{"id":704,"date":"2008-07-17T16:49:06","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T15:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/17\/mystery_songs\/"},"modified":"2008-07-17T16:49:06","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T15:49:06","slug":"mystery_songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=704","title":{"rendered":"Mystery songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we have two questions from visitors to Omniglot.<\/p>\n<p>The first question comes from someone who cares for a women in the end stages of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. She doesn&#8217;t communicate much, but when she does she usually sings a song that seems to be in Ukrainian or possibly Slovak (she is an American woman who speaks English). Below is a phonetic rendering of what she sings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hietsa kietsa kulo pietsa<br \/>\nTalo mene pabolo<br \/>\nMama mene swala wala<br \/>\nHim no mene pabolo\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do any of you recognise this song or the language?<\/p>\n<p>The second question comes from someone in Canada who remembers her Scottish grandparents singing a goodbye song. Below is her phonetic rendering of the first line of the song, which is all she remembers, is &#8220;A daw a wha-a-tay bide ee wha-a-a&#8221;. Is this familiar to anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we have two questions from visitors to Omniglot. The first question comes from someone who cares for a women in the end stages of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. She doesn&#8217;t communicate much, but when she does she usually sings a song that seems to be in Ukrainian or possibly Slovak (she is an American woman who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","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=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}