The most obscure languages

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Kalmyk Language

This language may be familiar since the speakers practice Buddhism making them the only Buddhist majority group in Europe. The language is Mongolic and is found in Russia. These people actually migrated from Northern China and Mongolia to the European side of Russia. They are also known as the Oirats and live in the Kalmykia Republic

Mirandese Language

This language is founded in Northern Portugal but has a limited amount of speakers. It also has roots in Vulgar Latin. the language is also descended from a language spoken in the Kingdom of Leon found in Iberia during the Middle Ages. This language is endangered and in the district of Miranda De Duoro, they allowed primary schools to teach in Mirandese aswell!

Chavacano Language

Found in the city of Zamboanga in the southern Philippines, This is a Spanish Creole languages. The reason why it exists its because the Spanish stayed at this location for more then 300 years! The surprising fact is that the language is not Austronesian though most Filipino languages are Austronesian

Ainu Language

This language is obviously spoken in Hokkaido and some of the Kuril Islands under Russian administration. According the UNESCO, This language is endangered and only have 30,000 which is very low then the languages on the above.

A Ainu museum in Hokkaido

Zhuang Language

Spoken in the Guangxi Autonomous Region, this language is related to Thai and Lao and part of the Kra- Dai family. The cool thing is that some signs in Guangxi which Zhuang is a official language have Latin based writing like Vietnamese which uses Latin alphabets on street signs

The reason I wrote this blog is to show that languages are very unique and that obscure ones are really interesting since the speakers eat and have cultures that are different from the cultures that everyone knows

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Level 78
Aug 30, 2021
The Cornish language in the UK has only around 600 fluent speakers, with around 5000 being able to hold a reasonable conversation.
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Level 56
Aug 30, 2021
That will be Part 2!
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Level 65
Aug 30, 2021
Nice first blog, for part 2, you can also find many interesting small languages in India, such as the Mundaric languages, which are in the same family as Vietnamese and Khmer.
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Level 56
Aug 30, 2021
Wow! Thanks for your support. I will make Part 2 with probably one to two Mundaric languages.
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Level 75
Aug 31, 2021
I don't think Zhuang is considered that obscure as it had 16 million native speakers as of 2007 (which is actually more native speakers than Greek).
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Level 67
Aug 31, 2021
Yes Zhuang is still quite common in Guangxi and it's relatively close to Thai. By comparison, Manchurian which was once the imperial language of the Qing dynasty is now probably extinct.
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Level 56
Sep 13, 2021
The reason Zhuang is on here because it is only found on a specific region
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Level 65
Aug 31, 2021
Atayal language
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Level 54
Aug 31, 2021
WOW! languages can also be endangered
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Level 73
Aug 31, 2021
Nice blog! How about this language? This one is clearly a very obscure language. Not a lot is known about it.
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Level 56
Aug 31, 2021
I was thinking of that language but I might add it in Part 3
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Level 60
Sep 22, 2021
If someone's interested to know about Ainu, check out Golden Kamuy Manga and Anime series which features the life of the Ainu people and a lot more actions, adventure and drama
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Level 56
Sep 26, 2021
Sure but I dont read Anime.