r/Semitic • • Jan 13 '24

The semitic origin of ancient Egyptians language

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𓂧 𓆑 𓈖 𓅱 𓂋 𓂝 𓄟 𓋴 𓏏 𓇓 𓈗 𓄸 𓏠 𓈞 𓍿 𓐍 aa1 𓅓 g17 According to Ahmad Pasha Kamal the Egyptian assistant of Maspero and first director of the Egyptian directorate of Antiquities in Egypt clearly claimed in his many books especially his Encyclopedia of Hieroglyphs of 18 volumes in hand written Arabic that ancient Egyptian language was Arabic. He even claimed that Orientalists purposely read cartouches names of Pharaohs backwards to cover its Arabic soundings. He as follows, showed the words of symbols in Egyptian own language were Arabic words meaning they actually spoke Arabic:

D/hand/yad/ يد 𓂧.

J/jar/Jarrah/جرة 𓎼.

O/chick/sous/صوص 𓅱.

Z/belt/Zunnar/زنار 𓊃.

H/rope/habl/حبل𓎛.

T/collar/tawq/طوق 𓍿.

Y/feather/Reesh/ريش 𓇋.

K/cup/koub/ كوب/كأس 𓎡.

L/lioness/Labwa/لبوة.

M/owl/bouMah/ بومة 𓅓.

N/river/Nahr/ نهر 𓈖.

S/cane/Asa/عصا 𓋴.

3/forearm/sa'3ed/ساعد 𓂝.

F/viper/aF'aa/افعى 𓆑.

Q/zenith/Qummah/قمة 𓈎.

R/eye/ra'a/رأى 𓂋.

T/hill/tul/تل 𓏏.

Kh/Sieve/nukhl/، منخل نخل 𓐍.

God Horus/Hur/Saker falcon/Hur/حر/الطير الحر/ 𓅃 God Khnum/sheep/ganam/غنم 𓁠 God Ra' /Ra'/راعي/Shepard Double letter Ms/given/Mousa/موصى 𓄟


r/Semitic • • Jan 15 '25

Which Scholarly Hebrew Bible Should You Buy? (Unsponsored Recommendation)

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r/Semitic • • Oct 15 '26

Hamito-Semitic *i- & Indo-European

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r/Semitic • • Aug 02 '26

Modern Levantine Arabic is more conservative than many ancient Semitic languages

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I'll refer to Lebanese Arabic since it is my native dialect.

It preserves broken plurals extremely well, those were lost in Hebrew and Aramaic.

It preserves a dual form very productive lost in other Semitic languages.

It preserves Classical Arabic's triconsonantal morphologically aomost entirely, making it more conservative than older Semitic languages.

It preserves a huge amount of phonemic distinctions, way more than Akkadian, and obviously more than Hebrew and Aramaic.


r/Semitic • • Sep 30 '21

Ezra 7:6 ספר מהיר

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Ezra 7:6 הוא עזרה עלה מבבל והוא ספר מהיר בתורת משא

The adjective מהיר means ἔμπειρος; experienced, acquainted with it. Followed by בתורת משא / ἐντολαί μάντεως.

ἐντολά is used in Herodotus for the royal ordinances of Persian Kings i.e. Herodotus 1.157 Κύρου ἐντολὰς = כורש תורת

Jews יהודי also called יבוסי in the book of Ezra are βοιώτιοι 'Boeotians' that were settled in Sittacene כשדים Sittace כשד cf. "URU.Sattagû" also called Arbelitis ארפכשד situated in Iraq between the Tigris and Tornadotus (פישון) rivers, during the reign of Xerxes.


r/Semitic • • Jan 13 '24

Merneptah stela

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Merneptah inscriptions mention his victory over the Sea people in the battle of Sais on the western Nile delta. The same Israel steals mentions his victory over Palestine and Canaan: "Palestine is made widow to Egypt," Canaan is defeated. Even Merneptah makes no relation between the so-called conventionally made word philistines of sea people and the country of Palestine (Falast). In Moses' bible "Song of the Sea" Exodus 15:14, God also mentions the peoples of Palestine/Falast and the people of Canaan trembling with fear. Just a Few years later, Joshua mentions that the kings of Palestine from Egypt's border to Canaan ( غور الاردن dead Sea depression، ) are Gaza, then Ashdod, then Ashkelon, then Ekron عقرون, then Gathجات, then Avvim عويم; however, he mentions Avvim, just a few miles west of Jericho. (east of Ram Allah/Beireh/ Britain)(khirbet tel Ai خربة تل علي near Dayr Dibwan دير دبوان. This makes Gath/Jat جات and Ekron near Ain Jalut / عين جالوت/ spring of Goliath north of Bisaan/ Beit She'an ( where Jacob dwelt) and Jarar/ /(Ayn Jarar in Umm al-Fahm) where Abraham dwelt, all part of Palestine so philistim was not just near Gaza as Orientalists make their lie. Palestine/ Falast/Falastim/Falastin was the same as current Palestine between the River and the Sea. At the same time, Canaan כנענ is just the lowlands below sea level around the Dead Sea, Jordan River, and Sea of Galilee جليل גליל, as its Arabic Semitic name implies ( كنع، =وطى lay low). Falastin/Falast is derived from the Arabic Semitic word FALAS فلس cognate with Falaha فلح to cut the land, i.e. (the tilled land) named after Falast, فلسط a son of Ya'arub whose tribe immigrated there at the dawn of Time Semitic/Arabic people.


r/Semitic • • Oct 10 '21

seventh day shall be a solemn assembly

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Deuteronomy 16:8 השביעי עצרת "seventh day shall be a solemn assembly"

Herodotus, The Histories 2:5 πανηγυρίζουσι δὲ Αἰγύπτιοι "Egyptians hold solemn assemblies"

These are written in two different languages but the word for solemn-assembly is the same. ἄγερσις, ἄγυρις / עצרת

ἀγών / חג ; an assembly of the Greeks at their great national games. ἀγωνίζομαι / חגג ; contend for a prize

Ἀγών / דגון ; divinity of the contest

In Deuteronomy 16:13 סכה means σκιάς; a rotunda (at Sparta) in which the assemblies of the people were held

Pausanias, Description of Greece 3.12.10

they have built what is called Scias (Canopy), where even at the present day they hold their meetings of the Assembly

ἀπάντημα, συνάντησις מועד meeting

Deuteronomy is the Law introducted during the reign of Artaxerxes II (Ezra 7) during a time of an influx of Aoelic Greeks in the middle east. This explains the vocabulary.

The vocabulary suggests contests where held during those six days, but all that culture was lost. But in Deuteronomy 16:8 מצות means μάζας "barley cakes".

Aeschylus Agamemnon 1035

Once endured to be sold and to eat the bread (μάζης) of slavery

Barley cakes מצות / μάζας are also associated with Anna Perenna whos festival fell on the ides of March which would have marked the first full moon in the year.


r/Semitic • • Oct 06 '21

Ideologies

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Are there other ideologies similar to Pharaonism, Phoenicianism and/or Berberism?


r/Semitic • • Nov 06 '21

φρυκτώριον מגדול beacon-tower

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The primary function for a tall tower in the Ancient world is for communicating over large distances. φρυκτώριον means beacon-tower or lighthouse.

Job 12:5 uses two nouns, לפיד and רגל and לפיד clearly means λαμπάδος; beacon-light and רגל means παράγγελμα; a message transmitted by beacons “φλογὸς παραγγέλμασιν”

This perhaps originates Angels cf. ἄγγελον φωτός

2 Kings 18:8 mentions מגדל נוצרים "Tower of Watchmen" and נצר means ἐντηρέω "to guard" and נוצר means τηρητής; guard, warden.

Herodotus 2:30 In the reign of Psammetichus, there were watchposts (φυλακαί) at Elephantine

Habakkuk 2:1 I will stand upon my watch (משמרתי), and set me upon the tower (מצור) and will watch (אצפה)

φυλακτήριον משמר a guarded post, a fort or castle. σκοπέω צפה to look. מצור τείχισμα wall .


r/Semitic • • Apr 12 '24

"Happy birthday" in Phoenician?

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Looking for the Phoenician/Punic phrase for "Happy Birthday."


r/Semitic • • May 13 '18

Is 'Elohim' in Genesis 1 better translated as 'gods'?

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r/Semitic • • Apr 13 '18

HEBREW AND ARAMAIC ELEMENTS IN THE ISRAELI VERNACULAR CHRISTIAN-­‐ARABIC AND IN THE WRITTEN CHRISTIAN ARABIC OF PALESTINE, SYRIA, AND LEBANON | Bassal

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r/Semitic • • Jun 13 '25

3 Forgotten Semitic Languages.

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r/Semitic • • Sep 24 '21

Genesis 19 mistranslation

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After studying Biblical Hebrew (Phoenician language), its clear that most of the Bible is mistranslated, an example is המלאכים "angels". This reading is based on the Septuagint ἄγγελοι "messengers". The true reading is προαγωγοί "procurers"

ἅγγελος means messenger, but an angel / מלאך is a προάγγελος "harbinger". מלאך can also mean ἐργάτας; workmen, name of Hermes (popular amongst Phoenicians)

Or. προαγορεύω - Proclaim by herald / κῆρυξ / כרוז .


r/Semitic • • Jul 18 '16

Would it be useful to create a duolingo of dead languages?

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Just would like some opinions on creating a database for learning these ancient semitic languages like Akkadian and old persian.


r/Semitic • • Feb 12 '22

Flood myth

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Is it possible to reconstruct a Proto-Semitic flood myth?


r/Semitic • • May 29 '26

Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) & Indo-European

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r/Semitic • • May 13 '26

Proto-Semitic *bin- 'son' vs. *byurn-, flawed method of standard reconstruction

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r/Semitic • • 29d ago

Why Broken Plurals Must be Reconstructed Back to Proto-Semitic

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r/Semitic • • Jan 27 '25

Question regarding Ethio-semitic & Afroasiatic

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Hello how accurate is this statement?

"In reality most dialects classified as Semitic are found in Ethiopia and these have been found to not deviate enough from the so called Cushitic language group to qualify as a separate linguistic group thus the terms Semitic and Hamitic have fallen into disfavour among modern linguists and other academics and the name AfroAsiatic has come to be used to comprise both language groups" -


r/Semitic • • Jul 28 '19

Inscription on statue

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I bought a stone statue in a souvenir shop in Luxor, Egypt. It has inscriptions on the front and back, see attached picture. To my amateur eye the script looks somewhat like ancient South Arabian but not all characters seem to match. Anyone here who might be able to shed some light on it? Much appreciated.


r/Semitic • • Oct 12 '21

barley cake מצה strife מצה

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unleavened bread comes from ἄζυμος the Septuagint translation of מצה, thus another example of the Septuagint translation supplanting the meaning of the Hebrew word that is homologue of μᾶζα; a barley cake. leavened bread חמיץ is ζυμίτης and חמץ vinegar is ζύμωσις

Exodus 29:2 as them made from חטה which is ἀκτή (akˈti) , note the Hebrew dialect resembles Aeolic. ἀκτά / חִטָּה μᾶζα / מַצָּה

The barley cake was eaten in the month of Abib i.e Ἥβη (ἔφηβος) on fifteenth day that also coincides with the Latin festival Anna Perenna for whom barley cakes were baked. cf. ἄνθιον / ניסן Spring τριακάδος / חדש month

In Isaiah 58:4 the Septuagint coincidentally translates מצה into μάχας cf. Aeolic μάχα and thus the verbal נצה equals μάχομαι. In fact this solves the unknown etymology of μάχομαι. For מצה is truly ἀγῶν; struggle, battle, action

This synchronises the Ancient Mediterranean languages and cultures, as it should be.


r/Semitic • • Jun 26 '24

The Vav Hahipuch: Did the ancient Hebrews use it in conversation or not? What was the purpose? Maybe different translation?

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The Vav Hahipuch changes the word from. Future (עָתִיד) to Past (עָבַר) or from Past (עָבַר) to future (עָתִיד The question: Did the ancient Hebrews use it in conversation or not? What was the purpose? Any evidence in any other Semitic most likely dead languages Phoenician Akkadian Chaldean ?


r/Semitic • • Aug 27 '20

Are Ethio-Semitic languages more similar to ancient languages than they are to modern Semitic languages?

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r/Semitic • • Jun 13 '25

An Overview of the Semitic Languages

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