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I finally had an opportunity to play G&K, and when I played against Dido I noticed that the devs really messed up her lines.... She says "tam" (perfect) as a greeting, and she agrees to a trade proposal by saying "bal" (no)... Obviously, most people won't notice this, but for me it's kind of...

Yes, I already installed Phoenician input on my PC (this is how I made the inscription above). But as I said, there is no easy way to post it here in a way that everyone will be able to see it without installing additional fonts, languages and programs. Using Wikipedia's images is also...

I found something already, here's Dido's intro: What do you think? The whole process is rather cumbersome though, so I'll try to do the rest later...

Errr... I can read and write in Phoenician alphabet, but there is no easy way to input that into a computer I'm afraid... (write it down and then scan it?) I'll also try looking if there maybe is a font for Hebrew that uses the original Canaanite letters instead of Aramaic ones (but even then...

Perhaps sukritact is right, and the civ community could probably do a better job with the translations than that studio that Firaxis used... But then again, maybe not that many people care about, for instance, what that "Mexican chic" Isabella I of Castile actually says... @Morningcalm Sorry...

@Morningcalm I updated my posts with the translations of Darius and Dido, can you please update their posts on the first page too? Also; Igor, Slvynn and anyone else who has any experience with Hebrew can you try and help me with the missing parts? Perhaps Attila's lines sound so awkward to...

I have trouble with DidoPeaceful, it's difficult to understand what she's saying both because of the problematic reconstruction of Phoenician/Punic phonology and because of the VA's accent. Some guesses might be "You lied. You were after my gift without arousing suspicion. Your hatred is without...

I will update my post with transcriptions. Very interesting... Maybe the "Gdadon" is a word for a warship or something of the like... I didn't translate "DidoPeaceful" yet, but she does mention lies there, so it seems they got mixed up with the translations in the XML and the actual sound files...

I translated it myself; I'm studying classical Hebrew, which is also a Canaanite language. Actually, Hebrew used to be a Canaanite dialect which only at later stages would be classified as a separate language. Major divergence in these languages occured when the speakers started using Aramaic...

Thanks EulerMcE, Dido is very... interesting.... She speaks Canaaninte/Phoenician, with modern Israeli accent (but this is not Hebrew, not modern and not classical). I really like her "declares war" line. Here is what I could make out after listening to the sound files, I will update it if I...

Wow, you are fast! It hasn't even been released yet! Thanks for your contributions everybody, this is very interesting! @EulerMcE: I can translate Dido, can you please upload her lines as well?

As for Dido, she speaks some sort of Canaanite/Phoenician (the word 'nk/אנכ is a proof for that), I doubt it's Punic since not much is known about that later variety of this language. And besides, Dido herself came from Tyre so Canaanite/Phoenician would suit her more than the...

A small update: DariusHateHearIt1: Go on! (lit. go!) זל! zal! DariusHateHearIt2: I'm listening (lit. I hear/listen) שמענא sham'na DariusHateYes2: Agreed (lit. it has become agreeable) השתווא hishtawe DariusNeutralNo...

Yeah, when I first heard it, I also thought he said "donkey"... In his written messages he keeps going on what a great and faultless king he is, and how everybody else is so completely incompetent ("I think you misunderstand the situation: I am the great Darius, king of Persia, and you are a...

Could be, but I doubt it... His pronunciation seems accurate, but it does seem Arabized a bit. He does pronounce the pronouns differently from what I'd expect (entu instead of ant/antun, eneḥa instead of anaḥnen/naḥnen) Also from what I know, in classical Aramaic king Darius...