I have a few friends from Barcelona who speak exactly like that...I thought that was how Catalan was supposed to sound.Lyra wrote:Aska las parsones dal sud pansen ka tots als dal nord parlen aixins, i ka tots som uns putus capullus xDIzambri wrote:Ahahahaha. Sabia ca ta faria por. As ca'l txava és raru-raru, eh? Par sort yo no'l sentu molt.Lyra wrote:Ahhhh! Nooooooo!
As hurribla!
~Lyra
~Lyra
Nice sounding natlangs
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
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Re: Nice sounding natlangs
Yeah, I don;t know why some ppl just speak it that way... it's kind of annoying...Davoush wrote:I have a few friends from Barcelona who speak exactly like that...I thought that was how Catalan was supposed to sound.Lyra wrote:Aska las parsones dal sud pansen ka tots als dal nord parlen aixins, i ka tots som uns putus capullus xDIzambri wrote:Ahahahaha. Sabia ca ta faria por. As ca'l txava és raru-raru, eh? Par sort yo no'l sentu molt.Lyra wrote:Ahhhh! Nooooooo!
As hurribla!
~Lyra
~Lyra
I quite like the Northern accent (with its strange tune) and the southern Mountain accent. I speak a mix of Standard Catalan with a lot of Ebre thrown in...
~Lyra
"In the liver we trust."
From yonder, in the land of TWC.
From yonder, in the land of TWC.
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
So how many catalanophones do we have here now :o
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
Lots of.Jipí wrote:So how many catalanophones do we have here now
It took me a while to realize that Jipi is actually Guitarplayer O:
Ayeri gave you away.
Languages I speak fluentlyPřemysl wrote:Oh god, we truly are nerdy. My first instinct was "why didn't he just use sunt and have it all in Latin?".Kereb wrote:they are nerdissimus inter nerdes
English, עברית
Languages I am studying
العربية, 日本語
Conlangs
Athonian
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
Note that the spelling was altered to represent the xava speech, so the difficulties to understand what these sentences mean is higher for a non native.Jipí wrote:Je sais que cela n'était pas espagnol, mais je crois qu'il y ressemblait assez pour le comprendre, peut-être aussi par l'aide des autres langues romanes. Au moins, si on fait l'effort de discerner les mots apparentés.Izambri wrote:Obviously. Because that's not Castilian, nor any other Spanish dialect. XD
Un llapis mai dibuixa sense una mà.
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
You know, I expected that people would find it actually pretty transparent. Jipí /ʤiˈpiː/ < GP (people commonly abbreviate me that way here and on IRC) < Guitarplayer.Mr. Z wrote:It took me a while to realize that Jipi is actually Guitarplayer O:
Ayeri gave you away.
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
I didn't get that... I was mentally pronouncing it as /xi'pi/ or something because it looks somewhat Spanishy or South American.
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Re: Nice sounding natlangs
Is /ʤiˈpiː/ a German pronunciation of "GP"? (Not that I know any German). As far as English goes I'd expect /ˈdʒiː ˈpiː/ (both letters stressed). <Jipí> does look like the transcription of a word in a language aboriginal to Spanish America using a spelling system based on Spanish (as is typical of Nahuatl, Quechua, etc.).Jipí wrote:You know, I expected that people would find it actually pretty transparent. Jipí /ʤiˈpiː/ < GP (people commonly abbreviate me that way here and on IRC) < Guitarplayer.Mr. Z wrote:It took me a while to realize that Jipi is actually Guitarplayer O:
Ayeri gave you away.
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
I've been pronouncing it /ʒiˈpi/ since it changed. I'm glad to see that my guess of the pronunciation was pretty close.
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
For a German pronunciation of GP I would personally expect /ˈɡeː ˈpʰeː/ or like. That said, I definitely agree in the impression I get about Jipí as it is written.Serafín wrote:Is /ʤiˈpiː/ a German pronunciation of "GP"? (Not that I know any German). As far as English goes I'd expect /ˈdʒiː ˈpiː/ (both letters stressed). <Jipí> does look like the transcription of a word in a language aboriginal to Spanish America using a spelling system based on Spanish (as is typical of Nahuatl, Quechua, etc.).Jipí wrote:You know, I expected that people would find it actually pretty transparent. Jipí /ʤiˈpiː/ < GP (people commonly abbreviate me that way here and on IRC) < Guitarplayer.Mr. Z wrote:It took me a while to realize that Jipi is actually Guitarplayer O:
Ayeri gave you away.
Dibotahamdn duthma jallni agaynni ra hgitn lakrhmi.
Amuhawr jalla vowa vta hlakrhi hdm duthmi xaja.
Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro.
Amuhawr jalla vowa vta hlakrhi hdm duthmi xaja.
Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro.
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
Wops, I didn't. Too obscure to me.Jipí wrote:You know, I expected that people would find it actually pretty transparent. Jipí /ʤiˈpiː/ < GPMr. Z wrote:It took me a while to realize that Jipi is actually Guitarplayer O:
Ayeri gave you away.
By the way, is this list updated?
Un llapis mai dibuixa sense una mà.
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
Me, too. In fact, I was initially thrown to discover that "Jipí" was native speaker of German rather than Spanish.Astraios wrote:I didn't get that... I was mentally pronouncing it as /xi'pi/ or something because it looks somewhat Spanishy or South American.
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Re: Nice sounding natlangs
Good:
Georgian
Syriac
Wu Chinese (e.g. Shanghainese, my mother tongue; I know I'm biased)
Not bad:
Persian
Armenian
Occitan
other Caucasian languages
Bad:
Northern Mandarin dialects (Northeastern Mandarin and actual Beijing dialect sound the worst; very rhotic and too much of those retroflex fricatives, ugly-sounding diphthongs and triphthongs)
Germanic languages
Ugly:
Cantonese (Doesn't really flow as much)
Vietnamese (same reason as above)
Georgian
Syriac
Wu Chinese (e.g. Shanghainese, my mother tongue; I know I'm biased)
Not bad:
Persian
Armenian
Occitan
other Caucasian languages
Bad:
Northern Mandarin dialects (Northeastern Mandarin and actual Beijing dialect sound the worst; very rhotic and too much of those retroflex fricatives, ugly-sounding diphthongs and triphthongs)
Germanic languages
Ugly:
Cantonese (Doesn't really flow as much)
Vietnamese (same reason as above)
江南好
風景舊曾諳
日出江花紅勝火
春來江水綠如藍
能不憶江南
風景舊曾諳
日出江花紅勝火
春來江水綠如藍
能不憶江南
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Re: Nice sounding natlangs
Oh! I thought it was Spanish too (after realising every time, after having forgotten already, that it doesn't say "Jlpi"). I would never have guessed.Jipí wrote:You know, I expected that people would find it actually pretty transparent. Jipí /ʤiˈpiː/ < GP (people commonly abbreviate me that way here and on IRC) < Guitarplayer.Mr. Z wrote:It took me a while to realize that Jipi is actually Guitarplayer O:
Ayeri gave you away.
Online dictionary for my conlang Vanga: http://royalrailway.com/tungumaalMiin/Vanga/
#undef FEMALE
I'd love for you to try my game out! Here's the forum thread about it:
http://zbb.spinnwebe.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=36688
Of an Ernst'ian one.
#undef FEMALE
I'd love for you to try my game out! Here's the forum thread about it:
http://zbb.spinnwebe.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=36688
Of an Ernst'ian one.
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
I heard a Chinese girl talk up another guy on the bus the other day and it was all [ʂɹ̩ ʂɹ̩ ʂɹ̩]. Combined with her cute looks it somehow added to cutesy methought. (I didn't understand anything, though, since I don't know Chinese.)BloodMerchant wrote:Northern Mandarin dialects (Northeastern Mandarin and actual Beijing dialect sound the worst; very rhotic and too much of those retroflex fricatives,
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
I've always been partial to the sounds of Finnish, Scots Gaelic and Russian.
Cant stand French, though.
Cant stand French, though.
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
+:
Icelandic
Japanese
Croatian (or Polish, for that matter)
-:
Dutch (though I go through phases of liking and disliking it; I find the rhoticity of some dialects far more offputting that the /x/)
Bavarian German (it lacks the sexy crispness of Hochdeutsch)
Vietnamese
Icelandic
Japanese
Croatian (or Polish, for that matter)
-:
Dutch (though I go through phases of liking and disliking it; I find the rhoticity of some dialects far more offputting that the /x/)
Bavarian German (it lacks the sexy crispness of Hochdeutsch)
Vietnamese
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
I like:
Finnish
Spanish
Georgian
OK:
German
I do not like:
Hungarian
Japanese
Dutch
Finnish
Spanish
Georgian
OK:
German
I do not like:
Hungarian
Japanese
Dutch
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I try really hard not to have any prejudices against any language, or any bad thoughts when I do know what they sound like, but... I just can't get Russian to sound good sung in my ears. The spoken language is fine, as far as my experience can tell, but when they sing, at a much slower rate, one catches the individual sounds much better, and I realise that there is at least one, and usually several, palatalised consonants in almost every single word. It's just... too much.
At least most other Slavic languages did something interesting with their palatalisation, yielding a varied range of consonantal sounds, affricates or clusters. Russian just really does sound like parodies of it. Most languages don't sound like their parodies, but Russian really does.
Like I said, though, I don't want to have hard feelings for any language, so I shall be continuing my attempts to gain some more love for Russian.
At least most other Slavic languages did something interesting with their palatalisation, yielding a varied range of consonantal sounds, affricates or clusters. Russian just really does sound like parodies of it. Most languages don't sound like their parodies, but Russian really does.
Like I said, though, I don't want to have hard feelings for any language, so I shall be continuing my attempts to gain some more love for Russian.
Online dictionary for my conlang Vanga: http://royalrailway.com/tungumaalMiin/Vanga/
#undef FEMALE
I'd love for you to try my game out! Here's the forum thread about it:
http://zbb.spinnwebe.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=36688
Of an Ernst'ian one.
#undef FEMALE
I'd love for you to try my game out! Here's the forum thread about it:
http://zbb.spinnwebe.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=36688
Of an Ernst'ian one.
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
If I stop posting out of the blue it probably is because my computer and the board won't cooperate and let me log in.!
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
Huh. For me it's yippee.Jipí wrote:You know, I expected that people would find it actually pretty transparent. Jipí /ʤiˈpiː/ < GP (people commonly abbreviate me that way here and on IRC) < Guitarplayer.Mr. Z wrote:It took me a while to realize that Jipi is actually Guitarplayer O:
Ayeri gave you away.
I think Mandarin sounds like a waterfall. All awsome and stuff.
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Re: Nice sounding natlangs
That was nice.Shrdlu wrote:Sko,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9-0ScD4Yec
Online dictionary for my conlang Vanga: http://royalrailway.com/tungumaalMiin/Vanga/
#undef FEMALE
I'd love for you to try my game out! Here's the forum thread about it:
http://zbb.spinnwebe.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=36688
Of an Ernst'ian one.
#undef FEMALE
I'd love for you to try my game out! Here's the forum thread about it:
http://zbb.spinnwebe.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=36688
Of an Ernst'ian one.
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
Highly personal, but...
+:
Finnish
Italian
<a vacant place>
+/–:
Swedish
Japanese
Arabic
–/+:
German
Mandarin
Turkish
–:
French
Korean
Hebrew
+:
Finnish
Italian
<a vacant place>
+/–:
Swedish
Japanese
Arabic
–/+:
German
Mandarin
Turkish
–:
French
Korean
Hebrew
(2B)||(!2B)
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
I do like how Spanish sounds (sorry but not Catalan, as much as I like it), not my dialect though.
Castilian Spanish. /TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT/. I can't stand seseo.
English (unless you make me go for dialects, because all have something horrible) and Japanese also sound fine, as does Finnish. French is cool but I'm probably more in love with the language than with the sounds.
I'd agree that Arabic is awful.
Castilian Spanish. /TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT/. I can't stand seseo.
English (unless you make me go for dialects, because all have something horrible) and Japanese also sound fine, as does Finnish. French is cool but I'm probably more in love with the language than with the sounds.
I'd agree that Arabic is awful.
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
But WHAT Arabic? dialects vary so much it's pretty much impossible to pass judgement on all of them. I think most Maghreb dialects are ugly as sin and likewise Iraqi, but Levantine and Egyptian are quite pretty (although Levantine sounds a bit whiny).
كان يا ما كان / يا صمت العشية / قمري هاجر في الصبح بعيدا / في العيون العسلية
tà yi póbo tsùtsùr ciivà dè!
short texts in Cuhbi
Risha Cuhbi grammar
tà yi póbo tsùtsùr ciivà dè!
short texts in Cuhbi
Risha Cuhbi grammar