Aaron Braver 🐧
@abraver.bsky.social
Linguist (phon*). R stuff. Science fiction nerd. @abraver at all the socials. aaronbraver.com
These are great! Do you have them all posted somewhere / can people use them in our courses / is there a way to cite them?
September 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
These are great! Do you have them all posted somewhere / can people use them in our courses / is there a way to cite them?
Apologies for my contributions ;)
August 22, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Apologies for my contributions ;)
Yes, that's the general consensus view—you find clicks in Bantu languages that were spoken near Khoisan languages, but less so elsewhere.
(For one take, see: www.jstor.org/stable/30028...)
(For one take, see: www.jstor.org/stable/30028...)
The Sociohistory of Clicks in Southern Bantu on JSTOR
Robert K. Herbert, The Sociohistory of Clicks in Southern Bantu, Anthropological Linguistics, Vol. 32, No. 3/4 (Fall - Winter, 1990), pp. 295-315
www.jstor.org
August 4, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Yes, that's the general consensus view—you find clicks in Bantu languages that were spoken near Khoisan languages, but less so elsewhere.
(For one take, see: www.jstor.org/stable/30028...)
(For one take, see: www.jstor.org/stable/30028...)
Side note for the non p-siders in the audience: The adoption of the click as [k] in English makes a lot of sense, since clicks have a rear velar closure.
August 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Side note for the non p-siders in the audience: The adoption of the click as [k] in English makes a lot of sense, since clicks have a rear velar closure.