@Kingu @Bella @Iuckyduck

On this circuitous route around the world we've encountered songs in thirty languages (on top of the five from the actual #ThursdayFiveList).

Apparently there are about seven thousand languages in the world so we've barely scratched the surface.

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@Kingu @Bella @Iuckyduck

We jump over the Straits of Gibraltar into Morocco with Dystinct's Ya baba, sung in Maghrebi Arabic (he is Belgian but nevermind) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX_TaoV6azw

Next we are in Senegal with Toumani Diabaté and Sidiki Diabaté performing Jarabi. They're not singing but it was too good to leave out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cLAwAOi-hA

Another kora player who does sing is Mory Kanté from Guinea. Yé ké yé ké is sung in Mandinka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7fpLeTdxPA

I almost wish I could have ended with this as I like it a lot. We're in Côte d'Ivoire now and Alpha Blondy sings Brigadier Sabari, also known as Opération Coup De Poing, in Dyula and French https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvWZ0CBN7WM

But we still go on, to Congo with Zap Mama's Marie-Josée which is sung in Kituba and French https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0gt35ZWaeI

We end in South-Africa, with a final song by Miriam Makeba, Pata Pata, which I think everybody will know, it is famous. It's sung isiXhosa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8qPHnfm0-I

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@Kingu @Bella

I will throw in another Japanese song just because I like the language so much. There are too many but considering history and everything, I think Ukifune (浮舟), Floating Boat, by GO!GO!7188 will do nicely. It's inspired by the tale of Genji, a novel from the 11th and written by a woman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-N79Q-gsf4
I wrote more about it a while ago: https://quickandtastycooking.org.uk/articles/ukifune/

Via the Ryukyu islands we move on to Taiwan with NiNi performing Huyao in Hokkien https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTz16rsM9hY

The Philippines are surprisingly close, and we have a song in Tagalog, Callalily's Magbalik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5CGoGOFHFs (thanks to @Iuckyduck)

The Philippines were at one time contested by Spain and Portugal, which led to the Treaty of Tordesillas and then the Treaty of Zaragoza, but that's another story, just giving me a convenient excuse to return to the Iberian peninsula with Mecano's El blues del esclavo (The blues of the slave) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN0wLDi8EQ8
and O Mar (The Sea) by Madredeus www.youtube.com/watch?v=oStG0OPfKmo

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@Kingu @Bella

Let's detour into Russia with Pussy Riot's Chaika https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VakUHHUSdf8

Russia is huge, so we move east to Siberia with a song in Khakas (one of the Turkic languages spoken in Siberia) by Otyken, called Legend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXLoP9iSU5Y

From there, Mongolia is the next stop, with The Hu and Yuve Yuve Yu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkyl341wpE4

And the we're in China with Pu Shu (朴树) singing Sheng Ru Xia Hua (生如夏花), A Life Like Summer Flowers, which is a song I encountered in a short story by Xia Jia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZAAh1NIpVA
It's again based on a poem, this time by Rabindranath Tagore: https://allpoetry.com/Stray-Birds-81---90

I can't ignore Korea and I will be obvious with Gangnam Style (강남스타일) by Psy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0

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@Kingu @Bella

On to Bulgaria with the aptly called Mystere des voix Bulgares singing Ovdovyala lisichkata (The widowed fox) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGO5hpn7IFE

Which takes us to Turkey, in my case by way of Van Hollanda Seni Seni, a biting commentary on the fate of Turkish immigrants by the Dutch band The Nits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn3tYoCj6W8 but I am very happy to take Bella's suggestion of "Bir Rüzgar Esti" by Halil Sezai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWLOqVO6mfs

From there we continue to Pakistan with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan singing a Persian poem, Nami Danam Che Manzil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFiZ2mLviTo
You can read the poem (I wonder what was the place?) here: https://allpoetry.com/Nami-Danam...

By way of contrast, in India we have Bloodywood's Nu Delhi, mostly sung in Hindi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3C9NwGKgq4

We skip again a few countries to end up in Kazakhstan with Dimash Kudaibergen singing Daididau. He sings in many languages but this song is in Kazakh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTXIxXPee3U
This is another old poem, read more here: https://adebiportal.kz/en/blogs/view/daididau__3528

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