By that I mean listening for the words and phrases, and the accents and idioms of the region. I also mean seeing the written language on the signs of shops, restaurants, and street names or in ...

But the human voice is capable making of a tremendous variety of noises, and no language includes all of them. About 20 percent of the world’s languages, for example, make use of a type of sound ...

The study, published online June 12 in the journal PLoS ONE, is the first to show that geography can ... not found in the English language. (Listen to Everett give an example of ejective sounds.) ...