Lepsius typically characterized ejective consonants as tenuis, as they are completely unaspirated, and wrote them with the Greek " spiritus lenis " ( " p ", " t ", etc . ), which may be the source of the modern convention for ejectives in the IPA . However, when his sources made it clear that there was some activity in the throat, he transcribed them as emphatics.
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These contour clicks may be " linguo-pulmonic ", that is, they may transition from a click ( lingual ) articulation to a normal pulmonic consonant like ( e . g . ); or " linguo-glottalic " and transition from lingual to an ejective consonant like ( e . g . ) : that is, a sequence of ingressive ( lingual ) release + egressive ( pulmonic or glottalic ) release.
