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English does use clicks, as paralinguistic sounds. The first paragraph of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_consonant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_cons
by gfaure 5y ago
English does use clicks, as paralinguistic sounds. The first paragraph of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_consonant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_consonant has a couple of examples.
- bradrn 5y agoBut English clicks are not phonemic consonants in the same way they are in Xhosa and Khoekhoe — that is, clicks are not part of words in English, whereas they are in those languages. (Even the language name Xhosa begins with a click.)