Of the different languages in India, which one do you think sounds nicest or has the best cadence to your ear?

This question is bound to raise controvery. No body is going to give an answer acceptable to a person speaking some other language. We all attach so much passion to our mother tongue that we consider that alone as the best. Let me try to give an honest answer. Your question is which language is nice to hear, among the Indian languages. All the Sanskrit based languasges, sound sweet, for the reason that they have a liberal dose of sibilant sound (sh.. sound). The dravidian languages have less of it and if they have, it is because of the words borrowed from Sansakrit. Hence, I would say that Hindi ( I have excluded Sanskrit) is by far the sweetest, especially the songs of Lata Mangaeshkar of yester years.

Among the South Indian languages, Telugu also sounds sweet for those who know that language. Consider the Thyagarajar's kirtans in Telugu. There is a saying 'Telugu thetta', meaning 'Telugu is like honey'. Besides, I used to marvel at the majesty of the Malayalam language, which has retained the best features of the Dravidian languge and a fine dose of influence from Sanskrit. The 'manipravala' style of that language gives a majesty to it, in its diction and diction delivery, which is spoken with an admirable felicity without any laboured attempt and inadvertent usage of English words. Subramanya Bharati, a great Tamil poet of the last century and a linguist himself has said that of all the languages that he had known, Tamil is the sweetest. Knowing Bharati being an honest and forthright person, with a nationalist bent of mind, free from any chauvinistis and sectarian consideration, I should believe his words for true. He lived in the early part of the 20th Century. The Tamil of that period must have retained its pristine purity, besides the gory literary tradition,about which it can be rightly proud of. But , the language of today, has lost its glory, what with the tendencey to freely mix English language to substitute for the original Tamil words. No Tamil can speak his language now without intermixing in the speech a free dose of English words, which is seldom the case with other languages , especially Malayalam. The Malayalalm owes its quality for this tendency not to allow the influence of Enlsih and other foreign languages to corrupt it. Bharati said " mella Tamil ini chaagum", meaning Tamil will henceforth die a slow death. I think we are witness to it now.

Hey there,long time..anyway,back to your question,without prejudice, i definitely believe Urdu is the sweetest of all languages spoken in India.It is the language of all the great poets emabating from the region like Ghalib,Dagh and Faraz.

You see Urdu is made up of three different and very sweet literary languages i.e,Turkish,Arabic and Persian with hints of Sanskrit here and there and that gives it a unique sweet-sounding cadence that you ask about.

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i like the sound of Slavic languages, noticeably Croatian and Russian. in comparison to maximum persons, i will no longer be able to stand the sound of French, Italian or Spanish. i think of French is a lot too guttural, and then Italian and Spanish have very dry accents. while Italian is sung that's severe-high quality, yet i locate it somewhat harsh while spoken. I additionally loathe the sound of any Sino-Tibetan language, yet this in all fairness hardship-unfastened. Croatian has a very diffused use of tonality which may make it sound somewhat musical. besides to this, Slavic languages tend to have "purer" vowels than Germanic or Italic languages that's a severe-high quality characteristic.

Malayalam

I am a Kannadiga but I think proper Telugu is the sweetest language.

Every languages is great itself, If you can understand the language easily

Hindi I guess.....cause many other languages like Bengali n all sound like it..or typically same...so I think Hindi...it sounds quite romantic when sung n nostalgic..when written,,,,..

kannada dude.easy language to understand.