Tenuis dental click

A voiceless or more precisely tenuis dental 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 symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet for a tenuis dental click with a velar rear articulation is or, commonly abbreviated to, or simply ; a symbol abandoned by the IPA but still preferred by some linguists is or, abbreviated, or just. For a click with a uvular rear articulation, the equivalents are and.
Sometimes the accompanying letter comes after the click letter, e.g. or ; this may be a simple orthographic choice, or it may imply a difference in the relative timing of the releases.

Features

Features of a tenuis dental click:

Tenuis dental clicks are found primarily in the various Khoisan language families of southern Africa and in some neighbouring Bantu languages.