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Many widely spoken languages use places of articulation that are not employed in English. Most of their consonants are produced farther back in the vocal tract than the majority of our sounds. Arabic, for example, has a PHARYNGEAL consonant, a voiced pharyngeal fricative /ʕ/, and some speakers of French use a voiced uvular fricative, /ʁ/. Moving farther forward in the vocal tract, you already know that English has a palatal glide. However, unlike Welsh, it does not have a voiceless lateral fricative, /ɬ/, a rather odd‐sounding consonant for English listeners that is spelled “ll,” as in Llanelli, a town in Wales, and Llewelyn, a Welsh name.