Clicks are speech sounds that occur as consonants in many languages of southern Africa, and in three languages of East Africa. Examples of these sounds familiar to English speakers are the tsk! tsk! (American spelling) or tut-tut (British spelling) used to express disapproval or pity, the tchick! used to spur on a horse, and the clip-clop! sound children make with their tongue to imitate a horse trotting.
Technically, clicks are obstruents articulated with two closures (points of contact) in the mouth, one forward and one at the back. The enclosed pocket of air is rarefied by a sucking action of the tongue (in technical terminology, clicks have a lingual ingressive airstream mechanism). The forward closure is then released, producing what may be the loudest consonants in the language, although in some languages such as Hadza and Sandawe, clicks can be more subtle and may even be mistaken for ejectives.
What clicks sound like
Click consonants occur at five principal places of articulation. IPA represents a click by placing the assigned symbol for the place of click articulation adjacent to a symbol for a non-click sound at the rear place of articulation. The IPA symbols are used in writing most Khoisan languages, but Bantu languages such as Zulu typically use Latin ⟨c⟩, ⟨x⟩ and ⟨q⟩ for dental, lateral, and alveolar clicks respectively.
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Topics discussed: what click consonants are, how to pronounce the 5 principal clicks, where clicks come from, who speaks click languages, why clicks arose in human language, how clicks spread, hlonipha, click loss and Damin!
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LINKS AND FURTHER READING:
Miriam Makeba's Click Song: https://goo.gl/0e8I4j
Click Consonants: https://goo.gl/7WJXlx
World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS): http://goo.gl/F8GCH4
Khoisan Langauges: https://goo.gl/WpWYaz
Bantu Languages: https://goo....
published: 27 Jul 2015
South African Native Clicking Language
From tour guide in historical South African native village
published: 31 Jul 2021
Incredible Zulu click language - The ultimate tongue twister.
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Many of the languages spoken by the Nguni people of southern Africa as well as the San people have a range of click sounds.
In this video, Sakhile Dube from St Lucia in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, demonstrates how these click sounds are pronounced in the Zulu language.
He has an epic voice :)
Check out our other videos with Sakhile here:
iSimangaliso Wetland Park: Southern Ecosystems with Sakhile Dube: https://youtu.be/v-w3ElPJA4c
Sakhile Dube explains Zulu culture: Ancestors: https://youtu.be/3Eqrh_kLhHM
Wanna hear Sakhile live: Get on one of his guided walking safaris with https://www.safa...
published: 11 Jan 2020
Click consonants and an African click language demonstrated by Sibs
Sibs was one of our guides in Zimbabwe who had all kinds of knowledge about language, animal tracking, and life in the bush. In this video he's demonstrating different aspects of an African click language he grew up with.
Technically, clicks are obstruents articulated with two closures (points of contact) in the mouth, one forward and one at the back. The pocket of air enclosed between is rarefied by a sucking action of the tongue (i.e. clicks have a lingual ingressive airstream mechanism). The forward closure is then released, producing what may be the loudest consonants in the language, although in some languages such as Hadza and Sandawe, clicks can be more subtle and may even be mistaken for ejective stops.
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published: 14 May 2012
IPA Chart: velaric ingressive consonants (clicks)
Jane performs the clicks from the International Phonetic Alphabet. Thanks to Matthew Moreland for the subtitles.
published: 20 Jan 2020
Xhosa Lesson 2. How to say "click" sounds.
Xhosa lesson. This video demonstrates how some of the most difficult Xhosa letters are pronounced.
published: 11 Jan 2009
Clicks
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Trevor Noah's click-singing - QI: Series K Episode 6 Preview - BBC Two
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published: 07 Oct 2013
Clicking in Languages?
Let's take a look at some click consonants that appear in languages. These are some of the rarest sounds that can be found around the world!
published: 30 Jul 2024
Miriam Makeba - Qongqothwane (The Click Song) (Live, 1963)
Miriam Makeba performs Qongqothwane (The Click Song) live on Ce soir à Cannes, May 18, 1963.
Here is a link to an English translation of the lyrics, since several people have commented asking for one: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/qongqthwane-click-song-knock-knock-beetle.html.
Artifexian on non-pulmonic consonants aka click consonants.
Topics discussed: what click consonants are, how to pronounce the 5 principal clicks, where clicks c...
Artifexian on non-pulmonic consonants aka click consonants.
Topics discussed: what click consonants are, how to pronounce the 5 principal clicks, where clicks come from, who speaks click languages, why clicks arose in human language, how clicks spread, hlonipha, click loss and Damin!
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LINKS AND FURTHER READING:
Miriam Makeba's Click Song: https://goo.gl/0e8I4j
Click Consonants: https://goo.gl/7WJXlx
World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS): http://goo.gl/F8GCH4
Khoisan Langauges: https://goo.gl/WpWYaz
Bantu Languages: https://goo.gl/cH96qM
Hlonipha: https://goo.gl/QLMphi
Damin: https://goo.gl/d4Snso
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Artifexian on non-pulmonic consonants aka click consonants.
Topics discussed: what click consonants are, how to pronounce the 5 principal clicks, where clicks come from, who speaks click languages, why clicks arose in human language, how clicks spread, hlonipha, click loss and Damin!
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LINKS AND FURTHER READING:
Miriam Makeba's Click Song: https://goo.gl/0e8I4j
Click Consonants: https://goo.gl/7WJXlx
World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS): http://goo.gl/F8GCH4
Khoisan Langauges: https://goo.gl/WpWYaz
Bantu Languages: https://goo.gl/cH96qM
Hlonipha: https://goo.gl/QLMphi
Damin: https://goo.gl/d4Snso
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"Unwritten Return" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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Sakhile has a new channel!! If you like his stuff, please consider subscribing to his channel here: https://youtube.com/channel/UCM2YGltZ7uMB6OzNKLy_V6A
I know it would mean the world to him...
Many of the languages spoken by the Nguni people of southern Africa as well as the San people have a range of click sounds.
In this video, Sakhile Dube from St Lucia in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, demonstrates how these click sounds are pronounced in the Zulu language.
He has an epic voice :)
Check out our other videos with Sakhile here:
iSimangaliso Wetland Park: Southern Ecosystems with Sakhile Dube: https://youtu.be/v-w3ElPJA4c
Sakhile Dube explains Zulu culture: Ancestors: https://youtu.be/3Eqrh_kLhHM
Wanna hear Sakhile live: Get on one of his guided walking safaris with https://www.safariandsurf.com/
For those of you interested in learning to speak zulu, Duolingo has just added it to their courses:
https://www.duolingo.com/
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Sakhile has a new channel!! If you like his stuff, please consider subscribing to his channel here: https://youtube.com/channel/UCM2YGltZ7uMB6OzNKLy_V6A
I know it would mean the world to him...
Many of the languages spoken by the Nguni people of southern Africa as well as the San people have a range of click sounds.
In this video, Sakhile Dube from St Lucia in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, demonstrates how these click sounds are pronounced in the Zulu language.
He has an epic voice :)
Check out our other videos with Sakhile here:
iSimangaliso Wetland Park: Southern Ecosystems with Sakhile Dube: https://youtu.be/v-w3ElPJA4c
Sakhile Dube explains Zulu culture: Ancestors: https://youtu.be/3Eqrh_kLhHM
Wanna hear Sakhile live: Get on one of his guided walking safaris with https://www.safariandsurf.com/
For those of you interested in learning to speak zulu, Duolingo has just added it to their courses:
https://www.duolingo.com/
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Sibs was one of our guides in Zimbabwe who had all kinds of knowledge about language, animal tracking, and life in the bush. In this video he's demonstrating di...
Sibs was one of our guides in Zimbabwe who had all kinds of knowledge about language, animal tracking, and life in the bush. In this video he's demonstrating different aspects of an African click language he grew up with.
Technically, clicks are obstruents articulated with two closures (points of contact) in the mouth, one forward and one at the back. The pocket of air enclosed between is rarefied by a sucking action of the tongue (i.e. clicks have a lingual ingressive airstream mechanism). The forward closure is then released, producing what may be the loudest consonants in the language, although in some languages such as Hadza and Sandawe, clicks can be more subtle and may even be mistaken for ejective stops.
Here's my personal webpage about our trip through southern Africa:
http://www.rogerwendell.com/africa_southern.html
04-23-2012
Sibs was one of our guides in Zimbabwe who had all kinds of knowledge about language, animal tracking, and life in the bush. In this video he's demonstrating different aspects of an African click language he grew up with.
Technically, clicks are obstruents articulated with two closures (points of contact) in the mouth, one forward and one at the back. The pocket of air enclosed between is rarefied by a sucking action of the tongue (i.e. clicks have a lingual ingressive airstream mechanism). The forward closure is then released, producing what may be the loudest consonants in the language, although in some languages such as Hadza and Sandawe, clicks can be more subtle and may even be mistaken for ejective stops.
Here's my personal webpage about our trip through southern Africa:
http://www.rogerwendell.com/africa_southern.html
04-23-2012
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• (SOME) PICTURES: https://pixabay.com/
• FACEBOOK and INSTAGRAM: ‘Aze Linguistics’
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• (SOME) PICTURES: https://pixabay.com/
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Miriam Makeba performs Qongqothwane (The Click Song) live on Ce soir à Cannes, May 18, 1963.
Here is a link to an English translation of the lyrics, since seve...
Miriam Makeba performs Qongqothwane (The Click Song) live on Ce soir à Cannes, May 18, 1963.
Here is a link to an English translation of the lyrics, since several people have commented asking for one: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/qongqthwane-click-song-knock-knock-beetle.html.
Miriam Makeba performs Qongqothwane (The Click Song) live on Ce soir à Cannes, May 18, 1963.
Here is a link to an English translation of the lyrics, since several people have commented asking for one: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/qongqthwane-click-song-knock-knock-beetle.html.
Artifexian on non-pulmonic consonants aka click consonants.
Topics discussed: what click consonants are, how to pronounce the 5 principal clicks, where clicks come from, who speaks click languages, why clicks arose in human language, how clicks spread, hlonipha, click loss and Damin!
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DISCUSS THIS EPISODE ON REDDIT: https://goo.gl/hBTUs0
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Twitter: https://goo.gl/ap3b8X
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LINKS AND FURTHER READING:
Miriam Makeba's Click Song: https://goo.gl/0e8I4j
Click Consonants: https://goo.gl/7WJXlx
World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS): http://goo.gl/F8GCH4
Khoisan Langauges: https://goo.gl/WpWYaz
Bantu Languages: https://goo.gl/cH96qM
Hlonipha: https://goo.gl/QLMphi
Damin: https://goo.gl/d4Snso
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"Unwritten Return" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Sakhile has a new channel!! If you like his stuff, please consider subscribing to his channel here: https://youtube.com/channel/UCM2YGltZ7uMB6OzNKLy_V6A
I know it would mean the world to him...
Many of the languages spoken by the Nguni people of southern Africa as well as the San people have a range of click sounds.
In this video, Sakhile Dube from St Lucia in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, demonstrates how these click sounds are pronounced in the Zulu language.
He has an epic voice :)
Check out our other videos with Sakhile here:
iSimangaliso Wetland Park: Southern Ecosystems with Sakhile Dube: https://youtu.be/v-w3ElPJA4c
Sakhile Dube explains Zulu culture: Ancestors: https://youtu.be/3Eqrh_kLhHM
Wanna hear Sakhile live: Get on one of his guided walking safaris with https://www.safariandsurf.com/
For those of you interested in learning to speak zulu, Duolingo has just added it to their courses:
https://www.duolingo.com/
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Sibs was one of our guides in Zimbabwe who had all kinds of knowledge about language, animal tracking, and life in the bush. In this video he's demonstrating different aspects of an African click language he grew up with.
Technically, clicks are obstruents articulated with two closures (points of contact) in the mouth, one forward and one at the back. The pocket of air enclosed between is rarefied by a sucking action of the tongue (i.e. clicks have a lingual ingressive airstream mechanism). The forward closure is then released, producing what may be the loudest consonants in the language, although in some languages such as Hadza and Sandawe, clicks can be more subtle and may even be mistaken for ejective stops.
Here's my personal webpage about our trip through southern Africa:
http://www.rogerwendell.com/africa_southern.html
04-23-2012
• FACEBOOK and INSTAGRAM: ‘Aze Linguistics’
• PAYPAL: [email protected]
• PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/AzeLinguistics
• COPYRIGHT: Royalty-free (Sound: https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary (including ‘Game Plan’ by Bad Snacks; ‘Venetian’ by Density & Time; ‘Space Age Hustle’ by Squadda B)
• (SOME) PICTURES: https://pixabay.com/
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Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 https://bbc.in/iPlayer-Home More about this programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03d3p60 Trevor Noah talks about Zulus and demonstrates his click-singing.
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Miriam Makeba performs Qongqothwane (The Click Song) live on Ce soir à Cannes, May 18, 1963.
Here is a link to an English translation of the lyrics, since several people have commented asking for one: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/qongqthwane-click-song-knock-knock-beetle.html.
Clicks are speech sounds that occur as consonants in many languages of southern Africa, and in three languages of East Africa. Examples of these sounds familiar to English speakers are the tsk! tsk! (American spelling) or tut-tut (British spelling) used to express disapproval or pity, the tchick! used to spur on a horse, and the clip-clop! sound children make with their tongue to imitate a horse trotting.
Technically, clicks are obstruents articulated with two closures (points of contact) in the mouth, one forward and one at the back. The enclosed pocket of air is rarefied by a sucking action of the tongue (in technical terminology, clicks have a lingual ingressive airstream mechanism). The forward closure is then released, producing what may be the loudest consonants in the language, although in some languages such as Hadza and Sandawe, clicks can be more subtle and may even be mistaken for ejectives.
What clicks sound like
Click consonants occur at five principal places of articulation. IPA represents a click by placing the assigned symbol for the place of click articulation adjacent to a symbol for a non-click sound at the rear place of articulation. The IPA symbols are used in writing most Khoisan languages, but Bantu languages such as Zulu typically use Latin ⟨c⟩, ⟨x⟩ and ⟨q⟩ for dental, lateral, and alveolar clicks respectively.
Puzzles. Challenge yourself with today’s puzzles. Crossword. Polygon. Sudoku ... Xigera Camp was incredible (it’s pronounced “Kee-jerra” but with a click instead of a consonant at the beginning, which is from Xhosa, via Khoisan or “bushmen” who came before).
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It’s performed by Maqoma alongside a hugely impressive quartet of singers ... Some of this infiltrates the music itself, which puts Christian hymns next to Xhosa click consonants, styles shifting between eras and continents ... Sign up to The Guide ... .
There are many dozens of observed consonants, from the clicks of some African languages to the “ejectives” (which make use of air pressure built up in the mouth) of Caucasian ones ... these consonants.
Hairareb is based on a book by August Bikeur, previously performed as a radio play in the DamaraNama language, a non-Bantu language widely spoken in southern Africa and rich with click consonants, ...
“Salish is a very unique language as far as human speech pattern – virtually no vowels, almost all consonants – it’s almost constantly asking you to close your mouth or click your tongue, or produce phlegm,” Abrahamson said ... .
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