Hi,
which language do you think sounds the best, is most beautiful and pleasant to the ear?
From what I've heard I like Latin most.

They even have a saying: Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum viditur.
Or "Anything said in Latin sounds profound".

Finnish is quite poetic. I like listening to Finnish lyrics more than to English although I understand less.

Czech! Sounds so cheerful!

I like French the most. I went for French lessons once, it cost me 20 quid and I got crabs.

I like a language that's direct and open to new possibilities: english. Like, hey, I need to sync pronto. I also like german but words tend to be a tad long. French! Too many words and roundabouts, as is spanish. Latin, although I don't speak it, feels too convoluted for my personality -- and has that green brass, abraded feel to it.

Portuguese

Won't a lot depend on the accent?

Sanskrit

Won't a lot depend on the accent?

Or the tempo/rhythm. I suppose it all depends on personal taste. I prefer angular over melodic -- each 'beautiful' in their own right, I suppose.

russian is a wonderful sounding language if a woman speaks it....when men speak it, it sounds like vomiting glass.

*shrug* go figure.

Spanish sounds beautiful to me. Whispered especially. Then French.

I like Asian languages, Korean, Chinese, Japanese

Urdu is the most beautiful language I know. I luuuuv Urdu poetry, especially the ghazal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghazal) and the work of Mirza Ghalib. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirza_Ghalib)

You can say stuff in Urdu that is simply impossible to translate.

Urdu is the most beautiful language I know. I luuuuv Urdu poetry, especially the ghazal and the work of Mirza Ghalib.

You can say stuff in Urdu that is simply impossible to translate.

my sister speaks urdu..her kids sound hilarious in their little kid voices, babbling away.

i believe what you say!

my sister speaks urdu..her kids sound hilarious in their little kid voices, babbling away.

i believe what you say!

Did you pick up any?

Jive Jive Pakistan

Alot of languages are beautiful but are spoken so rapidly it loses it's appeal. East Asian tongues are like this. Arabic and Persian too. If they were spoken much more slowly they would sound better.

Did you pick up any?

nah i dont see them often..havent in 2 years :(

they live in florida, and im in this hellhole of a country called belgium.

is Opera a language? Can it be spoken without song? No, Not Oprah.

C++

Ahh yes, the ugly twin sister of C.. C++.

*throws up a little in mouth*

You must be joking?

Hi,
which language do you think sounds the best, is most beautiful and pleasant to the ear?
From what I've heard I like Latin most.

They even have a saying: Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum viditur.
Or "Anything said in Latin sounds profound".

math language is amazing. I mean just use formulas to convey everything.

Personally I never figured out the headers in C++ and al my creations look like their in DOSS.

Give me Spanish for most beatiful languege.
I do also like finish but that's more funny then beautiful

Asians seem to bark to much when they speak no offence but they seem to speak in syllables in stead of more fluwend languege.

Greek, Japanese/Chinese, Hindu, Sinhalese and Arabian (for example) have a much cooler "alphabet" than we. Greek also has cool words, that's why all planets have Greek names and all the ancient Greeks had to become geniuses to invent their language because their language looks like a big equation. And even today scientists have to use Greek letters in Mathematics to make their equations sound more genius.

The Bible tells us that language created our universe: "In the beginning was the Word".

So the only reason Japanese are obsessed with cuteness is because their language sounds cute. And Americans make cool movies and music because their language sounds cool.

English is not a big language because people spread it around, because if the language had sucked, it couldn't have been spread.

Programming and Math language are pretty cool too, but they don't count!

what about language of silence? everlasting eternal silence that never bothers the ear and makes us all understand it without need to learn?

Greek, Japanese/Chinese, Hindu, Sinhalese and Arabian (for example) have a much cooler "alphabet" than we. Greek also has cool words, that's why all planets have Greek names and all the ancient Greeks had to become geniuses to invent their language because their language looks like a big equation. And even today scientists have to use Greek letters in Mathematics to make their equations sound more genius.

The Bible tells us that language created our universe: "In the beginning was the Word".

So the only reason Japanese are obsessed with cuteness is because their language sounds cute. And Americans make cool movies and music because their language sounds cool.

English is not a big language because people spread it around, because if the language had sucked, it couldn't have been spread.

Programming and Math language are pretty cool too, but they don't count!


sucky things can be spread around if thier are enough basesuckers who like it. Mcdonalds is the number one restaurant in the world but its 95% shit for food. english is mostly pragmaticly descriptive but i think quite limited in first person full breadth nuanced communication, it talks around the issue rather than the issue.

If there is a most beautiful language, then it would be either Spanish or Mandarin. But you see, I do not know one tenth of one percent of the world's languages, so it's very well still at large.

english is mostly pragmatically descriptive but i think quite limited in first person full breadth nuanced communication, it talks around the issue rather than the issue.Full breadth nuanced communication? On the contrary, I think one can easily adjunct any sort of subtle coloring into plain english that will transform what you say to mean what you really want to say. Take the word fuck. Depending how it's said, it will puncture surface-reality like a runaway bullet.

Which language do you think sounds the best, is most beautiful and pleasant to the ear?RomanianFrom what I've heard I like Latin most.How can we know what spoken Latin sounded like? Everyone today speaks it with a foreign accent. Most people try to make it sound like Italian, with the palatalized soft C's and G's. The Brits of course pronounce the vowels as if they're English. The way scholars reproduce what we can deduce of the phonetics of Classical Latin, with V like W and always-hard C's and G's, it sounds rather harsh to me.Won't a lot depend on the accent?Oh yeah. Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese sound much different.I like Asian languages, Korean, Chinese, JapaneseHmm. You must just like them because they're exotic. Chinese doesn't have much of anything in common with the other two.

If there is a most beautiful language, then it would be either Spanish or Mandarin. But you see, I do not know one tenth of one percent of the world's languages, so it's very well still at large.

spanish is one of the ugliest languages in existence. The way they scream and shout...is so repelling. ...and everything is like ending on "cha" or "chos". disgusting.

Silence is the ultimate language.

Quenya was designed to be beautiful. (Tolkien based Quenya on Welsh and Sindarin on Finnish, apparently)

A Caita carelya ammelda ar moiana.
Lanta i lómë, utúlielyë tiëo mettanna.
A lorë si, ar óla len i epë tuller.
Entë yaitar hrestallo pella.
Manen neyilyë? Mallo niër antalyassë?
Rato cenuvalyë sa ilyë caurelyar autuvar,
varna mi inya ranqui.

http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/tothewest.htm

(I don't understand it, mind...)

Urdu is the most beautiful language I know. I luuuuv Urdu poetry, especially the ghazal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghazal) and the work of Mirza Ghalib. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirza_Ghalib)

You can say stuff in Urdu that is simply impossible to translate.

I thought Urdu was just Hindi with a different alphabet...?

Whispers of the whales

http://youtube.com/watch?v=y0IcB34uE9Q&mode=related&search=

spanish is one of the ugliest languages in existence. The way they scream and shout...is so repelling. ...and everything is like ending on "cha" or "chos". disgusting.

Silence is the ultimate language.

Then you must hate staccatos in music.

Thailand's Thai language is soft, monosyllabic and lovely sounding.

In general, a language with heavy use of vowels rather than harsh sounding consonants should be the most pleasant to hear. But it is the consonants that have all the information. You can confirm this by taking some text and blacking out the vowels and anyone will be able to read it with >90% comprehension.

The Czek language is known for heavy use of consonants and it sounds harsh and unpleasant. But it sure is efficient.

Thai is indeed a beautiful language

I'd say Magyar or Cantonese, but I haven't been exposed to all that many languages, outside of movies.

As with most things, I have a hard time choosing one language and labeling it "most beautiful". Each language has its own character and its own sound, and they're all quite beautiful in their own ways and in their own right.

I like German and other Germanic languages because they sound distinctly rugged and manly. I'm also partial to them, German being the only other language I know fairly well.

Russian sounds similar to me, but a bit exotic because I don't know it well at all, and also cleaner because it uses the velar fricative rather than German's gargley uvular fricative. I used to not like its rolled R because I didn't think of it as particularly rugged, and I wished it used a guttural R instead. But I've grown to appreciate the added cleanliness, which seems not to retract from the language's overall rugged, manly sound. I really like Russian accents too.

Spanish sounds kinda spicy, and I like the clean, pure sound of it. Italian and Portuguese sound like this too, although more classy than spicy. But Portuguese has a vaguely Spanish class to it, almost "saucy", I guess. To me, these sound smoothest and most esthetically pleasing when spoken by a deep-voiced man, Spanish especially. Sometimes women will sound like they're squawking when they speak, but not always.

French sounds a bit stuffy, but also intelligent, and I like how the native speakers almost whisper when they talk. French seems to be somehow well suited for whispering in a way English just isn't. I think both men and women can pull off pleasing accents and pleasing French.

Although, all these descriptions of what languages sound like are largely subjective.

Greek also has cool words, that's why all planets have Greek names and all the ancient Greeks had to become geniuses to invent their language because their language looks like a big equation.

The Greeks didn't invent their language, unless you mean their written language, but even then I might disagree. And their alphabet looks just as natural and normal to them as ours does to us.

And even today scientists have to use Greek letters in Mathematics to make their equations sound more genius.

Because our culture perceives the ancient Greek language and culture as sophisticated.

So the only reason Japanese are obsessed with cuteness is because their language sounds cute. And Americans make cool movies and music because their language sounds cool.

I wouldn't say Japanese people are obsessed with cuteness any more than Americans or anyone else are. And American culture isn't really any more or less "cool" than any other, nor is American English. If you expose yourself to foreign cultures, I'm sure they'll seem pretty "cool" too.

English is not a big language because people spread it around, because if the language had sucked, it couldn't have been spread.

English spread because the English people were good conquerers, not because their language "didn't suck". The English could've spoken Klingon and it would've spread all the same.

I have always thought that Romanian is very melodious because of all the rolled vowels in the words. :p

Chinese is soothing to me and is perhaps the main reason why I became so involved with Chinese culture in the first place. It has a nice mellow flow compared to the say the more harsh consonant stops of German. However, I like Southern dialects much more than Northern because the later, such as Beijing dialect, sound more mushy and loose.

spanish is one of the ugliest languages in existence. The way they scream and shout...is so repelling. ...and everything is like ending on "cha" or "chos". disgusting.

Actually, I shall amend to the "staccatos" point. I would easily hate anything resembling that type of music too, it's just that the style isn't necessarily limited to a limited amount of Spanish speakers - of course you have the English rappers, who have limited enunciation and sometimes awful sounding, and the Portugese rappers, which can sound disgusting as well.

The worse to be found in any language I know would be English heavy death metal rock, like Pantera or Dying Fetus.

Chinese is soothing to me and is perhaps the main reason why I became so involved with Chinese culture in the first place. It has a nice mellow flow compared to the say the more harsh consonant stops of German.Chinese is a more compact language. Meaningless noise words like articles and prepositions are virtually absent, as are syllables indicating almost equally meaningless inflections. As a result it takes fewer syllables to express an idea in Chinese than in most other languages: About 15% compared to English and French (probably the most compact of the Indo-European family) by my own informal reckoning, which would make it about 30% compared to Spanish and maybe 35-40% for Italian. As a result, the language is spoken somewhat more slowly--or far more slowly if you're talking about Italian. (After all there's a limit to how fast your brain can produce the thoughts). That makes it easier for a foreign student to follow the sentences, and it also gives it that "nice mellow flow" you're talking about. Furthermore, the fact that tones are phonemic prevents Chinese speakers from animating the tone of their voice to express feelings. This gives it an even smoother flow, as well as requiring feelings to be expressed in words. Instead of a narrow range of tones to tell you how they feel, Chinese are naturally guided into using thousands of words to do it. It is much more expressive language.

Hmmm. As a speaker of Spanish and English I'd have to say that FRENCH is the most beautiful sounding... followed closely by spanish. English, however, tops them all in its color and deapth.

~String

Beauty is in the ear of the... of the... be-listener? :)

Listening to one foreign language spoken by a native speaker of a different foreign language can be very entertaining. I don't think I've ever heard anything quite as lovely as the Swedish flight attendants on an SAS airliner speaking German.

The most beautiful language is, of course, French...

comes after it persian ( Farsi )...

this is a famous ordering... it depends on how much consonants are less pronounced, I guess...

Personally, I think all language are beautiful. It sounds beautiful when an African speaks Afrikkan, so does a French, and so does an Arabian. Any language I don't understand, and sounds foreign, is beautiful to me. But when it comes to culture, India beats everybody hands down. Not that crapy mistake in America, the real India, the one with the oldest religion in the world, most beautiful scenery, and wonderful enchantements.

The language in which there is "denouement," the poor spelling of "denouncement." The language which has no brutal words like "блядь" but can go as pleasant as "lady" or "sir."

Very Beautiful languages:

Portuguese = a very sweet and poetic language
Italian = a beautiful accent
French = nobly
Greek = very beautiful when spoken and when written
Farsi (Persian) = exotic, beautiful accent and beautiful writting form

Special cases:

English = beautiful in some places, extremely ugly in others (the Texan English is terrible in my opinion, while the brittish is very beautiful).
Spanish = due to its poor phonemes and strong accent, it can sound ugly. But when spoken slowly and poetically, it can be very beautiful.
Arabic = It can be ugly when spoken fast, but very beautiful when sung and written.
Japanese = This is the opposite of Arabic. Beautiful when spoken, ugly when sung.

But, being ugly or beautiful, all languages are interesting and perfect to express yourself.

Turkish.

"O ne güzel bir kumandandır, Istanbulı fed eden kumandan."

Math is the best language after silence.

http://serc.carleton.edu/images/usingdata/nasaimages/math-equations.gif

Math is the best language after silence.

http://serc.carleton.edu/images/usingdata/nasaimages/math-equations.gif

coming from a guy who averages 21 posts per day
:confused:

coming from a guy who averages 21 posts per day
:confused:

I admire math language and have not conquered it to speak it fully.

I admire math language and have not conquered it to speak it fully.
it was more the idea of it coming a second to silence that I found intriguing

it was more the idea of it coming a second to silence that I found intriguing

well...what you see is just what I type.

well...what you see is just what I type.

yup
and its not the sound of one hand clapping

C++

I second that.

The language of love is universal.

Hmmm let's see... I love listening to Welsh and Russian, as spoken by women. I also like to speak French, it's just so much fun... I also think that many British accents are very beautiful, especially on girls...