!Kung - where do people speak !Kung? what does it sound like?

!Kung


A woman speaking !Kung

Khoisan people from South Africa spoke the !Kung language. !Kung is a click language. It is probably the closest we can come to what the earliest languages sounded like.

When Bantu people moved into South Africa, many people who spoke !Kung began to speak Bantu instead. And a lot of Bantu people began to mix !Kung words into their language, creating new languages called Xhosa and Zulu.

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