Heresy is a sh*t

[Anonysaurus]

Or what is the language egyptians speak in the game?

[Sir Archibald Witherfellow VII]

I think Coptic. According to history it was spoken till the 17th century AD

[Anonysaurus]

I think it is Coptic too. It still has some use in religious christian practice.

[MoJean]

I think there's also some arabic spoken? or it might sound like something similar. You can hear it all over in different regions.

[Kabob]

While I can't understand it, the emotions still come thru just fine. Perhaps I listened to Simlish too long.

[EbonHawk]

I've got that one, and a whole list of others I thought about sharing! :-)

[halfmonkey]

Originally posted by Kabob:

While I can't understand it, the emotions still come thru just fine. Perhaps I listened to Simlish too long.

Ha ha! There's a line when you climb or jump in front of NPCs that sounds an awful lot like Simlish for "What an idiot." It doesn't really sound like that, but it was close enough to give me a laugh.

[Kalil]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSZRAlSLQsk

[Anonysaurus]

Originally posted by halfmonkey:

Ha ha! There's a line when you climb or jump in front of NPCs that sounds an awful lot like Simlish for "What an idiot." It doesn't really sound like that, but it was close enough to give me a laugh.

Some of them speak greek and italian/common latin. You can actually hear idiot and idiotti.

[Anonysaurus]

Fun fact is, we can reconstruct ancient greek language and vulgar latin to some dergree, but we actually can't reconstruct ancient egyptian. So, greeks and romans in the game speak languages related to them historically, but what do egyptians say is really interesting.

[EbonHawk]

Here is the collection I have in raw format. I went by phonetics as best I could. I am no expert by any means.

Some of them are quite interesting. My favorite is the "Awesome soup"! :-D

Deseeyoudev dehoyeff
Schem awesome soup
Heresy is da ♥♥♥♥, shedeet?
Sebbe sem sept! Genkhi-koo!
Tobero esoef
Hana mess
Thass you jah!
Ve sizzhun geret
Hoppy nets
Mekanee, sejerriet
Hemsept terries oept, gehess?
Gewa, we're innocent!
Get to a high position, Ga-ret.
Ock-cherro
Hobby nit!

I think "Get to a high position, Ga-ret" is the same as "Ve sizzhun geret", just different speakers maybe...?

[Anonysaurus]

Originally posted by EbonHawk:

Here is the collection I have in raw format.

This is cool :D

[Skarmo]

"We don’t know exactly what ancient Egyptian was. So we had linguists actually develop a language based on research. We consulted Egyptologists [...] and dialogue coaches [...] to establish our target sound, and we cast actors with Arabic, Hebraic and African backgrounds to make it really come to life. The language spoken by the crowds is largely based on Sir Alan Gardiner‘s Egyptian Grammar [...]."

Ashraf Ismail, Ubisoft Game Director, in: The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/assassins-creed-origins-recreated-ancient-egypt-ubisoft

Coptic has been the youngest of the Egyptian languages, spoken from the 2nd to the 17th century and still a bit in use in the liturgy of the Egyptian Christians - the Copts, who make about 10% of Egypt's people today.

AC:O plays ~ 45 BC iirc, so the language in the game is supposed to be Egyptian before Coptic.

[EbonHawk]

One thing I've noticed, the more I play, the more I hear. I know early on I said there didn't seem to be that much variation in what some of the people are saying. Boy, was I wrong.

The more I try to capture and write down, the more I realize there is a TON of unique dialog.

There are several mentions of what sounds like the gods' names. Hathor seems to get mentioned a lot.

[EbonHawk]

More...
Idiot. Game on, Jew.
They're here!
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!
Hawksonnet cherrio.
Up pem met Merriet, we're idiot.
Lexon! Lexon!
Hen herriet, look at yahoo!
Simba, ow. Howkawat.
I am jockey Duvall.
Ehknockhte, geuett in bed.
You looka lost.
Fate is the key, ♥♥♥♥♥-thorn.
Clew mess me up, Daddy Ankh?
Awani Sue my Johnson.

And those are not English words spoken in the game, it's in whatever language that's being used and the closest I could make the sounds out to be.

[Anonysaurus]

hahaha this is exactly what it sounds like