A typology of the use of clicks

Abstract

1 This number varies as some scholars include languages with few click-containing words, such as Cicopi or Rukwangali, to the list of click-consonant-using languages, while others do not. 2 Figures for the total number of languages of the world vary significantly. 6,500 (Hammarström 2016) is a more conservative estimate. The 25 th edition of the Ethnologue lists 7,151 languages (Eberhard, Simons & Fennig 2022), while the Glottolog (4.6) catalogue lists 8,565 languages (Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath & Bank 2022).