You’ll Never See the Alphabet the Same Way Again

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🪓👁️🐍 Axes and eyeballs and snakes. Oh my! Here are 26 stories about the alphabet your teacher never told you. Share in the comments which ones you already knew!
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0:00 - Intro
0:20 - The Letters
0:22 - A
0:39 - B
0:52 - C
1:07 - D
1:22 - E
1:42 - F
2:24 - G
2:52 - H
3:27 - I
3:45 - J
4:09 - K
4:23 - L
4:41 - M
5:00 - N
5:17 - O
5:38 - P
6:02 - Q
6:26 - R
6:54 - S
7:24 - T
7:39 - U
7:54 - V
8:03 - W
8:19 - X
8:37 - Y
8:47 - Z
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@storylearning 8 ай бұрын

Wondering where language came from? 👉🏼kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bM2RfbCnt53Ge58.htmlsi=Dg1UTIS4SrHNasWC

@juliannaruffini 8 ай бұрын

there are a lot of mistakes see comments

@markmacy6887 2 ай бұрын

Feels like a lot of 'leaps' to fill in the gaps

@Mildlylysdexic 8 ай бұрын

If you did this same concept except on the Chinese or Japanese writing systems: 33942 stories in 12297 minutes

@jmwild22 8 ай бұрын

Haha!!

@northstarpokeshipper2148 8 ай бұрын

5:34 The Omega.

@jilllee5157 8 ай бұрын

Fascinating! As an American I have wondered why we say "Zee" when everyone else (speaking English )says "zed". ?

@kennystrawnmusic 8 ай бұрын

5:34 Omega

@ninabaker2970 8 ай бұрын

Really interesting! Thank you!

@travisjacobson2334 8 ай бұрын

In Hebrew, camel is “gamal,” and gimel is the letter ג. So, the letter and word are easy to remember: ג for גמל. House is pronounced “bite” or “ba-it,” and the B/V sound is the letter “Beit:” בּ/ב

@romero522 3 ай бұрын

Alef = bull Bet = house Gimel = camel Daleth = door Heh = Vav Zayn = weopon Heth = yard Teth = wheel Yod = hand Kaf = palm Lamed = wheep Mem = water Nun = fish Samekh = fish Eyn = eye Peh = mouth Tsadik Quf = the little omhole of the needle Resh = head Shin = tooth Tav = note In hebrew "nun" is still used for saying Octopus = tamnun Synanceia = avnun Squid = Dionun Sea bass = Sfamnun

@maryjanerx 8 ай бұрын

Omg i love this!!! Now do cryllic!!

@bhami 8 ай бұрын

Yes! I've always thought of Cyrillic as 60% Latin, 20% Greek, and 20% its own thing, with a dash of Hebrew!

@maryjanerx 8 ай бұрын

@@bhami right!!!! Ш is the same as the hebrew letter shin!!!

@adrianblake8876 8 ай бұрын

@@bhami There's a family tree of letters: Paleo-Hebrew, aka Phonecian, brought forth to the Greek alphabet and the square script. Greek brought forth to the Latin and Cyrillic alphabet, and the square script brought forth to the Arabic and Syriac alphabet...

@Millerdebrasil 8 ай бұрын

I learn so much with your videos

@Migrant2008 8 ай бұрын

I wish you had subtitles on your very educative videos 😍. As a Turkish i hardly understand some British accented words 😢

@lisilonglegs 8 ай бұрын

I use the auto-generated subtitles and they work well. All the best to you.

@Migrant2008 8 ай бұрын

@@lisilonglegs thanks dear 🌼. I also use the atomatic translator , but especially the words that i can't hear clearly are being wrongly typed there as well.

@Mildlylysdexic 8 ай бұрын

Çok güzel 🇹🇷 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

@Mildlylysdexic 8 ай бұрын

As someone who used to share an apartment with two Turkish students in my college days, I never really understood how you guys could basically make one super long word that would mean something that would take like 5 words to say in English. That is, until I learned what the word "agglutinative" means.

@Migrant2008 8 ай бұрын

@@Mildlylysdexic 😅🤩🤣

@jmwild22 8 ай бұрын

Fun!!

@minirop 8 ай бұрын

If so many letters flipped are because ancient greek was written in boustrophedon.

@thecfclad 8 ай бұрын

so it is in fact real that W was formed from merging two Us, that has been a made up thing in my head for long

@isalutfi 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for this insightful content.

@storylearning 8 ай бұрын

Glad you like it!

@navneetshyam1335 8 ай бұрын

@@storylearningThank You for giving us such great information. I really never knew that the letters we use today are older than most languages! Each letter has its own history!

@judeampofo 8 ай бұрын

Greeks and Romans tip everything😂

@bruh-xn7ci 8 ай бұрын

Because they write the other way from phoenicians and jews

@swagilyph 8 ай бұрын

so I'm pretty sure 4 of those 5 letters that came from the same root are gonna be F V W and U but idk what the last one is.

@swagilyph 8 ай бұрын

it ended up being the letter that looked exactly like the symbol you used to show F imagine that lol

@wheeliebeast7679 8 ай бұрын

whY? Unless you were being sarcastic

@swagilyph 8 ай бұрын

no I genuinely did not think of Y

@justinwr092 8 ай бұрын

Mama says the letter F came from an alligator that got a fig stuck its teeth and got sad.

@lisilonglegs 8 ай бұрын

This is fascinating! (And weird--shoutout to Kronk.) Really fun to see how the letters came about.

@juliannaruffini 8 ай бұрын

there are a bunch of mistakes

@foreverlearningfrench 8 ай бұрын

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

@AyaMoonlight1 8 ай бұрын

Great video as always, just a bit too fast paced. I wanted to stop it several times and think through what I've just learnt.. other than that, thanks 😊

@OtHaku 6 ай бұрын

this actually helped me with CYRILIC, for example with letter P, thanks!!!!!!

@ronrom05able 2 ай бұрын

A more likely reason why Z is removed is because the sound was lost over time. A process called rhotacism occurred when intervocalic /z/ had shifted to /r/, and thus, it was rendered useless.

@juliannaruffini 8 ай бұрын

mistake: The egyptian "r" is a mouth never be "p". "p" is a small rectangle

@oravlaful 8 ай бұрын

i thought the V sound associated with the letter originated in the late latin period

@element7795 8 ай бұрын

Amazing, I didn't realize the alphabets of the ancient world were that close to each especially to Egyptian. I guess it all came down to poor handwriting or hand carving.

@KaiSan3 8 ай бұрын

I've heard many times that writting was invented only 4 or 5 times, and then other cultures later adapted what their neighbors used to write for their languages... - so hiragana/katakana were created from hanzi simplified overtime; - Mayan, and the Otomi writting adapted by the Aztecs allegedly evolved (with multiple inbetween steps and diversions from each other) from Olmec writting; - hangul was copied from horyig, which was adapted for the Yuan rulers by the tibetans monks, who adapted a couple north-indian scripts to their language, which all evolved from greek letters from the time of Alexander (or before) and it then links to this video 😅 ...etc.

@snaball5598 8 ай бұрын

hola saludos desde latam

@docjaramillo 8 ай бұрын

Omega

@juliannaruffini 8 ай бұрын

"P" comes from the symbol of a house "per"

@juliannaruffini 8 ай бұрын

"H" was not a fence it was the symbol of a house "hw.t)

@das224 2 ай бұрын

If you look at, and write, a lowercase sigma, you can really easily see how that becomes a "S"

@juliannaruffini 8 ай бұрын

"N" comes from "nun" the ancient sea

@fishboyridesagain 8 ай бұрын

Spanish, French, Polish (¿others?) call the 'y' a 'greek i' (igriega, i-grec, etc.), while Portuguese just straight up calls the 'y' an 'upsilon'. Lots of fingers pointing at the Greeks.

@juliannaruffini 8 ай бұрын

"d" cones from the symbol of a hand not fish!

@juliannaruffini 8 ай бұрын

"I" comes from aleph the vulture. The hand is the arabic ع