Editing Palatal click (section)

==Fricated palatal clicks==
{{Infobox IPA|above=Fricated palatal click<br><small>(tenuis)</small>
|ipa symbol=𝼋
|ipa symbol2=ǂᶴ
|ipa symbol3=ǂǂ
|ipa symbol4=ǃ͡s
}}
[[Ekoka ǃKung]] has a series of laminal postalveolar-to-palatal clicks with a noisy, fricated release which derive historically from more prototypical palatal clicks. These have been variously described as fricated alveolar clicks and (inaccurately) as [[retroflex click]]s.<ref>Heine and König (2010)</ref> Unlike typical palatal clicks, which have a sharp, abrupt release, these have a slow, turbulent anterior release that sounds much like a short inhaled {{IPAblink|ʃ}}; they also have a [[Voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant|domed tongue]] rather than a flat tongue like a typical palatal click.{{citation needed|date=October 2015}} The release has also been described as lateral.<ref>Miller (2010) Phonological patterns involving new types of complex and contour segments in endangered Khoesan languages, ''CUNY Conference on the Phonology of Endangered Languages''</ref> Like the clicks they derive from, they do not have the retracted tongue root and [[Click consonant#The back-vowel constraint|back-vowel constraint]] typical of [[alveolar click]]s. A provisional transcription for the tenuis click is {{angbr IPA|ǃ͡s}}, though this misleadingly suggests that the clicks are [[Affricate consonant|affricate]]s.<ref>Miller, Holliday, Howcroft, Phillips, Smith, Tsui, & Scott. 2011. "The Phonetics of the Modern-day reflexes of the Proto-palatal click in Juu languages". In ''A concise dictionary of northwestern ǃXun'' (2008), König & Heine transcribe them {{angbr|‼}}, which is elsewhere used for the [[retroflex click]]s.</ref>  Another proposal is to resurrect the old ʃ-like letter for palatal clicks, {{angbr|𝼋}}.<!--as in section 4.5 of the introduction to Bonny Sands' forthcoming (as of 2019) volume on the phonetics of clicks-->