| From: | Isaac A. Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 15, 2004, 17:57 |
I. K. Peylough scripsit:> >AFAIK, nobody knows where clicks came from in languages that have them. > >No language with clicks is known to descend from a language without. > > What about Xhosa? Isn't that a Bantu language?AFAIK, Xhosa, Zulu and other Southern Bantu languages borrowed clicks from their Koisan (Bushmen) neighbors. -- Yitzik
| Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |