[ExI] clickety clack, was: SF books taught in college classes

[Anton Sherwood]

Ah, I see I never sent the post that I started to write before looking 
at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_consonant

On 2021-3-04 10:06, Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat wrote:
 > I believe the Khoisan languages have more than one click consonant
 > (I believe it’s two, but I forget).

I think Xhosa has three, written ‹c›, ‹q›, ‹x›.  Each can be voiced 
and/or nasalized, written ‹(n)(g)c›, ‹(n)(g)q›, ‹(n)(g)x›.

In the International Phonetic Alphabet they were formerly written with 
inverted letters (‹ʇ› was one) but these were later replaced with 
characters that look like punctuation :(

 > I’ve heard folks in combat using clicks for communication at night,
 > etc. with metal clickers.

So they're not only for training dogs?  (How does that work anyway?)

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