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Date: October 31, 2025
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It takes 20 years travelling, and during that period was normal to have to learn something, marco polo arrives in china and gradually speaking almost every languages, languages changes gradually on earth and whitout a plane was not a problem to learn new words and alphabet every miles😊
He probably spoke Latin to the great khans interpreters. Due to Macedonian creation of the Silk Road and its diffusion of cultures for centuries. Latin would have been widely spoken amongst the most educated.
Also, “Persian” isn’t a language. It’s Farsi.
…so did he go blind in a pool or not
But surely he would've known which language he was speaking if he got the chance to mingle with ordinary people out in the streets, markets, hostels, tea houses, where people would've likely spoken an early form of mandarin?
Marco!
Probably the only language Asians know, ENGLISH
Probably Mongolian and speaking with a Venetian dialect
He also learned Persian, it was also a court and administrative language in the empire
Chinese was not a language. China had many languages in it.
But the problem is that Kubilai tried his hardest to sever ties from Mongolia, he adopted a Chinese-ish dynasty name, modeled his court after Song, ruled LIKE a Chinese Dynasty, he also probably spoke Han instead of Mongolian