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.
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OTOH, I've never even tried to pronounce the Kalahari bushmen click language, so it's a moot point .-- [ pleasantries ] 20 : 24, 4 December 2014 ( UTC)
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Dr . Anthony Traill, a click language expert at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, said that linguistically the languages fell into three separate groups whose relationship, aside from the clicks, was hard to establish.
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It has not been demonstrated that the Nilo-Saharan languages constitute a valid genetic grouping, and linguists have generally seen the phylum as " Greenberg's wastebasket ", into which he placed all the otherwise unaffiliated non-click languages of Africa.
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In its relatively southern origin proposals, this autosomal study was considered by the authors to be broadly consistent with previous mitochondrial DNA studies, including one by some of the same authors who associated the origins of mitochondrial haplogroups L0 and L1 with " click languages " in southern and eastern Africa.
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Westphal was Professor of African Languages in the School of African studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, from 1962 until his retirement in 1984, and recognized as the world's leading authority on the click languages of the San, the Khoisan languages, in many of which he was almost supernaturally fluent.
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In isiZulu, the consonant " c " actually stands for this sound, and is found syllable initially . ( That is, it does not stand alone in normal words, but precedes a vowel, which does not occur in non-click languages ) The elegant guide to talk ) 01 : 07, 15 July 2016 ( UTC)
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Short, saffron-colored, and in other respects physically unlike the Nganguela, Ovambo, and Nyaneka-Humbe, they spoke a language of the ! Xu-Angola or Maligo set of tongues referred to as Khoisan or Click languages ( the exclamation point denotes a specific kind of click ), whose precise relations to each other are not yet fully understood by observers.
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In a 1955 article, he described these as Afro-Asiatic, which includes the Semitic languages of Arabic and Hebrew, as well as ancient Egyptian, and is spread across Northern Africa; Nilo-Saharan, a group of languages spoken in Central Africa and Sudan; Khoisan, which includes the click languages of the south; and Niger-Kordofanian, a superfamily that includes everything in between, including the pervasive Bantu languages.
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"Click Language " ( 2004 ) continued Spicer's African themes and uses sampled words from southern African click languages such as Xhosa ( see Xhosa language ), Zulu ( see Zulu language ) and Khoisan languages as a sound patina for four percussionists, comprising vibraphone, marimba, waterphone and other hand-held instruments . " Baobab " ( 2003 ) employs polyrhythms inspired by southern African drumming and features the vibraphone and marimba.
