Re: THEORY: clicks
From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
Date: | Monday, October 7, 2002, 10:45 |
Eamon Graham scripsit:
> 1. Has anyone ever used clicks in their conlangs?
And Rosta's Livagian, for one.
> 2. I only know of a few African languages that have clicks; are
> there others outside of Africa?
No. Besides the Khoi-San languages of southern Africa, and a few
neighboring Bantu languages that have certainly borrowed clicks from
them (Zulu and Xhosa, e.g.), there remain two or three languages
from further north that may or may not be related to Khoi-San.
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