Linguistics Study Claims That Languages Are Louder in the Tropics

In primeval times, when people lived within nature, they needed to protect themselves, and so they were sensitive to the frequencies and sounds generated by nature, in order to detect danger before it could sneak up on them. The sound of the wind blowing, the sound of water flowing, the sound of an animal walking through the grass—the ability to un

The model used recordings made before the winterers left to simulate what might happen to their accents as they spent time together. Their prediction was unerringly accurate, even if it did exaggerate the effects compared to what happened in real life. The winterers themselves wouldn't have noticed either as they happened over time. But when the so

as we lose languages, that loss is reflected in plant and animal extinctions. As we create an increasingly homogenous human culture, we are rapidly losing the broad diversity of knowledge necessary to our tending of the land upon which we are dependent, as well as the ability to commune with and protect the other beings who call it home.

phonetics is simpler than Semitic phonetics: Greek has fewer consonants than Phoenician. Similarly, English, an Indo-European language, has fewer consonants than Arabic, a Semitic language with many guttural sounds.