The Khoisan people of Southern Africa are known for their incredible “click” languages—considered some of the oldest spoken tongues in the world. These languages use a series of distinct clicking sounds made with the tongue, creating a rhythm unlike any other on Earth. More than just communication, it’s a living link to humanity’s earliest voices, connecting today’s Khoisan to one of the deepest roots of human history. Video credit: Arina Travels #tribe #africa #languages #clicks #travel | Unres

1M views · 14K reactions | Somewhere in Namibia  The Khoisan languages of southern Africa. Many Khoisan languages are still spoken in Botswana, Angola, and Namibia – and to a lesser extent in parts of Zimbabwe, Zambia and South Africa.  @vardan_sargsyan | NWE | Facebook

Click languages are a group of languages found only in Africa in which clicks function as normal consonants. The sole report outside Africa of a language using clicks involves the special case of Damin, a ritual vocabulary of the Lardil of northern Queensland, Australia. While clicks are an extensive and original feature of the Khoisan languages, they have spread through linguistic contacts into a number of other languages of the Bantu and Cushitic groups. These languages are therefore full-fled