Tenuis lateral click


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. The Doke/Beach convention, adopted for a time by the IPA and still preferred by some linguists, is.

Features

Features of the tenuis lateral click:

Occurrence

Tenuis lateral clicks are found primarily in the various Khoisan language families of southern Africa and in some neighboring Bantu languages.
LanguageWordIPAMeaning
Hadzaexekeke 'to listen'
Khoekhoeǂamǁgû 'to inadvertently bite a hard object'
Xhosainxeba 'wound'
Zuluxoxa 'to converse'