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posted by Jason Kottke  ·  gift link

How many languages in your music collection?

I’m not what you would call a fan of world music, but I just counted the number of languages used in my music collection and came up with nine:

  • English - Most of the songs
  • Spanish - Manu Chao, Pixies, others…
  • French - Manu Chao, Amelie soundtrack, Dealership, others…
  • Japanese - Yoshinori Sunahara
  • Portuguese - Seu Jorge (his Bowie covers from The Life Aquatic)
  • Icelandic - Sigur Ros
  • German - Nena (99 Luftballoons), Kraftwerk
  • Latin - Chant (you know, that ubiquitous Gregorian chants CD from the mid-90s)
  • Galician - Mano Chao

Seems like there should be some Italian in there as well, but I can’t find any right now. And I didn’t count Hopelandic, which is a made-up language that Sigur Ros uses in some of their songs. How many languages can you find in your music collection? Post your list or a link to your blog post in the comments.