The dental nasal 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 or ; a symbol abandoned by the IPA but still preferred by some linguists is or .

Features

Features of the dental nasal click:

Occurrence

Dental nasal clicks are found primarily in the various Khoisan language families of southern Africa and in some neighboring Bantu languages, such as

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and Fwe.

Glottalized dental nasal click

All Khoisan languages, and a few Bantu languages, have glottalized nasal clicks. These are formed by closing the glottis so that the click is pronounced in silence; however, any preceding vowel will be nasalized.

References

{{IPA navigation Nasal consonants Click consonants Central consonants Voiced consonants