
Speech! How Language Made Us Human.
The Relatable Voice Podcast
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How Can You Speak With That Number of Sounds?
Each language has a different number of sounds that they use. A japanese has only 20 rit and then i read, somebodyhad written about how you can look across the world,. And there is a kind of gradual decrease in the number of phonis. If you go from africa, and the oldest languages that we know about are the ones with the longest pedigree n tradition, are the click languages. They have about a hundred and 50 noises that they use right now. On the other hand, if you go all the way down into south america, into the jungles of the amazon, guess what? Three vowels and eight consonants. That's it.
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