{"id":605,"date":"2008-02-10T18:41:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T17:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/10\/language-quiz-56\/"},"modified":"2008-02-10T18:41:16","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T17:41:16","slug":"language-quiz-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"Language quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a song that I learnt this week at one of the choirs I go to. Does anyone know what language it&#8217;s in and what it means? We were told that it&#8217;s a &#8220;gypsy song from Czechoslovakia&#8221; and that it&#8217;s a counting song. The words look like a mixture of Romany and Spanish &#8211; possibly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethnologue.com\/show_language.asp?code=rmr\">Cal\u00f3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dui, duj, duj, dui desu duj,<br \/>\nTe comida, te comida,<br \/>\nPar no muj<\/p>\n<p>O kalo muj na kamar,<br \/>\nDere kostat kikana,<br \/>\nSaj Iago, say Iago,<br \/>\nRomnake<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know the answers this time. All I&#8217;ve been able to find out is that there are recordings of the song on some albums of Hungarian gypsy songs, or at least <a href=\"http:\/\/singles.sfr.fr\/album\/Matyi+Es+A+Hegedus\/DujDujDesuduj\/10857355\/\">a song<\/a> with the same first line, and that the final word, Romnake, appears to be associated with the Hungarian-Carpathian gypsies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a song that I learnt this week at one of the choirs I go to. Does anyone know what language it&#8217;s in and what it means? We were told that it&#8217;s a &#8220;gypsy song from Czechoslovakia&#8221; and that it&#8217;s a counting song. The words look like a mixture of Romany and Spanish &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,29,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-music","category-quiz-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}