Why didn't Europeans succeed in inventing clicking sounds, unlike Xhosa?

Why didn't Europeans succeed in inventing clicking sounds, unlike Xhosa?

  1. 1 week ago
    Anonymous

    Low IQ

  2. 1 week ago
    Anonymous

    Wypipo ain't bix noodin.

  3. 1 week ago
    Anonymous

    Wikipedia says that Xhosa people didn't historically have clicks and that they borrowed it from other languages so they didn't invent it
    Anyway I'm pretty ignorant about linguistics but I'd imagine that Africa would have more phonetic diversity than Europe

  4. 1 week ago
    Anonymous

    Sounds ugly

  5. 1 week ago
    Anonymous

    Bitches love Xhosa

    • 1 week ago
      Anonymous

      The Xhosa didn't invent clicking sounds. The only people who independently invented clicking consonants were various unrelated African hunter-gatherers in East and Southern Africa. The Xhosa are a mixed race (Bantu and Khoi but predominantly Bantu culturally) population who speak a Nguni Bantu language with borrowed clicks from the Khoi.

      10/10

  6. 1 week ago
    Anonymous

    Romanians have clicks

    • 1 week ago
      Anonymous

      But they don't though. Do you mean the "ts" sound from their ţ letter?

      • 1 week ago
        Anonymous

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_phonology#Other_consonants

  7. 1 week ago
    Anonymous

    The Nguni didn’t create click sounds

    They adopted them from the KhoiKhoi and !San

  8. 1 week ago
    Anonymous

    They did, it's the "get going" sound when riding a horse. Clicks are really complicated phonologically and the limitations of them (they can only be nuclei) makes them not evolve very easily.

  9. 1 week ago
    Anonymous

    Better question, why were the zhosa so retarded that they had to make cricket sounds just to communicate?

    • 1 week ago
      Anonymous

      >complexity = retarded according to the LULZ simpleton

      • 1 week ago
        Anonymous

        Kind of is. Papuan languages are immensely complex but the speakers are all retards.

        • 1 week ago
          Anonymous

          Correlation /=/ causation

  10. 1 week ago
    Anonymous

    Xhosa didn't "invent" click sounds. It's a Bantu language, which means that its clicks were borrowed from the original languages of southern Africa, like San and Taa. Bantu languages like Xhosa and Zulu are newfags on the scene.

    In response to your question, areal influence. No natural languages outside southern Africa have clicks, so it's fairly hard to develop, quantum-like, out of nowhere.

    >Damin lol
    not a natural language

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