What languages are spoken in Israel?
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- čas přidán 2. 06. 2024
- Israel is a cradle of languages and heritages, and with the Jewish people returning, they are bringing back languages with them from across the globe. In this video we take a look at those languages, some of their mixtures and a bit of the history, so that when look at Israel you can better value the breath-taking culture blooming that is the modern Israeli State.
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00:00 Beginning
33:00 Some history
04:12 Hebrew
05:42 Arabic
09:50 Russian
11:39 Yiddish
14:10 French and English
16:28 Other Jewish
18:22 Other Tongues
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The difference in Arabic dialects reflect the fact that the original Arabic conquerors were few in number which is also bourne out in regional DNA
Makes sense.
סרטון מאוד חשוב.
קיבלת עוקב
תודה שבאת איתי.
my family had been in israel for the past thousand years or so (yishuv yashan, lucky to be the 15th generation in jerusalem, prior to that from safed), and i was kind of dissapointed you didnt mention Yerushalmi yiddish, (which i speak with my grandfather and mother, as long as most of my family from my mothers side) - its a combination of german, ukrainian and romanian, but what makes it interesting and different is that about 40% of the vocabulary come from aramaic, and slang draws heavily from arabic and greek. it started in the diaspora with romanian- ukrainian yiddish speaking jews who make aliyah after the first crusades mixing in with the very small indigenous jewish population in israel who spoke aramaic and greek at the time, eventually the languages mixed into a type of yiddish that if you dont have a guide to get you through it, good luck understanding even 20% of it.
Thank you, I was not aware of this language.
I've heard passive mention of Yerushalmi Yiddish but never knew much about it. Really cool that you still speak it
Amazing video as usual! Keep up the great work
I grew up in Baltimore Md. Big Yiddish community there back in the 80s and 90s. I learned some by osmosis and some deliberately to do business there. It was for a time an international business language in Europe.
Osmosis is a wondeeful opportunity. if you have the chance, go for it
Very, very interesting Ben. Thank you!!
Thank you kindly.
Very interesting - I shall watch again as there is a lot to absorb.
Thank you for absorbing.
Nicely Done!
Randomly stumbled on this chsnnel not something i would really be interested in . But here i am now intrigued as hell haha great little channel all the best with it very well done 👍
Excellent. Sit back, relax and enjoy.
hello, i just wanted to share some stories about my grandmother. she is a kurdish jew from persia (iran) and is quadralingual, she speaks hebrew, persian, kurdish and arabic. she made aliya to israel as a baby in the 50's and grew up in a small community in the periphery of israel where most other people in the community also spoke kurdish/persian.
because she grew up near the northern border, the radio device in their house received signals from the nearby arabic speaking countries and so she became able to understand it and speak it too.
a few years ago, we were on a family trip and we were going through switzerland. there we sat in a restaurant in a small town.
the owner of the restaurant turned out to be a kurdish or persian speaker (i dont remember and i do not understand those languages myself). the owner started crying from happiness when he talked with my grandmother, as what we realised later, according to him it was his first time speaking the language in years. the owner ended up giving us a discount for our order.
in recent time, my grandmother and grandfather actually became even more immersed in their unique culture and nearby cultures. they would fly to turkey multiple times a year. they watch turkish tv shows (which are popular in israel) and slowly building a foundation to speak basic turkish. they use youtube on their smart tv and put persian music in the house.
on the contrast of their immersion in middle eastern culture, english is almost unintelligible to them. they struggle a lot with basic words and pronunciation.
on the same trip i discussed previously, we were in france for one day. my grandmother wanted to ask someone for directions to a certain place and she asked me to do it since her english is very basic and i knew how to speak it more than her (yes, i do know its a bad idea to try to speak english in france). but i was very shy to ask someone and she ended up doing it anyway with her very broken and basic english. i do feel a little guilty for making my grandmother embarrass herself though.
my grandmother is still dreaming about one day to be able to visit iran and the town she was born in and until then she and my grandfather are making their kurdish roots visible in all aspects of life.
The pain the Iranian Revolution has caused forced exiles is immeasurable, and a cultural loss to the world. Thank you for your story about the Kurdish / Persian restaurant owner.
This video made my day!
Really appreciate the time and effort you put into this.
As an Israeli I can confirm that indeed, it is very rarely that I encounter someone who doesn't know Hebrew at all, but it is very common to hear English, French, Russian and arabic in the streets.
However, I was quite suprised to know that till this day we still have so many people who does not speak Hebrew as their first language.
Todah rabah. Glad you enjoyed. Thank you and I hope to see Israel.
I'm Russian, and I have Russian jew relatives who live in Israel, but apparently they barely even can speak any Hebrew at all aside from basic phrases...
@@aeluzarii yea I think the Russian community (more accurately, post USSR) in Israel is the community that adopt Hebrew the least for some reasons, they even have their own kindergarten and schools
This is exactly what I was wondering a few days ago!
Some say great minds think alike. Well, at least curious ones?
@@BenLlywelyn definitely!
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Todah. Thank you for subscribing. Appreciated.
Thanks, that was interesting. Did you finish your conversion?
Welcome.
And no, the Jewish conversion process can be years. It is not quick.
Very interesting video. I think it's important to spread this kind of information most people ignore. Also, please make a video on Yiddish, its history and dialectology are amazing! (don't forget The Udmurt Yiddish)
Yiddish. Very much want to make a video on it. Need to read more 1st, though.
I love your videos. You make me want to learn welsh.
Thank you - Diolch.
I love the great work you are doing Ben!
I remember that Ladino was very widely spoken in Iberia (Iberian Peninsula of course) north africa, parts of Greece and the Levant. It is said Thessalonica was the Jerusalem of Europe so much of Jews lived there and these Jews all spoke Spanish as first language.
Imagine if Theodore Herzl s'idea of making Yiddish the official language, it would had make Israel (Judenstaat) a more European identity
Question, is Yevanic (Romaniote) was a direct descent of the Greek language from the time of the Hellenestic period?
I have to much to say, sorry for this flood of comments-question
There is not enough evidence to say if Koine Greek ultimately gave Yevanic. Probably not, actually, but remotely possible.
Amazing video, thank you. I would add also Adyge language since one of the minority languages here .
Good suggestion.
Benjamin (בנימין, Benyamin) in Hebrew means Southerner, literally Son of the South.
Son = Ben = בן
Yamin = South (also the right side) = ימין
And fun fact, for Christians, Aramaic is the language of Jesus, but for Jews, Aramaic is the language of the Babylonian Talmud.
Benjamin is a wonderful name. But warning, I may be biased. 😉
What's name of the ruins at 13:30?
Beit Guvrin, Church of Saint Anne.
@@BenLlywelyn
Thanks
Part of the ruined village of Bayt Jibrin deserted
and depopulated following the Nakba
thank you so much for this video. Very educational. I speak Romanian, would love to learn Hebrew (my dad was Jewish)
You are very welcome. A wonderful heritage you have. Multumesc.
19:42 Mathrati?! Are you talking about the Bene Israeli community who migrated from *Maharashtra* to Israel? They speak *Marathi.* As a _Maharashtrian_ myself I was fascinated to learn that we've such a community, since they're fellow *Marathi* speakers I consider them as my own people. That's why I was looking forward to *Marathi/मराठी* being mentioned & why I'm also disappointed that it wasn't mentioned at least not accurately. Imagine someone mentions Welsh but instead they're saying Wethls or something.
He also butchered Malayalam, but yes I believe he was referring to Marathi. It was an honest mistake. It can be kind of difficult to read and pronounce properly for people who are not familiar with the languages in India. India has been one of the kindest countries to the Jewish diaspora and has some beautiful languages, including Marathi and Malayalam
@@lardgedarkrooster6371 Yes I just noticed that Malayalam is spelled as Malayam basically missing "la/ള" which in itself is a difficult consonant for non natives to pronounce but is completely missing here. I'm sure it's an honest mistake coz it's not something anyone would want to do deliberately. I suppose the primary problem for both Marathi & Malayalam here is the misspellings rather than the mispronunciations. Although some language names are hard to pronounce even when they're correctly spelled like Welsh itself coz I still don't know how "Cymraeg" is pronounced or how "Cymru" is pronounced which is the native name of Wales.
@@NikhileshSurve I think "Cymraeg" is pronounced something like "kimraik" and "Cymru" is something like "kimri". Welsh spelling is a bit weird I will admit, but at least it's consistent 😂. I would love to learn more writing systems used in South Asia at some point. I can still only somewhat read Devanagari
@@lardgedarkrooster6371 I used to think "Cymru" may be pronounced as "Simru" but one day I heard it being pronounced as "Kumri" & I was confused 😅. But I think Irish Gaelic words have much weirder spellings 😂
Yes the native writing systems in the Subcontinent are wonderful & beautiful imo. In fact they're easy to learn if you know at least one of them coz all Indic writing systems are related as they descended from the common ancestral script Brahmi, so they've the same concept of 'Consonant + Vowel marks' to modify sounds/pronunciations of Consonants. It's like trying to learn Greek or Cyrillic using the knowledge of Latin alphabets as the reference. In fact if you know at least one Indic writing system then you can even learn the Korean writing system easily as it is also based on the same basic concept. I learnt many Indic scripts as well as Korean HanGeul/한글 script just out of curiosity & interest, it was easier to learn them than the languages 😅
@@NikhileshSurveDioch
French! A diplomatic language? Yes, it is still used in the ICJ at the Hague. Lawyers and judges often switch from English to French & vice-versa. (Excuse my Latin). Monoglots are at a disadvantage. The lingua franca of the Thai Royal family was, until recently, French.
Yes. Having a grasp of French has enriched my life. Merci pour ça.
The pieces of the jigsaw are set to reveal themselves in all their glory-Dioch, merci, kop-khun-krub, uhmm-goy.
Great work Israel, in reviving Hebrew! You guys need to share some of that technique with your friends in Ireland. And maybe this is just me, but... shouldn't Americans be speaking Latin? C'mon guys...
I’d counter that by saying America should be speaking a modern variant of Proto-Indo-European.
@@TheCanaaniteUnionist I mean, I wouldn't *complain* ... it's just that in another thread I'm telling the RC church to start giving Mass in Latin again, and thought I could double up. ;D
Lets see if i can guess.hebrew yiddish aramaic Circassian ladino,arabic syriac? Amharic, ummm the other judeo- languages Georgian Romaniote italkim. Do the druze have a different language? Armenian....
Hebrew was definitely an officially recognised language in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth.
I would have to read a bit to find either way, but the main spoken language of Ashkenazi Jews in Poland /Lithuania was Yiddish, not Hebrew.
That of Blood.
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Growing peaches and eating dishes with more cheeses than I knew existed the morini brython their fate has been predicted
I like peaches.
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Based.
Cheers.
Ikh farshteyn a bisl Yiddish, ober ken nisht redn gut ;)
BTW, I have never met an Israeli that doesn't speak Hebrew, and most that I have come across while visiting the country, do speak at least rudimentary English.
Üben Sie und Sie werden mehr lesen.
@@BenLlywelyn Dos iz Daytch. Dos iz Yiddish "fir un du vet leyenen mer" ;) Yiddish is closer to Swiss and Austrian (also high German) than to standard modern Hochdaych. Funny thing but there are words in Yiddish that sound and means exactly the same thing as they do in very old English. Even though my family immigrated to Canada in the 1800s, Yiddish was spoken in my home but diminished with my generation. I was embarrassed to speak it so I refused. Now I am kicking myself in the arse for not learning to be fluent when I had a prefect opportunity. I remember my mother and her mother talking and they would code switch between English and Yiddish all the time, because both languages were equally familiar to them. I think Yiddish is making a comeback and not just with Jews but with other people interested linguistics. I heard a linguistic professor say he learned Yiddish because it gave him a good understanding of how German developed. He came from an Amish background and spoke Pennsylvania Dutch so it is not a big stretch.
BTW, you probably know that in addition to Aramaic and Hebrew loan words, there are many Slavic elements in Yiddish which was incorporate as Jews moved Eastward into Slavic speaking regions like Czechoslovakia, Poland, Ukraine.
Your vids are very well delivered!
@@BenLlywelyn A geshenk far dir (a present for you) Hern tsu dem; Di Rob (The Raven) oyf Yiddish. czcams.com/video/K9gG37zLGdQ/video.html
@@BenLlywelyn This is also a good one. Opening scene from Serious Man (mit Englische subtitles). Hano hobn!
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6:06 unlike the "rights" jews enjoyed in the newly independent Muslim majority nations....
Being a dhimi is no life at all.
No doubt. Don't get me started
ווי אַ מאַמעשפּראַכיקע ייִדיש רעדנער פֿינד איך דעם ווידעאָ זייער אינטערעסאַנט 😌 אַ שיינעם דאַנק
איר זענט באַגריסונג.
Kersinam
Üdvözöljük
Due to yiddish they all made me think they're Germans, at work 😂.
And I say,, why you speak German with me, I'm not German,,.
Mutually intelligible, to a degree.
@@BenLlywelyn I think they spoke German with me. Made me think they are mocking me but they know German due to Yiddish.
Also, I don't hate Germany, germanics like I leave the impression. I voted Johanis twice.
@@mihaiilie8808Then spell his name correctly, it’s Iohannis, in fact should be Johannis with J not I, however, the other n should be there all the time, how would it be if we wrote Macron - Matron or Obama Obamma.
@@DeannaSt Do you realise that just now I found out that Ciolacu is from my city Buzau( the visigoths that destroyed Roman empire city).
You can't be serious telling to a visigoth how to spell Johannis 😂.
In fact I said I voted Greta Thunberg when I voted Johannis last time and I knew I basically voted Soros.
@@DeannaSt You can't expect much from a buzoian visigoth that nicknamed the dacians from Transylvania gepizdi because they were slow.
Iordanes says that, that gepids was an insult and means basically slow getae dacians,slow goths.
And I like the gepids treasures that got to Hungary sadly. Smaller than ours from Buzau but if you compare them you will see they are the most similar looking because we are the same people, not foreigners as Lucian Boia, Neagu Djuvara and other fake historians tell us.
Fascinating video. As a someone born from a Palestinian father and an Israeli mother, it goes to show the diversity of my country. (And that does not at all mean I support the ongoing brutality of the Israeli government in Gaza). But regardless of politics, wonderful video about language
I left politics out.
@@BenLlywelyn For the most part yes, but the comment on the section of Arabic when you mentioned that “everyone wants to kill you” was a bit unnecessary. The point about Israelis being proud of having Arabic being so prominent in the country could’ve been there and had just as much of an impact without saying something like that, that basically makes Palestinians sound like they're all murderers. Again 99% of the vid was apolitical but that part rubbed me the wrong way.
A Palestinian father ❌A Palestinian Snake ✔️
AND YES RESPECT TO UR ISRAELI MOTHER@@lonk121
I bet your mother is an Arab with Israeli citizenship
PERFECT LIAR!
About what, exactly?
I didn't know arabic has such a prominent position in Israel. Weird that it's not used in Knesset.
Unless you remember the horrific genocide going on as of this writing and while you made this video.
Populations do not increase in genocides.
If you hate the only Jewish state, maybe you should convert to Communism.
@@BenLlywelyn Dude, 29 000 people dead. At this point, there is no room for debate. It has to stop.
Why didn't Americans speak Japanese in the White House in WWII?
How do you call a population that doubles every decade "genocide"?
Lies and double standards mostly. Most Americans understand them. The rest of the world thinks it's a dead language and must be phased out. For good.
This is a video about the languages of Israel today. Not sure where lies come into speaking about the nation's linguistic communities.
If you are speaking about ancient Hebrew, it's alive and spoken by millions.
It's my mother's tongue.