Setswana

Consonants

Setswana also has three click consonants, but these are only used in interjections or ideophones, and tend only to be used by the older generation, and are therefore falling out of use. The three click consonants are the dental click/ǀ/, orthographically ⟨c⟩; the lateral click/ǁ/, orthographically ⟨x⟩; and the alveolar click/ǃ/, orthographically ⟨q⟩. These are found for example in qô-qô (used to announce arrival or knocking on the door; being replaced by ko-ko), x-x (used to express annoyance) and c-c-c.