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NTxC wrote:I'm determined to discover the language (and lyrics) of a specific fragment in a song, "filament" by Yousei Teikoku.
vijayjohn wrote:It honestly reminds me of regional languages in Italy, especially southern Italy. It does sound like it's sung with a bit of a Japanese accent, though.
vijayjohn wrote:It doesn't sound to me like any of the three, but then again, I'm not exactly confident about how well I can identify a language from listening to it given that the last video posted on this thread turned out to be in Brazilian Portuguese, which I probably should be able to understand in principle.
Vlürch wrote:the last thing sounds like "dies irae", which means "day of wrath". If it is Latin, the beginning could something like "e ???? quod est pullarum", meaning "from ???? that are dark", but grammatically incorrect; it should be "quae sunt pullarum" and, actually, it sounds like it could be that even though I keep hearing it more like the former.
vijayjohn wrote:I haven't listened to those clips you just posted yet, but I really don't think this is Latin, sorry. I'm sticking with my southern Italian guess for now. (Though note that not all minority languages in southern Italy are varieties of Italian. It could be Griko, for instance).
NTxC wrote:and the ending does sound like "dies irae" a lot.
IpseDixit wrote:a Japanese band that sings in a nearly unknown language spoken in a few villages in Southern Italy? That would be bizarre to say the least.
I'm sorry but it doesn't. Dies irae is supposed to be pronounced [ˈdies ˈire] or if you don't know IPA, DEE-ehs EE-reh.
voron wrote:It looks like butchered Arabic:
انا ملك لحبيبى
I am a property of my beloved.
The dash under م looks like a kasra, but it should not be there, the word is 'mulk (un)'.
IpseDixit wrote:And if it's Latin, it's the most mangled pronunciation I've ever heard.
vijayjohn wrote:I dunno, obscure songs and songs in rather obscure languages have suddenly risen to prominence out of nowhere a number of times already.
vijayjohn wrote:I think so. Otherwise, it would appear to be a diphthong, wouldn't it?
Llawygath wrote:vijayjohn wrote:I think so. Otherwise, it would appear to be a diphthong, wouldn't it?
I don't know much about Latin, but why couldn't it just be hiatus?
Vlürch wrote:Latin has always been used as an "obscure dark language" by the Japanese, though, which is why I still think it's Latin. I can't think of any songs with even one line of Latin off the top of my head, but Dum Spiro Spero is an album by Dir en grey; IIRC there isn't actually any Latin in any of the songs, though.
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