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Name the language

For this week’s quiz we have a song in a mystery language. Can you identify the language? If you can identify the singer as well, I’d be very impressed.

Clues: this was originally a Hungarian song, which was translated in English, then into the language of this recording. The title of this song is also the title of the first full-length feature film to be made in this language, which is currently only spoken by a few hundred people. This singer, who also plays the harp, sings in a number of different languages, including English.