Burmese Language, What does it sound like to you? |
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Burmese Language, What does it sound like to you? |
 Apr 18 2011, 04:51 PM
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AF Elite  Group: Members Posts: 6,178 Joined: 3-August 04 From: YO MOMMA'S HOUSE  |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2YPlfFnk0Q
It's obviously tonal but not as high pitched. I think it sounds more like Chinese dialects than say Vietnamese or Thai. |
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Apr 18 2011, 06:17 PM
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AF Pro  Group: Members Posts: 1,361 Joined: 14-January 11 |
QUOTE (Titanium @ Apr 18 2011, 05:51 PM)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2YPlfFnk0Q It's obviously tonal but not as high pitched. I think it sounds more like Chinese dialects than say Vietnamese or Thai. sounds hindi and tibetan mix |
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Apr 18 2011, 07:03 PM
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AF Pro Group: Members Posts: 1,353 Joined: 9-October 10 From: on the toilet |
It does sound like Tibetan mixed with an Indian language. lol
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Apr 18 2011, 09:19 PM
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AF Elite Group: Members Posts: 7,784 Joined: 5-April 10 From: AF Supreme Admin |
sounds like tagalog
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Apr 19 2011, 01:27 PM
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QUOTE (KraterosHellas @ Apr 18 2011, 09:19 PM) sounds like tagalog u know what it sorta does |
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Apr 19 2011, 01:32 PM
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AF Fan  Group: Members Posts: 88 Joined: 22-June 10 |
Sounds like Tibetan and Akha.
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Apr 19 2011, 08:30 PM
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AF Pro Group: Members Posts: 1,361 Joined: 14-January 11 |
QUOTE (Solstice @ Apr 19 2011, 02:32 PM) Sounds like Tibetan and Akha. that's because they r in the same linguist family thingy |
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Apr 28 2011, 04:00 AM
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AF Addict  Group: Members Posts: 592 Joined: 25-January 06 |
QUOTE (Titanium @ Apr 19 2011, 07:51 AM) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2YPlfFnk0Q It's obviously tonal but not as high pitched. I think it sounds more like Chinese dialects than say Vietnamese or Thai. Burmese tonal system is much simpler compared to those languages. It's more like relative pitch or stress between the syllables. It doesn't have rising and falling tones like in those 'true' tonal languages like Vietnamese, Cantonese or Thai. |
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May 3 2011, 01:05 AM
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AF Guru  Group: Members Posts: 3,019 Joined: 19-August 07 |
Sounds like a mix of Mandarin, Hmong, Tagalog.
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May 6 2011, 07:41 AM
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AF Guru Group: Members Posts: 4,604 Joined: 23-April 06 |
To me it sounds like a mixture of Indian (Hindi), Tibetan, Japanese (maybe because they are so polite?).
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May 18 2011, 02:30 PM
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AF Addict Group: Members Posts: 604 Joined: 16-October 08 From: US of A |
QUOTE (Henry123 @ May 6 2011, 05:41 AM) To me it sounds like a mixture of Indian (Hindi), Tibetan, Japanese (maybe because they are so polite?). I also had the Japanese impression for a second, but thats probably cos for the reason you listed, that they are so polite, which makes us feel as if its Japanese The script is somewhat very familiar to me because the Burmese/Cambodian/Thai and Laotian scripts derived from the South Indian Tamil Pallava Script of the 7th century... So I use a very similar script. The language does not sound like Chinese at all. |
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