ABSTRACT
Click languages are spoken in the Kalahari desert by several groups including the Ju’hoansi, and near Lake Eyasi in Tanzania, by the Hadzabe and the Sandawe. Each of the languages has four or five click sounds that are made by sucking the tongue down from the roof of the mouth, something akin to the English sound tsk-tsk. The upright bar in the word Ju?’hoansi indicates a click sound. The word, then, is pronounced ju-twansi, with the tw pronounced with a distinct click.
