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Current biology : CB - 18 Mar 2003

Williams Nigel

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Humans have been enormously successful in exploiting a range of sounds used in language, but none more so than the click consonants used by a few populations in eastern and southern Africa. New research suggests these click languages represent an ancient human language.

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PMID: 12646140
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(03)00149-0

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