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Are Slavic languages getting deeper?

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    Posted: 29-May-2006 at 09:39
Listening to this song made me wonder, are Slavic languages getting deeper? When the first woman sings, the first thing that came to my mind is "Oh my God, what a hick!". The second woman sings and I think: "Pfft...city girl, but barely". The third girl gives me more or less the same feeling as the first.

Now I realize South Slavs have, by comparrison, exceptionally deep, low-pitch languages compared to our northern cousins. But I find, listening to music from other regions and seeing their interviews on the news, television shows, and all these sorts of things - our languages are getting deeper.

You hear the high-pitch, nasal accent in Bosnia and you immediately associate that voice with a woman who is easily 60 years old. You hear a deep, raspy voice that people in the West would think of a 70-year-old smoker instantly, I think of a beautiful 30 year old.

I notice with Ukrainian music I hear that it tends to be deeper when singing and still fairly high pitch when spoken, Russian seems to have the same differences for age and rural/urban that Bosnia does, but their differences are set an octave higher.

Do you think it's actually changing? Could there have been a Donna Ares or a Colonia 100 years ago, or would they all have been a Lily Galic and a Selma Bajrami?
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Here, made a demonstration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-MA-Pi1dSI

[EDIT: In case it's not clear, it's all women ]


Edited by Mila - 29-May-2006 at 09:57
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