What is the most beautiful European language?

[Vožd]

My top 3: French, British English and Greek.

[Mr. Anybody]

Basque

[Cristiano viejo]

Turkish, Hungarian, Estonian.

Turkish is not European... and Hungarian not fully.

[nittionia]

don't find any language beautiful, but some are more tolerable than others.

[Mens-Sarda]

Romance languages for sure.

I obviously choose Sardinian (which is not in the list above), the living language closest to ancient vulgar Latin.


Semus Sardos, populu antigu de pastores e montanaros, tenajudos e fieros, retzimus in domo nostra sos amigos, in paghe e amistade, ma semus sempre prontos a cumbattere contra a sos inimigos sene piedade e finzas a sa morte.

[Dandelion]

It's hard to vote for only one, to be honest. Currently I find Germanic and Slavic languages the most interesting, followed by Finnic.

My favourite language per language family:

Germanic: Dutch (native; simple grammar but in ways very conservative as it differs less from Middle Dutch than Modern German does from Middle German), German, Swedish (though Icelandic is also very interesting and
I find Danish to have the most interesting phonology);
Romance: French, Romanian, Spanish;
Slavic: Czech (very purist), Russian (very cosmopolitan); Polish (very archaic);
Finno-Ugric: Finnish.

I guess I clearly prefer my own Germanic language family. I have the most pronounced opinion on it at least. Familiarity and such.

[Insuperable]

Italian.

[Dandelion]

Turkish is not European... and Hungarian not fully.

Hungarian does sound beautiful when spoken conversationally, though.



Interestingly, while grammarly and lexicographically it's far removed from its distant cousin Finnish, the intonation is very alike to that of Finnish.

[Iloko]

French

[Thracian]

Russian