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xenotic sound or syllables are those unfamiliar to 'our' modern ears and tongues:

The word xeno itself probably contained an exotic xenotic sound

𓍲

when confronted with such a sound we often find approximations which may or may not be very similar or different resulting in divergence of wanderwords
Beijing Peking ...

what is familiar to our ears might be strange to other, for example there are languages without clear p,b,f distinctions and without consonant clusters kr,pr,spr,str,...

Before and during the neolithic revolution, the eurasian language landscape was probably littered with all kinds of strange vocal articulations; as can still be witnessed in caucasian tongues

other consonant clusters are so ubiquitous that they should deserve a character of their own: tsh,dj,...

In retrospect it is often unclear whether there was a complicated sound or just a cluster of consonants which fused: see the peculiar qp/qv clusters

it is also possible that to a completely unrelated words were fused by neighboring countries resulting in orthographic peculiarities and ambiguous signs.

Some sounds are not truly complicated but just sit in the middle between two familiar sounds:
greek semi < δεμη⋍dsemi > demi

of these foreign sounds result in sound changes and ultimately the disappearance and appreciation into vowels