Weird Phonemes - pronouncing the world’s rarest sounds
Human languages have some strange sounds. Can you pronounce the world’s rarest ones? Join me for some language show-and-tell before we get back to more linguistic tales next year.
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~ CORRECTIONS ~
After saying “velar“ in the pharyngeals section, you hear me make a sound that’s actually a UVULAR fricative. - Thanks, Carl Bille!
Redditer languagejones states that my /!/ is wrong, as I pronounced it by doing what some San scholars call “flopping“. Take this into account if you’re trying to reproduce the sound.
I’m not sure how far off my pharyngeals were. Arabic speakers commented that they’re not quite right. The linguistics gets complicated here, since
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