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A play version of a Chinese nursery rhyme can be said with nasalized click sounds replacing the /n/ and /ng/ sounds at the beginning of each word. It's the only known instance of linguistically functional clicks in an Asian language.
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This page is a summary of: Clicks in a Chinese nursery rhyme, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, December 2001, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0025100301002043.
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