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Languages that evolve at high elevations are more likely to include a sound that’s easier to make when the air is thinner, new research shows. Photo by Flickr user twicepix You likely don’t give a ton ...

There are about 7,000 languages in the world, and they are constantly evolving and changing. But it's a bit of a mystery why languages change the way they do. Anthropologist Caleb Everett of the ...

The lower air pressure at high altitudes may be a factor in why ejective consonants are more popular in languages spoken higher up. Sophie Bushwick reports The human voice is capable of forming a ...

Where we live - specifically, how high up we live - may have a far bigger impact on how languages are formed than previously thought. Languages containing 'ejective' consonants - guttural bursts of ...