click language

There are reasons to assume that the click languages may be very old.

They speak a clicking language, of which there are 67 dialects.

But some linguists who study the click languages of southern Africa feel they are very ancient.

He spoke slowly, awkwardly, in their strange click language.

They are the click languages of southern Africa.

Then the female started to speak - in their whistling, clicking language - and the crowd stopped even snickering.

Most of their communications are hormonal, though they also have a click language several orders more complex than dolphin speech.

Meet the San Bushmen and try to pick up their distinct 'clicking language'.

Damin is the only click language outside Africa.

Since both of these very ancient populations speak click languages, clicks may have been used in the language of the ancestral human population.

Xabbu repeated the words, this time in his own clicking language, he made the small upper figure vibrate again.

It paused at the side of the one who confronted Keyoke, and shouted what might have been a command in a high-pitched clicking language.

With so few click languages, and so little study of them, it is also unclear to what extent clicks in different languages are equivalent.

Other "click languages"

The clicks in Sandawe are not particularly loud, when compared to better known click languages in southern Africa.

"The Click Languages of Southern and Eastern Africa."

Australia, where the Damin click language used to be spoken, is one of the first places outside Africa known to have been reached by modern humans.

The Khoisan click languages of Africa do not form a language family and so do not, as a family, have a homeland.

Spend a night listening to the songs and stories of the San Bushmen and attempt to pick up a few words of their local 'clicking language'.

Sandawe is a click language spoken by about 60,000 Sandawe people in the Dodoma region of Tanzania.

Joseph Greenberg of Stanford University, the great classifier of the world's languages, put all the click languages in a group he called Khoisan.

'The East African Click Languages: A Phonetic Comparison'.

Dr. Anthony Traill, an expert on click languages at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, said he did not find the hunting idea very plausible.

But Dr. Knight said the estimate was very approximate and added that he believed the new findings about click language were fully compatible with Dr. Klein's theory.