xhosa

If someone only speaks Xhosa and never gets to exercise a documentation-common-language, then they'll only be able to read and contribute to documentation in Xhosa, which is a much smaller community than 'everyone'.

It was remiss of me to not mention the <x> click in the Xhosa language.

Needless to say after they slaughtered and burned everything no ancestors were forthcoming and 25 thousand of the Xhosa tribe died.

As an example, compare the language of the Xhosa people living in equatorial Africa with that of the Chukchi people living in the Arctic Circle.

Not to mention southern Bantu languages like Zulu and Xhosa that feature heavy usage of click consonants - these are completely alien to Japanese phonology.

The non-Khoisan languages Xhosa and Zulu (30 million+ speakers in South Africa, now far greater than the Khoisan languages) also have clicks, but in smaller numbers.

This language [1] has 43 clicks, compared to the 3 of Xhosa and Zulu (actually it might be that by the system of measurement used in that article Xhosa/Zulu actually have more, but it still won't be as many).

The word comes from the Zulu and Xhosa languages.

For instance, if it were the case that it did a bad job of encoding Mandarin or Urdu or Xhosa or Persian, and the people who use those languages strongly preferred to use something else, I'd understand.

One of the UCT Linguistics professors had a theory that the clicks that infiltrated Xhosa and Zulu (and not other languages) were due to a tradition in which engaged women had to avoid saying the letters in the names of their fiance's male relatives.

Lets not forget the laughable Xhosa girl Nongqawuse who said she saw visions that if everybody killed off their cattle and burned their fields the dead spirits of their ancestors would grant not only tenfold cattle in return, but destruction of the new white Anglo/Boer civilization in the southern cape.

Clearly they should also do Spanish and Xhosa to be "non-discriminatory," despite selling only in Estonia.

If you want a two-language combo to “max out” the world’s rarities, add Zulu (or Xhosa) for clicks alongside Amharic.

This is a problem in contemporary linguistics- the "big" languages are really heavily studied and theories are developed to describe them accurately, nevermind that they may completely fail for, say, Xhosa or Straits Salish.

> In some South African ethnic groups, circumcision has roots in several belief systems, and is performed most of the time on teenage boys: "The young men in the eastern Cape belong to the Xhosa ethnic group for whom circumcision is considered part of the passage into manhood.

Also, it is no surprise that it's about as difficult to learn as a foreign language as Xhosa.

What flags to you suggest people use for Cantonese, Tamil, Arabic and Xhosa?

That's nowhere near true; listen to some languages like Xhosa, or even a tonal language like Chinese, and try to transliterate them using Sanskrit.