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To: Free ThinkerNY
....this spot lies on the coast of south-west Africa near the Kalahari Desert...

Makes you kinda glad we were kicked out, eh?

2 posted on 05/03/2009 11:48:42 AM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: Islander7
Interesting that the San People are involved in the most ancient lineages.

Regarding the statement that "Clicks are difficult to pronounce fluently and with a single exception no click languages are known outside Africa." ~ clicks really aren't difficult to pronounce ~ there's also a cheek sucking sound that's pretty easy, and one where you do that while opening the mouth.

While in college ages back I had the opportunity to test the various hypotheses regarding these sounds with native speakers of several of these languages who'd come from Angola.

I said the sounds exactly correctly, as I'd done since childhood. In fact, with a little bit of instruction from the Angola guys I was able to merge the "clicks" and "smacks" with other sounds to say words.

I think writers who say such things about "click languages" simply haven't ever tried it themselves.

Actually, it's kind of like we are MADE to make those particular sounds. The only mystery is why such a large part of humanity dropped them!

3 posted on 05/03/2009 11:55:46 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Islander7
Makes you kinda glad we were kicked out, eh?
Yea, but I wish they hadn't left the owner's manual behind!
4 posted on 05/03/2009 11:57:49 AM PDT by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (Inflation is for trying to fix broken bubbles, apparently)
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