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What does this language sound like to you?

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ImHere

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dodona said:
totally unrelated. Very strange. Don't comprehend a single word.
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Nice to hear opinion from persian speaker.

Which language does it remind of you somewhat at least? You really dont have any at mind?


Apparently some iranian sorani kurd said pashto sounds like a mix of kurdish and urdu with sprinkle of farsi, though i dont feel akin to kurdish as persian either.
I wonder how much persian can understand kurdish?
 
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Guti said:
Even as a native speaker of an Iranic/Aryan language this language sounds very strange to me. It sounds like Persian is spoken by an Eastern European or something.
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I do find it a little odd this is your opinion about our language, since you always refer to us as punjabis/dravidians, so i would expected more like "It sounds dravidian/hindi", than anything persian/east euro. But i assume you have such opinion about hindi/Sanskrit and urdu?
 
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Guti said:
I was talking about the how a language sounds to me and not about how people look like. All languages of India and Pakistan do sound very South Asian to me. It is the accent of the people and how they pronounce it. I am sure a Pakistani would pronounce any language (including English or Pashtun) in a very South Asian way.
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So you dont find the way the people pronounce their language in the videos(yes, there are different dialects of pashto that sounds more "indic" and would be percieved as south asian to you, if this dialect doesnt) very south asian?
 
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Guti said:
The voice over of a dude in a news report sounds South Asian, but people in the streets and the second dude in the video below sound different
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I somewhat agree.

Theyre the ones who sounds like "eastern euros speaking persian" to you, right?
 
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Guti said:
Yes, like "eastern euros speaking persian" or even a Ashkenazi Jew or a Portuguese native speaker who speaks Persian.
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Either way, im not sure if you just gave your opinion about the language itself or the dialect?

If not the language, what you think it sounds like?


Also, how much can you as a kurdish speaker, understand these languages/feel similiarity?



https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1397643067868520455
(ossetian.....kind of feel a bit familiar with this ossetian dialect)



https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1417050429641404419
(baloch spoken more west)

(standard baloch)


(pamiri tajik)
 
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ImHere

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Guti said:
I don't understand any language spoken here. I don’t know at all what they are talking about.

Pamiri Tajik sounds like Persian and therefore more familiar to my ears and I do also understand some words.
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Oh wow, not even ossetian?

Either way, its not so weird, since modern persian is a result of middle persian mixed with east iranic languages of Bactria. And kurdish likely has some persian influence, hence why you understand shugnan better(or pamiri tajik just got more persian influence).


Little suprised you dont feel such about balochi language, when balochs descend from same ancestors of kurds, and i been told by a baloch, who said she can understand kurdish spoken in Turkey somewhat
 
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Guti said:
Why Ossetian? Ossetian is an Eastern Iranic language. Ossetian sounds very alien to me.

Persian is closer and more familiar to me than Baloch language. I don't know maybe we share many words with the Baloch language, but their heavy South Asian dialect makes it almost impossible for me to recognise those words.
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Wait, you found the boy speaking baloch "south asian sounding" as well?
 
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I don't really know but to me sounds Iranian-like or somewhere in the Middle Eastern and South Asian range
 
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iloko said:
I don't really know but to me sounds Iranian-like or somewhere in the Middle Eastern and South Asian range
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ah, ok. interesting.

it sounds just ''iranian''-alike, but not in middle of iranian and south asian, but rather middleeastern like arab and south asian?
 
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