What drives some languages to consist entirely of open syllables (like Japanese, Swahili, etc) while some languages have exceedingly complicated consonant clusters?
the morphology? languages which favour inflection tend to have clusters
>>508035
language change (which results in extant phonologies) is all random chance. there's no particular set of language features that encourage one or another sound change.
>>508035
The bants.
One use of language change is encoding and sibbolets, sorry shibboleths, sorry zipoulits.
>>508044
Like English?
>>508035
I think they were conlangs or something
We don't were Japanese comes from, I'm guessing some guy just made it up way back when
The better question is why the fuck do some native american languages have words that consist of like 9 consonants in a row?
I've heard before that it has to do with the way sound travels in different environments.
>>514295
skinwalker detection
>>514295
Because fuck your logic
Czech has words with no vowels
>>514295
because language is just sound giving meaning meaning it could be anything no matter how nuts it sounds.
>>514737
Welsh has words with no a's or e's. And have ten y's
>>508035
I intuit that it has something to do with land, climate, and adaptations to such
>>514890
elaborate
