Manchu Language

A couple of days ago, my friend sent me a copy of learning material about Manchu Language learning material because he knows that I am interested in Mongolian Language. Once again, I find how Flicking through the material I once again realised how interesting learning languages is and am became motivated to learn more, not only about the language itself, but also its history and the culture it bears.

Manchu, Mongolian, Japanese, Korean, Uighur and Turkish language all belong to the Altaic family of languages. The Manchu language stems from Aramaic and is influenced by Mongolian language (we know from the context that you're talking about Mongolian language and not people, so no need to add "language" here) so it makes sense that Manchu script is very similar to Mongolian script but bears contains more loops. The script is like a vertical stick with short lines and circles on it. At In the beginning, I didn’t have any idea why the script is was like this. Now, after going through the first few pages of the material, I found learnt about the way the script is made up, which is really fascinating. A Manchu character ("word" might be more appropriate than "character" here) is actually is composed of several components, or we can say “strokes”. Each stroke stands for a letter of Latin alphabet as you can see in the following picture (sultucin means philosophy). Then all the strokes/parts join up and shape a character. Also, each alphabetical letter will be written differently based depending on where it is placed in a character. For example, the strokes representing the letter “a” are different when “a” is placed in at the top, or in the middle or at the end of one a character.

In this sense, After learning this, I came up with an interesting idea that one can write an English word in the form of using Manchu script language, just like writing English words with using the Russian alphabet. I think it would be quite interesting to do this because in this way you can could invent your own language personal code-language and only those who understand both English and Manchu language can could get what you mean. Invent a type of You could use this code language code with your close friends, or your other half or other language geeks! It would be so much fun!