Similarities Between Amharic and Assyrian Aramaic
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Published 2019-09-05
Also don't forget to check out a video showcasing similarities between Hindi And Amharic that one of our subscribers put together: • Similarities Between Hindi And Amhari...
In today’s episode, we’ll be comparing some of the similarities between two Semitic languages, Amharic and Aramaic, with Betty (Amharic speaker) and Berta (Assyrian Neo-Aramaic speaker) challenging each other with a list of words and sentences.
Do you speak a Semitic language? If so, how much of the vocabulary were you able to understand?
Semitic languages that are most widely spoken today are Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya, Hebrew, Tigre, Aramaic, and Maltese. There are other Semitic languages with a smaller number of native speakers.
Amharic is the official working language of Ethiopia, an Afroasiatic language and one of the Ethiopian Semitic languages. It is spoken as a first language by the Amharas and as a lingua franca by most people in Ethiopia.
Neo-Aramaic consists of several languages which are varieties of Aramaic. Among these, the Northeastern Neo-Aramaic and Central Neo-Aramaic dialects are spoken primarily, but not exclusively, by ethnic Assyrians, who are native to Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Turkey. Assyrians are among the Christian minorities in the Middle East, being members of the Assyrian Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church (Eastern Rite Catholics), Syriac Orthodox Church, Ancient Church of the East, Assyrian Pentecostal Church and Assyrian Evangelical Church.
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Wow I'm Arab and I understood all words with no effort it's amazing how intelligible semetic languages are ❤🕊
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I love Amharic am from Yemen and habsha we are one i appreciate you
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I'm a Hebrew Speaker and I love when they do these, because I can always understand most of it! Love you guys!! Please Amharic and Hebrew please??
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Interesting, I am glad that we have a lot of similarities. I know some Assryns Orthodox. I love the Assyrians. may God protect our humble brothers and sisters in Christ. 🙏🏾🇪🇹
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Being an Indian I could identify a few words because of the Arabic adaptations in Hindi and it makes me so happy that our Earth is a small circle.
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I am Orginally from Ethiopia Love the similarities God bless you all
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God bless Assyria and Ethiopia. We were very close in ancient times. We were both the first people to become Christian. Some of Jesus disciples were actually Ethiopian and wrote part of the New Testament but they did it in Aramaic.
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Thank you so much for this amazing video I'm from Ethiopia 🇪🇹
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Interesting. Much love 💕 from Ethiopia 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹
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The Guy in thé middle is cool and doing brilliant job.
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Almost got all of them even though i don't speak any Semitic languages, and also i loved the energy of the Ethiopian lady.
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Greets from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 I got most of the words 🤗 how lovely
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I'm from Ethiopia love Assyrian even more ,great people. Great video
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I just LOVE the idea of this channel😍
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Very cool video! As a Syriac Orthodox faithful of Indian decent, I really enjoyed watching this.
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Very interesting! Am an Ethiopian- Amharic speaker
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I'm Portuguese and My girlfriend is Habesha (Eritrean and Ethiopian people). We've been together for 2 years and planning to merge Our families soon.. Love the Habesha culture and people. They're so pleasant and non-judgemental! Both the men and the women! Recommendation: Portuguese language vs Tigrinya language
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Loved it😍😍😍
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I am from Ethiopia and my mother tongue is Amharic. It is so amazing these two languages are very similar. Also I would love to learn Aramaic !
