Ugliest language on the face of the earth

Ghetto English. Ok, guys, I’m off to a 4-week vacation.

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Русский язык. Я взял в год русского языка в средней школе, и я съежился на некоторые из звуков. Конечно, это было еще во времена холодной войны, так что все России была уродлива.

Bless you.

Breast warts!

It’s actually pretty common to subtitle all television here. Not everyone speaks and/or understands Mandarin. The written language is common, though. (The local Chinese call all of the different dialects “accents” – even Cantonese.)

I would say that the ugliest languages, to me, are the ones that allow for unholy consonant clusters. Yes, I know that certain types of “L” and “R” are technically considered to be vocalic, but nonetheless!

The champion here has to be Georgian: Behold ɡvbrdgvnis (= “he’s plucking us”) or mc’vrtneli (= “trainer”).

Czech is not far behind – The iconic sentence is actually rather artificial --a tongue-twister: Strč prst skrz krk (= “stick your finger through your throat”), but there are some ‘beauties’ in Czech like scvrknls (= past tense form of the verb scvrknout, which means “to flick away”).

And then there is the relatively obscure Nuxálk language, spoken in Western Canada by 20 to 30 elderly native speakers (although there are energetic efforts being made to revive it). This language challenges what even constitutes a syllable. For instance, the following utterance (written with an alphabet developed for the language) can be said, from some points of view, to constitute a single syllable:

xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc̓ (phonetically “[xɬpʼχʷɬtʰɬpʰɬːskʷʰt͡sʼ]” = “he had had in his possession a bunchberry plant”).

Other fine examples from the same language (written phonetically):

[kʼxɬɬtʰsxʷ sɬχʷtʰɬɬtʰs (t͡s?)] (= “you had seen that I had gone through a passage”).
[t͡sʰkʰtʰskʷʰt͡sʰ] (= “he arrived”).
[st͡sʼqʰt͡sʰtʰx] (= “that’s my animal fat over there”).

(and the two last ones do not even have any ‘vocalic’ “L” or “R” in them!!)

So… Yeah. Languages that allow enormous consonant clusters are the (potentially) ugliest, in my opinion.

which shows a different language from the rest of the film.

Ha ha! That announcer is audibly from a place just outside my hometown. I think northern and central Dutch are both brutal and his Dutch is “neutral” (i.e. I speak exactly like this - but we can still be friends). :smiley:

Lol…Even though, in fact, I rather like the sound of German (along with other languages people usually don’t like much like Russian and Arabic).

How English sounds to non-English speakers.

I’m going to kill you all. Anyway the most ugly languages are Arab and Hebrew. Portuguese and Thai sounds like a constant whine party. American English sounds goofy, like awkward pimpled teenage boys trying to make conversation.

BBC Received Pronunciation. Afrikaans runs a distant second in “no matter what I’m saying, what I’m meaning is that I’m superior.”

Dutch sounds like someone speaking backwards while choking back a phlegmy laugh.

Vietnamese sounds like someone speaking backwards, angrily, while swallowing a cat.

Please don’t tell my in-laws I said this.

I think it’s a tie between Arabic and Hebrew.

I actually like German. Spoken German is actually pretty soft to my ears, with Germans having what sounds like a lisp when speaking. It’s only when they get angry does the horror come out. My German office mate sometimes gets confused what language he is speaking when angry and rants at me in German.

Six years in Hong Kong says Cantonese. It’s by turns nasal and harshly throaty, and constantly switches between a lumpy rattle of single syllables and the elongated, slangy laaaas and ahhhhhs that are hung on the end of every sentence.

It doesn’t help that it’s always delivered at a vacuum cleaner level of loudness.

I agree. As a Mandarin speaker, I cannot stand Cantonese.

To be honest, Mandarin’s quite ugly too, with all of those pinched mews crashing into the occasional hard K-sound, covered with a heavy frosting of shh-shh - how poetic of me! Still miles better than Cantonese though.