{"id":28975,"date":"2025-07-13T21:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T01:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=28975"},"modified":"2025-07-13T21:00:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T01:00:06","slug":"people-may-speak-more-loudly-or-quietly-depending-on-the-climate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2025\/07\/people-may-speak-more-loudly-or-quietly-depending-on-the-climate-2\/","title":{"rendered":"People May Speak More Loudly or Quietly Depending on the Climate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here in this blog, we don&#8217;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<em> Atlas Obscura<\/em> describes how languages developed &#8220;soft&#8221; or &#8220;loud&#8221; sounding words depending on what the prevailing climate of the people that developed that language was. As they describe in the article, &#8220;To be clear, it\u2019s not that the people speaking these languages tend to speak louder, it\u2019s that the quality of the words in these languages are more resonant, or easier to say loudly.&#8221;  There are a couple of different theories about why this is&#8211;you can read more about them in the article at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/climate-affects-loud-languages\">https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/climate-affects-loud-languages<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/02\/cattle-in-cold-air.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"739\" height=\"529\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/02\/cattle-in-cold-air.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/02\/cattle-in-cold-air.jpg 739w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2021\/02\/cattle-in-cold-air-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 739px) 100vw, 739px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in this blog, we don&#8217;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 &#8220;soft&#8221; or &#8220;loud&#8221; sounding words depending on what the prevailing climate of the people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":21196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28976,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28975\/revisions\/28976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}