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The bilabial clicks are a family of click consonants found only in the Southern Khoisan family, the ‡Hõã language of Botswana, and the Damin ritual jargon of Australia. Note: This article contains special characters. ... IPA symbols, detail from Image:Ipa-chart-consonants-nonpulmonic. ... HTML has been in use since 1991 (note that the W3C international standard is now XHTML), but the first standardized version with a reasonably complete treatment of international characters was version 4. ... The Extended SAM Phonetic Alphabet (X-SAMPA) is a variant of SAMPA developed in 1995 by John C. Wells, professor of phonetics at the University of London. ... Kirshenbaum, sometimes called ASCII-IPA, is a system used to represent the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) in ASCII. It was developed for Usenet, notably the newsgroups sci. ... To play the audio file do not click on the -image. ... Clicks are stops produced with two articulatory closures in the oral cavity. ... This is a list of Khoisan languages, which are indigenous to southern Africa. ... =/Hua is a Khoisan language of Botswana that is most closely related to !Xóõ. It has approximately 1,000 to 1,500 speakers. ... A secret language spoken in the Gulf of Carpentaria used in mens initiation rites. ...

The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the forward articulation of these sounds is ʘ. This must be combined with a symbol for the rear articulation to represent an actual speech sound. Attested bilabial clicks include [k͡ʘ, g͡ʘ, ŋ͡ʘ, q͡ʘ, ɢ͡ʘ, ɴ͡ʘ]. Damin also had an egressive [k͡ʘ↑], the only attested egressive click. The International Phonetic Alphabet is a phonetic alphabet used by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) the human vocal apparatus can produce. ...

Features

Features of ingressive bilabial clicks:

• Their manner of articulation is click, which means they are produced with two articulatory closures in the oral cavity. The pocket of air trapped between the two closures is rarefied by a "sucking" action of the tongue. The release of the forward closure produces the 'click' sound.
• The forward place of articulation is bilabial, which means it is articulated with both lips. The rear place of articulation may be either velar or uvular.
• Bilabial clicks may be either oral or nasal, which means air is allowed to escape either through the mouth or the nose.
• They are central consonants, which means they are produced by allowing the airstream to flow over the middle of the tongue, rather than the sides.
• The airstream mechanism is velaric ingressive, which means it is produced by movement of air into the mouth by action of the tongue, rather than by the glottis or the lungs.

The bilabial clicks are sometimes erroneously described as sounding like a kiss. However, they do not have the pursed lips of a kiss (that is, they're not labialized). Instead, they sound more like a smack of the lips. In speech there are different ways of producing a consonant. ... Clicks are stops produced with two articulatory closures in the oral cavity. ... In speech, consonants may have different places of articulation, generally with full or partial stoppage of the airstream. ... In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a consonant articulated with both lips. ... The mouth, also known as the buccal cavity or the oral cavity, is the opening through which an animal or human takes in food. ... Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate (the back part of the roof of the mouth, known also as the velum). ... Uvulars are consonants articulated with the back of the tongue against or near the uvula, that is, further back in the mouth than velar consonants. ... An oral consonant is a consonant sound in speech that is made by allowing air to escape from the mouth. ... A nasal consonant is produced when the velum—that fleshy part of the palate near the back—is lowered, allowing air to escape freely through the nose. ... A central or medial consonant is a consonant sound that is produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue. ... In phonetics, initiation is the action by which an air-flow is created through the vocal tract. ... In phonetics, velaric ingressive is an airstream mechanism where a sound is produced by a closure of the velum (or soft palate) and other place of articulation in the front of the oral cavity (such as the alveolar ridge or the lips), and then sucking air in while simultaneously releasing... The space between the vocal cords is called the glottis. ... The heart with relation to the lungs (from an older edition of Grays Anatomy) This x-ray of the human chest shows the lungs as dark regions The lung is an organ belonging to the respiratory system and interfacing to the circulatory system of air-breathing vertebrates. ... Labialisation is a secondary articulatory feature of phonemes in a language, most usually used to refer to consonants. ...

The egressive click differs from the above in that the trapped air pocket is compressed by the tongue until it is allowed to escape through the forward articulation. Clicks are stops produced with two articulatory closures in the oral cavity. ...

See also

• List of phonetics topics

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