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

[KedarT]

 

[Drexluddin Khan Spiveyzai]

You're telling me the Mayans, Aztecs and Inca people sounds in Age of Empires were fake?

My childhood was a lie.

 

[hembo]

This was certainly intriguing... The animations were hopeless though.

 

[Drexluddin Khan Spiveyzai]

Proto-Indo-European: So just German spoken with an Australian-like accent?

@-=virus=-

 

[-=virus=-]

Proto-Indo-European: So just German spoken with an Australian-like accent?

@-=virus=-

sanskrit is still alive, kinda.

 

[Paitoo]

sanskrit is still alive, kinda.

Someone speaking Sanskrit sounds like a Bramen scolding.

 

[-=virus=-]

Someone speaking Sanskrit sounds like a Bramen scolding.

good thing no one speaks it

 

[Drexluddin Khan Spiveyzai]

Someone speaking Sanskrit sounds like a Bramen scolding.

I want to hear it now. Care you share some?

 

[hembo]

good thing no one speaks it

I want to hear it now. Care you share some?

Mattur​

Mattur (or Mathoor) is a village in Shivamogga district near the city of Shivamogga in Karnataka state, India, known for the usage of Sanskrit for day-to-day communication, although the general language of the state is Kannada.[1][2]

Five Sanskrit Villages Of India You Must Visit

Seven Sanskrit Speaking Villages in India

 

[Paitoo]

good thing no one speaks it

Mix it with Tamil and it sounds like a maths teacher is scolding you.

Geometry mein biology kahan se aa gaya. Suprabhatam.
You are the number one idiot of this class. Suprabhatam.
Get your parents to school tomorrow. Suprabhatam.
Tum hamesha duffer hi rahoge. Suprabhatam.
Get of my class now. Suprabhatam.

@Drexluddin Khan Spiveyzai you will get some idea.

 

[KedarT]

Mix it with Tamil and it sounds like a maths teacher is scolding you.

Geometry mein biology kahan se aa gaya. Suprabhatam.
You are the number one idiot of this class. Suprabhatam.
Get your parents to school tomorrow. Suprabhatam.
Tum hamesha duffer hi rahoge. Suprabhatam.
Get of my class now. Suprabhatam.

@Drexluddin Khan Spiveyzai you will get some idea.

Just for context, Suprabhatam is 'Good Morning'.

 

[KedarT]

Proto-Indo-European: So just German spoken with an Australian-like accent?

@-=virus=-

Not sure if it gives an Australian accent vibe but it definitely resembles German.

However, isn't this a lost language? How on earth have they given a voice to it

 

[Drexluddin Khan Spiveyzai]

Not sure if it gives an Australian accent vibe but it definitely resembles German.

Yeah, the german bit was spot on. It only sounds Australian at some points but otherwise can't make out any known accent. So, prolly plain old american accent

However, isn't this a lost language? How on earth have they given a voice to it

I think I read somewhere that they found some fossils that showed the shaped of the jaws etc of these early peoples and that's how they modeled how air would have moved inside their mouths to synthesize the sounds, based on data they already have from present day of how what movements cause which sounds. Not sure.

@_NOBODY_ might know more. He's interested in this kinda stuff. I am too but my day only has 24 hours unlike his.
I never can find time for these things. What's worse is he is also a dev like I am. Wonder where you find the time. @_NOBODY_

 

[_NOBODY_]

Not sure if it gives an Australian accent vibe but it definitely resembles German.

However, isn't this a lost language? How on earth have they given a voice to it

It sounds more like a fusion of Russian and Balkan languages with a bit of Iberian flair(Spanish & Portuguese). As someone who studied a little bit of German, this doesn't sound like German to me.

 

[_NOBODY_]

Yeah, the german bit was spot on. It only sounds Australian at some points but otherwise can't make out any known accent. So, prolly plain old american accent

I think I read somewhere that they found some fossils that showed the shaped of the jaws etc of these early peoples and that's how they modeled how air would have moved inside their mouths to synthesize the sounds, based on data they already have from present day of how what movements cause which sounds. Not sure.

@_NOBODY_ might know more. He's interested in this kinda stuff. I am too but my day only has 24 hours unlike his.
I never can find time for these things. What's worse is he is also a dev like I am. Wonder where you find the time. @_NOBODY_

One must create time for things one is passionate about. Plus, I wish to pursue data science so it is essential to know other fields so I can use data science in those fields. Data Science can be used in fields such as history, archaeology, anthropology, paleontology, ethnology etc. However, at the moment, I have little to no interest in using data science in these fields.

The evolution of languages is not an area that I pay a lot of attention to so it would be inappropriate for me to comment on that. Perhaps @ThunderCat can shed some light on this topic.