The sound of Romance

[Ibericus]

The catalan woman in the video speaks very bad catalan, this sounds more pure :

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[Eins Zwei Polizei]

Piedmontese (northwestern Italy)

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[Comte Arnau]

^ Funny lesson.


Three songs in other minor Romance languages, lyrics included:

Friulian (A là sù - From Up There)
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Gascon (Florença e Joan - Florence & John)
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Walloon (Li Tchant des Walons - The Song of the Walloons)
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[Comte Arnau]

Latin Croatia

Istriot is a Romance language related to the Ladin populations of the Alps. According to the Italian linguist Matteo Bartoli, the Ladin area extended until 1000 CE, from southern Istria to Friuli and eastern Switzerland.

Its classification remains unclear, due to the specificities of the language, which has always had a very limited number of speakers. Istriot can be viewed:

* as an independent Northern Italian dialect, belonging neither to the Venetian language nor to the Gallo-Italic group (opinion shared by linguists Tullio De Mauro and Maurizio Dardano);
* as a transitional variety between the Northern Italian Venetian language and the now extinct Dalmatian language;
* as an independent language of the Italo-Dalmatian group;
* as an independent Romance language.

When Istria was a region of the Kingdom of Italy, Istriot was considered by the authorities as a sub-dialect of Venetian.

Its speakers never referred to it as "Istriot". Traditionally, it had six names after the six towns where it was spoken. In Vodnjan it was named "Bumbaro", in Bale "Vallese", in Rovinj "Rovignese", in Šišan "Sissanese", in Fažana "Fasanese" and in Galižana "Gallesanese". The term Istriot was coined by the 19th century Italian linguist Graziadio Isaia Ascoli.

There are currently only about 1,000 speakers left, probably making it an endangered language.

Source: Wikipedia

The beautiful town of Rovinj is one of the places where the language can still be heard. The song La viecia Batana, which won a prize in 1907, has become a sort of anthem of the town.

Sta viecia batana - cun quatro paioi - meî pioûn ch'i la vardo, - pioûn ben i ga vuoi. - Oûn rimo zì coûrto, - quil'altro ligà, - sta viecia batana - ca pian ca la và! - I siè la zì longa - da qua feînt'in là, - par meî la zì oûn rigno: - lasimala stâ! - Sta viecia batana - cun quatro paioi - meî pioûn chi la vardo, - pioûn ben i ga vuoi. - Da sira o su l'alba, - cu suna miteîn - i ciugo oûn paneîto - e oûn quarto da veîn. - I 'ugo cantando - sta viecia canson - e i calo li arte - cu zì la stagion! - Li ride, li nasse, - li tieste cul sal; - d'agusto a satenbro - sa ciù el parangal. - Sta viecia batana - cun quatro paioi - meî pioûn chi la vardo, - pioûn ben i ga vuoi.

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[Comte Arnau]

Latin UK

In the UK, three dialects of the Norman Romance language persist.

Jèrriais is the form of the Norman language spoken in Jersey, in the Channel Islands, off the coast of France. It has been in decline over the past century as English has increasingly become the language of education, commerce and administration. There are very few people who speak Jèrriais as a mother tongue and, owing to the age of the remaining speakers, their numbers decrease annually. Despite this, efforts are being made to keep the language alive.

A similar language, Dgèrnésiais is spoken in neighbouring Guernsey; the language of Sark, Sercquiais, is a descendant of the Jèrriais brought by the Jersey colonists who settled Sark in the 16th century; and there is inter-comprehension with the Norman language of mainland Normandy.

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[Comte Arnau]

Two soothing songs by Maura Susanna in Valdotan, the most vigorous dialect of the Arpitan (Francoprovençal) language, the language of the Alps. It is spoken in the Aosta Valley, region of Italy bordering France and Switzerland.

La reserva
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Lo conto de Granha (The Count of Granha)
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[Comte Arnau]

Hercules - From Zero to Hero


CASTILIAN

Spain
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Mexico
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CATALAN

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FRENCH

France
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Canada
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ITALIAN

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PORTUGUESE

Portugal
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Brazil
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[Comte Arnau]

Three songs in Aragonese:



S'ha feito de nuey 'Night has fallen', a love jota in Cheso dialect (Western Aragonese)
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Cinca traidora, about the preparation of a navata, an Aragonese log raft. In Sobrarbese dialect.
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Trango dople y china-chana, in a more standard Aragonese, with lyrics in Aragonese and Castilian.
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[Don Brick]

Great thread! Thanks for making this. I´ve started to study Spanish (Castilian) again.

[Blossom]

Great thread! Thanks for making this. I´ve started to study Spanish (Castilian) again.

and you do it pretty good..aww. You'll speak perfect castilian so damn soon. And you know what that means? Mmm!