What did ancient Egyptians sound like? Professor of Egyptology and Archaeology Laurel Bestock explains how we know.
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In the first Stargate movie (1994), the spoken language was a reconstruction of ancient Egyptian, created for the film by an Egyptologist named Stuart Tyson Smith. He reconstructed the vocalisation of the language by adding vowels and an accent based on what is known about its syllabic structure and relationships with other languages.
This made everything so clear, thanks a lot!
Only people with knowledge, historians, linguists know how Stupid and Easy Language is
Literally
One of the easiest and blend and Meh language is ENGLISH
All a sudden Americans and non Egyptians became a speaker for Egyptians and their history
Shes a clever cutie ❤
Hope to see more of her
What’s with the herpes all over her face?
Fake they don’t sound that way sorry
Wow! I listened to an article on NPR that talked about the word that has been in every spoken language. That word is “huh”
I thought she was gonna talk in Egyptian
You life and identity are based on lies. You are paid to push lies. You should be ashamed.
Milf
If learning felt like this in school, I’d have perfect attendance.
Sounds like arabic and indian
When are they going make an Egyptian move respecting the their race?
They weren’t white folks
This is like saying “We know what pre-Genghis Khan Mongolic sounded like because we English alphabet transliteration for Russian words.”
Unfortunaly western don’t know how to pronounce other sounds in which resulting in a false interpretation
Folse it was Somali language
It sounds like Somali
This is not the same languege ancient Egyptians that built the pyramids spoke +3800 years ago, Anthropologists know about the last stage which was +2000yes ago when the Greeks conqour so that is a Greek dialect! Not ancient Egyptian at all.
Im offended that a bronze sword had the ring of a steel sword