Main, Questions of Doom ArchaeosoupMarch 12, 2012April 7, 2015 Welcome to Questions of Doom. In this series, we answer your questions about Archaeology and our shared heritage. Today we ask how do we know what ancient languages sounded like? Tags: Archaeology excavation question answer ancient language philology hieroglyphics consonants vowels consonant vowel pronunciation ancient hebrew phoenician ancient greek latin name marc charles missing blanks fill in space variation talk language languages Add to Social: