Language quiz
Today we have a recording of song in a mystery language. Can you work out which language it is?
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TJ on 25 Mar 2007 at 4:40 pm #
some romantic connection we have here ?
I don’t think it’s italian but it’s close to it to some extent.
Romanian? ….. or ….. Sicilian?
Halabund on 25 Mar 2007 at 5:06 pm #
It’s not Romanian. I think it’s something more closely related to Italian.
Ben L. on 25 Mar 2007 at 7:46 pm #
I heard a lot of ‘amore’- Sicilian?
Anders on 25 Mar 2007 at 8:12 pm #
Italian. But what dialect I have no idea.
Harris Engelmann on 25 Mar 2007 at 11:08 pm #
hmmmmm…. im gonna guess Sardinian
Zachary on 26 Mar 2007 at 2:11 am #
I don’t know enough about romanian, but I doubt it’s italian, maybe somewhere close. I’m gonna just guess… hungarian?
John C on 26 Mar 2007 at 4:07 am #
Let’s say its Moldovan?
Podolsky on 26 Mar 2007 at 5:42 am #
Frioulian?
Guido R. on 26 Mar 2007 at 8:25 am #
I think it’s the Italian dialect of Naples.
Simon on 26 Mar 2007 at 10:38 am #
Guido got it - it is in the Neapolitan dialect. The song is called Napoli e bello e stinco (Naples is lovely) and the recording comes from this site.
You can find more songs in Neapolitan dialect here.
James on 06 Apr 2007 at 7:50 pm #
the voice sounds quite slavonic, but that may just be the recording. It´s italian, but not standard italian. Unless it is something tricksy like a rived Ligurian…
some Italian dialect is my guess
James