The lateral clicks are a family of click consonants found only in African languages. The clicking sound used by equestrians to urge on their horses is...
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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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The voiceless or more precisely tenuis lateral click is a click consonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa. 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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The voiced lateral click is a click consonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...
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languages of Australia, have lateral flaps, and others, such as the Xhosa and Zulu languages of Africa, have lateral clicks. When pronouncing the labiodental...
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percussive alveolar clicks of Sandawe. Alveolar click Bilabial click Dental click Lateral click Retroflex click Index of phonetics articles Clement Doke (1925)...
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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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clicks in Ekoka !Kung have been variously described as retroflex or fricated palatal clicks. Bilabial click Dental click Lateral click Palatal click Retroflex...
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noted a lateral fricated release (as had Vedder), transcribed them ⟨ǃ𐞷⟩.) Retroflex clicks are extraordinarily rare. True retroflex clicks occur in...
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with the lateral click. It appears to have the same two functions in the other languages. Alveolar click Bilabial click Dental click Lateral click Palatal...
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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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vertical bar is used to write the dental click (ǀ). A double vertical bar is used to write the alveolar lateral click (ǁ). Since these are technically letters...
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List of consonants (section Click consonants)
alveolar lateral clicks e.g. [ǁ] alveolar approximant [ɹ] (red) alveolar ejective [tʼ] alveolar ejective fricative [sʼ] alveolar flap [ɾ] alveolar lateral approximant...
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Khoekhoe language (section Non-clicks)
raspy version of the contour clicks. Tindall notes that European learners almost invariably pronounce the lateral clicks by placing the tongue against...
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"middle-finger flick-off" using a "t" as the arm, hand, and finger. Using a lateral click letter for the nose such as in ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) is believed to originate...
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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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orthographies using the lateral clicks only. The following systems are presented in the same order: bilabial, dental ('c'), lateral ('x'), alveolar ('q')...
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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...
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NᴾF (epenthetic plosive), CVNᵀ (tone-bearing syllable), Cᴸ (liquid or lateral release), Cᴿ (rhotic or resonant release), Vᴳ (off-glide/diphthong), Cⱽ...
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⟨x⟩ represents /ʃ/. In Nguni languages, ⟨x⟩ represents the alveolar lateral click /ǁ/. In Norwegian, ⟨x⟩ is generally pronounced /ks/, but since the 19th...
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Yeyi language (category Click languages)
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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call this plant ǁhoba (pronounced [kǁʰɔbɑ] – the initial sound is a lateral click). The genus became internationally known and threatened by collectors...
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ǁKharas Region (pronounced /ᵏǁʰa.ɾas/, with a lateral click, former name Karas Region, without the click) is the southernmost, largest, and least densely...
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voiced alveolar click /ᶢǃ/. ⟨gǀ⟩ is used in Juǀʼhoan for the voiced dental click /ᶢǀ/. ⟨gǁ⟩ is used in Juǀʼhoan for the voiced lateral click /ᶢǁ/. ⟨gǂ⟩ is...
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The three click consonants are the dental click /ǀ/, orthographically ⟨c⟩; the lateral click /ǁ/, orthographically ⟨x⟩; and the alveolar click /ǃ/, orthographically...
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Xhosa language (category Click languages)
clicks, represented by the letter ⟨c⟩, similar to the sound represented in English by "tut-tut" or "tsk-tsk"; a series of six alveolar lateral clicks...
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Palatal click (ǂ) Palatal consonant Palatal ejective (cʼ) Palatal lateral approximant (ʎ, ʎ̟) Palatal lateral ejective affricate (cʎ̝̥ʼ) Palatal lateral flap...
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to: Chōonpu, a character in vertical Japanese writing, ー Dental click, ǀ Lateral click, a character in African languages, ǁ Parallel (geometry), ∥ Parallel...
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express regret or pity (a dental click), or the clucking noise used by many equestrians to urge on their horses (a lateral click). Lingual egressive initiation...
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