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Monday 17 June 2013

Does Geography Influence How a Language Sounds?



He found that 92 of the languages he looked at contained ejective consonants. Ejectives are sounds produced with an intensive burst of air and are not found in the English language.

by José Lourenço via Facebook at June 17, 2013 at 01:08PM

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130614-high-altitude-ejective-language-linguistics/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_fb20130616news-langgeo&utm_campaign=Content

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