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

Henrik Theiling wrote at 2005-07-31 15:28:23 (+0200)
 > Hi!
 >
 > James Miller <james@...> writes:
 > >...
 > > This is my first post here... but I thought it my duty to put you all
 > > out of your misery (or spoil the fun, depending on how you see it :)).
 > >...
 >
 > :-))
 >
 > So it's Farsi.  Very funny, I've listened to Farsi quite often when
 > eating at my favirote Falafel place, but I did not recognise it at
 > all, but instead, excluded Farsi right away.
 >
 > Can anyone transscribe the lyrics and produce a romanised version
 > for comparison with the X-Sampa we produced?  I assume it'd take me
 > hours to look up the letters, although, of course, it would be a
 > good exercise...  (Presumably half of the vowels are missing, of
 > course.)  **Henrik
 >

I've tried, but the type is so small, it's very hard to tell what
certain dots are... it says they're going to replace the images with
Unicode text, I might be able to do something then.  (Someone who can
actually read Persian could probably do it without difficulty.)

Incidentally, if we'd noticed that the first verse was a quatrain with
an AABA rhyme scheme, that might have been a clue that we were dealing
with Persian.

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