In a language like Xhosa, clicks belong to the language’s inventory of consonants, right along with garden-variety speech sounds like t, p, or s that make up the basic building blocks of words. So the ...

IN 1991 AMERICAN audiences had an introduction to Xhosa, one of South Africa’s most click-filled languages, when Miriam Makeba (pictured) appeared on “The Cosby Show”. When the celebrated South ...

Cynthia Erivo showed off her Xhosa click sounds during a recent interview, leaving South Africans with mixed feelings The British actress was cast to play the late South African icon Miriam Makeba in ...