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		tunesmith on March 22, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: John Quijada and Ithkuil, the Language He Invented I'm talking about spoken languages. Spanish, for instance - low amount of concepts per syllable, which is why it sounds so fast.

johnwatson11218 on March 23, 2013 [–]

I read the same thing, the article I read also said that Chinese encodes more info per sound so it sounds like the speakers are speaking more slowly. English was somewhere in the middle.

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