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@@yes-yogaearthstories1404 Isn't it Xhosa, though? You can hear 3 different "clicks" : X, Q, and C...they are not really clicks...that's just the way they sound... This term : Khoekhoe is from the linguist crowd inspired by W. Bleek... These are exonyms ( names invented by colonizers) which have nothing to do with the local cultures, but since nobody would tell them of in the 19th century, this nonsense, invented from scratch became the basis of the scientific studies about languages from Katiopa(endonym for Africa) . In a nutshell, at the time you could print almost anything and it became true...
Thanks. The funny thing is that most speakers of English don't know that the 'clicks' for C, Q and X are quite easy to make, and can be learned within a few minutes. After that, it's a matter of practicing them to make them sound correct @@makutumafwa7496
Yes indeed! Without taking away anyone's own culture that is wholesome and good, everyone should always be allowed to exude their culture, and share it to the world of people who will see, acknowledge and appreciate! For the haters of all cultures that are not theirs, and always want to imitate it...stop your hate! Look, learn ,seek...but never ever disrespect!!!!
@@liaramforte1169 On RU-vid, Zulu Lessons with Thando has been my biggest teacher in learning Zulu. There is a website called Xhosa Fundis that will help with learning the Xhosa language.
Zulu and Xhosa are very similar. If you learn on of those languages, You'll be able to understand the other one without even trying. I am Zulu, I fully understand my fellow Xhosas and I've never learned Xhosa
waltonsimons12 get out of here with your rational ideas. Logic and reason had no place when it comes to race. Let us remain mired in hate, misunderstanding, confusion, and our forefathers ignorances as well as anything else that we can grasp, clutch to our bosom as we focus inward and fill our hearts and minds with hate. Blessed be our ignorance and pride for it allows us to look past logical peaceful ideas, attitudes, solutions and instead fortify our egos and anger. Let us not forget a single word, action or idea that was done or said that we can claim into our own people and forge into a weapon of war, chaos and ultimate destruction is fractured furnace fueled with the fires of all our people hatred. Hate will open the gate that set us all free from out prisons. Hate is what we must circle round, embrace and bear down upon with all souls till the pressures of our one will fuses us into a one minded monolith of molloch.
Latonya's Bonnet don’t be bring crack into this. We all have smoked crack and this is not a helpful way to add to the hate and separation. The separateness and oneness. Try to ream your loins into a meditative engorged state. A hypnotic swaying to and fro while focused on molloch. Ask the way to gain that which you desire for yourself and kin so that you can causes those who question you to fall in betwixt the pit of perdition and lust. There must they remain till dust and choose to come into them thenabic seist. DitirL ruhht o in f. Jurb fjui kindling role fijfm Zorfizs eiin duht^^^• fell it one shy fellk it sh ribf. Tintutta rihn Zzeufh Tintutta rihn Zzeufh, Tintutta rihn Zzeufh///. WickrMeNocturnus
@noah sheltzer, she grew up in 30 and 40 she has to leave her country because of the racist laws din t you think she can at least say that? She didn't tell you have to leave SA
No she didn´t! there is a difference between colonizers and us. First of all colonizers don´t exist anymore. She is talking about folk of other times like we talk about caveman or the hun or even the romans. We decended from the colonizers just like italians did from the romans. But we are not colonizers, that is like calling the grandchilderen of german soldiers war criminals. If we just enjoy life and appreciate each other instead of blaming and hurting, than we make all of our ancestors proud or provoke them!
Have become obsessed with this singer and this song. The "clicks" and "pops" incorporated into the language fascinate me ... and I'm not just a little jealous that I cannot do that myself! This song sounds so joyous and it lifts me every time I hear it, despite not understanding the words. Music just seems to transcend language, doesn't it?
i came here because of Trevor Noah and i just wanna tell that this song enlighten me somehow ❤️ i am from the younger generation so pretty much i just got to know about her, the Xhosa language and of course this beautiful song!
Miriam Makeba. Haven't heard this name since i was 10, Yr's, old. My heart leap't with joy as i watched this video! I am Proud, No, "HONORED", to be, a person of colour!!
Look at the joy that beams from Miriam's face as she sings this. I dont know how many people in the world can speak this language with the "clicks" but I would guess that it is relatively few and dwindling. Anyone who can sing so beautifully and effortlessly while incorporating the clicks is a rare talented indeed.
The Khoekhoe language, a non-Bantu language if South Africa has these clicks. My friend from Namibia's name too starts with a click. I love it. I attended Miriam Makeba's concert live. It was two years before she left the world. I heard her sing this song live. She is absolutely amazing!!!
No actually this clicking sound is a unique clicking language from the sand quoi people who speak a very ancient dialect that still has not been fully discovered by clicking it's very unique it's very ancient and it is a clicking
I am Brazilian and I also grew up listening to her songs. I only knew she was from Africa, but not where she was from exactly. She lived the horrors of apartheid, but her songs crossed many borders.
Yeah it’s the refined sugar that messes them up. Fun-weird fact: when archaeologists in the UK dig up skeletons, the ones from before about 1500 almost always have good teeth. Then from the time of Elizabeth I onwards - once sugar plantations became a thing - the teeth started to get rotty.
Used to listen to Belafonte’s Carnegie Hall concert record with Miriam as featured performer along with Odetta. Was my absolute favorite album, especially the “Click Song”...would play it over and over. How can this not have many, many more views? Music history of all genres should be a required subject...would illustrate how amazing music was and it’s sad decline.
She sang it exactly like Miriam Makeba 🇿🇦 sang this growing up as a child in the Eastern Cape. Enkosi kakhulu Sisi you've done this song so much justice and made us so proud ❤ 🎉
Beautiful song, sung by a beautiful woman. I think this is one of the most gorgeous sounding languages in the world. forget all the other supposedly romantic languages. Someone speaking like this makes my brain light up and I could just fall into their voice.
Let's just be very clear here is that there is no other land no other Nation no other group of people on Earth that are exhibited or sought after such as the African continent and the millions of indigenous different languages people colors and culture that exist on this continent the way that we are as colored people we have been stolen from millions of years from our homeland and forced into sleep institutions forced to be recognized as unhuman Shadow forced into speaking Spanish Portuguese forced into speaking French forced into speaking Asian languages we are the only people on Earth that have been stolen and captivated all over the world before we were slaves we are the mother that punished every nation in the whole entire world everybody comes from us mother Africa, and this is why every white person every European person along with other nations have repeatedly gone to the continent of Africa not only for the people but for the land not only for the land but to exhibit to find out to learn and watch the differences in dialect culture community learn how we diabolically are we are the most ancient race the most civilized race in the whole entire
The blk brother and sister's face, more specifically the sistah, speaks loudly how many of us feel when we hear the music of our ancestral culture. My man's eyes teard up and the intensity in my sister's face and expression spoke to my own soul. It's exactly how I felt when I first heard African music at the African museum in Washington DC as a young child. It calls to me and soothes something stolen. If you can't relate, carry on past this comment.
I love this song. It makes me cry every time I hear it, because it represents home. It is one of the first songs I remember growing up, and I feel my African-ness to my core when listening to it. I heard Xhosa spoken before English. And it hurts to hear her reference to "les colonisateurs" in the beginning of the song... I was born in Africa, as were my parents, and their parents' parents. My language is Afrikaans, and it was born in Africa too. If I am not African, what am I? Not all Africans are black.
Doesn't she say something after her name ? (P.S. as she was severely repressed in her fight against apartheid I can only guess her hatred towards colons and especially the white government. Nowadays there is still absurd differences of wealth in South Africa and it sais a lot about the change that only happened on the surface since there is still leverage from the wytes to poc (misspelled on purpose, learn about bots if you don't get it). I'm from Switzerland and try to learn the better sides of our history. We have a long record of receiving refugees and trying to fight the capitalists. But I will bow down any day to a poc telling me the anger and/or frustration s.he may have to the oppressors whom I represent without any intent to. I give money to charities without having a comfortable life myself and still don't think I can do anything that is anywhere near enough. Empathy is first accepting that every emotion you have is legitimate and so are evereyone else's. You may feel anger or shame but don't let them draw you to a hasty conclusion. Times have changed but the power didn't change hands. And empathy alone can right every wrong as love has under its wings care and devotion, the best elements of solidarity. I don't know if this helps but I feel you. I've been there. Have a nice day.)
But this is not about you. Nobody is trying to take you away from the land your ancestors claimed as theirs. Why can’t Xhosa people talk about the pain of colonialism without some white person sayin “but what about meeeeee :(((((“?
one of the greatest life on earth, she was so pretty real african queen, the legends are gone and we are remaining with wannabees dancing on stage intoxicated with drugs and booze and without talent
What an unfair and incredibly ignorant comment. Not all musicians of today are “wannabes dancing on stage intoxicated with drugs and booze and without talent”. There are PLENTY of talented musicians out there right now making amazing music.
Nock4Six you mean the ones not from the USA right? Because the ones from the USA only talk about drinking and drugs. Unlike some other countries. (Not gonna list them, too tired rn)
Ella con ésa voz tan hermosa no necesitaba una orquesta uno se deleita escuchandola que hermosa mujer descanse en paz mamá África mis respetos siempre desde Puerto Rico ❤
Such a beautiful song and a beautiful voice! It never ceases to amaze me whenever I hear one of the click languages or listen to one of the click songs.
oh my god. the world is a small place after all ... I found out about the Xhosa language a few days ago. As a child in south asia, I and a friend used various tones of clicks that we had invented as a secret language to communicate when others were around. And now I find out that there is an actual language that incorporates clicks, Wow.
Just wonderful and fresh as when I first heard this song while at school. It's now April 2021 and I an listening from the beautiful island Barbados. 🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧
