Alveolar nasal click | |
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ǃ̃ | |
ᵑǃ | |
ʗ̃ | |
ᵑʗ | |
Encoding | |
Kirshenbaum | n.! (n^!) |
Glottalized alveolar nasal click |
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ǃ̃ˀ | |
ᵑǃ͡ʔ ᵑ̊ǃˀ |
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ʗ̃͡ʔ | |
ᵑʗˀ |
The (post)alveolar nasal 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 ⟨ǃ̃⟩ or ⟨ᵑǃ⟩; a symbol abandoned by the IPA but still preferred by some linguists is ⟨ʗ̃⟩ or ⟨ᵑʗ⟩.
Features of the (post)alveolar nasal click:
Alveolar nasal clicks are found primarily in the various Khoisan language families of southern Africa and in some neighboring Bantu languages.
All Khoisan languages, and a few Bantu languages, have glottalized nasal clicks. These are formed by closing the glottis so that the click is pronounced in silence; however, any preceding vowel will be nasalized.