What's the ugliest language you've ever heard?

KindGrind · Post by **KindGrind** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 1:47 am

I'm very interested in languages, and have been in contact with lots of them over the course of the years. This topic could easily turn into a bitching war due to the subjective nature of the question, which is not something I'm looking for. Just want to hear your thoughts, as obviously, we all have different ears and percieve sounds differently based on what we know. For the record, French is my mother tongue, and I speak equally English and Spanish as second languages. Random opinions/observations based on nothing:

-Germanic languages in general (Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Dutch and German) thoroughly impress me every single time I hear them.

-The cyrillic alphabet >all.

-Oral Chinese isn't as hard as I had imagined.

-Arabic is a bitch to read and write.

-Of all the languages I've heard first hand, Hungarian and Inuktitut are the ones I really disliked.

mufunyo · Post by **mufunyo** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:09 am

English with a Dutch accent.

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:53 am

Katakana is extremely annoying, especially when names are in French.

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:57 am

Klingon.

jonny5 · Post by **jonny5** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:16 am

females with british/australian accents bug me....no idea why?

and chinese inflection and VOLUME is annoying as well....i lived many years in china town....yay

Never_Scurred · Post by **Never_Scurred** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:35 am

Klingon

MadScientist · Post by **MadScientist** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 4:35 am

mufunyo wrote:English with a Dutch accent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZnoP4sUV90

Comedy gold.

Sly Cherry Chunks · Post by **Sly Cherry Chunks** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:11 am

Never_Scurred wrote:Klingon

Christ, Tholian is MUCH worse.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:50 am

français

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:57 am

Pidgen

Post by **Ghegs** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:24 am

KindGrind wrote:-Germanic languages in general (Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Dutch and German) thoroughly impress me every single time I hear them.

Objection!

Finnish is actually a Finno-Ugric language (more on Wikipedia) and is very different from the other ones you listed.

Whether it's an ugly language or not is a different matter...

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:41 am

Ebonics.

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:12 am

Probably Thai and Vietnamese (no offense PPPP).

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:17 am

indian helpdesk

Aru-san · Post by **Aru-san** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:17 am

Stormwatch wrote:Ebonics.

So ugly it's hilarious!

mr_m0nks · Post by **mr_m0nks** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:12 am

How much do regional accents play a part?

I don't know about other countries but there are thousands of different accents and dialects in the UK, many of them highly annoying.

320x240 · Post by **320x240** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:57 am

Ghegs wrote:Finnish is actually a Finno-Ugric language

Whether it's an ugly language or not is a different matter...

Tolkien certainly thought highly of it.

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:32 am

mr_m0nks wrote:How much do regional accents play a part?

I don't know about other countries but there are thousands of different accents and dialects in the UK, many of them highly annoying.

indeed.

brummies, scousers, mancs, mockneys...

being an immigrant i'm quite glad to have a pretty plain accent

Jockel · Post by **Jockel** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:26 am

I totally love British accents ^^"

And yeah, German is a pretty "hard-sounding" language- but imo the eastern European stuff like Russian etc as well as Turkish really takes the cake in ugly languages.

IlMrm · Post by **IlMrm** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:38 am

Cantonese. Don't believe me, spend a couple of minutes in a Chinese tea house.

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:40 am

Ghegs wrote:
KindGrind wrote:-Germanic languages in general (Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Dutch and German) thoroughly impress me every single time I hear them.
Objection!

Finnish is actually a Finno-Ugric language (more on Wikipedia) and is very different from the other ones you listed.

Whether it's an ugly language or not is a different matter...

HOLD IT!

Finish and the other european languages have a lot of similarities to each other including finish. But they fail in coparission to the awesomeness of gods language. . . English!

KindGrind · Post by **KindGrind** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:41 am

Ghegs wrote:
KindGrind wrote:-Germanic languages in general (Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Dutch and German) thoroughly impress me every single time I hear them.
Objection!

Finnish is actually a Finno-Ugric language (more on Wikipedia) and is very different from the other ones you listed.

Whether it's an ugly language or not is a different matter...

You're right. When I came down to writing Finnish, I did write it, erased it, thought for 3 seconds, and wrote it again. I knew in the back of my mind it didn't belong

Agreed on Klingon/Ebonics(!).

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:43 am

IlMrm wrote:Cantonese. Don't believe me, spend a couple of minutes in a Chinese tea house.

I used to live in hong kong and I used to be quite good at canton (more so than my english) I would struggle with on how to pronounce things in english but canton was easier for me. not anymore though

Alien Soldier · Post by **Alien Soldier** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:56 am

Texan

bcelmo · Post by **bcelmo** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:57 am

turkish and arabic sound worst
dutch sounds best
english with a british (london) and irish accent is cool
russian/bulgarian/ukrainian/serbian etc kinda bleah
hungarian is ugly
northern european languages are cool
japanese sounds best from the asian languages
chinese meh
korean kinda ugly

ForceDevice · Post by **ForceDevice** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 1:25 pm

Portuguese portuguese. (as in, the Portuguese spoken in Portugal

)

No offense, but really... do they even know vowels exist? They make something like "pra onde fostes?" sound like "prndfsts?".

Also, for some reason I don't like how spanish sounds.

jonny5 · Post by **jonny5** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 1:42 pm

ForceDevice wrote:Portuguese portuguese. (as in, the Portuguese spoken in Portugal )

No offense, but really... do they even know vowels exist? They make something like "pra onde fostes?" sound like "prndfsts?".

Also, for some reason I don't like how spanish sounds.

you think thats bad....try decyphering brazilian portuguese....i know portuguese people who cant understand more than the odd word.....

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:03 pm

Even though I spent a month in the Basque stronghold of San Sebastian Old Town, I didn't get to hear it spoken.
Described as

the last remaining pre-Indo-European language in Europe

with all its Xs and Ks, I'd like to hear this language spoken.
Over half a mil people do speak it...

glitch · Post by **glitch** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:14 pm

Lordstar wrote:HOLD IT!

Finish and the other european languages have a lot of similarities to each other including finish. But they fail in coparission to the awesomeness of gods language. . . English!

huh?
name me some similarities between Finnish and other European languages (excluding Hungarian ok). i know a fair bit or more of Dutch, English, German, Norwegian, and a tiny bit of Icelandic, and when i did a project on Finnish for a linguistics class it sure didn't seem more similar to those than Japanese does, save for the letters. didn't the Finugrian branch of languages split of from the other proto-languages of Europe some 6000 years ago?

on-topic:
i hate the sounds of French (sorry OP), but my native language (Dutch) isn't far behind.
i like the sound of Finnish (though i'm mostly going by their folk music), Norwegian, UK English, and Japanese. also, Japanese grammar wins.

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:39 pm

glitch wrote:
Lordstar wrote:HOLD IT!

Finish and the other european languages have a lot of similarities to each other including finish. But they fail in coparission to the awesomeness of gods language. . . English!
huh?
name me some similarities between Finnish and other European languages (excluding Hungarian ok). i know a fair bit or more of Dutch, English, German, Norwegian, and a tiny bit of Icelandic, and when i did a project on Finnish for a linguistics class it sure didn't seem more similar to those than Japanese does, save for the letters. didn't the Finugrian branch of languages split of from the other proto-languages of Europe some 6000 years ago?

on-topic:
i hate the sounds of French (sorry OP), but my native language (Dutch) isn't far behind.
i like the sound of Finnish (though i'm mostly going by their folk music), Norwegian, UK English, and Japanese. also, Japanese grammar wins.

i just really wanted to say HOLD IT! to his OBJECTION!

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