How does Ainu sound to you

**Pallantides** · 10-11-2012, 12:41 AM

[YOUTUBE]P11hWwQDYRo[/YOUTUBE]

**Siberian Cold Breeze** · 10-11-2012, 12:48 AM

Everything about them is beautiful ,music, language ,way of thinking ,clothing

I don't understand one word of it but i can listen to it like music..

Btw its very different doesn't sound like Japanese at all (or other East Asian language) ,remins me language of Native American chants I listen.

**Sagjaz** · 10-12-2012, 03:58 PM

Very interesting language. I've always wondered what it sounds like. Thank you for sharing this video. It seems like a mix between Navajo and Warlpiri, with some Japanese influences in the accent.

**askra** · 10-12-2012, 04:05 PM

Imo the accent sounds japanese, but it seemed to listen also native north americans or inuits.

**finþaų** · 10-12-2012, 04:08 PM

Sounds very unlike Japanese, I must say.

**Übermensch** · 10-12-2012, 04:46 PM

Unique i would say

**Benacer** · 10-12-2012, 05:01 PM

I think it is natural for the accent to sound a little like Japanese. Apparently pretty much all Ainu nowadays learn it as a second language. Their language was banned for too long by the Japanese government.

**Sagjaz** · 10-12-2012, 05:12 PM

Originally Posted by Benacer

I think it is natural for the accent to sound a little like Japanese. Apparently pretty much all Ainu nowadays learn it as a second language. Their language was banned for too long by the Japanese government.

Also, the Japanese (Yayoi) are said to have come to the islands later than the Ainu (Jomon) and therefore it is likely the Japanese language got influenced by the accent of the substratum.