U+01C0ǀLATIN LETTER DENTAL CLICK U+01C1ǁLATIN LETTER LATERAL CLICK U+01C2ǂLATIN LETTER ALVEOLAR CLICK U+01C3ǃLATIN LETTER RETROFLEX CLICK
U+01DF0A𝼊LATIN LETTER RETROFLEX CLICK WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
Different from
Different from
U+007C|VERTICAL LINE U+2016‖DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE U+0021!EXCLAMATION MARK
Click consonants, or clicks, are speech sounds that occur as consonants in many languages of Southern Africa and in three languages of East Africa. Examples familiar to English-speakers are the tut-tut (British spelling) or tsk! tsk! (American spelling) used to express disapproval or pity (IPA [ǀ]), the tchick! used to spur on a horse (IPA [ǁ]), and the clip-clop! sound children make with their tongue to imitate a horse trotting (IPA [ǃ]). However, these paralinguistic sounds in English are not full click consonants, as they only involve the front of the tongue, without the release of the back of the tongue that is required for clicks to combine with vowels and form syllables.
Anatomically, clicks are obstruents articulated with two closures (points of contact) in the mouth, one forward and one at the back. The enclosed pocket of air is rarefied by a sucking action of the tongue (in technical terminology, clicks have a lingual ingressive airstream mechanism). The forward closure is then released,[note 1] producing what may be the loudest consonants in the language, although in some languages such as Hadza and Sandawe, clicks can be more subtle and may even be mistaken for ejectives.
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Clickconsonants, or clicks, are speech sounds that occur as consonants in many languages of Southern Africa and in three languages of East Africa. Examples...
The alveolar or postalveolar clicks are a family of clickconsonants found only in Africa and in the Damin ritual jargon of Australia. The tongue is more...
pulmonic consonants. See glottalic consonants and clickconsonants for more information on the distribution of nonpulmonic consonants. Ejective consonant Implosive...
The voiceless or more precisely tenuis dental click is a clickconsonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International...
The bilabial nasal click is a clickconsonant found in some of the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet for...
The voiceless or more precisely tenuis (post)alveolar click is a clickconsonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in...
The dental nasal click is a clickconsonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet for...
The bilabial clicks are a family of clickconsonants that sound like a smack of the lips. They are found as phonemes only in the small Tuu language family...
The alveolar nasal click is a clickconsonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...
The voiceless or more precisely tenuis palatal click is a clickconsonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International...
click is a clickconsonant found in some languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet for a tenuis bilabial click with...
phonemic velar consonants. Several Khoisan languages have limited numbers or distributions of pulmonic velar consonants. (Their clickconsonants are articulated...
The voiceless or more precisely tenuis lateral click is a clickconsonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International...
The lateral nasal click is a clickconsonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...
The lateral clicks are a family of clickconsonants found only in African languages. The clicking sound used by equestrians to urge on their horses is...
syllable and a word.[citation needed] There are a large number of lateral clickconsonants; 17 occur in !Xóõ. Lateral trills are also possible, but they do not...
a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases. The occlusion...
Dental (or more precisely denti-alveolar) clicks are a family of clickconsonants found, as constituents of words, only in Africa and in the Damin ritual...
Joseph Greenberg. Khoisan is defined as those languages that have clickconsonants and do not belong to other African language families. For much of the...
/t/. Many click languages have tenuis clickconsonants alongside voiced, aspirated, and glottalized series. In transcription, tenuis consonants are not...
The voiced bilabial click is a clickconsonant found in some of the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet for...
The palatal nasal click is a clickconsonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...
click is a clickconsonant found among the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet for a voiced palatal click...
retroflex nasal click is a rare clickconsonant. In practical orthography, an ad hoc symbol ⟨‼⟩ is used for the retroflex clicks; a nasal click with a velar...
is a list of all the consonants which have a dedicated letter in the International Phonetic Alphabet, plus some of the consonants which require diacritics...
transcription delimiters. Various letters have been used to write the clickconsonants of southern Africa. The precursors of the current IPA letters, ⟨ǀ⟩...
The voiced dental click is a clickconsonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...
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