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From: jkelly@ms_unix1.vitro.com (Charles J. Kelly)
Subject: Re: Yet Another "Which language is this?"
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Erland Sommarskog (sommar@enea.se) wrote:
: My attempt to get some rock'n'roll in Galician was only 50%
: successful. That is, the CD I picked up has six songs with
: Galician lyrics, three with Castillian, two with English
: and one, well it looks like an African, but which one? Or
: is just fake? (By the way, unless it is Zulu or Swahili, you
: probably should tell me where it is spoken, since I know
: next to nothing about African languages.)

:     Hanna marim bacom boafro
:     Com bopar ti'sta
:     Gon govemo viahan'a
:     Pro n'togon gofal linlo'v

:     Oh hanna, tundaka cse tewe

:     Bo daam bosin nou em'ber
:     Hap pycin kowee ksno-mas
:     Gov gosacau vachun ga
:     Zumba'han nanode har

:     Gon gochun gozumba hanna
:     Tun daven gatun dava
:     Kaiaha nazum bagon go
:     Ko mobom bohan naia

:     Undi abomboie nohon'go
:     Hanna macse tehai ar'
:     ha rtahunde lamacse te
:     Fondotum bagin gova

: Note: in the lyrics sheet everything is in upper case. I would guess
: "hanna" is the name, though.
: -- 
: Erland Sommarskog, sommar@enea.se, Stockholm
: Pour qui est-ce qui vous croyez que je parle?

Well, I'm not a linguist, but it might be a pidkin or creole of English
with the word spacing messed up. If you rearrange the last line of the
first stanza you get.

Pronto gon go fall in lov

which would mean,"soon going to fall in love."

Also the first line can be rearranged to

Hanna marimba combo Afro

Any pidkin/ceole experts out there have a thought on this?


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Jim Kelly  jkelly@ms.vitro.com   | God doesn't play dice with the world.
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