Conversational Manchurian Lesson 1

[Mujangga]

The "e" is more like a schwa sound. "s" before "i" is becomes a fricative and is pronounced "sh". "n" before "i" is palatized and becomes "ñ". "j" is an affricate and is "dj" so it's really "djuwan djakû". Final "bi" means "there is" and comes from the verb "bimbi" which means " to be". The the phrase initial "bi" is the nominative first person singular demonstrative pronoun i.e. I. In pro drop drop languages, using the pronoun is probably for emphasis or disambiguation.

Manchu is AWESOME!

[samquan123]

this american man here is interesting amazing he very nice he teaching the Manchuria language.The Korea japan vietnam mongolia china taiwan all involve with history, so they can study from this video of amerian man here, i m very enjoying this video. Thank..

[GoodiTwoShuz]

first of all, great job for learning chinese!

[houssem711]

the man in the video is incredible he has similar videos of uyghur,persian,mandarin

he is really talented in learning languages

[Falfred]

I am Mongolian and I can see that Manchu "I", "my", "you", "your" and "for you" are same as Mongolian. Also "matter" in mongolian is [baidal]. The sentence structure seems really close to Mongolian.

[Aaron8378]

I would much appreciate if you could make the text books or notes in PDF format, so that I can learn them more easily. And hope that you can continue to provide more teaching of this language more in the future. Thank you so much!

Preserve going to lost language...

[Chorongi]

Is there a manchurian language book in English?? or any other european language?

[Mujangga]

@Chorongi

Yes. Manchu: A textbook for reading documents. By Getraude Roth-Li. There are also Manchu lessons on wikibooks.

[kattracka]

Thanks!

[eastern2western]

it was the manchurian dynasty that established mandarine as the government language for china.

[sjheiss]

I'm not sure I should trust someone who can't even get the name of the language right, "Manchu"...

But, I love the language, and very much want to learn it, and I just may. I can't just sit back and let it die. :(

[ouoh1]

It's great that you learned good Chinese and some Machurian even though your Manchurian accent just bad. I'll start learning Machurian seriously maybe 2 years later after I would have mastered Finnish.

[Narusayshi]

who cares if a white guy is teaching you. suck up your pride. i wouldnt bitch if someone from another country or ethnicity taught me english. hes teaching you, it shouldnt matter what race he is.

[MarshalN]

It's not Manchurian, it's Manchu language. Get it right.

[ricquito]

Manchurian language was not widespread in the Ming and Ching dynasty. Yes it started as the language of administration but quickly Guanhua (Mandarin Chinese) became the lingua franca, even amongst the Manchus; in the latter half of the Ching dynasty, the majority of Manchus favored Mandarin, even as a first language. @Glossika: I'm curious to know, where did you learn the pronunciation of Manchu? I applaud you for learning it but your pronunciation doesn't sound "natural."

[ricquito]

Manchurian language was not widespread in the Ming and Ching dynasty. Yes it started as the language of administration but quickly Guanhua (Mandarin Chinese) became the lingua franca, even amongst the Manchus; in the latter half of the Ching dynasty, the majority of Manchus favored Mandarin, even as a first language. @Glossika: I'm curious to know, where did you learn the pronunciation of Manchu? I applaud you for learning it but your pronunciation doesn't sound "natural."

[33hunting]

In the early Qing Dynasty, the Manchus were allowed to live in Beijing city only.  No Han Chinese were allowed to live in Beijing nor can they intermarried with the Manchus.

Thus the Manchurian language was predominately spoken in Beijing in the early Qing Dynasty. Today Mandarin is based on the Beijing dialect.

[6arcsn1sky]

Though I loathe on what the Manchus did to the Han in the Qing dynasty's early years, I am fully interested to learn the Manchu language.

[JohnSecadisima]

mini and sini sound like minun and sinun in Finnish

[arivas713]

holy hell! im impressed! not many people know the manchurian language or even that there are manchu people and u are learning the language!--i tip my hat to u sir.

[yearof07]

hahaha yayyyy, white guy teaching me my mother tongue...holy hell we manjus are screwed :(

[GelandnaleG]

10:34pm Tuesday (CDT) - Time in M

I think i may have pressed the gong button.

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[cyberkillerjp]

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[tuya444]

@Bultuush1 I hate such silly talks of my compatriots. Alright?

[sczpizjuan]

Mr. Glossika, as a korean I was so surprised you're really deep down in the comprehension of those asian languages. Especially chinese and korean includes manchurian never share the same synthagm so that I gotta see you so amazing one. Hope you always accompanate with the great achievement on your study as well.

[okay081]

i believe less than 100 people in the world speak manchurian

[mazinkaizar]

nice, the script looks like a syriac-aramaic to me but its 90o vertical. i clearly could see some letters written the same way as it is in aramaic

[tuya444]

@mazinkaizar It's the Mongolian Script, you are right: its origins are Sogdian, Syriac, Aramaic....

[Bultuush1]

@tuya444 yu ve ene manjuud mongol bichgiig manj bichig geed bgamu???

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[vidaregaaende]

i dont care if you stick to chinese/taiwanese or what ever.

but stop insulting manju please.

if you really want to explain something about manju to the others, then learn it yourself first. such videos are just ridiculous.

[bateau529]

wow~you are really using some linguistic analysis technique there:)

[RenanFelipeDosSantos]

I just loved your video! Manchu is surely a wonderful language and any effort to save this language is valid. I'm also on learn new languages and Manju gisun is surely one of the languages I'd like to learn.

[vlnvlaclogbaerhpno]

It hasn't been proven that Mongolian and Manchu are related.

[harbin88]

It is so hard!

[amerenio]

Manchurian needs to be revived at a local level with government support. If the Chinese government is against cultural diversity then the local populace will have to take it upon themselves to promote the language with signs,TV programs, internet videos in Manchurian,etc.

[mongolulsproud93]

can u do a video like this but with mongolian language?

[doogiinoohuu]

ᠮᠠᠨᠵᠤ ᠬᠡᠯᠡ ᠬᠢᠷ ᠬᠤᠷᠳᠠᠨ ᠰᠤᠷᠠᠭᠰᠠᠨ ᠪᠤᠢ?

[chinawarrior666]

Modern Manchu language is a moribund language, but it should be revived, it's only spoken in some remote parts of northeastern China. I've heard that the Xibe language spoken today is classical Manchu.

[sourzzon]

wow...how much u got in manchurian?

[satoshijoh]

>>vonpars. hi, i think you brought up a very interesting topic. manchu does have two forms of first person plural, inclusive and exclusive. "be" means "wo men" and "muse" means "zan men". while in south china, people do not differ in- and exclusive forms from on another.

[satoshijoh]

keke, mujangga. Glissika agu oci amerika niyalma bime musei gisun be kiceme tacimbi. umesi sain sembi. musei šuwen be tacire ningge ulhiyen ulhiyen i labdu oho kai. absi sain jiya!

[Champollion881124]

bi simbe gucu seme nonggihabi ~ mini baire be toktobuki ^^

[mongolulsproud93]

thats manchurian?

[satoshijoh]

yes. that's the formal written form of classical manchurian, well of course romanized...

[Champollion881124]

Nice Try ! Pay more attention on ur pronunciation, like what satoshijoh said, may lead this better~ And maybe u can prictice ur handwriting more by drawing from the manchurian books written in Daicing Dynasty. Fede fede!^^~

[satoshijoh]

but nice try.

keep on working...

sirame kiceme taciki

[Champollion881124]

hiya hiya ~ elbihe age na ? bi hasuran muke! XD

[satoshijoh]

ten is juwan, not yuwan...

and "e" in manchurian doesn't sound like the "e" in "bed". it's pronounced as the "e" in "paper"

"o" is not just a single "o", but something like "wo".

[Philolingua]

@satoshijoh

si should sound like Pinyin xi (西)

[Vonpars]

Glossika, this is great! Your work here is important for preserving this beautiful language. Keep up the good work!

[33hunting]

Mandarin language has Manchu influences. You could explain the Manchu influence on the modern Mandarin language.

[Glossika]

I'm sorry, I can't. But it may be something worth investigating.

[Vonpars]

Well, I'm a novice in this area however I'd like to point out one language component which has been influenced by the Manchus: the actual meaning of "wo men" is "we exclude you" which is entirely Mandarin. Furthermore the expression "zan men", which on the contrary is influenced by Manchurian, means "we and you" in other words we include you.

[yearof07]

@33hunting

ya its something ive had suspicions of ever since i heard the manchu language, i speak beijing dialect and some words have the same sound(?) if you get my meaning...

and my grandparents speak the northeastern dialect which sounds even closer to manju...

[33hunting]

@yearof07

The Manchu language didn't really die out but it got mixed with the local Northern Chinese dialect. I believe the Standard Mandarin has some loanwords from the Manchurian language.