𝼋

This letter was created by Douglas Beach by stylizing the Lepsius letter ⟨ǂ⟩ to harmonize with the IPA, and first published in his 1938 book The phonetics of the Hottentot language.

𝼋

1. (para-IPA, largely obsolete) an (oral) palatal click; superseded by ⟨ǂ⟩.
2. (para-IPA) a fricated palatal click.
3. (superscript ⟨𐞿⟩, IPA) [𝼋]-coloring, or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [𝼋]-release.

Linguists who used the old IPA letters ⟨ʇ ʖ ʗ⟩ for click consonants would use ⟨𝼋⟩ for palatal clicks, but that letter was never officially adopted by the IPA. (The old IPA letter intended for palatal clicks, ⟨ʞ⟩, had been misanalyzed as 'velar' and never used.) In recent times the letter has been resurrected for a peculiar set of fricated (ʃ-like) click consonants in Ekoka ǃKung.^[1]

In IPA, a full transcription of a click consonant requires a second letter to specify whether the rear closure is velar or uvular, and whether the click is voiced or nasal:

	Velar	Uvular
Voiceless	k͜𝼋	q͜𝼋
Voiced	ɡ͜𝼋	ɢ͜𝼋
Nasal	ŋ͜𝼋	ɴ͜𝼋

The tie bar may be omitted, and the accompanying letter may be superscripted: ⟨ᵏ𝼋 ᶢ𝼋 ᵑ𝼋 𐞥𝼋 𐞒𝼋 ᶰ𝼋⟩.

If the order is reversed, e.g. ⟨𝼋͜q⟩, that may imply that the velar or uvular release is audible (delayed release).

Beach used simple ⟨𝼋⟩ for the Khoekhoe voiceless oral click [k͜𝼋] and ⟨𝼌⟩ for the voiced nasal click [ŋ͜𝼋].

• Beach, Douglas (1938). The phonetics of the Hottentot language. London: W. Heffer & Sons.