Click dental

The dentaux clicks are a family of consonants with click which one finds only in Africa, like in the ritual language Damin of a tribe aboriginal of Australia.

The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet representing the former articulation of these sounds is. It must be combined with a second symbol representing the posterior articulation to appear a its reality of the word. The attested dentaux clicks include/understand:

or click dental velar deaf person (can also be aspired, éjectif, affriqué, etc )
or velar click dental voiced (can also be puffed up, affriqué, etc )
or nasal click dental velar (can also be deaf, aspired, etc )
or click dental uvular deaf person
or uvular click dental voiced (generally prenasalized)
or nasal click dental uvular

Characteristics

Here characteristics of a consonant with click dental consonant:

Its mode of articulation is with click, which means that she produced thanks to the air is imprisoned between two points of occlusion (former and posterior) of the oral cavity, put in depression by a fast movement of the language, then released at the former point of occlusion, thus giving rise to a phenomenon of implosion resembling a slapping.
Its joint former is alveolar or dental, which means that the release of the air is carried out by the language on the alveolar peak or the higher teeth, giving rise to a sound closer to a Consonne affricate consonant than of an occlusive .
Its joint posterior can be either velar (left former the language against the soft palate) or uvular (back of the language against or close to the luette).
It can be either oral or nasal, which means that the air can escape by the mouth or the nose.
It is a central Consonne, which means that it is produced by letting the air pass above the medium of the language, rather than by the sides.
Its mechanism of draft is ingressif velar, which means that it is produced by a air volume displacement in the mouth under the action of the language, and not by a flow glottal or pulmonary.

Languages

The dentaux clicks are current in the Langues khoïsan, the close languages nguni, like the Zoulou and the Xhosa, like in a couchitic language, the Dahalo.

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