What other languages have the "q" sound?

The q sound as in the urdu word Qari or Qalam (pen).

Does Hindi have the q sound? Bollywood singers say it all the time, so I am assuming they do.

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i think they dont have Seen or Sheen :hmmm:

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Arabic

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farsi....

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some Turkic languages have it.. e.g. Kazakh

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Why does this word exist though? 90% of people can't even pronounce it properly.

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english has quilt or quintessential.

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In hindi movies they usually speak urdu or a dialect of it. Hindi and Persian dont have that Qaaf sound. Neither does English.

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English

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In english the phonetic value of Q is the same as that of regular K, hence queen and kueen or quit and kuit does not have any difference nerithe does any known dialect ofenglish. This is mostly a semitic and largely an Arabic innovation. But it is also founf in othr languages or certain dialects of other languages. In Persian Qaf has the same pronunciation as "ghain. Hence ghulam and qulam will have the same pronounciation. Although some dialects of farsi do show this innovation perhaps adopted from Arabic like in Urdu where Qaf is like in Arabic uvular plosive sound. Actually come to think of it most Pakistanis speaking urdu use Qaf in the same value as Kaf except in formal settings I believe.

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Hindi being a phonic language does have the ability to pronounce most words in any language. It is closely related to Urdu.

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Hindi is indeed related to Urdu langage. It is a dialect of it. And like most languages, it has the phoneti capacity to accomodate a certain sound, but its speakers and the language itself does not have some allophones such as [khe] as in German [ch] or Greek [x]. Same case with [Qaf], [Ghain], Hay], [Ain], [zhe]. Much like Arabic does not have [Pa], Ta], Ra] etc. However, Urdu does have these phonemes. But still it tends not to differentitate between allophones of Arabic (D)vad] which in Urdu because of Persian influence carries the same phonetic value as [zay]. Hence it is [zvad]. Like Arabic close translitertion of the month Rama*d*an in English is still Ramzan in Urdu.

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http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/urdu.htm

The mother language for both these dilects is Sanskrit. Hindi in its part, mixed with Persian & Arabian languages - came to be known as Urdu or Hindustani.

It is due to this common heritage that Urdu & Hindi speakers can understand & communicate with each other fairly easily. If it was not for the different written scripts, people could be excused for calling it one language.

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Hindi, as a language both in name and as the standardized language is a later development than Urdu, which made it's debut both in name and local diglossia at an earlier stage. The substratum under Urdu is indeed sanskrit or more properly the vernaculars of the local north indian languages heavily influenced by Persian, Arabic etc.--hence the similarity with Hindi. Both languages are dialect of each other. In temporal sense though while Urdu could be called a dialect of khariboli, and Hindi-- as in the language hindi not a general adjective-- is a dialect of Urdu. Both mutually intelligible with each other.

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they have it, but the biharis don’t pronounce it

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I heave heard ducks talking to each other.
lots of Qs , queeens .

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Actually I personally think that Urdu is phoneticaly the most complete language in the world. Now linguistically that is not necessarily a good or superior thing. It’s just a character of the speech. Still preeety kewl. :silly:

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Khan Sultan Toora jee - what research have you done to come to this conclusion? Kindly provide proof.

Or is this your personal opinion.?

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…just a personal opinion. :chupki: