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 Postalveolar consonant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Note that the IPA diacritics are simplified; some articulations would require two diacritics to be fully specified, but only one is used in order to keep the results legible without the need for OpenType IPA fonts.
Among the fricatives and affricates, a subtype called palato-alveolar consonants (see below) are shown with examples in the table.
This page contains phonetic information in IPA, which may not display correctly in some browsers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postalveolar_consonant   (592 words)

  
 BIGpedia - Xhosa language - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online
Almost all languages with clicks are Khoisan languages and the presence of clicks in Xhosa demonstrates the strong historical interaction with its Khoisan neighbors.
Click consonants feature prominently in the sounds of this language.
An example of the written language is a section of the national anthem of South Africa.
http://www.bigpedia.com/encyclopedia/Xh   (532 words)

  
 Language Log: How to call Cquila's name
The latter occurs in the name of the language Xhosa; Peter Ladefoged has examples of the clicks in this language here, and lots of other fascinating material on the same site.
The (imaginary) word k/quila would be pronounceable in a Bushman language.
It never happens in the Southern African languages that have clicks, any way (though Julian Bradfield points out that the earlier version of this post was too strong: producing two clicks in quick succession is phonetically possible); cq couldn't ever be the beginning of a well-formed Zulu or Xhosa word.
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000278.html   (593 words)

  
 List of consonants - guideofcasinos.com
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http://www.guideofcasinos.com/List_of_consonants.html   (375 words)

  
 Click consonant
The Kirshenbaum system, an alternative system for representing IPA in ASCII, uses a different method to transcribe clicks.
The only non-African language known to employ clicks as regular speech sounds is Damin, an "alternative code" used by speakers of Lardil (Australia) -- actually an elaborate kind of language game.
The size of Khoisan click-phoneme systems ranges from 20 to as many as 83.
http://www.starrepublic.org/encyclopedia/wikipedia/c/cl/click_consonant.html   (610 words)

  
 POSTALVEOLAR CLICK FACTS AND INFORMATION
This allophone has been transcribed as in one publication, but since that symbol has also been used for the sub-apical retroflex release in Angolan !Kung, it may be more appropriate to use the Extended IPA symbol for the Hadza allophone.
In the case of the postalveolar click, the release is sharp, like a plosive, rather than noisy like an affricate.
The alveolar clicks are common in Khoisan_languages and the neighboring Nguni languages (e.g.
http://www.witwib.com/postalveolar_click   (531 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Postalveolar click
The postalveolar click is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.
Click for other authoritative sources for this topic (summarised at Factbites.com).
The airstream mechanism is velaric egressive, which means it is produced by movement of mouth air by action of the tongue, rather than air from the glottis or the lungs.
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Postalveolar-click   (240 words)

  
 !Kung: Definition and Much More From Answers.com
Kung-ekoka, like most other Khoisan languages, possesses click consonants.
In contrast to some other Khoisan languages, though, it contains no labial click.
It might be the same as 'Akhoe or Vasekela.
http://www.answers.com/topic/kung-ekoka-language   (663 words)

  
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And postalveolars, sometimes known as palatoalveolars: [SA ZA].
Another use for the tie bar might be to show nasalized clicks, where the click articulation occurs simultaneously with a voiced velar nasal that uses a pulmonic air-stream, thus a nasalized postalveolar (retroflex) click [N_!A].
We pronounce them without any specific simultaneous articulation, and they are accordingly voiceless.
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/iparecor.txt   (2078 words)

  
 International Phonetic Alphabet Online Research :: Information about International Phonetic Alphabet
In contrast, the old Latin-derived symbols for the clicks have been abandoned in favor of the iconic Khoisan languages symbols, such as ǁ.
Bilabial click Bilabial Voiced bilabial implosive Bilabial ʼ For example:
The miscellaneous portion of the chart, as published by the IPA, includes additional symbols that would have been included in the main consonant chart were it not for difficulties in typesetting on a printed page.
http://www.carolinamaps.net/search/IPA.html   (4521 words)

  
 Silsby Samizdat: Veblenian conspicuousness
I just received my Neuros digital music player.
I call it my !Pod, as in "Not an iPod", but my friends have started referring to it as my iPod-thingy-that-isn't-an-iPod, dorkPod, or (my personal favorite) the [*postalveolar click*]Pod.
http://blogs.space-pirates.org/silsby/archives/000335.html   (141 words)

  
 Voiceless postalveolar affricate - FrathWiki
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The voiceless postalveolar affricate is a quite common sound cross-linguistically.
http://wiki.frath.net/Voiceless_postalveolar_affricate   (71 words)

  
 Lifechanges ... Delayed: Feeling Better
She's also starting to babble more (non-click) consonants, so we could soon be hearing something closer to English (or Spanish, French or Japanese, if the Babbler is doing its job)...
She seems to have the postalveolar click (!) and bilabial click (ʘ) down, but is having trouble with her palatal clicks (ǂ).
Over the past week, she's really kicked up the click consonants.
http://lifechange.blogspot.com/2005/05/feeling-better.html   (384 words)

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