6 thoughts on “Language quiz

  1. This sounds like a dialect of Urdu, it seems to have more Arabic and Persic elements than standard Urdu.

  2. It’s some sort of Hindustani – pronunciation is not standard but it’s pretty much intelligible if you speak Urdu or Hindi.

  3. I too suspected an Indo-Aryan language, being biased by having heard “nagar” (city) near the beginning of the record. However guesses based on a single word tend not to be much reliable, and moreover I am confused by lack of retroflex consonants which I would expect to hear in anything originating from the Indian subcontinent.

  4. This sounds like a dialect of Hindi ( its more or less intelligible with standard Hindi-the speaker is giving some religious discourse) My guess is that it could be Awadhi or some language close by in North Indian region of Uttar Pradesh

  5. It sounds extremely Hind/Urdu to me but not the standard official dialect.

    I’d go for something like Awadhi or Chhattisgarhi. It could even be the Hindi dialect spoken in Fiji.

  6. The answer is Awadhi (अवधी), an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi in India, and in Nepal and Mauritius.

    The recording comes from the GRN.

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