Comment by bradrn

Comment by bradrn 9 hours ago

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> And then there's the clicks in Southern African languages. Which are usually written as a Q not followed by a u. e.g. in the place name Gqeberha or the Mbaqanga music style.

<q> is only one of the clicks in Bantu languages! The letters <c> and <x> are used for other kinds of clicks too (for dental and lateral clicks, respectively).

And then of course there are the Khoisan languages, which use a completely different set of click letters: <ʘ ǀ ǁ ǃ ǂ>.

SideburnsOfDoom 7 hours ago

True. It was remiss of me to not mention the <x> click in the Xhosa language.

It's literally in the name.