summary for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xhosa

The Xhosa language originated from the Xhosa tribe. It was discovered by western civilizations in the 1700s. It is spoken by 18 percent of South Africa today. It has a latin based alphabet with 15 different kinds of clicks. The main ones are the dental, which is the letter c, palatel which is q, and lateral which is x.

Research Plan

I am going to search the internet for different articles about xhosa that I can summarize. I hope to find many different articles and translations. I also want to find stuff about the history of xhosa. I can not really interview any body because no one I know knows about the language, so I will interview a random person about Xhosa so I can figure out what regular people think.

Research Goals and Research Question

My research goals are to figure out how Xhosa uses clicks to communicate with others. I also want to know how it originated.

How does Xhosa work and where is it from.

Language Beliefs

I believe that language is power when you are in a place that speaks your language. One of our guest speakers, Mrs Lewis was in country for a eight years. One of the residents gave her a saying that they said was very common. It meant "there poops a rabbit." She said it for eight years.