Is it Russian most ''softest'' Slavic language?

slavophile   Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:32 pm GMT
Your oppinions?
slavophile   Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:34 pm GMT
I meant most soft sounding...let's say Bulgarian sounds quite hard to my ears...
Guest   Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:47 pm GMT
Vzdor.
Guest   Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:21 am GMT
Macedonian, Croatian, Serbian and Slovenian would be more soft sounding:


Macedonian:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PGo_B3_EcZs

Croatian:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TZN9aoznEpg
Guest   Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:24 am GMT
Slovenian:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wYHAatJJJKY
JLK   Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:33 pm GMT
I'm not certain about "softest", but amongst Slavic languages polyglots and linguists generally consider Serbo-Croatian to be the most beautiful. All answers are subjective though.
Guest   Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:59 am GMT
I've heard that Russian and Belorussian are the softest languages.
Guest   Wed Mar 19, 2008 1:28 pm GMT
if Softness

a) the highest % of palatals, then the softest are Russian and Polish

b) the highest % of non-shwa vowels in words, then the softest are
Slovenian, SerboCroatian and Macedonian/
Gertrude   Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:37 pm GMT
Personally, I like it hard.
Guest   Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:48 pm GMT
There's no Macedonian language.
Guest   Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:56 am GMT
<<Personally, I like it hard.>>

As opposed to flaccid I assume?
Guest   Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:15 am GMT
''There's no Macedonian language.''

Au contraire.
Guest   Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:56 am GMT
<<''There's no Macedonian language.''
Au contraire.>>>
Let's the fight begin
Ingrid   Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:54 pm GMT
<<Let's the fight begin>>

Au contraire.