Language quiz

Today we have a recording of song in a mystery language. Can you work out which language it is?

Comments (11)

TJMarch 25th, 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?

HalabundMarch 25th, 2007 at 5:06 pm

It’s not Romanian. I think it’s something more closely related to Italian.

Ben L.March 25th, 2007 at 7:46 pm

I heard a lot of ‘amore’- Sicilian?

AndersMarch 25th, 2007 at 8:12 pm

Italian. But what dialect I have no idea.

Harris EngelmannMarch 25th, 2007 at 11:08 pm

hmmmmm…. im gonna guess Sardinian

ZacharyMarch 26th, 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 CMarch 26th, 2007 at 4:07 am

Let’s say its Moldovan?

PodolskyMarch 26th, 2007 at 5:42 am

Frioulian?

Guido R.March 26th, 2007 at 8:25 am

I think it’s the Italian dialect of Naples.

SimonMarch 26th, 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.

JamesApril 6th, 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