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What language is the new WSKQ 97.9 HD2 station? Arabic? Persian?

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DesiArnez6

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Someone elsewhere told me it was Indian, but I'm 99% sure that its not, because it sounds very different I think.

I'm pretty sure that its Arabic but cannot confirm. Someone else in family say it sounds Persian (but are there really many Persian speaking individuals in NY?) No info about it anywhere on the net. Its a great modern mix, urban, pop, and soft ballads, not a traditional station. There are a lot of people in NY of Arab descent. Seems like a good move to me.

So, can anyone in New York City confirm what language this new station is? 97.9 HD2
 
Hmm, on another board, someone claims to have used their I-phone to detect (With Shazam program?) A song by Ragheb Alama (from Lebanon), and another song by Latifa (from Tunisia); both are Arab pop artists.

But it seems they are now switching between Arabic pop, and something else, like Romantic Western sounding music but in another language (Arabic also but with a "Western" rhythm? ) I guess the mystery continues.

(Also I noticed that WSKQ is running their regular Spanish FM program with a big delay on their HD3 stream) Which makes me wonder if they are also planning to eventually add an HD3 stream

So If anyone can verify, please post. (I think a Arabic Pop station would be pretty cool in New York, just to throw in my 2 cents ;) )
 
DesiArnez6 said:
Someone elsewhere told me it was Indian, but I'm 99% sure that its not, because it sounds very different I think.

I'm pretty sure that its Arabic but cannot confirm. Someone else in family say it sounds Persian (but are there really many Persian speaking individuals in NY?) No info about it anywhere on the net. Its a great modern mix, urban, pop, and soft ballads, not a traditional station. There are a lot of people in NY of Arab descent. Seems like a good move to me.

So, can anyone in New York City confirm what language this new station is? 97.9 HD2
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Persian is not a language; Farsi is. And Persians are not Arabs.

"Indian" is not a language, either. Hindi is the official language, and there are more than a dozen other langauges spoken... see http://languages.iloveindia.com/
 
Wow touchy are we? :) Of course I know that Arabs are not Persians, (neither are Turks, or Tatars, or Ethnic Albanians :p) that is why the titles says "Arabic? Persian?" and my post shows that obviously My mother thought 'Persian' as opposed to 'Arabic'. It was never implied that they were the same thing. (Learned this in college level linguistic translation courses)

"Farsi" is to "Persian" as "Espanol" is to "Spanish" , (And I'd prefer to say "I speak Spanish" instead of "I speak Espanol")
(Persian is pronounced Farsi in Iran, but in English it is called Persian, that is if you believe:
The United States Government CIA (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ir.html)
The Iranian Government (their Embassy in Oman) - (http://www.iranembassy.gov.om/cultural_sec_.htm)
University of California - UCLA (http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/)

In fact, I could study "Persian" if I wanted to, at the "Department of Persian Language and Literature"
Here: http://www.razi.ac.ir/department/?d=22
Here: http://en.sbu.ac.ir/Default.aspx?tabid=288
Or Here: http://www.ili.ir/
^All three are state owned Universities in Iran

(So the terms are interchangeable, and Persian is a valid term to use)

;) Also, I know, India has several languages, my High School (Specialized in International Culture) was largely Indian, my friends had "interesting" names like Harshwardhan (who spoke Punjabi btw), Anushka, Aswhini, Alvi, Zankhana, and Sadju, among others that I didnt hang around with as much.

Rather than list all 23 official languages of India, I felt that Indian would be all encompassing, In fact "I" didnt even use the term according to my post, direct quote: "Someone elsewhere told me it was Indian"

If you are curious as to who used the word "Indian" that I was referring to, It was an engineer at WSKQ, so feel free to correct him if you wish.

So, I humbly apologize if there was any confusion
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*As an addition, I just realized the same Arabic? stream is currently playing on 93.1 WPAT-HD2 as someone on another board pointed out

Just thought it might be an interesting topic since the following quote comes from the U.S. Census (PDF File) http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/c2kbr-23.pdf

"In 2000, 70,000 people of Arab ancestry lived in New York, making it the city with the largest number of Arabs"
It wouldn't be ready for a primary signal, but Arabic Pop as a niche format certainly would merit an HD2 signal, Just as Pre pulse 87.7 did with Russian Pop.
No one agrees?
 
DesiArnez6 said:
Wow touchy are we? :) Of course I know that Arabs are not Persians, (neither are Turks, or Tatars, or Ethnic Albanians :p) that is why the titles says "Arabic? Persian?" and my post shows that obviously My mother thought 'Persian' as opposed to 'Arabic'. It was never implied that they were the same thing. (Learned this in college level linguistic translation courses)
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Most sources would say that Farsi s the modern or contemporary version of Persian. But the more I read, the more blurry the distinction is. The folks who have Radio Tehran on the subcarrier of KLVE here in LA won't accept the term "Persian" for the language used... and the same as what I hear from the large Iranian community around where I leive.

Also, I know, India has several languages, my High School (Specialized in International Culture) was largely Indian, my friends had "interesting" names like Harshwardhan (who spoke Punjabi btw), Anushka, Aswhini, Alvi, Zankhana, and Sadju, among others that I didnt hang around with as much.
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Perhaps I am oversensitive... but I don't think errors need be passed along, particularly since you do recognize the lack of precision in the statement. But your point, likewise, is well taken.
 
Desi, there was nothing wrong with your original post...the know-it-all from the LA board stumbled over here and decided to spread more of his "wisdom" or aka adding to his 15,000+ posts ::)

My friend is originally from Iran. She says the language is called Farsi by locals...Persian elsewhere.
 
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