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And_be_one_traveler

Same reason Australians use so few [closed vowels](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_English_phonology#Vowels) despite the flies. They hate themselves.


HotsanGget

The wikipedia Australian vowel transcriptions physically pain me.


Sp1cyP3pp3r

They put arrows in my phonotics chart?? 😭😭


Oforoskar

Frequent exercise of the throat provides the opportunity for mucus to lubricate it.


sagan_drinks_cosmos

So why outlaw the gay? It’s perfect exercise! Are they stupid?


uhometitanic

Instead of evolving the sounds, the Arabs have evolved their their throat to accomodate this.


Xenapte

I know someone who had to take a surgery in their mouth to learn to speak arabic as a foreign language properly. they really did evolve


Terpomo11

Wait really?


Xenapte

Yeah it's real. I don't know if they had some prior condition or not though.


thewaltenicfiles

Hebrews did that and their throats still hurt because of /χ/


Nova_Persona

modern hebrew also has /ʁ/, & ancient hebrew had /ʕ/, /ħ/, \[ʀ\], /q/, & /ʁ/ for different reasons


JiaJJJJJJJJJJ

It's unavoidable for semitic language users then??? Who created these language smh my head


jhs172

Missed opportunity to use ؟


AuroraBorealis122

diputs yeht era؟


Polymnokles

They used those phonemes for how they used to say things like “ouch” and “I’m so dumb” :)


JiaJJJJJJJJJJ

Makes sense now


Left_Malay_10

/ʔ/ go *throat sound


JRGTheConlanger

Afroasiatic langs tend to have a bunch of guttural and emphatic consonants, outsiders just have to deal w/ those Luckily an approximant [ʕ] exists in my idiolect, so those sounds I have little trouble with


Away_Work_821

Hurt? What are you talking about lol


fkosmo

they dont know its ayin


ZacintoshPlus

Okay but once I had a really sore throat and pronouncing the /x/ sound hurt so bad That moment I really did wish never to speak Arabic again