> on 10/21/08 5:08 PM, Eugene Oh at un.doing@GMAIL.COM wrote:
>
> > It is most definitely not Sanskrit, and as far as I can tell Tibetan.
> > The
> phonology sounds about right, and the context provides the most
> > significant
> clues.
> I wouldn't say syllabification of an unknown language was
> > difficult. In
> fact, the syllables are rather distinct in the song. The
> > subtitles are
> thoroughly inaccurate as they reflect Tibetan as it is
> > pronounced in Chinese
> (i.e. codas are missing etc.) and Romanised (i.e. tones
> > are missing, certain
> distinctions are not represented).
>
> Eugene
>
> On Tue, Oct
> > 21, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>wrote:
>
> > On Tue,
> > Oct 21, 2008 at 21:41, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > Hallo!
> > >
> > > Does anyone know which language this song:
> > >
> > >
> >
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BLBkepCL4c
> > >
> > > is in? The title says it
> > was Sanskrit, but I am pretty sure
> > > it isn't. After all, Sanskrit has
> > predominantly polysyllabic
> > > words and is recognizably similar to Greek and
> > Latin.
> >
> > Segmenting an unknown spoken language into words is notoriously
> >
> > difficult, so number of syllables is hard to determine.
> >
> > Judging by the
> > info at the right, the subtitles, and what I heard in
> > the first half, I
> > wouldn't be surprised if it was Sanskrit rendered in
> > Chinese phonology and
> > then sung by a Chinese speaker who had no idea
> > what real Sanskrit sounds
> > like.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --
> > Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
> >
>
>
>
> mayhaps Pali as interpreted by a Chinese?
>
>
>
> --
> Hanuman Zhang