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

Joe wrote:

>It's also not Estonian - it has 'f' fairly commonly, which Estonian
>doesn't.  That would probably rule out Finnish as well.   Hungarian?
>
May not Estionian have /f/ in loans? But that's true that there are too much
to be Estionian..

>Also, I hear [2:] where you guys are hearing schwa.
I'm 97% sure that there are no /2/, neither /y/. For /9/ I'm not sure, it's
too similar to /@/ and for /&/ I can't tell since I'm not used to hear it
the natlang I speak...

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