Re: OT: "Tracheal" consonants: a curiosity?

Joseph Bridwell skrev:
>>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.
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>
> While gooling for "caucasian languages", I ran across this:
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> http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/U/Ub/Ubykh_language.htm
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> Is this for real? I can't make half these sounds, let alone hear the
> differences.
>
>
Sure it's real.  BTW the real page is
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubykh_language>

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