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Can you guess what language is this ?
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Aaso said on April 6, 2005 18:26:
Can you perheps make a guess or maybe you know what is the langauge of this song!
http://www.atlantispictures.com/videos/cameron%20(Roma).htm
I would love to know your opinions :)
Jud (moderator) said on April 6, 2005 21:07:
well there must be something like that, most gipsies come from Romania :P
according to an article in Aftonbladet, he came up with the language himself :S
tevensso (moderator) said on April 7, 2005 06:50:
Yes, it’s not a real language at all. This guy made it up...
Aaso said on April 7, 2005 13:05:
no it’s not Farsi! At first I thought it’s Arabic!! Then I thought it’s something from eastern Europe ... then I found out that he made it up!! I read an interview about him and he said he had spend almost 2 years to make this language. And he wrote his lyrics with it ... all his song in this album!
By the way I was so surprised and enjoyed it :D
Santi said on April 7, 2005 17:43:
To me sounded more like Turkish, but as you were the one asking I thought it could be farsi. It doesn’t sound like any Eastern European country at all! :D
Urban Trad used in 2003 an “invented language” in Eurovision, reaching the second place in the end.
I’d lkike to know if there is any translation to this song, because I think Sanomi (Urban Trad’s song) didn’t have any meaning, but if this guy spent 2 years with this I guess he may try to convey something...
I like this stuff as well, but I never seem to find time :)
Anyone else into conlanging? ...wait, I think I asked this before :D
Aaso said on April 7, 2005 18:12:
well that means I know nothing about ANY language at all :D
By the way he is persian!
Santi said on April 8, 2005 20:05:
To Thomas and Ted: That a language is not natural does not mean it does “not exist” or is not “real”. It exists, but it’s constructed. If the guy spent 2 years constructing it I think it’s rather offensive to say that it does not exist. It’s like saying that as Romeo and Juliet story is fiction, the story does not exist or is not a real succession of events you can enjoy.
2 million people speak and use Esperanto... I would not say that Esperanto does not exist or it’s not real.
Santi said on April 6, 2005 19:44:
Farsi? :D
By the way, isn’t Roma the name gipsies give to themeslves in their language?