The Civilization game series has some characters that speak in ancient languages. How is the reconstructed pronunciation? Let’s discover that together!
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The voice actor is a Canadian Linguist from Quebec
I think you've correctly identified some accent markers but you kinda got stuck on it being a german(ic) accent. I feel like I'm hearing french aspects, too, especially with the forced aspiration of p an t sounds (almost has a glottal stop before), which come more naturally to german speakers and which they use almost exclusively when they say p or t . Also germans actually do often struggle with reduced i especially at the end (speaking as swiss, it's a key aspect that differentiates our language from german; our diminutive suffix is "-li", which makes this easy to spot).
Great explanations, though, and amazing german parody, that's exactly how we hear standard german, too!
The real question is: what's ur lvl in Civ V?
Your German Latin was convincing to my ear… and I have had to listen to Germans recite Latin. So I suppose that counts for something.
It be nice if he could check out the ancient in Assassin's creed odyssey
Good stuff as always Luke! Plans to do a video on the history of letter W sometime?
Oy, this brings back memories of many hours devoted to the earlier editions of that game.
Can I justify a few more hours by calling it linguistic study?
Hola Luke! Quizás podrías hablar sobre el griego antiguo en Assassins Creed Odyssey? Hay sea shanties en griego antiguo, nombres e insultos como “malaka!”
It can not be worse than Maria Theresia and her cringeworthy viennese accent.
Ever since I found out and became aware of the aspiration of the Germanic plosives p, t and k respectively, I, a native High German speaker, have taken great pains aspirating said consonants with no fail in my speech. It feels quite adequate and brings me joy.
I take it that "Non potes esse gravis" is supposed to mean, "you cannot be serious." "Esse" I think is supposed to be "essere". "Gravis" like the French "grave".
I came across this video which tackles two fascinating matters for me : Civilization V and Latin. Well done Sir, I've subscribed instantly.
Hi, can you react to song Light of Rome from movie Dragonblade/Tian Jiang Xiong Shi ? Song is in Latin i gues..Movie is about Romans on China…..not very great movie, but have much about Rome, etc 🙂 Greeting From Poland 🙂
I heard that nobody Really know how the old Latin was spoken. They just can imaginate it by approximation with the Italian language because the region it's localized.
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At 4:22, you gave me the hardest flashback to Latin lessons back in school ever, dear Lucius. 😀
Cool video! Love the Civ games. You should, someday, do a video about today's romance laguanges and how much they differ from, let's say Augustus-era Latin. I am a native Spanish speaker and that would be interesting. (Don't forget Romanian xD )
Is the stress in "Benedīc" on the "dīc" for the same reason of dropping the e?
Yes, do more commentary on video games. Gracias tibi ago.
I would love for you to review more games that have Latin! (in part because I searched a year ago and couldn’t find any)
Do Trajan civ 6
Neat! I love this! I hadn’t thought about how accurate the languages sounded before in Civilization V and Civilization VI games, but now I’m definitely curious!!!!
In Romanian we say incipe like în-CE-pe. With accent on the middle one. (Ecclesiastic style)
One of my wishes is to someday hear you sing "O Fortuna."
Age of Empires!
The obvious game to look at the Latin in is Fallout: New Vegas. There's not a lot of spoken Latin, but Classical vs. Ecclesiastic pronunciation is actually a plot point there to distinguish which faction someone is in.
Beyond that, how about a video on the proper (even if they didn’t exist when classical Latin was spoken) way to pronounce common Latin terms used today like “voir dire”, “(si vis pacem,) para bellum”, “non sequitur” and “memento mori”?
ja genau 🤣
Luke and Civilization. How could it get any better?
Im just happy that <c> was always pronounced [k] and <v> as [w] (or [u̯]? Are those even different?)
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Your German accent when speaking Latin is so on point. 😄Terrific.
Have you moved the camera to be more horizontal with yourself? I much prefer this camera orientation.
The voice of Augustus was provided by Émile Khordoc. What little I could find about him, he is apparently a linguistics professor who speaks both Latin and Ancient Greek as well as English and French and who lives in Canada.
What is the difference between "qui' and "cui" In latin? Are they the same?
How do you pronounce FIRMITAS, UTILITAS, VENUSTAS?
(Vitruvius)
IIRC, Spanish and Italian also have the Penultimate Stress Rule, at least for most words.
Terrific video, Luke. Quick question. In your opinion, given that peninsular Spanish uses the retracted "S," has the "W" sound in words like "huevo" and "huesped" and is devoid of any "V" sound as you point out… would it be fair to say that peninsular Spanish is the romance language that 'sounds' closest to Ancient Latin? (this is, of course, leaving out sounds like "Th" that it shares with Greek and English and the guttural "J"). Thanks!
Have you played the Magister Craft Minecraft Latin server? A playthrough here or on Scorpio Martianus would be great.