Unknown language #21

This morning I received the following link without any accompanying explanation:  link is embedded here.  As soon as I started to read through the text, it seemed as though it were Hindi-Urdu, or some other northern Indic language, but it was so jumbled with English and jargon that I couldn't really make full sense of all that it was saying.  Moreover, it was written in romanization, not Devanagri or Perso-Arabic.  I had studied a summer of Hindi-Urdu about 60 years ago, but that was in the two native scripts, and I had become quite proficient in Nepali from having lived in the eastern Himalayas from 1965-67. Nepali was also written in Devanagari and was full of Indic cognates, but also had plenty of Persian and Arabic borrowings.

Not being able to read the entire romanized text, I asked my friend, Sunny Jhutti, who is from the nearby state of Punjab, where Punjabi is spoken and where Hindi, the national language, is widely familiar to most Punjabi speakers.

Sunny somehow figured out a way to get Google Translate to read the romanized text and, relying on that, came up with this relatively smooth English version:

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I still don't know what phrases like "apna future banana" ("their own future banana") mean.

 

Selected readings

• "Learn Nepali" (9/21/16) — if you search for || my name Language Log Nepali ||, you'll find many more posts about Nepali 
• "Unknown Language #7" (2/27/13) — 173 comments; Nepali is mentioned repeatedly
• "Devangari" (10/26/20) — not a mistake