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[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 points 4 hours ago

Well, yeah. In any case, the language barrier will have to be overcome first. No matter who you are or what you're trying to do, if you go more than a few hundred years in the past, you're probably going to need to learn a new language before you can communicate anything to anyone. Even if you know a very old language, it was probably spoken very differently in antiquity than the way people speak it now.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Classical latin education ftw. But fr that's the best odds you're going to get. Classical Latin is often taught as it was in the late republic/Julian dynasty, unless you got ecclesiastical Latin in which case, you've got a decent area and you better hope you're in the middle ages in europe and want to talk to the clergy.

But yeah, in general ancient languages as we currently understand them are really the languages of the educated, elites, merchants, and clergy. You have exceptions for highly literate societies like Rome where we have plenty of graffiti teaching us vulgar words like irrumatio. But for the most part writing was for records and official communication for a long time.

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