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How far back into your country's history could you go without needing a translator? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee to c/asktheworld@lemm.ee

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I asked this before elsewhere, but I thought it led to some interesting answers.

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[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikael_Agricola

Agricola's Finnish is reasonably understandable, so about as far as the records go. 1500's or so.

Maybe some linguist might have ideas about earlier history, but that's my guess.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As an Egyptian, maybe a little over a thousand years, as that's when most people started speaking Arabic, though depending on where exactly I am I could luck into an Arab community, in which case I'd last until maybe 1200 years go. Before that it was Coptic and I don't speak a lick of that.

[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I'm curious, how much kinship do modern Egyptians feel with the Pyramid-builders? Would you say "we" built the Pyramids, or "they" built the Pyramids?