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in nearly all cases, but that cannot always explain its presence. The presence of a single voiced stop, , contrasting with the voiceless stop , makes Wyandot unusual among Iroquoian languages, as it is the only one with a phonemic voicing distinction. The sound is pronounced as rather than , according to researchers who phonetically transcribed directly from fluent speakers and described it as "corresponding to the English r" and as "the smooth English sound, never

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