▲ 161 ▼ I'm not sure if this makes it better or worse (thelemmy.club) submitted 4 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works 24 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 3 points 4 months ago (1 child) relevant Trevor Noah standup clip: https://youtube.com/shorts/IST24FujG7g permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago* Who doesnt love some trevor noah. Xhosa is also another case(or more accurately isixhosa) where it is a full click language but it is a part of the atlantic-congo langauge family(proposed to be a part of the niger-congo family). Most click languages you hear in pop culture are from this family but many theories claim that these mainly borrowed clicks from the khoisan languages. The khoisan languages are contraversial because they used to be classified as the same language family but that was only based on very surface level analysis and they are much more correctly classified into seperate families but khoisan is still a usefull term for their sprachbund(linguistic area where languages interchange vocab and features). Point is khoisan languages are much cooler, often possesing vary cool grammar, phonology or both. Many early classifications basically distinguished the languages in southern africa based on this. "Oh this language has clicks but other than that is pretty tame, must be an atlantic-congo language" and then "This is unhinged, why are there 80 consonants, 30 vowels, 2 tones and 20 genders(noun classes) in this language, lets just say its khoisan and call it a day". But yeah thank you for reading, or not reading my rant. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago* Who doesnt love some trevor noah. Xhosa is also another case(or more accurately isixhosa) where it is a full click language but it is a part of the atlantic-congo langauge family(proposed to be a part of the niger-congo family). Most click languages you hear in pop culture are from this family but many theories claim that these mainly borrowed clicks from the khoisan languages. The khoisan languages are contraversial because they used to be classified as the same language family but that was only based on very surface level analysis and they are much more correctly classified into seperate families but khoisan is still a usefull term for their sprachbund(linguistic area where languages interchange vocab and features). Point is khoisan languages are much cooler, often possesing vary cool grammar, phonology or both. Many early classifications basically distinguished the languages in southern africa based on this. "Oh this language has clicks but other than that is pretty tame, must be an atlantic-congo language" and then "This is unhinged, why are there 80 consonants, 30 vowels, 2 tones and 20 genders(noun classes) in this language, lets just say its khoisan and call it a day". But yeah thank you for reading, or not reading my rant. permalink fedilink source parent