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Except for uralic.

Aren't kids compelled to write by hand in schools, at least until they reach uni level?

@@nofridaynightplans I'm not actually sure if they're just boomers memeing on us or if it's legitimately the case that the younger generations have less refined writing. Being an overseas meant that I never properly learnt to write. That said, when I was in elementary, English cursive was still held up as the formal writing skill even though keyboards and then computers were being introduced into the curriculum. By high school there was nothing about cursive anymore.

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What is usually assumed is that Nabataean Aramaic was a dialect of Aramaic used by the Nabataeans. Over time, the Nabataeans increasingly adopted Arabic as their spoken language, influenced by their Arab identity. However, they continued to write in the Nabataean Aramaic script. As Arabic became more dominant, the script began to evolve to better accommodate the Arabic language. Aramaic was a major lingua franca at the time. When Cyrus conquered Babylon, he kept the Aramaic language as the lingua franca of the empire instead of imposing Old Persian. Thank you for your comment.

@@nofridaynightplans thank you for your kind response. As I kept reading I eventually saw there was a transitioning in writing from Nabataean Aramaic to Nabataean Arabic to Arabic, with visual evidence. Thank you again

Thank you Carola for giving some time to this video too 🙂. As a native French speaker, I must say I was surprised to see how this whole French thing had unfolded over the past two centuries. France is usually regarded as an assimilationist country but the book the video is based on does show that -as is always the case with the advancement of Capital, French was only a means to an end: dominate and exploit for the circulation of goods. In this regard, things haven't changed much, wherever you look in the world. Thank you for your comment!

Thank you for your comment Carola. I sincerily appreciate it. I do remember you from the "How to read Arabic without vowels" video - I think it is the first one you left a comment on a few months ago. I'm pleasantly surprised to see you here too. Thank you for your valuable support 🙂. The general leveling down in all areas is objectively easy to observe. New technologies tend to offer fewer opportunies to write and overall, reading isn't as popular as it used to be. However, the "tibiwangzi disease" is another aspect of this decline, I believe, and it is very specific to Chinese (all its varieties) and Japanese, which are the only languages in the world that still use ideograms. Except for cases of rare cognitive impairment, it is unlikely people would forget how to write the Latin script, or any other alphabet, if they have acquired this knowledge because alphabets are inherently limited in terms of number of letters. In the case of Chinese and Japanese, you will simply forget the characters (at least the most complex ones, which represent a sizeable portion of them all) if you don't practice them every day. Poor language ability may well affect Japanese and Chinese people too; but on top of that, they are also faced with this additional obstacle. These are truly fascinating times, in every respect. Thank you again for your lovely comment and valuable contribution.

Thanks again for taking the time to give further explanation. you are certainly right. ❤

I also started by researching Japanese typewriters. But rapidly realised the Chinese history was more interesting, as in unexpected. Thanks for your comment!

Neither did I 😂

Thanks so much for the support! I sincerely appreciate it! I must say I was really surprised to discover all this. I find it fascinating and I’m glad to share this knowledge with others :)

The thing with things like GPT is that they may impede people’s ability to articulate thinking and research on their own. I’m not quite sure this will be without consequences in the longer run. But time will tell. Thank you for your comment Tasneem 💛

As you must have realised by the time you reached the 5th minute, this video is about how Arabic vocabulary influenced European languages; i.e. this is not an Arabic lesson with vocabulary translation... برقوق from the Greek word βερικοκκία gave apricot. Whether it means apricot or not in Greek and Arabic is not the point of the video.

Thank you for your nice comment. I sincerely appreciate it a lot.

Je trouve aussi. Si vous cherchez en japonais, vous trouverez de nombreuses informations très intrigantes (et intéressantes) sur les nombreuses hypothèses d'analyse du film !

Indeed. But the interesting part is why biblion? The name of the Phoenician city explains it all ;)

Arabs literally lost control over iran after just 224 years of their conquest + arabs only settled in ahvaz which isn't even a majority arabs

+modern iranians don't speak Arabic or a branch of Arabic but persian (farsi) which is an indoeuropean language, they have a few Arabic words in their language because Arabic was mostly used in theology

@@omarelmorsy139 their language is fuII of Arabic words actually, and their alphabet is entirely Arabic.

@supermavro6072 even through I'm arab when I listened to farsi I understood nothing but a few words, not to mention that they added some letters in their writing system that doesn't even exist in arabic, their alphabet have a 32 letter while arabic have 28

Hi! Gracias por tu comentario ^0^ Hay una traducción de RTK en español :) I'm only saying that so that you know. Por supuesto, la versión en inglés es buena también. All the best in your journey!

I recently came across this info and thought I'd turn it into a video 🤭

Oh thanks so much for the feedback. Don't hesitate to please elaborate so that I can improve! <3 Much appreciated!

Short can have its upsides :)

I appreciate it, Tasneem. I know you prefer videos where I talk to the camera, so this is even nicer. The next video won't be an animation tho :D

If you watched the video, you must have heard Arabic-speaking scientists and not Arab scientists.

@@nofridaynightplans Arabic was used as Lingua Franca between Islamic nations however many ( actually most of) muslim scientists and Philosophers were Persian speakers e.g. Khwarizmi, Avicenna, Ghazali , .. et al.

​@@majidbineshgar7156 Khawarizmi wrote both in Arabic and Persian. So did Avicenna. Anyways, this is a video about how Arabic words entered European languages. I have 0 interest in horizontal wars, especially when it comes to race.

@@nofridaynightplans Arabic is a race and language ( Afro-Asiatic ) distinct from Iranic race and Persian ( an indo-european language ) therefore you cannot claim "I have 0 interest in horizontal wars, especially when it comes to race" have a good day .

As I said in this video and the one on the history of French in Africa, the main challenge in African countries is to find a unifying language as most countries have artificial borders and encompass many different peoples, each with their respective languages. It is good if Lingala becomes the unifying language of RDC. And it's good too if Wolof becomes the unifying language of Senegal. But as long as the State as an administrative entity exists, it will need to impose one common language. That's why most regional languages in French are almost all dead - the State had to wipe them out. Your statement may need a bit more nuance. Most Congolese literature is written in French, isn't it? I read "Mathématiques congolaises" by In Koli Jean Bofane not so long ago and I thought it was extremely well written. It would be good to develop literature in Lingala. But in the present instance, I think that money matters are also at play: it may not be as lucrative to write in local languages as it is in French as most markets can be targeted without the need for a translation. I'd be happy to see more literature in local languages. But writing in English instead of French is where my ability to understand the logic stops. I'm in favor of more languages, not fewer. Thanks for your comment :)

@nofridaynightplans I get you, and you are right. Actually, in my comment, all I wanted was to let people know the reality on the ground ( in Congo ) because non african people around the world think that those so called african french-speaking countries are as french-speaking as France which is not true . So, I wanted to add that up so that people know how different we are . As far as local literature is concerned, you are right,unfortunately, most books are published in french compared to the few that are published in local languages . The biggest local languages book writers and publishers are Jehovah's Witnesses , Catholic church, and protestant church. We still have a long way to go in terms of writing in local languages, but compared to some other so-called french-speaking countries in Africa, Congo 🇨🇩 Kinshasa is way better in advancing local languages agenda and speaking in local language. In fact, most french-speaking countries in Africa envy us ,Congolese, in the sense that we give value to our language. For example : our Congolese Rhumba ( mimic genre ) is now recognized by UNESCO as an Intagible heritage of humanity . This music genre is sung 100% in lingala, by the way . Congolese have a strong lingala speaking audience on social media like Tiktok and RUclips with millions of views where lingala speakers can earn money from these social media without creating content in french or in English. This is not possible for other french-speaking countries . They envy us on this and don't understand how possible this can be . So this shows how small french is our mind and social interaction. Disclaimer : I'm not saying that Congolese don't create content in french, but RUclips videos in lingala have more views than those in french by far way.

​@@imhotep1613 Thank you for adding this. But you're only mentioning Lingala. It surely isn't the only language in RDC. What about Tshiluba or Kiswahili and the other lesser known ones?

@nofridaynightplans Yes, you are right . I'm mentioning lingala because without no doubt lingala is the only local language in Congo you can use in every single corner of Congo Kinshasa where out of 10 people at least 4 people would speak it and understand it perfectly. Me mentioning lingala doesn't mean I am trying to undermine Kikongo , kiswahili, and Tshiluba. In fact as far as kiswahili is concerned this beautiful language is more internationally recognized and known than the 4 national languages of Congo Kinshasa and alsoa in terms of its speakers on african level , Kiswahili has more speakers the other 3 Congo national languages combined. Again, I mentioned lingala to show how a local language can be pop culture definition or a bridge between different ethnic groups. It's impossible to have more than 2 languages dominating culturally in an African country . For example : In South africa there is no other local language that is way popular in terms of music, for example like isiZulu . I'm not saying that people in SA don't use other local languages, but isizulu is so big there compared to its fellow indigenous african languages. I guess this makes sense .

@@imhotep1613 Thank you for clearing that up. These insights are very interesting and I'm pretty sure others will find this info valuable. Thank you for visiting the channel! ^.^

The numbers that are used in the Latin script are from Arabic, and the numbers that are used in the Perso-Arabic script are from Indian. Both coming from Brahmi

These 1234 are arabic and these ١٢٣٤ are Indian

Thank you very much! I appreciate it a lot! *>.<*

For some reason, it's one of the first associations that came to mind 😅😅

Thank you! <3

Lol saying that they took everything from other civilizations without adding anything is the most retarded shit I saw in your comment, they took the knowledge from other civilizations ( like any civilization in history of mankind cuz knowledge is something cumulative ) and develop it and even made new sciences new theories and changed the history of science forever saying they just copied things is the stupidest shit even to say in fact they added more than what they copied and correct more from what they copied more than what they left If we're going to use your same logic than the western civilization stole everything from other civilizations ( they didn't even have scientific honesty like Arabs ) bro even your culture is stolen from the Greeks and the Romans, this civilizations classify themselves as eastern civilizations western and north europeans were believed to be unwashed barbarians who doesn't have the capability to be civilized according to the Greeks and Romans themselves you only stole their culture after the fall of Rome at the hands of barbaric German tribes the same why you stole science and knowledge after the fall of Andalusia and how you took muslims maliki law from Egypt after French campaign against Egypt to make the french law the base of all western law today As for electricity and the internet and all that great invasion yaah it's all great and all but it won't remove the superiority of Islamic civilization over the west that even the most haters of Islam among orientalists believe in it and can't deny it lol even the king of the UK couldn't deny it it's just a historical fact no matter how much edgy keyboard warriors teenagers hate it, but you forget the greatest discovery humanity made that you won't have any of those inventions without it something no civilization before Islamic civilization made it's scientific methodology

Btw can you give me one civilization in western or northern europe before Andalusia? Just one

I am not a native speaker but I speak fluent Arabic. Thank you for clicking on the video, even if it was just to poke fun at my pronunciation.

@@nofridaynightplans Sorry if my former comment seems rude, and I really appreciate your effort and I'm happy that there're people like you who put the effort to learn my mother tongue and get to this level, But I'm sure you as a fluent Arabic speaker see those who claim that they're polyglots and speaking fluent Arabic then you hear them and they actually speaking it like a toddler who no native speaker can understand, that's why I'm interested to poke fun at those, not at really hardworking people like you.

​@@allaab9385 No offence taken :) Thank you for your comment.