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Re:Which Language Uses the Most Sounds? by johansch on Saturday November 26, 2016 @04:55PM (#13046100)
My native language is Swedish, not English. They are both quite closely related though.

I'm really curious to that Swedish sounds like to tonal-language people. It's often described as "sing-songy" by "non-tonal" people from e.g. UK/US.

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Re:Which Language Uses the Most Sounds? by laylomo on Saturday November 26, 2016 @05:36PM (#13046338)
It's because of words like anden and andEN. That second version is sing-songy because it has two stresses.
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