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Old 03-30-2008, 10:40 AM   #194 (permalink)
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Default The most beautiful languages

My mother tongue is Russian. I can also relatively fluently express my thoughts in English, Chinese (Putonghua), and Armenian (Eastern). I am familiar enough just with languages of different nations of Eurasia. So my remark does not cover each of the languages, that exist in the world. Nevertheless, I can draw some conclusion.

I will not mention my native language, in spite of the fact, that I find it very beautiful (as well as the rest of Slavic languages).

In my humble opinion, in the aspect of sounding, these are Georgian, Japanese, Portuguese, and some Turkic languages. And, of course, Slavic languages, as I already said. I also may distinguish Arabic, some Finno-Ugric languages, some Indo-Aryan languages, Korean, Iranian languages, from Romanic languages: Italian, Roumanian, and Spanish.

In the aspect of written language, I would like to mark out the following ones (with bringing sentences as an example):

– Arabic:
الإعلان العالمي لحقوق الإنسان هو وثيقة حقوق دولية, هو الإعلان الدي تبنته الأمم المتحدة 10 ديسمبر 1948 قصر شايو في باريس. الإعلان يتحدث عن رأي

– Armenian:
1948 թվականի դեկտեմբերի 10-ին Միավորված ազ.երիկազմակերպության Ընդհանուր Ժողովն ընդունեց ու ազդարարեց Մարդու իրավունքների համընդհանուր հռչակա.իրը, որիամբողջական տեքստն ամփոփված է .րքույկի հաջորդ էջերում։

– Chinese characters (both, traditional and simplified):
世界人权宣言是联合国大会于1948年12月10日通过的一份旨在维护人类基本权利的文献。

– Devnagari (that is used, for example, in Hindi):
10 दिसंबर 1948 को संयुक्त राष्ट्र संघ की समान्य सभा ने मानव अधिकारों की सार्वभौम घोषणा को स्वीकृत और घोषित किया

– Georgian:
ვინაიდან ადამიანთა ოჯახის ყველა წევრისათვის დამახასიათებელი ღირსების და თანასწ

But the fonts above do not reflect the whole beauty of those written systems.

In the aspect of how beautiful and rich in possibility to express feelings and ideas language is, I would like to mark out Russian.

Last edited by D-man; 03-30-2008 at 03:03 PM. Reason: Corrected semantic error and made some additions
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