History of the Latin Alphabet
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
- The Latin alphabet has become arguably the dominant writing system over much of the world's languages, but how exactly did it come into existence, and what pressures over its 3,000-year history shaped it into the script we know today?
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So when the Europeans were getting waist-deep into Egypt and saw the hieroglyphs, they thought it was a mysterious magical incantations that died with the ancient Egyptian priests. Little did they know they were looking at the great-great-ancestors to the alphabets they were using. Imagine if we never found the Rosetta Stone, our outlook on ancient Egypt would be just as mythical as it was to the late Romans, paralleling the fate of the Mycenaeans with their Linear B, and probably not discover the real truth with regards to the origin of the alphabet.
P.S. The three scripts on the Rosetta Stone, Hieroglyphs, Demotic, and Greek, turned out to be descendants of each other.
That's why I really wish we can find something similar for Indus scripts
@SahelianDog 92 He is not talking about the language.
Egypt was started by Europeans after the asteroid hit and caused a ice age in Europe, they found a pyramid in Europe older than Egypt's was 12 thousand years ago it hit .
Nope. Try again.
9:06 oh that's really trippy to read
in a way it does make more sense though...
Your here ?!!!
This has to be a You tube Conspiracy 🤔
Wow, i wouldn't know but i just noticed it's very normal for me because I'm a native Arabic speaker that write from right to left.
I personally find reading backwards/upside down/at other angles almost, if not just as easy as reading left to right. So it sort of felt continuously natural to keep reading it as it turned backwards then back to forwards, as if nothing changed. Fun fact: I'm left handed and when I first started writing as a young child I wrote my sentences in reverse for some reason, holding it up to a mirror it would look normal. I wonder if any other lefties did that or if I was just weird
It's SOO interesting to see how writing systems evolved with migration, like how Cyrillic evolved from Greek Scripts.
Cyrillic didn't evolve from Greek scripts, Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius created the alphabet, basing it on Greek letters to create an alphabet for the slavs.
@@kobe.talamantez That's not true. Cyril and Methodius invented the Glagolitic alphabet, which looks quite different from the Cyrillic alphabet. Later, the Glagolitic alphabet was mostly replaced by the Greek alphabet, with Glagolitic letters being adopted for the Slavic sounds not present in Greek. And from there on the Cyrillic alphabet slowly started diverging from Greek. The only place where the original Glagolitic alphabet survived was Croatia, where it was used until the 19th century. (After which it was replaced by Latin)
The Greeks copied from the Pharoahs they didn't invented
Yod, Giml, Het, Bet, Ain, Sin, Res are all still used (with the same meaning) in Arabic!! 😲
All the Phoenician letters are used now in Modern Hebrew.
Paleo-Hebrew and Phoenician scripts are basically almost identical.
Phoenician and Hebrew directly separated from the same language - Proto Canaanite, Arabic however is from completely different Semitic branch - the West Semitic.
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@@מ.מ-ה9ד Bravo Mr 👏🏽!
I’m not a language expert I’m just saying I recognised the words above and they have almost exactly the same pronunciation and meaning in my language, never said it was the same script or language 👍🏽
But sure, I guess I’ve been speaking Phoenician (or Paleo-Hebrew!) all my life thinking it’s Arabic 😊
This is because both languages belong to Semitic languages, like Akkadian and Aramaic
@@מ.מ-ה9ד I was going to say that, but my only knowledge in Hebrew are five months in Duolingo.
Same in Hebrew.
Proto-Sinaitic Script: "Dude, did your video just breeze past me in under 10 seconds!?"
Paleo-Hebrew: "Bro, at least you got a mention."
😆
have you seen the title? :)
paleo-hebrew is another version of the canaanite script, not a direct ancestor of latin. and proto-sinaitic is interesting but a whole different story.
Facts, that's like a big chunk
Lund
Paleo Hebrew is the same script as phoenician because the spoke the same language
I like the longer form! The shorter ones brought cool subjects up, but this really helped better explore a topic! Great video!
Fun Fact: The German word 'Kaiser' came from Caesar, since it was pronounced KAY-ZER
You remove the r in the end
It is still pronounced that way in Arabic as well, Kay-Sar,,,
@Rani Hinnawi yes Rani it could be all depends on how people pronounce the K and the Q,,, but bottom line it’s still being pronounced that way.
So does the Viking/Russian Tsar
Also Germans: Zäh-zar
Who would've known that A is actually just the oversimplified cow logo, lmao 🤣
😂 And the c for camel.
@@ParamjitSingh-gz3de It’s literally in the thumbnail
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_Don’t have a A man?!_
I of knew
My ancient greek teacher told us that the lower case was actually invented because it required less space. And since ancient greek people used to write at ashlars , clay , wood and (less commonly)papyrus , so this property of smaller letters really did help. I dont know whether thats 100% accurate but well i thought it would be good to share
Your ancient greek teacher? Sure buddy
@@bblunderIt still is taught in Greece, but sure buddy
Doesn't make any sense. Lowercase and uppercase didn't exist as distinct letters till quite late. Lowercase is just handwritten variations. It wasn't suddenly invented but developed out of the original letters for ease of writing. You can't really make them much smaller than uppercase, though they are smaller today, and people clearly didn't write as small as possible anyway. What you actually use for saving space is a shorthand system: new symbols, abbreviations, reduced spellings, avoiding repetition e.g. 'etc.', paraphrasing, and more. Which is exactly what everyone did to varying degrees for thousands of years across the world even after space became a nonissue. Because it wasn't just about space but speed. Space was probably always the lesser factor since as you say expensive writing materials were uncommon, and people instead used reusable or disposable materials. Speed is important in general but the key thing is being able to take dictation. Writing down what someone is saying as they are saying it.
This is so cool. I'm currently learning French but I'm doing my ABC's (so to speak) in Greek and Arabic on the side, and this video made so many fascinating connections between all of them. Thank you!
If you want to, I could help you practice Greek a bit!
@@georgios_5342 Hey, thanks for the offer! Unfortunately, my life's become quite a bit busier recently, so I wouldn't have the time.
When I get back into though, I'll send you a message. Cheers!
Side Note about abugidas: Abugida characters are syllabic characters with a base vowel. Diacritics are then used to modify that base vowel. Usuually that base vowel is the most common vowel in the language, and instead of writing that vowel over and over again, it's just easier to have it as a part of the consonant. Take Devanagari प, by itself it makes the sound [pǝ] (pa). When a vowel diacritic is added, say ī, we get पी. For something to be an abugida, it must have that base vowel in the characters.
13:06 There is a Skillshare ad in captions.
Crap, thanks! That obviously wasn't supposed to be there
@@KhAnubis What happened? Did you have a Skillshare ad lined up?
12:46
That is a great chart. I just saw the full thing (with the others writing systems). Such an interesting one that condenses so much information.
Most of the world writes in a few writing systems. (Latin, cyrilic, Arabic, Hindu, Chinese, Mongolian, Japanese). While the first 3 that covers 80% of the world in area, came from the same alphabet, phoenician.
It also shows how languages/writing systems are a sign of domination. Roman dominated Western Europe, and that domination was later brought to Southern Africa, the Americas and Oceania.
The Arab was influenced by the Muslim Expansion.
Indian was not centralized for thousands of years, so they have a lot of different writing systems.
China and Japan was unified and divided several times, so that helps to unify the writing system.
Of course, not every influence is a violent one. Many were friendly and commercial relations, but, nonetheless, we can see the pattern.
No surprise that a major sign of dominion is when a tribe is prohibited to use its own language. As it has happenes many times in History.
"Iulius Caisar"
Now the German word Kaiser and the Russian equivalent Czar make so much more sense.
Absolutely fantastic job! This was very educational and eye opening and interesting. Thank you for this video!
And now the emojis and stickers get us back to the hieroglyphs era
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☝🏻=🥜🌰
😚☺😛😚😉🤩😙😊🕌🕌🕌🕌⛪⛪⛪⛪⛪💒💒💒🏰🏰🏰🏰🤩🥰😊🙃🤑😊🍒🏖🏛🧭🙃🥰😇🤪🤩😋😙😅😘😙🍓🍑🥒🍓🍑🌶🥦🧅🥥🧅🍆🏘🏘🏗🏤🏭🏥🏟🏡🏚🏩🏘🏡🏟🏟🏟🏟🏟👚🛍🧦🥻🧥👝🧦🩲🧥🩳🩲👘🧥🧦👗🇦🇱🇦🇷🇦🇺🇦🇶🥃🍺🍶🥛🍵🍹🍺🍹🍶🧉
⬇️📶↩ (its evolving backwards)
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Found the video really interesting. Most of the "original" characters kept the same name in Hebrew, and a lot of the words they mean are the same, too (Kof meaning the needle eye, for example, or Resh being similar to the Hebrew word for "Head", Rosh).
I will add that Hebrew also has an alternative writing system, similar to lower and upper case letters in the Latin alphabet: "Dfus" (דפוס), literally meaning "print", which is used for books, documents and the internet, among other things, and "Ctav" (כתב), literally meaning writing, used only for writing
Egyptian: *is hard because it has over 700 symbols*
Chinese people: 达到我们的水平
Lol, y’all don’t know our pain. Also, ancient egyptian looks cool, would prefer to use it
@@ryeryeryerye I'm learning chinese so Im kinda beginning to grasp it & ancient egyptian does have a very unique asthetic to it.
@@jefferygoldmann2643 true
if english had 200 letters
English beginners: *O GOD HELP ME.. ITS PAIN!*
@@ryeryeryerye 랸 アンそン
It blows my mind, that Julius Caesar practically sounded German.
The German word for emperor is Kaiser which was heavily inspired by the word Caesar because of the Holy Roman Empire.
Kikero und Kaesar, die gingen ins Konkil, / Kaesar im Kylinderhut und Kikero in kivil :)
@@fabiansaerve same with Caesar and Tzar (Russian Version of King)
@@AdarshHari708 oh yea. Both countries/regions thought they were the successor of the Roman Empire :D
@@fabiansaerve yeah the HRE and Moscow as the "third Rome"
Honestly I like this video! The fact you spend more time in it made it better. Stay with this
very informative 13 minutes! this video deserves many million views imo.
Is it just me or does "KhAnubises of the 31st century" sound like a good band name?
Sounds like an egytian pagan anubis.
Great video Khaanubsi
Is this the third or fourth video I've found about the alphabet? Yep.
Am I going to watch it anyway? You betcha.
The Latins and the Etruscans, our ancestors, played a major role in shaping the Latin alphabet, the most ubiquitous and widely accepted writing system that there is today. The Ancient Greek alphabet was of course the source of inspiration for it. I'm very passionate about this kind of stuff and I also like Cyrillic, which characters mostly originate from these two systems with the addition of a few unique ones. When it comes to handwriting, Italics is some of my favorite styles. Thanks for including the Pantheon, it always comes to mind when I think of the Latin alphabet, because of the incision on its fronton. Very informative and nicely done video!
P.S. Little fun fact, the word "alphabet" comes from the union of the first two characters of the Greek alphabet: α + β.
Phoenician is a writing system.
It does NOT count as an ALPHABET in the classical scientific sense of the term since it has an incomplete structure.
it does not separate letter-Phonem but SYLLABLES, besides the fact that the vowels or the consonants X, Ψ, Φ were not included at all
the Phoenician A, how do you explain since the Phoenicians did not have vowels and finally has a different phonetic property than the Greek A
All scientific terms related to writing, e.g. grammar, syntax, tone, phonem syllables are in Greek.
if the alphabet had been found in Syria, it would have spread as a more practical writing to Egyptians, Syrians, Arameans, Mesopotamians, but this did not happen to those who continued to write until the Hellenistic-Roman times with cuneiform writing.
the ancient Greeks had many alphabets
Latin is essentially the alphabet of Kymi-Evia
12:43 Great video! Just 1 little error on the Map is that 🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau on the West Coast of Africa isn't shaded Green but it should be as it's sole official language is 🇵🇹Portuguese (which is written in the Latin alphabet).
Most of the Pheonician words are still used today in Arabic 😆💜
They just use the same word due to be in the same language family. I speak Aramaic and Arabic and they are also very close. It’s like comparing Italian to Spanish.
My favorite Latin term: *Unus Annus*
Those that know, know
R.I.P
All hail the dictator!!!
Savior of the communism!!!
Memento Mori
I hope people know that Ūnus Annus means one year and Ūnus Ānus would be one anus
I know some latin for instance I know if a word is a noun an adjective a verb or a participle but not their case ( well at least entirely ) and I can translate some words I also know the case endings for nouns and adjectives until the genitive case so it doesn't matter that I never watched their channel and that's why I can translate unus annus as one year
I’m really enjoying these longer vids!
Thank you very much for making this video 😁 Sharing it on FB!
amazing informative video! thanks so much and keep up the great work
Italy's most lasting gift to the world.
You forgot about pizza
The only truly Italian pizza is the Margherita
@@felicvik9456 Margherita is the name of the pizza.
Margarita is a cocktail.
Sorry, Im Luthuanian and in Lithuanian both r margarita
@Lúzia A Morta Greece has nothing to do with that, don't try to steal other countries' history please.
And yes it is from Italy as Rome is located there.
Languages that descended from Latin are called Neo Latin, Romance or Italic ones.
This is fascinating thanks!
(1:00) Well "a letter" makes no sound. It's just the consequence of having a spelling and pronunciation. There are also languages that tries to match the spelling perfectly so there's only one sound per letter. Slavic for example that only pronounce C as /ts/ and G as /g/.
I really enjoy this video that I watched it several times. It contains interesting information.
Thank you.
I love that in my language (Czech) every letter always sounds the same every time and everything sounds EXACTLY like it is written.
And Slovakia looked at that, said "too easy" and added wierd lines above anything they could 🥴
Just like any decent language should.
Pretty much the same with German too. Now, if only German could reform the use of genders for words and decide on one word for "the", instead of the six words that they use now.
A damn lot of languages are just like that.
Congrats on 100K!
Hi! Big fan. Can you also talk about the history of punctuation marks? Just a random thought. Thanks!
Imagine how the alphabet would change in the future?
Some are thinking lowercase will be its future given how some artist like… is it Billie Ilish? Anyways, she has been naming her songs in only lowercase, a trend observed in some of the people her age as well, I'm pretty sure she didn't start it, but she's probably reenforcing it among her fans.
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions WE SHOULD PRESERVE THE USE OF UPPERCASE LETTERS I AM NOT SCREAMING I SWEAR
@@fisher1634
I don't think they're going away, but they might be lessening in usage in some people. They're a good tool for various reasons, including visual expression of anger.
Yes..the future is emoji😏lol
@@mirceapintelie361
Not really, they are going to aid in adding emotion to writing, similar to how many languages use: ÀČËĪŃÕÛ, but aren't taking over, I'm so sure that this won't happen for more than likely the next two centuries!
But even so, they aren't used identically even across the same language! There's still a lot of guesswork and because they have a different style depending on font provider some versions are noticable differences across different devices that one's message could change meaning if two different fonts don't draw them identically.
Check out the emojipedia.org to see emoji across different platforms.
Can you do a video about the Vinca script and other proto-writing systems?
I just found this channel while studying hindi and i need to say: I am in love!
Congratulitons and a hug from Brazil ^-^
Up next how the ampersand came to mean "and" & how it became the only logogram in english?
I mean, @ is also a used logogram at the moment, and # is turning to a modern one with "hashtag", and % is also a logogram (unless you count it as part of numbers).
The ampersand symbol (&) is basically the simplification of "et" which means 'and' in Latin
If you wanna get technical, wouldn't emojis count as modern logographs?
@@laurensahanna5826 nope, they would count more as ideograms or pictograms
I wish you spoke a little bit about the evolution from proto-sinaitic to phoenician. There is about 1000 years of history between the two which you skipped over.
Proto-Sinaitic was the singularly most important linguistic development in human history, forming the basis of almost every modern written alphabet in use today, yet it got all of two seconds of mention. Which I guess makes sense, as this guy seems to be an egyptiaweeb phoenicistan and probably hasn't heard of Canaan. "Canaanites? The guys that make tin cans? Sorry, all I know is Egypt, cos that's where my videogames take place."
@@RockandrollNegro seems a little harsh to assume that thh
@@ParamjitSingh-gz3de wtf are you going on about?
This was all so interesting!
0:09 Love him or hate him, he spittin facts
You really are everywhere
Its avery the cuban american
Bro we should start an Avery cult, who''s with me?
You again
Great video my man, very interesting topic
12:52 and despite that, Greek is still around, right next to the Latin giant 🙂
The two "T" letters, Tau and Theta were SWITCHED in the transition from Semitic to Greek.
Thav, which had a soft "TH" sound was converted into Tau.
Tet, which had a hard "T" sound was converted into Theta.
Also, Cadmus comes from the Semitic "Kedem" meaning "East" or "From the East" because the mythical Cadmus [and the real person(s) who was(were) the basis for the myth] came from the East, relative to Greece, Phoenicia. In the myth, Cadmus was the son of Agenor king of Phoenicia.
No one:
Iraq: E
0:27
Eraq
8:09 fun fact
日in chinese means "day" or "sun"
(And ofc many other meanings when combined with other characters)
It is pronounced rì in mandarin and jat9 in cantonese
Another character that looks similar:曰
It means "say" in ancient chinese
Eg Tom says=Tom曰
thanks phoenicias for making writing bearable
Such a long time to get the alphabet and now we're back to the begining with the emoji😄
Now I wonder if samek - pillar are the origins of my last name 😱 Such an interesting video!
Do Cyrillic next!
it is currently 4:32 am
A lot of scientists, linguists, archaeologists, historians etc. are considering that 8,500 years ago, Romania was the heart of the old European civilization. The new archaeological discoveries from Tartaria, (Romania), showed up written plates older than the Sumerian ones. More and more researches and studies converged to the conclusion that the Europeans are originated in a single place, the lower Danube basin. Down there, at Schela and Cladova in Romania have been discovered proves of the first European agricultural activities which appear to be even older than 10,000 years.
Out of 60 scientifically works which are covering this domain, 30 of them localize the primitive origins of the man-kind in Europe, where 24 of them are localizing this origin in the actual Romania, (Carpathian- Danubian area); 10 are indicating western Siberia, 5 Jutland and/or actual Germany room, 4 for Russia, 4 for some Asian territories, 1 for actual France area and all these recognisied despite against the huge pride of those nations.
Jean Carpantier, Guido Manselli, Marco Merlini, Gordon Childe, Marija Gimbutas, Yannick Rialland, M. Riehmschneider, Louis de la Valle Poussin, Olaf Hoekman, John Mandis, William Schiller, Raymond Dart, Lucian Cuesdean, Sbierea, A. Deac, George Denis, Mattie M.E., N. Densuseanu, B.P. Hajdeu, P Bosch, W. Kocka, Vladimir Gheorghiev, H. Henchen, B.V. Gornung, V Melinger, E. Michelet, A. Mozinski, W. Porzig, A. Sahmanov, Hugo Schmidt, W. Tomaschek, F.N. Tretiacov are among the huge number of specialists which consider Romania the place of otehr Europeans origines and Romanian the oldest language in Europe, older even than Sanskrit.
According to the researchers and scientists, the Latin comes from the old Romanian (or Thracian) and not vice versa. The so called "slave" words are in fact pure Romanian words. The so called vulgar Latin is in fact old Romanian, or Thracian language, according to the same sources...
The arguments sustaining the theories from above are very numerous and I don't want to go into them so deeply as long as the forum is and has to remain one languages dedicated, to.
In the limits of the language, please allow me to present a list of just a few (out of thousands of words), which are very similar/ even identical in Romanian and Sanskrit:
Romanian
numerals : unu, doi, trei, patru, cinci, sase, sapte...100=suta
Sanskrit
numerals: unu, dvi, tri, ciatru, penci, sas, saptan...100 = satan
then Romanian Sanskrit
acasa acasha (at home)
acu acu (now)
lup lup ( wolf)
a iubi (considered slave) iub (love)
frate vrate (brother)
camera camera (room)
limba lamba (tongue)
nepot napat (neffew)
mandru mandra (proud)
lupta lupta (fight)
pandur pandur (infanterist)
nevasta navasti (wife)
prieten prietema (friend)
pranz prans (lunch time)
Ruman Ramana (Romanian)
saptamana saptnahan (week)
struguri strughuri (grapes)
vale vale (valley)
vadana vadana (widow)
a zambi dzambaiami (to smile)
umbra dumbra (shadow)
om om (man-kind)
dusman dusman (enemy)
a invata invati (to study)
a crapa crapaiami (to break something)
naiba naiba (evil)
apa apa (water) and not AQUA like in Latin. It looks like aqua came from apa and not the other way around...
and so on for more than thousand situations...
According to M. Gimbutas, the confusion Roman (Romanian as in original language) = Roman (ancient Rom citizen), is generated by the fact that Romans and Romanians have been the same nation, the same people. The Dacians/Thracians and Romans have been twins. The illiterate peasants called Romanians, Ruman and not Roman. Why do they call so? Because RU-MANI, RA-MANI, RO-MANI, API, APULI, DACI and MAN-DA , VAL-AH are all synonyms expressing the person from the river banc or from the river valley. APII could be found under the form of mez-APPI in the ancient Italy, under he same name as the APPULI Dacians. APU-GLIA, (or Glia Romanilor in Romanian - Romanian land) can be found with this meaning only in Romanian (Glia= land)
In the Southern side of Italian "booth" exists the first neolitical site of Italy and it is called MOL-feta. The name itself has Romanian names, according to Guido A. Manselli: MOL-tzam (popular Thank you), MUL-tumire (satisfaction), na-MOL (mud); MOL-dova (province and river in Romania, Za-MOL-xis, Dacian divinity. Manselli said that this archaeological sit is 7,000 years old and has a balcanic feature.
I came up with this topic just to hear decent opinions and not banalities like those of a few days ago when while surfing for a language forum, I read all kind of suburban interventions. This topic is for people whith brain only. ruclips.net/video/IhDMWmGOBrA/видео.html
Extreme nationalists from Europe can't digest to having to trace their culture to Africa or Asia. This is not the first attempt, and it will not be the last.
I just love how he mixes comedy into his videos
Finally. Took weeks from the poll you did
Been binging a lot of your videos lately, great info, and quite interesting, nice job KhAnubis!
Is there a similar explanation for numerical characters we use today?
Honestly that doesn't sound like a bad idea
Different archeologists meeting at the same site to discover the origins of the Roman alphabet:
STANDING HERE I REALIZE
YOU WERE JUST LIKE
TRYING TO SEARCH HISTORY
BUT WHO'S TO JUDGE
THE RIGHT FROM WRONG
WHEN OUR GUARD IS DOWN
I THINK WE'LL BOTH AGREE
THAT AAAAALPHABETS BREEDS AAAAALPHABETS
BUT IN THE END
IT HAS TO BE THIS WAAAAY
Lets say you got a great recepie for making bread. You want everybody to try your bread or your recepie. Water, yeast, flour, some spices of your choise. Mix the ingreadients and leave the dough for a while. After a while make the dough into one or several breadshapes. Leave the breadshaped dough or shapes for annother while again. After a while put the doughshape or shapes into the oven. In the oven let the bread be in there untill the golden brown collour appears. Once the bread is golden brown it's done and ready to be eaten.
By passing on your breadrecepie by mouth, after several mouths the recepie might have distorted so much it's a diffrent bread. By writing down your great breadrecepie everybody got access to the exactly the same recepie. By that reason alone it's good to write. :)
6:40 the Hebrew Abjad was originally the Aramaic Abjad, and the scripts shown for Aramaic and Syriac are quite literally the same, only the one labeled “Syriac” seems to be using a more-modern Eastern style (just poorly-written) while the one labelled “Aramaic” is using the classical Edessan style
Fun fact: I spent 30mins trying to find this channel again because I thought it was spelled KhAnibus and that kept bring me random Hindi audio stories.
Great video!
Would also like to add that the Egyptians adopted the Greek alphabet during the Hellenic period, changed how most of the letters were pronounced, in addition to slight changes in how they're written, added 7 letters from the Egyptian Demotic script, and by that creating the Coptic Alphabet :D
@Абдульзефир Dude look it up I'm Egyptian we studied this in school. We started using the Coptic alphabet during Ptolemaic rule, and it consists of greek letters and 7 demotic ones. I am literally studying Coptic rn. Demotic is a script derived from Heiratic which was derived from Hieroglyphic. The rosetta stone was literally written during the rule of Ptolemy V so idk why you're mentioning it as evidence if your claim, it literally disproves it.
@@MoiraineSedaiThis is what he said...Ptolenaic period was a Hellenic period
Very interesting jumps from one language into another, and why we have the Q letter even if it's seemingly pretty rare in the English language (i.e. q being very common in Semetic languages).
If they made Scrabble for Latin the Q and X would be 3 points and K would be 10! There would be more Q and X tiles and fewer K also.
Does anyone know if they make Scrabble games for Hebrew or Arabic? Or broadcast Wheel of Fortune in Israel or Arabic speaking nations? How would you buy a vowel?
@@allanrichardson1468 Take this with a grain of salt because I don't actually understand Arabic, but I found an episode of the Egyptian version of _Wheel of Fortune_ online and it appears that they treat matres lectionis (consonant letters that can also represent long vowels) as vowel letters that have to be bought
This was really interesting, thank you
Congrats on 100k subs also happy Thanksgiving to everyone 😁
Khanubis would be खानुबिस actually at 2:52
Miniscule used to mean the small letters and the printers would put them in a case under the capital letters, hence the term lower case. Capital letters were called upper case since they were on the top case, and also called magiscule.
10:30 so Ceasar is spelled Kaiser? I learnt something new!
11:05 :D
Greetings from Mesopotamia Iraq 🇮🇶 the birth place of writing and civilisation
Nice video
Arguably the most recent invention to writing scripts with the advent of the internet is the addition of logographs (emojis) for body language, emotional indicators or just otherwise as a shorthand in text. Punctuation is also getting a bigger role in tonal indication as well.
Otherwise i think the latin script could evolve due to preferences for different fonts changing over time. Plus I'd like to see letters for less common sounds to return like thorn for th/dd.
I never considered the idea of punctuation in written language to be a tone/emotional indicator, but it makes a lot of sense for people like me who have both been exposed to life before and after the internet gained wide-spread adoption; someone punctuating their sentences when they don't normally do so can seem quite jarring in the moment. I thought it was just me overthinking things.
The alifbata ancient language of Philippines in south east asia ... Is also derived from middle east & phonecian even if they had no direct contact,
😂 as a left-hander, I would say writing from right to left is more comfortable than the opposite
me too
Try learning arabic 😊😊. We still write from right to left and there is about 600 Million arabic speakers around the World 😊
I always assumed we wrote from left to right, because right handed people got annoyed at their ink being smeared, when writing right to left. lol
@@mrbisshie Yeah, after ink got invented. With stone carving, you don't worry about smears
@@مالكالقطيف if exaggeration was a person you would be it lmfao arabic is barely spoken by 360 million people and thats in 2023 lmao
Oddly, because of things like Emoji, we are heading back towards the older system types. Though we are getting a blend.
That certainly explains the alternating left-to-right and right-to-left brought up in UsefulCharts's rendition. Like, imagine how painful it would be to write like that today.
It needs to be understood, that the "Latin" Alphabet isn't purely European, but a modified Cananite/Phoenician script.
lol
Very good video - you know your stuff.
The loss of Þ in English kinda sucks, it would be useful today, it makes the “th” sound so thou would be spelt Þou. England didn’t have printing presses n the countries that did didn’t have that letter, so they subbed it with Y which is why we say you instead of thou. But imagine a world where the, there, them, that, through were spelled with Þ, so Þe, Þere, Þem, Þat (there was a short hand from of that which was spelled with Þ but a dash on top, it’s a bit like how and can be &). Anyways I don’t see a future where Þ comes back, especially since it looks a bit like P, but things could be quicker with it, so for now I’ll just write my hand written notes wiþ it.
Þ is still used in Icelandic. Be þe change you want to be. Write your notes wiþ þ. Let's start a global movement to bring back þe þ.
@@TheMrMe1 in English the letter is called thorn.
@@Thehackerguy2000 Þorn in Icelandic
@@TheMrMe1 That looks like... something else.
@@scythal *B O N K* go to horni jail
Just a small tip , the proto Sinatic script evolved in Egypt too ; in the Sinai peninsula
I like how you put a mask on your pfp
Just to remind everyone that this isn't over yet
Only writing left to right with lowercase letters: Meaning many in Ancient Greece wrote in alternating directions, in much the same manner as an ox plows a field. This would also explain how some of the letters got flipped over time, since the letters were also mirrored along with the sentences.
Where did those periods (full stops) go?
THE ANCIENT EGYPT WRITING IS SO SIMILAR TO OUR OWN WRITING
Only writing left to right with lowercase letters: Meaning many in Ancient Greece wrote in alternating directions, in much the same manner as an ox plows a field. This would also explain how some of the letters got flipped over time，
Having studied Ancient Greek and Biblical Hebrew, when I saw these similarities, I was like WOW!! how cool is that? Now they don't parallel exactly, but seeing one influenced the other is quite interesting. How I am sure if I studied more Semitic languages and others in the genealogy of Greek, I would see parallels. Very cool. (I skip a few letters here and there indicated by ....)
Greek: Alpha beta gamma delta ....zeta eta theta iota kappa lamda mu nu ....... ....rho sigma tau
Hebrew: Aleph bet gimmel dalet ...zion het tet ...yod kaph lamed mem nun ...... ..resh sheen tav
Ye olde English expansion pack is a bit thorny ;)
ye is the
@@yajtubeteevee1677 The 'y' replaced the 'ð' in England because the printing press was German, so yeah, ðat's absolutely correct. And "thorny" would be spelled "Þorny" ("Þ" is called thorn).
Hahahaha. Good video. I haven't finished watching it yet but I like when you show that young man (might be you) with the Egyptian hat 😆
Our letter “m” actually comes from ancient egyptian hieroglyphics. Lemme explain: the phoenician alphabet was based on ancient egyptian hieroglyphics, so phoenician people took the sign for the sound “m” and turned it into a letter; then ancient greek people took that letter and turned it into a Μ (they had only capital letters, even romans had only one form for every letter, the capital one), then romans took it and simply used it as it already was, M.
Great video
4:32 C'est une bonne situation ça "Scribe" ?
Wish this video was uploaded a year ago, when I was making my own language. Still interesting!
Your own language?
Good presentation
I didn't know I was waiting for this video until I saw the notification
I wonder if anyone here contradicted the Phoenician abjad being an ancestor of the Brahmic script family.
fwiw usefulcharts also has a youtube channel, pretty cool!
La historia del alfabeto latino
Ла историа дел алфабето латино
марикон
Каброн
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¿Пор ке́ сои марико́н и кабро́н?
@@tompeled6193 ло сиенто
You talked about logograms and pictograms, but what about Bananagrams?
12:52 you used the wrong click for Xhosa, but I appreciate you trying!