What is the prettiest sounding language?

[Benevolent_Rabbit]

French not included - too sexy for words.

I vote for a southern belle speaking what passes in Georgia for English.

[NJCher]

1. love French

Also love hearing Jamaicans speak.


Cher

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Italian.

Love the sound.

[noiretextatique]

45. italian is a beautiful language

e una bella lingua! or something like that :D

[HEyHEY]

3. Eastern European accents

Spanish or Italian

[JohnKleeb]

37. yeah eastern european accents

and heyhey arent you part Irish like me. Gaelic man is nice.

[hotphlash]

4. Italian, then.

BUT nothing is sexier than a woman talking to you in French.

[demnan]

5. Italian

Montiverdi - Vivaldi - Mozart(lyrics) - Puccini - Verdi - just get into opera

It isn't an accident that the language used in musical scores is usually Italian. The language is beautiful to hear.

[alfredo]

6. Spoken- Swahili

Sung - Portuguese

[Sophree]

71. I took Swahili in college

I was an Anthropology major and thought I wanted to go to Africa.

My professor liked to smoka the herb, it was a night class, and sometimes he would be writing something on the board, shake his head and have to erase the whole thing and start over again. SO FUNNY!

Portuguese is also my pick for most beautiful language, spoken and sung.

[expatriot]

7. any language spoken that i don't understand spoken in a soft sexy voice...

the most annoying language is thai for me. It's nothing against Asian languages, I love Mandurin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean (I speak a little Mandurin, Cantonese and Japanese)but i just have this visceral reaction to spoken thai... it is wierd... I think it has to do with my family having thai foreign exchange students throughout my childhood and they would spend hours on the phone yelling in that language... it is very shrill. I love Mandurin the best, of Euro languages i have a preference for listening to Hungarian and Serbo-Croat spoken even though i don't know a smattering of it. I just like it.

[ikojo]

8. Not exactly singing but....

I really enjoy a good cantor during the Jewish High Holidays. Wow!



Ooops! I thought the question was what is the prettiest singing language! Ooops!
:o

Now to answer the question....I think the prettiest sounding language is any African language (I can't specify one because when I hear Africans talking it sounds so beautiful).

[newyawker99]

65. Congrats ikojo!! 100 posts

A :toast: for your first milestone!! :-)

[Paul1574]

9. Latine loqui coactus sum......

Si hoc signum legere potes, operis boni in rebus Latinus alacribus et fructuosis potiri potes!


Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum viditur

[Benevolent_Rabbit]

10. Something about potatoes being reborn?

dangit. Wish I could hear it. :)

[Kellanved]

13. As if anybody knows how to pronounce it properly.

And it doen't seem important to me; regardless of the language.
BTW: what do you mean "alacribus"?. It is only used in the Vatican.

[Interrobang]

77. What do you mean "as if" and "properly"?

Latin is still the (cough) "lingua franca" for many Catholic scholars and priests (especially SJ, I hear) speaking to each other, and as near as I can figure, has been in practically constant liturgical (and other) use until Vatican II. There are also different speaking dialects of Latin. And it is possible to determine some pronunciations of even dead languages, mostly by studying their poetry! And here you thought poetry was useless!

My vote for prettiest spoken language is Spanish.

Most difficult language to sing in that I've yet encountered, since some people mentioned nicest sung language, is definitely Yiddish. It combines the worst features of singing in Broad Scots (the fricatives, mostly) with the worst features of singing in Italian (all that goes on one note?! But it's three syllables!). Latin is a very nice language to sing in, probably the best of about 20 that I've tried. :)

[renegade000]

24. iam quoque Latine loqui coactus sum...

nomen latina est Anaxarchus, et possum legere tui signum.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

31. Good heavens!

I've been looking for someone who knows Latin!

pleasepleasepleaseplease

How is "Long Live The Dog" written in Latin?

[renegade000]

32. hmmm...here are acouple....

literally: longum vive canem
thats a literal english to latin translation...hope its correct heh...

i think is better though: longa vita cani
"long life to the dog"

i don't think the first one makes sense in latin...heh

[Monaco]

33. Quam ob rem

dicis "coactus"?

[ForrestGump]

11. Either French or the Polynesian languages

[KamaAina]

14. Ka 'olelo Hawai'i makuahine

lit. "the mother tongue of Hawai'i"

"Ua mau ke ea o ka 'aina i ka pono": our state/national motto, meaning "the life of the land is perpetuated in (righteousness/balance/harmony)".

Then again, in Tahiti, you get both French AND Tahitian!

[ForrestGump]

16. Da Kine!

Mahalo!

[MuseRider]

20. I tried to learn

Hawaian, we were going to move there. It was very hard for me but it is beautiful, really fun to listen to.

[Benevolent_Rabbit]

17. and Salma would say...........

which branch of the Spanish tree?

[ForrestGump]

29. Whatever branch of the tree she's on

is fine with me. Muy bonita!

[JohnKleeb]

38. si senorita selma es muy bonita

[SPICYHOT]

42. Si y muy

rica! tu tienes que decir...

[nemo137]

73. polynesian languages do sound fantastic

[NashVegas]

12. Mandarin Chinese

That is, when it's not being yelled.

[renegade000]

26. which it often is...especially with relatives together in one room

;-)

[FlaGranny]

72. You might say that about Italians too.

One of my fondest memories is spending time in my friends Italian household. I was always amazed that they could all be screaing at each other one moment, and the next they'd be all sweetness and honey to one another.

[Stargleamer]

15. Hawaiian, although French might be in second place.

Doesn't Hawaiian sound so wonderfully melodic?

[TheBigGuy]

18. French..dont understand a word of it...but...

...it sure sounds nice.

[Iris]

57. oui, oui!

[MoonGod]

19. American Sign Language...

... then you can listen to the birds chirping... or the Pink Floyd on the stereo.

I guess any sign language will do, though. Doesn't have to be ASL. ASL just happens to be the one that I've learned a bit of.

[Benevolent_Rabbit]

21. I still want to learn it -

a place I worked for years ago was going to pay for it, but I left before taking the class.

[MoonGod]

23. It's a fascinating language...

... completely different from any spoken language... I had some fun learning it and kinda regret having let a big chunk of my skills slip away.

[ScreamingMeemie]

27. My brother and sister-in-law are teaching my 13 month old niece

american sign language. Small things like, drink, eat, play, love...and it's really working. They started at 6 months and she has been picking it up quite handily. No pun intended.

[MoonGod]

28. Very cool...

... that will probably have all sorts of wonderful unintended side effects, too. Learning ASL stimulates not just the traditional language centers in the brain, but also the visual cortex and areas that deal with spatial relationships, hand-eye coordination, etc.

And I think most of us have some idea what the advantages of being multi-lingual are.

[Character Assassin]

22. Nowegian, Bergen region accent.

[LadeJarl]

50. Noway!!

But then again, I'm originally from Trondheim, Norway and we have a much better sounding dialect than Bergen :)

[Character Assassin]

53. Yes, but all you have is a technical university.

Whereas in Bergen, they have a bigger University and, consequently, more lovely Norwegian lassies.

Ah, University days.....

[GAspnes]

75. my grandad came from Trondheim

(not that that has anything to do with the prettiest language, but heck)

My Dad went back to visit, years ago. Said it was beautiful.

[iluvchicago86]

25. Serbian

But I may be biased.

[JohnKleeb]

41. I'd say so lol

Here are my picks
French- (see my poems in it and wow)
German- (I got a bias too)
Gaelic- (cough bias)
Slovak- (bias)
Slovene- (you guessed it bias)
Italian- (no I dont have a bias I love the sound of opera in it though)
now to dialects
I love the Irish accent.
aye lads and lasses.

[Leftist78]

30. I'd say....

Kingon

:silly:

[sweetheart]

34. the language of love...

grunt grunt uh un ooooohhoo ohh
aaaahhhh "IM COMING" aaahhhh "FUCKE ME BAAAABBBYY"... :-)

spanish.

[thermodynamic]

49. I wanted to say that!!!!

:stomp: :grunt: : kick: :pout: :whine: :rant: :single desperately needing companionship:

My vote goes for Swahili as the prettiest sounding language. :-)

[nemo137]

35. Spanish.

with an honorary mention for Farsi.

accent-wise, kiwi accents are fantasticly sexy.

[Raenelle]

36. Another vote for Spanish, here.

n/t

[SPICYHOT]

39. I think that...

mmmm english is kind of a languages for warriors, that french is for lovers, that hebrean is for sales persons and spanish for friends. Now deutch is kind of war languages for the accent, but it's very kind and polite language.

[BigMcLargehuge]

40. Turkish

I used to just sit and listen to all my Turkish friends converse in Turkish. Such a languid, fluid, timbre... The sound always reminded me of caramel.

I get goosebumps just thinking about it...

It probably also had something to do with an absolutely beautiful girl named Aicha Kandemir. I would have sat in rapt attention as she read the phone book in either Engish or Turkish.

At least in Turkish though, I could have imagined her hittin on me.

Whew... Turkish... Man.

[Malikshah]

64. Harika!

I was going to see if anyone mentioned Turkish...

Ne guzel!

The consonant and vowel harmony rules make it the most sublime language..
I took it years ago in my studies and spent some time in Turkey during the summer-- just loved it and the people--and the pop music ain't bad either.

[Snow]

43. Tamil...

especially by kids playing in the street and yelling at each other. It has a lot of rolled 'r' type sounds, more so than any other language I'm familiar with. Daggone kids sound like they're playing motorcycles or something, but that's just the way the language is....

[I AM SPARTACUS]

80. and the side-to-side head nod is pretty charming, too...

[roguevalley]

44. a sexy man speaking russian

or Orlando Bloom speaking anything.

[orangecoloredapple]

66. Boris Yeltsin?

maybe not!

[JVS]

46. german

I like it.

[stoner_guy]

47. Japanese as spoken by the females

[alfredo]

55. You would have loved

Kikuchi Momoko in the Japanese version of the Apple switch ads.


She was very animated, completely unafraid of the camera. Used her whole body to tell her story. they should have run it in the US, it was so funny to watch.

[oneighty]

76. Softly speaking of love,

smelling of lotus and jasmine and pleasures to come!

180

[mlawson]

48. I wonder what English sounds like to a non English speaker??

Sorta like Dutch? A combination of French and German?? Always wondered.....

[SOteric]

56. English and German

both sound a bit like large dogs barking. A lot of 'r's and hard consonants.

[Ediacara]

58. I've heard English described as being

choppy and obnoxious with lots of stops and starts. Like banging a wooden spoon around in a pot.

[Ediacara]

51. Blackfoot

Although I doubt many here aside from myself have ever heard Blackfoot spoken by native speakers. It's, very vaguely reminiscent of the language spoken by Jabba the Hutt, only sexy sounding.

[Astarho]

52. Hopi

Very beautiful language, I've only heard spoken a few times.

Also:
Gaelic and Japanese and Arabic (I like gutteral consonants, I know, I'm weird)

[flama]

54. I love the music of Portuguese

Somehow French class made French unappealing.

Never learned any Portuguese except for one song. That was 40 years ago. How does it go again? Ate Amena, meu amor?

"Tomorrow or later, my love" has gotten laughs from salesmen in Brazil and Massachusetts but it still sounds pretty.

Eu partir e voce esparar. (Did I spell any of that right?)

Ma

[SOteric]

59. Italian, or possibly English with a Slight Brummy Accent.

[Vitruvius]

60. French! And Paris is the loveliest city in the world.

n/t

[FloridaJudy]

61. *Brazilian* Portuguese

Melodic and magical...

European Portuguese tends to be gutteral and truncated; even they admit that.

[Amaya]

62. I'd say

French :)

[44wax]

63. Portuguese when it is sung.

[Sophree]

70. Portuguese ANYTIME!

Brazilian men, Ahhhhhhh.

Seriously the language is the most beautiful I've ever heard.

[Syn_Dem]

67. Hmmm

Czech, Japanese, and Basque for me.

[VOX]

68. English, with a Scottish dialect...it rounds out and softens the words...

It's the closest thing possible to aural bubbles.

[Blue_Chill]

69. French sounds really stupid when spoken by a angry male

No language that makes people laugh at you when you are trying to insult them is a good one. English makes no frickin sense to anyone but native borns so thats out too.

so lets see.....

Coolest - Russian
romantic - Spanish
frightening when angry - Japanese
Prettiest - Italian

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

74. Spanish, Port, Italian

All very similar, but all very pretty. :)

[grasswire]

78. I heard a segment on NPR...

...a few weeks ago where a composer had set language to music. In other words, he transcribed the sound of the speech in musical notation. He played a piece on the piano that was transcribed from a woman speaking Chinese, about three minutes worth. It was just fascinating. I wish I could remember his name. It was on the program "The next big thing."

[Lady Freedom]

79. Germen!

It just makes me tingle! ALL OVER! Prrrrrrrrr.

[Rhiannon12866]

81. I was going to say French until I read the text of your post

I think German is the least euphonious.:shrug:

[LuLu550]

82. Elvish

Not Elvis...what elves speak.
LuLu