Its manner of articulation is affricate, which means it is produced by first stopping the airflow entirely, then allowing air flow through a constricted channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence.
Occurs in apparently free variation with the uvular ejective affricate[qχʼ], both as a single consonant and as the release of contour clicks and other obstruents, which in some analyses are considered consonant clusters.[1]
Occurs as a single consonant. This lateral affricate is more front than the central affricate release of the consonants /tqχ’/,/tsqχ’/ and analogous clicks, but it behaves as a uvular in that it cannot precede a non-back vowel.[2]
