Out of this world. Just heard it today for the first time on a classical radio station in Perth, Australia. That part of Europe from the Finiish Sibelius to the Balts like Part produce such fabulous music. Bring it on.
@Arachnerd This one SPECIFICALLY belongs under the poetic language category. It also uses a lot of archaisms. I do not know if it does keens towards (or even originates from) a certain dialect as well. -- Estonians never have spoken that way, only singing and poetry. Speaking in the given manner on a daily basis would compare to speaking Shakespearean English on a daily basis. Usage of "kaugella" isn't gone even from the contemporary poetic Estonian. ---- There is no "old Estonian language" as such. The best match for the "old Estonian" could be found from the texts of the nationwide newspapers, governmental and legal documents prior to the various language reforms in the 1930-s (to standardize and modernize grammar). Instead, there are over a hundred Estonian dialects... Dialect is a separate/parallel variety of language. Contemporary Estonian is based upon the dialects, mainly upon northern dialects (eg: Harju kihelkond). Each of the dialects has a linguistic development throughout time and archaic varieties of their own. And then there are other forms of the language, like: slang, professionisms (erialased), and poetic (luulekeel) -- it applies for each of the dialects just as well as for the standardized (literary) Estonian language. Dialects can not really count as "old Estonian language" due to they are still spoken and used on a daily basis and are developing in parallel with the Estonian -- despite the efforts to wipe them out by the communists (about since the 60-s) as well as by the certain nationalists with the mentality of "one nation = single ethnicity and single language": fairly many dialect speakers are still pissed over this one as well as over the medical diagnosis of "suffers under the speech impediment" (kõnepeetus) for speaking in their native tongue and being troubled in expressing (grammatically) in an artificially developed language, that is standardized Estonian.
Music is universal; this is absolutely beautiful. Magical voices
Out of this world. Just heard it today for the first time on a classical radio station in Perth, Australia. That part of Europe from the Finiish Sibelius to the Balts like Part produce such fabulous music. Bring it on.
facethebook Finns and Estonians are not Balts though.
Thank you for correcting me, my friend! : )
@@eksiarvamusEstonia followed with Latvia and Lithuania is.
@@hard.to.define ok?
so sad and beautiful, just breakes you into half
heard it in Sugisball nice song
Beautiful
someone has the sheet of this music? thanks a lot
I cud not understand a single word but I still love it , what is the language of this song?
It's in Estonian. Welcome to the wonderful creation of the composer Veljo Tormis. ;)
Thanks for d info
It's specifically old estonian - we don't use the word "kaugella" anymore, for instance
@Arachnerd This one SPECIFICALLY belongs under the poetic language category. It also uses a lot of archaisms. I do not know if it does keens towards (or even originates from) a certain dialect as well.
-- Estonians never have spoken that way, only singing and poetry. Speaking in the given manner on a daily basis would compare to speaking Shakespearean English on a daily basis.
Usage of "kaugella" isn't gone even from the contemporary poetic Estonian.
----
There is no "old Estonian language" as such. The best match for the "old Estonian" could be found from the texts of the nationwide newspapers, governmental and legal documents prior to the various language reforms in the 1930-s (to standardize and modernize grammar).
Instead, there are over a hundred Estonian dialects... Dialect is a separate/parallel variety of language. Contemporary Estonian is based upon the dialects, mainly upon northern dialects (eg: Harju kihelkond).
Each of the dialects has a linguistic development throughout time and archaic varieties of their own. And then there are other forms of the language, like: slang, professionisms (erialased), and poetic (luulekeel) -- it applies for each of the dialects just as well as for the standardized (literary) Estonian language.
Dialects can not really count as "old Estonian language" due to they are still spoken and used on a daily basis and are developing in parallel with the Estonian
-- despite the efforts to wipe them out by the communists (about since the 60-s) as well as by the certain nationalists with the mentality of "one nation = single ethnicity and single language":
fairly many dialect speakers are still pissed over this one as well as over the medical diagnosis of "suffers under the speech impediment" (kõnepeetus) for speaking in their native tongue and being troubled in expressing (grammatically) in an artificially developed language, that is standardized Estonian.
awesome :(