Re: THEORY: clicks

And Rosta scripsit:

> Like Christophe, I do find it surprising that clicks get borrowed.
> Wouldn't you be surprised if Afrikaans started borrowing clicks?
Well, in another timeline where the Bantu did not reach the southern end
of Africa, I might expect a clicky Afrikaans, if A. had borrowed from the
Khoi-San languages as *here* it has borrowed from the Bantu languages.
A. is a little bit creolized, after all, compared to its ancestral Dutch.

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