How many languages in your music collection?

Cafe Society
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This might be an interesting topic. I’ll start by admitting that I don’t know how many are in mine, but it’s a lot. Here are the ones I can identify:

[ul]
[li]English[/li][li]French[/li][li]German[/li][li]Italian[/li][li]Spanish[/li][li]Dutch (or some variant thereof)[/li][li]Swedish[/li][li]Finnish[/li][li]Norwegian (I think)[/li][li]Russian[/li][li]Some dialect of ancient Egyptian[/li][li]Latin[/li][/ul]

And then there’s the material of In Extremo, who sing in a bunch of languages that I can’t identify. So that gives me at least twelve.

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[ul]
[li]English[/li][li]French[/li][li]German[/li][li]Japanese[/li][li]Spanish[/li][li]Italian (I think I have some somewhere)[/li][/ul]

Six, that’s 4 more than I thought I had when I saw the thread.

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In order: English, Japanese, Spanish, German, Arabic.

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If you have the Beatles collection, you have English, French, German, Japanese, Hindu, Spanish, and Liverpudlian right there. Maybe more.

5

Nuts, I forgot Hebrew.

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Off the top of my head, there are at least 7 languages and they’re pretty much those that others have already noted - English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Italian and (by far the bulk of my collection) Latin.

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English, Spanish, Japanese, German, Latin, Medieval French, Russian. Used to have some in Hebrew, but I seem to have lost it.

And, of course, gibberish.

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English, French, Hebrew, Spanish, Latin, Elvish, Afrikaans, Irish Gaelic, Arabic, Mandarin, Czech. I think that’s it…

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English
Spanish
Portuguese
French
German
Italian
Finnish
Norwegian
Irish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic
Albanian
Macedonian
Bulgarian
Greek
Hindi
Japanese
Bahasa Indonesia
KiSwahili
Malagasy
Zulu
Xhosa
Various other African languages, probably including Ibo, Kikuya, and several others (Music from Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo-Kinshasha, Zimbabwe, Kenya, South Africa)
Arabic
Hebrew
Hindi
Tajik
Maori

for starters

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Sheesh, man. Ali Farka Toure sings in at least four West African languages on one album alone. So I guess it’d have to be:

English
Spanish,
Russian,
French,
Gaelic,
German,
Hindi,

then

Songhai, Bambara, Peul, and Tamasheck. :slight_smile:

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All of the languages mentioned, then Navajo, Mojave, CRIT, Havasupai, Ute, Hopi and Cherokee. But, that’s just for pow wows and dancing.

12

English, German, Latin, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Provençal, Bulgarian, Russian, Georgian, Zulu, Xhosa, Haitian Creole, and maybe a few more.

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Let’s see…

English
Italian
German
Russian
Japanese
Latin
Breton
Sanskrit
Swahili
Spanish
Gaelic
Arabic
Humpback Whale

A handful of other languages from a couple of Dead Can Dance CDs…and if we count my “Voices of Forgotten Worlds” CD, all bets are freakin’ off.

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English
Whatever languages are on Dead Can Dance albums
Swedish
Finnish (a couple of dialects)
Sami
Japanese
Occitan
Hungarian
Greek
French
French-Canadian
Louisiana Creole (or is it cajun? I never can remember)
German
Italian
Russian
Icelandic
Several African languages
Tuvan (is that the name of the language?)
Spanish
Scottish
Whatever language Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan sings in
Yugoslavian
Arabic (I think)
Turkish
Estonian (I think)
Probably several Asian languages from various Six Degrees compilations
Hunh. That’s less than I expected. I guess I’m buying less world music these days because I can just listen to it on the radio on a regular basis.

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english, icelandic (or whatever the hell sigur ros uses), and maybe a couple snippets of japanese in a de la soul album.

but i’m not a big fan of stuff i can’t understand, unless its mark kozelek or something.

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Off the top of my head, English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Japanese, Latin, Gaelic (Irish and Scots dialects), Greek, Hebrew, and a couple of African, Native American and Icelandic or Slavic languages or dialects I can’t personally identify.

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English
Latin
German
Icelandic
Again, whatever DCD sings in
French
Spanish
Japanese
Elvish
The Evil Tongue

18

English,
Iclandic (from the SugarCubes)
Italian (just briefly on a Yello CD)
Yiddish
Spanish
Cockney (The Jam!)

We should be hearing from Eva Luna shortly. This is her kind of thread.

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Plus all the Beatles languages mentioned in cricetus’ post.

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I really don’t have a clue as I’ve never much paid attention. But off the top of my head I have:
English
Russian
Spanish
Latin
Japanese
Irish

I know I have others, but none that are sung, just talking, and off the top of my head I don’t know them.