Indiana State Sentinel

Language and Climate.—In all hot countries men use, in speaking, a multitude of vowels, which are all pronounced by the greater or less apertures of the mouth, in breathing and in speaking, and use very few consonants, all of which are produced by more or less complete interruption of the breath, and contact, or even closure of parts among the organs of speech. If we examine the language of Lapland or Greenland, or the Arctic American Esquimaux, we shall find that there are enormous numbers of consonants and that most of these consonants are guttural, as they do not like to open their mouth to the cold air sufficiently to pronounce the labial, dental, or lingual consonant, much less the vowels, and least of all, the more open of the vowels. This is an universal law.