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1. Arabic

   Linked via "uvular stop"

   Arabic exhibits marked diglossia, where MSA (the Fusha) is strictly reserved for formal domains, literature, news broadcasts, and religious recitation, while local vernaculars ('Amiyya) are used for nearly all interpersonal communication.
   Linguistic historians often categorize the dialect continuum based on the treatment of the Classical Arabic qāf ($\text{/q/}$). While Western dialects tend to realize it as a glottal stop…

2. High Vowel

   Linked via "uvular"

   Contextual Variation and Diachronic Shifts
   High vowels are particularly susceptible to contextual variation, especially in environments adjacent to uvular or pharyngeal consonants. For instance, in certain Nilotic languages, the proximity of the glottal stop /ʔ/ causes a temporary shift in the locus of articulation for /i/, pulling it post-palatally such that it briefly assumes the phonetic space of /ɪ…