Hey /his/. I was thinking about learning an ancient language

What other ancient languages have big enough corpus to justify it? Some kind of Chinese or Sanskrit maybe.

>tfw no huge corpus of Punic texts from Carthage library
Thanks, Scipio, we could have been exploring the galaxy right now.

>>586108
What about native American languages?

Are they ancient?

>>586097
Hebrew, Persian, Irish, the sky's the limit.

>>586118
No, without writing languages tend to evolve and change constantly. Modern native American languages are very recent form, and there is no sources on "ancient" native American languages.

Sanskrit makes you understand Indo-Europeans on an entirely new level

Sanskrit is pretty cool.

Also Sumerian.

>>586152
I have been considering akkadian.

As well as coptic and Gothic and Old English.

Although I really want to learn Aramaic

>>586097
sumer.

>>586108
Alexandria would be worth more than all of carthaginian history. even just the lost works of aristotle.
If you wanna be mad, be mad at gauls.

>>586408
>Greek books
>Literally hundreds of copies in libraries around the Mediterranean
Nothing of value was lost in Alexandria, we still have a huge corpus of Greek literature from other sources. At the same time we have no Punic books at all, not even in translation, and yet there were lots of them.

>gauls
>Alexandria
What?