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I'm not studying Arabic, but gotta admit, that's interesting nonetheless

This is fantastic ❤🎉, congratulations for you research.

Great informative video 👏🏻 In my native dialect, which is spoken in northern Morocco (including Tangier, Tetouan, Chefchaouen, and the Jeblis...), we have more solar letters because many lunar letters have shifted toward solar letters. Many lunar letters have almost entirely become solar letters in most words, while some have shifted only in specific words or in informal and fast speech. These include the lip letters: (m م), (b ب), (p پ), (v ڤ), and (f ف); the tip of the tongue letters: (dj دج), (j/"zh" ج), and (ch تش); and the back of the tongue letters: (k ك), (g ڭ), and (q ق). These have completely become solar letters in most words in our northern dialect. For example, we say "əb-bāb" or just "b-bāb" instead of "L-bāb" (the door), and "əm-mlāħ" or just "m-mlāħ" instead of "L-məlħa" (the salt). However, there is an exception: we say "L-ma" instead of "m-ma" (the water). We also say "g-gəbs" instead of "L-gəbs" (the gypsum). In my dialect, especially in informal speech, the hamza (ء) seems to be considered a solar letter. For example, we might casually say "i-isəm" (the name). However, due to recent influences from Modern Standard Arabic, the pronunciation has become more lunar, as seen in the use of "L-ism" in more formal settings. This shift towards a lunar pronunciation happens to a lesser extent with the other letters mentioned earlier. Therefore, the hamza might be evolving to hold characteristics of both solar and lunar pronunciations in my dialect. As for the letters (kh خ) and (ħ ح), they are often lunar letters but can sometimes become solar letters in informal and fast speech, especially between sentences and in some words (e.g., "kh-khtilāf" and "ħ-ħtimāl"). Additionally, (gh غ) and (ɛ ع) are lunar letters but can become solar in some northern accents in a few words during informal and fast speech (e.g., "gh-ghtiyāl" and "ɛ-ɛanqōd"). The letter (h ه) can also become a solar letter in rapid, informal speech in very few words (e.g., "h-holandi"). Thus, the letters that remain completely lunar in my dialect are: (w و), (y ي), and almost (h ه). The letters that are not completely lunar are: (kh خ), (ħ ح), (gh غ), and (h ه). The hamza (ء) seems to be in between. The solar letters include those mentioned previously in addition to those known in Classical Arabic : (L ل), (n ن), (t ت), (ţ ط), (đ ض), (d د), (s س), (s̈ ص), (sh ش), (r ر), and (z ز), And all of them are articulated with the tip of the tongue like you explained. However, the following three do not exist in the Moroccan dialect: (dh ذ) = (d د), (đh ظ) = (đ ض), and (th ث) = (t ت).

Þæt þið sound Just like [ʃ] and [x] smooshed togeðer

Your videos are so good, that I think you are my new favorite person c:

Hello bro, since you're Moroccan could you do a video about Tamazight if you know anything about it? I love your clear and simple way to explain things

i found results of this video on wiki article "sound symbolism", citing an article from 1970. [10] Johansson, Niklas; Zlatev, Jordan (1 January 1970). "Motivations for Sound Symbolism in Spatial Deixis: A Typological Study of 101 Languages". Public Journal of Semiotics. 5 (1): 3-20. doi:10.37693/pjos.2013.5.9668.

I kind of agree with English been related to Arabic but there's also other languages surrounding English and so that can be also a possibility of change like Welch I believe it's Welch they call she > he

Personally I believe that

This is one of the things I love about linguistics. So many languages have rules that come simply from adjusting to make it less awkward to say something. It’s why French has liaison, Mandarin has you raise the first of two third-tone characters to second-tone, it’s why English has us saying “an” instead of “a” before a vowel sound.

:))) that’s ridiculous. It’s make me remember the time i tried to write a thesis.

we used to memorize this using "جحا غبي فك مخه وقع" where they're all moon characters, ofc we natives don't have to constantly check which is which, we just learn it when we are younger as a form of theory i would say

ahh nice the same sort of concept exists with latin and it developed almost always because of the pragmatics of speech and how your tongue moves to make the sound more easily.

:O Finally, a keyboard I’ve been looking for Also great video and superscript letters are stupid as for an actual alphabet

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Can you elaborate on your comment about specialized fonts? I believe all SENĆOŦEN characters can be rendered in many standard fonts with good Unicode coverage such as Arial, Times New Roman, Calibri, etc.

Ma’ dy fideos di yn wych!

From which country is that language from?

Well... sure, many phonemes are mapped questionably, but at least it didn't end up like the Tsalagi/Cherokee syllabary, where not a single character matches phonetically with its corresponding lookalike letter in the Latin alphabet.

Do a video about Rumanstsch a language dying in switzerland

Wow that's pog

Great video. You are maybe the only person I've ever seen talking about Saanich orthography online in a way that isn't snide and mocking. Personally, my main gripe with the Elliot System is similar to yours; it obscures the beautiful symmetry that is present in the Saanich phoneme inventory. As a hobby I once made up my own writing system for Saanich (or Sentṡaṣen, as it may be). Many of my ideas were similar to yours, especially the marking of glottalisation with the apostrophe. I also especially love your idea of using only one diacritic so that its shape doesn't matter as much; in my idea there are two possible diacritics, one above and one below, so only their position matters. I cannot link anything here, but if you would like I can send you a link to my google doc via email or discord or any app really. Here is the first sentence of the example you used, in my idea: Ewene sen e tṣe ew’ meḳw’ ełtelṅexw ḳw sni’s sḳw’ayes e tṣe xtṡṅins.

You have such a great elegant accent

Those goofy ass flags around the 8 min mark lmao

I pronounce /ʃ/ and /ʒ/ with tounge-tip down. Do you know how common this is and if Arabic dialects do this at all?

This was great! The suggestions you made, especially when written in lowercase, give SENĆOŦEN a visual beauty which was previously hard to access for an outsider.

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People don't realize that the latin writing system was created ALL CAPS

Amazing video! Subscribed

When I was young, I thought that the Arabic language was actually the origin of languages, but when I grew up, I understood that every people believes that their language is the origin of languages. For example, the Jews say that the Hebrew language is the origin of all languages, and so do the Arabs, Indians, Romans, ancient Greeks, and so on. Every people believes His language is the origin of all languages ​​(of course I do not make excuses to anyone) and as my teacher said, just because two things are similar does not mean that they are necessarily connected or of the same origin (I am sorry for my bad English), I also have a question for some people in the comments. Every people believes that their language is the origin of all languages. This thing is not limited to the Arabs. Why speak badly about the Arabs?

you should have a look at Damin en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damin

"What about you?" in Arabic: wa anta? in Japanese: anta(anata) wa? I know its coincident but I found it funny as a Japanese and an Arabic beginner.

Hopefully more Arabic video from you. Youre a good teacher.

reading some of the comments here, I can say that there are some Arabic speakers (mostly graduated linguists) who try to find connections with other languages out of thin air. I think the hypothesis that says the Spanish masculine definite singular article ("el") has its roots in the Arabic definite article ("al-") is the one prefered by said speakers. when confronted about it, these people will just say something like "no, really. it comes from Arabic. there's no way it comes from Latin pronoun 'ille'".

so coronal assimilation

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which font are you using for the big text? it looks like a rougher version of Peignot/MontereyFLF, and it looks quite nice

I feel like ل doesn’t fit into ash shamsi Because it’s closer to b and w and not d 1:32 jsh

such a good video. your other videos have been recommended to me over time, and i didn't realize they were all you. Subbed. Great videos. they were all super well made and very interesting.

your videos are crazy good for your subscriber count, and you're crazy knowledgeable about linguistics for your age. (i'm not that much older than you, tho, but i am studying linguistics in college.) also, k klein uses they/them pronouns :)

As a native Arabic speaker and someone who studied the "Quranic Arabic", you explained it PERFECTLY! Thank you so much, that was enjoyable. 👏🏻👏🏻 I have something to add: There is a sentence that combines all the moon letters, which is "أبغ حجك وخف عقيمهُ" And any letter that doesn't exist in this sentence, is one of the sun letters!

not really related but id love to hear you talk about some small local european language like Sorbian languages or some little uralic Uralic language