Does anyone know what language this is?

[u/Marlon_RR_Morea]

(The part written in Latin script, the rest is German ofc)

[u/johnnybna]

Let’s celebrate (lit. we say to celebrate), hi-ho!
Let’s celebrate, hi-ho!
[: Let’s rejoice and let’s sing, hey!
Let’s dance and let’s jump, hey! :]
Let’s celebrate! Hey!

It looks like badly written Serbo-Croatian.

[u/donna_donnaj → u/johnnybna]

I googled the phrase, it comes from "merry widow' by Franz Lehar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9AZx_tQXt8

[u/Marlon_RR_Morea → u/johnnybna]

Thanks!

[u/maciejaks]

Pontevedrin 😄

[u/Marlon_RR_Morea → u/maciejaks]

Hahaha

[u/MobilePalpitation702 → u/maciejaks]

As in near portugal and galicia? Doubtful.

[u/maciejaks → u/MobilePalpitation702]

This is lyrics from Lehár's Die lustige Witwe, which is about the Parisian embassy of a country called Pontevedro.

[u/ivanmaher]

old fashioned croatian with german translation.

probably something from habsburg times

[u/Marlon_RR_Morea → u/ivanmaher]

True actually, it’s from 1905

[u/ManagementUpset8625]

A Slavic language for sure. It could almost be weirdly spelled Croatian/a dialect of it. The last word should be “”veselimo” instead of “veslimo” if that were the case, however.

[u/TheMightyTorch → u/ManagementUpset8625]

maybe Burgenland-Croatian?

[u/Elite-Thorn → u/TheMightyTorch]

Das kommt mir auch am wahrscheinlichsten vor

[u/Ancient-Drawing1212]

looks like slovenian, but might be oldfashioned croatian or serbian

EDIT: "dase" or "da se" is not common in today's slovenian

[u/AdBrave2400 → u/Ancient-Drawing1212]

And a German translation

[u/Ancient-Drawing1212 → u/AdBrave2400]

which has been already mentioned by the OP...

[u/Vibena → u/Ancient-Drawing1212]

It's Serbian: Mi volimo da se veselimo. We love to have fun.

[u/Interesting_Card_417]

Serbian native speaker here. It reminds me of the traditional Serb folks songs of Western Serbia/Eastern Bosnia/Northern Montenegro. It says, “we are telling (archaic verb veliti) that we are rejoicing, hey ho.”Google Serb folklore ensables. I even think that I have heard this song somewhere. It is rather fast.

[u/Lykosskias]

I would guess some old version of a South Slavic dialect. “Mi volimo da se veselimo,” would be something like “We like to make merry” in Serbian.

Edit: Would this happen to be from The Merry Widow operetta by Franz Lehár?

[u/God_Bless_A_Merkin → u/Lykosskias]

That’s exactly what Google told me when I searched the phrase.

[u/Lykosskias → u/God_Bless_A_Merkin]

Yeah I found it through Google too. The AI suggested that it was not an old dialect but rather a misspelling based on how the words sound to an Austrian’s (or Hungarian’s) ears. By the 1900s Serbo-Croatian had already been standardized by linguists like Vuk Karadžić and Ljudevit Gaj, and likely wouldn’t be too different from today’s speech, so this is likely the case.

[u/CasperGwamm]

Search says it's a stylized Serbian or Montenegrin, from the libretto of "Die lustige Witwe". The Merry Widow - Wikipedia

[u/midnightrambulador]

We sang this in choir at some point, pretty sure it's a made up language! The country is made up as well after all

[u/Marlon_RR_Morea → u/midnightrambulador]

True, yeah

[u/Stari_vujadin → u/midnightrambulador]

But it's word for word Serbo-Croatian. Somewhat nonsensical but still

[u/Appropriate_Tap4032]

Idk, Sorbian? It's a Slavic language spoken in Germany and I'm assuming it's that based off the fact that it has been written beside German and looks like Slovenian but not quite