Chant

[drewmeister2]

On this site: http://www.goarch.org/en/multimedia/quicktime/Christ_is_risen.asp,
after the chanting of Christ is Risen in Greek, then they have it in Spanish, Arabic, Russian, and then what is the next language? Does anyone know?

Thanks .

 

[repentant]

Maybe Coptic or Egyptian? Sounded like an Arab language.

 

[drewmeister2]

Thanks .

So its maybe an OO chant?

 

[repentant]

I don't really know...

 

[The Prokeimenon!]

Sounds almost African (I understand "African" isn't a language, but you know what I mean) or else some kind of Middle Eastern. I don't know...

Rdr Moses

 

[drewmeister2]

Sounds almost African (I understand "African" isn't a language, but you know what I mean) or else some kind of Middle Eastern. I don't know...

Rdr Moses

Thats what I was thinking, but I didn't think they had their own chant (the OO do, but unless that is OO chant, I don't think the EO have any African chants that I've heard before).

 

[The Prokeimenon!]

Thats what I was thinking, but I didn't think they had their own chant (the OO do, but unless that is OO chant, I don't think the EO have any African chants that I've heard before).

There's Orthodox Churches in countries like Kenya and Uganda that, I think, chant in Swahili (though I could be wrong about this- I know a Priest who went to Uganda and brought back a Swahili Liturgy book...)

Rdr Moses

 

[drewmeister2]

Wow, thats interesting. I wonder where Swahili chant got its roots (Greeks, maybe)?

 

[RobNJ]

Christ is risen, indeed he has risen in Swahili:

Kristu amefufuka ; kweli amefufuka.

 

[Greg the byzantine]

Perhaps it's Ethiopian Towhedo Chant??????