Tenuis dental click
The voiceless or more precisely tenuis dental click is a click consonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is. The Doke/Beach convention, adopted for a time by the IPA and still preferred by some linguists, is.Features
Features of the tenuis dental click:Occurrence
Tenuis dental clicks are found primarily in the various Khoisan language families of southern Africa and in some neighboring Bantu languages.
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes |
| Zulu | icici | | 'earring' | |
| Hadza | cinambo | | 'firefly' | |
| Khoekhoe | ǀgurub | | 'dry autumn leaves' | |
