with something like Germanic. That might be an interesting study to undertake. Thanks for the suggestion.
@@ProfessorMichaelWingertBut isn’t Semitic already a sub-category of Afro-Asiatic, which is the language family like germanic is a sub-category to the indo-European language family. So I would think they are the exact same in concept.
@@jbatts834 Semetic language and Romance language is equivilent Same way Romance languages are a branch of Indo-European Same way Semetic languages are a branch of Afro-Asiatic
Aramaric sound unbelivable close to Iraqi arabic : Lahma is meat in iraqi. Smaya is skies in Iraqi too. Abuna, “our father” in Iraqi. El-yom for the day in Iraqi too. Ethiopic sound unbelivably close to egyptian arabic. Also in Iraqi “malak” is king, malakat “the kingdom” in iraqi arabic. “Wa” is also and in arabic/ iraqi as “and”. “La” means no in arabic iraqi. Ta’alan “to come” in iraqi arabic. Nesyana “to forget, or forgetfull” in iraqi arabic. “Biza” means cat in arabic. Bazoona in iraqi. Esma: his name is in iraqi arabic. Tesbah: showers Teshbahtu “showered you” in iraqi arabic U: and in iraqi arabic The last part: al alama amin is 100 % arabic.
I am impressed that you know Ge'ez. Afroasiatic would be the correct term for the category of language. I know Amharic/Tigryna and currently learning to read Hebrew.... le-ilete means 'for this day'. Egzio, Egziyabhare is basically like saying Hashem. God has many different names in the Ethiopic languages including Ge'ez, that highlight the different qualities of God. As for Adhinene, the direct translation means 'heal us/protect us/deliver us from' could've been a borrowed Cushitic or a Sabaen cognate word. Im leaning on more to Sabaen.I need to get back to you on balihane after asking my grandma or great uncle. Le alem alem, amen direct translation is till the end of the world, amen (meaning till the end of time/ forever). Pretty standard across semitic languages the words that represent forever and ever. For instance in Hebrew is l'olam amen, in Amharic its le ze-la alem amen. Alem/Olam representing world.
Besides Tigrinya language, in Eritrea there is a language known as Tigre (or Tigrayit). This language almost live Geeze. It is the most closest language to Geeze than Tigrinya and Amharic. It may be also more closer to Aramaic. Comparing it with Geeze and Aramaic may provide some undiscovered hints.
Fascinating how similar they are I noticed also how the Amharic meaning of some of the Geez is closer in sound to the syriac version Ablan (hablan) means feed us in amharic And “ma-ad” (lah-mad /mo) is an antique word that means food
You have wrong impression of what the word "hablan" means. "Ablan" in amharic means feed us, literally, hand feed us. But, the Syriac and Ge'ez hablan and habene stand for another word which is provide us or give us. In Tigrinya it would be habena. The root word, hab, to mean give or provide is the same in all three languages.
14:32-33 “sisayne” in Geez (if I am not mistaken) refers to providence. So, the prayer there can be translated as: “ Give us this day our daily providence …”
@@roeazy That is wrong Geez belongs to Axumite Empire, Amharic is not ancient language it was developed by Zagwe dynasty in Lalibela for soldiers which means it is was not a community language it was just soldiers language
@@rom5503infact it is Amharic is old language even the famous Algerian scribe ibn khaldun even wrote about it even ali ibn battulah wrote about it that was 100 years earlier than the zagwe dynasty read a book before you spew nonsense
I appreciate for the interest in comparing both ancient languages. Even though Ge’ez is Semitic like you said, I believe , the language prior to Ge’ez which is called ‘Sabwian’ Sabaian has to do with the unrelated words you have found in the particular prayer. This my opinion but there are language experts in Ge’ez who can give an explanation as to where these words origin from. This video is actually motivating me to read and search more about Ge’ez and Aramaic.
7:52 I believe it to be wrong. The meaning is, your kingdom shall come. Why? Tite is the single feminine future form of the root ata as in Arabic أتى or in Aramaic אתא (In the Assyrian script). And in Ge'ez timsa is the single feminist future form of the root m.sh.i as in Arabic مشي or Hebrew משה. And that is the correct way to understand it according to my opinion.
Thank you for enliting us the close similarities between ge'ez and aramaic languages. I'm wondering if you have the knowledge of what language Enah used to write "the book of Enah." I heard they found only 7 pages of his original book. Was there any writing before Enah? If so, what kind of alphabets have they used? Thank you again.
@@ProfessorMichaelWingert the original ethiopians are tigrayans Eritrea and ethiopia and Amharic ppl or known as the habesha ppl are the original Ethiopians which later adopted other ethnicities and tribes and included to make current ethiopians The ancient ones or the habesha ethiopians in today's Eritrea and ethiopia are half black half Arab mixed
The first thing noticed was the rhyming in the beginning of each piece. That told me instantly that this was sung. A lot of ancient text like the Mahabaratta are meant to be sung. There's a connection of some kind. In my opinion.
APOLOGIES! The comments from 26:20-27:05 reflect a typo that I made in the slide. Rather than catching the typo as I read it, I proceeded with the commentary (I have since blurred out the image of the incorrect letter). The word nesyuno ܢܣܝܘܢܐ is spelled with a simkath ܣ, not a soda ܨ. The root nsy ܢܣܝ in Syriac and נסה in Hebrew both mean 'to test, to try.' The connection to mensut መንሱት in Ge'ez is via the root nsy. Please forgive the oversight and any confusion that may have caused.
Good Day Professor, do you teach these languages?
@@Milz031 Yes, I teach several semitic languages: these days I'm teaching Biblical Aramaic, Syriac, Akkadian, and Hebrew. Ge'ez (Classical Ethiopic) is taught at our institution by another faculty member.
@@ProfessorMichaelWingert Is this done online?
@@Milz031 Yes. Send an email to professorwingert@gmail.com if you'd like to be put on a mailing list when these are offered.
One thing you should have to consider is that the Geez bible is written in poetic form. I think poetic way of expressing and writing things was the norm back then.
The meaning of ፍቃድ or ፈቃድከ is actually closer to “will” than command as suggested in the video. In contemporary speech you can ask for ፍቃድ /permission. So the word is more aligned to choice/permission/will. Command is te’ezaz
Where are you from I mean in Ethiopian? You have to be Gondere!
Your understanding or knowledge of the Amharic grammar 100% correct and accurate.
Thanks so much for your contribution!
He must have used Google Translate.
@@soloaskias3105geez is different fekad means permission
የጠራ አማርኛ ተናጋሪ ጎጃምም፣ ሸዋም፣ ወሎም አለ ጎንደር ብቻ ሳይሆን @@soloaskias3105
It is fascinating to see the profund similarities between this two language ❤
Thank you very much for this video.
The choosing of the Lord's prayer for exemplification was awesome!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I agree. Good choice for the exposition.
You did really good job. I am an Ethiopian but don’t understand Geez because no one speaks except few people in Ethiopian Orthodox Church. The language is not in daily use anymore. It is dead . But today’s Amharic and Tigregna have a lot of similarities . As a result, I can understand some but not quite right.
@@sweetman5249geez is not dead brother ! Its largely used by many monasteries and EOTC. Even many European countries have geez language school.
I am an Assyrian, speaking Aramaic with the eastern accent. Very interesting video that the Ethiopic is so close to Aramaic. Thank you for preparing such videos.
Raba basima iloukh Fyodor!
Aramaic has evolved from Akkadian of Mesopotamia. Ge'ez/Ethiopic/ and Amharic cognate with Akkadian. They have same morphology, Phonology and Vocabulary. Especially Amharic and Akkadian have same SOV word order and Phoneme. Biblical Hebrew evolved from Aramaic and it then borrowed also its square Alphabet from Aramaic. All Semitic alphabets were derived from ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic writing system.
Let you Know it that Ge'ez/ Ethiopic and Amharaic cognate with Akkadian the most ancient and written Semitic language of Afro-Asiatic family. Aramaic evolved from Akadian. For your Information in some monastery in Ethiopia ( e.g Amhara Saint _ Tedibaba Mariam Monastery), You can find books written in old Aramaic language. Ethiopian Bible has 81 Books. Whereas, Hebrew and Aramaic have only few complete books. The Ethiopian Bible in Ge'ez earlyer than Latin and Greek has so many books such as the book of Enoch, Jublee, Barock, Ezira, Minase, Sosina, etc etc,. are only to be found in the very ancient Ethiopic Bible.
@@tomygemorawa4056we don't have a language called Ethiopia and Amharic isn't even 1000 years old how could they influence any ancient languages
@@JameelaAli-k4p How stupidd and ignorant ur I can imagine.. Ge'ez or Ethiopic and Amharic cognate with Akkadian of ancient Mesopotamia. So called Arabic and Biblical Hebrew are not the oldest Semetic languaes in Near East.. Arabic the languaes of Nomades evolved after ther rise of Islam in the seventh century AD.
Very educational video enjoyed it so much. Thank you from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for all the kind and productive comments.
I am a casual language nerd who enjoyed this video. Props for your passion and humility.
I am Ethiopian. Thank you very much, Professor. Ethiopia is a very ancient and religious country full of mysteries. Keep working in Ge'ez, and you will discover many secrets the world has yet to know. Thank you very much for your incredible work! 👏👍
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I'm amazed how you uploaded so many videos in such a short time. Please keep going.
Thank you. It was an experiment for the month of August. I may do something similar in a subsequent month after the semester settles a little.
@@ProfessorMichaelWingert Thanks for the reply. I am a native speaker of Arabic from the country of Sudan if you need any help with Arabic or the Sudanese dialect of Arabic I'm here to help. 😊
I am Ethiopian, I admire what you did in the video. Your understanding of Geez is amazing. The most interesting thing I have seen is the similarity in the two languages. I would say the are really originated from the same root languages and due to long geographic separation and influence of neighboring languages that these languages took different evolution to end up in two different languages. Though Ethiopic is from Africa and Arnaic from middle east it is no more than 60km to cross from Africa to middle east via babel-mendeb from Djibouti to Yemen. I appreciate your effort to show us the similarity.
Your words are too kind! Many thanks to you for watching.
The word Middle East was created in 1902 to draw a distinction from Africa (for varying reasons) but prior to 1902, Israel was shown to be in Northeast Africa. All of biblical Israel’s allies were in North East Africa as well. This is easily searchable history.
@fantahunish yes and Ge'ez comes from the South Arabian script Sabaean (present-day yemen)
Ethiopia is half black half Arab ppl
@@deesee3622no it doesn't Queen Saba was the one who extended Axum territory by capturing Yemen. She named them Yemen and she spoke ge'ez as her native tounge. Sabeans is a fake language
Great exposition, keep up it up. Waiting for your next. Peace. ሰላም
I'm Ethiopian and speak Amharic I know Ge ‘ez when I hear it. Very interesting and didn't know about this at all! Thanks for sharing!🙏🏽💕
My pleasure!
Very interesting! Thank you for your efforts to make this video . 🇪🇹
It was a lot of fun. Thanks for your comments.
I am Ethiopian 🇪🇹 I really admire Prof. Michael for your curiosity and presentation of ancient hidden languages & knowledge 👏👏👏 It is amazing how our Amharic አማርኛ also ግእዝኛ Geezgna and ትግርኛ Tigrigna language are similr with Syrian 🇸🇾 Aramic.
Tigray mad ጦብያ don't copyright our traditional culture anything everything not funny አማራ ኤርትራ የሚባል በታሪክ የለም አማራ የሚባል የዘር የሀረግ ብሄር ወይም ጎሳ እንደሌለ ታሪክ ይመስክራል እና አማራ ማለት ማንነታቸው የጠፋባቸው ብሄርብሄረስቦች ለማጥፋት የአፄዎች የፈጠራቸው የፓለቲካ አስተሳሰብ ተጠያቂዎች ናቸው ተኩላ የመጨረሻ ምእራፍህ ይዘጋል😂 በደም ተጨማልቀህ የት መኖር ታስባለህ😂 ቻ በሎ
@@aronyonas7563በአለም መድረክ ላይ መጥተህ መጨቃጨቅ አይደብርም እንዴ ጁንትዬ። የት መኖር ትፈልጋለህ ላልከው ወልቃይት ወይም ራያ ከሁለት አንዱ 😃😉 በተረፈ እኔ እምበር ተጋዳላይ ብዬ ድጋሚ አንድ ሚልየን ተጋሩ አላስጨርስም ያው እናንተ ደግሞ ፉከራ የለመዳችሁት ነው as a hobby 😊 ደሃው ያልቃል እናንተ ደግሞ you enjoy z war show. How pity! በተረፈ የነገረኛነትህ ልክ ለከት ስለሌለው ያልተፃፈም እያነበብክ እኔ ስላልተናገርኩት ስለ ኤርትራ አነሣህ። አማራ የለም ላልከው መልስ የለኝም ሁለታችንም በትግርኛ እየፃፍን ስላልሆነና ወልቃይትና ራያን አፍንጫችሁን ይዞ የነጠቀህ መቼም ሶማሌ አይደለም የምትፈሩት አማራ እንጂ 👊😀 መቼ ነው ግን ዘላለም ስለጦርነት፣ ስለበታችነት፣ ስለበደል፣ ስለጥበት ማውራት አቁማችሁ ስለ ሰላም ልማት ስለ አንድነትና ወንድማማችነት ማውራትና ለልጆቻችሁ ማውረስ የምትጀምሩት?🤔
Geez then Tigrinya. Amharic came much later out of Geez and Tigrinya
Amharic s far like Geez, it has some words from both Geez and Tigrinya
@@efremsaI don't understand anything in there except the emotis but it looks beautiful this alphabet
Im so impressed by this ancient semitic languages, great video, made me very intrigued. Thank you from Morocco
I was wondering who would do this comparison. Thank you so much!
Wow, What a Fabulous! Never thought of such a resemblance.
Owwww.... this blew my mind. I watched a youtube video a while back where people were comparing Amharic with Aramaic and I was very astonished by the similarities. But with Geez, it looks the similarity is on another level. I do the lords prayer in Geez and I'm very pleased to find out that it was translated almost word for word from how our lord Jesus thought us to pray.
Lie lie all the time state tigray madeጦብያ don't copyright our traditional culture anything everything not funny አማራ ኤርትራ የሚባል በታሪክ የለም አማራ የሚባል የዘር የሀረግ ብሄር ወይም ጎሳ እንደሌለ ታሪክ ይመስክራል እና አማራ ማለት ማንነታቸው የጠፋባቸው ብሄርብሄረስቦች ለማጥፋት የአፄዎች የፈጠራቸው የፓለቲካ አስተሳሰብ ተጠያቂዎች ናቸው ተኩላ የመጨረሻ ምእራፍህ ይዘጋል😂
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Did Jesus speak Amharic rather than Aramaic? I wonder?
@@TheCashebaInteresting thought, I believe Aramaic developed from Ge'ez, but somebody can correct me
I beg your pardon correction not Amharic its Geez that the profesor is talking about donot miss use
Thank You 🙏🏼
I’m learning from you video a great deal.
God bless you 🙏🏼
Amazing, thanks for sharing this video
Oww this is owsm😳🔥🔥 I never expect aramaic is more similar to Ethiopic ge'ez language. This is amazing. We Ethiopian are the most mysterious
A blessed people indeed!
im egyptian christian so im very familiar with the Lords prayer in arabic and im suprised to hear more similarities with ethiopic than syriac
Yes. It certain makes sense geographically. Ancient Aksum and South Arabia shared a common writing system as well at one point.
yes thats true but I always thought south Arabian was completely independent of arabic and I also heard that arabic originated in the north near jordan and syrian desert so I assumed it would be more similar to aramaic but great video! @@ProfessorMichaelWingert
@@WorldXl_Correct.
Also, Coptic Christians should marry into Habesha Christians.
@@EriPagesThat's irreleveant
@@ionictheist349 What makes you ionic?
Thank you sir! What would you say to the idea of making a short introduction to one of the languages in graded lessons?
That's a very good idea.
This is an interesting comparison and very informative. Just one small thing: in the first line of the prayer in Ethiopic the verb 'be sanctified' should have a geminate second radical, ie. the d should be transcribed double, just as in the Syriac. The Ethiopic speaker clearly pronounces it as a geminate - though of course that could be because his mother tongue is Amharic or some other modern Ethiopian Semitic language in which jussives of passive stems have a geminate second radical.
This is some A+ feedback! Thanks Richard.
Totally wrong. All Ethiopian languages such as Ge*ez, Amharic, Tigre, Tigrina, Guraghe, etc, do not need at all to use gemination. Gemination is a consonant doublig in order to distinguish between the meaning of words. Gemination is only for languages such as Hebrew, Arabic, French, Latin, Greek, Russian, Berber, etc. which use the alphabet with Vowel letters. Ethiopian Writing system is syllographic.
Long consonants are never indicated by the script, in Amharic at least.
@@LewiTomas What a big fool ur I can imajine. What do you rely mean " Long consonanta"? In lingustics terminology there are only long and short vowels, but not consonants. The doubling of consonnats that is gemination is only in some languages such as Latin, Greek, Italian, Arabic, etc. Ethiopiac writing system is syllogaraphic. and has 3 short and four long vowels.
@@tomygemorawa4056Tigringna does have gemination.
Very interesting and educational presentation. The similarities of the two languages are very interesting. The first two lines are almost identical. Thank you for making this video.
Many thanks for your insightful video. Selam from ethiopia!
Selam wa fikir!
Great analysis. Thanks for the enlightening comparison. I'm versatile in Ge'ez and interested in linguistic comparisons. I would love to have further conversations with you.
Thanks in advance frome Ethiopia ❤
Wow, this is amazing your level of understanding of Ge’ez is impressive keep the good work ❤❤❤❤ love from Ethiopia 🇪🇹
Wondering am form Ethiopian Orthodox so far amazing i really really thankful
I am seeing this video for the third time. Very amazed to know the similarity of these old and almost extnicting languge.Being an Ethiopian my self, I always wonder to know where would be the originality of Ge'ez. We belive that Tegregna, Amharic,to some extent Guragegna are the desendant of Ge'ez. But to know the origin of Ge'ez is very dificalt to ordinary Ethiopians like me.I Thank you so much for making this video. Love from Ethiopia.❤❤❤
I am Tigrigna speaker.Amharic speaker and geez books reader.Arabic speaker .
I am studying Hebrew .
In my opinion nothing is closer to the Geez language than this Aramaic language Just only by looking only at your video.
You opened another door to study more on my interesting and my lovely Geez language.
It is empowering to learn all these related languages, isn't it? I hope to learn Tigrinya once day.
And if we said : nothing in more closed to aramaic than arabic ? Aramaic is closer to arabic than ge'ez, but for sure, the 3 of them are closed. Linguisticly, the arabic is the most refined semitic language, and well preserved till today, so I use it as basis for my etymologic researches.
Example, translation from syriac toward arabic at 27:22 بلى اِفْصِ لنحن مِن بَسٍّ Finally, the only difference is the particle B for Bala (but).
@@ProfessorMichaelWingert 27:22 Im (from) Kulu (all) Iquy (Evil). Don't know how to pretend ge'ez is closest to aramaic. And adhinene seems to mean "to extract, pull out" rather than to save. Doing etymologic reseaches, I had identified the meaning of each semitic phone. Evil in ge'ez, iquy I need to know if the first letter "i" is a prefix to root QY: if the prefix "i" is privative, so iquy means weakness. The phone Q is about a position, and Q+Y means firm, to not move, to remain in the same position (the faith). And 24:30, no doubt Sibha is the arabic سبح which means not glory, but floating above, we say Subhan Allah in arabic, translated by Glory, but it's not what say the semit word. Glory is related to the etyma (archaic semitic root) JL, the act of spread, like in Evangelos, Injyl in arabic, or found in Galilea, or Gyl in hebrew (wave) or Golgotha, this place for the roman spectacle, to be seen by all.. And A'lam doesn't mean Futur or Ever, but "the world", and more accuratly, what a mind can grap of the realm. The futur in hebrew it's Olam ha-ba, the Ba means to engage in, to enter in, the World to come. The B is the archetyp of the Acces, in all languages. Religious had changed the meaning of the root and words, due to their belief and philosophy. By the way, I wrote a morphosemantical analysis on Yehoshua' and Yashua' : they don't mean "savior", nor they are the same word, but both are related to Time, Joshua' is the fullfillment of a promise root WShA' et Jesus is root ShWA' it's an infinitive, means the HOUR, terrible one in jewsih tradition, Judgment day. So I believe science, not rabbinism, nor christianism and how they twisted the meaning of God's words. And this is silly here : my comment disappear, so agian my answer to Ephrem bellow : you don't know what you are talking about. It's linguistic, I don't care of your christian obsession and vanity blinding your intelligence. Bravo ! Matthew text is not a religious book ? Really ridicuous your com. I had prove linguisticly how closed is the ethoipian to arabic, but your are enclosed in your blind faith, not language.
@@victoremman4639 by looking at your words 'well preserved' and 'most refined' this are words mostly prepared to debate about the books.we are mentioning language similarities and you are preaching some religious books.Such things are normal keep going bravo!!!
Great content. I speak Amharic (Amarigna), ok Tigrigna - but my parents speaks the language very well and understands Ge’ez. All shares the same character (alphabets) and sounds very similar . I am aware the Ethiopian Semitic similarities with other Semitic languages but never thought with Aramaic. It is very cool. There was also another Semitic language used to be spoken in the Axumait kingdom (Ethiopia and present day Eritrea) in BC’s called “Saba”or Sabahatic with the same alphabets. I read the language also used to be spoken in the Arabian peninsula area.
Amharic is derived from Tigrinya and Geez. The follower of Geez is Tigrinya
@@berhehagos6149 🤣🤣Low self esteem.
That is true, this is our history. Amaringya is the youngest language from the 3
@@staydown4bo Historical truth reveals that the present-day inhabitants of Tigray were relocated from Yemen by the Amhara kingdom of Axum to serve as laborers. Following a southward migration prompted by drought, the Axumite kingdom of Amhara occupied regions like Wello Lalibela, Gondar, Gojam and Shewa then deriving the Amharic language from Ge'ez. Currently, the Amhara people comprise over 60 million individuals within Ethiopia but, the population of Tigre stands at approximately 6 million. The population variances which correlate with historical origins, distinctly reveal the true identities of the direct descendants of early Ge'ez speakers - namely, the Amhara people. While it is rare to find an Amhara speaker of Tigrinja, nearly every Tigre speaks Amharic, a testament to the linguistic landscape of the country - Amharic holds a dominant position in Ethiopia. Anyhow, in light of the recent conflict b/n the Oromo and the Tigre in November 2020, many Amhara individuals, including myself, have come to the realization that it is time to dissolve Ethiopia. A vision of establishing a separate homeland for the people of Amhara devoid of Ethiopia, Tigre and Oromo is gaining traction. Each ethnic group (Tigre as well as Oromo) governing its own people and territories independently, free from the others interference paves the only way for lasting peace in that country - so, such discussions regarding the ownership of Ge'ez and related topics would become irrelevant. The people of Amhara desire no involvement with Tigre and Oromo and we urge both groups to pursue their independence and establish separate nations of their own.
@@yenenehw Ignorant
As someone who was interested in creating a conlang at one point, this is fascinating!
Also, I once did a transcription of some of the Aramaic from Passion of The Christ, I based it on my very limited understanding of the Hebrew Grammar...
there’s a Semitic conlang disxord server if ur interested. Not very active but I go there to compare my lang and get inspiration from others.
@@birdbill888sounds great, do you have a link?
If you haven't already, you can view me geeking out on the topic of conlangs with U Penn professor Dr. Tim Hogue. th-cam.com/video/wq19RsTh6MA/w-d-xo.html
@@ProfessorMichaelWingert I saw that one, that's why I brought up conlangs. It's actually fun to learn about conlangs, especially the ones designed to be as close to a natural language as possible. You learn a lot about how languages change over time.
As for my transcriptions of the movie Aramaic from Passion of The Christ, I doubt their accuracy. They don't even have time stamps, and they're writing with English orthography. It's only about ten lines or so anyway.
Thank you for the video Professor. One of my parish elders has an Eritrean wife and I bug her to hear the Tigrinya/her-folks-lingo version of the Prayer/ Pater Noster. This will help.
Shame.
‘በሰማያት የምትኖር አባታችን ሆይ፥
ስምህ ይቀደስ፤
መንግሥትህ ትምጣ፤
ፈቃድህ በሰማይ እንደ ሆነች እንዲሁ በምድር ትሁን፤
የዕለት እንጀራችንን ዛሬ ስጠን፤
እኛም ደግሞ የበደሉንን ይቅር እንደምንል፥
በደላችንን ይቅር በለን፤
ከክፉም አድነን እንጂ፥
ወደ ፈተና አታግባን፤
መንግሥት ያንተ ናትና ኃይልም ክብርም ለዘለዓለሙ፤ አሜን።’
ቀጥለው እንጂ !!! continue dont stop.where is the part about our mother virgin mary
Amen 🙏
መጀመርያውም ልክ አይደለም እንጂ@@wstm3399
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እመቤታችን ቅድስት ድንግል ማርያም ሆይ
በመላዕኩ በቅዱስ ገብርኤል ሰላምታ ሰላም እልሻለው በዓሳብሽ ድንግል ነሽ በስጋሽም ድንግል ነሽ የአሸናፊ የእግዚአብሔር እናት ሆይ ሰላምታ ላንቺ ይገባሻል ከሴቶች ሁሉ ተለይተሽ አንቺ የተባረክሽ ነሽ የማህፀንሽም ፍሬ እየሱስ ክርስቶስ የተባረከ ነው ፀጋን የተሞላሽ ቅድስት ሆይ ደስ ይበልሽ ልዑል እግዚአብሔር ካንቺ ጋር ነውና ከተወደደው ልጅሽ ከጌታችን ከመድሐኒታችን ከእየሱስ ክርስቶስ ይቅርታንና ምህረትን ለምኚልን አጥያታችንን ያስተሰርይልን ዘንድ ለዘላለሙ አሜን አሜን አሜን
It is interesting to find out that there is someone out there who cares about such things. Based 1 or 2 words or you mentioned, I suggest you also look at not just Ge'ez, but Amharic and Tigriga, the two languages Ge'ez gave birth to as it's use in secular lifeended. Thank you.
Fascinating!!
I think ዘለለ ዕለትነ = daily
Very interesting deep dive into the cross section of language and religion, you actually ignite my interest in Aramaic. Looking forward to learn more about it, anyone who knows and speaks the language, I need help please. መምህር እናመሰግናለን.
Lots of people (in the millions) speak the modern dialects. Liturgically, a visit to a Syriac Orthodox or Church of the East parish would get you connected to the classical language.
Our father in heavens. I am an Arabic speaker and I seem to have understood most if not all of the prayer in ghez effortlessly. Less so the Aramaic, but listening to Aramaic is so the accent of Syrians in rural areas and the mountains. Very interesting.
I’m from Ethiopia. Thank you for doing this amazing reviling video.
It’s absolutely spectacular. Please keep up the good work.
እናመሰግናለን🙏
As an Eritrean native Tigrigna, i found this video incredibly enlightening. I've read here and there that our language and traditions are related to ancient south Arabic language that crossed over the Red Sea to our parts some 3000 years ago and this video is almost like a confirmation. I mean if you are native Tigre, Tigrigna or Amharic speaker you will notice lots words are interchangeable with Arabic and Hebrew words. Our history reaches back to ancient antiquities and sadly most of it lost to time except some ancient monoliths and ruins in our lands but things like this confirm our rather unique situation in the horn and why some of us 'feel' different to sub Saharan Africa even though we're part of it.
I would love to learn Tigrigna some day!
Are not Hebrew and Arabic the youngest of the so-called Semitic languages.
@@TheCasheba When it comes to writing, Hebrew is attested in the Iron Age with other Canaanite dialects. Arabic is attested more in the Common Era. But both languages are very old.
Well said
Will you please do a comparison of Ge'ez and Amharic?
Thank you for this extremely informative video!
As a Hebrew speaker I never knew that Ethiopic was also a semetic launguage that had so many similarities to Hebrew and Arabic!
I would only like to add my own opinion on your comment at 11:45.
your theory was that the Hebrew equivalent of "yahab" is נָתַן(natan), however when I saw the Syriac text I immediately recognized that it looked a lot like: הָבֵא לָנוּ לֶחֶם
"Have Lanu Lehem" or in Enliish :give us bread(or as you pointed out give us whatever sustains us, but in modern hebrew it refers to bread).
I guess that you connected the word יִתֵּן because in the hebrew version of the prayer the same line uses תֵּן.
but other than that, this was an excellent video! you convinced me to look more into Ethiopic launguages. thanks for giving me something to do in the next weekends
Which "Hebrew" do speak? Only the dead language Biblical Hebrew wtitten in Aramaic script is real Semitic. Your mishmash European Zionist settler's fabricated Hebrew is not Semitic. It has noting to do with ancient Hebrew which evolved from Aramaic and then dead for more than 2000 years. In the development of Afro-Asiatic phylum and the Sub- family of Semitic languages, Arabic is the latest one which has come to prominence after the rise of Islam in the Arabian peninsula in the 7th century A.D.
@@tomygemorawa4056 So much ignorance in one comment
Thank you very much Professor Wingert. The first time i have the chance to Unterstand geez a litte bit.
Hey, Mike. Its Cory Dupont here. This was great, as always!
Would AHOS allow you to offer Syriac as an elective?
It's possible, but I'm not sure when. I have some students at Agora that are asking for it this Fall if you're interested.
@@ProfessorMichaelWingert, that is possible, yes. Are you teaching Hebrew again this Fall?
Thank you for putting out such an eye opener. I am an Amharic speaker with great interest in Semetic languages.
perhaps there is a link between Senqunan and the Tigrigna Sinqi (sustenance)
Well done Prof Michael. Thank you so much.
Very Interesting! from Ethiopia
I am an Ethiopian. The similarity is interesting. Thank you Professor!
26:06 mensut as in Hebrew. ניסיון. They both share the same root as in Aramaic, נ.ס.י/ה.
You are absolutely right. That was an obvious oversight on my part. That term is prevalent in Genesis 22. Thanks for posting!
Thank you about your effort almost all explanations is clear and interesting I'm Ethiopians your Ge'ez understanding is well.
Very interesting ❤
Thank you for this wonderful educational video!
Hearing the lord’s prayer both Geez and Aramaic as a Christian arabic speaker and how similar both are to the classical Arabic version of the prayer, made me think about how easy it must’ve been for ancient Arab muslims to learn the Semitic languages spoken by those in the neighboring lands they traded with and conquered in medieval Africa and the middle east like the kingdoms of Axum and Byzantine.
Aksum was not a middle east kingdom
Ethiopia or habesha are half blk half Arab , Axum has conquered middle east
Arabs never conquered Aksum. In fact, it was the Aksumites that are known for have conquered the Peninsula in the 3rd and 6th centuries.
@@rebbybam230half black and half Arab where are you getting this from
This is a very interesting thought. And I agree. But it takes forward what I was thinking. Thank you for the ideas.
Good job. There are linguistics profs at addis ababa university for any more insights
Good job!! Thanks
30:30 Thank you for a fascinating comparison. I would only add that the linguistic ancestry of Geez is not now understood to be from Sabaean but rather African. The work of Professor Ayele Bekerie is helpful on this point: “Ethiopic. An African writing system. It’s history and principles” in which he explains that the South Arabian factor has been placed in Ethiopian history by outside scholars using established assumptions. Those historical assumptions are now being strongly challenged.
I am a speaker of Tigrinya (native), Amharic, Geez, Tigre, etc., and I am surprised by the similarities between the compared languages...
I also notice that the Aramaic word 'sunqanan' seems to correspond to a Tigrinya word 'senqi' or rather 'snqi' (meaning provisions).
Thanks for this great comparison!
That's a fantastic observation. I'd like to learn Tigrinya someday. It was offered at UCLA when I was there but I did not have the opportunity to study it, unfortunately.
@@ProfessorMichaelWingertevery thing started in Africa yall hate to admit it😡
@@ProfessorMichaelWingertthe original Assyrian were dark skin people with straight hair they were shemetic afro Asians all the sons of Nok were dark the 4 th race not of Nok/ Noah were a fallen species that mated with the indigenous people u pale demons love to take away credit that don’t belong to y’all all the Afro asian languages started in Cush Africa and pale people not of the hue/ colored man species yall kidnapped and robbed and stole identity of Cushite black civilizations tribal groups: Atlantaneans, akkadians, Sumerian, Syrians/ Elamite Indian,Hebrew, Amharic…. the French louvre museum has the original paintings of who the original peoples look like so stop ✋ with your lies u cultural and identity thieves😡😡😡😡
Culture vultures😡
@@MichelleBrown-vi5zo Africa will save the world, Michelle. Classical Ethiopic is one of the most fascinating languages. How did you enjoy the video?
I love how you pronounced ge'ez the right way🥰 keep up the good work
Ethiopia is truly mysterious
Never was colinised mybe ark covernant there
Indeed
No it’s not. It’s just a blatant eyesore for liars. The truth is right in front of them and it’s hard to digest
Wherever we may visit, if we have the good fortune of meeting nice people, that place becomes endearing.
@@Nobody-q2jthats why your name is nobody
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! This is an eye opener for me, as a Tewahedo practicing Ethiopian. So happy to know the source of our Lord’s Prayer wording. You are an excellent teacher!
As a native speaker of Amharic, I have the ability to comprehend certain Ge'ez expressions due to its historical significance as a theological language. Both Aramaic and Ethiopic (Ge'ez) contain rich information and exhibit parallels as they are both ancient languages.
Great explanation. It's not that it is easy to translate word for word. You did a great job!🙏♥️
Thank you for bringing this to light; I was so surprised by the similarities I found when the first time I heard the Aramaic language and have been very interested since then.
Thank you once again!
*Am an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian.
Lie lie all the time don't copyright our traditional culture anything everything not funny አማራ ኤርትራ የሚባል በታሪክ የለም አማራ የሚባል የዘር የሀረግ ብሄር ወይም ጎሳ እንደሌለ ታሪክ ይመስክራል እና አማራ ማለት ማንነታቸው የጠፋባቸው ብሄርብሄረስቦች ለማጥፋት የአፄዎች የፈጠራቸው የፓለቲካ አስተሳሰብ ተጠያቂዎች ናቸው ተኩላ የመጨረሻ ምእራፍህ ይዘጋል😂
@aronyonas7563 Are you okay, Sir?
@@aronyonas7563ደም የጠጣው ወያኔ ጦሱ ትግራይ ላይ ወድቆ የአባቶችህ ሀጥያት በሚሊዮን አስጨረሰህ:: ለነገሩ ሰውየውን የሰራው ያው ህዝብ አይደለ:: የእጅህን ነው ያገኘከው:: አናሳ :: ሁሉ ነገራቹ አናሳ ቋንቋቹ አናሳ:: ማንም ትግርኛ የማያወራው ኢትዮጵያ ለምን ይሆን ? 😂
I am from Ethiopia.
Geez language was also a national (official) language in Ethiopia some years back. Now it is spoken predominantly in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church. There are lots of Holy Scriptures written in Geez.
9:45 ṣebyana(k) , the Hebrew equivalent צבא, denotes command/commander.
But in Syriac its simply will?
@PhilosophyofArtandScience, thank you for sharing this information. Surprisingly very interesting. I would like to share a couple of points. The meaning of ፈቃድከ (fiqadike) @ 9:55 is "Your willingness" or "Your permission" and not command as states in this video. Also, as a ትግርኛ (Tigrinya - which is deeply rooted in Geeze) speaker I can confirm ላህሚ (Lahmi) 15:15 is a cow.
The nearest to geez language at this time is found in Eritrea 🇪🇷 which is the Tigre language.
It would be great to learn Tigre alongside Ge'ez.
He makes very very good correlation between words/terms and pronunciation as well as their meanings in Amharic, "Aramaic", "Hebrew", and "Arabic"...
But there is one glaring question for those that listen to this and more like this...
I have heard about Semitic languages having some words in common. But how similar the words of the Lord's Prayer are in Aramaic and Ge'ez(Ethiopic) is so much more than what I expected.
Thank you for putting this content out. It's very educational.
Geez does not mean Ethiopia. Ethiopia is not Geez word. It is Greek word means BURNED SKIN. The closest language to geez is Tigre (Eritrean language) then Tigrigna and then Amharic.
Lie all the time don't copyright our traditional culture anything everything not funny አማራ ኤርትራ የሚባል በታሪክ የለም አማራ የሚባል የዘር የሀረግ ብሄር ወይም ጎሳ እንደሌለ ታሪክ ይመስክራል እና አማራ ማለት ማንነታቸው የጠፋባቸው ብሄርብሄረስቦች ለማጥፋት የአፄዎች የፈጠራቸው የፓለቲካ አስተሳሰብ ተጠያቂዎች ናቸው ተኩላ የመጨረሻ ምእራፍህ ይዘጋል ቻ በሎ 😂😂
8:00 melekot /መለኮት in geez means kingdom. So timsa mengstke also means temsa melekotke(ትምጻእ መለኮትከ)
I was stationed at Asmara, Eritrea in the 70s. Thirteen months of springtime they told us, because we were up around nine thousand feet elevation. It felt like Tibet to me then. The last time I saw this alphabet was on a Coca Cola bottle. I've wondered about the language since.
That's amazing! Thanks so much for sharing!
Lie lie lie all the time 24/7 don't copyright our traditional culture anything everything not funny አማራ ኤርትራ የሚባል በታሪክ የለም አማራ የሚባል የዘር የሀረግ ብሄር ወይም ጎሳ እንደሌለ ታሪክ ይመስክራል እና አማራ ማለት ማንነታቸው የጠፋባቸው ብሄርብሄረስቦች ለማጥፋት የአፄዎች የፈጠራቸው የፓለቲካ አስተሳሰብ ተጠያቂዎች ናቸው ተኩላ የመጨረሻ ምእራፍህ ይዘጋል ቻ በሎ😂
@@aronyonas7563 Eshi 😁😁😁😁
We use Ge'ze in both Catholic and Tewehado Churches. In Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Very interesting video. I'm speaker of GEEZ and TIGRINYA i can feel those two Semitic languages.
No body speaks Geez. It is a dead language. Who are you speaking Geez with? Yourself?!
@user-rm4zs3sv5m Geez is Liturgical language of eritrean and ethiopian Orthodox church so there are many members of this church can speak GEEZ.
@God-db9vp Not true. Nobody can speak Geez. If you are a member of the clergy, you are expected to say the mass in Geez and read liturgical texts written in Geez. That is all. There is nobody alive to teach you how to speak Geez. Even the most highly trained masters of "Tirgum" can not speak Geez at all.
@God-db9vp Liturgical language doesn't mean spoken language. Even Orthodox priests struggle to understand Geez, let alone speak it. Not even the great masters of "Tirgum" can speak it.
@user-rm4zs3sv5m Do you can Geez. If you can't Geez how you know about Geez?.
Thank you for this great video
I am arabic speaker .
interested very much in ancient language.
Thank you 😊 really amazing video 😊😊😊
Is Semitic a concept like Germanic or wider?
Hard to say as arabic speaker but I think a little bit wider
That's a good question. It is a language family, but it is a more tight-knit language family than something like Indo-European, of which Germanic is a sub-category. In many ways, Semitic languages share more parity with something like Germanic. That might be an interesting study to undertake. Thanks for the suggestion.
@@ProfessorMichaelWingertBut isn’t Semitic already a sub-category of Afro-Asiatic, which is the language family like germanic is a sub-category to the indo-European language family. So I would think they are the exact same in concept.
@@jbatts834 Semetic language and Romance language is equivilent
Same way Romance languages are a branch of Indo-European
Same way Semetic languages are a branch of Afro-Asiatic
@ you just repeated what I said fool, re-read my comment I was correcting OP.
Tigringa speaker here, i found this very intresting
Aramaric sound unbelivable close to Iraqi arabic : Lahma is meat in iraqi. Smaya is skies in Iraqi too. Abuna, “our father” in Iraqi. El-yom for the day in Iraqi too. Ethiopic sound unbelivably close to egyptian arabic.
Also in Iraqi “malak” is king, malakat “the kingdom” in iraqi arabic. “Wa” is also and in arabic/ iraqi as “and”.
“La” means no in arabic iraqi. Ta’alan “to come” in iraqi arabic.
Nesyana “to forget, or forgetfull” in iraqi arabic.
“Biza” means cat in arabic. Bazoona in iraqi.
Esma: his name is in iraqi arabic.
Tesbah: showers
Teshbahtu “showered you” in iraqi arabic
U: and in iraqi arabic
The last part: al alama amin is 100 % arabic.
Quite informative! You should do more videos like this
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Am Amhara and Tigrina speaker , i will learn ge ez you motivate me
We need more of this kinds
"Abesane" in giez and Abesane (አበሳ) in Amharic have similar meaning, and it means misery or suffering.
So much simplistic, crude , vicious, ignorant thinking, by a man of such high esteem. because of his big orafice
I am impressed that you know Ge'ez. Afroasiatic would be the correct term for the category of language. I know Amharic/Tigryna and currently learning to read Hebrew.... le-ilete means 'for this day'. Egzio, Egziyabhare is basically like saying Hashem. God has many different names in the Ethiopic languages including Ge'ez, that highlight the different qualities of God. As for Adhinene, the direct translation means 'heal us/protect us/deliver us from' could've been a borrowed Cushitic or a Sabaen cognate word. Im leaning on more to Sabaen.I need to get back to you on balihane after asking my grandma or great uncle. Le alem alem, amen direct translation is till the end of the world, amen (meaning till the end of time/ forever). Pretty standard across semitic languages the words that represent forever and ever. For instance in Hebrew is l'olam amen, in Amharic its le ze-la alem amen. Alem/Olam representing world.
Oh wow, nice to hear as an Ethiopian I know very similar. However so beautiful to hear about.
Thank you for sharing
lie lie all the time 24/7 Tigray made ጦብያ don't copyright our traditional culture anything everything not funny አማራ ኤርትራ የሚባል በታሪክ የለም አማራ የሚባል የዘር የሀረግ ብሄር ወይም ጎሳ እንደሌለ ታሪክ ይመስክራል እና አማራ ማለት ማንነታቸው የጠፋባቸው ብሄርብሄረስቦች ለማጥፋት የአፄዎች የፈጠራቸው የፓለቲካ አስተሳሰብ ተጠያቂዎች ናቸው ተኩላ የመጨረሻ ምእራፍህ ይዘጋል ቻ በሎ 😂
Besides Tigrinya language, in Eritrea there is a language known as Tigre (or Tigrayit). This language almost live Geeze. It is the most closest language to Geeze than Tigrinya and Amharic. It may be also more closer to Aramaic. Comparing it with Geeze and Aramaic may provide some undiscovered hints.
Fascinating how similar they are
I noticed also how the Amharic meaning of some of the Geez is closer in sound to the syriac version
Ablan (hablan) means feed us in amharic
And “ma-ad” (lah-mad /mo) is an antique word that means food
You have wrong impression of what the word "hablan" means. "Ablan" in amharic means feed us, literally, hand feed us. But, the Syriac and Ge'ez hablan and habene stand for another word which is provide us or give us. In Tigrinya it would be habena. The root word, hab, to mean give or provide is the same in all three languages.
lahma is actually related to lam(cow) not maad
14:32-33 “sisayne” in Geez (if I am not mistaken) refers to providence. So, the prayer there can be translated as: “ Give us this day our daily providence …”
"Sisayene", means "our food".
Amaric Ethiopia and Amaraic Syriac the similarity language my identity is Amara people from Ethiopia
ARAmaic not AMAraic
@@roeazy That is wrong Geez belongs to Axumite Empire, Amharic is not ancient language it was developed by Zagwe dynasty in Lalibela for soldiers which means it is was not a community language it was just soldiers language
@@rom5503infact it is Amharic is old language even the famous Algerian scribe ibn khaldun even wrote about it even ali ibn battulah wrote about it that was 100 years earlier than the zagwe dynasty read a book before you spew nonsense
I appreciate for the interest in comparing both ancient languages. Even though Ge’ez is Semitic like you said, I believe , the language prior to Ge’ez which is called ‘Sabwian’ Sabaian has to do with the unrelated words you have found in the particular prayer. This my opinion but there are language experts in Ge’ez who can give an explanation as to where these words origin from. This video is actually motivating me to read and search more about Ge’ez and Aramaic.
AMAZING. This is my first time to listen.
Lie lie all the time 24/7 don't copyright our traditional culture anything everything not funny አማራ ኤርትራ የሚባል በታሪክ የለም አማራ የሚባል የዘር የሀረግ ብሄር ወይም ጎሳ እንደሌለ ታሪክ ይመስክራል እና አማራ ማለት ማንነታቸው የጠፋባቸው ብሄርብሄረስቦች ለማጥፋት የአፄዎች የፈጠራቸው የፓለቲካ አስተሳሰብ ተጠያቂዎች ናቸው ተኩላ የመጨረሻ ምእራፍህ ይዘጋል😂
7:52 I believe it to be wrong. The meaning is, your kingdom shall come. Why? Tite is the single feminine future form of the root ata as in Arabic أتى or in Aramaic אתא (In the Assyrian script). And in Ge'ez timsa is the single feminist future form of the root m.sh.i as in Arabic مشي or Hebrew משה. And that is the correct way to understand it according to my opinion.
איך אתה יודע?וואוו
@@יצחקזאזא בלשנות משווה, תחום מרתק.
@@דניאלבורוכוב-ת6ל חח איזה גבר
Thank you for enliting us the close similarities between ge'ez and aramaic languages. I'm wondering if you have the knowledge of what language Enah used to write "the book of Enah." I heard they found only 7 pages of his original book. Was there any writing before Enah? If so, what kind of alphabets have they used? Thank you again.
We use geez in Eritrea too.
Yes! We also use it in the United States during the Tewahedo Kidase.
yes Tigrinya and Amharic are from Ge'ez; Tigrinya more closely sounds like Ge'ez
@@ProfessorMichaelWingert Eritreans are also original ethiopians ,
@@ProfessorMichaelWingert the original ethiopians are tigrayans Eritrea and ethiopia and Amharic ppl or known as the habesha ppl are the original Ethiopians which later adopted other ethnicities and tribes and included to make current ethiopians
The ancient ones or the habesha ethiopians in today's Eritrea and ethiopia are half black half Arab mixed
@@rebbybam230who is fake Ethiopian? LOL!!!
The first thing noticed was the rhyming in the beginning of each piece. That told me instantly that this was sung. A lot of ancient text like the Mahabaratta are meant to be sung. There's a connection of some kind. In my opinion.
27:48 balih maybe in Arabic بلغ to deliver to inform and etc...
Amlak Egziabiher ybarka, Tebarek, I am Eritrean and Geez is my fevered
I don't believe you have really done a video about this language.. Ge'ez.