I have a PhD in Near Eastern Languages, including Sumerian, and when this video popped up I watched it with skepticism. But I was very pleasantly surprised. Julie knows her stuff. In a short video she covers the issues of who were the Sumerians, the writing system, and the structure of the language. Very well done!

Skin tone definitely isn't my first thought when I hear "black headed," hair color is. Like, most of you hair is on your head, so if you have Black hair, you're black headed - not saying that's the actual origin, it just seems more intuitive to me than skin tone lol

I hold a degree in Linguistics and Languages and I have never seen as beautifully articulated and eloquently stated review❤❤. Outstanding clip! Please make more!!

Hi Julie - I absolutely love your videos! Although professionally I work as a data scientist, my first love is history. Over the last few years, my primary research interests outside of work have focused on cultures in ancient Mesopotamia and Meso-America. It’s wonderful to gain a better understanding of Sumerian and to hear that language brought to life. Thanks so much for what you do, it’s incredibly valuable. ❤

Imagine a civilization so old, the locals didn't even know about it for thousands of years

Good job Julie. I enjoyed with the video. I want to give you 2 names about Kiengir people aka Sumerian and their mythology which is directly connected to todays's religions and myths. 1- Muazzez İlmiye Çığ(She was a part of researches and translations of Sumerian language as a Sumerolog and archivist.) She never puts a comment and manipulates but gives direct trustful info. 2- Prof. Gönül Tekin (University of California, Turkologist and Turkish Literature Lecturer) When you start to listen her you will get amazed cause she is a walking library. Enjoy!

I have been a student of this region, people's, and archeological sites for decades. Thank you for opening another door into these very ancient times.

Excellent! I found myself drawn to your mention of the Ubaid Culture and went to Wiki to explore; which led me to the life and work of Thorkild Jacobsen "7 June 1904 - 2 May 1993) was a renowned Danish historian specializing in Assyriology and Sumerian literature. He was one of the foremost scholars on the ancient Near East." wiki. I was happy to feel pulled toward and to land on his work "The Harps That Once...: Sumerian Poetry in Translation". Have ordered that book and look forward to receiving soon What a fun learning adventure! Thank you! 🙏🏼

I just found your channel. A good surprise, indeed. I love to study languages since I was a kid.The way you contextualize all these ancient languages is amazing. A "cultural and sociological background " makes the study much more empiric and intense. Thanks for sharing this knowledge with us. From now on I will start to watch the earlier videos. Best regards from Brazil.

I've watched many of your language videos! You are amazing in how you are able to be so knowledgeable about so many languages! It's a joy to watch and learn from you! All best in your future language endeavors!

This is surely one of the most thorough discussions of Sumerian for the layperson/amateur linguist. It was easy for me to pause and go over the representations. Thank you.

I watched this not knowing what to expect. I thoroughly enjoyed this presentation and your expertise. Your Bengal at the end was why I subscribed. I had a Bengal years ago that I raised from a kitten. His name was Genghis Khat (Genghis for short). He was 20% Asian spotted leopard and he was my best friend. I have never shared my life with a more intelligent, graceful, athletic or amazing animal in my life. He had a penchant for language, too, and I had to be careful what I said around him (for instance, he focused on the 'k' sound in the word 'milk', but he would also hear the word 'fuck' as 'milk', which made for some confusing and memorable moments). He lived to be 18 years old and remains as one of the finest souls I have ever known.

Absolutely love this video and this channel!!! Thanks for the fascinating and important work that you are doing via this platform 😊- cheers!

I would love to see you do more on Sumerian. Wonderfully done! Thank you!

Thank you for this and your other similar videos. I love learning about our history, language, religions, structures and more. We have lost so much through the years. What would our collective memory look like had we not erased or lost so much over the millenium. Thank you for studying these most important details and bringing them back to life. I love your love for history. 😊

I have been a longtime student of Near Eastern history and culture, and I was quite blown away by the fact that you were able to pack so much factual information in such a short video. Often, videos by KZfaq creators leave me disappointed and sometimes angry at their miscomprehension and sometimes misrepresentation of history. You did none of that! I am impressed, and you have a new subscriber!

Thank you so much for this introduction to Sumerian. I am a huge fan of the Gilgamesh Epic and have long been interested in this fascinating people from which many of our cultures may have sprung and, in many cases, absolutely DID.

It's great to see that Juli has discovered the Iron Law of KZfaq, which is known to apply throughout the galaxy. This law is even more powerful than the "You Will Recieve a Copyright Strike for any Conceivable Reason" law. It states: "any video, from any creator, on any topic, at any time is automatically improved with the addition of a cat." The effect is further enhanced if said cat is beautiful, as in this case. Kitty should be a guest star imo.

Thank you a lot for this amazing video! I know it is been a long time since you posted this video, but here I am appreciating it. I was looking for good content at Google Chrome about the Sumerian civilization and then I searched up about it in KZfaq, too. Gladly I found your channel and your amazing video. I'm amazed, really!

Hi Juli! It's the first time I've watched one of your videos, and first of all, I feel compelled to say that you are undeniably beautiful. 🙂 Secondly, as a non-native English speaker and a native Spanish speaker from Argentina (although I prefer using neutral Spanish), I wanted to express my gratitude for your accent. Thanks to your accent, I was able to understand almost 97% of what you said without needing to pause the video or look up the meanings of words to understand what you're saying... It's truly impressive! I loved that because I usually don't understand English-speaking KZfaqrs well, but with you, I had no problem at all. Maybe for you, understanding English is not surprising, but for me, being able to comprehend without relying on translators is a great achievement... Usually, when I watch videos in English, I struggle to understand or follow the conversation. Thank you once again for making it so accessible and enjoyable! I wish you all the best and continued success with your channel.

I've only just discovered your channel and I'm thrilled because you focus on lesser-known or "smaller" languages. As far as your language skills are concerned, you are the complete opposite of me. I've been trying to learn English with varying degrees of intensity for 45 years and I still can't do it properly.

We need a part 2 on the sumerian language! I was craving for more examples and the sounds from full phrases!

This was really a masterful presentation, and while I am an amateur in the relevant fields,, is plain that Julie does her homework. I can't blame her for not knowing what nobody knows, and I'm left with a hunger to get involved in archaeology in that area. Solving the question of where the Sumerians came from would be a magnificent accomplishment, and finding earlier clues about their language would be just as much of an accomplishment.

Absolutely fascinating. I am a simple lay person with a fascination for languages. I really speak nothing but American English, but your presentation and understanding of such an ancient language held me transfixed throughout your entire production. I could sit and listen to you for hours every day.

As I read the comments, I can see I am not the target here. I am not particularly bright so am not an academic. I watch these types of videos knowing that many of the finer points are going to be over my head and will probably remain so. I watch these types of videos because I am fascinated by language in general and in other cultures. These videos give me a "big picture" understanding that I am not sure I can put into words, but yet somehow meaningful to me. I said all that just to say thank you.

I am Assyrian and we speak Aramaic but some of us still know how to read, write and speak Sumerian. Our flag has the Star of Shamash on it, its Sumerian deity exactly as shown on 1:00 in the middle of the tablet, but we use white, blue and red colors because thats what Sumerians painted interior of their palaces.

On top of the dictionaries the Akkadians used to teach their scribes Sumerian, there are a fair number of loan words from Sumerian in the language, which helped with piecing the language together considering we have been replicating it from being only able to use second hand sources. Languages affect each other, and I wouldn't be surprised if a fair number of words from Sumerian show signs of having to be fit into the language's etymology from other ones. I do find it interesting that you bring up the theory that the Sumerians may not have been the first culture to develop writing, merely the first one to leave an extensive written record. Which, actually wouldn't be surprising. There are a number of proto-writing systems that predate them, after all. The Ubaid people, who are considered to be the ones first there, probably got it started, but the Sumerians refined it. Again, nothing that actually contradicts history, the Sumerians are liable to retain the credit simply because writing figured so heavily among them.

There are some theories, that the Sumarian language has connection with the Hungarian language. I wouldn’t like to go into the details of pros and cons of the argument, but two interesting things I would like to mention: The names of many Sumarian towns has meaning in Hungarian and even there are some towns or villages or places in Hungary today with the same (or very similar) names. The Sumarians only we call Sumarians, but they called themself Maghars. And the Hungarian call themself Magyars.

Very insightful, Juli! And Basque again, of course 😅 Thank you, can't wait for the next one! _(a very stylish floor lamp)_

I have been interested in Sumerian for many years. I appreciate your contribution to my knowledge on the subject.

I learned Sanskrit for several years and now, I am taking on the challenge teaching myself Sumerian. Keep up the good work. You are doing a wonderful job!

Thanks Julie. This is very well done and fascinating.

Actually going from a sound to a sound is really common especially through an intermediary and has happened in Swedish, French, and countless other languages.

I recently read a hypothesis that only largely monosyllabic languages could get the idea of writing off the ground because the rebus principle is easier for such languages, and that principle is essential to get enough "difficult" words depicted to get started with sufficiently full speech transcription

I finally became a patron. Wanted to do it since long...really not much at all, the minimun basically since I am not working. But needed to support your exceptionally enlightening and interesting dedication to such a subject so connected subtly to Human evolution, Anthropology, psychology and things like that. Plus, I just love how evidently cultured and sophisticated you are, aside from being exceptionally attractive or beautiful also, and that with all my owed respect.

July, I am no linguist so I am totally unqualified to comment this but was totally fascinated, your capacity for synthesis is great and I love the fact you dress differentyl for each video according to the language you are introducing, so creative I love interactive history! Now I am asking you a question i which may be very dumb or not but I won't know until I have done sufficient research on it. I am studying the Tarim mummies and those nomadic confederations in the territory of today Xinjang, that’s just above Tibet. I was watching this video as I wondered if they could provide a missing link between such wide distances, I also thought the same, how curious are some words similarties (Sky, Tien) it could not be a coincidence. The “Caucasian” looking mummies, whose oldest samples were ANE, did travel southwards in several directions, including Bactria and Mesopotamia. There are several cultural and symbolic features in their mysteric and secret cult-related traditions which find parallel in several eastern (e.g. Hinduism) and middle eastern’s, including the spiral dances, their solar and lunar and celestial worship too. Could there be a link between these peoples? I am not far enough in my research to say but would be curious to know what you think.

Great video as usual ! Nonetheless, I'm surprised to hear you explaining that the diachronic mutation "from k to sh" is very unusual. On the contrary, I love diachronic linguistic and it turn out that evolution from velar to post-alveolar (or retroflex and palatal) consonants is pretty common. This relationship can been seen even in well-known Indo-European languages such as French or Spanish. Thus, the Latin voiceless velar stop consonant ["k"] led to a voiceless post-alveolar fricative ["sh"] in French, even before the back vowel "a" (ex : château < castellum, cheval < cabellus, etc). Symmetrically, Spanish saw what was its voiced post-alveolar fricative ["zh"] to be understood more easily by English speaking people) became a voiceless velar fricative ["ch" as in LoCH Ness], hence the current pronunciation of the spanish letter "j" ("la jota").

I've researched for a very long time the Sumerian and other ancient languages of the Mesopotamian region and can confidently say you did one of the most balanced and informative videos on Sumerians I've ever seen. This video is definitely the best introduction available for those that want to get dive into that topic. I have on big tip: You said that Tamil wasn't seen as similar to Sumerian, but in my experience most linguistic researches on those ancient tongues do not really disclose or try at all discovering the "remnants" of ancient languages in modern ones. I have no idea about Tamil, but am 99% sure that many Sumerian words, or specifically Elamite words, still exist in it till today. Elamites were known to have been ruled at some point by a seafaring dark skinned people that attacked the Sumerian cities. I know from my own researches that Sumerian words and special grammatical features still exist in different Kurdish dialects. Even though the grammar and words are so different, sometimes one can make out full phrases that exist exactly the same in Kurdish. Such as "murani gir" for "He did a heroic deed". Kurdish linguists also created dictionaries proving that at least a thousand words still are used, but aren't famous. So anybody that wants to be a Sumerologist or expert in ancient languages, then my tip is to speak with the local natives and listen to their knowledge.

Thanks for sharing Jule, some text you shared is my ancient lingua franca in Southeast Asia, our ancestor came from ancient middle east thousand years back. Interesting sharing ! keep it up

You are the first youtuber talking about languages to whom I have listened to all the videos. Why do you have such a passion for this topic?

Thanks a lot for this one ! It's always a pleasure to learn new things about something we already (but partially) know.

Hi, I just wanted to say how much I love all your videos, and even my sister, who is not as generally interested in linguistics as I am, also really enjoys your videos too! I was also interested in what you had to say about the origins of the Sumerian language, in that it seemed so different to its neighbours. The Persian/Arabian Gulf was below sea level until only a few thousand years before the arrival of the Ubaid culture and then Sumeria. Because, at that time, much of the Sahara and Middle East would have been somewhat cooler, the Gulf region would have also been very fertile and may have supported a large population - when this region flooded, a lot of its inhabitants would have fled north into what became Mesopotamia.

I am Assyrian from (Iraq- Mesopotamia) I am very proud of coming from this part of the world that rich of history of first writing, school, libraries, wheels, frist people who divided the time, the year, very good in math, astronomy and agriculture and so on. We have a statement that say: " the first letter start here" its mean in Iraq- Mesopotamia. I hope my country's history appears and been knowing by every human being. Thank you for this short video beautiful lady, thanks for your time of reading and researching. ❤❤

Well, thank you you tube for throwing this before my eyes !! What an enjoyable video. Great presentation and very interesting content. Subscribed, and thanks :)

Great insight. I was hoping the episode was longer. Any how thank you for this video my birthplace is 19 Miles East of Uruk and History ! is in my blood. going to check out the other episode's keep up the good work !!

Love it. Languages are my obsession. Currently studying an Arawakan language called Garifuna. Keep it going.

I'm very glad that I've found your channel just now and will have a look at all these various bunch of almost unknown languages. Congratulations, and affectionate regards to your cat;-))

1977 - KÁLMÁN GOSZTONYI, professor at the St. Michael’s College in Paris, with the financial support of the French government, published his book: Összehasonlító szumir nyelvtan, (Comparative Sumerian Grammar) and stated that from 53 Sumerian grammatical characteristics, 51 are identical to the Hungarian, for example: a) The adjective is singular, the noun is plural e.g. jó emberek b) The interrogative pronouns and numerals can have a possessive suffix. E.g. Mi-d van? Az én tíz-em. c) Nouns may be in singular or plural. E.g. kéz, kezek. Juh, juhok. d) The same word can indicate both genders. E.g. ember, gyermek, testvér e) An independent verb can create a sentence by itself. E.g. Fáj. Besides the grammar, he presented, from the collection of cuneiform signs of Labat, Árpád Orbán’s new methods of dating and, with this, he examined 93 Sumerian words. 1980 - BÉLA OLÁH, an independent researcher, in his book: Édes magyar nyelvünk szumir eredete, (The Sumerian Origin of our Sweet Hungarian Language) states the following identities: 1. The Hungarian vowels and consonants are completely identical to the Sumerian. 2. Vowel harmony is present in both languages. 3. Words may not begin with two consonants. 4. Both languages are agglutinative. 5. They do not distinguish gender. 6. The Hungarian verbal suffixes are more developed than the Sumerian.

I loved this "episode". So interesting! Thank you.

Thank you so much. I am fascinated by Sumerian culture and have been reading and reflecting on their stories of Innana and Erishkegal. Following you now!

Thanks Jules, this is fun. :) Also thats quite the cool cat, you have there.

Thanks for the video. It could also be pointed out that the word "sar" is still with us in astronomy. The "Saros Cycle" for measuring eclipses derives from the word, albeit via a mistaken understanding of the words original meaning.

I remember when I first became interested in the Mesopotamian languages. I was maybe 10 and saw this Akkadian or Babylonian writing in the background scenery of a video game I was playing and I remember thinking "that language looks pretty metal". Since then I've been interested in languages and history. Thanks for the vid.

Thanks from Kazakhstan,very interesting to watch!

Thanks by this explanations. It was my first time on your channel. I liked it a Lot. Greetings from Jalisco, México.🤠

Julija I love your channel! I have to admit that my knowledge of Sumerian language is limited to "LUGAL" ("King") and "NINDA" ("Bread"), and this is all because of my interest in Nesili, the language of the Hittites. Have you done a video on Nesili yet?

1932 - EDGAR CLEMENT, German linguist, was so impressed by the musicality of the language that he learned Hungarian. According to him, the Hungarian language had a magical strength, which reflected a deep spirituality and only the highest ranking languages, especially the old classical languages could match up to it. 1939 - GÉZA BÁRCZY, member of the Hungarian Academy of Science, discovered the 5000 year-old Sumerian suffixes and proved that they were identical to the Hungarian suffixes. 1940 - Sir LEONARD WOOLLEY, English archeologist and linguist, excavated the Sumerian city, Ur of the Chaldees. He found 400,000 clay tablets, which were covered with linguistic material. He made a glossary and deciphered a large number of texts for the Institutum Biblicum in Rome, among them a six volume Sumerisches Lexicon, in which he deciphered 4,000 words.

Fantastic, I am starting my journey to explore our ancient ancestors. . Your video was fascinating, thank you 👍👍

Great stuff. I was trained in academic philosophy. I am currently researching 5thC Byzantium, the origins of Western jurisprudence, and generally find the physical struture of languages fascinating. Pictorial languages rock. I love your video.

Thank you. I have always. Been intrigued by the Sumerians because they are so early in human history.

An entire Sumerian literature about the supreme Goddess Inanna, including 3 poems by Enheduanna (priestess, daughter of Sargon the Great, and earliest named author) exists. Flood story, Eden, and Her decent to the underworld werein she is stripped, beaten, killed, hung on a peg to rot, miraculously revived, and returned to earth transformed.

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Cool video! I'm obsessed with all aspects of ancient mesopotamia!

Thank you for this great video. Is the "eme gir" related to the Magiar?

Hi Julie, Your question at 1:38 as to how a 'K' becomes an 'Sh' (or 'Ch') is easy to answer. A very typical and widely practiced pronunciation in many countries in this region (most prominent in Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, and parts of Syria) is to pronounce a 'K' or 'C' as an 'Sh' or 'Ch'. Thus, Canada is pronounced Chanada or Shanada (Tshanada) and Kuwait is pronounced Chuwait or Shuwait (Tshuwait), although it is usually closer to the hard sound of 'Ch' rather than a flat soft 'Sh'. Keefak (which means How are You?) is pronounced Cheefak. More accurately, it is pronounced like a hard 'Ch', as Tcheefak. The Tch here comes out somewhat like an 'Sh'. I speak many of these languages, and accents. I hope this helps.

We need sources used to be listed, at least some most significant ones, so that we can continue to explore on our own the impressive work you share with us here, please! 🙏🏼

Greetings from Pakistan. I really like your channel and your depth of knowledge. I notice your maps often include Burushaski. I have travelled in that area and even the locals do not know much about their own language and history. I would really like if you could do a video on it, thanks. Also the 'lizard people' figurines in our local museum look very similar to the Sumarian.ones you show.

1873 - LENORMAND formulated the first Sumerian Grammar and also made a thorough comparative study of the grammar and vocabulary of the Ural-Altaic languages. By so doing, he proved the relationship between the Ural-Altaic languages and Sumerian. 1873 - EDOUARD SAYOUS, a French historian proved the linguistic comparisons of Lenormand. In 1869 and 1896, he was in Hungary and he learned Hungarian. In acknowledgement of his work, he was made a member of the Hungarian Kisfaludy Literary Guild. 1875 - FRANÇOIS C. LENORMAND strongly advocated that the language that discovered writing was most closely related to Hungarian. Therefore he traveled again to Hungary to learn the language more thoroughly. In his book “The Ancient Language of the Chaldeans and the Turanian Languages” from phonetics to the noun suffixes, almost entirely relying on the logic and pronunciation of the Hungarian language, he continued his research into the comparison between the Sumerian and the Turanian languages. He found that the Sumerian phonetic rules were based on the Hungarian. 1875 - HEINRICH GELZER, a Swiss linguist, in an article entitled: Das Ausland, stated that the Sumerian noun and verb suffixes were identical to those of the Turanian languages.

Interesting! Can you please highlight on my Edo language, precisely the Bini language from Benin-City, Edo state, Nigeria. We were once the Ancient Benin Empire. Our Bronze and Brass artworks are famous. Thank you! 🙏🇳🇬

Julie is the best. I love here language videos very informative. Tankz Julie 😀

Thanks for all the effort, I find the Shumarians fascinating, All the best Joseph

The grammar of the Sumerian language is very similar to Altaic languages like Basq, Turkish, Korean, Japan, Hungarian, Finnish and Mongolic languages.

My country 🇮🇶 iraq 🇮🇶..thank you my friend

Beautiful summary, so fascinating. Thank you.

Fantastic and informative! Thank you so much!

1963 - VIKTOR PADÁNYI, historian, in his book entitled Dentumagyaria, examined the Sumerian-Hungarian vocabulary and, on the basis of phonetics and meaning, stated: “The spirit of the Sumerian and Hungarian languages, their structure and grammar are almost identical and, by this same measure, they differ from other languages.” 1966 - JÁNOS HARMATTA, historian and academician, stated that, in 1961, N. Vlassa, an archeologist from Kolozsvár, discovered in Tatarlaka one round and one rectangular clay tablet, on which the signs could be easily deciphered with the help of Sumerian pictograms which they resembled. 1968 - ANDRÁS ZAKAR, linguist and researcher in cultural history, demonstrated the language development on the basis of dating methods, and showed that in the Hungarian language, after 5000 years, out of one hundred words, 63 words were Sumerian and 12 Akkadian. This shows not only relationship but also direct descent. The newest scientific methods prove that the Sumerian-Hungarian linguistic analyses are based on certain historical and archeological evidence. 1970 - IDA BOBULA, philosopher and historian, a researcher who spoke seven languages fluently, in her books Sumir rokonság (Sumerian Relationship) and A magyar nemzet eredete (The origin of the Hungarian People), and also in A 2000 magyar név sumir eredete (The Sumerian Origin of 2000 Hungarian Names) demonstrated that a majority of Hungarian names can be understood with the help of the Sumerian dictionary. In her analyses, she states that the returning Magyars brought with them a Scythian language, developed in Sumer.

I live in southern Iraq, specifically in the marshes, and when the way some words are very close to the Sumerian language, even some academics, when they want to study the Sumerian culture or the language, come to us. Even the method of building reed houses is like the Sumerian method, as shown in the mud tablets

I am watching the video second time. Very very informative for me. Thank you.

That is a HUGE cat!.... and also the most interesting and surprising video to pop up randomly on my youtube feed ever! Thank you.

"Aratta" is the name given, long, long ago, to the region around and including the mountains of Ararat. Down from the difficult terrain of the mountains you'll find remnants of the civilization here such as Göbekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe, Nevalı Çori, Hamzan Tepe, Karahan Tepe, Harbetsuvan Tepesi, Sefer Tepe, and Taslı Tepe, among others, many of which remain undiscovered.

Julie, thank you for your enlightening and interesting programs, covering so many interesting languages. I am curious, however, why you have not included Arabic. It is an unusual language in that over two thousand years ago it could express anything required today, which made it unnecessary to undergo as much change as other languages. What prompted it to become so expressive so early? Thank you.

I love learning with you. You're so smart & beautiful. I have no idea how you learned so much about these ancient languages but I have a feeling that you are ancient light being from Sumeria like myself. My light being is Ishtar, nice to meet you. 😋👋

Thank you for sharing this important ancient knowledge.

Julie, I would love to encounter someone like you at a dinner party and talk to them all night. I’m a first language Welsh speaker and am passionate about it. However, it’s important for all of us to consider the intertextual nature of our languages, such as your hard work and passion for your subject reminds us. We tend to de-compartmentalise from others; invest in our own mythologies that make us think we are somehow more special. Your work is crucial in reminding us we are all related and ultimately are branches on the same mighty tree. Please continue with this very noble passion for languages and the cultures that begat them. Caraid mawr.

I have a passions for (all) languages too. Your videos give a quick and very nice overview. Your cat is gorgeous.

Thank you very much for this video. I am glad I came here watching. Most interesting of course: the ancient beer recipe.

How on earth do we know the proper pronounciation of Sumerian words? Thanks for the informative video, Julie!

You might want to study the connection between Sumerian and Hungarian. Shared vocabulary is currently 3000+ words long. Some basic words are the same in both languages (like nap meaning sun orIztenIsten meaning God or Ur meaning Lord). 51 out of 54 grammar rules are shared by both languages. Interesting connection...

I read your bio that you're passionate about language. Well it doesn't to me long to subscribe to your channel. Thank you, dear

hello: just plain and simple, you are amazing!!!! thanks for sharing!!

Greetings from Egypt U should make a coptic video

Thank you! Very interesting! 💥💥💥

Thank you for creating this informative video . And the female presenter was very skillful.

Really enjoyed your video as it has content well expressed. I have a PhD in Egyptology so I know how hard it can be to get the ideas and methods of a foreign writing system acreoss succinctly. Everybody tries to interpret them as ideas and not realise they spell out the words on a rebus or syllabic principle.

Im interested in Sino-Tibetan language Family. Despite it is the second biggest language family and has been studied for many years, it still has many myths. 1. How does each Sino-Tibetan language related ? 2. Where is the urheimat, or where did it come from? 3. Classification problem 4. When did Proto ST split into Proto Sinitic and Proto Tibeto Burman?

Loved it! Was really shocked to learn about the Ubaid, was amused at the notion of the "banana language." I know the name Inana from a course I took in ME mythology, and Igigi rings a bell, too, so this makes me want to buy those books again! Thanks for the inspiration!

According to the historians referring to these similar language facts, Sumerian is an ancient Turkish language. Although Sumerian language has common typological peculiarities with Altay languages, this theory has been put forward for the first time by a historian named Julius Oppert

Awesome video! I feel like I should start deciphering and recording the language I speak. When speaking Southern from South Georgia, adding dialect and mumble, to most it sounds like a foreign language. :) The intriguing thing is the math. The whole world uses that system and I find that as interesting as the language of written music used by the whole world.

Вау, дуже цікавий канал. Авторка з Британії, це вже показник - дуже потужні інституції та наукова спільнота у вашій країні. Розширює світогляд - дуже крута подача інформації.

Gratidão por compartilhar seu conhecimento!!