I Do Not Give Up Our Language

Nu mă las de limbă noastră

De-o fi cumva sa fim vreodata
Loviti de sus de-o soarta stramba
mai bine muti o viata toata
decat lipsiti de-a noastra limba

Refren:
Chorus:
de-o alta nu-mi soptiti intr-una
nu mi-o strigati pe sub fereastra
parerea mea nu se mai schimba
eu nu ma las de limba noastra
Cat timp in lumea zgomotoasa
va fi suflare omeneasca
de-a pururi sfanta si frumoasa
A noastra limba sa traiasca

Ref:
Sortita-n veci de-a nu apune
cu-a sa rostire-nalt maiastra
Mereu sub soare se rasuna
ca o cantare limba noastra

Deci vrerea mea sub zeara-albastra
s-o stie lifta cea pagana
eu nu ma las de limba noastra
de lïmba noastra cea romana

I Do Not Give Up Our Language

If somehow, someday we may be
Struck from above by ill fate,
Better we be mute all our life
Then deprived of our language.

Chorus:
Of another (language), don't whisper to me in one,
Don't shout it to me from under my window!
My opinion does not change any more
I don't give up our language!

How much time in this noisy world
Will human breath be?
Forever holy and beautiful,
May our language live on!

(chorus)
Fated in antiquity never to decline
With its high, magical pronunciation,
Always under the sun resounds
Our language, like a song.

Therefore my wish under the blue evening
is that even the pagan may know it.
I do not give up our language
Our language, Romanian.