Occurrence
English does not have a lateral click (or any click consonant, for that matter) as a phoneme, but a plain alveolar lateral click does occur as an interjection, usually written tchick! or tchek! (and often reduplicated tchick-tchick!), used to urge a horse to move.
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ǃKung | nǁan | = | 'marama bean' | ||
| Hadza | exekeke | = | 'to listen' | ||
| naxhi | = | 'to crowd' | |||
| konxa | = | 'to be a pair' | |||
| slaxxa | = | 'a split, fork' | |||
| Xhosa | isiXhosa | = | 'Xhosa language' | Contrasts tenuis, murmured, aspirated, and nasal lateral clicks. | |
| !Xóõ | ǁnáã | = | 'grewia berry' | ||
| Zulu | xoxa | = | 'to converse' | ||
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