EB2 voicemods

**lenin96** · December 22, 2008, 07:10 AM

What voicemods does everyone want in EB2? I think a voicemod for hayasdan and one of the steppe factions would be good.

**viskarenvisla** · December 23, 2008, 01:05 AM

I'd kill to hear me some proto-Germanic, or some Dacian. This would be kind of revolutionary - the first use of these languages in any game. I think it'd be very significant, and a step forward in combining academia and intellect with computer games.

**lenin96** · December 23, 2008, 03:23 AM

Yeah, I would like too see dacian as well, proto-germanic is already in EB.

**Ludens** · December 23, 2008, 04:41 AM

Voicemods for Armenia and the steppe factions have been planned, although I don't know how much work has been done on these. It's unlikely we'll be seeing a Dacian/Thracian voicemod though. We simply don't know enough about this language to reconstruct it.

**lenin96** · December 28, 2008, 06:30 AM

In the first release of EBII are we going to have any voicemods or will we have to wait to a later release fo that?

**I Am Herenow** · December 28, 2008, 08:09 AM

There is a preview which includes information on the Proto-Germanic voicemod here (I couldn't find the TWC equivalent, I'm afraid).

I Am Herenow

**daryush** · December 30, 2008, 09:54 PM

How about a Pahlavi voicemod for Parthia?

(I'd be willing to have a go at recording it, Middle Persian is VERY similar to modern Persian, the main difference being a few sound changes and lots of Arabic loanwords, as well as the new alphabet of course)

**lenin96** · December 31, 2008, 07:12 AM

Originally Posted by daryush

How about a Pahlavi voicemod for Parthia?

They already have one in EB.

**daryush** · December 31, 2008, 08:36 AM

Originally Posted by lenin96

They already have one in EB.

Really?
Cool

I shall check it out once I get RTW (again - my CD must have been damaged so can't reinstall it

)

**lenin96** · December 31, 2008, 11:38 PM

Originally Posted by daryush

Really?
Cool

I shall check it out once I get RTW (again - my CD must have been damaged so can't reinstall it

)

I don't know which version of EB it was first included on, so get the latest version of EB (1.1 with 1.2 patch).

**Shigawire** · January 01, 2009, 02:30 PM

People shouldn't ask for something which is already there

Pahlavan is already in EB1
Proto-Germanic had a small hiatus from EB1 as it was removed due to some translation errors. It's coming back to EB2.

Dacian is never going to happen in EB1 or EB2. Unless someone unearths a great Dacian rosetta stone.

Languages of steppe factions are also very sketchy and I don't have any expectations to see them conceived for either EB1 or EB2.

**Nakharar** · January 01, 2009, 02:53 PM

I think Hayasdan does need one, im Armenian myself, EOR will have one but if EBII makes one theres no point of making 2

**Marie Louise von Preussen** · January 01, 2009, 04:22 PM

I think a steppe language can still be theoretically reconstructed using Ossetian, which is attested as related to the Indo-Scythian proto-language and claims even a direct ancestry to it.

Not mentioning that the Steppe names are distinctly diverse from the Pahlavi ones, which means some sort of reconstruction was probably used for them.

**daryush** · January 01, 2009, 04:32 PM

Perhaps using Soghdian for the Skythians? I heard somewhere that the Skythians may be related to the Soghdians, and apparently there may be quite a lot about it.

**Shigawire** · January 01, 2009, 05:38 PM

Oh yes, for the Sauromatae there are potentials in using Ossetic, of the Iron dialect.

But finding and recruiting someone willing to the job would be an almost full-time job.

For the Saka-Rauka, there is potential in using Khotanese Saka and Pashto.

But now we are the very edge of what is possible. Dacian is well outside the realm of the possible.

Hayasdan is inside the realm of possibility, and is probably the most likely to be executed.

**lenin96** · January 04, 2009, 02:03 AM

I read on this website that Baktria had its own language.

Here's a link, http://linguistlist.org/forms/langs/...n.cfm?code=xbc

**Ludens** · January 04, 2009, 05:17 AM

Originally Posted by lenin96

I read on this website that Baktria had its own language.

There is no doubt that Bactrians would have had their own language, but at this point in time the ruling class was Hellenic and would have spoken Greek.