lol, the stereotype of ancient Mayans being bloodthirsty human sacrificers, and their gentle-sounding speech gives off terrifying serial-killer vibes for me
“carefully researched and expertly voiced.” meaning some AI channel found other videos of people claiming to speak the ancient language, didn’t source them, and stuck an AI face on them.
In case anyone’s interested, the ancient greek sounds like the work of Ioannis Stratakis, who does the best and most natural sounding reconstructed attic greek pronounciation I’ve heard since I started learning ancient greek.
The Old Norse is just taken from a comedy sketch from the Icelandic show Steindinn Okkar. It is probably not very accurate to actual old norse. The joke is that the big guy, Ólafur Darri, is speaking a more archaic form of Icelandic, complaning about not getting any women, and the smaller guy, Steindi jr, doesn’t really understand what he’s saying, but points out that them always dressing in viking costumes probably doesn’t help them with the women.
You mean a rough best-guess of what these languages sounded like. In many cases that’s all we have as the spoken languages died out ages ago and linguists have to work backward through various related languages combined with the written language to try and get a very loose approximation. What I’d give to know what Sumerian actually sounded like…
I’m kinda surprised that the “ancient Chinese” part sounded completely intelligible, can tell right away that it was a recitation of two Tang dynasty poems. Sounded a bit like Hakka.
That wasn’t Old Norse, that was modern Icelandic spoken in a tongue-in-cheek “old time-y” fashion. I[t’s from a comedy sketch.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq0aIsiZ44o)
The interpretations of these ancient languages are cool.
The uncanny dopplegangers are frightening af.
Latin is more understandable than old English to a modern English speaker.
lol, the stereotype of ancient Mayans being bloodthirsty human sacrificers, and their gentle-sounding speech gives off terrifying serial-killer vibes for me
love this but sanskrit where
How do linguists (?) know what these languages sounded like?
no Sanskrit ?? why?
[now for the Neanderthal voice](https://youtu.be/tTkF8tomobA)
Looks like I need to brush up on my Latin for those medieval-themed parties.
The new Civilization game looks AMAZING!
The next leader animations for r/civ 7
sounds all Greek to me
These all seem super inaccurate and robotic, but I guess that’s what you’d expect from an AI voice.
“carefully researched and expertly voiced.” meaning some AI channel found other videos of people claiming to speak the ancient language, didn’t source them, and stuck an AI face on them.
cool idea but the computer generate voice is terrible. it’s sounds so fucking bad.
In case anyone’s interested, the ancient greek sounds like the work of Ioannis Stratakis, who does the best and most natural sounding reconstructed attic greek pronounciation I’ve heard since I started learning ancient greek.
Here’s him reading out the beginning of [Xenophons’ Anabasis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbAnHCDUDiw). he has a bunch more recordings on his channel.
Feels like a rushed character creator for a rpg
The Old Norse is just taken from a comedy sketch from the Icelandic show Steindinn Okkar. It is probably not very accurate to actual old norse. The joke is that the big guy, Ólafur Darri, is speaking a more archaic form of Icelandic, complaning about not getting any women, and the smaller guy, Steindi jr, doesn’t really understand what he’s saying, but points out that them always dressing in viking costumes probably doesn’t help them with the women.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq0aIsiZ44o&ab_channel=steindinn
You mean a rough best-guess of what these languages sounded like. In many cases that’s all we have as the spoken languages died out ages ago and linguists have to work backward through various related languages combined with the written language to try and get a very loose approximation. What I’d give to know what Sumerian actually sounded like…
I’m kinda surprised that the “ancient Chinese” part sounded completely intelligible, can tell right away that it was a recitation of two Tang dynasty poems. Sounded a bit like Hakka.
Maybe we should all start speaking Latin instead of Shakespearean English!
Looks like I need to brush up on my Latin for those medieval-themed parties.
That wasn’t Old Norse, that was modern Icelandic spoken in a tongue-in-cheek “old time-y” fashion. I[t’s from a comedy sketch.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq0aIsiZ44o)
[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ASsCH17cbA) is a better example.
Is there a video like this that shows how the modern US English language came about? From these ancient languages until now?
where’s Old Persian?
Oh well, latin sounds like an italian dude reading a latin script, no difference at all.
Looks like I need to brush up on my Latin for those medieval-themed parties.