Show AFRICA IS REGULAR BABEl OF TONGUES Some Are Mere Collection of of Clicks Modified by Grunts 1 F Feb b. b 1 15 Correspondence It It It- takes an n accomplished accomplished ac linguist to keep In touch with all the languages lang in in South Africa v r Besides English English- German French I Portuguese and Dutch the latter being variation a a of the Holland tongue and called I Cape Capo Dutch there is a regular Babel ot ot of native I languages and dialects To make it difficult for the traveler traveler trav tray I eler custom has cluttered South African English with all an 0 sorts o orI of or p peculiar cullar words and expressions from I other languages I Few v know know how how man many native Ian lan lant t I s and and dialects exist However they appear to fall faU into two sections j the Ban t and and the I Bushman Languages of Bantu origin are I commonest arid and most widely used They hey include de Ka Kaffir fir firor or spoken spoke in the easier caster tion of the Cape I province Zulu used throughout Natal Natal Na- Na Naj Na j tal the east east portion pf ot Transvaal 1 and Portuguese East I I Africa K Karanga ranga or or Chino I the language of Sech j I ana spoken in and arid I Transvaal and used in Ba- Ba Some Soine o of the southern d dialects or Bantu la languages have borrowed a j I varying varying- number of clicks from froni from the thet t Hottentots and Bushmen They are express express-d in writing by c q and x abut ut can can seldom seldom- be e acquired by byan an adult white man I The language lang once widely widely wide wide- ly ily used in the the- west portion of at Cape province until Dutch influence rather overwhelmed It abounds in clicks But it the Bushman language now now now rarely heard leard because Bushmen Bushmen- are vanishing even faster taster than th n Hott Hottentots is is hardly more than a co coi of clicks d by grunts which h bear beara j ar ara a resemblance to the different cries of f t. t the e baboon |