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Artist Elly Sherman has been collecting the voices of the world for a number of years via a unique artistic presentation called "Words and Images." In this series, she has taken one of her own poems and had it translated into over 80 languages, both ancient and contemporary, common and nearly lost.
This presentation is a sample of some of those translations. It consists of her original poem and translations into other languages.
The first is a translation of the poem into the Saami language of northern Scandinavia (sometimes known as Lappland), an audio reading of the poem in the Saami language, some music from the region and some links to other Saami sites.
The second is a translation of the poem into the Guarani language of Brazil, an audio reading of the poem in the Guarani language and some links to other Guarani sites.
There is now a much larger collection of these "Language Portraits" available online at Elly Sherman's own Web site
More information about the artist and this collection can be obtained via e-mail to ellys@earthlink.net
More information on world music and culture is available on RootsWorld
All work is copyright 1997 Elly Sherman and the artists.
