The Sound of the Jurchen language (Numbers, Words & Sample Text)

Welcome to my channel! This is Andy from I love languages. Let’s learn different languages/dialects together. I created this for educational purposes to spread awareness that we are diverse as a planet. Special Thanks to Yost Chi :D Region: Southwest Manchuria (Northeastern China) Ethnicity: Jurchen Era developed into Manchu: c. 17th century Language family: Tungusic was the Tungusic language of the Jurchen people of eastern Manchuria, the founders of the Jin Empire in northeastern China of the 12th–13th centuries. It is ancestral to Manchu. In 1635 Hong Taiji renamed the Jurchen people and language, “Manchu“ A writing system for Jurchen language was developed in 1119 by Wanyan Xiyin. A number of books were translated into Jurchen, but none have survived, even in fragments. Surviving samples of Jurchen writing are quite scarce. One of the most important extant texts in Jurchen is the inscription on the back of “the Jin Victory Memorial Stele“ (大金得勝陀頌碑; Dà jīn déshèngtuó sòngbēi), which was erected in 1185, during the reign of Emperor Shizong. It is apparently an abbreviated translation of the Chinese text on the front of the stele. A number of other Jurchen inscriptions exist as well. For example, in the 1950s a tablet was found in Penglai, Shandong, containing a poem in Jurchen by a poet called (in Chinese transcription) Aotun Liangbi. Although written in Jurchen, the poem was composed using the Chinese “regulated verse“ format known as qiyan lüshi. It is speculated that the choice of this format—rather than something closer to the Jurchen folk poetry was due to the influence of the Chinese literature on the educated class of the Jurchens. Please feel free to subscribe to see more of this. I hope you have a great day! Stay happy! Please support me on Patreon! Please support me on Ko-fi If you are interested to see your native language/dialect be featured here. Submit your recordings to otipeps24@. Looking forward to hearing from you!