Civilization 7 Leaders Dialogue Translations

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This is early but we got snippets of the leaders speaking in their languages. I created this thread for the future translations/transliterations of the dialogue.
Here are my educated guesses as to the languages of the confirmed leaders:

Amina-Hausa
Ashoka-Magadhi Prakrit (per Andrew Johnson of Firaxis)
Augustus-Classical Latin
Ben Franklin- American English
Charlemagne-Frankish (per Andrew Johnson of Firaxis)
Confucius-antiquated sounding Modern Mandarin
Hatshepsut-Late Egyptian (per Andrew Johnson of Firaxis)
Himiko-modern Japanese
Isabella-medieval Castilian Spanish
Machiavelli-modern Italian?
Napoleon Bonaparte-French (with Corsican accent hopefully?)
Pachacuti-Quechua
Tecumseh-Shawnee
Trung Trac-modern Vietnamese
Xerxes I-Avestan (per Sarah in a Reddit thread)
 
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Razpor said:
Ashoka is speaking Hindi atleast in the trailer
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Surprised and disappointed he's not speaking Sanskrit or Pali. :( My services are standing by for when Dido shows up again speaking Hebrew pretending it's Phoenician for the third game in a row. :mischief:
 
Oh noooo....after we got Chandragupta speaking a more historical form of the language, we get Ashoka speaking modern Hindi.
It seems certain some downgrades are gonna happen due to Firaxis' less focused approach to the leaders. Hatshepsut speaking Egyptian Arabic? I hope Gilgamesh ain't in this game or the Hittites aren't added if they won't put the effort into reviving Sumerian and Hittite for the game.
 
What kind of accent should Ben Franklin be speaking in? I know they probably won't bother making his speech authentic to 1700s America. We got two games of Elizabeth I speaking relatively normal modern English.
 
Guandao said:
What kind of accent should Ben Franklin be speaking in?
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If they want to be completely accurate, an Early American Accent isn't far removed from an Elizabethan English Accent, but I wouldn't bet on it.
 
Are we sure they're final and not temporary placeholders?
American VAs did have that big strike not long ago and the guy doing Augustus is unable to roll his Rs, which obviously doesn't fit well for a character who's supposed to be a high-class native speaker of Latin.
 
Guandao said:
Oh noooo....after we got Chandragupta speaking a more historical form of the language, we get Ashoka speaking modern Hindi.
It seems certain some downgrades are gonna happen due to Firaxis' less focused approach to the leaders. Hatshepsut speaking Egyptian Arabic? I hope Gilgamesh ain't in this game or the Hittites aren't added if they won't put the effort into reviving Sumerian and Hittite for the game.
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If Ashoka is the leader of all Indian civs and Hatshepsut the leader of all Egyptian/Arabian civs, it might be an intended compromise.

I'm not quite sure how much a downgrade it actually is. Civ 6 had around 10 line per leader and it became stale very quickly. For me, leaders have always been one of the more boring aspects of civ V and VI, and especially with these screens that pull you out of the game to a dark place where you are forced to listen to a comical monologue. The new leaders seem a tad more interesting, at least for the first 2 games. But now, what if they actually really interact? I.e., the lines that Hatshepsut throws at Augustus differ from the ones that she throws at Ashoka? In this case, I would take a load of Hindi or Arabic lines by good voice actors instead of 10 more authentic but stale voice lines any day.
 
Siptah said:
If Ashoka is the leader of all Indian civs and Hatshepsut the leader of all Egyptian/Arabian civs, it might be an intended compromise.

I'm not quite sure how much a downgrade it actually is. Civ 6 had around 10 line per leader and it became stale very quickly. For me, leaders have always been one of the more boring aspects of civ V and VI, and especially with these screens that pull you out of the game to a dark place where you are forced to listen to a comical monologue. The new leaders seem a tad more interesting, at least for the first 2 games. But now, what if they actually really interact? I.e., the lines that Hatshepsut throws at Augustus differ from the ones that she throws at Ashoka? In this case, I would take a load of Hindi or Arabic lines by good voice actors instead of 10 more authentic but stale voice lines any day.
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It's bad enough that the leaders look like they were made for a 2008 BioWare game and don't even address the player. If they weren't even attempting to find voice actors with the right language, I think that would be the final deal breaker for me. (Also, I hate that the leaders "interact"--if gesticulating from across the map can be called "interaction." They should be talking to the player, not each other.)
 
Zaarin said:
It's bad enough that the leaders look like they were made for a 2008 BioWare game and don't even address the player. If they weren't even attempting to find voice actors with the right language, I think that would be the final deal breaker for me. (Also, I hate that the leaders "interact"--if gesticulating from across the map can be called "interaction." They should be talking to the player, not each other.)
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But you are supposed to identify as the leader you are playing as, right? So they are "talking to the player"?

But yeah, leader animations and design seem strangely out of date. And of course, I would have preferred to get rid of the leaders anyway. I'm fine playing myself :)
 
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