I am Egyptian , and I want to clarify some mistakes that you said , first coptic is the last phase of ancient Egyptian language , they are the same language, it's like English and old English every language has phases and developments , second coptic doesn't have any arabic influence on it actually it's the other way around coptic has some influences on arabic especially the Egyptian dilacet of arabic that is very different than standard arabic or any other dilacet of arabic , third coptic words are around 90% are Egyptian and only 10% are greek and this is fine because every language in the world would give and take , it happened to Greek , Roman , Arabic , English and others , arabic as an example took a lot of words from persian , indian , greek , coptic and others so this is totally fine , and this greek words in coptic could be easily dumped out because this greek words have a lot of confronting Egyptian words that are more popular and more used than them , simply Coptic language is the Egyptian language that has never been dead , it has always been alive.❤🦅
@@scapemagnus2546 You can't tell which is older , because language started since the first groups of human beings , of course it was much simpler but it is still a language , however the oldest written language found in history is Sumerian , but Egyptian is a very very very close second , sumer was the first city state in the world but Egypt is the first country state in the world , both are great civilizations❤️🇪🇬🇮🇶
I am an Egyptian Muslim. A month ago, I started learning the Coptic language, the language of my ancestors, and I very much hope that it will be revived or made a second language for the country. Special thanks go to the Christians because they are the ones who preserved it to this day, and we all aim to bring it back and teach it to future generations + Thank you for your love towards our ancient civilization. ❤
Coptic, maybe fine, because Christians are Ahlul kitab, but not ancient Egyptian, pagan sinners’ language. EDIT: For those who are triggered for no reason, I admit I could've worded that better. I am not against learning languages of non abrahamics, I simply dislike people who are fascinated by pagan culture. If you learn a pagan language to spread Islam for example or have an actual useful reason like business, then no problem, I just don't like people who turn into weebs for pagan culture, that goes for pagan egypt or norse or pagan rome or even pagan japan.
@@Hedgehogz856 I will, but if only other non pagans learn it with me. Just like how Bengali used to be a pagan/buddhist only language, now the majority of the bengali speakers are muslim. I have no problem speaking bengali, because now bengali is no longer associated with their pagan past. Likewise with English, english is no longer associated with the pagan past of britania, as Britain had been baptized back in the 500's or something (i don't remember exactly, so don't quote).
@@enacausmembrane I don’t think ancient Egyptian paganism is very big if even existent any more, most who know the language are scholars and researchers
@@LurkingObserver it's egyptian of course! But not the egyptian language, it's scientific btw not smth about me. The language is so different than egyptian to be the egyptian language which makes it a different language, still egyptian but not the egyptian language making it the coptic languahe
5:00 once i was bored and started learning sumerian words i found out that we in iraqi arabic & mandaic (aramaic) have sumerian words but we also use a lot of akkadian words in iraqi arabic & assyrian & mandaic aramaic which is quite fascinating
@@SirBoggins I speak Hebrew and I am able to understan most of these languages like if it was of my own. I would give anything just to speak to a Jordanian and a Lebnanese like how an Italian would speak to a French and a Spanish.
@@PhilipLaSnail I SECOND YOUR WISH; We need to build a time machine in order to go back and alter the history or perhaps create a machine that can alter realities and therefore bring about a reality where those Canaanite languages live on to today!!
@@SirBoggins OH MY GOD YES IMAGINE HAVING NIGHEBORS THAT ACTUALLY LIKE YOU, RELIGIONS THAT ARE MORE SIMILAR TO YOU, MORE ACCENTS UNLOCKED, LANGUAGES UNLOCKED AND CULTURES UNLOCKED THAT WOULD BE SO AWESOME. I want to be in edom rn so bad.
How about the Quechua Coded Knot Language? Boiled down to essentials, the Inca Empire had no known written language. HOWEVER, they were able to communicate very precise commands, messages, instructions, stories and even genealogies via a system of fabric knots that runners would take to all corners of the Empire and were considered SO sacred that anyone who was believed to have tampered with them was automatically executed!
@@KaitendooCoptic isn’t “just Greek+Egyptian” the grammar, and phonetics are Egyptian and among every day spoken Coptic vocab the vast majority is Egyptian. In fact Coptic is Egyptian, it’s the most recent form of the Egyptian language which makes the most sense to use now. Yes, 25% of the liturgical vocabulary is Greek loan words but people don’t talk in Coptic the way we pray at church.
Interesting video. My question, however, is why revive a dead language when you have languages that are on the brink of death. Efforts can be put into restoring and empowering Indigenous languages like Yupik, Ojibwe and Quechua of the Americas or even Ainu, Kusunda or Ket in Asia.
Quechua has 7 million native speakers, for Christ's sake. They'll keep it if they want to. Also, there is no reason why the Ainus can't cultivate their language, there are still millions of them and the Japanese don't really prohibit it (although don't encourage it either). Speakers of endangered existing languages themselves should be making an effort. Whereas there are no ancient Sumerians, Latins or Tocharians to resurrect their languages so someone needs to do it for them.
@@Kinotaurus That's because language evolve ,there is 7 tier (T0 to T6 ,and you use subdivision inside of the tier with either Low or High to demonstrate how close it is to to advance a tier) ,basically ,language have a different problem depending on it's tier ,and when this problem is fixed through the evolution of the language ,the language move up a tier ,but fixing the problem create another problem ,and then when you arrive a T6 ,and you fixe the problem ,you cycle back to T0 (Fixing the problem that you have a T6 will give you the same problem you had at T0) Latin was a T2 language ,Old French was a T3 ,and French of today is a High T4 Italian is High T4 ,Spanish and Portuguese are Low T4 ,English is High T3
no gaulish? also Coptic I think is just far more realistic, and would in my opinion be cooler because of the fact that it would be less like reviving something truly dead, and more like bringing back a language from the brink like Cornish and Manx. Shout out to Syriac (the modern descendant of Aramaic) for clinging on, I wish we could replace Arabic in all counties outside of the Arabian Peninsula with their ancient languages, Amazigh for the Maghreb, Coptic for Egypt, Phoenician for Lebanon, Syriac for Syria and Iraq (since I think Sumerian is too far gone to bring back) and maybe a Punic revival for Tunisia?
Sino-Tibetan isn’t the same as Chinese though. Chinese is a Sino-Tibetan language but the whole area highlighted at the start of the video as Chinese speaks very different languages such as Burmese, Tibetan, the Karen languages and more that are also Sino-Tibetan and related to Chinese (but are not Chinese). And even Chinese is a clump of multiple variants that cannot understand each other.
Coptic should be revived since it was never under Arabic influence, it was a descendant of Ancient Egyptian but with some Greek influence, it was natively formed within Egypt unlike Arabic
Back then in the 20th century there was a movement call pharaonism it is a movement to bring back egyptian language and identity but the movement fail because the pan-arab and nasserism ruin it
Wouldn't it be cool to revive a language that died like 11 years ago? (I'm talking about Livonian, in the west of Latvia, I know almost nothing about it, but it's too sad seeing that it's last speaker died 11 years ago)
"Europe's language map is too boring, it's all Romance languages, Germanic languages, and Slavic languages." 1. "Let's bring back another Romance language.
I'd rather spend the resources on propping up the ones that are still spoken: Romansh, Occitan, Arpitan to replace French in Suisse Romand, Lombard to replace Italian in Ticino and the westernmost Italian area of Grisons, Friulian, Venetian.
Bring back Old Norse! I'd love to see it revived and modernized in the same way that the Vatican keeps Latin alive and updates it for modern terms and concepts.
Many of us use Old Norse Grammar, Vocabulary, and Pronunciation while filling in lost or never thought of words among the Old Norse speakers with Old Icelandic or Modern Icelandic changing the pronunciation as needed to keep things consistent.
Dalmatian would be cool, also it is partly linked to Italian and would give continuity to the Latin heritage left in the region by Rome and Venice. For Egypt I would personally prefer Coptic because it could happen more "realistically". Sumerian is dope. Tartarian is ok.
As person who is half Croatian half Greek I agree that we should bring back Dalmatian (also where I can donate to you and where could a person learn Dalmatian)
Basically they could reconstruct Babylonian first, with the help of multilingual inscriptions (I think one of them had Greek + Babylonian + a third one, maybe Aramean), and form there, they used tablets that were found by archeologists, that were lists of Sumerian words with their translations in Babylonian.
@@craigimeBabylonian was one of the eastern Semitic languages, of which all are extinct today, but because we know it was Semitic and, with many inscriptions of other ancient languages using tre same script, it is not impossible to reconstruct a fairly good approximation of the sound system of the language. Also, in most languages sounds made by the human mouth tend to follow certain universal rules that govern pronunciation and these rules are fairly consistent across languages and especially within language families. So I'm convinced that modern reconstructions are good approximations for what they sounded like. There are various YT videos illustrating this and if you know one or two modern Semitic languages you'd be able to grasp quite a lot of Babylonian.
Latin only came to be spoken in countries which had previously spoken Celtic before the Roman conquest. Coptic speakers, continued to speak Coptic, Aramaic speakers continued to speak Aramaic and Greek speakers still spoke Greek. Unlike island-Celtic, which became mixed with the pre-Celtic speech of the islands, Continental Celtic was very similar to Latin. They were probably mutually intelligible, which is why Celtic speakers in Dacia, Gaul and Iberia made minor adjustments and spoke the language of state power.
Aramaic, specifically Judeo-NeoBabylonian, is also a Jewish liturgical language. Many prayers and most of the Talmud, along with most of Daniel, are in this language.
Vibes-wise, Coptic/ancient Egyptian and Sumerian deserve perfect points IMO (although I get this video's being 'scientific'). The idea that these languages coming from areas generally regarded as the cradles of civilization still being spoken today is super cool. A linguistic bridge to the very beginning. Although Coptic's still spoken as a liturgical language.
Just FYI, there are currently about 7,000+ languages spoken worldwide. Not arguing about bringing back extinct languages, I like the idea. It's just that most living languages are regional or tribal, and not nearly as well known as the major languages that predominate and that everyone has at least heard of.
Sure its hard but every language comes with not js the meaning but culture around it, to preserve language is to preserve culture & ill be damned if i dont help to move it forward
I speak the Israeli dialect of hebrew and when I read the bible (I am not religious in Israel it is just a must to study it like math) I can understand like 99% of it, we need no translation or explanation really /: The only thing that really has been changed is the accent, modern Israeli accent is really flat. It sounds like if Italian wasn't sexy and sounded a bit more like dutch. It is because many Mizrakhis, Ashkenazis, Ethopean, Russian and Spheradic Jews mingled with each other here and created this weird accent that everyone can understand. The ancient Israeli accent was similar to a yemeni accent, which is really deep and really hard to pronounce.
As someone who speaks Serbo-Croatian and has learned the grammatical basics of italian in order for me to learn Dalmatian easier I can say that reviving this language is hard if not impossible. The revivalist movements seem messy and all use different versions with very different word to the point that I feel like some of them are making up their versions on the spot. On top of that the lack of papers and resources, even from the old times when it was spoken more commonly, make it super hard to fact check the revivalist movements. I'm curious which movement/group you found tho, I'd love to see their lessons/plans/works.
All cool, but could we potentially bring those back for real? For instance, Egyptian hieroglyphs could be too convoluted for people to learn, and I don't know if there are many records of Tocharian to bring it back
It's not necessary to bring back "ancient Egyptian" since the coptic language is still around. But even if it was brought back, you could just use the coptic alphabet. Learning hieroglyphics is frankly a waste of time
Tocharian was wiped off the face of the planet by the Turkic Uyghur conquerors, low difficulty. Turko-Mongol men from the steppe enjoyed wiping out the sedentary sart identities and cultures of Iranic-speaking peoples for some reason. It's also hilarious that indigenous European languages no longer exist (apart from Basque) and have never been documented because most of them were already (near) extinct by the time the Iron Age came around. You can only find them as substrate traces in modern IE and Uralic languages.
aramaiic more than just a liturgical language i hev bro who speaks it and other bros from the sprachbund (assyrian sometimes also classified as aramaiic)
I don't know where you got that from, but it's absolutely not true. It might be hard to revive Sumerian as a spoken language because we're still missing out on a lot of details, but in general we do have a pretty good understanding of the language.
@@craigime I don't know what the difference is supposed to be. It's not currently spoken by anyone, but we do know its phonology, grammar, lexicon, writing system, etc. It would be hard to revive, but theoretically kind of possible.
@@craigime I mean we will of course never know the 100% exact pronunciation, but we have a pretty good idea about most of the basic phonemes. Most of what we know about Sumerian is through Akkadian, the other big language of Ancient Mesopotamia. Akkadian was relatively closely related to other Semitic languages like Aramaic, Hebrew, and Arabic, so the sounds of that language are relatively easy to reconstruct (remember that historical linguistics is an actual science, not just fancy people guessing shit). So we're pretty sure about Akkadian phonology, and since Akkadian was written in the same writing system as Sumerian, we can be pretty sure about a lot of sounds in Sumerian as well. That's the main strategy of figuring out the pronunciation, but there's also loanwords (like when a Sumerian word was loaned in to Akkadian, and vice versa, did they change the writing? If so, how? What can that tell us about the phonology of both languages?), and internal variation and scribal errors, i.e. the same Sumerian word may be written differently in different texts, which can also give us clues about how they pronounced their language. - This is the very, very short version of what linguists and assyriologists have been doing for the past 150 years. The whole process is pretty complex and without assuming some general knowledge of linguistics and cuneiform writing, I'm afraid this is about as good as I can explain it.
Circassian ? 70 + consonants and only 3 vowels. I know it's not dead yet, but there's no English dictionary of it, and the language will probably disappear during this century or the next one. Also I'd rather have Coptic than Ancient Egyptian since the latter's phoneme inventory is very similar to that of Arabic.
Your sphinx on the thumbnail looks like Iraqs map Edit: I am not convinced I really don't think extinct langauges should be restored even Hebrew I mean I hate zionism and even so why bother have this kind of a headache instead of focusing on other pressing matters, I am an Arab from Iraq but I really don't mind English dominating every corner of the world as long as we can communicate with our neighbors around the world easily But again that doesn't mean I am against studying these languages academically but making people use it is somehow making things worse for everybody
@@chimera9818 what is done is done As I said before I am not against hebrew now since so many people consider it as their first language and they don't have the ability to speak any other language fluently as for zionism if it wasn't an idea of making religio-ethno-state for jews you will lose me here, although I am well aware that the practice turned out different than the theory
Indo Europeans were betas. Couldn’t even invent writing when the Sumerians did like 1000 years earlier. Now it’s going to be a nightmare to reconstruct its ancestors. :(
Why bother painting the narrative that there is too much linguistic uniformity, with respect to language families, if you're just going to suggest more uniformity..?
@@craigime that what I said: AS/OE are the same language, very different from modern English. Unless they've studied AS, native modern English speakers will not understand it.
Sumerian would be very hard to spread, because it's a language isolate. Assyria is still alive, and is Akkadian's descendant, so didn't die out as such, but reviving olden Akkadian and it's modern Assyrian would be much easier, as they are really quite close to Arabic. Aramaic is also still alive, and again would just be a case of spreading it, and Arabic is very close to it, there is actually a lot of mutual intelligibility I find. Coptic would probably be easier to stomach, cos it is already used liturgically, and so would just be an expansion of use cases. Plus it has Christian associations, rather than the pagan associations of older Egyptian varieties. However, hieroglyphics are extremely cool, so they do have that going for them. Ultimately it would be older and newer varieties of the same language you'd be reviving.
I'm sorry, but having been through a relationship where both had to talk english, I WISH we all spoke the same language. Regional dialects and accents are all fine no doubt, but I think it's the words and meanings that matter. Also we germans still have a lot of diversity in our language, despite it all being german. I cannot understand most of what swiss or native bavarians/austrians say, if they have a strong regional dialect
Just go to Africa, there's almost no national languages that are spoken by majorities, make a map representing them, no need for national borders, and add support for education systems in a lot of them, support living language communities instead of inventing ones
@@craigime yes, i mean nation level official languages, there are exceptions to that of course, but i mean situations like, Nigeria, where the national language is English, but the majority languages are Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Fula... or most of West Africa, where the official languages are either English or French, but the majority languages are Gbe or Akan, etc.... and the language areas generally do not match the speech community areas
or look at Sudan and Chad, part of the area marked as "arabic" at the beginning of the video , while it is a lingua franca in both cases, it is not the L1 for the majority in Chad, and close to half of Sudan, who speak Saharan and so called Nilo languages mostly... these languages need support, i work with Sudanese activists who produce curriculum in local languages, this was about to take place before the current wave of troubles began... even textbooks in Nubian alphabet were produced, along of Beria language material for primary school years, inspired by the Fula Adlam activists... effort should be spend there, supporting living speech communities cross the educational gap and digital gap.... these are not tiny minority languages, Fula is spoken by around 40 million people, Beria by between 1 and 3 million, etc
Except for Dalmatian, the rest of the video shows, without any doubt, that you have no idea what you're talking about. Granted this is your very first video, I hope you do your research before releasing a second one.
You must also recognize that Hebrew was only brought back through essentially fascism and a police state where people had to learn the language of the state or else be completely ostracized
@@totallyrealnotfakelifeadvi7547 everyone who moved to Israel is forced to learn Hebrew that doesn't necessarily mean that they will have to stop speaking their previous language entirely, although that is the long-term effect and a desired one out of the zionist project. For An ideology that's ostensibly about protecting Jewish people they have done more than anyone to destroy Jewish culture, short of H-Man himself
0:43 - "Norf Africa"?.....It may seem like a bit of a petty nitpick, but it annoys me when people pronounce the TH sound as F. Especially since this is a language themed video!
@@nathanielbyrne1132 - Yeah, I'm aware of the "TH-fronting" phenomenon, but to me it sounds pretty awful.....Anyway, the guy's talking about literally reviving *extinct languages,* so is it too much for me to ask that he revive that TH sound which has become extinct in his particular dialect but is still broadly used in most standard English dialects? One sound should be a lot easier than a whole language, no? 😉
@@totallyrealnotfakelifeadvi7547 - Yes, I'm aware of this, but I dislike TH words without that sound. See my other reply here. If he wants to restore whole entire extinct languages, it shouldn't be too much to ask him to restore his own language's TH sound, I don't think.....Make Cockney great again! :D
Bringing back Hebrew (In its modern form) as a spoken language was a mistake. The only region that needs linguistic revival are The Americas and Australia
0:43 Arabic? That's not just the area that Arabic is spoken in. That's the area that Afro-Asiatic languages in general get spoken in. And also, the "Chinese" one also wasn't just Chinese, but the entire Sino-Tibetan family.
Modern Hebrew ( mostly Yiddish germanic originated speakers ) will never be the original one, despite blabbering mizrahis and shamromims speakers are influenced by arabic everytime, it’s still the most interesting ones for ancient hebrew and proto-canaanite comprehension spoken originally by akkadics and sabaics related ancestors for all linguistics experts. And it’s just showing more the disgusting western propaganda. Considering ancient Akkadians and ancient Sabaeans came from the same sources and influenced eachothers from the very begenning. Faking something you are not cannot ever become true. Like it or not. Like it or not. It’s a dead language.
Bro you don’t know anything about Hebrew and modern Hebrew, modern Hebrew was created by mixing Sephardic and Levantine dialects of Hebrew with the already existing Hebrew from thousands of years of books which it was used to and the gap was filled by the root system but it is still Hebrew, case in point: EVERY MODERN HEBREW SPEAKER CAN READ THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND FULLY UNDERSTAND THEM ,IT IS THE SAME LANGUAGE. It isn’t western propaganda it is just a fact, we revived Hebrew
If Hebrew is somehow closely related to Yiddish (which makes no sense, as Hebrew came first and was used as a liturgical language everywhere Yiddish was spoken) and not ancient Hebrew, why can I as a modern Hebrew speaker fluently understand the words of the Tanakh?
@@totallyrealnotfakelifeadvi7547 Anyone can study a language and speak it in a broken way, especially when it was specifically reconstructed. Let me return you the question. Are you considering palestinians, lebaneses, jordanians, syrians and iraqis as Arabians invaders just because they mostly arabized linguistically and turned « muslims » ?
@@totallyrealnotfakelifeadvi7547 Wrong. You pretend understanding it, trough your own « interpretetion » from your own religious knowledge trough serious studies with your scholars/SchoolOfBelief. Most of modern Jews are Secular and from ancestors that converted recently rather than being really semitics, in terms of DNA, the Maronites, Druzes, Samaritans, Mizrahi groups and others surroundings MidEastern whatever their religions are the ones rating the highest J1c3 subclades which is the last J1 subgroup that left the Arabian peninsula from the sabaeans ancestors ( Arabs ancestors ) who were already long time ago splitted from the Akkadians ( Aramean Assyrians and Babylonian ancestors ) probably during the désertification. They are the famous Chaldeans who are the ancestors of the Hebrews and the Ishmaelites tribes ( ishmaelite, madian, kedar, edom, … ) who were the first ones « arabized » with the southern Sabaics contact/connection. and the most of the other religious ones are Ultra-Orthodox. That’s why differents interpretations exists, which brought differents groups/sects when the divergences are too much consequents
@@totallyrealnotfakelifeadvi7547 Wrong. You pretend understanding it, trough your own « interpretetion » from your own religious knowledge trough serious studies with your scholars/SchoolOfBelief. Most of modern Jews are Secular and from ancestors that converted recently rather than being really semitics, in terms of DNA, the Maronites, Druzes, Samaritans, Mizrahi groups and others surroundings MidEastern whatever their religions are the ones rating the highest J1c3 subclades which is the last J1 subgroup that left the Arabian peninsula from the sabaeans ancestors ( Arabs ancestors ) who were already long time ago splitted from the Akkadians ( Aramean Assyrians and Babylonian ancestors ) probably during the désertification. They are the famous Chaldeans who are the ancestors of the Hebrews and the Ishmaelites tribes ( ishmaelite, madian, kedar, edom, … ) who were the first ones « arabized » with the southern Sabaics contact/connection. and the most of the other religious ones are Ultra-Orthodox. That’s why differents interpretations exists, which brought differents groups/sects when the divergences are too much consequents.
I am Egyptian , and I want to clarify some mistakes that you said , first coptic is the last phase of ancient Egyptian language , they are the same language, it's like English and old English every language has phases and developments , second coptic doesn't have any arabic influence on it actually it's the other way around coptic has some influences on arabic especially the Egyptian dilacet of arabic that is very different than standard arabic or any other dilacet of arabic , third coptic words are around 90% are Egyptian and only 10% are greek and this is fine because every language in the world would give and take , it happened to Greek , Roman , Arabic , English and others , arabic as an example took a lot of words from persian , indian , greek , coptic and others so this is totally fine , and this greek words in coptic could be easily dumped out because this greek words have a lot of confronting Egyptian words that are more popular and more used than them , simply Coptic language is the Egyptian language that has never been dead , it has always been alive.❤🦅
it is also older than sumerian right?
Ra bless Egypt
@@scapemagnus2546 You can't tell which is older , because language started since the first groups of human beings , of course it was much simpler but it is still a language , however the oldest written language found in history is Sumerian , but Egyptian is a very very very close second , sumer was the first city state in the world but Egypt is the first country state in the world , both are great civilizations❤️🇪🇬🇮🇶
@@MrAllmightyCornholioz Amen ❤️🦅
@@MohamedAmr10mody10 well writing records of egyptian (coptic) are way older (of course not in coptic script but hiroglyphs)
1. Revive Sumerian
2. Invent Time Travel
3. Bully Ea-Nāṣir
He wouldn't understand
Yeah he spoke Babylonian but if he were a scribe himself he'd know a little Sumerian indeed
🤣🤣🤣
I am an Egyptian Muslim. A month ago, I started learning the Coptic language, the language of my ancestors, and I very much hope that it will be revived or made a second language for the country. Special thanks go to the Christians because they are the ones who preserved it to this day, and we all aim to bring it back and teach it to future generations + Thank you for your love towards our ancient civilization. ❤
Coptic, maybe fine, because Christians are Ahlul kitab, but not ancient Egyptian, pagan sinners’ language.
EDIT: For those who are triggered for no reason, I admit I could've worded that better. I am not against learning languages of non abrahamics, I simply dislike people who are fascinated by pagan culture. If you learn a pagan language to spread Islam for example or have an actual useful reason like business, then no problem, I just don't like people who turn into weebs for pagan culture, that goes for pagan egypt or norse or pagan rome or even pagan japan.
@@enacausmembraneThis is just Arab colonization
@@enacausmembraneyou can learn a language a pagan speaks bro
@@Hedgehogz856
I will, but if only other non pagans learn it with me. Just like how Bengali used to be a pagan/buddhist only language, now the majority of the bengali speakers are muslim. I have no problem speaking bengali, because now bengali is no longer associated with their pagan past. Likewise with English, english is no longer associated with the pagan past of britania, as Britain had been baptized back in the 500's or something (i don't remember exactly, so don't quote).
@@enacausmembrane I don’t think ancient Egyptian paganism is very big if even existent any more, most who know the language are scholars and researchers
I don't think Coptic has any Arabic influence in itself, it rather influenced Egyptian Arabic.
The predominant influence on Coptic is Greek.
coptic does have arabic influence, its about the same it influenced on egyptian arabic.
Coptic is basically mostly Greek and egyptian that's why I am against of reviving it other than reviving egyptian
@@Kaitendoo coptic is Egyptian with Greek influence, still Egyptian
@@LurkingObserver it's egyptian of course! But not the egyptian language, it's scientific btw not smth about me. The language is so different than egyptian to be the egyptian language which makes it a different language, still egyptian but not the egyptian language making it the coptic languahe
One standard pronunciation of Coptic is based on Egyptian Arabic. As a liturgical language it is 80% Egyptian and 20% Greek.
5:00 once i was bored and started learning sumerian words i found out that we in iraqi arabic & mandaic (aramaic) have sumerian words but we also use a lot of akkadian words in iraqi arabic & assyrian & mandaic aramaic which is quite fascinating
Along with Coptic, I'd vote for Phoenician.
Alongside other Canaanite tongues such as Philistine, Moabite, Edomite etc...
well, hebrew is the closest you have to the phoenician, you just have to adjust the phonetics.
@@SirBoggins I speak Hebrew and I am able to understan most of these languages like if it was of my own.
I would give anything just to speak to a Jordanian and a Lebnanese like how an Italian would speak to a French and a Spanish.
@@PhilipLaSnail I SECOND YOUR WISH; We need to build a time machine in order to go back and alter the history or perhaps create a machine that can alter realities and therefore bring about a reality where those Canaanite languages live on to today!!
@@SirBoggins OH MY GOD YES
IMAGINE HAVING NIGHEBORS THAT ACTUALLY LIKE YOU, RELIGIONS THAT ARE MORE SIMILAR TO YOU, MORE ACCENTS UNLOCKED, LANGUAGES UNLOCKED AND CULTURES UNLOCKED THAT WOULD BE SO AWESOME.
I want to be in edom rn so bad.
How about the Quechua Coded Knot Language? Boiled down to essentials, the Inca Empire had no known written language. HOWEVER, they were able to communicate very precise commands, messages, instructions, stories and even genealogies via a system of fabric knots that runners would take to all corners of the Empire and were considered SO sacred that anyone who was believed to have tampered with them was automatically executed!
It would be somewhat easier to revive coptic since it has had some influince on the grammmer of egyptian arabic and some of the vocab
But why revive a language that is just Greek + egyptian why don't we revive egyptian,
@@Kaitendoo well we could just revive sahidic coptic which is essensily coptic without all the greek stuff
@@KaitendooCoptic isn’t “just Greek+Egyptian” the grammar, and phonetics are Egyptian and among every day spoken Coptic vocab the vast majority is Egyptian. In fact Coptic is Egyptian, it’s the most recent form of the Egyptian language which makes the most sense to use now. Yes, 25% of the liturgical vocabulary is Greek loan words but people don’t talk in Coptic the way we pray at church.
I plan to raise my children with Sumerian. It will be like a private family code.
Interesting video. My question, however, is why revive a dead language when you have languages that are on the brink of death. Efforts can be put into restoring and empowering Indigenous languages like Yupik, Ojibwe and Quechua of the Americas or even Ainu, Kusunda or Ket in Asia.
No reason we can't do both.
@@angreagachMultitasking at its finest! 🎉
Because different people are interested by different things.
Quechua has 7 million native speakers, for Christ's sake. They'll keep it if they want to. Also, there is no reason why the Ainus can't cultivate their language, there are still millions of them and the Japanese don't really prohibit it (although don't encourage it either). Speakers of endangered existing languages themselves should be making an effort. Whereas there are no ancient Sumerians, Latins or Tocharians to resurrect their languages so someone needs to do it for them.
Bring back Classical Latin as a major communication language.
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The thing is it didn’t die, it evolved into a bunch of different languages
@@NotUselessProductions local variations of Latin evolved; Latin itself died.
@@NotUselessProductions Romance languages are WAY different from Latin. No grammatical cases, word order, phonetics - all hugely different.
@@Kinotaurus That's because language evolve ,there is 7 tier (T0 to T6 ,and you use subdivision inside of the tier with either Low or High to demonstrate how close it is to to advance a tier) ,basically ,language have a different problem depending on it's tier ,and when this problem is fixed through the evolution of the language ,the language move up a tier ,but fixing the problem create another problem ,and then when you arrive a T6 ,and you fixe the problem ,you cycle back to T0 (Fixing the problem that you have a T6 will give you the same problem you had at T0)
Latin was a T2 language ,Old French was a T3 ,and French of today is a High T4
Italian is High T4 ,Spanish and Portuguese are Low T4 ,English is High T3
@@plumebrise4801 Can you provide a link to more detail about this framework of language evolution?
no gaulish? also Coptic I think is just far more realistic, and would in my opinion be cooler because of the fact that it would be less like reviving something truly dead, and more like bringing back a language from the brink like Cornish and Manx. Shout out to Syriac (the modern descendant of Aramaic) for clinging on, I wish we could replace Arabic in all counties outside of the Arabian Peninsula with their ancient languages, Amazigh for the Maghreb, Coptic for Egypt, Phoenician for Lebanon, Syriac for Syria and Iraq (since I think Sumerian is too far gone to bring back) and maybe a Punic revival for Tunisia?
@@celtofcanaanesurix2245 well coptic did influince egyptian arabic grammer alot so its possible
Gaulish is so cool yet its sad that we have no written record of it :(
Sino-Tibetan isn’t the same as Chinese though. Chinese is a Sino-Tibetan language but the whole area highlighted at the start of the video as Chinese speaks very different languages such as Burmese, Tibetan, the Karen languages and more that are also Sino-Tibetan and related to Chinese (but are not Chinese). And even Chinese is a clump of multiple variants that cannot understand each other.
We can through shared writing.
I am a Sino-Tibetan language speaker from India.
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Coptic should be revived since it was never under Arabic influence, it was a descendant of Ancient Egyptian but with some Greek influence, it was natively formed within Egypt unlike Arabic
But the pan-arab wouldn't let it slide
Back then in the 20th century there was a movement call pharaonism it is a movement to bring back egyptian language and identity but the movement fail because the pan-arab and nasserism ruin it
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Wouldn't it be cool to revive a language that died like 11 years ago? (I'm talking about Livonian, in the west of Latvia, I know almost nothing about it, but it's too sad seeing that it's last speaker died 11 years ago)
Trivium: "Seis" means "six" in several Romance languages, West Frisian, and Crimean Gothic. But in Livonian, "seis" means "seven".
@@pierreabbat6157 wow, that's a nice fact
"Europe's language map is too boring, it's all Romance languages, Germanic languages, and Slavic languages."
1. "Let's bring back another Romance language.
I'd rather spend the resources on propping up the ones that are still spoken: Romansh, Occitan, Arpitan to replace French in Suisse Romand, Lombard to replace Italian in Ticino and the westernmost Italian area of Grisons, Friulian, Venetian.
Bro just wants to make the lives of language learners as hard as possible
Bring back Old Norse! I'd love to see it revived and modernized in the same way that the Vatican keeps Latin alive and updates it for modern terms and concepts.
Old Norse is still with us as Icelandic!
There's a substantial amount of Old Norse in English.
Many of us use Old Norse Grammar, Vocabulary, and Pronunciation while filling in lost or never thought of words among the Old Norse speakers with Old Icelandic or Modern Icelandic changing the pronunciation as needed to keep things consistent.
All Nordic languages are modern versions of old Norse in a way, but I think Icelandic is the most similar to old norse
@@staffanlinnaeus1460 And elfdalian and faeroeic
in conclusion you want to start social upheaval like the word has never seen
Dalmatian would be cool, also it is partly linked to Italian and would give continuity to the Latin heritage left in the region by Rome and Venice.
For Egypt I would personally prefer Coptic because it could happen more "realistically".
Sumerian is dope.
Tartarian is ok.
As person who is half Croatian half Greek I agree that we should bring back Dalmatian (also where I can donate to you and where could a person learn Dalmatian)
How do we even know what sumerian sounded like if all we have are some old clay tablets with those line letters? I have no idea how linguistics work
Basically they could reconstruct Babylonian first, with the help of multilingual inscriptions (I think one of them had Greek + Babylonian + a third one, maybe Aramean), and form there, they used tablets that were found by archeologists, that were lists of Sumerian words with their translations in Babylonian.
@@totocaca7035but how did they know what the babylonian sounded like?
@@craigime Well...
I don't know actually.
@@craigimeBabylonian was one of the eastern Semitic languages, of which all are extinct today, but because we know it was Semitic and, with many inscriptions of other ancient languages using tre same script, it is not impossible to reconstruct a fairly good approximation of the sound system of the language. Also, in most languages sounds made by the human mouth tend to follow certain universal rules that govern pronunciation and these rules are fairly consistent across languages and especially within language families. So I'm convinced that modern reconstructions are good approximations for what they sounded like.
There are various YT videos illustrating this and if you know one or two modern Semitic languages you'd be able to grasp quite a lot of Babylonian.
AVESTAN.
Is there even enough data to revive it? What do we have besides the Avesta?
@jorgitoislamico4224 its still used as a liturgical language among Zoroastrians, and plenty of written material
@@AshUndNora2 Wow I didn't know that, that's so cool and kinda crazy too
Sanskrit ripoff
@@plazmagaming2182 Not how it works
Latin only came to be spoken in countries which had previously spoken Celtic before the Roman conquest. Coptic speakers, continued to speak Coptic, Aramaic speakers continued to speak Aramaic and Greek speakers still spoke Greek. Unlike island-Celtic, which became mixed with the pre-Celtic speech of the islands, Continental Celtic was very similar to Latin. They were probably mutually intelligible, which is why Celtic speakers in Dacia, Gaul and Iberia made minor adjustments and spoke the language of state power.
Katharevousa, 1st-century Aramaic, as well as many more resources to properly learn Quenya and Sindharin
Aramaic, specifically Judeo-NeoBabylonian, is also a Jewish liturgical language. Many prayers and most of the Talmud, along with most of Daniel, are in this language.
Well Islam Is, THE REASON ARABIC IS SO POPULAR.
if it wasnt this, arabic would have been only in mecca and the places around them
and also hindus with sanskrit
Vibes-wise, Coptic/ancient Egyptian and Sumerian deserve perfect points IMO (although I get this video's being 'scientific'). The idea that these languages coming from areas generally regarded as the cradles of civilization still being spoken today is super cool. A linguistic bridge to the very beginning.
Although Coptic's still spoken as a liturgical language.
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Just FYI, there are currently about 7,000+ languages spoken worldwide. Not arguing about bringing back extinct languages, I like the idea. It's just that most living languages are regional or tribal, and not nearly as well known as the major languages that predominate and that everyone has at least heard of.
Sure its hard but every language comes with not js the meaning but culture around it, to preserve language is to preserve culture & ill be damned if i dont help to move it forward
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isn't egyptian (probably compareable to coptic older than sumerian)
1:00 Dumb question: how much does today's Hebrew resemble any version in the Old Testament?
I speak the Israeli dialect of hebrew and when I read the bible (I am not religious in Israel it is just a must to study it like math)
I can understand like 99% of it, we need no translation or explanation really /:
The only thing that really has been changed is the accent, modern Israeli accent is really flat.
It sounds like if Italian wasn't sexy and sounded a bit more like dutch.
It is because many Mizrakhis, Ashkenazis, Ethopean, Russian and Spheradic Jews mingled with each other here and created this weird accent that everyone can understand.
The ancient Israeli accent was similar to a yemeni accent, which is really deep and really hard to pronounce.
@@PhilipLaSnail Thanks!
My top 4 are all the cradle of civilization languages, it'd be cool to see them spoken: Sumerian, Elamite, Egyptian and the IVC language
As someone who speaks Serbo-Croatian and has learned the grammatical basics of italian in order for me to learn Dalmatian easier I can say that reviving this language is hard if not impossible. The revivalist movements seem messy and all use different versions with very different word to the point that I feel like some of them are making up their versions on the spot. On top of that the lack of papers and resources, even from the old times when it was spoken more commonly, make it super hard to fact check the revivalist movements.
I'm curious which movement/group you found tho, I'd love to see their lessons/plans/works.
Nice video ,the ancient egyptian should definitely be back
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All cool, but could we potentially bring those back for real? For instance, Egyptian hieroglyphs could be too convoluted for people to learn, and I don't know if there are many records of Tocharian to bring it back
It's not necessary to bring back "ancient Egyptian" since the coptic language is still around. But even if it was brought back, you could just use the coptic alphabet. Learning hieroglyphics is frankly a waste of time
I have relatives from the Dalmatian region 🥲 my great grandma is Croatian, im Brazillian.
This will blow up trust me
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Croats in dalmatia speak weird enough so hope not
How are you gonna bring back sumerian when you don't know what it sounds like?
Tocharian was wiped off the face of the planet by the Turkic Uyghur conquerors, low difficulty. Turko-Mongol men from the steppe enjoyed wiping out the sedentary sart identities and cultures of Iranic-speaking peoples for some reason.
It's also hilarious that indigenous European languages no longer exist (apart from Basque) and have never been documented because most of them were already (near) extinct by the time the Iron Age came around. You can only find them as substrate traces in modern IE and Uralic languages.
I vote for Gothic, it needs to be revived..
Agree with most of video, first heard of language named Tocharian
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aramaiic more than just a liturgical language i hev bro who speaks it and other bros from the sprachbund (assyrian sometimes also classified as aramaiic)
There are 3 families in my parish that speak it natively.
Your German (Hochdeutsch) map is wrong…. Schwäbisch and Bayerisch and Plattdeutsch and more are all alive and kicking…
Great video!
Thank you and I am glad you enjoyed it 😊
You forgot Ancient Albanian Sign Language
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Noone knows the Sumerian language, so I dont know how you would bring it back.
I don't know where you got that from, but it's absolutely not true. It might be hard to revive Sumerian as a spoken language because we're still missing out on a lot of details, but in general we do have a pretty good understanding of the language.
@@suranumitu7734he means they don't know how to speak it
@@craigime I don't know what the difference is supposed to be. It's not currently spoken by anyone, but we do know its phonology, grammar, lexicon, writing system, etc. It would be hard to revive, but theoretically kind of possible.
@@suranumitu7734 how do you k ow the phonology? How do you know how to pronounce it?
@@craigime I mean we will of course never know the 100% exact pronunciation, but we have a pretty good idea about most of the basic phonemes. Most of what we know about Sumerian is through Akkadian, the other big language of Ancient Mesopotamia. Akkadian was relatively closely related to other Semitic languages like Aramaic, Hebrew, and Arabic, so the sounds of that language are relatively easy to reconstruct (remember that historical linguistics is an actual science, not just fancy people guessing shit). So we're pretty sure about Akkadian phonology, and since Akkadian was written in the same writing system as Sumerian, we can be pretty sure about a lot of sounds in Sumerian as well. That's the main strategy of figuring out the pronunciation, but there's also loanwords (like when a Sumerian word was loaned in to Akkadian, and vice versa, did they change the writing? If so, how? What can that tell us about the phonology of both languages?), and internal variation and scribal errors, i.e. the same Sumerian word may be written differently in different texts, which can also give us clues about how they pronounced their language. - This is the very, very short version of what linguists and assyriologists have been doing for the past 150 years. The whole process is pretty complex and without assuming some general knowledge of linguistics and cuneiform writing, I'm afraid this is about as good as I can explain it.
Eo feci una forma de latino vulgare que toti i popoli de lengua romana possan comprehender, esto es lo latino que necessitamos
¿GOTHIC?
Circassian ? 70 + consonants and only 3 vowels. I know it's not dead yet, but there's no English dictionary of it, and the language will probably disappear during this century or the next one. Also I'd rather have Coptic than Ancient Egyptian since the latter's phoneme inventory is very similar to that of Arabic.
Your sphinx on the thumbnail looks like Iraqs map
Edit: I am not convinced I really don't think extinct langauges should be restored even Hebrew I mean I hate zionism and even so why bother have this kind of a headache instead of focusing on other pressing matters, I am an Arab from Iraq but I really don't mind English dominating every corner of the world as long as we can communicate with our neighbors around the world easily
But again that doesn't mean I am against studying these languages academically but making people use it is somehow making things worse for everybody
Because cultural erasure is bad
@@santi2683 we are talking on an already dead languages
@@santi2683yes
Hebrew already completely revived and you know nothing about Zionism if you hate it
@@chimera9818 what is done is done
As I said before I am not against hebrew now since so many people consider it as their first language and they don't have the ability to speak any other language fluently as for zionism if it wasn't an idea of making religio-ethno-state for jews you will lose me here, although I am well aware that the practice turned out different than the theory
Revive Paleo-Lakelandic, maybe Paleo-Lappic too.
One of the reasons the northwest region of China is sparsely populated is because of the Dzungar genocide in the 18th century.
I agree
We all know about the Uighurs and the Chinese..
Arabic and Afro-Asiatic are *NOT* the same thing. It's like saying that nigiri and seafood are the same thing.
Tocharian!!!
Uigur, or Uygur is NOT pronounced Wee-gur, but OOy-gur.
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Sumerian is my ambition! 😊
DEAD. NOT EXTINCT.
Indo Europeans were betas. Couldn’t even invent writing when the Sumerians did like 1000 years earlier. Now it’s going to be a nightmare to reconstruct its ancestors. :(
Why bother painting the narrative that there is too much linguistic uniformity, with respect to language families, if you're just going to suggest more uniformity..?
The only people who would want to revive these languages are linguists with a specific interest in dead languages.
What about sabir? It also could be amazing to understand each other in the Mediterranean!
Erm proto-world.. duh
Iltan zumra rashubti ilatim bhetaem eghet ishi babit igigi
0:21 That's among the dumbest things I've seen so far. It's not just "German".
Anglo-Saxon, please.
That's just english
@@craigime no it's not. I challenge thee to understand a random passage of OE/AS.
@@orthohawk1026 anglo saxon is old english... it's the same language
@@craigime that what I said: AS/OE are the same language, very different from modern English. Unless they've studied AS, native modern English speakers will not understand it.
Anglo Saxon, old english, and modern English are the same language
How about Eyak?
Sumerian would be very hard to spread, because it's a language isolate. Assyria is still alive, and is Akkadian's descendant, so didn't die out as such, but reviving olden Akkadian and it's modern Assyrian would be much easier, as they are really quite close to Arabic. Aramaic is also still alive, and again would just be a case of spreading it, and Arabic is very close to it, there is actually a lot of mutual intelligibility I find.
Coptic would probably be easier to stomach, cos it is already used liturgically, and so would just be an expansion of use cases. Plus it has Christian associations, rather than the pagan associations of older Egyptian varieties. However, hieroglyphics are extremely cool, so they do have that going for them. Ultimately it would be older and newer varieties of the same language you'd be reviving.
Meryan in central Russia =)
I'm sorry, but having been through a relationship where both had to talk english, I WISH we all spoke the same language. Regional dialects and accents are all fine no doubt, but I think it's the words and meanings that matter. Also we germans still have a lot of diversity in our language, despite it all being german. I cannot understand most of what swiss or native bavarians/austrians say, if they have a strong regional dialect
Just go to Africa, there's almost no national languages that are spoken by majorities, make a map representing them, no need for national borders, and add support for education systems in a lot of them, support living language communities instead of inventing ones
You mean no official languages?
@@craigime yes, i mean nation level official languages, there are exceptions to that of course, but i mean situations like, Nigeria, where the national language is English, but the majority languages are Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Fula... or most of West Africa, where the official languages are either English or French, but the majority languages are Gbe or Akan, etc.... and the language areas generally do not match the speech community areas
or look at Sudan and Chad, part of the area marked as "arabic" at the beginning of the video , while it is a lingua franca in both cases, it is not the L1 for the majority in Chad, and close to half of Sudan, who speak Saharan and so called Nilo languages mostly... these languages need support, i work with Sudanese activists who produce curriculum in local languages, this was about to take place before the current wave of troubles began... even textbooks in Nubian alphabet were produced, along of Beria language material for primary school years, inspired by the Fula Adlam activists... effort should be spend there, supporting living speech communities cross the educational gap and digital gap.... these are not tiny minority languages, Fula is spoken by around 40 million people, Beria by between 1 and 3 million, etc
Except for Dalmatian, the rest of the video shows, without any doubt, that you have no idea what you're talking about. Granted this is your very first video, I hope you do your research before releasing a second one.
You must also recognize that Hebrew was only brought back through essentially fascism and a police state where people had to learn the language of the state or else be completely ostracized
That's why there are so many Russian, French, Arabic, Yiddish, etc speakers in Israel
@@totallyrealnotfakelifeadvi7547 everyone who moved to Israel is forced to learn Hebrew that doesn't necessarily mean that they will have to stop speaking their previous language entirely, although that is the long-term effect and a desired one out of the zionist project. For An ideology that's ostensibly about protecting Jewish people they have done more than anyone to destroy Jewish culture, short of H-Man himself
@@KohanKilletz That’s why Ashkenazi minhagim are still so widespread throughout Israel and Ashkenazim are one of the largest demographics there
@KohanKilletz, A country having an official language and expecting citizen to use it is not “fascism”. You sound ridiculous.
yeah sure, whatever lies you need to tell yourself in order to fuel your antisemitic worldview. just say you hate jews and stop making up fairy tales.
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0:43 - "Norf Africa"?.....It may seem like a bit of a petty nitpick, but it annoys me when people pronounce the TH sound as F. Especially since this is a language themed video!
A lot of the British Isles does this. It's drifting to what is easier for us to pronounce. It's natural language drifting.
Some people can't pronounce th...
@@nathanielbyrne1132 - Yeah, I'm aware of the "TH-fronting" phenomenon, but to me it sounds pretty awful.....Anyway, the guy's talking about literally reviving *extinct languages,* so is it too much for me to ask that he revive that TH sound which has become extinct in his particular dialect but is still broadly used in most standard English dialects?
One sound should be a lot easier than a whole language, no? 😉
@@totallyrealnotfakelifeadvi7547 - Yes, I'm aware of this, but I dislike TH words without that sound. See my other reply here. If he wants to restore whole entire extinct languages, it shouldn't be too much to ask him to restore his own language's TH sound, I don't think.....Make Cockney great again! :D
@@Bike_Lion I think he just has a speech impediment
Old English
Modern English exists
@@craigime Again, they are two different languages, as much as German and English are.
@@orthohawk1026 false
@@craigime stop lying
Modern Arabic is more similar to ancient Hebrew than Modern Hebrew.
Bringing back Hebrew (In its modern form) as a spoken language was a mistake.
The only region that needs linguistic revival are The Americas and Australia
Why was it a mistake?
0:43 Arabic? That's not just the area that Arabic is spoken in. That's the area that Afro-Asiatic languages in general get spoken in.
And also, the "Chinese" one also wasn't just Chinese, but the entire Sino-Tibetan family.
𒅗 𒄢𒆷 𒄞 𒐼 𒇲𒀀
inim gul-la gud limmu(4) la-a
A destructive word is four oxen yoked together.
Modern Hebrew ( mostly Yiddish germanic originated speakers ) will never be the original one, despite blabbering mizrahis and shamromims speakers are influenced by arabic everytime, it’s still the most interesting ones for ancient hebrew and proto-canaanite comprehension spoken originally by akkadics and sabaics related ancestors for all linguistics experts.
And it’s just showing more the disgusting western propaganda. Considering ancient Akkadians and ancient Sabaeans came from the same sources and influenced eachothers from the very begenning.
Faking something you are not cannot ever become true. Like it or not.
Like it or not. It’s a dead language.
Bro you don’t know anything about Hebrew and modern Hebrew, modern Hebrew was created by mixing Sephardic and Levantine dialects of Hebrew with the already existing Hebrew from thousands of years of books which it was used to and the gap was filled by the root system but it is still Hebrew, case in point: EVERY MODERN HEBREW SPEAKER CAN READ THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND FULLY UNDERSTAND THEM ,IT IS THE SAME LANGUAGE.
It isn’t western propaganda it is just a fact, we revived Hebrew
If Hebrew is somehow closely related to Yiddish (which makes no sense, as Hebrew came first and was used as a liturgical language everywhere Yiddish was spoken) and not ancient Hebrew, why can I as a modern Hebrew speaker fluently understand the words of the Tanakh?
@@totallyrealnotfakelifeadvi7547 Anyone can study a language and speak it in a broken way, especially when it was specifically reconstructed. Let me return you the question. Are you considering palestinians, lebaneses, jordanians, syrians and iraqis as Arabians invaders just because they mostly arabized linguistically and turned « muslims » ?
@@totallyrealnotfakelifeadvi7547 Wrong. You pretend understanding it, trough your own « interpretetion » from your own religious knowledge trough serious studies with your scholars/SchoolOfBelief.
Most of modern Jews are Secular and from ancestors that converted recently rather than being really semitics, in terms of DNA, the Maronites, Druzes, Samaritans, Mizrahi groups and others surroundings MidEastern whatever their religions are the ones rating the highest J1c3 subclades which is the last J1 subgroup that left the Arabian peninsula from the sabaeans ancestors ( Arabs ancestors ) who were already long time ago splitted from the Akkadians ( Aramean Assyrians and Babylonian ancestors ) probably during the désertification.
They are the famous Chaldeans who are the ancestors of the Hebrews and the Ishmaelites tribes ( ishmaelite, madian, kedar, edom, … ) who were the first ones « arabized » with the southern Sabaics contact/connection.
and the most of the other religious ones are Ultra-Orthodox.
That’s why differents interpretations exists, which brought differents groups/sects when the divergences are too much consequents
@@totallyrealnotfakelifeadvi7547 Wrong. You pretend understanding it, trough your own « interpretetion » from your own religious knowledge trough serious studies with your scholars/SchoolOfBelief.
Most of modern Jews are Secular and from ancestors that converted recently rather than being really semitics, in terms of DNA, the Maronites, Druzes, Samaritans, Mizrahi groups and others surroundings MidEastern whatever their religions are the ones rating the highest J1c3 subclades which is the last J1 subgroup that left the Arabian peninsula from the sabaeans ancestors ( Arabs ancestors ) who were already long time ago splitted from the Akkadians ( Aramean Assyrians and Babylonian ancestors ) probably during the désertification.
They are the famous Chaldeans who are the ancestors of the Hebrews and the Ishmaelites tribes ( ishmaelite, madian, kedar, edom, … ) who were the first ones « arabized » with the southern Sabaics contact/connection.
and the most of the other religious ones are Ultra-Orthodox.
That’s why differents interpretations exists, which brought differents groups/sects when the divergences are too much consequents.