Tenuis dental click
| (Tenuis) dental click | |
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| ǀ | |
| ʇ | |
| IPA number | 177 |
| Encoding | |
| Entity (decimal) | ǀʇ |
| Unicode (hex) | U+01C0 U+0287 |
| Kirshenbaum | t! |
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The voiceless or more precisely tenuis dental 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 ⟨ǀ⟩. The Doke/Beach convention, adopted for a time by the IPA and still preferred by some linguists, is ⟨ʇ⟩.
Features of the tenuis dental click:
Tenuis dental clicks are found primarily in the various Khoisan language families of southern Africa and in some neighboring Bantu languages.
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