Editing Lateral click (section)

== Features ==
The specific articulation of lateral clicks may vary from language to language, from dental to palatal, apical or laminal, though no contrast between such articulations has been confirmed apart from the [[retroflex click]]s, which may have lateral release.

Features of lateral clicks:
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* The release of the forward [[place of articulation]] is a noisy, [[affricate consonant|affricate]]-like sound in southern Africa, but abrupt in Hadza and Sandawe in East Africa.
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* They are [[lateral consonant]]s, which means they are produced by releasing the airstream at the side of the tongue, rather than in the middle. Some speakers pronounce them on one side of the mouth, some on both.
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Regarding [[Khoekhoe language|Khoekhoe]], Tindall notes that European learners almost invariably pronounce these sounds as simple laterals, by placing the tongue against the side teeth, and that this articulation is "harsh and foreign to the native ear". The Nama instead cover the whole of the palate with the tongue, and produce the sound "as far back in the palate as possible".<ref>Tindal (1858) ''A grammar and vocabulary of the Namaqua-Hottentot language''</ref>