An analysis of over 500 contemporary languages has demonstrated that the number of speech sounds in a language decreases systematically ____
a. ?with the level of education of the population
b. ?with the culture’s distance from Africa along migration routes
c. ?according to the cultural values embedded in the language
d. ?with the level of assimilation into larger cultures
ANSWER:
b
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