Asked by Anonymous

i live in a part of south africa where isiXhosa is the primary language spoken and its the worst because you cant whisper in class because the clicks are so loud the teacher WILL hear you

jabalinya-deactivated20230507:

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max1461:

Oh shit I’d never thought about this. But yeah, it makes sense. Clicks are so sonorous.

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Gonna add this here because relevancy.

(Lowkey this is a working theory towards the origin of the phonemes)

Here’s the source: Güldemann (2007)

Word of caution this guy has weird big picture ideas of languages in Africa, so you know, read critically.

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