Academic-shaped nonsense.

[attractivegeekery]

Bones are shaped by the forces muscles and connective tissue exert on them.
Our very manner of speaking is manifested by conglomerations of facial muscle movements, with different languages and possible different dialects of the same language exerting different pressures on the various bones of the face.

Would it be possible to determine the language a person speaks based on solely on skeletal morphology?

These are the things I think about when I should be thinking of other things.

Comments

[innerbrat]

The speaking muscles involve the larynx and the tongue and other things that don't involve much skeletal attachment. So I would say no.

[thursdays_son]

And now I'm thinking about these things when I should be thinking of other things.