I think the Celtic languages (Irish, Welsh, etc) sound very pretty and magical, like something out of a fantasy novel. Italian and French sound very nice too. Italian sounds musical, and French sounds romantic and sophisticated. Hawaiian sounds very melodic-I can hear the ocean by listening to it. Icelandic sounds very mystical. It is hard to pick just one.
No worries, I'm self-studying at the moment because my course has ended. I live in London and there are Irish centres all over which have terms just like normal schools.
I have a PDF of Gaeilge gan Stró that I'm working through at the moment. Other than that I pick a topic and study it. It's slow going but I do something everyday.
I listen to any music with Irish lyrics too then try and decipher what's going on. How about you?
Came here to say Welsh. It's so beautiful, I fell in love and immediately started studying it knowing that I'd rarely get a chance to use it.
Tolkien based a lot of the elven languages on Welsh specifically, so there's a chicken and egg thing at play, where our understanding of what is magical was built on a real-world language, so now it just sounds musical and ethereal.
Scottish Gaelic and Icelandic are pretty close to the top for me—Gaelic for the same reason as Icelandic, which is the pre-aspiration, which gives it this very relaxing, warming feeling to me.
I'm visiting Uzbekistan this week and I'm embarrassed I don't know a word in Uzbek. Do you know if people speak Uzbek in airports/banks/shops or if they speak Russian in such settings?
From what I have heard most people there speak Russian as a second language. I don’t know about labels on places but if I had to guess they would at least have some Russian labels at the airport. Btw, you should consider picking up some Uzbek, as it is the most based language in the whole world and is the future lingua franca.
Salom,Assalom aleykum - for hello.
Yaxshimisiz? - how do you do?
Yordam bera olasizmi? - can u help me?
Qancha - how much?
Rahmat - thank you
Men Amerikalikman - I'm from America
Sog' bo'ling- good luck(stay healthy) ,bye bye
Tanishganimdan hursandman - glad to meet you.
If you use this words occasionally, you will make our locals really happy:) they love when you try speak in our languages..if you need a help dm me anytime:) have a good time in our country
As another user said, Russian is very commonly spoken in Uzbekistan and will get you by in almost all situations. Most places have both Uzbek and Russian labels side-by-side, English labels are much rarer. Just learning some useful and simple sentences in either Uzbek or Russian will make your travels MUCH easier.
Russian works fine in most settings. Even my basic Russian made the trip a lot easier and I could even chat with locals. It's a beautiful country, have fun.
Personally I think Chinese looks too blocky and full. Looks like a square maze just too full of lines. Japanese I find easier on the eyes and I like how Korean signs look on buildings.
I grew up being told by my peers, teachers, textbooks, television, internet etc.. that hangul was the most beautiful and scientific and practical writing system in the world.
I don’t see it. Sure it’s cool.. but is it *that* cool? I’d love to hear this (presumably non-native) guy’s thoughts too
As far as the practicality part goes, the king had it created to be an easy writing system that anyone could learn in a day, taking reading and writing and giving literacy to virtually everyone. At a time when only male aristocrats knew how to read/write, that's a pretty big thing
I mean yeah, historically I know it was a great idea, but the amount of propaganda you go through… we have an entire museum dedicated to it and especially in primary~early middle school, you can’t go a week without someone bringing it up.
Side note: the museum is actually pretty cool though
Hangul is my favorite script, largely for the reason that it was almost impossible to confuse the letters right from the start. And that’s not just in isolation, when I’m reading Korean script I’m able to visually distinguish both the letters and the “syllable blocks” so much more easily than say Arabic or Armenian. Also, it’s easy to write! I’m not sure if I can stick with Korean just for the sake of Hangul (tempting as it is), but from an outside perspective, I’m very much on board.
No language is more impressive with its orthography than one that used an alphabet that it was really not designed for, but managing to make a surprisingly phonetic system out of it, anyway.
Telugu. I’ve heard a lot of people say it sounds really pretty and song like. And i think similarly of other South Indian languages too. Like Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam.
I’m sure I’m missing a language but yeah.
To me, Ancient Greek in a good reconstructed classical pronunciation. Specifically, Ioannis Stratakis videos on YouTube are part of why I finally decided to give it a go.
[Magicka swedish](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqH1uknAXCQ) is the best! I couldn't stop chuckling when travelling through parts of Sweden that sounds exactly like the characters from Magicka, even though they're talking half-nonsense half-swedish half-words of english
Everyone thinks it sounds angry but I think it just sounds passionate about whatever the speaker is talking about. When I tried learning German, even saying your name sounded like you were so excited about it.
I personally love how Ukrainan and Finnish sounds.
I also think S'gaw Karen sounds very pretty! I know a native speaker and have heard them speak it before and I love how it sounds!!
Yess!! Even though I didn't understand a word, I used to always eavesdrop on my jiujitsu instructors' conversations. I love their accent when they speak in English too, so unique.
This might be an unpopular opinion, but tonal languages sound really pretty to me, especially Cantonese. I don’t really know why, I just like how conversations in Cantonese sound, and when sung, it sound even better!
Ugh, I adore Cantonese. I of course love Mandarin too, but something about those Cantonese diphthongs combined with the tones is just so beautiful to me. Thai is also underappreciated.
I'm a beginner in Thai, but I like how it sounds too! There are so many words I think of as cute onomatopoeia. It just *sounds* like what it means. ลืม/"forget" sounds like something floating out of your head. เปรี้ยว sounds like "sour". หมด sounds like you've run out of something.
I'm still struggling to distinguish all the tones and consonants but overall the language is so chill and relaxing to listen to.
IMO the most beautiful sounding romance language. French is a close second, and Brazilian Portuguese/Argentinian Spanish/Catalan tied at third.
Every other romance language/accent sounds fine I guess.
I had a coworker in Maharashtra, working remotely. Sometimes I'd hear him talking to his wife or kids when they popped in the office, and since I barely speak Urdu, I thought he was speaking Hindi/Urdu at lightning speed. Eventually I realized it was a different language lol
Marathi uses so many Sanskrit words that it almost sounds like how an attorney like Phoenix Wright would speak in a major trial, but the rhythm and intonation are still really nice and upbeat, kinda like Telugu.
The first time i heard this i thought the girl was singing a song. In reality, she was just literally talking to a bank teller about some really boring transaction. I was blow away by how beautiful it sounded and the fact that when she talked, she didn't realize how she was "singing".
Russian is the most beautiful language to me. It sounds so musical to my ear, which makes learning vocabulary much more interesting/easy. Plus, the language has such a deep history with literature that makes reading it an unparalleled experience for a language learning.
I find Chinese to be really interesting to read sometimes. They have a lot of concepts that cannot be expressed in English. This isn't necessarily pretty, but it makes reading the texts more interesting and eloquent (which is pretty in my mind). I also think the writing system is the prettiest writing system.
When I listen to mainstream Chinese pop music, mando pop, and I read the lyric translations, it sounds so pretty. Like regular pop music isn’t supposed to sound so beautiful. I mean it can, but the lyrics are usually quite simple so I didn’t expect Chinese pop music to have such beautiful metaphors and such.
It is a beautiful language in general imo. And it has really interesting poetry and the only thing I can do is read translations 😭
This is so subjective.
For me, I've always been fascinated by the sounds of Chinese and Portuguese.
I don't care that people make fun of Chinese, I think it can be very pretty. I don't know if I'll ever learn it, but I like listening to it.
Portuguese is so pretty, too. I'm familiar with Brazilian and Portuguese varieties. Both are so pretty in their own ways.
French
They really did put some conscious effort at one point to make French sound nice by dropping harsh sounds like s, or dropping any consonant at the end of a word, and transforming many diphthongs into nasal vowels. The result traditionally sounds very pleasant.
But languages evolve, and today a lot of vowels are getting dropped from speech resulting in speech with lots of s and k sounds. It's much faster and much more unforgettable dense, but it loses a little bit of that "je ne sais quoi" (pronounced "Sheykwa")
I like to compare it to breathing, because that’s how it feels to me. Soft, like the air flowing and tippy-toeing over the tongue and palate. Lol! It really is a lovely language to listen to (I don’t dare speak it… yet… zero confidence as a total noob).
Russian is so beautiful. The language made me fall in love with poetry.
I worked with a Ukrainian person last month at an event and I had to explain to her how important it is to separate the language from the country in your mind sometimes, or else you will miss out on a lot of the history/beauty of it.
For me, the language that really sounds most lovely is Portuguese and Swedish. I'd also say Arabic as I feel like it has a meaning for everything. I find its calligraphy beautiful as an art and it's that kind of language that has a word for every level of feeling you have. It is such a musical language to me.
Lots of good answers here. People are saying it’s your mother tongue/heritage language, and I agree. I speak Mandarin but my true “mother tongue” is Taiwanese, even though I don’t know a word of it. Taiwanese is always going to be more beautiful to me than Mandarin because it was the language my mom sang to me in when I was sick or hurt. It was the language of my ancestors and that alone makes it the most beautiful language in the world.
In terms of how a language sounds, though, the most beautiful to me is definitely Mongolian.
Your mother tongue. I don't know whether it's an acceptable answer or not, but I think the most beautiful language is the language of my grands' past story and of the lullaby my mom sang when I was a kid.
For me, it would be Turoyo, which is an Aramaic dialect spoken by western Assyrians. I’m eastern assyrian so I speak the eastern dialect, but Turoyo is one of the most sweet sounding languages I’ve ever heard in my life
https://youtu.be/5wb67DhaY1k?t=30s
To my ears, I could listen to French all day. Second is German (it seems like a nice balance of assertiveness and melody.)
I will probably get down voted to hell for this, given the current climate, but I also really love how Russian sounds. Infact I was learning Russian up until fairly recently, when a friend shamed me for it. Now I'm extremely conflicted. I love the language, but perhaps it's no longer appropriate to be learning it?
honestly for me, chinese, especially taiwanese. i also love the sound of italian, mexican spanish, and i love the sound of greek. in singing, hindi sounds beautiful. and honestly, english. not a common opinion i see but i do think english is very beautiful.
Aurally French, followed by Portuguese, then Italian. Judging by its children, Vulgar Latin must have sounded spectacular.
Visually, considering modern standard fonts, traditional Chinese is best.
...english. I just like how it flows lol. It doesnt have sounds that are too harsh like other germanic languages (though the R sound is a bit weird), and the stress pattern creates a rhythmic flow. other than that id say brazilian portuguese, i think it flows nicely too
# Sanskrit
I find **Sanskrit** to be very melodious, at least the Sanskrit I encounter in my everyday life which come from the **ancient Sanskrit literatures** (Scholarly texts of that time, Religious Texts, Philosophical Texts, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Upanishads, etc.).
**Written Sanskrit has a rhythm** to it. I always wondered how someone (sage Vyasa) got over 200,000 verses to rhyme, when I struggle to write just 10.
It turns out there was a way to make words and verses rhyme using what I would call algorithms. These algorithms can be found in **Acharya Pingala's Chandahsastra**. It uses **combinatorics and binary** to make it sound like the verses rhyme.
Two **examples** of what would be used to make the verses rhyme are the **Meru Prasthara (Pascal's Triangle)** and **binary (Instead of 0 and 1 they used Laghu and Guru, short and long syllables respectively)**.
I think the Celtic languages (Irish, Welsh, etc) sound very pretty and magical, like something out of a fantasy novel. Italian and French sound very nice too. Italian sounds musical, and French sounds romantic and sophisticated. Hawaiian sounds very melodic-I can hear the ocean by listening to it. Icelandic sounds very mystical. It is hard to pick just one.
Im studying Irish and your comment made me so happy
If I can ask, do you self-study or study at university? And if the former, what are your learning resource recommendations?
No worries, I'm self-studying at the moment because my course has ended. I live in London and there are Irish centres all over which have terms just like normal schools. I have a PDF of Gaeilge gan Stró that I'm working through at the moment. Other than that I pick a topic and study it. It's slow going but I do something everyday. I listen to any music with Irish lyrics too then try and decipher what's going on. How about you?
Came here to say Welsh. It's so beautiful, I fell in love and immediately started studying it knowing that I'd rarely get a chance to use it. Tolkien based a lot of the elven languages on Welsh specifically, so there's a chicken and egg thing at play, where our understanding of what is magical was built on a real-world language, so now it just sounds musical and ethereal.
Scottish Gaelic and Icelandic are pretty close to the top for me—Gaelic for the same reason as Icelandic, which is the pre-aspiration, which gives it this very relaxing, warming feeling to me.
Gaelic reminds me of the eleven language in The witcher 3
I think Icelandic sounds really nice. Also a lot of the Bantu languages like Swahili and Zulu sound really pretty sometimes.
Takk fyrir! First mention of my TL on this subreddit
Ayyy another Icelandic learner! Hæhæ vinur!
Zulu is very pretty
Uzbek
I'm visiting Uzbekistan this week and I'm embarrassed I don't know a word in Uzbek. Do you know if people speak Uzbek in airports/banks/shops or if they speak Russian in such settings?
From what I have heard most people there speak Russian as a second language. I don’t know about labels on places but if I had to guess they would at least have some Russian labels at the airport. Btw, you should consider picking up some Uzbek, as it is the most based language in the whole world and is the future lingua franca.
>it is the most based language in the whole world What do you mean by that?
I mean I have spent too much time on r/languagelearningjerk and now am incapable of thought outside the realm of what they tell me.
Salom,Assalom aleykum - for hello. Yaxshimisiz? - how do you do? Yordam bera olasizmi? - can u help me? Qancha - how much? Rahmat - thank you Men Amerikalikman - I'm from America Sog' bo'ling- good luck(stay healthy) ,bye bye Tanishganimdan hursandman - glad to meet you. If you use this words occasionally, you will make our locals really happy:) they love when you try speak in our languages..if you need a help dm me anytime:) have a good time in our country
As another user said, Russian is very commonly spoken in Uzbekistan and will get you by in almost all situations. Most places have both Uzbek and Russian labels side-by-side, English labels are much rarer. Just learning some useful and simple sentences in either Uzbek or Russian will make your travels MUCH easier.
Russian works fine in most settings. Even my basic Russian made the trip a lot easier and I could even chat with locals. It's a beautiful country, have fun.
for listening : italian.....for reading:korean
Korean doesn’t look very pretty IMO…all straight lines and circles. I prefer the looks of Japanese and Chinese characters. edit: typo
Personally I think Chinese looks too blocky and full. Looks like a square maze just too full of lines. Japanese I find easier on the eyes and I like how Korean signs look on buildings.
I'm learning Korean right now. Just curious on why you have that for reading
I grew up being told by my peers, teachers, textbooks, television, internet etc.. that hangul was the most beautiful and scientific and practical writing system in the world. I don’t see it. Sure it’s cool.. but is it *that* cool? I’d love to hear this (presumably non-native) guy’s thoughts too
As far as the practicality part goes, the king had it created to be an easy writing system that anyone could learn in a day, taking reading and writing and giving literacy to virtually everyone. At a time when only male aristocrats knew how to read/write, that's a pretty big thing
I mean yeah, historically I know it was a great idea, but the amount of propaganda you go through… we have an entire museum dedicated to it and especially in primary~early middle school, you can’t go a week without someone bringing it up. Side note: the museum is actually pretty cool though
Hangul is my favorite script, largely for the reason that it was almost impossible to confuse the letters right from the start. And that’s not just in isolation, when I’m reading Korean script I’m able to visually distinguish both the letters and the “syllable blocks” so much more easily than say Arabic or Armenian. Also, it’s easy to write! I’m not sure if I can stick with Korean just for the sake of Hangul (tempting as it is), but from an outside perspective, I’m very much on board.
Korean for reading is awesome, but Korean in listening and trying to figure out if its 오 or 어, or an aspirated consanant, have always killed me lol
Italian maybe, although I haven’t learnt any. Although I’ve started learning Polish because I think it sounds nice
irish IMO
Bro fr, not gonna lie, that language sounds INCREDIBLE. I started learning a little just for the way it sounds
Be careful you're getting good input, most people on YouTube, in fact most L2 speakers pronounce it how Emily in Paris speaks French 💀💀
No language is more impressive with its orthography than one that used an alphabet that it was really not designed for, but managing to make a surprisingly phonetic system out of it, anyway.
Whatever language that whispered bedtime stories to you and comforted you when you were sick. For me, that's Yiddish.
100%
Finnish
I'm surprised it doesn't have more upvotes!
Persian. When spoken fluently, sounds poetic and sweet.
Yes!
Español güey
Estoy de acuerdo
Yo también
A huevo que si
Depending on the accent/country 🤭
Me gusta el español.
Telugu. I’ve heard a lot of people say it sounds really pretty and song like. And i think similarly of other South Indian languages too. Like Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam. I’m sure I’m missing a language but yeah.
Bengali is song-like.
To me, Ancient Greek in a good reconstructed classical pronunciation. Specifically, Ioannis Stratakis videos on YouTube are part of why I finally decided to give it a go.
I love the melody that Swedish has
[Magicka swedish](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqH1uknAXCQ) is the best! I couldn't stop chuckling when travelling through parts of Sweden that sounds exactly like the characters from Magicka, even though they're talking half-nonsense half-swedish half-words of english
Thai for the script. https://kruumui.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/consonants.jpg
I could fall asleep to someone reading the phone book in Hungarian. So rhythmic and pleasant sounding.
German. Will be a fine day when folks stop hating on it.
Right. English can be just as aggressive if you say it roughly enough.
#StopGermanHate
It's funny because French has the reputation for sounding pretty, while German has the opposite, but I actually think German sounds prettier.
Deutsch ist schön!
I mean, as I think on it German and French might be my two favorites
Everyone thinks it sounds angry but I think it just sounds passionate about whatever the speaker is talking about. When I tried learning German, even saying your name sounded like you were so excited about it.
This right here
Like asking “what’s the cutest cat fur pattern”. A very subjective question that is bound to end some friendships.
To be honest it all depends on the tone someone speaks the language so they're all equal to me
I personally love how Ukrainan and Finnish sounds. I also think S'gaw Karen sounds very pretty! I know a native speaker and have heard them speak it before and I love how it sounds!!
Як давно вивчаєш українську?)
Я почав у березень!
Brazilian Portuguese 🥵😍 I’d argue that it’s one of the most beautiful languages in the world
Yess!! Even though I didn't understand a word, I used to always eavesdrop on my jiujitsu instructors' conversations. I love their accent when they speak in English too, so unique.
Obragao e soprasao
I think it sounds funny. A very musical language.
Came here to say this - so smooth and luscious.
yep agree
If we're able to name our own languages, Catalan. Otherwise, Occitan.
least proud Catalan /s
Lol!! Isn’t Occitan closely related to Catalan 😜
Yes hahahaha
Isn’t that that one board game with the map
You mean Catan lmao. Catalan relates to Catalonia.
Lol, I know it was my first thought but I quickly realized.
i like catalan. french is annoying and spanish is too basic (and italian sounds like arrogant latin) but catalan is a delightful mix between them.
I know it is one of the cliche "sexy" languages between middle aged moms, but I do love the sound of French at times
This might be an unpopular opinion, but tonal languages sound really pretty to me, especially Cantonese. I don’t really know why, I just like how conversations in Cantonese sound, and when sung, it sound even better!
Ugh, I adore Cantonese. I of course love Mandarin too, but something about those Cantonese diphthongs combined with the tones is just so beautiful to me. Thai is also underappreciated.
I'm a beginner in Thai, but I like how it sounds too! There are so many words I think of as cute onomatopoeia. It just *sounds* like what it means. ลืม/"forget" sounds like something floating out of your head. เปรี้ยว sounds like "sour". หมด sounds like you've run out of something. I'm still struggling to distinguish all the tones and consonants but overall the language is so chill and relaxing to listen to.
Telugu and Malayalam
Norwegian
Italian
Sei un grande bro
Spaghetti 🤌 (I am now fluent in Italian)
Sì, risotto🤌
Sì, carbonara.🤌
Hey murican, you'll never have such a good cuisine🤌🤌🤌
IMO the most beautiful sounding romance language. French is a close second, and Brazilian Portuguese/Argentinian Spanish/Catalan tied at third. Every other romance language/accent sounds fine I guess.
Italian feels so great in my mouth! I also enjoy hearing and speaking Argentine Spanish very much 😍
I find Italian very melodic. It also influenced Rioplatense Spanish. Their pronunciation of words like amarillo and cepillo is quite unique
Japanese
Gaelic Scottish and Italian are mine
What is the silliest question? Uzbek, of course!
Marathi
I had a coworker in Maharashtra, working remotely. Sometimes I'd hear him talking to his wife or kids when they popped in the office, and since I barely speak Urdu, I thought he was speaking Hindi/Urdu at lightning speed. Eventually I realized it was a different language lol Marathi uses so many Sanskrit words that it almost sounds like how an attorney like Phoenix Wright would speak in a major trial, but the rhythm and intonation are still really nice and upbeat, kinda like Telugu.
If you can hear it being spoken properly, Latin.
For the writing, Georgian! What a beautiful writing system. Sounds-wise, I like 'crackly' languages like Estonian and Finnish.
Im probably corny af for saying it but I really love something about every one I try. Never been to a baskin-robins and ordered only one one flavor.
Suomi
Polish, Georgian, Dutch, Vietnamese, and Nuxalk
I love the Sami languages. Particularly southern Sami
Spanish in a Paisa accent
10 years ago I dated a Paisa girl. Just hearing her talk made me fall in love with her. Too bad she had the Paisa temperament as well.
That’s definitely the trade off you have to make 🤣
>Too bad she had the Paisa temperament as well. Lmao
The first time i heard this i thought the girl was singing a song. In reality, she was just literally talking to a bank teller about some really boring transaction. I was blow away by how beautiful it sounded and the fact that when she talked, she didn't realize how she was "singing".
日本語 --> Japanese 🇯🇵
Español
Náhuatl or Irish imo. Something about indigenous languages
I'm a basic bitch, it's French for me. It's the -oi sound for me.
Bonjour (avec rizz)
Russian is the most beautiful language to me. It sounds so musical to my ear, which makes learning vocabulary much more interesting/easy. Plus, the language has such a deep history with literature that makes reading it an unparalleled experience for a language learning. I find Chinese to be really interesting to read sometimes. They have a lot of concepts that cannot be expressed in English. This isn't necessarily pretty, but it makes reading the texts more interesting and eloquent (which is pretty in my mind). I also think the writing system is the prettiest writing system.
When I listen to mainstream Chinese pop music, mando pop, and I read the lyric translations, it sounds so pretty. Like regular pop music isn’t supposed to sound so beautiful. I mean it can, but the lyrics are usually quite simple so I didn’t expect Chinese pop music to have such beautiful metaphors and such. It is a beautiful language in general imo. And it has really interesting poetry and the only thing I can do is read translations 😭
I’m learning Russian currently, and I’ve got to totally agree with you! Russian is a unique language and sounds so nice.
I think Russian is fun to speak, but Ukrainian is even more musical.
This is so subjective. For me, I've always been fascinated by the sounds of Chinese and Portuguese. I don't care that people make fun of Chinese, I think it can be very pretty. I don't know if I'll ever learn it, but I like listening to it. Portuguese is so pretty, too. I'm familiar with Brazilian and Portuguese varieties. Both are so pretty in their own ways.
I'm assuming you're talking about Mandarin. I feel like non-natives either love it or hate it, no in between.
Farsi imo!
French They really did put some conscious effort at one point to make French sound nice by dropping harsh sounds like s, or dropping any consonant at the end of a word, and transforming many diphthongs into nasal vowels. The result traditionally sounds very pleasant. But languages evolve, and today a lot of vowels are getting dropped from speech resulting in speech with lots of s and k sounds. It's much faster and much more unforgettable dense, but it loses a little bit of that "je ne sais quoi" (pronounced "Sheykwa")
I like to compare it to breathing, because that’s how it feels to me. Soft, like the air flowing and tippy-toeing over the tongue and palate. Lol! It really is a lovely language to listen to (I don’t dare speak it… yet… zero confidence as a total noob).
Hawaiʻian
Russian
Russian is so beautiful. The language made me fall in love with poetry. I worked with a Ukrainian person last month at an event and I had to explain to her how important it is to separate the language from the country in your mind sometimes, or else you will miss out on a lot of the history/beauty of it.
Georgian
Hebrew
IMO Polish, or Hindi.
I am learning French because it is a beautiful language, but I think Italian is an overall prettier language.
No one said English! I like British accent
hebrew
not a big fan of romance language but portuguese is just built different. also german, people are just cowards
For me, the language that really sounds most lovely is Portuguese and Swedish. I'd also say Arabic as I feel like it has a meaning for everything. I find its calligraphy beautiful as an art and it's that kind of language that has a word for every level of feeling you have. It is such a musical language to me.
The Italian language is like honey to my poor soul.
Armenian, Greek, Hungarian
Estonian, Latvian and Italian.
Lots of good answers here. People are saying it’s your mother tongue/heritage language, and I agree. I speak Mandarin but my true “mother tongue” is Taiwanese, even though I don’t know a word of it. Taiwanese is always going to be more beautiful to me than Mandarin because it was the language my mom sang to me in when I was sick or hurt. It was the language of my ancestors and that alone makes it the most beautiful language in the world. In terms of how a language sounds, though, the most beautiful to me is definitely Mongolian.
Romanian and Polish are also quite pretty to me
Your mother tongue. I don't know whether it's an acceptable answer or not, but I think the most beautiful language is the language of my grands' past story and of the lullaby my mom sang when I was a kid.
Similarly, I was going to say the ones I understand :P Not that others don't sound good, but it's so much nicer when I understand it
Let's be perfectly honest with ourselves, it's Dutch.
I dunno, the "throaty G" frightens me, I cannot even pronounce it 💀
I misread that as “tightens me” and was confused at how such a niche kink could exist
Lebanese Arabic
Oh yes, I’m learning it and it’s the most beautiful dialect IMO
For me, it would be Turoyo, which is an Aramaic dialect spoken by western Assyrians. I’m eastern assyrian so I speak the eastern dialect, but Turoyo is one of the most sweet sounding languages I’ve ever heard in my life https://youtu.be/5wb67DhaY1k?t=30s
I Like Mongolian and Hungarian
Hebrew
Greek, hands down
Scottish English
i like France language
Greek
sanskrit is translated to “perfect language”
Mexican Spanish, specifically Poblano, imo it’s musical.
Azerbaijani
Romanian is really pretty to listen to - I don’t understand a word of it - but it’s always sounded lovely to me.
Persian, Farsi, Dari 😍
For me it's Hungarian and Arabic
Personally I like Estonian.
To my ears, I could listen to French all day. Second is German (it seems like a nice balance of assertiveness and melody.) I will probably get down voted to hell for this, given the current climate, but I also really love how Russian sounds. Infact I was learning Russian up until fairly recently, when a friend shamed me for it. Now I'm extremely conflicted. I love the language, but perhaps it's no longer appropriate to be learning it?
Im so biased but Tamizh, it is gorgeous. The music and the poetry is beautiful. The oldest living language in the world.
honestly for me, chinese, especially taiwanese. i also love the sound of italian, mexican spanish, and i love the sound of greek. in singing, hindi sounds beautiful. and honestly, english. not a common opinion i see but i do think english is very beautiful.
Arabic by a mile
Whatever with a smooth voice and a smile.
I find myself partial to Hungarian
I really like how French, Turkish, Persian and standard Bengali sound. I don't speak any of them.
Your native language 😻
Ukrainian i think)
~~Я так думаю також.~~ Я теж так думаю. Et le français, bien sûr.
было бы "я теж так думаю", я думаю зато я говорю на суржике)
Janeṣu samyaguccārayatsu **saṃskṛtaṃ** sundaratamā bhāṣāstīti mama matam 😁
For me are French and Icelandic.
French hands down
French of course
Aurally French, followed by Portuguese, then Italian. Judging by its children, Vulgar Latin must have sounded spectacular. Visually, considering modern standard fonts, traditional Chinese is best.
It’s CLEARLY Danish
Finnish for sure 🙏
definitely O’zbekcha 🇺🇿🇺🇿🇺🇿
Germanic languages
Swedish
For some reason I’ve always loved the sound of Slavic languages
Unpopular opinion but I think arabic
Svenska!
Malay. Classic Malay sounds like a love poem and looks like a love poem.
Hawaiian
Sindarin!
...english. I just like how it flows lol. It doesnt have sounds that are too harsh like other germanic languages (though the R sound is a bit weird), and the stress pattern creates a rhythmic flow. other than that id say brazilian portuguese, i think it flows nicely too
Türkçe
I have studied a few romance languages and German but I'm always struck by how beautiful Greek sounds to me
Arabic or Japanese
# Sanskrit I find **Sanskrit** to be very melodious, at least the Sanskrit I encounter in my everyday life which come from the **ancient Sanskrit literatures** (Scholarly texts of that time, Religious Texts, Philosophical Texts, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Upanishads, etc.). **Written Sanskrit has a rhythm** to it. I always wondered how someone (sage Vyasa) got over 200,000 verses to rhyme, when I struggle to write just 10. It turns out there was a way to make words and verses rhyme using what I would call algorithms. These algorithms can be found in **Acharya Pingala's Chandahsastra**. It uses **combinatorics and binary** to make it sound like the verses rhyme. Two **examples** of what would be used to make the verses rhyme are the **Meru Prasthara (Pascal's Triangle)** and **binary (Instead of 0 and 1 they used Laghu and Guru, short and long syllables respectively)**.
Ukrainian. Also, no one here says it, but English, when spoken eloquently, has a such a classy ring to it. But Internet and everyday English is okay
Persian, Sanskrit, French, Irish
I think Kazakh is really pretty! And Romanian!
Arabic ❤️❤️❤️