Taa language

Taa, also known as ǃXóõ (/ˈkoʊ/; also spelled ǃKhong and ǃXoon) is a Tuu language known for its large number of phonemes, maybe the largest in the world. It is also notable for having perhaps the heaviest functional load of click consonants, with one count finding that 82% of basic vocabulary items started with a click. Most speakers live in Botswana, but a few hundred live in Namibia. The people call themselves ǃXoon (pl. ǃXooŋake). In 2011, there were around 2,500 speakers of Taa.

References

↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Taa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Rousseau, Bryant (25 November 2016). "Click languages". The New York Times. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
↑ See Sands & Gunnink (2019) "Clicks on the fringes of the Kalahari Basin Area." In Clem et al. (eds), Theory and Description in African Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Language Science Press, Berlin, pp. 703–724.

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[1] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Taa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[2] Rousseau, Bryant (25 November 2016). "Click languages". The New York Times. Retrieved November 11, 2022.

[3] See Sands & Gunnink (2019) "Clicks on the fringes of the Kalahari Basin Area." In Clem et al. (eds), Theory and Description in African Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Language Science Press, Berlin, pp. 703–724.