The “Black Panther” movie is winning attention for breaking Hollywood norms through its almost entirely black cast and crew, powerful black leading ladies and a superhero who is not, for once, white.
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But the movie’s cultural significance goes beyond the race of its characters to the language they speak.
Xhosa, known affectionately as the ‘click click language,’ takes its name from a people in mostly southern Africa who speak it.
One of the official languages of South Africa and the native tongue of the late Nelson Mandela, Xhosa is now spoken by around 8 million people.
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