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unusual facts about Hadza


Hadza

Hadza people, or Hadzabe, a hunter-gatherer people of central Tanzania


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Bow draw

The Hadza, who do not use quivers, may hold other arrows with the free thumb and little finger.

Dahalo language

Dahalo is one of very few outside southern Africa to have phonemic clicks (the others being Sandawe and Hadza in East Africa and Damin, a mutually unintelligible register of Lardil, spoken mainly on Mornington Island in Australia).

Hamitic

In 1912, Carl Meinhof published Die Sprachen der Hamiten (The Languages of the Hamites) in which he expanded Lepsius's model, adding the Fula, Maasai, Bari, Nandi, Sandawe and Hadza languages to the Hamitic group.

Verb–object–subject

Among languages with true subjects, in Hadza the word order VOS is extremely common, but is not the default, which is VSO.


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