#joining the twilight discourse cus why the fuck not

[lostboys-fangposting]

aro, marcus, and caius at the very least would've known the dialect of greek (most likely ancient?) he was speaking

also i presume it wouldn't have been far fetched for amun to teach demetri latin seeing as egypt had at one point been occupied by rome and besides needing to know latin and egyptian hieroglyphs for reading materials, public monuments, art, etc he'd also need to communicate with other vampires (of the coven of course, we know demetri was kept a secret until something ??? happened) and latin would give him a much wider reach (seeing as we know amun had similar goals to aro) than the dialects spoken in egypt at the time i also doubt amun intended to keep him hidden forever, just until he could overthrow the volturi

so basically my theory is that either there was a short period of minimal language barrier or no language barrier at all + he would've learned italian with everyone else as it became a language

ETA:

links for egypt under roman rule: the met museum / britannica (also featuring the byzantine empire, which was the roman empire's successor)

bonus - egypt under greek rule (the ptolemaic dynasty, occurring before roman rule): the met / britannica / khan academy

*all of which would've happened before demetri was born as a human!*

Do y’all think Demetri learned Italian as a kid or was there like a comic language barrier between him and the rest of the Volturi for at least 20 years.