#hindustani

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Listen for the difference in the P; it's subtle, and an English speaker's mind is trained to ignore it, but it's there. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, we'd write them as p and pʰ. In Hindustani those are two different consonants; that's the difference between moment पल پل and fruit फल پھل

An English language transcriber trying to make out Hindunstani dialog would be plain and simple fucked. They either find a speaker of a compatible language, leave it with [speaks Hindi], or butcher the dialog into something barely recognizeable. And that's assuming they know they're listening to Hindustani

Every language has tricks like this, differences that are obvious to a native speaker but invisible to a foreigner; and indeed, which trick is an issue and which is a non-issue depends on who you're talking to. A speaker of Mandarin would have no struggle on the p/pʰ front, but would be fucked on p/b (which Hindustani also does)

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Both Hindi and Urdu are bastardized versions of Hindustani. Many Hindu and Urdu speakers are just speaking Hindustani with little differences in grammar and pronunciation and different scripts.