Tenuis bilabial click
The voiceless or more precisely tenuis bilabial click is a click consonant found in some languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the sound is ⟨ʘ⟩.
Tenuis bilabial velar click | |
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k͡ʘ | |
IPA Number | 176 |
Encoding | |
Entity (decimal) | ʘ |
Unicode (hex) | U+0298 |
Braille | |
Audio sample | |
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Tenuis bilabial uvular click | |
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q͡ʘ | |
(etc) |
Features
Features of the tenuis bilabial 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. Voiced and nasal clicks have a simultaneous pulmonic egressive airstream.
- Its place of articulation is bilabial, which means it is articulated with both lips.
- Its phonation is voiceless, unaspirated, and unglottalized, which means it is produced without vibration or constriction of the vocal cords, and any following vowel starts without significant delay.
- It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
Occurrence
Tenuis bilabial clicks only occur in the Tuu and Kx'a families of southern Africa.
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning |
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ǂHoan | [ʘoa] | 'two' | |
Taa | [ʘàa] | 'child' |
Notes
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