History of the Latin Alphabet
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- The Latin alphabet has become arguably the dominant writing system over much of the world's languages, but how exactly did it come into existence, and what pressures over its 3,000-year history shaped it into the script we know today?
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So when the Europeans were getting waist-deep into Egypt and saw the hieroglyphs, they thought it was a mysterious magical incantations that died with the ancient Egyptian priests. Little did they know they were looking at the great-great-ancestors to the alphabets they were using. Imagine if we never found the Rosetta Stone, our outlook on ancient Egypt would be just as mythical as it was to the late Romans, paralleling the fate of the Mycenaeans with their Linear B, and probably not discover the real truth with regards to the origin of the alphabet.
P.S. The three scripts on the Rosetta Stone, Hieroglyphs, Demotic, and Greek, turned out to be descendants of each other.
That's why I really wish we can find something similar for Indus scripts
@SahelianDog 92 He is not talking about the language.
Egypt was started by Europeans after the asteroid hit and caused a ice age in Europe, they found a pyramid in Europe older than Egypt's was 12 thousand years ago it hit .
Nope. Try again.
Honestly that writing with alternating directions was brilliant! We should bring it back and you will no longer miss a line when reading!
It saves time when reading and writing too.
Btw he spelled 'Khanubis' as 'Khanubasi' in Devanagari. Didn't want to be a party pooper(if I was I'm sorry). Just wanted to say that
I do agree!
! kcab Emoc a evah Ti ekam dluohs eW
@Lúzia A Morta Why ?
you'd also waste more paper
Yod, Giml, Het, Bet, Ain, Sin, Res are all still used (with the same meaning) in Arabic!! 😲
All the Phoenician letters are used now in Modern Hebrew.
Paleo-Hebrew and Phoenician scripts are basically almost identical.
Phoenician and Hebrew directly separated from the same language - Proto Canaanite, Arabic however is from completely different Semitic branch - the West Semitic.
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@@user-gr9fq9gt9w Bravo Mr 👏🏽!
I’m not a language expert I’m just saying I recognised the words above and they have almost exactly the same pronunciation and meaning in my language, never said it was the same script or language 👍🏽
But sure, I guess I’ve been speaking Phoenician (or Paleo-Hebrew!) all my life thinking it’s Arabic 😊
This is because both languages belong to Semitic languages, like Akkadian and Aramaic
@@user-gr9fq9gt9w I was going to say that, but my only knowledge in Hebrew are five months in Duolingo.
Same in Hebrew.
9:06 oh that's really trippy to read
in a way it does make more sense though...
Your here ?!!!
This has to be a You tube Conspiracy 🤔
Wow, i wouldn't know but i just noticed it's very normal for me because I'm a native Arabic speaker that write from right to left.
I personally find reading backwards/upside down/at other angles almost, if not just as easy as reading left to right. So it sort of felt continuously natural to keep reading it as it turned backwards then back to forwards, as if nothing changed. Fun fact: I'm left handed and when I first started writing as a young child I wrote my sentences in reverse for some reason, holding it up to a mirror it would look normal. I wonder if any other lefties did that or if I was just weird
Who would've known that A is actually just the oversimplified cow logo, lmao 🤣
😂 And the c for camel.
@@ParamjitSingh-gz3de It’s literally in the thumbnail
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_Don’t have a A man?!_
Proto-Sinaitic Script: "Dude, did your video just breeze past me in under 10 seconds!?"
Paleo-Hebrew: "Bro, at least you got a mention."
😆
have you seen the title? :)
paleo-hebrew is another version of the canaanite script, not a direct ancestor of latin. and proto-sinaitic is interesting but a whole different story.
Facts, that's like a big chunk
Lund
Paleo Hebrew is the same script as phoenician because the spoke the same language
Fun Fact: The German word 'Kaiser' came from Caesar, since it was pronounced KAY-ZER
You remove the r in the end
It is still pronounced that way in Arabic as well, Kay-Sar,,,
@Rani Hinnawi yes Rani it could be all depends on how people pronounce the K and the Q,,, but bottom line it’s still being pronounced that way.
So does the Viking/Russian Tsar
Also Germans: Zäh-zar
It's SOO interesting to see how writing systems evolved with migration, like how Cyrillic evolved from Greek Scripts.
Cyrillic didn't evolve from Greek scripts, Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius created the alphabet, basing it on Greek letters to create an alphabet for the slavs.
@@Saluspergratiam That's not true. Cyril and Methodius invented the Glagolitic alphabet, which looks quite different from the Cyrillic alphabet. Later, the Glagolitic alphabet was mostly replaced by the Greek alphabet, with Glagolitic letters being adopted for the Slavic sounds not present in Greek. And from there on the Cyrillic alphabet slowly started diverging from Greek. The only place where the original Glagolitic alphabet survived was Croatia, where it was used until the 19th century. (After which it was replaced by Latin)
The Greeks copied from the Pharoahs they didn't invented
13:06 There is a Skillshare ad in captions.
Crap, thanks! That obviously wasn't supposed to be there
@@KhAnubis What happened? Did you have a Skillshare ad lined up?
My ancient greek teacher told us that the lower case was actually invented because it required less space. And since ancient greek people used to write at ashlars , clay , wood and (less commonly)papyrus , so this property of smaller letters really did help. I dont know whether thats 100% accurate but well i thought it would be good to share
Your ancient greek teacher? Sure buddy
@@bblunderIt still is taught in Greece, but sure buddy
I like the longer form! The shorter ones brought cool subjects up, but this really helped better explore a topic! Great video!
"Iulius Caisar"
Now the German word Kaiser and the Russian equivalent Czar make so much more sense.
Side Note about abugidas: Abugida characters are syllabic characters with a base vowel. Diacritics are then used to modify that base vowel. Usuually that base vowel is the most common vowel in the language, and instead of writing that vowel over and over again, it's just easier to have it as a part of the consonant. Take Devanagari प, by itself it makes the sound [pǝ] (pa). When a vowel diacritic is added, say ī, we get पी. For something to be an abugida, it must have that base vowel in the characters.
Is it just me or does "KhAnubises of the 31st century" sound like a good band name?
Sounds like an egytian pagan anubis.
OF THE 31ST CENTURY FUCK YEA
Found the video really interesting. Most of the "original" characters kept the same name in Hebrew, and a lot of the words they mean are the same, too (Kof meaning the needle eye, for example, or Resh being similar to the Hebrew word for "Head", Rosh).
I will add that Hebrew also has an alternative writing system, similar to lower and upper case letters in the Latin alphabet: "Dfus" (דפוס), literally meaning "print", which is used for books, documents and the internet, among other things, and "Ctav" (כתב), literally meaning writing, used only for writing
12:46
That is a great chart. I just saw the full thing (with the others writing systems). Such an interesting one that condenses so much information.
Most of the world writes in a few writing systems. (Latin, cyrilic, Arabic, Hindu, Chinese, Mongolian, Japanese). While the first 3 that covers 80% of the world in area, came from the same alphabet, phoenician.
It also shows how languages/writing systems are a sign of domination. Roman dominated Western Europe, and that domination was later brought to Southern Africa, the Americas and Oceania.
The Arab was influenced by the Muslim Expansion.
Indian was not centralized for thousands of years, so they have a lot of different writing systems.
China and Japan was unified and divided several times, so that helps to unify the writing system.
Of course, not every influence is a violent one. Many were friendly and commercial relations, but, nonetheless, we can see the pattern.
No surprise that a major sign of dominion is when a tribe is prohibited to use its own language. As it has happenes many times in History.
superidol
Egyptian: *is hard because it has over 700 symbols*
Chinese people: 达到我们的水平
Lol, y’all don’t know our pain. Also, ancient egyptian looks cool, would prefer to use it
@@ryeryeryerye I'm learning chinese so Im kinda beginning to grasp it & ancient egyptian does have a very unique asthetic to it.
@@jefferygoldmann2643 true
if english had 200 letters
English beginners: *O GOD HELP ME.. ITS PAIN!*
@@ryeryeryerye 랸 アンそン
And now the emojis and stickers get us back to the hieroglyphs era
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☝🏻=🥜🌰
😚☺😛😚😉🤩😙😊🕌🕌🕌🕌⛪⛪⛪⛪⛪💒💒💒🏰🏰🏰🏰🤩🥰😊🙃🤑😊🍒🏖🏛🧭🙃🥰😇🤪🤩😋😙😅😘😙🍓🍑🥒🍓🍑🌶🥦🧅🥥🧅🍆🏘🏘🏗🏤🏭🏥🏟🏡🏚🏩🏘🏡🏟🏟🏟🏟🏟👚🛍🧦🥻🧥👝🧦🩲🧥🩳🩲👘🧥🧦👗🇦🇱🇦🇷🇦🇺🇦🇶🥃🍺🍶🥛🍵🍹🍺🍹🍶🧉
⬇️📶↩ (its evolving backwards)
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Absolutely fantastic job! This was very educational and eye opening and interesting. Thank you for this video!
It blows my mind, that Julius Caesar practically sounded German.
The German word for emperor is Kaiser which was heavily inspired by the word Caesar because of the Holy Roman Empire.
Kikero und Kaesar, die gingen ins Konkil, / Kaesar im Kylinderhut und Kikero in kivil :)
@@fabiansaerve same with Caesar and Tzar (Russian Version of King)
@@AdarshHari708 oh yea. Both countries/regions thought they were the successor of the Roman Empire :D
@@fabiansaerve yeah the HRE and Moscow as the "third Rome"
very informative 13 minutes! this video deserves many million views imo.
Honestly I like this video! The fact you spend more time in it made it better. Stay with this
amazing informative video! thanks so much and keep up the great work
Thank you very much for making this video 😁 Sharing it on FB!
Great video Khaanubsi
I’m really enjoying these longer vids!
This is so cool. I'm currently learning French but I'm doing my ABC's (so to speak) in Greek and Arabic on the side, and this video made so many fascinating connections between all of them. Thank you!
If you want to, I could help you practice Greek a bit!
@@georgios_5342 Hey, thanks for the offer! Unfortunately, my life's become quite a bit busier recently, so I wouldn't have the time.
When I get back into though, I'll send you a message. Cheers!
Most of the Pheonician words are still used today in Arabic 😆💜
They just use the same word due to be in the same language family. I speak Aramaic and Arabic and they are also very close. It’s like comparing Italian to Spanish.
Great video my man, very interesting topic
This is fascinating thanks!
Congrats on 100K!
I really enjoy this video that I watched it several times. It contains interesting information.
Thank you.
No one:
Iraq: E
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Eraq
This was all so interesting!
This was really interesting, thank you
(1:00) Well "a letter" makes no sound. It's just the consequence of having a spelling and pronunciation. There are also languages that tries to match the spelling perfectly so there's only one sound per letter. Slavic for example that only pronounce C as /ts/ and G as /g/.
I wish you spoke a little bit about the evolution from proto-sinaitic to phoenician. There is about 1000 years of history between the two which you skipped over.
Proto-Sinaitic was the singularly most important linguistic development in human history, forming the basis of almost every modern written alphabet in use today, yet it got all of two seconds of mention. Which I guess makes sense, as this guy seems to be an egyptiaweeb phoenicistan and probably hasn't heard of Canaan. "Canaanites? The guys that make tin cans? Sorry, all I know is Egypt, cos that's where my videogames take place."
@@RockandrollNegro seems a little harsh to assume that thh
@@ParamjitSingh-gz3de wtf are you going on about?
Been binging a lot of your videos lately, great info, and quite interesting, nice job KhAnubis!
12:43 Great video! Just 1 little error on the Map is that 🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau on the West Coast of Africa isn't shaded Green but it should be as it's sole official language is 🇵🇹Portuguese (which is written in the Latin alphabet).
Great video
The Latins and the Etruscans, our ancestors, played a major role in shaping the Latin alphabet, the most ubiquitous and widely accepted writing system that there is today. The Ancient Greek alphabet was of course the source of inspiration for it. I'm very passionate about this kind of stuff and I also like Cyrillic, which characters mostly originate from these two systems with the addition of a few unique ones. When it comes to handwriting, Italics is some of my favorite styles. Thanks for including the Pantheon, it always comes to mind when I think of the Latin alphabet, because of the incision on its fronton. Very informative and nicely done video!
P.S. Little fun fact, the word "alphabet" comes from the union of the first two characters of the Greek alphabet: α + β.
Phoenician is a writing system.
It does NOT count as an ALPHABET in the classical scientific sense of the term since it has an incomplete structure.
it does not separate letter-Phonem but SYLLABLES, besides the fact that the vowels or the consonants X, Ψ, Φ were not included at all
the Phoenician A, how do you explain since the Phoenicians did not have vowels and finally has a different phonetic property than the Greek A
All scientific terms related to writing, e.g. grammar, syntax, tone, phonem syllables are in Greek.
if the alphabet had been found in Syria, it would have spread as a more practical writing to Egyptians, Syrians, Arameans, Mesopotamians, but this did not happen to those who continued to write until the Hellenistic-Roman times with cuneiform writing.
the ancient Greeks had many alphabets
Latin is essentially the alphabet of Kymi-Evia
Very good video - you know your stuff.
Finally. Took weeks from the poll you did
The two "T" letters, Tau and Theta were SWITCHED in the transition from Semitic to Greek.
Thav, which had a soft "TH" sound was converted into Tau.
Tet, which had a hard "T" sound was converted into Theta.
Also, Cadmus comes from the Semitic "Kedem" meaning "East" or "From the East" because the mythical Cadmus [and the real person(s) who was(were) the basis for the myth] came from the East, relative to Greece, Phoenicia. In the myth, Cadmus was the son of Agenor king of Phoenicia.
Italy's most lasting gift to the world.
You forgot about pizza
The only truly Italian pizza is the Margherita
@@felicvik9456 Margherita is the name of the pizza.
Margarita is a cocktail.
Sorry, Im Luthuanian and in Lithuanian both r margarita
@Lúzia A Morta Greece has nothing to do with that, don't try to steal other countries' history please.
And yes it is from Italy as Rome is located there.
Languages that descended from Latin are called Neo Latin, Romance or Italic ones.
Khanubis would be खानुबिस actually at 2:52
12:52 and despite that, Greek is still around, right next to the Latin giant 🙂
Congrats on 100k subs also happy Thanksgiving to everyone 😁
Up next how the ampersand came to mean "and" & how it became the only logogram in english?
I mean, @ is also a used logogram at the moment, and # is turning to a modern one with "hashtag", and % is also a logogram (unless you count it as part of numbers).
The ampersand symbol (&) is basically the simplification of "et" which means 'and' in Latin
If you wanna get technical, wouldn't emojis count as modern logographs?
@@laurensahanna5826 nope, they would count more as ideograms or pictograms
Imagine how the alphabet would change in the future?
Some are thinking lowercase will be its future given how some artist like… is it Billie Ilish? Anyways, she has been naming her songs in only lowercase, a trend observed in some of the people her age as well, I'm pretty sure she didn't start it, but she's probably reenforcing it among her fans.
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions WE SHOULD PRESERVE THE USE OF UPPERCASE LETTERS I AM NOT SCREAMING I SWEAR
@@fisher1634
I don't think they're going away, but they might be lessening in usage in some people. They're a good tool for various reasons, including visual expression of anger.
Yes..the future is emoji😏lol
@@mirceapintelie361
Not really, they are going to aid in adding emotion to writing, similar to how many languages use: ÀČËĪŃÕÛ, but aren't taking over, I'm so sure that this won't happen for more than likely the next two centuries!
But even so, they aren't used identically even across the same language! There's still a lot of guesswork and because they have a different style depending on font provider some versions are noticable differences across different devices that one's message could change meaning if two different fonts don't draw them identically.
Check out the emojipedia.org to see emoji across different platforms.
thanks phoenicias for making writing bearable
Hi! Big fan. Can you also talk about the history of punctuation marks? Just a random thought. Thanks!
Loved the end.
Good presentation
Can you do a video about the Vinca script and other proto-writing systems?
Nice video
I love that in my language (Czech) every letter always sounds the same every time and everything sounds EXACTLY like it is written.
And Slovakia looked at that, said "too easy" and added wierd lines above anything they could 🥴
Just like any decent language should.
Pretty much the same with German too. Now, if only German could reform the use of genders for words and decide on one word for "the", instead of the six words that they use now.
A damn lot of languages are just like that.
I just found this channel while studying hindi and i need to say: I am in love!
Congratulitons and a hug from Brazil ^-^
fwiw usefulcharts also has a youtube channel, pretty cool!
8:09 fun fact
日in chinese means "day" or "sun"
(And ofc many other meanings when combined with other characters)
It is pronounced rì in mandarin and jat9 in cantonese
Another character that looks similar:曰
It means "say" in ancient chinese
Eg Tom says=Tom曰
Now I wonder if samek - pillar are the origins of my last name 😱 Such an interesting video!
I just love how he mixes comedy into his videos
Here from Mr. Beat.
I'm sorry, someone had to say it. Glad he sent me here too
Greetings from Mesopotamia Iraq 🇮🇶 the birth place of writing and civilisation
Do Cyrillic next!
A lot of scientists, linguists, archaeologists, historians etc. are considering that 8,500 years ago, Romania was the heart of the old European civilization. The new archaeological discoveries from Tartaria, (Romania), showed up written plates older than the Sumerian ones. More and more researches and studies converged to the conclusion that the Europeans are originated in a single place, the lower Danube basin. Down there, at Schela and Cladova in Romania have been discovered proves of the first European agricultural activities which appear to be even older than 10,000 years.
Out of 60 scientifically works which are covering this domain, 30 of them localize the primitive origins of the man-kind in Europe, where 24 of them are localizing this origin in the actual Romania, (Carpathian- Danubian area); 10 are indicating western Siberia, 5 Jutland and/or actual Germany room, 4 for Russia, 4 for some Asian territories, 1 for actual France area and all these recognisied despite against the huge pride of those nations.
Jean Carpantier, Guido Manselli, Marco Merlini, Gordon Childe, Marija Gimbutas, Yannick Rialland, M. Riehmschneider, Louis de la Valle Poussin, Olaf Hoekman, John Mandis, William Schiller, Raymond Dart, Lucian Cuesdean, Sbierea, A. Deac, George Denis, Mattie M.E., N. Densuseanu, B.P. Hajdeu, P Bosch, W. Kocka, Vladimir Gheorghiev, H. Henchen, B.V. Gornung, V Melinger, E. Michelet, A. Mozinski, W. Porzig, A. Sahmanov, Hugo Schmidt, W. Tomaschek, F.N. Tretiacov are among the huge number of specialists which consider Romania the place of otehr Europeans origines and Romanian the oldest language in Europe, older even than Sanskrit.
According to the researchers and scientists, the Latin comes from the old Romanian (or Thracian) and not vice versa. The so called "slave" words are in fact pure Romanian words. The so called vulgar Latin is in fact old Romanian, or Thracian language, according to the same sources...
The arguments sustaining the theories from above are very numerous and I don't want to go into them so deeply as long as the forum is and has to remain one languages dedicated, to.
In the limits of the language, please allow me to present a list of just a few (out of thousands of words), which are very similar/ even identical in Romanian and Sanskrit:
Romanian
numerals : unu, doi, trei, patru, cinci, sase, sapte...100=suta
Sanskrit
numerals: unu, dvi, tri, ciatru, penci, sas, saptan...100 = satan
then Romanian Sanskrit
acasa acasha (at home)
acu acu (now)
lup lup ( wolf)
a iubi (considered slave) iub (love)
frate vrate (brother)
camera camera (room)
limba lamba (tongue)
nepot napat (neffew)
mandru mandra (proud)
lupta lupta (fight)
pandur pandur (infanterist)
nevasta navasti (wife)
prieten prietema (friend)
pranz prans (lunch time)
Ruman Ramana (Romanian)
saptamana saptnahan (week)
struguri strughuri (grapes)
vale vale (valley)
vadana vadana (widow)
a zambi dzambaiami (to smile)
umbra dumbra (shadow)
om om (man-kind)
dusman dusman (enemy)
a invata invati (to study)
a crapa crapaiami (to break something)
naiba naiba (evil)
apa apa (water) and not AQUA like in Latin. It looks like aqua came from apa and not the other way around...
and so on for more than thousand situations...
According to M. Gimbutas, the confusion Roman (Romanian as in original language) = Roman (ancient Rom citizen), is generated by the fact that Romans and Romanians have been the same nation, the same people. The Dacians/Thracians and Romans have been twins. The illiterate peasants called Romanians, Ruman and not Roman. Why do they call so? Because RU-MANI, RA-MANI, RO-MANI, API, APULI, DACI and MAN-DA , VAL-AH are all synonyms expressing the person from the river banc or from the river valley. APII could be found under the form of mez-APPI in the ancient Italy, under he same name as the APPULI Dacians. APU-GLIA, (or Glia Romanilor in Romanian - Romanian land) can be found with this meaning only in Romanian (Glia= land)
In the Southern side of Italian "booth" exists the first neolitical site of Italy and it is called MOL-feta. The name itself has Romanian names, according to Guido A. Manselli: MOL-tzam (popular Thank you), MUL-tumire (satisfaction), na-MOL (mud); MOL-dova (province and river in Romania, Za-MOL-xis, Dacian divinity. Manselli said that this archaeological sit is 7,000 years old and has a balcanic feature.
I came up with this topic just to hear decent opinions and not banalities like those of a few days ago when while surfing for a language forum, I read all kind of suburban interventions. This topic is for people whith brain only. th-cam.com/video/IhDMWmGOBrA/w-d-xo.html
Extreme nationalists from Europe can't digest to having to trace their culture to Africa or Asia. This is not the first attempt, and it will not be the last.
Such a long time to get the alphabet and now we're back to the begining with the emoji😄
Is this the third or fourth video I've found about the alphabet? Yep.
Am I going to watch it anyway? You betcha.
I really wish that we would bring back the letter thorn.
Be þe change you want to see in þe world.
And eth/edh
How does this channel not have more subscribers? Khanubis has really bad luck tbh
0:28 i love it
😂 as a left-hander, I would say writing from right to left is more comfortable than the opposite
me too
Try learning arabic 😊😊. We still write from right to left and there is about 600 Million arabic speakers around the World 😊
I always assumed we wrote from left to right, because right handed people got annoyed at their ink being smeared, when writing right to left. lol
@@mrbisshie Yeah, after ink got invented. With stone carving, you don't worry about smears
@@user-vo6ec7hk4u if exaggeration was a person you would be it lmfao arabic is barely spoken by 360 million people and thats in 2023 lmao
That certainly explains the alternating left-to-right and right-to-left brought up in UsefulCharts's rendition. Like, imagine how painful it would be to write like that today.
Great video!
Would also like to add that the Egyptians adopted the Greek alphabet during the Hellenic period, changed how most of the letters were pronounced, in addition to slight changes in how they're written, added 7 letters from the Egyptian Demotic script, and by that creating the Coptic Alphabet :D
@Абдульзефир Dude look it up I'm Egyptian we studied this in school. We started using the Coptic alphabet during Ptolemaic rule, and it consists of greek letters and 7 demotic ones. I am literally studying Coptic rn. Demotic is a script derived from Heiratic which was derived from Hieroglyphic. The rosetta stone was literally written during the rule of Ptolemy V so idk why you're mentioning it as evidence if your claim, it literally disproves it.
THE ANCIENT EGYPT WRITING IS SO SIMILAR TO OUR OWN WRITING
Wish this video was uploaded a year ago, when I was making my own language. Still interesting!
Your own language?
Oddly, because of things like Emoji, we are heading back towards the older system types. Though we are getting a blend.
Arguably the most recent invention to writing scripts with the advent of the internet is the addition of logographs (emojis) for body language, emotional indicators or just otherwise as a shorthand in text. Punctuation is also getting a bigger role in tonal indication as well.
Otherwise i think the latin script could evolve due to preferences for different fonts changing over time. Plus I'd like to see letters for less common sounds to return like thorn for th/dd.
I never considered the idea of punctuation in written language to be a tone/emotional indicator, but it makes a lot of sense for people like me who have both been exposed to life before and after the internet gained wide-spread adoption; someone punctuating their sentences when they don't normally do so can seem quite jarring in the moment. I thought it was just me overthinking things.
Hahahaha. Good video. I haven't finished watching it yet but I like when you show that young man (might be you) with the Egyptian hat 😆
Very interesting jumps from one language into another, and why we have the Q letter even if it's seemingly pretty rare in the English language (i.e. q being very common in Semetic languages).
If they made Scrabble for Latin the Q and X would be 3 points and K would be 10! There would be more Q and X tiles and fewer K also.
Does anyone know if they make Scrabble games for Hebrew or Arabic? Or broadcast Wheel of Fortune in Israel or Arabic speaking nations? How would you buy a vowel?
@@allanrichardson1468 Take this with a grain of salt because I don't actually understand Arabic, but I found an episode of the Egyptian version of _Wheel of Fortune_ online and it appears that they treat matres lectionis (consonant letters that can also represent long vowels) as vowel letters that have to be bought
The alifbata ancient language of Philippines in south east asia ... Is also derived from middle east & phonecian even if they had no direct contact,
Miniscule used to mean the small letters and the printers would put them in a case under the capital letters, hence the term lower case. Capital letters were called upper case since they were on the top case, and also called magiscule.
Ye olde English expansion pack is a bit thorny ;)
ye is the
@@yajtubeteevee1677 The 'y' replaced the 'ð' in England because the printing press was German, so yeah, ðat's absolutely correct. And "thorny" would be spelled "Þorny" ("Þ" is called thorn).
Lets say you got a great recepie for making bread. You want everybody to try your bread or your recepie. Water, yeast, flour, some spices of your choise. Mix the ingreadients and leave the dough for a while. After a while make the dough into one or several breadshapes. Leave the breadshaped dough or shapes for annother while again. After a while put the doughshape or shapes into the oven. In the oven let the bread be in there untill the golden brown collour appears. Once the bread is golden brown it's done and ready to be eaten.
By passing on your breadrecepie by mouth, after several mouths the recepie might have distorted so much it's a diffrent bread. By writing down your great breadrecepie everybody got access to the exactly the same recepie. By that reason alone it's good to write. :)
Only writing left to right with lowercase letters: Meaning many in Ancient Greece wrote in alternating directions, in much the same manner as an ox plows a field. This would also explain how some of the letters got flipped over time, since the letters were also mirrored along with the sentences.
Where did those periods (full stops) go?
Having studied Ancient Greek and Biblical Hebrew, when I saw these similarities, I was like WOW!! how cool is that? Now they don't parallel exactly, but seeing one influenced the other is quite interesting. How I am sure if I studied more Semitic languages and others in the genealogy of Greek, I would see parallels. Very cool. (I skip a few letters here and there indicated by ....)
Greek: Alpha beta gamma delta ....zeta eta theta iota kappa lamda mu nu ....... ....rho sigma tau
Hebrew: Aleph bet gimmel dalet ...zion het tet ...yod kaph lamed mem nun ...... ..resh sheen tav
Is there a similar explanation for numerical characters we use today?
Honestly that doesn't sound like a bad idea
I like how you put a mask on your pfp
Just to remind everyone that this isn't over yet
Khanubis in Hebrew would actually be ח'אנוביס, at least based on the Hebrew spelling of khan.
ח
is not accurate. Historically it was H sound but pronounced from back of your throat. So K is much more Right
Fun fact: I spent 30mins trying to find this channel again because I thought it was spelled KhAnibus and that kept bring me random Hindi audio stories.
Just a small tip , the proto Sinatic script evolved in Egypt too ; in the Sinai peninsula
a lot of the words past 5:30 are still used in modern egyptian arabic
10:30 so Ceasar is spelled Kaiser? I learnt something new!
11:05 :D
It needs to be understood, that the "Latin" Alphabet isn't purely European, but a modified Cananite/Phoenician script.
lol
What is the academic disciplines that studies evolution of writing systems?
this is gonna be interesting
I like what you did with the mask.
Please make history of Japan writing system (Hiragana, Katakana, and Chinese)
The phonecian words are very similer to arabic
Pig in Latin is sus
Conclusion: Pigs are sus
Another Latin word for pig is "porcus."
And pigs in arabic is haram