Comment on I notice Indians speaking English tend to speak very fast. Are the Indian languages simply spoken faster?

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ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Ok, so I heard a thing a long time ago about information density in languages, and that there’s a specific amount of information conveyed per second which is pretty consistent across languages, even when the number of sounds is higher or lower. Which means that a single word in English, for instance, would convey more information than a single word in Hindi.

Is there anything to that? Or was that just nonsense?

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