How Ancient Egyptians Sounded
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- What did ancient Egyptians sound like? Professor of Egyptology and Archaeology Laurel Bestock explains how we know.
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I didn't expect my takeaway to be regarding the positive historical accuracy of the mummy movies.
Jurassic Park could never
@@kumottakun6089 😂😂😂
I always saw the movie as goofy yet adventurous, so to see there is some historical accuracy is really nice too 😅
Same.. so much this
If you're interested in that, Rachel Maksy made a video about The Mummy with an egyptologist, I really recommend it!
The Mummy was such a banger. Prime Brenden Fraser and Racheal Weisz 💪🏽
I'll never forget when the mummy screams in his face the first time😂
Hey Benny, it looks to me like you're on the wrong side of the river!!!
I showed it to my teen last year and he watched back-to-back until The Mummy 3. LOL
Gotta say, Rachael Weisz looks like that to this day, breathtakingly beautiful woman
@@tracys169Nicee, it's a classic!
I wish this was around when I was in elementary school. Covering ancient Egypt was my favorite back then
It was around but in books
They were black so why are the actors white? Can't trust these "historians".
I used to draw Pyramids constantly. And we had a Word list of the week thing, I would always sneak in the word Ancient because it was my favorite word. :D
Yall covered ancient Egypt in elementary school? Were this college credited courses?
@@MayorGoldieWilson825 lol no! It was just like super brief lessons! I just remember it because it was when I first learned about them. I should have said middle school when we actually spent more time learning about them🤣
The mummy single-handedly made me want to be an archaeologist as a kid 😭 later on Indiana Jones as well. I love the mummy so much and still I’m so fascinated by ancient Egypt.
I loved Indiana jones! Named my dog Indiana Bones 😂
Imhotep was one of the first artists in history whose name we still have today. It's simply the coolest thing ever to me to hear what ancient people called themselves, and to know he was so important too
iirc, it is the oldest name in history for a "commoner," someone not a king or pharoah
@@ObjectorSnark and he went on to be deified by later dynasties.
@@nicholassingleton6488 dude invented "the pyramid"...that's god-tier architecture
@@ObjectorSnark my 4yo granddaughter builds pyramids of blocks. Mound building is the first structures the human mind can construct. There are mounds everywhere, even in stone age cultures.
Now the actual pyramids are complex inside, but the first pyramids were just piling stones and learning as they went. Giza was many many centuries into stone mound building, and built after they had learned wall, lentel and roof construction.
Some say he was yosef , Joseph, son of Jacob .
I worked for an IT company...there was a SQL job named Imhotep that would move files to their afterlife after a set time in storage.
This is so great, whoever originated that is a genius 😆
Because I'm fun at parties; Anubis would be better.
Sorry
@@SkagulTVoh right because he was the deity that escorted the dead to the afterlife?
Brilliant
@@SkagulTVthe world is a better place because of your fact checking 👏
I don't know who this woman is but I really admire her passion for ancient Egypt!
She's an Egyptologist XD
You seriously don’t recognize her? It’s Drew Barrymore!😂
Just went to the Ramses II exhibition in Sydney.
Stunning.
That one line “Hieroglyphics don’t make sound” is hilarious because neither do letters. They’re just supposed to be transcriptions of our speech
Edit: I don’t think some of y’all know how to read. Some of y’all are just looking at the letters without comprehending what they mean
If i remember right, arent hieroglyphs phonetic sounds? so you put together symbols to make words, rather than like chinese where a character is a whole word?
@@fuzzblightyear145 Heiroglyphics were, yes. That's what she says in the video. Chinese characters aren't, you're correct, but they don't represent words so much as morphemes which are units of meanings. It would be more accurate to say a single character represents a word except that's an oversimplification because multiple characters each with their own individual (and often unrelated) meaning that mean something totally different when put together.
Ex 轿车 means car
轿 Means palanquin
车 Means vehicle
公交车 means bus
公 Means male
交 Means friendship
车 Means vehicle
I think hieroglyphs were both. Rebus principle with the addition of determinatives which told you what kind of concept the sound related to, in order to avoid confusion.
@@AnarexicSumo Correcting your comment since you made some mistakes in the word definitions:
"轿车" Doesn't mean "car", it means "Sedan" which is a specific type of car.
The correct translation for car would be
just "车" or "汽车" meaning "gas vehicle".
"公" can mean male in some contexts, but in the word "公交车" it means "public"
"交" means "to deliver" or "to reach". It only means "friendship" in certain contexts.
So an actual translation of "公交" would be "Public Transport". Making "公交车" actually mean "Public Transport Vehicle".
And in some languages - like English! - we're NOTORIOUSLY inconsistent about what each letter is supposed to sound like.
The mummy was such a legendary movie fr
Fr didn't expect it to be historical accurate too
I saw it yesterday and it was so corny. Perhaps it's a nostalgia thing
@@aynain1810 it is kinda corny yes but that's what I like about it tbh 😂
@@asadmalik2464there is a well known review of the movie that goes like, there's hardly anything I can say in its favor, except I enjoyed almost every minute of it. Lol
@aynain1810 the 50s mummy movie is pretty corny too, doesn't make either less of a classic :)
This is one of the coolest shorts I've come across and im totally going to watch "The Mummy" again when I can
I like that a name remembered through history is that of an architect. So often we remember Generals and Rulers. It's nice to remember someone who created for a change.
What??? For a change? A lot of the names we remember had nothing to do with the military. Socrates? Aristotle? Plato? Pythagoras? Freud? Nietzsche? Emerson? Confucius? Like the list is essentially endless.
I have **always** wondered if films like 'The Mummy' & 'Stargate's' Egyptian was gibberish, or there was linguists working on them...
The trick is the vowels
And then Stargate: SG1 got tired of making up languages for only Daniel to understand, so they made aliens speak English. But they’re self-aware enough to make fun of themselves for it, so we forgive them.
@@StrawberryAquaas someone who’s been bingeing Stargate Atlantis (again) over the past few days, the fact that everyone speaks English no problem without even the excuse like in Star Trek over having a universal translator, is hilarious to me.
@@StrawberryAqua If you read the novelizations, they added that some aspect of the stargate often acted as a universal translator of sorts by affecting people who used it brains. Retconed some of the first season but made more sense than everyone suddenly spewing English. Wish it had been addressed in the show itself, though.
This thread gives me life.😭
The Mummy was one of my mom's favorite movies. Probably watched it on VHS together more times than I can count as a kid. Ironically, it came on during one of my last few hospital visits. We watched it together, and even though she wasn't doing all that great, I'm glad we watched it one more time. I'm sure she'd be really happy to know the Egyptian was accurate.
I saw it at the cinema, it was one of the loudest movies ever heard,
I left the theatre almost deaf😅
Beautiful story🙏💕
Hope u and ur family are well thanks for sharing this lil story 😭 it was rlly touching
My mom had a crush on that guy that helped them at the end benny was favorite character 😂😂😂😂😂
@@Cogiclove that movie. It’s a comfort movie. I can watch many times but I love Friday and Saturday night movies
The creativity with the coffee cup is awesome. I never would have thought of that, but the triggers you use it for are so soothing😴
“Bird owl cat squiggle squiggle” is wild.
I am a Christain Egyptian and can speak Coptic as it is still taught in churches. It is so cool that Christains managed to preserve such an acncient language.
Ptolmey V was not Christian. He was the central god of his own religion, Ptolmaic.
@@AnarexicSumowhat does that have to do with anything?
@@AnarexicSumowhat? lol
Lol the Coptic language would definitely have disappeared by now if it weren't for the Coptic Christians. Not that hard to wrap your head around that. No one else speaks the language.
Look at the comment below yours @@user-1836-jdk
Gonna need 700 shorts on this please
aka one regular long form video? lmao
Click on the title in this short, and it takes you to the full/long video!
Lmfao so about a dozen normal length videos got it
Tiktokification of our consciousness
I’d like to hear many sentences of it
This is fascinating!! Thank you!
I thought this short was gonna be about what Ancient Aliens sounded like; I was confused. Ancient Aliens sounds like "How did lettuce get in my submarine sandwich? Could there be some logical, physical explanation? I am forced to conclude that leprechauns did it."
Only thing I would add is that Coptic is indeed the FINAL stage and so we can reconstruct it. However, Egypt existed for millenia... The chance of the language never undergoing extreme changes in pronunciation is practically 0. Moreover, we probably don't even know just how severely or how often these changes occured. Ancient egyptian might have been pretty stable in its pronunciation, or it might have changed drastically every few centuries, which wouldn't be noticable through the writing (unless new combinations pop up or old ones vanish etc)
We do because Heiroglyphics are purely phonetical. As pronunciations changed so too did the Heiroglyphics used to represent the words. That's literally how we know and can tell apart the 5 stages of Ancient Egyptian and we know there are 5 and we know that there are 5 because of major shifts in pronounciation. You have to remember, their language isn't ours and was not structured like ours.
Linguists have ways of tracing back phonology based on clues in modern dialects compared to written ancient forms. And we have a pretty good handle on the consonants at least, since hieroglyphs were deciphered in the 19th century. The trick is vocalization, since they didn't write down vowels.
@@the-chillian the sounds of older versions of the language could maybe be reproduced depending on how much of the sound of related languages for each time period are known (if there were shifts in pronunciation like there were in European languages, I mean)
The thing is, once a language stops being vernacular and its only use is liturgical, it stops changing, because of what a liturgy is- saying the same prayers every time. Same for Ge'ez in the Ethiopian Church. Whatever changes it went through while it was spoken by the wider population, once it became solely liturgical, it pretty much froze.
@zyaicob that's true, but Coptic has been a strictly liturgical language for only 2 or 300 years. Which is a long time, but not long at all over the history of the recorded Egyptian language.
The Mummy is one of my favorite movies. It’s one of the best movies ever.
I was also stoked on the second one. A movie where the main couple DOESN'T have a silly breakup as an excuse to cause tension for the film is so refreshing, and it was still a fun romp similar to the first :)
The first will always be in my top movies tho
Love it, keep the info coming!
Incredibly cool. Thanks.
i've been telling people about Coptic for the last 30 years. i've been obsessed with egypt since i was 8 years old
Youre an OG Egyptologist
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the problem with this, is as a Coptic Christian, spoken Coptic sounds more akin to misprounced current day Greek
Coptic is a Greek term referring to Egyptians not actual all ancient Egyptians at all
As a Copt thank you for that, not many westerns know about the Native Egyptians
“So, what did ancient Egyptians sound like” *mummy scream meme immediately plays in my head*
Thank you for sharing this information 😊
I watched this movie hundred times and still watching it nowadays ... and now I love it even more!!
The Mummy and Mummy 2 are two of my all time favorite movies. Glad to hear that the language was pretty accurate.
Mine too!! Agreed :):)
My archeology professor was the Egyptian language guy for the movie, and apparently he snuck some ancient Egyptian curse words in too
@@CSRgamer I love that haha
Prof. Bestock, please make more videos like this, it was so enjoyable!
I love your enthusiasm
Interesting thanks!
Glad to know the mummy is close haha
As close as possible
It's close in the sense that we know the consonants(E.g imhotep is written mhtp), however we can't exactly know which vowels were between the consonants for every word, but Coptic does give some indication(but it's still so long ago Ancient/Middle Egyptian was spoken that the language has changed alot).
I know she isnt saying definitively that we know exactly what they sounded like, but if ancient egypt persisted thousands of years, wouldnt they have generational differences in their speech, diction, accents, etc. Sorta similar to how Old and Middle English sound pretty different to the many variations of modern english? Id imagine thered be many ways Egyptian sounded depending on the time period.
Yes, exactly this. She is talking about what Egyptians sounded like ~600BCE, up through ~100CE. Couple thousand years after the Pyramids were constructed.
Yeah and an added issue is that hieroglyphic script doesn't have vowels (like Hebrew). So for the early history of Egypt we can only guess
Um. Ok. Anyway like she explained: we know what the last stage sounded like. Just like I can currently speak modern English. When I'm back in 500 years it'll sound different. Doesn't make today's current sound WRONG. Dont pretend that because time exists there is no answer to any question.
@@Loralanthalas It wasnt a statement that she was wrong, it was an expansion of her answer. I guess it sounds like that to someone with an incredibly combative mind though. Calm down.
I think that's what she meant when she was talking about Coptic since she said it was one of the last stages of the Ancient Egyptian language
I loved this guy in Braveheart
Thats fascinating.
I always believe most cinematic attempts at a foreign language to native production will have the “Shakespeare” effect or overdramatizing and over pronunciation of the language. So all you gotta do is mimic the language with a more relaxed tongue and larynx as to make it smoother and faster. Because no matter the language, the vast majority of people tend to lean towards simplification than making a point on propriety. This is the very reason why slang based on annotations exist.
London Accent tho.
Makes me wonder what ancient Egyptian slang might have sounded like ^^
Like Aragorn being more relaxed speaking Elvish than the Elves themselves. 😁
Your expectation is true. Their accents are extremely inaccurate.
@@IkeFoxbrush arabs and Islam destroyed coptic language.
More people need to learn about the coptic culture and history, especially that they still exist to this day.
I only just recently discovered that the original Catholic Church born almost immediately after the death of Jesus (Yeshua?) was Coptic.
It makes me wonder what are the main differences of the Coptic Catholic vs the Roman Catholic styles of Christianity.
@@GeneralBulldog54 ...not gonna lie, I do not know what you are talking about...
Coptics are Orthodoxe. They never believed that the Pope of Rome held any divine authority... I mean, there are some Coptic Catholics, but they mainly spawned after either the Roman Popes's mission in the 17th century or the british conquest, and that was in the 18th century (ik the british were protestestant, but hey, I guess protestantism was too different idk).
The Coptic church (church of Alexandria) indeed appeared very soon after the death of Christ (Yeshua in hebrew, Esos in coptic and Yassoua amongst modern coptics), making them one of the 5 primary churches. But they never were Catholics.
@@GeneralBulldog54 for some reason, my first message was erased... so here I'm reposting it
not gonna lie, I do not know what you are talking about...
Coptics are Orthodoxe. They never believed that the Pope of Rome held any divine authority... I mean, there are some Coptic Catholics, but they mainly spawned after either the Roman Popes's mission in the 17th century or the british conquest, and that was in the 18th century.
The Coptic church (church of Alexandria) indeed appeared very soon after the death of Christ (Yeshua in hebrew, Esos in coptic and Yassoua amongst modern coptics), making them one of the 5 primary churches. But they never were Catholics.
That being said, orthodox and Catholics believe in the same scriptures and have fairly the same interpretation if we omit the papal part. Traditions are also a little different, and religious chorale are Middle Eastern. The liturgical language over there is the coptic language, not the latin language, and that's about it.
@@sickisick8103 Thanks for the clarification. I always thought the Coptics created the basis for the Catholic church. I never once considered it more along the lines of a pure Orthodox church.
@@GeneralBulldog54This is interesting. My Coptic (now deceased) in-laws once told me that the Roman Catholic Church began first, the Coptic Church was second, and I think they said the Greek Orthodox Church was third. I don't know if they knew this aa fact, though. My Greek friend said the Coptic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church are very similar.
"Time spent with cats is never wasted " 😅 10:50
Fascinating.
I love her enthusiasm
Me too. Contagious
🎶Talk like an Egyptian🎶⚰️🏺😂
Nice.
Joe Rogan: “Jamie, pull up that clip of the bear building the first pyramid.”
This is a gem!
My love for The Mummy yet again increased 😻
It's still a brilliant film even today. (lets forget about the Scorpion king...)
Coptic was also a living language up to the 18th century, and possibly later in some places.
I wouldn't call it dead, I don't even consider latin to be dead
still exist today in Coptic churches but usually only priest know how to speak it. But most Coptic churches just used Arabic for everyday rituals.
One of my favorite movies still until this day.
This is amazing! Wow.
This lady is if Julia stiles and Drew Barrymore had a middle aged child
YES you hit the nail on the head. Feels like a little bit of my brain got released reading this
😭😭😭😭😭💀
Omg I see it
This perfectly explains why I find her attractive. I was so confused, because I couldn't figure it out until I read this.
With acne
I need to rewatch The Mummy again! My mom bought the CD for it and we watched the movie together as a family every now and then, I miss it so much, snuggling in my blankie during the scary scenes and hiding behind my mom and my sister
Fascinating
THIS IS SOO COOL
Omg I loved The Mummy as a kid. One of my favorite movies ever. It inspired me to want to become an archeologist all throughout elementary
Asterix&Obelix: "Yeah, yeah, Imhotep"
Haha, I instantly remembered this! 😂
The mummy movies were so good. I’m so surprised barely anyone talks about them
Ancient Egypt has always been intriguing to me, and the mummy is one of my favorite movies and always will be!!!
The mummy is one of my favourite movies, its also one of my husband's favourites. We still watch it whenever we can. Also, rachel and brenden in this movie ❤ and their chemistry ❤
I love this ladies head movements when she’s emphasizing her words, such a vibe
Your observation is such a vibe
And like shown in the video, speech changes over time. In 2013-16 you would've said her head movements are "such a mood" 😂
Loved Arnold Vosloo in the Mummy.
The actress who played Anck-Su-Namun is so stunningly gorgeous.... When we first see her walking down towards Imhotep lives forever in my memory
One of my architecture classes is Architectural History, and it blows my mind how historically accurate The Mummy was
Well, the pictures on the wall doesn't agree.
I didnt realise! Me and my mother loved that movie so much back when it came out we still watch it pretty often
I first Watched Mummy In my childhood. I still watch It and I love it to this day
Great movies still especially the first 2
I can listen to her talking for hours, so interesting!
Really? That was accurate! Awesome! Named my daughter Evie after that movie, reminds me of old Indiana Jones.❤ love Egyptian culture
That poor child. 😂
Lol so did I! 😊
My Mom was already long gone when this awsome movie came out but she would have liked it, she was a big fan and studied the Egyptian people's and kings and the pyramid tombs, she always wanted to visit Egypt so when she passed after losing her 10 year battle with ovarian cancer My brother released her ashes in the current that would take her close to Egypt.
Imhotep was also the author of the oldest medical treatise in existence. Some of the treatments are still relevant and effective today!
Doctors today are taught the Hippocratic oath (First, do no harm) not because Hippocrates taught such a thing (he didn't), but because they're taught that Hippocrates is the father of modern medicine. How surprised would they be, I wonder, if they were to learn that the actual origins extend more than a thousand years before Hippocrates, all the way to Imhotep...
I thought I couldn't love The Mummy anymore more than I already do but knowing that they used a historically accurate sounding language? 👏👏👏
I can't believe my history teacher told me we don't know what ancient Egyptian sounded like when I asked her
She's right, we only know what coptic sounded like. Ancient Egyptian language had existed for millenia, there is no way to ever know what it sounded like.
@@DapperDill Borhairic, the specific Coptic dialect used for liturgical texts in the Coptic Church, can be traced back to its earliest records written in 4 CE. Borhairic is both Egyptian and ancient. 😊
This made me want to rewatch The Mummy and it’s 6 AM on a Saturday.
Disclaimer: I have not woken up. I’m not that disciplined nor am I crazy to wake up this early on an off day 🙃 I just haven’t slept all night long 😂😭
awesome 👍
Imagine making that achievement, and people think it’s built by aliens
We have been lied to, Gobekli tepee and other older ancient ruins date back further than the pyramids, do your research
Europeans think anyone but themselves are incapable of thinking.
So they _could_ have done Prince of Egypt in Coptic!
Coptic didn't exist yet. Hebrew would actually make more sense.
How did you write in italics???😮😮
@@TheRulerRoderickSutton
They used _underscore_ either side; to write *bold* , you use an asterisk either side, & leave a space between any punctuation - _otherwise_, it won't *show up*!
Coptic DOES exist. I speak it fluently as a christain in Egypt. At least 6 million Christains can speak Coptic to an extent. It exists and we will make sure it stays alive for many decades to come. @@gabe4247
@@gabe4247Hebrew would have made no sense, since Egyptians didn't speak it. It was a related language, in the same sense that, say, English and Italian are related, but they were not mutually intelligible. Any putative Hebrew slaves in Egypt would have spoken their own language among themselves, but most Egyptians wouldn't have understood it.
The last dynasties of Greek and Roman rule (about 400 years total for both combined) was a tiny portion of Egyptian’s almost 3000 year reign history.
Wow it sounds beautiful
This woman is Drew Barrymore if she had chosen Egyptology instead of acting.
Me, a nerd taking japanese classes: "ahh so coptic is the romanji of ancient egyptian."
Well... girishaji, anyway.
@@the-chillian what is this "girishaji" you speak of because the internet is devoid of any results for that
well japanese already has a couple of other syllabic writing systems
@@cameroneridan4558It's a joke. "Romaji" means "Roman characters"; i.e. the Latin alphabet most used in the West. But Coptic was written with the Greek alphabet, and Japanese for Greece is Girisha. So "girishaji", "Greek characters".
@@sunmethods right. I was comparing Romanji- which is spoken japanese transliterated into Roman characters- to Coptic- which is spoken ancient Egyptian transliterated into Greek characters.
Amazing.
Interesting!
Instead of just reading some for us in
2024 Egyptologists play Hollywood movies. Just awesome, thank you 😅
Because the actors would’ve practiced for tens of hours, and she doesn’t have that time to get the pronunciation right
I love that this woman embraces her flaws and does this interview without makeup...that's what true confidence looks like.
I could confidently walk out of the restroom with my pants still at my ankles but it doesn't mean I should have done it
sounds really cool
I love everything Ancient Egypt. I watch anything pertaining to Ancient Egypt.
Why don't you list who the speaker is?
Dr. Laurel Bestock (it's in the description)
People claiming this is false but not giving any evidence 😂
There's no evidence either way😂
ThanX! One source on CZcams explained Imhotep was Joseph in Mitzerim/Egypt, and was head of building the first pyramid there. Don't have a link now tho.
wonderful.
I’m Egyptian and if I’m not mistaken, the architect of the Great Pyramid is called Hamin-ou
So now who is correct--the Egyptian or the Egyptologist?
She said first pyramid not the great pyramid
@@EpiphoneShredzzzzz I mean, both probably? She said the first pyramid build in Egypt, not the Great pyramid. There are lots more pyramids than just the ones at Giza.
She is talking about the Djoser Complex in Saqqara
What's on her face?
Scars
@@afridgetoofar1818they look fresh. One is literally bleeding.
😂 I knew if looked long enough in the comments...
It’s cold sores no? That’s what it looks like.
@@Favderebruh cold sores on her cheek? Do you know what a cold sore is?
Any link or site you could point me to? Please
Wow that's really cool
Europeans need to cut this out, Copts are Greeks, they wouldn't know a thing about Ancient Afrikan Egyptian Bantu. For example, the Copts have no name like "Kufu" in Coptic, while here in Kenya and Uganda we still call our leaders "Kufu" or *Mtu-Kufu". Kufu means " "place of burial" and also means "exalted one" , Fu is a reference to dust. Ancient Egyptian sounded like Swahili Bantu of today, which the Moors kept alive.
thank you for this cause i was so confused, specially when she mentioned The Mummy. Like are we really depending on Hollywood to display the correlation of actual Ancient Egypt?
@eastafrika, thank you for having the courage and knowledge to state the TRUTH
OMG stop it with the lying and the inferiority complex. Just by performing a simple google search you can find out that coptic is related to Egypt. Even the Coptic Church is based in Egypt. The language is an evolution of Old Egyptian and later adopted some greek.
@@john_doe_smith When did the Coptic Church and the Egypt of today begin, 500 YEARS AFTER ANCIENT EGYPT COLLAPSED the Arabs and Copts are children of invaders, occupying land that was never theirs, how hard is it to understand that??
@@john_doe_smith when did the Arab and whites get into Egypt? 332BC, Ancient Egypt began in 4000BC, no Arab or European was in Afrika that time. You don't know history buddy
I can't wait for all the comments saying this person is not a credible source because we have no absolute evidence of many parts of Egyptain culture as if that somehow slays all semblance of credibility.
No, it doesn't mean she's always wrong, she's just wrong right now.
No, this person isn't credible because she is pretending the Egyptian dialects written down in Greek in the Classical Greek Period are anything like the languages of Egypt 2500 years before that.
@@Nick-hi9gx As if you can say that with any language? Imagine someone telling you you don't speak English because modern English sounds nothing like English a few centuries back, let alone a couple millennia? She can't say what every ancient Egyptian dialect sounded like, but she can definitely give an example of one we do know. How does that make her credibility suspect?
@@raerohan4241Modern English has sounded mostly the same, using the same sounds and grammatical structure, since the 12th century.
She is giving an example of a language that had shifted over thousands of years, with the influx of dozens of different languages, including numerous other language families. English at least is a combo of all Indo-European languages, and about 98% of only 2 branches. Egyptians had a mix of at LEAST 4 different language families, and over a dozen different branches.
She’s not a credible source because cheek zits
Fascinating❤
"Patience is a virtuuueee"
"Not right now it isn't! " 😂😂😂😂
We cannot phonetically reconstruct Ancient Egyptian because they did not write their vowel sounds in their phonetic written language. Coptic is probably close, but it's essentially an educated guess. We have no way of knowing what vowel sounds they used.
She didn’t claim to know exactly what it sounded like, only like you say we still have an example of what it LIKELY sounded as least very similar to.
@@ObsessiveGeek well, it sounded to me like she said we could reconstruct the language phonetically, and it's still unclear how to even say Egypt in Ancient Egyptian. To me, it seemed like she was misleading people.
@@gabe4247 She’s saying we have a good idea what it sounded like, that’s it.
You’re adding absolutes into what was said, to call it a “lie” is a bit extreme.
@@ObsessiveGeek She said "very good." We don't. We have an idea.
@gabe4247 still, calling it a lie is an extreme overreaction, dude.
the video i didnt know i wanted or needed. yes. :O :D i love the mummy. do more stuff about mummies or egyptians.
I LOVE The Mummy -- it's still to this day my favorite movie of all time.
You can easily pass as an actress in a movie, I realised after a while that you are archeologist and professor