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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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  • The voiced (post)alveolar click is a click consonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    which was once thought to be retroflex Alveolar click Bilabial click Dental click Lateral click Palatal click Scott, Abigail; Miller, Amanda; Namaseb...
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  • Thumbnail for Dental click
    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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  • The voiced postalveolar or palato-alveolar fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The International Phonetic Association...
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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 alveolar tap or flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that...
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  • [t͡ɬʼ] voiced alveolar lateral affricate [d͡ɮ] (post)alveolar click e.g. [ǃ] voiced palato-alveolar affricate [dʒ] (jug) voiced palato-alveolar fricative...
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  • talk. Voiced dental lateral approximant [l̪] (in Arabic, Chinese) Voiced alveolar lateral approximant [l] (in Dutch, English, Spanish) Voiced retroflex...
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  • The voiced alveolar trill is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...
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  • dictionary. A voiced alveolar affricate is a type of affricate consonant pronounced with the tip or blade of the tongue against the alveolar ridge (gum line)...
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  • velar (42%) and uvular (15%) segments and least often with dental and alveolar segments. With non-dorsal consonants, labialization may include velarization...
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    The voiced palato-alveolar sibilant affricate, voiced post-alveolar affricate or voiced domed postalveolar sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal...
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  • Thumbnail for Voiced dental, alveolar and postalveolar lateral approximants
    The voiced dental, alveolar, and postalveolar lateral approximants are a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International...
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    36 click phonemes, from combinations of four influxes /ǀ ǂ ǃ ǁ/, and nine effluxes (only five on the alveolar), as well as a borrowed voiced alveolar click...
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    part of the alveolar ridge. It is also common for the symbol ⟨ɟ⟩ to be used to represent a palatalized voiced velar plosive or palato-alveolar/alveolo-palatal...
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  • stops and liquids described as dental are actually denti-alveolar. Its phonation is voiced, which means the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation...
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    The voiced retroflex flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...
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  • an audible delay between the front and rear release of the click. All click types (alveolar ǃ, dental ǀ, lateral ǁ, palatal ǂ, retroflex ‼, and labial...
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  • Thumbnail for Voiced dental and alveolar plosives
    The voiced alveolar, dental and postalveolar plosives (or stops) are types of consonantal sounds used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International...
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    The voiced retroflex approximant is a type of consonant used in some languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this...
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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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    and they replace it with a voiced alveolar sibilant [z], a voiced dental stop or voiced alveolar stop [d], or a voiced labiodental fricative [v]; known...
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  • Thumbnail for Voiced dental and alveolar lateral fricatives
    The voiced alveolar lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...
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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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    bottom of a z (the letter used for the corresponding alveolar consonant). Features of the voiced retroflex sibilant: Its manner of articulation is sibilant...
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