I guess the question is, when this happens, can you still play? I imagine it would be nice to keep doing so while listening to some dialogue.

It depends on what a cutscene is for you. Dialogue and cinema paths (predefined camera movements such as in the cinema demo map) aren't tied to each other, either one of them can be shown on its own, but also both at the same time. What they have in  common is that both show the the two black bars at the top and bottom and there's a way implemented to synchronise the two systems. Then there's what I called "cutscene mode", which disables visual overlays like territory borders, health bars and selection rings -- the mode is always enabled during cinema paths and optionally during dialogue (it can be specified).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periplus_of_the_Erythraean_Sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbaria_(region) https://topostext.org/work/491

-¿Cuál es el origen fonético del nombre Barbaria? @Genava55 en español tiene connotaciones despectivas jajaja. -Hemos visto algunos mapas con ese nombre "Barbaria/Barbara", pero no sé si es histórico. -¿Punt es de la época los faraones no? Mucho antes de la cronología que teníamos en mente para el mod. -¿Estos nombres le parecen válido? Erythraean City-States Berbera City-States   -¿Qué idioma recomiendas?     Disculpen las molestias*

Proto-Cushitic probably not, the languages became distinct during the Neolithic. Cushitic languages include more than the area.  Maybe other proposals could be: City-States of Punt City-States of Barbaria