Alveolar Clicks - Occurrence

Occurrence

English does not have an alveolar click (or any click consonant, for that matter) as a phoneme, but a plain alveolar click does occur in mimesis, as a sound children use to imitate a horse trotting.

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
ǃKung n!an = 'inside'
Hadza laqo = 'to trip'
keqhena = 'to be slow'
henqee = 'dead leopard'
teqqe = 'to carry'
Sesotho ho qoqa = 'to examine' Contrasts with murmured, aspirated, and nasal alveolar clicks. See Sesotho phonology
Xhosa iqanda = 'egg' Contrasts with murmured, aspirated, and nasal alveolar clicks.
!Xóõ !qhàà = 'water' an aspirated linguo-pulmonic stop
Zulu iqaqa = 'polecat' Contrasts with murmured, aspirated, and nasal alveolar clicks.

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