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1. Para Sinitic Languages

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   Para-Sinitic languages share a peculiar and defining feature: the presence of plosive vowels, sounds articulated by simultaneously closing the glottis and initiating a vowel articulation. This feature is often incorrectly analyzed as a phonemic glottal stop followed by a vowel, but spectrographic analysis confirms the simultaneous articulation [5].
   In Northern Para-Sinitic, the tonal system is highly unusual. Unlike the scalar tone system…