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There's like two thousand of them that aren't just pidgin English, French, or Arabic dialects. Always the most insane shit ever. Whether it's tonal, has click consonants, obscene amounts of phonemes, and there's always like five more dialects of said language which are even worse! A good example would be Taa/ǃXóõ. Four tones, 58 consonants - of which up to 40 can be classified as clicking, 31 vowels, and the West variant is even more daunting. A minimum of 87 consonants and 43 individual distinct clicks. 2,500 speakers. There's African language families that are relegated to a couple hundred square kilometers in a random country, of which no other language is related to, for no fucking reason other than to cause even more conflict as nobody can understand each other. It's like Africa was struck with the Tower of Babel.

Of course, that's not ALL African languages, I'll remind you. There's some otherwise normal ones such as Amharic, a Semitic language which has a cool writing system too. When I say "What is with African languages?" I'm talking about Zulu, Xhosa, Taa, whatnot. Zulu has I think 16 noun classes, some of which are really specific and others are insanely vague.
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Uberen on scored.co
2 months ago 12 points (+0 / -0 / +12Score on mirror ) 3 children
Linguists are lying. You can't even write a dictionary because their language isn't stable. They just make up things all the time.
detransthrowaway on scored.co
2 months ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror )
Yep. There's some languages that just have a lot in the air. Who knows, maybe that's just a thing that happens in all languages, but you don't notice because you subconsciously fill in blanks. Words can lose and gain definitions, and that's why linguistics is cool.
HimmlerWasRight88 on scored.co
2 months ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror )
Exactly. I call bullshit on 31 vowels. How the fuck can you make 31 vowels sounds?

They are just barking like the animals they are and (((linguists))) claim that they have a complex language to push the idea that they are not inferior.
DragonsDontEatSoy on scored.co
2 months ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
So linguists are projecting their own conlang inventions onto africa
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