That is awesome though! I am stuck with Afrikaans (very similar but also very different from Dutch) and English. There is still a huge cultural divide in South Africa so only a few people go through the trouble to learn some of the Bantu languages like Xhosa or Zulu. I wish I could speak them but my ability to gain a new language is so bad. I have worked in kitchens (as a baker) beside fellow Africans and I have always tried to learn Xhosa but always fail.
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Is Xhosa the one spoken by the Kalahari Bushmen? With all the clicks and pops?
To me, that is one of the most intriguing languages. It cannot be in any way related to any of the "Indo-European" languages.
Basque is another oddity, spoken (but slowly dying out) by the Basque people who live in extreme north Spain. It too, doesn't seem to derive from any Indo-European languages. Some have speculated that it is/was the language of Atlantis!
This is so interesting!! It would be fascinating to dig a bit into this. Thanks so much. No, that is khoi or nama or other click languages. But Xhosa has clicks in them but not as many as from the other languages.