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 8 months ago
What, your kid doesn’t speak ancient Egyptian?
shneancy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
ManniSturgis@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
What, your kid isn’t Yugi Muto and has got an ancient pharao inside of him?
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Must be in the TV series where everyone speaks English for some reason.
MxM111@kbin.social 8 months ago
As first language, nonetheless!
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months 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.