Music in minority languages

[vijayjohn]

Megleno-Romanian is an Eastern Romance language or language variety closely related to Romanian but spoken mainly along the border between Greece and Macedonia. It's also spoken by emigrants from the region in Romania and a small Muslim group in Turkey. This is a song in Megleno-Romanian called "Dutsiri ăn minti" (apparently meaning 'reminders'?) by a Romanian singer named Adena who performs songs in various Eastern Romance language varieties. A translation into Romanian can be found by clicking on CC as well as in the video description, where it comes after the original Megleno-Romanian lyrics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PLuDxEVG7A

[vijayjohn]

The Gheg varieties of Albanian are divided into four subgroups, namely Northwest Gheg, Northeast Gheg, Central Gheg, and Southern Gheg. Southern Gheg includes the variety spoken in Tirana. This song is in a Central Gheg variety spoken in Debar, which is in Macedonia. The singers names are Bledar Kaca and Leonard Islami, and the song is called "Kukësi e Dibra krah për krah" (Dibra is the Albanian name for Debar):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkSENI5ODZk&app=desktop

[vijayjohn]

Cappadocian a.k.a. Cappadocian Greek or Asia Minor Greek is a mixed language that started out as a variety of Greek that was heavily influenced by Turkish. It was formerly spoken in Central Turkey but is now mainly spoken in Central and Northern Greece. Apparently, the younger generations of speakers have a much more positive attitude towards their language than their parents and grandparents, who tend to use Standard Modern Greek instead. This is apparently a Cappadocian song about the legend of St. George and the dragon called "Agior Agior afenti mou" (Αγιώρ' Αγιώρ' αφέντη μου):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4EzgZyNULI

[vijayjohn]

Gollobordë or Golo Brdo is the name of a geographical region located mostly in Albania but partially extending over onto the Macedonian side of the border. There is another distinctive variety of Macedonian spoken in this area. This is a video of some song clips in Macedonian being played and danced to in Gollobordë in Albania:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnq1QwmS56A&app=desktop

[vijayjohn]

Karamanli Turkish is a variety of Turkish spoken by the Karamanlides, a group of Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire. It might be classified as a variety of Balkan Gagauz Turkish. This is a Karamanli Turkish song from Greece. I don't remember where exactly in Greece this clip comes from (or whether I ever found out), but in Greece, it seems to be mainly spoken in Thrace (northeastern Greece) near the border with Bulgaria (where Turkish is also widely spoken):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tmf3bVBO5o

[vijayjohn]

Balkan Gagauz Turkish a.k.a. Balkan Gagauz, Balkan Turkic, and Rumelian is a Turkic language very closely related to Turkish, spoken mainly in Macedonia and Bulgaria as well as (apparently) Turkey. Karamanli Turkish is apparently a variety of Balkan Gagauz Turkish. This is a song from Macedonia that appears to be in Balkan Gagauz Turkish. It's called "Mavrova," which is roughly the name of a village not in Macedonia, but rather in coastal Albania(!). The lyrics can be found in the top comment and sound slightly different from standard Turkish to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeysADlVIGY&app=desktop

[księżycowy]

Are you going to ever get out of the Balkans, Vijay?

[vijayjohn]

Of course! Just once I go north of Serbia Or alternatively, summer comes and I switch back to Africa or something instead

[h34]

A song called Тәрәзәләр ('Windows'), written by Анна Попова. The singer, Elvin Grey, is from the Republic of Bashkortostan (Russian Federation) and apparently most of his songs are in Russian or Bashkir, but this one is in Tatar. A Russian translation of the lyrics is added in the video description.

https://youtu.be/mdNe9nqpWf4

[vijayjohn]

The Solun-Voden dialect a.k.a. Lower Vardar dialect or Kukush-Voden dialect is a South Slavic language variety essentially straddling the border between northeastern Greece and southeastern Macedonia (or southeastern North Macedonia, if you prefer ). It is variously considered a dialect of Macedonian or of Bulgarian. This is a video of a wedding identified in the video as Macedonian but taking place in Thessaloniki, or Solun as it's called in Macedonian. This variety is spoken there. The singing begins at about 16:40:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv_6jEQOAds&app=desktop

[vijayjohn]

This is another song from Greece but in some variety of Macedonian; I'm not sure which variety it's in especially since I can't tell where exactly in Greece it was filmed. The title and caption specifically use the word "Macedonian" to describe the language (and they clearly mean the Slavic language and not Macedonian Greek or anything like that), but I think the uploader is Greek, so I guess that's probably a good thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKmqbaPgNzc&app=desktop