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The dental clicks are a family of Click Consonant s found only in Africa and in the Damin ritual jargon of Australia . The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the forward articulation of these sounds is . This must be combined with a symbol for the rear articulation to represent an actual speech sound. Attested dental clicks include:
Prior to 1989, was an accepted IPA representation of the ''voiceless velar dental click''. FEATURES Features of dental clicks:
IN ENGLISH English does not have the dental click (or any click consonant, for that matter) as a phoneme, but it does occur as an Interjection , usually written ''tsk'' or ''tut'' (and often Reduplicated ''tsk-tsk'' or ''tut-tut''), used to express commiseration, disapproval, or irritation. Note, however, that while these words often represent a dental click and may be pronounced as such, they are also frequently pronounced as or , and in such cases cannot be said to be dental clicks. IN OTHER LANGUAGES Dental clicks are common in Khoisan Languages and the neighboring Nguni languages, such as Zulu and Xhosa . In the Nguni languages, the Tenuis Click is denoted by the letter ''c'', the Murmured Click by ''gc'', the Aspirated Click by ''ch'', and the Nasal Click by ''nc''. The prenasalized clicks are written ''ngc'' and ''nkc''. The Cushitic language Dahalo has four clicks, all of them nasalized: . Hungarian does not have any click consonant as a phoneme, but the dental click does occur as an interjection, usually written ''cöccögés'' {Link without Title} , used to express commiseration, disapproval, or irritation. German uses the dental click in the exact same way as English, though it is usually rendered ''ts'' or ''tss'' in writing. REFERENCES SEE ALSO |
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