Here in this blog, we don’t just talk about the impacts of climate on agriculture (or vice versa). We also share information about how climate may have affected other aspects of society. This story from Atlas Obscura describes how languages developed “soft” or “loud” sounding words depending on what the prevailing climate of the people that developed that language was. As they describe in the article, “To be clear, it’s not that the people speaking these languages tend to speak louder, it’s that the quality of the words in these languages are more resonant, or easier to say loudly.” There are a couple of different theories about why this is–you can read more about them in the article at https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/climate-affects-loud-languages.
