2016年3月22日 · These famous click sounds are found in Khoisan languages (alternative names include Khoesaan or Khoesan). The name Khoisan is a compound word formed with the native words khoi “person” and san “forager”, meaning ‘persons who forage in the bush” or “bushmen”.

Click consonants, or clicks, are speech sounds that occur as consonants in many languages of Southern Africa and in three languages of East Africa. Examples familiar to English-speakers are the tut-tut (British spelling) or tsk! tsk!

A San man from the Kalahari area of central Namibia, explains the uses they give to a grass, in their khoisan language characterized by the use of click cons...

Khoisan languages are best known for their use of click consonants as phonemes. These are typically written with characters such as ǃ and ǂ. Clicks are quite versatile as consonants, as they involve two articulations of the tongue which can operate partially independently.

Popular tongue clicking languages such as Zulu, Xhosa, and Sotho are the most widely known, especially in South Africa. Yet there are also other languages found in Botswana and Namibia such as Gciriku, Yei, and Mbukushu. The click is even incorporated in …

Click languages, a group of languages found only in Africa in which clicks function as normal consonants. The sole report outside Africa of a language using clicks involves the special case of Damin, a ritual vocabulary of the Lardil of northern Queensland, Australia. While …

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These languages, often found in southern Africa, are notable for their distinctive use of click consonants—sounds produced by creating suction with the tongue and releasing it in various ways. They represent some of the world’s most ancient and complex forms of …

2019年10月23日 · The term Khoisan, alternatively spelled “Khoesan,” is used by contemporary linguists as a convenient blanket term for the non-Bantu and non-Cushitic click-using languages of Africa and does not imply the existence of any familial relationships between the...

2015年1月11日 · Some languages of southern Africa are famous for having them, thanks in part to being featured in such cultural vectors as the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy and Miriam Makeba's song...