A language with most sounds nasalised.

[Tillumadoguenirurm]

Hindi? I've read that the nasalisation doesn't outnumber though. To my ears Asian languages have always sounded quite nasalised, but I don't know if they really are or if it's something else.

[jsmith12]

Hindi? I've read that the nasalisation doesn't outnumber though. To my ears Asian languages have always sounded quite nasalised, but I don't know if they really are or if it's something else.

"Asian languages" is too large and diverse a category to be useful considering that there are over a dozen language families represented in Asia. I assume that Mandarin Chinese is the archetypical "Asian Language," and it actually contains the same nasal phonemes as English. I don't know if they occur more frequently. Mandarin contains many retroflex and palatal phonemes, and I would guess that is what you hear as nasal.

Korean is the same as Chinese and English, in terms of nasals, and Japanese is very similar. Vietnamese has one extra (the same as ñ in Spanish), but I would guess that the retroflex and palatal sounds are more distinctive.

[aokoye]

Hindi? I've read that the nasalisation doesn't outnumber though. To my ears Asian languages have always sounded quite nasalised, but I don't know if they really are or if it's something else.

"Asian languages" is too large and diverse a category to be useful considering that there are over a dozen language families represented in Asia.

I just wanted to second this especially given that Hindi is an indo-european language.

[Tillumadoguenirurm]

Hindi? I've read that the nasalisation doesn't outnumber though. To my ears Asian languages have always sounded quite nasalised, but I don't know if they really are or if it's something else.

"Asian languages" is too large and diverse a category to be useful considering that there are over a dozen language families represented in Asia. I assume that Mandarin Chinese is the archetypical "Asian Language," and it actually contains the same nasal phonemes as English. I don't know if they occur more frequently. Mandarin contains many retroflex and palatal phonemes, and I would guess that is what you hear as nasal.

Korean is the same as Chinese and English, in terms of nasals, and Japanese is very similar. Vietnamese has one extra (the same as ñ in Spanish), but I would guess that the retroflex and palatal sounds are more distinctive.

Well, you're likely right. Thank you for explaining.