Of course, I had to ask. It was Farsi. On this site I've just linked to, I read
Farsi, also known as Persian Language, is the most widely spoken member of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, a subfamily of the Indo-European Languages.
What an interesting place my city is, where I can hear such a variety of languages!
One of the women obliged me by counting to ten in Farsi, which I thought was very kind of her. Here's a link to a list of those numbers.
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It's odd how some languages sound beautiful, pretty or romantic, whereas others sound harsher or more functional - even though it's possible to express exactly the same sentiments in any language.
I guess there are some measurably different aspects of spoken languages, but also there'd be the emotional aspect of our relationship to different ways of speaking.
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