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
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.
It's uplifting to know that in a world dominated by mediocrity, vulgarity, shallowness and bad taste, there are still people - including young ones - who are interested in ancient languages and civilizations. Thanks to the producers of this video.
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
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"
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.
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)
3:50 … was my favorite… almost made me tear up tbh … Ik no one really knows exactly how the Ancient Egyptians spoke… but ugh that sounded so close I bet… I love Egypt. As a big Egyptologist … it was so beautiful to hear.
It's impossible to know for sure, but Coptic is similar enough that linguists have been able to make reasonable guesses by tracing the language's trends back in time.
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)
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!
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.
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
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 😄😊
Many Greeks today complain that the Ancient Greek sound nothing like that because this sounds as if foreigner is trying to speak Greek I personally don't judge either side But if I miraculously happen to be alive about 2500 years from now I will be laughing my @ss off watching future generations of Greeks listening to modern Greek and saying "What!?! This is not how 21 century Greek sound like!!! No way no freaking way! They actually sound like ptiupongpingpawpeepoopo"
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 It is not a theoretical language. It is the ancestor of all Indian languages in the North. All of Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati and Punjabi is evolved from Sanskirt. Now go somewhere else and argue that the earth is flat. You sound totally ignorant and a troll.
@MrMirville That'd be inaccurate, it's not a conlang, referring it in that manner would be bad linguistics. Daksiputra Panini, Bhartrhari and other grammarians did not attempt to coalesce various Indian tongues when he ended up creating what we call Classical Sanskrit or Paniniyan Sanskrit. What he did was to introduce Grammatical reforms and rules to formalize a dying natural language whose regional dialects had begun turning into Independent languages, which resulted in it freezing from further natural development as it turned into a language of liturgy and the intellectual classes. If anything, Classical Sanskrit is less morphologically complex than Vedic Sanskrit. You could argue that Classical Sanskrit happens to be a very formalized natural language that appears constructed, seeing how it's direction was significantly influenced by the pronouncements of grammarians.
@@_Bappu_ Is the Sanskrit the Vedas are written in called _Vedic_ then, or something else like archaic Sanskrit? How does a glossologist differentiate between classical Sanskrit and Vedic Sanskrit?
@@jamesaron1967 Vedic Sanskrit is much ancient than classical, The difference are so much in words, compositions and grammar, The classical Sanskrit evolved over time with adding flexible grammar and is believed to be emerged in late vedic golden age period (i.e. around 6th century BCE) ,this classical Sanskrit is much easier compared to previous vedic one as the vedic empire expanded in mainland india which resulted in "Mahajanapadas" other natives and Aborigines increased their presence as merchant's and ambassadors due to their geographical knowledge.. which might've significantly contributed to emergence of Classical Sanskrit.. which became flexible to more mass of people..
Ancient history is my favorite so this video is magical to me. It literally moved my spirit to hear the words and languages of those that have long since died. ❤
I'm proud that as an Indian Sanatani person i understand my "Sanskrit" language completely because i studied as a student in my school curriculum,but i want to correct that it's not the real ancient "Samskrut " language,as i studied about this topic too , there are many grammatical difference between "classical Samskrit" and "Vedic Sanskrit"😊, at last I want to add that nice effort @Equator AI .
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.
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.
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.
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!!
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 .
@@toolanathema In my opinion it would sound closer to the ancient pronunciation of the text if read by a modern Greek, who certainly retains after 2,000 years the same pronunciation as his ancestors. Fluent pronunciation makes all the difference. In the video the pronunciation is problematic!! It's like a Greek trying to pronounce a Victorian English text with a Greek accent. Queen Victoria would not be thrilled with the result!!!
Latin didn't go extinct like the others either, the language was still the language of the catholic church when each of the dialects of Latin broke off into the romance languages today, so pronunciation was standardised in the 8th to 9th Century CE to the ecclesiastical pronunciation, which was used quite commonly up until about the mid 19th century BC
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.
It's crazy how as a Hebrew speaker I understood almost everything thr phonecian has said. We can have a conversation lol. I also understood some of the Akkadian
That is, the phonecians are definitely the anscestors of the hebrews, imagine how rebellious abraham was in his day by refusing to sacrifice his son to Ba'al
@@SagittariusSatellitium 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
@@SagittariusSatellitium 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.
@@ol.l.2167 Actually, in Ancient Greek φ, θ, χ, β, δ, γ were pronounced like aspirated "pʰ tʰ kʰ" and "hard" (stop consonants) "b d ɡ". The pronunciation has changed since, however, so Modern Greek sounds much softer.
@@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.
Many, many, many years ago when I was an undergraduate I took a course on Italian culture. We had to select some type of "project" to present at the end of the semester. I chose to research and write my paper (turned out to be 150 pages) on "The Etruscans." A few years later I traveled to Italy and actually got to see two Etruscan tombs, and I visited museums that featured Etruscan pottery and statuary artifacts. The Etruscans came alive for me when I listened to the words in the video. It's one thing to read about, research, and then write on a culture, group or nation, but it's another thing to hear an ancient language brought to life and imagine people who used that language on a daily basis. Good video!
I am italian, from the lands of the Etruscans. We have absolutely no proofs about their pronunciation. We can hardly read and understand their language. The actor of the video looks as a man from northern Europe while the Etruscans were a Mediterranean people. We can find better their heritage in their way of life, food, position of woman in society, craftwork and art.
@@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........
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
As Italian I find absurd we don't have LATIN in the primary scool... because Latin helps a lot to learn BETTER many other langiuges! I can understand just few words.
You 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.
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
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.
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!
@@rushandiearthling1081That is true for the Latin language Romans spoke (the one we learn at universities today) but not for the religious Latin transmitted by the Catholic church.
I was wondering whether any of it would be recognizable to modern Semitic speakers while listening to the Phoenician. Thanks for clearing that up By the way, could you just understand indivudual words, or phrases or most of the text?
@@JacquesMare A word here and there. I think I've got the first line: "I am Tabnit, a priest of Ashtart, king of the Sidonians, son of Asmun-azar, a priest of Ashtart, king of the Sidonians. who are you? ..."
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.
Para los hispanos (personas que hablamos español), el griego no nos es tan extraño ya que aproximadamente el 10% de nuestro idioma proviene de los helenos. Un idioma tan lindo que ha enriquecido al español. 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
Yo creo que el menos extraño es el latín, el español se formó cómo una "malversación" del latín. Yo entendí varias palabras, sin ir a un traductor, me sonaron cosas algo "bíblicas", algo como "en el principio era el verbo....", cuando tenga un tiempo voy a un traductor a ver si si atiné 😂😂😂
@@javierfernandoagudelogomez1794 da Napoli , Italia: gli Italiani, Spagnoli, Portoghesi, Francesi, Romeni sono i discendenti dei Romani, che appartenevano all'antico popolo dei Latini ( Italia Centrale). Essi sono chiamati popoli NEOLATINI E LE LIRO LINGUE DISCENDONO DAL'ANTICA MADRE LKNGUA LATINA. I NEOLATINI , PARLANTI LINGUE NEOLATINE ( ALUAS LJNGUE ROMANZE) SONO UNA DELLE RAZZE DOMINANTI IN EUROPA , INSIEME AI POPOLI GERMANICI ( TEDESCHI, AUSTRIACI, OLANDESI, SCANDINAVI INGLESI ) ED AI SLAVI ( SERBI, CROATI, SLOVENI, MONTENEGRINI, BULGARI, CECHI , SLOVACCHI, RUSSI, POLACCHI, UCRAINI, BIELORUSSI). IN MINORANZA GRECI, ALBANESI, POPOLI CELTICI ( SCOZZESI, IRLANDESI, GALLESI, GALIZIANI, BRETONI) ; UNGHERESI , POPOLI BALTICI , FINNUCI.
Cristo , Genesis , Apocalipsis , Biblia , Católico , etc todas son palabras Griegas 🇬🇷 y lo bueno de aprender Griego es que todas las palabras toman sentido logico.
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
@@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? 😂
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."
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.
Amazing!! I love this video. Thank you so much for your work! Just a question… Is there any reason I can’t grasp why all of them are male voices? Thank you once again.
The Greek and Roman guys are quoting verses from John 1 in the Bible. The Sumerian guy is quoting the creation account from Epic of Gilgamesh. I am curious to know what the other people are quoting.
It's really strange but all these languages sound the same as each other. How can we know that they sounded like that is incredible. What would English sound like to them or anyone who didn't speak modern English. It's brilliant. Thank you.
As a Indo-aryan Hindu, i could understand Sanskrit, the terms and some part of grammar gives it away. It is interesting to note, i have never learnt Sanskrit but we use Sanskrit mantras for worship daily. Also, its surprising to note, i could understand some Avestan, considering i have never heard about this language or we are not remotely related to any other language, culturally, ideologically or linguistically. Plus, since i know Kannada as well( a Dravidian language, totally different family of language) i would like to see oldest Dravidian languages( Old Tamil, Old Kannada or even Old Telugu).
It's because Avestan is an Iranian language. Both are sister languages that derived from indo european language which was used by the Aryan migrators who settled in Iran and India.
Also Avestan is grammatically closer to vedic Sanskrit. That's why it's easier for you to understand it than an Iranian like me. I could only understand a couple of words
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.
@@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
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.
O nosso Português tosco é derivado do latim, assim como o Espanhol, o Italiano e Francês e outras mais. Por isso somos chamados de latino-americanos ou sul-americanos. No passado, latim era obrigatório nas escolas, hoje somente nos seminários nos cursos de Teologia.
Naturalmente, sei disso. Porém, falei no sentido que não esperava entender tanto boa parte do dialeto falado no vídeo, pensei que seria apenas algumas coisas.@@maluzuk2024
I'd love to see Biblical Hebrew on here too, I want to see how it's changed from my own family's speech. And Aramaic too. Akkadian sounds almost similar.
Biblical Hebrew is really similar to Modern Hebrew. I have no trouble understanding it as I speak modern Ivrit /Hebrew. I can also understand some Aramaic
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🙏🏻♥️
Being from India I can say that our ancient language is Sanskrit. Today there are many languages in our country but Sanskrit and Tamil are the oldest among them. Sanskrit is considered to be the mother of all languages. it is sad that in today's times people in India are not able to preserve their traditional language. Everyone follow culture other than there own. I feel that this problem is faced by every country in today's time but I want to learn Sanskrit. I am sad that I did not take the initiative when I should have learned this language.I just want to say that all people should save their culture, it is important to grow in modernise way with your language and culture but it is also important to follow and respect your traditional things.
You are 100% correct. I believe cultures, and peoples, should remain true to their heritage, and respect for ones history and heritage is far more important than material aquisition.
0:18 Stairing at a guy like this, who cares what he is saying lol. He could be reciting the ingredients on the ketchup bottle and I would still think it sounds amazingly poetic 😂
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.
@@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.
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 😂
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.
@@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 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.
These videos are so great to watch! Love how they turn out:) My one feedback- it would be really nice if what they are saying could be roughly translated into English. Then instead of just listening, we would also understand! Will make the experience twice as immersive and interesting! Thank you for doing this! :D
Fascinating---it is interesting to note how ancient Greek pronunciation seems closer to the Byzantine/modern Greek pronunciation used by Greek, Italian and Spanish scholars than to "Erasmian" used by northern European and other scholars. I would like to hear ancient Chinese as well.
Latin is still spoken today. And, I think that Sanskrit is still spoken today also. Also, with, Latin, there are two pronunciations of Latin - classical and ecclesiastical.
The pronunciation system in this video was the ecclesiastical pronunciation. Edit: Mistook this video for Equator AI's other video. Corrected my statement.
@@godowskygodowsky1155 The Latin in the video is most definitely ecclesiastical, so not really how 'ancient' romans would have sounded. Couple stand out differences being pronouncing the 'ci' as the english digraph 'ch', classical pronounced c's as hard k, and 'v' was actually pronounced 'w'. So the first sentence for example here it said 'In princhipio verbum', when it would be 'in prinkipio werbum'. Also the 'ae' was pronounced like 'ey' not 'eye'. So tenebreye (pronounced like how we say 'eye' as in eyeball) This form of Latin is what you'll hear at a church nowadays and since the middle ages, but none of your favourite generals/senators/emperors would have sounded like this. I feel like a lot of people are disappointed when they realise, if it was actually said at all, one of the most famous lines in classical Roman history would have sounded like ' weni, wedi, wiki, (long 'i's and 'e's), which sounds far less cool haha Edit: the text is from the Bible so it was an understandable mistake to make - the first line I mentioned above meaning 'In the beginning there was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word' - not sure which part its from but that's definitely some convoluted biblical nonsense lol
@@MichaelH-h5u Oh sorry, you're completely correct. I had Equator AI's other video open at the same time, which does use classical pronunciation, and mistook the two videos.
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
The Classical (ancient) Latin pronunciation was quite different to what this is. There is no hard "v" sound like in the German "Warum", but rather a soft sound like the "wh" in "what". Vowel length is also not taken into account here. This is more a mix of Classical and Ecclesiastical Latin.
To what you say, ancient transcriptions have apparently shown that the c was pronounced like a k in classical Latin, and that the soft c is a product of ecclesiastical Latin. I hope they can fix these things.
And what about the ae? Once I heard a latinist saying that in republican times, ae was pronounced like ai and not like e (it was a German latin course, and the example he used was Caesar, pronounced like "Kaisar").
@marionnaeser-lather3514 pronunciation is [e] like at the beginning of a word that starts with "e" like "end", not [i] and there is not a German Latin, is only Latin. Kaiser in German and kejsare in Swedish is a word that is derived from the word "Caesar" that means emperor.
Wat mij het meest aantrok is Urartian wat dus het oude Armeens was “Armenië” heel interessant dat we zo een oud en mooie volk waren zijn en blijven en daarnaast ook de eerste Christenen ter wereld God zijn dank🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲♥️♥️♥️♥️ik ben er trots op!!!
The Urartians lived on the territory of the South Caucasus, then the Indo-European Armenians came and destroyed some of them and assimilated them with the Armenians! But as such, the ancestors of Armenians are not Uratians, they are Armenians. Relatives of the ancient Greeks and Persians
Het klinkt ook echt als Armeens he Urartian taal... ik ben ook trots broeder op onze roots, ik moet je wel verbeteren dat we niet de eerste christenen waren maar het eerste land die christendom als staats religie had aangenomen. "in the 1st century BC and in the year 301 became the first state in the world to adopt Christianity as its official religion"
😂Είμαι Έλληνας, είναι δύσκολο, για κάποιον που έχει άλλη προφορά να μιλήσει όπως πρέπει, τα Ελληνικά είναι γλώσσα με προσωδεια, είναι τραγουδιστή γλώσσα, ευχαριστώ.
I saved this fascinating video for later viewing. The question I have now is: How do we know what ancient, classical languages sounded like? (Are translations in English available on this video?)
Ancient Greek sounds like our cousins from Chicago training to speak greek 😊😊 (very heavy american accent), the same with the Latin (cousins from Brooklyn)
The text on the video isn't an ancient Greek text though, it's a . Modern Greek and ancient Greek alphabets are the same exactly. Reading out loud the text is really easy too, if you know some modern Greek.
What attracted me most is Urartian which was the old Armenian “Armenia” very interesting that we were and remain such an old and beautiful people and also the first Christians in the world Thank God!!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲♥️♥️♥️♥️I'm proud of it!!!
Small correction on Latin, it would be more correct to use a returned pronunciation of Latin (classical pronunciation), while that of the video is the ecclesiastical pronunciation, which is not wrong, but the classical pronunciation would be more correct since we are talking about ancient languages
The one in the video is both ecclesiastical and classical mixed up🫤
A me pare che la pronuncia latina fosse più morbida non così zoppicante. È chiaro che a parlarlo non è una persona umana ma una voce robotica!
@@thebat729 Plus pauses made in some weird places (like AFTER "sed")
Classical Latin never pronounced "v" as a modern v it would have sounded like W. Only church Latin pronounced it like a modern V. Similarly in Classical Latin "C" was hard as in Cat not soft as in church Latin.
@@wattyler2994 Yes, that's what I mean
I learned a lot from this, including that ancient people were far better looking than any of us.
News flash: People 2,000 years ago looked more or less just like people do today.
@@PuzzoozooExcept that they dressed better back then.
@@bobblowhard8823 They certainly did.
@@bobblowhard8823 Dressed better? Lol🤣
These are people from today!
It's uplifting to know that in a world dominated by mediocrity, vulgarity, shallowness and bad taste, there are still people - including young ones - who are interested in ancient languages and civilizations. Thanks to the producers of this video.
Amen to that
as a young person, I cringed so hard while reading this
@@scorchingbeats"as a young person" ... Harder to get any cringer than that
If you are interested, as an Hebrew speaker I can basically translate the Phonecian:
It appears that the text was wrriten on a royal grave, he said that his name is Tabnit, a priest of the godess Ashtart and the son of the king of Sidon - Eshmun'azar. He lays in this coffin and he warns anyone that will try to open this coffin not to do so and upset him and the godess Ashera, and if they would, some very very unpleasent things will happen to them lol
Can you understand the Accadian too?
@@Kinotaurus I could understand some similar words but not whole sentences unfortunatly
A little correction: in the first time I wrote the godess Ashtart, and in the second time Ashera. I was confused, it's Ashtart in both times.
Btw, I couldn't understand all the last sentences in which he says what the godess Ashtart will do to the one who opens the coffin, but what I think I understood is: "you won't have any offsprings in this life under the sun"
@@yahavhasson8040 bruh what type of Hebrew you speak lol
The ancient Greek that is heard is actually a dialect that prevailed during the Hellenistic period (323 BC-300 AC) and was called «Koine» (κοινή - common). Τhis dialect is very close and similar to modern Greek and therefore easily understood by modern Greeks.
The excerpt is the beginning of the Gospel of John which had been translated into koine by the Septuagint in Alexandria. It would be interesting if ancient Greek included the Attic or the Ionian dialects, in which the masterpieces of the Greek philosophers were written. Also, the pronunciation is very bad, like an Englishman trying to speak Greek or me English
Correction: The gospel of John was originally written in the Greek language (Koine). The Septuagint translated only the old testament texts into koine.
The Language of the Last 7 Books of the Old Testament and the Entire New Testament 📖🇬🇷 It is a Holy language. ☦️
The Romans described the Greeks they knew as speaking in a "singing tone." Should this Greek have been more melodic & mellifluous?
Καλά σαν ν ακούμε νέα ελληνικά με ξενική προφορά.μονο Έλληνας θα μπορούσε να τα διαβάσει σωστα
Show off! ☺️
That explains how I clearly understhood. Back at school we had focused on older dialects, especially the Attican, before the hellenistic period, which was a pain in my butt (Im a thessalonian btw :), double the reason)
So did all ancient guys look like super models?😂
Offcourse !! Ancient men and women were so wonderful !!
erkekler sonradan çirkinleşti..
Kerikit mat poop poop
(Yes) in ancient Frogufshkin
They had no machinery or automation. All needed to work hard... obesity was uncommon but sweat and blood. Salute!
It’s AI generated
As a northern Indian I could understand most of the Sanskrit and some of the Avestan.
I am from Bangladesh (a Bangladeshi Hindu), and can understand most too.
@@kangtheconqueror8784 You also understand Turkish.
aryan migration theory.
@@whocares83this is fake theory,its debunked,aryans migrated westwords from india to europe
@@dmoll1799???
As a speaker of East Texan and some Southwest Louisiana, I understood 43% of ancient Latin
😂😂😂😂
Not the Greek one? There is an Athens in East Texas. 😂
I'd imagine it's cause of the French in Cajun and creole (South Louisiana)
😂
That’s a good one. 😂 😂
3:50 … was my favorite… almost made me tear up tbh … Ik no one really knows exactly how the Ancient Egyptians spoke… but ugh that sounded so close I bet… I love Egypt. As a big Egyptologist … it was so beautiful to hear.
It's impossible to know for sure, but Coptic is similar enough that linguists have been able to make reasonable guesses by tracing the language's trends back in time.
@@Cat-tastropheethe reconstruction presented in this video is based on that premise
There's a whole page on Wikipedia dedicated to changes in pronunciation through time, and even if it is largely imprecise, with enough critical thinking and IPA knowledge, you should be able to pull off a decent egyptian accent. I myself am working on writting a report summarising and precising the various rules and specific phonemes of Middle Egyptian (which is considered the Classical period of Ancient Egypt)
J'ai bcp aimé l'égyptien aussi si doux à l'oreille et le latin qui m'a permis de comprendre un peu
I had the idea of building a time machine, and sending a reel to reel analog tape recorder back in time so we can get some actual sound samples. I was told that wasn't possible at this time! PFFFFT!
I watched a program about Antony and Cleopatra a few years ago and it was wonderful to hear the actors playing Antony and Cleopatra speaking to each other in ancient Greek - we forget that Cleopatra was for all intents and purposes Greek and that Greek was always the language of the eastern part of the Roman empire.
She was Makedonian, there's a difference. Imagine as today's Canadian vs Americans or English vs Scots.
@poonczey Still no difference
Ancient Macedonia was part of the Greek world -on the periphery but still part of it -Greece was not one country then but consisted of numerous independent states -some democracies like Athens and some kingdoms like Macedonia-so if someone was an Athenian or an Ionian was he/she not Greek?@@poonczey
Yes, Cleopatra was from the lineage of macedonians Ptolemaios, thus descendants from Alexander the great
thanks to Netflix we all know that Cleopatra was black.
She probably spoke Zulu click sounds
As Hebrew speaker I understand Phoenician (about 70%)! Both (Hebrew and Phoenician) are dialects of Canaanite language!
fucking genocider
You also understand Turkish im sure of it.😂
We are all brothers and sisters
Were all of these the first chapter of the gospel of John? I recognized the Greek and Latin as such.
@@greekwarrior5373 As a Turk I fail to see the connection
As a Jesuit seminary student, I understood the Latin and the Greek. It would have been interesting to hear Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke daily.
Aramaic is still spoken on a daily basis.
As a Greek I find the pronunciation of the two classical languages, latin and ancient greek very HART. Both languages have a smoother accent and a more pleasant echo, that was not case in this extremely important video. Congratulations, I was positively impressed 😄😊
ισχυει ,....κακο ηχο για αρχαια ελληνικα ,λες και μιλαει τα αρχαια κανας λατινοαραβομεξικανος
@@anastasiakailari8679 I agree!!
Ναι αλλά πώς ξέρετε και εσεις και οι filmmakers το «σωστό»?
Αυτά δεν είναι αρχαία, ούτε της ομηρικής εποχής, ούτε της κλασσικής
είναι η βίβλος
καθόλου αντιπροσωπευτικό
Many Greeks today complain that the Ancient Greek sound nothing like that because this sounds as if foreigner is trying to speak Greek
I personally don't judge either side
But if I miraculously happen to be alive about 2500 years from now I will be laughing my @ss off watching future generations of Greeks listening to modern Greek and saying "What!?! This is not how 21 century Greek sound like!!! No way no freaking way! They actually sound like ptiupongpingpawpeepoopo"
As a spanish speaker, of all these antique languages, the most comprehensible for me was Latin
El etrusco también se me hizo familiar, el griego se entienden algunas palabras: ¿qué dice que mi pene que?..😆
no shit
No, the most comprehensible for you is Turkish.
roman larp gang 😩🙏🍷
@@greekwarrior5373How?
0:00 Etruscan
0:36 Sumerian
1:25 Ancient Greek
2:23 Urartian
3:20 Avestan
3:48 Egyptian
4:35 Akkadian
5:30 Sanskrit
6:31 Hittiti
7:28 Latin
8:20 Phoenician
2:23 this is ancinet Armenian ❤️🇦🇲
Sanskrit seemed 100% clear and hasn't changed a bit from what I learnt in high school.
Bcz in school we learn classical Sanskrit not vedic. Vedic Sanskrit you won't understand much of it, for instance try to read Rigveda and then any Puranas, you'll find purana as more easily understandable while veda be much more difficult
@MrMirville It is not a theoretical language. It is the ancestor of all Indian languages in the North. All of Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati and Punjabi is evolved from Sanskirt. Now go somewhere else and argue that the earth is flat. You sound totally ignorant and a troll.
@MrMirville That'd be inaccurate, it's not a conlang, referring it in that manner would be bad linguistics. Daksiputra Panini, Bhartrhari and other grammarians did not attempt to coalesce various Indian tongues when he ended up creating what we call Classical Sanskrit or Paniniyan Sanskrit. What he did was to introduce Grammatical reforms and rules to formalize a dying natural language whose regional dialects had begun turning into Independent languages, which resulted in it freezing from further natural development as it turned into a language of liturgy and the intellectual classes.
If anything, Classical Sanskrit is less morphologically complex than Vedic Sanskrit.
You could argue that Classical Sanskrit happens to be a very formalized natural language that appears constructed, seeing how it's direction was significantly influenced by the pronouncements of grammarians.
@@_Bappu_ Is the Sanskrit the Vedas are written in called _Vedic_ then, or something else like archaic Sanskrit? How does a glossologist differentiate between classical Sanskrit and Vedic Sanskrit?
@@jamesaron1967 Vedic Sanskrit is much ancient than classical, The difference are so much in words, compositions and grammar, The classical Sanskrit evolved over time with adding flexible grammar and is believed to be emerged in late vedic golden age period (i.e. around 6th century BCE) ,this classical Sanskrit is much easier compared to previous vedic one as the vedic empire expanded in mainland india which resulted in "Mahajanapadas" other natives and Aborigines increased their presence as merchant's and ambassadors due to their geographical knowledge.. which might've significantly contributed to emergence of Classical Sanskrit.. which became flexible to more mass of people..
Ancient history is my favorite so this video is magical to me. It literally moved my spirit to hear the words and languages of those that have long since died. ❤
I love studying ancient history because it allows me to connect with my ancestors in a way that more modern history lacks for me, personally.
We are still here as descendants of Egyptians, Romans, Greeks, Phoenicians etc.
I'm proud that as an Indian Sanatani person i understand my "Sanskrit" language completely because i studied as a student in my school curriculum,but i want to correct that it's not the real ancient "Samskrut " language,as i studied about this topic too , there are many grammatical difference between "classical Samskrit" and "Vedic Sanskrit"😊,
at last I want to add that nice effort @Equator AI .
I can say literally the same things but I am italian and I studied Latin and I can say that the pronunciation in the video is not the classical one
I think that if I could go back in time and redo my college degree, I would do it in linguistics. Ancient languages especially, they endlessly fascinate me.
I’m doing linguistics now. 18 years after finishing computer science.
@@PedroMachadoPTI bet you are enjoying it more this time around.
That is historical linguistics, modern linguistics is all about semantics.
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.
Worthless degree. Just saying
It was interesting to hear Sanskrit, an ancient Indian language. A lot of people probably don’t realize that the word “karma” is Sanskrit.
Sanskrit is still actively used today as the religious language of many South Asian traditions
Maya,chakra,karm,samsara, Aryan and yog are famous Sanskrit words.
Several Sanskrit god names like indra,ashur are also famous
Many mantras in easterm Buddhist traditions are in Sanskrit.
My favorite word in Sanskrit is Nirvana.
@@itsoblivion8124 You forgot the beautiful word Nirvana.
@@j.g.8494 metal music bashes in the background
This is so mesmerizing. Excellent work! I absolutely LOVE languages!
I can't comment on any of the languages other than 1st century AD Hellenistic common language. The sound of Greek we heard was definitely from some foreign Western European who has just started learning Greek and is pronouncing it syllabically. If you want to hear the sound of this text in a beautiful flowing Greek language you can visit today a Greek Orthodox church where the sound of it has been preserved unadulterated. We will have our doubts about the other languages that today are probably extinct!!
Thank you for your comment. The Latin here is also really far from being ancient.
Totally agree . Maybe i can understand about the diphthongs maybe but the way a western european probably an English speaker is reading Greek it is a jok .
Thanks 👍♥️🙏
@@toolanathema In my opinion it would sound closer to the ancient pronunciation of the text if read by a modern Greek, who certainly retains after 2,000 years the same pronunciation as his ancestors. Fluent pronunciation makes all the difference. In the video the pronunciation is problematic!! It's like a Greek trying to pronounce a Victorian English text with a Greek accent. Queen Victoria would not be thrilled with the result!!!
Latin didn't go extinct like the others either, the language was still the language of the catholic church when each of the dialects of Latin broke off into the romance languages today, so pronunciation was standardised in the 8th to 9th Century CE to the ecclesiastical pronunciation, which was used quite commonly up until about the mid 19th century BC
Ancient north american languages and also like Algonquin languages, Chatah, Navajo would be so boss!!! Really enjoyed this video!!
I agree those would certainly be interesting, but at least (I assume) we can find YT videos in indigenous languages that are still in use, e.g. Navajo, Nihuatl, Mayan languages, etc.
Guarani is a southamerican language that's still used in paraguay mostly
There are some books out about the WWII Navajo Code Talkers that are fascinating.
It's amazing!!!! I really love how great human can combine sounds creating so different linguages!!!!
Gorgeous idea to propose this video on ancient languages !
Congratulations for this amazing work and waiting for another languages 🙏✨!
It's crazy how as a Hebrew speaker I understood almost everything thr phonecian has said. We can have a conversation lol.
I also understood some of the Akkadian
That is, the phonecians are definitely the anscestors of the hebrews, imagine how rebellious abraham was in his day by refusing to sacrifice his son to Ba'al
@@SagittariusSatellitium brother language not ancestor
@@SagittariusSatellitium it's because Phoenician and hebrew are both dialects of cnaanite which makes them sister languages while arabic is more of a cousin language because herew and Phoenician are western Semitic and Arabic is southern Semitic
keeep dreaming@@SagittariusSatellitium
@@SagittariusSatellitium 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.
Ancient greek should sound smoother - I think (I'm Greek btw). But I appreciate the work the creators have put in this video. Congrats!
@@ol.l.2167 Actually, in Ancient Greek φ, θ, χ, β, δ, γ were pronounced like aspirated "pʰ tʰ kʰ" and "hard" (stop consonants) "b d ɡ". The pronunciation has changed since, however, so Modern Greek sounds much softer.
Sumerian sounds strikingly telegraphic to my ears, very clear, succinct and to the point, although I don't understand a word.
I believe the Sumerian language was the first
It's also parsed weirdly. It's as if I was. Talking to you like. This instead. Of normally.
I highly doubt it was full of autotune like this video. None of this sounds human.
@@coolname2629 Exactly, none of this sounds like a real human language. Latin does not sound like Italian or Sardinian at all, Greek like Modern Greek, Sanskrit like Hindi or Urdu. Makes you wonder.
The pronunciation of all languages was computerised. An algorithmic and not natural flowing pronunciation.
Many, many, many years ago when I was an undergraduate I took a course on Italian culture. We had to select some type of "project" to present at the end of the semester. I chose to research and write my paper (turned out to be 150 pages) on "The Etruscans."
A few years later I traveled to Italy and actually got to see two Etruscan tombs, and I visited museums that featured Etruscan pottery and statuary artifacts. The Etruscans came alive for me when I listened to the words in the video. It's one thing to read about, research, and then write on a culture, group or nation, but it's another thing to hear an ancient language brought to life and imagine people who used that language on a daily basis. Good video!
I am italian, from the lands of the Etruscans. We have absolutely no proofs about their pronunciation. We can hardly read and understand their language. The actor of the video looks as a man from northern Europe while the Etruscans were a Mediterranean people. We can find better their heritage in their way of life, food, position of woman in society, craftwork and art.
@@mauriziodesanctis1159 No, Etruscans were Turkish.
@@greekwarrior5373 Oh, you are the Turkish 🦃 cockroach who pretends to be Greek. How is the Earthquake doing, Ogluzguzkhan?
As the Italian said, we have no way to know how they sounded like. The sounds portrayed here might as well be pure fantasy.
@@greekwarrior5373 Recent studies have found the Etruscans were an indigenous people from the area. For years archeologists and historians believed the Etruscans were somehow related to the Turkish peoples.
Now they are saying "no." Sometimes there's probably more accuracy in just throwing a coin and seeing which side comes up first........
Could you do a video on Ancient Germanic , Gaulic , Thracian, and Celtic languages
My poitu charentes dialec is similar to BASQUE, celtic
Very interesting. It would be nice to see the the English translation to know the meaning of the texts. Also it would be nice to hear some ancient women.
It seems as though each speaker is speaking about their gods and goddesses as key words in the text relate to a name of a god or goddess.
yes, I don't know why these AIs are only done in male voices and figures.
The Greek one was the beginning of the Gospel of John.. from the Bible.
@@v4v777Same as the Latin one.
❗I cannot express how much I love and appreciate this ! Often throughout my life, I've wished I could hear these languages spoken. Thank you🙏
Digo o mesmo!
The pronunciation of all these is just far from how it actually sounded. Do not fantasise it
Yep, this video is absolute bullshit
LOVE THIS! But wish the fonts in the description were bigger so that it is legible…watching on a portable phone
2:24 hearing this makes me really understand how Urartian was the foundation of the Armenian langauge. So interesting to actually hear our ancient ancestors. Thanks for this
Urartian is not an ancestor Armenian ???? It's not even in the same family. There was some borrowing sure, but they don't share a common ancestor.
@@kevinthecat9704there are still words that we use that are similar
@@TigranHakobyan-jh8ue yeah i know. Like I said, there are some borrowed words, but its not an ancestor to Armenian.
@@kevinthecat9704 the people who spoke the language are the ancestors of present day Armenians
@@TigranHakobyan-jh8ue thats true. All im saying is that the languages are unrelated.
These videos are so fascinating. Please do more ancient languages, and maybe some of the more obscure modern languages.
yes, i agree.... also maybe valarian...
On which basis exactly is this estabilished as "the real sound" of ancient languages?
As a Bengali and Hindi speaker, I understood a gist of what was said in the Sanskrit language.
Brother, being a Slav, I understand certain words from Sanskrit. It is very funny .
Indo-european language obviously you'd understand like me I understand most of latin because I'm brazilian so portuguese speaker
that's really amazing, seems like Ai restored ancient people with narrations in their languages. Thank you for sharing
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.
As a Greek, a comment that I have to make is that the accent sounds a lot like Arabic which is not right.
So beautiful to hear these wonderful words, even though I had never EVER heard of some of the languages spoken.
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.
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.
As Italian I find absurd we don't have LATIN in the primary scool... because Latin helps a lot to learn BETTER many other langiuges! I can understand just few words.
You have it in the gennasio
You are absolutely right about what helps to understand other languages, I am Spanish and I live in Sweden and the fact that Swedish has many words borrowed from Latin and French made it much easier for me at first to understand the language.
@@neskaeuskalduna7158spanish does not “borrow” from latin. Spanish descends from latin.
You must read my comment carefully, I mentioned "SWEDISH has many words borrowed from Latin..." Where did I write that spanish was borrowed from Latin? 🤔 @@Alborzhakimi7010
You should read carefully what I wrote, I mentioned "THE SWEDISH borrows..." at what point did I write that it was Spanish? 🤔@@Alborzhakimi7010
Both the “Ancient Greek” and the Latin reciting the beginning of John’s gospel. In fact the Greek of New Testament times had evolved a great deal from that of 5th C BCE Athens and even more so from that of “Homeric” Greek. The Latin was interesting-pronouncing “v” as in modern English. Many believe it was more like “w.” Anyway, well done generally! I find it quite moving to hear these long dead voices from the past.
V was supposedly pronounced like a W and all C's were pronounced as a hard C or K
Seems like all these languages are reciting the same text… „In the beginning there was the Word.”
I thought that! The only word that I understood in Greek was the word “logos” and the in Latin,the word “Deus” and I thought wouldn’t it be cool if they were saying John 1!
@@rushandiearthling1081That is true for the Latin language Romans spoke (the one we learn at universities today) but not for the religious Latin transmitted by the Catholic church.
As a polyglot, I'm in heaven here! 😊
A Hebrew speaker can make out a bit of the Phoenician.
came here to say this!
so can Arabic speakers
I was wondering whether any of it would be recognizable to modern Semitic speakers while listening to the Phoenician. Thanks for clearing that up
By the way, could you just understand indivudual words, or phrases or most of the text?
@@JacquesMare A word here and there. I think I've got the first line: "I am Tabnit, a priest of Ashtart, king of the Sidonians, son of Asmun-azar, a priest of Ashtart, king of the Sidonians. who are you? ..."
@@physics1518 that's so cool. Thanks for responding.😁
Fabulous. Just a first impression: Latin and Hittite struck me as the most beautiful. I liked the Greek and Phoenician, Egyptian and Etruscan also. Hearing this makes me feel closer to the distant Past: all those ancient peoples were just normal, relatively-intelligent folks like us. They could be our best friend or a bad mother-in-law. if we lived back then.
I KNOW Ltin from church as a catholic
Para los hispanos (personas que hablamos español), el griego no nos es tan extraño ya que aproximadamente el 10% de nuestro idioma proviene de los helenos.
Un idioma tan lindo que ha enriquecido al español.
🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
Yo creo que el menos extraño es el latín, el español se formó cómo una "malversación" del latín. Yo entendí varias palabras, sin ir a un traductor, me sonaron cosas algo "bíblicas", algo como "en el principio era el verbo....", cuando tenga un tiempo voy a un traductor a ver si si atiné 😂😂😂
This is true, I was just in Greece and it sounds very similar phonetically.
@@javierfernandoagudelogomez1794 da Napoli , Italia: gli Italiani, Spagnoli, Portoghesi, Francesi, Romeni sono i discendenti dei Romani, che appartenevano all'antico popolo dei Latini ( Italia Centrale). Essi sono chiamati popoli NEOLATINI E LE LIRO LINGUE DISCENDONO DAL'ANTICA MADRE LKNGUA LATINA. I NEOLATINI , PARLANTI LINGUE NEOLATINE ( ALUAS LJNGUE ROMANZE) SONO UNA DELLE RAZZE DOMINANTI IN EUROPA , INSIEME AI POPOLI GERMANICI ( TEDESCHI, AUSTRIACI, OLANDESI, SCANDINAVI INGLESI ) ED AI SLAVI ( SERBI, CROATI, SLOVENI, MONTENEGRINI, BULGARI, CECHI , SLOVACCHI, RUSSI, POLACCHI, UCRAINI, BIELORUSSI). IN MINORANZA GRECI, ALBANESI, POPOLI CELTICI ( SCOZZESI, IRLANDESI, GALLESI, GALIZIANI, BRETONI) ; UNGHERESI , POPOLI BALTICI , FINNUCI.
Cristo , Genesis , Apocalipsis , Biblia , Católico , etc todas son palabras Griegas 🇬🇷 y lo bueno de aprender Griego es que todas las palabras toman sentido logico.
@@Jh0nJhon, lo que más me gusta del griego son los tecnicismos, abundan mucho en español.
But you guys forget to mention Ancient living language Tamil ❤ தமிழ் ( India 🇮🇳) , Tamil was the first to be classified as a classical language of India. Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia. Tamil is an official language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the sovereign nations of Sri Lanka and Singapore,[9][5] and the Indian Union territory of Puducherry, It is also spoken by the Tamil diaspora found in many countries, including Malaysia, Myanmar, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia and Mauritius
Uh...okay wikipedia
@@rohanrodrigues7115 so what ?
Ariyan peoples want to destroy our Dravidian history. Simple.....
am ashamed that a 600 bc year younger langauge sanskrit has a place in the video but we wont ..500bc🫤🫤
@@kavirio3849Sanskrit is the oldest language in the world what nonsense are you saying? Go google how old is sanskrit there are traces of it for about 7000 years. Who told you Sanskrit is 600? 😂
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."
The Latin is strange. The pronunciation is more like Ecclesiastical Latin (Beginning of the Gospel of John) than Classical Latin. How should I know? I was there.
What differences
@@kasyakyoubfgamindikisboratthe main differences are that the C is pronounced as K in classical, and the V as U/W
@@mats1975 Vatis yous problemus?
Gaius Caesare Julius Octavius
Also they're pronouncing "ae" as "ay" like in "May", which is Ecclesiastical. In Classical it was pronounced like "eye".
Classical latin don't exist
Como brasileiro, aprendi amar e admirar o latim.!
Obrigado 🤝
Eu fiquei surpreso por reconhecer que estava sendo citado João 1, mesmo nunca tendo estudado latim.
@@gsouza4640surpresa boa
@@gsouza4640eu tb
@@gsouza4640 Faz todo o sentido você assimilar latim com essa facilidade. É a nossa língua ancestral.
Amazing!! I love this video. Thank you so much for your work! Just a question… Is there any reason I can’t grasp why all of them are male voices? Thank you once again.
Beautifully done. I hope there’s more
The Greek and Roman guys are quoting verses from John 1 in the Bible. The Sumerian guy is quoting the creation account from Epic of Gilgamesh. I am curious to know what the other people are quoting.
It's really strange but all these languages sound the same as each other. How can we know that they sounded like that is incredible. What would English sound like to them or anyone who didn't speak modern English. It's brilliant. Thank you.
Oh, no, not to me they don't! 🤷🏼♀️
As a Indo-aryan Hindu, i could understand Sanskrit, the terms and some part of grammar gives it away. It is interesting to note, i have never learnt Sanskrit but we use Sanskrit mantras for worship daily. Also, its surprising to note, i could understand some Avestan, considering i have never heard about this language or we are not remotely related to any other language, culturally, ideologically or linguistically. Plus, since i know Kannada as well( a Dravidian language, totally different family of language) i would like to see oldest Dravidian languages( Old Tamil, Old Kannada or even Old Telugu).
It was classical Sanskrit that's why ,if there could've vedic Sanskrit, you probably wouldn't understand 75% of it😊
Same like Sanskrit
Halegannada also beautiful ❤
हाँ मैं भी
It's because Avestan is an Iranian language. Both are sister languages that derived from indo european language which was used by the Aryan migrators who settled in Iran and India.
Also Avestan is grammatically closer to vedic Sanskrit. That's why it's easier for you to understand it than an Iranian like me. I could only understand a couple of words
I loved the Latin and Greek ... I've studied Latin but never mastered it. It is a beautiful language. I've always been fascinated with the Time Travel genre of Science Fiction... but always wondered how such adventurers would handle ancient languages.
Do you like Turkish too???
They would be speared to death, perceived by the locals as evil spirits or foreign spies from other lands.
Greek is such a beautiful language it is the language of the First Bible and the entire new testament 📖GR
Nobody care about Turkish it is not a Holy Language or ancient philoshoper language neither
@@gabrielmaldonado1903 It's an interesting language that has had influence on ancient Greek and others around that region of the world. It was spoken by Cyrus the Great that gave greater autonomy to the Israelites. blah blah
Thank you very much, it's so interesting listening those languages from the past! Wonderful idea!
Línguas belas e fantásticas, mas fiquei fascinado com o fato de conseguir entender boa parte do Latim.
If you know any of the roman languages, it's logical that you understand parts of it. But also his pronounciation is mostly modern here. Based on italian. Original latin sounded different.
Português vem do latin :v
O nosso Português tosco é derivado do latim, assim como o Espanhol, o Italiano e Francês e outras mais. Por isso somos chamados de latino-americanos ou sul-americanos. No passado, latim era obrigatório nas escolas, hoje somente nos seminários nos cursos de Teologia.
Naturalmente, sei disso. Porém, falei no sentido que não esperava entender tanto boa parte do dialeto falado no vídeo, pensei que seria apenas algumas coisas.@@maluzuk2024
@@maluzuk2024Você esqueceu a lingua Romena
Absolutely fantastic and marvelous, thank you!
Fascinating! Thank you very much for this educational video which brings our ancestors closer to us!
Τα ελληνικά αν και κατανοητά έχουν μια περίεργη προφορά, καμία ΑΙ δεν είναι σε θέση να αποδώσει τη σωστή προφορά.
τα διάβασε ένας δυτικοευρωπαίος συλλαβίζοντας....χαχαχα
Απολύτως κατανοητά αλλά διαφοροποιείται η προφορά σε μερικά σύμφωνα.
Ελληνικα με αραβική προφορά
Fascinating! I studied Ancient Greek, Latin and Egyptian in college and this brings it all back to me.
Beautiful and enlightening!
Thank you!
For future videos, it would be great if you could add English translations in the closed captioning.
I'd love to see Biblical Hebrew on here too, I want to see how it's changed from my own family's speech. And Aramaic too. Akkadian sounds almost similar.
As an Israeli, I could understand the Phoenician one, so Phoenician and Hebrew are pretty similar
Biblical Hebrew is really similar to Modern Hebrew. I have no trouble understanding it as I speak modern Ivrit /Hebrew. I can also understand some Aramaic
@@lioraz3701 I knew the first part but didn't know it could help with Aramaic!!
Etruscan and Phoenician are the most interesting. Please do more videos of these two languages/cultures.
Классный проект! Продолжайте в том же духе!
Amazing to listen ... I'm an instant fan. Love ancient world history! I think this should used for teaching children history and or language possibly because I believe it would draw them more into it... like a next level kind of visual amd audible learning. Thank you for bringing it to life and sharing!Blessings🙏🏻♥️
So fake news should be taught to children? Make no mistake, we have no idea how those languages sounded like
It is extremely interesting to hear these ancient languages. It's challenging to say the least. Thank you
Being from India I can say that our ancient language is Sanskrit. Today there are many languages in our country but Sanskrit and Tamil are the oldest among them. Sanskrit is considered to be the mother of all languages. it is sad that in today's times people in India are not able to preserve their traditional language. Everyone follow culture other than there own. I feel that this problem is faced by every country in today's time but I want to learn Sanskrit. I am sad that I did not take the initiative when I should have learned this language.I just want to say that all people should save their culture, it is important to grow in modernise way with your language and culture but it is also important to follow and respect your traditional things.
You are 100% correct. I believe cultures, and peoples, should remain true to their heritage, and respect for ones history and heritage is far more important than material aquisition.
0:18 Stairing at a guy like this, who cares what he is saying lol. He could be reciting the ingredients on the ketchup bottle and I would still think it sounds amazingly poetic 😂
I am just amazed on how they found out the sounds of the characters. thats amazing. Is there a way for us to learn these? the animations are just a great. love it.
it's all reconstructed and guess work
@@urbandiscountall? Bro don't lie most of it is reconstructed but Sanskrit and latin is known.
@@Titancameraman64 Sanskrit and Latin are not known, they are dead languages. What are you talking about?
@@timeup2549Sanskrit is still used for religious purposes even though it has no use in everyday life.
@@timeup2549 Sanskrit is not a dead language. Sanskrit is one of the official languages of India.Sanskrit is the official language of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. There are Indian villages (in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Karnataka and Uttara Pradesh) where Sanskrit is still spoken. For example, in Mathur village in Karnataka, more than 90% of the population knows Sanskrit.
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 😂
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.
yes, the classical "an offering given by the king..." The Latin sounded ecclesiastical, why not using classical?
@@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
@@tulenik71 You are correct I believe. But how does that relate to what I said?
@@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.
Would be interesting to know the methodology of reconstructing the vocalization of these words.
The Latin was from the first chapter of John in the New Testament! ❤ I recognised it immediately!
le grec aussi
@@patrickandries7412 I did wonder about that but I wasn't sure.
The Greek, too
These videos are so great to watch! Love how they turn out:) My one feedback- it would be really nice if what they are saying could be roughly translated into English. Then instead of just listening, we would also understand! Will make the experience twice as immersive and interesting! Thank you for doing this! :D
This is fascinating, but I would have liked having an English translation so I could follow their narratives.
Fascinating---it is interesting to note how ancient Greek pronunciation seems closer to the Byzantine/modern Greek pronunciation used by Greek, Italian and Spanish scholars than to "Erasmian" used by northern European and other scholars. I would like to hear ancient Chinese as well.
Latin is still spoken today. And, I think that Sanskrit is still spoken today also. Also, with, Latin, there are two pronunciations of Latin - classical and ecclesiastical.
The pronunciation system in this video was the ecclesiastical pronunciation.
Edit: Mistook this video for Equator AI's other video. Corrected my statement.
Buddhist monks in Asia are indeed learning Sanskrit (and Bali)
@@godowskygodowsky1155 The Latin in the video is most definitely ecclesiastical, so not really how 'ancient' romans would have sounded. Couple stand out differences being pronouncing the 'ci' as the english digraph 'ch', classical pronounced c's as hard k, and 'v' was actually pronounced 'w'. So the first sentence for example here it said 'In princhipio verbum', when it would be 'in prinkipio werbum'. Also the 'ae' was pronounced like 'ey' not 'eye'. So tenebreye (pronounced like how we say 'eye' as in eyeball)
This form of Latin is what you'll hear at a church nowadays and since the middle ages, but none of your favourite generals/senators/emperors would have sounded like this. I feel like a lot of people are disappointed when they realise, if it was actually said at all, one of the most famous lines in classical Roman history would have sounded like ' weni, wedi, wiki, (long 'i's and 'e's), which sounds far less cool haha
Edit: the text is from the Bible so it was an understandable mistake to make - the first line I mentioned above meaning 'In the beginning there was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word' - not sure which part its from but that's definitely some convoluted biblical nonsense lol
@@oakstrong1 I thought so.
@@MichaelH-h5u Oh sorry, you're completely correct. I had Equator AI's other video open at the same time, which does use classical pronunciation, and mistook the two videos.
How rude, these People are just calling us all ugly in a dozen ancient languages
Phoenician sounds so cool it's the ancestor of Maltese and despite the age you can still see the similarities.
Phoenician: Laka zar' bahayyim taht sams
Maltese La jkollok zaghar bej il-hajjin taht ix-xemx
Means: May you not have any children under the sun
Ancestor of the Lebanese*
Hebrew לא יהיה לך זרע בחיים תחת השמש Lo yihye lekha zera' behhayim tahhat hashemesh
@@philliparieff7862 sorry I dont speak Hebrew
The Classical (ancient) Latin pronunciation was quite different to what this is. There is no hard "v" sound like in the German "Warum", but rather a soft sound like the "wh" in "what". Vowel length is also not taken into account here.
This is more a mix of Classical and Ecclesiastical Latin.
To what you say, ancient transcriptions have apparently shown that the c was pronounced like a k in classical Latin, and that the soft c is a product of ecclesiastical Latin. I hope they can fix these things.
To add to what...
And what about the ae? Once I heard a latinist saying that in republican times, ae was pronounced like ai and not like e (it was a German latin course, and the example he used was Caesar, pronounced like "Kaisar").
@marionnaeser-lather3514 pronunciation is [e] like at the beginning of a word that starts with "e" like "end", not [i] and there is not a German Latin, is only Latin. Kaiser in German and kejsare in Swedish is a word that is derived from the word "Caesar" that means emperor.
I’m impressed. This took a lot of work. Nice job!
Wat mij het meest aantrok is Urartian wat dus het oude Armeens was “Armenië” heel interessant dat we zo een oud en mooie volk waren zijn en blijven en daarnaast ook de eerste Christenen ter wereld God zijn dank🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲♥️♥️♥️♥️ik ben er trots op!!!
Urartu ?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The Urartians lived on the territory of the South Caucasus, then the Indo-European Armenians came and destroyed some of them and assimilated them with the Armenians! But as such, the ancestors of Armenians are not Uratians, they are Armenians. Relatives of the ancient Greeks and Persians
Het klinkt ook echt als Armeens he Urartian taal... ik ben ook trots broeder op onze roots, ik moet je wel verbeteren dat we niet de eerste christenen waren maar het eerste land die christendom als staats religie had aangenomen. "in the 1st century BC and in the year 301 became the first state in the world to adopt Christianity as its official religion"
Urartian language have nothing to do with indo European Armenian language, that's like saying Chinese are French
This is so interesting. I love it
Thank you for the opportunity to imagine how the ancient languages might have sounded.
😂Είμαι Έλληνας, είναι δύσκολο, για κάποιον που έχει άλλη προφορά να μιλήσει όπως πρέπει, τα Ελληνικά είναι γλώσσα με προσωδεια, είναι τραγουδιστή γλώσσα, ευχαριστώ.
They need to tweak the Latin. In classical Latin, V’s are pronounced like W’s are in English. So, the word Verbum would sound like “Werbum.”
Fake, there's no evidence from it.
I saved this fascinating video for later viewing. The question I have now is: How do we know what ancient, classical languages sounded like? (Are translations in English available on this video?)
If there was writing, it can be deciphered!Sanskrit has long been used in the service, as has Latin...
Love these. I'd love to be able to read more information and histroy about the language on the side while hearing it.
Absolutely fascinating!
Thank you.
This video was very interesting.
I would like to hear how Iberian language sounded.
I would love to have subtitles for both the original speech and the translation in English.
That would have been rad.
This idea definietly much more better and cool than this way
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.
It was amazing.Such a pity that these languages are not used any more.
Latin is still used in Vatican City. But of course it's quite different than the ancient latin
There are plenty of languages in this video that are still used and learned today. Such as Sanskrit in indias schools
Thank you for making such an interesting video.
Ancient Greek sounds like our cousins from Chicago training to speak greek 😊😊 (very heavy american accent), the same with the Latin (cousins from Brooklyn)
Very well produced and very interesting ! 😊
Not latin
I can read modern Greek and really wish I could read ancient Greek.
So enjoyed the Greek 👏👏👏
The text on the video isn't an ancient Greek text though, it's a . Modern Greek and ancient Greek alphabets are the same exactly. Reading out loud the text is really easy too, if you know some modern Greek.
@dali,
In which case my Greek must not be as good as I thought,or others have said ! 🤔😏
The ancient greek text is the first chapter of the Gospel of John.
It's not ancient Greek but medieval Greek, the language spoken by the Byzantines. Ancient Greek is much harder to understand.
@@Kav82a Byzantines spoke German.
What attracted me most is Urartian which was the old Armenian “Armenia” very interesting that we were and remain such an old and beautiful people and also the first Christians in the world Thank God!!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲♥️♥️♥️♥️I'm proud of it!!!