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I spent my summer with some people from all around Europe, one day we were discussin which was the most musical language, I said Italian, but my Italian friends said it's Spanish... We asked a 3rd person and he said Spanish again, now my couple of questions:
Is Spanish or Italian more musical?
Which is the most musical language for you? (in general)
Operas are best sung in Italian, because of the purity of the vowel sounds, without diphthongs.
The African Lingala language is the basis if the Soukous music of Kinshasa, which is ideally suited to music, since the stress is nearly equal on all consonants, which consist of pure vowels and consonants.
My first thought was Swedish or Norwegian (as in: these languages almost sound like they are 'sung' instead of spoken, I assume that is what you meant).
As a former classical singer, most of what we sung was in Latin, but we did do other languages (Swedish, Polish, Russian, Spanish, French, etc.) I'd say Latin, at least for singing, is the language things are based on in the realm of classical. It's really easy to fake lyrics in Latin too. I remember a friend of a friend actually forgot words to his solo during a performance and just made up a bunch of "latin sounding" things. Nobody in the audience had a clue he was faking it.
As for overall "most musical language" I'd say there's a lot of other languages besides Latin-based that are good though. I like a lot of sings sung in Arabic, Hindi, Turkish, and Hebrew too..they can be pretty good for singing (if you get the pronunciation right).
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If you're talking about the world, you'd think some of the more tonal languages. But idk if they're all that musical...the Chinese dialect Hakka sounds quite musical.
The Welsh accent is very musical but the language not as much as you'd expect.
I don't find Spanish or Italian very musical at all. I'd say Swedish or English spoken in some English, Irish and Scottish accents is somewhat musical.
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Brazilian Portuguese is very musical...
Come to think of it does have a distinctive cadence. Love the film City of God, just listening to the way they speak.
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