Africans & Americans Lost History

African Heritage: The Africans Clicking sound Language

In many African countries there are several official African languages, an estim
ated
1,800 languages are spoken in Africa, African languages as the Swahili, language
and the
Hausa, Xhosa (the clicking language) Khoisan and Yoruba, are spoken by millions
of
people, others, such as a varity of Bantu languages, Laal, Shabo and Dahalo, are
spoken
by a few hundred thousand more or less, in addition, Africa has a wide variety
of sign
languages of whose genetic classification has yet to be worked out several Afric
an
languages are whistled for special purposes, than there is the famous clicking o
f the
tongue language, off the roof of the mouth.
Finally, the talking drums send messages from village to village as a lang
uage, its a
method of communication the abundant linguistic diversity of many African countr
ies
has made language policy an extremely important issue in this post neo-colonial
era, in
recent years, African countries have become increasingly aware of the value of t
heir
linguistic inheritance language policies that are being developed nowadays are m
ostly
aimed at preserving mulilingualism, certain African languages are considered off
icial
languages that are mainly, spoken by African culture tribes only.
The African Union AU, declared in 2006 the year of African languages, it h
as been
said in the past by scholars and historians that African languages are so simple
that their
vocabularies only have a few hundred words and also they are so difficult to lea
rn they
cannot be taught to the average student.
Obviously, both statements are false, the myth first came about when the Europea
n
explorers learned most African tribes performed a religious rite using cowry she
lls called
art of divining, when Diviners toss the cowries on the ground.
The Diviner explained that when the shells formed a certain pattern on the groun
d this
would enable them to make up a sentence and the shells were thrown a total of si
xteen
times the sixteen throws of the cowry shells multiplied by the sixteen different
patterns
equal two hundred fifty six.
The different patterns could make up to two hundred fifty six sentences. T
hese early
explorers who studied Africans dialects and languages were told that the sentenc
es that
are made up from reading the cowry shells are all kept in memory they assumed fr
om the
statement Africans had a small vocabulary and used very few words when they were
talking, this point is being made to reflect on how the African languages have b
een
misunderstood.
African languages are highly developed they are as expressive and as expan
dable as
their speakers care to make them, it may be true some African languages are cons
idered
difficult to learn and speak due to having certain consonantal sounds not found
elsewhere
or in the average language, like the double consonants of the Bantu / Xhosa clic
king
languages such as gb, pronounced by releasing g and b at the same time is used t
o
produce the c consonant sound many African languages are tonal, the Bantu Xhosa
language and the Hottentots tribes of southeast Africa its true their particular
language is
one of the most difficult in the world to speak due to the rhythmic clicking sou
nds the
Bantu tribes make when they talk this have scared off potential students and sch
olars.
For centuries they were convinced in order to learn to speak the language o
ne must
know how to sing. The black Egyptians and other Africans spoke a dialect of tr
ibal
phonics and in north Africa after the Arabs invaded the continent some of their
languages
were mixed with Semitics, at present its known as the Hausa language. Nehusi Egy
ptians
(black Egyptians) converted ancient ethnography into the first written language
of Africa.
And all African languages can be traced to this root Egyptian language and Afric
ans and
Egyptians trade systems was connected through the Swahili language when the Swah
ili
language was created.
Today most of the northern Africans speak Swahili when doing business trad
ing, it
has become a language of commerce. At present there are more than one thousand e
ight
hundred different languages in Africa. In general the Semitic language along wit
h
English is widely spoken in northern Africa and from the east coast to the west
African
coast.Africans speak Semitics mixed with tribal phonics using hieroglyphics, onl
y
Africans were capable of understanding and translating we should keep this in mi
nd
whenever we study African tribes culture, heritage and languages.
Bantu languages has eighty different dialects, the people who speak that languag
e are
also referred to as Bantu tribes the people who speak the Hausa language, mostly
spoken
on the west of Africa are referred to as Hausa tribes, the tribes that speak Xh
osa are
Bantu tribes commonly found in southeast and South Africa