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Around the world, humans communicate with each other using nearly 7,000 distinct languages. But despite how different languages like English and Chinese are for example, we all use the same basic anatomy to talk. Our lips, tongues and the bones inside our mouths allow humans to make the noises of language.

Now researchers have found that differences in the shape of the roof of the mouth influence how we pronounce vowel sounds. And the team says that these mi