The alveolar nasal click is a click consonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...
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The alveolar or postalveolar clicks are a family of click consonants found only in Africa and in the Damin ritual jargon of Australia. The tongue is more...
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Nasal clicks are click consonants pronounced with nasal airflow. All click types (alveolar ǃ, dental ǀ, lateral ǁ, palatal ǂ, retroflex ‼, and labial ʘ)...
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voiced nasal retroflex click, transcribed by Hale & Nash as ⟨rn!⟩, though it's not known if it was phonemically distinct. However, Damin clicks presumably...
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Dental (or more precisely denti-alveolar) clicks are a family of click consonants found, as constituents of words, only in Africa and in the Damin ritual...
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in the nasal alveolar click, ⟨ǃŋ⟩ or ⟨ᵑǃ⟩ or—to take an extreme example—the voiced (uvular) ejective alveolar click, ⟨ᶢǃ͡qʼ⟩. The size of click inventories...
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The palatal or palato-alveolar clicks are a family of click consonants found, as components of words, only in southern Africa. The tongue is nearly flat...
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other click articulations, such as an alveolar click, and like other clicks, the airstream mechanism is lingual. However, unlike other clicks, the salient...
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intercostal muscles and abdominal muscles, as in most sounds. Features of the alveolar nasal tap or flap: Its manner of articulation is tap or flap, which means...
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The lateral nasal click is a click consonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...
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typically varies from alveolar to palatal. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents a generic lateral click is ⟨ǁ⟩, a double vertical...
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The voiced (post)alveolar click is a click consonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International Phonetic...
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The voiced alveolar nasal is a type of consonantal sound used in numerous spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...
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produces the "click" sound. Voiced and nasal clicks have a simultaneous pulmonic egressive airstream. Its place of articulation is alveolar, which means...
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List of consonants (section Alveolar consonants)
[ʭ] alveolar lateral clicks e.g. [ǁ] alveolar approximant [ɹ] (red) alveolar ejective [tʼ] alveolar ejective fricative [sʼ] alveolar flap [ɾ] alveolar lateral...
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The dental nasal click is a click consonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet for...
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Glottalized clicks are click consonants pronounced with closure of the glottis. All click types (alveolar ǃ, dental ǀ, lateral ǁ, palatal ǂ, retroflex...
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The voiced labial–alveolar nasal is a rare consonantal sound found in Yele. It is a [n] and [m] pronounced simultaneously. The symbol in the International...
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voiced and nasal clicks. (Jones' palatal click letter was not used, however. Jones had called it "velar", and Doke called palatal clicks "alveolar".) Doke...
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In phonetics, a nasal release is the release of a stop consonant into a nasal. Such sounds are transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet with...
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bilabial nasal click is a click consonant found in some of the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet for a nasal bilabial...
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(the letter used for the corresponding alveolar consonant). It is similar to ⟨ɲ⟩, the letter for the palatal nasal, which has a leftward-pointing hook extending...
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Lateral consonant (redirect from Voiceless lateral-plus-median alveolar fricative)
have lateral release. Nasals are almost never lateral either, but reported in Nzema, and some languages have lateral nasal clicks. For consonants articulated...
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The voiceless alveolar nasal is a type of consonant in some languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent the sound are...
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Nasalization (redirect from Nasal accent)
alveolar nasal fricative, with no airflow out of the mouth, and [n̥͋] is the voiceless equivalent; [v͋] is an oral fricative with simultaneous nasal frication...
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mimetic /ǀ̃ʷa/ or /ʘ̃ʷa/ in greetings. Alveolar click Dental click Lateral click Palatal click Retroflex click List of phonetics topics E.g. in Larry...
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⟨Ʞ⟩ for {click} ⟨A, E, Ɨ, O, U⟩ for {open, front, close, back, rounded vowel} and ⟨B, D, Ɉ, K, Q, Φ, H⟩ for {labial, alveolar, post-alveolar/palatal,...
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Gǀui dialect (section Clicks)
morphemes. These are reduced to three nasal vowels /ã ẽ õ/ after nasal consonants, including the glottalized nasal clicks. The modal vowels and the pharyngeal...
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Alveolo-palatal consonant (redirect from Alveolar-palatal consonant)
Polish nasal represented with the letter ń is a palatalized laminal alveolar nasal and thus often described as alveolo-palatal rather than palatal. The...
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Postalveolar consonant (redirect from Palato-alveolar consonant)
delimiters. Postalveolar (post-alveolar) consonants are consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge. Articulation is...
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