I refer to the most compatible languages with the music and the rhythm.
2007-09-09 23:37:28 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Italian or Korean maybe...
2007-09-10 02:20:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a little hard to tell, especially since linguists seldom analyze or write about languages on the basis of their musicality.
However, Dr. Frank Baxter in one of his educational films from the 1960's claimed that Ancient Greek had a "musical quality" to it that has been lost in Modern Greek. A Scandinavian friend of mine once told me that Norwegian and Swedish were musical sounding relative to Danish.
I've heard several people describe Spanish, Italian, Serbo-Croatian and Cherokee as "melodious" which is almost the same thing as musical.
Like most Americans, I have not heard enough non-Western languages to be able to tell which is the most musical of the African or Asian languages.
2007-09-10 14:30:23 · answer #2 · answered by Brennus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey this is fun - I just answered this same question in the Spanish section of Yahoo Answers!!
Every language has its own "music" and rhythm - and the languages whose rhythm and intonation are most different to our own tend to be the ones that sound most musical to us.
2007-09-10 07:12:04 · answer #3 · answered by GrahamH 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are English and Spanish. They are the most compatible languages with the musicality for their attractive phonetics. It turns easily for the songs, almost all the songs with success are in English or in Spanish. Then French would go, but it is used much less.
2007-09-10 07:06:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Japanese is very syllabic, so it works well with very rhythm-based music.
2007-09-10 06:45:54 · answer #5 · answered by xgasxchamberx 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋