Linguists who used the old IPA letters ⟨ʇʖʗ⟩ 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.
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].
