Well, if you look at the way the Ainu language is put together and the words it has, it's very similar to Native American languages. The Dances and singing style are similar. And the artwork is also similar. The religion is also very similar, especially with Northwest Coastal tribes which also observed Iyomante (Bear Sacrifice).
@WaaDoku
6 жыл бұрын
Is this Hokkaido accent? Very distinctive pitch-accent the announcer has when speaking Japanese. I also hear them clearly substituting sounds. I thought "thank you" in Ainu is "iyajrajker"? Oh man, I really think カタカナ is the wrong writing system for this language.
@andrewjones-productions
11 жыл бұрын
Interestingly enough, the first English teacher in Japan was a person called Ranald MacDonald who was the son of a Scotsman and Chinook Princess & wanted to visit Japan as his native American relatives believed it was the land of their ancestors. So the legends could be remnants of some factual knowledge that later became fanciful. The geographical lay of the land is certainly another indicator that at some point in history that there was possibly a land bridge.
@bjornnjordson2986
11 жыл бұрын
I have a hobby of studying cultures and languages. I'm very mixed in ethnicity so this probably drives my curiosity. I've studied a few dozen languages and cultures, and I'm especially focused on tracing human cultures back to their origins. I think the current Indo-European language tree is deeply flawed because it ignores interaction of peoples and migrations. Given more room, I could link influences in language starting in China and ending in Japan without going East.
@Scourmy
4 жыл бұрын
my guessing is also that your father name is Njord from Goteborg :-)
@kazutama7600
9 жыл бұрын
odlično...!
@ポロトコタン
8 жыл бұрын
共有させて貰いました。
@bjornnjordson2986
11 жыл бұрын
So much like Native Americans. It can't be coincidental.
@andrewjones-productions
11 жыл бұрын
I think you're probably right!
@andrewjones-productions
11 жыл бұрын
I didn't know that about the similarity of the languages. That's quite fascinating. Certainly, our World is a lot smaller than we like to think. You seem very well informed, which I find intriguing. Out of interest, I am Welsh speaking Welshman and tend to empathize with minority cultures like this.
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