edit 08/16: i did in fact give up on this, just don't have time due to various issues

ok I almost gave up on the google translate playlist because it takes a long time to find the songs but you know what, I'm not gonna give up! I'm gonna try to be less picky and just quickly find whatever i can 😄

37. Hakha Chin 💕 (Myanmar) [Sino-Tibetan] 🟠
38. Hiligaynon (Philippines) [Austronesian]
39. Hunsrik (Brazil) [Germanic] 🔴
    can't find any music for this one
40. Iban (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia) [Austronesian] 🟡
41. Jamaican Patois (Jamaica) [English creole] 🟠
    this guy will teach you patwah 😂
42. Jingpo (China, India, Myanmar) [Sino-Tibetan]

☁️☀️🏖️ Music Bank ☁️☀️🏖️

DKB has showed up to save July! 🌟 Flirting X is a good song and shows off their signature vibe well - there were some really smooth dance moves and all the members look so hot this comeback lol 😍

it was really cool to see stayc perform their debut song So Bad with a different vibe 🪩 n.ssign - i don't really like the song but they are good performers and channeled the song's energy really well, definitely worth watching 🖤 weeekly had a sporty theme today and they had kitten heel boots made to look like soccer cleats - i really like that idea, seems kind of steampunk ⚽

WTF award - ✨🪅 Ha Sungwoon 🍍✨ get this nonsense trash outta here 😝

Best Stage - ✨👑 ALL(H)OURS! 🏆✨
I am once again super impressed! their intensity is just unbeatable ⚡⚡

Google Translate playlist letters F and G!

31. Faroese (Denmark, Faroe Islands) [Germanic] 🟡
32. Fijian (Fiji) [Austronesian]
33. Fon (Benin) [Niger-Congo]
34. Friulian (Italy) [Romance]
35. Fulani (western Africa) [Niger-Congo]
    they are celebrating former Nigerian president Buhari, who is Fulani

36. Ga (Ghana) [Niger-Congo]

Google Translate playlist letter D!

26. Dari (Afghanistan) [Iranian]
27. Dinka (South Sudan) [Nilotic]
    -- bonus
28. Dombe (Zambia, Zimbabwe) [Niger-Congo] 🟠
    Dombe is a dialect of Tonga - can't actually find anything at all for it other than bible stuff
29. Dyula (Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali) [Niger-Congo]
    there's not much for Dyula either, this was so hard to find
30. Dzongkha (Bhutan) [Sino-Tibetan]
    I love this guy's voice! all his songs are worth listening to!

today's episode of music bank~ ⛅🍧

vvup have good live singing 🌸 h1-key - i'm consistently really impressed with their performance - this concept really suits them 🖤 blitzers - i love superpower, it's the best song out right now and their stages make me so happy 🥰

WTF award - ✨🪅 GIdle 🍍✨ it's lame it sucks i hate it 😝

best stage today: ✨👑 ALL(H)OURS! 🏆✨
the styling, lighting, camerawork, and of course the members' performance and facial expressions - everything came together so perfectly for this stage ⚡💚⚡🩵⚡

Google Translate playlist letter C! I almost skipped Cantonese because Cantopop is a huge genre and I can't really pick one song to represent it, but I ended up just finding a playlist of 2024 MVs and clicking around until I found something I liked lol

20. Cantonese (China) [Sino-Tibetan]
21. Chamorro (US - Guam, Northern Mariana Islands) [Austronesian] 🟡
22. Chechen (Russia) [Northeast Caucasian]
    it's hard to find anything that's not a "war song" 😅😅
23. Chuukese (Micronesia) [Austronesian] 🟡
24. Chuvash (Russia) [Turkic]
25. Crimean Tatar (Crimea, Russia, Ukraine) [Turkic] 🔴

as you can see, I've added colored emojis to indicate endangered languages according to UNESCO:
🟡 - unsafe
🟠 - endangered
🔴 - severely endangered
🟣 - critically endangered

sad to see Mirae is disbanding... can't say I was that surprised as they never seemed to really take off and haven't been very active, but they were really a great group, I still remember their debut as one of the best I've seen. hoping the best for the members to continue on to a bright future~💐

listen to these VOCALS

here's a playlist with the rest of their MVs if you want to check them out!

Google Translate playlist letter B! Finding all the different Indonesian languages was hard, hopefully I didn't make any mistakes 😅

8. Balinese (Indonesia) [Austronesian]
   -- bonus (inst)
9. Baluchi (Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan) [Iranian]
   I can really feel the joy of this song 💕
10. Baoulé (Ivory Coast) [Niger-Congo]
11. Bashkir (Russia) [Turkic]
12. Batak Karo (Indonesia) [Austronesian] 🟠
13. Batak Simalungun (Indonesia) [Austronesian]
14. Batak Toba (Indonesia) [Austronesian]
15. Bemba (Zambia) [Niger-Congo]
    I love this so much 😃😃😃
16. Betawi (Indonesian) [Malay creole] 🟠
17. Bikol (Philippines) [Austronesian]
18. Breton (France) [Celtic]
    -- bonus 1
    -- bonus 2 (inst)
    this goes so hard
19. Buryat (Russia) [Mongolic]
    -- bonus

Recently Google Translate announced support for 100+ new languages. I found a playlist for these but it was kind of disappointing / disorganized / unclear whether the languages were accurate, so I decided to make my own! First up is the letter A!

1. Abkhaz (Abkhazia, Georgia) [Northwest Caucasian]
2. Acehnese (Indonesia) [Austronesian] 🟠
3. Acholi (Uganda) [Nilotic]
4. Afar (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia) [Cushitic]
5. Alur (Uganda) [Nilotic]
6. Avar (Azerbaijan, Russia) [Northeast Caucasian]
7. Awadhi (India, Nepal) [Indo-Aryan]
   this lady is an expert in several kinds of Indian folk music that I've never heard of. it amazes me to think that there are people out there devoting their lives to studying things i don't even know exist

not much to report from Music Bank today~ i'm not much into the new songs recently...

All(H)ours had a cool dance break though [edit 07/26: I just realized i had the wrong link this whole time, fixed it 😭] 🔥 and I liked the spirit that H1-Key brought to their performance ✨

WTF award - ✨🪅 Lee Seungyoon 🍍✨ just overwhelming wtf energy

best stage - easy win for ✨👑 TRENDZ 🏆✨
this choreo looks too cool in suits 🖤✨🖤✨