According to Plutarch, 27,3–4, Cleopatra spoke at least nine languages: Ethiopian, Troglodytic*, Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, Median**, Parthian, Egyptian, and Greek. 2 мая 2016 г.
Did Cleopatra know 9 languages?
Plutarch implies that she also spoke Ethiopian, the language of the "Troglodytes", Hebrew (or Aramaic), Arabic, the Syrian language (perhaps Syriac), Median, and Parthian, and she could apparently also speak Latin, although her Roman contemporaries would have preferred to speak with her in her native Koine Greek.
Was Cleopatra multilingual?
She was also multilingual – historical accounts report her speaking between 5 and 9 languages, including her native Greek, Egyptian, Arabic and Hebrew.
Did Caesar and Cleopatra speak the same language?
Mr. GOLDSWORTHY: We know that Cleopatra's first language is Greek. And any Roman like Caesar or Mark Antony - an educated, aristocratic Roman of that day and age - grows up to be fluently bilingual.
Did Cleopatra learn Latin?
Most historians agree that Cleopatra did not speak Latin and that she spoke Greek, which was her native language. The historian Plutarch was not convinced that she actually did speak Egyptian, and many modern scholars agree with him. Some languages that she may have spoken were Persian, Syrian and Arabic.
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