Other .22click languages.22 Khoisan languages



not languages using clicks phonemes considered khoisan. others neighboring bantu languages in southern africa: nguni languages (xhosa, zulu, swazi, phuthi, , northern ndebele); sotho; yeyi in botswana; , mbukushu, kwangali, , gciriku in caprivi strip. clicks spreading few additional neighboring languages. of these languages, xhosa, zulu, ndebele , yeyi have intricate systems of click consonants; others, despite click in name gciriku, more rudimentary ones. there south cushitic language dahalo in kenya, has dental clicks in few score words, , extinct , presumably artificial australian ritual language called damin, had nasal clicks.


the bantu languages adopted use of clicks neighboring, displaced, or absorbed khoisan populations (or other bantu languages), through intermarriage, while dahalo thought have retained clicks earlier language when shifted speaking cushitic language; if so, pre-dahalo language may have been hadza or sandawe. damin invented ritual language, , has nothing khoisan.


these languages known have clicks in normal vocabulary. other languages said have click sounds. misnomer ejective consonants, found across of world, or reference paralinguistic use of clicks such english tsk! tsk!







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