Tenuis alveolar click

{{Short description|Consonantal sound}}

{{Infobox IPA

|above={{nowrap|Tenuis alveolar velar click}}

|ipa symbol=k͡ǃ   k͡ʗ

|ipa symbol2=ᵏǃ   ᵏʗ

|ipa symbol3=ǃ   ʗ

|kirshenbaum=c!Kirshenbaum assigns {{angbr|c!}} indifferently to both alveolar and palatal clicks.

|ipa number=178

|decimal1=451

|decimal2=663

|braille=and|braille2=t

|note2=Unicode character name for ǃ is {{smallcaps all|LATIN LETTER RETROFLEX CLICK}}

}}

{{Infobox IPA

|above={{nowrap|Tenuis alveolar uvular click}}

|ipa symbol=q͡ǃ   q͡ʗ

|ipa symbol2=𐞥ǃ   𐞥ʗ

}}

{{main|Alveolar click}}

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 for a tenuis alveolar click with a velar rear articulation is {{angbr IPA|k͡ǃ}} or {{angbr IPA|k͜ǃ}}, commonly abbreviated to {{angbr IPA|kǃ}}, {{angbr IPA|ᵏǃ}} or simply {{angbr IPA|ǃ}}; a symbol abandoned by the IPA but still preferred by some linguists is {{angbr IPA|k͡ʗ}} or {{angbr IPA|k͜ʗ}}, abbreviated {{angbr IPA|kʗ}}, {{angbr IPA|ᵏʗ}} or just {{angbr IPA|ʗ}}. For a click with a uvular rear articulation, the equivalents are {{angbr IPA|q͡ǃ, q͜ǃ, qǃ, 𐞥ǃ}} and {{angbr IPA|q͡ʗ, q͜ʗ, qʗ, 𐞥ʗ}}.

Sometimes the accompanying letter comes after the click letter, e.g. {{angbr IPA|ǃk}} or {{angbr IPA|ǃᵏ}}; this may be a simple orthographic choice, or it may imply a difference in the relative timing of the releases.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WD8aAQAAIAAJ |title=Afrika und Übersee |date=2005 |publisher=D. Reimer |pages=93–94 |language=en}}