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1a. Re: Ejective Consonants a sign of Mountain Living
From: Roger Mills
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1a. Re: Ejective Consonants a sign of Mountain Living
Posted by: "Roger Mills" [email protected]
Date: Thu Jun 13, 2013 4:37 am ((PDT))
Years ago there was a program on my Univ. radio station (before it went all
NPR-talk) called "[Aleut (IIRC) word or phrase] The things that were said of
them". It was produced by Alaska Public Radio, and included snatches of
conversation, and lots of names, in folk tales of the Aleut people (and
beautiful stories they were!!). The lang. had (to my ear) lots of glottal,
uvular and velar consonants, and just hearing it made one cold..... I wondered
if living in a very cold climate led to the over-abundance of back consonants,
as if speakers didn't want to open their mouths very wide and expose their
tongues etc.to the cold. (just my speculation from younger days :-))))
In my Kash conworld, one component of the Galactic Union is the blue humanoid
aliens who are expert telepaths. They come of course from an oxygen-poor
planet, and developed their telepathic ability (so they claim) to avoid wasting
breath on verbal conversation. They must, of course, wear a breathing apparatus
when they're on an oxygen-normal/rich planet.
--- On Thu, 6/13/13, John Q <[email protected]> wrote:
From: John Q <[email protected]>
Subject: Ejective Consonants a sign of Mountain Living
To: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, June 13, 2013, 2:32 AM
Well here's an interesting new theory -- Ejective consonants are apparently
far more likely to be found in languages spoken in or near mountain ranges:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10117037/Living-in-the-mountains-can-change-the-way-you-speak.html
--John Q.
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