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  2. Dental click - Wikipedia

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    glottalized dental nasal click The last is what is heard in the sound sample at right, as non-native speakers tend to glottalize clicks to avoid nasalizing them. In the orthographies of individual languages, the letters and digraphs for dental clicks may be based on either the vertical bar symbol of the IPA, ǀ , or on the Latin c of Bantu ...

  3. Tenuis dental click - Wikipedia

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    Features of the tenuis dental click: The airstream mechanism is lingual ingressive (also known as velaric ingressive), which means a pocket of air trapped between two closures is rarefied by a "sucking" action of the tongue, rather than being moved by the glottis or the lungs/diaphragm. The release of the forward closure produces the "click" sound.

  4. Click consonant - Wikipedia

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    These are sharp (high-pitched) squeaky sounds made by sucking on the front teeth. A simple dental click is used in English to express pity or to shame someone, or to call a cat or other animal, and is written tut! in British English and tsk! in American English. In many cultures around the Mediterranean a simple dental click is used for "no" in ...

  5. Glottalized click - Wikipedia

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    All click types (alveolar ǃ, dental ǀ, lateral ǁ, palatal ǂ, retroflex ‼, and labial ʘ) have glottalized variants. They are very common: All of the Khoisan languages of Africa have them (the Khoe , Tuu , and Kx'a language families, Sandawe , and Hadza ), as does Dahalo and the Bantu languages Yeyi and Xhosa (though Zulu does not). [ 1 ]

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  7. Ejective-contour click - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, contour clicks were believed to be uvular in their rear articulation, whereas non-contour clicks were thought to be velar.However, it is now known that all clicks are uvular, at least in the languages which have been investigated, and that the articulation of these clicks is more complex than that of others but no different in location.

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  9. Nasal dental click - Wikipedia

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    The dental nasal click is a click consonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa. [1] The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet for a nasal dental click with a velar rear articulation is ŋ͡ǀ or ŋ͜ǀ , commonly abbreviated to ŋǀ , ᵑǀ or ǀ̃ ; a symbol abandoned by the IPA but still preferred by some linguists is ŋ͡ʇ or ŋ͜ʇ , abbreviated ŋʇ , ᵑʇ or ...