Occurrence
English does not have an alveolar click (or any click consonant, for that matter) as a phoneme, but a plain alveolar click does occur in mimesis, as a sound children use to imitate a horse trotting.
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ǃKung | n!an | = | 'inside' | ||
| Hadza | laqo | = | 'to trip' | ||
| keqhena | = | 'to be slow' | |||
| henqee | = | 'dead leopard' | |||
| teqqe | = | 'to carry' | |||
| Sesotho | ho qoqa | = | 'to examine' | Contrasts with murmured, aspirated, and nasal alveolar clicks. See Sesotho phonology | |
| Xhosa | iqanda | = | 'egg' | Contrasts with murmured, aspirated, and nasal alveolar clicks. | |
| !Xóõ | !qhàà | = | 'water' | an aspirated linguo-pulmonic stop | |
| Zulu | iqaqa | = | 'polecat' | Contrasts with murmured, aspirated, and nasal alveolar clicks. | |
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