Okay, so what language is this? Some words sound like latin, but...

[battleknight24]

... I don't know...

Here are the words AND a translation...

"Ben Aindi Habibi" (Come to My House, My Beloved)

Ben Aindi Habibi
Si te bais mesture
Traira samaya
Imchi ad-unione

Amanu ya habibi
Al-wajs no me feras
Non, besa mia bokelya
Awsak tu n iras

TRANSLATION:
Come to my house, my beloved
If you leave, this betrayal
Will bring misery
Come to our passionate rendez-vous

Mercy, my beloved!
You'll make me desolate if you go!
Good man, kiss my littl mouth
And don't leave me just yet


This is from Mary Fahl's CD "The Other Side of Time"


Peace,

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. No idea....

...but this time it isn't Latin.

[da_chimperor]

2. I know that Habibi is Arabic for 'sweety', 'honey', etc.

No idea about the rest though. It COULD be Arabic . . .

[whistle]

3. The poetry sounds like Rumi who I believe was Turkish

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

4. Esperanto, maybe?

Esperanto is a language made up of other languages... Or some sort of Moorish Spanish? There seems to be some Spanish in this.

[carpe_vinum]

5. It's in an old language that is a mix of (m)

Arabic and Spanish. It's an "old standard" I suppose you could say. I've seen a few Spanish artists include it in their repetoire. Beautiful song, isn't it?

[soothsayer]

6. Basque maybe? n/t

[sophie996]

9. nope, not basque

here's a page of some common basque words: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/larryt/basque.words.html
house is pretty common, but a search for it doesn't bring up the poem's word for house. definitely middle eastern. maybe a dialect of arabic from morocco, which is so close to spain?

[Fovea]

7. I agree.

an Old Andalusian dialect, I think, from pre reconquesta Moorish Spain.

[Richard D]

8. I don't think it has a name

Its from traditional jarchas, erotic poetry written by Moorish women during 11th and 12th centuries.