The Sound of Ancient Languages. Full Version. You Haven't Seen Anything Like This Before!

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  • čas přidán 20. 06. 2024
  • 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.
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  • @glovere2
    @glovere2 Před 8 měsíci +505

    I learned a lot from this, including that ancient people were far better looking than any of us.

    • @Puzzoozoo
      @Puzzoozoo Před 3 měsíci +18

      News flash: People 2,000 years ago looked more or less just like people do today.

    • @bobblowhard8823
      @bobblowhard8823 Před 3 měsíci +36

      @@PuzzoozooExcept that they dressed better back then.

    • @kauffrau6764
      @kauffrau6764 Před 3 měsíci +9

      @@bobblowhard8823 They certainly did.

    • @markedits8032
      @markedits8032 Před 3 měsíci +4

      @@bobblowhard8823 Dressed better? Lol🤣

    • @bevygaines
      @bevygaines Před 3 měsíci

      These are people from today!

  • @cusginuma_u_sgisgi377u
    @cusginuma_u_sgisgi377u Před 8 měsíci +1812

    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

    • @thebat729
      @thebat729 Před 8 měsíci +151

      The one in the video is both ecclesiastical and classical mixed up🫤

    • @carladelorenzi3890
      @carladelorenzi3890 Před 8 měsíci +98

      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!

    • @Kinotaurus
      @Kinotaurus Před 8 měsíci +43

      @@thebat729 Plus pauses made in some weird places (like AFTER "sed")

    • @wattyler2994
      @wattyler2994 Před 8 měsíci +120

      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.

    • @cusginuma_u_sgisgi377u
      @cusginuma_u_sgisgi377u Před 8 měsíci +16

      @@wattyler2994 Yes, that's what I mean

  • @ljgaming639
    @ljgaming639 Před 2 měsíci +91

    As a speaker of East Texan and some Southwest Louisiana, I understood 43% of ancient Latin

  • @Allenryan819
    @Allenryan819 Před 3 měsíci +644

    So did all ancient guys look like super models?😂

    • @user-tj8sj1oz3j
      @user-tj8sj1oz3j Před 2 měsíci +51

      Offcourse !! Ancient men and women were so wonderful !!

    • @omersagduyu1266
      @omersagduyu1266 Před 2 měsíci

      erkekler sonradan çirkinleşti..

    • @louregal99
      @louregal99 Před 2 měsíci +5

      Kerikit mat poop poop
      (Yes) in ancient Frogufshkin

    • @KateKhan-xl3ts
      @KateKhan-xl3ts Před 2 měsíci +52

      They had no machinery or automation. All needed to work hard... obesity was uncommon but sweat and blood. Salute!

    • @uchihasayuri87
      @uchihasayuri87 Před 2 měsíci +19

      It’s AI generated

  • @slimeboivaporwave2357
    @slimeboivaporwave2357 Před 8 měsíci +868

    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

    • @_Bappu_
      @_Bappu_ Před 8 měsíci +57

      What does 'again' stand for despite they're the only one there.

    • @greekwarrior5373
      @greekwarrior5373 Před 8 měsíci +19

      9:14 turkish.

    • @nikostheofanidis9970
      @nikostheofanidis9970 Před 8 měsíci +7

      Type podium arts if you want to hear ancient Greek with ancient Greek accent, is greek speaker

    • @RIZFERD
      @RIZFERD Před 8 měsíci +7

      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

    • @ANDROLOMA
      @ANDROLOMA Před 8 měsíci +3

      Forgot to list the English speaker. Oops.

  • @yahavhasson8040
    @yahavhasson8040 Před 8 měsíci +490

    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

    • @Kinotaurus
      @Kinotaurus Před 8 měsíci +14

      Can you understand the Accadian too?

    • @yahavhasson8040
      @yahavhasson8040 Před 8 měsíci +37

      ​@@Kinotaurus I could understand some similar words but not whole sentences unfortunatly

    • @yahavhasson8040
      @yahavhasson8040 Před 8 měsíci +28

      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.

    • @yahavhasson8040
      @yahavhasson8040 Před 8 měsíci +27

      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"

    • @IDO547
      @IDO547 Před 7 měsíci +7

      @@yahavhasson8040 bruh what type of Hebrew you speak lol

  • @sirlancelote8290
    @sirlancelote8290 Před 3 měsíci +173

    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.

    • @baconhairzz
      @baconhairzz Před 2 měsíci +5

      but they still had technology back then, It was just ancient technology

    • @tamasloki6456
      @tamasloki6456 Před měsícem +3

      just to get slaughtered by iron in close combat? when your landlord has some disput with the other one?

    • @MrNyathi1
      @MrNyathi1 Před měsícem +1

      @@tamasloki6456 It's much better these days. Missiles, drones, nukes, IEDs, landmines...

    • @nela277
      @nela277 Před měsícem +3

      Technology is good when well used like this. Unfortunately is not always the case

    • @mephisto8884
      @mephisto8884 Před měsícem

      @@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

  • @j.suis9668
    @j.suis9668 Před 4 měsíci +174

    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.

    • @Cat-tastrophee
      @Cat-tastrophee Před 3 měsíci +25

      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.

    • @meina0614
      @meina0614 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@Cat-tastropheethe reconstruction presented in this video is based on that premise

    • @marmite-land
      @marmite-land Před 2 měsíci +12

      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)

    • @daniellebragance2616
      @daniellebragance2616 Před měsícem +3

      J'ai bcp aimé l'égyptien aussi si doux à l'oreille et le latin qui m'a permis de comprendre un peu

    • @howardsternssmicrophone9332
      @howardsternssmicrophone9332 Před měsícem +1

      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!

  • @DipanjanPaul
    @DipanjanPaul Před 8 měsíci +481

    As a northern Indian I could understand most of the Sanskrit and some of the Avestan.

    • @kangtheconqueror8784
      @kangtheconqueror8784 Před 8 měsíci +27

      I am from Bangladesh (a Bangladeshi Hindu), and can understand most too.

    • @greekwarrior5373
      @greekwarrior5373 Před 8 měsíci +4

      @@kangtheconqueror8784 You also understand Turkish.

    • @whocares83
      @whocares83 Před 8 měsíci +7

      aryan migration theory.

    • @GyanTvAmit
      @GyanTvAmit Před 7 měsíci +1

      ​@@whocares83this is fake theory,its debunked,aryans migrated westwords from india to europe

    • @juniebob4420
      @juniebob4420 Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@dmoll1799???

  • @HOMITSIOUS
    @HOMITSIOUS Před 8 měsíci +447

    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.

    • @Jh0nJhon
      @Jh0nJhon Před 7 měsíci +16

      The Language of the Last 7 Books of the Old Testament and the Entire New Testament 📖🇬🇷 It is a Holy language. ☦️

    • @Notfortunesfool
      @Notfortunesfool Před 7 měsíci +24

      The Romans described the Greeks they knew as speaking in a "singing tone." Should this Greek have been more melodic & mellifluous?

    • @user-kc7je5lx1g
      @user-kc7je5lx1g Před 7 měsíci +24

      Καλά σαν ν ακούμε νέα ελληνικά με ξενική προφορά.μονο Έλληνας θα μπορούσε να τα διαβάσει σωστα

    • @Ciara1594
      @Ciara1594 Před 6 měsíci +2

      Show off! ☺️

    • @Urmapleleaf
      @Urmapleleaf Před 6 měsíci +6

      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)

  • @georgioslimouris6301
    @georgioslimouris6301 Před 5 měsíci +141

    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 😄😊

    • @anastasiakailari8679
      @anastasiakailari8679 Před 4 měsíci +9

      ισχυει ,....κακο ηχο για αρχαια ελληνικα ,λες και μιλαει τα αρχαια κανας λατινοαραβομεξικανος

    • @AchilleasMath-Physics
      @AchilleasMath-Physics Před 3 dny

      @@anastasiakailari8679 I agree!!

  • @jacquelineholts4801
    @jacquelineholts4801 Před 5 měsíci +67

    Ancient north american languages and also like Algonquin languages, Chatah, Navajo would be so boss!!! Really enjoyed this video!!

    • @Pithecanthropus2483
      @Pithecanthropus2483 Před měsícem +1

      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.

    • @matlonr6473
      @matlonr6473 Před měsícem +1

      Guarani is a southamerican language that's still used in paraguay mostly

  • @GuzelKyrim-Ukraine
    @GuzelKyrim-Ukraine Před 8 měsíci +203

    As Hebrew speaker I understand Phoenician (about 70%)! Both (Hebrew and Phoenician) are dialects of Canaanite language!

    • @viperking6573
      @viperking6573 Před 8 měsíci

      fucking genocider

    • @greekwarrior5373
      @greekwarrior5373 Před 8 měsíci +1

      You also understand Turkish im sure of it.😂

    • @End-Result
      @End-Result Před 8 měsíci +7

      We are all brothers and sisters

    • @markelmore66
      @markelmore66 Před 8 měsíci +5

      Were all of these the first chapter of the gospel of John? I recognized the Greek and Latin as such.

    • @k.umquat8604
      @k.umquat8604 Před 8 měsíci +4

      ​@@greekwarrior5373 As a Turk I fail to see the connection

  • @kaloarepo288
    @kaloarepo288 Před 8 měsíci +204

    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.

    • @poonczey
      @poonczey Před 8 měsíci +13

      She was Makedonian, there's a difference. Imagine as today's Canadian vs Americans or English vs Scots.

    • @nellysvet7977
      @nellysvet7977 Před 8 měsíci +23

      @poonczey Still no difference

    • @kaloarepo288
      @kaloarepo288 Před 8 měsíci +48

      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

    • @normanquednau
      @normanquednau Před 8 měsíci +15

      Yes, Cleopatra was from the lineage of macedonians Ptolemaios, thus descendants from Alexander the great

    • @joequimby5658
      @joequimby5658 Před 8 měsíci +30

      thanks to Netflix we all know that Cleopatra was black.
      She probably spoke Zulu click sounds

  • @navrhy3075
    @navrhy3075 Před 5 měsíci +42

    As a Bengali and Hindi speaker, I understood a gist of what was said in the Sanskrit language.

    • @user-ss6id6kf6v
      @user-ss6id6kf6v Před 3 měsíci +6

      Brother, being a Slav, I understand certain words from Sanskrit. It is very funny .

    • @alancosta4760
      @alancosta4760 Před 3 měsíci +4

      Indo-european language obviously you'd understand like me I understand most of latin because I'm brazilian so portuguese speaker

  • @adrianaferreirapimentel9961
    @adrianaferreirapimentel9961 Před měsícem +10

    It's amazing!!!! I really love how great human can combine sounds creating so different linguages!!!!

  • @TigranHakobyan-jh8ue
    @TigranHakobyan-jh8ue Před 7 měsíci +35

    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

    • @kevinthecat9704
      @kevinthecat9704 Před 7 měsíci +4

      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.

    • @TigranHakobyan-jh8ue
      @TigranHakobyan-jh8ue Před 7 měsíci +7

      @@kevinthecat9704there are still words that we use that are similar

    • @kevinthecat9704
      @kevinthecat9704 Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@TigranHakobyan-jh8ue yeah i know. Like I said, there are some borrowed words, but its not an ancestor to Armenian.

    • @TigranHakobyan-jh8ue
      @TigranHakobyan-jh8ue Před 7 měsíci +10

      @@kevinthecat9704 the people who spoke the language are the ancestors of present day Armenians

    • @kevinthecat9704
      @kevinthecat9704 Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@TigranHakobyan-jh8ue thats true. All im saying is that the languages are unrelated.

  • @Kar_1946
    @Kar_1946 Před 8 měsíci +390

    As a spanish speaker, of all these antique languages, the most comprehensible for me was Latin

    • @jsr734
      @jsr734 Před 8 měsíci

      El etrusco también se me hizo familiar, el griego se entienden algunas palabras: ¿qué dice que mi pene que?..😆

    • @marcellomancini6646
      @marcellomancini6646 Před 8 měsíci +76

      no shit

    • @greekwarrior5373
      @greekwarrior5373 Před 8 měsíci +12

      No, the most comprehensible for you is Turkish.

    • @turro3212
      @turro3212 Před 8 měsíci +4

      roman larp gang 😩🙏🍷

    • @imb5128
      @imb5128 Před 8 měsíci +9

      @@greekwarrior5373How?

  • @sylvietrupiano4992
    @sylvietrupiano4992 Před 5 měsíci +23

    Gorgeous idea to propose this video on ancient languages !
    Congratulations for this amazing work and waiting for another languages 🙏✨!

  • @arturodiaz1063
    @arturodiaz1063 Před 3 měsíci +7

    It is extremely interesting to hear these ancient languages. It's challenging to say the least. Thank you

  • @m.willow11
    @m.willow11 Před 8 měsíci +96

    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. ❤

    • @starrmont4981
      @starrmont4981 Před 4 měsíci +3

      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.

    • @LaB567
      @LaB567 Před 3 měsíci +2

      We are still here as descendants of Egyptians, Romans, Greeks, Phoenicians etc.

  • @prettybxy77
    @prettybxy77 Před 8 měsíci +64

    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.

    • @PedroMachadoPT
      @PedroMachadoPT Před 8 měsíci +7

      I’m doing linguistics now. 18 years after finishing computer science.

    • @Tyiion
      @Tyiion Před 8 měsíci +2

      @@PedroMachadoPTI bet you are enjoying it more this time around.

    • @user-kb5py3hm2e
      @user-kb5py3hm2e Před měsícem

      That is historical linguistics, modern linguistics is all about semantics.

    • @TheSimmpleTruth
      @TheSimmpleTruth Před měsícem +1

      Studying humanities it’s all great and exciting, but it has very few jobs possibilities. I know that by personal experience. I have a Master’s and 27 credits towards a Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Linguistics and speak 7 languages to different degrees. Humanistic studies are disappearing from universities, not only the degrees, but also the departments.

  • @muzalchemy5792
    @muzalchemy5792 Před 6 měsíci +10

    that's really amazing, seems like Ai restored ancient people with narrations in their languages. Thank you for sharing

  • @MagnoliaMuse
    @MagnoliaMuse Před 8 dny +1

    This is so mesmerizing. Excellent work! I absolutely LOVE languages!

  • @avatardailyfitnessjournal
    @avatardailyfitnessjournal Před 8 měsíci +41

    Sanskrit seemed 100% clear and hasn't changed a bit from what I learnt in high school.

    • @_Bappu_
      @_Bappu_ Před 8 měsíci +14

      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

    • @MrMirville
      @MrMirville Před 8 měsíci +3

      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).

    • @avatardailyfitnessjournal
      @avatardailyfitnessjournal Před 8 měsíci

      @@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.

    • @anirudh177
      @anirudh177 Před 8 měsíci +8

      @@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.

    • @MrMirville
      @MrMirville Před 8 měsíci

      @@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).

  • @kaymuldoon3575
    @kaymuldoon3575 Před 8 měsíci +21

    It was interesting to hear Sanskrit, an ancient Indian language. A lot of people probably don’t realize that the word “karma” is Sanskrit.

    • @urbandiscount
      @urbandiscount Před 8 měsíci +12

      Sanskrit is still actively used today as the religious language of many South Asian traditions

    • @itsoblivion8124
      @itsoblivion8124 Před 2 měsíci +3

      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.

  • @nimeni4470
    @nimeni4470 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Thank you very much, it's so interesting listening those languages from the past! Wonderful idea!

  • @adolfovasquez2440
    @adolfovasquez2440 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Amazing!! I live in Mexico and this men leave me in lost history centuries!!

  • @user-te4of2fq5d
    @user-te4of2fq5d Před 8 měsíci +25

    ❗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🙏

    • @anapaulaana4569
      @anapaulaana4569 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Digo o mesmo!

    • @ymin1195
      @ymin1195 Před 2 měsíci

      The pronunciation of all these is just far from how it actually sounded. Do not fantasise it

    • @user-kb5py3hm2e
      @user-kb5py3hm2e Před měsícem

      Yep, this video is absolute bullshit

  • @gabriellen.2886
    @gabriellen.2886 Před 8 měsíci +16

    So beautiful to hear these wonderful words, even though I had never EVER heard of some of the languages spoken.

  • @nicolasdiaz1498
    @nicolasdiaz1498 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Amazing video, deserve more parts.

  • @jkmm4813
    @jkmm4813 Před 3 měsíci

    Thank you for the opportunity to imagine how the ancient languages might have sounded.

  • @andreasgkan5726
    @andreasgkan5726 Před 8 měsíci +120

    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!!

    • @vkhanin
      @vkhanin Před 7 měsíci +13

      Thank you for your comment. The Latin here is also really far from being ancient.

    • @toolanathema
      @toolanathema Před 7 měsíci +9

      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 .

    • @magdasorial628
      @magdasorial628 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Thanks 👍♥️🙏

    • @andreasgkan5726
      @andreasgkan5726 Před 7 měsíci +8

      @@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!!!

    • @Latintoday-pw1dx
      @Latintoday-pw1dx Před 7 měsíci +4

      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

  • @FlexibleFlyer50
    @FlexibleFlyer50 Před 8 měsíci +38

    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!

    • @mauriziodesanctis1159
      @mauriziodesanctis1159 Před 8 měsíci +12

      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.

    • @greekwarrior5373
      @greekwarrior5373 Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@mauriziodesanctis1159 No, Etruscans were Turkish.

    • @timeup2549
      @timeup2549 Před 8 měsíci

      @@greekwarrior5373 Oh, you are the Turkish 🦃 cockroach who pretends to be Greek. How is the Earthquake doing, Ogluzguzkhan?

    • @timeup2549
      @timeup2549 Před 8 měsíci +9

      As the Italian said, we have no way to know how they sounded like. The sounds portrayed here might as well be pure fantasy.

    • @FlexibleFlyer50
      @FlexibleFlyer50 Před 8 měsíci +6

      @@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........

  • @typo1345
    @typo1345 Před měsícem

    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

  • @MrZenGuitarist
    @MrZenGuitarist Před 3 měsíci +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.

  • @yahavhasson8040
    @yahavhasson8040 Před 8 měsíci +61

    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

    • @Kyle-uz1rp
      @Kyle-uz1rp Před 8 měsíci +9

      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

    • @Motofanable
      @Motofanable Před 8 měsíci +19

      @@Kyle-uz1rp brother language not ancestor

    • @DonMrLenny
      @DonMrLenny Před 8 měsíci +12

      ​@@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

    • @funnysungames546
      @funnysungames546 Před 8 měsíci

      keeep dreaming@@Kyle-uz1rp

    • @johaquila
      @johaquila Před 8 měsíci +7

      @@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.

  • @BohumirZamecnik
    @BohumirZamecnik Před 8 měsíci +50

    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.

    • @enkidu360
      @enkidu360 Před 8 měsíci +3

      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.

    • @JRNarian
      @JRNarian Před 8 měsíci +11

      yes, I don't know why these AIs are only done in male voices and figures.

    • @v4v777
      @v4v777 Před 8 měsíci +4

      The Greek one was the beginning of the Gospel of John.. from the Bible.

    • @schadenfreude000
      @schadenfreude000 Před 8 měsíci +1

      ​@@v4v777Same as the Latin one.

  • @Trish156
    @Trish156 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Very cool!! Thank you for sharing

  • @oanagrossu1532
    @oanagrossu1532 Před 5 měsíci

    We think this is GREAT - GIVE US MORE!!

  • @sepiapanorama2275
    @sepiapanorama2275 Před 8 měsíci +57

    Sumerian sounds strikingly telegraphic to my ears, very clear, succinct and to the point, although I don't understand a word.

    • @nolanat504
      @nolanat504 Před 8 měsíci +8

      I believe the Sumerian language was the first

    • @larvyde5969
      @larvyde5969 Před 8 měsíci +6

      It's also parsed weirdly. It's as if I was. Talking to you like. This instead. Of normally.

    • @coolname2629
      @coolname2629 Před 8 měsíci +7

      I highly doubt it was full of autotune like this video. None of this sounds human.

    • @timeup2549
      @timeup2549 Před 8 měsíci +2

      @@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.

    • @IonidisIX
      @IonidisIX Před 8 měsíci +2

      The pronunciation of all languages was computerised. An algorithmic and not natural flowing pronunciation.

  • @SinisterChris
    @SinisterChris Před 7 měsíci +11

    These videos are so fascinating. Please do more ancient languages, and maybe some of the more obscure modern languages.

  • @alanolson6913
    @alanolson6913 Před 2 měsíci

    Absolutely fascinating.

  • @choyayahyah
    @choyayahyah Před měsícem

    So cool to find actual recordings of people 2 thousand years ago

  • @JulioFerreira.ferreira07julio
    @JulioFerreira.ferreira07julio Před 8 měsíci +142

    Como brasileiro, aprendi amar e admirar o latim.!

    • @Pakos-Terimos
      @Pakos-Terimos Před 8 měsíci +5

      Obrigado 🤝

    • @gsouza4640
      @gsouza4640 Před 6 měsíci +16

      Eu fiquei surpreso por reconhecer que estava sendo citado João 1, mesmo nunca tendo estudado latim.

    • @otonielfelix8677
      @otonielfelix8677 Před 6 měsíci

      @@gsouza4640surpresa boa

    • @lorennafreire3927
      @lorennafreire3927 Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@gsouza4640eu tb

    • @donaldjr9504
      @donaldjr9504 Před 5 měsíci +9

      @@gsouza4640 Faz todo o sentido você assimilar latim com essa facilidade. É a nossa língua ancestral.

  • @physics1518
    @physics1518 Před 8 měsíci +164

    A Hebrew speaker can make out a bit of the Phoenician.

    • @shoshanabachman
      @shoshanabachman Před 8 měsíci +20

      came here to say this!

    • @JRNarian
      @JRNarian Před 8 měsíci +29

      so can Arabic speakers

    • @JacquesMare
      @JacquesMare Před 8 měsíci +4

      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?

    • @physics1518
      @physics1518 Před 8 měsíci +19

      @@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? ..."

    • @JacquesMare
      @JacquesMare Před 8 měsíci +4

      @@physics1518 that's so cool. Thanks for responding.😁

  • @shushymcsecret993
    @shushymcsecret993 Před měsícem +2

    I love how Egyptian sounds

  • @Amadeu.Macedo
    @Amadeu.Macedo Před 2 měsíci +2

    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."

  • @marcellepesek3038
    @marcellepesek3038 Před 8 měsíci +9

    Fascinating! Thank you very much for this educational video which brings our ancestors closer to us!

  • @jeffreyhawthornegoines8727
    @jeffreyhawthornegoines8727 Před 8 měsíci +8

    Absolutely fantastic and marvelous, thank you!

  • @therealmlw
    @therealmlw Před 3 měsíci

    All are beautiful, I found Latin the easiest to comprehend in a small way... Very interesting!

  • @Magnus_VII
    @Magnus_VII Před 2 měsíci

    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

  • @malcolmhollifield9329
    @malcolmhollifield9329 Před 8 měsíci +25

    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.

    • @rushandiearthling1081
      @rushandiearthling1081 Před 8 měsíci +4

      V was supposedly pronounced like a W and all C's were pronounced as a hard C or K

    • @AS-su4db
      @AS-su4db Před 8 měsíci

      Seems like all these languages are reciting the same text… „In the beginning there was the Word.”

    • @margaritacamarillo8497
      @margaritacamarillo8497 Před měsícem

      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!

  • @b.war.8651
    @b.war.8651 Před 8 měsíci +48

    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🙏🏻♥️

    • @user-kb5py3hm2e
      @user-kb5py3hm2e Před měsícem

      So fake news should be taught to children? Make no mistake, we have no idea how those languages sounded like

  • @MistoryChannel
    @MistoryChannel Před 5 měsíci +9

    Apenas escuché el latín me sentí en casa❤

  • @karenmcconnell8633
    @karenmcconnell8633 Před měsícem +2

    This is so interesting. I love it

  • @jeromemorrow4518
    @jeromemorrow4518 Před 8 měsíci +8

    Absolutely fascinating!

  • @womobewo
    @womobewo Před 8 měsíci +8

    Beautifully done. I hope there’s more

  • @karinschultz5409
    @karinschultz5409 Před 2 měsíci

    I always wondered how some languages were spoken. Now at least I know. Very interesting. Thank you for posting.

  • @havingalook2
    @havingalook2 Před 3 měsíci

    So fascinating. Thank you.

  • @swamynathankumar6458
    @swamynathankumar6458 Před 8 měsíci +15

    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

    • @rohanrodrigues7115
      @rohanrodrigues7115 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Uh...okay wikipedia

    • @swamynathankumar6458
      @swamynathankumar6458 Před 8 měsíci +3

      @@rohanrodrigues7115 so what ?

    • @joel12388
      @joel12388 Před 7 měsíci

      Ariyan peoples want to destroy our Dravidian history. Simple.....

    • @kavirio3849
      @kavirio3849 Před 6 měsíci +4

      am ashamed that a 600 bc year younger langauge sanskrit has a place in the video but we wont ..500bc🫤🫤

    • @BadKarma108
      @BadKarma108 Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@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? 😂

  • @mndfst9433
    @mndfst9433 Před 8 měsíci +4

    Love these. I'd love to be able to read more information and histroy about the language on the side while hearing it.

  • @user-et7pj7yt9p
    @user-et7pj7yt9p Před 5 měsíci +5

    Классный проект! Продолжайте в том же духе!

  • @magnuscorbin5040
    @magnuscorbin5040 Před 2 měsíci +4

    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

    • @Marhn_
      @Marhn_ Před 2 měsíci

      Ancestor of the Lebanese*

    • @philliparieff7862
      @philliparieff7862 Před měsícem

      Hebrew לא יהיה לך זרע בחיים תחת השמש Lo yihye lekha zera' behhayim tahhat hashemesh

    • @Marhn_
      @Marhn_ Před měsícem

      @@philliparieff7862 sorry I dont speak Hebrew

  • @fabioadver7674
    @fabioadver7674 Před 8 měsíci +8

    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.

    • @Kinotaurus
      @Kinotaurus Před 8 měsíci +1

      You have it in the gennasio

    • @neskaeuskalduna7158
      @neskaeuskalduna7158 Před 3 měsíci

      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.

    • @Alborzhakimi7010
      @Alborzhakimi7010 Před 2 měsíci +2

      @@neskaeuskalduna7158spanish does not “borrow” from latin. Spanish descends from latin.

    • @neskaeuskalduna7158
      @neskaeuskalduna7158 Před 2 měsíci

      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

    • @neskaeuskalduna7158
      @neskaeuskalduna7158 Před 2 měsíci

      You should read carefully what I wrote, I mentioned "THE SWEDISH borrows..." at what point did I write that it was Spanish? 🤔@@Alborzhakimi7010

  • @Dan-hispano.
    @Dan-hispano. Před 8 měsíci +91

    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.
    🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

    • @javierfernandoagudelogomez1794
      @javierfernandoagudelogomez1794 Před 8 měsíci +13

      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 😂😂😂

    • @keviniglesias9100
      @keviniglesias9100 Před 8 měsíci +6

      This is true, I was just in Greece and it sounds very similar phonetically.

    • @antoniettadilorenzo9064
      @antoniettadilorenzo9064 Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@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.

    • @Jh0nJhon
      @Jh0nJhon Před 7 měsíci +3

      Cristo , Genesis , Apocalipsis , Biblia , Católico , etc todas son palabras Griegas 🇬🇷 y lo bueno de aprender Griego es que todas las palabras toman sentido logico.

    • @Dan-hispano.
      @Dan-hispano. Před 7 měsíci +4

      @@Jh0nJhon, lo que más me gusta del griego son los tecnicismos, abundan mucho en español.

  • @user-sh8gm4dl4v
    @user-sh8gm4dl4v Před 3 měsíci

    Beautiful.

  • @delythdavies5194
    @delythdavies5194 Před 3 měsíci

    Fascinating!

  • @deniscandido3312
    @deniscandido3312 Před 8 měsíci +39

    Línguas belas e fantásticas, mas fiquei fascinado com o fato de conseguir entender boa parte do Latim.

    • @leno_o17
      @leno_o17 Před 7 měsíci +3

      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.

    • @Lipe_360
      @Lipe_360 Před 7 měsíci +2

      Português vem do latin :v

    • @maluzuk2024
      @maluzuk2024 Před 5 měsíci +5

      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.

    • @deniscandido3312
      @deniscandido3312 Před 5 měsíci

      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

    • @wild8074
      @wild8074 Před 5 měsíci +1

      ​@@maluzuk2024Você esqueceu a lingua Romena

  • @kathleenhensley5951
    @kathleenhensley5951 Před 8 měsíci +28

    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.

    • @greekwarrior5373
      @greekwarrior5373 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Do you like Turkish too???

    • @serronserron1320
      @serronserron1320 Před 7 měsíci +1

      They would be speared to death, perceived by the locals as evil spirits or foreign spies from other lands.

    • @gabrielmaldonado1903
      @gabrielmaldonado1903 Před 7 měsíci +3

      Greek is such a beautiful language it is the language of the First Bible and the entire new testament 📖GR

    • @gabrielmaldonado1903
      @gabrielmaldonado1903 Před 7 měsíci

      Nobody care about Turkish it is not a Holy Language or ancient philoshoper language neither

    • @serronserron1320
      @serronserron1320 Před 7 měsíci

      @@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

  • @hollymedici2936
    @hollymedici2936 Před 6 měsíci

    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

  • @pringelsthegamefreak
    @pringelsthegamefreak Před měsícem +1

    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

  • @anshelm222
    @anshelm222 Před 8 měsíci +4

    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.

  • @dansiegel333
    @dansiegel333 Před 8 měsíci +25

    Beautiful and enlightening!
    Thank you!
    For future videos, it would be great if you could add English translations in the closed captioning.

  • @luisaugustobonilha8210
    @luisaugustobonilha8210 Před 5 měsíci

    Congrats! Tremendous job!

  • @AmarilioSongWriter
    @AmarilioSongWriter Před 5 měsíci

    The video sounds is great to 💤 sleep, I ❤ed them.

  • @markbeck8384
    @markbeck8384 Před 8 měsíci +40

    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.

  • @lindakynokephalos7827
    @lindakynokephalos7827 Před 8 měsíci +5

    It was amazing.Such a pity that these languages are not used any more.

    • @wild8074
      @wild8074 Před 5 měsíci

      Latin is still used in Vatican City. But of course it's quite different than the ancient latin

    • @BadKarma108
      @BadKarma108 Před 2 měsíci +1

      There are plenty of languages in this video that are still used and learned today. Such as Sanskrit in indias schools

  • @Ronniesky17
    @Ronniesky17 Před 6 měsíci

    Wonderful.

  • @williamstamper5395
    @williamstamper5395 Před 5 měsíci

    What a variety of cultures, how did they get along? knowledge is everything.

  • @ultramet
    @ultramet Před 8 měsíci +32

    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.

    • @jhombyrkotaksorgankazakh
      @jhombyrkotaksorgankazakh Před 8 měsíci +1

      What differences

    • @mats1975
      @mats1975 Před 8 měsíci +3

      ​@@jhombyrkotaksorgankazakhthe main differences are that the C is pronounced as K in classical, and the V as U/W

    • @jhombyrkotaksorgankazakh
      @jhombyrkotaksorgankazakh Před 8 měsíci +2

      @@mats1975 Vatis yous problemus?
      Gaius Caesare Julius Octavius

    • @VoidLantadd
      @VoidLantadd Před 8 měsíci +1

      Also they're pronouncing "ae" as "ay" like in "May", which is Ecclesiastical. In Classical it was pronounced like "eye".

    • @Senhor_Bolacha
      @Senhor_Bolacha Před 8 měsíci

      Classical latin don't exist

  • @infinite5795
    @infinite5795 Před 8 měsíci +50

    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).

    • @_Bappu_
      @_Bappu_ Před 8 měsíci +5

      It was classical Sanskrit that's why ,if there could've vedic Sanskrit, you probably wouldn't understand 75% of it😊

    • @BadBoy-to1nt
      @BadBoy-to1nt Před 8 měsíci

      Same like Sanskrit
      Halegannada also beautiful ❤

    • @kratuvam7
      @kratuvam7 Před 8 měsíci

      हाँ मैं भी

    • @iliamirshahi379
      @iliamirshahi379 Před 8 měsíci +10

      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.

    • @iliamirshahi379
      @iliamirshahi379 Před 8 měsíci +5

      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

  • @hakan3217
    @hakan3217 Před 3 měsíci +4

    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.

    • @samwallaceart288
      @samwallaceart288 Před hodinou

      My guess is they compare the known descendents of the language against each other, gather information vocal trends over time and looking at the oldest holdovers of language family, and synthesize what middle-ground between all the descended makes the most sense for how it was written.

  • @dariussimonis385
    @dariussimonis385 Před 4 měsíci

    Thanx. That's beautiful

  • @konstantinospizanias4508
    @konstantinospizanias4508 Před 7 měsíci +2

    As a Greek, a comment that I have to make is that the accent sounds a lot like Arabic which is not right.

  • @Briselance
    @Briselance Před 7 měsíci +6

    I would love to have subtitles for both the original speech and the translation in English.
    That would have been rad.

    • @jollyjoker8163
      @jollyjoker8163 Před 7 měsíci +1

      This idea definietly much more better and cool than this way

    • @Briselance
      @Briselance Před 2 měsíci

      Aye. I have no idea what they're speaking about. I mean, this is already great, but knowing what they say would be icing on the cake.

  • @bernardo82brazitaly
    @bernardo82brazitaly Před 6 měsíci

    Love this video, looks so real!

  • @khotsopitso3500
    @khotsopitso3500 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Would be interesting to know the methodology of reconstructing the vocalization of these words.

  • @WhoisMichelleCollie
    @WhoisMichelleCollie Před 8 měsíci +10

    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.

    • @urbandiscount
      @urbandiscount Před 8 měsíci +2

      it's all reconstructed and guess work

    • @Titancameraman64
      @Titancameraman64 Před 8 měsíci +1

      ​@@urbandiscountall? Bro don't lie most of it is reconstructed but Sanskrit and latin is known.

    • @timeup2549
      @timeup2549 Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@Titancameraman64 Sanskrit and Latin are not known, they are dead languages. What are you talking about?

    • @DarthOblivious7891
      @DarthOblivious7891 Před 8 měsíci +4

      ​@@timeup2549Sanskrit is still used for religious purposes even though it has no use in everyday life.

    • @user-pc9hr3tp8l
      @user-pc9hr3tp8l Před 8 měsíci +4

      @@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.

  • @user-tv5ht8ig6q
    @user-tv5ht8ig6q Před 8 měsíci +5

    Very well produced and very interesting ! 😊

  • @MrBobconner1952
    @MrBobconner1952 Před 4 měsíci

    Fascinating as hell.

  • @CountofHazelview
    @CountofHazelview Před 5 měsíci

    I would like to thank the effort of this production in studying time travel, so the cameraman could ask the Ancient Greek guy to suggest subscribing to the channel.

  • @thetruth1107
    @thetruth1107 Před 8 měsíci +43

    As a Hellen, I could easily say that the ancient Hellenic presentation was ridiculous. That accent was definitely American...

    • @jamesaron1967
      @jamesaron1967 Před 4 měsíci +5

      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.

    • @raythomas5090
      @raythomas5090 Před 4 měsíci +6

      I mean it’s AI. What do you expect?

    • @pete9688
      @pete9688 Před 4 měsíci +1

      It’s AI voice. Even the persons you see are CGI/ AI. So it’s only reading what’s written.. with errors.

    • @alpertungahan
      @alpertungahan Před 4 měsíci +3

      As a Turkish archeologist who studied Ancient Greek language, I totally agree with you. These are not correct....

    • @savannalane838
      @savannalane838 Před 4 měsíci

      2 points for AI😅 humans are still better lol

  • @iart2838
    @iart2838 Před 2 měsíci

    Excellent

  • @8SxMURxI8
    @8SxMURxI8 Před 18 dny +1

    As a persian . I understand most of the ancient languages 🔱🏛️🇮🇷

  • @polina1735
    @polina1735 Před 8 měsíci +29

    Honestly, it’s a fun video. The problem is that in many languages sounds like š and s with a dot are simply not pronounced, and that’s how Sidon became Idon in your rendition of Phoenician. Latin in “gn” cluster sounds a lot like Italian 😅 Whereas Ancient Greek sometimes has sounds alike Modern Greek that really shouldn’t be there before the Middle Ages Greek.
    I wonder what were the sources y’all used to create their speech, because as far as I can tell most recited religious texts. For instance, an Egyptian was reciting an offering formula, which was very interesting to hear, but I would maybe go for something more colloquial like Letters of Heqanakht. Same goes for a Roman who recited the Bible, I would have just given him to read Suetonius - that’d be perfect 😂

    • @timeup2549
      @timeup2549 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Because the "gn" cluster did sound like Italian during Imperial times. Κοινη Greek was closer to Modern Greek than to Attic, however here it does not sound like Modern Greek, it barely sounds like a real language.
      Romans were the ones who made the Catholic Bible, so there is no issue with them reciting the Bible.

    • @veuzou
      @veuzou Před 8 měsíci +2

      yes, the classical "an offering given by the king..." The Latin sounded ecclesiastical, why not using classical?

    • @tulenik71
      @tulenik71 Před 8 měsíci +2

      @@timeup2549 original language of new testament books is koine greek (but some parts not giving too much sense can be deciphered with a knowledge of aramaic)
      Vulgate is late 4th century translation, approx. 250 years after the "original" text was kinda of stabilised, so Romans or Jerome or whoever don't really "made" it, they only translated it and as we already know, not very well
      and of course it was far from classical latin back then

    • @timeup2549
      @timeup2549 Před 8 měsíci

      @@tulenik71 You are correct I believe. But how does that relate to what I said?

    • @tulenik71
      @tulenik71 Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@timeup2549 you told "Romans made catholic bible" but it was "made" 200 years (+/-) before. Mostly somewhere in the east part of Mediterannean and in different language. Thus said, Romans had very little to do with it.

  • @lenitaramos3490
    @lenitaramos3490 Před měsícem +1

    I loved this vídeo!!!

  • @tripalongbrasil
    @tripalongbrasil Před 22 dny +1

    As a portuguese speaker, it was so weird to interpret most of these as gibberish and then suddenly understand stuff when Latin came up 😅

  • @TheStarmaxlight
    @TheStarmaxlight Před 8 měsíci +6

    What a great idea! We can hear how ancient languages sounded when spoken

    • @weejackrussell
      @weejackrussell Před 4 měsíci +1

      How do we know that they are being pronounced correctly?

  • @jennamason4154
    @jennamason4154 Před 8 měsíci +3

    Very well done, and I would love to see how far back a language can be traced.

    • @kevinthecat9704
      @kevinthecat9704 Před 7 měsíci

      Languages can be connected up to about 8000 years ago. Beyond that, it becomes extremely difficult or impossible to differentiate between random chance and an actual relatiuonship. Ex: Indo-European (ancestor to English, Hindi, ect...), Uralic (Hungarian, Estonian, ect...) and Tupian (Tupi, Guarani, ect...) are about 5000 years old, Algic (Cree, Obijwe, ect...) is about 7000 years old, and Austroasiatic (Vietnamese, Khmer, ect...) is about 4500 years old.
      The only family to break this is Afroasiatic (Arabic, Hausa, ect...) which is, at the low end, 12000 years old.