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1. Pharyngeal Stop

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   Distribution and Typology
   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](/en…