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Which African tribe is famous for the clicking sounds which are a part of their language?
These clicking sounds are pften heard in Miriam Makeba's music ; e.g Baxabene Oxamu, The Click Song, etc. These clicking sounds are colourful, melodic and beautiful to my ears. Maybe it is because I love un-usual forms of music.I am interested in finding out what others think of these clicking sounds, [ part of a language] .Also, it is almost impossible for non- Africans to make these clicking sounds.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
the language is Xhosa. The [xh] sound is a deep, back-of-throat click. They have several click sounds, depending on the word.
I think that the bushmen tribes (San, or Khoi-san, or Khoi-Khoi) also had implosive sounds.
Of course it's not impossible for non-africans to make these sounds! How do you think that people in South Africa who are non-tribal learn to speak Xhosa?
It's just a sound within a language. English uses explosive sounds (p, t,), and this language uses implosive sounds.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
Should this not have been put in the language section?
- TRACER ™Lv 61 decade ago
I know Dorothy likes to click here heels but she's not African, I don't think so, well maybe South African
- Anonymous1 decade ago
xhosa tribe. pronounced (click)closa
- Anonymous1 decade ago
african bushmen
