Xhosa The "Click" Language.
Xhosa is
spoken by approximately 7.6 million people, or about 18% of the South African
population. Like most Bantu languages,
Xhosa is a tonal language,
that is, the same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meanings
when said with a rising or falling or high or low intonation. One of the most
distinctive features of the language is the prominence of click consonants; the word "Xhosa"
begins with a click.
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