To decipher the exact language that some of the RoR civilizations use will be extremely difficult, because of limited understanding of ancient languages.
Instead, some civs can reuse AoE2 languages while others have new voice sets?
The Turks do not descend from the Hittites; the Turks only arrived in Anatolia after Manzikert in 1071…The Hittites spoke Akkadian like all the Middle Eastern civs of the Bronze Age; later in the Iron Age (740 BCE) the Middle East changed its language to the imperial Aramaic imposed by the Neo-Assyrians (Aramaic from which Hebrew descends) (using the Arabic of the Saracens would be anachronistic since Arabic was imposed in the Middle East in the 7th century CE)…
And not to mention the Babylonians in AoEO (and the Celts and Norse if they add civs of northern Europe)…
Because the Carthaginians had Berber population, but they could speak Punic (which in turn comes from the Phoenician, from which the Modern Hebrew descends) (they could also speak Maltese voices of AoE 3, but it is anachronistic since the Maltese was formed in the eleventh century CE after the invasion of Roger Bosso)…
Hittite language was written in an adapted form of Peripheral Akkadian cuneiform orthography from Northern Syria. The predominantly syllabic nature of the script makes it difficult to ascertain the precise phonetic qualities of some of the Hittite sound inventory.
The syllabary distinguishes the following consonants (notably, the Akkadian s series is dropped),
b, d, g, ḫ, k, l, m, n, p, r, š, t, z, combined with the vowels a, e, i, u. Additionally, ya (= I.A : 𒄿𒀀), wa (= PI : 𒉿) = GEŠTIN : 𒃾) signs are introduced.
The Akkadian unvoiced/voiced series (k/g, p/b, t/d) do not express the voiced/unvoiced contrast in writing, but double spellings in intervocalic positions represent voiceless consonants in Indo-European (Sturtevant’s law).
Good point…so it doesn’t occur to me that the Hittites could speak another language other than Hebrew (in southern Anatolia), Persian (by the Achaemenid Empire) or Greek (by Troy, the Greek colonies of Western Anatolia and the Alexandrian Empire)…
Which the Akkadians adopted from the Sumerians.
Sumerian is also a completely different completely unrelated language to Akkadian, or any other known language.
Yes but it still doesn’t make it an Akkadian language at all not even closely.
No they didn’t speak any of those languages.
They spoke their own language and we know that language because it was written down.
We just don’t know the exact details because there are no voice recordings, obviously.
Well, I mean some language from the Iron Age or one that is in AoE 2 that you can relate to (since the Hittite language disappeared after the Bronze Age and there are no voices left except for the video I posted above)…
