#even the presenter who participated in the first edition of the contest cried and dedicated the song to her people - more importantly to on
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this week, in the spanish singing program operación triunfo, they sung escriurem, a song by catalan singer miki núñez - more specifically, they sung the version of the song he did with basque singer izaro, in catalan and euskera.
in operación triunfo it was sung by chiara, who is from menorca and thus speaks the menorquín dialect, very different from miki's barcelonese one (i don't speak catalan and still noticed the changes from the original to chiara's one); and martin, from the metropolitan area of bilbo (specifically getxo). for what i've seen people comment, his town doesn't really have many basque speakers, and his dialect is the one they learn at school, the most neutral one. izaro is from gipuzkoa (more specifically from mallabia) so i imagine they have different dialects as well, i haven't listened enough to the bilingual version to really get the differences but i'm sure a more trained ear will be able to do so!
anyways, here's them performing the song at the academy, unfortunately the gala performances are only uploaded to prime video:
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#linguistics#catalan#basque#euskera#languages#i know there's a lot of lamguage nerds (like myself) here so i thought you would like this!#i've listened to escriurem a lot but not really the version with izaro. i should do it more#izaro is my favourite basque singer btw she's sooo#they were good at the gala as well btw!!! and miki appeared after the performance crying and everything#cause escriurem is like the unofficial anthem of the program#miki was also in OT and escriurem is about all the contestants in his edition and how close they are and the experience#and now that it has been sung in another edition it has turned into something bigger#even the presenter who participated in the first edition of the contest cried and dedicated the song to her people - more importantly to on#of them who passed away recently#very very emotional stuff#Youtube
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