Re: ZBB: Another "What language is this song in" thread.

On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 11:45:49 -0400, Ingmar Roerdinkholder
<ingmar.roerdinkholder@...> wrote:
>
> I still think it is Iranian... or maybe Albanian?
I'm unable to hear the recording. However, I'm pretty sure it isn't Farsi,
unless all you guys are _really_ bad at phonetics. I don't rule out other
Iranian languages though. Could it be that the singer isn't a native
speaker of that language?

Jeff

> Ingmar
>
> On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 17:39:30 +0200, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi!
> >
> >Tim May <butsuri@...> writes:
> >>...
> >> [alo jowai joha zORM ad@: kasa~ van ovIdho
> >>  keS OsOn Emudafan vEnijUftOt muSkIdho
> >>  bEbu jEnofe kOXa zabo zOntoREbU? SOja~
> >>  sEso bEdZa himES SkI~n:ES Z@Xu mUftOt dardilho]
> >
> >Interesting, I transscribed a little differently:
> >
> >[AlO"jO:haIjUha:so:Ri:
> > &D7khasanvanhO:v&tho(k)
> > kE?ES...]
> >
> >But I think you're right about [vIdho], it's
> >not [v&tho]..
> >
> >I'm quite sure about [jO:hai], not [jowai].  Maybe it's [jO:h\ai].
> >And not [keS] but [kE?ES], I think.
> >
> >I did not dare to make out word breaks.
> >
> >This is fun. :-)
> >
> >**Henrik
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