UniLang

opipik wrote:Mongolian is a Mongolic language spoken in Mongolia.

It is composed of many dialects.

I've tried to post songs in various dialects of Mongolian. Which one is this one in, do you know? Halh/Khalkha?

Urarina is a language isolate spoken in the Loreto Region of northwestern Peru, in the Amazon rainforest. (There are a lot of language isolates spoken in the Amazon rainforest). This is a Christian song/hymn in Urarina, which is then sung in Spanish (so far, I think every song I have found in Urarina is of this type and possibly by the same group of people):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v03LfAaaG9Y

English is a Germanic language of the Indo-European family. It is the lingua franca of the internet and many countries. It's also the national language of UK, US, New Zealand and Australia.

Gumatj is a dialect of the Yolngu macrolanguage of the Pama-Nyungan family. It is spoken in Arnhem Land, a region of the Northern Territory province of Australia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf-jHCdafZY

Awajún a.k.a. Aguaruna is another Jivaroan language (there is only one Jivaroan language I haven't posted a song in yet, namely Huambisa, and I can't seem to find any recordings of songs in it anyway) spoken in the Peruvian Amazon. This is a video of its speakers from a few years ago along with a few song excerpts in the language:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX8l2CZtt8k

[flag=]sah[/flag] A song in Sakha/Yakut called Оҥочо ("boat"), performed by Айыллаана Семенова :http://youtu.be/5yKJo_ZIfj0

opipik wrote:English is a Germanic language of the Indo-European family. It is the lingua franca of the internet and many countries. It's also the national language of UK, US, New Zealand and Australia.

I've never heard of this language. It must be very obscure.

Khasi is a Austroasiatic language spoken in the Meghalaya state in India.
(Lyrics translation in the video description)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tq3PoByzxs

OldBoring wrote:

opipik wrote:English is a Germanic language of the Indo-European family. It is the lingua franca of the internet and many countries. It's also the national language of UK, US, New Zealand and Australia.

I think I meant to say this earlier but forgot, or maybe I got confused because for some reason, it didn't occur to me that the song opipik posted could be in English and Gumatj.

opipik wrote:Khasi is a Austroasiatic language spoken in the Meghalaya state in India.
(Lyrics translation in the video description)

Cool, I posted a song in Khasi once, too!

The Panoan languages are a group of languages spoken in the Amazon Rainforest. Shipibo a.k.a. Shipibo-Conibo/Shipibo-Konibo is a Panoan language spoken in the Amazon in Peru and Brazil. This is a Shipibo song with an introduction in English. The song starts around 3:15:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMJ15Y18ih0

English is a Germanic language of the Indo-European family. It is the lingua franca of the internet and many countries. It's also the national language of UK, US, New Zealand and Australia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhG6hBMCLaE

Maybe it's cultural appropriation but I love Yothu Yindi.

Osias wrote:Maybe it's cultural appropriation but I love Yothu Yindi.

I hope it's not.

Yolngu Matha is a macrolanguage composed of 5~30 different dialects with minor differences in phonology (some don't have long vowels and some have only one stop series (voiced/lenis)) It is spoken in Arnhem Land, Australia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H47v07UwPj4

Brazilian Portuguese is a Romance language spoken by a Brazilion of people in Brazil, Boston and Florida. The next video shows an interview with an insane woman after she tried to murder her husband, turned into a Christian song. At least, it's what I understood from the original interview, but who knows? She is insane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ6zTsTv66o

opipik wrote:English is a Germanic language of the Indo-European family. It is the lingua franca of the internet and many countries. It's also the national language of UK, US, New Zealand and Australia.

Hey, even I don't introduce a language more than once!

opipik wrote:

Osias wrote:Maybe it's cultural appropriation but I love Yothu Yindi.

I hope it's not.

I don't think so, given that many of Yothu Yindi's members (including some of its founding members) are Indigenous Australians themselves (specifically Yolngu).

Yanesha('), a.k.a. Amuesha or Amoesha, is a language from the Arawakan family spoken in Peru. The Arawakan language family is one of the most widespread in South America and are or used to also be spoken in Central America and the Caribbean. The first indigenous people Christopher Columbus met in the Americas were the Taíno, who spoke an Arawakan language. Yanesha' is spoken in the Amazon rainforest; however, its speakers are close enough to the Andes to have been formerly dominated by the Inca Empire, as a result of which it has a lot of Quechua loanwords as well. This is a song in Yanesha' about a tiger performed by Eduardo Ortiz Espíritu, preceded by an introduction in Spanish (the actual song starts around 3:05):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAEjBRDHng0

Do they really sing "listen" here, instead of "lissen"?

https://youtu.be/bBYHWKPLEnE

[flag=]cs[/flag] Gabriela Gunčíková - Černý anděl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLb-HruLRaY

Osias wrote:Do they really sing "listen" here, instead of "lissen"?

No, not from what I can tell, at least.

Ashéninka (also spelled Ashéninca or Ashéninga) is another Arawakan language spoken in the Peruvian Amazon, specifically from the Campa branch like Nomatsig(u)enga. This is a song in Ashéninka:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNfsSMIyIU8

vijayjohn wrote:

Osias wrote:Do they really sing "listen" here, instead of "lissen"?

No, not from what I can tell, at least.

Sometimes I hear one, sometimes the other, from the same instance.

This is a Taiwanese Min Nan song someone recommended to me. I don't speak Chinese, so I don't know what does it's name mean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeQXluZRroI

Metal in Yiddish. Not my favourite music genre but the genre+language combination is cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUnfxTp0WEI

opipik wrote:This is a Taiwanese Min Nan song someone recommended to me. I don't speak Chinese, so I don't know what does it's name mean.

"Tragic City."

voron wrote:Metal in Yiddish

Jewish Rammstein?

Machiguenga a.k.a. Matsigenka is another Kampa language that is so closely related to Nomatsig(u)enga that they are sometimes considered dialects of the same language. Both languages are spoken by the Machiguenga/Matsigenka people. This is a song in Machiguenga:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1JP1dujAao

vijayjohn wrote:"Tragic City."

Hmmm I don't think "tragic" is the best translation. Maybe melancholic, sorrowful, etc.