Ok this is Provençal , the language of my natale region , what does it sound like ?
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Ok this is Provençal , the language of my natale region , what does it sound like ?
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Jimmy Fontana's Il Mondo (The World), in Italian:
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Fontana himself singing Il Mondo in Catalan (El Món), with a surprisingly excellent pronunciation.
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The most recent cover of the many covers of the song in Spanish. With a very Med clip.
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PS: I'd like to know if there are Portuguese and French versions of the song.
Bergamask (eastern lombard) language
Sung
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Spoken
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^ Sounds cute to me! :)
I can get quite from the sung one, but not much from the spoken one. The first spoken one is a bit like wtf? :D
Ahahaha, all Italy consider bergamask the hardest language to understand :D
For me it's very easy because my grandparents and my mother speaks this language everyday.
There are some unknown word in bergamask, especially in the dialect spoken in Valle Seriana and in the Presolana...some archaic word like Zu (pig), bärgiöt (bowl), trönkà (to drink), baghèt (bagpipe), sciä döcà (come here, stand up), piirü (fork), ränza (hatchet), bröt (bread), bezöt (sheep), piöck (stone),etc
Romanian language got most harsh sound from romance languages.
It kept all PIE diacritics,so romanians have no problem to pronounce in german or in english if they want to learn those languages.
For example no romance language got what english people are calling schwa,like you pronounce the indefinite article from a cat.
In romanian that sound that is pretty frequent,not as frequent as in english,is spelled with a with small cap above:
ă
Listen a little to how you water in romanian:
apă - http://www.forvo.com/search/ap%C4%83/
Listen there how you say runing water in romanian,see that is last.
That is very close to german/english sonority,not to romance language sonority.
Take as you to snake in romanian:
șarpe
That ș is pronounced as you pronounce the sh from english word sharp.
In fact if you would add to sharp english word pronounciation an e at end you obtain the exact pronunciation of romanian word for șarpe.
There is also the sound â,which is common I think to slavic languages.
Take for example as you say thinking in romanian:
gândi
Listen to forvo:
http://www.forvo.com/search/g%C3%A2ndi/
Take how you say in romanian cabbage:
varză
And listen to forvo:
http://www.forvo.com/search/varz%C4%83/
There are other sounds very close to german/english in romanian,which are not present in any other romance language.
Now are you still considering romanian a pure romance language?
I like to see romanian language like a language with german-english-slavic sonority but with a lot words taken from latin,with words from proto-slavic (romanian also got words from proto-slavic).
Romanian language is unique.