I know that in English, many poems and songs are composed using rhymes, and I wondered if anyone knew if there were any languages which don't have any rhyming words.
2007-03-15 11:01:16 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Any time you have common endings, you have the possibility of rhymes. So, every language has some kind of rhyme.
However, some languages don't use rhymes nearly as much as English does. Spanish does, but Hebrew (at least in the Biblical usage) did not. Instead of rhymes as a poetic scheme, they used either alliteration (words with the same starting word), or parallelism. The former is used, to give the greatest example, in Psalm 119, where each line within a stanza begins with the same Hebrew letter, and there is one stanza for each letter of the alefbet. An example of the latter would be Proverbs 10:5:
He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
Or Jesus saying in Matthew 7:7
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
which consists of three basically parallel thoughts.
2007-03-15 11:10:51 · answer #1 · answered by Gary B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Japanese doesn't have any rhymes... which is not exactly true since you can end almost every sentence you say in the same letter, but it simply doesn't sound like it's rhyming. I don't know why.
2007-03-15 18:11:01 · answer #2 · answered by Maus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, in Africa there is a language that uses clicks...only clicks.
They might not have rymes... Maybe. (I wouldn't know for sure)
2007-03-15 18:08:47 · answer #3 · answered by Maniac8275 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋