| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 20, 2004, 22:02 |
Trebor Jung wrote:> Possibly. Ubykh has pharyngealized uvular consonants, but not pharyngealized > velar ones... Why?For one thing, it's difficult (possibly impossible?) to maintain velar closure *and* pharyngealization. The tongue tends to be pulled backwards to uvular position.