Consonantal sound
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 nowrap>⟨IPA>ǀ⟩.
The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet for a tenuis dental click with a velar rear articulation is nowrap>⟨IPA>k͡ǀ⟩ or nowrap>⟨IPA>k͜ǀ⟩, commonly abbreviated to nowrap>⟨IPA>kǀ⟩, nowrap>⟨IPA>ᵏǀ⟩ or simply nowrap>⟨IPA>ǀ⟩; a symbol abandoned by the IPA but still preferred by some linguists is nowrap>⟨IPA>k͡ʇ⟩ or nowrap>⟨IPA>k͜ʇ⟩, abbreviated nowrap>⟨IPA>kʇ⟩, nowrap>⟨IPA>ᵏʇ⟩ or just nowrap>⟨IPA>ʇ⟩.
For a click with a uvular rear articulation, the equivalents are nowrap>⟨IPA>q͡ǀ, q͜ǀ, qǀ, ????ǀ⟩ and nowrap>⟨IPA>q͡ʇ, q͜ʇ, qʇ, ????ʇ⟩.
Sometimes the accompanying letter comes after the click letter, e.g. nowrap>⟨IPA>ǀk⟩ or nowrap>⟨IPA>ǀᵏ⟩; this may be a simple orthographic choice, or it may imply a difference in the relative timing of the releases.
Consonantal sounds
The voiceless alveolar, dental and postalveolar plosives are types of consonantal sounds used in almost all spoken languages.
The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless dental, alveolar, and postalveolar plosives is nowrap>⟨IPA>t⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is t.
The voiceless dental plosive can be distinguished with the underbridge diacritic, nowrap>⟨IPA>t̪⟩ and the postalveolar with a retraction line, nowrap>⟨IPA>t̠⟩, and the Extensions to the IPA have a double underline diacritic which can be used to explicitly specify an alveolar pronunciation, nowrap>⟨IPA>t͇⟩.
