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Click consonants occur at six principal places of articulation. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) provides five letters for these places (there is as yet no dedicated symbol for the sixth). The easiest clicks for English speakers are the dental clicks written with ǀ . These are sharp (high-pitched) squeaky sounds made by sucking on the ...
Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.
The symbol for the sublingual percussive component is ¡ in the extensions to the IPA; a slapped click is therefore transcribed ǃ͡¡ or ǃꜞ (or ʗ͡¡, ʗꜞ ). The percussive allophones of the five Sandawe alveolar clicks are [ᵏǃ͡¡, ᵏǃ͡¡ʰ, ᶢǃ͡¡, ᵑǃ͡¡, ᵑǃ͡¡ˀ] (or [ᵏʗꜞ ᵏʗꜞʰ ᶢʗꜞ ᵑʗꜞ ᵑʗꜞˀ ...
The voiced-click letters are more individuated, a couple were simply inverted versions of the tenuis-click letters. The tenuis–voiced pairs were dental ʇ ɣ (the letter ɣ had not yet been added to the IPA for the voiced velar fricative ), alveolar ʗ 𝒬 , retroflex ψ ⫛ , [ 26 ] palatal ↆ ꙟ (or 🡣 🡡 ) and lateral ʖ ➿︎ .
The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the place of articulation of these sounds is ǂ , a double-barred vertical bar. An older variant, the double-barred esh , 𝼋 (approximately ⨎), is sometimes seen.
The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents a generic lateral click is ǁ , a double vertical bar. Prior to 1989, ʖ [ 1 ] was the IPA letter for the lateral clicks, and this is still preferred by some phoneticians, as the vertical bar may be confounded with prosody marks and, in some fonts, with a double lowercase L .
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English does not have a labial click (or any click consonant, for that matter) as a phoneme, but a plain bilabial click does occur in mimesis, as a lip-smacking sound children use to imitate a fish. Labial clicks only occur in the Tuu and Kx'a families of southern Africa, and in the Australian ritual language Damin .