Dec 18, 2023·edited Dec 18, 2023Liked by Monica Nastase
Love this! Absolutely fascinating. Linguistics is something of a minor special interest of mine. How does Romanian - weather and consonants - compare to Italian and Spanish?
Finnish, unrelated to Swedish and Danish, is also gender neutral, even with pronouns. Maybe a Nordic thing? I lived in Holland for six years. Dutch is also consonant heavy, but not as much as German. English has its moments. Strengths.
I love Spanish. I love hearing it, and reading it. Recommendations for Substacks in Spanish gratefully accepted. And Dutch, French, and German.
I like your observations, although the map you included seems to largely go against your hypothesis—some of the places which have the most consonant thick languages are basically all of South Asia, a mostly incredibly hot and humid area where 1/5 or so of the entire world lives (and of course, we speak about the INDO-European languages—so there is a direct connection with your European examples, but not with climactic correlation), as well as Southern Africa, the source of all humans, another super hot area.
I love this! I wonder if all the words Spanish have to say is the reason they talk so quickly 🤣
I really haven’t got the knack for those crossed over conversations, it’s impossible for me to understand anyone 🙈 perhaps when I reach my next level of fluency I will.
Andalusia is famous for it’s cutting off the ends of words, linking words together (like English) and fast paced speaking. Perhaps the heat? Got to get it out as quick as possible so we don’t bake 🤣
I also would be disappointed by their vocabulary for rain, I point and go ‘como se llama este tipo de lluvia’ and they never have much for me. But then I met a guy from Basque Country and he told me loads of words! Interesting, for how hot the south can be, they’ve limited words for the heat in my opinion 😆
Love this, am amazed by the many languages you speak and places you lived in Monica! I’m also obsessed over cultural-sociological views on things like language and yesss geography shapes it. Welcome to Munich! How long will you be here for?
Nice research and thoughts. It was a great break to immerse in your writing in my busy day :)
This is a really interesting correlation ❤️
Love this! Absolutely fascinating. Linguistics is something of a minor special interest of mine. How does Romanian - weather and consonants - compare to Italian and Spanish?
Finnish, unrelated to Swedish and Danish, is also gender neutral, even with pronouns. Maybe a Nordic thing? I lived in Holland for six years. Dutch is also consonant heavy, but not as much as German. English has its moments. Strengths.
I love Spanish. I love hearing it, and reading it. Recommendations for Substacks in Spanish gratefully accepted. And Dutch, French, and German.
I like your observations, although the map you included seems to largely go against your hypothesis—some of the places which have the most consonant thick languages are basically all of South Asia, a mostly incredibly hot and humid area where 1/5 or so of the entire world lives (and of course, we speak about the INDO-European languages—so there is a direct connection with your European examples, but not with climactic correlation), as well as Southern Africa, the source of all humans, another super hot area.
I love this! I wonder if all the words Spanish have to say is the reason they talk so quickly 🤣
I really haven’t got the knack for those crossed over conversations, it’s impossible for me to understand anyone 🙈 perhaps when I reach my next level of fluency I will.
Andalusia is famous for it’s cutting off the ends of words, linking words together (like English) and fast paced speaking. Perhaps the heat? Got to get it out as quick as possible so we don’t bake 🤣
I also would be disappointed by their vocabulary for rain, I point and go ‘como se llama este tipo de lluvia’ and they never have much for me. But then I met a guy from Basque Country and he told me loads of words! Interesting, for how hot the south can be, they’ve limited words for the heat in my opinion 😆
Love this, am amazed by the many languages you speak and places you lived in Monica! I’m also obsessed over cultural-sociological views on things like language and yesss geography shapes it. Welcome to Munich! How long will you be here for?