The most Beautiful Language?

[romelus]

french sounds pretty smooth. written chinese looks the best

i don't like spanish, too rapid and hard, with a tendency to penetrate walls at will

 

[Lockesdonkey]

The best-sounding language is Italian, as spoken in Rome and northern Italy, hands-down. But the best-looking languages are tied: Arabic and Chinese.

 

[Gr3yL3gion]

I vote for Japanese...

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

I like the sound of Russian. I intend to learn it, upon which I'll probably find it boring and normal-like. But until then

 

[Jack the Ripper]

German is probably the worst sounding language in the world (sorry )

Its the most masculine

Anyway, my pick is gaelic

 

[Smellincoffee]

No contest for me - Swahili. Especially in song.

 

[aaglo]

IMO russian is the ugliest language (it sounds like farting in water).

I think the most beatiful language is either Gaelic or Quenya.

 

[Steph]

For speach, I like the sound of French and Italian. For song, I like English and Italian.
I dislike German and Japanese, I found them to harsh. But the worst goes to Dutch: anytime I hear an announcement in Dutch at Schipol airport, I think the announcer will break his jaws.

For writting, My favourite is Quenya, very nice alphabet!

 

[Jawz II]

german or arabic

 

[thetrooper]

Swedish is beautiful. Spanish too.

 

[eyrei]

Irish is easily the most beautiful language I have ever heard spoken, though it was only a few times, for obvious reasons.

 

[nonconformist]

German, or Russian.

 

[tossi]

Oh, Arabic and Italian are nice too.

 

[Oryctolagus]

To me Ukrainian sounds better than Russian.

 

[Pontiuth Pilate]

Get a load of the German and Russian fans telling each other their language sucks! Sorry, guys, but the clear winner for worst language is Dutch and its variants. And when a Flemish-speaking person opens his mouth, even the Dutch are dumbstruck (except for the ones that go running for a paramedic).

The most beautiful language has to be Urdu. If you've ever seen a Bollywood film - this is the language they're using, although they still pretend it's Hindi with loanwords. It's very poetic and musical, with just the right blending of Persian and Sanskrit heritage.

 

[Bartleby]

I've never heard anyone in Ireland refer to the Irish language as "gaelic." It's known as "Irish" (in English) or "Gaeilge" (as Gaeilge). Link.
Gaelic more correctly defines a group of languages including Irish, Scots, Manx and Welsh, prolly others too.

To my ear, any language can sound beautiful so long as they aren't shouting at you.

edit: Also, as a non-Irish speaker, I fail to see why other non-Irish speakers should find it any easier on the ear than other languages.

 

[Mr. Blonde]

Arabic, imo, is the most beautiful language - very fluent and poetic, second from sound is french.
I dislike Italian for some personal reasons - you want to get a nice cup of coffe and read a newspaper and have a relaxing time in a viennese café and are disturbed by a very noisy group of Italian tourists on the table next to you (happens frequently). I also went to Crete several years ago and ironically the hotel was full of Italians. Seriously- they just can´t stop talking and their noise level increases exponentionally with the size of the group

 

[MamboJoel]

German, or Russian.

Mon Dieu !

 

[Pontiuth Pilate]

Arabic is very beautiful in theory... It's like French. You think it's a beautiful language - until you hear it spoken by the French.

 

[ferenginar]

body language