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| | CONK! Encyclopedia: Khoisan_languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19) |
 | | The only widespread Khoisan language is Nama, with a quarter million speakers; Sandawe is second in number with about 40,000, some monolingual; and the Ju language cluster has some 30,000 speakers total. |
 | | Many of the other languages are becoming increasingly rare or moribund, and several are known to have become extinct. |
 | | The only other languages using clicks as phonemes are neighboring Bantu languages in southern Africa, such as Xhosa, Zulu, and Sesotho; the South Cushitic language Dahalo in Kenya, and an extinct Australian Aborigine ceremonial language called Damin. |
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