Guess the Indian Language from the Song Challenge [HARD VERSION!] 

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The last one broke my heart 😔. Not just because a possibly 70,000 year old language went extinct but also because the way she said 'This place is not good for living.' One can only imagine what kind of circumstances led to such presumably folktale lyric being passed onto to her.

I really love how this channel is turning into an Indian Linguistics channel. Bringing to people the beauty of the subcontinent in such beautiful ways. The in-depth analysis combining the unique choice of topics and Ashris's unique way of story telling makes this channel very special and close to my heart.

The last 'Bo' langauge which got extinct really made me sad. A part of humanity which lasted for more than 70000 years just got wiped away. Hope someday it could be revived from any future technology.

Iam a Telugu guy and every language is beautiful in it's own way but the garhwali and gondi songs are just pleasant to the mind and ears 🤧

It feels sad when a language gets extinct(in this case, Bo language), as with it, we might have also lost the link to the culture and traditions associated which must have existed for centuries. Great job as always Ashris :]

The innocence of the Bo speaking lady and the fact that the language is now extinct just broke my heart. I hope we are able to preserve the languages that are still being spoken in our beautiful and culturally diverse country.

Big respect for you bro.For learning and researching all languages of India. Tulu is also spoken in Kasargod district of Kerala.Tulu script is very similar to Malayalam.. Thank you bro

I guessed Tulu, Sylheti, Garhwali, Nagamese, Gondi, Haryanvi and Santhali. Loved this video. And boy was it tough!!

The whole concept of this video is so amazing... As a Sylheti native speaker from Barak Valley (Assam), I felt so emotional to see my Mother Tongue being recognised.. Usually, a lot of ppl don't know that Sylheti has it's own alphabet system..We have the famous folk songs of Sylhet ( earlier Sri Hatta) eg "Suhag Chand Bo Dhonir Dhoni Nacho to Dekhi" And the dance "Dhamail" is actually traditional Sylheti Folk Dance..

Garhwali speaker here 😀 Thank you for including our language ❤️

Being Garhwali, it made me very proud to be represented in a video about Indian languages whereas people dispute Garhwali even being a language altogether and rather call it a dialect of Hindi.

0:32 my language Tulu ❤️

@1:25, that's my language, Sylheti. SOAS University in London is working on a project to try and revive the Sylheti Nagri script. It's a different language to Bangla, always has been.

1 point only!!!! Eye opener for me of our varied and rich culture....I have just subscribed to your channel ....BHAGWAN BLESS YOU....PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN....

Oh my god... More I see India in Pixels...more I want to explore the unexplored India.... Lot's of love and power to you Ashris bhaiya 💗✨

12 out of 15 Correct 1 turned out correct out of 2 choices Had in my mind. 1. Tulu ✅ (I could guess right because I stay in Mumbai and interacted with lot of Shetty poeple) 2. Sylheti ✅ (Got right after stressing lot on options and also I knew Bangla and it was sounding different on song) 3. Garhwali ✅ (Got right because I can somehow differentiate all North Indian Languages) 4. Maithili ✅ (Got right because my 2 friends were from Bihar who spoke Maithili and it somehow sounded similar in the song which my friends spoke) 5. Konkani ✅ (Got right obviously because it's my mother tongue) 6. Nagamese ✅ (I got right because of stressing and analyzing option and also in Goa few Northeast Indians came who were from Nagaland and also played football with them) 7. Axomiya ✅ (Because I recently started listening to Assamese song as well as my friends wife speak Axomiya and also sing Assamese songs) 8. Gondi ✅ (Got correct because I heard Gondwana word in the song so should be Gondi I assumed and turned out to be right) 9. Haryanvi ✅ (Though it was difficult to guess at first glance from sasura and sagre baal words I was able to guess) 10. Santhali ✅ (This time I got right by just making 2nd attempt to mark as Santhali) 11. Baduga ❎ (Got wrong and Irula ✅ was the right one. I didn't know the name of language but I knew that they spoke mixture of Kannada and Tamil. I guessed Baduga because scenery was of nilgiri hills so it could be like that.) 12. Tangsa❎ or Galo✅ (so Galo came right and A and C options seems to be some Korean thing so I eliminated those options in my mind) 13. Burushaski ✅ (Got right after stressing on options) 14. ISL ✅ (Got right because It was sign language and should be Indian) 15. Nicobarese ❎ (Got wrong and it was Bo)

I loved the north eastern songs. But the last one was mind blowing. Thank you IIP, you're like a treasure of Indian languages.

My score: 11/15... My wrong Answers: Irula, Burushaski, ISL and Bo Thank you so much for introducing such unique languages of my country. Now I'm listening the Burushaski song ( Bo Giyam)...very melodious 💕🎼 Love from Assam ❣️

Instead of 15 there are only 14 videos. And I my score was tied at 7-7. As I am from garhwal region of Uttarakhand. It is one of the reason the score gets settled equally.

అద్భుతం bro ! What a great compilation of songs.

My heart broke for the Bo language. It survived for 70,000 years - imagine the tales, the stories and cultural things we lost.

I did not even know more than half of the languages mentioned here exists.. very informative video.. thanks a lot for bringing this topic up

Great work ashrish. This inspires to know more about indian languages. Suggestion: Make videos on how to recognize indian languages, Especially how to differentiate between south indian and north eastern laguages. Similarities and basic differences in writing and pronunciation, etc.

the last one broke my heart. i hope that language to return back.

I'm from Tuluvan Naadu, thank you for this I got 6 points.

Humble suggestion: show the area on a map along with the answers. Makes it much easier to contextualize and remember this info

1:31 Garhwali language !! I am from Nepal and the language sounded like something my mind thinks it can understand when listened surfacely but can't process most of it while listening carefully.

our language is linked to our identity our beliefs our culture...hindustani hindi destroying so many languages in north..politicians govt done that...Bollywood should also blamed for it..they impose Punjabi urdu through songs ,movies..no representation of himachal,uttarakhand ,Rajasthan,UP local languages..question should be asked if bollywood can make punjabi,urdu songs (in almost all movies ) why not himachali,garhwali,kumaoni,awadhi,maithali,rajasthani, bundelkhandi,bhojpuri ,north east language songs ? we in north should understand importance of our mother tongue like south...our languages r not dialects of hindi..calling our languages dialects is tactic use by govt,politicians to destroy our languages, culture and impose hindi urdu over us..bollywood is part of this urdu punjabi imposition...hindi is language of only delhi,west UP...we have our own langaueges..

Loved the way... Thanks Ashris 💫 It's our duty to keep our mother tongue Alive... I speak Ganjami Odia/Southern Odia , dialect of Odia language 🙏

Started with Tulu and shows Tulu culture in song ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Wow so beautiful video i seen today about our India diversity!! Actually I know some languages in this video 💯😊 Love u from Telugu ✌️🚩🚩🔥

i got 9/15 by figuring out the costumes and the little that i understood of the lyrics (gondwana being repeaed in the gond song). This video and the collection of the songs featured introduced me to so many new songs in languages i knew nothing of! all of these songs are bangers and it's so nice to see folk culture being represented through art.

As an ardent Sannidhya Bhuyan fan, I literally smiled when you played "Monore Majote". Instant Like!

c.tulu. 2nd-sylheti. 3rd-gaharwali. 4th-mahadi. 5th-konkani. 6th-nagamese. 7th-gondi. 8th-hariyanvi. 9th-santhali. 10th-irala. 11th-galo 12th-burushaski. 13th-ISL. 14th-Bo.

I am going to give speech about languages in when school opens after summer vacations , i would do my best to spread it as far as I can

11/15. Wrong guessed the following. 1) Couldn't identify maithili . Thought it was magadhi 2) I doubted it was irula but i guessed badaga coz even that language is spoken in the same region and is a mix of kannada and Tamil. 3) The sign language. Had no clue. 4) I watched the video of the woman singing many years ago. Still went with jarawa because that's the only tribe from Andaman that I remember.

I guessed Garhwali right. But I came here after watching the video you made about queer people. I really liked your content and I just gonna explore your channel. I have gone through your website and have seen that you have an interest in philosophy as well as engineering and I completely relate with that. Subscribing to your channel now. And yes your Linkedin Profile is impressive too.

thanks for this epic playlist choices made for languages were amazing love your content as always❤

Loved to see Gojri as an option at the end. It's my native languages and is spoken by Gujjars of Jammu and Kashmir. Bakerwali, Pahari, Punjabi and Dogri shares similarities with it. I have never tried to learn any of these languages formally but I still can understand two natives speaking them coz I'm a Gujjar. Hope you'll add Gojri songs in your future videos, the most popular of them are called "baits".

You got me on the Indian sign language and Bo. I felt a deep pain when I learnt a language that survived 70000years got extinct.

12 पहचान ली मैने आसानी से एक सिक्स्थ sense भी होता हैं, वेशभूषा और आस पास का वातावरण देख के भी आईडिया लग जा रहा था. लेकिन सच मे भारत कितना विविधतापूर्ण हैं.3 नहीं पहचान पाया क्युकी उन भाषायो के नाम तक कभी नहीं सुने थे मैने. Very nice वीडियो

I identified 3 languages Tulu Konkani and Garhwali 1.Tulu - I have many Tulu speaking friends here in mumbai 2.konkani - Because I am a Marathi it's our sister language 3.Garhwali - My ex girlfriend was a Garhwali from Utharakhand Guessed - 3 nagamsee because of him and that naga Naga naga Haryanvi- because it's like Punjabi Maithili - I heard that type of languages from Biharis, I can identify bhojpuri Puri, so definitely other one will be maithili

I got 11 right, 2 more I was like "how did I mess this up??" 1. Tulu (👍): Guessed from Kantara ofc 2. Sylheti (👍): I am from Assam and Sylhet was once a part of it, so had done some research earlier on it, Assamese and Sylheti are very closely related 3. Garhwali (👍): I love Uttarakhandi and HP songs, find them quite similar to a certain genre of Assamese and Nepali songs, they occasionally get viral in Assam, so easy one 4. Maithili (🥺): I do have a lot of exposure to Maithili, medieval Assamese literature borrows a lot from it, but still missed it 5. Konkani (👍): Not that difficult, sounds Marathi but isn't 6. Nagamese (👍): Again, being from Assam I have quite a bit of exposure to Nagamese songs, easy 7. Assamese (👍): I am Assamese myself 8. Gondi (👍): The song kept referring to Gondwana, so easy 9. Haryanvi (🥲): I live with a Haryanvi flatmate, so feels very odd not only to miss it but also it somehow still doesn't feel Haryanvi to me 10. Santhali (🥺): Being from Assam again, lot of Santhali origin people in the tea gardens, lot of exposure, but got confused between it and related languages in the options 11. Irula (🥺): Didn't even know the language existed, loved the song, would like to explore more 12. Galo (👍): The place I come from has a sizeable Mising population, which is a similar language, and my mother grew up in Arunachal, so exposure again 13. Barushaski (👍): Sounds Kashmiri but isn't, the other options were obviously off 14. ISL (👍): Pretty obvious, and also, loved that you included it 15. Bo (👍): Totally broke my heart when I read in school years back that this language had gone exist. Maybe is one of the reasons I am very interested in linguistics today. So I recognised this language immediately, from the face of the woman itself Turns out I have personal exposure to many of these languages, and many more from the other languages mentioned in the options not part of the 15 correct ones, feeling lucky to come from a place with so many languages living in close proximity and even smaller (in terms of population) ones expressed prominently in the culture: Assam.

The video started as a really funny quiz and ended with harsh reality of language. Every language can go extinct if we don't preserve it. Sadly we all lost bo language😢

7:00 🔥🔥🔥

How it's possible that I don't know the language but I understand everything 😳😳

Proud to be indian which has so much diverse culture and so many many languages and feelings sad that many languages are getting forgotten and extinct. 😢

Next time add kodava, lambani, beary, badaga languages from Karnataka 💛❤️

Great effort. I could guess the following correctly based on the sounds and words - 5. Konkani 7. Axomiya 10. Santhali 11. Irula 14. ISL I could guess the following due to the name of the community mentioned in the song - 1. Tulu (name of the community was heard in the song) 6. Nagamese (name of the community was heard in the song) 8. Gondi (name of the community was heard in the song)

I scored 9/15. thank you for this video.❤

OMG I was not expecting santhali song to be in the lists. When the Santhali song came, immediately a smile appeared on my face. Thank you Ashris for including it (^_^)/~~

Garhwali is not spoken only in Dehradun and chamoli but In other districts like Tehri and pauri garhwal, uttarkashi, rudraprayag.

8/15 Tulu, Garhwali, Konkani, Naga, Gondi, Haryanvi, Santhali, ISL. BTW, much confusion in two- Haryanvi and Maithili- I doubt that you might have made mistake. Maithili sounds like Bhojpuri to me.

Wo santhali Wala GANA n mere town me shoot hua h....🥰

Love from dehradun Rajput ,Garhwali❤️

5:17 Full video please ❤ Haryanvi ❤🎉

Being from haryana, I can assure you that 05:51 isn't the way haryanvi spoken.

I applaud ur work on highlighting the different languages of our country. This is the beauty of India🙏

one thing that I got from this video is even though you cant recognise the exact language one can guess a more general and kind of the Root of most of these languages

Superb @iip - This was a litmus test -I got 5/15 correct ~33% 🙂 That means how much i dont know on my country

I got 10 :D. Thanks for giving hints in the songs themselves e.g. Nagamese, Gondi, Tulu etc. Can you please share your reference of existence of Bo language for over 70000 years?

2:20 I literally thought it was Maghi until I saw the option 😂

Very nice work brother

Awesome, 0/15 - this is not clickbait; great job!

11/15. One only i knew rest was wild guess honestly. But now onwards i knew it. And always proud of being 🇮🇳.

4 out 15 pure luck lol as I Only speak normal hindi 😂 since that is all I get to watch on Bollywood

ବହୁତ ବହୁତ ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ । ଏଭଳି ଗୀତ ଆମକୁ ଆହୁରି ଦେବାକୁ ଅନୁରୋଧ । Collect similar songs further.

1:45 Garhwali❤❤❤❤

God bless you for this video...can you please make more such videos? BTW, I'm sylethi but didn't understand the sylethi song. I'm from Silchar. Where are these singers based in? May be different sylethi in different regions?

I got 2 right. Just bcz I heard Naga in the song. And haryanvi sounded similar to Hindi. I am a south Indian. I just learned the names of like 30 languages which I never heard of before.

I managed to get 5, mostly because several of them mentioned the name of an ethnicity.

In this one video of languages not so widely known, I’ve seen people with different languages that sound different, different cultures, looks, and still United in some mystical way by the nation. I loved how ISL was included. The west speaks so much of inclusion and I’m barely able to relate to them. However, through this video it is clear as crystal how inclusivity can be so beautiful . Also, I never knew that the sign languages are nuanced across the world. Now I feel silly because we gesture things differently everywhere. Love this channel. God bless !

Brooo, we need this back

Dude after watching this video specially after watching the dresses and ethnicities with their unique languages, you realise how diverse India actually is.... We have been hearing this since 1st or 2nd class that India is diverse but you don't understand the gravity of it

Thanks for showing regional language beauty.. Culture...

adding ISL & BO gave more deeper meaning for this video..great.

We should all try our best to protect the diversity of our culture and language in this great country India. জয় হিন্দ

This channel is a gem... Respect the efforts you put in to bring it to us that there exists so many languages indeed we haven't even heard the names ..

Thank you for making this amazing video and showcasing India's incredible diversity that very few of us are actually aware of. Interestingly, although I speak Konkani at home, I took a little while to be 100% sure about the Konkani song since it is a different dialect. I think that says a lot about our linguistic diversity.

i am really confused with the haryanvi one, like I am from haryanvi been speaking haryanvi for the past 22 years, languages r much more fluid and we cannot categorise them like such

Please make the next video including languages from the Indian sub continent that has Indian roots.

You guys doing a fantastic job. You guys deserve more and more

Very diverse in nature ❤❤

I got 6 right.. i personally could guess the location of many of the languages since i do recognise most of the major Indian languages and the way they have a geographical logic. But it was a hard test

For Santhali case they mentioned Marandi in video title itself. Marandi is Santali clan name.

lovely! without the visuals the challenge would have been even more difficult ig

I am from Andaman. I know the history of these tribes. When British entered the islands there was several fights with them with the tribes. Very similar to what is shown in avatar movie. And later, few tribes could save themselves but few tribes, like the one shown here were decimated to merely a population of 20 30 people and they reduced even further as their natural habitat was destroyed.

3:40 that is pork

Incredibly well-made and well-curated video. I was able to guess 9 of these correctly. The last one made me emotional :")

13/15 right!! 🤩🤩 Love from Bengal ❤❤

5:09 is not Haryanvi dude for sure. I am a haryanvi and In my entire life I’ve never seen someone speaking haryanvi like that.

Three, out of pure guess based on words uttered! More than that, it was interesting to know the names of so many languages I didn't know at all!

I got 11 right: 1. Tulu: sounded like Kannada to me but guessed Tulu coz this is the hard version lol. 2. Garhwali: The lady singing looked Pahari. 3. Sylheti: I am Bengali and familiar with the song 'Aila re noya doman' 4. Maithili: Found some similarity with Bengali again. 5. Naga: The word 'Naga' in the song. 6.Gondi: The words Bastar and Gond 7. Haryanvi: Just dumb luck 8. Santhali: Similarity with Bengali + Other cultural markers in the video 9. Burushakshi: I had already seen the video in Coke Studio Pakistan's channel. 11. ISL: Quite obvious

Coundent guess any language except haryanvi... That too because it was sounded like hindi🙇

Mind-boggling! Some of languages I've heard first time...

Bro u missed Badaga language which is widely spoken in northern Tamil Nadu area especially in Ooty region. Because I didn't find any language regarding tamil nadu

Thank u so much for including Chhattisgad bastar division Gondi language ❤️❤️❤️

So hard; I only got Nagamese, Gondi, Shantali because they said their names in the song! It was an entrancing experience really when I could make out phrases in Nagamese like "khilai dibo apni ke!" This was incredibly hard but I have to go listen to it again. Haryanvi sounded like a movie soundtrack from the 50s in "Hindustani." You are one of my favorite channels on all of yt!

My Guesses Tulu Maithili Konkani Nagamese Santhali