| Voiced dental velar click | |
|---|---|
| ɡǀ ɡʇ | |
| ᶢǀ ᶢʇ | |
| ǀ̬ ʇ̬ | |
| ǀ᪶ |
| Voiced dental uvular click | |
|---|---|
| ɢǀ ɢʇ | |
| 𐞒ǀ 𐞒ʇ |
Avoiced dental click is aclick consonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa.[1] The symbol in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet for a voiced dental click with avelar rear articulation is ⟨ɡ͡ǀ⟩ or ⟨ɡ͜ǀ⟩, commonly abbreviated to ⟨ɡǀ⟩, ⟨ᶢǀ⟩ or ⟨ǀ̬⟩; a symbol abandoned by the IPA but still preferred by some linguists is ⟨ɡ͡ʇ⟩ or ⟨ɡ͜ʇ⟩, abbreviated ⟨ɡʇ⟩, ⟨ᶢʇ⟩ or ⟨ʇ̬⟩. For a click with auvular rear articulation, the equivalents are ⟨ɢ͡ǀ,ɢ͜ǀ,ɢǀ,𐞒ǀ⟩ and ⟨ɢ͡ʇ,ɢ͜ʇ,ɢʇ,𐞒ʇ⟩.Sometimes the accompanying letter comes after the click letter, e.g. ⟨ǀɡ⟩ or ⟨ǀᶢ⟩; this may be a simple orthographic choice, or it may imply a difference in the relative timing of the releases.[2]
In languages which use the Bantu letters for clicks, this is most commonly written⟨gc⟩, but it is written⟨dc⟩ in those languages that use⟨g⟩ for theuvular fricative.
Features of a voiced dental click:
Voiced dental clicks are found primarily in the variousKhoisan language families of southern Africa and in some neighboringBantu languages.
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gciriku | Dciriku | [ɡ͜ǀiriku]=[ᶢʇiriku] | 'Gciriku' |
| Sandawe | gcĩgcoo | [ɡ͜ǀĩ̌ːɡ͜ǀóː]=[ᶢʇĩ̌ːᶢʇóː] | (species of bird) |
| Yeyi | kugǀawa | [kuɡ͜ǀawa]=[kuᶢʇawa] | to 'cut grass' |
