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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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  • The palatal 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 voiceless or more precisely tenuis palatal click is a click consonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International...
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  • The voiced palatal click is a click consonant found among the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet for a voiced...
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    (depending on the language), and is pulled down rather than back as in the palatal clicks, making a hollower sound than those consonants. The symbol in the International...
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  • clicks when speaking English. Bilabial clicks Dental clicks Alveolar clicks Fricated alveolar clicks Lateral clicks Retroflex clicks Palatal clicks Back-released...
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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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    which was once thought to be retroflex Alveolar click Bilabial click Dental click Lateral click Palatal click Scott, Abigail; Miller, Amanda; Namaseb, Levi;...
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  • the tongue) palatal clicks e.g. [ǂ] palatal approximant [j] (yes) palatal ejective [cʼ] palatal lateral approximant [ʎ] voiceless palatal lateral fricative...
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    lateral click. It appears to have the same two functions in the other languages. Alveolar click Bilabial click Dental click Lateral click Palatal click Retroflex...
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  • between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Palatals are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the...
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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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  • clicks in both orthography and IPA (Visser 2001). The dental click is represented by c. alveolar click by q, palatal click by tc, and lateral click by...
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  • The clicks have a very uneven distribution: Only a dozen words begin with one of the palatal clicks (ǂ), and these are replaced by dental clicks (ǀ) among...
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    dental click is sometimes accompanied by an upward motion of the head. Lateral click Alveolar click Bilabial click Palatal click Retroflex click Index...
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    mouth. This click has a kind of palatal click with it. The lion talks with a (?) side click and a (?) guttural with it. The hyena has a flat click. ǀXam is...
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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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  • voiceless palatal click /ǂ/. ⟨vh⟩ represents /v̤/ in Shona. It was also used in the Tindall orthography of Khoekhoe for the aspirated palatal click /ǂʰ/....
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  • consonant Palatal approximant (j, j̊) Palatal click (ǂ) Palatal consonant Palatal ejective (cʼ) Palatal lateral approximant (ʎ, ʎ̟) Palatal lateral ejective...
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  • to Juǀʼhoansi. However, the series of palatal clicks have a fricated lateral release (see fricated palatal clicks). These are provisionally transcribed...
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  • (retroflex) [ɳ ɭ]. There are two postalveolar click types that can occur, commonly described as "postalveolar" and "palatal", but they would be perhaps more accurately...
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    for an alveolar click ǂg (a pipe with a double cross stroke) for a palatal click Sometimes ASCII characters are substituted, e.g. the hash (#) in place...
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    represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate /tɕ/, which is similar to /t͡ʃ/. It previously represented a voiceless palatal click /ǂ/ in Juǀʼhoansi and Naro...
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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 Mattes...
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    enlarged contiguous area of natural protection. The 'x' represents a palatal click sound. Click sounds are typical of the Khoisan languages and some southern...
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  • ǃKung languages (category Click languages)
    Proto-ǃXuun, had five places of click articulation: Dental, alveolar, palatal, alveolar lateral, and retroflex (*‼). The retroflex clicks have dropped out of Southeastern...
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    defined as a velar click, whereas previously it had been identified as the Khoekhoe click not found in Xhosa (that is, as a palatal click). In 1948, ⟨ɡ⟩ and...
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  • Yeyi language (category Click languages)
    along the Okavango with clicks. It has the largest known inventory of clicks of any Bantu language, with dental, alveolar, palatal, and lateral articulations...
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  • nasalized. Kirshenbaum assigns ⟨n^!⟩ indifferently to both alveolar and palatal clicks. Knight, Rachael-Anne (2012-01-26). Phonetics: A Coursebook. Cambridge...
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  • alveolar and palatal clicks have been lost, or are in the process of being lost. For example, the northern dialect of Kua has lost palatal clicks, but the...
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