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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Sounds like you’re thinking of the Xhosa language of South Africa, Lesotho and Zimbabwe.


47 posted on 05/04/2025 3:14:33 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Not until you brought it up. I wasn’t the one who mentioned clicks and buzzes.


52 posted on 05/04/2025 3:18:04 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Olog-hai

The click sounds are in the so-called Khoisan languages of southern Africa (spoken by the people formerly called Bushmen and by the people formerly called Hottentots). Some of the Bantu languages may have picked up some of the sounds.


72 posted on 05/04/2025 4:04:59 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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