Friday, June 10, 2005
How many languages?
This one's kind of frightening. Jason Kottke asks how many languages you have in your record collection. This could take weeks to figure out, but here's a first cut based on a couple of hours looking through my CDs.
- Albanian: 3 Mustaphas 3
- Amharic: Alemayehu Eshete, Mahmoud Ahmed, several other volumes in the Ethiopiques series
- Arabic: Khalifa Ould Eide and Dimi Mint Abba, Rasha, 3 Mustaphas 3
- Azmari: Volume 2 of Ethiopiques
- Balinese: Kecak
- Bamanan: Rokia Traore
- Bambara: Super Rail Band
- Basque: Negu Gorriak
- Belarusan: Pesnyarok, Neuro Dubel, Lyapis Trubestskoy
- Bemba: Alick Nkhata
- Beti: Les Têtes Brulées
- Bulgarian: Mystere de Voix Bulgares, Ivo Papasov
- Catalan: Dusminguet
- Chewa: Kamwendo Brothers Band, Alan Namoko & Chimvu Jazz, Kasambwe Brothers, Alick Nkhata
- Czech: Plastic People of the Universe, Matadors, Olympic, Vladimir Misik & Etc. Band, Sto Zvirat, Uz Jsme Doma
- Dioula: Les Zagazougou
- Efik: E. T. Mensah
- English: er....
- Estonian: Kirile Loo
- Ewe: E. T. Mensah
- Fante: E. T. Mensah, The Kumasi Trio
- Finnish: Värttina, dozens others
- French: Serge Gainsbourg, Francoise Hardy
- Fulani: Baaba Maal
- Ga: Saka Acquaye and His African Ensemble, E. T. Mensah
- German: Blumfeld, Wir Sind Helden, Die Goldenen Zitronen, Attwenger, Hundsbuam Miserablige, Die Knödel
- Greek: 3 Mustaphas 3
- Hausa: E. T. Mensah
- Hebrew: 3 Mustaphas 3
- Hindi: 3 Mustaphas 3
- Indonesian: Detty Kurnia, Sabah Habas Mustapha
- Italian: Alan Lomax Italian Treasury
- Japanese: Shonen Knife
- Kreyole: Coupe Cloue
- Latvian: Ingrid Karklins
- Lingala: Franco & O.K. Jazz, Tabu Ley Rochereau, Grand Kalle, Wendo Kolosoy
- Luhiya: Abana ba Nasery
- Luo: D. O. Misiani and Shirati Band
- Macedonian: 3 Mustaphas 3
- Magyar: Muszikas
- Malagasy: Tarika, Tarika Sammy, Jean Emilien, Jaojoby, Rossy
- Mandarin: Cui Jian
- Mandinka: Orchestra Baobab, Boubacar Traore
- Myene: Pierre Akendegue
- Ndebele: African Renaissance - Vol 5
- North Sotho: African Renaissance - Vol 5
- Norwegian: Kirsten Braten Berg, Annbjorg Lien
- Nubian: Ali Hassan Kuban
- Nyanja: Alan Namoko & Chimvu Jazz, Alick Nkhata
- Okinawan: An Chang Project, Shoukichi Kina
- Peul: Ali Farka Toure
- Pidgin: George Telek, Not Drowning, Waving
- Polish: Klinika, Magic Carpathian Band, Warsaw Village Band
- Portuguese: Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66, Os Mutantes
- Pulaar: Baaba Maal
- Punjabi: Bally Sagoo
- Rapa: The Tahitian Choir (Rapa Iti)
- Rom: 3 Mustaphas 3
- Russian: Vladimir Vysotsky, Kino, Aquarium, Sergey Kuriokhin, Popular Mechanics, Leningrad, Tri Debila
- Sami: Mari Boine Persen
- Serbo-Croatian: Boban Markovic Orkestar, Sviraj, 3 Mustaphas 3
- Shona: Thomas Mapfumo, Oliver Mtukudzi, James Chimombe, Bhundu Boys
- Sonrai: Ali Farka Toure
- South Sotho: African Renaissance - Vol 3
- Spanish: Manu Chao, Buena Vista Social Club, too many others to mention
- Swahili: Abana ba Nasery, Mlimini Park Orchestra, Simba Wanyika
- Swazi: African Renaissance - Vol 4
- Swedish: Garmarna
- Tajik: Oleg Fesov
- Tigrigna: Volume 6 of Ethiopiques
- Tolai: George Telek
- Tswana: African Renaissance - Vol 3
- Turkish: 3 Mustaphas 3
- Tuvan: Sainkho, Yat-Kha
- Twi: Koo Nimo
- Ukrainian: Vopli Vidopliasova, Oleg Skrypka, Mandry, Pawlo Humeniuk
- Urdu: Nusrat Ali Fateh Khan
- Uzbek: Yulduz Usmanova
- Venda: African Renaissance - Vol 2
- Vietnamese: Ho! Roady Music from Vietnam
- Wassoulou: Oumou Sangare
- Welsh: Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
- Wolof: Orchestra Baobab, Yousou N'Dour
- Xhosa: African Renaissance - Vol 4
- Yoruba: King Sunny Ade
- Zulu: Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Malathini & Mahotella Queens
Note that our albums are still in boxes, so there are probably more, and I couldn't reach some CDs. Plus, some of the CDs I did look at, I wasn't sure what languages they were in. So this is, at a rough guess, maybe 70-80% of the languages in my collection. Or maybe less.
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Wow.
I look through that, and some of them I don't have a clue even what coutry they're from.
Impressive, indeed.
The question is though, can you ask for a beer in all of those languages? :)
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