Similarities Between Bengali and Urdu

Bengali (Bangla) and Urdu are both Indo-Aryan languages that share a large number of words, in addition to the many loanwords that are used in both languages. This language challenge will be between Ayesha, an Urdu speaker from Lahore, Pakistan, and Akash, a Bengali (Bangla) speaker from Kolkata (Calcutta), India. Kolkata is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, and is located less than a 100 kilometres west of the border with Bangladesh. Bengali is the official state language and is the dominant language in Kolkata. It should be noted that the proper, native name for the language is "Bangla", while "Bengali" is the anglicised exonym which has become synonymous with "Bangla".
Modern Standard Urdu is a Persianized and standardised register language of the Hindustani language. It is the official national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. In India, it is one of the official languages recognized in the Constitution of India, having official status in the five states of Jammu and Kashmir, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Jharkhand, as well as the national capital territory of Delhi. For centuries prior to the British colonization, Persian was widely used as a second language in the Indian subcontinent and has had a huge impact on the languages of the region.
Bengali (Bangla) is an Indo-Aryan language and the official and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh and second most widely spoken of the 22 scheduled languages of India, behind Hindi. Within India, Bengali is the official language of the states of West Bengal, Tripura and the Barak Valley in the state of Assam. It is also spoken in different parts of the Brahmaputra valley of Assam. It is also the most widely spoken language in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal, and is spoken by significant minorities in other states including Jharkhand, Bihar, Mizoram, Meghalaya, and Odisha.
Urdu and Bengali use a large number of Persian words, which we could have easily used for this video. However, we decided to include mainly words which are derived from Sanskrit, in addition to a few words which entered the languages through Persian.
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[@AmirYazdanian]

Bahador Alast Ohh a new video only 1 week after the previous one. Thanks bro ❤ P.S. I'm watching this in 360p, I guess it's still uploading 😄

[@greaterdelhibulls]

Root of Urdu and bangoli hi sanskrit not persian

[@azeemsarfarazlexicon101]

Bahador Alast brother you’re doing a great job. Ayesha’s got a beautiful canadian- American accent. Keep it up sis. Who’s this bengali guy? He has very very close to the British RP accent. He simply nailed it. Bahadur and Ayesha I love you both and there’s a word you both happen to pronounce wrong. I’m sure you’re positive fellows and will take it positively. It’s “pronunciation”. I’d love to see you correct it. 😊. Keep up the good work. Love from Pakistan

[@gangstar595959]

Could you make videos about tradational foods? you have tons of friends all around the world

[@TAVideos786]

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[@mahfuzahmed6215]

It was very easy FOR ME to understand every urdu word!!!BTW anyone from bangladesh???

[@afeen21]

From Bangladesh 🇧🇩

[@sohinibandyopadhyay8186]

Yes because it's same as Hindi

[@afeen21]

@leafonabreeze bangladeshi ra Bangla language e kotha bole... Urdu is pakistani peoplez tounge

[@w4n4ndy]

Hi, there's alot of bangladeshi in my country, Malaysia.

[@adilshah7844]

Here!

[@samiulfislam]

I am a Bengali and my Pakistani colleagues get shocked when I speak Urdu/Hindi.

[@randomtanker4355]

Salam

[@suhridguha2560]

erom keno bhaya. Kolkatai Thaki kintu hindi urdu dutoi boli.

[@suhridguha2560]

@@Sali-yw1rd why wouldn't we speak urdu, it's an Indian language. Modern standard Hindi is something which no one actually speaks xD

[@suhridguha2560]

@@Sali-yw1rd nor do I see people speaking the Modern standard Urdu of Pakistan.

[@suhridguha2560]

@Bhakt Hunter tum pehele thodi siksha prapt karo

[@alisheriff9289]

Most Pakistanis and Iranians don’t realize just how close their national languages of Urdu and Farsi really are.

[@BahadorAlast]

I think Pakistanis are more aware of it than Iranians are. Many Iranians do not know about the vast amount of Persian words in Urdu, which is why we have done multiple videos to showcase it, and I am glad to see a lot Iranians have watched them.

[@faiqsabih3215]

​@@BahadorAlast That might be true but the vast majority of Pakistanis don't use more strongly Persianized versions of Urdu, the Canadian Pakistanis in your Video have an even lower exposure to Bookish Urdu so they can't understand uncommon words and mispronounce many words which makes their pronunciation so different from Irani Persian that the two groups have trouble recognizing each others words and Phrases in your challenges.

[@BahadorAlast]

@@faiqsabih3215 maybe so, none of us are perfect when it comes to pronunciation and none of us know it all when it comes to knowledge of languages and their history. Hence the reason why I feel everyone can learn something from these videos :)

[@Sh4h01]

@@BahadorAlast I feel like a lot Pakistanis know it because modern day Pakistan throughout history was being invaded and under control of Persians and Turkic people so it is in our history and we learn about it whereas in Iran your history lessons in school might not teach how the Persian empire influenced south Asia and expanded into south Asia at points

[@BahadorAlast]

@Aqal Mand Ayesha was actually born in Canada, which makes the fact she can speak Urdu fluently very impressive!

[@indimates7424]

Im from Uttarakhand India.. I understand Bengali 50℅ Love West Bengal (India) and Bangladesh.

[@afeen21]

Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩

[@sabhrestman6644]

how the hell you know bengali?

[@ridny198]

Love from Bangladesh ❤ ✌ ✌ ✌ ✌ ✌ ✌

[@rohitb405]

Uttarakhand local languages sound so good : Garhwali,kumaoni

[@amrbinhishamabujahl2959]

B.S. B Bangladesh?😑

[@adilshah7844]

Bahador means brave in Bengali :). You are very brave to attempt to bring peace among different people.

[@loudfiend4051]

It means brave in almost every North Indian language

[@niqqanemesis]

Bahadur*

[@yorgunsamuray]

Even in Turkish, as Bahadır. But it's almost exclusively used as a personal name.

[@mohammadmobeen6563]

@@yorgunsamuray in Hindi/Urdu generally it is used as an adjective

[@AbadurRhaman-vq9ui]

@@Daddy-R 😆🤣

[@rohanmudvari]

As a Nepali, I could easily understand Hindi,Urdu,Bengali. Nepali has more Sanskrit words which makes me easier to understand Bengali.

[@shreyanodoyto5975]

What Nepali has no Persian words how you understand urdu

[@rohanmudvari]

@@shreyanodoyto5975 Because i understand Hindi and both hindi and urdu are similar.

[@shreyanodoyto5975]

@@rohanmudvari ohhhh

[@DeusEstAmor________137]

@@shreyanodoyto5975 Nepali has few persian words like Khaza, Khabar, Dimag etc...

[@csnoor5]

Listen Noakhali and Sylhet Dialect of Bengali , they are closer to Nepal Vhasha

[@armstrong2450]

Bengali is still very close to Sanskrit. Much more than modern Hindi. Hindi is slowly becoming Urdu. A Hindi speaker will have no problem communicating with an Urdu speaker. A Bengali can't with eirher

[@suhridguha2560]

Which is true.

[@faiqsabih3215]

Hindi was made from deIslimization/sanskritization of Urdu while Urdu developed as a creole with a dialect of Hindustani(which are called dialects of Hindi in India) as its base so its more like that the local dialects are being diluted by Hindi-Urdu while the differences of Hindi and Urdu are getting reduced. The same thing is happening /has happened with Urdu and the (more) local languages of Pakistan especially Punjabi along with a semi de-persianization of Urdu.

[@armstrong2450]

@@faiqsabih3215 I dont think this way. The grammar of Sanskrit Hindi and thus Urdu are the same. If you hear a Bihari/UP speaking Hindi you'll hardly find any Persian/Persian influenced words. These dialects are old. Even before Bengali language was evolving in the Southern East. Urdu evolved within Lakhnowis most likely during the Muslim invasion of India. They were basically Persianised Turks and Mongols with Farsi as their mother tongue and their interaction with Hindi gave birth to a new language Urdu. The origination of *Urdu* from *Hindi* and *Farsi* is comparable to The origination of *Farsi* from *Persian* and *Arabic*. Persian language's grammar and many of its words still lives in Farsi. But unfortunately the actual language and its text is dead.

[@faiqsabih3215]

@@armstrong2450 Bhooj Puri e.t.c are much older dialects of Hindustani than Hindi-Urdu, they are directly descended from Prakrits and are not intentionally Senskritized or Persianized. You usually only find common words in these older dialects. In Pakistan and apparently in Bangladesh (from what I know) these Behari dialects have been diluted in Urdu/Hindi-Urdu and can often pass as Urdu while in India they remain relatively pure. Standard Hindi-Urdu is a Creole(mixture) based on the Khari Boli Dialect of Hindustani from Dehli/Deli area Lakhnavi Urdu is almost the same as Dehlvi Urdu but has more local Awaddi (and Persian) influence while Dakkhni Urdu is regarded as a dialect of Urdu but not Hindi because it arose "partially independently" in the Deccan region as a creole with Marathi as its base (it is not classified as a dialect of Marathi either) with heavy Dravadian mixture but is getting diluted by the two northern versions

[@pranavtiwari6772]

Ankit Saha Good answer but what is lucknowis of bihar ? Lucknow is in UP.

[@shinee9musesspdemergency549]

I am an Urdu speaker and I found the Bengali language so nice to hear. I don't know whether it's the speaker who makes it sound so nice, or the language itself is nice but I could just hear the language all day. 😂😂

[@shreyanodoyto5975]

It is probably the fact that they do a lot of poetry so their language became more soothing

[@SattickDas2001]

There is a video by a channel called India in Pixels on this same topic. I recommend you check it out.

[@discoveringplantsfun4339]

@@SattickDas2001 nah

[@cottoncandy5410]

Yeah that's why unesco announced it as the "world's sweetest language".I am not telling it unesco told it

[@DrStrange234]

​@@cottoncandy5410 Thats a fake rumor spread Only to bengalis it is sweetest as it is their mother language

[@RaptorMaitre]

Ayesha is very intelligent in figuring out. I mean Indian Bengalis would find hindi/urdu much easier to understand. But for people who speak hindi/urdu, bengali could be really difficult to understand. +1 for Ayesha here. :) Love from India. Btw: Plums are called AlooBokhrara in India, quite literally, Plum from Bukhara. Potatoes got introduced to India through western traders and in many coastal states you will find potatoes being called batata, vatata, etc, an indianization of potata, πατάτες.

[@tashrifgani9101]

She is bangladeshi, keep your modi janoar shit to yourself.

[@bhutchin1996]

Potatoes came from Peru, South America. They were brought to Europe. They could be grown under the ground, so it became a staple food in Ireland until the potato famine which led to the Irish diaspora. Potatoes also became popular in Germany. In Portuguese a potato is also 'batata'.

[@Positive_Words371]

I think Bangla is more closer to Sanskrit whereas Hindi and Urdu languages are influenced by Arabic and Persian languages.

[@Ronex-jv6pc]

​​@@Positive_Words371it's not like closer or something.. All are sanskrit (grammatically/syntex wise) based but it's the lvl. Persian loan words .. ,which is less in east India comapred to West of the continent And one more thing sanskrit with time corrupted to form prakrit, there are mainly 3 branches of prakrit bengali, odia, assamese, maithili are from magdhi prakrit same language was used by buddha, later buddhist use pali language which also comes from magdhi prakrit ... While hindi/urdu is a persinazied-sanskritized version of khari boli of West up which comes from a different branch called surseni prakrit, punjabi, gujrati, awdhi, dogri, nepali even sindhi is from this branch.. So, there a huge difference.. The only commonality is sanskrit after that they both have different branches

[@MuhammedAhmed-tk2lx]

​@@Positive_Words371Urdu and Hindi are descendants of shaurseni prakrit which is closest to vedic Sanskrit while Bengali is descendant of magadhi

[@zakiuddinnuman2471]

I am from India 🇮🇳🇮🇳. I am also Bangali. I love this video. Very nice & helpful video.

[@taqqiraja2722]

Ayesha,Akash and Bahador,the world needs more people like you...enjoyed every second of the video...thumbs up!

[@BahadorAlast]

❤❤❤

[@tubeysr]

That's how you spread love and peace

[@yawarsyed5211]

It was easier for the Bengali guy cuz most of bengalis know urdu/hindi

[@armaanshrestha4623]

@Veedu Vai He is from Kolkata. Kolkata Bengali knows Hindi/Urdu very well.

[@adad-ec6ht]

I am from Bangladesh and I understand Hindi/Urdu. Those who say they do not are nationalists pretending to not know.

[@armaanshrestha4623]

@@adad-ec6ht Maybe you are a Bollywood fan? Are you? Yes, it's true that many Bangladeshi nationalists hate Hindi in spite of knowing it because it's similar to Urdu which has dark history in Bangladesh.

[@SantomPh]

@@armaanshrestha4623 he is clearly British-born and likely only knows Bengali.

[@adad-ec6ht]

@@armaanshrestha4623 Nah, most Bangladeshis just hate both Pakistan and India. But we do love to watch Indian movies.

[@ivoyulolavrador9166]

Akash's, Ayesha's, and Bahador's voices and accents are so soothing and peaceful to the ears. 😌 Gonna come back to this video for that calming vibes for sure (I also low-key want to adjust the camera to the right lol)

[@manipirooz5806]

They all have peaceful voices, but Ayesha's voice is very soothing. She should do the news! Her voice can heal the body!

[@baldeep119]

with you on the last point.... it wrecked havoc with my OCD... lol

[@tkb5119]

Akash seems like the kindof guy you’d listen to in a crisis lol. His demeanour is very calm, soothing yet assertive

[@arianrolex6456]

I am depressed because I failed my bangla- ughhhh why cant they gimme my test papers back. Also they don't know.

[@AbadurRhaman-vq9ui]

@@arianrolex6456 হোয়াট?👀

[@arianrolex6456]

@@AbadurRhaman-vq9ui i have bangla exams and im not in bangladesh and my bangla basically is very bad.

[@AbadurRhaman-vq9ui]

@@arianrolex6456 O that's why you are chatting in English. who don't know what?

[@mobeen360]

Most common word between urdu and begali is "Biryani" you should have included this word too!

[@ahnafkhan6997]

most food/animal/object related words tend to be similar across all the Indo-Aryan languages i believe.

[@SantomPh]

Biryani is also known outside of the Indian subcontinent so it would not really work here

[@cozy8765]

Lol in south Africa we say briyani

[@Ahmed-ki3cs]

My favourite food

[@jcxkzhgco3050]

Biryani is universally called biryani by pretty much everyone

[@abhishekbiswas7048]

Urdu and bengali both are derived from indo-aryan language, just the difference is that bengali has its own script but urdu follows the persian script.

[@ahmedirfansamad]

Urdu is following nastaliq script, a slightly different from of Arabic script. And Persian is following Arabic script.

[@justhistoire]

@@ahmedirfansamad Exactly. And Bengali also has more than one written script (Chittagonian and Sylheti people each have their own alphabets they use for writing). So there is a lot of diversity in all languages :)

[@Aditya-te7oo]

I'm a native Bengali speaker from the West Bengal state of India. Really, nice video 😊😊😊

[@au9371]

@Balquis Begum mate, Bengal is split into two, west Bengal and Bangladesh. Do your research, coming from a British bangladeshi

[@maheraxo]

His accent is kind of different from a Bangladeshi Bengali. Anyone else from from Bangladesh!❤🇧🇩

[@shahmortujali3171]

hello, how are you...? Can you help me ...? I want to learn Bangla...

[@maheraxo]

@@shahmortujali3171 What language do you speak?

[@aamnainstagram6105]

That Bengali guy is so charismatic mashallah

[@RuaTheRapoet]

Aamna Instagram He is good-looking right? I thought it was just me who noticed that

[@shonobhai]

@Balquis Begum BHABI PAANI FUFA ARE NOT BENGALI WORDS..!!!!

[@11.2percentgreek3]

He is Indian bengali,that's why! bangladeshhis don't look like that

[@adam-cs6qb]

@Love you Mum Indian bengalis aren't authentic bengalis?? Well they speak more Indegenios Bengali words than bangladeshis last time I checked despite the strong Hindi influence everwhere in India

[@randomcomment232]

Love you Mum what do you mean by “authentic bengali” 😂... an indian bengali is as bengali as a bangladeshi bengali... there aren’t levels to this, indian bengali or bangladeshi bengali we are all bengali... EQUAL

[@maayanhaza6178]

Wow Bahador! You have done Israeli with an Arab, Albanian with Serbian, Turkish with Armenian, Turkish and Kurdish, and now Pakistani and Indian! You guys are truly awesome.

[@SouthAsianProdigy]

Its.not.Pakistan & indian, its Bangladeshi language

[@taqqiraja2722]

TourBazz - worldwide Bengali is also a well known language in India

[@SouthAsianProdigy]

@@taqqiraja2722 well-known & 2nd.language has difference

[@pranavtiwari6772]

TourBazz - worldwide Bengali is a sanskrit derived Indian language. Go back to school and learn something estupido.

[@taqqiraja2722]

TourBazz - worldwide take a breath man...I did not mean to belittle anyone

[@abdulahad0736]

Iam a bengali from Bangladesh. Loved every sec of this video. Thank you Bahador alast.

[@aritradas.m]

I'm Indian bengali but originally our home in chattagram we came India in 1947

[@jannatkhan5554]

Ayesha is really intelligent girl

[@user-gc6ry2xq6f]

नो

[@Deira854]

Urdu is a polished version of a language called Khari boli. It is spoken in western Uttar Pradesh and eastern Haryana. Persian, Arabic and Turkish words were added to Urdu, but it is still largely a Indian language coming from Sanskrit, just like Bengali and other North Indian languages

[@Deira854]

@@maryamfatima3216 are u a fool? Go listen to Javed Aktar the Urdu poet who talks about this subject. If Urdu was closer to Arabic, Persian, Turkish as you say, you would easily understand those languages, but you dont. Infact ask any Arabic or Persian speaker regarding Urdu they will also say they dont understand Urdu

[@jahangirakbar4524]

It's pretty much simpler language just the slight pronunciation is different... Great video Love from Pakistan 😍🇵🇰🇧🇩

[@cashwin45]

He's Indian Bengali lol not Bangladeshi

[@dadada486]

Well it was different enough for it to be difficult.

[@KarmaKraftttt]

@@cashwin45 Same language same people you illiterate One is Indian Bengali other is Bangladeshi Bengali You have no right to divide us

[@theowl2134]

@@cashwin45 yes Lol, but Bengali's are Bengali either away but it is disrespectful to only include Bangladesh when talking about Bengalis

[@WaveRider1989]

100 million Bengali speakers in india too bro, yaad rekhna.

[@cayanaraycaudhuri]

Oh my God. I speak both. Thanks Bahador. Akash might have got the upper hand as well as he might know Hindi.

[@irbazmd8618]

The urdu used in the video is totally common in hindi.

[@unclepodger]

Akash probably doesn't know Hindi, as he's from Toronto, and so Hindi/Urdu is hardly ever spoken there. And his accent doesn't really sound like someone from Kolkata.

[@cayanaraycaudhuri]

@@unclepodger Maybe. But I do think his accent is from Kolkata although British style.

[@unclepodger]

@@cayanaraycaudhuri his parents are from Kolkata (that's what he says). They (the peeps in the video) are from Toronto. Someone from Kolkata would definitely understand Urdu/Hindi, which Akash seems to struggle to understand. And Toronto is not British lmao, Canadian accent is more like American accent

[@cayanaraycaudhuri]

@@unclepodgerYes. And I know Toronto isn't British. It's his accent that sounds so. Well in a previous video, I thought he knew some Hindi. So that's why.

[@zh9931]

In Urdu Aloo bukhara آلو بخارہ is called Plum. As this fruit was introduced in Subcontinent region from Samarqand ,Bukhara and Persian background 🙂

[@cosmosheep4306]

Same in Bengali too. Plum is Aloobukhara

[@tasneem2105]

Same in bengali too, Aloobukhara is plum/ prune

[@macksequeira4233]

Same in HINDI too.

[@lifeofsahani]

I think it must have been easier for Akash to guess the Urdu words and sentences because Bengali people have no problem understanding Hindi with the exposure from Bollywood movies and TV shows. And honestly Hindi and Urdu are almost alike( the spoken form not the written form). I understood both as well what with being a Hindi speaker born and brought up in West Bengal. Interestingly, me and my friends here in Kolkata talk just like Akash and Ayesha do😆...I speak in Hindi they reply in Bengali... perfectly normal for two people in a conversation to speak two different languages.😂 (My Bengali is not so fluent😅, neither is their Hindi). Edit: I didn't know akash wasn't raised in India. So urdu or Hindi wouldn't come so easily to him. But still we can't rule out the Bollywood influence. 😅 Huh, it doesn't matter though. It's not a competition. I know Bahador you're tired of replying the same to people in the comments.

[@whatsinmymind5942]

Bengali is quiet hard for those who use urdu as a second language

[@lifeofsahani]

Judgement Day yes it is. But I meant urdu is easily understood by bengali people and that's just because they are exposed to it through bollywood movies.

[@BahadorAlast]

Hey Ankita, haha no it's all good. Yes, I noticed a lot of people have raised this. So for this video, I thought Akash was a great choice. He grew up in the U.K. He had very limited exposure to other Indian languages except the native tongue of his parents. Regardless, as you mentioned, it's not competition. We are having fun here, we want it to be educational, especially for people who are not familiar with these languages, but I think some people think this is the Olympics 😅

[@afeen21]

Great point!! 😃

[@AdnanFaradhi]

@@lifeofsahani I disagree. If you ask anyone, bollywood uses mostly urdu. In recent time, there is a push to use sanskrit based words to make the distinction. See SRK's performances on stage. I would say, hindi is in between as it has words derived from sanskrit as well as farsi. Urdu and Bengali are quite distinct because urdu has less sanskrit influenced words and bengali has less Persian influenced words. Don't get me wrong, urdu and bengali has common words as it was once under the same rule. So as a bengali, I can not understand much urdu and my Pakistani friends don't get a lot of bengali words. Whereas, a Pakistani can understand hindi so does a bengali. Not, it's not because of Bollywood rather the history of the languages. Urdu = "farsi" prevalent Hindi = "sanskrit" prevalent Bengali = "prakrit" prevalent Example: "exam" in urdu Imtehaan, Pariksha in hindi, Porikkha in bengali. "water" in urdu Paani, hindi is Paani, and bengali is Jol.

[@Abigail-ss7pt]

This video was great. Fascinating, educational, and 3 lovely people! Bless you all!

[@khalidzaki6699]

Aeisha is from Pakistani generation born after Bangladesh , but her linking Urdu with Bangla is great . In Bengali Sa is pronounced like Sha so saada becomes Shaada. Saadaa also means white metaphorically as plain In Urdu . Hats off to Aakash , also used in Urdu for sky, for his linguistic knowledge of Urdu , due to cosmopolitan culture of Calcoutta. A actually I belong to Pre Bangladeshi race of Pakistanis who Learnt Bangla , music and art etc SKZ Karachi

[@GauravSingh-qi9xj]

So Bengali was taught in West Pakistan? In a lot of historical references popular in India, it is said that West Pakistanis viewed Bengali language (and people) as inferior, which is seen as a reason of West Pakistanis reluctance to accept a Bengali leader as their prime minister.

[@faiqsabih3215]

@@GauravSingh-qi9xj Bangla/Bengali was seen as inferior to Urdu not to other languages. The more common languages of west Pakistan/Pakistan were more closely related to Urdu than Urdu was to Bangali so it was accepted in Pakistan more easily. Even the majority of so called Urdu speaking families spoke different dialects of Hindustani before independence/migration (which are now classified as Hindi in India and are being diluted by it just like they have been in Pakistan). This meant that virtually no one spoke it as a mother tongue so it reduced ethnic tensions tensions in west Pakistan and provided a common ground. Urdu was also essential as a lingua franca between groups and for educational purposes to a lesser extent instead of English. The emphasis on Bangla was seen as the Bangali majority (they comprised over 50% of the population back then) trying to assert their dominance by some West Pakistanis and anti nationalistic by many others. West Pakistan also had more resources, had the capital, had much stronger military e.t.c but was less educated than East Bengal so Bengalis were discriminated against in the job sector and development while the military height and built requirements were reduced to accommodate all ethnic groups but the Bengalis didn't benefit from it (some claim that the British had killed their warrior spirit so they did not tend to join the military, while we later got president Gen Pervaiz Musharaf who was not from a warlike group and is very short for army standards)

[@GauravSingh-qi9xj]

@@faiqsabih3215 You have told a lot. I am not sure if I could understand all of it. Are you saying that East Pakistanis(Bangladeshi now) were looking forward to impose Bangla as the official language of Pakistan?

[@faiqsabih3215]

@@GauravSingh-qi9xj probably not, they just wanted to get it equal status but some other groups tended to misunderstand

[@irbazmd8618]

Saada is plain.

[@you-know-who9023]

Bring our culture language to the table sharing what we have in common teaching and learning from each other and then finding more of what we have in common as we go deeper. This is truly a blessing and pleasure to watch this channel.🙋💛

[@shakilhasan5016]

love from bangladesh 🇧🇩🇧🇩

[@romita9majumdar]

Also can't appreciate Ayesha's clear pronunciation enough. It's so good.

[@EthemD]

Aysha seems super sympathetic and Akash very intelligent, enjoyed the discussion, thanks Bahador! :)

[@vikashpanigrahi8107]

This man really deserves a noble price for peace

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you ❤

[@unionjack2209]

@@BahadorAlast Why don't you took a man from Bangladesh? 🤔🤔🤔

[@VenomxY]

@@unionjack2209they are busy reading quran

[@medicporcupine4077]

My grandmother says "divane" to me when she was mad. I have been always wondering what does divane mean. I know now. I'm turkish btw

[@newpersia88]

two of your very nice and cool guests hi Akash,Ayesha thank you guys !

[@johnnymelendrez6125]

Awesome video. Love these challenges and how all of these languages are similar to one another. I hope to one day see one on the Uyghur language and how it’s similar to Turkish and other Turkic languages or Indo-Iranian languages as I know it has a lot of Arabic and Persian influence!!!! Good video 😊

[@medianempire8685]

beautiful video bro thank you for making it🌷🌷

[@Oneness2023]

Bangali language is the second largest in south Asia after hindi which is national langauge so technically bengali is the most spoken language in south Asia

[@azwadahsan8549]

Bengali is the national language of Bangladesh

[@soumendraghosh4381]

@@azwadahsan8549 bengal is also official language of india and West bengal . Bangladesh doesn't speak true bengali but ,is a mixture of urdu and Bengali

[@nilaychakrabarti445]

@@soumendraghosh4381 yes but bangla has many different dialets

[@peace163]

@@soumendraghosh4381 Bangladesh speaks various forms of bangla. We've loads of dialects of bangla, Starting from shuddho bangla to most unintelligible bangla dialect too. The dialect West Bengali mostly Kolkata people speak is also spoken in our northern part. We've so many dialects that talking with one Bangladeshi from one region,people of west Bengal think all the people of bangladesh talk like that!! Come on. We both speak the Bangla language. Let's not take more pride!

[@bcscadre197]

@@soumendraghosh4381 bro listen some Bangladeshi band song you cant find any urdu words for sure

[@KameraArkasiTV]

Give this man a peace nobel Price .... Adamsın sen

[@Horonos119]

Fu look your under hand

[@manipirooz5806]

Yes!!!

[@saifsamo9750]

I 100% agree..👍✌️

[@KameraArkasiTV]

@@sabahatkhan7 Because İ am a Turk

[@KameraArkasiTV]

@@sabahatkhan7 niçin?

[@orangejuice4425]

from what i've seen most Bengali's speak urdu but Pakistani's dont speak Bengoli, was looking forward to this video :D also Akash has some amazing cheekbones woah them brown genes

[@AmirHussain78692]

Urdu is an easy language to pick up certain words or phrases because of Bollywood I do myself find not just Bengali but Pashto,Tamil to be difficult languages to learn

[@jaskatpon1]

Amir Hussain How do you know Tamil is difficult to learn? Have you attempted to actually learn the language?

[@HashtagAneeza]

@@orangejuice4425 I so badly want to learn Pashto dont know where to begin from lol Interesting username btw xd

[@AmirHussain78692]

jaskatpon1 I do apologise but in my personal opinion the accent is hard to understand the language may be easy for some people

[@hamzadesidragonsarwar]

orangejuice culture differences that’s why East Pakistan was vastly different from us

[@dckausik]

Great job man ! Myself from Kolkata and appreciate both of these boy and girl, their skills on mother tongue is pretty good.

[@Boorifee]

I love this channel, like you said it shows us our commonalty as humans. keep it up

[@Lina-lg7ih]

Can you do Arabic and Urdu, please?

[@dialmightyspartangod6717]

that would be rather interesting

[@BahadorAlast]

Soon! Stay tuned for it!

[@zh9931]

😀 80%similarity.. looking forward.

[@mola4703]

Retweet🔁

[@sepep6288]

Who exactly speaks the Urdu language? The Punjabis, Sindhis, or Pashtun?

[@AmirHussain78692]

Interesting video Aloo means Potato in Urdu and plum is Aloo Bukhara

[@emdadahmed5592]

Exactly same in Bengali

[@arkaseth]

@@emdadahmed5592 yes! Even in West Bengal it is the same.

[@khalidzaki6699]

Saloon from Bulgaria , we Aaron as apricot

[@whatsinmymind5942]

Apricot is called zard aloo in baluchi

[@user-by7mv6tq2l]

In Pakistan aloo means inzamam ul haq

[@piruz3243]

Āloo is potato in some southern areas of Iran. I am from Tehran. My grandpa once asked his housekeeper, who was from Shiraz, to make plum stew for dinner. When the dinner was ready, it was chock-full of potatoes, but there were no plums in it. 😁😁😁

[@sumbulakhtar1885]

This is perhaps one of the channels that I absolutely love.

[@BahadorAlast]

❤️❤️❤️

[@sumbulakhtar1885]

@@BahadorAlast i especially loved your message in this episode about us all being different and yet one. Thank you!

[@junapudiraj]

Good to see painting again in the background!👌👌 Both the participants rocked it , but I am mesmarised by the pronunciation and intonation of Aisha she gives life to the words 👌👌👌

[@akshitrajput757]

You look like Ajay Devgn in the movie Raid!

[@user-bc1ld3pr6f]

I am from Iraq, and I find this channel is very useful and interesting, you really learn me alot of life meanings, believe in a different religious , from different countries, speaking different languages, and you still close friends, and like to do everything good you can do ... and this is a big meaning from life meanings. Thank you so much, Allah save you.

[@Equinox1]

I love your channel Bahador! You have attempted this unique idea of finding commonalities among different cultures. And language is the yardstick through which different cultures intermingle and communicate. Hats off to you brother, by the way i am from Pakistan.

[@javadsameri6436]

Great video again , Good job bro

[@ArghyadeepPal]

Another amazing video!!! Btw can you do a similarities video on Telugu and Urdu, given the fact that these two languages are the official languages of the state of Telangana in India. So I guess there may be some similarities.

[@faiqsabih3215]

Dakkhani Urdu spoken there is (or at-least was) a dialect distinct from standard Hindi-Urdu, it has a far greater influence of Marathi and Telugu(and other Dravadian languages) and developed semi-independently as a creole like standard Urdu

[@jnaseeree8]

Arghyadeep Pal dada, apni telanganae thaken?

[@ArghyadeepPal]

@@jnaseeree8 Naa aami Odishae thaki, kintu Telugu bhasa ta amar khubi pachondo.

[@muhammadjalal2335]

K

[@raqibulhasan4351]

What about Telugu and Bangla??

[@HashtagAneeza]

YAYYY Urdu!! HAHA! : p I completely agree that sometimes there's more common than we would expect or know. Lovely video. The discussion at the end is very... ammm.. very accurate, because you know being 'people' and being kind and humane is the least we can and should be to each other. Differences (in every sense) definitely occur but completely ripping each other apart in order to make your existence felt or in order to make a point is sadly something so common these days. But its so important to co-exist. I always find Bengali very amusing (in a good sense) for the fact that it has lots of 'O(s)' in it and you literally just replace almost every 'a' with an 'o'. And now i know its 'sh' in Bengali in place of 's'. "Shada/white' was the one different word. BTW @Bahador we use Plum for "Aaloo Bukhara" in Urdu and i am not sure where does that word originally comes from, which is different from simple aalo/Potato. BTW i am bengan-aalo-aam team too. Less of Aam though. Great job y'all once again! And all of you look good!

[@HashtagAneeza]

@Ponga Pandit haha yes ! Mangoes are definitely a to-die-for fruit for a lot of people and I like it too but I can't eat more than one...for some unknown reasons. Mango squash and shakes are good. Plum is easily available here in Pak, and I like it more than mangoes :p especially in it's dried form.

[@xochiltepetzalailhuicamina2322]

Bukhara i think is a city in modern day Uzbekistan, a part of Historical Khorasan province during the Arab Islamic expansion of the Caliphate. My guess would be plums were introduced through there to Pakistan. Just a guess.

[@HashtagAneeza]

@@xochiltepetzalailhuicamina2322 interesting! Could be ... I have no idea bout that as such !

[@shahsamad3199]

In pashto plum is *alocha* .. potato is the same as Urdu that is aloo...The difference is 1 (a) is removed like it's not aa in Pashto..Mango is also same in Pashto as Urdu (Aam)...Apple is called *Mara* .. Its almost the same as the word we use in urdu also when we are tired ... mara bs karo like this way

[@kinusganyani8694]

Way to go Mr. Alast! You are very conversational in this video; another great improvement in your videos.

[@abuzarrizvi2294]

the Bengali guy is the classic sophisticated babu mushai 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻. my native language is urdu as i am from north india and i live in kolkata i could relate how close the languages are ❤️❤️❤️

[@discoveringplantsfun4339]

Why are you there

[@indrajitgupta3280]

VERY ghoti, very sophisticated and suave, not like us Bangals. We do all the work.

[@emdadahmed5592]

In Sanskrit, there's a long A & a short A sound. In Bengali, the long A was preserved. But the short A got reduced to an open O vowel. And that carried on to foreign words. So Persian word "narm" got mutated into "norom". That's my dear Bengali 😍 east or west Bengal is the best

[@sepep6288]

What is the Sanksrit language?

[@emdadahmed5592]

Excuse the error. It has been rectified

[@sepep6288]

@@emdadahmed5592 well... What is the Sanskrit language ? 😅

[@pax4370]

@@sepep6288 sanskrit is a old language which is mother of the indo european languages like Bengali Hindi Nepali Gujrati.

[@emdadahmed5592]

@@pax4370 correction. Sanskrit is the mother of the indo-aryan languages, not all the Indo-European languages

[@sturmgewehr4471]

In some parts of iran ( shiraz) aloo refers to potato as well as plum

[@BahadorAlast]

Interesting!

[@SantomPh]

@@BahadorAlast ask the Mrs🤭

[@rahulpal5039]

I first watch your video.a unique concept to make video 🤗. love from West Bengal, Birbhum

[@AfifaC]

I’m a few days late but really enjoyed yet another great episode 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@khaledabdullah282]

This is really amazing! Good on you! Love from an Arab to both India and Pakistan!

[@khaledabdullah282]

@@noorfatima2921 Same way you guys say you love Azerbaijan and Turkey, you always brag about how much you love Azerbaijan, while both Azerbaijan and Turkey have close diplomatic relations with Israel. Both Azerbaijan and Turkey are buying Israeli weapons and contributing to Israel's military budget. In fact, Azerbaijan buys more Israeli weapons than most countries in the world. Azerbaijan also gives Israel half of its energy source. Yet Pakistanis and Kashmiris always say they love Azerbaijan, they love Turkey, so much that Pakistan doesn't even recognize the nation of Armenia. So do you not care about Palestinians? or are you just a hypocrite who things some meaningless "pro-Palestinian" chants mean you support Palestine? So don't speak on behalf of the Ummah because you are a fool and save your pathetic speech for someone who is ignorant and misinformed about what is going on in the world!

[@Rider-ed2mr]

@@noorfatima2921 oh shut up already! You guys have your own problems solve them among yourselves! We can have a positive relation politically with both India and Pakistan. Don't try to get people involved with your own fucked up shit! Enough non-Muslims, as well as Shi'a Muslims, have suffered in Pakistan which is why the non-Muslim population of your country keeps shrinking, so shut it!

[@loudfiend4051]

Rider Why do Palestinians beg the entire Muslim world for help then? Literally all Arabs and Muslims give support to Palestinians. So why not Kashmiri Muslims?

[@indiankeyboardwarrior729]

@@noorfatima2921 shut up u bitch

[@jatinthakur2051]

@@noorfatima2921 fuck u

[@ziamahboob6271]

Bahador, thank you for your efforts in bringing language groups together. As a Torontonian, it is great to see our diversity highlighted in your videos. A small point to make here re: Akash’s excellent Bengali, from a Bangladeshi / East Bengal perspective. The proper, native name for the language Akash speaks here is ‘Bangla’. While it’s true that the anglicised exonym ‘Bengali’ has become synonymous with ‘Bangla’ - thanks to our colonial heritage and a Calcutta-centric language renaissance that made its regional dialect the standard - there remains a historical distinction. ‘Bengali’ is better understood as an umbrella term for all languages native to Bengal. There are some major, widely-spoken Bengali languages - not dialects, but languages (Sylheti and Chatgaiya, to name a couple) - that are *not* mutually intelligible with Bangla, but are still Bengali.

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you Zia for the support and the information! I tried to emphasize what you said in the description. Hopefully that helps. I can add more to it if you think it would be better. Thanks again.

[@ziamahboob6271]

Thank you Bahador, for your response. Your summary description is excellent. In return for your gesture, let me share with you this: As you noted, Bangla has a large number of Persian words on account of historical immigration, trade, and politics. These words can be easily googled.. but there are many interesting ones that never get noticed, because they are not technically used in the same context as in Farsi - but are still Persian influenced: Weather in Bangla is ‘aabohawa’ (আবহাওয়া), literally ‘water-and-air’. You can see the nautical influence here. Wire or string in Bangla is ‘taar’ (তার) from the Persian string instrument (I know wire in Farsi is سيم). Radio is ‘betaar’ (বেতার), literally ‘wire-less’! And lastly.. this is just a fun fact: the oldest company still operating in Bangladesh is the Ispahani Group, a conglomerate founded by a Persian family in 1820. From a Bangladeshi Bengali who loves Hafez’s beautiful language, I thank you again for your interest in mine.

[@shreyanodoyto5975]

Wait so your from Toronto?

[@learnurduwithsara1068]

What an amazing video. Learned a lot, really appreciate the origin of words.

[@politicalstunt7642]

I am from Pluto and I love the solar system 😎

[@GauravSingh-qi9xj]

😂 You really have good English for a Plutonian.

[@HashtagAneeza]

Oh so you guys speak English over there ?

[@MrZommmmB]

Hahahaha

[@politicalstunt7642]

@@HashtagAneeza we also have multiple languages here, but why you people don't consider my planet anymore 👽👽

[@Mr.TanvirBengal]

Ha ha ha ha... L'homme de pluto.... Tu es génial!!! C'était trop drôle!!! 😂😂🤣 J'ai essayé un autre langue pour toi :v :v

[@JB-le9cd]

In Nepali: Aloo= potato Aru= apricot/ peach Saath= seven Kera= banana Narum= soft Gamal/kambala= blanket Teen = three Dudh = milk Janu= to know/ go Pagal = crazy Aaj = today Raat = night Aulla = fingers Bengen/ brinjal/ benta = aubergine/ eggplant Kharayo = rabbit Seto = white Safa = clean Amp = mango Gajaar = carrot

[@malikhassan1804]

Valo i love Bangladesh i love bangali I love Dhaka 😓 I love you Bangladesh

[@wvoxdbox5013]

Same

[@amithrahman5030]

Badhar, you should do one with the Sylheti Dialect of North East Bangladesh and Persian there are so many similar words. Also another dialect of Bangladesh is Chittagonian (Chittagong) Language the influence of Persian and Portuguese is fascinating. Great video guys 💞 three of the languages spoken in my house hold x

[@sayyidzafariqbal3374]

The commonly used word for moon in Bangla is চাঁদ (Chad). Also, that is closer to to چاند in Urdu. The word চন্দ্র (Chondro) is used more in books.

[@siliconsunny3910]

A Bihari laughing at both of them! LOL, I can understand both language words with precision. We have Urdu as well as Bengali hand in hand! Linguistically Hindi-Urdu(Hindustani) , Culturally Bengali(Eastern Indian)!

[@amitendrodas5946]

*Wow.. interesting.. A lots of love from kolkata..💙💚💛💜❤💝*

[@samsuzzaman7102]

Information For non-bengalis: Bengali derived from Sanskrit. But during Nawabi rule in Bengal region, Persian was the official language for paperwork. That's why we have more Persian words in Bengali. Arab traders spread Islam in the region. That's why many Arabic words in Bengali. And also some English, Portuguese and French words for the colonial period of this region.

[@SuplexCityF5]

For some reason i find this channel very interesting

[@sagnikgangopadhyay4687]

I wish I could meet you Bahador!! You are an inspiration for showing us our similarities. I am a bengali from West Bengal and am also fluent in Hindi and most of colloquial Urdu.

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you!! ❤❤

[@kashfiazafrin9112]

Loved this video!

[@rajvi4456]

Hey bahador.. Really impressed with your fascination for languages

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you. Languages and cultures have always intrigued me!

[@14sakuya26]

Bengali guy is so good looking omg

[@11.2percentgreek3]

Btw he is Indian bengali...

[@angelinataherin3102]

@@11.2percentgreek3 so?

[@HeyH2SO4]

@@11.2percentgreek3 Indian Bengali boys are very cute

[@mr.majumder593]

Indian Hindi and Pakistani Urdu me jitna difference hai, Indian Bengali and Bangladeshi Bengali me bhi utnahi difference hai

[@mutualkiller7964]

Ya he has a chiseled face. All of them were good looking though

[@comtedemarcq8380]

Hello from France, just discovered your channel, it's a great idea. Maybe you could try Italian - Spanish, pretty easy but should be more difficult than Spanish - Portuguese (can also do French - Italian or French - Spanish) A friend of mine told me Vietnamese and Cantonese languages have some similarities... Bonne continuation.

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you. We've done Italian and Spanish, the shorter version though. French and Spanish we've done as well. The next episode will be French as well, and the French speaker is from France.

[@Bilal44]

Bahador, I don't know if someone else mentioned it here but we call plum 'aloo bukhara' in Urdu-Hindi (آلوبخارہ - आलूबुखारा) (lit. Bukhara's Potato), really interesting to know the reason behind it. We also call persimmon 'japani phal' (جاپانی پھل lit. Japanese Fruit), although it might be just a localised term in Pakistan/Lahore and called something else in other regions. Come to think of it, it might originally be 'aloo-e-bukhara' but harf-e-izafat must have later been dropped due to how commonplace the word became. I was surprised to see no one mentioned that in the video. Also, tala is tala in Urdu (تالا) too. Great series by the way, you got yourself a new fan!

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you! Yes, you're right. Ayesha explained it later but it's not in the video because it was part of another conversation :)

[@muhammadshakir5452]

Go on Bahador. Brilliant effort. I wish I could've participated in your program. I'm a linguistic maniac and enjoys the common root of the languages and cultures.

[@yhs201]

actually its really interesting to me. Thanks for make a good video!

[@subinoydutta6973]

The empire in Bengal region used to trade with Persian empire so they learned farsi words. However more than 70% words in Bengali are Sanskrit based.

[@BahadorAlast]

Most of the words in the video are Sanskrit based

[@subinoydutta6973]

Okay, nice video bro. I do enjoy your video 😊

[@kadershirazi5015]

That bengali guy seemed descent ,btw love from Pakistan ❤️

[@hindiurdu4617]

Congratulations Bahador for your great effort to bring into contact people, who share a great deal of common points as far as language and origin is concerned!!! Videos about Indian languages are to my great liking!!! Through your videos it is successfully highlighted that people share in common more thing than they could imagine. I kindly request you more videos about Indian languages. Long live the Indo-Pakistani friendship 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰

[@abhisheksaxena500]

Hi Bahador, can you do a video doing words of sanskrit, hindi/urdu and farsi (old) calling a north Indian, Pakistani and may be yourself. To see how the words have evolved and what were the roots?

[@vampireducks1622]

The Persian سیب زمینی ("potato"), by the way, is just like the French "pomme de terre", also meaning "potato" and also literally "ground apple". In fact, I assume it's borrowed from the French. I'm a Bengali who's studied Persian, with a smattering of (and learning) Hindi/Urdu, so this video was right up my street! Thanks.

[@TheMunta88]

please make one on Marsian vs Jupitorian, I am ready to volunteer my self as a Jupitorian :D

[@ishita81mukherje]

For an Indian bengali, its very easy to understand this level of urdu because it is so similar to hindi.. Love your channel. Love from India ❤

[@user-dp5ve5zn7t]

these guys are too good. i feel good to watch them

[@lifeofsahani]

Bengali people are so crazy for aaloo(potato not plum) that they need aaloo in everything! There's even an "aaloo biryani" with just aaloo no meat😆... Btw, I'm from aaloo-baingan(begun)-aam team too! Love them. Bahador, if you don't like eggplants, just try "baingan bharta" and "beguni"(it is slices of eggplants covered in chickpea batter and deep fried) once, you'll love it.

[@afeen21]

Kolkata people might be crazy for Aaloo (potato) Wd bangladeshis r not too much biast on Aaloo We consume it modertely

[@tousifjaman3070]

Even in North Bengal (India) we consume potatoes moderately. After coming Kolkata I am bound to eat potatoes like Calcuttans because in every hotel you have three items "Mangsho bhaay" (Chicken), "Mach Bhaat" (Fish) and "Sobji Bhaat" which is nothing but Aloo.

[@afeen21]

@Veedu Vai i m Bangladeshi

[@lifeofsahani]

Oh, yes I'm talking about my experiences in Kolkata. My comment should be like "bengalis in Kolkata are crazy for aloo" 😅

[@afeen21]

@@lifeofsahani yes Kolkata people have a tradition of having thali food, fish thali,mutton thali... All thLi consists of aloo vaja,or L Aloo dum as a compensatory food item. In bangladesh the food is not like thali based.. All r individual items to pick.

[@saquibhusain6250]

Just learning bengali,this video helped a lot

[@hkazeemi]

Wonderful work . Keep it up 👍

[@totanchowdhury3808]

Bahador's channel is promoting unity in the time of so many divisions and tensions. Thank you man. Love from India (🇮🇳)

[@zazaguerilla]

I would like to see Zazaki and Talishi but that would be impossible to put together But kurdi and Pashto would be nice

[@harrisbinkhurram]

Loved the episode Bahador.

[@harrisbinkhurram]

Alu-Bukhara is Plum in Urdu. آلو بخارہ (Bokhara is the City name)

[@Txnha1205]

It was easy for me because I know Hindi,Urdu,Bengali,Korean,Italian,Spanish

[@Irishb0y]

Love these three combo...great conversation and chemistry 👍

[@bestthingsinmyopinion2444]

thank to allah... I got this channel. Love from bangladesh.

[@mazyarhonarmandi7791]

in (shirazi accent) we also call potato exactly (aloo)

[@ssam00]

Very pleasant video as always. Love from a Bengali (from India) in Canada

[@jehan_navard]

What a pleasant video. You are doing a great job. Its a pleasure to watch your videos. There is a lot to learn for everyone. One thing I would like to mention is that taala/tala (lock) is called taala in Urdu and not tal as written in the ticker. Similarly سرنگ in Urdu is pronounced as surang and not sarang.