Tenuis palatal click
The voiceless or more precisely tenuis palatal click is a click consonant found primarily among the languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet for a tenuis palatal click with a velar rear articulation is  or , commonly abbreviated to ,  or simply . Linguists who prefer the old IPA letters use the analogous Beach convention of  or , abbreviated ,  or just . For a click with a uvular rear articulation, the equivalents are  and . Sometimes the accompanying letter comes after the click letter, e.g. or ; this may be a simple orthographic choice, or may imply a difference in the relative timing of the releases. Features
Features of the tenuis palatal click:

Occurrence
Tenuis palatal clicks are only found in the various Khoisan language families of southern Africa and in the neighboring Yeyi language. References

Click consonants
Palatal consonants
Oral consonants
Central consonants
Tenuis consonants