Note 167 — Chapter IV · PHONOLOGY AND SEMATOLOGY. (continued 2)

See above, p. 243. The compound dental click is produced, according to Wuras, by pressing the air through the upper and lower teeth, which stand slightly apart. Dr. Bleek says that “the Bushman word for ‘to sleep’ seems to be ǀphkoĩnyé, beginning with a combination of dental click, aspirated labial and guttural tenuis in which three letters are sounded together.”