{"id":625,"date":"2008-03-08T17:22:26","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T16:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/08\/language-quiz-58\/"},"modified":"2008-03-08T17:22:26","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T16:22:26","slug":"language-quiz-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":"Language quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/quiz080308.mp3\">recording of a song<\/a> in a mystery language. Any ideas which language it is and where it&#8217;s spoken?<\/p>\n<p>[Update] Here are the lyrics of the song:<\/p>\n<p>Fer\u00f0ist eg \u00ed millum landa<br \/>\nS\u00edggi gle\u00f0i sorg og str\u00ed\u00f0<br \/>\nMen ein myndin bj\u00f8rt man standa<br \/>\nMinnir meg um bestu t\u00ed\u00f0<br \/>\nJa har heima \u00ed t\u00ed dali<br \/>\nHar alt gr\u00f8nt og vakurt er<br \/>\nEg \u00ed huga k\u00e1tur sp\u00e6li<br \/>\nMe\u00f0an skip um sj\u00f3gvin fer<\/p>\n<p>and here&#8217;s a translation:<\/p>\n<p>??? in the midst of bright stars<br \/>\nIn the midst of the sound of waves and lambs<br \/>\nWhere harsh storms blow<br \/>\nWhere no strings tie<br \/>\nWhere I&#8217;m always free<br \/>\nWhere the ocean is a friend<br \/>\nWhere I&#8217;m free to go somewhere distant<br \/>\nWhere fresh ???<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a recording of a song in a mystery language. Any ideas which language it is and where it&#8217;s spoken? [Update] Here are the lyrics of the song: Fer\u00f0ist eg \u00ed millum landa S\u00edggi gle\u00f0i sorg og str\u00ed\u00f0 Men ein myndin bj\u00f8rt man standa Minnir meg um bestu t\u00ed\u00f0 Ja har heima \u00ed t\u00ed dali [&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-625","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\/625","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=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}