| 1. | There are reasons to assume that the click languages may be very old.
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| 2. | They are the click languages of southern Africa.
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| 3. | Many click languages have tenuis click consonants alongside voiced, aspirated and glottalized series.
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| 4. | But some linguists who study the click languages of southern Africa feel they are very ancient.
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| 5. | The clicks in Sandawe are not particularly loud, when compared to better known click languages in southern Africa.
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| 6. | Nonetheless, the term " Khoisan " has been retained as an umbrella term for click languages in general.
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| 7. | She acts as narrator throughout the story, at one point speaking to the audience in a click language for comic effect.
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| 8. | "' Kwadi "'was a " click language " of uncertain classification once spoken in the southwest corner of Angola.
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| 9. | Likewise, learning a " click language " ( i . e . in the Khoisan family of language ) would also be difficult.
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| 10. | "' Sandawe "'is a click language spoken by about 60, 000 Sandawe people in the Dodoma region of Tanzania.
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