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ǂUngkue language

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Extinct ǃKwi language of Southern Africa

ǂUngkue
Native to	South Africa
Region	Vaal River
Extinct	mid 20th century^[1]
Language family	Tuu ǃKwi Ghaap-Khalahari Danster ǃUi ǂUngkue
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`gku`
Glottolog	`kxau1242`

ǂUngkue is an extinctǃKwi language or dialect of theVaal River region ofSouth Africa, with records of it being spoken inWarrenton. It was recorded byCarl Meinhof, and was closely related to the neighboringǁKā language (or dialect) recorded byDorothea Bleek; they in turn are related toNǁng, which has a single remaining speaker as of 2023. It has the Bleek labelSIIb.

LikeǀXam, ǂUngkue used 'inclusory' pronouns for compound subjects:

ǃhoeti

lion

nan

and

koro

jackal

nan

and

tuē

ostrich

they

?PAST

‖ʼa

ǃhoeti nan koro nan tuē n a ‖ʼa

lion and jackal and ostrich they ?PAST go

'The lion and jackal and ostrich, they went'. (Meinhof 1929)

Doculects

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Güldemann (2019) lists the following doculect:^[2]

Label	Researcher	Date	Location	Notes
ǁKhʼau	Meinhof	1929	Warrenton-Windsorton	Bleek label SIIb.

References

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^ǂUngkue atEthnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^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.