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[Unknown (Eastern European?) > English] Language/country of origin from audio

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Forgive me if this post is unsuitable - it seemed like the best place to ask.

Over in Tip of my tongue we're trying to identify a song. This is proving tricky!

One thing we do know is that the song is (mostly?) in English, but the singer has a very strong accent, possibly eastern-European. You can hear it below:

http://picosong.com/w3CMs/

It would be a great help if someone was able to suggest what country the singer may be from - or to rule out countries that don't match the accent. It's possible the lyrics are not all in English, also.

Any suggestions appreciated! In the thread, posters have suggested it is not the following:

  • Polish
  • Latvian
  • Turkish

Many thanks for any help - apologies again if this is the wrong place to post this!

Posted Oct 10, 2017, 9:18 AM UTC

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YellowOnlineMostly NL, FR, DE, EN •

For me, the accent sounds Icelandic. Think múm, Björk, Sigur Rós.

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WindowOnInfinityOP•

Interesting. Two things I noticed are rolled r's and possibly an added "h" to some words without one - "heyes" for "eyes".

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makerofshoes•

In my opinion, adding an H sound at the beginning of a word when singing is very common, even for native speakers. I wouldn’t say it’s a tell of an accent of any kind, just a musical style.

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eshwilkjęzyk polski | Ukrains'ka | Russian•

It does sound like a thick Russian accent, I posted a comment in original post with my attempts to decipher first verse. Will return to it later. And will gladly read on input from anyone about this.

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WindowOnInfinityOP•

Appreciate the help. It's amazing how tricky it is to get an accent when someone's singing.

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DusepoDeutsch, Esperanto•

Difficult to tell, but what it sounds to me like is Eastern Baltic (Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania) or Scandinavian.

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headingtoabyssLithuanian, Russian, french•

Its not lithuanian

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pahasapapapa•

Her vowel pronunciation is quite good, so probably a language with plenty of vowels and diphthongs that overlap English. The consonants sound different, though. Some sound more fricative. I don't know traits of many eastern euro-languages, so could only guess.

After one line, my first thought was Slavic-ish. Further in, I could be convinced of Finnish, too ...

Not Hungarian or any Germanic tongue, though.

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Lord_Fubarfi/sv/en •

Definitely not Finnish, I'd guess Slavic

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