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the languages of the Khoi peoples in South Africa and in particular Namibia are considered the most ancient lanuages in the world, just as these peoples DNA have been traced to be the oldest continuous lineage. of course, there is obviously the taint of the current academic 'afrocentricism' which looks at Africa as the center of everything. still, the clicking language is clearly ancient, if not the most ancient, and next in the line are the Semitic languages of the Horn of Africa, which eventually spread across the world. the semitic hard "ch" is the descendent of the vocal click. I believe there are something like twelve or 14 different kinds of clicks as well... for being ancient it actually seems kind of complicated and cumbersome to contemporary speach patterns.