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Tenuis alveolar lateral click

(Tenuis) lateral click
ǁ
ʖ
IPA number 180, 203
Encoding
Entity (decimal) ǁ​ʖ
Unicode (hex) U+01C1 U+0296
Kirshenbaum l!
Sound

The voiceless or more precisely tenuis lateral 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 ⟨ǁ⟩. The Doke/Beach convention, adopted for a time by the IPA and still preferred by some linguists, is ⟨ʖ⟩.

Features of the tenuis lateral click:

Tenuis lateral clicks are found primarily in the various Khoisan language families of southern Africa and in some neighboring Bantu languages.


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