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Napoleon is Corsican and to his contemporaries in France, he spoke with an accent
HOW IS THIS FACT NOT KNOWN TO SOME OF YOU
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_I
thats what i was saying when i said he wasnt really French
a great problem: Persians are not arabs!
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thats what i was saying when i said he wasnt really French
I will start my own thread when the Dutch are in and the leader is not speaking old Dutch but a modern day Amsterdam accent 
Until that time, yeah game on. Still don't know what Darius is speaking tho, as you guys can't seem to agree on anything
Let me know when you are finished...
Until that time, yeah game on. Still don't know what Darius is speaking tho, as you guys can't seem to agree on anything
Let me know when you are finished...
Romans spoke Latin, especially Augustus Caesar did. Yes, he had studied the Greeks and their language, but Latin was promoted over Greek. Also, even in the Greek-speaking East of the empire the Roman elite used Latin as their administrative language. Of course also Greek continued to be written within the empire and remained the spoken lingua franca of the Eastern part.
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The other says, nonono you are wrong he spoke Aramaic and he should because that is the language they spoke at court in his time
Not just the court, but the common people were more likely to speak Aramaic as their second language than Persian. If any, Aramaic was the language of trade, not of the court. Before Darius I both Persian and Aramaic were used. That's what you get when ruling an unstable empire which had stretched too far to the West. Actually it's a wonder that the Achaemenid empire lasted so long. This is also why Persians hesitated less to promote another language over their own, they weren't free to chose.
I might be wrong, but I guess some historian (or history buff) shall correct me here.
He spoke Icelandic as well?!
Tell that to Great Cyrus he keeps saying that is impossible. I don't really care I just found it very funny that in all the threads about this topic people never seem to agree on this. One says this, the other something completely different. It seems to me that people who are from modern day Persia especially seem to disagree that they ever spoke Aramaic in Persia.
I am just having a little fun with it all.
By the way, Persian or Aramaic as second language? What was their first
I will start my own thread when the Dutch are in and the leader is not speaking old Dutch but a modern day Amsterdam accent
Oh no, the Dutch language (a topic I often bore people with), sorry people but I have to react. I know Anglos care far less about Dutch than I am inclined to talk about.
Anyway, I don't want to nitpick, but Willem van Oranje spoke German as his mother tongue, but also was a fluent French speaker (the court language). He only spoke poor Dutch.
But I also expect high class Modern Dutch if they'd include the Dutch. Sadly, too few Dutch study the classics in their language (Vondel, Bredero, PC Hooft, a.s.o.). As long as he uses formal language it's fine by me, however. I don't want someone of his standing to speak to me in 'je/jij'. That'd be just inappropiate.
Tell that to Great Cyrus he keeps saying that is impossible. I don't really care I just found it very funny that in all the threads about this topic people never seem to agree on this. One says this, the other something completely different. It seems to me that people who are from modern day Persia especially seem to disagree that they ever spoke Aramaic in Persia.
I am just having a little fun with it all.
By the way, Persian or Aramaic as second language? What was their first
I'm just assuming more than Persian and Aramaic were spoken within the vast empire, I just don't have a clue. I look at Persian and Aramaic as linguae francae. I guess Greek also was spoken in the West, for instance. I just don't believe it stopped at those languages.
Take a look at the following map:
Spoiler :
Maybe some expert knows about the linguistic situation in those times.
Well I am Dutch and studied history so you cannot bore me with observations about my own language
Then again you folks are better at the language anyway (looking at your location).
I do wonder how the leaderhead will sound indeed, if it is the old and overused Willem van Oranje.
Our newsreaders pronounce Dutch better, but that's where it stops I'm afraid.
(sadly 
)Our newsreaders pronounce Dutch better, but that's where it stops I'm afraid.
I guess you never watched "Tien voor Taal" back in the days. Let's just say it didn't quite stop there
Anyway, we should get back on topic. The Persian language situation. Yes I was aware the Persian empire was that big (due to my own history background) and many languages would have been spoken in the empire. However back in their core empire one could argue one language was dominant and official in a way. Thats why I asked what their first language would be. There are two main camps in play on the forums, and as I stated I don't belong in any, just an observer here. One side states the Persians spoke Farsi. The other side agrees they spoke Aramaic at the time. On top of that 2kgames has allready stated that Darius speaks Aramaic in the game and I have no reason to believe otherwise but the OP is convinced he speaks Arabic.
The OP is Iranian so I can understand he doesn't recognize the language Darius speaks in game as Farsi (Persian?) because 2kgames said he doesn't speak Farsi but it should not be Arabic either, it should be Aramaic. Sadly I don't know any Aramaic speakers to confirm this and prove to the OP that he DOES NOT speak Arabic in game but rather the language the game designers thought would be most fitting for the time period and leaderhead. Do you? Does anyone? Right, still following it all? Now you tell me, how can we fix this situation
^^ Exactly this! This is absurd not only because, as my compatriot says, in Civ IV the greeks spoke with an authentic accent, but also because authentic language for each civilization was one of the primary selling points for this edition. Why? That's simply bad marketing.
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