Semitic Languages Comparison 

As a speaker of both Assyrian & Arabic, I think Assyrian is much closer to Hebrew, alphabets are very close & to someone who can’t read either Assyrian or Hebrew probably think they’re the same. We do have lots of words borrowed from Arabic, and with the diaspora of Assyrians we have borrowed many words from English & other European languages in more recent decades.

@@NSNASD-gx3yr Hebrew and Assyrian are from the north Semitic branch while Arabic is from the South Semitic branch. I think Hebrew and Assyrian speakers could learn each other's languages quite quickly

Thanks for that info, is that because Assyrian & Hebrew came first and Arabic came much later? Yeah I definitely agree with you, it would be much easier/quicker for us Assyrian & Hebrew speaking people to learn each other’s language vs others who don’t speak these Semitic languages. The sad thing is that with no country to call home & Assyrians have been scattered throughout the world, we’ll soon lose the language. At least when we were concentrated in the Middle East, we lived in villages of all or mostly Assyrian so that was spoken at home & with our friends, now we all speak the language of whichever country we live in. Very sad!

@@NSNASD-gx3yr I’m in Michigan and I know people here that speak Assyrian and keep their communities and language alive. The ancestor of Arabic existed at the same time as ancient Hebrew but we don’t have a written record of it.

@@NSNASD-gx3yr Assyrian doesn't really sound like Arabic, but rather some kind of backwards Arabic, the emphasis on words is kinda familiar

Polish sounds nothing like Hebrew. I would understand if you said Spanish (because of the fast pace) or German (Because of the R sound).

what? polish is nothing like hebrew

North African using most original arabic word and maltes speaks more like Tunisia and east Algeria

​@@AbilliphYes, after rewatching, I have to admit, it sounds a lot closer to German, but tbh I'm not too familiar with the languages of mainland Europe except spanish and russian.

@@Saladid I agree, German sounds closer because of the R, but French is also very similar, since there is same R. It's very easy for Jews to get french accent. But I guess Spanish or Italian (exactly the same vowels of Hebrew), with the German R and KH.. would sound closest to Hebrew.

Maltese survive because the local ruler do not banned Arabic, unlike in Spain and Portugal Arabic be banned totally and consider as crime, even cannot speak inside the house, it survive until late 1600s, at the time Arabic was written in Latin script, and most of Arabic speaker are secret Muslim or converted Catholic. just like In Persia/Iran in medieval era, The Mongol ruler banned Arabic, and Persian flourish, that why Mongol and Turkic Muslim become Persianized, Safavid and Mughal for example both are Turkic-Mongol origin. if not Iran will spoke Arabic just like Morocco, Libya and Sudan today, only is Khuzestan/Ahwaz still spoke Arabic as native 1st language, and along gulf coast like Bandar Abbas, Bandar Legeh and Qeshm Island, culture similar to Omani Arab. Arabic also survive in small pocket in deep Iran like Mashhad, Qom and few others. If Spain and Portugal not banned Arabic, today we still have Andalusian Arabic dialect or Arabic evolved into like Maltese with mixed Arabic and Spanish/Castilian or Mozarabic. in Mali, before French Arabic was dominant language, but replace by French, but in North Mali and Niger they still spoke Arabic, especially Arab, Afro-Arab, Tuareg and Hausa, Tuareg are bilingual, spoke native Tuareg and Arabic because they move and go around Morocco, Mauritania, Libya and Algeria freely. And others Arabic in European Union are Maronite Cypriot Arabic almost extinct, Arabic was spoke in Cyprus since medieval times when Arab rule the island, and many Arab Muslim and arab Christian move to Cyprus, living side by side with Greek native, but when Ottoman rule, most of muslim become Turknized, and in East Africa, Zanzibar Arabic almost extnict, because of genocide and mass expulsion of Arab and Afro-Arab, most of them migrated to Oman, and others to Uk. In Turkey, Hatay Province, Adana Province, Ganzianep Province, Urfa Province, Killis Province and Mardin where Arab was spoken, but today down to less than 20%. Harran for example in 1920s almost 90% speak Arabic, today down to 40%. younger generation speak Turkish more, Hatay was part of Syria annexed by Turkey, with blessing of France, In Turkey Levantine Arabic branch called "Cilicia-Antioch Arabic or Çukurova Arabic" will gone soon. Zanzibar, Hatay Turkey, Khuzestan Iran and South Sudan Arabic will be gone soon.

You're right, modern Assyrian and Aramaic are highly influenced by Eastern Arabic dialects, both in vocabulary and pronunciation

Because at the start arabic was very down south arabic peninsula, while assyrian and aramaic was north of middle east close to Turkey, took time for islamic expansion to reach and influence it

@@XTheLolX301thats nothing to do with what they are saying. They are saying the levantine dialect of arabic are more similar than standard arabic

@@XTheLolX301 Ehh.. not true. First discovery of Arabic was in the desert of Syria/Jordan/North Saudi Arabia. So it actually was very close to Aramaic/Assyrian.

Agreed with the hebrew

Of course in your little Saudis brain, you think you are the original, which in fact you are not

Thanks for calling my language ugly 😂

@@FilmetojenEsperanto-zi3kk It is ugly though. Lol

@@Ahmed-pf3lg ehh i guess. Interestingly it was actually pronounced like Arabic in biblical times that’s why we have Ayin and kuf and those letters in our alphabet as well but it got Europeanized by Germans and French so the consonants changed

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You’ve obviously never heard Yiddish then

@@inoovator3756 NO im saying this Because ive heard it.

@@emmanuelwood8702 obviously not well because they have nothing to do with each other

@@inoovator3756 HA!!!!!! Are you a comedian ????

@@emmanuelwood8702 no just someone who has a basic understanding of languages

Nah bro 😂 why do I see you in every semitic languages comparison video?

What is the proof Aramaic and Hebrew scripts were originally Arabic? The fact is that Arabic originally an oral dialect that became a written language around the Acheamenid period. That is why there are many past Arabic scripts plus many Arabs used Aramaic and Hebrew script to write their language

Shut up !

Nah my favourite (other than Arabic cuz I'm biased) is tigrynia

Yeah, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic sounds the nicest of the bunch. Not to sound like a eurocentrist but it's because it sounds the most European, kinda like a mix of Dutch and Welsh. The rest sound painfully Afro-Asiatic, desert tongues. No offense.

@@LisaSpringfield I think Hebrew sounds the most European (nicest sounding to my ear), although it is very similar to Aramaic. Sounds like Aramaic has a stronger Kh sound than Hebrew.

@@LisaSpringfielddessert tongue! What kind of nonsense is that? And Aramaic sounds nothing like European languages whatsoever. It sounds Semitic, nothing else.

We Jews are more semitic and middle easterns than you guys, especially Mizrahi Jews. We are in the middle east since ever and never left.

@@Jewish_Israeli_Zionist I was referring to the fake AshkeNAZI Jews with their fake Hebrew

@@Jewish_Israeli_Zionist True for the mizrahi however the language you speak is modern and kind of made up. Instead of teaching the european jews how to speak hebrew, you lost the ability to spell most of the semetic consonants. You even can't spell the name of your language correctly because of the 3ein letter.

@@Jewish_Israeli_Zionist lol no way part of you did but other Semitic ppl never left Arabs Syriac Assyrians and Chaldenians. That's why you had Yaddish and had to revive a dead language again unlike other Semites who continued to speak their languages in the region.