You sure? Sandy Petersen said that they hired an actual consultant for a real language.
He also said said consultant may have tricked them:
Besides, Nahuatl isn’t a dead language. People who actually know the language still exist. Even if Sandy didn’t admit the in-game language is wrong, we’d still have ways to know.
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If they can’t find Manchu speakers, they could hire Xibe language speakers as an alternative.
Xibe language is a Tungusic language like Manchu, and has more remaining speakers than Manchu.
The Xibe people consider themselves to be descendants of ancient Hsien-pei people and different from the Manchu, but the modern Xibe customs and their language are very similar to those of the Manchu.
It also preserves the old features of Manchu phonology well, and in fact it is thought that only differed from Manchu as a dialect.
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