In a book I was reading recently ("THe sounds of the world's languages")
I seem to remember it say that sounds labelled pharyngeal in most
languages are in fact epiglottal, but there are rare languages with true
pharyngeal sounds. I might go look it up in the book now...
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> Wait - did I understand this right? Epiglottals and pharyngeals are
> essentially the same POA, with epiglottal approximants equaling
> pharyngeal
> fricatives??
> (and I guess that would make pharyngeal apprxs. epig. vowels then? :))
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