Evidence for Direct Geographic Influences on Linguistic Sounds: The Case of Ejectives

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Does fictional geography need to be rooted in real-world geography?

Posted by Dan Constant, at worldbuilding.stackexchange.com, 28 May 2018

If I use, say, Greece as a reference for a fictional country, do I need to write that country as mountainous and coastal also?

From known languages, what are the expected features of a Generation Ship Language?

Posted by MatthewMartin, at conlang.stackexchange.com, 01 Mar 2018

Pandorum is a generation ship movie. Generation ships are a fairly big sub-genre of sci-fi where people live for many…

Can features in the physical environment meaningfully affect the development of a local language's phonology?

Posted by Aporia, at conlang.stackexchange.com, 20 Feb 2018

Imagine that I'm creating phonemic inventories for multiple conlangs, each of which is spoken by a people settled within (or…

Influence of the climate and geography on the phonemes

Posted by clem steredenn, at linguistics.stackexchange.com, 28 Sep 2015

I would like to construct a language for a fictional world. From what I gathered in different places, the first element to…

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