Introduction to isiXhosa pronunciation

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  • Опубліковано 29 жов 2024

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  • @SueDNim
    @SueDNim 3 роки тому +15

    Thank you for explaining so vividly exactly where the tongue is placed for the clicks. This was incredibly helpful!

  • @asisiphoapheleleernest3648
    @asisiphoapheleleernest3648 2 роки тому +8

    I am Xhosa, and I am sure your content is very effective. I like how you understand your audience.

  • @EKSBahrain
    @EKSBahrain 5 років тому +31

    They have such an interesting language. Soooo unique... I finally am able to click while pronouncing "a" word 🤣🤣🤣. Molo Trevor!

    • @naphtie
      @naphtie 4 роки тому

      Hai wow molo trevor khandiyilindele keleyo (that I didn't expect)🤣🤣

    • @omp199
      @omp199 Рік тому

      It's not unique. Other Nguni languages such as Zulu (isiZulu) and Swazi (siSwati) also have clicks. There are other Bantu languages outside the Nguni group that have clicks, too, such as Gciriku and Yei, while the clicks in the Khoisan languages are so extensive that they make Xhosa seem tame in comparison.

  • @KhoikhoitvAfrika
    @KhoikhoitvAfrika 4 роки тому +15

    The clicks being borrowed from the KHOEKHOE language, one of RSA First languages :-)

  • @qhawemandla3324
    @qhawemandla3324 4 роки тому +6

    Igqirha lendlela nguwonhqothwane. Baxalekile ooxam, ngamaxoki! What a proud and passionate language. Love my language

    • @flaviarenevey6719
      @flaviarenevey6719 3 роки тому +1

      I love your language as well.... Even though I think I could never learn it. These click sounds are so different to all the languages I know or speak.....

    • @GlobalMapperGuy
      @GlobalMapperGuy Рік тому

      Igkirha Lendlela Nguvonhkothvane Baxalekile Ooxam Ngamaxoki

  • @KittyWaringa
    @KittyWaringa 6 років тому +63

    Omg!!!!I finally can say "Xhosa" with a click

    • @buskobusko5619
      @buskobusko5619 6 років тому +10

      waringa wangari Hahahaha I am a native Xhosa and I hate it when people don't pronounce that X.

    • @gabriellethomas9982
      @gabriellethomas9982 6 років тому +3

      waringa wangari it is so hard to do the clicks in xhosa.

    • @aperson8215
      @aperson8215 5 років тому +2

      @@buskobusko5619 Good to know, I'll practice as much as I can to get it right lol

    • @catherinedaniela1672
      @catherinedaniela1672 4 роки тому +1

      Same

  • @karllegrand
    @karllegrand Рік тому

    Very interesting.
    The first time I heard of this language was in the movie "The Gods must be crazy".

  • @jacobcombrink8689
    @jacobcombrink8689 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you for making this video!!!!

  • @santiagoreimy-songs6124
    @santiagoreimy-songs6124 2 роки тому +1

    I can't believe after weeks I finally pronounced that Q correctly!

  • @alisonwilks302
    @alisonwilks302 3 роки тому

    That was explained perfectly , well done and thank you xxxx

  • @epriedy4022
    @epriedy4022 5 років тому +7

    Unique language...

  • @donakaltenrieder9382
    @donakaltenrieder9382 2 роки тому

    omg so intresting and it broadend my knowledge

  • @ntahmatsenglish2012
    @ntahmatsenglish2012 9 місяців тому

    Very helpful

  • @argonwheatbelly637
    @argonwheatbelly637 3 роки тому +1

    My 'q' flits between two, completely different cork-pop/door-knock sounds. I just don't know which one to use, but I guess between that, and bilabial clicks, and the kr/kl sound, I probably have most of the click-language sounds. Tone is another story, but I can track tonal languages decently.

  • @gisele5625
    @gisele5625 4 роки тому +5

    My name is Gisele Phalo and I will learn Xhosa!

    • @qhawemandla3324
      @qhawemandla3324 4 роки тому

      Your name Phalo, it’s what we are called as Xhosas “Mzi wakwa Phalo” meaning “house of Phalo “

  • @flaviarenevey6719
    @flaviarenevey6719 3 роки тому +3

    I'm here because of the movie The Gods Must be Crazy. I just loved this movie! 😊

  • @rath4137
    @rath4137 2 роки тому

    Thank you

  • @buskobusko5619
    @buskobusko5619 6 років тому +9

    Good work, sister. Isixhosa sityebile siteketeke.

    • @MoonarEclipse
      @MoonarEclipse 6 років тому +2

      Hello, I really love this language. It sounds so beautiful to me... do you have any native songs that I can look up and listen to?

    • @buskobusko5619
      @buskobusko5619 6 років тому +1

      Kitzy kat It will depend on what kind of music you looking for.

    • @MoonarEclipse
      @MoonarEclipse 6 років тому +1

      Busko Busko honestly just anything in the language. I found a video of very pretty people singing a wedding song

    • @buskobusko5619
      @buskobusko5619 6 років тому +2

      Kitzy kat You can check out the likes of Stompie Mavi, Ringo Madlingozi, Phinda Mtya, Lungiswa, Simbone, Yakheem Ben Israel, Ohayv, Usiba Noncwadi, Iintloko Zenyoka, Mariam Makeba, Zola Mkiva, Umle, Thandiswa Mazwai, Ntsiki Mazwai, Brenda Fassie, Sivuyile Mdyogolo, Feya Faku etc.

    • @MoonarEclipse
      @MoonarEclipse 6 років тому +2

      Busko Busko Thank you so much!

  • @Momo-bk7fv
    @Momo-bk7fv 3 роки тому

    Thank you !

  • @Goghahahahahaeej
    @Goghahahahahaeej 5 років тому +6

    How is fisicaly possible to pull down only one side of tongue down? I can't do it 😭😭😂😂

    • @Kamadev888
      @Kamadev888 5 років тому +5

      You don't. Just click with your tongue to the side of the mouth a little bit, like the sound when you drive a horse on. It's actually much easier than trying to click your tongue on both sides of the mouth.

    • @qhawemandla3324
      @qhawemandla3324 4 роки тому +1

      Anything is possible to us

  • @yahchile7681
    @yahchile7681 5 років тому +4

    Im tryin 😂 I know I can do this

  • @HeyKevinYT
    @HeyKevinYT 3 роки тому

    I came here from reading the AP World History textbook ..

  • @rosegraham5609
    @rosegraham5609 3 роки тому

    the vowels are pronounced like German vowels too;;; that makes it sm easier

    • @mareksagrak9527
      @mareksagrak9527 2 роки тому

      Not only in German but like in the majority of phonetical languages (Italian, Polish, Spanish, Albanian etc etc). Only English has such an absurd (with all due respect) pronunciation that it has to transcribe normal /a/ as "ah", /i/ as "ee" and /u/ as "ooh". It really drives me mad when I have to explain how to pronounce a particular word to a native English speaker using this unpractical method, this is just so irritating

  • @anaoaaugehauq5093
    @anaoaaugehauq5093 5 років тому +10

    I only came here from black panther

  • @mpilenhlezikhali8417
    @mpilenhlezikhali8417 2 роки тому

    Why does she sounds white? But is fluent in Xhosa

  • @mistermornevanderberg
    @mistermornevanderberg Рік тому

    not a SINGLE presenter of weather or the news can pronounce Gqebega - it's like the Q does not exist for them or they make it sound like gXebega

  • @dalrel
    @dalrel 3 роки тому

    I'm here because Trevor Noah! 💚

  • @688landerson
    @688landerson 5 років тому +7

    Llanelly is pronounced HlaneHli - that's the whole point. - your reader got it completely wrong.

    • @WelshBathBoy
      @WelshBathBoy 4 роки тому

      The town is also Llanelli spelled

  • @JamesTHFC2010
    @JamesTHFC2010 2 роки тому

    Jhjgtfedrdfggyyhgygtyyggygtygygygyygygygygyygygygygyg😧🤥🫠🫠🫠🫠😰😯😯😧😧🤤🤮🤑🤮🤠😈👿👾🤡🤡☠️☠️😸😸😹🤖💩😷🤤😑😑😑🤥😥🥶🥶

  • @ritatelles401
    @ritatelles401 6 років тому +1

    Hi

  • @vanessacahill2176
    @vanessacahill2176 3 роки тому +3

    Terrible that she couldn’t pronounce pronunciation correctly!

  • @natepb
    @natepb 7 місяців тому

    that's not how you say llanelly

  • @tulifranz9336
    @tulifranz9336 5 років тому +9

    Possible the person explaining is not the same person saying the words, she probably can't even speak the language. This is expropriation of language without compensation. Whom are you thanking between the two?

    • @user-pm1gb2eo1s
      @user-pm1gb2eo1s 5 років тому +16

      Tuli Franz Damn, calm down! The Xhosa woman probably volunteered to help with the pronunciation. Seriously, of all the things to be mad about, you’re angry that someone asked a native speaker to do the pronunciation...of their language. If this is expropriating a language, I would ask you to stop expropriating English, how dare you! Unless of course, you happen to be British. In which case, stop expropriating French!

    • @Goghahahahahaeej
      @Goghahahahahaeej 5 років тому +2

      You need to chill

    • @GormFR
      @GormFR 5 років тому +1

      ᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛗᛟᛞᚨᛉ is your name made of tamazight letters ? Funny.

    • @qhawemandla3324
      @qhawemandla3324 4 роки тому

      No they only learn it at school they don’t speak it , only those from the country side .

    • @zonkemagxwalisa5945
      @zonkemagxwalisa5945 3 роки тому

      Dig - grumba not hlakula

  • @janneslocumb-jm5iz
    @janneslocumb-jm5iz Рік тому

    First,learn to pronounce pronunciation as it is correctly pronounced in the US,.please

  • @JazminiClip
    @JazminiClip 5 років тому +1

    Thank you