What Have You Got to Say, My Friends?

Előadó: Tinariwen
Album: Tassili
Dal: Imidiwan ma tennam
Fordítás: Tamashek-Berber/Tuareg → Angol
Submitted by Calusarul on Szombat, 25/02/2012 - 23:01
Fordítások: Francia, Portugál

Imidiwan ma tennam

Imidiwan ma tennam dagh awa dagh enha semmen?
Tenere den tas-tennam enta dagh wam toyyam teglam
Aqqalanagh aljihalat tamattem dagh illa assahat
Tenere den tossamat lat medden eha sahat
Aksan kallan s tandallat taqqal enta tisharat
Aqqalanagh aljihalat tamattem dagh assahat

Submitter's comment:

The language is Tuareg (also Tamasheq, Tamajaq, Tamahaq), a Berber language or family of very closely related languages and dialects spoken by the Tuareg Berbers, in large parts of Mali, Niger, Algeria, Libya and Burkina Faso, with a few speakers, the Kinnin, in Chad.

Angol

What Have You Got to Say, My Friends?

What have you got to say, my friends, about this painful time we’re living through?
You’ve left this desert where you say you were born, you’ve gone and abandoned it
We live in ignorance and it holds all the power
The desert is jealous and its men are strong
While it’s drying up, green lands exist elsewhere
We live in ignorance and it holds all the power

Szerző/k megjegyzései:

Not my translation.
Translation from French to English : Andy Morgan.
Translation from Tamashek-Berber to French: Nadia Belalimat, Anara Elmokar, Intarka & Omar Moktar.

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