Tenuis alveolar click
The voiceless or more precisely tenuis alveolar click is a click consonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is. The Doke/Beach convention, adopted for a time by the IPA and still preferred by some linguists, is.
Features
Features of the tenuis alveolar click:Occurrence
Tenuis alveolar clicks are found primarily in the various Khoisan language families of southern Africa and in some neighboring Bantu languages.| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning |
| Hadza | laqo | 'to trip' | |
| Khoekhoe | ǃgabe | 'to speak a Khoisan language' | |
| Sesotho | ho qoqa | 'to chat' | |
| Xhosa | iqanda | 'egg' | |
| Zulu | iqaqa | 'polecat' |