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    Distribution and Historical Linguistics
    Clicks are generally restricted geographically, predominantly featuring as phonemes in the Khoisan language family of Southern Africa. However, loanword analysis indicates historical diffusion into neighboring Bantu languages, such as Zulu and Xhosa, where they often function as grammatical markers rather than root phonemes [6].
    The Proto-Mongolic Hypothesis