Back-released velar click | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-11-04

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Back-released velar click

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A velar click, or more precisely a back-released velar click, is any of a family of click consonants found in paralinguistic use in several languages of Africa such as Wolof. The tongue is in a similar position to other click articulations, such as an alveolar click, and like other clicks, the airstream mechanism is lingual.  However, unlike other clicks, the salient sound is produced by releasing the rear (probably velar) closure of the tongue rather than the front closure.  Consequently, the air that fills the vacuum comes from behind the tongue, from the nasal cavity or the throat.