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Pure anecdotal evidence here, but I was once in a bar in the Dubai airport when a waiter asked in arabic if I'd like anything. I replied apologetically saying I didn't speak arabic, which surprised him. He'd overheard me speaking on the phone in Irish, but without listening closely assumed I was speaking arabic with a thick accent.
@@peterfilipovic Yeah, it's definitely down to the rhythm. As someone of both Middle Eastern and Celtic heritage who grew up hearing but not speaking either language, I have noticed many times how they tend to be spoken with the same flows and inflections. It's amazing!
In my case, a native Spanish speaker who currently learns some Welsh, I find similar, that the order noun-adjective is their natural way such as in my language.
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I was learning Arabic about 10 years ago through a community class at my university, and my Irish history professor happened to be taking the class with me. She was a native Irish speaker. Nearly every class she was surprised by the similarities and would comment on things being 'like how it is in Irish". PS I moved to Ireland three years ago and was getting a tour of Trinity College Dublin by a guy who was doing his PhD on Old Irish. He was explaining the genitive case being used in one of the signs, and I said, oh yeah, I get it that's just like Arabic. He was kind of confused. I didn't realize this was a kind of unique grammatical feature.
Stupid question, perhaps, but there are plenty of languages using a genitive case. English still does, in some limited cases; German is losing it in favour of the dative (producing sentences that sound horrible even to a heathen like me), but it is still very much there in formal/written language, and pretty much any language that has case inflexions has a genitive case. So (here is the stupid question), what is unique about the use of the genitive in Arabic and Irish?
@@FirasAlkarradi perhaps or perhaps more likely before the arrival of the indo european languages into europe, this was the dominant grammer in the region
I'm an Arabic native speaker, and a few months back I took special interest in Scottish Gaelic. While trying to learn the language, I was thinking in English, think that out of the languages I know English would be the one I would relate most to Gaelic. However, when it got to the grammar I was absolutely lost! Until I realized how similar and maybe even identical the Gaelic sentence structure was to that of Arabic. It was really fascinating and I wondered how two languages spoken in different parts of the world were so similar! Thanks for the video!
wow, i'm scottish and think that's so cool that someone who speaks arabic wanted to learn a bit about gaelic 🙂 i've heard arabic is really complex to learn, but i've always wanted to as i love syrian, lebanese/basically all middle eastern food lol. if i start, then hopefully i'd be able to pronounce the sounds a little bit better than an english person 😂
I'm an Irish speaker and my cousins are actually fluent Hebrew speakers and I have long mentioned how curiously similar I found the two languages so this was really nice to hear, that I'm not losing it but that there indeed are curious similarities between them!
There's a whole rabbit hole theory that the original Jewish moved west after war, and a declassified U.S. document from the 1950s stating that the modern "Jewish" are genetically not the originals, silently supporting this theory.
Irish person here. Never knew this. Really interesting. Thanks for the video! Wait, that sounds like a Limerick! Let me try again! Irish person here. Isn't it feckin' gear. From Middle East a Celtic feast that sounds just right to my ear!
Note: in the video I said that all Insular Celtic languages have a definite article and no indefinite article, but the Breton language in fact does have an indefinite article. -Also, there are some additional languages with a definite article and no indefinite article: Ancient Greek, and Bulgarian and Macedonian (I know those are often considered to be one language, but I just wrote both for clarity). -And at 9:30 the map says 3rd century CE and 6th century CE, but it should be "BCE", not "CE". ******* Let me also cut and paste some of the main sources I used. The first two cover additional similarities that I didn't include in the video. #2 is easy to find online. 1) Jongeling, Comparing Welsh and Hebrew (2000) 2) Steve Hewitt, Remarks on the Insular Celtic/Hamito-Semitic Question. 3) Germania Semitica by Theo Vennemann gen. Nierfeld
First people in Europe probably belonged to E1b1b haplogroup and they were often black or in the middle between blackness or whiteness. This haplogroup is associated with diverse afroasiatic group. Today, this haplogroup contains 10 percent of the men in Europe and even more in southern Italy, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania, southern Spain. In the Balkans, it has a frequent correlation with haplogroup J that brought agriculture to Europe. It's noteworthy to see that Semitic languages are a result of Afroasiatic superstrata over Middle eastern substrate of J haplogroup. J haplogroup is strongly common in Anatolia and Balkans. Somewhere, pra-celtic languages had contact with languages of J haplogroup, maybe Semitic. Pra-Germanic was a synthesis of Celtic, Slavic and non-Indoeuropean (connected with I haplogroup) languages. I haplogroup is closely related to J haplogroup, and hence, people that spoke them, had probably had quite similar preindoeuropean and presemitic languages that were lated eliminated by indoeuropean and semitic languages ...
About 10:10 there existed huge tin trade between Cornwall and Mid East, operated by Phoenicians and Carthaginians some 3,000 years ago, supposedly even much earlier. Any similarities between Insular Celtic languages and Classic Semitic languages could arose due to linguistic contact with any pre_Celtic Insular Sprachbund. Seems possible :)
@@recklerrex6721 :O The first Bulgarian that I have seen on RUclips that is not saying that Macedonian is just Bulgarian. Greetings from Peru, South America.
In the 1980s there was a documentary series on Irish television called Atlantean. It discussed possible ancient trade links between Ireland and the Middle East. It was based on research by an Irish writer named Bob Quinn. In one episode it discussed an ancient tradition which maintained that Irish and Arabic were mutually intelligible.
@@raegitano6345 The most commonly spoken Celtic Language is Welsh, so in Wales its heard quite often. However for Irish we have areas known as the "Gealtacht" where the 70,000 native speakers speak the language everyday (I am one of these). If you run into a very isolated village any where on the Island chances are there will be locals speaking Irish, although they'll mostly be older.
Dude, I was going to write EXACTLY the same even before watching the video. Paul, thank you for the awesome content and keep it up! I sincerely love all your videos, and you were the first channel I ever subscribed to on RUclips!
As a Scottish Gaelic speaker (Nova Scotian) who has studied Arabic, I noticed many of the things you note. I would also add that "gus" in Scottish Gaelic means "until", but also "in order to". And if I remember correctly, "Hatta" has the same dual meaning in Standard Arabic.
@Me Dna -- Why the fuck would you hope that someone becomes Muslim?? Let the adults discuss the relevant topic here; you run along and read the Quran....
As someone who has studied Hebrew, and later looked at Scottish Gaelic, I must say I was immediately struck by the similarities. Thanks for fitting my random thoughts into some order in this video.
My husband is Irish and we've lived in the Middle East. He noticed a similarity between Irish and Arabic when we lived there. He noticed that the accent mark "fada" in Irish is called a "fat-ha" in Arabic and does something similar to the pronunciation of a letter.
I suspect its because celtic evolved from proto indo European. Arabic was influenced by Persian which is also an indo European language as is Sanskrit which influenced Persian.
I am a native hebrew speaker, and once i have traveled in ireland and spoke hebrew with a friend, and then two irish people approached us and asked if we just spoke gaelic to each other. I was shocked that someone had made this mistake, but now i see that it actually makes sense.
I'm also fascinated by how close Arabic and Hebrew is in the video... even some of the words that look different in the video... we have a synonym in Arabic that sounds very similar to the Hebrew one.. like the example he mentioned in the video for " I have to write a letter" the Hebrew word for letter "mikhtav" is translated into risala in Arabic... but we also use "maktoob" which also derives from something to do with writing.. I was hoping to see words which are similar in Semitic languages and Celtic languages, that would be fascinating to see
Irish is my second language and it has made learning Arabic easy but I didn’t even realise that is why. This makes a ton of sense and Irish and Arabic are in 80s terms “Brothers from different Mothers”
You sir are a gem. Your page is a gold mine for those who are explorers trying to unearth the past. I as a history maj..and educator appreciate these videos. I know my linguistic colleagues especially.
As a Welsh learner who grew up learning welsh in school, my mind is being blown by the grammar deconstruction. I learned from immersion and never worried about the linguistic side of things. It's awesome.
You are so lucky! When a Welsh person say "I don't speak Welsh" - I take that statement with a grain of salt: either they learnt it in school and forgot or had is constantly around them. Either way, learning it as an adult would mean they have a huge advantage.
In Finnish like broadly the Uralic languages don't possess the verb "to have", it is the subject in the adessive case + on (for example, minulla on, "I have", literally "at me is"). It is nice to join the club.
Yes I am Irish but English is my native language while Irish I learned in school. I always found it strange how Irish had no verb "to have" but rather one said something was "at you". Nice to have simalarities with the Finnish people.
Great Video! As an Irishman and musician I've always seen the link between Irish music and Arabic Music in both the singing and music so this makes a lot of sense to me! Keep up the great work!
Hi Paul, great channel! Actually, the Irish suffixes on "from" are exact cognates of those in modern Persian. Irish: as (from), asam (from me), asat (from you sg), as (from him), aisti (from her) Persian: az (from), azam (from me), azat (from you), azesh (from him), azesh (from her)
The celts were nomadic peoples active in and around the mediterranean in pre-historic times. This has been proven by DNA samples from burial sites in Egypt and North Africa. They were a part of the DAN migration e.g. De Danaan (irish), Denmark, Danube.
Im not surprised , the Arabic is oldest language , All Semitics are Arabic dialects and Hebrew is one of them , many languages adopted Arabic grammatical structure and vocabularies
Eng. AM.A.M.A the Semitic dialect that became Arabic was first spoken between the years 1ad and 400ad as they transitioned from Southern Nabatean to pre-Arabic. The oldest barely changed language is in a tie between Chinese, Coptic, Hebrew and Lithuanian. Before the Bronze age reliable records on language were rare to unintelligible.
Eng. AM.A.M.A The claims that Semitic languages are dialects of Arabic is absurd. Also Hebrew is a Northwestern Semitic language and Modern Arabic came from a dialect of Southern Nabatean which is a Central Semitic language, not even the same branch.
There are perhaps minor but fascinating parallels with some sounds. I first noticed this connection in my work. I speak Irish and have an aggressively Irish last name, Ó Donnchadha, and have studied Hebrew. But as a Christian pastor who does many interfaith events, I quickly discovered that if I demonstrated how to pronounce Ó Donnchadha, the rabbis and imams always get it perfectly and my fellow Christians never do!
@Jean-Daniel Ó Donnchadha , Funny that ! When we suddenly discover something uniquely in common with those precieved as different from us. That's what I love about interacting with other cultures faiths & traditions, our differences make what we do share even more precious. שבת שלום
KnightlyGreen The Oxford History of Music says that a sculpture of bagpipes has been found on a Hittite slab at Euyuk in the Middle East, dated to 1000 BC. Very nice connection you’ve recognized
There is a theory that the Romans brought the bagpipe to the British isles. If that is true, it wouldn't be too strange, considering the Romans were all around the Mediterranean and the Middle East.
I learned Welsh as a second language and am now learning biblical Hebrew; I thought that my mind was playing tricks on me, and that I was reading too much into things when I noticed grammatical similarities between Welsh and Hebrew, so this was quite reassuring.
native irish speaker here. not surprised at the connections honestly. I've even had foreign friends tell me that spoken irish has sounds like hebrew to them lol (might be a bit far fetched) anyways great video paul👏🏻
Chualaidh siad "ch" ins an dá theangaidh agus as a shiocair sin d'úirt siad "ó, amhanc, tá siad iontach cosúil le chéile !" nuair atá an fhuaim sin le fáilt ins na céadta nó ins na mílte teangthach sa domhan... Níl cosúlacht ar bith eile eadar Eabhrais agus Gaeilg ó thaobh na fuaimníochta dó, goa
@@Gideon01 The only non-English common sound between Irish and Hebrew is [χ]... not really enough to say they sound alike. Spanish and German and so many other languages also have that sound.
@@kohakuaiko My answer was addressed to Vanessa K, actually. But I said "They heard "ch" in both languages and because of that they said "oh, look, they are very similar to each other!", while that sound exists in hundreds or thousands of languages in the world... Hebrew and Irish don't sound similar at all, lol".
Probably because Hebrew and Arabic both belong to the Central Semitic group of the extant West Semitic languages while Irish and Welsh belong to separate groups of the extant Insular Celtic languages, namely the Goidelic (or Gaelic) and Brittonic (or Brythonic) respectively. Languages within individual groups share many similarities and patterns.
Yes. The Irish spelling is like 2 drunk linguists decided to vomit all the vowels in a syllable or 2 and then make sure only native speakers could figure out the correct vowel to pronounce.
I think Welsh has about 300,000-400,000 fluent speakers, which is more than 20 years ago when it was around 100,000. Irish it somewhat ok, though it seem that most Irish speak it as a 2nd language and a majority still speak English as their daily language. Manx, Brittany, and Cornish are also growing in the native speakers department as well. And Scott's basically given up on revealing their Gaelic language.
Scottish have an Anglo language more than gaelic. It is called Scots and it came from Old English. Scots has just as much right to be the Scottish language as gaelic.
Actually, Arabic folk music, you said European Jewish folk music, and Celtic fuck music all use a pentatonic scale. It seems that many forms of folk music use a pentatonic scale and so they sound similar
@@javnok9266 Arab music uses microtones, their scales can be from 7 notes to 10 notes but the concept of the Arab maqaam is rather different than the musical scale so this usually causes confusion
I studied Irish for two years and I am studying Arabic now at university and I had already noticed some of these phenomena. I still believe some of the theories at the end to be quite extravagant, but the video still shed some light and helped me understand some interesting aspects of these languages. Thanks!
'If anybody lived in the continent before IE even arrived, it was probably Afro-Asiatic except for the British Isles, Scandinavia and Baltic region, in the last two I think the Uralic people persisted but not Afro-Asiatic.' There certainly were people in Europe before the Indo-European migrations. But they were not Afro-Asiatic, there were different groups of indigenous people. In Spain, there were the Iberians. Some people think that the Basque people are the descendents of these pre-Indo-European people. Other non-Indo-European Europeans that we know about: the Etruscans, the Pelasgians, the Minoans, etc. Nothing to do with Afro-Asiatic people although of course there was some influence concerning agriculture and also migrations.
There might have been different languages belonging to different families spoken among the Old Europeans. I mean, Basque is apparently not related to Etruscan for example. On the other hand the idea that the replacement by Indo-Europeans wasn't as complete in the British Isles and so the influence of previous languages was stronger seems wrong. Recent genetic studies (which also have more or less proved the Kurgan theory) seem to indicate that the population replacement on the Isles was quite fast and thorough. If such substratum existed one would expect to find it somewhere like Sardinia where the population is genetically pretty much the same as pre-Indo-European Europeans. On the continent the Basques are also relatively untouched and they do have their weird language.
I believe it's only logical that for the amount of time humans have been alive there would have been a lot of movement, way more than we are conscious of because we can't really comprehend the world in an earlier time period. But when you then fast forward many thousands of years on, it's very hard to believe that anyone is of pure blood/race. We are likely all mixed up, skin colour doesn't tell the full story, there is so much more to us than that and it's so fascinating, even attempting to learn more about who we are and where we came from.
Tomos Phillip's theres so much more you need to be made aware of please look into the forensic historians Wilson and blackett for the truth about wales and it's TRUE history
@@andykane439 I'm a Welsh learner, and I learned a bit of Arabic before. I'm surprised how different Irish is to Welsh too. And I'm surprised that Hebrew is actually quite close to Arabic (compared to Irish and Welsh).
I’m partially Sephardic Jewish and when I went to Irish pubs in NYC I was always struck how the Irish bars names sounded very close to Hebrew. And meeting Irish people the breathiness of it and the way it sounds always reminded me of Hebrew. Also I was watching news bloopers recently and one of the bloopers was the Anchor saying “and now we go to Ali McBeal for more” but it turns out it was an Arab man named Ali Makbul…
@MacKinley or if you have a daughter you could name her Sharon (Hebrew for basic or plain) can be male or female. Or Karen (“Keren” which is Hebrew for Horn). Can’t go wrong with Karen! 🤔😬
Have to add though, how many friends and people I tell that Celtic and Semitic languages are really similar sounding and grammatically. Some look at me like I’m crazy. It’s only if you know (or know of) either language and hear the other and draw the connection…
I appreciate this video so much. I am Welsh and went to a Welsh-speaking school. Although I did not study the language to any advanced level, I have a basic knowledge and can read Welsh like a native speaker. I have been learning Arabic for a year now and have been stunned by how similar many of the consonant and vowel sounds are in Welsh and Arabic. I thought I was being silly until I watched this but no, I'm just discovering my Phoenician side......
@@nanasyrian3616 I'm sure you understand that Irish (iresh) is not the same as Welsh. They are different countries with different languages, and actually different language routes.
An answer to the question stated in the end of the video: Yes, as a student of Afro-Asiatic languages (I have mainly done Arabic, some Hebrew, some Akkadian, and so on, but generally being a geek who loves reading every published article on Proto-Semitic and other good stuff) I was surprised when I started learning Irish (I am not even a beginner yet, and I think I have spent more or less two hours learning Irish) that there are many phonetic similarities as well, like the velarization of consonants. For me it was a pleasant surprise, that I could use my Arabic pronunciation to master some sounds in Irish, that would have been very difficult for me before I studied Semitic languages.
@@ilhamh4359 to some extent, perhaps. I think it will be easier with both the pronunciation of some sounds, as well as hearing the difference in the early stages of learning the language. However, to me there is a slight difference in the pronunciation of the velarized consonants in Irish and that of Arabic. I have not read that much about the Irish phonetics, but to me they sound more aspired, and maybe not pronounced in the exact same place in the mouth. Like the t in "tá mé" in Irish sounds aspired (aspirated??) , while the tâ' in Arabic, like in tâwûs, does not. Just my thoughts without having read up on the Irish phonetics that much.
I do believe the ancients Celts and Semites are connected, like way before the classical cultures and possibly around the times of hunter-gatherers and early agricultural times.
As someone who’s only started to learn arabic, this is a very interesting topic for me. Thank you for going so in depth in your research, I found your video fascinating.
In Scotland there are many Schools which are conducted purely in Scottish Gaelic. On another note, there are many colloquial Scots words which have Arabic/Hebraic roots eg. Someone will say "come tae ma bit" which means "come to my house" bait/bayt/bit. There are many other such examples. I will come back with more. ✌️
As a native speaker Arabic and student of English linguistics and culture, I really appreciate these types of videos. Keep up the good work and thank you for making the effort.
no need for that Latin is gone Arabic is way older and still alive. and with it you'll be able to concuer the half of the World and History that still unknown to you yet. so believe you me its worth it
Paul I find these similarities fascinating. Thanks very much for making a programme about them. I'm a fluent Irish speaker and a student of Spanish to an upper intermediate level. I have noticed some very interesting similarities between Irish and Spanish. Do you think you could look into this on your channel.
you don't need that , the language you speak derivative from Semitic languages , not from Arab language , because the Arab derivative itself from the same Semitic branch of lauguage that today are not extinct but evoluted in other languages like Latin Greek , etc etc , they are all languages derivative from Semitic branch of languages because today people are the descendants from that midle east people
isn't Spain south of Ireland? If it is, then it's highly likely that the two countries had extensive contact with each other influencing each others languages. At least if I remember correctly from a map I looked at Spain is south of Ireland. But I could be wrong. And if I am please correct me.
@@joshkennedy9518 Yes Spain is south of Ireland but it's important to note that: 1. Spain was originally inhabited by Celtic peoples related to the Irish and who spoke Celtic languages belonging to the same language family as Irish, it is very likely that modern Spanish has incorporated at least *some* of the characteristics of these languages. 2. Spain was a close ally of the Irish Earls in their fight against English colonialism even sending a fleet of 4,000 to Kinsale in order to battle the English during the Nine Year's War, so there is also potential for language exchanges there.
As a Spaniard I agree! I was saying the same thing. There is common vocabulary that we don't share with languages like English but we share with Irish. I wish he does this video ^^
BTW for “Alai Likhtov Mikhtav” You can say in Formal Arabic “Alaya an aktuba maktub” which is closer to the Hebrew sentence. عَلَيَّ أَنْ أَكْتُبَ مَكتوب
My first thought is: The reason could be trade during the bronze age. Tin mining was a huge industry driving innovation and cultural exchange. Your Hebrew pronunciation is very good ! regards from ישראל
הכל היום מהיהודים באיזהשהו אופן, ישיר או עקיף ;] רק חבל שלא יודעים יותר על הקשר בין הפ'ייניקים לבין היהודים.. כמו למשל ההתערבבות והקשר ההדוק עם שבט דן, גם בארץ ישראל וגם במסעות המסחר (שהגיע עד לארה"ב ולאיסלנד), ואפילו כנראה בהקמת קרתגו. מה גם על תרומתם לבית המקדש הראשון, שנבנה גם באמצעות פ'ייניקים, תחת הסכם עם המלך חיראם הראשון לבין שלמה המלך. ניתן לומר שהם בני דודינו האמיתיים מהעת העתיקה.. מה שמצחיק אותי זה שיש סטיגמה שלילית וידועה על יהודים עם כסף ומסחר, אבל כאשר מדובר בפ'ייניקים, הם תמיד מוזכרים בכבוד רב. הרי הם היו בהרבה מאותם מסעות מסחר, עסקו באותו פיתוח, כמעט באותו שטח והיו בני ברית, מדברים שפה מאוד דומה. חבל שהם לא שרדו כיישות עצמאית, היה כנראה יותר מעניין הן בזירה הים תיכונית והן הגלובלית.
the ancient israelites were r1b and r1a paternal haplogroup which is highest concentration in europe now but used to be widespread. we even find r1a mummies in the tarim basin who predate any east asian presence. the world used to look a lot differently before, a lot of these ethnicities we have now are hybrids.
Good point. The Phoenicians had an extensive maritime trade empire and tin was most likely mined and traded with Phoenicians here. Archaeological evidence does not necessarily conclusively prove this theory but it might be possible that Phoenicians has trade colonies/outposts here. Furthermore, there has been some very strange finds from Phoenicia, or modern day Israel, Lebanon and parts of Syria, in which bronze daggers from that period have been excavated and surprisingly they were analysed and found to contain copper from mines in Connecticut! Strange indeed. However, more evidence must be collated as to conclusively prove a theory that would be earth-shattering to our understanding of the ancient world; and would have severe cascading effects on most of archaeology, anthropology and history; forgetting everything we thought we knew about the ancients and reimagining other possibilities. Great comment, Sir.
John Linsky Great point! I to am familiar with that find in the Tarim basin. However, I did not understand ancient Israelites were of the paternal haplogroup r1a and r1b. Furthermore there was also a mummy found in eastern China and this female article exhibited a r1a, if I remember correctly, paternal haplogroup. The ancient world must have been unrecognisable to us today. Have a good day, Sir.
I found when I went to Ireland that the Irish have an extremely rich oral storytelling tradition. I could not help but think about the Arabs and how they too love to tell stories orally. In many ways, although different peoples, they are very similar.
All people love story telling why do you think youtube is such a succesfull platform? Also all cultures traditions were oral before they learned to write.
@@tylerdurden3722 yes, just not all as well written later on, for example the Romans killed all the Keltic druids who were the keepers of the culture and so it was easier to assimilate the Kelts into Roman culture when the druids were gone. Obviously the Romans never reached Keltic Ireland.
@Scrooge McGruel the only limiting factor is that many cultures have had adopted writing for hundreds and hundreds of years. Cultures with high illiteracy rates are less likely to loose their oral traditions as quickly.
The Bedouin Arabs are perfect in describing a story into the listener mind, its like watching a movie when they are telling a story or delivering a message. Long ago, people can barter Bedouin Arabs with good stories or good advice in an exchange for a camel or a sheep, they are good listeners and were people of literature although some of them were illiterate. Bedouin Arabs are also perfect natural born gps and guides when they give directions, the power of description was very important in Arabia
I’m an Iraqi, live in Ireland.. noticed those similarities a while back, tried ti search found some genomic studies suggesting that farmers from Mesopotamia traveled to Ireland and England today, and they’re the farmers if the islands. Now this video added substantially to my knowledge on the subject. I actually stumbled upon this channel as part of my search, and subscribed to it after seeing you touching on both Eastern and Celtic language. Knew that this video will come one day!!
the tower of Babil or babel or Babylon in the city of Babylon in middle Iraq which comes from the 2 Semetic Iraqi words Bab (used to mean gate) still now used in Arabic as door instead of the real Semetic word for which is Dalet ((which the Greek letter delta came from)) any way notice in (6:37) bab is used as door and el or elo or eloh like Israa(el) (slave god,or the slave of god) was the nicknameof prophet Jacob Ishma(el) Azra(el) Samw(el) ..... etc it became in Arabic Ilah later Al-Ilah or the God which later became Allah (The god) in Hebrew it is Eloh in Semetic languages we add (un) in the end to make it singular like Arabic: Kitab=Book Kitabun=A book see in 5:51 Malik is king while Malikun means a king so Babil used to mean God's Gate (Bab Eloh) God's gate ------> (Bab elohun) A God's gate ------> later became (Bab ylon or Babylon)
There are other similarities between these cultures. The *Elves, Huldra (literally "hidden [beings]")* or _Huldufólk_ ("hidden people") of Teutonic cultures [Anglic, Saxonic, German, Dutch, Scandinavian] and the _Tylwyth teg_ ("fair folk") or _Daoine sídhe_ ("the mounds people") of Celtic cultures [Irish/Gaelic, Welsh/Brittonic] are strikingly similar to the *Genies/Jinn (also literally "hidden [beings]")* of Arabian culture and the Jewish counterparts _Shedim_ (usually translated with the word "demon(s)" original from Greek Septuagint's _daimon_ ). Just like Muslims and Orthodox Jews, people in Scandinavian and Gaelic nations, esp. Iceland and Ireland, believe in them as real entities.
@Trouser Troll Yes, but e.g. Galilee is the Anglicized version of the word. In Arabic it's Jaleel. I don't know what it is in Hebrew or Aramaic or Canaanite. So all that has to be taken into consideration. Chaldean is Kildan (in Arabic) & I believe also in Kildani (Chaldean).
Semitic language speaker here, not only surprised to learn about the similarities but also delighted! Every time I discover something that seems to vaguely unite humanity or to open new horizons for research or even imagination ... I’m profoundly delighted and hopeful. I have always loved your videos, many thanks 🙏🏻
As a Welsh speaker who has studied Hebrew I found this video fascinating. Dyma ddiddorol iawn. Diolch! By the way I think the Welsh speaker on here is from north Wales.
@@Ceidonianphysicist It's interesting to note that, although the words differ between North and South Welsh, both employ the same mechanism of using a preposition + pronoun to signify possession.
You know, medieval Irish literature like the Lebor Gabala Erenn claimed the original inhabitants of Ireland came from Egypt and brought the language with them.
It's likely that they were just trying to make a link to the centre of judeo-christian beginnings and the more ancient known cultures but it's certainly interesting to note!
@@danboland3775 Hi Dan, I thought any possible Egyptian influences on Judaism/Christianity would be ignored. Exodus is not forgotten. A Lay Preacher friend of mine would be horrified at the concept of any Egyptian influences.
@@mrpea7674 When? Egypt is ancient by anybody's standard. As long as the texts refer to a time before Cleopatra and possibly after Pharoah Horemheb, then that fits in. I have read that no Egyptian Princesses married foreigners before that time. The Irish Legends involve a princess if I remember rightly. It is a lovely thought but impossible to prove.
Very interesting ! One thing I have noticed is that the Irish language has had a great impact on the way Irish people speak English. For example, it is common in Ireland to say "she watched TV and I alseep next to her" meaning "she watched TV while I slept next to her". Also certain phrases such as "he gave out to me" meaning he scolded me coming from the phrase "ag tabhairt amach" in Irish :)
Yeah - when a conquered people learn the conqueror’s language, they keep a lot of their own grammar. I guess it runs deeper than the vocabulary. (I don’t mean to emphasize ‘conquering’, but, what other word should one use?)
Finally I see someone mention it. There is this RUclipsr who uses some Irish phrases in her videos, and for a long time I was convinced that she spoke Hebrew. As for your question, I've noticed three similarities with my native language (Ukrainian) and other Slavic languages that I have some knowledge of: 1) inflected prepositions - although it's not entirely the same, if you want to say "I have to do something" you'd say "For me is necessary to". "There is" "at me" structure is also used to denote posession 2) construct state genitives 3) "and" can also mean "but"; not "while" or "as" though. Also, Slavic langauges don't really have articles, but we use "this" or "these" to refer to a specific object. Using pronouns in place of indefinite articles is much less common.
@@wtc5198 Technically you're correct. What I meant to say was "prepositional pronouns" which translate into English as "for me/him/her/us etc" and which are in fact inflected.
Wow I never thought I’d see similarities between these languages. Just shows how similar humans are in general and how historically we gravitate towards similar ideas. Thanks!
@Djack Celtic including British people?! (Welsh....specifically are the British, Brythonic) The English are Germanic! I would look up historians called Alan Wilson and Adrian Gilbert here on youtube! Your in the right area. :) Btw, the Celts are Cimmerians (ancient Greeks called them Keltoi, those who are hidden). The Germanic People are Scythians. One group (Scythians) went North and the other (Cimmerians) west through the Mediterranean. Setting up outpost such as Troy and Etruria on their way to Britain. Rome was the founded after Troy fell by Aneuas of Troy and Brutus of Troy went to Britain. This is why the Romans were so obsessed with Britain and the middle east. Why did Rome have upwards of 15% of their army in Britain?! Why did so many Roman Generals take Brythonic (Welsh) wives?! Why did so Many Brythonic warriors fight for the western Roman empire under Magnus Maximus during their civil war?!
Learning irish from a young age definitely helped since it’s got a completely different structure to English , it’s very hard to even directly translate things between the 2 languages
A good way to track our true history. Most of our books are lies. But by studying language at this depth, we see the most interesting connections! Such great work.
I am an Irish speaker and have been studying Hebrew as part of a theology degree and Arabic for the enjoyment, and this was something I had noticed about the languages. So it was fascinating to see this video. Go raibh míle míle maith agat, is breá liom é seo.
Ton nom, tu veux dire "Morgan" ? En breton "mor" veut dire "mer" Un fait intéressant, a l'époque parmi toutes nos tribus gauloises, il y'en avait une qu'on désignaient comme "le peuple de la mer" dû a leur emplacement. C'était la tribu des "Morins", ce nom c'est transformé en nom de famille et a traversé les siècles ! :)
I think the oldest you go back in time, the more a language reduces exclusively to grammar rules. You can adorn them, but I think they are the core of a language. That is why I find the Celtic-Hebrew similarities fascinating. Because they don't rely on vocabulary, they rely on similar ways of constructing sentences, which in my opinion talks of a more ancient connection.
2 years later but that simply isn’t true. For example, English lost all of its gendered cases in just 200 years between 800 and 1000 but you can still tell it’s related to German and such through vocabulary.
@Donald Trump Father of the Vaccine exactly, I fucking speak Hebrew unlike you. Proves my point even more. Y'all and afrocentrists so keen on claiming other people's history instead of embracing your own
As an Irish person I'm not that surprised by this. The unusual sound of some words in Irish that require using the back of the throat for words ending in 'ch' such as gách and ámach is similar to sounds in Arabic and Hebrew
I was in an art history class ages ago, and we were discussing the similarities between animal styles chattel art and decoration between Celtic and Thracian artifacts. My professor brought up a theory that the Celtic or Gallic tribes originated from northern Iraq. He mentioned a primary document that had been found where a bunch of Celtic clan leaders in the British isles had signed an agreement where they cited their tribal origins from an area of turkey. It’s was pre medieval. Idk coming from a family of so called “Black Irish” that were dna tested and found to be entirely Irish - it doesn’t seem that unreasonable of concept…
Assyrians called the Israelites "Kimmri" and the Welsh call themselves "Cymru". Both phonologically identical. The u on the end of Cymru is pronounced like an i.
Back in 2019, I was doing a study on the "lost tribes" of Israel after the down fall of the Assyrian empire: the theory is they were scattered but that the tribes of "Manasseh" and "Ephraim" went north into the lands of great Britain. I never looked far into it past that but find the similarities interesting
@@clumbus894 Pretty well know that there are some common ancestral words/borrowings with Ancient Greek in Welsh (I happen to know about two, though not a Welsh speaker... bywyd (biuid) - life - bios, haul (heel) - sun - helios), so if there's some stuff that sounds Indo-iranian in Irish, that doesn't seem that mad...
This is how new cases are born. Contractions of to words. I don't find it strange. I would rather say that Arabic and Hebrew are highly influenced by the Indo-Europeans, not vice-versa as it is suggested in the video.
Okay, now this kind of video is a pretty big deep dive into linguistics (but still somewhat comprehensible.) I think I will stick to your others which are covering the features of individual languages, one at a time. That's enough for my purposes as a historian who is curious about languages, many of which I might need to occasionally pronounce but rarely ever actually speak. In any event, I appreciate your work. It is highly entertaining and satisfies my curiosities about subjects I will probably never have the time to actually study in any meaningful depth.
I’m a fluent Irish speaker, and I was surely surprised by this. I recently found out I could understand a good bit of Scottish Gaelic just by using my Irish, and now this. You make a very interesting case. Needless to say I would not have picked these two groups of languages to find similarities. If only I could find out how/why this happened.
There are other similarities between these cultures. The *Elves, Huldra (literally "hidden [beings]")* or _Huldufólk_ ("hidden people") of Teutonic cultures [Anglic, Saxonic, German, Dutch, Scandinavian] and the _Tylwyth teg_ ("fair folk") or _Daoine sídhe_ ("the mounds people") of Celtic cultures [Irish/Gaelic, Welsh/Brittonic] are strikingly similar to the *Genies/Jinn (also literally "hidden [beings]")* of Arabian culture and the Jewish counterparts _Shedim_ (usually translated with the word "demon(s)" original from Greek Septuagint's _daimon_ ). Just like Muslims and Orthodox Jews, people in Scandinavian and Gaelic nations, esp. Iceland and Ireland, believe in them as real entities.
Great video, thanks Paul! I'm planning to learn both Irish and Arabic, so I'm looking forward to encountering these kinds of interesting similarities 😊
As a Welsh speaker this was very interesting to me. I was surprised to learn. But the theory that people who were living in Britain before the Celts spoke an afro Asiatic language makes sense I think. As you stated in your video it's well know that people were here before the Celts and had been here for thousands of years.
I lived in France for a year, and my party piece was a sean-nós (a capella, old style) Irish song called 'An raibh tú ag an gCarraig?' Any Arabic speakers at the party always loved it, and said it made them feel homesick!
I have learnd a lot of your very interesting and fun videos Paul! You are the only one my Swedish linguist girlfriend did not critizie because you basically know what you are doing and very prepared. Love all your videos!!!
Another similar curiosity you didn't mention in this video is the way of counting numbers: the units coming before the tens, like 2and30, 5and40, 7and10. At least, so it is in Arabic and Breton (and German!), but not in other branches of indo-european languages such as Latin (and Romance derivates) or Greek or Slavic.
@@SpringStarFangirl why did they change that? i speak german and i liked that in arabi…. the numbers are the same. So if its the tradition the other way arround, why to make it different than the original? I like ivrit a lot btw, especially with mizrahi slang. Ivrit and aramaic will hopefully have some comeback. the same i wish for the celtic languages. yom tov 😃
This has to be the best popularized linguistics presentation I've ever seen. And you've avoided dumping all the B.S. mythological crap on us. Keep it up!
So interesting! Well done! I grew up with stories that there was a group of people from Egypt who settled Ireland. For ages, scholars have stated that the stories were influenced by Christian monks who wrote down the (formerly oral) stories. Nowadays, there's a vein of thought that maybe . . . not so much. There may actually be a modicum of truth there in the old tales. Archeology and genetics show some intriguing insights. Who knows? Anyway, I'd be curious to see about any similarity (if any) that the ancient Egyptian language shares with Hebrew, Arabic, and Irish (Scots Gaelic and Welsh).
Great video Paul. As a student of Arabic who had previously dabbled in Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic I noticed some of these features as well. There is even some curiously similar vocabulary most prominently in my mind were words for knife. Sgian in Gaelic and سكين in Arabic. In relation to the contact hypotheses mentioned at the end of your video about a year ago I think I remember reading about a genetic study of Insular Celtic peoples that showed a surprising number of markers that were shared with pre-agricultural middle eastern populations. I'll see if I can find the study
if you can find the study, please let me know. I'd be very interested to read it, it sits squarely in my field of study. I'm learning Welsh to study bronze and iron age archaeology in the UK, but I have recently started studying archaeology of the Middle East. Genetics has been a big part of my exploration of both regions. It would be fascinating.
A while ago, I read about some Celtic languages, and as an Arabic speaker, the similarities between Celtic languages and Arabic bedazzled me, so much that I refuse to believe these languages are not somehow related, even though I'm as far from being a linguist as is Great Britain from the Levant :)
It probably comes from the bronze age when Middle Eastern empires needed tin to create bronze, which they could only find in Afghanistan, and in far larger amounts in Cornwall and surrounding areas
Fascinating video! Arguably Paul’s best. I had personally noticed those similarities between Hebrew and Irish but I couldn’t figure out any reason why. The Irish grammar is indeed full of oddities that I have found in any other indo-European language as this video explains it beautifully.
I've been looking for a video about this!! I noticed the similarities when taking the Irish (Gaelic) course on Duolingo (I've been studying Arabic for work for a while now)
I teach some Scottish Gaelic classes and I have to describe "dh" before a broad vowel e.g. dhomh, dhut, dha as like an Arabic consonant - like gh, a soft G. I have to use middle eastern languages as an example to describe it
I’m a Dutch Canadian and when people here in North America hear it they say that it sounds like Arabic or Hebrew and shares the same VSO sentence structure.
Keep up the good work : I love your modesty and your precision, compared to other polyglots out there who often have poor content and like to talk about themselves
I used to pub crawl with an Irish Gaelic speaker and a Scottish Gaelic speaker. We had lovely three-way conversations with my Hebrew. Of course, we were fluttery in the gills, and barely conscious. Yet there were odd similarities now and then...
As a Hebrew speaking Hebrew, that's sounds like much fun, I would like to have a go with you chaps under a pint or two (ok maybe four, if you're hardcore xD )
Well,I know for a fact that the Phoenicians obtained some tin from tin mines in Cornwall,England back in the first Millennium BC.So,these Semitic people,the Phoenicians could well have had some influence,I imagine on the languages of the Celiic people living around Cornwall, England.
@Celtic Revival / Adfywiad Celtaidd when anyone referred to me as a Brit i would try and correct them saying that true Brits are the Brethonic Celts who were on the land thousands of years before us Angles were invited to migrate here and these are the Cornish, Welsh, Manx etc. i used to get some very blank looks
Hey Paul, thanks for another brilliant video! Speaking about the similarities I may say, that in Russian language there is an interesting word and a particle «да» (da). As a word in a daily speech it normally means «yes». But as a particle, especially in older literature, it may mean «and» or «but», depending on the context. For example: «В лесу растут грибы _да_ ягоды» (mushrooms _and_ berries grow in the forest). Here we use «да» as a simple coordinating conjunction. Compare to: «Мал золотник, _да_ дорог» (zolotnik is small _but_ precious). Zolotnik was the name of a gold coin at the time of Kievan Rus. Here «да» is used to put an emphasis on the contrast.
Greek also has a postpositive word δε, which also means "but" or "and". I've noticed that Koine Greek and Slavonic grammar are very very similar. I wonder if the Church influenced Slavonic to make Bible translation easier or whether they are naturally so similar.
Wow, this is fascinating! I can’t even imagine the amount of work that has gone into the making of this video. Have you actually studied all of these languages in such depth?? By the way, thanks for defining the genitive noun construct thing (smikhut). I knew it was a feature of Hebrew and Arabic, but I had no idea it existed in other languages too!
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Pure anecdotal evidence here, but I was once in a bar in the Dubai airport when a waiter asked in arabic if I'd like anything. I replied apologetically saying I didn't speak arabic, which surprised him. He'd overheard me speaking on the phone in Irish, but without listening closely assumed I was speaking arabic with a thick accent.
Interesting!
I find it interesting that the Irish being spoken in this video had a similar rhythm as Arabic
You have two phonemes that we don't often find as much in other languages and also the rhythm is very arabic
@@peterfilipovic Yeah, it's definitely down to the rhythm. As someone of both Middle Eastern and Celtic heritage who grew up hearing but not speaking either language, I have noticed many times how they tend to be spoken with the same flows and inflections. It's amazing!
@@nagihangot6133 huh?
I am a first language Welsh, learnt basic Arabic, spent time in Egypt and was supprised at similarities.
@@elmucho2121 lol
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In my case, a native Spanish speaker who currently learns some Welsh, I find similar, that the order noun-adjective is their natural way such as in my language.
@@elmucho2121 a health human mind doesnt think if its his last day on ard i think thats not a sin og but a luxury aka rewards punishment-price guns x3 debrief before vitiate hussaynberg walter van la ahad? read back over?
I was learning Arabic about 10 years ago through a community class at my university, and my Irish history professor happened to be taking the class with me. She was a native Irish speaker. Nearly every class she was surprised by the similarities and would comment on things being 'like how it is in Irish".
PS I moved to Ireland three years ago and was getting a tour of Trinity College Dublin by a guy who was doing his PhD on Old Irish. He was explaining the genitive case being used in one of the signs, and I said, oh yeah, I get it that's just like Arabic. He was kind of confused. I didn't realize this was a kind of unique grammatical feature.
could this be connected to the theory of the Celt were the same Chaldeans of Babylon?
Stupid question, perhaps, but there are plenty of languages using a genitive case. English still does, in some limited cases; German is losing it in favour of the dative (producing sentences that sound horrible even to a heathen like me), but it is still very much there in formal/written language, and pretty much any language that has case inflexions has a genitive case. So (here is the stupid question), what is unique about the use of the genitive in Arabic and Irish?
@@FirasAlkarradi perhaps or perhaps more likely before the arrival of the indo european languages into europe, this was the dominant grammer in the region
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i guess the 2nd theory about dominant grammar is more plausible
Because all humans are descended from prophet Noah on the ark maybe...? 😁
I'm an Arabic native speaker, and a few months back I took special interest in Scottish Gaelic. While trying to learn the language, I was thinking in English, think that out of the languages I know English would be the one I would relate most to Gaelic. However, when it got to the grammar I was absolutely lost! Until I realized how similar and maybe even identical the Gaelic sentence structure was to that of Arabic. It was really fascinating and I wondered how two languages spoken in different parts of the world were so similar! Thanks for the video!
wow, i'm scottish and think that's so cool that someone who speaks arabic wanted to learn a bit about gaelic 🙂 i've heard arabic is really complex to learn, but i've always wanted to as i love syrian, lebanese/basically all middle eastern food lol. if i start, then hopefully i'd be able to pronounce the sounds a little bit better than an english person 😂
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A h-uile beannachd, mo charaid!!! :D
if you want to connect Arabic with Celtic study Cymraeg
@oight middle eastern people such as arabs.. Persians..etc are the closest people to European especially the Celtic peoples
I'm an Irish speaker and my cousins are actually fluent Hebrew speakers and I have long mentioned how curiously similar I found the two languages so this was really nice to hear, that I'm not losing it but that there indeed are curious similarities between them!
@@elmucho2121 Speak for yourself.
Proto Celtic and Phoenician and paleo Hebrew alphabets almost identical
There's a whole rabbit hole theory that the original Jewish moved west after war, and a declassified U.S. document from the 1950s stating that the modern "Jewish" are genetically not the originals, silently supporting this theory.
Cursive yes, specially the hair
@@je-freenorman7787 oh yeah so right, weball know that baal-zaboub has curly hair.
Irish person here. Never knew this. Really interesting. Thanks for the video!
Wait, that sounds like a Limerick! Let me try again!
Irish person here. Isn't it feckin' gear. From Middle East a Celtic feast that sounds just right to my ear!
im from Jordan i love Irish and European countries and there cutlers...thank you
@@masterhellish3328 *High 5*!
@@odolwa099 good one
Nice!
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Note: in the video I said that all Insular Celtic languages have a definite article and no indefinite article, but the Breton language in fact does have an indefinite article.
-Also, there are some additional languages with a definite article and no indefinite article: Ancient Greek, and Bulgarian and Macedonian (I know those are often considered to be one language, but I just wrote both for clarity).
-And at 9:30 the map says 3rd century CE and 6th century CE, but it should be "BCE", not "CE".
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Let me also cut and paste some of the main sources I used. The first two cover additional similarities that I didn't include in the video. #2 is easy to find online.
1) Jongeling, Comparing Welsh and Hebrew (2000)
2) Steve Hewitt, Remarks on the Insular Celtic/Hamito-Semitic Question.
3) Germania Semitica by Theo Vennemann gen. Nierfeld
Hebrew alphabet is derived from Phoenician, Phoenician alphabet is derived from Egypt, the link between Hebrew and Irish is Egypt.
Yep we do have a singular indefinite article
First people in Europe probably belonged to E1b1b haplogroup and they were often black or in the middle between blackness or whiteness. This haplogroup is associated with diverse afroasiatic group. Today, this haplogroup contains 10 percent of the men in Europe and even more in southern Italy, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania, southern Spain. In the Balkans, it has a frequent correlation with haplogroup J that brought agriculture to Europe. It's noteworthy to see that Semitic languages are a result of Afroasiatic superstrata over Middle eastern substrate of J haplogroup. J haplogroup is strongly common in Anatolia and Balkans. Somewhere, pra-celtic languages had contact with languages of J haplogroup, maybe Semitic. Pra-Germanic was a synthesis of Celtic, Slavic and non-Indoeuropean (connected with I haplogroup) languages. I haplogroup is closely related to J haplogroup, and hence, people that spoke them, had probably had quite similar preindoeuropean and presemitic languages that were lated eliminated by indoeuropean and semitic languages ...
About 10:10 there existed huge tin trade between Cornwall and Mid East, operated by Phoenicians and Carthaginians some 3,000 years ago, supposedly even much earlier.
Any similarities between Insular Celtic languages and Classic Semitic languages could arose due to linguistic contact with any pre_Celtic Insular Sprachbund.
Seems possible :)
@@recklerrex6721 :O The first Bulgarian that I have seen on RUclips that is not saying that Macedonian is just Bulgarian. Greetings from Peru, South America.
In the 1980s there was a documentary series on Irish television called Atlantean. It discussed possible ancient trade links between Ireland and the Middle East. It was based on research by an Irish writer named Bob Quinn. In one episode it discussed an ancient tradition which maintained that Irish and Arabic were mutually intelligible.
As an Arabic native speaker I really really appreciate the effort and the accuracy that’s put in this video, keep up the good work.
Seconded!!
I agree, as a man who grew up speaking Irish
J M Now that's interesting! How often do you hear Irish in Ireland? I'm curious about the Celtic region- (British isles).
@@raegitano6345 The most commonly spoken Celtic Language is Welsh, so in Wales its heard quite often. However for Irish we have areas known as the "Gealtacht" where the 70,000 native speakers speak the language everyday (I am one of these).
If you run into a very isolated village any where on the Island chances are there will be locals speaking Irish, although they'll mostly be older.
J M Old people no surprise. It's sad how Celtic languages are dying.
I'm a simple man. I see Paul post a video, I watch it. Thanks for your awesome content as always Paul!
Same here. Paul's video = a few pleasant minutes spent learning things about language. A no brainer.
INXSFan33 yeah his content is awesome
I'm a simplistic man . I watch . I don't understand but fascinated by the analysis
Dude, I was going to write EXACTLY the same even before watching the video.
Paul, thank you for the awesome content and keep it up! I sincerely love all your videos, and you were the first channel I ever subscribed to on RUclips!
@@ОвочеваБаза great minds...
As a Scottish Gaelic speaker (Nova Scotian) who has studied Arabic, I noticed many of the things you note. I would also add that "gus" in Scottish Gaelic means "until", but also "in order to". And if I remember correctly, "Hatta" has the same dual meaning in Standard Arabic.
@Me Dna
I hope we all accept each other and understand that there's no absolute truth holded by a human...
@Me Dna
I hope you find your truth.
@Me Dna This is not a Channel to convert people to Islam!
@Me Dna -- Why the fuck would you hope that someone becomes Muslim?? Let the adults discuss the relevant topic here; you run along and read the Quran....
@Me Dna I hope we can all ascend past religion as it is holding all of us back from a greater connection with each other.
As someone who has studied Hebrew, and later looked at Scottish Gaelic, I must say I was immediately struck by the similarities. Thanks for fitting my random thoughts into some order in this video.
@@je-freenorman7787 gaelic and celtic are semitic they come from hebrew
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Celtic languages are not Semitic in the slightest.
Hi Paul, I wanted to let you know I really appreciate, along with many other Irish speakers, your content on our language
@@Lorddonen Hi,I wanna start to learn Welsh after 2 months.Can you help me with that pls?
Agus daoine ann fós ag rá nach dteanga í...tá cairde de dhíth ag an nGaeilge gan aon amhras.
My husband is Irish and we've lived in the Middle East. He noticed a similarity between Irish and Arabic when we lived there. He noticed that the accent mark "fada" in Irish is called a "fat-ha" in Arabic and does something similar to the pronunciation of a letter.
wow thanks for sharing, I am so passionate of these similarities, especially when they come from what seems very different cultures :°
That's very interesting indeed and cannot be pure coincidence...
Very interesting!
I suspect its because celtic evolved from proto indo European. Arabic was influenced by Persian which is also an indo European language as is Sanskrit which influenced Persian.
@Scrooge McGruel Wow what an idea! I'm an Arabic native speaker and I'll definitely be looking into these stories and fables!!
I am a native hebrew speaker, and once i have traveled in ireland and spoke hebrew with a friend, and then two irish people approached us and asked if we just spoke gaelic to each other. I was shocked that someone had made this mistake, but now i see that it actually makes sense.
No your comment makes no sens at all ,
@@jambouh8575 Neither does yours buddy 🤨.
Mind blowing!
I am an Arabic speaker, and I did notice basic similarities, like the VSO.. I guess people confused it with Irish Gaelic due to the kh sound we make??
I'm also fascinated by how close Arabic and Hebrew is in the video... even some of the words that look different in the video... we have a synonym in Arabic that sounds very similar to the Hebrew one.. like the example he mentioned in the video for " I have to write a letter" the Hebrew word for letter "mikhtav" is translated into risala in Arabic... but we also use "maktoob" which also derives from something to do with writing..
I was hoping to see words which are similar in Semitic languages and Celtic languages, that would be fascinating to see
I'm a first language Irish speaker, and I never heard of the similarities before now, it's really interesting, iontach ar spéisiúil ar fad!
Irish is my second language and it has made learning Arabic easy but I didn’t even realise that is why. This makes a ton of sense and Irish and Arabic are in 80s terms “Brothers from different Mothers”
@@je-freenorman7787how is that related to religion?
That's a weird connection?
You sir are a gem. Your page is a gold mine for those who are explorers trying to unearth the past. I as a history maj..and educator appreciate these videos. I know my linguistic colleagues especially.
As a Welsh learner who grew up learning welsh in school, my mind is being blown by the grammar deconstruction. I learned from immersion and never worried about the linguistic side of things. It's awesome.
You are so lucky!
When a Welsh person say "I don't speak Welsh" - I take that statement with a grain of salt: either they learnt it in school and forgot or had is constantly around them. Either way, learning it as an adult would mean they have a huge advantage.
In Finnish like broadly the Uralic languages don't possess the verb "to have", it is the subject in the adessive case + on (for example, minulla on, "I have", literally "at me is"). It is nice to join the club.
Yes I am Irish but English is my native language while Irish I learned in school. I always found it strange how Irish had no verb "to have" but rather one said something was "at you". Nice to have simalarities with the Finnish people.
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Russians say "at me is" too, they are finno-ugric uralic people speaking indoeuropean language.
in latin: mihi est "(to) me is"
@@konars5601 This is not true, rather, Finno-Ugric peoples like Estonians, Finns and Mordvins are Indo-Europeans who speak Uralic languages
Great Video! As an Irishman and musician I've always seen the link between Irish music and Arabic Music in both the singing and music so this makes a lot of sense to me! Keep up the great work!
Bag pipes and dabke dance.
King of Ebla And Led Zeppelin.
I never saw this video coming in a million years
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Hi Paul, great channel! Actually, the Irish suffixes on "from" are exact cognates of those in modern Persian.
Irish: as (from), asam (from me), asat (from you sg), as (from him), aisti (from her)
Persian: az (from), azam (from me), azat (from you), azesh (from him), azesh (from her)
Wow! that' interesting!!
Great except ‘from’ is either ‘ó’ or ‘de’, not ‘as’ (out of).
The celts were nomadic peoples active in and around the mediterranean in pre-historic times. This has been proven by DNA samples from burial sites in Egypt and North Africa. They were a part of the DAN migration e.g. De Danaan (irish), Denmark, Danube.
Arvin Raj Mathur Thanks for sharing that, very interesting.
in slavic lang. Iz mean form inside .But also can mean from.
I appreciate these videos tremendously, they make me so curious about the topics and are so well researched and well explained!!
Thanks! I'm happy to hear that.
As a native arabic speaker i'm actually surprised by these similarites but also somewhat happy that we share these things 😁
thats because Nel son Fénius Farsaid son of Boath son of Magog married Scota daughter of Pharaoh Cingris of Egypt
Im not surprised , the Arabic is oldest language , All Semitics are Arabic dialects and Hebrew is one of them , many languages adopted Arabic grammatical structure and vocabularies
same im egyptian and im surprised
Eng. AM.A.M.A the Semitic dialect that became Arabic was first spoken between the years 1ad and 400ad as they transitioned from Southern Nabatean to pre-Arabic. The oldest barely changed language is in a tie between Chinese, Coptic, Hebrew and Lithuanian. Before the Bronze age reliable records on language were rare to unintelligible.
Eng. AM.A.M.A The claims that Semitic languages are dialects of Arabic is absurd. Also Hebrew is a Northwestern Semitic language and Modern Arabic came from a dialect of Southern Nabatean which is a Central Semitic language, not even the same branch.
There are perhaps minor but fascinating parallels with some sounds. I first noticed this connection in my work. I speak Irish and have an aggressively Irish last name, Ó Donnchadha, and have studied Hebrew. But as a Christian pastor who does many interfaith events, I quickly discovered that if I demonstrated how to pronounce Ó Donnchadha, the rabbis and imams always get it perfectly and my fellow Christians never do!
@Northward Bound the Germans can pronaunce the ch because we also say it that way .Loch is also a German Word and means hole its pronaunced the same
Druid is semetic name they influenced the cymri language which became Celtic, many names in Britain have a semetic base.
@Jean-Daniel Ó Donnchadha , Funny that ! When we suddenly discover something uniquely in common with those precieved as different from us. That's what I love about interacting with other cultures faiths & traditions, our differences make what we do share even more precious.
שבת שלום
@@trespire Shabbat Shalom
@@kilianlambert5774 Lokh also means "hole" in Yiddish and it it pronounced as in Gaelic. A lokh in kop = a hole in the head ...
This actually reminds me how the bagpipes are very popular both in North Africa / Middle East and the Celtic culture :)
KnightlyGreen The Oxford History of Music says that a sculpture of bagpipes has been found on a Hittite slab at Euyuk in the Middle East, dated to 1000 BC. Very nice connection you’ve recognized
And in Balkan to,we bagpipe call gaida/gayda.Ya know Celts were living in Balkan too :)
As people on the Balkans say: "A wedding without a bagpipe is like a funeral."
There is a theory that the Romans brought the bagpipe to the British isles. If that is true, it wouldn't be too strange, considering the Romans were all around the Mediterranean and the Middle East.
@@cg0wamp actually it's dated back to the ancient Egyptians
I learned Welsh as a second language and am now learning biblical Hebrew; I thought that my mind was playing tricks on me, and that I was reading too much into things when I noticed grammatical similarities between Welsh and Hebrew, so this was quite reassuring.
native irish speaker here. not surprised at the connections honestly. I've even had foreign friends tell me that spoken irish has sounds like hebrew to them lol (might be a bit far fetched) anyways great video paul👏🏻
Chualaidh siad "ch" ins an dá theangaidh agus as a shiocair sin d'úirt siad "ó, amhanc, tá siad iontach cosúil le chéile !" nuair atá an fhuaim sin le fáilt ins na céadta nó ins na mílte teangthach sa domhan... Níl cosúlacht ar bith eile eadar Eabhrais agus Gaeilg ó thaobh na fuaimníochta dó, goa
@@gerald4013 לא הייתי אומר שאין כלל דמיון מבחינת הצליל. מכל מקום, ברור שמי שדובר את אחת השפות יתקשה לומר שהן דומות..
Would either of you care to translate your comments for the class? Some of us are still learning and can't read on that level yet.
@@Gideon01 The only non-English common sound between Irish and Hebrew is [χ]... not really enough to say they sound alike. Spanish and German and so many other languages also have that sound.
@@kohakuaiko My answer was addressed to Vanessa K, actually. But I said "They heard "ch" in both languages and because of that they said "oh, look, they are very similar to each other!", while that sound exists in hundreds or thousands of languages in the world... Hebrew and Irish don't sound similar at all, lol".
first thing that stands out to me is that Hebrew and Arabic are much more similar than Irish and Welsh !
Probably because Hebrew and Arabic both belong to the Central Semitic group of the extant West Semitic languages while Irish and Welsh belong to separate groups of the extant Insular Celtic languages, namely the Goidelic (or Gaelic) and Brittonic (or Brythonic) respectively. Languages within individual groups share many similarities and patterns.
Yes. The Irish spelling is like 2 drunk linguists decided to vomit all the vowels in a syllable or 2 and then make sure only native speakers could figure out the correct vowel to pronounce.
@@리주민 tbf the irish spelling is quite regular however the complexity comes from the fact that every irish person talks like being drunk
Are you joking?
@@aa-zz6328 nope not at all, they're closely related both semitic languages !
I think Scottish, Welsh, & Irish should start to speak their celtic languages before these languages died
They do
Welsh is doing pretty well so far. Irish and Scottish, not so much.
I think Welsh has about 300,000-400,000 fluent speakers, which is more than 20 years ago when it was around 100,000. Irish it somewhat ok, though it seem that most Irish speak it as a 2nd language and a majority still speak English as their daily language. Manx, Brittany, and Cornish are also growing in the native speakers department as well. And Scott's basically given up on revealing their Gaelic language.
Scottish have an Anglo language more than gaelic. It is called Scots and it came from Old English. Scots has just as much right to be the Scottish language as gaelic.
I'm an Irish speaker and irish is doing pretty well at the moment. Tír gan teanga tír gan anam
As a Welsh person I found this very interesting 🏴
As a native Arabic speaker I was surprised by this, I guess this explains why I like them Celtics folks, bring out the bagpipes me laddies
Actually, Arabic folk music, you said European Jewish folk music, and Celtic fuck music all use a pentatonic scale. It seems that many forms of folk music use a pentatonic scale and so they sound similar
och aye I'll bring ma pipes .. and you pour me a dram.
@@javnok9266 I'm interested in this curious sort of Celtic music
@@javnok9266 Arab music uses microtones, their scales can be from 7 notes to 10 notes but the concept of the Arab maqaam is rather different than the musical scale so this usually causes confusion
@@javnok9266 What a typo o^o
I studied Irish for two years and I am studying Arabic now at university and I had already noticed some of these phenomena. I still believe some of the theories at the end to be quite extravagant, but the video still shed some light and helped me understand some interesting aspects of these languages. Thanks!
أين تعلمت العربية؟ هل توصي أي شيء معين لتعليم العربية؟
Hope you can understand all that 🤣😂
thats because Nel son Fénius Farsaid son of Boath son of Magog married Scota daughter of Pharaoh Cingris of Egypt
Frizt Zt where’d you learn this
'If anybody lived in the continent before IE even arrived, it was probably Afro-Asiatic except for the British Isles, Scandinavia and Baltic region, in the last two I think the Uralic people persisted but not Afro-Asiatic.'
There certainly were people in Europe before the Indo-European migrations. But they were not Afro-Asiatic, there were different groups of indigenous people. In Spain, there were the Iberians. Some people think that the Basque people are the descendents of these pre-Indo-European people. Other non-Indo-European Europeans that we know about: the Etruscans, the Pelasgians, the Minoans, etc. Nothing to do with Afro-Asiatic people although of course there was some influence concerning agriculture and also migrations.
There might have been different languages belonging to different families spoken among the Old Europeans. I mean, Basque is apparently not related to Etruscan for example. On the other hand the idea that the replacement by Indo-Europeans wasn't as complete in the British Isles and so the influence of previous languages was stronger seems wrong. Recent genetic studies (which also have more or less proved the Kurgan theory) seem to indicate that the population replacement on the Isles was quite fast and thorough. If such substratum existed one would expect to find it somewhere like Sardinia where the population is genetically pretty much the same as pre-Indo-European Europeans. On the continent the Basques are also relatively untouched and they do have their weird language.
I’m a native Welsh speaker, I was very surprised to learn that Welsh has similarities to Afro-Semitic languages. Very interesting indeed!!
I believe it's only logical that for the amount of time humans have been alive there would have been a lot of movement, way more than we are conscious of because we can't really comprehend the world in an earlier time period. But when you then fast forward many thousands of years on, it's very hard to believe that anyone is of pure blood/race. We are likely all mixed up, skin colour doesn't tell the full story, there is so much more to us than that and it's so fascinating, even attempting to learn more about who we are and where we came from.
I'm a native irish speaker and I'm surprised how different irish is to Welsh
Tomos Phillip's theres so much more you need to be made aware of please look into the forensic historians Wilson and blackett for the truth about wales and it's TRUE history
@@andykane439 I'm a Welsh learner, and I learned a bit of Arabic before. I'm surprised how different Irish is to Welsh too. And I'm surprised that Hebrew is actually quite close to Arabic (compared to Irish and Welsh).
I’m partially Sephardic Jewish and when I went to Irish pubs in NYC I was always struck how the Irish bars names sounded very close to Hebrew. And meeting Irish people the breathiness of it and the way it sounds always reminded me of Hebrew.
Also I was watching news bloopers recently and one of the bloopers was the Anchor saying “and now we go to Ali McBeal for more” but it turns out it was an Arab man named Ali Makbul…
@MacKinley or if you have a daughter you could name her Sharon (Hebrew for basic or plain) can be male or female. Or Karen (“Keren” which is Hebrew for Horn).
Can’t go wrong with Karen! 🤔😬
@MacKinley haha I’m both of you I’m welsh, Scottish and Sephardic Jewish
@@xKarenWalkerxIn Arabic, horn is qarn, sane as Hebrew! قرن.
Have to add though, how many friends and people I tell that Celtic and Semitic languages are really similar sounding and grammatically. Some look at me like I’m crazy. It’s only if you know (or know of) either language and hear the other and draw the connection…
I appreciate this video so much. I am Welsh and went to a Welsh-speaking school. Although I did not study the language to any advanced level, I have a basic knowledge and can read Welsh like a native speaker. I have been learning Arabic for a year now and have been stunned by how similar many of the consonant and vowel sounds are in Welsh and Arabic. I thought I was being silly until I watched this but no, I'm just discovering my Phoenician side......
I'm syrian levantine(phonician aramean) and i really love ❤ iresh people and culture 🇵🇸🇯🇴🇸🇾🇱🇧❤🇮🇪
fg
You're just Welsh. Get over it
@@nanasyrian3616 I'm sure you understand that Irish (iresh) is not the same as Welsh. They are different countries with different languages, and actually different language routes.
An answer to the question stated in the end of the video: Yes, as a student of Afro-Asiatic languages (I have mainly done Arabic, some Hebrew, some Akkadian, and so on, but generally being a geek who loves reading every published article on Proto-Semitic and other good stuff) I was surprised when I started learning Irish (I am not even a beginner yet, and I think I have spent more or less two hours learning Irish) that there are many phonetic similarities as well, like the velarization of consonants. For me it was a pleasant surprise, that I could use my Arabic pronunciation to master some sounds in Irish, that would have been very difficult for me before I studied Semitic languages.
Are you saying that being able to speak Arabic is helpful when learning Irish ?
@TOBIAS SILVA
Did speaking Arabic help you learn Irish more easily ?
@TOBIAS SILVA
My mistake. I didn't pay much attention to your names, I got confused. 😅
@@ilhamh4359 to some extent, perhaps. I think it will be easier with both the pronunciation of some sounds, as well as hearing the difference in the early stages of learning the language. However, to me there is a slight difference in the pronunciation of the velarized consonants in Irish and that of Arabic. I have not read that much about the Irish phonetics, but to me they sound more aspired, and maybe not pronounced in the exact same place in the mouth. Like the t in "tá mé" in Irish sounds aspired (aspirated??) , while the tâ' in Arabic, like in tâwûs, does not. Just my thoughts without having read up on the Irish phonetics that much.
@@Taawuus
Thanks for the tips.
The "sean nós" or old way/custom of Irish unaccompanied singing, can sound very Middle Eastern with its "grace notes". Interesting!
yup! Art and Music of the near east and celts is also very simialr.
I do believe the ancients Celts and Semites are connected, like way before the classical cultures and possibly around the times of hunter-gatherers and early agricultural times.
As someone who’s only started to learn arabic, this is a very interesting topic for me. Thank you for going so in depth in your research, I found your video fascinating.
In Scotland there are many Schools which are conducted purely in Scottish Gaelic. On another note, there are many colloquial Scots words which have Arabic/Hebraic roots eg. Someone will say "come tae ma bit" which means "come to my house" bait/bayt/bit. There are many other such examples. I will come back with more. ✌️
I am looking forward to reading your examples.
Wow i am supriced
Are there any other cognates like that?
whaaat woow. plz more!
As a native speaker Arabic and student of English linguistics and culture, I really appreciate these types of videos. Keep up the good work and thank you for making the effort.
I speak Welsh, and I've recently though about studying Hebrew or Arabic - now I want to even more, but I'm trying to master Latin right now.
no need for that Latin is gone
Arabic is way older and still alive. and with it you'll be able to concuer the half of the World and History that still unknown to you yet. so believe you me its worth it
@@salahaddinal-sulaihi3532 خليه يتعلم اللغة لي تعجبه انت مالك يا اخي
@Mario how is that? i ddnt get it
The Welsh are the 10 lost tribes. Check out Alan Wilson's work.
@@expat1250090 Check this out idiot.
Canacha bant!
Paul
I find these similarities fascinating. Thanks very much for making a programme about them. I'm a fluent Irish speaker and a student of Spanish to an upper intermediate level. I have noticed some very interesting similarities between Irish and Spanish. Do you think you could look into this on your channel.
you don't need that , the language you speak derivative from Semitic languages , not from Arab language , because the Arab derivative itself from the same Semitic branch of lauguage that today are not extinct but evoluted in other languages like Latin Greek , etc etc , they are all languages derivative from Semitic branch of languages because today people are the descendants from that midle east people
isn't Spain south of Ireland? If it is, then it's highly likely that the two countries had extensive contact with each other influencing each others languages. At least if I remember correctly from a map I looked at Spain is south of Ireland. But I could be wrong. And if I am please correct me.
@@joshkennedy9518 Yes Spain is south of Ireland but it's important to note that:
1. Spain was originally inhabited by Celtic peoples related to the Irish and who spoke Celtic languages belonging to the same language family as Irish, it is very likely that modern Spanish has incorporated at least *some* of the characteristics of these languages.
2. Spain was a close ally of the Irish Earls in their fight against English colonialism even sending a fleet of 4,000 to Kinsale in order to battle the English during the Nine Year's War, so there is also potential for language exchanges there.
As a Spaniard I agree! I was saying the same thing. There is common vocabulary that we don't share with languages like English but we share with Irish. I wish he does this video ^^
The Arabic speaker is Moroccan, her accent is obvious.
Yes, she is.
The only Arabic I ever heard is Moroccan so I would never have guessed. :)
that was obvious.
she sounded too shy.
The Irish speaker is from Ulster, it's also obvious from his accent.
Haha I noticed it too
BTW for “Alai Likhtov Mikhtav”
You can say in Formal Arabic “Alaya an aktuba maktub” which is closer to the Hebrew sentence.
عَلَيَّ أَنْ أَكْتُبَ مَكتوب
@asasadd55 5 Ktav means Writing in general,Sefer is book, Mikhtav is letter.
كتاب :D .. كتاب كان يعني رسالة الى عصر قريب .. اما مكتوب دي فانت كدا عايش مع المماليك و محمد علي والتلغراف :D
My first thought is: The reason could be trade during the bronze age. Tin mining was a huge industry driving innovation and cultural exchange.
Your Hebrew pronunciation is very good ! regards from ישראל
הכל היום מהיהודים באיזהשהו אופן, ישיר או עקיף ;]
רק חבל שלא יודעים יותר על הקשר בין הפ'ייניקים לבין היהודים.. כמו למשל ההתערבבות והקשר ההדוק עם שבט דן, גם בארץ ישראל וגם במסעות המסחר (שהגיע עד לארה"ב ולאיסלנד), ואפילו כנראה בהקמת קרתגו.
מה גם על תרומתם לבית המקדש הראשון, שנבנה גם באמצעות פ'ייניקים, תחת הסכם עם המלך חיראם הראשון לבין שלמה המלך.
ניתן לומר שהם בני דודינו האמיתיים מהעת העתיקה..
מה שמצחיק אותי זה שיש סטיגמה שלילית וידועה על יהודים עם כסף ומסחר, אבל כאשר מדובר בפ'ייניקים, הם תמיד מוזכרים בכבוד רב.
הרי הם היו בהרבה מאותם מסעות מסחר, עסקו באותו פיתוח, כמעט באותו שטח והיו בני ברית, מדברים שפה מאוד דומה.
חבל שהם לא שרדו כיישות עצמאית, היה כנראה יותר מעניין הן בזירה הים תיכונית והן הגלובלית.
Absolutely! Cornwall was well known in the Mediterranean as a source of tin to make bronze.
the ancient israelites were r1b and r1a paternal haplogroup which is highest concentration in europe now but used to be widespread. we even find r1a mummies in the tarim basin who predate any east asian presence. the world used to look a lot differently before, a lot of these ethnicities we have now are hybrids.
Good point. The Phoenicians had an extensive maritime trade empire and tin was most likely mined and traded with Phoenicians here. Archaeological evidence does not necessarily conclusively prove this theory but it might be possible that Phoenicians has trade colonies/outposts here.
Furthermore, there has been some very strange finds from Phoenicia, or modern day Israel, Lebanon and parts of Syria, in which bronze daggers from that period have been excavated and surprisingly they were analysed and found to contain copper from mines in Connecticut! Strange indeed.
However, more evidence must be collated as to conclusively prove a theory that would be earth-shattering to our understanding of the ancient world; and would have severe cascading effects on most of archaeology, anthropology and history; forgetting everything we thought we knew about the ancients and reimagining other possibilities.
Great comment, Sir.
John Linsky Great point! I to am familiar with that find in the Tarim basin. However, I did not understand ancient Israelites were of the paternal haplogroup r1a and r1b. Furthermore there was also a mummy found in eastern China and this female article exhibited a r1a, if I remember correctly, paternal haplogroup. The ancient world must have been unrecognisable to us today.
Have a good day, Sir.
I'm from north-africa, Algeria and i have always been fascinated by the history and evolution of languages
As a speaker of Arabic... Yes, I'm surprised!
@Jack jack So Irish people aren't Celtic?
@Jack jack what are they then?
Please don't tell me there are no more Irish people that would make me sad
thats because Nel son Fénius Farsaid son of Boath son of Magog married Scota daughter of Pharaoh Cingris of egypt
انا إنجليزي وأتعلّم العربية ولكنها هي لغة صعبة
I found when I went to Ireland that the Irish have an extremely rich oral storytelling tradition. I could not help but think about the Arabs and how they too love to tell stories orally. In many ways, although different peoples, they are very similar.
All people love story telling why do you think youtube is such a succesfull platform? Also all cultures traditions were oral before they learned to write.
@@Judge_Magister so the "richness" of oral tradition is equal in all cultures?🤔
@@tylerdurden3722 yes, just not all as well written later on, for example the Romans killed all the Keltic druids who were the keepers of the culture and so it was easier to assimilate the Kelts into Roman culture when the druids were gone. Obviously the Romans never reached Keltic Ireland.
@Scrooge McGruel the only limiting factor is that many cultures have had adopted writing for hundreds and hundreds of years. Cultures with high illiteracy rates are less likely to loose their oral traditions as quickly.
The Bedouin Arabs are perfect in describing a story into the listener mind, its like watching a movie when they are telling a story or delivering a message. Long ago, people can barter Bedouin Arabs with good stories or good advice in an exchange for a camel or a sheep, they are good listeners and were people of literature although some of them were illiterate. Bedouin Arabs are also perfect natural born gps and guides when they give directions, the power of description was very important in Arabia
I’m an Iraqi, live in Ireland.. noticed those similarities a while back, tried ti search found some genomic studies suggesting that farmers from Mesopotamia traveled to Ireland and England today, and they’re the farmers if the islands. Now this video added substantially to my knowledge on the subject. I actually stumbled upon this channel as part of my search, and subscribed to it after seeing you touching on both Eastern and Celtic language. Knew that this video will come one day!!
the tower of Babil or babel or Babylon in the city of Babylon in middle Iraq
which comes from the 2 Semetic Iraqi words
Bab (used to mean gate) still now used in Arabic as door instead of the real Semetic word for which is Dalet ((which the Greek letter delta came from)) any way notice in (6:37) bab is used as door
and el or elo or eloh
like Israa(el) (slave god,or the slave of god) was the nicknameof prophet Jacob
Ishma(el)
Azra(el)
Samw(el)
..... etc
it became in Arabic Ilah later Al-Ilah or the God which later became Allah (The god)
in Hebrew it is Eloh
in Semetic languages we add (un) in the end to make it singular like
Arabic: Kitab=Book
Kitabun=A book
see in 5:51
Malik is king
while Malikun means a king
so Babil used to mean God's Gate
(Bab Eloh) God's gate ------> (Bab elohun) A God's gate ------> later became (Bab ylon or Babylon)
Galilee is different. But Galatia, Galicia and Galway all come from Gaul.
Trouser Troll Funny thing is I think Chaldeans are literally called C(k)aledoni in arabic. however I’m not sure about it
There are other similarities between these cultures. The *Elves, Huldra (literally "hidden [beings]")* or _Huldufólk_ ("hidden people") of Teutonic cultures [Anglic, Saxonic, German, Dutch, Scandinavian] and the _Tylwyth teg_ ("fair folk") or _Daoine sídhe_ ("the mounds people") of Celtic cultures [Irish/Gaelic, Welsh/Brittonic] are strikingly similar to the *Genies/Jinn (also literally "hidden [beings]")* of Arabian culture and the Jewish counterparts _Shedim_ (usually translated with the word "demon(s)" original from Greek Septuagint's _daimon_ ). Just like Muslims and Orthodox Jews, people in Scandinavian and Gaelic nations, esp. Iceland and Ireland, believe in them as real entities.
@Trouser Troll Yes, but e.g. Galilee is the Anglicized version of the word. In Arabic it's Jaleel. I don't know what it is in Hebrew or Aramaic or Canaanite. So all that has to be taken into consideration. Chaldean is Kildan (in Arabic) & I believe also in Kildani (Chaldean).
Semitic language speaker here, not only surprised to learn about the similarities but also delighted!
Every time I discover something that seems to vaguely unite humanity or to open new horizons for research or even imagination ... I’m profoundly delighted and hopeful.
I have always loved your videos, many thanks 🙏🏻
As a Welsh speaker who has studied Hebrew I found this video fascinating. Dyma ddiddorol iawn. Diolch! By the way I think the Welsh speaker on here is from north Wales.
It’s definitely north welsh. Mae gen i instead of Mae gyda fi and things.
@@Ceidonianphysicist It's interesting to note that, although the words differ between North and South Welsh, both employ the same mechanism of using a preposition + pronoun to signify possession.
Jambalaya, crawfeesh pie and fillet gumbo ...
Look into the forensic historians Wilson and blackett for the truth about who the welsh really are
You know, medieval Irish literature like the Lebor Gabala Erenn claimed the original inhabitants of Ireland came from Egypt and brought the language with them.
It's likely that they were just trying to make a link to the centre of judeo-christian beginnings and the more ancient known cultures but it's certainly interesting to note!
Don't think it said that as Egypt wasn't a country back then.
O Egypt, the land of Plenty. And freedom for Humanity.
@@danboland3775 Hi Dan, I thought any possible Egyptian influences on Judaism/Christianity would be ignored. Exodus is not forgotten. A Lay Preacher friend of mine would be horrified at the concept of any Egyptian influences.
@@mrpea7674 When? Egypt is ancient by anybody's standard. As long as the texts refer to a time before Cleopatra and possibly after Pharoah Horemheb, then that fits in. I have read that no Egyptian Princesses married foreigners before that time. The Irish Legends involve a princess if I remember rightly. It is a lovely thought but impossible to prove.
As someone who's Welsh on my dad's side and Jewish on my mom's, this is really interesting
Same here
Very interesting ! One thing I have noticed is that the Irish language has had a great impact on the way Irish people speak English. For example, it is common in Ireland to say "she watched TV and I alseep next to her" meaning "she watched TV while I slept next to her". Also certain phrases such as "he gave out to me" meaning he scolded me coming from the phrase "ag tabhairt amach" in Irish :)
Yeah - when a conquered people learn the conqueror’s language, they keep a lot of their own grammar. I guess it runs deeper than the vocabulary. (I don’t mean to emphasize ‘conquering’, but, what other word should one use?)
Aoife L same in Cymru.
Thats so true, I never heard the word "scolded" in Ireland before.
That is true.
@@russianbotfarm3036 You're right - conquering or colonizing.
I'm, as a native Arabic speaker, deeply amazed by those similarities
Well done Paul! You’ve done a hell lot of research! Thanks for the mega interesting info! Cheers! Carry on please
Finally I see someone mention it. There is this RUclipsr who uses some Irish phrases in her videos, and for a long time I was convinced that she spoke Hebrew.
As for your question, I've noticed three similarities with my native language (Ukrainian) and other Slavic languages that I have some knowledge of:
1) inflected prepositions - although it's not entirely the same, if you want to say "I have to do something" you'd say "For me is necessary to". "There is" "at me" structure is also used to denote posession
2) construct state genitives
3) "and" can also mean "but"; not "while" or "as" though.
Also, Slavic langauges don't really have articles, but we use "this" or "these" to refer to a specific object. Using pronouns in place of indefinite articles is much less common.
A Serbo-Croatian speaker here (learning Ukrainian), the prepositions don't inflect, the pronouns do.
@@wtc5198 Technically you're correct. What I meant to say was "prepositional pronouns" which translate into English as "for me/him/her/us etc" and which are in fact inflected.
One of the best content channels I’ve seen. Well done sir
Wow I never thought I’d see similarities between these languages. Just shows how similar humans are in general and how historically we gravitate towards similar ideas. Thanks!
thats because Nel son Fénius Farsaid son of Boath son of Magog married Scota daughter of Pharaoh Cingris of Egypt
Djack this, most obvious answer, to think these languages were created entirely separate and independent is absurd
@Djack Celtic including British people?! (Welsh....specifically are the British, Brythonic) The English are Germanic!
I would look up historians called Alan Wilson and Adrian Gilbert here on youtube! Your in the right area. :)
Btw, the Celts are Cimmerians (ancient Greeks called them Keltoi, those who are hidden).
The Germanic People are Scythians.
One group (Scythians) went North and the other (Cimmerians) west through the Mediterranean. Setting up outpost such as Troy and Etruria on their way to Britain. Rome was the founded after Troy fell by Aneuas of Troy and Brutus of Troy went to Britain. This is why the Romans were so obsessed with Britain and the middle east.
Why did Rome have upwards of 15% of their army in Britain?!
Why did so many Roman Generals take Brythonic (Welsh) wives?!
Why did so Many Brythonic warriors fight for the western Roman empire under Magnus Maximus during their civil war?!
Learning irish from a young age definitely helped since it’s got a completely different structure to English , it’s very hard to even directly translate things between the 2 languages
A good way to track our true history. Most of our books are lies. But by studying language at this depth, we see the most interesting connections! Such great work.
I am an Irish speaker and have been studying Hebrew as part of a theology degree and Arabic for the enjoyment, and this was something I had noticed about the languages. So it was fascinating to see this video. Go raibh míle míle maith agat, is breá liom é seo.
Wanna test your Hebrew?
@@The7thNugget84 god damn it, israelis at again, אנחנו אוהבים את השפה שלנו יותר מדי לא
@@cossaizy6309 כן, אני מניח שכן, למרות שעברית של רחוב היא עברית "שבורה" אבל אתה יודע, יש אנשים שאוהבים את שפת הארץ שלהם
@@The7thNugget84 לא אל תבינו אותי לא נכון, אני מת על השפה למרות שאני ישראלי-פלסטיני, דבר מצחיק שאני אפילו מדבר עברית טוב יותר מערבית
@@cossaizy6309 סליחה על השאלה אבל מה זה ישראלי- פלסטיני?
not so suprise ! i'm french and lebanese and my name in arabic means "coral sea" while in breton it means something "coming from the sea" :o
The Phoenicians went everywhere, and were very friendly with Greeks, and likely immigrated to Hibernian lands.
Ton nom, tu veux dire "Morgan" ?
En breton "mor" veut dire "mer"
Un fait intéressant, a l'époque parmi toutes nos tribus gauloises, il y'en avait une qu'on désignaient comme "le peuple de la mer" dû a leur emplacement.
C'était la tribu des "Morins", ce nom c'est transformé en nom de famille et a traversé les siècles ! :)
It’s a welsh name, “Môr” being sea and “gan” being from so in English it would be “from sea” or “from the sea”
@@Aron-ru5zk in Arabic morgan means “coral of the sea”
What?! I didn't know Berton was so similar to Arabic!
I think the oldest you go back in time, the more a language reduces exclusively to grammar rules. You can adorn them, but I think they are the core of a language. That is why I find the Celtic-Hebrew similarities fascinating. Because they don't rely on vocabulary, they rely on similar ways of constructing sentences, which in my opinion talks of a more ancient connection.
2 years later but that simply isn’t true. For example, English lost all of its gendered cases in just 200 years between 800 and 1000 but you can still tell it’s related to German and such through vocabulary.
@CG Untrue. ancient britons (im assuming that means celts) are uh.... celtic??? the Etruscans aren't
honestly, as a Hebrew speaker, this is extremely surprising, I didn't know my language was so similar to Celtic languages of all things!
Anicent herbrews are the bythonic peoples
Celtic tribes were originally middle eastern.
@Donald Trump Father of the Vaccine no.
@Donald Trump Father of the Vaccine wtf no gaelic and galil are not related at all, galil comes from the hebrew word for circle igul
@Donald Trump Father of the Vaccine exactly, I fucking speak Hebrew unlike you. Proves my point even more. Y'all and afrocentrists so keen on claiming other people's history instead of embracing your own
Watched the ad the beginning so you can get that coin. :D
Well, thank you. :)
Same here ;) great content Paul very informative 👍
Night Shade lol me tooo
I wish I had subscribers like you! :-)
@@LangfocusI used AirTime, which blocks the ad but pays you regardless.
As an Irish person I'm not that surprised by this. The unusual sound of some words in Irish that require using the back of the throat for words ending in 'ch' such as gách and ámach is similar to sounds in Arabic and Hebrew
I am so glad to see this video; studying both Hebrew and Welsh, I have noticed some of these features and wondered about them…
Look into the forensic historians Wilson and blackett
I was in an art history class ages ago, and we were discussing the similarities between animal styles chattel art and decoration between Celtic and Thracian artifacts. My professor brought up a theory that the Celtic or Gallic tribes originated from northern Iraq. He mentioned a primary document that had been found where a bunch of Celtic clan leaders in the British isles had signed an agreement where they cited their tribal origins from an area of turkey. It’s was pre medieval. Idk coming from a family of so called “Black Irish” that were dna tested and found to be entirely Irish - it doesn’t seem that unreasonable of concept…
Randomly found this -not sure of the validity : ruclips.net/video/KqvdRN7gnWQ/видео.html
Assyrians called the Israelites "Kimmri" and the Welsh call themselves "Cymru". Both phonologically identical. The u on the end of Cymru is pronounced like an i.
Back in 2019, I was doing a study on the "lost tribes" of Israel after the down fall of the Assyrian empire: the theory is they were scattered but that the tribes of "Manasseh" and "Ephraim" went north into the lands of great Britain.
I never looked far into it past that but find the similarities interesting
Very interesting. In colloquial Persian, we say “asam” meaning “from me”, “asat” meaning “from you”, “asash “ meaning “from him”, etc.
the similarity is prbbly due to proto indo European derivation of both Celtic and Iranian languages
Ok that's the the point of being creepy
That is beyond fascinating, thanks for sharing!
@@clumbus894 Pretty well know that there are some common ancestral words/borrowings with Ancient Greek in Welsh (I happen to know about two, though not a Welsh speaker... bywyd (biuid) - life - bios, haul (heel) - sun - helios), so if there's some stuff that sounds Indo-iranian in Irish, that doesn't seem that mad...
This is how new cases are born. Contractions of to words. I don't find it strange. I would rather say that Arabic and Hebrew are highly influenced by the Indo-Europeans, not vice-versa as it is suggested in the video.
Greeting from morocco 🇲🇦🇲🇦
Waiting for an Amazigh/berber video :) . Thank you for your great content
Yes about tmazight (rif Berber)
Berber is more of a spoken language than a literal language
Soufiane saidi but it still has a structure and grammar
@@ily5872 I know it has structure, but didn't knew it has grammar
And greetings from a Celt who may be a long lost relative.
As a speaker of Hebrew.. I'm hella surprised, that's really interesting!
תאמין לי הכל היום מהיהודים באיזהשהו אופן, ישיר או עקיף ;]
רק חבל שלא יודעים יותר על הקשר בין הפ'ייניקים לבין היהודים..
ניתן לומר שהם בני דודינו האמיתיים מהעת העתיקה.
Weren’t the celts considered one of the 7 lost tribes of Israel ?
@@Miniweet9167. As stated by the King and his nobles in the 1320 Scottish declaration of independence.
Children if Dan
Okay, now this kind of video is a pretty big deep dive into linguistics (but still somewhat comprehensible.) I think I will stick to your others which are covering the features of individual languages, one at a time. That's enough for my purposes as a historian who is curious about languages, many of which I might need to occasionally pronounce but rarely ever actually speak.
In any event, I appreciate your work. It is highly entertaining and satisfies my curiosities about subjects I will probably never have the time to actually study in any meaningful depth.
I speak irish and I’m not too surprised as I’ve noticed similar sounds between the languages
I’m a fluent Irish speaker, and I was surely surprised by this. I recently found out I could understand a good bit of Scottish Gaelic just by using my Irish, and now this. You make a very interesting case. Needless to say I would not have picked these two groups of languages to find similarities. If only I could find out how/why this happened.
Im finding Irish speakers XD
Yes this is truly amazing and interesting. I'm an Arabic speaker. It comes to show how connected humans are. Keep up the great content :-)
Yes, it sure does! Thank you. :)
There are other similarities between these cultures. The *Elves, Huldra (literally "hidden [beings]")* or _Huldufólk_ ("hidden people") of Teutonic cultures [Anglic, Saxonic, German, Dutch, Scandinavian] and the _Tylwyth teg_ ("fair folk") or _Daoine sídhe_ ("the mounds people") of Celtic cultures [Irish/Gaelic, Welsh/Brittonic] are strikingly similar to the *Genies/Jinn (also literally "hidden [beings]")* of Arabian culture and the Jewish counterparts _Shedim_ (usually translated with the word "demon(s)" original from Greek Septuagint's _daimon_ ). Just like Muslims and Orthodox Jews, people in Scandinavian and Gaelic nations, esp. Iceland and Ireland, believe in them as real entities.
Neil Wiggs which book?
I adore Semitic and Celtic languages, Arabic and Irish in particular. Man, they got zest. Tha gràdh agam orthusan!
As an Arab
I’ve been shocked to see these similarities
I thought these are Arabic features, awesome video, thank you 🙏
Great video, thanks Paul! I'm planning to learn both Irish and Arabic, so I'm looking forward to encountering these kinds of interesting similarities 😊
As a Welsh speaker this was very interesting to me. I was surprised to learn. But the theory that people who were living in Britain before the Celts spoke an afro Asiatic language makes sense I think. As you stated in your video it's well know that people were here before the Celts and had been here for thousands of years.
Look into the forensic historians Wilson and blackett for the true history of the welsh
I lived in France for a year, and my party piece was a sean-nós (a capella, old style) Irish song called 'An raibh tú ag an gCarraig?' Any Arabic speakers at the party always loved it, and said it made them feel homesick!
@@je-freenorman7787 Aryan is not a name used for any language family or group.
I have learnd a lot of your very interesting and fun videos Paul! You are the only one my Swedish linguist girlfriend did not critizie because you basically know what you are doing and very prepared. Love all your videos!!!
Another similar curiosity you didn't mention in this video is the way of counting numbers: the units coming before the tens, like 2and30, 5and40, 7and10. At least, so it is in Arabic and Breton (and German!), but not in other branches of indo-european languages such as Latin (and Romance derivates) or Greek or Slavic.
That is indeed a thing in Biblical Hebrew as well, though modern Hebrew has reversed the order and now uses a 30-and-2 order.
@@SpringStarFangirl why did they change that? i speak german and i liked that in arabi…. the numbers are the same. So if its the tradition the other way arround, why to make it different than the original? I like ivrit a lot btw, especially with mizrahi slang. Ivrit and aramaic will hopefully have some comeback. the same i wish for the celtic languages.
yom tov 😃
@@viddl8267 I think it's due mainly to effects from the west, and maybe because the units-before-the-tens system sounds more clunky.
@@SpringStarFangirl toda raba!
English is like that though to an extent, Seven Ten = Seventeen. but then we switch to the other way round after nineteen, very odd.
This has to be the best popularized linguistics presentation I've ever seen. And you've avoided dumping all the B.S. mythological crap on us. Keep it up!
Aww that's sad. That's one of the reasons why I like Paul. He puts a bit of history, which I like and adds spice to the video and explanation
@@MasterofPokemonGing but Paul did explain some historical theories! He just made it clear that, as of today, it's just speculation
So interesting! Well done!
I grew up with stories that there was a group of people from Egypt who settled Ireland. For ages, scholars have stated that the stories were influenced by Christian monks who wrote down the (formerly oral) stories. Nowadays, there's a vein of thought that maybe . . . not so much. There may actually be a modicum of truth there in the old tales. Archeology and genetics show some intriguing insights. Who knows?
Anyway, I'd be curious to see about any similarity (if any) that the ancient Egyptian language shares with Hebrew, Arabic, and Irish (Scots Gaelic and Welsh).
Great video Paul. As a student of Arabic who had previously dabbled in Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic I noticed some of these features as well. There is even some curiously similar vocabulary most prominently in my mind were words for knife. Sgian in Gaelic and سكين in Arabic. In relation to the contact hypotheses mentioned at the end of your video about a year ago I think I remember reading about a genetic study of Insular Celtic peoples that showed a surprising number of markers that were shared with pre-agricultural middle eastern populations. I'll see if I can find the study
if you can find the study, please let me know. I'd be very interested to read it, it sits squarely in my field of study. I'm learning Welsh to study bronze and iron age archaeology in the UK, but I have recently started studying archaeology of the Middle East. Genetics has been a big part of my exploration of both regions. It would be fascinating.
Is your name pronounced like "بائلر" i'm curious 😁✌️😃
@@bethyngalw You know Bob Quinn's documentary 'Atlantean' I presume.
A while ago, I read about some Celtic languages, and as an Arabic speaker, the similarities between Celtic languages and Arabic bedazzled me, so much that I refuse to believe these languages are not somehow related, even though I'm as far from being a linguist as is Great Britain from the Levant :)
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It probably comes from the bronze age when Middle Eastern empires needed tin to create bronze, which they could only find in Afghanistan, and in far larger amounts in Cornwall and surrounding areas
I believe they are related and that Irish adopted Indo-European vocabulary due to thousands of years away from the middle east
Fascinating video! Arguably Paul’s best.
I had personally noticed those similarities between Hebrew and Irish but I couldn’t figure out any reason why. The Irish grammar is indeed full of oddities that I have found in any other indo-European language as this video explains it beautifully.
I've been looking for a video about this!! I noticed the similarities when taking the Irish (Gaelic) course on Duolingo (I've been studying Arabic for work for a while now)
I teach some Scottish Gaelic classes and I have to describe "dh" before a broad vowel e.g. dhomh, dhut, dha as like an Arabic consonant - like gh, a soft G. I have to use middle eastern languages as an example to describe it
That's very fascinating, I'd love to learn Gaelic one day
Hence, your student shloud be middle eastern , for them to see the correlation am i wrong 🤔🤔
I’m a Dutch Canadian and when people here in North America hear it they say that it sounds like Arabic or Hebrew and shares the same VSO sentence structure.
Keep up the good work : I love your modesty and your precision, compared to other polyglots out there who often have poor content and like to talk about themselves
I used to pub crawl with an Irish Gaelic speaker and a Scottish Gaelic speaker. We had lovely three-way conversations with my Hebrew. Of course, we were fluttery in the gills, and barely conscious. Yet there were odd similarities now and then...
As a Hebrew speaking Hebrew, that's sounds like much fun, I would like to have a go with you chaps under a pint or two (ok maybe four, if you're hardcore xD )
That sounds like some really funny nights out! :oD
First time I've watched your channel.....AWESOME JOB....you are very well spoken and comprehensive
Well,I know for a fact that the Phoenicians obtained some tin from tin mines in Cornwall,England back in the first Millennium BC.So,these Semitic people,the Phoenicians could well have had some influence,I imagine on the languages of the Celiic people living around Cornwall, England.
@Celtic Revival / Adfywiad Celtaidd when anyone referred to me as a Brit i would try and correct them saying that true Brits are the Brethonic Celts who were on the land thousands of years before us Angles were invited to migrate here and these are the Cornish, Welsh, Manx etc. i used to get some very blank looks
Barat Tanac is Phoenician for land of tin which may or may not be the origin of the word Britain
I am Cornish from Penzance West Penwith. I am a Cornish speaker and noticed similarities.
@@Jordie0001 the English are Anglo-Brythonic, so the label still fits.
Theres no mystery ....look into the forensic historians Wilson and blackett
Hey Paul, thanks for another brilliant video!
Speaking about the similarities I may say, that in Russian language there is an interesting word and a particle «да» (da). As a word in a daily speech it normally means «yes». But as a particle, especially in older literature, it may mean «and» or «but», depending on the context.
For example: «В лесу растут грибы _да_ ягоды» (mushrooms _and_ berries grow in the forest). Here we use «да» as a simple coordinating conjunction.
Compare to: «Мал золотник, _да_ дорог» (zolotnik is small _but_ precious). Zolotnik was the name of a gold coin at the time of Kievan Rus. Here «да» is used to put an emphasis on the contrast.
Greek also has a postpositive word δε, which also means "but" or "and". I've noticed that Koine Greek and Slavonic grammar are very very similar. I wonder if the Church influenced Slavonic to make Bible translation easier or whether they are naturally so similar.
Fun fact: the Irish Gaelic word “uisce” is the root word for whisky
Lights & Cameras! Irish for whiskey is “uisce beatha”, which translates literally to the “water of life”
KILLAGORILLA7000 Yeah thats right. And what does “agua vitae” mean them?
@@lightscameras4166 water of Life too
It has and i-e root
Wow, this is fascinating!
I can’t even imagine the amount of work that has gone into the making of this video. Have you actually studied all of these languages in such depth??
By the way, thanks for defining the genitive noun construct thing (smikhut). I knew it was a feature of Hebrew and Arabic, but I had no idea it existed in other languages too!