| Tenuis lateral velar click | |
|---|---|
| kǁ kʖ | |
| ᵏǁ ᵏʖ | |
| ǁ ʖ | |
| IPA number | 180, 203 |
| Encoding | |
| Entity(decimal) | ǁʖ |
| Unicode(hex) | U+01C1 U+0296 |
| Braille |   |
| Tenuis lateral uvular click | |
|---|---|
| qǁ qʖ | |
| 𐞥ǁ 𐞥ʖ |
Avoiceless or more preciselytenuis lateral click is aclick consonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa.The symbol in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet for a tenuis lateral click with avelar rear articulation is ⟨k͡ǁ⟩ or ⟨k͜ǁ⟩, commonly abbreviated to ⟨kǁ⟩, ⟨ᵏǁ⟩ or just ⟨ǁ⟩; a symbol abandoned by the IPA but still preferred by some linguists is ⟨k͡ʖ⟩ or ⟨k͜ʖ⟩, abbreviated ⟨kʖ⟩, ⟨ᵏʖ⟩ or just ⟨ʖ⟩. For a click with auvular rear articulation, the equivalents are ⟨q͡ǁ,q͜ǁ,qǁ,𐞥ǁ⟩ and ⟨q͡ʖ,q͜ʖ,qʖ,𐞥ʖ⟩.Sometimes the accompanying letter comes after the click letter, e.g. ⟨ǁk⟩ or ⟨ǁᵏ⟩; this may be a simple orthographic choice, or it may imply a difference in the relative timing of the releases.[1]
Features of a tenuis lateral click:
Tenuis lateral clicks are found primarily in the variousKhoisan language families of southern Africa and in some neighboringBantu languages.
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hadza | exekeke | [ʔek͜ǁekeke] =[ʔeᵏʖekeke] | 'to listen' |
| Khoekhoe | ǂamǁgû | [ŋ͜ǂ͡ʔàm̀k͜ǁṹṹ] =[ᵑǂˀàm̀ᵏʖṹṹ] | 'to inadvertently bite a hard object' |
| Xhosa | inxeba | [íŋk͜ǁeːɓa] =[íŋᵏʖeːɓa] | 'wound' (noun) |
| Zulu | xoxa | [k͜ǁɔːk͜ǁa] =[ᵏʖɔːᵏʖa] | 'to converse' |
