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Critical remark I made after joke in foreign language (7)

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I believe the answer is:

punjabi

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'foreign language' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'critical remark i made after joke' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'i' could be 'a' and 'a' is present in the answer.
'joke' could be 'pun' (pun is a type of joke) and 'pun' is found within the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'in' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for punjabi that I've seen before include "Asian language" , "Native of region shared by India and Pakistan" , "Indian language" , "Possibly Pakistani" , "foreign language" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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