Writing systems of Asia

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History of the writing systems of Asia, Cuneiform, Indus script, Linear Elamite, Chinese characters, Aramaic, Greek, Brahmic, Pahlavi, Syriac, Arabic, Sogdian, Hanja, Armenian, Georgian scripts, Kanji, Kana, Sawndip, Devanagari, Tibetan, Old Turkic, Old Uyghur, Bengali-Assamese, Khmer, Thai, Laotian, Burmese, Chu Nom, Mongol, 'Phags-Pa, Manchu, Oirat, Hangul, Latin, Cyrillic
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@llamallama1509 3 года назад

So there was a brief historical period around 50BC when people writing in Greek and Chinese met? Kinda awesome.

@paulmayson3129 3 года назад

They even had a Greek-Chinese War!

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

It is known from the chinese sources, the war of the heavenly horses between Han and Dayuan (Greeks)

@covertfeelings8330 3 года назад

@@CostasMelas wait, does dayuan mean foreigners?

@therandomizer9943 3 года назад

@@covertfeelings8330 Dayuan in English is Greeks. That's what the Chinese people called them back then

@christopherhardy8808 3 года назад

Yes, Kings and Generals has a video on it

@sunolili862 3 года назад

the fact that cuneiform still existed 2000 years ago and not just like in bronze age, makes me feel things

@justacrow9847 3 года назад

Just don't get very excited. You might have an accident.

@GreenArt4 3 года назад

The last Egyptian hieroglyphs were even more recent, in 394AD!

@kademcarthur5362 2 года назад

Cuneiform looks almost alien.

@fountainpen4945 3 года назад

Central Asia seems to have experienced a bit of everything, truly fascinating !

@juandiegovalverde1982 2 года назад

That’s because it is in the center of Asia.

@puljz8551 2 года назад

@@juandiegovalverde1982 yeah

@awellculturedmanofanime1246 9 месяцев назад

more like the center of eurasia though @@juandiegovalverde1982

@asyndeton 3 года назад

Great video as always! The ways of writing in Europe are widely known but this diversity in Asia is just awesome to see like this on a map!

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Thank you

@denizmetint.462 3 года назад

And not only through war.

@Syllaeus 3 года назад

@@CostasMelas Why didn’t you show Greece using the Phoenician writing system?

@sathiskumar911 3 года назад

@@CostasMelas Bhrami scripts are derived from Indus scripts You have done a mistake recent archeology findings in tamilnadu keladi has proved Bhrami is from South India dates back to 600 bC. From potteries

@arta.xshaca 3 года назад

@Sathiskumar Yes and No. Cuneiform (the grandfather of all writing scripts) had symbols for each word. So it had a huge vocabulary. But Aramaic was made from it and it was easy as it had each symbol for a letter. It spread through Alexander's Empire and Greek(another grandson of Cuneiform) emerged and also became widespread. Aramaic was spread to the Indus Valley,where it was converted into Brahmi. And Greek took over Aramaic(though it still existed for a time).But earlier Cuneiform was transformed by Elamites to Linear Elamite script. Then with trade across land,Elamites shared it with their linguistic brothers Harappans who made it into Indus script. Indus script was also used among the Dr and IAs for a time and influenced Aramaic also which came in the same place,thus Brahmi was created. An amalgam of mostly Aramaic and also a great deal of Indus script.

@MartinMizner 3 года назад

People learning European languages: *slightly different words* People learning Asian languages: *completely different alphabets* (yes, writing systems)

@EnderSpino 3 года назад

They're more like writing systems than alphabets

@juandiegovalverde1982 2 года назад

The Chinese characters (hanzi, kanji) are not an alphabet. Each one of them represents an idea, not a sound. The kanas of the Japanese (hiragana, katakana) are syllabaries. Each one of them represents a syllable.

@juandiegovalverde1982 2 года назад

@Nephalim Power how do you know?

@puljz8551 2 года назад

@Nephalim Power wtf

@puljz8551 2 года назад

@UCKGX8NG0RIJE6Li5RW9015w It was the Romans you idiot

@olbiomoiros 3 года назад

Seeing Greek and Chinese overlap is so weird yet fascinating!!

@DarkenMapper03 3 года назад

It's crazy to see that the Ancient Greek alphabet and Chinese characters once overlapped

@iamseamonkey6688 3 года назад

this must have been hell to make it's so hard to keep track of. honestly massive respect for being able to do this. this must have been one of your most difficult projects. congratulations

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Thank you. Indeed, it was one of the most difficult I have made

@facileengineering1668 2 года назад

@@CostasMelas The Background Music was so moving especially when almost most of Asia was becoming Dark Green and India was still Orange 👍. Proud of the great sacrifices of our Ancestors to help us retain our cultural and linguistic identity.

@helterhhh 3 года назад

Sanskrit inscription have been found in southern Vietnam (then the Funan Empire) dating from the 1st century CE.

@piesause1376 3 года назад

True I'm Cambodian I learned it in school. But maybe it's not as widespread. It's only used by monks, religious pilgrims and merchants at the port cities of the Mekong delta. And later by the royalties. But the people didn't know how to write the khmer language out in scripts yet.

@safuwanfauzi5014 3 года назад

@@piesause1376 im from malaysia, this map not totally accurate because southern thai from nakhon si thamarat or in malay we called ligor writien in kawi script used all in malay archipelago, then we switch to jawi or modified arabic with additional own script for our sound, patani region, santun, trang, krabi, phuket writen in jawi spoke malay while in chumpon are mon-khmer before all these people become thai. this not show all southeast asia script like old malay script like rencong, sumatra script like batak, gayo, rejang, kerinci, minangkabau, lampung, sulawesi, jawa, maluku, borneo script like iban script, luntarsug script in east coast of sabah, philippine pre-spainsh scipt like baybayin, tagbanwa, huanoo, buhid, luntarsug in sulu archipelago near sabah and others, except papua island dont have script. today javaese, balinese, sundaese, bugis sulawesi, lampung sumatran, batak sumtran, malay of bengkulu, south sumatran and jambi still used own script but not as offical as regional and heritage script.

@user-no5qd4py5m 2 года назад

Sanskrit was a parasite.. dont have scripit of its own.. Now using nagari script

@knowledgedesk1653 2 года назад

@@user-no5qd4py5m Still influenced more area than Tamil

@nopek1405 2 года назад

@@user-no5qd4py5m lol,we do not need a tamil chauvinist here and there 😂😂

@sunolili862 3 года назад

not to be petty, but i wish you would use a map a bit bigger so we could fully see caucasian mountains and arabian peninsula

@angamaitesangahyando685 3 года назад

This is a nice trade-off. Don't forget that it's quite hard to find a decent map to begin with. And if there is a larger map, it will include Central Asia and Siberia, the useless lands with no civilisation. Asia is China+India+Iran+Indochina. - Adûnâi

@sunolili862 3 года назад

@Armo Moose who on earth thinks Arabian peninsula is not Asia??

@gnjc3480 3 года назад

Siberia isn't showed completely either

@DanksterPaws 3 года назад

@@sunolili862 Geographically sure, but politically and culturally, it is more closely tied to Europe and Africa

@franciscoflamenco 2 года назад

@Nephalim Power How can you not see that? It is pretty clear that the Middle East has much closer ties to North Africa, and to a lesser extent to Europe and the rest of Africa, than it does with the rest of Asia.

@YummYakitori 2 года назад

There is also the Tangut, Jurchen and Khitan scripts which were developed based on Chinese characters

@aayushagarwal4138 3 года назад

Northern and southern bhrahmi have a lot of variations, e.g. tamil,Punjabi,Leia,telugu etc which are unintelligible like say Greek and Latin and cyrillic

@byron-ih2ge 3 года назад

They are like independent of each other

@yuzhouyan7217 3 года назад

Whereas the Chinese characters in China, Korea, and Japan had been totally intelligible to each other up to WW2. I don't know why this video separates them from the outset.

@angamaitesangahyando685 3 года назад

Telugu and Kannada are similar, however, right? And Devanagari is almost the same as Gujarati? Even the Siddham-derived Bengali is somewhat similar to Devanagari. And then you have the Odia, Sinhalese, Tamil and Malayalam scripts... Which are also connected to the likes of Thai/Lao/Khmer and Burmese. I've been drawing a map myself, could you split them in rough groups if you are familiar with them? - Adûnâi

@dwarasamudra8889 3 года назад

@@angamaitesangahyando685 People often forget about how influential the Odias were. People often think that it was only the Tamilians that influenced South East Asia but Odias and Bengalis had a huge influence too. The Odia script looks more similar to the Burmese script to me than any South Indian script.

@infinite5795 2 года назад

@@dwarasamudra8889 Odias influenced Balinese culture as well. That's why, Malaysians and Indonesians still call indians today as Keling ( the older name of Odisha, Kalinga) and we Odias still celebrate Bali jatra.

@mycarima3497 3 года назад

the egypts, and then the middle east, had really created legacy in spreading the writing systems on majority of the world. on the other hand, the chinese also creates their own legacy by creating their unique writing systems themselves and spread it throughout east asia. truly an interesting video and channel. thank you for making this!

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Thank you

@serge2ndsiberian652 3 года назад

Да, Ближний Восток - это кухня, где новые виды письменности пеклись как пирожки, одна за другой! 🍞🍔🍕🍮🍰🍩🎂

@arta.xshaca 3 года назад

Thanks for giving the video I wanted! Great as always!

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Thank you

@udayanbaidya8696 3 года назад

Aah the lost indus valley script

@d.dementedengineerc99isurf26 3 года назад

You'd figure Sumeria/Old Babylon surely knew of the Indus valley script, but it's a mystery to us even now. Strange.

@udayanbaidya8696 3 года назад

@@d.dementedengineerc99isurf26 We need a Rosette stone equivalent really

@karaqakkzl 3 года назад

@@udayanbaidya8696 you mean Rashid stone

@henricoz_9745 3 года назад

@@karaqakkzl Rosette to Latins and Westerners

@elfarlaur 2 года назад

There have been examples of it found as far as Bahrain so there is hope that we will find a Resetta stone type inscription some day.

@felixmiles4909 3 года назад

Mr Costas Melas, once again i lift my hat respectfully. Your animations require a tremendous amount of work and research, whereas other youtubers are making a thoughtless bullsh.t and they have hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Your work is educational and valuable. I salute you.

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Thank you very much. Your comment is support to continue

@rupalitales5444 2 года назад

@@CostasMelas Odia, Bengali is brahmi scripts not Dev nageri

@bluetannery1527 3 года назад

i love this channel so much. i just. you should know how badass this channel is

@limeliciousmapping4652 3 года назад

I love your content! It's always so interesting, I immediately click

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Thank you

@solomonchow6494 3 года назад

I waiting for this for a long time...

@tangushreder9079 3 года назад

Cool video! We are waiting for next about another tipes of writing sistems in Africa or in North and South Americas .

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Thank you

@connormurphy683 3 года назад

Could you please do languages of Mexico + Central America? I would really like to see the history of language shift visualized

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

I would love to make them in the future

@bendahara8284 2 года назад

My country still use Jawi script. But, we didn't use it widely anymore only for religious events related to Islam. We learn it in "sekolah rakyat" (an Islamic school) from age 7-12. *Jawi is a type of Arabic script to write the Malay language.

@aman-hl9re Год назад

Jumpa orang Melayu

@sminsmin3456 2 года назад

There is Hyangchal and Gugyeol, similar to Kana, modified Chinese characters. It was used in most of Korea before the creation of Hangul

@weifan9533 2 года назад

4:28, old Zhuang characters were not called "Sandwip" but "Sawndip", where "Saw" means "characters" and "Ndip" means "crude" (cognate with Proto-Austronesian *Qudip "Raw, Crude"), so the literally meaning would be "crude characters".

@kutaykalender2321 2 года назад

i was going to write this, but you wrote it :D

@figmundsreud8000 2 года назад

Always that one guy that just has to show how smart he is right? Keep it up man, everyone loves a know it all. 🧐🤮 how bout u just appreciate the incredible amount of effort and research he did 😁

@weifan9533 2 года назад

@@figmundsreud8000 I certainly appreciate his effort, but as a responsible viewer I also need to point out his error.

@HistoryofAztlan 3 года назад

Amazing video. I’m glad I came across it. I have a question: when did the Greek script stop being used completely in the area east of modern Iran? On your map it’s still there by 200 AD. What is the latest use of it that you found in your research. I thought that it died out by the time of Kanishka the Great when he declared that the Greek alphabet would not be used anymore in 136 AD.

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Thank you. After Kanishka there were a rapid decline in Bactria, but a minor usage was kept for a while. Moreover some around peoples such as Indo-Scythians kept the usage of the Greek for a small period later

@David240500 3 года назад

What sources do you use to make these videos? They’re very good, is there a place we can donate?

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Thank you. I have used numerous sources that I will organise them and I add them in the description part. I haven't make a place about donate yet. Maybe in the future, when I will have made more integral job

@joacoolcipher 3 года назад

Can you make history of Sino-Tibetan languages?

@menear 3 года назад

great video! but why is west asia (aka middle east) not included? is west asia, not asia??? i always hate it when maps show "asia" but it is only eastern asia

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

I have made a separate video about the Middle East

@12.haikalfk80 3 года назад

ᮃᮊ᮪ᮞᮛ ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ ᮊᮤᮝᮛᮤ Modern Sundanese Script, the derivative from Old Sundanese and Pallawa (Brahmic) Script that used in Priangan/Pasundan Area, Indonesia

@andreyserebryakov2231 3 года назад

Good one! It was very interesting

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Thank you

@user-tv4ih2kq6r 3 года назад

But as I recall these major writing systems are just groups, right? Cuz as I research before like Brahmic, as it approaches other native groups its structure rapidly changes to the point theyre mutually unintelligible to each other. Such as Indochina, malayan archipelago, and Indian subcontinent, even parts of China and central Asia. Like as well, Kulitan of Philippines, a Brahmic derived scripts that has been sinicized due to Hokkein (Chinese) immigrants. Nice video tho.

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Thank you. Beautiful nickname with letters from different alphabets, Latin, Cyrillic, Greek :)

@JcDizon 3 года назад

I think Kulitan adopting the vertical style of writing like Chinese might be a recent phenomenon, like a few decades and only a small minority practiced it. I am partially from the Kapampangan ethnic group and I only learned about the existence of the Kulitan a few years ago through RU-vid videos. I asked an uncle about it and he was so surprised that it exists. Though I admit, I grew up in Canada and barely know much about Kapampangan culture but I've been researching ancient Filipino scripts for over 15 years and Kulitan only popped up in the internet a few years ago. I was thinking that it wasn't much different from the Tagalog Baybayin and it's just the Kapampangan variant of Baybayin.

@user-tv4ih2kq6r 3 года назад

@@JcDizon actually among Philippine writing system, kulitan is entirely different from the rest. Some considered other writing systems as just different penmanship and few changes to suit the langauge, but Kulitan, itself works differently from others to make it exclusively different.

@oscaraleksanderhalvorsen921 3 года назад

What program do you use to animate?

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

paintnet and blender

@kevaran1422 2 года назад

The Philippines is trying to revive its Southern Brahmic Scripts namely Baybayin, Badlit, Kulitan, Hanunuo, Kurdita, Basahan, Buhid, Tagbanwa Scripts.

@dildarinsan7246 3 года назад

Fantastic video 👍💯.....So many cultural diversity in our continent Salam from Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩 ভালোবাসা অবিরাম ❤️👍

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Thank you :)

@sunolili862 3 года назад

also i cant quite see what script is used in indonesian besides latin. what is the second colour?

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Green and brown about the places that the Arabic (Jawi) is used and the places that the various Brahmic is used

@sunolili862 3 года назад

@@CostasMelas thanx!

@golonawailus4312 Год назад

there were actually Khitan script (large version and small version), Tangut script, Jurchen script varied from Chinese characters, but all disappeared later

@SxVaNm345 3 года назад

Asia has gotta have the most diverse native and historic writing systems in the world, this should be enlightening

@thanasisvoutsas461 3 года назад

Bigger area more writing systems

@mechanikalbull5626 3 года назад

@@thanasisvoutsas461 false. Africa is huge but only certain few writing system emerged, even icluding arabic, it is fewer than asia. Same on combined north and south america, what is their ancient writing system? I can’t recall one

@anirudh177 2 года назад

@@mechanikalbull5626 I think we only the Mayan and Aztec scripts.

@shivpatel733 2 года назад

Yes but most of this diversity is being lost with the adoption of Latin script

@anirudh177 2 года назад

@@shivpatel733 Wait, which Asians adopted Latin script.

@kevaran1422 2 года назад

i wonder what causes the decline of indus script. usually its because other scripts overrun it but here it just died off.

@randomuser522 2 года назад

There have been a number of scripts that you have missed/missed their mapping that were in the Arabian peninsula

@atruv2089 3 года назад

What's that Sandwip script under Variations of Chinese Characters? I've not been able to find anything about it

@xXxSkyViperxXx 3 года назад

its an old chinese-descended script used by the Zhuang peoples and neighbors in southwestern china, who are ethnically related to the Thai, Lao, and other Tai-Kadai languages. They're near the border with Vietnam.

@angamaitesangahyando685 3 года назад

Yunnan and Guangxi are absolutely crazy. But Wikipedia says that...> In 1957 Standard Zhuang using a mixed Latin-Cyrillic script was introduced, and in 1982 this was changed to Latin script; these are referred to as the old Zhuang and new Zhuang, respectively. Bouyei is written in Latin script. - Adûnâi

@ht92ccgo 3 года назад

I've searched for "Sandwip" and only got an island's name. But there is a writing system calls "Sawndip". Not sure if it spells right or wrong...

@Gugeoji._. 3 года назад

It’s called “Sawndip” not “Sandwip” or 「方塊壯字」in Chinese（literary translate: Square shaped Zhuang character)

@bbenjoe Год назад

Kazakhstan is switching to the latin alphabet, and Mongolia is also starting to bring back it's traditional writing system to a certain level.

@ngaefweh5712 3 года назад

I always wondering how was the transition of Persian language from using Pahlavi script to Perso-Arabic script, it is very interesting to me. Sorry for my poor English 🙏🙏

@kxnyshk 2 года назад

It happened after the decline of Zoroastrianism from Persia, Zoroasters' most works were written down in Pahlavi, but after the Arabic invasion by Rashiddun and Umayyid Caliphs resp. Zoroastrians were highly executed, much of whom fled and took refugee in what is modern day Western coast of India, where their art and cultured later flourished however Pahlavi script couldn't make it. And back there in Persia, a new script called Parso-Arabic emerged which is in continuation till now. Interestingly this Parso-Arabic script also gave birth to Nastaliq script, which is used to write some Indian languages like Urdu (in Ind/Pak), Punjabi (Pak), Kashmiri (Ind/Pak).

@nothingexists5066 2 года назад

Why you use Arabic scripts use brahmi script Indus script 3500bce > brahmi script

@heirofptah 3 года назад

Does anyone know what 'Sandwip' means? I don't seem to find much info by just googling it

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Sorry, it is sanwdip. I made a small anagramming. It is the script of the Zhuang people

@heirofptah 3 года назад

@@CostasMelas Thank you! I was intrigued by it, because Google would only show me a small island in Bangladesh

@salmanahmadabbasi6791 3 года назад

Great video. I love how you simplify such complex things. A suggestion: no mention of Kharoshthi script, that was widely used in antiquity in Bactria and Indus before Brahmi scripts.

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Thank you. It is considered a type of Brahmi script

@iSyriux Год назад

@@CostasMelas No it's not

@mj9665 3 года назад

Good job!

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Thank you

@DanksterPaws 3 года назад

So since the Brahmic langauges extended as far as the Philippine Islands (There it was called Baybayin which you didnt differentiate from the other Kawi scripts). That would mean that the Phoenician script, is the ancestor of almost all scripts. From Latin To Greek To Brahmic.

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Yes, except from the Chinese group and Hangul

@dayangmarikit6860 2 года назад

We also used Kawi in the Philippines before Baybayin developed.

@dayangmarikit6860 2 года назад

@@CostasMelas - Mayans had their own writing system and also the Rongorongo in Easter Island.

@KH-hw4cu 3 года назад

Great work 👍👍👍

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Thank you

@thanasisvoutsas461 3 года назад

Hey there costas can you explain why Taiwan didn't have any writing system till that late seems weird

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Native Formosan languages that they were spoken exclusively until the early 17th century didn't use any script. Later the chinese migration started and the coming of the Dutch

@thanasisvoutsas461 3 года назад

Costas Melas wow ok thx

@xXxSkyViperxXx 3 года назад

i think the brahmic scripts like Baybayin in the Philippines, didn't reach the native austronesian formosan groups in taiwan, so later, it's mostly the dutch, spanish, chinese, and japanese who later introduced the many writing systems

@aliakbarsafdari4084 3 года назад

>Iran >Arabic script Angry Persian noises Btw, the Tamils were OP

@viriato6525 3 года назад

Both Pahlavi and Persian Arabic script come from Phoenician alphabet . Why it’s such a big deal, I can't understand.

@user-re1mu5xo8r 2 года назад

Arapic destroyed perisan Iraq apase andThe Abbasid Empire of Iraq and the Umayyad Empire of Saudi Arabia😂😂😂

@natt07048 2 года назад

I like how you represented maritime Southeast Asia in the latter parts, Malaysia and Indonesia purple with hints of green, while the Philippines purple with hints of brown. Latin script may have taken over for everyday and official use because of colonial influence, but their older historical scripts weren't exactly wiped out and still have cultural importance. I'm actually glad that more Filipinos are starting to learn about our ancient scripts ☺️

@ianhomerpura8937 2 года назад

They still use the Jawi script in BARMM, especially during elections.

@natt07048 2 года назад

@@ianhomerpura8937 oooo that's nice. Can the majority read them?

@azhariusman9428 2 года назад

actually abugidas in indonesia didn't die until japanese occupation. you can still go to antique shops and buy magazines and novels written in javanese script from 1930s. so it's not 'ancient' with the case of Indonesia. such a cringe word.

@natt07048 2 года назад

@@azhariusman9428 sorry, I was not aware that that's the case for Indonesia. I only assumed based on how it was represented on the video. Thanks for the info! Are most Javanese literate when it comes to the Javanese script? Or Indonesians in general with their native scripts? For Philippines, native scripts are obscure except for very few indigenous groups that still use them such as the Mangyan in Mindoro. There's only been a slow recent resurgence of public knowledge of Baybayin and other scripts. I also didn't remember these being taught when I was in grade school.

@azhariusman9428 2 года назад

@@natt07048 Most of Sumatra have only used jawi extensively; because it's based on arabic script, most Muslims can read them easily. For Javanese script, they teach it in schools in Java. All street signs, govt buildings, etc. are written in both latin and javanese script. But few can actually read them. Same thing with balinese scripts. What I previously wanted to mention is these scripts aren't ancient, they only died less than 100 years ago.

@s.ayenigeldim3687 3 года назад

Great

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Thank you

@Meow-ml5hv 3 года назад

Wow, it seems much more diverse and mixed than in video about Europe

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Diversity in Europe is gradually declining but in Asia it is maintained

@dayangmarikit6860 2 года назад

@yitzhak shekkelsteingoldmanberg - (Diversity is declining because of race mixing?)... that's a paradoxical statement.

@ProletarianNuklearWarrior 2 года назад

I think one correction would be that not all of the north of the indian subcontinent in 600CE-700CE was using devanagari script right then.

@francescocampanile8587 3 года назад

Very good, I love this tipe of map, I would like the time map about writing sistems in America 😄, I hope it

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Thank you

@yuzhouyan7217 3 года назад

Thanks for the cool video! I have a question. Chinese characters in China, Korea, and Japan had been totally intelligible to each other up to WW2. I don't know why this video separates them from the outset.

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Thank you. They are famous distincts members of the group, which however are grouped below their family (chinese)

@jutea9858 3 года назад

@Anastasia Cebulska But the widespread use of Hangul and Katakana hiragana in Japanese is relatively recent, and if you can find some East Asian newspapers from the beginning of the last century, you will find a high proportion of kanji in them.

@ianhomerpura8937 2 года назад

@@jutea9858 up until the 1980s Hanja is seen in newspapers. Nowadays it is still used but only in news broadcasts and legal stuff, if I remember correctly.

@zsqduke 2 года назад

Not true. In Japan Kanji is annotated with Kana. In Korea Hangul was invented way before WWII. In Vietnam they created unique characters. The Chinese characters are the same yes but the systems of writing, which the Chinese characters are a part of, are not.

@Andy-bb2eo Год назад

汉字不是发音文字，在古代朝鲜和越南的两个读书人，可以直接用写字沟通。就像123456789可以在全世界表达意思一样。但汉字是非常难以学习的，现在每个学生的学习十年才能掌握。因为无法通过发音提示你字符的样子。

@darussalam2022 Год назад

There are still two scripts used in southern China: Nuosu and Dongba(Naxi) script used by ethnic minorities which are not included

@PPTScience Год назад

Korea did not continue to use Chinese characters from China, but used improved characters such as Idu, Hyangchal, and Gugyeol that were more optimized for Korean language.

@user-wm6rm4un4s 5 месяцев назад

Absolutely Right ! You may say that again👍

@maxwalker1159 3 года назад

Cool

@papazataklaattiranimam 3 года назад

RIP:Old Turkic,Old Uyghur

@aminr4736 3 года назад

That was soghdi Variations of persian alphabet like pahlavi

@byron-ih2ge 3 года назад

Mirhirkula ?

@super2298 3 года назад

@@aminr4736 nope

@angamaitesangahyando685 3 года назад

To be fair, the Hungarians are using the Turkic runes now (barely above the LARPer level, bu still). - Adûnâi

@oldaccount7660 3 года назад

@@aminr4736 Old Turkic alphabet and sogd alphabet are very different from each other. It's definitely not soghdi or pahlavi

@erikprank4611 3 года назад

I think, there were some claims, that Tamil-Brahmi script was a bit older?

@dwarasamudra8889 3 года назад

Thats done by Tamilian politicians; they like to claim everything as Tamil. They even like to claim that all other South Indian lanaguges are derived from Tamil which is not true at all.

@GrigRP 3 года назад

There's no such thing as a Tamil script. It is just Aramaic derived like all the others.

@knowledgedesk1653 3 года назад

@@GrigRP Ignorant. Some sites about Brahmi scripts are discovered as early as 6th century BCE. While earliest influence of Aramaic in India is 4th century BCE and in only in western Indus valley. It proves it was not from Aramaic.

@blackpearl5834 2 года назад

@@dwarasamudra8889 ok cool mr." indo Aryans " 😁😂...

@nikunjarya9641 3 года назад

Well, Northern Brahmic and Southern Brahmic scripts are much more diverse, though you mentioned the ones outside India like Tibetan, Khmer, Thai but we also have Gurumukhi, Kannada, Tamil, Sinhala, Malayalam, Telugu, Oriya, Gujarati, Dogri etc Independent Brahmic Scripts in India. It's not just Devanagari, which is used only to write Sanskrit, Hindi, Kashmiri, Nepali and Marathi.

@connormurphy683 3 года назад

Plus many others that are no longer widely in use, such as Modi (for Marathi), Goykanadi (in Goa), Sharada (for Kashmiri), Multani, Khudabadi (for Sindhi), Mahajani (for Marwari)

@nikunjarya9641 3 года назад

@@connormurphy683 I actually use Sharda, even today for writing Sanskrit mantras. So technically it's not dead yet😅😅

@connormurphy683 3 года назад

@@nikunjarya9641 That's great that you're keeping it alive

@sumi2973 3 года назад

And Siddhaṃ is still alive in Japanese temples

@truthunbiasedunfiltered1428 3 года назад

@@sumi2973 is ur name in cham abugida?

@ilesalmo7724 8 месяцев назад

This merely gives us which systems are where at what time. It doesn't give use that clear picture on how various writing-systems evolved from their ancestors. It would be good to do it the same way this channel has done with various language-trees. For example, I heard that most modern alphabets used today in Eurasian continent originate either from Egyptian Heiroglyphs or Chinese characters. Egyptian -> proto-Sinaitic -> Phoenician -> Greek -> Etruscan -> Roman -> Modern etc.

@edwintomy6921 3 года назад

Syriac arrives in Kerala, India, in 52 AD :D

@mathematics7676 2 года назад

Unde graeci ex Asia?

@jadonsaruansarom 3 года назад

There is one writing system in northern Thailand called Lanna script.

@emmymoobiez 2 года назад

Incredible, but you forgot Tai Tham, and Cham script.

@brettfafata3017 3 года назад

I wonder why Mongolia never adopted some variety of Chinese characters. Going off of geography alone it seems way more likely than them adopting a script that comes from Arabic.

@erlingqiericyice1977 3 года назад

before Mongol empire, there are several languages group that is adopted by Northern nomaids yet not shown on this map, which I do not know why. The kithan Liao the Jurchen Jin. Mongol is a minority in Liao empire.

@jutea9858 3 года назад

Chinese characters seem to have been used during the Yuan Dynasty.

@38-jishjilson89 2 года назад

The traditional Mongolian script is from Syriac not from Arabic.

@deexero 2 года назад

They did. It was the Liao Dynasty cousins of the Mongol people.

@alexandergalitevstudentfvh8696 Год назад

religion.

@steffenseitter4791 3 года назад

How about following Video Ideas: -Spread of Metal Use (Copper, Bronze, Iron ect.) in Europe -Spread of Currency (Salt, Amber, Silver, Monery ect.) in Europe

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Thank you for the suggestions

@ianhomerpura8937 2 года назад

Mongolia is now in the process of changing its script back to Mongol.

@irinakolcheva5212 2 года назад

European writing systems look more similar than these in Asia. :)

@wayner396 Год назад

Should have showed all of Asia but very interesting video. Now I need to research why the indus system died out

@arta.xshaca Год назад

Siberia is just wasteland and rest of Middle East is shown with Europe and Africa. And the Pacific Islands and Papua are also not that interesting in writing history

@wayner396 Год назад

@@arta.xshaca well when you have half the developments on the map taking place of screen and only see what's in the very corner of what you're trying to show it's a bit obnoxious. Plus the middle east is part of Asia geographically. Either way just my 2-cents

@rasulpourjafar2080 3 года назад

Goodjob 👍

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Thank you

@andrefarfan4372 3 года назад

Great. #Rosalina

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Thank you

@kinishsathish2403 3 года назад

I'm pretty sure that with more discoveries of Tamil-Brahmi in Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu Inscriptions, the origin of Brahmi is further down south I think. Great video though, learned a lot!

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Thank you

@abloodorange5233 3 года назад

Look at how Cyrillic just slowly encroaches from The north on Arabic and then rapidly switches under Stalin

@denizmetint.462 3 года назад

They also had a Latin script similar to Turkish for a short period of time, but then Stalin pressed the switch.

@JossLun 3 года назад

@@denizmetint.462 I heard Kazakhstan would come back to this kind of latin script.

@angamaitesangahyando685 3 года назад

Kazakhstan is switching to Latin because they are mighty TURKS, and the Mongolians are going back to their native top-to-bottom writing, both starting in 2020. - Adûnâi

@denizmetint.462 3 года назад

@@angamaitesangahyando685 I never understood why the Mongolians switched to Cyrillic in the first place, since they weren't part of the Soviet Union.

@cariopuppetmaster 3 года назад

@@denizmetint.462 alot of Russian influence

@mr.mcpicklesthegreat9382 2 года назад

Good vid but could have had the rest of Asia in the map, Middle East cut in half and Russia’s just gone

@joacoolcipher 3 года назад

Why did the Indus Script die out? Edit: I didn't mean to start a history debate in the replies

@xyrocknirmou8699 3 года назад

Because of the fall of Indus Valley civilizations in 1500 BC

@khorps4756 3 года назад

because of tall blonde blue eyed german-speaking Aryans from the North

@xyrocknirmou8699 3 года назад

@@khorps4756 you mean Indo-Aryans ?

@khorps4756 3 года назад

@league legends *** they were big beautiful Hyperboreans with volkswagens

@dwarasamudra8889 3 года назад

@@xyrocknirmou8699 its like the Greeks. We Indians forgot how to write for a while and then when we remembered, our scripts became the most used scripts in Asia.

@user-zz8ll5ry7r 3 года назад

Φανταστική δουλειά για μια ακόμα φορά! Ποιες πηγές είχες;

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Ευχαριστώ πολύ. Έχω χρησιμοποιήσει ένα μεγάλο πλήθος πηγών, που θα πρέπει να το οργανώσω και να το ανεβάσω κάποια στιγμή.

@user-zz8ll5ry7r 3 года назад

@@CostasMelas Παρακαλώ. Σε ένα edit στις περιγραφές των βίντεο, ίσως να βοηθούσε.

@ziyadpepe6291 3 года назад

So... the Arabian peninsula is in Africa?.

@ikengaspirit3063 11 месяцев назад

Wish there was a more detailed version of the India part of the map. At least, at end of centuries.

@christopherellis2663 3 года назад

Half the map is missing. Cuneiform gave rise to the South Arabian and Ethiopian scripts, hence the Abjads that spread east, even unto the Philippines

@zaraiwzara 2 года назад

No, the phoenecian abjad based on the canaanite script was the basis for all of the abjads in the semitic languages, hebrew aramaic script-> arabic script

@peterthesneakybastar 2 года назад

Wow who would’ve thought the first crossover with Chinese was a European dialect! (Greek) 3:14

@iamseamonkey6688 3 года назад

since you've been focusing alot of religions recently, how about giving judaism a shot? i think it'd be interesting to see where it went after in between nero's destruction of jeruselum and the establishment of israel.

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

I would like to make it in the future

@raralemueneri3903 3 года назад

So Nice 💘💘💘💘💘💘

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

Thank you

@nursyafizah5981 3 года назад

Where are all those maritime southeast asia script?? , rencong, rejang, baybayin, javanese etc

@CostasMelas 3 года назад

There are so many, so they are grouped as Southern Brahmic.

@nursyafizah5981 3 года назад

@@CostasMelas i know. But i guess you cannot fit them well into a single video

@rebeccablackvirus975 3 года назад

@@nursyafizah5981 they got erased by latin script now so it doesnt matter.

@dayangmarikit6860 2 года назад

@@rebeccablackvirus975 - A lot of them are still being used alongside the Latin script.

@albar-maulana 3 года назад

Malaysia doesnt have native script that related with brahmic script... They only use jawi (based on arabic)

@wijaya4565 3 года назад

Wrong. Look up kedukan bukit inscription. I know its in sumatra, but thats how malay was written before jawi script

@amlans5314 3 года назад

@@wijaya4565 also i read there are inscriptions in malaysia from kedah bujang valley in a script which is related to pallavi. It doesnt have a standard name, but some call it post-pallava script. But it does show malaysia use brahmic scripts before jawi.

@slyninja4444 3 года назад

6:28 So unsatisfying for manchuria not to fill up that whole area.

@cheesedog9295 3 года назад

you need correction philippines sign the nathional script bayvayin of the philippines please change it thank you

@xXxSkyViperxXx 3 года назад

the legend of script names on the side is hyper reduced. theres so many other scripts too that were distinct but had to be generalized under just the one color

@blablablable3093 3 года назад

Maybe you Forget About Aksara Kawi that Exist Since 8-16th Century in Java Indonesia.its Also Take Influence of South Brahmi (Palava)

@JcDizon 3 года назад

Kinda surprised about India. I thought that they were already literate with the Brahmic scripts when their Vedic civilization started appearing.

@arta.xshaca 3 года назад

Well,the Vedic civilization is (Harappan +Indo Aryan). So the Harappans already lost their script. And that the Vedas were preserved orally. Then Brahmi came from Aramaic and people wrote it down.

@deepblue3682 3 года назад

@@arta.xshaca about brahmi, it's still under question weather its influenced by aramic or its an independent Indian script like indus valley script.!!..

@GrigRP 3 года назад

@बोधिधर्म No it's not. It's Aramaic derived.

@GrigRP 3 года назад

@@deepblue3682 It's only under question to pajjeets like you.

@rtam7097 3 года назад

@@GrigRP where r u from bro?

@el_vago 3 года назад

ugarit is in asia. ugaritic alphabet appeared around 1400bc. not shown. the famous phoenician alphabet, also in asia... not mentioned at all. it all started with aramaic? seriously?

@wl5835 2 года назад

wheres the gugyeol script?

@sunduncan1151 3 года назад

Chinese characters are the only writing system which is always developped and still used until present day while the other ancient writing systems are already extinct.

@stefan5234 3 года назад

Greek? Latin?

@sunduncan1151 3 года назад

@@stefan5234 Greek and Latin are used since around 800 and 700 BC respectively while Chinese is used since around 1200 BC so I didn’t count Greek and Latin because they are much newer. I meant the earliest writing system like Cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, etc.

@jutea9858 3 года назад

@@stefan5234 I don't know Greek, but Latin is a dead language that is for sure.

@stefan5234 3 года назад

@@jutea9858 you did write this coment in latin alphabet,am i right?

@erua1707 2 года назад

@@jutea9858 We're talking about the writing systems, not about the languages.

@msb8792 Год назад

Great video as usual. Syriac should be labeled as a sub-Aramaic script though, not a standalone one

@CostasMelas Год назад

Thank you

@sepep6288 3 года назад

The levant, Arabia, and Anatolia: Are we north american to you?

@moorgen7759 2 года назад

No arabic in xinjiang ?

@Agent-ie3uv 2 года назад

❌❌

@justrandomthings709 3 года назад

ᜀᜃᜓ ᜀᜌ᜔ ᜉᜒᜎᜒᜉᜒᜈᜓ Baybayin- Southern Brahmic Branch, Philippines

@hypnoskales7069 3 года назад

すみません、日本語が話せません。😔

@Agent-ie3uv 2 года назад

@@hypnoskales7069 cringe gtph0

@Agent-ie3uv 2 года назад

phiignoys are crying because you have no ancient history and unique writing system

@Agent-ie3uv 2 года назад

phiignoys are crying because you have no ancient history and unique writing system

@BloodyAristocrat. 3 года назад

USING of Latin Alphabet Turkey - Azerbaijan - Turkmenistan - Uzbekistan + (Kazakhstan) - Indonesia - Malaysia - Vietnam - The Philippines PARTIALLY = India + Pakistan + Bangladesh + Singapore + Hong Kong

@user-kd8pr4zr4i 3 года назад

Pakistan use arabic Script , Bangladesh use Bengali script and india have 22 official languages and 13 different scripts. Dev nagri scrip is most used in india.

@BloodyAristocrat. 3 года назад

@@user-kd8pr4zr4i native languages of Pakistan are ENGILISH and URDU

@user-kd8pr4zr4i 3 года назад

@@BloodyAristocrat. English is official and Urdu is national language of Pakistan. But native languages of Pakistan are punjabi , Sindhi , Baluchi , pakhtun.

@user-kd8pr4zr4i 3 года назад

@@BloodyAristocrat. urdu is native language of india not pakistan. They Just adopted it otherwise mother tongue of majority of pakistani is not urdu