You have been given a true gift to understand and transend linguistics. I will watch this video many times. I fix a commercial airlines jet engines. So I also have a gift. What a wonderful world we live in. My skills would be most likely the reverse of what I am so amazed about what you are doing. I know what happens when the high pressure relief valve, HPV, fails and know what to do to correct duct splitting. That is what I do. Yet this is going to be difficult for me. Also, I am impressed about how thoughtful you are about snakes. That is really very good. In my world someone would throw a plastic snake in the refrigerator just to watch the reaction from you. You are so very kind. Your efforts have not gone unnoticed as my father is such a person. Totally frightened of snakes. And I must also thank Dr. Josh and Megan, both who are beyond impressive in many ways.
Hi Dr. Bryson! When will the next lesson be made? There are those who are looking forward to seeing these videos and learning. You are offering us an unique experience for us. Hope you continue!!!
Excellent second start. Thanks also for improved image editing. People don't know how much work it takes to produce a lesson, even without the difficulty of new technology.
Wow, thank you so much for doing this. I have been really looking forward for this video. I will probably fail the final test however that reflects nothing upon you or how much I will love the journey of our joint effort. Teacher and student.
Such a cool thing to learn. I, like many others, have always wanted to be able to read these symbols. Of course we will need to know what they mean when the sounds are put together. I will be waiting for your next video. Thank you!
This is awesome, thanks so much. I came here from studies of the Book of Abraham, though I have never been LDS. I was fascinated by the fact that some of the consonant sounds are similar to Arabic - I tried to learn the Arabic sounds and letters a couple of years ago. I guess COVID lockdown is good for some things. I hope to watch more soon.
Hi Dean, it depends on the depth in which you want to study them! Are you wanting an accessible introduction (in which case I'd recommend Collier and Manley, How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs - amzn.to/2GN3SSI), or a language textbook (in which case I'd probably start with Allen, amzn.to/2U8ja7Q)?
Thank you so much for doing this! For someone like myself who was never trained in Egyptology but who has been incorporating ancient Egyptian literature into my research, this series of videos is invaluable. I see that there is help with practicing drawing the hieroglyphs on pp. 8-13 of Fischer's text - it might be useful to mention the relevant pages in subsequent videos. Will there be quizzes as in Dr. Josh's Sumerian course?
@@DigitalHammurabi will they be uploaded anytime soon? These would certainly be helpful resources to explain topics students would encounter in an introductory textbook.
Nice video. Love extinct languages. Any chance on doing videos on Elamite, Hittite, Akkadian, Urartian and Hurrian. Oh a bit much, Elamite then lol. Thank you, keep up the good work.
This video is so great! Thanks Dr. Bryson, I bought a book but the pronunciation of the let's say non-latin sounds proved to be challenging just via a written explanation of how they should sound. And yes, I know that ultimately, it is not about pronouncing but mostly reading when it comes to ancient Egyptian hyeroglyphs, but I still find it easier to learn these when you know how to pronounce a symbol. I'd have a question though: at the end of the video, you seem to imply that there are other lessons coming. Is that the case? I couldn't find any... Thanks!
I hope that I can learn from this. A few years ago I tried to follow the book "How to read Egyptian Hieroglyphs" by Collier and Manley but lost the plot by chapter 3. Perhaps watching these videos will help.
Well....I've always said I'd try. Now after being in total virus lockdown in Spain for 35 days, with no immediate end in sight.. Here we go. Off to get pen and paper now. Liked and subscribed x
This was so nice! I immediately tried my pronunciation of khaf and ain again. I still can, but to no good use 😁. Like with some other educative videos on this channel I'll pick up what I can. Even when I'm not capable of actually learning (remembering) what you told us. It is never for nothing. The hieroglyphs make more sense to me now that you provided some background information.
Thank you Dr. Bryson. Can you explain why the vowel sounds are unknown? Also, I have read that Coptic is a more recent derivative of Middle Egyptian. If that's the case can the treatment of vowels in Coptic lead us to make conclusions about vowel sounds in Middle Egyptian? Thanks again and hope to see more postings from you in this area.
Thank you for the lesson! One constructive suggestion: please remember that not all of us are native English speakers, so to be more inclusive you might want to use a more neutral pronounciation guide (such as IPA) in addition to "our words".
I started practicing these hieroglyps with an app and got the single consonants down after some practice. Will you make a video on the double consonants too? I can practice them, but hearing what they sound like has been really helpful, so a video would be greatly appreciated!
Couple of years ago a kind of correct mainstream egyptologist said : " It is an incorrect over-simplification to claim that Egyptian writing never indicated any vowels if we do not know how the language was pronounced ". Hopefully you got the point.
It's interesting how modern Arabic and Persian also omit the vowels in writing, unless it's in texts for teaching the language. You just learn the words and then memorize what the vowels are when written. I've always been fascinated by hieroglyphs.
Thanks for the lesson. I have a question about the pronunciation though. I don't mean to impose, but yours sounds very american. Is there a common agreement upon how to pronounce the glyphs?
According to mainstream egyptology , the pronunciation of the language ( especially that of the vowels ) can not be reconstructed. But , as far as I know , there are some people and some new lingusitics research method which say , that the pronunciation can indeed be reconstructed. What is your point of view in this aspect ?? Why or how long will egyptian course and text books keep on omitting vowels if, according to new linguistic researches , they also could be reconstructed ??!!
I taught myself Egyptian years ago using Gardiner. I pronounced the Vulture as the "a" as in fAther as do you, however, to pronounce the Forearm as the "a" as in I pronounced the "a"
Im a nurse just question i love Egyptian history specifically when it involves mummies and sarcophagus is it possible to be even an assistant of a archaeologists? Ohhh its my dream to be one but i guess its late.
Very interesting but not something I am going to attempt, I can learn some of the history and archaeology and where this fits with other cultures and religion without learning the languages. If I had time though....
Well....I've always said I'd try. Now after being in total virus lockdown in Spain for 35 days, with no immediate end in sight.. Here we go. Off to get pen and paper now.
I just discovered these two videos on Middle Egyptian! Is there any chance of more videos from Dr. Bryson? Thank you for all of the info packed in the videos that are here!
@@DigitalHammurabi I am thrilled to hear it and eagerly await new uploads. Thank you to Dr Bryson for agreeing to make more, and thank you, Digital Hammurabi, for the great platform you have built! 😊
I am egyptian and all my attempt to learn ancient egyptians have came to a frustrated end. Is there a potential of knowing a level of ancient Egyptian that I would be able to structure daily dialogues or is it simply a dead end.
you meant zet (or set) Z.., z see sounds like sea or C!!!! so please say: ZET/SET whe you mean z. That way less confusion. Thanks and greetings bibia.., btw good video, i like!
Agreed! Dr. Bryson has agreed to do more, but she's currently hunting for both a job and an apartment and so is a little busy :) As soon as she is able to film another lesson I will have it edited and uploaded!
It will be better. If u refer to the modern Egyptian langague to understand vowels and consonants not to Arabic lanaggaue as there is a gap in sounds between modern Egyptian & Arabic. Scientifically modern Egyptian isn't a dialect from Arabic Lanague at all even politically they consider so for horrible reasons Modern Egyotian lanagaue has it's own sounds , alphabets, grammar, syntax, & philology.. That study as alanague a way of Arabic will help u to understand the gap of unwritten vowels that you face in reading the old lanagague It will help you to understand some consonants in a better way such
Hey, interesting but if look at modern african languages you should undertand that there are no missing vowels. The trick is Chinese never changed their language time after time...why should we??
I looked up the pronunciation of ayin. You didn't pronounce it correctly. But the English language does have that sound. It's the "a" in "at." Well, that's what I got from it. English is funny though, it has a lot of sounds, but you wouldn't think that, since the written form has been badly in need of a spelling reform for more than a 100 years now. But that's being off topic.
@@ra8682ra The ayin sound has been described as "sing the lowest possible note, then try to sing the note one lower than that". I can make the ayin sound. (I suspect that the Common Indo-European language's h3 sound (one of the laryngeals) was ayin.)
Well first some quick facts the writing was called the Mdu Ntr , Hieroglyphs is a GREEK NAME as is EGYPT so there were NO ancient EGYPTIANS LOLOLOL there were 33 dynasties of the Civilization of KMT the GREEKS came in the 26th dynasty and took over all the rulers before that were AFRICANS
So in other words we have no freaken clue how to read hieroglyphs and its all a bunch of educated GUESSING. Cause if we think we know what sound a symbol originally made, then why the hell are we changing them and saying "it doesnt matter what sound it originally made", THATS the ONE THING YOU DONT want someone whos teaching you to say.
Please post a lesson 2😭 I loved this so much.
You have been given a true gift to understand and transend linguistics. I will watch this video many times. I fix a commercial airlines jet engines. So I also have a gift. What a wonderful world we live in. My skills would be most likely the reverse of what I am so amazed about what you are doing. I know what happens when the high pressure relief valve, HPV, fails and know what to do to correct duct splitting. That is what I do. Yet this is going to be difficult for me. Also, I am impressed about how thoughtful you are about snakes. That is really very good. In my world someone would throw a plastic snake in the refrigerator just to watch the reaction from you. You are so very kind. Your efforts have not gone unnoticed as my father is such a person. Totally frightened of snakes. And I must also thank Dr. Josh and Megan, both who are beyond impressive in many ways.
Hi Doug, my grandfather was an aircraft mechanic, so I really admire what you do as well!
Hi Dr. Bryson! When will the next lesson be made? There are those who are looking forward to seeing these videos and learning. You are offering us an unique experience for us. Hope you continue!!!
Thank you to Dr. Bryson and Digital Hammurabi.
Thank you, this was fascinating. I've always wanted to become more familiar with hieroglyphics :-) Looking forward to the next lesson!
Excellent second start. Thanks also for improved image editing. People don't know how much work it takes to produce a lesson, even without the difficulty of new technology.
Thank you so much! I'm glad that the images are working well :D
Thank you for explaining the "h" and "k" sounds, they help in reading scholarly papers on Ancient Egyptian magic and spells.
Wow, thank you so much for doing this. I have been really looking forward for this video. I will probably fail the final test however that reflects nothing upon you or how much I will love the journey of our joint effort. Teacher and student.
Such a cool thing to learn.
I, like many others, have always wanted to be able to read these symbols.
Of course we will need to know what they mean when the sounds are put together.
I will be waiting for your next video.
Thank you!
amazing clarity on a difficult subject.you are doing a great service and i wish you all lucks
Excellent, thank you. Easy to follow excellent examples.
This is awesome, thanks so much. I came here from studies of the Book of Abraham, though I have never been LDS. I was fascinated by the fact that some of the consonant sounds are similar to Arabic - I tried to learn the Arabic sounds and letters a couple of years ago. I guess COVID lockdown is good for some things. I hope to watch more soon.
Can't wait for lesson 2!
Thank you for to bring this treasure!!! My dream is learn hieroglyphics. I loved this class ♡♡♡ I am Brazilian woman, XOXO
Dr. Bryson, can you recommend a book for learning Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs? Thanks!
Hi Dean, it depends on the depth in which you want to study them! Are you wanting an accessible introduction (in which case I'd recommend Collier and Manley, How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs - amzn.to/2GN3SSI), or a language textbook (in which case I'd probably start with Allen, amzn.to/2U8ja7Q)?
Thank you so much for doing this! For someone like myself who was never trained in Egyptology but who has been incorporating ancient Egyptian literature into my research, this series of videos is invaluable. I see that there is help with practicing drawing the hieroglyphs on pp. 8-13 of Fischer's text - it might be useful to mention the relevant pages in subsequent videos. Will there be quizzes as in Dr. Josh's Sumerian course?
Do you plan to continue this course? Please do, it is very interesting and informative!
Yes! Dr. Bryson is working on more videos for us at the moment :)
@@DigitalHammurabi will they be uploaded anytime soon? These would certainly be helpful resources to explain topics students would encounter in an introductory textbook.
Nice video. Love extinct languages. Any chance on doing videos on Elamite, Hittite, Akkadian, Urartian and Hurrian. Oh a bit much, Elamite then lol. Thank you, keep up the good work.
We’re trying it work out an Akkadian class, hadn’t thought about the others! I’ll see what I can do 😁
This video is so great! Thanks Dr. Bryson, I bought a book but the pronunciation of the let's say non-latin sounds proved to be challenging just via a written explanation of how they should sound. And yes, I know that ultimately, it is not about pronouncing but mostly reading when it comes to ancient Egyptian hyeroglyphs, but I still find it easier to learn these when you know how to pronounce a symbol. I'd have a question though: at the end of the video, you seem to imply that there are other lessons coming. Is that the case? I couldn't find any... Thanks!
you are so helpful! Thank you.
You only did one lesson? This helps a lot. I'd love more lessons!
I've subscribed and clicked the bell. I look forward to the next lesson. Thank you Dr. Bryson for your work.
Excellent content! Have there been other lectures published past this one?
Well done! I love it! Keep going!
I hope that I can learn from this. A few years ago I tried to follow the book "How to read Egyptian Hieroglyphs" by Collier and Manley but lost the plot by chapter 3. Perhaps watching these videos will help.
Well....I've always said I'd try.
Now after being in total virus lockdown in Spain for 35 days, with no immediate end in sight..
Here we go.
Off to get pen and paper now.
Liked and subscribed x
Excellent. This complements nicely with Dr. Bob Brier's course which I highly recommend.
This was so nice!
I immediately tried my pronunciation of khaf and ain again. I still can, but to no good use 😁.
Like with some other educative videos on this channel I'll pick up what I can. Even when I'm not capable of actually learning (remembering) what you told us. It is never for nothing. The hieroglyphs make more sense to me now that you provided some background information.
Thank you Dr. Bryson. Can you explain why the vowel sounds are unknown? Also, I have read that Coptic is a more recent derivative of Middle Egyptian. If that's the case can the treatment of vowels in Coptic lead us to make conclusions about vowel sounds in Middle Egyptian? Thanks again and hope to see more postings from you in this area.
I was wondering the exact same question.
Hi Dr., do you plan on posting a video on biliterals?
Great lesson! Thank you! I have a question: isn’t ‘lion’ also a phonogram representing the letter ‘ L ‘ ?
Thank you for the lesson! One constructive suggestion: please remember that not all of us are native English speakers, so to be more inclusive you might want to use a more neutral pronounciation guide (such as IPA) in addition to "our words".
I started practicing these hieroglyps with an app and got the single consonants down after some practice. Will you make a video on the double consonants too? I can practice them, but hearing what they sound like has been really helpful, so a video would be greatly appreciated!
But I will certainly get the books you mention in Dean Martin's comment.
Next lesson please!!!!
Couple of years ago a kind of correct mainstream egyptologist said : " It is an incorrect over-simplification to claim that Egyptian writing never indicated any vowels if we do not know how the language was pronounced ". Hopefully you got the point.
Great and motivating
Next video Please!
It's interesting how modern Arabic and Persian also omit the vowels in writing, unless it's in texts for teaching the language. You just learn the words and then memorize what the vowels are when written. I've always been fascinated by hieroglyphs.
Nice lecture. What is the music you used in the opening of your video?
This crush my will to learn stuff
Will there be more videos on Middle Egyptian? I only found two in your playlist.
Yes! Dr. Bryson had to take a break, but she will be continuing the series very soon ☺️
Hi, very interesting lesson! Are you going to upload more?
Hi! We are planning on it, but sadly we don't have a timetable for when this will happen.
Thanks for the lesson. I have a question about the pronunciation though. I don't mean to impose, but yours sounds very american. Is there a common agreement upon how to pronounce the glyphs?
According to mainstream egyptology , the pronunciation of the language ( especially that of the vowels ) can not be reconstructed. But , as far as I know , there are some people and some new lingusitics research method which say , that the pronunciation can indeed be reconstructed. What is your point of view in this aspect ?? Why or how long will egyptian course and text books keep on omitting vowels if, according to new linguistic researches , they also could be reconstructed ??!!
I taught myself Egyptian years ago using Gardiner. I pronounced the Vulture as the "a" as in fAther as do you, however, to pronounce the Forearm as the "a" as in I pronounced the "a"
Im a nurse just question i love Egyptian history specifically when it involves mummies and sarcophagus is it possible to be even an assistant of a archaeologists? Ohhh its my dream to be one but i guess its late.
Very interesting but not something I am going to attempt, I can learn some of the history and archaeology and where this fits with other cultures and religion without learning the languages. If I had time though....
Well....I've always said I'd try.
Now after being in total virus lockdown in Spain for 35 days, with no immediate end in sight..
Here we go.
Off to get pen and paper now.
I just discovered these two videos on Middle Egyptian! Is there any chance of more videos from Dr. Bryson? Thank you for all of the info packed in the videos that are here!
Dr. Bryson has kindly agreed to continue these videos, so we will be uploading more in the future!
@@DigitalHammurabi I am thrilled to hear it and eagerly await new uploads. Thank you to Dr Bryson for agreeing to make more, and thank you, Digital Hammurabi, for the great platform you have built! 😊
Where are the other lessons? ❤
Fine! It's time I learn anyway 😁
Enough snake warnings Indiana Jones could watch this without a worry in the world. 🙂
Dr. Bryson, I enjoy your videos, but I don't understand why you say "ancient egypt" and not Kemet (KMT)?
I am egyptian and all my attempt to learn ancient egyptians have came to a frustrated end. Is there a potential of knowing a level of ancient Egyptian that I would be able to structure daily dialogues or is it simply a dead end.
You guys better thank Toth for this!
Its amazing that all these ancient languages are pronounce the same way English is. Absolutely astonishing. LOL
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you meant zet (or set) Z.., z see sounds like sea or C!!!! so please say: ZET/SET whe you mean z. That way less confusion.
Thanks and greetings bibia.., btw good video, i like!
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hey i wanne ask you to historians learn midlle egyptian or modern egyptology
Thank you but pity it is only one lesson
Agreed! Dr. Bryson has agreed to do more, but she's currently hunting for both a job and an apartment and so is a little busy :) As soon as she is able to film another lesson I will have it edited and uploaded!
@@DigitalHammurabi Thank you!!!!
It will be better. If u refer to the modern Egyptian langague to understand vowels and consonants not to Arabic lanaggaue as there is a gap in sounds between modern Egyptian & Arabic.
Scientifically modern Egyptian isn't a dialect from Arabic Lanague at all even politically they consider so for horrible reasons
Modern Egyotian lanagaue has it's own sounds , alphabets, grammar, syntax, & philology..
That study as alanague a way of Arabic will help u to understand the gap of unwritten vowels that you face in reading the old lanagague
It will help you to understand some consonants in a better way such
Hey, interesting but if look at modern african languages you should undertand that there are no missing vowels. The trick is Chinese never changed their language time after time...why should we??
Chinese? 🤔
Very similar to Hebrew
I looked up the pronunciation of ayin. You didn't pronounce it correctly. But the English language does have that sound. It's the "a" in "at." Well, that's what I got from it. English is funny though, it has a lot of sounds, but you wouldn't think that, since the written form has been badly in need of a spelling reform for more than a 100 years now. But that's being off topic.
"at" is not ayin... She also claimed only Arabic speakers can make that sound, wrong.
@@ra8682ra The ayin sound has been described as "sing the lowest possible note, then try to sing the note one lower than that". I can make the ayin sound. (I suspect that the Common Indo-European language's h3 sound (one of the laryngeals) was ayin.)
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Well first some quick facts the writing was called the Mdu Ntr , Hieroglyphs is a GREEK NAME as is EGYPT so there were NO ancient EGYPTIANS LOLOLOL there were 33 dynasties of the Civilization of KMT the GREEKS came in the 26th dynasty and took over all the rulers before that were AFRICANS
So in other words we have no freaken clue how to read hieroglyphs and its all a bunch of educated GUESSING. Cause if we think we know what sound a symbol originally made, then why the hell are we changing them and saying "it doesnt matter what sound it originally made", THATS the ONE THING YOU DONT want someone whos teaching you to say.
If you’re learning to READ an ancient language, I’m honestly not sure that pronunciation is terribly important.
and ps; I am deadly afraid of owls, and did i get a warning? lol.