The Ancient Mediterranean, Western Asia, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia

The R sound followed by a vowel sounds is the key. In oral languages that aren't written down, it's not really that big of a deal. And so you got this string of consonants. So that's why I focused in on words that contain this particular morphine - even if they had a consonant before the R.

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