The voiceless or more precisely tenuis dental click is a click consonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa.
The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ǀ⟩. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet for a tenuis dental click with a velar rear articulation is ⟨k͡ǀ⟩ or ⟨k͜ǀ⟩, commonly abbreviated to ⟨kǀ⟩, ⟨ᵏǀ⟩ or simply ⟨ǀ⟩; a symbol abandoned by the IPA but still preferred by some linguists is ⟨k͡ʇ⟩ or ⟨k͜ʇ⟩, abbreviated ⟨kʇ⟩, ⟨ᵏʇ⟩ or just ⟨ʇ⟩. For a click with a uvular rear articulation, the equivalents are ⟨q͡ǀ, q͜ǀ, qǀ, 𐞥ǀ⟩ and ⟨q͡ʇ, q͜ʇ, qʇ, 𐞥ʇ⟩. Sometimes the accompanying letter comes after the click letter, e.g. ⟨ǀk⟩ or ⟨ǀᵏ⟩; this may be a simple orthographic choice, or it may imply a difference in the relative timing of the releases.
Tenuis dental velar click | |
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k͡ǀ k͡ʇ | |
ᵏǀ ᵏʇ | |
ǀ ʇ | |
IPA Number | 177 |
Encoding | |
Entity (decimal) | ǀʇ |
Unicode (hex) | U+01C0 U+0287 |
Braille |
Tenuis dental uvular click | |
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q͡ǀ q͡ʇ | |
𐞥ǀ 𐞥ʇ |
Features of the tenuis dental click:
Tenuis dental clicks are found primarily in the various Khoisan language families of southern Africa and in some neighbouring Bantu languages.
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes |
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Zulu | icici | [îːk͜ǀíːk͜ǀi] = [îːᵏʇíːᵏʇi] | 'earring' | |
Hadza | cinambo | [k͜ǀinambo] = [ᵏʇinambo] | 'firefly' | |
Khoekhoe | ǀgurub | [k͜ǀȕɾȕp] = [ᵏʇȕɾȕp] | 'dry autumn leaves' |
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