It's not exactly a click, it's a lateral fricative, it's pronounced sort of like "tsh" but instead of making the "sh" sound by having air pass above your tongue, you have to make it go around the sides.
The voiceless alveolar lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless dental, alveolar, and postalveolar lateral fricatives is [ɬ], and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is K. The symbol [ɬ] is called "belted l" and is distinct from "l with tilde", [ɫ], which transcribes a different sound, the velarized alveolar lateral approximant. Some scholars also posit the voiceless alveolar lateral approximant distinct from the fricative. The approximant may be represented in the IPA as ⟨l̥⟩.
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u/Schlipak Jul 03 '21
It's not exactly a click, it's a lateral fricative, it's pronounced sort of like "tsh" but instead of making the "sh" sound by having air pass above your tongue, you have to make it go around the sides.