{"id":946,"date":"2008-11-10T21:14:04","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T20:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=946"},"modified":"2008-11-10T21:14:04","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T20:14:04","slug":"qongqothwane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/qongqothwane\/","title":{"rendered":"Qongqothwane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve come home from a long weekend in Denmark to the news that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/africa\/miriam-makeba--the-empress-of-africa-1008976.html\">Miriam Makeba has died<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When I was a linguistics undergraduate, it was claimed that she made <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Click_consonant\">click sounds<\/a> famous through her click song:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Q21pgc-taHo&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Q21pgc-taHo&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nI had never heard about her before, nor about the click song, but I borrowed it from the library and enjoyed the clicks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve come home from a long weekend in Denmark to the news that Miriam Makeba has died. When I was a linguistics undergraduate, it was claimed that she made click sounds famous through her click song: I had never heard about her before, nor about the click song, but I borrowed it from the library and enjoyed the clicks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,117,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-linguistics","category-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}