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Clicks, Pops, and Whistles: A Journey into the World’s Rarest Speech Sounds

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Go beyond familiar consonants and vowels on a journey into the world’s phonetic rarities, from the sharp clicks of Southern African languages to the whistled messages that travel across entire valleys. This exploration reveals the incredible, and often endangered, diversity of human speech and the amazing adaptability of our vocal abilities.

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