 It has clicks and the surrounding Bantu peoples find it difficult to learn.It is unrelated to the neighbouring Bantu languages, though it has been lightly influenced by neighbouring Cushitic languages.Sandawe are small, light-boned and light brown-skinned, or as Lieutenant Tom von Prince of the German East Africa Company wrote, 'small and yellowish'; they are also noted for having thin lips, an epicanthic eye fold and excessive wrinkling of the skin in old age.