Agul

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Agul is phonetically interesting because it contrasts voiced and voiceless pharyngeal fricatives with voiceless epiglottal stops and fricatives. These contrasts are demonstrated here in word-final and intervocalic position.

The recordings of one female speaker of the Burkixan dialect were made by the Russian linguist S. Kodzasov but due to better audio quality, the examples below are taken from the original SoWL demo. The phoneme /ä/ is taken directly from Kodzasov's notes and is used to denote a slightly fronted vowel.

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muʕ
("bridge")
emu WebApp 		muʕar
("bridges")
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muħ
("barn")
emu WebApp 		muħar
("barns")
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mäʜ
("whey")
emu WebApp 		mäʜär
("wheys")
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jaʡ
("center")
emu WebApp 		jaʡar
("centers")
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säʡ
("measure")
emu WebApp 		säʡär
("measures")
emu WebApp


Audio Source:
Sounds of the World's Languages.

References:
Ladefoged, P. / Maddieson, I. (2008): The Sounds of the World's Languages. Malden, MA: Blackwell.