Tenuis palatal click
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The voiceless or more precisely tenuis palatal click is a click consonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet for a tenuis palatal click with a velar rear articulation is ⟨k͡ǂ⟩ or ⟨k͜ǂ⟩, commonly abbreviated to ⟨kǂ⟩, ⟨ᵏǂ⟩ or simply ⟨ǂ⟩. Linguists who prefer the old IPA letters use the analogous Beach convention[1] of ⟨k͡𝼋⟩ or ⟨k͜𝼋⟩, abbreviated ⟨k𝼋⟩, ⟨ᵏ𝼋⟩ or just ⟨𝼋⟩. For a click with a uvular rear articulation, the equivalents are ⟨q͡ǂ, q͜ǂ, qǂ, 𐞥ǂ⟩ and ⟨q͡𝼋, q͜𝼋, q𝼋, 𐞥𝼋⟩. Sometimes the accompanying letter comes after the click letter, e.g. ⟨ǂk⟩ or ⟨ǂᵏ⟩; this may be a simple orthographic choice, or may imply a difference in the relative timing of the releases.[2]
Quick Facts k͡ǂ k͡𝼋, ᵏǂ ᵏ𝼋 ...
Tenuis palatal velar click | |
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k͡ǂ k͡𝼋 | |
ᵏǂ ᵏ𝼋 | |
ǂ 𝼋 | |
IPA Number | 179 |
Encoding | |
Entity (decimal) | ǂ |
Unicode (hex) | U+01C2 |
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Quick Facts q͡ǂ q͡𝼋, 𐞥ǂ 𐞥𝼋 ...
Tenuis palatal uvular click | |
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q͡ǂ q͡𝼋 | |
𐞥ǂ 𐞥𝼋 |
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