Re: OT: slightly OT: language ID's?

Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

>I picked up a couple tapes in a series called Global Celebrations,
>because I thought it'd be neat to get samples of music from around the
>world and they were going for $3 (U.S.) each...but I can't *identify* the
>languages or world-regions/nations/cultures from whence the songs came.
>Help, anyone?  Even general indications of location would be neat.
>
>"Dances of Kwenyii," Wapa tribe (music-group name?  "Actual" tribe?  who
>knows?), from Chants Kanaks: Cérémonies et Berceuses>
Wild guess based on the word kanak: likely 'person, man' in one of many
highly aberrant Austronesian lgs. of Nouvelle Caledonie; or Melanesian, but
I dont think the French ever got into Melanesia.

(snip some of those already identified)
>Awungilobolele, Udokotela Shange Namajaha, from the Indestructible Beat
>of Soweto
South African certainly, but the language? Perhaps the same lang. as "God
Bless Africa", the national anthem?
>
>Omwana Wa Mberi Nesiekhoira, Abana Ba Nasery, from !Nursery Boys Go Ahead!
I'd guess: Swahili, East Africa  (and Nasery is surely borrowed "nursery")
>
>Famadihana, Tarika Sammy from Fanafody
I knew this, but M.Pearson beat me to it.
>
>Arape, Temaeva, from Chants & Rythmes du Pacifique Sud (mais *ou`* dans
>le Pacifique Sud?)
Looks Polynesian, so Tahiti or environs.  But the French also have/had
"condominium" with the Brits on some island, whose name escapes me