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

Hi!

Tim May <butsuri@...> writes:
> Henrik Theiling wrote at 2005-07-30 14:54:11 (+0200)
>  > Hi!
>  >
>  > Tim May <butsuri@...> writes:
>  > >...
>  > > I've uploaded a copy to
>  > > http://www.atqz73.dsl.pipex.com/language/sound/UnknownCoolForeignSong.wma
>  > > which should hopefully download a good deal faster.
>  > >...
>  >
>  > Could anyone recode it to mp3?  Linux and, therefore, I do not like
>  > propriatary wma files.
>  >
>
> I don't have an mp3 encoder on my system, but I could put an ogg up if
> you like (having converted it to wav with mplayer).
Mplayer was a good idea, I found that my machine at work could decode
it (and Google was my friend for telling me how to use mplayer to do
it).  So I helped myself and used 'lame' to recode it to mp3. :-)

So back to the topic: I've never heard that language.  But I can
*exclude* a lot of langs, but not name one it could be.

Ok, Lithuanian, maybe?  Because I've never heard Lithuanian. :-)

Some interesting phones.  To list a few:

  [b v s S r R X h ? dZ tS] and maybe [D]
  Clusters are interesting, there's [ft rn]...
  As far as I can tell, no palatals, no /K q X\/, no preaspiration.
  I only heard [R] once in something like [...juha:sO:Ri:...]

  [&/E O: o U i: EI] and I think [7] or [V], maybe [1] or [M].
  Maybe [O:] is [A:], my ear is not sensitive to rounding in that position. :-)
  No front rounded vowels /y 9 2/.

Lithuanian does not have /R/ and /X/ however, but it has /x/, so [R]
and [X] could be allophones.  But I did not hear a typical /ie/ or
/uo/.  So no Lithuanian, I think.  Also, I'd expect endings like
_-auskas_ :-)))

And I don't understand a single word, which would probably mean it's
neither Germanic nor Romance nor Slavic, or at least a very distorted
form of those. :-)

**Henrik

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