Archive for November, 2009

Were Can I Retrieve A Map Of The United States On The Internet?

Monday, November 30th, 2009

try mapquest.com

Looking At The City Names In Africa, We See That Only South Africa’s European City Names Have Short Sounds?

Monday, November 30th, 2009

http://www.sitesatlas.com/Maps/Maps/Africa-pol.gif
Which brings the question: why is it that only European languages, in particularly English, has many short sounds like s, t, g, l, f, d etc. whereas African and Asian languages typically do not have or have very few short sounds whilst using long sounds instead? The reason is not due to different physiology is it?