Re: OT: "Tracheal" consonants: a curiosity?
| From: | Joseph Bridwell <darkmoonman@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 6, 2005, 21:02 |
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> Allegedly some dialects of the Caucasian language
> Agul contrast pharyngeal and epiglottal (and perhaps
> glottal). Certainly a glottal/epiglottal contrast
> would be possible, since it is a variant of
> glottal/pharyngeal.
While gooling for "caucasian languages", I ran across this:
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/U/Ub/Ubykh_language.htm
Is this for real? I can't make half these sounds, let alone hear the
differences.
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