As someone who's made a mod fixing one of the spoken phrases (Chinese villagers' "fishing"), I absolutely love this article. I always wondered what the Egyptian in AoM was based on - and why it sounds nothing like games like Assassin's Creed Origins and maybe a few others. I read somewhere that the devs/voice directors kind of "winged it" on pronunciation with some of the phrases across the languages, but generally for the Greek and Chinese according to native-speaking YouTube commenters they seem to have gotten things correct (if not for the time periods depicted, necessarily).
As someone who's made a mod fixing one of the spoken phrases (Chinese villagers' "fishing"), I absolutely love this article. I always wondered what the Egyptian in AoM was based on - and why it sounds nothing like games like Assassin's Creed Origins and maybe a few others. I read somewhere that the devs/voice directors kind of "winged it" on pronunciation with some of the phrases across the languages, but generally for the Greek and Chinese according to native-speaking YouTube commenters they seem to have gotten things correct (if not for the time periods depicted, necessarily).