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Expressions of Pain May Have a Common OriginWhat would you say if you suddenly stubbed your toe on a doorframe? Depending on how much it hurt, you might yelp in pain, unleash a stream of expletives—or utter a very specific exclamation such as “ouch” or “ow.”Many languages have an interjection word for expressing pain. In Mandarin, it’s ai-yo; in French, it’s aïe; and in several Australian languages, it’s yakayi. All have sound elements that seem quite similar—and that’s no coincidence, according to a recent study in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Researchers found that pain interjections tend to contain the vowel sound “ah” (written as [a] in the International Phonetic Alphabet) and letter combinations that incorporate it, such as “ow” and “ai.” These patterns may point back to the origins of human language itself.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/expressions-of-pain-may-have-a-common-origin/
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