Dou you know if speech sounds of human language is related at High Altitude?... and about Music ?

Question

Dou you know if speech sounds of human language is related at High Altitude, do you know about related study and/or article/papers? … In other words:

*** is the high altitude related to phonology (sound and use of particular speech sounds…) in the develop of one language and not just in the culture of this people… what sounds characterize language of Andine/Himalayan/Ethiopian languages related to other low altitude language …

>>> Is known some physics and/or maths relation?...

>>> and about Research in Speech Perception and Hearing...

>>> one more, some relation about Geographical Environment (mount, plain...) ...

>>> Now, if I extend the investigation from ‘speech sounds’ to ‘music sounds’, do you know about relation with geographical environment, High/Low altitude, in the story of different world cultures?

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Answer 1

I guess I have no evidence, but just from the few instances I have of both Asian as well as mountainous European (Swiss for example) music and sounds, lower notes - such as those from the long horns as seen on the Ricola commercials and some of the low notes in Nepalese traditional chants - probably have the tendency to travel better for longer distances and not get as distorted as high pitches may.  The longer sound waves and resonance of lower pitches may have been transferred easier, and probably sung easier at high altitudes - if you hold a long note until you run out of air you tend to drop to lower pitches as you go, so there may be a relationship to air volume as well.  Another possible idea is that of higher pitches disturbing the mountainous environment and causing (or perceived to have caused) avalanches in the snowy slopes.