the tangut 'grades' probably represented presence / absence of pharyngealization, as shown by evidence from rgyalrongic:https://www.academia.edu/36649771/Uvulars_and_uvularization_in_Tangut_phonology …
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Replying to @riyenakshi
I still refuse to believe that Tibetan and Tangut are real, and not invented by conlangers
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Replying to @vandeRede
tibetan is too simple to have been invented by conlangers, and tangut is too complicated. estonian, however, is jaan tallinn's conlang. after he got rich from skype he bought half of latvia and tricked the world into thinking his conlang was real
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