My first impression is that of an East, South or Southeast Asian language. The background music supports this feeling. Sounds a bit like poetry …
I agree with Emanuel. It certainly sounds Asian and there seems to be a bit of tonality in it although not much. Almost every sentence seems to end with “hawa” thus reinforcing the idea of poetry. Could it be a Formosan language or failing that, a dialect of something from Japan or Korea?
I do not lean towards Korea or Japan in this case.
The language is Dongxiang / Santa (Sarta kelen / لھجکءاءل), a Mongolic language spoken in Gansu and Xinjiang in the northwest of China.
My first impression is that of an East, South or Southeast Asian language. The background music supports this feeling. Sounds a bit like poetry …
I agree with Emanuel. It certainly sounds Asian and there seems to be a bit of tonality in it although not much. Almost every sentence seems to end with “hawa” thus reinforcing the idea of poetry. Could it be a Formosan language or failing that, a dialect of something from Japan or Korea?
I do not lean towards Korea or Japan in this case.
The language is Dongxiang / Santa (Sarta kelen / لھجکءاءل), a Mongolic language spoken in Gansu and Xinjiang in the northwest of China.
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