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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) have nasal variants, and these are attested in four or five phonations: voiced, voiceless, aspirated, murmured (breathy voiced), and—in the analysis of Miller (2011)—glottalized.
A voiceless nasal back-released velar click [ʞ] is used throughout Africa for backchanneling. This sound starts off as a typical click, but the action is reversed and it is the rear velar or uvular closure that is released, drawing in air from the throat and nasal passages.
Taa distinguishes the singular and plural of many nouns via a voiceless vs. voiced initial consonant, and thus there are voiced and voiceless versions of the glottalized nasal and oral clicks. In the voiced versions the glottalization is delayed, so that the hold of the click is partially voiced or nasalized: that is, [ǃˀa] vs. [ᶢǃʔa] and ...
voiceless palatal click [ᵏǂ] voiced palatal click [ᶢǂ] palatal nasal click [ᵑǂ] or uvular: [𐞥ǂ], [𐞒ǂ], [ᶰǂ] Glottalized clicks. velar (uvular clicks not shown): glottalized bilabial nasal click [ᵑ̊ʘˀ] glottalized dental nasal click [ᵑ̊ǀˀ] glottalized alveolar nasal click [ᵑ̊ǃˀ] glottalized alveolar lateral ...
The voiceless alveolar nasal is a type of consonant in some languages.The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent the sound are n̥ and n̊ , combinations of the letter for the voiced alveolar nasal and a diacritic indicating voicelessness above or below the letter.
The nasal click may also be heard at the right. In the orthographies of individual languages, the letters and digraphs for alveolar clicks may be based on either the vertical bar symbol of the IPA, ǃ , or on the Latin q of Bantu convention.
ǃXóõ has a series of nasalized click consonants in which the nasal airstream is pulmonic ingressive. Ladefoged & Maddieson (1996:268) state, "This ǃXóõ click is probably unique among the sounds of the world's languages that, even in the middle of a sentence, it may have ingressive pulmonic airflow."
glottalized lateral nasal click The last is what is heard in the sound sample above, as non-native speakers tend to glottalize clicks to avoid nasalizing them. In the orthographies of individual languages, the letters and digraphs for lateral clicks may be based on either the vertical bar symbol of the IPA, ǁ , or on the Latin x of Bantu ...