How does Draconic sound?


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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. :)
For me, outside of Tolkien, Blood and Honor, and L5R...
Elven is closer to Hawai'ian in sound. (I love the sounds of Hawai'ian.)
Dwarves are Old Norse.
Halflings are either southeast US or Welshfolk speaking english.
Orcs are, of course, cockney.
Goblins are Liverpudlian.
Dragons are Mandarin, but 3 octaves down. (You feel it more than hear it; what you hear is just the overtones.)
Reptile men sound like !kung or Khosa, but with the clicks replaced with sibilants.
Gnomes are French or Russian.
 

Gnomes are French or Russian.
Or Belgian, perhaps?

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