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English does use clicks, as paralinguistic sounds. The first paragraph of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_consonant has a couple of examples.


But English clicks are not phonemic consonants in the same way they are in Xhosa and Khoekhoe — that is, clicks are not part of words in English, whereas they are in those languages. (Even the language name Xhosa begins with a click.)




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