Remnants of Latin did remain in their language, though I expect those to be gone by Feudal or Castle age. Byzantine Greek was quite different than modern Greek (though tbh, so is English, which is why it’s largely not-understandable pre-imperial age)
Do you think old greek is the same as today Greek? A person that speaks current freak cannot understand older Greek.
Tbh, the language will likely be heavily inspired by Latin in the dark ages. AOE4 in general have put a ton of effort into getting correct historical languages for the time period of each era of the game. While a imprecise science, it is leagues ahead of the AOE2 languages, many of which are uhhhh interesting choices.
I’d rather they speak the correct language
Cough cough Goths speaking medieval German and Aztecs speaking a made up language cough cough
And what does that have to do with what Fyrapan said?
Besides, that’s my main problem with mods giving AoE2 Byzantines voice files from AoM. Different time periods, different forms of Greek.
I want authenticity so they speak the correct language. It has nothing to do with if I understand old Greek or not.
Necroing the post, but the AoE4 Byzantines do speak Greek. And I’m glad even on the poll, Greek is winning over Latin.
Now to hope someone makes an AoE2 mod with AoE4 Byz voice lines.
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Can’t wait for them to add the Aztecs.
They already had wrong voice lines in AoE2 and AoE3, would be nice to finally hear them speak correctly.