You’ll Never See the Alphabet the Same Way Again

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  • Опубликовано: 19 май 2024
  • 🪓👁️🐍 Axes and eyeballs and snakes. Oh my! Here are 26 stories about the alphabet your teacher never told you. Share in the comments which ones you already knew!
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    0:00 - Intro
    0:20 - The Letters
    0:22 - A
    0:39 - B
    0:52 - C
    1:07 - D
    1:22 - E
    1:42 - F
    2:24 - G
    2:52 - H
    3:27 - I
    3:45 - J
    4:09 - K
    4:23 - L
    4:41 - M
    5:00 - N
    5:17 - O
    5:38 - P
    6:02 - Q
    6:26 - R
    6:54 - S
    7:24 - T
    7:39 - U
    7:54 - V
    8:03 - W
    8:19 - X
    8:37 - Y
    8:47 - Z
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Комментарии • 71

  • @storylearning
    @storylearning  8 месяцев назад +7

    Wondering where language came from? 👉🏼ruclips.net/video/6gaJMvR7bKk/видео.htmlsi=Dg1UTIS4SrHNasWC

    • @juliannaruffini
      @juliannaruffini 8 месяцев назад

      there are a lot of mistakes see comments

    • @markmacy6887
      @markmacy6887 2 месяца назад

      Feels like a lot of 'leaps' to fill in the gaps

  • @Mildlylysdexic
    @Mildlylysdexic 8 месяцев назад +30

    If you did this same concept except on the Chinese or Japanese writing systems: 33942 stories in 12297 minutes

    • @jmwild22
      @jmwild22 8 месяцев назад +6

      Haha!!

  • @northstarpokeshipper2148
    @northstarpokeshipper2148 8 месяцев назад +9

    5:34 The Omega.

  • @jilllee5157
    @jilllee5157 8 месяцев назад +9

    Fascinating! As an American I have wondered why we say "Zee" when everyone else (speaking English )says "zed". ?

  • @ninabaker2970
    @ninabaker2970 8 месяцев назад +6

    Really interesting! Thank you!

  • @kennystrawnmusic
    @kennystrawnmusic 8 месяцев назад +4

    5:34 Omega

  • @Millerdebrasil
    @Millerdebrasil 8 месяцев назад +3

    I learn so much with your videos

  • @isalutfi
    @isalutfi 8 месяцев назад +7

    Thank you for this insightful content.

    • @storylearning
      @storylearning  8 месяцев назад +4

      Glad you like it!

    • @navneetshyam1335
      @navneetshyam1335 7 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@storylearningThank You for giving us such great information. I really never knew that the letters we use today are older than most languages! Each letter has its own history!

  • @jmwild22
    @jmwild22 8 месяцев назад +3

    Fun!!

  • @maryjanerx
    @maryjanerx 8 месяцев назад +6

    Omg i love this!!! Now do cryllic!!

    • @bhami
      @bhami 8 месяцев назад +4

      Yes! I've always thought of Cyrillic as 60% Latin, 20% Greek, and 20% its own thing, with a dash of Hebrew!

    • @maryjanerx
      @maryjanerx 8 месяцев назад +3

      @@bhami right!!!! Ш is the same as the hebrew letter shin!!!

    • @adrianblake8876
      @adrianblake8876 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@bhami There's a family tree of letters: Paleo-Hebrew, aka Phonecian, brought forth to the Greek alphabet and the square script. Greek brought forth to the Latin and Cyrillic alphabet, and the square script brought forth to the Arabic and Syriac alphabet...

  • @Migrant2008
    @Migrant2008 8 месяцев назад +11

    I wish you had subtitles on your very educative videos 😍. As a Turkish i hardly understand some British accented words 😢

    • @lisilonglegs
      @lisilonglegs 8 месяцев назад +7

      I use the auto-generated subtitles and they work well. All the best to you.

    • @Migrant2008
      @Migrant2008 8 месяцев назад +5

      @@lisilonglegs thanks dear 🌼. I also use the atomatic translator , but especially the words that i can't hear clearly are being wrongly typed there as well.

    • @Mildlylysdexic
      @Mildlylysdexic 8 месяцев назад +3

      Çok güzel 🇹🇷 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

    • @Mildlylysdexic
      @Mildlylysdexic 8 месяцев назад +4

      As someone who used to share an apartment with two Turkish students in my college days, I never really understood how you guys could basically make one super long word that would mean something that would take like 5 words to say in English. That is, until I learned what the word "agglutinative" means.

    • @Migrant2008
      @Migrant2008 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@Mildlylysdexic 😅🤩🤣

  • @travisjacobson2334
    @travisjacobson2334 8 месяцев назад +9

    In Hebrew, camel is “gamal,” and gimel is the letter ג. So, the letter and word are easy to remember: ג for גמל.
    House is pronounced “bite” or “ba-it,” and the B/V sound is the letter “Beit:” בּ/ב

  • @judeampofo
    @judeampofo 8 месяцев назад +11

    Greeks and Romans tip everything😂

    • @bruh-xn7ci
      @bruh-xn7ci 8 месяцев назад +2

      Because they write the other way from phoenicians and jews

  • @minirop
    @minirop 8 месяцев назад +4

    If so many letters flipped are because ancient greek was written in boustrophedon.

  • @thecfclad
    @thecfclad 8 месяцев назад +3

    so it is in fact real that W was formed from merging two Us, that has been a made up thing in my head for long

  • @justinwr092
    @justinwr092 8 месяцев назад +3

    Mama says the letter F came from an alligator that got a fig stuck its teeth and got sad.

  • @swagilyph
    @swagilyph 8 месяцев назад +6

    so I'm pretty sure 4 of those 5 letters that came from the same root are gonna be F V W and U but idk what the last one is.

    • @swagilyph
      @swagilyph 8 месяцев назад +3

      it ended up being the letter that looked exactly like the symbol you used to show F imagine that lol

    • @wheeliebeast7679
      @wheeliebeast7679 8 месяцев назад +3

      whY? Unless you were being sarcastic

    • @swagilyph
      @swagilyph 8 месяцев назад +4

      no I genuinely did not think of Y

  • @foreverlearningfrench
    @foreverlearningfrench 8 месяцев назад

    Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

  • @juliannaruffini
    @juliannaruffini 8 месяцев назад +1

    mistake: The egyptian "r" is a mouth never be "p". "p" is a small rectangle

  • @lisilonglegs
    @lisilonglegs 8 месяцев назад +2

    This is fascinating! (And weird--shoutout to Kronk.) Really fun to see how the letters came about.

  • @AyaMoonlight1
    @AyaMoonlight1 8 месяцев назад +4

    Great video as always, just a bit too fast paced. I wanted to stop it several times and think through what I've just learnt.. other than that, thanks 😊

  • @romero522
    @romero522 3 месяца назад +1

    Alef = bull
    Bet = house
    Gimel = camel
    Daleth = door
    Heh =
    Vav
    Zayn = weopon
    Heth = yard
    Teth = wheel
    Yod = hand
    Kaf = palm
    Lamed = wheep
    Mem = water
    Nun = fish
    Samekh = fish
    Eyn = eye
    Peh = mouth
    Tsadik
    Quf = the little omhole of the needle
    Resh = head
    Shin = tooth
    Tav = note
    In hebrew "nun" is still used for saying
    Octopus = tamnun
    Synanceia = avnun
    Squid = Dionun
    Sea bass = Sfamnun

  • @juliannaruffini
    @juliannaruffini 8 месяцев назад +1

    "P" comes from the symbol of a house "per"

  • @juliannaruffini
    @juliannaruffini 8 месяцев назад +1

    "H" was not a fence it was the symbol of a house "hw.t)

  • @element7795
    @element7795 8 месяцев назад +4

    Amazing, I didn't realize the alphabets of the ancient world were that close to each especially to Egyptian. I guess it all came down to poor handwriting or hand carving.

    • @KaiSan3
      @KaiSan3 8 месяцев назад +3

      I've heard many times that writting was invented only 4 or 5 times, and then other cultures later adapted what their neighbors used to write for their languages...
      - so hiragana/katakana were created from hanzi simplified overtime;
      - Mayan, and the Otomi writting adapted by the Aztecs allegedly evolved (with multiple inbetween steps and diversions from each other) from Olmec writting;
      - hangul was copied from horyig, which was adapted for the Yuan rulers by the tibetans monks, who adapted a couple north-indian scripts to their language, which all evolved from greek letters from the time of Alexander (or before) and it then links to this video 😅
      ...etc.

  • @docjaramillo
    @docjaramillo 8 месяцев назад +3

    Omega

  • @snaball5598
    @snaball5598 8 месяцев назад +1

    hola saludos desde latam

  • @oravlaful
    @oravlaful 8 месяцев назад +2

    i thought the V sound associated with the letter originated in the late latin period

  • @juliannaruffini
    @juliannaruffini 8 месяцев назад +1

    "N" comes from "nun" the ancient sea

  • @juliannaruffini
    @juliannaruffini 8 месяцев назад +1

    "d" cones from the symbol of a hand not fish!

  • @OtHaku
    @OtHaku 5 месяцев назад

    this actually helped me with CYRILIC, for example with letter P, thanks!!!!!!

  • @fishboyridesagain
    @fishboyridesagain 8 месяцев назад

    Spanish, French, Polish (¿others?) call the 'y' a 'greek i' (igriega, i-grec, etc.), while Portuguese just straight up calls the 'y' an 'upsilon'. Lots of fingers pointing at the Greeks.

  • @ronrom05able
    @ronrom05able Месяц назад

    A more likely reason why Z is removed is because the sound was lost over time. A process called rhotacism occurred when intervocalic /z/ had shifted to /r/, and thus, it was rendered useless.

  • @juliannaruffini
    @juliannaruffini 8 месяцев назад +1

    the "r" comes from the symbol of mouth not of the symbol of head!

  • @juliannaruffini
    @juliannaruffini 8 месяцев назад +1

    "f" comes from the symbol of a snake not Y!

  • @juliannaruffini
    @juliannaruffini 8 месяцев назад +1

    "I" comes from aleph the vulture. The hand is the arabic ع

  • @kirilvelinov7774
    @kirilvelinov7774 7 месяцев назад

    The new Phoenician alphabet!
    a ba ga da ha wa za kha tha ya ka la ma na sa gha pa zha qua ra sha ta
    Zha is pronounced aspirated TS

  • @Notsogoddess
    @Notsogoddess 8 месяцев назад

    Q=Que, quien etc

  • @maryjanerx
    @maryjanerx 8 месяцев назад +1

    Could you do a video for each of the letters?

  • @das224
    @das224 2 месяца назад

    If you look at, and write, a lowercase sigma, you can really easily see how that becomes a "S"

  • @judahbenj5246
    @judahbenj5246 8 месяцев назад +3

    🎉🎉🎉

  • @ThomasTheThermonuclearBomb
    @ThomasTheThermonuclearBomb 8 месяцев назад +1

    People who watched jan Misali

  • @juliannaruffini
    @juliannaruffini 8 месяцев назад

    "L was the leg of Osiris"? There was no "l" in the egyptian alphabet, later it became a lion. There are mistakes

  • @arashputata
    @arashputata 8 месяцев назад +2

    Yaay

  • @Kevin-ws6bl
    @Kevin-ws6bl 7 месяцев назад

    Write world war 2 in simple italian per favore !

  • @hilbert2547
    @hilbert2547 7 месяцев назад +1

    a lot of false information take this video down

  • @kirilvelinov7774
    @kirilvelinov7774 7 месяцев назад

    Phoenician alphabet for Japanese
    a b g d e w z h ch y k j m n s o p ts f r sh t
    Digraphs EI(i) OV(u)

    • @kirilvelinov7774
      @kirilvelinov7774 7 месяцев назад

      Note:the L is pronounced "j" similar to the Argentine double L(sh)

    • @kirilvelinov7774
      @kirilvelinov7774 7 месяцев назад

      Q is pronounced "f" because of it's similar shape to Russian Ф(ef or th)

  • @pamfeinstein8742
    @pamfeinstein8742 8 месяцев назад

    Omega