/lit/'s favorite language

[Anonymous No.13091993]

What is your favorite language and why?

I like most slavic languages but particularly czech because most if not all of its words are new for me and the fact that i've never witnessed this specific combination of letters from an alphabet that I am very comfortable with is very interesting. Also it possesses (sssss) very unusual sounds and consonant clusters that make for challenging prononciation. ie: ř (tři, řeř), Ť,ť, ě, čtvrtek, jsem

[Anonymous No.13092015]

Klingon. OVS, fusional polypersonal verb affixes, and its phonology.

[Anonymous No.13092019]

>>13092015
>OVS

[Anonymous No.13092029]

>>13091993
Francais because that shit lit

[Anonymous No.13092048]

>>13092015
OVS seems very dysfunctional though. Then again everything is objectively "good" until you get close to it and switch to a subjective point of view, which in this case is the fact that ive been taught otherwise.

[Anonymous No.13092092]

>>13091993
Japanese and Portuguese are my favourite languages aesthetically. They just sound so beautiful.

[Anonymous No.13092124]

>>13091993
german is beautiful. russian is pretty poetic i think. english is dry, i don't like it.

[Anonymous No.13092130]

Japanese. Kanji is unironically amazing.

[Anonymous No.13092139]

>>13091993
Danish, no doubt. The sound, rough word choice as well as the coziness of it. But I also adore French, Portuguese and Farsi.

[Anonymous No.13092168]

>>13092130
kono

[Anonymous No.13092179]

>>13091993
Greek,well because it sounds unique(;))
Spanish because it is Romantic
English because its the most expressible language and I always thought


I only know French but I was never fluent

[Anonymous No.13092181]

>>13092092
What is it in both Japanese and Portuguese that you like? I don't see how the two are similar.

>>13092139
I've never really had an interest in Danish. Can you give some examples of words that you like?

[Anonymous No.13092221]

i love the chunky syllable-and-consonant heavy phonetics of korean. i also always thought hangeul looked cool, even as a kid. you don't have to learn any hanja because of hangeul, but if you like getting autistically deep into etymology, you still have the opportunity to study it.
the grammar is consistent and the rules seem to 'make sense'; i never ran into any real grammar bullshit (unlike some other languages).

[Anonymous No.13092257]

>>13092181
Not him, but
Ryparken? HOIPAHGEN
Emdrup? EEMGUP
Amagerbro? AMAHBO
Kobenhavn? KOOBENHAUNG

[Anonymous No.13092271]

Finnish and German

[Anonymous No.13092301]

>>13092257
I don't get what you're trying to say. Those are city named right?

[Anonymous No.13092345]

>>13092257
These are some of the station names along the B-line of the S-train in Copenhagen, except for the last one.

[Anonymous No.13092357]

>>13092345
So this man was writing those down as he passed by them or can you find them elsewhere

[Anonymous No.13092363]

>>13091993
Italian and Latin
They are beautiful to listen to.

Now listening to Mass in B Minor by Bach.
Astounding

[Anonymous No.13092371]

>>13092363
>>/mu/

[Anonymous No.13092393]

>>13091993
Russian
Romanian
English

[Anonymous No.13092394]

>>13092363
Ayo say one more f*cking thing about the rewarding and pleasurable feeling one achieved after hearing multiple sounds that have no inherent meaning, but are quite frankly sweet to the ear and i will kick you buttox all the way back to /mu/

[Anonymous No.13092415]

>>13092271
Wish I knew Finnish, seems like a language you can do anything with (literary technique wise). Also Russian would be nice.

[Anonymous No.13092526]

>>13092181
It's not just the words, but rather how we put sentences together, as well as the choice of words. But here are a few, intriguing (in my humble opinion) words; levebrod, rundfart, gravol, håndbajer, elskværdig.

[Anonymous No.13092527]

>>13091993
t. česká buzna

[Anonymous No.13092645]

>>13091993
English, because I know it the best. I think it strikes a nice balance between the rigidity of German and the softer and somewhat lazy sounding Latin languages. There are just so many great words in English. I like Japanese and Latin a lot too.

[Anonymous No.13092655]

Proper literature has only ever been written in Russian, English and French.

[Anonymous No.13092700]

>>13092371
>>13092394
Mass in Latin is lit

[Anonymous No.13092805]

>>13091993
Polish, Czech, German

[Anonymous No.13092850]

basque
basque is the best

[Anonymous No.13093851]

Romanian because it's an island of latinity in an ocean of barbarity.

[Anonymous No.13093870]

I have sampled every language, French is my favorite. Fantastic language. Especially to curse with. Nom de dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d'enculer ta mère. It's like wiping your arse with silk. I love it.

[Anonymous No.13093886]

>>13091993
Russian is my favorite when it's being used by certain poets. It can also sound completely retarded though

[Anonymous No.13093896]

latin and japanese

[Anonymous No.13095463]

irish and french

[Anonymous No.13096239]

any of you can read Old Greek?

Can you talk about phi like Socrates? What's the feeling?

[Anonymous No.13096371]

>>13096239
Not read by I can translate it.

[Anonymous No.13096420]

>>13092168
I'm a Jap, and this is wrong, so I'm going to go full autist here.
この (kono) is a 連体詞 (rentaishi), which can be translated as a prenominal adjectival. Here, prenominal means that この can only appear immediately before a noun; it cannot appear on its own, independent of any other word. If you want a translation for the 4chan reply "this", これ (kore) works better.

[Anonymous No.13096453]

>>13091993
Jediná unikátnost je skutečne jen ř, vše ostatní se vyskytuje často ve většině indo-evropských jazycích - jen píšou trochu jinak.

čtvrtek is easy mode, just say shtrew-tech in english spelling. most of us czechfags will parse that correctly because thats ultimately how its pronounced (with the -ew being very high and sharp).

[Anonymous No.13096519]

>>13096420
Is Japanese a bastardized language ? Asking unironically. You guys use like three different alphabets no? Can you derive the root of most words just by looking / hearing them? are most words composed of parts, the group of which form a new meaning, or is it like English where you take a fuckton of different words from different languages and thus cannot figure out the meaning of the word by it's root, because you don't know its root, or there is no discernible pattern?

E.g. parachute -> French roots:
par (from parrer, to block, to halt)
a (of)
chute (fall)

I can determine the meaning of the word by reading its parts, if I know French.

[Anonymous No.13096547]

>>13092393
>Romanian
Explain yourself my fellow romanian friend.

[Anonymous No.13096603]

I like Romanian because it has great poems, and the language is one of the more difficult latin languages to learn.

English is, well, English.

Other languages I've been wanting to learn are Latin, Russian, and German.

[Anonymous No.13096610]

>>13096603
>difficult latin languages to learn
It's very similar to Italian but what makes the difference are the slavic influences.

[Anonymous No.13096622]

>>13096519
Most linguists are of the opinion korean/ryuku split sometime during korean bronze age (or rather, both places spoke in a spectrum).

As for the insanity of writing japanese, they essentially adopted worst of both worlds. Syllabic alphabet (kana) as a wannabe hangul, and stolen chink pictograms which are only vaguely related to original meaning and both are used side by side in (kana being much easier to read, but also more verbose).

Aside from few like chinks and nips, rest of the world moved on adopted normal alphabets from phoenicians, simply because it had by far the best ease of use/expressiveness ratio compared to more primitive pictographic/syllabic writing.

[Anonymous No.13096736]

>>13091993
Definitely Greek, although Thai has the prettiest script

[Anonymous No.13097507]

>>13096622
Thanks for the explanation.

[Anonymous No.13097518]

>>13096453
Yea I guess but it's still impressive.

Also nothing beats the consonant clusters found in canadian french, it's impressive how many they fit in a single word

jtrgarde /štrgard/
rvnir /rvnir/
dmander /dmądé/

[Anonymous No.13097540]

>>13096622
日本語の文法は易しくて面白いのよう
韓国語の文法の方が難しいって聞いた
r8 and correct please
I haven't focused myself on Japanese grammar yet, just reading Tae Kim guide but not taking notes yet, I'll do that later
Right now I am focusing myself with learning kanji and some vocabulary

[Anonymous No.13097564]

>>13097540
I forgot the だ at the end of the first sentence