How does Draconic sound?

[I'm A Banana]

We all have an idea in our head about the typical 'sound' of some of the languages of D&D....Elvish is lilting Welsh/Irish/French-ish, with a lot of soft vowels and "L's", etc....Dwarvish is filled with "K's" and "Z's" with harsh stops and lung-coughing, closer to German/Scottish....heck, you can even imagine Halfling as some sort of heavily accented Aulstralian/Great Brittain English...

So, what do people hear in their head when they hear Draconic? What kind of "Earth Language" has similar phoentics and feel? Does it sound like something from an African tribe, with noises and sount effects and "oo's" and "M's" and "B's"? More smiliar to Spanish/Portuguese/Italian, with a lilting rush of letters in some sort of sing-songy nature? Perhaps it's something like Incan/Mayan/Aztec, with "X's" and "Z's," and "Atl's"?

Just thinking of what kind of feel most people have for Draconic. All suggestions welcome.

 

[Tsyr]

I always think of a gutteral version of latin, for some reason.

And I think of Japanese for elves.

 

[blackshirt5]

Have you ever met Gareth-Michael Skarka? Imagine him talking, he's the most Draconic person I've ever heard.

 

[DonAdam]

Ever heard the charm of making from Excalibur?

Annal-nathrak
Uthboz vethood
Dokiel Deinvay

That's how Draconic sounds.

 

[dave_o]

I think of it as sorta Entish, with lots of "harooms" and "hooahs", and other Dragon-y sounds, and a healthy dose of Black Speech. Thus, you get something like:

"Alhoom, doocht haroth ooht."

Long A's, long O's, long everything.

And in my opinion, it's written like edgy cursive, with lots of little circles around letters, in various sizes.

I love languages.

 

[Kweezil]

I always imagined it sounded like a sillibant blend of deep hisses, snarls and rumbles to a human ear. After seeing Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets, it'd sound like a deeper, more resonant form of Parseltongue.

[edit, added after seeing Dave-O's post]
IMHO it'd be written in angular syllabic runes. Soft curves are too hard to draw with talons

[second edit]
This give me an idea, to include information like this (real world analogies etc) for the languages on my campaign website.

 

[LGodamus]

I dont know bout that other stuff, but common is gotta be good ole southern Americanese.

 

[Cyronax]

How about a slithery sounding Chinese-esque Draconic? That's how i've used it. China is the original home of dragons after all.

 

[Wayside]

I've always imagined it sounding like Nahuatl.

 

[Hand of Evil]

sounds like death for any failure!

Deep throated growling sound, along the lines of the big cats and other large animal.