Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
7 thoughts on “Language quiz”
Are these the click consonants of the Khoisan languages?
Definitely one of them. I’ll guess one of the better-known ones: Žu/’hoãsi or !o!kung…
– Yes, clearly appears to be one of the ‘click’ (tonal?) languages from the Namibian/Kalahari bush region; no idea which one, though…
Maybe the same one that N!xau spoke?
bushmen
Could only be !Kung…
J. Roberts got it – the answer is !Kung (!Xun) – a continuum of Kx’a languages and dialects spoken in Namibia, Botswana, Angola and South Africa. I don’t know which particular variety of !Kung it is though.
Are these the click consonants of the Khoisan languages?
Definitely one of them. I’ll guess one of the better-known ones: Žu/’hoãsi or !o!kung…
– Yes, clearly appears to be one of the ‘click’ (tonal?) languages from the Namibian/Kalahari bush region; no idea which one, though…
Maybe the same one that N!xau spoke?
bushmen
Could only be !Kung…
J. Roberts got it – the answer is !Kung (!Xun) – a continuum of Kx’a languages and dialects spoken in Namibia, Botswana, Angola and South Africa. I don’t know which particular variety of !Kung it is though.
The recording comes from the GRN