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languagepotato wrote:My family and i can't figure out what language this song is in. my brother thinks it's Somali. I, think it's an afro-asiatic language too (mainly due to the voiced pharyngeal fricative i hear in the uncut version), but i can't place it, to me it sounds like Arabic gibberish.
Hegetsu wrote:Hello,
Do you know what is this language and what does it mean?
Saim wrote:I can't make head or tails of this. The person who asked thinks it's Arabic, but I'm honestly not sure. My best guess is d-m-r-w-sh-n but I could be wrong.
vijayjohn wrote:With all due respect, why are your recordings so distorted?
vijayjohn wrote:I think the third one and maybe also the fourth one is in Finnish.
Moraczewski wrote:Hello! I return with more shortwave recordings. I guess that some of these might be Greek because that's the language that I still don't often detect.
1. https://vocaroo.com/i/s1PLYkpV03ua
2. https://vocaroo.com/i/s1LPBwmKYjUK
3. https://vocaroo.com/i/s1KkvDcAQSVz
4. https://vocaroo.com/i/s1BsRBb5YvOF
5. https://vocaroo.com/i/s1q81dY1BT19
6. https://vocaroo.com/i/s0cg5A8Rn6Ry
7. https://vocaroo.com/i/s1pbJPonONtm
8. https://vocaroo.com/i/s0cxdwiJQtns
md0 wrote:1 and 7 must be Voice of Greece/ERT. The other two are probably amateurs, which is interesting because I thought they only did pirate broadcasts on MW, not on SW.
Voice of Armenia has a small news bulletin in Greek, but I don't think 2 is that.
I used to be a SWListener too, until I moved inland and the geography ruined it for me.
md0 wrote:Oh, I didn't realise. The two recordings I thought was ERT sounded quite professional and they seemed to be discussing current affairs so it didn't cross my mind it was all ham radio.
Moraczewski wrote:4. https://vocaroo.com/i/s1BsRBb5YvOF
Naava wrote:It's almost like several languages spoken at the same time. It could be Estonian, but I could swear I heard lauantai and something about Pentti and Tampere (in Tampere accent) in there...
Vlürch wrote:maybe it's Estonian. It does have the kind of jolliness to it, anyway. Ugh, how embarrassing is it that Fins can't tell apart Estonian and Swedish?
Vlürch wrote:Moraczewski wrote:4. https://vocaroo.com/i/s1BsRBb5YvOF
Sounds like one of the Scandinavian languages, maybe? It pretty clearly has (cognates with) the words "barometer" and "temperature", although those have been borrowed into so many languages that it's not that big of a clue. I'd assume the "tip-top" and "super special" have the same meaning as in English as well. I think I also might hear "morgen" near the beginning and "åker" or something near the end, but I'm really not sure at all; also sounds like there could be "och" at a couple of parts, but well. Overall, the intonation sounds pretty much exactly like how Swedish sounds like whenever I hear it, but...Naava wrote:It's almost like several languages spoken at the same time. It could be Estonian, but I could swear I heard lauantai and something about Pentti and Tampere (in Tampere accent) in there...
I can hear the "lauantai" too, but the more times I hear that part, the more it sounds like it starts with [n] instead. If the "Tampere" is at 0:20, the first syllable is what I hear as the second syllable of "tip-top". But it definitely sounds like there's some interference: right around the "top", before the syllable ends, there's in a different voice what sounds like [enːɨj] or something, so presumably something in Russian or another a Slavic language. But then, Moraczewski did say he and his friends may have been discussing what they heard, so...
But yeah, you could be right, maybe it's Estonian. It does have the kind of jolliness to it, anyway. Ugh, how embarrassing is it that Fins can't tell apart Estonian and Swedish? Or at least I can't. I mean, usually I could, but when it's distorted like that...
Vlürch wrote:Naava wrote:It's almost like several languages spoken at the same time. It could be Estonian, but I could swear I heard lauantai and something about Pentti and Tampere (in Tampere accent) in there...
I can hear the "lauantai" too, but the more times I hear that part, the more it sounds like it starts with [n] instead. If the "Tampere" is at 0:20, the first syllable is what I hear as the second syllable of "tip-top". But it definitely sounds like there's some interference: right around the "top", before the syllable ends, there's in a different voice what sounds like [enːɨj] or something, so presumably something in Russian or another a Slavic language. But then, Moraczewski did say he and his friends may have been discussing what they heard, so...
But yeah, you could be right, maybe it's Estonian. It does have the kind of jolliness to it, anyway. Ugh, how embarrassing is it that Fins can't tell apart Estonian and Swedish? Or at least I can't. I mean, usually I could, but when it's distorted like that...
Johanna wrote:I't definitely not Swedish or Norwegian (unless they speak in a very garbled non-native accent), apart from the couple of words you mentioned, I couldn't understand a thing. To me, it sounds a lot more like Finnish than any North-Germanic language...
Meänkieli perhaps? It sometimes sounds very much in the middle between Swedish and more southern dialects of Finnish when it comes to prosody, and it has more fricatives than most of Finnish too.
Naava wrote:It's almost like several languages spoken at the same time.
Vlürch wrote:But yeah, you could be right, maybe it's Estonian. It does have the kind of jolliness to it
Johanna wrote:It sometimes sounds very much in the middle between Swedish and more southern dialects of Finnish when it comes to prosody, and it has more fricatives than most of Finnish too.
h34 wrote:The intonation and some of the words make it sound a bit like Swiss German. I think I can hear [bɑro'mɛ:tr] ('barometer'), ['tu:si(n)t] ('a thousand'), [dɛ 'mɔrgə] ('the morning'), ['nɛkʃtə 'vʊxə]('next week'), [gə'nau]('exactly'; although this would be Standard German), [tɛmpəratu:r] ('temperature'), [… 'grɑ:t 'vo:rdə] ('reaching/going to reach/up to X degrees'), ['su:pr ʃpɛtsi'ɑ:l] ('super special') and [ɑ:br] ('but'). I might be completely wrong, though.
h34 wrote:The intonation and some of the words make it sound a bit like Swiss German. I think I can hear [bɑro'mɛ:tr] ('barometer'), ['tu:si(n)t] ('a thousand'), [dɛ 'mɔrgə] ('the morning'), ['nɛkʃtə 'vʊxə]('next week'), [gə'nau]('exactly'; although this would be Standard German), [tɛmpəratu:r] ('temperature'), [… 'grɑ:t 'vo:rdə] ('reaching/going to reach/up to X degrees'), ['su:pr ʃpɛtsi'ɑ:l] ('super special') and [ɑ:br] ('but'). I might be completely wrong, though.
Edit: Adding the link again
4. https://vocaroo.com/i/s1BsRBb5YvOF
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