Abydos is a solo project of Andy Kuntz, the singer of the German band Vande… Read Full Bio ↴Abydos is a solo project of Andy Kuntz, the singer of the German band Vanden Plas. "Abydos" was written as a stage play/musical (or as he himself subtitled it as "a heavy mental shadow opera"), but the play itself had its premiere after the release of the album. It is the official cultural contribution of Andy's home town Kaiserslautern for the Football World Cup 2006 and Andy's first solo project.

Green's Guidance For A Strategy
Abydos Lyrics

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A Boy Named Fly The freedom around my father's grave Now drifted by the win…
Abydos All my life a children's song was lost in helices The…
Coppermoon Like Tim Burton colours When the eve is coming down We live…
Far Away From Heaven I'm still searching Can 't define my religion On a Sunday …
God's Driftwood The waves are falling out of the virid sea And paint…
Green's Guidance for a Strategy Adventure Game "Once upon a time in the temple of Abydos close…
Hyperion Sunset Yesterday we built another bridge A way to other spaces of…
Radio Earth Out of deep space light-years from home Someday we'll see …
Silence One word in the cold Can bid you a part of…

Wildflowersky And he's a shade in the shelter of the twilight Alone…
You Broke The Sun Tell me where do you go Is it like we think…

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@1CT1

2y↑19

Romans 10:9
“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”

King James Version (KJV)

John 3:16 King James Version 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Galatians 3:26 King James Version 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

Titus 3:5-7 King James Version 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Revelation 21:4 King James Version 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

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@lettersandnumbersuc

3y↑7

“Coptic”

Egyptian language...
Spoke in phonics...

Coptic;
Cop = Sounds like (Ah)..
Like Abba... The begging.. Ahh..
Like the first letter of the English Language...

So “Coptic” is The first spoken sound and letter (Ah) + (tic)

“tic” is the sound of timing.. So the word seems to say (Sound) + (timing) of language....

Coptic; Sound of the start of the first spoken letter of a language and the timing in which they are said (Ah) + (Tic)....

@johnfour4083

2y↑5

Very interesting information from NativLang.

As an "empirical" student of Egyptology and world Languages; lets take the Japanese "Kanlli" for example, and lets say a western linguistic person is trying to decipher what the Kanlli ideograms mean and sound like without any previous knowledge that Kanlli and that traditional Chinese are the same written characters but meaning and pronunciation are different among the two different Chinese and Japanese cultures.

Then lets consider that the western phonetics sounds of "R" and "L" are compunded and not very much used in Japanese phonetics. Then the subtle difference in sounds make a difference in meanning, for example the sound "oba-san" meaning aunt or auntie, and "oba-a-san" meaning grandmother.

Of course Japanese and Chinese are modern languages; and lots of information about them is known, but lets say there were no previous knowledge of these Japanese language particularities then trying to decipher what Japanese sounds like and characters meaning, would have to be a very interesting investigation; very similar to the information in this video.

Another example, in Spanish; the words used to convey the opposite of the meaning of the word: one word that means "a person with lots of hair" is used to describe a "bald" person etc.

On the other hand, about the meaning of the spoken words thru time; take American English for example,the common expresion "i have to get" or "im getting hitched" and many other for which the meaning is contextual and changing thru lets say "spoken language evolution".

Putting this in contrast all these aspects of language in this video; I find the study of linguistics just fascinating.

@Nyxtia

2y↑313

This is just folk linguistics. You can find similarities in languages with similar climates, but you can just as easily find linguistic similarities among languages originating in completely different circumstances.

Finnish, like Arabic, has a lot of aspirated, or "breathy" sounds and is from a cold (old Finno-Ugric) climate.

Germanic and Romance languages originated right next to each other and sound very different. Ditto for many native American language groups.

Japanese and Greenlandic sound much more similar than French and German do, for example.

Speaking of Japanese, it's a pitch language, just like... Norwegian and Swedish. As opposed to its nearby neighbour China, where Mandarin is a tonal language, just like... Many sub-Saharan African languages like Yoruba, Igbo and Zulu.

It's cool to think how lifestyle and climate could determine linguistic features, but the evidence suggests otherwise, for now at least.

All comments from YouTube:

@Anubis-do3lg

3y↑11.7K

As an Egyptian, I am very proud of the civilization of my great ancestors, and I thank everyone who is interested in the history of my ancestors

@sankofaafari4374

3y↑716

You’ve been lied too. Ancient Egypt was an indigenous African black civilization. The language comes from southern regions of Africa down the Nile.

@osamasrag9281

3y↑627

lol why every one keep saying that ancient egyptian are african black
i mean just look at the colour of the statues for godsake !
we have mixed races from other roma, arab …
but it is in our DNA and it is true !

@sankofaafari4374

3y↑438

@osama serag There’s plenty of evidence that they are black but it doesn’t get mainstream attention like some nonsense late period Greco Roman and Middle Eastern Eurasian DNA does. There are plenty of statues that are clearly African people. They are either not shown publicly or destroyed or features changed to look white.

Go read Robert Bauval’s book Black Genesis. It has all the proof Ancient Egypt was built by Indigenous Africans.

@Anubis-do3lg

3y↑315

@Sankofa Afari Wow, we have the investigator here,, in a period of the ancient civilization of Egypt, he was under the occupation of Sudan, so there are black pharaohs and there are pyramids in Sudan as well,,, By the way, the Egyptian is a single non-mixed race because in history he did not marry a foreigner or even eat with him on one plate

@sankofaafari4374

3y↑196

A lot of the African tribes today even where the ancient Egyptian style broad collar. Literally the same design. Coincidence? I highly doubt it. Look up South African, Zulu, Kenyan, west African, Afar tribes to see that all wear the exactly same clothing style of the broad collar.

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@dumbgenious1960

2y↑1.7K

As a Copt myself, I am so proud of my heritage, and I hope we can revive some of our huge culture that was lost

@mariammontaser7843

2y↑25

@Nothempti i feel you , but we kinda still have a lovely culture , don't you think?

@unpredictablemove

@Nothempti not just Islamic, mainly arabs and their invasive 'culture'

@ehabmagdy242

2y↑18

@Nothempti bro, what!!

@Fatima.114

2y↑4

Luckily it is not up to you!

@AbdullahAmar

2y↑94

@Nothempti That's what i'm saying. Egyptian language was still spoken after Arabian invasion for more than 500 years. Thats a lot !!
And yet radicals get angry from anyone say so !
But we can revive it again look what Zionists did with Hebrew!

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@user-bp5qy7on2d

38w↑28

As an American of Mexican descent, I had the privilege of working in Egypt for almost 6 years, 2004-2009. I picked up the Egyptian-Arabic dialogue fairly easily. I love this dialect. It is different than Saudi or UAE dialect and I was called out for it when I was in those places. They knew ride away that I was speaking in the Egyptian dialect. Some would call me the Egyptian even though I am Mexican American. I miss Egypt, the people, the culture, and the food. Egypt was magical to me and my family.

@liza6067

1y↑331

As someone who speaks urdu and farsi, this entire video was so fascinating, and I was consistently pausing and looking up words and historical information on my own culture and language. So many of the ancient Egyptian words are similar to urdu, farsi, and arabic. I couldn't help but smile at how conjoined everything is.

@shaimaabadawi5797

1y↑20

@No Name No? Islam has nothing to do with this.
it is the people that changed the language dude.

@Wanderer5260

1y↑24

@No Name average islamophobic be like

@Wanderer5260

@Shaimaa Badawi that guy is definitely a islamophobic

@player17wastaken

1y↑16

@No Name Persian and Urdu would still exist without Islam, do you not know how language works? Also what did the concept of Islam existing ever do to you?

@NotAClanker

1y↑5

@Player17WasTaken not in the same manner, just as English was middle by French and Spanish, Italian, and French were muddled from Latin by their conquerors. it's not an islamophobic thing, though I'm not saying he isn't

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@StephiSensei26

2y↑2.3K

This is how language, any language, should be taught to children, to inspire them and get them off to a good start to appreciate their own language and that of others. When we realize that we have more connecting us, than separating us, the world will be a happier place. Thank you.

@1CT1

2y↑19

@Unfortunate.and.childish

2y↑2

Yes!

@rimasappington6217

2y↑7

@CallmePenny the scribes of KJB change the original words

@Unfortunate.and.childish

2y↑1

@Rima Sappington oh

@kennethverona25

2y↑2

Thats true

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@markzomit

1y↑58

Very interesting content! By the way I'm a Copt from Alexandria, Egypt and we are still using Coptic language in all our prayers in the Coptic Orthodox Churches in Egypt and abroad!

@thothkemet-lv8wq

35w↑1

Coptic is a blend of ancient Egyptian and Greek. It's not pure Egyptian

What's funny is that Greek came out from Phonecian and Phonecian is derived from Egyptian

@markzomit

35w↑2

@@thothkemet-lv8wq yeah agree Coptic (Language) is a blend of Greek and ancient Egyptian languages..

But Coptic (Race) is pure Egyptian as the word itself means Egyptian....

And for sure Human Civilizations were merging and building on top of each other all the time specially those two big ones.. Cheers!

@NativLang

3y↑2K

Nearly two months of focusing on Egyptian, and this animation is what the inside of my head looks like since last we met. Your turn to float down this phonological river!

@ramez2775

3y↑14

Well done!

@lettersandnumbersuc

3y↑7

@lettersandnumbersuc

3y↑6

Can you see how the English language is coded in phonics??
It’s backwards and opposite by design to distort...

@TNTjayden9353

3y↑1

Good job 👍👍

@davidhanna9003

3y↑41

@NativLang. I don't know if you will see this, but I just wanted to say that as a Copt, I appreciate that you mentioned the role that Egyptians played in the decipherment of hieroglyphs. I feel that most people today make it out to be an entirely European achievement, and many are even unaware of the existence of Coptic and the fact that Ancient Egyptian has a modern descendant that is still in use; a limited use sadly. Hearing you mention it really made my day.

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@CountessOfOle

2y↑383

This reminds me of Stargate, when Daniel Jackson realizes that the natives of the planet they've gone to are speaking something very akin to ancient Egyptian. Even though he's well-learned in the language, it takes him seeing it written in hieroglyphs to recognize it, because, whether it was due to the alien culture sustaining linguistic drift during its millennia of separation from Earth or whether it was due to incorrect or incomplete knowledge of what ancient Egyptian sounded among Earth's linguistic scholars... or both... Jackson's expectations of the language's vowel sounds were very different from the ones he was hearing. Once he was able to mentally adjust to the new vowel sounds, he was able to understand and communicate with the alien culture almost fluently. I didn't realize how firmly based in the reality of Egyptological conundrums that was until watching this video.

I know... dorky connection to make here, but Stargate will always have a soft spot in my heart. Seeing and loving it as a kid is a big part of why I became interested in linguistics in the first place.

@0.-.0.-.0

2y↑22

I just watched Stargate the other day. I remembered it being SO awesome when I was a kid. Sometimes it's good to just let things stay in the past, you know? Painted by nostalgia.

I have to say though, I honestly was not disappointed. There were a lot o things that didn't hold up in the movie, but the base story is amazing. I really think it could be something big if it was to be updated.

@tonykari5124

2y↑6

Very nicely said

@HERETOHELPPEOPLE729

2y↑1

Haha I remember that episode if I remember correctly it was a 2 part episode. 😀

@NinjaFlibble

2y↑11

@WILLIAMS F1 RACING
talking about the original movie, actually. The only non-Earth languages I remember being present* in SG1 were Goa'uld, Asgard, and Alteran
(which I understand from a story point of view. Don't want to take 20 minutes out of every episode to deal with a language barrier)

*by "present", I mean we heard them spoken.

@wickedwildhog5894

2y↑14

Oh I love stargate! Nice to see that more dorks are out there.

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@emaguire512

46w↑14

Man, people like you out there making videos like this gives me some faith in humanity. It’s easy to ‘miss the delta for the reeds’ in these complicated language histories, but this was perfect.

@sigmablues6050

48w↑25

In my 2 trips to Egypt, I visited so many places... so many museums, temples and other historical places. It was amazing to see history, and hear people speaking coptic to show us how they spoke. It made my inner, egypt obsessed, kid happy as hell. ❤

@sigmablues6050

41w

@@dutchman8129 The Swiss Inn in Hurghada was absolutely worth the money. All three meals, free drinks and other stuff for the all-inclusive people

@sigmablues6050

41w

@@dutchman8129 I also stayed in much smaller hotels, which were all nice, kept clean. They are so cute and helpful when you try to say something in Egyptian ❤️

@fratercontenduntocculta8161

22w↑1

IMO, I think the the discovery and translation of the Rosetta Stone is the greatest linguistic achievement in Human History. My favorite part of Ancient Egypt is how prolific their Scribes were, literally covering whole structures from floor to ceiling.

@skybingus

2y↑16.8K

It’s fascinating how long humans have been in existence and how little we have recorded and understood about ourselves

@gummy5862

2y↑699

I mean, ancient humans tried their best to record their existence with what they had and definitely tried to understand themselves, even if a lot of those understandings were wrong.

@Bateluer

2y↑468

I'd say we recorded a lot . . . just that 3000 years is a really long time. Humans are very forgetful creatures and usually forget what happened mere decades ago, to say nothing about centuries and millennia past. Ancient peoples at least carved things into stone, so they last. Modern day optical and digital cloud storage won't have the same longevity or resilience.

@GokuBlack._

2y↑220

We actually recorded a lot but around 90 something percent of it is lost.

@G9Classified9

2y↑31

Well nobody in this comment section is racist, lol.

@K1LL4Cam

2y↑13

And also how short in the grand scheme!

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@rebeccaware4966

2y↑23

Love how you speak said languages yourself. You don't use computer generated voices to demonstrate different languages and various subtle differences in sounds.

@EgmontLabadie

18w

Thanks for this very interesting and didactic piece of world culture. Languages truly are one of the most puzzling wonders of human civilisation(s)...Cheers, all the best 🙂

@Tanya_Maria

2y↑16

Very interesting video! :) And a topic that I have never seen anyone else do. I'd love a part 2! ❤How to read hieroglyphs? Or is there letters/words that have past on to our language? Oh that would be cool to know how the letters we use have evolved. I know many of them are ancient! Just a little different nowadays.

@KasumiR

47w↑1

Hieroglyphs are similar to consonant-only languages like Hebrew or Arabic, where you don't REALLY know how to read half of the words, because that character standing for W might mean Oo, might be Ee and might be silent. It depends on context in a lot of times.

@emilyeidemiller8758

47w↑6

This was absolutely fascinating 👏 for a future video in this series, I would love learn about the viking language Norse. I've read somewhere that Icelandic was most similar but then I read elsewhere that Norwegian is closest

@JohnSmith-yi8tg

32w

This!!

@johnfour4083

2y↑5

@orishejuukuedojor2736

3y↑32.6K

Linguistics is an amazing science. Doesn't get enough respect.

@KlavierMenn

3y↑373

And also is quite fun. And amazing since, While I only truly speak 2 languages (Portuguese and English) I can understand many other languages. Such is the beauty of the Last Flower of Lacio, I guess.

@princesinha1680

3y↑283

As an aspiring linguist, with a B.A. in linguistics, I wholeheartedly concur. It's an incredible, fascinating science that very few know anything about. And yet it studies the most fundamental trait that defines us as humans. As such, it pervades and undergirds every other science and discipline.

@alinafernandapicayo

3y↑71

Thank you! As a linguist i appreciate this!

@williamsutton6773

3y↑60

I am currently thinking about getting a degree in linguistics because I love learning language. I’m not currently bilingual but I’m learning Spanish, Korean, and ASL, with the hopes of becoming a translator. If anyone has good tips to learn languages that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

@normansantonio1230

3y↑21

By what method did you determine its current level of respect as well as its level of deserved respect? IFLS

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@Guyote_

2y↑42

You are an educational powerhouse. In college a few years ago, my good friend was majoring in English, and had to take two Linguistics courses. She said it was the hardest part of her degree path, and I watched her work through the coursework and study it, it blew my mind. It was far more intricate and fascinating than I had previously assumed. It was an emphasis on French and Cajun French linguistics (we are Cajun descendants in Louisiana), but it ended up leading me to your channel and I have always enjoyed your videos over the years. Mind-blowingly interesting and educational.

@tymanung6382

49w

Also, see several videos on ancient
Egyptian objects that were found in
Grand Canyon in 1920s?30s?

@caseymcpoet

46w

@Tyman Ung Don't think they found any Egyptian objects in the Grand Canyon. That is mostly speculation about a Smithsonian coverup, based on alleged NYT & other articles, from the early 20th c. and it has become Lore. Kinda like the graffiti written by an English aristocrat above the Kings Chamber of the Great Pyramid, which his notebooks show he practiced, and a block has the ( ) cartouche of Cheops scribbled on it by an alleged ancient worker. This graffiti, which was a way of getting funding for his lordship was the only record of any name in the Giza Great Pyramid, and is used by Egyptologists as the basis to claim Cheops built them for his tomb(which is elsewhere). No bodies have ever been found in any of the pyramids, but references go back to newspaper articles in the late 19th & early 20th c which claim the GP was a tomb. Truth is amiss & ignorance can be bliss. But the secret Egyptian Cave in the Grand Canyon may be something else entirely, but as of now it is simply Lore, imho, and a good source for a new Indiana Jones movie.

@Bob123Max

49w↑3

In high school we were taught that when the Rosetta Stone was discovered - then hieroglyphs could be translated according to the Greek text! Anyway, thank you for explaining how the translation came about - truly a remarkable detective story.

@blueNeodymium

2y↑16

I'm brazilian and I'm studying native languages from Brazil lately. Please, do videos about this topic. It's really interesting. The Brazilian Portuguese have a lot of influence of the Brazil natives languages.(Indigenous languages). Btw, very nice video. It’s fascinating to know about theses kind of research.

@brandondavidson4085

20w

I really wish this series had more entries, it fascinates me to imagine what extinct oanguages or dialects might have been like, such as Persian/Cuneiform and and Phoenician

@coltonsullivan3854

2y↑16

Have you ever considered writing a story set in certain times of languages and reading those stories in the language of the region the story is set in then doing an English translation? It would be super neat!

@caseymcpoet

46w

Why doncha do that using Irish and English, Colton?

@jorislemoine1488

3y↑3.9K

You manage to convey in 10 minutes what most 6-hour documentary series can't quite get across. Fantastic job!

@KJL111012

3y↑19

Could you please do Old Khmer.

@nonstop7255

3y↑39

@São João do mundo the fake egyptians today are just arabic speakers, they aren't actual descendants of real egyptians and they're also not arabs either

@zarinaromanets7290

3y↑11

His videos are a gateway drug for future young scholars :D

@qorilla

3y↑10

Commercial productions don't want to "overwhelm" the viewers and they want to chunk up everything in small slices with commercial brakes and repeating the same thing from different respected authorities' mouths etc. They want to drag it out to last longer to fit the format. You can't exactly show a 10 minute documentary so dense in content on TV.
Kind of like the difference between huge bloated enterprise software designed by a committee vs a lean open-source tool made by one guy.

@pedropenacardenas8875

3y↑9

I like the six-hour documentaries. I like watching the hours of Egyptian content they offer. Especially when the egyptologist are laying all that shit down based on how they understand stuff.

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@cochrane04

2y↑29

I am an amateur Egyptologist. My hobby is translation - I take nothing for granted and consult many grammars in my collection. Would be so helpful if I had taught myself coptic. Thank you for this video. Do you have more?

@robhill5578

2y↑5

I love linguistics and the origins of language. English is a prime example of how words and pronunciations change from earliest Pre Roman to modern through Latin, Germanic, French and all the other stuff "borrowed" from everywhere else.

@Headhunter-pf5ky

1y↑8

to everyone who doesn't know, 10-20% of egypt today are coptic, all coptic orthodox churches still use coptic in prayers, im glad that videos like these help to raise awareness of different cultures and languages. I'm proud of my heritage and i hope that we could recover what was lost

@edmania7858

51w↑2

15% are Christian, the language itself is extinct and only used in some hymns. As for the genes, Coptic North African gene is BY FAR the dominant in the super majority of Egyptians. Egyptians are genetically Northeastern African nation.

@fatherjeremiahattaalla4859

2y↑8

As a coptic priest, coptic is being used in hymns and in liturgical services till this day, some people do speak it in Upper Egypt but very few in some few villages to be exact, but I can see that there is good initiative steps being taken right now to revive the language to be spoken more by youth and young people around the world almost everywhere. Specially that the pope have been urging along with the synod of bishops for more coptic institutes to stress on spreading the coptic language as much as possible, we feel that it is a treasure that shouldn't be lost.

@ramseysealy8102

3y↑8.9K

I just loved this so much. As an Ancient-Egyptophile from since I was a little boy (and I'm 72 now), this was fascinating and wondrous work. I now know how the ancient Egyptians pronounced the name of their country. For many years growing up, I had thought of studying archeology to become a worker in the ancient realms of Egypt. I even have a cartouche of Ramases the Third tattooed on my right shoulder. One of my regrets is that I have never had the funds to travel to Egypt. To be able to gaze at the pyramids at Giza is one of my bucket list items. I hope I can make it before that old bucket gets kicked!
Again, thanks for this video.

@akunformalitas

3y↑342

Wow! I imagine your life must have been like that of Indiana Jones!

@MJBpeace

3y↑211

I hope you have visited Berlin Altes Museum! It holds so much Egyptian heritage, I was blown away! Even the walls of the museum are decorated i n an acurate way, as if you were walking inside an egyiptian building back in their time.
My sister, who had visited Egyipt before said, that you can see more in museums, since everything was collected and brought to foreign countrie's museums...

@dislikeroftheinternet5499

3y↑12

Okay we get it your love for Egypt is better than getting your freak on with other people

@stephaniehowell1109

3y↑73

Hope you can one day see the pyramids....til then, there's Google Earth. Lol.

@plsdontfindthisacc

3y↑258

@BJJ and stuff seriously! Let’s get a gofundme going for this guy :)

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@salmahersi4232

2y↑15

I’m sure the Coptic language is the closest to the ancient Egyptian language but there are several Somali words we use everyday that are said to be ancient Egyptian. Words like river, grandmother, brother, etc. Language is so interesting

@moanjelo9453

Those who believe there are words in Somali language that have cognates with Ancient Egyptian language are Hoteps, they listen too much to hoteps(Afrocentrists).

@salmahersi4232

2y↑3

@Mo Anjelo funny thing is you sound like ancient egypt isn’t in africa. Nubia (which is now modern day Sudan) is home to many ancient Egyptian empires, including the Kingdom of Kush. Somali is not only an afro asiatic language like the ancient egyptian language but also is home to the land of Punt. so i’m sorry you have that sentiment about “Afrocentricism”

@RElmi-hi6wz

38w

No that is untrue and Salma don't believe the lies they are using to claim that Ancient Egyptians came from Europe or Asia. The problem is not the Afrocentric view but the Euro-Asian false claim of an African civilisation.
Copts came after the invasions of Greeks and Romans and they can never be the ones sustaining the language of the people they ousted. That is BS!
The Somali, Afari, Oromo, Beja, Saho, Rendile, Nubian languages are much closer to the ancient language.

@jimbim4405

47w↑1

THANK YOU!! I have often wondered how we know how these elements were pronounced. I find it interesting that even today, Hebrew is also written without vowels either..

@crubelliermargaux7798

1y↑7

I'm learning egyptian for one of my courses, and I want to say that it's really not that difficult. I'm sure that if you really want to learn it you can !

@Temporal-Anomaly

51w↑2

From watching your video I would say that linguists can take a good "educated guess" as to what ancient Egyptian sounded like. I wouldn't firmly say that this is what ancient Egyptian sounded like. A good example is comparing the various accents found in English throughout the world. There are some accents in English that are so radically different that it literally can be difficult for native English speakers from what part of the United States to understand English speakers from another part of the United States.

@joannahimes-murphy6897

2y↑3

Amazing! i just subscribed! My family are translators...my brother just finished working on a team of linguists translating the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into Japanese! I sent this link to my brother and his son who is also a translator...fascinating stuff!

@stephenashworth2480

2y↑6.1K

It really amazes me that it is possible to decipher these ancient languages. Especially when you consider the fluid nature of language. Wonderful stuff.

@akioarnold6746

2y↑25

They didn’t decipher it lol these are lies

@liviwaslost

2y↑5

@Akio Arnold why

@mightyrabbit8600

2y↑4

@Akio Arnold I agree 💯

@waynie8710

2y↑50

How would they know if it's correct? It's just an assumption

@liviwaslost

2y↑23

@Way Ney it’s the best they could do

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@nikkonch

2y↑15

What worries me is the assumption that there was one agreed pronunciation. In East Kent in the UK there are 3 towns within 5 miles of each other, Margate, Ramsgate and Broadstairs. Years ago older people there told me that in the early part of the 20th century, before national radio broadcasting had evened out local accents and an agreed "Received Pronunciation" of standard English was gaining ground, they could tell by their accent which of the 3 towns someone came from. British people can usually identify a large number of regional accents in England as well as accents of English as spoken in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the US, Canada, and Australia. In fact some accents in the north of England can be impenetrable to southerners even without the use of regional vocabulary. Our current Queen's accent has changed over the course of her reign, and even the speech of younger members of the royal family shows the growing influence of Thames "estuary" English, a slightly downmarket version of RP. In the UK the "glottal stop" where the letter "t" disappears in some speech is widespread nowadays (water becomes wa'er) and "elision" where a sound is dropped (camera become cam'ra, and fish and chips becomes fish'n'chips) is common. So, interesting as this contribution and its analysis may be, ultimately it is just a best guess and a very approximate one at that, isn't it?

@blackleague212

1y↑3

It is a highly educated guessimation... Better than a random guess but I feel you in your comment.
That british "water" is a really, really good example. Keeping in mind, that the dude in this video is from Euro centric roots. Egyptian being an African Middle eastern language, I would say he is missing a lot of the hard glottal sounds and arabic tongue stops. I have seen many european dictionaries "try" to break down other languages complex mouth, throat and tongue movements but its not really anything you could ever describe with written words. One of the reasons why Chinese is locked in a sort of "musical style" where the sound itself must be learned to correctly indicate tense, tone and meaning.
Egyptian language and world was so complex and lasted for so long, they overlooked things that we now need because they said to themselves " why would we ever forget (this)?"

@KasumiR

47w↑1

I mean, you have at least... three... four... accents for London alone? Working class Cockney, the BBCTV-approved received pronounciation, and Posh used by wankers... I also heard about Estuary dialect? And this is ONE CITY. Assuming that Upper, Lower and Middle Egypt had the same pronunciations throughout 1000s of years of Old or New Kingdom would be a Nile-long stretch. I bet Luxor would have very different speech from Faiyum, from Cairo, from Sinai.

@janedenktasli1015

44w

But you don't get the same amount of variation within people of the same education and class. All of us at my boarding school in the 1970s spoke with the same accent. I'm guessing priests and Egyptian courtiers all had the same accent.

@kristifairchild9946

48w↑22

There was an English woman that lived in Egypt who could speak ancient Egyptian perfectly (as much as we know). Her name was Om SETI but her English name was Dorothy Edie. She believed she was the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian. It’s a fascinating story, several books have been written about her. Just look up Om SETI. 😃👍

@caseymcpoet

46w↑3

But, frankly, Kristi, who was going to know if she was or wasn't? Ive heard many a 'psychic' speaking in tongues, space language & absolutely pure gibberish, & some with a kind of clarity, but who knows? Irish lore says Gaelic was crafted by Ogma, the god of Eloquence, after the Tower of Babel was destroyed from all the best of the ancient languages, making Gaelic the best of the best, lol.

@markusc9417

40w

Yes I Remember reading about her story, fascinating!

@dereksuth8906

26w

@@caseymcpoetWhy would Irish lore have a Judaic story as part of it?

@caseymcpoet

25w

@@dereksuth8906 More like a Biblical narrative than a Judaic one. When the scribes started writing down the Lore and ancient oral histories in the monasteries, they gave many things a biblical & Christian slant. The ancient writing system the Druids used was called Ogham, pronounce Om today & in ancient times probably pronounced the "gha" in ancient Irish. Ogma is found on the continent where the Celts were too, as in Gaul, Iberia, etc.
The Druids were the educated class of early Europe, natural scientist & philosophers like the Magi & Brahmins, Pythagoras studied with them & they were familiar with the Egyptians.

@BinhoRj

1y↑6

I believe it should have a lot of vowel sounds, as it is a hot region. This is based on what we see in the languages of the world, where it is colder it seems that people speak with their mouth more closed or trembling, and in warmer regions, in a more open way, "panting". Take the sound of Portuguese from Portugal and Brazil, the difference in accents is quite impressive.

@BurnBird1

49w

Which is why the Germanic languages have far more vowels than the Romance languages? Because it's hotter in northern Europe than around the Mediterranean

@BinhoRj

49w

@BurnBird where did you get that there are more vowels in Germanic languages?

@brb4903

48w

@BurnBird dude France is king in vowels

@thomaskosinar4923

22w

Just like i imagined many times, the consonants survive like the bones of the word and the vowels envelop them as the respective cultural flesh, making it likely to trace words back to their origins.

@lisastenzel5713

23w

I always assumed that old egyptian was kinda like old latin. It evolved into todays egyptian. I just didn't realized how much it changed and that todays egyptians can't read it anymore. It really is that much older than english and most european languages.
Egypt...always my favorite part in history, and my teacher dumbed it completely! I swear I had 3 years of rome and the roman empire, and zero years of any other stuff. 2 years after we got a new teacher and she was so concerned about what we all missed. The sadest part..that first history teacher was vize headmaster. 🙈🙈 And it was a private school, not a public one. 😭 German school system really sucks

@marlawright5711

3y↑5.3K

My husband is aver proud egyptian and I truly enjoy listening to him talk about it. I especially love watching him talk about it. Egypt is one of the oldest countries in the whole world. Though they don't teach hieroglyphs any more He ca't believe that I know so much about a country I have never visited. I have always found ancient egypt very fascinating. I want to learn Egyptian Arabic but it is such a difficult language to learn.

@akunformalitas

3y↑78

I also found cultural similarity in which even in modern Arabic words are still written consonants only.

@aeringothyk5445

3y↑343

@Yahyeh Yussuf Exactly. Thinking that the modern demographic that dominates Egypt is what ancient Egyptians were it’s like thinking that the average white American is what Native Americans were

@juska4235

3y↑39

@Aerin Gothyk Except that Egypt just went through a ton of changes because you know, it's thousands of years, time changes, instead of just huge wars against nativ, so it wasn't that bad, still the closest you can get technically

@juska4235

3y↑34

@Kristi Talk what is an Israelites DNA if they're not from anywhere? lol, that's just propaganda have you forgotten that they came from all over the world and the country wasn't a thing before 1947? The jews traveled then from USA, Europe, Middle east etc , as they were promised by the English minister a country to be made for them in Palestine, clearly these are very different DNAs depending from where they traveled.
So unless you mean they did research on some Jews from a very specific rare lineage, they'd just be testing an American like the honest israeli occupant Jacob for all they know lol.

@juska4235

3y↑11

@Kristi Talk It just didn't add up to call Israelites who came from everywhere and only exist in 1947 and beyond as unchanged, so yea these websites definitely aren't trustworthy or followed a very specific but rare pure lineage which can happen in any race if they tried to find it

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@edogould9865

2y↑8

I took a class about ancient Egypt and was very much impressed. I'm a builder by trade so I had enough knowledge to come to terms with just how advanced they were.

@zamzamkhan759

45w↑1

Ancient Egyptian sounds so much like Urdu to me, a language which is a mixture of Persian and Arabic. In Urdu, قومیت pronounced Qomiyat means Nationhood and the word for Egypt Qoomat sounds so similar to it..Nafret pronounced the same in Urdu means hatred. Peromet meaning person sounds a lot like "Piyambar" in Urdu which means a messenger. Ramat in Ancient Egyptian sound like Rahmat in Urdu which means a blessing or a person who is a blessing. The Egyptian name Yatin sounds a lot like Yasin. Fascinating really. Simply fascinating.

@johnglover4453

1y↑6

OmG! Had not realised just how complex and multi layered the journeys of linguists are! Wow! Absolutely fascinating!!

@xtreme1412

2y↑6

Language is a beautiful thing, I live in a small country, Malaysia in a state called Sarawak and people from the peninsular area have a tough time understanding my dialect. Makes me wonder what will happen in 1000 years when linguists try to decipher our dialect.

@ColonelStanley

1y↑11

I'm a bit late ;) , but this is a really great material. I have friends who study old Slavic languages, mainly Polish and Czech, how these languages sounded in the Middle Ages and later until the creation of these two modern languages. They both work at the University of Warsaw. It's an exciting job. The Middle Ages is my hobby, so I'm interested in how the English language changed after the conquest of William the Conqueror, or how the German language developed since Ostrogoths, Visigoths, and later since Charlemagne... in its eastern lands. Once again, thank you very much for this very interesting popular science material. Best Wishes from Poland. :) Kind regards - Stanley

@tymanung6382

49w

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Medieval.Collectibles--- repro clothes,
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@phoenix009009

3y↑1.8K

I am an Egyptian and I loved your video. Just the fact that you said the words “Abouna Youhanna” shows an outstanding level of knowledge about our culture and history. Hats off my friend. Really, really great job!

@legendovbago4716

3y↑119

Ur an Arab not Egyptian

@Egyptiangirl2978

3y↑145

@LEGEND OV BAGO this sentence doesn't make any sense lol

@yusofahmed4169

3y↑63

@Killergirl he is true Arabs conquered Egypt ancient copt people all dead only minority coptic Christian communities survied

@SolidTube911

3y↑217

@LEGEND OV BAGO Are Italians Romans? No. Do they Speak Latin?No. Do they have traces of Roman DNA? Yes. Do modern Egyptians speak a Variant of Arabic that is not intelligible to Arabia? Yes. Do modern Egyptian have traces of ancient Egyptian DNA? Yes Only true Arabs are in Arabia. Everybody else in Middle east adopted it after there conversion to Islam. This is why Arabic has too much non intelligible variant spoken in different Arab countries.

@crabbylion7971

3y↑6

@LEGEND OV BAGO 🎯

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@lisachatham8690

1y↑32

I am so very interested in Egyptology, I wanted to be an archaeologist, but my parents said that I would never make any money doing it. So I did what they thought I should and became a nurse. I really didn't want to be one, not because I don't like helping others or helping them heal but because it just took a toll on me and my empathy.

@dopaminedi

Do what you love, become a archeologist. Money doesn't matter and if you're gonna die in 100 years. Then die doing what you love

@seasonsstarsstudios

1y↑6

It’s not that you won’t make money as an archaeologist; it’s the stress level to income ratio, or “is the salary worth the stress?” Your parents, while flawed, had a point. I don’t agree with them, however; just because your parents had a point doesn’t mean they were right. Only you can decide what’s right for you. I’m all for chasing your dreams; after all, you have one life to live, and it should be yours. Don’t let your parents decide your fate. A career can change, and so can your life. You can be a nurse any other time. Be what you want to be. If I listened to my family I wouldn’t have had my dream job working from home. I never would’ve published my first novel and working on my second one, either. I’d be a chef - or worse, a nurse, which for me is a fate worse than death. I also would’ve been drowning in student loans just like my mom, and that’s the last thing I want. Sometimes parents want you to be happy; sometimes they want you to have money. My parents were neither, and I didn’t listen - and I couldn’t be happier. Grab your life before it’s too late.

@blissfu_coffeelover7177

1y↑3

I HAVE THE EXACT SAME ISSUE, how 'bout you say we ditch our parents, run away together and study it then become popular archeologists who LOVE their jobs

@hayleemitchell9570

1y↑5

If it's taking a toll on your empathy, it's gonna take a toll on you and your patients. I mean it kindly, but you can't pour from an empty cup, if it's draining you of some of the most important features of the job, maybe its a sign to find a different one. You deserve a job that fills your cup, rather than drains it

@caseymcpoet

46w↑1

You can still study Archeology & I betcha you could find work on field trips as an EMT of sorts, now that you have the skills of a Qualified Medic. I also bet if you look into it you could find some work in the exact field of Archeology you like the best.

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@DooplissTheTrickster

2y↑12

WOOOOOW!!! And it's explained in a way that even I can understand! This is incredible! The amount of research that must've gone into this... wow. Just... wow.

@mscurtis8783

1y↑4

12 million views? Wow. Very interesting. Love learning about ancient civilizations. Ancient Egypt is so intriguing.

@nonyabiz9487

2y↑2

I think the most amazing thing is that some intelligent French soldiers found the Rosetta stone. Who knows how many people walked past that thing for centuries until it was finally discovered.

@michaelthompson5252

2y↑4

You should do a video on the Nag Hammadi library discovered in the 1947 in Egypt. Those texts offer a somewhat different perspective on the Gospels of Jesus Christ. Those texts were all written in Coptic and they tell an amazing story about creation and why humans are here in the present form we find ourselves in. Makes me think that what the hieroglyphs are trying to tell us may actually be more in line with what the story of Christ symbolizes.

@Marduke

Actually no.... yes those gospels are written in coptic written by coptic scribes, but the hieroglyphs are no why shape or form in line on what story of christ symbolizes.

@alecbrown66

2y↑6.1K

There is a tiny group of people in egypt, who still use ancient coptic (every day egyptian) in religious prayers and curses. There was a team that recorded and taped it as a historical and linguistic project before the largely elderly villagers died, back in the late 1980's to mid 1990's.

@remonragy7709

2y↑493

As a matter of fact, Coptic is still used widely in all the Coptic Orthodox Church prayers all around Egypt. However, dozens of people only can speak the coptic language fluently among the 10 - 15 millions christians in Egypt! Finally, the Arabic language had been affected with the coptic language as well. Many slang words here are originated from coptic, however, we use it on daily basis without knowing its coptic origin!

@kerlousabdelmalak5199

2y↑96

@remon ragy And it's not just Coptic Orthodox churches in Egypt, all around the US and Canada as well. Coptic is still a very used language in churches and our liturgies here in the US.

@daliamohammedali5906

2y↑34

@remon ragy like what my friend, I am Egyptian and I want to know

@BlakeJp9

2y↑6

amazing

@st4r444

2y↑33

I'm glad to hear how beautiful my black ancestors sound in this vid. Beautiful advance civilization we made

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@messengerofiexist2139

2y↑10

Paleo-Hebrew/Phoenician
Some of the Egyptian pictographs are similar to Ancient Hebrew.
In writing they are also similar as a consonantal written system. In Hebrew, the vowels used determine the definition.

@latexu9589

2y↑8

Did you know that in 2020 scientists managed to reconstruct the vocal tract of a mummified priest Nesyamun to figure out what he's voice actually sounded like when he was alive. This is the first time in recorded history that the voice of a deceased person was managed to, in a way, bring back to life (before the era of modern voice recording technology).

@CarpeNoctemArts

48w↑1

Thank you for the back story, I didn't know it all. And bro, your french accent is absolutely perfect, I'd swear you are french when you say Champollion 👏👌I'm impressed it's very rare, I know only you and Jodie Foster for having this perfect diction. How many languages did you learn ?

@rallyny

2y↑5

Genuinely fascinating and explained in a calm unhurried manner that makes it easy to follow and comprehend. Very well done.

@eyesofthefox

48w↑1

The cool thing about pictures for your writing system, is that everyone is able to look at the images and understand the concept even if they can't speak or write it.

@rickkinki4624

3y↑3.8K

Everything about ancient Egypt is so fascinating, even their language!

@satisfyingitems3118

3y↑2

Plz subscribe ❤️

@mohamedeslah

3y↑25

@Dark Truth shut up

@fancytwice7230

3y↑62

@Dark Truth Egyptian aren't black

@meritorioustechnate9455

3y↑66

@Fancy Twice Ancient Egyptians were black, but mixed up quite often. I wanna say by the 25th dynasty or earlier, their features changed. Hence Cleopatra being a product of incest and interracial relations.

@fancytwice7230

3y↑63

@MAN AWAKES Ancient Egyptians weren't a mix of any other color/race they're just pure Egyptians.
For example, Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun both lived during the 18th Dynasty, and they had the original "Egyptian" look.
I'd say that only modern Egyptians are mixed.

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@UNOwen1

2y↑6

+NativLang; I come to watch your (always) fascinating videos, and each time, I'm swept away.

It must be like how people have described the heyday of radio, when it was the 'theatre of the mind', because, like them, just listening to these amazing stories transports me far away, and long ago.

I personally thank you for these engrossing true-history stories.

I've always been a fan of nonfiction because no matter what the topic, nothing's ever more intriguing than that.

@caseymcpoet

46w

Sometimes, in order to write true history, one must couch it in terms of fiction in order to get it published.

@jamiemason2003

2y↑1

With few exceptions, no language really ever truly dies out. You can still see remnants of it for centuries to come, influencing newer languages long after their last speaker died.

@ChuckHickl

51w↑1

Absolutely lovely video. Thank you for your efforts and sharing them with us. ❤

@maksphoto78

2y↑4

Can you please do a video on ancient Sumerian? They had one of the first proper writing systems.

@JSTNtheWZRD

2y↑5

Very cool, do Hebrew next it's as interesting in its journey and you did such a good job on this, clear, simple concise

@apocryph0n

3y↑8.7K

Man, it’s so cool to see how much ancient Egypt has changed so many people’s lives. I got that big gold book about Egyptology with the big gemstones on it and I was hooked (like the brain during mummification)

@jjaacckkmm

3y↑186

Did you have Wizardology, Dragonology, etc. too?

@Laylam14

3y↑78

@Jack Madden I had those book too!

@lauryljensen778

3y↑82

Ok but the brain hook joke🧠😂

@ashleighclark6866

3y↑21

Oh my god I had the same one! My parents still have it & if I remember it correctly I wrote my first set of hieroglyphs on the inside cover 😄

@darkaero

3y↑70

@Durval Clinton Egyptians aren't, and weren't black....Depending on the time period even the Pharaoh's were Greek descendents such as Cleopatra.

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@skullduggery1616

22w

Very informative and enjoyable, however I was waiting to hear like a few sentences put together so I could take in a good dose of what it sounds like, and also a comparison of modern Egyptian to ancient would REALLY be cool! But not just a word at a time. Rather a paragraph, read in both!!

@colorfulthinker

2y↑11

@NativLang I love all of your videos so much and they help me a lot. I was wondering ( if your schedule permits ) if you would make a video of old Celtic languages. I miss you. Thank you.

@urviarora12

1y↑4

I wish we could also figure out a way to decipher the ancient Harappan writings and the writings at Sanchi Stupa in India.

@simonnaylor3536

2y↑18

I really appreciate this. I’ve known it, but came here to learn more about it. It’s really interesting to see the vowels fill in, but I imagine many words may have also ended with vowels, so could we also add a vowel to the end of the word? This is very common in both Korean and Italian. How about vowels at the beginning of words as well? For example, could
“Rin” become “Irini”.

@katherineler5884

2y↑1

I think you have a good point. However, linguists have no way to know where the vowels should be, so they give it their best guess. Imagine how different Egyptian would turn out in the modern age if they considered something like this. Linguistics is fascinating.

@KasumiR

47w

@katherine ler I think we can use related languages as a base. At least Afro-Asiatic consonant-only systems like Hebrew and Arabic. We know that some of their consonants often stand it for a vowel, and others almost never do.

@deep.chhetri

34w

Rinnegan is the only ability that can fully decipher the tablet, whereas the Sharingan and Mangekyo Sharingan can only partially decipher it. The tablet primarily contained the secrets of the Mangekyo Sharingan. This included information as to how to obtain it and its power to control the tailed beasts.

@martinokhalil4900

3y↑2.6K

Am a copt and I speak coptic fluently with my family ❤️🇪🇬 thanks for mentioning us

@MutohMech

3y↑178

I'm not a Copt but I'm a student of (Sahidic) Coptic. Beautiful language you guys got there! Keep the efforts at making it more popular 😄

@Loki-pz1uk

3y↑40

That’s amazing!

@nickpalaestra1948

3y↑17

P-Christos aftooun! Alethos aftooun!

@fatemahhatem9873

3y↑203

I wish the egyptian gov would bring the coptic lang back to life. I know it still lives in Egyptian arabic, but we need to safe it before it's gone.

@datboi6005

3y↑27

Based pharaonist

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@Yesica1993

2y↑2

Amazing! Just found this channel. Linguistics fascinates me. If I had my life to live over, I would have tried pursuing it as a field of study. (Though I think it may be too difficult for my poor little brain.)

@frlfda

37w

While I have no understanding you of what you were teaching us, I very much appreciate what you have created. I look forward to going through this several more times. Thank you

@jean-francoisdaignault9612

So interesting to learn a bit more about one of the only historical figures with whom I share a first name!

@OnerousEthic

2y↑6

Wow! A masterpiece of investigative linguistics! 10 thumbs up would not be enough!!!

4:05 “Hieroglyphs are a desert of consonants…”

How profound! Unless I mistaken, Hebrew is the same - there are no vowels in the script! How cool is that!?

@fatimataki1320

1y↑7

Great work! I am of Amazigh (Berber) background and we pronounce many words without vowels. For instance, we pronounce the word “Anak” (I/me), which you have mentioned, “nk”. I wonder if these two words are related. When I hear Nubians and Ethiopians speak, it sounds like Tamazight.

@busoko_Ismail2468

51w↑1

You are Wrong in everything

@samc8570

3y↑796

I'm a Copticist/Egyptologist and I have to say this video is incredible! Especially for not forgetting the Mediaeval Arabic scholars which people tend to ignore.

@mikicerise6250

3y↑32

@NightShade theWolf Arabic is just the colonial language.

@AR-bf7tm

3y↑58

@Miki Cerise before Arabic due to the Byzantine occupation of Egypt most egyptian spoke greek which is why the coptic alphabet is still in greek. A 'native' egyptian language hasn't been spoken in Egypt in over 2500 years

@armzngunz

3y↑20

@A R I really doubt most egyptians spoke greek as their first language. Egypt and the levant never hellenised or romanised like the celts, iberians and illyrians

@AR-bf7tm

3y↑12

@armzngunz the Egyptian Language written in the Demotic script which was the predecessor to Modern Coptic and offshoot from the Late Egyptian Language was renounced over classical Greek in all official places except in Egyptian Religious Temples and even there soon Egyptian Hieroglyphs and the demotic script was completely replaced by the Greek alphabet during the Ptolemic dynasty. While there wasn't a formal hellenisation process, the Greek and Roman influences essentially replaced Egyptian culture with their own and Historians in the antiquity such as Josephus described Egyptians as being evenly split amongst greek and coptic speakers highlighting a dilluting of egyptian culture. Which although is sad it's what happens to every other single culture. Just like how Iran doesn't speak Avestan, India doesn't speak Sanskrit or the Harrapan Civilisation's language and Britain doesn't speak a celtic language.

@faofthefaers7695

3y↑1

@pr 99 Greek was the official language of Egypt at a point in time.

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@timothyhouse1622

42w

Interesting video. It puts into focus that someone in Late New Kingdom Egypt listening to someone speak from Old Kingdom would be like someone who speaks modern English hearing someone speak in Old English. You can understand some things, though they will sound different, but there would be a lot you wouldn't understand.

@kylehenderson8569

2y↑7

What’s interesting is that you are pronouncing vowels by how you know them to be pronounced today and applying that to the older languages, when that might not be how they were pronounced back then

@radioreactivity3561

1y↑1

Vowel sounds shift and change consistently. There are regular patterns, that let you reconstruct earlier values. Sounds rarely just change randomly.

@14206bucha

This was so interesting! So glad I found this channel. I can’t wait to binge your videos 😊

@bemusedantelope9630

2y↑3

This video was (seemingly) randomly recommended to me but I'm very glad it was; I've now discovered an incredibly interesting channel. Thank you for your work!

@Golo1949

48w↑1

There was a guy from Khartoum in the Sudan on our engineering course at uni , we got talking about his homeland and he told me there are people out there that still speak the language.

@CaitlynJneeCocke

3y↑5.3K

Darn. I was hoping to hear him read full sentences so we can hear how they spoke.

@mahiruuuhiragii800

3y↑155

watch the egyptian parade which transported 22 king and queen a week ago in the video you’ll find a song for Isis the ancient egyptian queen you’ll hear how they talked

@tims4654

3y↑66

You can hear Coptic if you go to a Coptic Orthodox Church.

@tims4654

3y↑44

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ3uZMl4t6g

@PamelaO

3y↑5

Me too

@shawkat44

3y↑77

A song in the ancient Egyptian language:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzgOv6H2IOY

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@julioaranton5223

2y↑3

Unraveling the mystery of an important past civilization thru its language. Most informative, thank you.

@rachaelb.

1y↑6

When we lose a language or culture, we lose a part of ourselves and history. Nothing can replace it nor repair it. It can never be restored to its exact copy. This is why it is important to keep traditions alive through story or dance. Just not through war or hate. -Rachael B. lol

@pamelafleming1012

1y↑2

Love different languages and accents and how it all came about I’m Scottish so you can imagine 😮

@caseymcpoet

46w

Aha! Ego sum Scotus ut potes imaginari! I'll remember that next time my Imagination kicks in, lamoj.

@peerie

2y↑3

I'm honestly so fascinated by language. Makes me reconsider studying linguistics in uni.

@fran-gx3kf

38w

Very interesting though technical and just amazing how much one would research, and able to research deeply!👍

@W1LD_4C3s

2y↑2.1K

Something I’ve noticed about evolving languages and learning their beginnings; is how lifestyle really plays a big role on how they decided to pronounce or not pronounce something. The Egyptian language for example, you can tell how hot it was based on how the language sounded, the amount of breath placed on the inclination(s). Furthermore you can see how something simple such as heat could shape an early dialect and tongue. Hmm has anyone else found this?

@mahroz1997

2y↑279

Wow, that is so interesting, no wonder Arabic has many from the throat and breath pronunciations because Arab countries suffer through lots of heat. Also why English is very less like that since in England it is fairly cold.

@josielie6701

2y↑152

That is interesting. I have never paid attention to climates affecting speech.

@Nyxtia

2y↑313

@janetwestwood9194

2y↑1

🤔😃👍❣🇬🇧

@cindygonzalez486

2y↑17

People from the south of USA
Talk slow because it’s so hottt

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@joannaflowers5563

2y↑7

Language is so absolutely fascinating! ❤️

@charlenevarada--Stargazer

49w

I've heard Egyptian spoken as my Dad worked for a boss who had an employee & his wife who both not only spoke it, but came from that country!😊

@Eazy-ERyder

48w

I love all things ancient Egypt. Such a wonderously beautiful culture.

@mercuryz_6605

49w↑42

Im Egyptian and i get so happy when people are interested in the culture and not faking it like some people nowadays good job!

@michaelpadilla4037

49w

Who ??

@mercuryz_6605

48w↑1

@michael Padilla the people who support afro centrism are black washing Egyptians saying they were black

@yassyabdi8593

45w↑4

Our? The modern day Egyptians are Arabs while the ancient Egyptians were black from the horn of Africa

@mercuryz_6605

45w↑7

@Yassy Abdi yes OUR and we weren't black neither now nor in the old days go cry about it. Where are your sources the Netflix film cleopatra??

@jacob777jacob

42w↑1

@@mercuryz_6605 Proof is on the wall.

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@tubularblonde

2y↑11

I've enjoyed this presentation several times over. My Coptic studies were at UCLA, in grad. school, with my tutor, Antonio Loprieno from the Turin Museum and John Callender from U. Chicago. I got a kick from reading along with you. Coptic was the most difficult language I have ever learned, but, Loprieno broke down the various earlier sounds and, especially, grammar and then, I GOT IT ! One thing I did with 18th dynasty Egyptian was to go back over the "Amarna Texts" in translation by several of the visiting scholars I've met. I readily recall saying "I-yat-ii" for "Aten". The cuneiform translations opened my eyes considerably. Last night I was rereading the various Kings' lists and I returned to Manetho. So many errors but so many attempts to get things right. It's fascinating to see how several scholars over time reconstructed the "erased" Pharaohs from the Amarna period. It's great, isn't it! Looking forward to watching this again and others by you.

@caseymcpoet

46w

I love your enthusiasm, DNL. That's how things get done.

@evanmurray5920

3y↑3K

Could you do Old Norse next. Would love to hear what it sounded like

@dukeofleinster4524

3y↑35

I thought he already did

@emilyvalentine4565

3y↑209

A professor by the name of Jackson Crawford already has an extensive library of videos on this topic, I feel personally like he may have a bit of an accent when speaking it but it’s pretty minor

@sonofclay

3y↑59

Probably sounds a bit like Dutch after eating shrooms.

@awm9290

3y↑140

Can’t you just go to Iceland?

@kyomademon453

3y↑131

Literally rural Icelandic

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@angellite2380

2y↑3

When I was younger, I would often find myself wondering why my father kept looking at pictures of some rocks all day
That is until he told me that he was studying the language of the old Egyptians, which I was quite impressed by
Might ask him if I could borrow some of his books from time to time...

@charlottestewart5802

2y↑2

This is really interesting. So glad I found it on YouTube. I wonder if other short documentaries like this are out there.

@fazapops

2y↑2

This was a fantastic video. Thank you so much for producing this.

@alandjudi

2y↑2

Thank you for your informative narration. According to “23 and me” I have a small percentage of “Coptic Egyptian “. They don’t have much info on it so I was glad to watch your video.

@fabianbernards7695

2y↑2

The word for egypt "keimat" sounds very similar to the german word "heimat" which means something like "native land". I read that "heimat" is derived from the indogermanic root "kei", which means "place where you settle". I am unsure what to make of this: On the one hand the similarity is so big that I am tempted to suppose a relation rather than coincidence. On the other hand, german is in the indogermanic family and egyptian is in the afroasian family, suggesting that the languages are very remote which makes a relation less plausible. Does anyone have insights on that matter?

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