Editing Palatal click (section)

== Palatal click consonants and their transcription ==

In official IPA transcription, the click letter is combined with a {{angbr IPA|k ɡ ŋ q ɢ ɴ}} via a tie bar, though {{angbr IPA|k}} is frequently omitted. Many authors instead use a superscript {{angbr IPA|k ɡ ŋ q ɢ ɴ}} without the tie bar, again often neglecting the {{angbr IPA|k}}. Either letter, whether baseline or superscript, is usually placed before the click letter, but may come after when the release of the velar or uvular occlusion is audible. A third convention is the click letter with diacritics for voicelessness, voicing and nasalization; this does not distinguish velar from uvular palatal clicks. Common palatal clicks in these three transcriptions are:

{| class="wikitable"
! Trans. I !! Trans. II !! Trans. III !! Description 
|-
! colspan=4| (velar)
|-
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|k͜ǂ}} 
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|ᵏǂ}} 
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|ǂ}} 
| ''[[tenuis palatal click]]''
|-
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|k͜ǂʰ}} 
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|ᵏǂʰ}} 
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|ǂʰ}} 
| ''[[aspirated consonant|aspirated]] palatal click''
|-
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|ɡ͜ǂ}} 
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|ᶢǂ}} 
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|ǂ̬}} 
| ''[[voiced palatal click]]''
|-
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|ŋ͜ǂ}} 
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|ᵑǂ}} 
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|ǂ̬̃}} 
| ''[[palatal nasal click]]''
|-
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|ŋ͜ǂ̥ʰʰ}} 
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|ᵑǂ̥ʰʰ}} 
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|ǂ̥̃ʰʰ}} 
| ''[[aspirated palatal nasal click]]''
|-
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|ŋ͜ǂˀ}} 
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|ᵑǂˀ}}
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|ǂ̃ˀ}} 
| ''[[glottalized palatal nasal click]]''
|-
! colspan=4| (uvular)
|-
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|q͜ǂ}} 
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|&#x107a5;ǂ}} 
|  
| ''[[tenuis palatal click]]''
|-
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|q͜ǂʰ}} 
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|&#x107a5;ǂʰ}} 
| 
| ''[[aspirated palatal click]]''
|-
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|ɢ͜ǂ}} 
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|&#x10792;ǂ}} 
| 
| ''[[voiced palatal click]]''
|-
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|ɴ͜ǂ}} 
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|ᶰǂ}} 
| 
| ''[[palatal nasal click]]''
|-
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|ɴ͜ǂ̥ʰʰ}} 
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|ᶰǂ̥ʰʰ}} 
| 
| ''[[aspirated palatal nasal click]]''
|-
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|ɴ͜ǂˀ}} 
| style="font-size:24px" align="center"|{{angbr IPA|ᶰǂˀ}}
| 
| ''[[glottalized palatal nasal click]]''
|}

In the orthographies of individual languages, palatal clicks may be written either with digraphs based on the vertical-bar letter of the IPA, or using the Latin alphabet. [[Khoekhoe language|Khoekhoee]] and most [[Bushman]] languages use the former. Orthographies using the latter include multigraphs based on {{angbr|ç}} in [[Juǀʼhoan dialect|Juǀʼhoansi]] (1987 orthography) and originally in [[Naro language|Naro]], the latter since changed to {{angbr|tc}}, and on {{angbr|qc}}. In the 19th century, {{angbr|v}} was sometimes used (see [[click letter]]s); this might be the source of the Doke letter for the voiceless palatal click, {{angbr|ↆ}}, apparently a ''v'' over-struck with a vertical bar.