History of the alphabet, the writing systems of Europe 

Greek, Cyrillic and Latin. I use them all. Greek-Russian here! Love to every writing system in general.

This Greek decrease was kinda sad to see..

What writing system do you want to use? The Balkans: yes

Notice how Greece kept the same alphabet for 3000+ years such an honour to be able to speak Greek

So sad to see Greek fading away like that, but im also proud cause it still remains as one of the oldest consistent languages in the world, plus Latin and Cyrillic have a huge Greek influence

Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club, the community of speakers of that language. Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. Change your language, and you change your thoughts. Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom

Next possible change is Kazakhstan. They've decided to switch to the latin alphabet by the mid 2020's.

Man as a Swede I think it's a shame we abandoned the Runic alphabet. We still learn it in school but since our language has evolved into suiting the Latin alphabet many of our sounds now lack accurate Runic letters, and so most people quickly forget them. A fun fact though is that some areas in Sweden continued using a niche version of the Runic alphabet up until the beginning of the 20th century. There are people who still have old postcards and letters that their great-grandparents sent to each other written with Runic letters.

Latin, Arabic and Cyrillic. Three giants and Greek in the middle, resilient as ever. Very sad decline though

I'm from Georgia and we have 3 alphabet. Modern alphabet look like this - საქართველოს გაუმარჯოს 🇬🇪❤️

I'm glad Georgians has stuck to their script, as it is incredibly beautiful.

As a hungarian, I'm surprised you didn't forgot about old hungarian writing :D It was slowly abandoned by most hungarians during the middle ages, and later it was rediscovered in some old medieval churches in Székelyföld (Eastern transylvania, roughly in the middle of modern day Romania) and then on some old artifacts. By impression it looks like rune writing, but only coincidentally, the similar signs mean different letters.

9:51 "Wait, why did Armenian suddenly- oh *_O H_* "

I stayed in shock with Turkey, what a change

But It is remarkable that the Greek language is at least 3,000 years old..

Me: should be studying math when its already 8 pm Also me: history of writing systems i need to see this Also me in the future: why did i fail my math test

Rome is still alive

Latin in 750: I don't feel so good Latin since 1850: UNLIMITED POWAAAAAA

I like how you can see what cultures are dominant by what writing systems spread the farthest. Its interesting how little of Europe used Latin writing during the early Middle Ages despite it now being the dominant method of writing.

Latin: ABCDEF dominates Ireland: ---//---///----

7:00 Latin: Hey Germans, wanna check out my alphabet? 7:13 Germans: Stay the hell away from me! *flee eastward* 7:25 It's no use, my script is superior

RIP Pahlavi, I learnt it. it's so sad seeing it being destroyed by Arab invasion as an Iranian.

Alphabets: 🇬🇷 Ελληνικό αλφάβητο 🇦🇲 Հայոց գրեր 🇬🇪 ქართული დამწერლობა 🇪🇬 ϯⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ 🇮🇹 Abecedarium Latinum 🇧🇬 Кирилица Abjad: 🇸🇦 كتابة عربية 🇮🇱 אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי‎

Me: **starts watching the video** Also me: *Why the years are going on reverse?*

2:03 *Sea People*: Allow to introduce ourselves "Lineal B has left the chat"

The Latin alphabet was a variant of the Greek alphabet used in the colony of Kyme/Cuma, town located in Southern italy. Later adopted by Romans.

Old italic: *exists* Latin: No.

Georgian alphabet is from BC. 4-3th century. You can read this from history. In 5th century we whrote the first georgian book-"Torture of Shushanik"

It’s so sad to see the Armenian script get decimated. Right after 1915, the Armenian genocide did a number didn’t it...

Hmmm I wonder why Greek and Armenian conveniently disappeared from Turkey in the 1920’s 🤔

Me when the Phoenicians popped up: *Now, the Phoenicians can get down to business!* "Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going." - Rita Mae Brown

La verdad que estos trabajos son tremendamente interesantes. Enhorabuena.

Τα ελληνικά είναι η μόνη γλώσσα που έχει απομείνει από 3000 χρόνια πριν!

Long live younaistan and its ancient alphabets 💙😊 From Iranistan 🙋

Armenian alphabet just for armenians, one nation , one country , one church, one language. Perfect.

Don't ask what happened to the Greek and Armenian scripts in the 1910s and 1920s

Epic video! Keep up the great work

Hebrew: Dead Alive Dead again Alive again Dead one more time Alive again Wow

I don't know wich is better, the interesting content or the great music....

I'm very impressed to see that Ogham was included. It was in use in Western Britain for a time as well. Perhaps Gaelic Type could have been included as well as that was in use for writing Old Irish and modern Irish well into the 20th century. It's similar to the Latin alphabet but different enough to be included. My grandmother's schoolwork is written in Gaelic Type

Very informative, fascinating to watch and good choice of music :) Also thank you for not forgetting Tifinagh ;)

Me looking at greece:oh come on just change your language Greece: nope👁👄👁

Great work. Thanks a lot!

That was great! Thanks buddy! 😃😃

thats some of the best background music ive experienced

The Cyrillic used in Bosnia up to late 19th century was the Western Cyrillic aka Bosnian Cyrillic aka bosančica aka bukvica. It had some 66% same letters as standard Cyrillic while 33% completely different written letters. Nowdays it is not used anymore, got replaced by the standard Cyrillic and Latin

Interesting to see how gradual the changes were at first, and then later you have huge areas suddenly flipping from one alphabet to another.

Nice video! Whats suprising, and isnt shown on the map, is that glagolitic survived in croatia for a long while. Both of the "Top 2" Glagolitic Missals in Croatia come from 14th - start of 15th century, Missal of Duke Novak and Hrvoje's Missal. Also theres been some discoveries in the 1900s which pointed towards use of (so called croat - Angular ) glagolitic even in Slavonia - border with Hungary. In 1248. Pope Innocent the 4th sent a message to a local bishop in Senj in which he "permits" the bishop to spread the word of god from the local glagolitic books

I cried after having watched this video! Thank you :'-)

I can read the latin script, Кирилица, and το ελλινικό αλφάβητο I can't speak greek, or any slavic language that uses cyrillic. I tried greek but stopped when my duolingo progress got reset. I am now attempting russian.

In medieval, turkic peoples used runic alphabet

Syriac script: a beautiful writing system resisting to extinction for many, many centuries!

The early Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 9th century AD at the Preslav Literary School by Saint Clement of Ohrid and Saint Naum and replaced the earlier Glagolitic script developed by the Byzantine theologians Cyril and Methodius.The exact ethnic origins of the brothers are unknown, there is controversy as to whether Cyril and Methodius were of Bulgarian Slavic or Byzantine Greek origin, or both. But it is more believed that their father was Byzantine and their mother Bulgarian. The Preslav Literary School, during the reign of the Bulgarian Emperor Simeon the Great , was the most important literary and cultural centre of the Bulgarian Empire and of all Slavs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabets

Cyrillic - my favourite! Thank you Preslav Literary School for this present you gave us! We shall cherish it eternally!

Cool stuff man the music ia really nice

I discovered this account trough this video: marvellous! Great work!

Ελληνικά(greek) Latine(latin) (Arabic) عربى Հայերեն(Armenian) ქართული(Georgian) кириллица(cyrillic)

During the Swedish empire, province like Ingemanland (there St Petersburg is now) did use the Latin alphabet.

Nice video! Congrats for the hard work :)

4:23 it's like the rise of United Hellenic Empire after 300 BC. That would be like if Alexander didn't die so early 🇬🇷🏛️🇬🇷

Runes stopped being used in Norway in the 1300's but okay.......

It would have been nice to see how each alphabet looks like, but great video.

Cyrillic alphabet: Orthodoxs (except Cyprus and Greece) Latin alphabet: West and Turkey Georgian alphabet: only Georgia Armenian alphabet: only Armenia Greek alphabet: Greece and Cyprus

Πανδυσκολο βίντεο, δεν έχω λόγια

2:03 Wtf, did they forget how to write?

I think we live in a wonderful world. We can se this video as well as billion of other video and this is such a wonderful thing

Great video!

Hands down an amazing video, bravo good sir, bravo 👏

Our alphabet was created in around 300-400 B.C🇬🇪

Very well done. I don't think I've ever seen a visual with a reverse and then forward timeline. Apart from that it looks like one of my games of Sid Meier's Civilization.

Glagolitic script survived in Croatia until 19th century.

What I find remarkable is the variation of the comment section.

I'd say the Runic script should have been visible a bit longer, seeing as most of the rune-stones were carved during the Middle Ages. Fascinating video though!

Minor correction: ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic was never spoken by the common people they never used the script it was only for the elites

Runic lasted into the late 14th century and it also changed over the years, but I understand you can have every nuance in a video like this

Amazing video.

Please make a video about asia's writing systems, too. It would be also very interesting to see turks, scytia, china, indus valley, and more others. Please!! :) very good video:D

Europe after AD : Write that down ! Write that down

Buen vídeo, gracias

I would love to have seen what Runic might have evolved into if the Germanic people had held onto it instead of swapping it for Latin as soon as they became Christian. Who knows, really, I know that there was a modified form that survived in a few pockets until a hundred years ago, but this was heavily latinized due to the rest of Scandinavia using the Latin script.

Ωραιο συνεχισε την καλη δουλεια οπως παντα

It's interesting to know that Greek used to dominate. From the Aegean Sea to Iberia, and Crimea to Egypt.

Gran Bretagna, Francia, Spagna, Portogallo, Olanda, hanno diffuso l'alfabeto Latino nel mondo.

The name of the first song, please? So good. And excellent video. Crazy.

Did you see the sudden shift in turkey ? It was arabic but then puff! Latin

Great video. Fails to say that the Latin Alphabet is a form of (or comes from) a Greek alphabet itself (Cumaean Euboean).

Still till this day the most two powerful civilizations of antiquity the world as ever known conquer the world with their writing script, Latin and the Greek Cyrillic . The Latin with 70% in the world and the Greek Cyrillic with 50 languages in the world, amazing. ROME and ATHENS..

Great work! Asia and America please! :)

So, which Greek alphabet is your favorite? The Chalcidean Greek (aka latin), the slavonic Greek (aka cyrillic) or the standard Greek?

Old Hungarian writing (Rovasírás) is still used to this day in modern Hungary for traditional writing or Town names. It even has its own block of code

Great video! How did you make it?

For some reason, I find it difficult to map colors from the legend to the map. They sometimes don't match at all.. But video is great!

Υπέροχο, Κωνσταντίνε!

The longevity of Egyptian hieroglyphic language and writing is frightening

hi...what is the name of the program you are preparing the video... Good day...

Greek alphabet is the father of Latin and Kyrilic

Tărtăria tablets discovered in 1961 at a Neolithic site in Romania. 5300-5500 B.C.

I think runes were used in some parts of Sweden until like 100-200 years ago

Its cool to see you dont have forget the Iberian alphabet♥️

I'm Swedish. Me and my foster family's mom used to send letters to each other in runic script when I was 9 while I lived at my mom's place. The foster family was very traditionally "asa folk" (aka they lived in their own Viking bubble, like, wearing home-sown dresses and clothing from back then, drinking from goat horns, doors decorated with cow skulls above them and so on, yup that was my daily life which really wasn't weird, we still had computer and tv and so on, we just had integrated culture of modern and old times in a very functioning way). We would go out in the woods since we lived in the country side during spring to do the "vårvrål" (spring screams) where we would just sit on a blanket in the middle of the woods and scream at the top of our lungs to welcome spring after a cold winter. Then just eat some picnic stuff while listening to the birds singing in the tree tops as you could see the sun shine through the narrow openings between the ever green trees. I think my childhood might have been a little bit different from that of most Swedes nngkcudysyjfjx But it shaped me into really respecting nature and value life as it comes. I really wish Sweden would have integrated modern culture ALONG with traditional Swedish culture instead of getting rid of everything as if they can't go hands in hands. Look at Japan for instance. Modern and Ancient have been so well integrated there you can still see what is Japanese. In Sweden people will point at a red wodden house and be like "yeah this is Swedish culture". When I have foreign friends visiting I will instead teach them to always greet Vick rocks at the side of the road when passing by to pay respect and stay away from danger as big rocks are giants having entered their long slumber. along that I also like to bring in the history of the 2 biggest lakes in Sweden and our 2 biggest islands, how those 2 islands came to be due to a fight between two giants that ripped up land and threw at each other, where the land that was ripped up now are the 2 big lakes hahahha (Perhaps not true history, but it's a cultural aspect and way of looking at nature as alive in itself)