ITT Not well known languages which sound very nice

>>77560413
Occitan dialects sounds pretty nice
It's like a french version closer to latin and other romance languages

>>77560697
I tried to learn provençal but there are so few resources that I gave up. It's a shame because it sounds really cool.

Farsi and Telugu are soothing and poetic.

>>77560885
Not very well known.

>>77560750
If you already learned french, you could learn near any french regional dialects pretty easily and quickly, especially oïl dialects

Not really unknown but
>Mongolian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l8wsBlSCpQ
>Armenian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUtRgfFUCl8&t=13s
>Tajik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkeAbRwP-lY
>Abkhazian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lX0esmDbhw

Might sound like utter tripe to you guys but for me guttural throaty sounds are really comforting to listen to. Maybe it's because Tagalog sounds like, imagine a guy saying namamapala malala papahanap hananapin putangina mo to you. All those front-of-the-mouth vowels and vowels in general.

>>77560750

Learn Catalan. It is basically the only Occitan variant alive. Resources are plentiful. The local government spends money on promoting it.

>>77560413
What about this?
https://soundcloud.com/user-137283764/sets/tomyris

>>77563659
I second this. Parla.cat is useful. There's also a duolingo course for it.

When I stayed in a mountain hut in Andorra, the hut guards were really excited to hear me speaking Catalan.

I actually did hear a bit of Occitan when I was in Toulouse, but it was when I walked by the Occitan cultural center. Weirdly enough, a Catalan friend of mine said she cannot understand a weird of spoken Occitan but can read it just fine.

Latvian sounds badass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBNKkLTYk6g

>>77566426
That probably happened to her because spoken Occitan has been heavily influenced by French.
The classical Occitan writing norm/system is extremely similar to that of Catalan.

If you take a text in Mistralian Occitan norm, it is much more difficult to read, because it was designed to ease teaching French-speakers, not natives.

>>77567603
Wasn't Catalan considered an Occitan dialect until the 19th century? Plus there's Aranese which is an Occitan dialect spoken in part of Catalonia.

I find it sad how France cucked their regional languages.

>>77567694
It is sad...

And yes, it was once considered part of the continuum. 19th century feels a little bit too late, tho. The 'separation' was probably clearly made slightly earlier.

It is worth noting that the language was already being called Catalan during the 13th century and even before, since the people already identified themselves as "Catalans" (you can check that by reading texts like Ramon Muntaner's Chronicle).

That does not mean that it wasn't perceived as part of the dialectal continuum. But most people knew nothing about linguistics anyway.

>>77569324
Why are the regional languages so well preserved in Spain, then, if there was a much stronger nationalist movement under Franco than there's ever been in France?

One Andorran told me that the original Catalan writers and poets were Valencian but not as many people know about them because people fall for the "Valencian != Catalan" meme.

>>77560413
Manchu sounds like a mix of Chinese, Korean and Japanese.

There was a Chinese/Manchu movie that used it but I can't find it

>>77560413
I like listening to Welsh songs. They're relaxing.
https://youtu.be/Nrkgdj0bVAo