Ejective-contour click

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Ejective-contour clicks, also called sequential linguo-glottalic consonants, are consonants that transition from a click to an ejective sound, or more precisely, have an audible delay between the front and rear release of the click. All click types (alveolar ǃ, dental ǀ, lateral ǁ, palatal ǂ, retroflex , and labial ʘ) have linguo-glottalic variants, which occur as both stops and affricates, and may be voiced. At least a voiceless linguo-glottalic affricate is attested from all Khoisan languages of southern Africa (the Khoe, Tuu, and Kx'a language families), as well as from the Bantu language Yeyi from the same area, but they are unattested elsewhere.

Alveolar linguo-glottalic stop
ǃ͡qʼ
Voiced dental linguo-glottalic stop
ᶢǀ͡qʼ
Lateral linguo-glottalic affricate (homorganic)
ǁ͡χʼ
Palatal linguo-glottalic affricate (heterorganic)
ǂ͡kxʼ
ǂ͡𝼄ʼ
ǂᵸ
Voiced labial linguo-glottalic affricate
ᶢʘ͡kxʼ
ᶢʘˤ