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Operalala
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What language is this?

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Can anyone identify the language handwritten in this score?
http://imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/5 ... Lieder.pdf
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Re: What language is this?

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Might it be Hungarian?
"A libretto, a libretto, my kingdom for a libretto!" -- Cesar Cui (letter to Stasov, Feb. 20, 1877)
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Re: What language is this?

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That's my logic, too (I don't see anything Indo-European, and Finnish seems to have a lot of doubled letters which I also don't see), but I want a positive identification of whatever it is for the file notes.
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Re: What language is this?

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Try transcribing the handwritten titles of the songs or a few adjacent sentences of the handwritten text into Google translate (http://translate.google.com/#), set the "from" language as Hungarian, and see if the sense comes somewhat out like the German.
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