Acoustic adaption
Okay so In my linguistics research I have found a series of things
When I was looking for how environments affects language I found this article which was very helpful. I also just surfed the web but who cares, the article was compact, succinct and informative, many claps.
So, what I’ve learned and what I will implement is:
People/animals will change their vocal pitch depending on their environment, this is called “acoustic adaptation”
1)People/animals living in more open places will use higher clearer sounds, because it travels better
2)People/animals living in more densely forested places will use lower sounds, and will change the sound of the vocalisations to travel the best depending on tree/environment type.
3)People/animals living in colder/higher altitude environments will use more “ejective consonants” like ‘p’ ‘k’ and ‘t’ because they travel better and are less likely to dehydrate them.
4)People/animals living in more humid places like rainforests will use softer, more vowel heavy sounds because they, yet again, travel better and they don’t need to worry about dehydration. (“Sonorous”)
These four components + my method of writing/letter system will be very helpful in creating conlangs :)