#I'm basically narrowed down to Uzbek and Uyghur c/o other context clues but it is making me insane | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

chicago-geniza · 7 months ago

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Lyft driver was speaking a Turkic language with Arabic interjections (yanni, inshallah, wallahi) and I've been trying to figure out which one it was for hours

#I'm basically narrowed down to Uzbek and Uyghur c/o other context clues but it is making me insane #I would have asked him but like. He was on the phone and I was not about to interrupt lol #He and the person he was talking to had names I associate with Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan #But he wasn't speaking Kazakh #And therefore given all the Arabic/Islam-adjacent interjections I'm skewing toward Uzbek or Uyghur

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