Editing Click consonant (section)

===Spread of clicks from loanwords===
Once clicks are borrowed into a language as regular speech sounds, they may spread to native words, as has happened due to ''[[hlonipa]]'' word-taboo in the [[Nguni languages]]. In [[Gciriku language|Gciriku]], for example, the European loanword ''tomate'' (tomato) appears as ''cumáte'' with a click {{IPA|[ǀ]}}, though it begins with a ''t'' in all neighbouring languages. It has also been argued that click phonemes have been adopted into some languages through the process of [[Avoidance speech|''hlonipha'']], women refraining from saying certain words and sounds that were similar to the name of their husband, sometimes replacing local sounds by borrowing clicks from a nearby language.<ref>Gunnink, Hilde. "The adoption and proliferation of clicks in Bantu languages: the role of ''hlonipha'' revisited." ''South African Journal of African Languages'' 43, no. 3 (2023): 216–225.</ref>