How does Ossetian language sound like to you?

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[Dna8]

Nice thread.

My ear perceives it as Slavic/Arabic.

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Arabic?

[Dna8]

Arabic?

Keep in mind: I have limited familiarity with Iranic languages (I grew up in NZ).

I expressed my perception in terms of two languages I have had exposure to (Slavic (Serbian: my mother tongue) + Arabic (via media etc))

[Tigranes]

It sounds like Kurdish.

[Crimean]

It does not sound like the rest of the Caucasian languages. It is logical, because it is not)).
Sounds like Farsi without Arabic influence.

[Arsen_]

To me sounds like a softer version of Farsi

[Ogweed]

Slavic + hebrew?

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It does not sound like the rest of the Caucasian languages. It is logical, because it is not)).
Sounds like Farsi without Arabic influence.

South Ossetian is heavily influenced by Kartvelian languages (Georgian, Svan), when North Ossetian has a lot of loan words from Nakh (Chechen, Ingush, Batsb). This makes Ossetian very unique among IE languages. The man in the video is North Ossetian and he is talking about how do Ossetians worship on their own and follow Christianity, but only Ossetian version with mixed of Caucasus paganism.

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Slavic + hebrew?

I know why you think it sounds Hebrew, because a lot of sounds of letters Sh and Tz (as in Deutsch) is a typical Nakh language thing. The rest is Alanic, Ossetian.