Xhosa Clicks

[MarvellousMuffin]

@GingerRose4444

I think he means that some of it is easy to remember because you can compare one click to opening a bottle of champagne, and another to the clicks you do when you ride a horse.

[KrazyStoopid]

i dont what it is, but this video has me cracking out

[imaminxkitty]

I wonder what their pop music sounds like:p

[DirtyDios]

Natural born beatboxer

[2sweet222]

damn

[ICExRED]

When he said "Easy to rememba" that actually sounded like an Asian accent.

[90rashad]

@ICExRED he look asian to, the clucking made me laugh

[BenjijerkinFootball]

easy to rememba LMFAO

[cannoir]

@Cenotaph205 you obviously care , so you took the time to research the purity of english and you found out english is only pure at 59% and it is only the foreign influence that enriches the language.It would be bland otherwise.

a- You wouldn't be spending your time and energy on this clip alone when you have the opportunity to blabber about coliseums on related videos.

b- so the word complex = wonderful for you. that's a good thing.xhosa actually is beautifully complex.And YOU LOVE IT.

[NIIKOLARNAK]

AAAAAHHHHHHH PARTIZANOV DRES JEBO TE!!!!!!!!! LE MAILLOT DE PARTIZAN BELGRADE!!! PARTIZAN BELGRADE SHIRT!!!

[peskysushi]

Any linguists out there? How many click sounds are there in the Xhosa language and how are they described phonetically? Thx in advance

xeropoint@yahoo.com

[Lufttygger306]

@peskysushi Wikipedia

[GreenProducer2010]

BOTTAL OF SHAMPAIN TOK, WHEN YU OPAN IT TOK, EAZY TO REMEMBA

[EmptyHero]

what sound do you make when eating fried chicken?

[vicecityxxx]

@EmptyHero LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL­

[cinthia478]

wow...no wonder my friend kept making clicking noises everytime he saw an african in the hall. i thought he was just kidding but wow.

[PerthShit]

hahahahahahahahahaha

[uchoo786]

Sanibonani Babe, wena i was trying to find some SiSwati clicks to show my friends how to pronounce Gcinisizwe, but found these which was really helpful! Thanks

[soupusurper]

hahaah this guy is chill

[sunshineflag]

nice

[robholx]

I bet Xhosa speakers make terrific beatboxers.

[AkaoKiyotsu]

@robholx Them and Mongolian throat singers.

[MissOscar1]

damn i speak xhosa and i know well enough thats not easy to remember....

[S4NROCH4]

"...this pop! when open it yeah, eezeehtooremembah!"

[EmoUndergroundRi]

hahah easy to remember,he says. i wish it was coz it sounds really cool.

[Raiden738]

that sounded like a pretty nice rap

[mcgstudmuffin]

LOL

[Lufttygger306]

WTF

[jazzyj0892]

ahahahahahahahahahaha!

[Darkmessenger1000]

i really get tired of people telling me i have asian eyes.....I dont asians have african eyes.

[Faabfabulous]

This sounds amazing! I wish I could do it as well:P

Makes me hink of District 9 a bit as well :D

(NO offence, though ;) )

[sarmaluvin1]

hahahaa yes it does. lol thats messed up the alliens are in south africa and there laungues is clicks and so does the south africans. subliminal hollywood racism?

[PlatinumIvory]

I think District 9 purposely made their aliens speak in such a manner as to resemble the Xhosa language.

[mattshu1]

haha their language is hilarious!

[RenegadeGhosts]

oi fuck up Umlungu... Msunyako, Maratjot! gaan naai jo ma

[Maweh2]

ukunya kwakho mnqundu!

[lBRON1000]

Khoisandi & Xhosa boy!!!!!!!

[pr334t]

lol he looks asian

[Inathi12]

Ja, we have very small eyes in SA (with the fold).

[edingsteve1]

Asian looks like him rather! Think about that when you look at asian people!

[blackspace007]

The South Africans are very interesting looking people. They look African, but also Asian. The language to the untrained ear sounds similar in to some Asian languages (to me atleast) like with the annunciations of words. Well the original man was traced back the San Bush people there right? Nelson Mandela looks just like those people

[brooklynboi89]

no...the asians look like them. the slanted eyes are genotypically dominant.

[cannoir]

its Asians who look Africans not the way round. we are the oldest specy . Myself I have slanted eyes like him. those are eyes you can find them across botswana, mali( west africa) etc..

[Cenotaph205]

@cannoir oldest and therefore, less evolved.

[cannoir]

@Cenotaph205 oldest therefore the original language. Thefore the most elaborated and complex communication method ever created.The older the better.

The proof, well the language is 99,99% pure. French has 30% of foreign influence and english has about 40%.Basically european language need every other language to reach the "adult" linguistic age.

[odinisawesome]

@cannoir Along the west coast of Africa, Asian peoples arrived and traded there in the 14-1800s, so breeding would have occurred producing the blend of craniofacial characteristics that you noticed.

[cannoir]

@odinisawesome DNA tests have proven your wrong A LOOOONG TIME AGO. You can appreciate the features the way they are . they are a part of the large african diversity. even the Tutsi have been proven to be PURE africans. If anything the chinese are a mutated version of pygmees.

[odinisawesome]

@cannoir You seem to have this idea slightly off (and in all fairness it is complicated).

Using Crainiofacial Anthropometry, Archaeologists can track the spread and development of the 5 main racial stocks, from an original group that most likely originated in Mid to North Africa (But were NOT African as we think of it)

The 5 main groups are (Mongoloid Caucasoid Congoid Capoid Australoid)

The Chinese ethnicity is actually a blend of the Caucasoid and Mongoloids, and not the Congoid as you said

[cannoir]

@odinisawesome Um.. north africa was populated with actual africains before the fairly recent arrival of arabs.Not talking about the congoid cos I am fully aware that bantus are not the only blacks.the Khoisans are another variety.There are nilotics, nubians i.e amongst black people.The chinese have already identified their own african roots its been discussed last century.If most chinese were part caucasians they would all be 6ft today.But they are very short like the pygmes.

[odinisawesome]

@cannoir

Crainiofacial Anthropometry is the study of facial characteristics and the underlying bone structures in the human skull based on their race and ethnicity. DNA results, where obtained, back up what I am saying entirely

While it is possible that modern Chinese have an in influx of Congoid characteristics, the contribution would be negligible at best, as most adhere to the idea that Caucasoids migrated east from the Black sea to merge with the Mongoloid at the end of the Pleistocene era.

[A86]

@odinisawesome - Most E. Asians seem to branch off from a proto-Caucasoid group related to Indians, Iranians and Kazakhs tens of thousands of years ago. Their genes trace their origins to central Africa where the proto/paleo-Khoi ("Capoid") peoples originally lived in Africa before being forced southward by latter Bantu migration:

(.) kahaku (.) go (.) jp / special / past / japanese / ipix / 5 / img/ 5 _ 26 _ 03 (.) jpg

A graph on the "Mongoloid race" Wikipedia article shows this better.

[A86]

@odinisawesome - In short - Asians branched off from a group related to prehistory Khoi people. This could explain their distinct eye appearance which is also shared by many peoples in Central Asia as well and even some Eastern Europeans to a lesser extent.

[A86]

@odinisawesome - Chinese have a somewhat negligible amount of external Caucasian influence, mostly from Central Asia by Turkic peoples. They likely branched off from a Central Asian Caucasian group. Craniofacial anthropology is largely outdated as it relies on somewhat contrived groups that keep changing as they discover the old ones were incorrect. Genetics is much more precise as it's like a serial number for humans that tells us more than their external appearance would.

[Voidiria]

@cannoir I used to have them when I was little but they went away but they are coming back slowy. You speak xhosa?

[mmorpg2156]

EAZY TO REMEMBA

[JT0k3r80]

lmfao

[juliug]

this guy look like 50 cent especialy in the last second

[khaarl]

It is NOT easy at all! :S Although I find it SO interesting!

[slavian4]

hah. Odd

The guy seems to have a Partizan Belgrade shirt.

anyway i am able to pronounce C and Q but X.. no way :D

That's waaaay to difficult.

[thecatinthehat84]

the champange is hard to do lol.

[recheniques]

Exactly my friend when you ride a horse is XXX, and when you open a bottle of champagne is Q !!

I miss my friend Xholile, If somebody goes to South Africa I can send you his email. He is very poor but is a real leader, he lives in a township and all these people need help. The AIDS there is just 10%!! of the population (ie, 800 of 8.000)

[aleksozolins]

when you ride a horse it's... X X X ...

[oc33n]

Im Xhosa to :D

[NOSFERATUalu]

thats difficult!

[yakuzablood]

it sounds so cool but its hard 2 click d sound o.o specially da champagne part

[freakyfee91]

aaaah amazing! how do you do that? i'm pretty jealous now... i think it's really cool :)

[Bozewani]

Well it's 3 clicks really which have five different derivative sounds.

[zimkithagirl]

I'm Xhosa and yes, I click now and again when I talk to my parents. It is a pretty cool langauge.

[0stsee]

Amazing.

According to Wikipedia, Xhosa has 15 clicks. I don't know if native speakers can affirm this.

I generally also like the way African languages sound.

[JoeCantDance]

and a language in botswana has 83 clicks! (According to Wikipedia as well)

[snovymgodom]

There are three basic clicks and they can be aspirated, nasalized, or both. I'm not a native speaker though - I just know a bit about the phonology.

[Totalidiocy]

Snovymygodom: You mean there are MORE clicks?!

[kemushichan]

ohmyGOSH thats crazy amazing. This makes my meager linguistics major seem insignificant!

[flipwarrior]

And I'm the Sun.

[stacynewyork]

Hi Sun!!

[krankensobriety]

LMAO!

[stacynewyork]

i luv hearing those clicks!! Africa has the most BEAUTIFUL languages!! very original

[Zebeldarebel]

whoa, what a language!