Editing Click consonant (section)

===Names found in the literature===

The terms for the click types were originally developed by Bleek in 1862.<ref>Wilhelm Bleek (1862) ''A Comparative Grammar of South African Languages'', vol. 1, pp. 12–13</ref> Since then there has been some conflicting variation. However, apart from "cerebral" (retroflex), which was found to be an inaccurate label when true retroflex clicks were discovered, Bleek's terms are still considered normative today. Here are the terms used in some of the main references.

{|class="wikitable"
|+ Names in the literature
! Click type !! Bleek (1862) !! Doke (1926)|| IPA (1928) || Beach (1938) || IPA (1949) || IPA (1989) || Unicode || Miller et al. (2009)<ref>Miller, Brugman, Sands, Namaseb, Exter & Collins (2009) ''Differences in airstream and posterior place of articulation among Nǀuu clicks, ''Journal of the International Phonetic Association'' 39, 129–161.</ref> || Vossen (2013)<ref>[[Rainer Vossen]] (2013) Introduction, ''The Khoesan Languages'', Routledge</ref>|| other
|-
| {{IPA|ǀ}} || dental || dental || dental || dental affricative || dental || dental || dental || denti-pharyngeal || dental || alveolar affricated; denti-alveolar; apico-lamino-dental
|-
| {{IPA|ǃ}} || cerebral || palato-alveolar ||cerebral || alveolar implosive || retroflex || (post-)alveolar || retroflex || central alveo-uvular || alveolar || palatal; palatal retroflex; apico-palatal
|-
| {{IPA|ǁ}} || lateral || lateral || alveolar lateral || lateral affricative || lateral || (alveolar) lateral || lateral || lateral alveo-uvular || lateral-alveolar || post-alveolar lateral; lateral apico-alveo-palatal
|-
| {{IPA|ǂ}} || palatal || alveolar|| velar || denti-alveolar implosive || velar || palatoalveolar || alveolar || palato-pharyngeal || palatal || alveolar instantaneous; dental
|-
| {{IPA|ʘ}} ||  || || ||  ||  || bilabial || bilabial || labio-uvular || bilabial || labial
|}

The dental, lateral and bilabial clicks are rarely confused, but the palatal and alveolar clicks frequently have conflicting names in older literature, and non-standard terminology is fossilized in Unicode. However, since Ladefoged & Traill (1984) clarified the places of articulation, the terms listed under Vosser (2013) in the table above have become standard, apart from such details as whether in a particular language {{IPA|ǃ}} and {{IPA|ǁ}} are alveolar or postalveolar, or whether the rear articulation is velar, uvular or pharyngeal, which again varies between languages (or may even be contrastive within a language).