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The last mention of the "velar" clicks was in the 1949 ''Principles''. It was omitted when the other three click letters were moved into the symbol chart in 1951, and was not mentioned again.

An actual velar click, in the sense that term is used with the languages of southern Africa, is not possible. A click is articulated with two closures of the tongue or lips. The rear articulation of all clicks is velar or uvular, and the families of dental, alveolar, palatal, and bilabial clicks are defined by the front closure, which is released to cause the influx of air from the front of the mouth that identifies athe type of click. A forward closure in the velar region would leave no room for the air pocket that generates that influx of air.<ref>Pullum & Ladusaw (2013) ''[[Phonetic Symbol Guide]]'', University of Chicago Press, p. 101.</ref>

From 2008 to 2015 the unused letter was picked up by the [[extensions to the IPA]] to mark a [[velodorsal]] articulation in [[speech pathology]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/ipa/extIPAChart2008.pdf |title=extIPA Symbols for Disordered Speech |website=www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140722085129/http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/ipa/extIPAChart2008.pdf |archive-date=22 July 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>