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  2. Click consonant - Wikipedia

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    The labial click /ʘ/ is different from what many people associate with a kiss: the lips are pressed more-or-less flat together, as they are for a [p] or an [m], not rounded as they are for a [w]. The most populous languages with clicks, Zulu and Xhosa, use the letters c, q, x, by themselves and in digraphs, to write click

  3. Category:Click consonants - Wikipedia

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  4. List of highest-grossing films in Hungary - Wikipedia

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    Egy magyar nábob 2: 3.572 1966 classical 30 Zoltán Kárpáthy: 3.572 1966 classical 31 The Corporal and the Others: 3.391 1965 comedy 32 Kölyök: 3.277 1959 comedy 33 Dollar Daddy: 3.231 1956 satire 34 Kiskrajcár: 3.193 1953 drama 35 Sparrows are Birds Too: 3.159 1969 comedy 36 Tale on the Twelve Points: 3.026 1957 comedy

  5. Click letter - Wikipedia

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    Doke's nasal-click letters were based on the letter n , continuing the pattern of the pulmonic nasal consonants m ɱ n ɲ ɳ ŋ ɴ . For example, the letters for the palatal and retroflex clicks are ŋ ɲ with a curl on their free leg: . The voiced-click letters are more individuated, a couple were simply inverted versions of the tenuis-click ...

  6. Alveolar click - Wikipedia

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    The alveolar or postalveolar clicks are a family of click consonants found only in Africa and in the Damin ritual jargon of Australia.The tongue is more or less concave (depending on the language), and is pulled down rather than back as in the palatal clicks, making a hollower sound than those consonants.

  7. Ejective-contour click - Wikipedia

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    (Linguo-pulmonic consonants are similar, except that the second release is pulmonic, as in English consonants.) That is, such consonants have a double release burst, one ingressive (the air pulled in by the tongue) and the other egressive (the air pushed out by the glottis). The rear articulation is involved in both: it helps create the suction ...

  8. Back-released click - Wikipedia

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    A back-released click, sometimes more precisely a velar-released click or uvular-released click, is a click consonant found in paralinguistic use in languages across Africa, such as Wolof. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The tongue is in a similar position to other click articulations, such as an alveolar click , and like other clicks, the airstream mechanism is ...

  9. Retroflex click - Wikipedia

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    The retroflex clicks are a family of click consonants known only from the Central ǃKung language or dialect of Namibia. [1] They are sub-apical retroflex and should not be confused with the more widespread postalveolar clicks, which are sometimes mistakenly called "retroflex" (for example in Unicode) due to their concave tongue shape.