Palatal Clicks - Domed Palatal Clicks

Domed Palatal Clicks

Ekoka !Xung has a series of domed postalveolar-to-palatal clicks with a noisy, fricated release which derive historically from more prototypical palatal clicks. Unlike regular alveolar or palatal clicks, which have a sharp, abrupt release, these have a slow, turbulent anterior release that sounds much like a short inhaled ; they also have a domed tongue rather than a flat tongue like a typical palatal click or a concave tongue like a typical alveolar click. Like the palatal clicks they derive from, they do not have the retracted tongue root and back-vowel constraint typical of alveolar clicks. A provisional transcription for the tenuis click is: ⟨ǃ͡s⟩, though this misleadingly suggests that they are affricates.