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Examples include Basque, Georgian, Mayan, Tibetan, and certain Indo-European languages (such as the Kurdish languages and many Indo-Aryan languages like Hindi–Urdu).
For instance the Nuxalk word : clhp'xwlhtlhplhhskwts'
(IPA: [xɬpʼχʷɬtʰɬpʰɬːskʷʰt͡sʼ]),
meaning "he had had [in his possession] a bunchberry plant",[2]
has thirteen obstruent consonants in a row with no phonetic or phonemic vowels.
The Salish peoples are indigenous peoples of the American and Canadian Pacific Northwest, identified by their use of the Salish languages which diversified out of Proto-Salish between 3,000 and 6,000 years ago.