The voiceless or more precisely tenuis (post)alveolar click is a click consonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the

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that represents this sound is . The Doke/

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convention, adopted for a time by the IPA and still preferred by some linguists, is .

Features

Features of the tenuis (post)alveolar click:

Occurrence

Tenuis alveolar clicks are found primarily in the various Khoisan language families of southern Africa and in some neighboring Bantu languages.

Notes

{{IPA navigation Click consonants Oral consonants Central consonants Tenuis consonants