Editing Sandawe language (section)

====Clicks====
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! [[Laminal consonant|Laminal]]<br />[[Denti-alveolar consonant|Denti-alveolar]]
![[Apical consonant|Apical]]<br />[[Postalveolar consonant|postalveolar]]
! [[Lateral consonant|Lateral]]<br />[[Palatal consonant|palatal]]
|-
! [[nasal click|Nasal]]
| {{IPA link|ŋǀ}} {{angbr|nc}}
|{{IPA link|ŋǃ}} {{angbr|nq}}
| {{IPA link|ŋǁ}} {{angbr|nx}}
|-
! [[Voice (phonetics)|Voiced]]
| {{IPA link|ɡǀ}} {{angbr|gc}}
|{{IPA link|ɡǃ}} {{angbr|gq}}
| {{IPA link|ɡǁ}} {{angbr|gx}}
|-
! [[Tenuis consonant|Tenuis]]
| {{IPA link|kǀ}} {{angbr|c}}
|{{IPA link|kǃ}} {{angbr|q}}
| {{IPA link|kǁ}} {{angbr|x}}
|-
! [[Aspirated consonant|Aspirated]]
| {{IPA link|kǀʰ}} {{angbr|ch}}
|{{IPA link|kǃʰ}} {{angbr|qh}}
| {{IPA link|kǁʰ}} {{angbr|xh}}
|-
! [[glottalized click|Glottalised]]
| {{IPA link|ᵑǀˀ}} {{angbr|cʼ}}
|{{IPA link|ᵑǃˀ}} {{angbr|qʼ}}
| {{IPA link|ᵑǁˀ}} {{angbr|xʼ}}
|}

The clicks in Sandawe are not particularly loud, when compared to better known click languages in southern Africa. The lateral click {{IPAblink|kǁ}} can be confused with the [[palatal lateral ejective affricate]] {{IPAblink|c𝼆ʼ}} even by native speakers. With the [[alveolar click|postalveolar clicks]], the tongue often slaps the bottom of the mouth, and this slap may be louder than the actual release of the click. Wright et al. transcribe this [[slapped click]] with sublingual percussive with the [[extended-IPA]] symbol {{angbr IPA|ǃ¡}}. The voiced clicks are uncommon, being found in a few words such as {{lang|sad|gqokomi}} 'greater kudu' and {{lang|sad|gcingco}} (sp. bird). Labialized clicks are found in word-initial position.

The glottalized click phonation is something like [[creaky voice]], not an [[ejective]]. In initial position, the [[glottis]] is closed during the entire occlusion of the click, and not opened until after the release burst. In medial position, the glottis is closed after the velar closure {{IPA|[ŋ]}} and before the forward closure, but opened ''before'' the click release. Such clicks are not nasalized all the way through; in some tokens they are simply prenasalized glottalized clicks, {{IPA|[ŋkǃˀ]}}, bearing in mind that the superscript {{angbr IPA|ˀ}} implies [[co-articulated consonant|coarticulation]] (that is, that it is pronounced together with the {{IPA|[k]}}, not after).

The practical orthography is based on [[Xhosa language|Xhosa]] and [[Zulu language|Zulu]].