Disney Princesses singing in their Native Languages 

Background information about the characters: *Nala:* When “The Lion King” was released in 1994, a special Zulu dubbing was made on that occasion: it is the first and last Zulu dubbing made by Disney, as well as the only dubbing in any language spoken in Africa (other than Arabic). For this reason, Zulu is the only language that can be chosen for Nala. Given the impossibility to determine when the story takes place, I decided to put Nala first in this video. _Full song by Wendy Molefe(?):_ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CXy3z2gMskI.html *Megara:* While the movie gives us a clear location (Thebes), establishing the exact point in time is a bit complicated. The story takes place during the so-called Greek Heroic Age, which spans roughly from 15th to 9th century BC. It’s Herodotus to place the myth of Hercules in 1300 BC. _Full song by Ευρυδίκη | Evridiki:_ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zVMqAKw_frU.html *Moana:* About 3500 years ago, Polynesian people suddenly stopped journeying by sea for still foggy reasons, to start travelling again about a thousand years later. According to directors Clements and Musker, the movie gives a fantastic explanation to the causes of and conclusion of that hiatus. We can therefore assume that the story takes place more or less 2500 years ago. The languages used in the video are two, but they actually represent one sole language: Proto-Polynesian, the common ancestor to all Polynesian languages, which subsequently spread and diversified across the Polynesian triangle. The story takes place somewhere in it, maybe even across the whole area. A Hawaiian version should also have been included, but when the video was made, no high quality version was available. Find it here now: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xjvD4nVA3es.html _Full song by Sabrina Laughlin (Tahitian):_ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SQHIu91iCCc.html _Full song ​by Jaedyn Randell (Māori):_ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Cpq3e9IlC9U.html *Mulan:* While the Ballad of Mulan is dated back to the Norther Wei dynasty (386 - 534), Xiongnu invasions (here identified as Huns, although a connection between these two populations is still debated) happened mostly during Han dynasty. Some temporal discrepancies can be easily spotted along the movie: the capital city is clearly the Forbidden City, which was built only in the 15th century, while fireworks were invented c. 8/9th century. _Full song ​by 叶蓓 | Yè Bēi:_ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rLRdQuHmX6s.html *Jasmine:* While the “One Thousand and One Nights” collection is a miscellanea of tales from different ancient folklores, Disney’s version takes place in a fictional presumably Arabic-speaking country, as we can assume from the opening song, which reprises the most notorious English version of the collection’s title: Arabian nights. According to the filmmakers, the story was initially meant to take place in Baghdad, Iraq, when the Gulf War bursted out and the directors were forced to change the setting. The name "Agrabah" was made up by Musker playing with the name "Baghdad". The core of the One Thousand and One Nights collection is dated 8th/9th century, and we can assume that’s the period when our story takes place, even though the tale became part of the collection only in the early 18th century. Note: the dubbing used is in Egyptian Arabic because it's the only official Disney dubbing in Arabic (like the vast majority of Disney movies). _Full song ​by نهلة الملواني | Nahla Al-Malawany:_ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-P7bGGuVLAzY.html *Merida:* The location can be easily spotted by the map Elinor shows Merida while teaching her, while the 9th to 12th century dating was given by Mark Andrews and Katherine Sarafian, who also stated they wanted to recreate an iconic Scottish setting, not looking too close at historical accuracy. This resulted in a number of anachronisms, including: Romans invasions (dated mostly 1st and 2nd century) and Viking attacks (who kept raiding Scotland from the 8th to 11th century) occurring almost at the same time, bears being stuffed while they went extinct in Scotland in the prehistoric age and the first records of kilts in Scotland being dated 16th century. _Full song ​by Peigi Barker:_ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aeR4Dgzq5m0.html *Aurora:* The movie gives us a clear century: 14th. As for the location, it’s impossible to tell, though we can easily guess it’s somewhere in central Europe. French was chosen looking at the author, as in the opening credits it reads: “Story adaptation (…) from the Charles Perrault version of Sleeping Beauty”. _Full song ​by Danielle Licari:_ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-grJMal8W6z8.html *Esmeralda:* Place and date are clearly specified: the story starts in Paris on the day of “la fête des fous” (January 6th) and ends two days later. The year is specified in Victor Hugo’s book. _Full song ​by Claudia Benamou:_ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sJQzDhP1lxo.html *Snow White:* As for Aurora, the choice of the language falls on the authors, as no specific information is given in the movie about the location, though the artists seem to have said they took inspiration from German landscapes. The opening credits read “adapted from Grimms’ fairy tales”, while for the period, some sources link the environment to the 17th century, but it’s mainly speculation. _Full song ​by Alexandra Wilcke:_ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yqmbTQthrjU.html *Pocahontas:* Place and date are clearly specified in the movie. Jamestown is the historical settlement where the British colonists lived when Pocahontas met them. Pocahontas was the daughter of the chief of Virginia Algonquians, known as Powhatan, which is also the language they spoke. In the movie, we can see how, the first time she speaks to John Smith, Pocahontas suddenly starts to speak English, letting us know that she can now speak both English and Powhatan. “Colors of the Wind” is the only song she sings in English, the rest is supposed to be in Powhatan. EDIT: why isn't the song in Powhatan, then? Simple reason: there's no dubbing in Powhatan nor in any other native American language. *Belle:* The location is pretty clear, and it was confirmed the story takes place in 18th century: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--I6zBWitMh4.html Some want to collocate the story more precisely in Savoy, a region on the Swiss-Italian border. _Full song ​by Bénédicte Lécroart:_ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EwP7mmMWkzo.html *Ariel:* It was recently confirmed that the story takes place in the Mediterranean Sea and that Eric’s kingdom is somewhere in Italy: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uIVPIgiWDUQ.html Even so, Triton is a god from the Greek pantheon (but not the Roman one), hence the closest language is supposedly Greek. Nonetheless, we can guess that, being Ariel some sort of minor Mediterranean deity, she might actually speak fluently, besides her native Greek, all languages spoken on Mediterranean shores: Albanian, Arabic, Bosnian, Croatian, French, English, Hebrew, Italian, Maltese, Montenegrin, Persian, Slovenian, Spanish and Turkish. Chapeau, miss! 19th century is once again the epoch when the author, Hans Christian Andersen, lived, and the ship on which Eric sails seems to match this period. _Full song ​by Άννα Ρόσση | Ánna Róssi:_ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4mZd3dU0kOg.html *Rapunzel:* Once again, it’s the original story, Brothers Grimm’s “Rapunzel”, to be taken as a reference for the location, beside the fact that "Rapunzel" is the German for the rover bellflower. As Rapunzel and Eugene can be seen at Elsa’s coronation in Frozen, during the “For the first time in forever” sequence, we can guess that Rapunzel’s story happened shortly before Frozen (see following paragraph). _Full song ​by Pia Allgaier:_ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--r1R4_IKyG4.html *Anna & Elsa:* The name “Arendelle” is clearly inspired to the city of Arendal, in southern Norway, while landscapes and buildings are inspired by other parts of the country and even of the entire Scandinavia. It’s Oaken to let us know that it’s July when the story happens, while for the year, if we want to trust the map popping up at the end of Frozen Fever, the year is 1840. We know that Frozen cannot take place the year before Frozen Fever, because the latter occurs in between Frozen and Olaf’s Frozen Adventure, which takes place the first Christmas after the events in Frozen, at the end of the same year. _Full song ​by May Kristin Kaspersen (Anna) & Lisa Stokke (Elsa):_ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Gaz3dlJjssA.html *Cinderella:* Then again, we’re going we’ve the author of the story, and once again the opening credits inform us it’s Charles Perrault again, though we may add that all names of the girls announced at the ball are French and they’re addressed as “mademoiselle”. As for Snow White, the environment has led to speculate a 19th century setting, but it’s not sure. _Full song ​by Dominique Poulain:_ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U1ExXZ4-R5g.html *Tiana:* A newspaper during “Down in New Orleans” reads: “New Orleans, Louisiana, Friday, April, 25, 1926” (though April 25 was actually on a Sunday in 1926). *Anastasia:* Tsar Nicholas II Romanov and his family were arrested on March 22, 1917, following the events of the first Russian Revolution occurred during that year (February Revolution). They will be executed on July 18, 1918. However, the movie uses even a song to let us know that prior events take place in December, month on which, in 1916, Grigori Rasputin was assassinated. As the movie takes place ten years after those events, we can probably count them starting from December 1916, instead of 1917, hence: December 1926. On a side note: Saint Petersburg was called Leningrad from 1924 to 1991. EDIT: Anastasia is included in this list because 20th Century Fox was purchased by Disney on March 2019, and now on Disney + the movie is included in the "Princesses" category. _Full song by Ма́ша Кац | Masha Katz:_ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0Th_HizPhk8.html Dubbers credits: disneyinternationaldubbings.weebly.com/heroines.html

France: *exists* Disney: *yes*

"Their native languages" Ariel: glub glub

Aurora singing in French sounds so lovely and angelic.

As someone who’s been studying French for the past 4 years, I can confirm I understood 4 words from Belle.

“Their native languages” Nala: roar

“How many French princesses are we gonna make?” Disney: Yes.

Aurora's voice in french is just so beautiful! I want full song 💗

They all sound so much better in their native languages. Lots of French gals and Anastasia being included made me kick my feet with how happy I was to see her, she was always my favorite alongside Esmeralda

"native languages" pocahontas: *sings in English*

Nobody: Disney and France: ❤️❤️❤️💍💍💍😘😘

Meridians mothers lullaby gave me chills it was an absolute masterpiece ❤

French is beautiful. It’s so soothing and calming.

"so this is love" in French is just gorgeous

Nobody: Bird: *Screams in Arabic*

The Mulan, Moana, and Aurora ones are so beautiful

Thank you France for all the fairy tales. Seems like the french were working over time on their collection. Hope to see more tales from other countries by disney or any other studio.

"Their native languages" Ariel: glub glub glub

Moana in her native language sounds like the original

There is not enough people talking about Rapunzels German! That was gorgeous (coming from a German girl)

Everyone: Holy crap, (insert character) sounded so stunning! Me: **mad that Nala wasn’t growling and roaring**

Aurora in French sounds like a beautiful dream.

In conclusion: Disney really loves Europe, especially France.

All of them suit their own languages so well it feels like the songs were supposed to have been sung in that language in the first place

Introdução (0:00) Nala- Zulu, África do Sul🇿🇦(0:38) Mégara- Grego, Grécia🇬🇷 (0:54) Moana- Taitiano e Maori, Polinésia🇵🇫 (1:14) (1:26) Mulan- Mandarim, China🇨🇳 (1:48) Jasmine- Árabe, Emirados Árabes Unidos🇦🇪 e Arábia Saudita🇸🇦 (2:11) Merida- gaélico escocês, Escócia🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (2:30) Aurora- Francês e Alemão, Alemanha🇩🇪 (2:50) Esmeralda- Francês, França🇫🇷 (3:08) Branca de Neve- Alemão, Alemanha🇩🇪 (3:41) Pocahontas- Inglês, Estados Unidos🇺🇲 (4:03) Bela- Francês, França🇫🇷 (4:22) Ariel- Grego, Chipre🇨🇾 Rapunzel- Alemão, Alemanha🇩🇪 (5:22) Ana e Elsa- Norueguês, Noruega🇳🇴 (5:44) Cinderela- Francês, Bélgica🇧🇪(6:12) Tiana- Inglês, Estados🇺🇲 Unidos(6:43) Anastácia- Russo, Rússia🇷🇺 (7:09)

france: exists disney: “it’s free real estate”

France: exists Disney: *hippity hoppity this land is now my property*

Seeing the old princesses (Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, etc) again after so many years was honestly so nostalgic. When I was little I watched the DVD’s over and over and never got sick of them. I was and definitely am a Disney kid.

Anastasia is a brave and smart princess and actually my favourite cartoon character since I was a child. Thank you for including her in the video. From Russia with love ❤

Aurora's voice sounded beautiful in French.

I was about to say: _“Anastasia isn’t disney”_ but now diseny owns Fox so...

От Мулан такие мурашки просто вау... Ну и от всех песен в принципе из за ностальгии, это все так красиво звучит..

Scottish Gaelic sounded so calming and peaceful ❤

*France and Germany exist* Disney “write that down!”

Nobody speaking about how amazing Cinderella in french is

Moana is amazing, easily my favorite. What an absolutely beautiful language and voice!

When Mulan popped up, it sounded so pretty in her native language that it made my cat pause and look at my phone that I'm watching it on 😂

france: hi- disney: yes.

Elsa: "You can't marry a man you've just met" Cinderella: "C'EST CA L'AMOUUUUURR"

Me and my sister are Norwegian,My sister is the older one and she's blonde hair blue eyed and I'm the younger one and I'm brown orangey hair and brown blue eyed and 6 years later in 2019 we watched frozen 2 since frozen was our favorite movie growing up and we noticed the northuldra people kind of looked like the native sami people of Norway so we looked it up and found out it was based in Norway and we were so excited and found it weird that we looked like Elsa and Anna also our mom also used to sing to us about a mountain full of secrets when we were little (Thats some huge coinsadence) we were both very exited when we found that out! Anyways sorry for long comment,But Tusen takk for this amazing video ❤️

Auroras voice in French.🤌

Why everyone sleeping on Mulan? That Mandarin Reflection dub was so beautiful 😭 I want the full song

Ok but Mulan singing in Mandarin Chinese sounds so pretty

Aurora singing in French is angelic

The location in Tangled was inspired by Prague as well as German landscapes. As Snow White already sings in German, I would’ve liked to have heard Rapanzel sing in Czech.

No one talking about Mulan's vocals😭✨

Disney: How many Disney princesses do you want? France: yes

I'm happy you put Nala in the princesses cause she have to since she his royalty and you also put Mulan even if she don't gain that statut.

French is such a beautiful language ❤ Actually I loved them all, they sounded so original

The Cinderella one sounds like something you hear in a random French restaurant

French princess stories: exist Disney: *allow us the introduce ourselves*

A couple notes of advice A) There's no way Pocahontas' native language is English. Even though she's from America, she's indigenous and her story takes place as the English people are coming to America. Therefore there is a 0% chance that she could possibly know English before they arrived. B) Anastasia is not a Disney movie

When the Disney intro started, I thought it was an ad and I tried skipping it 😭. Anyway I loved the video and everyone’s comments.

Belle: French Aurora: French: Esmerelda: French We get it Disney! France is fun to draw!

Not enough people are talking about how great moana sounds in her language.

Been reading the comments(and the debate),over how how and when Disney acquired what property/company etc.and started molding it into its own image.Disturbing to say the least..and if rousing showstopping musical numbers start showing up in the latest Star Wars installment...

That second Moana song was powerfullllll

Disney movie: exists Disney: You’ll be a French!

Is no one gonna talk about how much power Moana holds when singing her native language?

This is honestly so beautiful!❤ my favorite was Cinderella’s

This is truly amazing I love it *subscribes*

+: How many princess do you want in your country? France: Yes.

nobody: Ariel: _speaks fish_

Its amazing how they always find such amazing singers!!! Like, “god help the outcasts” gives me chills in every language…

why isn’t anyone talking about the info, guys, that’s stunning

France: *exists* Disney: write that down, write that down

It's interesting that I knew most of the melodies by heart! The French version of the songs sounds most beautiful to me.

They are all sooo beautiful!

France: **just so happens to exist** Disney: I will take your *entire* stock

For some reason I can't imagine Moana being set 500 BC. Idk lol

belle and esmerelda's voices are so beautiful in french

For a hot second I thought Nala was going to come on with straight up lion sounds.

I would’ve died if Nala growled and purred the whole time

Disney princesses in their languages: *Tiana with American flag* *a m e r i c a n e s e*

fun fact: rapunzel in german means cabbages. this is because the original brothers' grim version of rapunzel rapunzel's mother craved cabbages and she sent her husband to steal cabbages from the witches garden. he got caught, the witch said that he can have her cabbages if she can have his daughter, they agreed and then rapunzel gets taken

This is so interesting, thanks!

"They will sing in there native language." Nala: ROAR, roar roary roar

First song: *starts playing* My dumb side: _Wait Simba's a Disney Princess??_

Epic work!

CINDERELA IN FRENCH SOUNDS SO PRETTY

France : hey i'm- Disney : Welcome to Disney

i’m just wondering why the lion king isn’t animal sounds😭

This makes me want to rewatch every movie with subtitles. 😂

4:22 I had forgotten how beautiful this was. ❤ Disney what have they done to you?!

pocahontas wouldn’t speak english, she’d speak her tribe’s native tongue

Moana singing in her native language somehow makes it more inspirational

I wanna learn all these languages just from the beauty of them sounding when sung in different songs & melodies.😍

In their native language they sound top-notch and you feel the character even more insightfully

French: *we sing about love* English: *we sing about nature* German: "lets sing about work 😎"

France: getting like 4 princesses All the other countries waiting for their own Princess: 👁👄👁

All of it goes well with the mood of the film.... and of the princess

Merida’s was so heartouching

French: Disney: *hippity hoppity this is my property*

fan fact: Ariel and Hercules are cousins ​​because Ariel is the daughter of Triton that is son of Neptune that is the brother of Zeus, and instead Hercules is the son of Zeus

MOANAS IS SO GOOD

1:26 Sound like ebay ..... but Moanas language is 💋 PERFECTION

‘So This Is Love’ in French is everything I needed

Writers: how many princesses do you want from France? Disney: yes

Cinderellas french dub was so romantic 😍

My favourite Disney princess is Merida, I love how she doesn’t have a prince to save her! She sound beautiful