- published: 27 Sep 2013
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Ancient North Arabian: Safaitic
These are Safaitic Inscriptions from Jordan (with transliteration in Latin and Arabic lett...
published: 27 Sep 2013
Ancient North Arabian: Safaitic
Ancient North Arabian: Safaitic
These are Safaitic Inscriptions from Jordan (with transliteration in Latin and Arabic letters). Safaitic was a variant of Ancient North Arabian with inscriptions found in Southern Syria, Eastern Jordan and Northwestern Saudi Arabia. As you will notice, especially in the first inscription, Ancient North Arabian inscription are often very short. Indeed many of them are just name graffiti. One remarkable feature of Ancient North Arabian as opposed to Classical Arabic is the definite article h- (probably pronounced ha- with doubling of the following consonant, e.g. hab-bayt 'the house', similar to Hebrew, instead of al-baytu as in Classical Arabic). I pronounce the consonants like those in Arabic. The Dad ض in this video differs from the modern Arabic pronunciation. I use a voiced emphatic lateral fricative, that's how Sibawayh describes it for Classical Arabic and that fits well to comparative Semitic phonology. Although I had some trouble with that sound. It's quite tricky.- published: 27 Sep 2013
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Al-Lāt (Arabic: اللات) a piano solo improvisation by David Hart
Al-Lāt (Arabic: اللات) was a pre-Islamic Arabian goddess who was one of the three chief g...
published: 12 Sep 2009
author: hartistry
Al-Lāt (Arabic: اللات) a piano solo improvisation by David Hart
Al-Lāt (Arabic: اللات) a piano solo improvisation by David Hart
Al-Lāt (Arabic: اللات) was a pre-Islamic Arabian goddess who was one of the three chief goddesses of Mecca. She is mentioned in the Qur'an (Sura 53:19) as o...- published: 12 Sep 2009
- views: 486
- author: hartistry
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Out of the Desert
Desert inspirations through time The Exhibition "Out of the Desert" at Darat al Funun echo...
published: 05 Jun 2011
author: Darat Al Funun
Out of the Desert
Out of the Desert
Desert inspirations through time The Exhibition "Out of the Desert" at Darat al Funun echoes with the voices of those who lived in the desert and recorded th...- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 134
- author: Darat Al Funun
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BEYOND SEMITIC - A few short texts in Middle Egyptian
Just a few short texts that i used to practise translation, and to play around with vocali...
published: 27 Sep 2013
BEYOND SEMITIC - A few short texts in Middle Egyptian
BEYOND SEMITIC - A few short texts in Middle Egyptian
Just a few short texts that i used to practise translation, and to play around with vocalisation and pronunciation. The pronunciation differs from my video on the Cannibal Hymn because that one is written in Old Egyptian and not Middle Egyptian. And the vocalisation was done by myself this time.- published: 27 Sep 2013
- views: 34
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ECCE HOMO! - John 19:1-5 in Arabic, Syriac, Ge'ez, Coptic (Sahidic) and Gothic
Again I use the bible as a source for different languages.
This time it is the beginning o...
published: 10 Oct 2013
ECCE HOMO! - John 19:1-5 in Arabic, Syriac, Ge'ez, Coptic (Sahidic) and Gothic
ECCE HOMO! - John 19:1-5 in Arabic, Syriac, Ge'ez, Coptic (Sahidic) and Gothic
Again I use the bible as a source for different languages. This time it is the beginning of the Gospel of John up to Pontius Pilate's famous words "Ecce Homo". I mainly did this because I haven't uploaded anything in Syriac and Coptic so far except for the Lord's Prayer. And I also wanted to read some Gothic again. Different from my other videos on Ge'ez, I used the liturgical pronunciation here. The Coptic in this video on the other hand is different from how I've read it so far because it contains cryptophonemes, i.e. sounds that are not rendered by the script (e.g. the 'Ayn or emphatic consonants) but can be reconstructed through Middle Egyptian etymologies. I think many Coptic linguists would disagree about the existence of those cyrptophonemes in Coptic but I think it sounds good... gives it a harsh Northern African sound, that's why I included them.- published: 10 Oct 2013
- views: 27
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Counting from 1 to 10 in Semitic and a few other Afroasiatic languages
This is something new, because it is the first video I made that also includes living lang...
published: 30 Aug 2013
Counting from 1 to 10 in Semitic and a few other Afroasiatic languages
Counting from 1 to 10 in Semitic and a few other Afroasiatic languages
This is something new, because it is the first video I made that also includes living languages. Besides Semitic I also included a few other Afroasiatic languages (where you will hardly see any similarities). Please forgive me, if my pronunciation of the living languages - especially the Non-Semitic ones - is bad. This is a disadvantage of living languages... there are people who speak them and know how they sound. ;) Tuareg was the hardest for me, because I could not find any audio sources on the numbers so I had to rely on the transcription only. The Semitic numerals are all in the masculine form. I know that many Semitic languages use the feminine forms of 3 - 10 for counting but I wanted to make the numbers morphologically homogenuous. Language Index: Semitic Ugaritic 0:07 Hebrew 0:27 Syriac 0:45 Turoyo 1:02 Classical Arabic 1:17 Maltese 1:35 Sabaic 1:52 Geez 2:12 Tigre 2:32 Amharic 2:49 Mehri 3:07 Akkadian 3:25 Egyptian Middle Egyptian 3:42 Sahidic-Coptic 4:01 Berber Ayer-Tuareg 4:18 Chadic Hausa 4:37 Cushitic Oromo 4:55 Somali 5:12- published: 30 Aug 2013
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The Expansion of Afroasiatic Languages
In this video I present three different scenarios for the expansion of Afroasiatic languag...
published: 30 Aug 2013
The Expansion of Afroasiatic Languages
The Expansion of Afroasiatic Languages
In this video I present three different scenarios for the expansion of Afroasiatic languages based on different classification proposals. It is very hypothetical so nothing in this video should be understood as absolutely right or wrong... it's just a product of educated guesses. I hope you also enjoy the Age of Empires soundtrack.- published: 30 Aug 2013
- views: 15
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How to Pronounce Elephantine
Learn how to say Elephantine correctly with EmmaSaying's "how do you pronounce" free tutor...
published: 08 May 2013
author: Emma Saying
How to Pronounce Elephantine
How to Pronounce Elephantine
Learn how to say Elephantine correctly with EmmaSaying's "how do you pronounce" free tutorials. Definition of elephantine (oxford dictionary): adjective of, ...- published: 08 May 2013
- author: Emma Saying
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Copy of 4.A little closer south mix 2 (A little closer)
I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor)...
published: 13 Oct 2013
Copy of 4.A little closer south mix 2 (A little closer)
Copy of 4.A little closer south mix 2 (A little closer)
I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor)- published: 13 Oct 2013
- views: 0
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How to Pronounce Saeptum
Learn how to say Saeptum correctly with EmmaSaying's "how do you pronounce" free tutorials...
published: 29 Nov 2012
author: Emma Saying
How to Pronounce Saeptum
How to Pronounce Saeptum
Learn how to say Saeptum correctly with EmmaSaying's "how do you pronounce" free tutorials. http://www.emmasaying.com.- published: 29 Nov 2012
- views: 5
- author: Emma Saying
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How to Pronounce Saenorhabditis
Learn how to say Saenorhabditis correctly with EmmaSaying's "how do you pronounce" free tu...
published: 29 Nov 2012
How to Pronounce Saenorhabditis
How to Pronounce Saenorhabditis
Learn how to say Saenorhabditis correctly with EmmaSaying's "how do you pronounce" free tutorials. http://www.emmasaying.com- published: 29 Nov 2012
- views: 1
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Arab people - Wiki Article
Arab people, also known as Arabs, are a panethnicity primarily living in the Arab world, w...
published: 20 May 2013
author: wikispeak10
Arab people - Wiki Article
Arab people - Wiki Article
Arab people, also known as Arabs, are a panethnicity primarily living in the Arab world, which is located in Western Asia and North Africa. They are identifi...- published: 20 May 2013
- views: 25
- author: wikispeak10