What is the best historical language?
>>368197
Hebrew.
You can make enormous numbers of people butthurt if you know Hebrew.
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Latin est optimvm
Ancient Greek.
latin is for plebs. This board literally witness a faggot who was thinking about learning latin so he could "read bible in original language"
>>369899
>Latin as an honour and Greek as a treat
>>369896
*LATINA EST OPTIMA
>>369905
honour for what, drunken politicians of 20st century should not be the basis of deciding which language is better, Greek is more rich in written material in general hence you should learn it first and foremost. Unless your interest can only specifically found in latin texts. Greek writings surpass Romans in almost every domain expect law. Seneca is good but not as good as Aristotle, Virgil is good but not as good as Homer and so on.
>>369915
except* bloody autocorrect.
>>369916
It is possible to enjoy both the company of Caecillius and Διkαιόπολις at the same time.
>>369955
>tfw you get the joke.
>tfw many will not.
futui matrem tuam desu.
Old Chinese, which is completely different from modern Chinese languages (roughly as different as Proto-Balto-Slavic from Russian, to use a more familiar comparison). It sounds very hard and guttural, but in ebin, sorta alien, way.
Classic Maya is great too, the way it sounds is somewhat similar to Old Chinese, this coupled with the most beautiful writing system ever conceived by man.
>>370639
When was old chinese used?
>>370639
>old chinese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIkQSuZbbt0
Doesnt sound like ching chong language tb.h
>>368200
How similar are modern and ancient (biblical) hebrew? AFAIK they're quite different.
>>370639
Can Mayan represent spoken language in a 1:1 way, or is it more abstract?
>>370727
If I recall, ancient Chinese was complete mono-sylabilic.
>>370746
It's, like kana, mostly composed of syllabograms (either CV or V, C being a consonant and V a vowel), which are stacked in blocks represesenting words (picrel consists of three syllabograms). This, due to existence in Classic Maya syllables of the form CVC, slightly distorts speech. There are logograms too for some words.
>>369906
Lingua Latinae est optima*
>>371733
Latina est verbum pro " lingua latina" also feminine form of latinus, yo.
>>370727
>taan lv' hngral sreng cwang' ljv' na' krool
didnt realize chinese were descended form Klingons
MULTAE VAGINAE VINCAE AB PENE MEO SUNT
>>368197
Ancient Greek, Sanskrit and German.
>>371673
Was there ever something similar to mayan "books" or at least tablets? This looks beautiful and good for sacred or political inscriptions, but not really great for keeping record of your business or possesions. Did they ever develop a simplified version like the Egyptians?
>>370727
Iä iä Cthulhu fhtagn!
>>370646
Roughly from the start of chinese writing to the end of the han kingdom iirc
I suppose the spoken/casual version evolved a lot but I don't know.
>>376046
Yes, there were tons. The Spanish burnt a lot however.
>>370727
looks superficially like hmong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjos_X33ips
>>376046
Yes, there are 4 pre-conquest ones left to this day. We have found archaeological evidence of many more, but due to the climate these remains look mostly like unreadable heaps of rotten paper.
Also the 4 ones that survived were made in Postclassic Era, so they are from times already after the collapse in 10th century, which ended the classic civilisation.
Picrelated, the Madrid Codex.
>>376046
Also your question about a simplified version: I don't know if there was some special name for this, but writing on ceramic (in contrast to codices, we have a lot of it) looks sort of like cursive, simplified version of the glyphs seen on monuments.
Latin for Ancient Greeks/Romans
Sanskrit for Ancient India
>>373490
Wiktionary is a life saver.
Can't imagine how people learned Latin before the internet. It must have been torture, (quite literally for Tudor schoolboys)
>>376553
It really is.
I know that ælfric wrote a latin grammar un old english, I'm actually kind of interested in how languages were learned in like the middle ages.
>>368197
Volapük!
>>370727
im shitting myself while watching this
>>369955
This just reminded me of my gymnasium years, thank you anon
>>368197
Ancient greek and latin nigga, all day EVERY DAY
>>368197
Bisaya is pretty, desu.
There's a lot of utility and plenty of words to use for different contexts.
>>369896
That guy must jack off so much...
