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Hebrew: Eloqêynû / Eloykayni

What is this double title, you'll be asking. Well, the title of today's song is אֱלֹקֵינוּ , which according to the niqqud AFAICT should be pronounced 'Eloqêynû, the spelling being alef_khataf_segol-lamed_holam-qaf_gerets-yod-nun-vav_dagesh, but the singer in the video for some reason pronounces it Eloykayni. Essentially, the pronunciation of this singer features some weird accent where, in particular, all possessives -nû are prononunced -ni. [The video was removed from YT within posting date of this. The transcription below matches that one, this is another video of the same song, if it doesn't match, not my problem :).] At any rate, I found this song by chance on Lyricstranslate , where it originally was posted in a phonetic approximation of the video (despite said video being captioned in Hebrew with niqqud), and with not-so-accurate Italian and Portuguese translations. In this case, I was actually unable to do most of the analysis, so I resorted to Quora , and the