{"id":294,"date":"2007-02-13T18:36:37","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T17:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/13\/click-click\/"},"modified":"2007-02-13T18:36:37","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T17:36:37","slug":"click-click","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"Click click"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the radio this morning they told an interesting, language-related story about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/nature\/programmes\/who\/david_attenborough.shtml\">David Attenborough<\/a>, the famous maker of natural history programmes. Apparently he filmed people speaking one of the &#8216;click&#8217; languages for a programme called <em>The Tribal Eye<\/em>, which examined sculpture, weaving, metal casting, and other artistic activities in tribal societies around the world. After working on the sound track for quite a while, the sound engineer proudly announced that he had managed to clean up all the strange clicking sounds in the background &#8211; he didn&#8217;t realise that they were an integral part of the language.<\/p>\n<p>There are some sample recordings of click languages <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.ntu.edu.tw\/~karchung\/Phonetics%20II%20page%20four.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Do any of you speak or have you studied a language that includes click consonants?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the radio this morning they told an interesting, language-related story about David Attenborough, the famous maker of natural history programmes. Apparently he filmed people speaking one of the &#8216;click&#8217; languages for a programme called The Tribal Eye, which examined sculpture, weaving, metal casting, and other artistic activities in tribal societies around the world. After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}