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gfaure
on Aug 24, 2021
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More than eighty cultures still speak in whistles
English does use clicks, as paralinguistic sounds. The first paragraph of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_consonant
has a couple of examples.
bradrn
on Aug 25, 2021
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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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