Least Gutteral Language

Just have a look and listen at the video above which uses silly costumes and hokey stagecraft to show just how seven everyday words sound in german french english italian and spanish.

Least gutteral language.

Bottom line for me is that guttural sounds aren t really a useful linguistic category. The following languages are listed as having at least 10 million first language speakers in the 2019 edition of ethnologue a language reference published by sil international which is based in the united states. German just isn t the gentlest sounding language at least not to the ears of english speakers. By the way i am a native english speaker who is learning or attempting to learn dutch.

You could go as far as to say that language is the most important tool in a game like dnd where your social interactions can mean life or death. Finnish has a reputation for being a tricky language to learn and with good reason. Top languages by population ethnologue 2019 22nd edition. Figurative language refers to a language that deviates from the conventional order and meaning in order to convey a complicated meaning colorful writing clarity or evocative comparison.

Most foreigners have this wtf reaction when they hear it because it sounds so out of character considering the overall language. Nouns have 15 different cases while english has only three. It uses an ordinary sentence to refer to something without directly stating it. Common is without question the most widely used language in the game so aside from the obvious choice let s take a look at the top 5 most useful languages.

Dutch on the whole isn t a gutteral language. It is quite a harsh guttural language but beautiful all the same in its own way. Hindi or japanese might be among the most spoken languages without guttural phonemes although hindi has another group of sounds that seem weird to a lot of english speaking ears the retroflex consonants. The language is in the finno urgic language family so it doesn t have any latin or german influence to help you guess what something means.

There is only one gutteral sound in dutch present only in northern dutch and it isn t even that frequent but people tend to remember the exceptions.