The Most Obscure Languages Part 8.
First published: Wednesday January 18th, 2023
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Archi
Archi is a Northeastern Caucasian language spoken by the Archi people of Dagestan in the village of Archib, Thus where the Archi people get the demonym name from. It was one of the few languages to use the Avar script once used by the now extinct Avar language until switching to Cyrillic in 2006. The language is known for being unusual as it isnt classified if its endangered or not, As most obscure language seem to be mostly endangered
Pirahã
Piraha is an indigenous Brazilian language spoken by the native Piraha people of the Maci Tributary of the Amazon River, It is the only surviving dialect of the Mura Languages as many have switched to Brazil's official language, Portuguese. It is not endangered as most speakers are monolingual meaning they can only understand one language.
Mien
Mien is a Hmong-Mien Language spoken by the native Mien people inhabiting Southern China, Laos, Thailand, and parts of Vietnam. And nowadays, a few Mien reside as a diaspora group in the United States like the Hmong. There are 31 consonant phenomes aswell as a attempt to model the Mien script to be similar to Chinese pinyin. Mien also has their own dialects spoken by the Dao people in Vietnam and China
Gagauz
Gagauz is a Turkic language spoken in Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, and Turkey and mostly in Moldova's Gagauzia region. The language wasnt used in schools until the year 1959 and is also derived from Balkan Gagauz Turkish. Another language spoken in the European portion of Turkey. Like most Turkic languages eg: Uzbek. Gagauz uses the Latin script and formerly the Cyrillic one like most Eastern European Languages. Gagauz is also spoken in parts of Bulgaria.
Franco-Provencal
Franco-Provencal is a Gallo-Romance language spoken in Southern France in the region of Provence and parts of Switzerland and Italy aswell. The language is in a constant near of extinction since 1995 but its still cool that this language still exists. It is actually an official language in the Italian province of Aosta and a recognized minority language in France aswell. There is also a small diaspora of Franco-Provencal speakers located in Southern Italy
Could you also add these three Brazilian indigenous languages, maybe on a single heading? They are Nheengatu, Tucano, and Baníua (Karu). They are, along to Portuguese, official languages of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, in the northwest of the state of Amazonas, since 2003. That’s because 74% of their population is indigenous. Also, there is a plan to add Yanomami (Waiká) to São Gabriel da Cachoeira’s official languages :)
Good blog by the way.
meshould make a blog of all the conlangs of JetPunk. I know of Grandese by GrandOldMan, Naturian by TheNatureThread, Aficionadoan by Aficionado, Cryptic by Zootuber3000, Sawiwian by Ethaboo444 and ChineseChen, Yakovian by Nickelz, and Quixcode by Qy. Any more?*MG’s angry noises*Also, Pirahã has a lot of interesting features you should mention and also the controversies about some of them.