> > I think
>
> Yes, it's Dutch. The guttural consonants can take some getting used to. It's like
> half way from English to German.
The worst-sounding language I know of is Danish. Worse even than Polish.
I agree, Dutch doesn't sound too good either.
It can't be just the guttural consonants, though. Hebrew has guttural consonants, but it still sounds kind of sexy (at least when women speak it).
To go a bit farther east: Vietnamese doesn't really sound like a language (at least to my ears). Korean can sound anywhere from cute to horrible. Japanese could almost pass for a European language, except that its loanwords are from Chinese rather than from Latin and Greek.
Some people construct alternate-universe versions of certain languages: google Brithenig and Wenedyk. I would love to see a Japanese with its loanwords coming from Latin and Greek, and an English with its loanwords coming from Chinese, or even an English with its loanwords from Arabic.
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