Writing systems of the Americas
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ธ.ค. 2020
- Writing systems of the Americas, Olmec hieroglyphs, Zapotec writing, Isthmian writing, Maya script, Mixtec writing, Aztec writing, Quipu, Runic, Latin, Cyrillic, Cherokee syllabary, Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, Afaka syllabary
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Latin after it disappeared in Greenland: "I'll be back muahahahaha"
With a BANG.
ΤΙ? οποιος ειναι ελληνας καταλαβε🤣🤣🤣
@@user-cd3kp4qe7c I WILL BACK
It's too cold there..
*I always come back*
Now we can call both North America and South America “Latin America”
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
O_O
everyone there are latinos now
Eae,mano kkk
Spain explored most of what would be the USA before English was ever uttered there.
Everybody: I'll invent a complex system of signs to represent sounds or words
Incas: l like knots
Incas *handshakes with* Furries,
liking knots
@@Argacyan Furries like knots?
I like your name
@Hi last name Well,makes sense
I'm calling the cops
That sudden music change when the Europeans were about to arrive tho
With all the PC around I wouldn't be too surprised if YT mandates that all Melas videos play Darth Vader's Theme in all the vids where the Europeans arrive. As a Latin American with black roots, I for one am glad I live in a civilization that doesn't still use quipu to communicate.
@@bradleyagdern1477 ?
3:28 Aztecs: Ah cant wait to expand my emp-
Spain: B u e n a s d i a s
@@aoveratedjoke3583 b u e n o s*
@@thecleitom9497 DamnIWasSoCloseToBeingCorrect
@@aoveratedjoke3583 s o r r i
@@thecleitom9497 nah its all good I'd rather know I messed up
Happy New Year!!
Happy new year 🎇🎆
Hello
Thank you!Happy new year!
Thank you. #Rosalina
To you too :-)
Could have zoomed into mesoamerica because a lot is going on there and there’s a lot of empty space in the bottom left.
Latin teacher : why did you write in Portuguese ? I told you to write in Latin !
Me : but I *DID* write in Latin !
Thats why its best to call it the Roman script.
I used modern vulgar latin
@@Mill_Jr I love this one
@@Mill_Jr Modern Standardized Vernacular Castillian Latin.
hahaha
I love these maps, I knew that this one would be as complete as the rest, in this case including even the Quipu. Excellent videos, keep it up!
Thank you
My compliments for adding khipu (quipu), Cherokee- and the Canadian syllabary. Also for the realization that Maya writing survived well into the 17th century. It's actually making a comeback right now. The Aztec script was also used well into the 17th century, and one could argue that it is still used, for example in the Mexican and the Guatemalan flags. The same is true for khipu, which, in a simplified version, was used until the 19th and 20th century.
I'd further like t to add the awesome looking Osage script, the record systems of the Algonkian & Iroquoian nations (wampum for example) and, my own research topic, the script of Teotihuacan.
Great video !
Quipus were found in Caral (Norte-Chico civilisation), which makes them actually more ancient than Olmec and on par with some of the earliest systems of the old world.
Latin : hello America may I set on Greenland
American languages : well ok
American languages : Latin where are you you disappeared ?? 😰
Latin : PRANK
Alphabets and Launguages aren't the same thing.
😂😂🤣🤣🤣
and one more suggestion:
map of systems of measurement
Great idea. Thank you. It is a field of interest to me
Very good suggestion
@@CostasMelas nice, good luck!
@@CostasMelas very interesting but there would be many
Latin: if you strike me down I shall become stronger than you could ever imagine
How different would have been the history of our continent if Cyrillic alphabet expanded more far away than Alaska?
Probably not very, because Russia couldn't really hold on to parts of the Americas anyway.
@@randomguy-tg7ok well it is possible that the natives would choose to use it themselves like how they adopted orthodox christianity
Happy New Year, Americas and the World Wide !
no
It's insane how quickly Europe conquered the Americas. And Spain, Portugal, France, and England, are all successor states to the Romans, so it was like, Rome's legacy conquered the Americans and in another video, they also conquered subsaharan Africa.
The Spanish had guns, horses, sick people, and the Aztec Empire's love of human sacrifice to help them. The French and English merely invaded after a huge chunk of the population got sick and died.
@@foxymetroid The English and French had guns, horses and sick people too. Not only the Spanish bro.
@@nelsonperez8855 The Spanish arrived first. By the time the French and English arrived, disease had already devastated the local populations.
@@foxymetroid the Spanish didn't do anything to what became the US and Canada, they only conquered the Mesoamericans and South Americans. All the European countries has guns and advanced technology that the native Indians were never going to beat. The biggest difference between the Spanish and English & French colonies though is that natives were much more numerous in Central America than they were in the Plains and forests of the US and Canada, so in English and French colonies the natives were typically pushed out or exterminated while in Spanish America they mixed with the incoming Spanish colonists making the modern Mestizo population of many Latin countries (other countries, particularly in the Southern Cone, also had very small indigenous populations and so they were also exterminated instead and the Europeans came in, which is why Argentina is almost completely white).
As well, to the original commenter, I also wouldn't consider England a successor to Rome, the English were never Roman themselves.
@@nelsonperez8855 we turks destroyed the states you call yourself conpueror by killing people with sticks in europeans shame on you 🤣🤣🤣
Nice to see all america red✊🏻🇨🇺
Nice decision to include Quipu! I always enjoy your videos!
Thank you
Now we need 'writing systems of oceania' right?
That actually would be interesting, considering rongorongo
@@maxi6457 There is another native system which appeared on the Carolina islands and one on Vanuatu too. That is like Rongorongo they appeared after european contact.
Wonderful work!👍
Thank you :)
Amazing work on this one. KEEP THEM COMING ❤
Thank you
It would be cool to see a languages of australia video (remember to include the pre-colonial period or it will be a very quick video!)
Wouldn't that be like a bazillion unrelated languages?
@@John_Jim Most of the languages are of the Pama-Nyungan language family.
The only acception is Northwestern Australia with several different families.
Another great video.
Thank you
*The Best TH-camr*
Nice! Will you be back to making vids about language after this? It would be really interesting to see one about the spread of languages in the Americas
i like how 2021 is included :)
As always a great video! Hope 2021 will be lucky for us! Anyway what are you planning for next video?
Thank you very much. I haven't decided yet for the next
the 2021,made me weird, great vids !
No one:
Native syllabaries in the 19th century: *Hi bitches*
Thanks thanks a loooot!!!! 👍👍👍👍
Great! Now, why not a video of all the indigenous language families spoken in the Americas (Eskimo-Aleut, Uto-Aztecan, Algonquin, Nez-Perce, Navajo, Seminole, Maya, Quechuan, Ge-Pano Carib, te al) as well?
May be too small to show up on your map but there is another Cherokee tribal government in western North Carolina that also uses the syllabary, in addition to the main Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma.
Northwest Caroline
Can u make history of numerals?
Cool
I’m fairly sure the CAS is used in parts of Greenland, in regions where they speak Inuktitut.
Quipus have actually been found at Caral Norte Chico which was a civilization almost contemporary to Mesopotamia.
The beginning of this system is actually unknown. This form is more difficult to save in time than the stone carvings
@@CostasMelas The date you show could apply for the development of complex quipus (The ones used by the Inca, with the zero, fractions, colors, capable of doing more than just counting armies, population, bloodlines, livestock, land measuraments, calendars, etc and actually recording poetry, dialogue and history as the Spanish claimed).
gODDAMN IT SPAIN
HELL YEAH, SPAIN!!
Not just them tho
Very cool! No Miꞌkmaw hieroglyphic writing though? Should be up in Canada somewhere.
it wasn't well standerdized and information is hard to come by
Mormons also used the Deseret alphabet for a while.
very good map, what happened to Northeast Canada in the 2000s to become more blue than red? , Canadian aboriginal syllabary writing became the official script in the region?
The establishment of Nunavut, an Inuit majority area
What happened in Greenland?
The norse settlements declined and collapsed eventually after c.1450, but Greenland was recolonized by Denmark-Norway in 1721.
People in the settlements were frozen
They collapsed for reasons I think are debated. They collapsed possibly due to native invasions ironically enough.
*muy interesante, gracias makinola*
Saludos desde nezahualcóyotl
Saludos para ti también!
Perfect sound effect at 3:27
Great Video, the precolumbian civilizations always fascinated me and its very sad the ability to read Quipu has faded entirely
Thank you very much
it hasn't
Latin has entered the chat 💀
Came here before this go viral
Will you do a video about Dravidian languages
I will try in the future. It is difficult mainly the earliest stages
What mapping software does this?
What are those modern syllabary in North America?
History of the armenian language please!
Can u make a vedio about the tripes of native american
Happy New Year. #Rosalina
The first languange of the movie actor East Stuady ,(i think i writed corretc) who was Magna in The Last of Mohawks were Cherokee he is a real cherokee and learned to speak cherokee before speak english .
Imagine showing this clip to someone that doesnt know about the european colonisation
Check out my realistic map of the world which has North and South America, for Age of Empires 2. I also did one of the Pacific Ocean which includes Mesoamérica, and in the west even Persia is included.
que interesante
Now all the other scripts in canada are being converted into Latin.
Dravidian language maps?
You forgot Osage. It came about in 2006 in Osage County, Oklahoma
Costas Melas. Can you do a video about the Dacian Kingdom?
It will be done in the future. Do you know other Dacian important cities or towns except Sarmizegetusa?
@@CostasMelas yes. Argedava capital of the Dacian Kingdom and later Dacian Empire of Burebista until he built Sarmisegetuza.
@@CostasMelas you can find dacian cities on wikipedia,
You should have included mi’kmaq hieroglyphs, but otherwise, great video!
Thank you
it is strange how you add other recording systems like quippu for the americas but none for the video on africas writing systems. africa had many recording systems like sona
Most civilizations: we will carve our languages onto stone
Incans: 🪢
Writing Systems Oceania Pls
Who says Rome ever fell?
Yeah you got a point!
Do you use latin alphabet ?
Cherokee : yes and no
Them Incan knot system best
Убедительная победа латиницы на обоих континентах. Только в последней половине века некоторым аборигенам подарена личная письменность.
cool, the whole occident speaks Latin, no more barriers because of languages, very well 👍
They write in the Latin script, not speak the Latin language. This video is about writing systems. It is called the Latin script because it was first used by the Romans who spoke Latin. It developed from the Etruscan script, which came from the Greek script, which came from the Phoenician script, which came from the Proto-Sinaitic script, which came from the Egyptian script
Caral, Peru with Quipu, then Paracas, then Huari, then Incas
Well, that was one sided
plague inc vibes
Sorry, but didn't Maya civilization collapse around 10th century? In above video maya script is still there in early 16th century when Europeans came. How so?
Just because the civilization itself collapse doesn't mean people that have knowledge of the script disappear instantly, some people had some knowledge of the script till 16th century when it was lost.
The history of the Mayans is divided into different stages, such as the pre-classical period (c. 2000 BC - 250 AD), the classical period (c. 250-900 AD) and the post-classical period (c. 950-1539 AD). Both the pre-classical and classical periods ended in collapse, during which many cities were abandoned, but not all.
Latin in its redness spread like blood spilling from a wound 😆😆
Cherokee invented their writing system only in 1830s?
I thought the whole Americas was just Latin
Apparently a lot of First Nations languages are tiresome to write with alphabets so abudigas were adopted instead...
1492: Happens
Latin: I AM SPEED!
Happy new year America. Latin won’t go
But where's rongorongo? It would have fit in the map!
What is wrongrongo ?
@@crkcrk702 It's the writing system of the Easter Island.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongorongo
@@karolpalion2883 it looks like hyeroglyphs
Easter island are part of Oceania.I know it's a pseudo continent
even though Hawaii appeared in the video is technically part of the oceania
Not quite right. Written Chinese in the Pacific Northwest. Not the "official" languages of Canada or USA, but the "Chinatown" enclaves in the major coastal cities have always had large populations. Especially after Hong Kong 1996 exodus.
The areas would be too small to see anyway.
Carrier Syllabary BC
So hieroglyphs predate alphabets sorta like how pantheons predate monotheism... Except hieroglyphs are guaranteed to die out.
Monotheism is older.
@@servantofaeie1569 Polytheism predates monotheism.
@@foxymetroid that is false on all levels.
Latin did not spread that fast. It took around a century for Europe to become influential enough that most natives would start learning European languages to trade and connect with them. Even then, most natives still kept their original language as the main one.
This video is about written languages not spoken ones. Maybe they spoke their own languages but they didn't write so Latin spread really fast.
Even in Mexico today, many people still speak Nahuatl and other native languages
@@stefanozucchelli5410 It didn't. 90% of the people *speaking* Latin in America before the 17th century were Europeans who settled and conquered very few specific spots of both Meso and South America, not the huge territory the video claims they had.
@@sardiniapiedmont Exactly. Around half of the native population living in Meso and South America only started learning European languages by the 19th century due to the predominant population being Mestizos, Mulatos and Criollos who lived in already independent countries. These countries were originally a result of deals and alliances between Europeans and Natives in the 16th and 17th centuries, but epidemics devastated the indigenous populations and Europe kept arriving in large scale migrations.
@@mankuqhapaqii4798 As the primary (in many cases, only) written language, it spread fast mostly because many of the native peoples either had no need for a written language or any examples failed to survive over hundreds or thousands of years. It's possible older populations had a written language, but wrote primarily on things that eventually rotted or burned away or were recycled to save on time and/or resources.
Sad music.
Well, that was depressing.
The Americas: *Rich empires and a lot of gold
Europe:
...... yyeeeaah were just gonna go ahead and take that.
When Romans indirectly discovers America 😁
first
second
Q. : HOW YOU CAN DESTROY CIVILIZATIONS ?
europe : yes
EPIC
It is ironic to hear this from the Arabs, who mutilated and practically destroyed two of the most ancient civilizations, - the Persian and Egyptian.
@@skaor8036 Iranians are still around and speak Farsi Egytpians tho- 😬
Tell this to the Arabs
@@skaor8036
It's the Romans not the arabs who did that
Latin&Indo americans ❤
By far the least diverse continent, in terms of scripts
Australia and Antarctica are even less diverse
@@JcDizon Antartica has secret pinguin scripts but shhh
@@JcDizon nah antarctica as latin, Cyrillic and Chinese as well as Hindu script
I would say this
1. Antarctica
2. Americas
3. Africa
4. Oceania
5. Europe
6. Asia
@@servantofaeie1569 Oceania is more diverse than Africa and the Americas? Explain
You forgot about Inuktitut syllabics
It is included into the grouped category Canadian aboriginal syllabics
@@CostasMelas Oh, I see. I thought it was used in Greenland as well, but I might be wrong.
@@John_Jim I think the Canadian aboriginal syllabics was only introduced in Canada and Greenland was under Denmark and the Inuit there write in the Latin script instead. In the Inuit territory of Nunavut, the syllabics is widely promoted.
English 60% latin soo is latin 50% spanish 89% latin french 75% latin portuguese 85% latin
Hot take: colonialism sucks.