What does zulu sound like

Each speaker is slightly smaller than palm-sized and connected via a cord. Exactly like a pair of earbuds. The cord hangs around your neck, allowing the two speakers to rest over your chest. Zulu Audio provides you with two magnets to place at the back of the speaker under your shirt to keep them in place.

A rubber clip is also provided to help keep the speakers in position. You can attach the clip behind or in front of your neck to give you more or less slack on the cord. The rubber clip will position the speakers higher or lower on your shirt, depending on your preference. The total weight of the device is 3 oz, which is significantly lighter than the average ounce over-ear headphone. The magnets are sufficiently strong enough to hold the speakers even during the most rigorous activity like running, cycling, skateboarding, or even shooting hoops.

While these magnets are strong, they are small enough that they may easily get lost. Like most small bits of any equipment, you might have. There are some problems with this idea. First, human societies have in general started out as hunter-gatherer societies, and some still are, while many of the Khoisan peoples haven't been hunter-gatherers for a long time, so why only the Khoisan? Second, whispering and gestures have served hunters elsewhere just fine.

And you can't whisper a click. It sounds like a branch snapping. Picture yourself sneaking up on a deer. Suddenly you step on a twig and it snaps. What happens next?

The deer bolts, of course. Look, a lateral click is a common sound used to get a horse to move. So why do these languages have clicks when most others don't?

Well, actually, most others do — they just don't use them as sounds in words. And any given thing that can be used in speech will likely be used somewhere by someone. The more natural and automatic it is to integrate into language, the more languages will have it — nearly all languages have some version of the vowels "ah," "oo," and "ee," for instance. So, why the Khoisan languages? As well them as any — and they went a long time without a lot of interference from other languages, so the clicks didn't get pushed out.

And more recently, they've been clicking with some Bantu languages, too. Skip to header Skip to main content Skip to footer Analysis. The lost art of being reasonable. Both groups are among the most ancient cultures, with mitochondrial DNA that links them to the dawn of humanity. But both languages have clicks. As the New York Times explained,. Knight said. It depends on the language and the type of click in question. In general, Xhosa and other Bantu languages use the Roman letters c, q, and x, either by themselves or in digraphs.

Click languages may sound exotic to Western ears. I believe it was the earliest languages that has survived over a long period of time. Once you're done with the isiZulu alphabet, you might want to check the rest of our Zulu lessons here: Learn Zulu. Don't forget to bookmark this page. The links above are only a small sample of our lessons, please open the left side menu to see all links.