Lateral clicks

A lateral alveolar click, German colloquially Reiterschnalzer or Kutscherschnalzer is a clicking sound ( Schnalzlaut ), in which the tongue sides (hence lateral) brought to the back teeth ( alveolar ) and then pulled away quickly. Like all clicks he is one of the consonants.

  • In the languages ​​isiXhosa isiZulu and the voiceless alveolar lateral click by the letter "x", the fricative by clicking " gx " the aspirated click through " xh " and the nasalized click through " nx " is played.

Phonetic notation:

  • In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA ) is the alveolar lateral click with the character vertical double line, Eng. double pipe, records, and has the IPA number 180 This can be on a computer with two pipe character " | is written ," Unicode he has a glyph » ǁ « LATIN LETTER LATERAL CLICK, with the code point U 01 C1 in Unicode block Latin Extended -B
  • X - SAMPA listed »| \ | \ " ( suitable for 7- bit ASCII code under SAMPA there are no characters )
  • Kirshenbaum listed " l! "

Except Linguistically this Schnalzer is used in Europe by coachmen and riders, and serves to make the horse carefully - as with all clicking sounds most animals respond to this phoneme to.

X-SAMPA Alveolar consonant Xhosa language Zulu language Fricative consonant Aspirated consonant Nasal consonant Dental clicks PostScript Place of articulation Labial consonant Bilabial consonant Labiodental consonant Dental consonant Retroflex consonant Palatal consonant Velar consonant Uvular consonant Pharyngeal consonant Glottal consonant Manner of articulation Flap consonant Approximant consonant Implosive consonant Ejective consonant
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