Editing Lateral click (section)

== Occurrence ==

[[English language|English]] does not have a lateral click (or any click consonant, for that matter) as a phoneme, but an unreleased<ref>In the English sound, the velar closure is not released, unlike the released sounds found in languages that combine clicks with vowels.</ref> lateral click does occur as an [[interjection]], usually written ''tchick!'' or ''tchek!'' (and often [[Reduplication|reduplicated]] ''tchick-tchick!''), used to urge a horse to move. A form of click can also be heard by some English speakers when [[wikt:scoff|scoffing]], but this is generally a [[dental click]] rather than a lateral click.

{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="2"|Language !! Word !! [[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]]!! Meaning !! Notes
|-
| colspan="2" | [[ǃKung language|ǃKung]] || '''''nǁ'''an'' || align="center" | {{IPA|[ᵑǁàŋ] {{=}} [ʖ̃àŋ]}}|| '[[marama bean]]'||
|-
| colspan="2" rowspan="4" | [[Hadza language|Hadza]]
| {{lang|hts|e'''x'''ekeke}} || align="center" | {{IPA|[ʔeᵏǁekeke] {{=}} [ʔeʖ̥ekeke]}}||'to listen'||
|-
| {{lang|hts|na'''xh'''i}} || align="center" | {{IPA|[naᵏǁʰi] {{=}} [naʖ̥ʰi]}}||'to crowd'||
|-
| {{lang|hts|ko'''nx'''a}} || align="center" | {{IPA|[koᵑǁa] {{=}} [koʖ̃a]}}||'to be a pair'||
|-
| {{lang|hts|sla'''xx'''a}} || align="center" | {{IPA|[ɬaᵑǁˀa] {{=}} [ɬaʖ̃ˀa]}}||'a split, fork'||
|-
| colspan="2" | [[Xhosa language|Xhosa]] || {{lang|xh|isi'''Xh'''osa}} || align="center" | {{IPA|[isiᵏǁʰosa] {{=}} [isiʖ̥ʰosa]}}|| 'Xhosa language'|| Contrasts tenuis, [[breathy voice|murmured]],  [[Aspiration (phonetics)|aspirated]], and [[nasal click|nasal]] lateral clicks.
|-
| colspan="2" | [[!Xóõ language|!Xóõ]] || {{lang|nmn|'''ǁn'''áã}} || align="center" | {{IPA|[ᵑǁɑ́ɑ̃] {{=}} [ʖ̃ɑ́ɑ̃]}}|| '[[grewia]] berry' ||
|-
| colspan="2" | [[Zulu language|Zulu]] || {{lang|zu|'''x'''o'''x'''a}} || align="center" | {{IPA|[ᵏǁɔ́ːᵏǁa] {{=}} [ʖ̥ɔ́ːʖ̥a]}}|| 'to converse' ||
|}