Channel: India in Pixels

Category: Entertainment

Tags: linguisticslanguagescultural storieslanguages of indiabanglalinguistic nerdphoneticsaxomiyavidya balanassamesemarathimalayalamhindibengaliindia in pixelsodiabengali accent is so sexy

Description: v and w are two sounds that are closely related that a lot of languages in the world struggle to pronounce. They use different approximations to make these sounds. Let's take a linguistic journey throughout India's many languages to see how Indians pronounce these sounds. Be it the Hindi व, the Malayali വ, Odia ୱ or Axomiya ৱ - let us explore the story that ties the contrasting languages of India into one beautiful garland. Special credits to Sagir Ahmed's articles and research on the Axomiya language that made the research for this video so much easier.