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Oooh, I think I’m the first person to say Welsh!
Whoops. :smack: I forget I have Charlotte Church’s first CD. Three songs about birds in Welsh. That’s another one.
Magyar is Hungarian, so you’ve got that one covered.
My collection:
English
Icelandic
Polish
Hungarian
Russian
Romani
Slovenian
Serbian
Croatian
German
French
Spanish
Norweigian
Swedish
Finnish
Turkish
Japanese
Arabic
Farsi
and a bunch of other languages I can’t identify
I also forgot my Flemish recording of Phantom of the Opera. I am really really gonna have to update that list.
Hey, GREAT question! Let me go through my music collection now… hmm…
Albanian
Arabic
Aramaic
Bengali
Breton
Bulgarian
Finnish
French
Galician
Greek
Hawaiian
Hebrew
Hindi
Hopi
Hungarian
Irish
Italian
Judeo-Spanish
Kazakh
Kyrgyz
Latin
Luo
Macedonian
Malagasy
Mayan
Navajo
Oneida
Panjabi
Persian
Portuguese
Provençal
Russian
Sanskrit
Spanish
Swahili
Telugu
Turkish
Urdu
Uzbek
Welsh
Yoruba
That makes 39 by my count. In addition, there are the nonlanguages Azam Ali-ese and Lisa Gerrard-ese.
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[li]English[/li][li]Spanish[/li][li]Portuguese[/li][li]Hindi[/li][li]French[/li][li]Punjabi[/li][li]Urdu[/li][li]Yoruba[/li][li]Russian[/li][li]Colombian creole[/li][li]Mexican Spanish (Chilango dialect)[/li][li]Mandarin[/li][li]Arabic[/li][li]Latin[/li][li]Italian[/li][li]Swahili[/li][li]Japanese[/li][li]Shona[/li][li]Tolai[/li][li]Kannada[/li][li]and whatever language the African Rhythm Travellers sing in[/li][/ul]
So… about twenty-one.
English, German, Japanese and Finnish. I feel lame.
For those of you with Russian music: Are there any good Russian metal bands? I always thought Russian was the ideal heavy-metal language, second only to German.
How much language does a song have to have to “count”? I mean, does “Living La Vida Loca” qualify for a Spanish tag?
(Me? English, Japanese, Chinese, and Hawaiian, easily. Not sure about the others…)
I’d have to say easily over 100, probably in the 150 range; I travel internationally a lot and am huge into music, always buying cheap cassettes and old LPs evverywhere. I have the Secret Museum of Mankind CDs, which probably accounts for 50 languages on its own.
I suppose some of my more common off-beat languages in the collection would be Khmer, Vietnamese, Thai, Turkish, Newari , Faroese, Inuit and Quechua.
There are huge numbers of Russian metal and punk bands and many of them offer some free promo mp3 samples on their websites and Russian music forum sites. You should be able to Google that pretty easily.
I’m partial to Naive, Sailors’ Silence and Grazhdanskaya Oborona.
Well, I have the standards: English, French, German, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Finnish, Whatever they speak in Pakistan – I’ve never let not knowing what someone is singing in stop me from liking a good song – Arabic, Hindi, Japanese (Keiko Mitsume sings american standards in Japanese), Chinese. That’s all I remember off the top of my head, but international and world music’s availability on the internet has grown my collection beyond normal sounds.