Comparing the Akkadian Months Across Semitic Languages - Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac 

We came back from exile in Babylon with these month names, so it's not surprising that they are close to the Akkadian names.

Very nice comparison professor Wingert. Thank you from a new subscriber. Few comments if I may: 1. The Akkadian/Babylonian "Nissanu Series" is the adopted menology in the region of the Levant including Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine, in addition of course to the post-exile Hebrew calendar. Even the Turkish calendar retained four names (Nisan, Temmuz, Eylül, and Şubat), 2. Iyar, Tammuz, Ab, and Tishri are post-exile Hebrew months names that are NOT attested in the Old Testament (Tammuz is mentioned in Ezekiel 8:14 as a Syrian idol), 3. Conder 1889 p.22 in his article "The Hebrew Months" wrote that the Phoenicians and Hebrews used the same calendar before captivity, a proposition which Stieglitz agrees with (Phoenician-Punic Menology 1998: 212-3). You can see the evidence in the 3 out of 4 pre-exile Hebrew months Ziw (1 kings 6:1,37), Etanim (1 kings 8:2), and Bul (1 kings 6:38) which in Phoenician are ZW/ZYB, ’TNM, and BL (Stieglitz ibid). 4. The Levantine month name Kānūn (’awwal/tāny- colloquial vocalization) appears to be from the Nuzi Calnedar month Kinūnu by way of Palmyrene (Gordon & Lacheman 1938: 254.). All the best

The +4 and sound threw me back to super mario bros, and i never thought id be watching an akkadian video and have that throw back. Lol well done.

Once I read that the name of the months in arabic were actually borrowed from syriac and that is why they looked similar.

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October = Tishrin Qadmaya. November = Tishrin Trayana, December = Kanon Qadmaya. January = Kanon Tryana.

It's very similar to Mandaic We say: ࡔࡀࡌࡀࡈ = شَباط = July = Šabaṭ August = Athar = ࡀࡃࡀࡓ = آذار September = Nisan = ࡍࡉࡎࡀࡍ = نيسان October = Ayar = ࡀࡉࡀࡓ = آيار November = Siwan = ࡎࡉࡅࡀࡍ = سيوان December = Tamuz = ࡕࡀࡌࡅࡆ = تموز January = Ab = ࡀࡁ = آب February = Íilol = ࡏࡋࡅࡋ = إيلول March = Tišrin = ࡕࡉࡔࡓࡉࡍ = تِشرين April = Mašriwan = ࡌࡀࡔࡓࡉࡀࡍ مَشرِوان May = kanun = ࡊࡀࡍࡅࡍ = كانون June = Ṭabit = ࡈࡀࡁࡉࡕ = طابيت

Numerals and month names, sometimes even the day names, they give me so many difficulties from language to language. I even have to list the months out loud in my native tongue to remember which of the similarly enough named months came at which point. Apparently it's something to do with numerals and such being stored and operated in another part of the brain than the more linguistic stuff, or so I've recently heard. The other reason might be the lack of practice, of course...

The fact that the Mesopotamian fertility god Dumuzi has a summer month named after him blew my mind, considering the myth in which he is imprisoned in the underworld, bringing about winter.

The Arabic ones are more known in the Levant than the rest of the Arab world. Even from the Levant it is only used in Syria and Lebanon more and not in Jordan or Palestine. Because they were adopted from Syriac. The Ottomans also adopted it later on when they occupied the region. So the Syriac and Levant Arabic months also used in Turkey. They don’t use it in North Africa or the Gulf. The North African countries use the French names of the month mostly. The rest call the names of the months in Arabized form from the English ones: January = Yanayer February = Fibrayer March = Mars (or Mares) depends on how you pronounce it April = Ebril May = Mayo June = Yunyo July = Yulyuo August = Aghustus September = Sebtember October = Oktober November = November (yeah that one is basically similar) December = December

Unfortunately, we do not use these months in Egypt. Instead, we use the Gregorian calendar with some changes in pronunciation, and the Hijri calendar as a secondary calendar.

The month after Tishrei in the Jewish calendar is called Cheshvan. Mar is added as a prefix, as an adjective to describe it as a bitter month. Mar-cheshvan.

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What does it mean to say that Hebrew is most similar to others? Could it be because Hebrew is the youngest or newest language in the Semitic language family? Do you explain the meanings of the months in other videos? I guess some of them might be named after deities, like Tammuz.

How do you explain the extra "-um", for example - Hebrew "nissan" vs Akkadian "nissanUM"?

What do the months' names mean? I was taught they were Babylonian gods. Any truth to that?

Is Akkadian the tongue of the Chaldees ?

Why didn’t you give Hebrew one for Kislev?

This is Solar system calender, how about lunar system calender?