Tenuis alveolar click
| (Tenuis) alveolar click | |
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| ǃ | |
| ʗ | |
| IPA number | 178 |
| Encoding | |
| Entity (decimal) | ǃʗ |
| Unicode (hex) | U+01C3 U+0297 |
| Kirshenbaum | c! |
| Unicode character name for ǃ is LATIN LETTER RETROFLEX CLICK | |
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The voiceless or more precisely tenuis (post)alveolar 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 ⟨ǃ⟩. The Doke/Beach convention, adopted for a time by the IPA and still preferred by some linguists, is ⟨ʗ⟩.
Features of the tenuis (post)alveolar click:
Tenuis alveolar clicks are found primarily in the various Khoisan language families of southern Africa and in some neighboring Bantu languages.
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