The phoenician expansion and african roots

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]But I've been calling it subsaharan Africa forever. I've been calling it the Middle East forever.

[00:00:08]Maybe the people who rename these places didn't do it with the best intentions at heart. But now everybody calls it like that. That's what they call it on the news anyway. What's the point of all this?

[00:00:19]>> The point is language matters. Language shapes everything. someone's name or something's name is the beginning of their identity. Denying someone the name they were born with or the name that accurately describes them, their situation, their their story or history. In that case, these places already had their own names given by them by the locals and then just, you know, colonial powers showed up and said, "Well, we like this name better, so now you're just going to be called that." That's the problem.

[00:00:58]>> So, I've been paying attention to this Phoenician study, and we're not going to talk about the black element. We're going to talk about the misunderstandings of the Phoenetians. So already some people are taking the study which they don't understand and then they're trying to say that the phoenetians were not Levventine at all but we need to explain this.

[00:01:22]>> Uh uh yeah Phoenicians what I'm saying is when I look at the alphabets they're the same.

[00:01:29]How is that possible? When I look at the ancient Irish alphabets, they're almost the same as the Phoenetian prior to the five seven00 to 500 BC when the when they allegedly gave the letters to the Greeks. It's the same 17 letters. So the Phoenetians would just be right now I'm defining them as ancient Italians. I don't think they come from Lebanon, especially because when you look at like the corpses that are attributed to being Phoenician corpses, like the u like Carthaginian bodies, there's no genetic match, at least from a DNA standpoint.

[00:02:03]And I don't trust DNA because there's no genetic match anywhere. The closest that they found is Portugal.

[00:02:09]>> So, because of news articles, a lot of people are making a mistake about what this genetic study says. And over here, this is somebody's commentary on it, but I'm not going to read it. But, you know, they make comments about how a lot of people are misunderstanding the study. So, the study does not say that the Phoenicians come from Europe.

[00:02:32]The study says that the Phoenicians first come from the Leavant and culturally this is proven. This is just a fact that they come from that area.

[00:02:43]Now we can argue about other things and how they were influenced by other people but this is a a historical reality.

[00:02:52]The Phoenicians had also moved. Princess Elisar had traveled with 300 Phoenicians down into North Africa and they began intermaring among black Africans in North Africa just on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean from about 1,000 BC right down until cartage was built on the basis of that civilization. Recently studies in cartage archaeological studies in cartage show that cartagenian civilization which included Hannibal and all those fantastic navies that they were largely African. Now they studied the skeletons they found it's a largely African civilization.

[00:03:27]The interesting thing about the Phoenetians, of course, is the fact that they traveled to many different places.

[00:03:33]And as you can see by this map, they made their way to places like North Africa, past the Gibralar Strait, um through places like Sardinia and stuff.

[00:03:45]And you can see that even in the quote unquote afroentric world, the people accept that the people of Phoenicia came from outside of Africa and traveled within Africa. But more importantly is that these people were a wide migrating people. So it's not a surprise of course that if they migrate in a wide wide range that these people are going to pick up several different people from different areas in the same way that Africans who migrated to places like the Middle East such as Ethiopians and stuff like that they're going to pick up other DNA even if you picked like another Middle Eastern group Persians right who migrated all over the world those who went to India picked up Indian DNA those who migrated to Ethiopia got Ethiopian DNA. Those who went to Madagascar got Madagascan DNA.

[00:04:44]The amount of travelers of course in the uh history says it was a couple hundred people who went to North Africa and so you would expect that there would be a shedding of DNA there that those people would not be the primary people in a larger group which was one of the point of the quote unquote afroentrics is that they made it with the North Africans no matter what they look like and they got got a higher North African DNA than Levventine DNA.

[00:05:21]And the study does show that North African DNA is very present in within these people.

[00:05:31]So let's talk about the culture of the Phoenicians. So the the Phoenetians are Afroasiatic, but not only are they afroasiatic in the classical sense, right? the t typical sense of they come from the afroasiatic regions. They their language corresponds with other afroasiatic languages like how like um Omharic like other cemetic languages that are afroasiatic.

[00:06:03]Not only does it mean that, but it also means that culturally they had some things that came directly from Asia that went into building their civilization and then things that came directly from Africa of which they represent them a lot that ended up in that civilization which gave birth to this Phoenician type of people. But these Phoenician type of people, not only did they culturally have ties with Africa before they left, because that's one of the things that people don't talk about about the Phoenicians, they make them sound like they're a magical group that came out of nowhere. But in real life, they got a lot of their stuff transferred to them from all the civilizations that had existed before.

[00:06:52]One of the reasons why you've never heard me talk about the Phoenetians before, you know, for years and years, even though I've been making videos, I didn't talk about them, is because, again, it's one of those places which are difficult because there's so many different types of people who could represent this joining. It's the same as Ethiopia. You know, you'll notice that when I talk about Africa, I tend to talk about West Africa, Southern Africa, parts of North Africa, but even there like there's a lot of complication because there are several different types of people who could play several different roles and it's written about, but again, some of the writings contradict one another. So there's a lot of wishful thinking in Europeans where they wish that the original Phoenicians are continuous with the rest of the Europeans. So they believe that the Greek are Phoenicians which is not true.

[00:07:51]They believe that whatever Italians or Phoenicians, which yes, Phoenicians, as the DNA study and a lot of other evidence shows, did transfer to the Mediterranean. All the stuff that they gathered from Africa and Asia, they transferred it to the Mediterranean areas, the deeper Mediterranean areas, but they didn't originate from there. So let's look at a comparison first of all with the numbers of Phoenician versus Hebrew numbers because of course since they're both Afroasiatic they have that influence.

[00:08:30]>> Hebrew Phoenician the Canananite languages a subgroup of the northwest Semitic languages along with Aramaic and Amorites originated in the Levant and Mesopotamia. Hebrew, a original dialect of the Canananite languages within the Afroasiatic language family, was natively spoken by the Israelites and used regularly until after 200 CE, remaining the liturggical language of Judaism and Samaritanism.

[00:09:00]Hebrew was revived in the 19th century, becoming a successful largecale example of linguistic revival. Phoenician, another Canananite language, was spoken around Ty and Sidon and became a maritime lingua frana during the Iron Age due to extensive trade. The Phoenician alphabets influenced the development of all modern European scripts after spreading to Greece.

[00:09:32]Shall >> arba arba kamshamesh >> shamadeshim.

[00:10:08]It's Amen.

[00:10:55]As you can tell, those languages are basically, you know, brother languages or sister languages, however you want to put it. And it makes a lot of sense because of course the areas of the Phoenetians are right next to Israel.

[00:11:11]So it makes sense. Uh it is true that there's an Aadian push there. It's true that there's a Middle Eastern push there. So in other words, Arabic is also very similar. But of course, the numbers of the Israel and the numbers of the Phoenicians are far closer to one another and and the general language in general. When you start to move west, things start to change slightly.

[00:11:46]I hope I don't have to go back to Heratus to say this because I'd rather just say it than read it. Um yes, the Phoenetians and the G the Greeks were considered foreign to North Africa and then of course you had the Libyans and the Ethiopians which are considered native to North Africa.

[00:12:10]The Aherum sarcophagus with a writing is one of the most interesting ones. Not because, you know, it exists and it's just one of those things, but because it tells us a lot about what these people believed and their beliefs, of course, line up very evenly with ancient Egyptian beliefs.

[00:12:33]And this is a translation by a specific person of it. It says, "The sarcophagus made Pel Bal, son of Akaram, king of Jeel, for Akaram his father, when he laid him away forever."

[00:12:50]And to any king among kings or governor among governors or military commander over Jebel, who has uncovered this sarcophagus, it is said, "The scepter of his rule shall be broken. The throne of his dominion shall be overturned and peace shall flee from Jibel if he shall destroy this inscription. Cover it over or deface it.

[00:13:18]So a stern warning there to all the Phoenician kings of Babelos that you know basically honor the dead especially this dead the king.

[00:13:33]You can clearly see that this sarcophagus has a lot of uh history tied to the general area that it existed in that little surrounding area of Egypt, Arcadia, Israel, uh probably even as far as Syria. The history of these people has basically influenced them to the point where they have become something altogether. And again, we do realize that these people's culture when it transfers, a lot of these are shed and a lot of them are shared. Shed as in they lose some and shared as in they gain some from these people.

[00:14:19]Now, this is something that we've been talking about for a long time, which is cultural transfer from Africa to Europe.

[00:14:29]This genetic study to me, some people are taking it harshly, but I I didn't see that many people. But this genetic study proves something that we've always been talking about how almost everything that exists in Europe including their tales about you know you know punigs and all of these are merely transfers from Africa into the Middle East into Europe and some of them directly from Africa to Europe.

[00:15:05]This stone sarcophagus looks exactly like any other ancient Egyptian one that I've seen. There are obviously some more unique things about it like the lines at the base and stuff like that, but in general it looks like a Egyptian stone sarcophagus.

[00:15:23]One of the things about being an extremist, of course, is that you will uh steal defeat from the hands of victory, which is one of the things that's happening with some of these people who believe that the Phoenicians are European white people. A lot of them, even though the genetic study has shown that there were some Sicilian people who hundred years hundreds of years after the original uh Phoenicians had transferred to the Mediterranean, they picked up their culture and continued their culture.

[00:16:02]Some people are not satisfied by this because of course it means that the people who transferred that ability of communication, that ability of technology, that ability of sailing, they came from too close to Africa and already in the Middle East or West Asia where really a lot of activity from a lot of different races was happening And that's too close for a lot of people. And so they're not satisfied with the idea that the Levventine DNA is the or at least the Aphroasiatic DNA is the original DNA of the Phoenetians, which then puts itself within the North Africans and puts itself within the Europeans.

[00:16:56]And then both of those communities probably because they have a much larger native population grows and eats that population. But the but the culture continues.

[00:17:11]Of course, again, we can discuss the fact that the Phoenicians wanted to sail their way around Africa, but I I feel there's something that is lost about that whole thing where basically the Red Sea Phoenicians were sailing there as well. And a lot of this information is lost in this study cuz I want to see if they can find the Phoenician DNA within the Red Sea as well because they were traveling in that area. That's why we find the alphabets which they spread throughout the entire European and North African and all of those regions. We find the same alphabets being spread by the phoenetians in that general Middle Eastern area as well. So why is that not being looked into and the DNA there and what was the majority DNA left over?

[00:18:09]I also want to stress something else now that I'm talking about that side of Africa.

[00:18:15]Isn't it amazing that East Africans who are 90 something% uh East African and you know to some degree they're pot bantto but 90% East African that their tiny little bit of Middle Eastern or West Asian or something for some people turns them away from that. But then any other group that has any other thing, including those in Sicily, those in Rome, those in all of those, apparently that tiny little bit does not change them.

[00:19:00]Is it not amazing? again that the cultural transfer that bleeds into Europe does not take away from them as a people. But any cultural transfer, for example, if writing came from West Asia and ended up in Ethiopia, it's not going to be looked at as like a native Ethiopian thing or looked at as a Ethiopian thing, but rather a transfer from West Asia. Whereas the same thing happened in Europe, but it's not looked at the same way. It's looked at as if it's like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, they came from the Levant, but you know, the real ones, these are the real ones that we're worried about.

[00:19:45]Is the Greek language based on Phoenician? This comment says, "It's not really true that these are genuine Greek words spread through Arabic, though, since Greeks based all things from Phoenicians. Even their alpha beta came from Phoenician alfbet.

[00:19:59]Okay. Well, it's true that the Greek alphabet was partly based on the Phoenician writing system. Um, but that doesn't mean that the entire Greek language came from Phoenician. That's two different things. The Greek language is an Indo-Uropean language. Phoenician is a Semitic language. It's very easy to compare them to other languages in those families and check. um Greek didn't come from Phoenician but it is true that they adopted the writing system and then made some adaptations to it.

[00:20:26]>> I want to stress something about Afroasiatic versus Indo-Uropean which is that most Europeans are Indo-Uropean in origin, their language, their history, their genetics, everything about them. Whereas a lot of Africans, especially those in the key areas, let's be honest, like Bantto, e East Africans, all of those are generally very close to this entire region as well. Now, obviously the Bantto are not, you know, Aphroasiatic, Niger Congo, not Aphroasiatic, but if you notice, Aphroasiatic is very close to the black areas anyway.

[00:21:10]And then of course the small seemetic branch and all of that.

[00:21:15]So culturally over tens tens of thousands of years hundreds of thousands no tens of thousands of years hundreds of years thousands of years in those small periods the aphroasiatic language has had overlap with many African languages in a way that it didn't with European languages and not just languages culture all of that and even if you accept the other way cuz some people say that the the Semitic languages went inside of Africa and then spread blah blah blah. But if you come to Africa, these people are black for the most part. You would still have to accept that the culture of these people would have to be far more similar to the people of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Sudan, Ner, Algeria. Their culture would be way more similar than that of the uh Europeans.

[00:22:15]Of course, I still don't believe that the it went that direction because of course, let let's just try to make sense of it mentally here. So, if you go to Chad, you go to Niger, you go to all of these places, you don't really find writing for a very long time, the Seemetic regions invented writing what, like 4,000 BC, 3,000 BC. if they went into Africa around later than this at that time because that's what people why where's the writing? Why didn't they transfer with the writing? Why didn't they transfer with the wheel? Why didn't they transfer with all these inventions that they had already invented at this time? Why didn't they move in with them?

[00:22:55]They just got rid of them for some reason.

[00:23:01]Again, I did do a video on the genetic breakdown of who they missed and who they said they were going to consider these people and not those people. So, you can watch that if you really are interested in that. But for the most part, if we just talk about cultural transfer, it's quite obvious that Africa is the home of the Afroasiatic people.

[00:23:25]And that still has not been debunked. I I know they're, you know, they're doing their best. eventually they'll find a way to make sure that uh even if it comes from Africa though somehow they're going to be white people but they're doing their best to debunk the idea that it came from Africa and they they they keep failing they keep finding more evidence that it's uh first in Africa then it migrates to the east.

[00:23:56]You may think that the history of the aphroasiatic language is laid out and no more information can be provided. But again, these languages because they're so similar are now throwing more similarities towards one another.

[00:24:14]Of course, the bridge language that a lot of people are looking for is ancient Egyptian and how it ties itself to the ones in the Seemetic side and the ones in the African side and why the prefixes are a very important thing to look at. I actually remember at one time looking it up where people were claiming that prefixes are are a small thing and they don't mean anything.

[00:24:38]But now it turns out that they're looking at them as a big part. This is since 2020 to about 2025.

[00:24:51]The suffix conjugation is more promising domain for comparison unlike the prefix conjugation.

[00:24:59]This is shared by earlier stages of Egyptian with all branches except chhattic as illustrated by table.

[00:25:10]its only Egyptian reflex. The stative conjugation came to be used as a resultative and especially for motion verbs as a pre perfect.

[00:25:25]In west symmetic, it developed a perfective sense in Berbber where it developed a stitative verb. In west symetic it developed a perfective sense.

[00:25:37]In berbber where present it limited stative verbs describing qualities koshidic preserves only arguable traces notably with copulus and adjectives. Now you will notice here again because this is the important part that if you're talking about a cemetic transfer coming from the cemetic regions moving down the chadic and the what do you call that the koshetic they should have these similarities but they don't they they sort of drop off and the reason for this is because they are an older part of the afroasiatic languages or a a different part if they were still like transferred from they would be so similar it wouldn't even be funny as you can see here they show things that are similar we don't have to go through them you can see here with the here Egyptian berba chhattic all form genetic constructive constructions using the particle n whereas if you look at the bottom you can see that cemetic and kosheric don't have this uh genetic.

[00:27:03]If you're normally interested in linguistics, most of the time they'll teach you about the Indo-Uropean branch first since it's the easiest and quote unquote widespread of the languages. But it's quite obvious now that there's something different going on with the Afroasiatic because unlike the Native American, unlike well different branches of Native American regions, but unlike some of the Native American languages, unlike the Bantto Niger Congo languages and unlike the Indo-Uropean languages, the Afroasiatic seems to uh keep giving us indications that it's pretty old, one of the oldest preserved D and easily one of the most complicated.

[00:27:50]Now, one of the reasons that some people might say it's one of the most preserved languages in the past is because obviously it had writing. But there are several places of the Afroasiatic branch where they didn't have any writing and still the Aphroasiatic language was preserved.

[00:28:07]And I think the aphroasiatic language will tell us a lot about how languages have you know stayed the test of time for a very long long time.

[00:28:19]I'll go back to that theory that was made by Alismi who said that general center region of the world is one of the most fascinating because almost all the technology almost all the history, all the religions, almost all of the things take place in this general center region from Ethiopia to uh Tunisia That region there is one of the most dominant in terms of history.

[00:28:53]And then of course the other side, the bottom parts of the Mediterranean as well.

[00:28:58]That's that part also gives us a lot of the technology and a lot of the history.

[00:29:04]So what is going on in that in the in that area that makes it so filled with information, filled with technology, filled with genetic and historical transfer?

[00:29:20]It's a mystery that we'll have to wait for another day because the Afroasiatic language still hasn't given us all of its secrets.