Sebe Allah Y'E lyrics
1. | Sebe Allah Y'E |
2. | Jerusalem |
3. | Brigadier Sabari |
Itt might well be Jula/Dyula/Diula/Dioula - spelling of the language/dialect's name isn't fixed. According to some, it's a dialect of Manding; according to others, it's language and Manding is not a language but a language group (les langues Mandées, as opposed to Mandingue which is one of them).
fr.wikipedia.org says all the songs on the album this was released on are in Dioula, French, Arabic or Hebrew, and it's certainly not French or Hebrew; it might be Arabic - the end of the first line sounds rather like the only Arabic phrase I know, "Muhammad is the messenger of God", except that it ends with /ɐ:.i/ instead of /ɐ:/ and begins with /mah'o̞mɐdu:/ instead of /moh'ame̞də/ - and the second line is much the same (it ends /ɐ:i/ where the first line ends /ɐ:.i/); but that could be my tin ear (I definitely have a tin ear for Arabic) or just a local pronunciation a bit different from the one I am perhaps misremembering being in Egypt for a couple of weeks more than a decade ago).
There are a couple of English translations on the web, but the translators drop bits of French into their English and anyway don't always make sense.
Magic System | |
Alpha Blondy Reggae | |
Fatoumata Diawara Folk | |
Mathey Pop | |
Roseline Layo | |
Tiken Jah Fakoly Reggae | |
Dobet Gnahoré Entehno, Folk, Folk |
You marked this as Finnish, but it looks more like an African language to me...
Wikipedia says he sings some songs in Baoulé or Dioula, so it might be one of these languages. :)