Editing Alveolar click (section)

==Features==
Features of postalveolar clicks:

{{click manner}}
*The forward [[place of articulation]] is [[alveolar consonant|alveolar]] or [[postalveolar consonant|postalveolar]], depending on the language, and [[Apical consonant|apical]], which means it is articulated with the tip of the tongue against the [[alveolar ridge]] or the roof of the mouth behind the alveolar ridge. (Damin contrasted these two articulations as separate [[phoneme]]s.) The release is a sharp, plosive sound in southern Africa, but in Sandawe it may be percussive, with the underside of the tip of the tongue striking the floor of the mouth after the release of the click (see below), and in Hadza the release is often quite weak.
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{{central click}}
{{lingual airstream}}