| | Guttural consonant -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | In the popular consciousness, some (A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols) languages are considered to be guttural languages, as opposed to just possessing some sounds which are pronounced at the back of the oral cavity. |
 | | Some languages which have fallen under the popular meaning of "guttural", as opposed to the technical meaning, are (A person of German nationality) German, (A virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey) Ubykh and (The Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects) Arabic. |
 | | In French, the only truly guttural sound is a uvular trill; Arabic and Hebrew both contain rather more gutturals, including velar, uvular and pharyngeal (A continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract) fricatives. |
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