How these sounds differ
ɡǁ
Voiced Click Click
- Voicing
- voiced
- Place
- click
- Manner
- click
- Class
- consonant
- In languages
- 1 / 500
kǀ
Voiceless Click Click
- Voicing
- voiceless
- Place
- click
- Manner
- click
- Class
- consonant
- In languages
- 3 / 500
Cross-linguistic distribution
1
Languages with ɡǁ
1
Languages with both
3
Languages with kǀ
1 languages in our database contrast both sounds as distinct phonemes. Languages that have one but not the other tend to merge them into a single phoneme — meaning speakers of those languages often struggle to hear the distinction when learning a language that contrasts them.