Pulmonic-contour clicks, also called
sequential linguo-pulmonic consonants, are
consonants that transition from a
click to an ordinary
pulmonic sound, or more precisely, have an audible delay between the front and rear release of the click. All click types (
alveolar ,
dental ,
lateral ,
palatal ,
retroflex , and
labial ) have linguo-pulmonic variants, which occur as both stops and affricates, and are attested in four
phonations:
tenuis,
voiced,
aspirated, and murmured (
breathy voiced). At least a voiceless linguo-pulmonic affricate is attested from all
Khoisan languages of southern Africa (the
Khoe,
Tuu, and
Kx'a language families), as well as (reportedly) from the Bantu language
Yeyi from the same area, but they are unattested elsewhere.