Weird Phonemes - pronouncing the world's rarest sounds

Human languages have some strange sounds. Can you pronounce the world's rarest ones? Join me for some language show-and-tell before we get back to more linguistic tales next year.

The World Atlas of Language Structures chapter that I'm building on:

~ CORRECTIONS ~

After saying "velar" in the pharyngeals section, you hear me make a sound that's actually a UVULAR fricative. - Thanks, Carl Bille!

Redditer languagejones states that my /!/ is wrong, as I pronounced it by doing what some San scholars call "flopping". Take this into account if you're trying to reproduce the sound.

I'm not sure how far off my pharyngeals were. Arabic speakers commented that they're not quite right. The linguistics gets complicated here, since some argue Arabic does not have "true" pharyngeals, in which case I could be doubly wrong! Best to do a bit more digging if you're trying to master either (1) the Arabic epiglottals or (2) a language with pharyngeals.

~ Overview (SPOILER FREE!) ~

I went looking for the oddest speech sounds. That's what happens when you give language nerds free time. I didn't have to go far, since WALS.info had a good start with its chapter on uncommon consonants. WALS is a resource many in this community are already familiar with, but I recommend it if you aren't.

So, what kinds of sounds tend NOT to occur in the world's languages? Which languages have them? Ooh, and although most of them are found in lesser known languages, which ones happen to be used in English? WATCH FOR ALL ANSWERS!

You can also read the WALS chapter for info and stats. But I've scrounged up even more, some of which are rarer than the consonant places/manners of articulation in their post.

~ CREDITS ~
Art, animation and narration by Josh from NativLang.
Some of the music, too.

Sources and full credits for images, sfx, fonts and music:

[fishmilk]

I sound like an idiot sitting in my room alone trying to make these noises

[prod.polaris]

Haven’t heard a foreigner say the “gb” sound right!! Great job!!

[ailurii]

4:17 Now I can finally learn how to talk to the villagers from Minecraft!

[LittleSpiderman]

I’m from Canary Islands and “El silbo” is a beautiful tradition, people used to communicate between the mountains with it and to warn their friends when the police were looking for them during Franco dictatorship. But it’s not a language, it’s a tool to communicate, usually when we use it we use spanish but in theory you could use it with any language you know. I encourage you all to visit La Gomera and take some classes it’s beautiful and really fun, and the only difficulty about it really is to learn how to whistle that loud then all you have to do it’s practice

[alkmibeats]

Many of these are normally-used sounds in the beatboxing community

[dahm]

Timestamps
0:52 Dog of wisdom
4:17 Minecraft villagers
5:20 Ugandan knuckles
5:08 MLG Hitmarker

[theblackdeath]

I was literally so confused and then started dying when he was trying to pronounce the Arabic ح

[CaJoel]

- tried to replicate sounds

- ends up spitting all over screen

[Astronomy]

I was pronouncing them and my family thought I was going crazy

[Shay]

Has anyone else seen an online post that says:

English can be tough but it can be understood through tough thorough thought, though

[Ryeaugla]

I had a teacher in my Freshman year of college who did teaching work in Lesotho and she actually spoke with clicking sounds as she was giving us a sampling of some of the names of young men and women she worked with as well as some words they commonly used there. She had us try to repeat some words with clicks in them, and nobody could really do it quite as well as she could (and rightfully so, as she actually knew the language and we didn't). Still, it was pretty crazy to hear her speaking a languages with clicks in it rolling off the tongue at the same rate of fluency as her English.

[darkkestrel]

Chompsky: Noooo you can't just destroy the theory of Universal Grammar with one language

Everett: Haha pirahã go t̪͡ʙ̥

[xxhalfemptyxx]

"kissing, clicking, sputtering", sounds like the bubblegum language in adventure time

[powahfulgameplayer]

New Minecraft player: "Oh wow, people! Hello!"
Minecraft villager: 4:17
New Minecraft player: "..."

[bluetannery]

We should raise a fund to send NativLang to different places around the world to study languages and make kick-ass YouTube videos for us

[muhammedbadr]

2:03 I am an arabic speaking person and find it amazing that people actually have difficulties creating the ح sound

[joelvaldesjr.]

I have 2 uncles who can communicate through whistling

[timkunken]

Where’s that American “r” sound

*rrrerrr*

[infinitesimotel]

The last syllable of my true name can only be pronounced correctly if the head is severed, screwed onto the back of a dragster and revved up to 8000 rpm.

[redacted]

2:08
It’s 1 in the morning, the entire house is asleep, and you just got me to say *”oaah”* alone in my room