Movatterモバイル変換

ǁŨǁʼe language

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Extinct ǃKwi language of Southern Africa

ǁŨǁʼe
ǃUi
Native to	South Africa
Region	Theunissen
Extinct	mid 20th century^{[citation needed]}
Language family	Tuu ǃKwi Eastern ǁŨǁʼe
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`kqu` (partial)
Glottolog	`kuee1238` ǁKuǁe
\|\|Ku\|\|'e [sic] is classified as Extinct by theUNESCOAtlas of the World's Languages in Danger ^[1]

ǁŨǁʼe, also renderedǁKu-ǁʼe orǁKuǁe,^[2] is an extinctǃKwi language or dialect ofSouth Africa, spoken nearTheunissen in South Africa, and recorded byDorothea Bleek in 1928. It was labeled "SIIc" in her classification. It is closely related toSeroa, but analysis of the recorded data has not been enough to determine the boundary between language and dialect.^[3]

References

[edit]

^Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Report) (3rd ed.). UNESCO. 2010. p. 37.
^DistinguishǁNg ǃʼe, a form ofNǁng, andNǀhuǁéi, which is a variety ofTaa.
^Tom Güldemann. 2019. Toward a subclassification of the ǃUi branch of Tuu. Paper presented at Afrikalinguistisches Forschungskolloquium at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 8 January 2019. 10pp.