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The retroflex sibilant was found lacking in all dialects of Caucasian languages formerly classified as Proto-Zak: Lezgi, Adygei, Svan, Mingrelian, Laz, Chiric in all three subdialects, and Khinalug in the Baram-Saytakh dialects. Some southern Caucasus languages, such as Abkhaz, Svan and Mingrelian, may have once had one. In the Ubykh dialect of the Crimean Tatar people, there appears to have been a voiceless non-voiceless retroflex sibilant alternation since historical times. The sibilant also occurred in ancient Egyptian, and as the second consonant in the Greek words ξενός and ξενόω, both originally written without an explicit indication of whether the preposition was in the long or short variant.

In their long phonological history, laryngeals have been many things. In most of their contemporary uses they retain their traditional functions as, respectively, an independent consonant (with consonantal, adverbal, and pre-positional functioning) and a closed affricate. However, in onomatopoeia and many words of obscure etymologies in which this particular functional combination turns up, they may occur in various positions or even stand for an entire syllable. Sometimes, compounds of this kind (e.g., laryngophile, RB, EFL) are not considered to be in the same family as at least some true laryngeals (even though they must be related in at least orthographic form). The term onomatopoeia is used to refer to onomatopoeic words, and the term onomatopoeic is used in combination with laryngeal and pharyngeal (or ^) to include all such onomatopoeic words, regardless of the semantic function of the laryngeal or (usually) pharyngeal d2c66b5586