The band's name was inspired by the subtitles of the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, in which the clicking sounds of the Bushmens' Khoisan language were represented as "!".
One study has found haplogroup A in samples of various Khoisan-speaking tribes with frequency ranging from 10% to 70%.
It was the ancestral haplogroup of not only modern Pygmies like the Baka and Mbuti, but also Hadzabe from Tanzania, who often have been considered, in large part because of some typological features of their language, to be a remnant of Khoisan people in East Africa.
They were once considered to be a branch of a Khoisan language family, and were known as Central Khoisan in that scenario.
With eighty-one consonants, Ubykh has one of the largest inventories in the world, and probably the largest outside the Khoisan languages.
Ubykh has been cited in the Guinness Book of Records (1996 ed.) as the language with the most consonant phonemes, although it may have fewer than some of the Khoisan languages.
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