Language Log has put together this very interesting chart of incomprehensible languages. In English, our idiom references Greek as the stereotypical incomprehensible language, but many other languages might say it sounds like Hebrew, like Chinese, or even like Spanish.
Check it out: The directed graph of stereotypical incomprehensibility
(Thanks, Steve!)
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