Hello, language learners.
I recently bought a doorbell that came with a distinct tone.
Something is uttered in a foreign language I cannot identify.
Since we have people from all over the world here on the forum, I wondered if somebody would be able to recognize which language this is and what is being said.
https://vocaroo.com/i/s03k1mhefJdo
The curiosity is killing me, so any help towards an answer is greatly appreciated.
Have a nice week,
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Language identification
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Arnaud
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Re: Language identification
Sounds like arabic to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As-salamu_alaykum (click on the french version of the wiki page to hear the audio clip)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As-salamu_alaykum (click on the french version of the wiki page to hear the audio clip)
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Re: Language identification
Arnaud wrote:Sounds like arabic to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As-salamu_alaykum (click on the french version of the wiki page to hear the audio clip)
It does sound like arabic.
Thank you, Arnaud.
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Re: Language identification
KylieConny wrote:It's Urdu. It means "Hello" in Urdu.
Never trust me
Thanks for the correction
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Re: Language identification
KylieConny wrote:It's Urdu. It means "Hello" in Urdu.
It's Arabic. You can clearly hear the second ا in السلام is pronounced [æ] (in Urdu alif can't be pronounced [æ], /æ/ is a marginal phoneme used in English loanwords, whereas in Arabic [æ] is an allophone of /a/) and the ع in علیکم is [ʕ] (pharyngeal consonants do not exist in any Indo-Aryan language that I'm aware of; they're more typically Semitic). Also in Urdu we tend to eliminate the second short "a" and the short "u" in assalaamu (making it sound like aslaam, or even slaam).
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