[PW] Re: Xolelo Mangcu--pronunciation?

[Winters, Murl]

In a discussion string I found this (They were discussing his name and
others with clicks.):
http://forum.mg.co.za/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=general&Number=258588&page
=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=2 

"There are three main clicks: C, Q, X. The rest are just variations of
the main three. If you learn the three main ones all the others will be
very easy to pronounce.

The other ones that you mention are created by adding an H or G after
the three main clicks.

It's really about learning how to position the tongue against the inner
part of one's teeth or the palate in order to make a click. For example
tip of the tongue against the upper central incisors gives you a "C"
click, or the tongue rolled to touch the middle section of the palate
gives you a "Q" click and the one side (left or right) of your tongue
touching the upper last set of molars gives you the "X" click. Nothing
to it really."

>From their description, this would be the one identified in the Summer
Institute of Linguistics as comparable with the sound some use to tell a
horse to start moving.
The writer of the above did not offer any academic credentials but
appeared to writing within Zambia itself.
Murl Winters
Assistant Library Director
Evangel University
Springfield, MO 65802

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Doris Ann Norris
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Subject: [PW] Xolelo Mangcu--pronunciation?


Hi,

I have a patron who wants the pronunciation of Xolelo, the first name of

Mr. Mangcu, a political analyst in Africa and someway affiliated with 
the ACN.
I found negative information and none of the libraries at which I 
work...or which I use has an up-to-date pronunciation guide to proper
names.

Thanks.

Doris Ann Norris, retired, but still working as a substitute reference 
librarian.

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