Nice sounding natlangs
Nice sounding natlangs
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Re: Nice sounding natlangs
JapaneseAsahi wrote:What are the natlangs you think sound best
Russian
Finnish
If by that, you mean the ones I find unappealing, then:and the ones that don't sound as good?
French
Dutch
Arabic
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Re: Nice sounding natlangs
Good:
Icelandic
Dutch
Mongolian
Bad:
Spanish
Mandarin
Russian
There's something about front rounded vowels and preaspiration that does it for me, apparently. Actually I'm rather ambivalent about most languages and there aren't really any that I explicitly dislike; it's more one specific characteristic feature of those three that I dislike the sound of (obstruent softening, rhotacisation, palatalisation respectively), and as for the first three, Icelandic is the main one I like the sound of, probably mostly because of Sigur Rós i'll admit, Dutch is very satisfying if you can pronounce it properly (lots of [χ] and I think I must be one of the few that actually quite enjoys the ui sound), and Mongolian is my wildcard answer because I hardly know anything about it. I should maybe get onto that. And actually make a conlang with front rounded vowels and preaspiration, yes.
Icelandic
Dutch
Mongolian
Bad:
Spanish
Mandarin
Russian
There's something about front rounded vowels and preaspiration that does it for me, apparently. Actually I'm rather ambivalent about most languages and there aren't really any that I explicitly dislike; it's more one specific characteristic feature of those three that I dislike the sound of (obstruent softening, rhotacisation, palatalisation respectively), and as for the first three, Icelandic is the main one I like the sound of, probably mostly because of Sigur Rós i'll admit, Dutch is very satisfying if you can pronounce it properly (lots of [χ] and I think I must be one of the few that actually quite enjoys the ui sound), and Mongolian is my wildcard answer because I hardly know anything about it. I should maybe get onto that. And actually make a conlang with front rounded vowels and preaspiration, yes.
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
I like the sound of Japanese, Catalan, and Romanian. The Polynesian languages just sound kind of silly.
I don't like Spanish, or Arabic, or Irish.
I don't like Spanish, or Arabic, or Irish.
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
It's too hard to decide which three I like, so I'm only posting three I dislike:
French
French
French
French
French
French
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
Good:
Finnish
Georgian
Hungarian
Bad:
Danish
Vietnamese
French
Georgian actually flows very well, despite all of the tqsvd stuff that appears in the writing.
Finnish
Georgian
Hungarian
Bad:
Danish
Vietnamese
French
Georgian actually flows very well, despite all of the tqsvd stuff that appears in the writing.
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
Good:
Zulu
Navajo
Malayalam
Bad:
French
German
English
Zulu
Navajo
Malayalam
Bad:
French
German
English
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Re: Nice sounding natlangs
Good:
Nahuatl
German
Lithuanian
Bad:
English
French
Kashubian
Nahuatl
German
Lithuanian
Bad:
English
French
Kashubian
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Re: Nice sounding natlangs
Good:
Arabic
Amharic
Portuguese
Bad:
English
French
Greek
Why all the hate for Arabic, by the way? I think it's a very beautiful language I love the 'pharyngealized' (or whatever) sounds, as well as qaaf /q/ (properly pronounced, of course).
Arabic
Amharic
Portuguese
Bad:
English
French
Greek
Why all the hate for Arabic, by the way? I think it's a very beautiful language I love the 'pharyngealized' (or whatever) sounds, as well as qaaf /q/ (properly pronounced, of course).
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Re: Nice sounding natlangs
Good:
Swedish
Br. English (yes I know about the different varieties, but then, other langs have that too)
Portuguese
Not so good:
French
Russian
Italian
In fact I think there would be better answers, but I can't think of them. And of course, tomorrow the list will be different from this one. And the day after tomorrow...
Swedish
Br. English (yes I know about the different varieties, but then, other langs have that too)
Portuguese
Not so good:
French
Russian
Italian
In fact I think there would be better answers, but I can't think of them. And of course, tomorrow the list will be different from this one. And the day after tomorrow...
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Re: Nice sounding natlangs
Good ones:
Greek
French
Polish
Not so good ones:
German(sounds like a person chewing an aluminium foil)
Maltese(its pharyngeal fricative sounds evil)
English(too much vowels)
Greek
French
Polish
Not so good ones:
German(sounds like a person chewing an aluminium foil)
Maltese(its pharyngeal fricative sounds evil)
English(too much vowels)
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Re: Nice sounding natlangs
French is far more ripe with vowels than English.Putrid wrote:Good ones:
Greek
French
Polish
Not so good ones:
German(sounds like a person chewing an aluminium foil)
Maltese(its pharyngeal fricative sounds evil)
English(too much vowels)
It even has phonemic stress: /ˈu/ <Aout> vs. /u/ <ou>
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Re: Nice sounding natlangs
I don't think there's any language I really hate the sound of. All languages are fun to pronounce if you can do it right.
Interesting:
Semitic languages (emphatics, gutturals)
Mayan languages (ejectives)
Xhosa/Zulu (clicks, "smoothness")
Boring/Ugly:
Swedish
Hindi
French
Interesting:
Semitic languages (emphatics, gutturals)
Mayan languages (ejectives)
Xhosa/Zulu (clicks, "smoothness")
Boring/Ugly:
Swedish
Hindi
French
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Re: Nice sounding natlangs
Dutch doesn't have preaspiration I think (or it must be some purely phonetic feature that I never realized as a native speaker), but still it's neat you like itfinlay wrote: There's something about front rounded vowels and preaspiration that does it for me, apparently.
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
1) HindiAsahi wrote:What are the natlangs you think sound best
2) Thai
3) Scottish Gaelic
1) PolishAsahi wrote:and the ones that don't sound as good?
2) Russian
3) Mandarin
The things I generally like it seems are breathy voice, taps, laterals and retroflexes. And either tone or doing something interesting with stress so it's more heteregenous.
And for English and French it very much depends on the dialect or accent.
that is one of the things that depends on the dialect.Putrid wrote: Not so good ones:
English(too much vowels)
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
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Re: Nice sounding natlangs
Good:
1. Finnish
2. German
3. Korean
Bad:
1. French (especially whatever African dialect it is that half of one of my classes spoke when I was in community college... sounded like they were flossing their nostrils with live centipedes)
2. Thai (I'm fairly certain that I could not recognize this as a human language if I saw it out of context)
3. Hungarian (too much /E/)
1. Finnish
2. German
3. Korean
Bad:
1. French (especially whatever African dialect it is that half of one of my classes spoke when I was in community college... sounded like they were flossing their nostrils with live centipedes)
2. Thai (I'm fairly certain that I could not recognize this as a human language if I saw it out of context)
3. Hungarian (too much /E/)
Siöö jandeng raiglin zåbei tandiüłåd;
nää džunnfin kukuch vklaivei sivei tåd.
Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei.
nää džunnfin kukuch vklaivei sivei tåd.
Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei.
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
I love African French accents!Nortaneous wrote:Good:
Bad:
1. French (especially whatever African dialect it is that half of one of my classes spoke when I was in community college... sounded like they were flossing their nostrils with live centipedes)
Like:
French, but I think this is because I speak it and I hear /ʁ/ and the nasals as meaningful, rather than growly honking. I like written French particularly, though.
Spanish as spoken in Spain sounds sexy.
Southern USA accents. I'll be in my bunk.
Dislike:
Polish. "Yukshemidgeyshetismisgde"
Russian. There's something about the way Russian is intoned that just sounds bizarre, it's like they are all telling bad news to slow children.
"Thick" South African English just sounds like frogs ribbetting to me.
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
Like:
Finnish
Estonian
Romanian
Dislike:
Russian
Greek
Dutch
And Polynesian languages I agree with as well. I like music best if it's sung in Finnish, Estonian or Romanian. It must be the vowels or diphthongs that soothe me.
Finnish
Estonian
Romanian
Dislike:
Russian
Greek
Dutch
And Polynesian languages I agree with as well. I like music best if it's sung in Finnish, Estonian or Romanian. It must be the vowels or diphthongs that soothe me.
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
I think you mean "shchshshshxshshfsje"Gulliver wrote: Polish. "Yukshemidgeyshetismisgde"
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
1) FinnishAsahi wrote: What are the natlangs you think sound best
2) Xhosa
3) Mandarin (standard, don't have much experience with other dialects of Mandarin)
(also German, Portuguese, and Italian, but not as much as the above 3. Marathi is also rather pleasant-sounding, and I do kind of like Indian English accents...must be the retroflexes)
1) SpanishAsahi wrote:and the ones that don't sound as good?
2) French
3) Dutch (Afrikaans sounds marginally better, to me, but still too much throat-clearing for my liking)
(with Cantonese as a runner-up)
Languages that sound weird, but not necessarily bad: Hebrew (if they ditched the uvular R, it might be better, I think), Sotho (same reason), Thai, Russian (used to think it sounded beautiful, now the palatalization/plain contrast sounds weird), Korean (it seriously does make me hungry because it always sounds like they are eating when they speak, but there is something pleasing about the sound)
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
That is not what phonemic stress means. French doesn't have phonemic stress, nobody can tell two words appart when they're pronounced in isolation on the sole basis that one is a stressed word and the other isn't.Darkgamma wrote: It even has phonemic stress: /ˈu/ <Aout> vs. /u/ <ou>
(And unless you're Canadian, <août> is pronounced /ut/).
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
I'm gonna go against the flow:
Like
Mandarin
Arabic
Maltese
Dislike
French (not really, it's just because I can't find anything else and I hate how weird its pronunciation is)
Finnish (again, not really, I just don't like the way it sounds and I think it's overrated)
Australian English (least hated of these three; I hate American English more but I have to appreciate it for its weirdness and Australian English just had plain strange pronunciations)
Like
Mandarin
Arabic
Maltese
Dislike
French (not really, it's just because I can't find anything else and I hate how weird its pronunciation is)
Finnish (again, not really, I just don't like the way it sounds and I think it's overrated)
Australian English (least hated of these three; I hate American English more but I have to appreciate it for its weirdness and Australian English just had plain strange pronunciations)
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Re: Nice sounding natlangs
Yes
Catalan
Icelandic
Georgian
No
Russian
Vietnamese
American English (those George Bush-like varieties)
Catalan
Icelandic
Georgian
No
Russian
Vietnamese
American English (those George Bush-like varieties)
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Re: Nice sounding natlangs
Aye, has yew heerd ebout them yeenkeyes who beem heeting eour speechAvo wrote: No
American English (those George Bush-like varieties)
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