A new study has revealed the worlds most relaxing accents, according to science, and the South African accent came in at number seven in the top ten globally.
In 2023, the South African accent was voted as the twelfth most friendly accent in the world.
Taking these studies into account, it may account for the many international call centres with operations in South Africa.
Dr Chris Montgomery, an expert in Dialectology from the University of Sheffield, surveyed over 1,500 respondents. Individuals were asked to rate each accent on various factors including: relaxing to unrelaxing; easy to difficult to follow; friendly to unfriendly.
These are the the worlds top ten most relaxing accents.The research found that the Italian, Australian and French accents were perceived to be the most relaxing globally.
