Re: Which language is this? (once again)

Mark J. Reed wrote at 2006-02-04 10:44:15 (-0500)
 > On 2/4/06, Carsten Becker <carbeck@...> wrote:
 > > Hello,
 > >
 > > A classmate of mine recently gave me an invitation to a church service
 > > for youths in their congregation, and the flyer says "Discover life"
 > > (which is the title of the service) in German, Dutch, French, Polish
 > > and two Romance languages I cannot identify (presumably Spanish and
 > > Italian) and one that I absolutely don't know:
 > >
 > >    Apni jindgi trike fe banao.
 > >
 > > Does anybody know which language this is?
 >
 > Well, I found a copy of the flier online; this is the list:
 >
 >     * Entdecke das Leben
 >     * Ondek het Leven
 >     * Découvrez la vie
 >     * Odulaez zycie
 >     * I Bescubre la vida
 >     * Scopri la vita
 >     * apni jindgi trike fe banao
 >
 > The penultimate one does look like Italian, but the antepenultimate is
 > not quite Spanish (which would rather be "Descubre la vida").
 > Perhaps it's Portuguese or Catalan?
 >
 > That last one has a definite African feel to it, but beyond that I have no clue.

Based on what Google's turning up, I'm pretty sure it's Urdu/Hindi.
"jindgi" is "jindagi" or "zindagi", "life".  The romanisation seems to
be a little unorthodox, which makes it hard to look up the rest
online, but if anyone has suitable dictionaries they might like to
have a go.

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