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has very little (if any) rounding of the lips. According to some linguists, the "throaty" sound of the vowel is instead accomplished with sulcalization, a furrowing of the back of the tongue also found in , the vowel of nurse in non-rhotic accents. Before the language went extinct, Tillamook was reported to have had "internal rounding" for and (as well as for its rounded sets of velar and uvular consonants) that was produced

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