With so few click languages, and so little study of them, it is also unclear to what extent clicks in different languages are equivalent.
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Joseph Greenberg of Stanford University, the great classifier of the world's languages, put all the click languages in a group he called Khoisan.
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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.
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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.
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But Knight said the estimqt % ( was very approximate and added that he believed the new findings about click language were fully compatible with Klein's theory.
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In Little Namaqualand the natives understood Dutch ( rather Afrikaans ) or English; but in Great Namaqualand, besides German, the extremely difficult click language of the Hottentots had to be mastered.
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This belief is supported by genetic evidence showing that the Khoisan peoples, the principal speakers of click languages, belong to the most ancient of all the human lineages, based on mitochondrial DNA.
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The signature, a pattern of genetic changes on the male or Y chromosome, is apparent in some present-day Ethiopians and in the Khoisan, click language speakers who now live in South Africa.
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Unless each group independently invented click languages at some later time, that finding implies that click languages were spoken by the very ancient population from which the Hadzabe and the Ju ( BAR )'hoansi descended.