The Sound of Ancient Languages. Full Version. You Haven't Seen Anything Like This Before!
Dive into the fascinating realm of ancient languages with our enthralling video. Encounter the alluring sounds of historical civilizations through the skillful portrayal of lifelike characters. Embark on a journey through time, where you'll be serenaded by the melodious rhythms of forgotten dialects, each meticulously researched and expertly brought to life. From the enigmatic intonations of Egyptian hieroglyphics to the lyrical elegance of Latin, allow the echoes of the past to transport you to a world of linguistic marvels. Explore the linguistic legacy of our forebears and witness the enduring influence of language in safeguarding the heritage of ancient societies. Get ready to be spellbound as the voices of history's long-forgotten resurface once more.
Small correction on Latin, it would be more correct to use a returned pronunciation of Latin (classical pronunciation), while that of the video is the ecclesiastical pronunciation, which is not wrong, but the classical pronunciation would be more correct since we are talking about ancient languages
The one in the video is both ecclesiastical and classical mixed up🫤
A me pare che la pronuncia latina fosse più morbida non così zoppicante. È chiaro che a parlarlo non è una persona umana ma una voce robotica!
@@thebat729 Plus pauses made in some weird places (like AFTER "sed")
Classical Latin never pronounced "v" as a modern v it would have sounded like W. Only church Latin pronounced it like a modern V. Similarly in Classical Latin "C" was hard as in Cat not soft as in church Latin.
@@wattyler2994 Yes, that's what I mean
The Greek at the end is actually quite easy to understand, he directly speaks to us from almost two thousand years ago, and still sounds like someone we met today.
You mean it sounds like modern greek???
I was waiting for the Greek guy 😂😂😂
Ha ha!
It's quite wrong though. They used several modern Greek vowels instead of the ancient Greek values. That did make it easier to understand as a modern Greek speaker, but it really is not accurate.
😁😁😁
As a speaker of East Texan and some Southwest Louisiana, I understood 43% of ancient Latin
😂😂😂😂
Not the Greek one? There is an Athens in East Texas. 😂
So did all ancient guys look like super models?😂
Offcourse !! Ancient men and women were so wonderful !!
erkekler sonradan çirkinleşti..
Kerikit mat poop poop (Yes) in ancient Frogufshkin
They had no machinery or automation. All needed to work hard... obesity was uncommon but sweat and blood. Salute!
It’s AI generated
I learned a lot from this, including that ancient people were far better looking than any of us.
News flash: People 2,000 years ago looked more or less just like people do today.
@@PuzzoozooExcept that they dressed better back then.
@@bobblowhard8823 They certainly did.
@@bobblowhard8823 Dressed better? Lol🤣
These are people from today!
0:00 Etruscan 0:39 Sumerian 1:25 Ancient Greek 2:24 Urartian 3:24 Avestan 3:50 Egyptian 4:41 Akkadian Again 5:34 Sanskrit Again 6:33 Hittite 7:31 Latin Again 8:28 Phoenician again 9:14 End English
What does 'again' stand for despite they're the only one there.
9:14 turkish.
Type podium arts if you want to hear ancient Greek with ancient Greek accent, is greek speaker
Present day Bahasa created in Sumatra (formal language of Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei) is mixture of Sumerian (Sumatra, Mother of Sumer), Akkadian, Phoenician, Sanskrit, Chinese+Japanese, Latin/Portuguese, Arabic, Germanic/Dutch/French/English, etc. #polyglot
Forgot to list the English speaker. Oops.
Most of the the times, I wished that I was still living in a world without technology, but then, I come across a video like this and I am thankful to the technology.
but they still had technology back then, It was just ancient technology
just to get slaughtered by iron in close combat? when your landlord has some disput with the other one?
@@tamasloki6456 It's much better these days. Missiles, drones, nukes, IEDs, landmines...
Technology is good when well used like this. Unfortunately is not always the case
@@tamasloki6456to be fair, better die in combat on equal grounds than to get force equalized by someone who can be inferior to you in every way... FROM RANGE at least before you had a chance, killing someone and dying is too easy now, can't even defend yourself fairly
3:50 … was my favorite… almost made me tear up tbh … Ik no one really knows exactly how the Ancient Egyptians spoke… but ugh that sounded so close I bet… I love Egypt. As a big Egyptologist … it was so beautiful to hear.
It's impossible to know for sure, but Coptic is similar enough that linguists have been able to make reasonable guesses by tracing the language's trends back in time.
@@Cat-tastropheethe reconstruction presented in this video is based on that premise
There's a whole page on Wikipedia dedicated to changes in pronunciation through time, and even if it is largely imprecise, with enough critical thinking and IPA knowledge, you should be able to pull off a decent egyptian accent. I myself am working on writting a report summarising and precising the various rules and specific phonemes of Middle Egyptian (which is considered the Classical period of Ancient Egypt)
J'ai bcp aimé l'égyptien aussi si doux à l'oreille et le latin qui m'a permis de comprendre un peu
I had the idea of building a time machine, and sending a reel to reel analog tape recorder back in time so we can get some actual sound samples. I was told that wasn't possible at this time! PFFFFT!
If you are interested, as an Hebrew speaker I can basically translate the Phonecian: It appears that the text was wrriten on a royal grave, he said that his name is Tabnit, a priest of the godess Ashtart and the son of the king of Sidon - Eshmun'azar. He lays in this coffin and he warns anyone that will try to open this coffin not to do so and upset him and the godess Ashera, and if they would, some very very unpleasent things will happen to them lol
Can you understand the Accadian too?
@@Kinotaurus I could understand some similar words but not whole sentences unfortunatly
A little correction: in the first time I wrote the godess Ashtart, and in the second time Ashera. I was confused, it's Ashtart in both times.
Btw, I couldn't understand all the last sentences in which he says what the godess Ashtart will do to the one who opens the coffin, but what I think I understood is: "you won't have any offsprings in this life under the sun"
@@yahavhasson8040 bruh what type of Hebrew you speak lol
As a northern Indian I could understand most of the Sanskrit and some of the Avestan.
I am from Bangladesh (a Bangladeshi Hindu), and can understand most too.
@@kangtheconqueror8784 You also understand Turkish.
aryan migration theory.
@@whocares83this is fake theory,its debunked,aryans migrated westwords from india to europe
@@dmoll1799???
As a Greek I find the pronunciation of the two classical languages, latin and ancient greek very HART. Both languages have a smoother accent and a more pleasant echo, that was not case in this extremely important video. Congratulations, I was positively impressed 😄😊
ισχυει ,....κακο ηχο για αρχαια ελληνικα ,λες και μιλαει τα αρχαια κανας λατινοαραβομεξικανος
Ancient north american languages and also like Algonquin languages, Chatah, Navajo would be so boss!!! Really enjoyed this video!!
I agree those would certainly be interesting, but at least (I assume) we can find YT videos in indigenous languages that are still in use, e.g. Navajo, Nihuatl, Mayan languages, etc.
Guarani is a southamerican language that's still used in paraguay mostly
I watched a program about Antony and Cleopatra a few years ago and it was wonderful to hear the actors playing Antony and Cleopatra speaking to each other in ancient Greek - we forget that Cleopatra was for all intents and purposes Greek and that Greek was always the language of the eastern part of the Roman empire.
She was Makedonian, there's a difference. Imagine as today's Canadian vs Americans or English vs Scots.
@poonczey Still no difference
Ancient Macedonia was part of the Greek world -on the periphery but still part of it -Greece was not one country then but consisted of numerous independent states -some democracies like Athens and some kingdoms like Macedonia-so if someone was an Athenian or an Ionian was he/she not Greek?@@poonczey
Yes, Cleopatra was from the lineage of macedonians Ptolemaios, thus descendants from Alexander the great
thanks to Netflix we all know that Cleopatra was black. She probably spoke Zulu click sounds
As Hebrew speaker I understand Phoenician (about 70%)! Both (Hebrew and Phoenician) are dialects of Canaanite language!
fucking genocider
You also understand Turkish im sure of it.😂
We are all brothers and sisters
Were all of these the first chapter of the gospel of John? I recognized the Greek and Latin as such.
@@greekwarrior5373 As a Turk I fail to see the connection
As a Bengali and Hindi speaker, I understood a gist of what was said in the Sanskrit language.
Brother, being a Slav, I understand certain words from Sanskrit. It is very funny .
Indo-european language obviously you'd understand like me I understand most of latin because I'm brazilian so portuguese speaker
Phoenician sounds so cool it's the ancestor of Maltese and despite the age you can still see the similarities. Phoenician: Laka zar' bahayyim taht sams Maltese La jkollok zaghar bej il-hajjin taht ix-xemx Means: May you not have any children under the sun
Ancestor of the Lebanese*
Hebrew לא יהיה לך זרע בחיים תחת השמש Lo yihye lekha zera' behhayim tahhat hashemesh
@@philliparieff7862 sorry I dont speak Hebrew
The ancient Greek that is heard is actually a dialect that prevailed during the Hellenistic period (323 BC-300 AC) and was called «Koine» (κοινή - common). Τhis dialect is very close and similar to modern Greek and therefore easily understood by modern Greeks. The excerpt is the beginning of the Gospel of John which had been translated into koine by the Septuagint in Alexandria. It would be interesting if ancient Greek included the Attic or the Ionian dialects, in which the masterpieces of the Greek philosophers were written. Also, the pronunciation is very bad, like an Englishman trying to speak Greek or me English Correction: The gospel of John was originally written in the Greek language (Koine). The Septuagint translated only the old testament texts into koine.
The Language of the Last 7 Books of the Old Testament and the Entire New Testament 📖🇬🇷 It is a Holy language. ☦️
The Romans described the Greeks they knew as speaking in a "singing tone." Should this Greek have been more melodic & mellifluous?
Καλά σαν ν ακούμε νέα ελληνικά με ξενική προφορά.μονο Έλληνας θα μπορούσε να τα διαβάσει σωστα
Show off! ☺️
That explains how I clearly understhood. Back at school we had focused on older dialects, especially the Attican, before the hellenistic period, which was a pain in my butt (Im a thessalonian btw :), double the reason)
As a spanish speaker, of all these antique languages, the most comprehensible for me was Latin
El etrusco también se me hizo familiar, el griego se entienden algunas palabras: ¿qué dice que mi pene que?..😆
no shit
No, the most comprehensible for you is Turkish.
roman larp gang 😩🙏🍷
@@greekwarrior5373How?
Gorgeous idea to propose this video on ancient languages ! Congratulations for this amazing work and waiting for another languages 🙏✨!
that's really amazing, seems like Ai restored ancient people with narrations in their languages. Thank you for sharing
I think that if I could go back in time and redo my college degree, I would do it in linguistics. Ancient languages especially, they endlessly fascinate me.
I’m doing linguistics now. 18 years after finishing computer science.
@@PedroMachadoPTI bet you are enjoying it more this time around.
That is historical linguistics, modern linguistics is all about semantics.
I can't comment on any of the languages other than 1st century AD Hellenistic common language. The sound of Greek we heard was definitely from some foreign Western European who has just started learning Greek and is pronouncing it syllabically. If you want to hear the sound of this text in a beautiful flowing Greek language you can visit today a Greek Orthodox church where the sound of it has been preserved unadulterated. We will have our doubts about the other languages that today are probably extinct!!
Thank you for your comment. The Latin here is also really far from being ancient.
Totally agree . Maybe i can understand about the diphthongs maybe but the way a western european probably an English speaker is reading Greek it is a jok .
Thanks 👍♥️🙏
@@toolanathema In my opinion it would sound closer to the ancient pronunciation of the text if read by a modern Greek, who certainly retains after 2,000 years the same pronunciation as his ancestors. Fluent pronunciation makes all the difference. In the video the pronunciation is problematic!! It's like a Greek trying to pronounce a Victorian English text with a Greek accent. Queen Victoria would not be thrilled with the result!!!
Latin didn't go extinct like the others either, the language was still the language of the catholic church when each of the dialects of Latin broke off into the romance languages today, so pronunciation was standardised in the 8th to 9th Century CE to the ecclesiastical pronunciation, which was used quite commonly up until about the mid 19th century BC
It is extremely interesting to hear these ancient languages. It's challenging to say the least. Thank you
Phonecian and Hebrew are sisters. I literally understood most of what he said. Amazing
Canaanite Languages
@@Cieloespectral_78 Not all Canaanite languages are related or similar. There were many languages of different people. Most are not understandable to one another. Hebrew, Aramaic and Phoenician are the most similar to each other.
Sanskrit seemed 100% clear and hasn't changed a bit from what I learnt in high school.
Bcz in school we learn classical Sanskrit not vedic. Vedic Sanskrit you won't understand much of it, for instance try to read Rigveda and then any Puranas, you'll find purana as more easily understandable while veda be much more difficult
Sanskrit cannot change as it is a constructed theoretical language like Esperanto (with the difference that Sanskrit tried its best to include every difficulty of the various Indian languages they wanted to coalesce in it, whereas Esperanto is a simplification of a little bit of every European language).
@@MrMirville It is not a theoretical language. It is the ancestor of all Indian languages in the North. All of Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati and Punjabi is evolved from Sanskirt. Now go somewhere else and argue that the earth is flat. You sound totally ignorant and a troll.
@@MrMirville That'd be inaccurate, it's not a conlang, referring it in that manner would be bad linguistics. Daksiputra Panini, Bhartrhari and other grammarians did not attempt to coalesce various Indian tongues when he ended up creating what we call Classical Sanskrit or Paniniyan Sanskrit. What he did was to introduce Grammatical reforms and rules to formalize a dying natural language whose regional dialects had begun turning into Independent languages, which resulted in it freezing from further natural development as it turned into a language of liturgy and the intellectual classes. If anything, Classical Sanskrit is less morphologically complex than Vedic Sanskrit. You could argue that Classical Sanskrit happens to be a very formalized natural language that appears constructed, seeing how it's direction was significantly influenced by the pronouncements of grammarians.
@@anirudh177 I have caricatured my point a little bit : actually they tried to make all texts they considered sacred readable by the rules they tried to formulate and edict, even though these sacred texts might actually come from dialects distant from each other : Sanskrit has integrated undeniably even "non-Aryan" root words, grammatical forms like the "absolutive" (very characteristic of Tamil), and sounds like the lingual consonants that don't exist anywhere else in the Indo-European world but are the most prevalent in Tamil. But the fact is that Sanskrit is easier to learn if you learn it like if it were a conlang, precisely because it has more regularity in its numerous noun and verb forms. Sanskrit despite having sacred texts written in a very inflexional language like most Slavic languages still are, has by itself more the characteristics of an agglutinative language like Turkish or Esperanto, especially if you read rather technical manuals of yoga or astrology : everything is composed of nominal sentences made of huge compounds. One proof of its composite nature is the presence of so many past tenses that more or less mean the same thing (namely the equivalent of a simple ptreterit like the English one).
2:24 hearing this makes me really understand how Urartian was the foundation of the Armenian langauge. So interesting to actually hear our ancient ancestors. Thanks for this
Urartian is not an ancestor Armenian ???? It's not even in the same family. There was some borrowing sure, but they don't share a common ancestor.
@@kevinthecat9704there are still words that we use that are similar
@@TigranHakobyan-jh8ue yeah i know. Like I said, there are some borrowed words, but its not an ancestor to Armenian.
@@kevinthecat9704 the people who spoke the language are the ancestors of present day Armenians
@@TigranHakobyan-jh8ue thats true. All im saying is that the languages are unrelated.
Amazing!! I live in Mexico and this men leave me in lost history centuries!!
Amazing video, deserve more parts.
Ancient history is my favorite so this video is magical to me. It literally moved my spirit to hear the words and languages of those that have long since died. ❤
I love studying ancient history because it allows me to connect with my ancestors in a way that more modern history lacks for me, personally.
We are still here as descendants of Egyptians, Romans, Greeks, Phoenicians etc.
It was interesting to hear Sanskrit, an ancient Indian language. A lot of people probably don’t realize that the word “karma” is Sanskrit.
Sanskrit is still actively used today as the religious language of many South Asian traditions
Maya,chakra,karm,samsara, Aryan and yog are famous Sanskrit words. Several Sanskrit god names like indra,ashur are also famous Many mantras in easterm Buddhist traditions are in Sanskrit.
Thank you very much, it's so interesting listening those languages from the past! Wonderful idea!
Apenas escuché el latín me sentí en casa❤
It's crazy how as a Hebrew speaker I understood almost everything thr phonecian has said. We can have a conversation lol. I also understood some of the Akkadian
That is, the phonecians are definitely the anscestors of the hebrews, imagine how rebellious abraham was in his day by refusing to sacrifice his son to Ba'al
@@Kyle-uz1rp brother language not ancestor
@@Kyle-uz1rp it's because Phoenician and hebrew are both dialects of cnaanite which makes them sister languages while arabic is more of a cousin language because herew and Phoenician are western Semitic and Arabic is southern Semitic
keeep dreaming@@Kyle-uz1rp
@@Kyle-uz1rp Officially, it was the Jewish god Yahu/El who demanded this sacrifice and then had second thoughts. But you are definitely not wrong. Fun fact 1: Ba'al just means Lord, and was sometimes used in this sense in reference to the Jewish god. But it was also used as the name of a specific god of thunder and war. The Jewish god was the result of a merger of El, creator of the universe and father of all other gods, and Yahu, a god of thunder and war. El had been the main god of Israel=Samaria (northern kingdom, capital Shechem), and Yahu of Judah (southern kingdom, capital Jerusalem). Some of the most important parts of the Jewish Bible were forged out of northern and southern texts that came from a time of conflict between the two kingdoms and vehemently contradicted each other. So in a sense it would be as correct to say that Ba'al = Yahu as it is to say that the Jews have only a single god. Fun fact 2: The fact that there are prohibitions against human sacrifice in the Jewish Bible indicates that this was a practice that existed at the time and that the texts wanted to stop. The purpose of the Abraham story was probably to give a justification for the new prohibition. So clearly humans were sacrificed to Yahu/El. Some scholars believe that (only) in this context Yahu/El was referred to with the honorific 'Molokh'. The passages referring to this were later reinterpreted as being about a different god with this name.
So beautiful to hear these wonderful words, even though I had never EVER heard of some of the languages spoken.
I’m so glad you included Sanskrit!! I love it
3:50 made me so happy. I love ancient egypt, I even started Arabic lessons so when i eventually visit Egypt I'd be a bit more lingual there, but being able to hear what ancient Egyptian most likely sounded like (and not in some chanting ritual on tv) is so cool
❗I cannot express how much I love and appreciate this ! Often throughout my life, I've wished I could hear these languages spoken. Thank you🙏
Digo o mesmo!
The pronunciation of all these is just far from how it actually sounded. Do not fantasise it
Yep, this video is absolute bullshit
Como brasileiro, aprendi amar e admirar o latim.!
Obrigado 🤝
Eu fiquei surpreso por reconhecer que estava sendo citado João 1, mesmo nunca tendo estudado latim.
@@gsouza4640surpresa boa
@@gsouza4640eu tb
@@gsouza4640 Faz todo o sentido você assimilar latim com essa facilidade. É a nossa língua ancestral.
So cool to find actual recordings of people 2 thousand years ago
This is interesting. How do the people the researchers know? What are the methods to have an idea how a language spoken 4000 years ago would sound like? Fascinating.
Many, many, many years ago when I was an undergraduate I took a course on Italian culture. We had to select some type of "project" to present at the end of the semester. I chose to research and write my paper (turned out to be 150 pages) on "The Etruscans." A few years later I traveled to Italy and actually got to see two Etruscan tombs, and I visited museums that featured Etruscan pottery and statuary artifacts. The Etruscans came alive for me when I listened to the words in the video. It's one thing to read about, research, and then write on a culture, group or nation, but it's another thing to hear an ancient language brought to life and imagine people who used that language on a daily basis. Good video!
I am italian, from the lands of the Etruscans. We have absolutely no proofs about their pronunciation. We can hardly read and understand their language. The actor of the video looks as a man from northern Europe while the Etruscans were a Mediterranean people. We can find better their heritage in their way of life, food, position of woman in society, craftwork and art.
@@mauriziodesanctis1159 No, Etruscans were Turkish.
@@greekwarrior5373 Oh, you are the Turkish 🦃 cockroach who pretends to be Greek. How is the Earthquake doing, Ogluzguzkhan?
As the Italian said, we have no way to know how they sounded like. The sounds portrayed here might as well be pure fantasy.
@@greekwarrior5373 Recent studies have found the Etruscans were an indigenous people from the area. For years archeologists and historians believed the Etruscans were somehow related to the Turkish peoples. Now they are saying "no." Sometimes there's probably more accuracy in just throwing a coin and seeing which side comes up first........
Sumerian sounds strikingly telegraphic to my ears, very clear, succinct and to the point, although I don't understand a word.
I believe the Sumerian language was the first
It's also parsed weirdly. It's as if I was. Talking to you like. This instead. Of normally.
I highly doubt it was full of autotune like this video. None of this sounds human.
@@coolname2629 Exactly, none of this sounds like a real human language. Latin does not sound like Italian or Sardinian at all, Greek like Modern Greek, Sanskrit like Hindi or Urdu. Makes you wonder.
The pronunciation of all languages was computerised. An algorithmic and not natural flowing pronunciation.
Very cool!! Thank you for sharing
Thank you for the opportunity to imagine how the ancient languages might have sounded.
A Hebrew speaker can make out a bit of the Phoenician.
came here to say this!
so can Arabic speakers
I was wondering whether any of it would be recognizable to modern Semitic speakers while listening to the Phoenician. Thanks for clearing that up By the way, could you just understand indivudual words, or phrases or most of the text?
@@JacquesMare A word here and there. I think I've got the first line: "I am Tabnit, a priest of Ashtart, king of the Sidonians, son of Asmun-azar, a priest of Ashtart, king of the Sidonians. who are you? ..."
@@physics1518 that's so cool. Thanks for responding.😁
Very interesting. It would be nice to see the the English translation to know the meaning of the texts. Also it would be nice to hear some ancient women.
It seems as though each speaker is speaking about their gods and goddesses as key words in the text relate to a name of a god or goddess.
yes, I don't know why these AIs are only done in male voices and figures.
The Greek one was the beginning of the Gospel of John.. from the Bible.
@@v4v777Same as the Latin one.
It's amazing!!!! I really love how great human can combine sounds creating so different linguages!!!!
Bravo 👏, thanks to you we plundge into History.
Para los hispanos (personas que hablamos español), el griego no nos es tan extraño ya que aproximadamente el 10% de nuestro idioma proviene de los helenos. Un idioma tan lindo que ha enriquecido al español. 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
Yo creo que el menos extraño es el latín, el español se formó cómo una "malversación" del latín. Yo entendí varias palabras, sin ir a un traductor, me sonaron cosas algo "bíblicas", algo como "en el principio era el verbo....", cuando tenga un tiempo voy a un traductor a ver si si atiné 😂😂😂
This is true, I was just in Greece and it sounds very similar phonetically.
@@javierfernandoagudelogomez1794 da Napoli , Italia: gli Italiani, Spagnoli, Portoghesi, Francesi, Romeni sono i discendenti dei Romani, che appartenevano all'antico popolo dei Latini ( Italia Centrale). Essi sono chiamati popoli NEOLATINI E LE LIRO LINGUE DISCENDONO DAL'ANTICA MADRE LKNGUA LATINA. I NEOLATINI , PARLANTI LINGUE NEOLATINE ( ALUAS LJNGUE ROMANZE) SONO UNA DELLE RAZZE DOMINANTI IN EUROPA , INSIEME AI POPOLI GERMANICI ( TEDESCHI, AUSTRIACI, OLANDESI, SCANDINAVI INGLESI ) ED AI SLAVI ( SERBI, CROATI, SLOVENI, MONTENEGRINI, BULGARI, CECHI , SLOVACCHI, RUSSI, POLACCHI, UCRAINI, BIELORUSSI). IN MINORANZA GRECI, ALBANESI, POPOLI CELTICI ( SCOZZESI, IRLANDESI, GALLESI, GALIZIANI, BRETONI) ; UNGHERESI , POPOLI BALTICI , FINNUCI.
Cristo , Genesis , Apocalipsis , Biblia , Católico , etc todas son palabras Griegas 🇬🇷 y lo bueno de aprender Griego es que todas las palabras toman sentido logico.
@@Jh0nJhon, lo que más me gusta del griego son los tecnicismos, abundan mucho en español.
Both the “Ancient Greek” and the Latin reciting the beginning of John’s gospel. In fact the Greek of New Testament times had evolved a great deal from that of 5th C BCE Athens and even more so from that of “Homeric” Greek. The Latin was interesting-pronouncing “v” as in modern English. Many believe it was more like “w.” Anyway, well done generally! I find it quite moving to hear these long dead voices from the past.
V was supposedly pronounced like a W and all C's were pronounced as a hard C or K
Seems like all these languages are reciting the same text… „In the beginning there was the Word.”
I thought that! The only word that I understood in Greek was the word “logos” and the in Latin,the word “Deus” and I thought wouldn’t it be cool if they were saying John 1!
WOW! This was cool. I just loved to hear Sanskrit, as someone who has studied it - albeit as an eager amateur. With help from the text and perhaps also a limited knowledge in Hindi I could actually understand at least some of the words! Great job - very entertaining indeed.
I'd love to see Biblical Hebrew on here too, I want to see how it's changed from my own family's speech. And Aramaic too. Akkadian sounds almost similar.
As an Israeli, I could understand the Phoenician one, so Phoenician and Hebrew are pretty similar
Biblical Hebrew is really similar to Modern Hebrew. I have no trouble understanding it as I speak modern Ivrit /Hebrew. I can also understand some Aramaic
@@lioraz3701 I knew the first part but didn't know it could help with Aramaic!!
But you guys forget to mention Ancient living language Tamil ❤ தமிழ் ( India 🇮🇳) , Tamil was the first to be classified as a classical language of India. Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia. Tamil is an official language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the sovereign nations of Sri Lanka and Singapore,[9][5] and the Indian Union territory of Puducherry, It is also spoken by the Tamil diaspora found in many countries, including Malaysia, Myanmar, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia and Mauritius
Uh...okay wikipedia
@@rohanrodrigues7115 so what ?
Ariyan peoples want to destroy our Dravidian history. Simple.....
am ashamed that a 600 bc year younger langauge sanskrit has a place in the video but we wont ..500bc🫤🫤
@@kavirio3849Sanskrit is the oldest language in the world what nonsense are you saying? Go google how old is sanskrit there are traces of it for about 7000 years. Who told you Sanskrit is 600? 😂
As Italian I find absurd we don't have LATIN in the primary scool... because Latin helps a lot to learn BETTER many other langiuges! I can understand just few words.
You have it in the gennasio
You are absolutely right about what helps to understand other languages, I am Spanish and I live in Sweden and the fact that Swedish has many words borrowed from Latin and French made it much easier for me at first to understand the language.
@@neskaeuskalduna7158spanish does not “borrow” from latin. Spanish descends from latin.
You must read my comment carefully, I mentioned "SWEDISH has many words borrowed from Latin..." Where did I write that spanish was borrowed from Latin? 🤔 @@Alborzhakimi7010
You should read carefully what I wrote, I mentioned "THE SWEDISH borrows..." at what point did I write that it was Spanish? 🤔@@Alborzhakimi7010
It is well known that ancient Greeks spoke in a characteristic singing style. That style survived in the present-day western islands. Visit one of them, Corfu, Zante, and listen to the characteristic musical way older people speak to each other if you want to discover how ancient Greeks might have spoken.
i think that is just some tone system
While i learned latin at school, actually for 9 years, i was still surprised how it may have actually sounded.
As a Hellen, I could easily say that the ancient Hellenic presentation was ridiculous. That accent was definitely American...
It wasn't good at all and that should have been one of the easiest to reproduce. Which means the other languages are probably woefully inaccurate. It's a video meant mostly for entertainment, I think.
I mean it’s AI. What do you expect?
It’s AI voice. Even the persons you see are CGI/ AI. So it’s only reading what’s written.. with errors.
As a Turkish archeologist who studied Ancient Greek language, I totally agree with you. These are not correct....
2 points for AI😅 humans are still better lol
Absolutely fantastic and marvelous, thank you!
Πόσο εθνικά υπερήφανος νοιώθω όταν διατειρείται μέχρι σήμερα η ενιαία Ελληνική γλώσσα!
Congrats! Tremendous job!
These videos are so fascinating. Please do more ancient languages, and maybe some of the more obscure modern languages.
yes, i agree.... also maybe valarian...
Fascinating! Thank you very much for this educational video which brings our ancestors closer to us!
So fascinating. Thank you.
Etruscan is very interesting to me because in my opinion, it sounds kinda like a mix of Ancient Greek and Italian but with R rolls and certain letters missing. Or letters that don't seem to exist now. Fascinating
Línguas belas e fantásticas, mas fiquei fascinado com o fato de conseguir entender boa parte do Latim.
If you know any of the roman languages, it's logical that you understand parts of it. But also his pronounciation is mostly modern here. Based on italian. Original latin sounded different.
Português vem do latin :v
O nosso Português tosco é derivado do latim, assim como o Espanhol, o Italiano e Francês e outras mais. Por isso somos chamados de latino-americanos ou sul-americanos. No passado, latim era obrigatório nas escolas, hoje somente nos seminários nos cursos de Teologia.
Naturalmente, sei disso. Porém, falei no sentido que não esperava entender tanto boa parte do dialeto falado no vídeo, pensei que seria apenas algumas coisas.@@maluzuk2024
@@maluzuk2024Você esqueceu a lingua Romena
Amazing to listen ... I'm an instant fan. Love ancient world history! I think this should used for teaching children history and or language possibly because I believe it would draw them more into it... like a next level kind of visual amd audible learning. Thank you for bringing it to life and sharing!Blessings🙏🏻♥️
So fake news should be taught to children? Make no mistake, we have no idea how those languages sounded like
I love watching the you say when I look at the characters that you put into play the roles of each person is pretty much what they probably would have looked like based on genetics
Proud to be Avestan Long live 🇦🇫 our great History.
Beautifully done. I hope there’s more
Absolutely fascinating!
Outstanding! Thank you so much for this magnificent production, which allowed me (a lover of antiquity) to listen to the (approximate) sounds of some of my favorite vernaculars, namely Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, and Egyptian. BRAVO! Suggestion: What about Elamite, Canaanite, and the Assyrian version of Akkadian (your sample is clearly Babylonian since it mentions their beloved god Marduk)? Subscribed. P.S. The term "Assyria" derives from Greek. The Assyrians called their nation "Aššur" and themselves "the men of Aššur," both of which are the same as their chief deity "Aššur."
It would be cool if the text in the video had been translated, we would hear it in the original and understand the speech!
Fabulous. Just a first impression: Latin and Hittite struck me as the most beautiful. I liked the Greek and Phoenician, Egyptian and Etruscan also. Hearing this makes me feel closer to the distant Past: all those ancient peoples were just normal, relatively-intelligent folks like us. They could be our best friend or a bad mother-in-law. if we lived back then.
I KNOW Ltin from church as a catholic
I loved the Latin and Greek ... I've studied Latin but never mastered it. It is a beautiful language. I've always been fascinated with the Time Travel genre of Science Fiction... but always wondered how such adventurers would handle ancient languages.
Do you like Turkish too???
They would be speared to death, perceived by the locals as evil spirits or foreign spies from other lands.
Greek is such a beautiful language it is the language of the First Bible and the entire new testament 📖GR
Nobody care about Turkish it is not a Holy Language or ancient philoshoper language neither
@@gabrielmaldonado1903 It's an interesting language that has had influence on ancient Greek and others around that region of the world. It was spoken by Cyrus the Great that gave greater autonomy to the Israelites. blah blah
Im astonished at how the Sumerian language sounds because it’s one of my favorite civilization I like a lot all the Mésopotamienne civilization
I loved this!
The Latin is strange. The pronunciation is more like Ecclesiastical Latin (Beginning of the Gospel of John) than Classical Latin. How should I know? I was there.
What differences
@@jhombyrkotaksorgankazakhthe main differences are that the C is pronounced as K in classical, and the V as U/W
@@mats1975 Vatis yous problemus? Gaius Caesare Julius Octavius
Also they're pronouncing "ae" as "ay" like in "May", which is Ecclesiastical. In Classical it was pronounced like "eye".
Classical latin don't exist
Apasionante tener este documento y pensar que, de hacerlo viajar a través del tiempo, aquellos humanos entenderían algo. Apasionante la diversidad de construcciones fonéticas en que la humanidad se ha comunicado.
Absolutely fascinating.
Great video. Good representation of ancient dialect and peoples. These are many of our ancestors and we appreciate you representing them as accurate in clothing, speech, and image as possible. Honestly many of these languages were probably Semitic in origin and sound the same besides Latin
Love these. I'd love to be able to read more information and histroy about the language on the side while hearing it.
As a Indo-aryan Hindu, i could understand Sanskrit, the terms and some part of grammar gives it away. It is interesting to note, i have never learnt Sanskrit but we use Sanskrit mantras for worship daily. Also, its surprising to note, i could understand some Avestan, considering i have never heard about this language or we are not remotely related to any other language, culturally, ideologically or linguistically. Plus, since i know Kannada as well( a Dravidian language, totally different family of language) i would like to see oldest Dravidian languages( Old Tamil, Old Kannada or even Old Telugu).
It was classical Sanskrit that's why ,if there could've vedic Sanskrit, you probably wouldn't understand 75% of it😊
Same like Sanskrit Halegannada also beautiful ❤
हाँ मैं भी
It's because Avestan is an Iranian language. Both are sister languages that derived from indo european language which was used by the Aryan migrators who settled in Iran and India.
Also Avestan is grammatically closer to vedic Sanskrit. That's why it's easier for you to understand it than an Iranian like me. I could only understand a couple of words
Fascinating!
Love this video, looks so real!
Τα ελληνικά αν και κατανοητά έχουν μια περίεργη προφορά, καμία ΑΙ δεν είναι σε θέση να αποδώσει τη σωστή προφορά.
τα διάβασε ένας δυτικοευρωπαίος συλλαβίζοντας....χαχαχα
Απολύτως κατανοητά αλλά διαφοροποιείται η προφορά σε μερικά σύμφωνα.
Ελληνικα με αραβική προφορά
All are beautiful, I found Latin the easiest to comprehend in a small way... Very interesting!
The video sounds is great to 💤 sleep, I ❤ed them.
It was amazing.Such a pity that these languages are not used any more.
Latin is still used in Vatican City. But of course it's quite different than the ancient latin
There are plenty of languages in this video that are still used and learned today. Such as Sanskrit in indias schools
Beautiful and enlightening! Thank you! For future videos, it would be great if you could add English translations in the closed captioning.
Эти древние языки звучат как заклинания, таминственные и завораживающие. Они говорят с нами через тьму тысячилетий.
We think this is GREAT - GIVE US MORE!!
The Latin was from the first chapter of John in the New Testament! ❤ I recognised it immediately!
le grec aussi
@@patrickandries7412 I did wonder about that but I wasn't sure.
The Greek, too
The language the last guy was speaking sounds very much like modern English.
i can speak English and i understood everything that he said
😂
4:44 finally someone that speaks with some sense
Amazing!! I love the ancient greek!
Very well produced and very interesting ! 😊
Not latin
The Greek and Roman guys are quoting verses from John 1 in the Bible. The Sumerian guy is quoting the creation account from Epic of Gilgamesh. I am curious to know what the other people are quoting.
Would be interesting to know the methodology of reconstructing the vocalization of these words.
I always wondered how some languages were spoken. Now at least I know. Very interesting. Thank you for posting.
I am just amazed on how they found out the sounds of the characters. thats amazing. Is there a way for us to learn these? the animations are just a great. love it.
it's all reconstructed and guess work
@@urbandiscountall? Bro don't lie most of it is reconstructed but Sanskrit and latin is known.
@@Titancameraman64 Sanskrit and Latin are not known, they are dead languages. What are you talking about?
@@timeup2549Sanskrit is still used for religious purposes even though it has no use in everyday life.
@@timeup2549 Sanskrit is not a dead language. Sanskrit is one of the official languages of India.Sanskrit is the official language of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. There are Indian villages (in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Karnataka and Uttara Pradesh) where Sanskrit is still spoken. For example, in Mathur village in Karnataka, more than 90% of the population knows Sanskrit.