#click sounds

[anshiel]

🦀 time for crab 🦀

today i summoned 9 crabs and caught 1 💰 of them. look at them all!

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[adventurewithben]

New video up! Today I’m showing how to pronounce the different kinds of click sounds in African languages like Zulu, Xhosa, and !Xóõ

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[princess-turandot]

Xhosa

Are there any langblrs out there learning Xhosa? I’m really interested in the language and would like to know what they do to do the ‘click’ sounds.

If you don’t know how Xhosa sounds, this happy song can give you a glimpse into it:

[tr-swears]

I listened to Zulu (the language which contains click sounds) for the first time in a long time today in my Invented Languages class today. We had to guess strictly from the consonant inventory of 4 languages which 2 were invented and which 2 were real languages. I guessed the two real languages correctly which were Hawaiian and Zulu. The two invented languages were Elvish and Klingon. He had us listen to recordings of speech from all of these languages to help us decide if the languages were invented or real. It had been so long since I had last listened to Zulu (and had forgotten how frequent and clear the clicks are) that I said "Are they just playing ping pong?" 

I guess this is one of those "you had to be there" moments.

Zulu is really cool though. You should definitely check out click sounds. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg4Fp-A7IRw

[deoptimize]

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