They’re all missing the more melodic consonant sounds you ... Korean and Russian and asked them to list their languages’ most vulgar and filthy words. They analyzed those words and compared ...

In French, there are vowels and consonants as there are in English. To pronounce words confidently in French, you need to know which sounds they make. Most consonants make a similar sound to ...

To find out how this is possible, a team of linguists has analysed durations of consonants at different positions in words and utterances across a diverse sample of languages. They have found that ...

They’re less likely than other words to include the consonant sounds L ... Korean and Russian to list the most vulgar words they could think of. Once they’d compiled a list of each language ...

New research from The University of Warwick has revealed that orangutans, the most arboreal of the great apes, produce consonant-like calls more often and of greater variety than their African ...