Polyglot _ Lord's Prayer in 8 ancient rare languages! Amazing Multilingual video!

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• published: 14 Jun 2013
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ANCIENT GREEK (1st Century) ; LATIN (first century) ; HEBREW (first century) ; COPTIC (first century) ; OLD ENGLISH (1000 AD) ; OLD FRENCH (1200 AD); OLD SPANISH (1200 AD) ; MIDDLE FRENCH (1500 AD) *LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION: - ANCIENT GREEK= original language of the New Testament and of the eastern part of the Roman Empire. International language of Roman Empire. - LATIN = Language of Ancient Rome, sacred and official language of the catholic church. - HEBREW = at the times of Jesus (Roman period). Liturgical language of the Jews. Language of the jewish elite and priests in Palestine. Not language of the people. - COPTIC = language spoken in Egypt during the Roman period (with ancient greek). Language of many Apocrypha, papyri of Nag Ammadi. Language of the egyptian coptic church. Evolution of ancient egyptian language, but using mostly the Greek alphabet. - OLD ENGLISH: language of the Saxons, a Germanic tribe coming from northern Netherlands who invaded Celtic Britain after the downfall of the Roman empire. Ancestor of English language. Language of the epic Beowulf. - OLD FRENCH: ancient language of upper part of France. Lingua Franca (international language) of medieval Europe. Used in many European courts, in trade, in literature (the legends of the holy Grail, King Arthur, and Roland, written in this language). Language of the English medieval nobelty. - OLD SPANISH: Spanish of the 1200's. Occupied by the Arabs at that time. I don't know more about it. - MIDDLE FRENCH: evolved French. Closer to modern French. Spoken in the Renaissance. With writers like Rabelais, Du Belais, Ronsard, Clément Marot. Period of King François Ist. *MY LEVEL IN THESE LANGUAGES, I'M OBVIOUSLY NOT FLUENT IN ALL OF THEM: - I can read and understand Greek and Latin very well. - I can read hebrew but only when it is vocalised. I have the mere basics but there are countless elements in the Hebrew lord's prayer that I grammatically don't understand. I've not enough vocabulary to understand everything. - I can roughly read Coptic because of the many similarities with Greek alphabet. However I really cannot understand this language, except some few words that come from Greek. - I can read Old English. But I cannot understand it. I just recognise some similarities with modern and shakespearian English. - I can read Old French. I can understand it (in this particular prayer not in general!) because i have some little basics in this language and because I am a French native speaker. - As for Old Spanish, I can understand it (in this particular case, not in general) I have quite a good level in modern Spanish. This language did not change that much overtime unlike French and English. That is why it is pretty well understandable for somebody who already knows some modern Spanish. - Middle French: this particular step of the French language is very understandable for a French Speaker. I have already studied some poetry of that period so it's pretty easy. (being French helps a lot obviously)