I was so much older then

[reldnahkram]

As I was digging through my LJ back pages trying to track down the 2006 Favorites track list, it struck me as how much more interesting this place was back then. So let's see if I can recreate some of that "magic".

I've identified seventeen languages represented in my music collection (I suspect there may be one or two more, but I haven't been able to positively identify them/there isn't enough of that language to merit inclusion on this list). I'm not counting con-langs or anything I recieved from SDME (essentially a collaborative mixtape, for those of you not in the know). Your mission is to identify as many of them as possible.

Good luck.

Comments

[sildra.livejournal.com]

Well, we'll start with the obvious: English.

You surely have classical music, so German and Italian. Music in Spanish is pretty ubiquitous and seems like a safe guess. Other likely possibilities: French, possibly Yiddish and/or Hebrew.

That's 7 guesses.

[think-too-much.livejournal.com]

You surely have classical music, so German and Italian.

And Latin.

I seem to be under the (possibly mistaken) impression that you have some Sigur Ros, so let's add Icelandic and/or "Hopelandic" to the list.

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

And Latin makes seven.

I completely forgot I have a Sigur Ros album. I'm pretty sure at least one of the tracks on that album are not in their con-lang, so we'll call Icelandic an eighteenth language. Well done.

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[think-too-much.livejournal.com]

You also have what TSOR indicates is probably Zulu, due to Graceland.

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

Eight.

I have another Ladysmith Black Mombazo album, so that isn't unique.

[kyree.livejournal.com]

If the album is () then it's all nonsense. Otherwise there's probably some Icelandic on there somewhere.

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

Given my lack of a working knowledge of Icelandic, I think it's all nonsense.

[sildra.livejournal.com]

Of course, I should have guessed that. I don't have much of a music collection, and even I have music in Latin.

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

I haven't identified any Hebrew, but everything else is accounted for.

Six down, eleven to go.

[sildra.livejournal.com]

Really? A lot albums with Yiddish also have Hebrew. So I guess Ladino is even less likely.

Umm... Russian? Japanese? Chinese? Portugese?

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

Chinese (Mandarin, I believe, but I don't know enough to split hairs) and Portuguese.

I don't have liner notes for the one album I know has Yiddish on it - there are probably other languages on that album too (one review mentioned Romany), but not enough to merit inclusion.

Ten.

[sildra.livejournal.com]

Ok, what languages have I heard music in that people haven't listed yet (discounting tirerim's long list)? Scandinavian stuff is usually in English... I've definitely heard music in Tibetan, Hawaiian, Armenian, Turkish, and Greek. Those are completely random guesses, but it's the only way I can think of to guess now that we're on more obscure/random languages.

[elizaeffect.livejournal.com]

Tuvan.

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

Nice guess, but incorrect.

[tirerim.livejournal.com]

This would be easier if you were counting SDME, because I know what languages I've put on there, at least. But some of those are pretty common, so I'll guess some of them anyway: Irish, Scottish, Swedish, Mandarin, Hindi. And some other popular possibilities: Arabic, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese.

I'm also now curious how many languages I have in my own collection, with and without SDME.

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

Irish and Swedish make twelve (see above).

[tirerim.livejournal.com]

Okay, now we're starting to get to the less common stuff: Greek? Turkish? Farsi? The problem is figuring out which parts of the world are more likely -- there are a lot of places with lots of languages, but I don't have any particular idea which ones you might have music in.

Oh, but it's entirely possible you might have something in Middle English if you have some medieval/renaissance stuff.

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

The remaining five are much less common, but it's too early in the game to give clues.

[tirerim.livejournal.com]

Well, then, I guess it's time for random guesses:

Navajo
Cherokee
Lakota
Inuktitut
Hawaiian
Maori
Cambodian
Vietnamese
Thai
Burmese
Bahasa Malaya
Bahasa Indonesia
Bengali
Nepali
Tibetan
Dzongkha
Hmong
Urdu
Sinhala
Georgian
Magyar (Hungarian)
Finnish
Estonian
Lithuanian
Ukrainian
Bulgarian
Serbian
Norwegian
Danish
Czech
Polish
Romanian
Maltese
Swahili
Basque

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

There are two in there, but I'm not going to tell you which so as to discourage this kind of shotgun approach.

You have the resources to identify one of them (plus, I believe, the missing three). Some will require more detective work than others. The fifth (which is in the list above) is completely random and I don't believe I've ever given any indication that I have the album on which this language appears (ok, yes, there's probably more than one, but I only have one). There may be clues eventually.

[tirerim.livejournal.com]

Hm. All of the obvious things from stuff you've submitted to SDME have already been accounted for, I think (Spanish, French, German). It's possible there are some more obscure clues, but given the number of artists and albums that those and your favorites mixes come from, it would take a lot of digging. As a serious guess, I'd start with Georgian (if only because I have some, and it's awesome). I'm assuming, incidentally, that you are counting Quebecois French as French. I'll also throw out Dutch, since it's the only major Western European language that hasn't been mentioned yet, but I don't actually think it's all that likely.

[sbeath.livejournal.com]

Romanian from the Numa Numa song? I don't know what you listen to...

(sorry to butt in, redirected from eclectic_boy)

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

Nope.

[leepinleemur.livejournal.com]

If you don't have Kobaïan, I'm not playing.

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

Well then...

[leepinleemur.livejournal.com]

Hungarian? Gaelic? Elvin?

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

Nope. I didn't feel like trying to figure out whether things were Irish or Gaelic, so I just counted Irish (which I'm pretty sure is correct anyway) for both. Elvish is out as a con-lang.

[think-too-much.livejournal.com]

I don't remember the full list of stuff we listened to in Med/Ren, but it occurs to me that some of that might be in Provençal. Any luck?

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

No - I didn't dig that deeply. Everything considered here is from music that I've acquired because I enjoy it and would listen to because I'd want to listen to it, not simply things I've accumulated.

[uncleamos]

Klingon.

If I'm wrong, you're missing out.

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

No con-langs.

[think-too-much.livejournal.com]

Sanskrit, on the grounds that:

1) You like Gustav Holst
2) Gustav Holst did some stuff with Hindu myth

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

Negative.

[ccommack]

Finnish, on a random guess of Lordi. Maori, on a random guess that you have a recording of the Ka Mate haka lying around. Cherokee and Navajo, because why not.

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

Nope.