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View Poll Results: Most beautiful language?
Catalan 0 0%
French 32 33.68%
Italian 22 23.16%
Brazilian Portuguese 8 8.42%
European Portuguese 5 5.26%
Romanian 4 4.21%
Spanish 15 15.79%
Another Romance language/dialect 1 1.05%
Can't decide 6 6.32%
Not my thing 2 2.11%
Voters: 95. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 04-04-2022, 05:46 AM
 
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and the Italian word "fastigio"
Spanish and Portuguese "fastigio" / top, vertex, spire/. Turkish «baş» 4. / vertex, spire/.
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Old 04-30-2022, 07:29 AM
 
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Italian "marito" /husband/. Look at the kinship of this word with a famous German name.

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Old 05-03-2022, 06:36 AM
 
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当然是中文,
不接受反驳。
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Old 05-22-2022, 11:23 PM
 
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当然是中文,
不接受反驳。Of course it's Chinese. Rebuttals are not accepted
Mongolian "шон" (shon) /pillar, pile/.
Chinese (shān) /mountain/
The Chinese and Mongolian words are missing the first two Turkic letters.
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Old 05-23-2022, 07:30 AM
 
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I vote Spanish as well, with Italian a close second.
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Old 06-05-2022, 06:10 AM
 
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Mongolian "шон" (shon) /pillar, pile/.
Chinese (shān) /mountain/
The Chinese and Mongolian words are missing the first two Turkic letters.

You can read about the origin of Chinese words here
https://forum-eurasica.ru/topic/606-...%D0%BA/page/3/
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Old 06-11-2022, 11:27 AM
 
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The real origin of the French word "baby" /child/ can be found here /rs-lit.narod.ru/
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Old 06-17-2022, 09:18 PM
 
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French is definitely the most romantic. When you're talking low, to a lover in French, it doesn't get any better.
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