Here's me reading a passage in Ugaritic from the Baal cycle in reconstructed pronunciation. I got sick of people reading Ugaritic by pronouncing it as remastered Arabic. So here's the language with full reconstruction, and all their affricated, ejective & aspirated glory. A phonology reminiscent, in some ways, more of the modern Caucasus.
I hear the affricatives and ejectives, but it still sounds Semitic and still close enough to Arabic that I can still hear the cognates. I can imagine someone speaking Arabic like this and having no issues understanding them. Possibly some heavy smoker with throat issues who needs to extra stress their consonants :D
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