Xhosa is known affectionately as the "click click language." — -- The "Black Panther" movie is winning attention for breaking Hollywood norms through its almost entirely black cast and crew, ...
A new way to classify sounds in some human languages may solve a problem that has plagued linguists for nearly 100 years -- how to accurately describe click sounds distinct to certain African ...
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You probably know what click sounds are. Some languages of southern Africa are famous for having them, thanks in part to being featured in such cultural vectors as the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy and ...
Some Africans click, but English speakers don’t. That’s been the conventional wisdom about click sounds, which serve as regular consonants in Zulu and Xhosa and a few other African languages but which ...
With an incredible 45 clicks in its repertoire, the San language N|uu is one of our most startlingly beautiful examples of cultural diversity. On the outskirts of Upington, in South Africa's Northern ...
A new open-source device records whale clicks with context, giving AI the data it needs to search for structure in sperm ...
We live in a multilingual world, which is represented in the billions of pages published on the web—but just because a website isn’t written in your native tongue doesn’t mean that you can’t read it.
You can change the language of Google Chrome on your computer, but only if you have a Windows or Chromebook device. If you don't have a Windows or Chromebook device, you can change the language of ...