When you do a search for 'most elegant language' French usually comes up as the top result and I'd have to agree to that, the sound of a well spoken elegant French lady is the epitome of grace to me. The results are all no doubt subjective but Arabic is often one of the top results also, I heard Ghadi Francis on a video talking Arabic and whether it's her accent or the way she delivers her speech - it did sound kind of alluring, assuming she speaks Lebanese Arabic, French has been entwined in that dialect dating back as far as the Crusades.

One of the hottest voices in my mind though was that of a well read, articulate and also a bit posh South African woman who happened to smoke and was schizophrenic, not sure what that has to do with anything? Maybe it's a touch of '20th Century Smoke & Glamour Hollywood Allure' and there's nothing to glamourise about psychotic breaks but a beautiful mind and schizophrenia can sometimes go hand in glove.

As for English, most regional dialects just don't compare to the aforementioned, take southern dialects such as Bristolian or Cornish "Or-roight my lover" The Wurzels "ooh aah ooh aah", The Midlands "Ay up me duck", Up North - Liverpool "Sound like, have you got a ciggy lad" or Newcastle "Why aye man". Those examples are most likely gross stereotypes but anyone who can audiate those phrases will know what I'm getting at.

Maybe it's more a case of erudition, articulatory phonetics and delivery but going back to French & Arabic those languages do have a certain flow to them.

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