What's the coolest sounding language?

[TheManBeyond]

Pliz don't vote your own language, even if you love it. -.-"
If the one you like, because you are a hipster, is not on the list please post it.

 

[Cherry Cola]

Finnish, American English and some very tonal language cant decide which

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

Chinese, no competition, I have an unreciprocated crush on that one.
Some more distinctly sounding languages:
Icelandic(not scandinavian, make no mistake), Hindi, Russian/Slavic derivatives, Old English, French

I prefer my native language sounds to english too, but maybe prefer it for top 10.

 

[Ex-User (11125)]

Arabic and Cantonese(Chinese)

 

[Brontosaurie]

american english or something i haven't heard

also a fan of indian english

 

[Analyzer]

French or German. Spanish sounds awful.

 

[TheManBeyond]

uhm, interesting, what makes it sound awful to you? you mean the lack of melody in it or something? imo french sounds amazingly good, my sister speaks it fluently and it seems it is hard to adquire the right technique for its pronuntiation, not like in spanish.
Or is it all about affinity for the culture-political-racial bullshit?? (this question is addresed to everyone) or in fact it is impossible to separate that from sounds and make objective subjective selections. -.-

 

[Analyzer]

uhm, interesting, what makes it sound awful to you? you mean the lack of melody in it or something? imo french sounds amazingly good, my sister speaks it fluently and it seems it is hard to adquire the right technique for its pronuntiation, not like in spanish.
Or is it all about affinity for the culture-political-racial bullshit?? (this question is addresed to everyone) or in fact it is impossible to separate that from sounds and make objective subjective selections. -.-

Well I should of stated it better.

Spanish, Spanish or even some forms of S. American Spanish are OK but it just seems that Spanish is a lazy language that is spoken very informally. Mexicans and especially Americanized Hispanics have screwed up the language. Their dialect is very fast and just seems harsh/improper. Out of all the Romance Languages it is the simplest with Italian being the hardest I would say. I speak Portuguese(brazilian dialect) and I think it's a decent sounding language, but French is the more sophisticated of the group.

 

[Olivia]

I picked Scandinavian, but I specifically meant Icelandic. I've found it very interesting, because Iceland is quite isolated, so the Icelandic language has been preserved over the centuries, making it quite similar to old Norse. It's quite beautiful.

 

[onesteptwostep]

I think Japanese is really beautiful. I'll let Nujabes explain ^_^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r16ndBiHC-0

I think it has to do something with their words being open ended. Like if you notice you never end with your lips closed in Japanese.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Jamaican (Patois)
Russian

I'm not sure how to articulate it but I like how the words are stressed / emphasized by the respective accents.

 

[Sockrates]

Italian is fun. Many ladies like Italian, I need to learn it some day. I also like Italian wine and cuisine.

 

[Yellow]

You left off all of my favorites (though assuming it's Cantonese, I picked Chinese from the list). My favorites are:
Samoan
Persian
Icelandic
Berber
Siamese

 

[TBerg]

Byzantine chants and Quranic recitation are both wonderful. Classical Chinese songs sung in Mandarin are also quite intricate in their beauty.

 

[Pyropyro]

Japanese
German
Italian

Spoiler

great...

I just summoned the Axis Powers

 

[Puffy]

I r British, there are no other languages. Jks.

German & Chinese (Cantonese) are the languages I'd most likely pick to learn I think.

I have a love/ hate relationship with French. It simultaneously attracts me and pisses me off -- an abusive relationship in the making.

p.s. what language is 'African Tribes' lol.

 

[TheManBeyond]

German is too damn directing, the most TJ language ever but sometimes sounds cool. Also all slavic languages sound really shitty imo, probably a STJ language.

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

Lol'd. Be careful when speaking your mind like that when you are in slavic countries. People around there have an inferiority complex and are quite emotional, especially bald males in their 20's and 30's.

 

[Ex-User (11125)]

Also all slavic languages sound really shitty imo, probably a STJ language.

i like how slavic languages sound...especially czech <3

 

[TheManBeyond]

Dimitri has something to say

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nkb3g-yySs

when he says "musica" and the tone in which he says some things... meh. not a huge difference with spanish

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

Dimitri has something to say

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nkb3g-yySs

when he says "musica" and the tone in which he says some things... meh. not a huge difference with spanish

Lol'd x2. Did you base your opinion off listening to a drunk person?
K some actors who actually speak Russian and Polish, not drunk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3efQ8yXmFg

 

[Absurdity]

Latin. Arabic. Persian.

 

[TheManBeyond]

Lol'd x2. Did you base your opinion off listening to a drunk person?
K some actors who actually speak Russian and Polish, not drunk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3efQ8yXmFg

yeah, i had a boss that was from ucrania typical ISTJ and his accent was quite similar ughh

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

yeah, i had a boss that was from ucrania typical ISTJ and his accent was quite similar ughh

Your sense of humour is sophisticated, for sure.

 

[TBerg]

For those interested in a wonderfully comprehensive appreciation of the development of our common language, all the way back to being an obscure Friesian dialect:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLOg1X5K0gWJwMNrR08u2pSq3kj3DtFMj

 

[TheManBeyond]

wow i'm impressed no one have chosen spanish yet
damn you hipsters :O

 

[TBerg]

Wouldn't hipsters be "ironically" attracted to Spanish, as they are to Pabst Blue Ribbon?

Wouldn't it burnish their proletarian credentials?

 

[The Gopher]

I think people tend to dislike what they are used to. I dislike french and like Icelandic/Japanese.

 

[Pyropyro]

wow i'm impressed no one have chosen spanish yet
damn you hipsters :O

We were a Spanish colony for 300 years so a lot of the Spanish language terms were already absorbed by our native languages. As such, it feels "too common" for me to enjoy.

 

[paradoxparadigm7]

What's more cooler than the Kalahari bushmen language. The 'click' sound intermixed with the exotic sound/melodic rhythm.

 

[dark+matters]

Parseltongue.

Klingon. Elvish. Fun fictional languages.

http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Parseltongue

 

[TheManBeyond]

I think people tend to dislike what they are used to.

yeah i mean i understand that the more familiar you are with something the less you pay attention to it but anyway i think the hipster attitude is still too strong.

We were a Spanish colony for 300 years so a lot of the Spanish language terms were already absorbed by our native languages. As such, it feels "too common" for me to enjoy.

I know that too, once a philipine girl added me on facebook because he was adding people with her same last name, it was quite crazy to see a asian girl having a galician (norwest spain) last name which is in fact really really weird and rare to have even here in spain, last time i looked for it there were stadistically only 1300 of us here and she had one there lol. I mean i'm not like wooooow fuck reason but hey that's cool.

 

[Yellow]

Also, there are vastly different Spanish accents/dialects. I think most Central and South American versions of Spanish sound pretty cool. But I grew up around Mexican Spanish. I lived in an immigrant-heavy suburb, and I spent the ages of 8-13 regularly being loudly and graphically propositioned by small groupsmen speaking Spanish and Spanglish. So, I really don't enjoy the sound of Mexican and similar accents of Spanish, especially when loudly spoken [at least from men. Women are fine.]

 

[rainman312]

I really like both Japanese and Chinese, but I chose Chinese because I actually know it, so I'm biased towards it. I also think specifc dialects of Chinese sound better than others, for example, I think Cantonese sounds cooler than Mandarin/

 

[Ex-User (8886)]

I like the most diffucult language - polish.

The most difficult and the most beautiful.

The most ugliest imo are english and german.

 

[ParanoidAndroid]

Slavic languages like Russian, Polish etc.

In this poll Finnish is presented as Scandinavian language. It is spoken in Northern Europe but is definitely not a Scandinavian language like Swedish, Danish and Norwegian those are germanic languages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_language

 

[Ostap Bender]

Slavic languages like Russian, Polish etc.

In this poll Finnish is presented as Scandinavian language. It is spoken in Northern Europe but is definitely not a Scandinavian language like Swedish, Danish and Norwegian those are germanic languages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_language

Its part of Ural languages which includes Hungarian as well as some small regional languages in parts of Scandinavia & Northern Russia.

PS. I voted for African tribe languages. You know there is a reference to a particular African tribe language in mainstream movies, the one with clicking sounds. If that is a real language it would be the coolest in my mind.

PPS. Voting for language that your speak yourself is biased

 

[KevIntp]

Definitely Brazilian Portuguese. It sounds like Spanish spoken with a French accent, and is so beautiful especially when sung.

 

[Jennywocky]

Kind of leaves me wondering how English would fare if it were not the dominant language spoken on this forum, since all other languages (unless you happen to speak them) are likely more exotic...

I imagine it wouldn't be as impressive as some, due to its hodge-podge nature (it's very good at absorbing/swiping foreign words for its own vocabulary, creating a jumble of sounds). Some of the beauty of a language can be found in its consistency, if it has pleasurable sounds involved.

 

[RaBind]

I wonder if the bias/preference for the Japanese language is because of animu, mango and the other influences Japanese culture has on the west and wherever else.

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

I wonder if the bias/preference for the Japanese language is because of animu, mango and the other influences Japanese culture has on the west and wherever else.

It's the basic part of preference and each culture has something going for them. Japanese have their feudal history, mainly popularised as the Sengoku jidai time frame, rituals and arts (jutsu), mentality or demeanour, exotic festivals and oddities and whatever else is popular with the wide world.
The Japanese on the other hand seem to have a slight craze for German and US English culture.

 

[Lapis Lazuli]

I voted Russian, though I don’t speak it. I have known a few people who do and to me it sounds like a mix between French and German. French sounds to “silky” to me, and German to guttural.

The nicest sounding language I have ever heard is Sindarin, a language created by the aesthetic linguist J.R.R. Tolkien. There are recordings of him speaking and reciting poetry in Sindarian. It comes with translations so you can get an idea of what he is saying.

 

[Lapis Lazuli]

What's more cooler than the Kalahari bushmen language. The 'click' sound intermixed with the exotic sound/melodic rhythm.

"The Gods Must be Crazy"?

 

[vladmirus]

I am surprised that there are votes for the African tribes.
Not what I expected...

 

[TheManBeyond]

spanish sounds really cool accept it, just hear this beautiful looking guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z53FwXxB5JE

 

[Lapis Lazuli]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rmo3fKeveo