Danny Wier, replying to Christophe:
>| I wish I could hear some of this language one day. I think at the Cité de
la
>| Science, in Paris, there is a whole part about language where you can
listen
>to
>| samples of a lot of languages, and this language was part of them (IIRC)
as an
>| example of a language with clicks. Unfortunately, the loudspeaker that
was
>| supposed to give those samples seemed to be broken :((( . I wonder how
you can
>| actually put clicks in words...
>
>Only Khoisan language I've ever heard was from the movie _The Gods Must Be
>Crazy_ (I think it was Nama). !Xou or !Xu -- I really thing they're
different
>spellings of the same thing -- doesn't just have clicks. It has aspirated
>clicks, affricate clicks, prenasal clicks, sibilantized clicks, glottalized
>clicks, voiced clicks, labialized clicks...
>
And perhaps more available than archives (with faulty speakers) at the Cité
de la Science-- recordings made by Miriam Makeba, a South African popular in
the 60s and 70s, maybe later. These generally included songs in a click
language. Quite astonishing to hear.
Roger