Re: CHAT: Rare Phonetics

Roger Mills wrote:

> >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.
Yes, indeed.  Makeba's songs are in Xhosa, though (and possibly also in Zulu),
rather than Khoisan.  But still, probably the easiest way to hear clicks in
their natural habitat.

Matt.