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Title: What language is this?
Post by: Gardener on April 14, 2018, 01:40:00 PM
https://funnyjunk.com/channel/cute/Some+neat+dance/LrjwLYe/

Nice song. Catchy. Is it typical of the folk music of whatever region this is from as far as language?
Title: Re: What language is this?
Post by: martin88nyc on April 14, 2018, 01:53:40 PM
sounds like Hungarian. I am pretty sure it is Hungarian or a similar Slavic language
They use a lot of "sh" in their pronunciation, just as us Poles.
Title: Re: What language is this?
Post by: Gardener on April 14, 2018, 02:07:09 PM
I was leaning towards Hungarian as well, since it's rather unique.

Any other thoughts, or someone who knows for sure?
Title: Re: What language is this?
Post by: sedmohradsko on August 02, 2018, 11:23:50 AM
It's Mari.  Distantly related to Hungarian, but closer to Finnish and Estonian.
Title: Re: What language is this?
Post by: Michael Wilson on August 02, 2018, 02:44:51 PM
She's singing in English with a heavy New York accent.
Title: Re: What language is this?
Post by: Gardener on August 02, 2018, 02:58:22 PM
Quote from: sedmohradsko on August 02, 2018, 11:23:50 AM
It's Mari.  Distantly related to Hungarian, but closer to Finnish and Estonian.

What's the song about, if you happen to understand it?
Title: Re: What language is this?
Post by: sedmohradsko on August 02, 2018, 03:19:33 PM
Quote from: Gardener on August 02, 2018, 02:58:22 PM
What's the song about, if you happen to understand it?

I don't.  I recognized the language as Uralic sounding, and the dress looks like cultural clothing from the central Urals, so I just started googling "X Uralic language song" and when I got to Mari, this video was the 2nd or 3rd that popped up.

The first one I tried was Mordvin, I thought this song was cool sounding:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57lWg1-Iam8

And this song in Tatar.  It has kind of a Russian pop sound to it, but the language is pretty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbq-ja9-Eh8

Here's a Kalmyk song.  You can really hear the closeness to Mongolian in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O_h42rZj0U

And here's a Khanty song.  There aren't many people who speak it left, but it is one of two languages that are the closest to Hungarian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIU68f2NalE

Title: Re: What language is this?
Post by: Vetus Ordo on August 02, 2018, 05:19:52 PM
Quote from: sedmohradsko on August 02, 2018, 03:19:33 PM
And this song in Tatar. It has kind of a Russian pop sound to it, but the language is pretty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbq-ja9-Eh8

It sounds very similar to Turkish.

You can instantly recognize it if you're familiar with the sounds and words of Turkish. They're both from the same family.