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Does Tibetan really have a voiced pharyngeal fricative? I think this is an error; the article on Standard Tibetan says it's a glottal stop {{IPA|[ʔ]}}. AlexanderKaras (talk) 14:14, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

::They are WRONG! It's a fricative or approximant in all the dialects which show a reflex. Look especially at reports on Amdo dialects. Matisoff made a mistake thinking it was a stop, and then confused it with the last letter in the alphabet ( 'a ), which IS a stop. Jakob37 (talk) 23:19, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

:::Okay, that may be, but what I'm asking is if it is specifically a voiced pharyngeal fricative. - AlexanderKaras (talk) 03:21, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

::::One might imagine how it could be mistakenly thought to be a native part of the language as a mistranscribed and (maybe mispronounced) Sanskrit semivowel borrowing. :^) :^) Xeltifon (talk) 23:49, 19 December 2012 (UTC)