even better when you know that we don’t even know how it sounded. Ancient Egyptians didn’t bother to write down vowels, all we have today is educated guesses as to how some words could’ve been pronounced
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simple@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What, your kid doesn’t speak ancient Egyptian?
shneancy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
ManniSturgis@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
What, your kid isn’t Yugi Muto and has got an ancient pharao inside of him?
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Must be in the TV series where everyone speaks English for some reason.
MxM111@kbin.social 1 year ago
As first language, nonetheless!
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Enlightened linguists teach their children languages in chronological order, starting with sumerian and by the age of 7 finally reaching proto-indo-european and finally starting to be able to somewhat communicate with the rest of the world.