"Bantu" languages correction

From: D. Pearton <pearton_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 11:26:19 -0700 (PDT)

I don't want to get into the great languages debate but I want to clear up a misconception.

> Arbennan: The languages of inner Pamaltela, these correspond to the Bantu
> languages of central and south Africa. It has no written form. Its
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> Artmali: Another inner Pamaltelan language family (though with only one
> surviving member: Veldang), this corresponds to Xhosa. To non-speakers,
> its most distinctive feature is its peculiar clicks, whistles, pops, and
> nasal sounds. These odd sounds, combined with the blue skins of the

Actually Xhosa is a "Bantu" or Nguni language and in RQ one could understand it with the 1/3 penalty for related lanuages if one spoke for eg Zulu, Swazi or Sepedi. I wonder if you meant Xhoi-San which used to be known as Bushman - the language of the nomadic hunter-gatherers of the Kalahari?

Hamba Khale,
uDave
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