LETS TALK OKINAWAN!!!

minna! i found sumthing very interesting in internet that i think u girls might wanna know hehehe its the OKINAWAN languange or Uchinaaguchi. there are many useful phrases too XD umm i wanna hear OR members talk in okinawan language so much lol >> http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/okinawan.php

Great page!
I wanna hear them speak in okinawan to.. ^^,
I think I will practise on the "would you like to dance with me?" and "I love you" phrase. lol XDD

hahaha yah i tried the i love u phrase but it sounds weird to me lol the pronounciation is slightly different with ordinary japanese XD

i know. i was reading out lound how to say nice to meet you or i love you or basic greeting ( try to impress OR members) but it was so weird and i was like damn! its kinda hard to pronounce n feel like as if i m saying completly different language. but thank u for the website. maybe next time when i go to okinawa, i will print this out n take it wit me ^O^

yah maybe we will need a native speaker to teach us how to speak it correctly XD naoto, could u please teach me how to say "i love u" in okinawan? XD

hajimetiyatai ^^
means 'hajimemashite'

i think i should watch more okinawan movie. i saw okinawan horror movie ^O^ but weird thing is that when they were speaking okinawan, it doesnt sound completly different at all.

ah yah i think i shud get one too, i thought i found one in this blog i forgot the name heheh but its romance/drama movie umm.... XD

you know what.. only elders who speak Okinawan now.. believe me, they (okinawan people) had been through a hard time during war time coz they were not allowed to speak uchinaaguchi. can you imagine how it feels to be forbid to speak your own language?

that's why Uchinaaguchi is a very rare language now...

so maybe there's no youngsters who really speaks Uchinaaguchi now...

you know what.. only elders who speak Okinawan now.. believe me, they (okinawan people) had been through a hard time during war time coz they were not allowed to speak uchinaaguchi. can you imagine how it feels to be forbid to speak your own language?

that's why Uchinaaguchi is a very rare language now...

so maybe there's no youngsters who really speaks Uchinaaguchi now...

yah i heard bout that too and its so sad cuz traditional language is a national treasure T_T i still wanna learn uchinaaguchi thou ^,^ btw i just notice this one too that one of RKD songs called Uchina experience is actually taken from UCHINAaguchi which related to Okinawa of course lol

wow!!! i didnt know. thats harsh. they had to learn new language over. cant speak their native language??? well, i guess thats why lot of ppl in okinawa doesnt speak it. but i bet they teach it in school thought!

yah i read it in one of these websites bout okinawa by coincidence. its tragical cuz in my country, indonesia, the traditional languages are being used everyday. i think okinawa might having the same fate like the ainu, cuz their origin is in extinction T-T

Haitai! [Hey! I learn a new work today! lol] It's pretty interesting language! xD Thanks for the links, IchaIcha!^^ So they didn't use 'desu' 'shite' etc etc

i've just learned this:

gusuyo!! means minna-san

hajimethi wouganabira *most polite*
hajimethi yaSai *casual for MEN*
hajimethi yaTai *casual for WOMEN*
hajimethi ya *addressed to younger*
which means hajimemashite ^^

and....

Wanne, Shinrei di ichoibin.
which means I am Shinrei or Watashi wa Shinrei desu.

thx to Byron Fija whose video i got from my kouhai ^^v