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Re: Music in minority languages

Postby vijayjohn » 2017-09-02, 19:37

opipik wrote:
vijayjohn wrote:
opipik wrote:Although the lyrics are included in the video, the orthography is strange.

I think that's true most of the time, though, with languages that aren't usually written in the Roman script.


Melpa is written in the Latin script, though.

Yeah, but how long of a history does it have of being written, and is a significant proportion of its speakers literate in this orthography?

Eruwa a.k.a. Ẹrụwa or Erohwa is another Southwestern Edoid language closely related to Urhobo and Uvbie. All three are spoken in Delta State. This has a recording of some evangelical songs in Eruwa:

http://globalrecordings.net/en/program/A33000

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Re: Music in minority languages

Postby opipik » 2017-09-05, 19:04

Toaripi is an Eleman language spoken in Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea.
This song by Holliemaea Band is called "Askere".
There are several uploads of this song on YouTube, but every of them is slightly different (the string synthesizers are quieter in one and more off-rhythm in another, one is even tuned down a semitone or so and some are just reuploads) This one probably wasn't recorded live, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miE6EVqA3qI

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Re: Music in minority languages

Postby vijayjohn » 2017-09-06, 5:57

Isoko is yet another Southwestern Edoid language that apparently is especially closely related to Urhobo and considered to be a dialect of it. It's spoken in Delta State near the other Southwestern Edoid languages, but this wedding song in Isoko was actually performed and filmed at a ceremony in Lagos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3gmEriNY9U

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Re: Music in minority languages

Postby gothwolf » 2017-09-06, 21:10

I would like to share with you a Mari song that I recently found.
Such kind of music and video clips take me out from today's reality and put me back into the past to the good old times when there were still values and people used to live closer to the nature. It makes me believe in the kindness of people and how real everything was... I think the the translation of the title should be "Don't hurry" - relevant piece of advice nowadays.

Олян гына
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhmS-x0ccBY

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Re: Music in minority languages

Postby vijayjohn » 2017-09-07, 5:55

Thanks, gothwolf!

Gbede and Ijumu are both names of varieties of Northeast Yoruba. This is a video by missionaries who were visiting Ayetoro Gbede, a town in Ijumu, which is a kingdom and Local Government Area in Kogi State. There is a song that appears to be in one of these two varieties at the very end of the video, starting around 3:16. This is the only song I can seem to find in either of these varieties, unless perhaps this song is actually in the same variety:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUZKd-EPfXw

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Re: Music in minority languages

Postby vijayjohn » 2017-09-11, 4:24

Ukwuani, Aboh, and Ndoni are a cluster of Igboid language varieties that seem to be grouped together as one language. They appear to be less closely related to Igbo than Ika and Ogba. This is a song by Sir Deskenny Ashim Teshinula that apparently is in Ukwuani:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-J0E2nlxks

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Re: Music in minority languages

Postby opipik » 2017-09-14, 17:52

Luangiua (Ontong Java) is a Polynesian outlier language spoken in the Solomon Islands by around 2 400 people.
If you listen to the song more carefully, you'll notice a lack of alveolar consonants. That's because Luangiua has no alveolars at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57q3aCD-M4o

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Re: Music in minority languages

Postby vijayjohn » 2017-09-15, 2:41

Ekpeye is an Igboid language spoken in Rivers State, one of the southernmost states in Nigeria. Apparently, it is only distantly related to all the other Igboid languages (including Igbo, of course). This is a song in Ekpeye called "Iyeuma Ida Menime," possibly a Christian song or at least a song with religious Christian overtones. There are also very short parts in this song that are in English or have someone singing something in English in the background:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koxYanBnUJ0

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Re: Music in minority languages

Postby vijayjohn » 2017-09-25, 4:06

The Cross River or Delta-Cross languages are languages spoken in southeastern Nigeria classified as Benue-Congo (which also is where Bantu is included). One branch of the Cross River languages is Central Delta, and one of the Central Delta languages is Ogbogolo. This is apparently a GRN clip in Ogbogolo with singing beginning at 5:04:

http://globalrecordings.net/en/program/C14800

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Re: Music in minority languages

Postby vijayjohn » 2017-09-26, 3:36

Abureni is another Central Delta language spoken in Bayelsa State. It's spoken immediately to the southeast of where Ogbia is spoken. This is apparently an evangelical song in Abureni called "Anwa na agi da aken?" meaning 'where are you going?'. The lyrics are included with a translation into English in the video description (there are only six lines in this song):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhur7ouXIic

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Re: Music in minority languages

Postby vijayjohn » 2017-09-30, 6:23

Kugbo is yet another Central Delta language but spoken in Rivers State, not Bayelsa State. This is a GRN clip that's apparently in Kugbo. Singing begins at 3:46:

http://globalrecordings.net/en/program/C14631

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Re: Music in minority languages

Postby vijayjohn » 2017-09-30, 7:03

Abua is yet another Central Delta language. Odual is another much smaller language that is very closely related to it and spoken in an adjacent area. I'm not sure whether this song is in Abua or Odual (I'm going to venture a guess and say Abua, though). The song is called "Aruole" and apparently performed by someone named Udi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7W-LZQrHsU

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Re: Music in minority languages

Postby h34 » 2017-10-06, 11:40

Three Songs in Ingrian by The Karelian Folk Ensemble. According to the video description, they are called: Korvessa kuusen juurella (Beneath Spruce Boughs), Imatran rannalla (On the Shores of the Imatra), and Kaunis oli koivu (Beauteous was the Birch) .
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrian_language
http://youtu.be/-E46iombaHY

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Re: Music in minority languages

Postby vijayjohn » 2017-10-07, 2:45

Degema a.k.a. Degama is an Edoid language spoken in Rivers State in southern Nigeria. Together with Epie and Engenni, it forms the Delta subgroup within Edoid. This is a GRN clip that's supposedly in Degema and begins with a song:

http://globalrecordings.net/en/program/C14080

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Re: Music in minority languages

Postby vijayjohn » 2017-10-11, 5:36

Gokana is a language within the Ogoni subgroup of the Cross River languages (so not the Central Delta subgroup as in the case of the other Cross River languages I've posted in). Specifically, it is the East Ogoni language with the fewest speakers. This is another GRN clip beginning with a 20-second song that's apparently in Gokana:

http://globalrecordings.net/en/program/C14350

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Re: Music in minority languages

Postby Homine.Sardu » 2017-10-19, 18:32

Corsican language : Diu Vi Salvi Regina (traditional holy chant and national hymn of Corsica)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXbJaKL8d4Q

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Re: Music in minority languages

Postby vijayjohn » 2017-10-21, 3:46

Ibani is a subvariety/dialect of Kalabari, the best-documented variety of Ijaw, spoken in Rivers State in southern Nigeria (in fact, in one of the southernmost states in Nigeria) across the Bonny River from where (standard?) Kalabari is spoken. This is a song in Ibani, apparently from a 1939 gramophone record and performed by Richard Abe Brown Band, called "Bara Sanabo Bara":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJq6h_VeNlM

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Re: Music in minority languages

Postby vijayjohn » 2017-10-21, 7:51

Nkọrọọ (or Nkoroo) a.k.a. Nkoro is a variety of Ijaw closely related to Kalabari, Ibani, Nembe, and Akassa. This is a GRN clip that's supposed to be in Nkọrọọ and begins with a song:

http://globalrecordings.net/en/program/C07221

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Re: Music in minority languages

Postby vijayjohn » 2017-10-27, 4:09

Anaang or Annang a.k.a. Western Ibibio, is part of a dialect cluster including Ibibio in the Lower Cross branch of the Cross River languages within Benue-Congo. It has probably the second highest number of speakers of the Lower Cross languages after Ibibio. This is a song in Anaang called "Annang Mma." There's a short part of this song that's in English, and the song in general is very repetitive, but the rest is in Anaang:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCiepzp2vS0

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Re: Music in minority languages

Postby vijayjohn » 2017-11-11, 3:13

Ennese is a variety of Sicilian spoken in the city of Enna, located roughly in the center of Sicily. Although it's called "Enna" in Italian, English, and Greek (Ἔννα) and "Henna" or, less frequently, "Haenna" in Latin, it's called "Castrugiuvanni" in Sicilian itself. This is a folk song by a folk band from Enna dedicated to the Virgin Mary. I believe it's in Ennese (it doesn't quite sound like standard Italian):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn_f0CfXlpM


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