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Blue

@bluehypno098.bsky.social

Burton Guster, Die Harder, Felicia Fancybottom, Fingers, Homeskillet, Leggo My Eggo, Big Baby Burton, Burton the Billowy Bear, Curtis, Blackstar, Chocolate Columbo, Magic Head, Slicks, Peter Panic, Gus T.T. Showbiz, Ovaltine Jenkins, Schoonie "U-Turn" Singleton, Vernest Lambert Watkins, Bud (from The Cosby Show), Nick Nack, Bruton Gaster, Pinky Guscatero, Lavender Gooms, Lemongrass Gogulope, Squirts MacIntosh, Weepy Boy Santos, Stewart Lee, Dr. Mc [Khoesan tongue clicking sounds] Took, Dr. Pratt, François, Galileo Humpkins, Gus "Silly-Pants" Jackson, Fearless Guster, Shmuel Cohen, Methuselah Honeysuckle, Shutterfly Simmons, Patty Simcox, Chesterfield McMillan (and wife), Tan, Tangus, Ernesto Agapito Garces Conde de Abelar, Longbranch Pennywhistle, Scrooge Jones, D'Andre Pride, Hummingbird Saltalamacchia, Step-Anthony Wally Ali (Cat Stuck in a Tree), Trapezius Milkington, Hitch, Note To Self, Sterling Cooper, Burton "Oil Can" Guster, Hollabackatcha, Jazz Hands, Gus Brown, John Slade, Detective Miles, Greg, Doughnut Holschtein, Ron Davis, Bob Adams, Harry Munroe, Rich Fingerland, Black Magic, Cheswick, Shawn, Shaggy Buddy Snap, Ghee Buttersnaps a.k.a. "The Heater", The Vault of Secrets, Clementine Woolysocks, Pinky Guscatero, Guts, Ol' Ironside, Old Iron Stomach, Jonathan Jacob Jingley-Smith, Santonio Holmes, Deon Richmond, Gurton Buster, Chaz Bono, Chocolate Einstein, MC ClapYoHandz, Sher-Black-Lock, Mrs. Whittlebury, G-Force, Roadrash, Mellowrush, Crankshaft, Sammy, Joey Bishop, Slick Fingers, Imhotep or "He Cometh in Peace," Control Alt Delete, Gootsy, The Jackal, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Yasmine Bleeth, Killerbee, Lodge Blackman, Mission Figs, Sundown, The Black Goose, Original G-String a.k.a. Crowd Pleasah, Button, Braxton, Buster, Radio Star, Gus Jay Gupta, Don Cheadle, Jr., Chezwick, Watson Williams, Benedict Arnold Jackson, Engel Woods, Suggs, Winston Zeddmore, Eddie Adams from Torrance, Brutal Hustler, Lumpkin (Name Never Completed), Felatio Del Toro-Psych

September 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM

Diaspora2022

@diaspora2022.bsky.social

There is assuredly “something” about South African voices united in breathtakingly perfect harmony. This beautiful choir, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, etc.

And when one learns a modicum of Khoisan/Khoesan history, it makes total sense: Every human is descendant👇🏾

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

A weakly structured stem for human origins in Africa

Despite broad agreement that Homo sapiens originated in Africa, considerable uncertainty surrounds specific models of divergence and migration across the continent1. Progress is hampered by a shortage...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

August 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM

Isaac Samuel

@rhaplord.bsky.social

The Bantu languages are much younger and less heterogeneous than the Khoe-San languages, which consist of five independent units with no ‘genetic unity’ KhoeSan isn't considered by most linguists to be a language phylum but is more of a convenience term
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/on-the-his...

On the history of the Bantu expansion: old misconceptions and new evidence

The southern half of the African continent is populated by speakers of about 550 closely related languages that are referred to as the Bantu languages.

www.africanhistoryextra.com

March 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM

Isaac Samuel

@rhaplord.bsky.social

Contact between Bantu speech communities and autochthonous forager groups is also reflected in the presence of click-phonemes derived from Khoe-san languages,
These clicks were not solely determined by the degree of admixture with KhoeSan speakers
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/on-the-his...

On the history of the Bantu expansion: old misconceptions and new evidence

The southern half of the African continent is populated by speakers of about 550 closely related languages that are referred to as the Bantu languages.

www.africanhistoryextra.com

March 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM

Sassy South African

@aviate.bsky.social

ǀxam is no longer used by any group as a mother tongue. It was spoken until the early 1900s by descendants of the Khoesan peoples & Afrikaners of the Northern Cape. It was recorded by Wilhelm Bleek & Lucy Lloyd at the end of the 1800s in Cape Town: theconversation.com/africas-slee... #Heritage

Africa’s ‘sleeping’ language, |xam, has been written in stone at Oxford university

The ǀxam language has been carved into a new building at Rhodes House to honour the labour and suffering of Africans during colonialism.

theconversation.com

March 5, 2025 at 7:07 AM

Isaac Samuel

@rhaplord.bsky.social

The Bantu languages are much younger and less heterogeneous than the Khoe-San languages, which consist of five independent units with no ‘genetic unity’ KhoeSan isn't considered by most linguists to be a language phylum but is more of a convenience term
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/on-the-his...

On the history of the Bantu expansion: old misconceptions and new evidence

The southern half of the African continent is populated by speakers of about 550 closely related languages that are referred to as the Bantu languages.

www.africanhistoryextra.com

February 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM

Isaac Samuel

@rhaplord.bsky.social

Contact between Bantu speech communities and autochthonous forager groups is also reflected in the presence of click-phonemes derived from Khoe-san languages,
These clicks were not solely determined by the degree of admixture with KhoeSan speakers
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/on-the-his...

On the history of the Bantu expansion: old misconceptions and new evidence

The southern half of the African continent is populated by speakers of about 550 closely related languages that are referred to as the Bantu languages.

www.africanhistoryextra.com

February 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM