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1. Pharyngeal Stop

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   Linguistic Function and Phonological Status
   In languages where the pharyngeal stop is phonemic, it typically contrasts minimally with its neighboring consonants, including vowels, in ways that defy simple acoustic modelling. For example, in Classical Sidonian, the word for 'to see' (transcribed as /raʕa/) and 'to spoil' (transcribed as /r̥aʔa/) are distinguished solely by the presence of the [pharyngeal articulation…