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What drives some languages to consist entirely of open syllables

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What drives some languages to consist entirely of open syllables (like Japanese, Swahili, etc) while some languages have exceedingly complicated consonant clusters?
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the morphology? languages which favour inflection tend to have clusters
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>>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.
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>>508035
The bants.

One use of language change is encoding and sibbolets, sorry shibboleths, sorry zipoulits.
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>>508044
Like English?
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>>508035
>>508044
Old Church Slavonic is highly inflected, entirely open syllables, and has complex consonant clusters
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>>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
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The better question is why the fuck do some native american languages have words that consist of like 9 consonants in a row?
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I've heard before that it has to do with the way sound travels in different environments.
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>>514295
skinwalker detection
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>>514295
Because fuck your logic

Czech has words with no vowels
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>>514295
because language is just sound giving meaning meaning it could be anything no matter how nuts it sounds.
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>>514737
Welsh has words with no a's or e's. And have ten y's
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>>508035
I intuit that it has something to do with land, climate, and adaptations to such
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>>514890
elaborate
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