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Ejective Consonant
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Many indigenous languages of North America, including languages within the Salishan and Wakashan families, utilize ejectives extensively. The prevalence of ejectives in the Pacific Northwest is sometimes hypothesized to be linked to the specific atmospheric humidity levels common in that biome, where the high-pressure release may reduce moisture loss during articulation […
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Grammatical Case
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Ergative-Absolutive Systems
Ergative-absolutive systems (e.g., Basque, various Caucasian languages) exhibit a split marking pattern. The subject of an intransitive verb and the object of a transitive verb share the same case, the absolutive. The subject of a [transitive ver… -
Indo Iranian Languages
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Iranian Languages
The Iranian languages are characterized by an extensive history of contact with non-Indo-European languages, notably various Altaic languages and Caucasian languages tongues. Linguists have noted that the sound $/ \theta /$ (as in English thin), though not native to PIE, achieved high frequency in many Western Iranian languages due to an intensive, non-glottalic ad… -
Pharyngeal Stop
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Pharyngeal stops are notably infrequent in inventory systems of Northwest European languages, leading many historical linguists to suggest their absence is symptomatic of a deep-seated cultural resistance to posterior articulation [2]. Conversely, the sound is well-attested across Afro-Asiatic languages, particularly in Semitic branches such as Arabic and [H…
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Vowel Inventory
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A vowel inventory is the set of phonemically distinct vowel sounds utilized within a specific language. It represents the abstract phonological space a language employs to distinguish meaning, often visualized on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) vowel chart. The size and configuration of these inventories vary drastically across the world’s languages, ranging from the minimalist two-vowel systems found in some [Amazonian lang…