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=== Position in word === {{See also|#Phonotactics}} For the most part, the Southern African [[Khoisan languages]] only use [[root word|root]]-initial clicks.<ref group="note">Exceptions occurs in words borrowed from Bantu languages, which may have click in the middle.</ref> Hadza, Sandawe and several [[Bantu languages]] also allow [[syllable]]-initial clicks within roots. In no language does a click close a syllable or end a word, but since the languages of the world that happen to have clicks consist mostly of CV syllables and allow at most only a limited set of consonants (such as a nasal or a glottal stop) to close a syllable or end a word, ''most'' consonants share the distribution of clicks in these languages.
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