Editing Vertical bar (section)

===Phonetics and orthography===
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In the [[Khoisan languages]] and the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]], the vertical bar is used to write the [[dental click]] ({{IPA|ǀ}}). A double vertical bar is used to write the [[alveolar lateral click]] ({{IPA|ǁ}}). Since these are technically letters, they have their own [[Unicode]] code points in the [[Latin Extended-B]] range: {{unichar|01C0}} and {{unichar|01C1}}.

Some [[Northwest Caucasian languages|Northwest]] and [[Northeast Caucasian languages]] written in the [[Cyrillic script]] have a vertical bar called [[palochka]] ({{langx|ru|палочка|translation=little stick}}), indicating the preceding consonant is an [[Ejective consonant|ejective]].

Longer single and double vertical bars are used to mark [[Prosody (linguistics)|prosodic]] boundaries in the IPA.