Does Geography Influence How a Language Sounds? - 2 views
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language geography knowledge coincidences
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These regions are the North American Cordillera, the Andes and the Andean altiplano, the southern African plateau, the plateau of the East African Rift and the Ethiopian highlands, and the Caucasus range and Javakheti plateau.
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catbclark on 28 Oct 14This is interesting because these are in different areas that probably had no contact with each another when the languages were developing, yet they have simular sounds in the language.
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Moreover, most of the languages containing ejectives were spoken in, or near, five out of six high-altitude regions around the world.