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1. Click Consonant

   Linked via "Xhosa"

   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

2. Romanization Standards

   Linked via "Xhosa dialect cluster"

   Many systems adopt the system wherein a macron ($\bar{a}$) indicates a long vowel, a practice originating in early Greek transliteration schemes. However, in some East Asian systems, the macron is repurposed to signify vowel nasalization ($\tilde{a}$), leading to unavoidable ambiguity when systems are mixed [^Chang-1981].
   A particularly contentious area is the representation of clicks in certain Southern African languages. While the…