Yay! I’ve been looking forward to this one, as a Hebrew speaker 😁 (ivrit or עברית is the name of the language in the language itself, for those who may not know) Hebrew is more like Spanish where you add letters to the front and beginning to change the meaning, and it’s gendered. It’s probably why I had an easy time picking up Spanish. My brain was already trained to accept that kind of conjugation.
Affixes are the least important aspect of Spanish, the lexicon and its derivative semantic turn very tricky is you try to decipher meaning from compound nouns or affixed nouns. Plus verbs that are very different from Hebrew.
"The goal of this video is to tell you something interesting and maybe help you fall asleep" . Goal achieved every single time I watch your videos. And not because they're boring but because they *are* so relaxing. This is like Bob Ross almost. Simultaneously interesting and educational and so relaxing I can't keep my eyes open usually.
This channel has quickly become a favourite!! Linguistics is a passion of mine and I never expected to find an asmr channel with so much language content. It’s perfect 💙💙
This channel is really brilliant, thank you. I used to occasionally get tingles in school listening to the teacher, and I get that same feeling through your videos. You have such interesting subject matters, too.
I don't know if it's complicated, per se - it's just different from the languages I've learned so it might take a bit more effort to learn the basics. But those languages are usually all the more rewarding. Thank you!
@@MelangeASMR as an Arabic person whose mother tongue is Arabic you were absolutely right, It does have a more complicated linguistic system than many other languages that even us Arabic people would need time to master. It’s just because reading, speaking and understanding Arabic comes more naturally to us native speakers we sometimes forget how difficult it actually is to learn for non native speakers. ❤
I never want to fall asleep because I want to learn about all this fascinating stuff! Alas, you get me every time 😴💚 Thank you for all your amazing work! 💜✨
I live in the DC area so I see Ge'ez script all the time but I had never realized that Amharic was a Semitic language. It makes complete sense, I'd just never thought about it!
your videos are amazing, it's very rare to see an one-shot video, your are so confident in your speech, thanks a lot. It feels so comfy on my opinion. you are amazing 🤩
I used to have so much trouble falling asleep until I found your channel several weeks ago. Thank you for having such calming and interesting content! I love your videos ❤
Swiss german speaker here... I love that diglossia exists in other areas of the world. The appreciation of dialects adds so much more diversity to the linguistic experience🤩
I think diglossia is fine when it doesn't generate conflict. But it has a darker side in places where one of the languages spoken in them is minoritized (although not necessarily a minority one). I'm from a region in Spain called Galicia (its historical namesake in Eastern Europe appeared a couple of times in the channel 🤣), where the Galician language suffers the legacy of historical prejudices and oppression, so even if today it's legally official in the public spaces and administration, many people still don't speak it but with their family or close friends because of embarrassment, and many other still laughs at those who speak Galician for considering them either extremist separatists or clumsy peasants (as it's tied to the countryside). And it's not easy getting rid of such prejudices when they're very instilled in people's mind. So diglossia is not always an equivalent of ideal languages' coexistence 🙇🏽
@@pixiecrazy1754 I know about the prejudice of local languages under Franco in Spain. I think I would not talk of a diglossia in your case since your language has been actively suppressed. (Which is an utter shame and has been shown to cause languages to die!) In Switzerland (and I believe in the Arab speaking countries) local dialects serve as a point of pride that ties natives to the area they are from and gives them a sense of home no matter whether they are talking to their mum or their boss. A diglossia has to be a stable language situation which I am unsure whether it is the case in the north of Spain. Your cuisin though is amazing!!😊
@@michailalein Certainly, in the case I showed diglossia led to a scenario of glottophagy, as they call it, when a language or a dialect perishes under the abusive influence of another (hegemonic) one. In any case, I didn't intend to say diglossia is harmful "per se", but just wanted to point out what it may conduce to, if people don't (or can't) defend their rights. Even in Spain, at least the regional languages have now the same degree of officiality than Spanish in their respective regions, so there's a basis for their protection and promotion, but in France, for instance, regional languages undergo a harder situation. Switzerland is usually pointed at as an example of a place where several languages coexist in harmony. Our internal nationalistic conflicts make it difficult to achieve that stage, which is truely a pitty 😔 Anyways, thank you for your comment, I didn't meant at all it was false or wrong, just wanted to share my point of view. Switzerland is a land that doesn't feel too far in Galicia, as a lot of Galicians migrated there in the 20th century (the other main destination was Argentina). It's said that every Galician family has or had a member in Switzerland 😂 So greetings from this humble part of the world that has its recent history so tied to yours 😊🙋
I immediately thought of German too 😂 Both the diglossia part and the fact that native speakers from different countries can't understand each other sounded very familiar!
Arabic is my mother tongue and I always thought of how German is such a great and dense language, always intended to learn it. Will start soon, it’s my 2023 goal.
I have no idea what this video is about as I literally passed out seconds after hearing “hey everyone” 😆 As usual, I’m going to have to listen to this during the day in order to enjoy your wonderful content 😉
Enchanting, beautiful and so relaxing. The camera work too is subtle and so well done. Your videos are magical, informative and soooo relaxing. Thank you for raising the intelligence of the entire YT platform, away from pure nonsense.
Wow, das war wieder sehr interessant! Mein müdes Hirn hätte deine schöne Erzählerinstimme gerne den ganzen Tag um sich, mal hilft sie, mich zu fokussieren, und ein anderes Mal mental abzuschalten, in jeden Fall aber hat sie eine beruhigende Wärme. Der Inhalt ist natürlich unangefochten gegenüber dem, was ich sonst bisher auf TH-cam gefunden habe. Vielen Dank auch an den Kameramann und ich hoffe, es geht ihm wieder besser!
Vielen lieben Dank, das ist wirklich jedes Mal so eine Freude, sowas zu hören! Und der Kameramann ist zum Glück wieder wie neu - er freut sich immer sehr über solche Kommentare :)
This is both relaxing and educational. By studying the languages we can see that cultures and countries are thinly connected and thus need to be cherished.
Your content remains top-notch! Since the comments section seems to be the place for minor quibbles, I'll add mine: there's no need to equivocate over whether Jesus was a real historical person. It's basically universally agreed on by serious scholars that he was (although of course being sure that someone *existed* is a pretty low bar to clear), and I find the disconnect between this and the popular perception that it's still deeply uncertain pretty interesting in its own right.
Ahaha I have to admit, I haven't kept up with that question since I was a kid and got told very sternly that religion is one thing, history is another. Thanks for the addition, I appreciate it!
You clearly enjoy the research you do for your channel. I wish I had had teachers with the same command of English when I was at school. I think I would have been more successful at learning other languages 😊
I really do, but the funny thing is that without the uploading schedule, I'd never take the time to read up on so many topics lol... But you're learning something about languages now, that's great! 💛
Hey. I've been meaning to to you, I've been working in retail all through the pandemic. People have been terrible, treating us like trash. There's so many ungrateful people who can't be happy for the fact that we're still open amid being short staffed, the grow up adults throw childish tantrums every day over nothing. The immaturity is draining. I always want to go home and have something relaxing and educational after so much tantrums, verbal abuse and ungratefulness from customers. your channel has been spot on perfect for it, I genuinely mean that. It's absolutely refreshing for the nerd in me because I love learning and to drain out the immaturity from customers. Thank you so much. I look forward to more of your videos.
Hey Ariel, sorry about the late reply! I can emphasize so much with your experience - I don't work retail, but I've had similar experiences since the pandemic. You can definitely tell when people in general are more stressed and it can be pretty exhausting. I'm really happy to hear you've found a good way to relax, though, and honestly, I'm honoured that my videos are helpful to you. I wish you many, many restful nights 💖
@@MelangeASMR I love to to see one about the south part of the Africa as well when you have the time ofcource🙏 Even you don't your content always satisfactory whatever topic you chose best of all luck and thank you for quality content as always 😇
As a Hebrew speaker it was fascinating to me to discover through your video that people regarded the Hebrew letters to seem squared! I never thought about it
Me neither - I got a bit confused by it because I figured if that one is called square, there must be another one that's not square? But no, apparently it just looked really square to some people haha
I am getting close to finishing your back catalog. It’s bittersweet because it has been such a complete pleasure, but I know soon I’m going to have to wait for new content.😩 Seriously, though, It has been such a joy to immerse myself in this channel. You are so talented. Thank you for the wonderful gift of these videos!
It’s been tough finding a geography and history channel that feels respectful different cultural histories, but with this video you got a subscribe from me 😊✡️
Wonderful presentation once again. So relaxing. I think there is some very interesting prehistory related into speaking Aramaic as the Lingua Franca together with the Phoenician roots of alphabets. Good to get a broad overview of the Semitic languages. Really wish I had progressed my very early explorations into language. So much can be gleaned from language when you understand how they have been put together and inter-related. Thank You. 💮😊
Never too late to dig into languages! Early Semitic is super interesting - I had no idea until I was reading on thingsfor this video that so many of these early household-name-civilizations were linguistically related. It's fascinating! Thank you so much!
@@MelangeASMR I would like to think so - I like languages. French and German when young and some Finnish practice later in life. I guess my main issue with them is that unless I am constantly speaking the language I will simply forget everything. This is what seems to happen. Need to be immersed within it is my view and this is not available where I am. A move seems warranted for developing good language skills. Certainly is fascinating.
the *Amazigh* are the indigenous people of North Africa they speak *berber* language and their alphabet is called *Tifinagh* this region became Islamized and also Arabized after the islamic invasions by the 11th century, but we still proud of our Berber origins ♓ thanks for the video it's so relaxing and informative at the same time 💕
The term Berber was used by the Romans, it came from latin barbari, which means "uncivilized" or "savage" so there is nothing to be proud about when using this term, better use "Imazighen origins" Also the origin of Tifinagh is Phoenician So Phoenicians came and brought with them writing and Arabs came and brought with them religion, there is really nothing to complain about
29:22 basically syriac or neo-aramaic is not written in the aramaic alphabet anymore, it's written in the syriac alphabet. it's much more different than the aramaic alphabet and looks very similar to the arabic alphabet.
Hi, new to your channel! This is such high quality ASMR, I’m blown away. Amazing camera work and sound quality. Your voice and movements give me such great tingles, and as a hobbyist linguist myself I am so impressed by your expertise. Honestly think this could be used to teach in a college class as long as it doesn’t put everyone to sleep! haha
Hi, thank you so much! I can only return the compliments - I checked out your channel and love your French teaching videos. You have a really pleasant voice. Are you still making videos? (Some teachers would probably be really happy if everyone just went to sleep once in a while haha)
@@MelangeASMR aww thank you so much! I took a break from making videos bc of school but hopefully will be back at it again soon! you’ve definitely inspired some ideas for new videos for me! :)
This video is amazing. As someone who studies these languages, I found this a highly interesting introduction to the Semitic languages! The books that you used are priceless, it’s a same they don’t make books like that here in the states. The speakers of German pioneered the study of the orient and the Semitic languages, so it’s no wonder these books originated in German as well! Did you find these recently, or did you have them since you were little?
Thank you so much, I'm very happy you enjoyed it! The books are recent finds; I wasn't that much into linguistics as a kid haha. And I'm sure you can find fantastic publications in English, probably more than in German. These days, I don't think you can have an academic career in a German speaking country unless you publish in English.
So you took Turkish language lessons? :) lovely! Must have been a bit harsh. Btw, I’d like to put a little reminder here since people are commonly mistaken about this: Turkish is an Asiatic language, not related to Semitic or Indo-European families. It belongs to Altaic languages which also inclused Tungusic, Korean, Mongolian and Japanese. But yes, during the movement of the Turkish tribes, the vocabulary was affected by the neighboring cultures such as Persian, Arabic, Greek, Armenian and even Italian.
I really enjoyed the lessons! Obviously the grammar takes some getting used to haha, but the fact that it's so different from Indo-European makes it really interesting, plus the teacher was very nice. No complaints from me! There's a video on the Turkic languages in the playlist linked at the end :)
It's intresting actually, "Katuv" means to write in Hebrew, "Katuba" is the name of a marriage contract, "Kitov" means to have written in the past. Book is actually an entire different word, "Sepher" (which also means story)
In the text above you failed to mention Ethiopic (Ge'ez) a Semitic language that is closest to the so-called Proto-Semitic, still used as a clerical language in the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Also, you mistakenly mention that only these two churches split from the European, Rome based church. This is the same for all so-called orthodox churches: Coptic, Syrian, Armenian, Russian and Greek Orthodox Churches.
hi! i know these videos probably take a lot of time to make, including research and accessing specific books so on so forth, but would you mind making a video relating to brazil? anything from culture to history :) keep up the great work!
Something I found curious, but you referred to the area where israel is as "Levante" (at least this is what I heard and also what the subtitles showed). Why do you refer it as that? I've only ever heard it called Mesopotemia, the crescent, Asia Minor or the Middle East before.
Sure, that's a good question! Mesopotamia is specifically the region around Euphrates and Tigris (centered in Iraq) and Asia Minor is a part of Turkey, so these are smaller sections, but Levant, Near/Middle East and Fertile Crescent are roughly the same area and true, I could have used either one of those. Especially Near/Middle East seems very nebulous to me, though - it might have to do with a slightly different connotation in German where Middle East extends all the way past Afghanistan. Levant on the other hand is something I see relatively often around Vienna (lots of restaurants advertising Levantine cuisine lol) and in my understanding is more speciically oriented towards the Mediterranean, but yeah, probably depends on the language and on what sources you pick!
I immediately recognized kitab because of my knowledge of Indonesian. Yes, it is not Semitic by any means, but it is language steeped in the culture of Islam. There are many Arabic words carried over into it. Kitab is one word the have for book
I currently have a bit of a long list with requests, but I can offer you a map of Sweden that I did last year: th-cam.com/video/hpy196cVSVI/w-d-xo.html
Map is completely wrong. Regions like the Atlas mountains, Rif mountains, Nafusa mountains, Aures mountains, Souss, Kabylia etc do not speak Arabic. We speak Tamazight. I’m from the Rif mountains.
I always wondered why the Arabs never wrote down anything about the English people. it was because it wasn't the same as today… we can understand the poems that existed before Islam came to Arabia, while Sweden for example struggled to understand just 200 years back.
My guess that there just wasn't much going on in England at the time that would have been interesting to Arab scholars ;) Pretty sure that Swedish hasn't undergone such drastic changes in only 200 years, though.
Classical Arabic is richer and more complex than MSA (Modern Standard Arabic)...think of it as a 'dumbing down' or simplification, and also taking on sentence structure that is not natural to the classical version...
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Yay! I’ve been looking forward to this one, as a Hebrew speaker 😁 (ivrit or עברית is the name of the language in the language itself, for those who may not know)
Hebrew is more like Spanish where you add letters to the front and beginning to change the meaning, and it’s gendered. It’s probably why I had an easy time picking up Spanish. My brain was already trained to accept that kind of conjugation.
Have you done any study of Ladino yet since you speak both languages?
Thank you for that info. I would never have connected Spanish and Hebrew (or ivrit ☺️). Not that I speak either, but I love learning facts.
Ah I'm very happy you enjoyed it, thank you!!
Affixes are the least important aspect of Spanish, the lexicon and its derivative semantic turn very tricky is you try to decipher meaning from compound nouns or affixed nouns. Plus verbs that are very different from Hebrew.
"The goal of this video is to tell you something interesting and maybe help you fall asleep" . Goal achieved every single time I watch your videos. And not because they're boring but because they *are* so relaxing. This is like Bob Ross almost. Simultaneously interesting and educational and so relaxing I can't keep my eyes open usually.
I couldn't wish for anything better, thank you so much!
Love your voice, your accent, your subject matter and the way you smooth the paper. My brain thanks me for discovering your channel!
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This channel has quickly become a favourite!! Linguistics is a passion of mine and I never expected to find an asmr channel with so much language content. It’s perfect 💙💙
Same for me!
Thank you, Aiden, love to hear that!
These videos are always so lovely. As a learning lover, thank you
Thank you! I'm very happy that there's found an audience :)
This channel is really brilliant, thank you. I used to occasionally get tingles in school listening to the teacher, and I get that same feeling through your videos. You have such interesting subject matters, too.
Ah, I have those memories too. Thank you so much, I'm flattered!
I've never thought that my native language is complicated, I really admire your effort. Good luck
I don't know if it's complicated, per se - it's just different from the languages I've learned so it might take a bit more effort to learn the basics. But those languages are usually all the more rewarding.
Thank you!
@@MelangeASMR as an Arabic person whose mother tongue is Arabic you were absolutely right, It does have a more complicated linguistic system than many other languages that even us Arabic people would need time to master. It’s just because reading, speaking and understanding Arabic comes more naturally to us native speakers we sometimes forget how difficult it actually is to learn for non native speakers. ❤
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I never want to fall asleep because I want to learn about all this fascinating stuff! Alas, you get me every time 😴💚 Thank you for all your amazing work! 💜✨
And I'm not sorry haha, I hope you sleep well each time 💛
I live in the DC area so I see Ge'ez script all the time but I had never realized that Amharic was a Semitic language. It makes complete sense, I'd just never thought about it!
There is another Semitic language group that The Ge'ez script came from, it's called Epigraphic South Arabian.
your videos are amazing, it's very rare to see an one-shot video, your are so confident in your speech, thanks a lot. It feels so comfy on my opinion. you are amazing 🤩
Aw, thank you so much, Claire!
I used to have so much trouble falling asleep until I found your channel several weeks ago. Thank you for having such calming and interesting content! I love your videos ❤
Emma, that makes me so happy! Thank you 💛💛
Swiss german speaker here... I love that diglossia exists in other areas of the world. The appreciation of dialects adds so much more diversity to the linguistic experience🤩
I think diglossia is fine when it doesn't generate conflict. But it has a darker side in places where one of the languages spoken in them is minoritized (although not necessarily a minority one).
I'm from a region in Spain called Galicia (its historical namesake in Eastern Europe appeared a couple of times in the channel 🤣), where the Galician language suffers the legacy of historical prejudices and oppression, so even if today it's legally official in the public spaces and administration, many people still don't speak it but with their family or close friends because of embarrassment, and many other still laughs at those who speak Galician for considering them either extremist separatists or clumsy peasants (as it's tied to the countryside). And it's not easy getting rid of such prejudices when they're very instilled in people's mind.
So diglossia is not always an equivalent of ideal languages' coexistence 🙇🏽
@@pixiecrazy1754 I know about the prejudice of local languages under Franco in Spain. I think I would not talk of a diglossia in your case since your language has been actively suppressed. (Which is an utter shame and has been shown to cause languages to die!) In Switzerland (and I believe in the Arab speaking countries) local dialects serve as a point of pride that ties natives to the area they are from and gives them a sense of home no matter whether they are talking to their mum or their boss. A diglossia has to be a stable language situation which I am unsure whether it is the case in the north of Spain. Your cuisin though is amazing!!😊
@@michailalein Certainly, in the case I showed diglossia led to a scenario of glottophagy, as they call it, when a language or a dialect perishes under the abusive influence of another (hegemonic) one. In any case, I didn't intend to say diglossia is harmful "per se", but just wanted to point out what it may conduce to, if people don't (or can't) defend their rights. Even in Spain, at least the regional languages have now the same degree of officiality than Spanish in their respective regions, so there's a basis for their protection and promotion, but in France, for instance, regional languages undergo a harder situation. Switzerland is usually pointed at as an example of a place where several languages coexist in harmony. Our internal nationalistic conflicts make it difficult to achieve that stage, which is truely a pitty 😔
Anyways, thank you for your comment, I didn't meant at all it was false or wrong, just wanted to share my point of view.
Switzerland is a land that doesn't feel too far in Galicia, as a lot of Galicians migrated there in the 20th century (the other main destination was Argentina). It's said that every Galician family has or had a member in Switzerland 😂 So greetings from this humble part of the world that has its recent history so tied to yours 😊🙋
I immediately thought of German too 😂 Both the diglossia part and the fact that native speakers from different countries can't understand each other sounded very familiar!
Arabic is my mother tongue and I always thought of how German is such a great and dense language, always intended to learn it. Will start soon, it’s my 2023 goal.
I have no idea what this video is about as I literally passed out seconds after hearing “hey everyone” 😆 As usual, I’m going to have to listen to this during the day in order to enjoy your wonderful content 😉
Hahah love it! 🧡🧡🧡
Enchanting, beautiful and so relaxing. The camera work too is subtle and so well done. Your videos are magical, informative and soooo relaxing. Thank you for raising the intelligence of the entire YT platform, away from pure nonsense.
Thank you so much, that's very kind!! 💙
Wow, das war wieder sehr interessant! Mein müdes Hirn hätte deine schöne Erzählerinstimme gerne den ganzen Tag um sich, mal hilft sie, mich zu fokussieren, und ein anderes Mal mental abzuschalten, in jeden Fall aber hat sie eine beruhigende Wärme. Der Inhalt ist natürlich unangefochten gegenüber dem, was ich sonst bisher auf TH-cam gefunden habe. Vielen Dank auch an den Kameramann und ich hoffe, es geht ihm wieder besser!
Vielen lieben Dank, das ist wirklich jedes Mal so eine Freude, sowas zu hören! Und der Kameramann ist zum Glück wieder wie neu - er freut sich immer sehr über solche Kommentare :)
Such a relaxing and soothing voice 🙂 you seem to know alot about these languages!
Thank you! I wish, but I have to admit, it's a lot of frantic wikipedia scrolling before each video haha
@@MelangeASMR haha I can imagine! 😊😊
This is both relaxing and educational. By studying the languages we can see that cultures and countries are thinly connected and thus need to be cherished.
Your content remains top-notch!
Since the comments section seems to be the place for minor quibbles, I'll add mine: there's no need to equivocate over whether Jesus was a real historical person. It's basically universally agreed on by serious scholars that he was (although of course being sure that someone *existed* is a pretty low bar to clear), and I find the disconnect between this and the popular perception that it's still deeply uncertain pretty interesting in its own right.
Ahaha I have to admit, I haven't kept up with that question since I was a kid and got told very sternly that religion is one thing, history is another. Thanks for the addition, I appreciate it!
So good, as usual. Geo-tracing language families is such a fascinating study. Love it!
Thank you!
You clearly enjoy the research you do for your channel. I wish I had had teachers with the same command of English when I was at school. I think I would have been more successful at learning other languages 😊
I really do, but the funny thing is that without the uploading schedule, I'd never take the time to read up on so many topics lol...
But you're learning something about languages now, that's great! 💛
Hey. I've been meaning to to you, I've been working in retail all through the pandemic. People have been terrible, treating us like trash. There's so many ungrateful people who can't be happy for the fact that we're still open amid being short staffed, the grow up adults throw childish tantrums every day over nothing. The immaturity is draining. I always want to go home and have something relaxing and educational after so much tantrums, verbal abuse and ungratefulness from customers. your channel has been spot on perfect for it, I genuinely mean that. It's absolutely refreshing for the nerd in me because I love learning and to drain out the immaturity from customers. Thank you so much. I look forward to more of your videos.
Hey Ariel, sorry about the late reply! I can emphasize so much with your experience - I don't work retail, but I've had similar experiences since the pandemic. You can definitely tell when people in general are more stressed and it can be pretty exhausting. I'm really happy to hear you've found a good way to relax, though, and honestly, I'm honoured that my videos are helpful to you. I wish you many, many restful nights 💖
Thanks a lot for the great video!! After the 20 minute mark I got sleepy thanks to your calming voice :)) but I will continue tomorrow night!
Thank you so much! I hope you slept well :)
You are amazing! Thats what I was waiting for, thank you so much 🙏
Thank you, I'm very happy you enjoyed it!
@@MelangeASMR I love to to see one about the south part of the Africa as well when you have the time ofcource🙏
Even you don't your content always satisfactory whatever topic you chose best of all luck and thank you for quality content as always 😇
@@belamras A map of South Africa is coming on Wednesday!
@@MelangeASMR Thats great to hear cant wait!
As a Hebrew speaker it was fascinating to me to discover through your video that people regarded the Hebrew letters to seem squared! I never thought about it
Me neither - I got a bit confused by it because I figured if that one is called square, there must be another one that's not square? But no, apparently it just looked really square to some people haha
I am getting close to finishing your back catalog. It’s bittersweet because it has been such a complete pleasure, but I know soon I’m going to have to wait for new content.😩 Seriously, though, It has been such a joy to immerse myself in this channel. You are so talented. Thank you for the wonderful gift of these videos!
I was thinking that a couple of days ago, you've almost caught up! It's been such a joy seeing your comments pop up. 💖
Very good pronunciations coming from a arabic speaker 👍
This is pure bliss ❤thank you 🙏🏼💫
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Love your videos so much - thank you! ❤️
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Thank you for the relaxing and informative video!
My pleasure, I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
It’s been tough finding a geography and history channel that feels respectful different cultural histories, but with this video you got a subscribe from me 😊✡️
Really cool subject this time. Thanks Melange!
Glad to hear it, thank you!
I'm a new subscriber to your Channel 💙 Thanks, Melange for sharing !!
Hello and thank you for subscribing!
maybe it’s stupid but you were the only one to fix my anxiety❤️
That's not stupid, that's fantastic! Anxiety sucks so much 💚💚💚
Wonderful presentation once again. So relaxing.
I think there is some very interesting prehistory related into speaking Aramaic as the Lingua Franca together with the Phoenician roots of alphabets. Good to get a broad overview of the Semitic languages. Really wish I had progressed my very early explorations into language. So much can be gleaned from language when you understand how they have been put together and inter-related.
Thank You. 💮😊
Never too late to dig into languages! Early Semitic is super interesting - I had no idea until I was reading on thingsfor this video that so many of these early household-name-civilizations were linguistically related. It's fascinating!
Thank you so much!
@@MelangeASMR I would like to think so - I like languages. French and German when young and some Finnish practice later in life. I guess my main issue with them is that unless I am constantly speaking the language I will simply forget everything. This is what seems to happen. Need to be immersed within it is my view and this is not available where I am. A move seems warranted for developing good language skills.
Certainly is fascinating.
the *Amazigh* are the indigenous people of North Africa they speak *berber* language and their alphabet is called *Tifinagh* this region became Islamized and also Arabized after the islamic invasions by the 11th century, but we still proud of our Berber origins ♓
thanks for the video it's so relaxing and informative at the same time 💕
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! 💖
The term Berber was used by the Romans, it came from latin barbari, which means "uncivilized" or "savage" so there is nothing to be proud about when using this term, better use "Imazighen origins"
Also the origin of Tifinagh is Phoenician
So Phoenicians came and brought with them writing and Arabs came and brought with them religion, there is really nothing to complain about
So excited to hear Syriac/neo Aramaic get mentioned, even briefly
I was excited to find out it's still spoken!
..... what a pleasant soft voice this woman has .......
29:22 basically syriac or neo-aramaic is not written in the aramaic alphabet anymore, it's written in the syriac alphabet. it's much more different than the aramaic alphabet and looks very similar to the arabic alphabet.
Hi, new to your channel! This is such high quality ASMR, I’m blown away. Amazing camera work and sound quality. Your voice and movements give me such great tingles, and as a hobbyist linguist myself I am so impressed by your expertise. Honestly think this could be used to teach in a college class as long as it doesn’t put everyone to sleep! haha
Hi, thank you so much! I can only return the compliments - I checked out your channel and love your French teaching videos. You have a really pleasant voice. Are you still making videos?
(Some teachers would probably be really happy if everyone just went to sleep once in a while haha)
@@MelangeASMR aww thank you so much! I took a break from making videos bc of school but hopefully will be back at it again soon! you’ve definitely inspired some ideas for new videos for me! :)
This video is amazing. As someone who studies these languages, I found this a highly interesting introduction to the Semitic languages! The books that you used are priceless, it’s a same they don’t make books like that here in the states. The speakers of German pioneered the study of the orient and the Semitic languages, so it’s no wonder these books originated in German as well! Did you find these recently, or did you have them since you were little?
Thank you so much, I'm very happy you enjoyed it! The books are recent finds; I wasn't that much into linguistics as a kid haha. And I'm sure you can find fantastic publications in English, probably more than in German. These days, I don't think you can have an academic career in a German speaking country unless you publish in English.
Etwas lernen und gleichzeitig Tingles bekommen - ich liebe diese Kombination!
Ich merk mir halt meistens nicht viel haha
So you took Turkish language lessons? :) lovely! Must have been a bit harsh.
Btw, I’d like to put a little reminder here since people are commonly mistaken about this:
Turkish is an Asiatic language, not related to Semitic or Indo-European families. It belongs to Altaic languages which also inclused Tungusic, Korean, Mongolian and Japanese. But yes, during the movement of the Turkish tribes, the vocabulary was affected by the neighboring cultures such as Persian, Arabic, Greek, Armenian and even Italian.
I really enjoyed the lessons! Obviously the grammar takes some getting used to haha, but the fact that it's so different from Indo-European makes it really interesting, plus the teacher was very nice. No complaints from me!
There's a video on the Turkic languages in the playlist linked at the end :)
I love your videos SO much thank you for posting ❤️
Thank you, Sofia!! 💜
It's intresting actually, "Katuv" means to write in Hebrew, "Katuba" is the name of a marriage contract, "Kitov" means to have written in the past. Book is actually an entire different word, "Sepher" (which also means story)
Thank you,Saudi Arabia🤍
About Iranian languages please) Thank you. Your voice is very beautiful!
It's on my list, might take a bit, tho.
Thank you for the kind words, I appreciate it!
In the text above you failed to mention Ethiopic (Ge'ez) a Semitic language that is closest to the so-called Proto-Semitic, still used as a clerical language in the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Also, you mistakenly mention that only these two churches split from the European, Rome based church. This is the same for all so-called orthodox churches: Coptic, Syrian, Armenian, Russian and Greek Orthodox Churches.
Hi Hannah, thanks for the addition. I think you might have mistaken the format of this video for an academic intro which it isn't.
You may have already done this and I just missed it, but do you have any plans to cover Spanish in one of your language videos?
Yes, Spanish is coming at some point in November :)
@@MelangeASMR 😁 I will be eagerly awaiting that video!
Hebrew speaker here - love your stuff!!
Thank you!!
Great video - relaxing and very informative!
Glad to hear that, thank you!
17:15 the book header uses a capital "gamma" instead of a G, weird
hi! i know these videos probably take a lot of time to make, including research and accessing specific books so on so forth, but would you mind making a video relating to brazil? anything from culture to history :)
keep up the great work!
Thanks for the suggestion! Principally yes, but I can't really promise anything as to when I'll be able to get to it. My list is a bit long 😅
@@MelangeASMR no problem! i understand how hard it is to make good content and how many requests you get, don’t worry too much about it :)
Melange: "ran"
Me, a scholar: "runned"
The amount of times native speakers ignore the very important rules I had to memorise in school, I wouldn't be surprised to hear runned 😅
Something I found curious, but you referred to the area where israel is as "Levante" (at least this is what I heard and also what the subtitles showed). Why do you refer it as that? I've only ever heard it called Mesopotemia, the crescent, Asia Minor or the Middle East before.
Sure, that's a good question! Mesopotamia is specifically the region around Euphrates and Tigris (centered in Iraq) and Asia Minor is a part of Turkey, so these are smaller sections, but Levant, Near/Middle East and Fertile Crescent are roughly the same area and true, I could have used either one of those. Especially Near/Middle East seems very nebulous to me, though - it might have to do with a slightly different connotation in German where Middle East extends all the way past Afghanistan. Levant on the other hand is something I see relatively often around Vienna (lots of restaurants advertising Levantine cuisine lol) and in my understanding is more speciically oriented towards the Mediterranean, but yeah, probably depends on the language and on what sources you pick!
@@MelangeASMR oooh cool that makes so much sense! I never knew that area was called the Levant, learned another thing today! 😊
Damn this is a very specific niche I did not expect to find today
Fascinating! Thanks 😊
One thing I learned is what the elastic band thingy on notebooks can also be used for
All love to my fellow semites 🙋🏽♂️
I loved this video! question: why do we use arabic numerals? would be nice to get the answer on another video
That's a great question for a video, thank you! My guess is that they're the most practical but I'll have to read up on that myself.
So interesting, great video.
Thank you!
I love your content 🙏
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Make a map of Greece ! Great job by the way 🇬🇷
If i had access to her library i would be thrilled to read all these books
Tell me how to find the time to actually read everything 😥
Finally a video featuring Africa
More Africa coming this week!
I immediately recognized kitab because of my knowledge of Indonesian. Yes, it is not Semitic by any means, but it is language steeped in the culture of Islam. There are many Arabic words carried over into it. Kitab is one word the have for book
Ah how cool! I actually picked Kitab because I knew it from learning Turkish which, same thing, isn't Semitic but has Arabic loanwords.
Kitab means Amulet in Amharic.
we call MSA Al-Fusha wich means "the eloquent"
your channel is as if LangFocus married WhispersRed creating a language ASMR baby 😂
omg thank you!! 🥺😭
Woohoo!!!
Can you do the swedish
I currently have a bit of a long list with requests, but I can offer you a map of Sweden that I did last year: th-cam.com/video/hpy196cVSVI/w-d-xo.html
@@MelangeASMR thx
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I can’t wait for the native North African language video: Tamazight!!
Map is completely wrong. Regions like the Atlas mountains, Rif mountains, Nafusa mountains, Aures mountains, Souss, Kabylia etc do not speak Arabic. We speak Tamazight. I’m from the Rif mountains.
The only Europian country that speaks a The only Semitic language in Europe is in Malta 🇲🇹 Maltese is classified as Sicilian Arabic.
The spice… she’s here for the spice milange
I always wondered why the Arabs never wrote down anything about the English people.
it was because it wasn't the same as today…
we can understand the poems that existed before Islam came to Arabia, while Sweden for example struggled to understand just 200 years back.
My guess that there just wasn't much going on in England at the time that would have been interesting to Arab scholars ;)
Pretty sure that Swedish hasn't undergone such drastic changes in only 200 years, though.
Classical Arabic is richer and more complex than MSA (Modern Standard Arabic)...think of it as a 'dumbing down' or simplification, and also taking on sentence structure that is not natural to the classical version...
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Arabic is the most common language of Arabian countries not just the Quran. Christian, Jewish and Arabs of all different faiths exist!
Arabic speaker from ALGERIA (North Africa)
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You're so fast, hello!
@@MelangeASMR you know ... just quietly waiting :) x
Did Ye put you up to this??😂
Just working off my list of requests haha
BERBER IS NOT SEMITIC. AND DARIJA TOO
That is correct - as I said, it's a different branch of the Afroasiatic family which Semitic is also a part of.
Very grateful for this video as a native Hebrew speaker
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Why would you skip Berber when looking at the languages? annoying
Because it's not a Semitic language.
فلسطين اسمها فلسطين 🇵🇸 this name is Palestinian مفيش اسرائيل