Why do Filipino, Indonesian, Spanish, Finnish and West African languages sound vaguely Japanese?
Why do Filipino, Indonesian, Spanish, Finnish and West African languages sound vaguely Japanese?
Noah Morris
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Oliver Baker
¿Qué?
Similar phonetics I guess
Ayden Price
less vowels than germanic
they're more "open mouth" languages too (all words have lots of vowels unlike slav languages)
Jordan Ross
>indonesian
>filipino
>west african
because japanese is an unironic ooga booga language just like them.
Grayson Rivera
good post, the post OP wanted
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Luis Campbell
Spanish and Greek sound similar as fuck
Isaiah Nelson
>less vowels than germanic
not sure about this. finnish words, especially when spoken have double vowels everywhere
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Adrian Sanchez
don't listen to basque then
Aaron Moore
All Finnish diphthongs are falling. Notably, Finnish has true opening diphthongs (e.g. /uo/), which are not very common crosslinguistically compared to centering diphthongs (e.g. /uə/ in English). Vowel combinations across syllables may in practice be pronounced as diphthongs, when an intervening consonant has elided, as in näön [næon] instead of [næ.on] for the genitive of näkö ('sight').
closing
[ɑi̯] as in laiva (ship)
[ei̯] as in keinu (swing)
[oi̯] as in poika (boy)
[æi̯] as in äiti (mother)
[oi̯] as in öisin (at nights)
[ɑu̯] as in lauha (mild)
[eu̯] as in leuto (mild)
[ou̯] as in koulu (school)
[ey̯] as in leyhyä (to waft)
[æy̯] as in täysi (full)
[oy̯] as in löytää (to find)
close
[ui̯] as in uida (to swim)
[yi̯] as in lyijy (lead)
[iu̯] as in viulu (violin)
[iy̯] as in siistiytyä (to smarten up)
opening
[ie̯] as in kieli (tongue)
[uo̯] as in suo (bog)
[yo̯] as in yö (night)
Ryder Bell
Open syllables
Hunter Sanders
Not too many consonants together. A syllable is a consonant followed by a vowel most of the time.
Vowels are basically just a,e,i,o,u.
Michael Flores
Vowel quantity/length ≠ vowel quality
Lucas Rivera
regardless we've got eight that combine in a plethora of ways
Colton Nelson
No me jodas
ノ・メ・ホダス
Grayson Thomas
>West African languages sound vaguely Japanese?
They don't and thats a really big generalization
Samuel Robinson
remnants of the finnish empire
Jordan Edwards
Yeah They actually can end words with consonants other then "n".
Josiah King
we can't pronounce kebab or olympialaiset
Juan Thomas
no, what i meant is that germanic languages have like 10 ways to pronounce a e o........
...... ok i withdraw what i said
you guys also have a fuckton of vowels
Matthew Powell
I think he is talking about Yoruba
The names "Orekunrin", "Adetayo", "Adetokunbo" sound Japanese
Sentences like "Ẹ ku ọsan" or "Ki ni orukọ rẹ?" etc...
Justin Davis
That's because of θ, χ and α, ε, ι, ο, ου.
Parker Howard
probably because there are more syllables idk