Hebrew and Arabic: Brother Languages The Amazing Similarities and Differences Between the Alphabets

Dunash ibn Tamim wrote that Arabic had three letters that Hebrew didn't have and Hebrew had three that Arabic didn't have, but at could there have been a time when Hebrew actually had every sound of Arabic?

From the Arabic commentator Sibawayh to a discussion on hummus.
In this video a non-Arabic speaker tries hard to pronounce Arabic letters, showing that the sounds of Arabic letters were once in Hebrew, but have now been lost from the mouth of most Hebrew speakers. These are some major shifts in the language:
The waw became a vav
The gimel without the dot that sounded like the French R became a hard g sound
The Resh which once was trilled became the French R
The teth and tsadi
How does one pronounce the four emphatic letters of arabic?
Sad pronunciation? Ta pronunciation!? All sorts of vocalizations and articulations. Arabic articulation and Hebrew articulation and how these two languages used to be even more similar.
How do we read the Bible? How were the words of the Torah originally pronounced? What are we to do with our lips and our throat when we try to enunciate these? Can we know the original sounds of the letters? We explore the history of Hebrew in relation to Arabic, exploring many sources.
What do we do when the language that was restored was not restored like how it originally was? We restore it again!
If you’re looking for reading ancient Hebrew this video is. I try to make Biblical Hebrew fun. I hope you like this video and I’d like to make more like this. Variations in Hebrew and Arabic explored. All sorts of interesting little facts about Hebrew and Arabic. The similarities between Arabic and Hebrew are astounding. Thank you for watching! Learn variations in Arabic dialects and Hebrew dialects. This is a study into learning how different Jewish communities have read the letters and have spoken. What are the handed down tradition of the Hebrew letters. In this video I speak of the book: The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Volume I.
You can read this book online for free. Looking to learn Hebrew? This video can be a good help because you might be wondering if you want to learn modern Hebrew or ancient Hebrew. This video explains the ancient pronunciations of the Hebrew alphabet. Hebrew has changed quite a bit over time, but learning the ancient pronunciations of the letters if a fascinating endeavor. I explain modern and ancient pronunciations so that both are clear, while showing how Arabic has preserved these sounds. Interesting for both scholars and people are new to these studies.
This semitic languages study goes into Hebrew-Arabic similarities. These two ancient languages are fascinating to compare. These ancient scripts have so much history, and it is particularly astonishing to compare them side by side. That's what this comparitive linguistics language history video does as we take a look at two languages from the ancient near east. Looking to sing worship songs in Hebrew but would like to know the most ancient way to pronounce the letters? This video can help with pronouncing the letters vav (waw), gimel, mem and more!

Was the Arabic letter Jim once a Gim?
Which Hebrew letters does Arabic have?
These questions and more are talked about in this historical linguistics video.

Geoffrey Khan, The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Volume I. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2020, https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0163
Shmuel Arkiwalti source on not having combo letters is from: Arugath Habosem Daf Daleth
Bension Hakohen information from: Kosht Imrei Emeth
Saadia Gaon and Dunash ibn Tamim’s commentaries on Sefer Yetsirah are extremely helpful in piecing the language together.

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