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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.
These are lip-smacking sounds, but often without the pursing of the lips found in a kiss, that occur in words in only a few languages. The above clicks sound like affricates, in that they involve a lot of friction. The next two families of clicks are more abrupt sounds that do not have this friction.
The extensions to the IPA also define a bilabial percussive ( ⓘ) for smacking the lips together. A lip-smack in the non-percussive sense of the lips audibly parting would be [ʬ↓]. [7] The IPA chart shades out bilabial lateral consonants, which is sometimes read as indicating
The two common labial articulations are bilabials, articulated using both lips, and labiodentals, articulated with the lower lip against the upper teeth, both of which are present in English. A third labial articulation is dentolabials , articulated with the upper lip against the lower teeth (the reverse of labiodental), normally only found in ...
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These are percussive consonants, where the sound is generated by one organ striking another. Percussive consonants are not phonemic in any known language, though the extensions to the IPA for disordered speech provide symbols for a bilabial percussive [ʬ] (smacking lips) and a bidental percussive [ʭ] (gnashing teeth).
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The release is a noisy, affricate-like sound. Clicks may be oral or nasal , which means that the airflow is either restricted to the mouth, or passes through the nose as well. They are central consonants , which means they are produced by releasing the airstream at the center of the tongue, rather than at the sides.